The evening world. Newspaper, August 22, 1905, Page 10

RATE SRE MT IPPC TOT voninnd World's Home Mafezrine. Tuesdar Eventng, Aufast 22, 1908. Es The £ In the Good Old Summer Time! ty J. Campbell Cory.'y@ Matrimonial Conundrums. $e @upnened vy the Preas Publishing Company, No, 6 to & Pak Row, New fork Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ’ ‘ a = a a VOLUME 4é...... : NO, 16,072 | FAR Misa Greeley-Smith: j aE Es — — — | D Should a man 0) ticenty-fve, who has ted a somewhat dlestpated MR. MURPHY’'S ASSESSMENT. life, seck introduction to an educated yirl of twenty-four (those Ufe r has heen all one could desire in every particular) with a view to marriage? Should a man marry a girl who i his inferior intellectually, but his equal or | superior in every other wayt Should a man marry a girl from a lucurious | country home then hia income scill allow of nothing better than a $35 flat in New York City? Te it not more conducive te matrimonial bliss to give your tcife $50 than to accept $500 from her? L. B. He HBSE are four very interesting questions, And@ T the answer to all of them {s, emphatically, YES, A girl of twenty-four generally has sense enough to realize that it 1s better to marry a man with a past than one with a futurd, and that her choice ts limited to one or the other. Of course the tolerance she will display toward {t will be determined largely by the past's color. If it !s of a vague, gentlemanly, misty gray she will forget all about {t; but ff It Is one of those lurid, flamboyant things she is justified in turning the owner of it down, on the plea of bad taste if for no other reason. For a gentleman's past, like his tle or his waistcoast, must be unobtrusive. | In an ideal state of society, perhaps, he would not have any past. But the older we get the more we learn from our own shortcomings the lesson + of tolerance toward others and that the fates offer us their best gift of love, | as, when we were little, other children offered candy, first telling us to | “shut our eyes.” | Comment is made that the Good Ground assessors ha $25,000 for purposes of taxation the country place of Chi for which he paid $44,000 and has since added to its value by costly im- provements, If this were an isolated case it might be assumed that this Jow assessment was due to Mr. Murphy's political power or some other improper reason. Ii is not likely that this is the fact. Comparatively little property, either real or personal, is assessed at it full value. Even such a just tax as the new stock transfer tax does not take into account the many stocks which sell away above par, and at times of high Wall street valuations as at present no higher tax is paid than when values are lower. The mortgage and collateral inheritance taxes are about the only ones which are imposed on the actual value. The estates of the dead are appraised at their market value. Mort-| Gages are taxed on their face, which is the same as their real value. Other property, whether real or personal, is assessed on a haphazard sys- tem, and taxes on it are not justly levied. Only the inheritances from the dead and the real-estate debts of the living contribute to the public treas- ury without discrimination. The basic injustice of the present system of assessment gives an ex- euse to many for tax 7 y and evasion. If some propert 2d | at less than its real value the owners of other property strive by this means or that to avoid paying their full share. When the tax assessors tail to perform their known duty as public officials to assess all taxable | property at its full value taxpayers find ready pretexts for adding to the official injustice. The present system of real-estate assessment is almost as unjust as the | present personal tax methods. Some rural boards of assessors make only nominal assessments of personal property. That has the unique merit of | uniformity in injustice. The real-estate assessments are never nominal, but always unequal. It is the consensus of masculine opinion that a man Is apt to’ be happler | with a woman intellectually his inferior. Disaster may result from mar riage with a silly woman, but rome of the best wives are women of no par- ticular mental endowment, whose placid good nature and common sense are the best buffor an intellectual man can place between himself and the small worries of life. Whether a man should take a luxuriously bred girl from the country to a $35 flat in New York depends on the sense of the girl. Most girls from the country who have been here a month become so violently afflicted with “New Yorkitis” that they declare they