The evening world. Newspaper, August 21, 1905, Page 10

cat l | @ubliened by the Press Publishing Company, No, & to @ Park Row, New York Entered at the Post-Ofce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. VOLUME 46........ . NO, 16,071, | THE PROBLEM OF PARENTAGE. | To bring a new life into the worid is the acceptance of a great re-| sponsibility. The baby comes through no will of its own. The choice | of existence is not in its power, The parents and not the child determine Hs existence at birth. The instinct for paternity and maternity is one of the strongest of human feelings. The parental attachment to offspring is the-most constant of human passions. | In early times a selection was sometimes made after babies were born. | Sickly or deformed children were destroyed, as the chicken-raiser now mercifully kills crippled chicks and the horse-breeder shoots malformed colts. This was deemed kinder to the children and necessary for the} 3 preservation of the State in order that the stock of fighting men should be . improved and that there should be no dead weights in time of war or fam- q ine to be removed. The same rule of selt-preservation of the com- _ munity which eliminated the old and feeble also forestalled, as far as pos- + gible, the existence of defectives, deformed and imbeciles, The report of the Health Department on the school children of New York discloses an opposite tendency in ‘urban civilization. Of 13,944 : young chikiren examined 6,294, or 45 per cent., are diseased, deformed or defective. In Sparta most of these children would not have been i allowed to grow up from babyhood. In New York the parents of many of them have carelessly shifted the burden to the community. They have brought into the world offspring with hereditary taints, with inherited deformities, with tendencies to consumption, blindness, deafness and spinal | 3 disease, and then they turn to the physicians of the Board of Health to| work out the solution of this most difficult problem as best they can. q That is, the fathers who are provident and careful of the birthrights | of their own children must add to their burdens by supporting the children | ef those others. Unfit fathers are unrestricted in the number of defective 4 children they bring into the world, whose uncared-for future will end in| an asylum, a hospital, a poorhouse or a jail. In their turn these defectives will breed their kind, and the standard} of the human race will be lowered. In order to care for these successive | generations at public expense, every man who provides properly for his own children will have the burdens of life made that much heavier, and| for most men they are heavy now to the limit of endurance, Of course, these children must be cared for. They are blameless. The sins or ignorance of their fathers are not theirs, though they must} suffer. The Health Department is doing a necessary work in seeking to! mitigate the suffering and meliorate the condition of these little ones. If g Private charity will not do this work, public charity must. Civilization should be producing better and healthier children. With! every generation the human race should improve physically. Disease| 5 should be vanishing. Deformities should disappear. Accidents and old p age should be the main causes of death, but they are not, Medical science annually saves the lives of thousands who a century ago would have died. Surgery, hygiene and sanitary safeguards all (end to improve and prolong life. The percentage of infant mortality is tower. But, with all these benefits, there is the loudest call for some great mind to evolve_a solution of the great problem of parentage. To save the life of a child is not so essential as to better its physique and insure its happi- ness. These children have the right to be made whole. # Letters from the People. 2 Reserved Seats in the Park. the Government looks after both thetr "To the Editor of The Evening Wo nstruction and their condition. In! Apropos of park benches re: York the pr: owners seem to women, I dare say that sen: care very Mttle a it the looks of the are not ufrald to use seats o sidewalk, and much less for Renta keaunle onleaeioihear fort of the pedestrian PHILIP SHAPIRO. King Solomon’ Faltor of The for numerous rea finery of expe familiar conve the trouble the park ns, mostly Advice. ning World: y To the i y Who asks read-| In b havo a certain num to advise him tn | } and fauteuils with spring Seabee! | ary com f King Sol Berg. for inincolttomien with all thy heart ¢ tendant or + ay aing j atiend : x8 ledge “ilim and ti | thy New Vork Streets In : oF { | nm Defense of a Netehborhood. Evening World | Hagan clubbing New York 1 would : like to “contradict, wi a ‘ of the » th T ity. eye SH a toand First avenue is the © defe ct r f any preoinc’ | dQ fuulty construction eon a aeeanene: on Nee | af ” ment-houses ke three yeurs, BromAGHs nod Grek GxieHt A woEpae can ie Is the ilrs: | 4 2 a es 4 nee that have Ite | ad Me TnL 8a fair-minded pabate owned by the | MY LOVE AFFAIR THE but together with my elster aps eee - - f Be nat y noth CHAPTER I, Asan ae 4 yf . Worke—Ye ma 0) a Love at First Sight, We are: spying eo! eee ae a u CARLSBAD, J », | on thing from him! He AM us to K woall ev Where like some ] in sting Fu frightening passers-by | @ult whom J on m It Is true, 1) & morning. I ve f him—what te he to with correc: faces, Le (net features, His afraid ful they are! His 2 not complicate her as an je © 88 1 fe adventure of mine, ll tr exificorndent, bur. i it for myself who that interest ay, Ron san And in the meanthne rie ae it word about him to anybody pression his bok has 4 July 11 me. * * * But then, 2 has also nottced the Interesting , T write my notes as th To At the concert, he sat ¥ mind, The principal eparate table, near us, This time : slan’s eyes 1 had an excelirnt opportunity to wateh woudertul, as to thelr form arefully—and 1 seized the oprore olor-whetl that 1 cana Me no ts eyes ter at ge and dark igh Van is “hick hair i average. tn he w fur of an old hea 1 with gray) to shoulder. vides, day threads in hie to look m, his 69 aburn mustache and beard. ‘Phe gray BHle noticed me, he booked at me, ho|}atr is #9 becoming to his pale, stern Mopped—and followed me) he rted| serious face * am anxious to make his & distance, of course—from uninee # * * But how? © © © SeMVEE| to my houre. lividendy*he want. | Wh °° 7 mus A to learn where I live and who I am, | make hls aequainiance at any cost! earn Ht he did Iam aiso eager] How?—I don't know as yet # ¢ ¢ bd Know where he lives and woo he | Where?-where the opportunity may t how this bo done? ¢ ¢ #1 Dome Waen he sooner the better! | 1 perhaps ask Katya to help me? July 13. 1 would act dare do yu ip “Was sol dos bedeuteng’ » $y | United States Departm By SOPHIE WITTE .The Evening World’s Home Magazine, Monday Evening: Augu st 215 1908. Cory’s Aquarium 9 Ce a ieeiaacenn aren amare il per wg A Queer Fish ! Have Known ampbell Cory. 4 Wi No. 4—Roose hence ‘‘strenuosis.’’ Favorite pursuit: Spaniards and doves of peace. blutiicum into the embrace of the Komura Japonicu veltus Theodorum strennosis or the peccemaker. Habitat: Oyster Bay. Characteristics: Works while everybody else sleeps, Derives its colloquial name from its habit of driving the Wittecanus P.ease don’t confound this fish with the Gulielmus Warlordimus Germanicus. A Little-Known Indust HE goat and $29, a troublesome subjic pe ° directed chiefly 1 odor of the milk, which contro! upon the subject and milking the regarding E vineing manner ndpoint the people 8 not keeping goats, an industry from among goa y Is complete t ry That Pays. to two points and invalids and in cooking. the average American all settling the question, l@ said to * by the exercise of care in r of the goat is {ts com- is not supported by facts, | dispute and Farmers and Autos, The superior nsity has been worn Jokes intry but lue, espectilly for children and sick people, of known. i's milk as compared with cow's milk, and the greater aently ntamped out red With which goats are obtained and kept, a point of par- fe steady invasion poorer cla sass American Medl- by the motor-car, quoted at length as to the value backwoods farmer The this strange, self- ar among his barnyard “erlt- nee given careful s not only a mo- opportunity of ire under its most s disease being ex- ement of some, ‘Better The Hen FUT, estment, tukind. The lack as an Inv of dignt e4zs handled at ing out eng men are engaged in inventing causes for ca'rying dt on, the patient Cochin © we ymouth Rock. sits patiently and peacef ar enulig! oll hay with no company except a white doo ent of the Unt encouraging presence of a crockery-ware ese, Pers] main at its present figure jaa worse sin than witchcraft, says the| way toward that kof the Missourm hens, weather and other being favorable, would complete the connectlon, -voleed bird of the fowl-yard sent to St ut her product to pay the salary of the d States for 200 years, shoul@ which seems likely. The Story of a Young Girl’s Heart | legal ad ing. Mr. Dill fates not only the persuastveness 1s yolce, but, to the ordinary farmer, by the more po- appreciation shown fs in-| tent influe of a good Havana cigar. “lgars are as on Sms ine to Insure a successful automobile ne position of hens) trip,” of Mr. Dill's axioms, Mr. in St. Lowis Market pill lays out for his trip a Mberal anp- § whey would of ent Ralnes- the equator, If