The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1905, Page 14

nee sate > i Cn ERTIES Oe nso ee 7 Evening Che & @Pudliehed py the Preas Publishing Company, No, & to @ Park Row, New York Wotered at the Post-OMce at New York a# Second-Ciase Mail Matter. VOLUME 46.0.4... seseee soscsecereee sees seseeeeNO, 16,089, te THE SCHOOL ARMY. |’ On Monday next an army of 600,000 children will take up the work af a new school year in New York. It is an army larger than the total number of children of school age tm Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island and Delaware. It is achild metropolis more populous than Boston or St. Louis, The annual return to its desks of this great school community is one of the most re- markable events of the year. It is also one of the most inspiring sights the city can show. With the opening of the school year old questions recur, of which the most urgent is that of the provision of school room. The present outlook is better than for years past. Where there were 80,000 part-time pupils last year because of lack of sittings, the number is expected this year not to exceed 30,000. The approaching redemption of postponed school-house promises {s gratifying. Certainly to keep pace with the pressing demands of the city’s school children for accommodations is a problem of gigantic magnitude. The school-houses just completed or nearing completion will cost nearly $13,000,000. They will provide 103,000 additional sittings, of which 37,200, nearly twice the number added last year, will be available Monday. If the remainder can be got ready by Jan. 4 next, as is hoped, a wrong of long standing will have been practically righted. Of the other questions which will come up that of “fads and frills” ts perennial. The “breakfastless children” bugaboo has been exploded, though the problem of the underfed child remains a serious one. Much is to be said in favor of the European experiments of furnishing a satisfy- ing noon meal to children at a trifling charge. Municipal paternalism has tts best excuse when exercised for the benefit of children. This army of more than half a million children is important as a factor in the city’s life outside of school hours. How many a small dealer their penny trade supports! They are eager customers. Their patronage of street venders in candies, ices and fruits has of recent years come in for the scrutiny of the Board of Health. ‘This scrutiny should be extended to the limit of the board’s powers. Cases have been too frequent of childish deaths from ptomaines and the poi-| Boning matter in cheap candies. In the larger business life the trade of the school population fs a prfftable item. Six hundred thousand pairs of shoes often renewed dur- ing a school year should pay dividends for various factories. The ine creased importance of the child to the world of trade is obvious to all who call to mind the growth of the stores which make a specialty of their custom. | In respect to the small boy alone, since he became a replica of his! father in attire the clothing manufacturer pays special attention to the production of diminutive covert coats, “Tuxedos,” school suits and all that the “little man” requires when his parents are well-to-do. In humbler homes it is not so much as formerly the remcdelled garments of the larger boys as “store clothes” which are provided for the wear of the young. And for the trade of girls of school age the big shops make provision which would have amazed their mothers in their own girlhood, | Thus wrote Rey. Sydney Smith to Lord Jeffrey, the distinguished critic, In reply | miseion, World’s Home Magazine, Friday Evening, September 8, 1908. Teaching "Em a New Dance. By J. Campbell Cory. Bad Handwriting by Well-Known People x Funny Mistakes. “W E are much were It legtble. Smith from left to right, and neither of us can deolpher « single word.” | ognising bis patron's signature, took the rest for granted and executed the com- only to find, an asking for payment, that the note waa an answer to an to an utterly inscrutable conimunivation that he had just received, says London | invftation to dinner. « Letters from the People. Tbe Education of Medical Students. To the Editor of The Evening World: What do laws of this State require of a student before he can enter t medical grofession and