The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1905, Page 10

Evening to & Park Row, New York Matter, @udlished py the Press Publishing Company, No. Bntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mail VOLUME 46. MARRIAGE AT LOW-WAT The experiences of N JNO. 16,086. quaker in ;. 3 i 5) with other news stories matrim fur ioe 3s conditions that have rece and a Witzhoflvand he it easy for an organized s red t e7 Woman's # International Rescue Leagt i ; reonfiding women, The shoemaker wooer was But he was old and he had cork legs. Yet in response to Rochester papers he received 111 offers of ma gible mairimonialtpartne of avhich he wore ted'in Buffalo and vithin'twordays from ih women in all parts of the country. j Some of these would-be brides were young, someshadismall saving which were to be their dowry. Nearly all were willing:to-accept t 1 4 maker as a life partner at his face-value without furthersacquaintance me) Was tovbe gained by a brief interview. a “J don’t care if you have two wooden legs,” wrote-one, “if you will ti be kind and loving and faithful." She seems to have voiced the ‘senti- ; K * ments of all. Their willingness to plunge blindfold:into marriage with a qi x ~ man of whose life they knew nothing and whose character they must a take on trust, casts a curious Jight on the decline of feminine smarriage, a < ideals. 4 , An even more repugnant view of the departure from old marriage ¥~ * standards is furnished by the career of Mrs. Florence Forest, the) «New Jersey woman who admits that she has gone through the marriage t) }ceremony with four men, all living; and in the case of Mrs. Potts- ‘ Buchanan, who also had four husbands, and whose naive excuses for the : » commission of bigamy with the last is that she “did not think -it would , be right to live with him without a marriage ceremon: gs These are painful revelations of the lightness in which marriage obli- ’ gations are held. Unfortunately they-are not exceptional. The occasional } exposures of the workings of “matrimonial bureaus,” the operations sof 1 “marriage brokers’ and of unprincipled schatchens, the proffers of mar- 1 riage inspired by maudlin sentiment which come to the chorus:girl in jail Fes and to the murderer awaiting sentence are only other chapters of'the-same i unsavory story. i They disclose a reckless readiness on the part of each sex to enter { into the most sacred of contracts without thought of consequences and 3 with a total disregard of its solemnity. They reveal marriage at its low-| » water mark. | This cheap estimate of matrimony, while it accounts for the -Hochs and the Witzhoffs, explains a main cause of the prevalence of divorce. To those who look on marriage as a contract-of convenience implying’ no} moral obligations and to be repudiated at will, recourse to the-courts to; terminate it for trivial reasons is natural. In December the Census Bureau will submit to Congress a report of its investigations on the increase. of the divorce evil in all the States. This! Smo eh ivew ,omitssr 6M World’s Home Ma gazisue, Tuesday Evening, No Crime in New York—At Street Crossings. By J. Campbell Cory. N Ava? SS S ANS ae N Ss Sectihininh cs we 2 report will be the first comprehensive statistical treatment of the subject] and will go largely into detail. | But with the fundamental causes of its alarming increase figures’ The Mystery of the Universe w wt Will It Be S olved? SeptewBer {t | drop on the New York man’ i nom ha Fs 5, 1903. Do W omen Propose? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. N Bernard Shaw's Immortal preface to “Man an@ Superman’ he consents to follow his friends’ suge Bestion that he “write a Don Juan play” only on the condition of rechristening the pursuing fury Donna Juana, since he de that ntrary ‘to accepted theories of courtship, ii is woman that seeks and man that ns aw He makes out a very good ease in support of his idea. But, is it true? 1 think Thackeray was among the first men to formulute this maseuline theory that any woman with out a lnmp can marvy any man she chooses if she be persistent enough, And the vrgument of “Man and Superman” is based simply on this old idea, ia a new and possibly the most attractive dress it has ever worn Still thes h easier to prove in books than in fact, ppointed women without humps all Mr. Shaw's Annas or Donna things are so mi and there are so many detached and floating around that one wonders whore Jua hide themselves. This Ido believe: That, given two weeks of necessary and uninterrupted pleasant daily association, any man will suceamb to any woman's obvious preference. But for this certain favorable surroundings are necessary, the best