one end) 11 h the kind that nge door handle! wil « nimat to heart of any . it would reach) sruker higher sphere, and) "A ge’ word backed up by a good elgar bea wade more than one cantan- Keroua farmer meet me more than half Way and pull out into the ditch in the wurrowest road #9 as to allow me just enough room to go by," fads Mr. Dill in confirmation of his claim, Lowa tt ree couldn't very well gut ithe parasol into but net @ word his batronhul glance #9 8 Never mind, I lose no courage. persimtent. flinging before tts feet anything I get patient and hold of, July 18, Jist think of it, how strange * * * 'o Jump up and run away, without even # much as greciing uy * * © Katya blames tle German language both for her failure and for the rather impolite behavior of the interesting Russian, not a Iam 41 keep on July 15 |She asked lim whether the seats near “Then He Turned Away Wit lout a Single Glance at M. Tl never again drop anytaing pur-|him were occupied, What a clever posely belove anybody—never! 1 must | question, the was If the benches Why gldihenot's ing a single glance at me. Iam glad| think of some other method to makeyin the park were reserved! pertun oa to speak ‘0 me?) that he didn't look at mel can imagine | ™Y interesting Russian speak, | duly 19, Strange! ¢ # © Inwtead of handing me| what a face I had at that moment! what method can I invent? * * * Til! Enough—I'll not eay a word about the white carnation, which I purp July 14. | talk it over whth Kayta. By the way,|tim any more! Vil just Jot down the Giopped in front of him, he lifted {| A new meeting—a new fallmre, When|the sky ts becoming goudy, and Yegor |Incldents of our last meeting, and then from the ground and put Ht into the| 1 met the Interesting Russian face to| Hyich does not leave the room when|I'll blot him out of my memory and button-nole of his gray Jacket n he durned away from the sidewalk and Walked acrogs the street, without cast face on the bridge, I let my parasol fall right before his feet. He picked up the parasol and handed it to me-he catohl the weather is damp-—he is afraid of/my diary forever, cold, What if it should rain tomorrows * * & It haappened thus: We were returning, from our morning waik risht after The Triangle of Love. By Nixola Greele T Smith, © the superficial observer there would seem to be er incongruity than the assoclation of mathematics. And yet there 1s be= no g love and tween the tvo an intimate and direct relation, Any one who has considered the problem of love at all will admit that it is generally a triangular affatr,. with a woman and two men who love her representing the apices A, B and ©; or the reverse proposition ofa man whoin (wo women love. Life would be easy salling if the course were simply a beat to windward, as in novels it sometimes is. But since most women have to choose one of two men who wish to marry them, and an equsl number of men must break one heart to | soothe another, the course far more often is a triangular one. Though the problem of love cannot he colved by geometry, as from the resemblance one would infer {t might be, its triangular likeness may be! carried further, Consider the three principal kinds of triangle. First, the scalane (Fig. 1), where no sides are equal. This represents the love affair when the man, A, loves the girl, B, somewhat; the girl, B, loves the man, A, more; and the man, C, loves the girl, B, most of all. | Second, the isosceles, where two sides are equal (Fig. II.); that is, the jman, A, and the girl, B, love each other with canal fervor, but the poor’ | creature, C, is left out In the cold. Aray A: Bate B Tig it CAL' FRIANGLE And third, the equilateral triangle (Fig. II.). where A and C both love the girl, B, equally and she is at a loss to choose between them. . { The analogy might be carried further, and we might even penetrate the rarefied heights of Calculus without exhausting it. But what 1s the ‘use? We have already proved our point. a Yet svch is the superiority of love over geometricians, who have beem strugeling for centuries with the impossitle problem of squaring the circle, that the most feetly endowed Httle girl, or the most commonplace man, is able to ¢ cert this triangle into the perfect’ circle of the seamless wedding ring through the law of ultimate affinity. Of course, being built around a rhomboid, we don’t get a perfect circle. But is the wedding ring ever that? (Figs. IV., V., VI, VII). ¢ Astrologers prate learnedly of lucky and unlucky numbers and charge a fee for revealing them to their patrons, But there is just one unlucky ‘number in the world and my readers can learn ft for nothing. It is the hateful, fateful, miserable little No. “3.” Usrto-date persons may