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The Evening worla’s tlome Magazine, Saturday Evening, ‘ies . ara sland! The Cail of the Wild. i By J. Campbell Cory. «» Dreadful Mortality in the Pulex Irritans Family of | Actors Owing to Ill-Treatment in Quarantine * Fumigation Finished Them! Crape at Coney ——++ sessesseresNQ, 18,988, VOLUME 46.......... THE LITTLE PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE, XV,—Home—and a Change, Like so many other problems of the lighter philosophy, much de- js on circumstances whether ‘‘there is no place like home.” , _ Asa place to live in, to bring up a family, to welcome your friends @njoy and profit by life at its best, there is no substitute for hom ut there are conditions under which it is not the best place, and this is} > time of year to consider some of them, ® . . * | Home ts very often the worst place for persons who are-suffering iliness or from its effects. There are many victims of chronic dis- "eases who would have been saved a life of crippled powers and shortened ‘duration if their parents had been wise enough to give them a change of climate when the tendency to disease first developed. Enlightened and conscientious physicians say frankly that medicines will not cure certain Nervous disorders which are relleved quickly by an entire change of air and scene, Home !{s sometimes not the best place to rest. If It !s often tha @earest spot to return to, tt {s just as truly sometimes the place to go / @way from. No social scientist can understand the chronic !!1 health and early death of so large a number of American women, and the large per- centage of wives and mothers in our insane asylums, who does not take account of the servitude to homes which so great a proportion of them endure, i This ts especially true of the rural population and the dwellers In small villages. The women love their homes, and perhaps.may not have “any clearly defined wish to leave them even for a short rest or an occa- | @onal.change of scene and associations, But the endless work end worry —the dead-level sameness of thelr lives—the monotonous recurrence of the same duties and delights—will wear upon them in spite of their) ‘G@pparent contentment, The burden of the home !s never lifted from their ttred shoulders. It is what shall we eat, and wherewithal shall we ( Resclothed, and how shall the week's work be made to come out even— ‘en.and on, one task done.only to take up another, from wedding day to _ Mbaria! day, i The average good wife and mother needs nothing so much as some |) feindsand determined hand to lift her gently out of the old ruts and make the way easy to a little stretch of smooth road through “pastures new” and by fields fresh and fair. Because she says she does not want to go 4s no sign that she does not need to go. A treadmill is one of the hardest things to get out of gear, and the patient plodder therein comes to think that'there is no other round for him or her in the great world, i ° e ° By Roy L, McCardell. HERE {s crape on the door of the theatre where the famous Pulex Irritans Vaudeville Company were to perm form, They have passed from Dreamland to the Dreame less Land! Actors to take thelr places are oxpected from Dun» “deo by Saturday's steamer, but Mr, Stewart, the imo presario, grieves and will not be comforted. “Tittle thought,” said Mr, Stewart, ‘when I brought 3] my merry little company from Scotland that New York would be thelr | jumping-off place, as it were! “They were humorous, they were athletic, they were cute, One of tham | drove a cab, a little buggy; one of them yras a tight-rope dancer—ah! poor Ute Hop o' My Thumb, tt was hard to lose you!” | Mr. Stewart denied that the Pulex Irritans troupe had committed ute elde, Or that they had skipped off, “The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth,’” he satd, “but these were not wicked, They were too good to live, maybe, and I know they did not kill themselves, “Why should they kill them- selves? One of them lived a dogs Mfe, you say, Ah! but he was a flea- dog, not a dog fien. How resolutely he used to run ont of his little ‘Be ware of the dog’ house to the length of his chain, and how the ladies would ecream, thinking he was going to bite them! But it was only his play! “And the little lady Pulex, who fired the cannon. Did you ever no- tice how ehe used to hold her hands cover her ears whenever she fired the eixteenth-of-an-inch gun? “Well might you say, ‘They were human fleast’ They were that. “And don't you remember the little races? ‘Nibeey’ always won, and > | he would be started from the scratch, too!” And here Mr. Stewart sobbed.’ Growing ealmer, he explatned that the strain of being fumigated at > | Quarantine, and possibly the indignity of the proceeding, for they were real 3 | actors and very sensitive, had been a blow from which hie flea performers | had never recovered. “It 1s true thoy ected here, but they did not act naturally,” said Mr. Stew- art. “Ata pinoh it might do, but there was not that artistie abandon in their work as befora” Mr. Stewart then said that the edu- cated fies wes not indigenous to, America. The country fe too new and education has not gone that far. Another thing, the real Pulex Irri- tans, such as composed his troupe, could not be found in America. He bad heart that the Gellfornia flew was large and active, but he feared: they lacked finesse and eruittion, so be had cabled to Dundee and Glasgow and another troupe of flea peeform- rs were on the way, ‘There was very ifttie sympathy whown for My. Stewart's loss at the Midget City next door. Until the ar~| Holding, Wer Hande Over Her Bare. rival of the Pulex Irritane troupe the denizens of the Midget Village haf clafmed to be the smallest actore in the world. They were rather pleased to hear that Mr. Stewart's troupe were “dead ones" in fact. But there will be a new troupe next week, all “live ones.” Meanwhile Ho Wae a Flea Dog. SS Therefore, husbands, sons and daughters, take our admonfffon and’ enter into an amiable conspiracy to convince “mother” that home Is not the best place to travel in, nor the best place for some kinds of rest. And don't wait too long, nor mistake resignation for contentment, or ‘ cheerful patience for the bright substance of happiness. If all the un availing regrets, secretly breathed in desolated homes over opportunities; neglected to prolong life or minister to the happiness of lost loved ones, & . could be sounded forth in warning to the living there would be such an awakening to duty and such a stimulus to service as the world'trs rarely; | W/SH 7/ WAS IN PHILADELPH/A PLOPLOILOLL DO SEGLIESEL OCH 9000000000600 99O900 0000 990F 9590-90000 3653600066565 C2OCCE . s s s Home {s never the best place for men who-need recreation that truly re-creates. It Is too near business to permit the mind to be freed from the “perilous stuff” that welghs upon it, A change of surroundings: is often more beneficial than mere rellef from care. It does not occur to: 7m cn : ror | #bme men that the thing they really “can't afford” Is to stay at homa ’ a aad ; rt yew, Plodding in the same old round of fabor and of care. Wet it 1s true, nevertheless, If a professional man, his wits get rusty $90906600000090005 5.9900$-0 €6606664 | hls health becomes impaired. Ifa business man, his observation {s lim- gael eae Nae the Boseie the “bug-houss” ts closed. | tted-and his experience narrowed. There are times when every-man who eae ie ian oy eeeiGe ee ae a Ie-atieto do so should Biove on Ad nack about him, For the good old Jungles of Graft. Little Willie S$ Guide to New York. 7 ‘As:for the dear children, travel ts education, motion ts growth; By oy life and health. Widen thelr horizons when they are young > and ‘will not, when grown up, limit the universe by the sky-line of 1) thelr natbve place, 2s so many bigots in religion, fanatics in politics and } shapftisin everyday 1ife do to-day. Despite all that is sald n glorification DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS. : EER and thare throo the altty you will eee a streat toarn up so that it looks H ‘as if it had bin intended for a gulch and when you seo an ingrowing streat you may know that the Seopartment of hiwage has been getting bissy. when a streat !s ferwt lade out in nu york it ta neotly pulved with helfan blox and then it { diskuvvered that @ euer must be dug and so the pavement fs toarn up and the suer dug and the palvement replaiced and then the deepartment of hiwaze ‘Big Things on Wheels. w ww By F. G. Long. , : THAT LARGR a y Jzxe that gasepipes must be lade and so up comes the patvement nt our cesttess and roving habit as.e nation, we