can he qualify for sume if he be unable to attend a «ive him no vacation. A man, no matter least two weeks every year, and every employer with a heart will appreciate is. If a man works all your without 4 vacation he certainly does not have college? CHAS. SCHMIDT. | much ambition to go on working after He must be a college graduate or| vacation season. Now, give this same, take the R ’ examination equiva-| min a vacation and I will warrant that he will do three times as much work | for the next two months after a vaza- Gon as he did before, thereby _re-| paying his ‘*boss" eight to two, and at | the same time will take more ‘Interest In the affairs of the concern, CHARLES WILSON. Jent the ty-sixth Street. World street, from quently whe cause of amusing misnpprebwnsions. A servant whom for some grave who Is entitled to a vacation of at eee ne sie teed applied to htm for a wrttten character. tmpudence the dean snatched up his pen and detinte deterrent ty h’s optaining a fresh situation. Armed with this letter the fellow answered an advertisement and, remarking that he had excellem creden- taal from Dean Stanley, presented his myaile scrawl, spot. len | as I do that the dean's hearty laugh over the episode, promised to gee the gentleman in person. This he| How Tennyson won the Newdigate prize at Oxford deserves to be repeated. The last of the three examiners to whom the poems were submitted, noticing that | his colleaguen had appended what he tuok to be ‘‘g’”’ for “good” to several of the Angered at his/ lines in Tennyson's ‘'Timbuctoo," affixed a stinilar inark of apprecietion, thus ge- lashed off what he intended to be a| ouring for the writer the coveted prize. Th: “Whatever,” cried he who had Just read the poem, of young Tennyson's effort?" “Wiy," answered the others, in undiegulsed eur- Prise, “we only followed your lead. You were forever marking his lines with a "'G!''" orted their confrere; “that wasn't s ‘g;' that was a note of inter- rosatton, ¢osigni fy that for the llfe of me I couldn't make out what the fellow ement.” “When Woman Rules the Roost.” | To the Eaitor of The Evening World: structions as to how to squeeze thelr We have hugely enjoyed Cory’s car-| feet into dainty high-heeled patent Dean Stanley's letiers were more often than not undecipherable and not infre- ‘made you two think so highly He was engaged on the On another occasion the denn's handwriting almost cowt an excellent servant a Place. “As far as I can make out from this letter,” said the gentlaman to whom ft was wrttten, ‘Dean gives you a most excellent character; but, knowing 1g ‘8 atroctously bad as invariably to convey a mean- ing directly opposed to {ts real purport. I must regretfully decline to take you imto my service.” Greatly chagrined, the man applied to ihle old master, who, with a ¥ did, anil matters were put right. | toons “When Woma: je th avenue th} A Solution of the Savingn Problem, To back his appkcation for employment im the editorial oflce af a New York | Roo: , especially fae Rule aes ite eainees he! Tia clrecctunly avenuo It 4 ed with cobblestones | To the Editor of The Evenine World paper a man gave Horace Greeley's name as reference, at the same time pro-|fiirtation with her atenographer’’ which | furnished by thelr much-relleved sia- and never clean? Rain js the only water) I noticed @ query in your paper on| senting a letter written by that journalist. The editor, making owt, at no small| we shall emuggie Into our employer's | (cy om, sweethearts, If you find any P thu 4, the stench that) the home page asking readers how | labor, the signature, took the rest on trust and appointed the applicant to a con- | Aceh wut eee at once we ezere |b Rone 2a NOR gee en Wa Oe eee arises from the pavement compels you) much could be saved in a month by’ fduntiel post. Some time afterward he met Greeley and told him that hie nom-| ugly and emall c@ you make mem wii | {helt Wife up if the back end to do up to close your windows saving one cent the first day and| tneo had, on the strength of his recommendation, been taken into the office. | enees samey ten oniA Gear clae ana teed: halr nicely, please, pleage give them F.C, CARROLL | doubling 1 each day. On the thirty-| Why, the fellows a scoundrel!” cried Greeley, “and T dintinctly sald so in my Fonenanal inet counter eae ease ote Tae ecave adeeistions tron : , dey you would have to pi 7 art wr a bs Seas st The Verett n Asention, it a rents Bue ones letter that on no account was he to be employe ploase us. If wo are to wear the pants | Make frienda of Time Stenographers, “one days would be $22,484,405.69 FRANK OCHS. AYTESHA: 904. in Great Britain and the Riser Hageard.) states that his employer will (Copyrighted. 