suggest that they do not sail through life any longer, that the process is too slow. But even if they go by electricity is ys the deadly third rufl to be ayolded. “G2” is really the luckiest number if we could only be made to believe lit. But, unfortunately, we cannet. Hence our triangle. ‘ihe eternal trie janels of love. Said we on we the we Side. HAUFPEUR of the wrecked Iinds-,are better for the change nervous sya C loy automobile says Miss Willing | tems are deteriorating, had promised him thousands for a ° . ° jdine gift. Helen Gould reoorted to| Speaking of strong drink, marein of ing for her chauffeur, {I1 with |elght votes by which Asbury Park de t 1. "Tom" Johnson host to men | cides to remain on water wagon seems who mend his antomobdlle, treating them | @ narrow one, conekering how valiantly to champagne supper. Much evidence | the temperance forces lined up to eave jin the mews that they are coming in | the day. a A for the good thins of Mt Visciee aiteaat aecensed teams lleads him home. Dog reported the A. R, atdes. Many | other day as being in the city directory, ; Europe, but general) with name and address, and thought! sex here to orefer) chat others are deserving of the honon | thei w be | ty Women to be G. | wemen colonels !o {disposition of the | orass buttons on some one else. | . . Figures of the Federation of Churches Pretty diMcult to get things just right.| show that children between five and Sublect of national congratulation a few fourteen constitute 18 per cent. of the | years ago that people were giving up| poruistion of Manhatten and the Bronx |whiskey and “hard” drinks for malt|and nearly 2 per cent. of Brooklyn, Reputation of the latter borough as @ 4 {foe of race suicide seome sustained, Ae : Mauors. Bald now by the Health Com- jmisstoner that while hearts and braini ca (Sister of the Russian Peace Envoy) drinking the mineral water. It was a]because I pledged myeelt not to Ko near?! damp, foggy morning, We were coming | the window while he was there, byt I | |down the hill, through the woods. We|asked Katya to look out. Now ft ts turned to look around—it was he, my |clear that he fy afratt of Yegor Ilyich, interesting Russian. He overtook us|and thiy expluins his bearing toward | and when he had passed by, linmediate-|me. Perhaps he thinks that Yegor | ly slackened bis pace. Then we began|}yich ts not amy brother-tnelaw, but to walk faster and eon my husband! * © © Tie! } [with fim, “At last,” thought Well, Yegor lyich came back from fast we'll make hls ecquaintanco!—|tre doctor's how and told us that he jut 1 wax mistaken met there a countryman of his, a cere For some tlme all three of us walked |taln Ieonoy, almost side by side, maintaining un-| “Leonov? Ts it not Leonov, the painte broken silence. When we reacied, the od Katya Arse crossroad, Katya stopped short In| “He 4s not a painter!" he replied, digs feigned hosltancy and asked him in| torting his face with a grimace of dis French which of the two ronds would|content, as if she had stepped on ale lead us back to the town, In reply he|corn with her question, “Leonoy ts a slightly lifted his soft, gray-hat, polnt-|srdate man, an estate-owner, o countrys ed with his hand to the right, and thea! man of mine. He has an estate in the turned toward the left, same province we have, He was « classmate of my brother Andrusha, ‘Nhat Leonoy looks s0 strong, he ig a0 vell built, but he eays he Je an ine valld, Holl be here to-morrow—I'll te troduce hint to you."” July 21, Thate him! * * * He has caused me nothing but disagrecableness, Although the last disagreeableness won caused by him involuntarily, he ts to blame for tt anyway—Way does he stand for hours in front of our how Looking out of the window T notleod that the interesting Russian was alt- ting on a bench eu the opposite side of the street, When he eourht steht of me he evidently thought that I would lhomediately jump ¢ of vindow to meot him, but he was ifataon, J re- d solved not to leave the house before he] Ws!) Be gt eo. furemeal! What do was gone-—and I stood by my resolution. |sy uy dove with hm. aan L é Katya arked me to go for tho physician, |am in love~but T don't hut 1 bluntly refused, Be #he pant her MUA) NO, Ae: WOuld haye husband, Yegor Llylch, No sooner did|[ouscand yet f feel ike cryl he come out on the front stalrense than (To Be Continued.) m interesting Rueslan Jumped up from SUNDAY WORLD WANTS hare, ‘quote la betas aid not 90s this... WORK MONDAY, WONDEAS”" uly % What a wonderful bounyet!~so fresh and fragrant-ail of white carnatjons, No one but the Interevting Russian could have gent it to me. But how. could he finve learned that to-day was my birthday? Ju} He ng surely lett Gartsinad ym seri | ]