being, as all matchmakers know, a country house. The city, on the contrary, offers so many opportunities of more or less Braceful sije-stepping that an emotional crisis may re in suspended in Damoclesian fashion over the heads of a man and woman for years withe out the former showing any tangible tendency toward the altar of sacrifice, If there is any way known to Bernard Shaw or any actual prototype ot his determined heroine of making the suspended sword of matrimony head, they ought in the interests of womans kind to give away the system. Of course when we read about Mr. But it is not quite clear to us how we A school of feminine courtship, where the prac 1 application of her extremely modern principles we ight, would be as much overcrowded on its opening day as the public schools, Any enterprising widow is qualified to open such an academy, only widows are such frightful monopolists that ft might be difficult to find one in all New York who would give away the secret. And, theantime, we must languish in ignorance. Said 2 On the & Side Shaw's Anna we see how she did it. an do likewise. nth e polite York 8 now deserved woman who swal- her than commit Observed by London cause for the disfavor bathing falls is tthe Increased size sea the feet of ‘open-air girls te almost died figures have grown ch doing golf, lawn tent 8 ing, mountain-climbing Avesvearolaal exe American seaside reso! parture from Chinese st mather of feminine fee: more marked. machines since 1 and coming or other ine pitt legs boy Visitor from the W town with two loaded ri had proba’ man Is exp [avers apse Is een cars popular as vehicles for “i Journeys, but Intest develope an mobiles relation to mar- Noted tha faster th yf a garage in East Or- fean cit mak transit.” mption of beer in 3 has now reached the remarkable the United ° , ‘ as FTER ail, se! watever vise it has achieved, is no nearer the First] interesting reference was made to the effe . ean tke ieee nice areal eka en ue JOSS. feminine, sel respect A Cause than were the philosophers of the earliest days of idle speculation, |had on ee aren : erie \ a Sarat = i neil ap Celebrated) story ceiChes a hols A allot a ian ge iad shown in the off-hand rush into ill-considered marriages and the breaking sare the Philudelphia Press, “Itead what Prof. Darwin, won of the famcus | research, tls the m the untverse is indeed beyond the plummet 'N& @ Blass of ¥ He eae See AL cee eS Ae ; naturalist, finally confessed in his annual add: as President of the British of \ Gayo RACH (GE owarrninia antes It a prime chs ond ho do not get th hare, down of the old restraints and safeguards which maiden modesty and Association for slie Adve ee a eee : eee ere meneh ue a eo vee See eee, ty . ae . = aes f q nds the the seers and poets of our little dust- | eserve established to keep marriage on the high plane it once occupied, We have seen that it is p ‘ace the solar system back to a primi- fraid of the unknown sing serenely. H i ihe z P PIES i Rivalnctie ee vosine: Guaieeee Tecnu ene Cae eres : ey sing fer uaint Epitaphs. . 4 ars in general have originated in the same manner. But such primitive The flood shall bi San old London churchyard are| His virtues and hig pitts are mo well known # Letters from the People, « Th ned empanaon athe sein open 1 hope ee [ode Shoat Shathe tae at] ony a ta ° the exact truth of these theories, the advance toward When I have er to Ald, Humble and his two wives) Best of ough, is the epitaph on _& Chinaman Cannot Become a| Half Brothers and Sisters. universe remains miserably slight, Man {s but a micro-| Seat: Susannah ord, died 1652, aged ten) ¢ ay ene Bb ecece e| iy to astronomical space, and he lives on a puny planet cir- | rine to ene damask rove rou see Pulandcihittean seek) cone nonsuct m e a: is wife died and he m inferior. rank: A , A ip like! the (blossom on tho Jof the world for piety and vertue In Pony tm Bator of The Breing writ; | lilien sie wife fed aid inn ia an Curliesta Smagine thattne/ ean aiaGoyeriine ioiath Things That Worry Kings. }| eit ney tenets ane Seg ren cn See ce fthe-Dnited States? EDWARD ROSE, | Wihat relation are these ten ohildr > exneet a house-fly to Instruct us as to the ‘G EDWARD has one of eem absurd for the Or like the morning to the day. skull and crossbones on her mon« ? Typhoid in Brooklyn. the four childn-n? A, MACKE ; Fee aero Cee eee ore ee es of the mona p ty Decause a groom-tn-) pnere are these consoling lines on the|/Ument are all delicious, but the cons } mo the Editor of Tho Evening World: From 100 to 125 Words u Minute. sti) hidden st Naa moreover, it seems to be grow- Wi!ting wears a white walstc in} -¢ yf a member of the Grocers’ Com- 12 He a af