1 Unite A tate: by tion, learned One—seeing that memory perisiies with death?” | “An!” he answered, “Brother Holly, it may seem to do so, but oftentimes it comes back again, For instance, until you read this passage, I hed forgotten aM mbout that army, but now I see it passing, passing, and myself with other monks standing by the statue of the big and watching tf the army, a wish that I could re- member his name, but I cannot, Well.” he went on, ‘that general came up to the lamasery and demanded & sleeping place for his wife and chi.- so provisions and medicines, and guides across the desert, The abbot of that day told him it was against our law to admit a woman under our roof, to which he answered that if we did not, We shoutd haye no roof left, for he would burn the place and kill every one of us with the sword, Now, as you know, to be killed by violence means that we must pass many incarnations in | the forms of animals, # horrible thing, mo we chose the lesser evil and gave way, and afterward obtained absolution for our sins from the Great Lama, My- set I did not eee this queen, but I saw the pfiestens 35 Moot Beautiful Queen of Kor $28 pease iar of Lite, Ins Geath at the in the grounds of his rommi! oa atiy in’ Indie. area, alent: CHAPTER Iv. ¢ Priest's Confession, What the priest oculd now of this matter of pice Generel, whereen.sou- T dwelt asa GHE FUR_GHER. HISGORY OF & Sir Walter Beott's writing was at timgs—not often—decidedly obscure. Taking | we shall have to insist upon the young advantage of this a cunning rascal by somo means obtained possession of a note|jren'a wearing the petticoat, Any in- LAURA CUMM MINGS, EDYTHE PARNLEY. s s She-Who-M s ed Diiged to you for your letter and should be the more 80 of unquesifonable Megibiity written by the great novelist and presented to Sir ettes. Cigarette smoker in Newark who I have tried to read tt trom right to left, and Mrs. | Walters tailor as an order for & couple of sults of clothing. The tradesman, rec- 4 consumed fifty a day fell dead. With ening the three Judges met. | Are Women Cats? : By Nixola Greeley--Smith. cat,” “] Thus Bernard Shaw summarizes Anne, his latest heroine, Are all womeh cats? If so, what makes them so? I do not believe in the universal feminine feline All women are not cats, except that they possess im common with the soft-coated tribe a wonderful capacity for landing on their feet, wherever they tumble from. Sometimes, to be sure, they may land on the toes of some one else in their haste, but that they can scarcely be blamed for, since some one else gets in the way. There are, to be sure, women who seem to be an exception to this rule. But so there are cats who surprise and grieve us by falling out of a window or a tree and breaking their necks instead of rising gracefully, smoothing their fur and possibly taking a quiet‘nap at the foot of the escaped perl. All women and all cats have claws, but under good treatment neither will ever show them, Another quality they have in common Is their love of places rather than people. A cat fs said to love the house its mistress inhabits better than its mistress, and there arc many women who love their homes better than their husbands, and dally sacrifice the latter's comfort to their sofa cushions. Another point of feminine-fellne resemblance is thelr lack of intelligent Interest {n food. Both have to reach the starvation point before displaying what to a man would seem mere evidences of normal hunger. The average well-fed house cat languidly lapping a saucer of cream and the average well-fed woman lunching on chocolate eclairs display a nonchalant indifference in the presence of real food that is both exasperat- ing and incémprehensible to the epicure. There is one point on which cats have the advantage of the comparison. They are cleaner. There 1s no pavement pussy so forlorn that we may not view her making her morning tollet as carefully as the blue ribbon