would rather live in a barrel under . aa | the Bridge in New York than in a palace elsewhere. ; , . Solomon solved this problem when he wrote: i Speculative unimproved property pays less taxes than it should and well- | “Better is a dinner of herbs where love {is than a stalled ox with hatred appearing improved property is unfairly penalized. Assessors judge too therewith.” much by appearances instead of salable values. They are loth to increase | Oticourse.:e stalled ox end/all/it stands for does: not necessarily) 1nducs 13 assessments to keep pace with higher prices. Such practices not only pete ot iD a Peete DEDaroes ye soni Usually, actalny to) etalen k ata mie anata vainly an " ) ox dlet till we have reached Hkewise a state of stolid indifference that, in eep up the tax rate and levy unduly on settled property, but they put a/| marriage, is more hopeless than hatred. 1 premium on speculative holdings and discourage improvements. | It is better to give your wife $50 than to accept $500 from her. Not . re | With the great demand for more homes in New York and its suburbs that it hurts the woman's love to give, for giving {s the fulfillment of her the policy of all public officials should be tovencouiragé the buildin | nature, but that it injures the man’s character to receive. Husbands of rich : sees 8 UP o} wives will not believe this, but thelr wives all know 1 A Walle sien ; vives will not believe this, but thelr wives a It. i every foot of land available to New York's crowded population. Ci ili i # Letters from the People. Said « on # the » Side. Reply to Disgusted Girl. the downtown elde, The officer violently XPERT swimmer drowns at Rock-] to earth with a warning to which there 5 i Aas ape eee UaENEA HIRSH IT heen ele E away. Clergyman teaching a Would be aome sie of credibility, Q sted Girl” must not belleve | €Fs should be shown a little more con- EOUNG) El ito Se lm drowns. TN Gots that dt was! a. van a | evetvcilng hears. Men are not ee-|Sideration on wet days when {t ts !m- New Yorkers drown in Maine by UD-| who chreatened to arrest Areanant Ire # i Flous or dangerous when t=. “‘make| Possible to bring a machtne to a halt in setting of canoe; guide, who Was | benshue when hin airshin descended in Rove iGHdicae fa hemaenit ys thereto) @ short distance. It is diMcult enough aved, being the only one of the Party | Central Park Evidently toc teeutae hike calves.” ‘They ere merely strug-| ‘© comply with the traMe rules of to- who could not swim, Little learning with that kind of bird e emler ling to maintain her fr Gay without, when making an error, to a dangerous thing in most cases, but al a es Siis Gon aay ak be approached and “called dow: | in awimming {t seems to be that the The women of Japan, defying custom, : {mpossible with the average girl. EB | danger lies in knowing too much. | parade in honor of Miss Alice Roose- r jolery and petting 4s pomanaed, coe no Nockefeller's Prayer. - ~ ~ : 4 SEnIeyana velt. The women of China reported the man can stoop to a meaningless show ” er ther day as tak ‘omit S ‘ Young vlayer vanquishes veteran at |° ing a prominent part in $f affection without claiming kinship to| Te the Editor of The Evening World: A Trio of Oddities. | ’ a . i {the boycott of Amer! \p peamactlon) wit boat clateilng elaebiy 40) re autecity ok aba De Gomteedler Ee Comes. | Is Woman Woman’s Foe? oe & By Robert Hichens, | teanis Getiine to be an old story, | ne boveott of American goods. If ihe About for sheer foolishness. A CALF. cae aa poesia aha al bay A walked intoj one lot the. police | OMEN are, as a rule, far more fine, far} Often and often have women damped the fire of my | players begin to complain of the kinder-| the Orient also, the “yellow peril" will ; ‘Another aMante View. al aes te mace ore ah courts in Singapore the other & o more human—or shall I say humane?—] @Mthustasm for r sister women, left me wondering | garten development of the links. have @ real seriousness. fo the Editor of The Evening World: Now, if I could offer my little petition | tay. Removing his bat he bowed with » ere in thelr dealings with our sex than In ether I had n ken mere ta for genius, or, worse, Aa 66 —<$<— No, men are not idiots because they | giong with Mr, Rockefeller I would like | €Face to the Judge en the bench. ¢ | make love to a woman, as “Disgusted| wim Mr. Rockedaller’s permiasion for a| the latter's seat was a valuable clock. Giri” thinks, Platonic love? Bah! |ijetle cener in heaven where I could|T8!8 John Chinaman quietly removed, | Who would care for a woman wholenq my days after X am tirough with | tucked it