is perhaps the gem ©! \ There ought to be a way of forcing | To the Euitor » Evening Worl: We muy amazed at that 4 nes re S 5 black to dinner the! - Re: user DOF je owners of buildings in St. John's What speed in shorthand does a com. , ‘ Tre arate a arene ee eres MOL ea babar dhe INE lena. as) iaveaEnes uroing Such trivialities |? since he has gone before | Her stage was short, her thread was quickly face, Brooklyn, to rid it of sewer gag? petent ste pier require to obtain | ha ; Iscovereniwil) throlsbontsall time-rematn| to pars, and t © proportions when the W fer here grocers there | om eres almost an epidemic of typhoid) 800d position, that one Giildven wilt stil bes eicin 5 Alero on yin) amell) -mattera jot, etlau ng gets cross, but it must have been 7? me |Drawne out and cutt, got heaven, her worke the blook, and I honestly believe it's from $18 an ard? This do ae Ro BAgINS Ong may: ag at tho starry where he tmagines re t {8 not ef for this unlucky gentleman to, . Wes) Gn Poee SHB refer to t d required tn rep V never be read to the unconsidered trifles of his sovereign pardon the lapse| Those on Lionel Lockyer, a well-/qhis world to her was but a traged play, ; ee work or taking testi a of the men of the day came after a iuminous etiquett Considering what If to a dinner party! known physician of Charles IL.'s : cane and raw't, disitk't, and passed eek S NIGHT > knows as to the origin of things, inv events are ¢ men's him a few days later. | as follows: SmaY c uf tent clue. travelled to the Caves of al Africa, and there discr SYNOPSIS OF INTRODUCTION. Vinoey, @ young Englishman to the memory of ihe," the | She-Who- Aus found he fal Quee nm of Kor, who shriveled into love, tha R .000 years old mummy by bathing In the ay pie eporn Asal rat of Lite. He met her in Africa, in comn-| the Grecian priest of Isis whom some with his friend Horace Holly, w2o tells Story of thelr further adventures in a MS ed the aimhor Just before his death at the of @ statue of Isis in the grounds of his 4 ih home. Bs CHAPTER I, i The Mystic Sign, | two th in ARD on twenty years have gone Viston—the most awful years that fs wore ever endured by men—twenty years of search and hardship end jin soul-ehaking wonder and amaz ig as its ment, bbe te at in Kor we ; % Ludwig Horace Holly, have been | found the tin atin SOF a wery i!1; they carried me more dead t i than alive, down s ins Whore aa lowest slopes I can Kee my Ww f on the} md dow, for I write this frontiers of India 1 man had long sin tiny kept my breath @ record might here a month enough to tr @ fancy to 4 born, Sy wnt! iy pur th ry parts of it th mos ‘ much can, or y rate omit- | ht be found ag 4 ed. . I will begin with e o) 7 After Le from Africa in 1 which indeed we needed from the lence tunity house that bus erations. ‘Th Rody has tuken dead, is till my & } travel to die "> Bhote whose ey | mrite, if any shou gek—What shock? Well, I am Horace Holly, and my ny ma 1 jown, 8 or at fearfal si nd to give we es read t over read them, mi om: | in loud. 8 we walked pas: beloved friend, my son in| last Leo gro d—tt ir zi spirit whom I reared trom infancy | sob than @ groan—and : i f ‘oan—and clasped rn ¥ ‘Was-vay, is-Leo Vinoey, "IT van bear jt no longey, He ay : ha 1) We ase thove men wan following an ‘said—for so he called me now", am f GHE FVR_GHER_ HISGOR_Y OF ad * s She-Who-Mus s & t-Be-Obeyed nery Tam « knife and dd, and in) a her." | may plead for merey J man, and 1 will use that fake my chance, Ayesha is de death at least fos near | "Why so, Leo t you know Jshe may be lyin her and together endured much; 1 minded .nat we shoul eeparate tables were turned, and he with my own arguments, but I be moved, 1 follo plied m | would BY H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of ‘She,’ ‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ’‘King Solomon’s Mines,”’ etc. of Kor, and there, not far away, was the gulf we trod together. sea again, across the sondy deserts, across more sea, and the shores of India lay beneath us. Then northward, ever northward. aboye the plain, tll we reached a place cf moun- ns capped with eternal snow. We 4 em and stayed awhile above a “If you have any power, if in any way ft is permitted, show that you sill I and sve us from this sin, Have the hope into his for without hope he and without him I cannot live worn out, I slept I was aroused by low cal the voice of To excited tones. speaking to me building set upon the brow of 4 | bul ’ the bi of « preci- hiss ‘ orace, my Horace," he a a, Horace, MY! pice, It wos a monastery, for old monks friend, my, father, wake, every /Hioned prayers upon tts terrace, Tshall In an dnstant I was wide nerve and every