winner of a cat show, This cannot be said of women, many of whom unfortunately seem to regard poverty and squalor as Siamese twins. But though the feminine feline likeness 1s certainly marked, there ts no reason why it should be considered uncomplimentary to eithor, since both are sleek, soat, graceful animals, who never show their claws unless provoked, and who would be most insipid and uninteresting if they didn’t have them. Said « on xe the we Side. R. WITTE, the Russian Peace | of men of past 100 giving advice on how M Commissioner, tipped the con- | to live to be a centenarian. Still some the N short, what the weaker of her own sex call @ ductor, engineer and fireman of | corners In the mation in h citizens train which brought him from | Miss being kilied of by the strenuous Portsmouth to Boston with cigars and | fe bye colts a banknote for each. Probably these | According to a @ tinguished ast Commisstoner gave the | 60,000,000 years ago. Enough time has en he went to Portsmouth. | since elapsed for the parties to the dis- ad of the Upping habit away from | @@reement to “cool off,”” the porter to other train officials will == Richard Le Gallienne. be viewed with apprehension. Hasheesh. ‘Translated by jonne.) With @ Boston poiiceman ordering the Seoretary of State to “move on” and a New York fireman brushing Chief Croker aside while others turned @ stream on him, there is still evidence m that this fs a democracy. EBST thou this little berry, this . . Ch S green pill? Mind of a man who killed his friend in "Ts made of dreams; yet 20 sus Long Island City unbalanced by clgar- taining {t Thirty fat birds are cooking on a epit— ‘Would not thy belly half so subtly fll. It ls this berry that the Subis eat When they would fall Into an ecstasy, And ‘ell their precious lies to thee* and me; A little hasheesh is the whole big cheat, Thirty birds, said 1; yea, in one small an output of 3,368,212,740, representing an increase of 141,580,479 over last year, © must be regarded as only insolated cases which have come to light among hundreds Uke them, eee Expected registration of 596,256 ohil- aren in the Now Yock schools, Not ex- grain actly an opportune time for remarks on} hundred times that number cook race muicide. sae top thee: Eat, thou; ‘twill harm thee not; and J. H. McGregor, of Newport, N. H., the oldest Mason in New England, 1s 104 years ola. Women of 105 reported In the news the other day as taking her thine shall be Houris unnumbered ere thou wakest again, first automobile ride, and several cases Little Sleeper. - = = a = (Ode 906 troy “Hafiz." ‘Translated A Suggestion. | Hichard be Gallienne> ty ITTLE Sleeper, the spring is here; R. SLOMAN—Now, you're Joking Tullp and Rose are come again, M again, aren't you? Only you tn the earth remain, Miss Walte—Judge for your- Sleeping, dear. self; you should know me pretty well by this time, Little Sleeper, the spring ts here; Mr. Bloman—But you puzzle me some-| like a cloud of April rain, times; I don’t know what to make ot| A? bending o'er your grave In va¥™ Soa | Weeping, dear, Miss Walte—No? By the way, did you hear about Jack Brown and May Long? He made her his wife yesterday.— Little flower, the spring is here; 3 What4f my toars were not in vaint What if they drew you up again, Philadelphia Ledger, Ijttle flower! BY H. RIDER HAGGARD. Author of ‘‘She,’’ ‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘‘King ' Solomon’s Mines,’’ etc, , cerned. |qsegching for the tracks of wid sh He aid that he 414 not know to what |Zhen we turned into the tent and hud- religion she belonged, and did not care, Warmth, 88 the ter ‘but thought that it must be an evil one, Bg oP She went the next morning with snoush, the army, and he never eaw or heard of Ov ernicts wi her any more, Yes be had heard one Ralgnt 99s, fom ‘this lor the abbot of that day tola fain ep. the “brethren.” This. priestess was the Next morning at ine dawn, the w Teal gene: the army, not the king ot, os still favorable, our cocny a Queen, Be b| of whom hate perase to 54°. FI eagey: whither we 7 as er that pushed would follo aay Dn uorehwand | a ib 'some bai an wald cy across the WO, é She desired 60 eotasiieh barvelt and ‘ser oat line i tcnppn cosa our ak i Senta % Ses aoe ie haa hoard st vod aay us sitelcha ane a pieaereied ind "where ‘was Yes” here ligne” 3 |