under one arm and the ladder | mistaken subterfuge for genuine Iam writing serous] tue. Tam not Joking | Four-foot awart In an east ede en-| Pointed Paragraphs, si 86°! counter knocks out «iant six feet three O 1 doubt about women. in hig stocking feet. Little man may | ® Ts Othe Tipline aoe rss Ot /Glres ors) thelr dealings with thelr own, I thin! that even th women are o best and nicest en quite oddly, almos to us that we are fools to nave been a close reader of Eastern foils to direst makes that claim, whep there !s a| this ear! = under the other, bowed egain to the| inexplicably, cruel toward nen who tell us, with @ war news. | A pretty girl !s one who ts 4 hole world full of nice girle willing he 8. RCAUM. | riagistrate and withdrew. Some days vA thelr own sex. Re: stand up for lers, that “she'd never ef ed [handsome and doesn't know it. i endenxious to be loved? Ammonia Guns for “Chestnuts.” | elapsed and the clock was not returned. thelr sex as a wi to defend it @ have known py, All women like good things—and DISGUSTED BOX. lt had beep stolen while the court was warmly, even violently, when {t comes i It fs women | Staten Island schoolgirl amazes all bY most men come under that head. i 5 ES To the Eiltor of ‘The Evening World: aitsing to a question of individuals, down g) the thumbs with a ply that "t tis of virtue were put on for your | her athletic feats. What woman's col-| ‘Though the moon looks best when 1g ‘The Police and Wagon Driver: | Is {t not possible to enact a Inw to| tiers are a pair of this season's golf swiftness and a unanimity which are quite puzzling to the t with her last from Worth." And half tho| lege will bid highest for her—Vassar (4s qutl, it 1s different with a man. fo the Editor of ‘The Evening World: hang or electrocute the @imple-minded, | stories imported from England. A. | mere man In ealte of woma k of esprit de corps, we men|for ita track team, Wellesley for {ts stany a reigning society belle doesn't While standing at the corner of|empty-headed {dlots who cannot see a ver an: If I, as a man, praise woman, the sex, to a woman, I find | pe: n crediting whh t y vt w w or Bmith for basket-ball? | | n i pra an, : an, a] persist in crediting tne whh those many virtues which—| crew or Smith for ce know enough to go he: Broadway and Thirty-sixth etreet th eS tne tia teen golfer drove a low ball over a river and ugh to goin when {t rains, x a salmon jumped at it with such vigor, my praise welcomed smiling! and probably agreed with. for all the and shrugs of women—t!t possesses. . . . Oceasionally a man sheds tears at the eee mazes evant ee eee she down: remarks: “Look out or that face will/thar it jumped right out on the bank But df I praise a particulara woman to another woman, In-| Personally. I agree with Miss Cornell that the virtues! yan in doubt as to how to spell|!08s of his wife's pug dog—but they are pour was ts height, I noticed @|break your camera! and “Oh, are you|and was secured with the golf ball in its stantly comes elther the faintly despairing remark, o7, if| Javo oven unequally divided—tne virtues, not the talents—| soins, and having no dictionary | ‘87s of Joy’ a er of an automobile delivery wagon |having your picture taken tor the|mouth. Another player killed a lark not that, the wondering question, “You really think so?” | and that wornan hus more than man, But one virtue that | FROUReur, | ani | Where there aro two rivals for a wo- Saming through Thirtieth street 40 pass | Rorues’ Gallery? with a golf bull fn, nis morning round Often ft ends with that, I have said something enthusl- | We mon have T Uuuk woman lacks, and that ts eaprit dy paney, Caer Yad ee he “|man's hand one of them Js apt to win Gf the slippery pavement’ the machine (qa eerie 2 Photographers ts to cerry |afternoon round. HT in his istic about a woman's talent or a woman's goodness—not | corps. Let womcn give us Let them begin to speak | Paper an\ % | by losing. an ammonia ¢un and shoot tt above the| A traveller returnd from India relates a woman's beauty or a woman's perf! atid, and the driver, in order to avoid | heads of those idiots who yell those| that at Andarkon, In Central Ind.a, he | go toollshly njudicious as to do tha @ collision, was forced to fall out of old “chestnute” mhen four full-grown Usgere with dressing; I am not | well of each other. I ‘Wille tt 1s possible for a man to love and the reply {s:| true, “That woman's bat sults her better than my hat sulta) A new chiid every year In American his neighbor as himsel a it depends a i they mee alive shots in Jeas than eix ninul “You really think ao?” Then I feel, what I doub: me.” ‘Then they will guide us up out of our mire, perhaps, | families, recommended by Dowie, | good deal upo FA dine Moer an 8 nutes, the y ‘ no doubt am, p ; , ae | eal upon the age and sex of the « i Gnd therefore peas theo on’ camem, PHOTOGRAPHER, |first three being single shots. | great fool. They will lift us a little nearer to themselves—the angels! | would bring the ghost of Malthus back neighbor aforesaid.