fibre of me tones of his voice told me tha thing had happened which bore now Jt again, for It Js built in the shape of a halt moon, and in front of tt 4s the nile, ruined statue of a god who ps eternally across the desert, I for upor our destinies. iB A knew, how I cannot say. that now we “Let me light a candle firs:,"" T sald. | wore far past the furchest borders of “Never mind the candle, F Tl thibet, and that in front of us Ay une would rather speak In the dark, 1 went) tp qdon Jands. More mountains stretched bevond that desert, as of snowy dream that ever came to me. Tseemed joeaks, hundreds and hundreds of them, ito stand under the vault of heaven; ft ar to the monastery, jutting ous was black, black, not a star shone in {t, {nto the plain like some rocky headland, and a@ great loneliness possessed me. rose @ solitary hill, higher than all b Then suddenly high up in the vault, hind. We stood upon Its snowy crest miles and miles away, I saw a litle and walted, ull presently, across the light and thought that @ planet had mountains and the desert at our feet, appeared to keep me company, The sot 4 sudden beam of light that beat light began to descend siowly, like a) upon its like some signal flashed across floating flake of fire, Down tt sank, the s On we went, Hoating down the and down and down, till tt was Just) beam—on across the desert, above the above n and 1 perceived that it was) mount across a great flat land bee shaped like a tongue or fan of flame, | oud, (now were many villages and At the height ef my head from the| 4 ¢ly on a mound, UM we lt upon a ground it stopped ar t stead: OW peak, Then 1 saw that this and by its ghostly radiance I saw that| Pek was loop-shaped lke the Symbol beneath was the shape of, a. we of Life of the Egyptians—the crux \ re and supported by a lava stem and that forehead, The radiance — gatherog | hundreds of feet in height. Also I saw. strongth and now I saw the won, [tat tae tive which shone through dt “Horace, it wus Ayes rose from the crater of a volcano. bes youd, Upon the very crest of tie loop eyes, di lovely face, W a Wille, Ul the Bh and sho looked at me sadly, reproach: | Ayesha polnied downward wae te fully, 1 thought, as one might wag| mint, smiled and) vanished, “Then £ ould ays "Woy did you doubt ayy : would ways "Way did you dout 1 "yidi'uce, 1 tel you that the sign hae “L tried to speak to her, but my lps | & mH A " i sate ay {Tis Voice died away in th were dumb, 1 tried to advanoy and 1 NAL sth, Decode aiee tees embrace her; my arms would not moye. | id heant, Leo groped his way t me, There waa a barrler between us. She | itn, s# my Ant, shook it, Mtood her hand and beckoned as |...’ yaniv i, He aaked, angrily, though bidding me to follow her, rarea Uenan apna Wered, “never more “Then she glided away, and, Horace, me. time," A | my spirit seemed to loose itself from . and gol she geen the body and to be given the power to | Wi Seow Ue iy th } "Noi fu then she would have given| "It you go, HT suid, | saw thet beneath wae the shape of a woman." |me some shen, Aly Wis made up, no) So Leo gave way. Well," he exe ; t no om ov, if talk we must, let med sudd y, ‘L promise you at f ey once [insult you can offer to the Power tat It be of other things.” nail not be to-night. Let us give Lite ‘ m1 et you, to at back the gift of ‘Then I pleaded with him. Anoth chance,” 14 se Ila 0 # outworn, contempable and! "Leo" I said, “are you so heartless Good,” I answered; but I went to denpi A crime, 1 aay, that will bring [that you would leave me here alone? Do! aig’ i oy - 1 iauad Ai worsarounlanhent wate Pe sift t f s yy bed full of fear, For I was sure | a i p nan any u pay me thus for all my Jove and! that this desire of death, having once K ihke. knowl: | i db perhaps even the pun sare, and wish to drive me to share your) taken hold of ifm, would grow and i ; ent of everlasting separation sin? Do so if you will, and my Wood| grow, until at length it became too yes, to Does @ man stretched in tor-|be on your head," trong, and then—then I should be drawn ture den commit a crime if he snatches im angrily, for his la knife and kills himself, Horace? Per- ith fear. haps; but surely that sin should find 1 uld, "the greatest |forgiveness—if torn flesh and quivering: “Your blood! Why your blood, Hor-! through the same evil gate. I threw ac ‘ out my soul toward that of “Because that road is broad and two| was spared, ns idl oun travel it, We bave lived long years’ “Ayeshal” J cried in my bitterness, y ¢ fi folly, We passed eastward, over lands and seas, and—I knew the road, At one point she paused and I looked downward, Beneath, @hining in the anny ive window allt ut ui he ea st eta a, of