have far too many home. - BUILOING |; 3} . petty arate fabechood emets tine while the yamines nre geiting Axe ana then so ana with -bomely wits-and too many:edutts with provincial THE ClsTANe We a ; Vy the palvement i Jade aggadn and tho nexet weak it {s toarn wtp for water manee 1, y F weer MINIT errand . e4 and jut aa the Cea besa ella a ody cic tue oe Den 9 Z, y, ° on Me {Rovsorathe avhole matter up, after the manner of the -eplgramatists; ABBE A L ara are nevver bothered by the monnottony of ereing the nalme undis- {Rofore your tome, leareiit; to use it rightfully, disuse it, <: > terbed exapance of atreat in frunt of there howses all the (ime and even eitty fokes can get tho fresh sweet oder of ipteriied orth. If tH wuszent for the dee- partment of hiwage and oaid dock:er woodhorry our atroate would lve almonst pas- fable In spots and nu yourk wood looze ite siwef liarrackteriatick aspeckt. mood onid deepartment of hivase, A. P TERHUNS, Said w on ~~ the we Side. TATTSTION cottected by the Hu-| ortook A. BM, aM doubts of his condi: ' mane Gootety of Cleveland said to tion shoul! be regarded as Mapelled. show that husbande are more con- oe aiderate of thetr wives in haiti Night cape eaid to be good to bantsh weather and more loving than in rk | Omnia. Old remedy, but sometimes ter, and the reason given that ‘Work | productive ef that trad feeling next fs then more vlentéful, Apoeseey morning, dther reasons, aiso—opeming of | the oe ane. roof-gardena, music ond Digegheg New automobile cluthouse in Witty- ‘the waters, Mai wein, ya gate ‘out. | £00Fth eteet to have “every convenience plonica, schnetzenfests hacked re- | & Motorist can conosive,” ®ut no pro- door delights, Husband he Guences | Vision cor hoepttal taclitties and inetruc- main oalioun bo the sedi time never | ton In first eld to the injured. Regard- j of the good oki summer ing automobiles, the repert comes from deserved h@. » 4g Yale that ite most prominent athlete Decision of @ popular onohestra | has been turned down by the sentor s0- leader to cit short bis season of root | cleties “because of the pubMoity attach concerts because of lack of patronage | ing to hie big automebile and Gts ar will suggest queries aa to whether the | rest for violating the epeed Iawa” Hats thiret-saking accemorles of the enter- | off to Yale for thet semttment. lard, « prise were up to stand¢ feeC al Clue to lost Dauphin of France found|censue takers within the college by @ man who asks that tho professor| grounds could not, of eowrse, have been § of history in Yale be notified, Why/due to any disinotination te anawer ? lthis slight to the Untveralty of Chi-| questions as to age or mastenl cendition, > | cago? ee - 8 6 , porn) ys Law to deprive the Aldermen of their ane ep ae a eee pet C4 Beg Wp est $ | power called by Elihu Root "an act t0| crrtage pushers, idhel ik Pl relleve New York of certain flee pre-| was ne element of pecanh ‘ous tenses." Goos pretty newr to the root | ciem, ore of the matter, eee Pee “Nine get medain of Carnegie hero Newest verbal test for pobmety, the| fund," Not the Nine you have (u mind: phrase, ‘issues hissing steam.” If he| that. nine ie at present evolding undue can any Us without stammerng at 2 publicity, Many wise acy s'ee Sipe cae|t |4y) A Barac Tue TOURIN rushing premeturely and vyolubly into Ti G AUTO ii Ng re ‘ ep Dose, Se ee (<i ey ATA j ILLINOIS]. IF THE LAW DOESNT “The essence of power is re.| © Nv Mi Cares ! 4 BCA See wervea” said a man who knew. Y y) StS key OHIO. CHICAGO] VEHICLES WE MAY aes " LOR EG) 3 "rg S : TO DEVELOPE / , Tt ta mute to be atlent when your , , THING LIKE would wound, saya the Phtladel- | Coe foble Bultetin, Keep still when your words will die. Tt te infinitely better to be forever than to male one fellow. | 2 lees able to cope with Iife, © Dried ell when your words will in- anger or discomfort, An incred- | 3 @le amount of d poeerets Reheat ie , Police Commissioner McAdoo wit! ask legislation IImiting the elze of autos and other etreet vehicles. frdends dislilce thelr triendy DOLOUVDUE GEO OEO9 9-04 0909009044904 Never speak when what you have to} > ~ " 0 my erat” for the purpose of excit- THE SEQUENCE. | MORE TO THE POINT, SQUELCHED! THE HARDES' FRAT, The Oyster’s $250,000 Foss) Good By te Flies! a... 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