—Chicago News, _ MY LOVE AFPAIR, 922727 2. FE By SOPHIE WITTE, rfscrer nen ee ey. | STRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN ‘BY HERMAN BERNSTEIN in German novels, REAN, BEEN That Lecnov, Yegor Tgich's country- es man, that the rural bear should be no errors RBCEDING OHAPTHR. | one lve than bur well-known painter, Garlebad with Bast eater and“ brother-ae see at the same time my interesting a Gistan guished “looks | Russiun—werl, irs Fat Stiraction between them is evidently BSUS DALIEALTE® rutual Jas if trying to guess the hidden mean-) re with you, if not to the is least to the “Heaven-on-bart | ing of my Fash words, Germans call one of th tops ‘of these | “Nobndy,” he suddenly replied, frmly; | mountains, Bue I ani afraud, Maria ' | then, lowering his volce, he added with | Sergeyevna, that in spi your “As yet © ee | bravery, you Would nuc ¥ et do jsuch a ‘risky thing.” 1 eyed him boldly and said in a serle an alr of importance “And you have never loved any or und they make every effort to be | 7 Cannot as yet come to myself for “1 don't know * * * Ona son ; ; poms aoauainted’ with each ober. amuzement, and at the concert when Forcing myself to laugh, I repeated | no no Ere cate nere rena. eee Yegor Uyich introduced Leonov to ma his words [1 Would be auite rasky for you. ’ My CHAPTER II, I was 60 embarrassed that I did not “Where there 1s doubt there 1s no; pear’, 18) sound: is Hard to make It On the Mountain. |Know what to say. When he remarked, love, | "Would it be hard even for Andre} |" have been looking for some ume for July 25, | an opportunity to make your acquaint- H’ was away for a short time, and ance,” I muttered confusedly: “Bo ‘He also laughed forcedly and changed | he asked, gazing at me with the subject of our canversatton abrupt- | By hing look hi expecte ly—he began to speak about tho) unawares fo cy weather, Kept silent Aus. 1, | He was evidently disgusted with my | dutiness of comprehension. After dinner we all went to drink te@) hus we sat there in ‘silence for some in “Kelser Park. time. I began to feel rather uncom. t} When we were about to start, Katya) fortable. To occupy myself with some= 4 question took me down my eyes and now he is back, He went away|have I." © © ¢ alone, and has returned with @ 80 Katya assures me, but Katya als lady—evidently his wife, I met them! biundered. * * * Leonov, too, was evi- on the way from the depot in a car-{ dently confused by our embarrassment riage, loaded with satchels, boxes and| But, then, I do not yet know him at ail. thing, : al! sorts of bundles. Perbaps he te always so milent and ab- suggested that we return te town over) of pres Toren tush iss ery Tap Act know whether he de youne | eantemiladed: | the mountains, fan to puck the berries.“ Leonoy frat @nd beautiful or not—I was unable to i Jely 90, | | And Yegor Ilyich went home with| looked distractedly at the ‘round re tee her face through the heavy green| Whet a queer man he 4 Ludmila through the park, while we| Peres, which fell nolscleasly from my, hands to his feet; then ihe began to ar= Why did he veil, but Z noticed her hat—tt is old-|blush when I asked him where his wife | climbed the mountains, Tange them carefully with his twig, Little by Ittle a la neato) fashioned. was—and then asked me abruptly, | | Katya was slackening her pace little ee By ate Twe question mi i wy ks “ i ‘1 dots, which i ; July 2%. | "Which wife?” Is there anyt by little, #0 that she fon semaines be- | drope ef ‘blood, sobenrea on he bows, They are undoubtedly husband and) fenstve in the fuct uiat I mi hind, hidden from sight by the ‘hai round, Katya'd arrival. interrup wife; they watk arm iu arm and seem | slater for his wife? bushes. weonoy. so that the period was mussing, “Let ue go up a little higher,” sug-| 2m, under hla mute “question, gested Leonov, “perhaps we may find} “How does it look? You ‘have made us a bench there, or at least a stump of | WAlt for you about an hour!” v to be on familiar terms with each other.| And tren, When I inet them at the entrance of | me: the florist'’s store 1 heard him say to} way did he suddenly ask “Ig it true, Marla Sergeyevna, that “Merci!” she replied, wit curtosity and, I think, even with fright, | yirst of all what had he to do with my But as 1 did not stir from my place, he| school girl. "i feel highly Maitered | i In his eyes: |{n my absence, the few minutes whicl added, with # teasing look In ateaia| 1, needed in order to smoke» aie of cigarettes, seemed %0 you as an Tt would be interesting to krow what| relations to Yegor's brother Andrusha Be suid to Lis wife about me, Was it! and secondly, how docs he come to perhaps to rouse her jealousy? © * *| know of the existence of su ions? He must have told her about my car- | qs 41 : possible that Yegor Lyicn haw al- nation, but kept silent about Mw 1 am vieh has al: | “It poems to me that you a to remain with me alons “Whom can I fear, being with you?” asked I irresolutely, to which he ro- you smoke?’ asked Leonov, air of fastidious amazement as)on, but ready guasiped? I should itke to know| ‘ed tmmediately: terlocely te Kane migehin awe eine are, never forgive myselt tor not hay. {22% What be told him, Ho must have! idag in the 7 1 While the gardener was making two) foilowed up his earenstle fook with an after my sitsnt coufuslon, / “With me-you can be afraid of me| linn. 1: in a secrete, My husband hat |told him that J am head over ears in| 1 awa dun font of ¢ Postof.” | bouquets for us. Ludmila, evidently with tronic question, “Do you love slay 1 without hesita-| gaye forbidden me to smoke under the pen- ing thrown bie bouquet to him out of} jove. for when I told Leonoy thet q{ te Iny intention to sit down and| the intention of entertaining us, began | try?’—L mu faltering no Won. 1 felt Ike disconcerting him for such | #IiY * "fof a Mivarce.” the window; now it i® too lete-the|eannot 1 AiigEAnarey Tivicnetarllaaeer ak her CAAMnE Ten ue Tlie wil ubout hi i in the vile | * > © Why not?) "What do you Jove, for instance?” 1 mainpiaced Joke, pores ane ue Tat! & wrould Rok Bowery are withered, . that the law for-| changed my mind as soun a 1} luge; how she rained how she | I +L don't know “Hyerythlng beautiful; musle, ert, nar]. YMEY Valerie yon ara Guns] TAR. What a disappointment,” sala ; July 2 de G meets Awacaletere, he'l (hecLaoneva, ch tesognlacd whe 1 | ploged cucumbers, how she . ture # ee Sdering yourselt ao rous,"* Iptye, having @ loud Seb. "To-morrow—le grand jour: 1 4 aizl clad (dills-and aleeitioaniis { Sr vie {| peasants, and What she taught the e He Interrupted me, with a condescend And 1 love noth I blurted out| He Interrupted, me: ob fisappelstan ‘or whom? tack Leonoy, "Love is atvonger than the taw uy tater—by 6) dren. ing st involuntarily, but sincerely. + Well Breve that you are not afraid) ghe aid not reply at once. Bhe first Yegor Uvich, desiring to cause me dis July a | ay Uy ‘At just T could restrala myself no} “Where thore 1s doupt there is no{ “And novody?’ he interposed qutekly.|° 7 turned allently, and walked up with looked ot me ae manos, en phe, carer agreeabloness, invited Leonoy to the| Leonoy introduced me to his slater | yey. were the vardener'a|tonger, and I yawned loud, opening tove," I rald nothing in rep'y rapid sirides, as thovgh 1 ald pot hear | the” piaintively whined in the’ tone of eoncert to-morrow at "Bchebrun" where| Sho came } for a few days from| jth at the entrance e flower} wide my big mouth. At tis point our conversation took | “And you?’ J asked, after some heals | Yfgnov.s \enelng roti: Gn operatic Ingenue, i king grimace We have roserved on Wednesdays a! Irancesbad, and will soon go back t| The Leonoys iooked at me simultane-|quite anuther and a more Interesting | tation, Teonov “heaved 4 deep, long sigh, and and pointing to her Breast, "For iq Separate table on the yeranda, near the) Russia, to her brother's village, where| 1, :o0, entesed the hut, Lecnoy rose |ously, Her face mirrored uetonishment, | turn, “Tr! # # * Leonoy veflected awhile—| stretching himael| lagly, rose to his It Leooy aid not fruces at that moe orchestra. whe usually etays all the year round |to meet me, with a smile of welcome, | while In hig eyes there was a sarcastic] “And you, are you alway@ positive| "I love my slate ‘Are you rested?” .| ment thet 1 glo smoked, then ae ts ame! July 2% I Her name 14 Ludmila, She ty unmar-|and giving me ‘ls chalr seated himself| smiie. that you love when you do love?” 1! “Aud no one else?” perfectly rested,’ he replied | ‘remely stupid. Guch Wings happen only with me and sed, but no longer young. on a bench nearby, I became confused, and when Leonov|asked tum boldly, mastering myst He stared at me for several moments, | oh erfully “I am just now ready to (To be continued.)