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f . finance. Together'with evidence everywhere of a general response to the * noW°reached-a point where it has become a source of concern to England NRE STENT MORE TT Published vy the Preas Publishing Company, No, 63 to & Park How, New Tork Entered at the Post-Omce at New York econ: se Mail Matter. VOLUME 46, 10, 16,003, THE CAPITAL OF Among the several parting messages to us from M. Witte, Sian peace commissioner, all of them of inte i t t of New York. “It will become a larger city than London, “It is already a larger city than Paris. But I do not think it wil ome the London or Paris of America. It is too much of a clearing-house of un sied na- tionalities to become a real capital of American culture.” “Clearing-house of undigested nationalities” is an apt phrase. Such & commingling of the races as goes on in this city has never before been kfhown. In through the gate at Ellis Island passes the most extraordinary Stream of mixed humanity the world has ever seen, 7 Through inland gates from the four points of the compass come other ‘Greams of domestic immigration no less varied and remarkable. Carpenters, seeking work, steel kings in quest of Fifth avenue mansions, chorus girls looking for an engagement, trainloads of corporation em: ployees transported over night from offices in the West to new quarters! here, clergymen, journalists, artists, “second-story” men, tramps—all| kinds and conditions of humanity find their way to the Mecca of the | modern world. What better material could there be out of which to develop a “real| capital of culture?” It was conditions such as these that made Athens great. If ever there was a “city of undigested nationalities” it was Rome. “the sink of nations.” In Paris and London the modern world has seen the working of similar influences of indiscriminate immigration to produce} @ national artistic and literary centre. M, Witte acknowledged that his impressions were hasty. It is to be} tegretted that he could not have studfed the quick transformation proc- esses which go on under the very eye of the observer among the raw material which is poured into the metropolitan hopper. He could have seen the small dealer leaving his east side ceilay store- room to cross the Bowery to a skyscraper on Broadway; the theatre usher and the newspaper office boy rising in ten years to the management of a dozen playhouses; the night-school boy using a free city college education to boost himself high up at the bar; country boys from Indiana dictating terms to publishers; a shoemaker’s son winning national honors in sculpture; a youth who not many years ago was lodging in a Jersey barn, selling a single painting for more than his former year’s income; innumerable cases af poor boys getting near the top in the world of AMERICAN CULTURE. the Rus- ire said he. invitation and the opportunity the city gives to all alike, immigrant boy and rich-‘man’s son, to make the most of himself. These are sights infrequent enough in Russia outside of 1 bit so often seen here as to constitute a twicetold tale. New..York has the double claim to consideration as a capital of cul- ture thaf it possesses both the artist and the patron. The creator of a statue or painting or book who leaves the farm or the tenement-house to miatket his'wares here finds the purchaser awaiting him. The city’s patronage of the fine arts through Its men of wealth has Ktary life andi Italy. w Letters from the People. 2 Husband Must Support Wife. tra help she s enabled to take in three| times as much washing as before and to! double her former profits, after paying Mrs. B. What 1s Mrs. B.'s salary and what are Mrs.” A.'s profits? CALCULUS, JR. The Between-the-Acts Nuisance. To the Eultor of The Eveaing World: ‘Theatrical managers have put an end to Uhe nuisance of women's hats, I think they ought to turn their attention to the men who trample women's gowns in their mad rush for refreshment be- twebn the acts, There ought to be a rule permitting the thirsty one drink in a three or four act play, and maybe | two drinks in a five-act play. If they Ko out oftener they should forfeit al To the Bdlior of The Evening Wor! Ww shail I do with a husbai who doesn’t want to work and tries to com- pel me to support him? I rent furnished rooms trying to support myself and children 1 have done everything to get along with him and I find it tm- possible, Is a wife compelled to keep @ husband? = A. B. The Wapkerwoman Problem. To the Editor.of The Evening World Here is a problem 1 find worse than “How qid is Ann?” Can {t be solved, readers?~ Mrs, A. takes in fine launder- ing and gets so much work she has to hire Mrs, B, to assist her. She pays Mrs. B. a regular salary. Owing to ex- AYESHA: Copyrighted. 100). In Great Britain and the United Stare. by H. Rider Haggard.) seat checks, Mrs. J. A. D, alive, for he broke the thin fue with his erm as he struggled toward the shore from the deep river. He eaw me also, and fis gray eyes seemed to start out of his head. | "Sull living, both of us, and the | precipice passed!’ he shouted in a ring- Ing, exultant yolce. “I told you we Were led,’ “Ay, but whither?” I answered as I, too, fought my way through the film for ice. ‘ ‘Then it was I became aware thay we were no longer alone, for on the bank one ‘st a prostpice | Of the river, some thirty yards from us, | frozen river, Holly | stood two figures, @ man leaning upon @ tall staff and a woman, He was @ very old man, for his eyes were horny, his snow-white hair and beard hung upon the bent breast and shouldgrs, and his sardonic, wrinkled features Were yellow as wax. They might have been those of a death mask ous in marble, There, clad in an ample, monjish robe, und leaning upon the staff. he Stood still as statue and watched us. T noted it all, every detall, although at the Ume I did not know that I was doing 90, as we broke our way through the tce toward hem, and the picture came back to me. Also I saw that the woman, who wae very tall, pointed to us, rer the bank, or rather the rock edge of the river, its eurface was {ree Holly journey. th fravhes gout a knoll on which fhoamped dod threatens to enguit the 3B nile miracle they escape from t a fe. but lose their rifles and Mast of thir gther Dossessions. Tay plone overt erabove a etter him. APTER IX. the Rescue, i v | cabin through space! Folk thus are supposed to lose ‘consciousness, but I can amert this t true, Never were my ions more lively than from the br oken tho ground, and never did o n seem to take a longer the white floor, like some leaping up through empty mest me, then—flals! Why, what was this? f stil ‘was in weier. for I could feel ehill, and going meme, down, ull bait Lwhould never rise ii i il ise ti FER: ROFL RPO SO TT & THe Eventing World’s Momn Matannrtan, wh os an Ane nd, “Ast The New Bogey Man. | By J. Cam 1 {HIST + TR-R-R-EMBLE {!! IN 1907 TEN MILLION MEN Witt BE OUT »ybell Cory. Engagement Ethics Dear Miss Greeley-8mith: I was engaged to a young lady for three years. In that time I made her many valuable presents, including a set of furs. Recently se broke the engaxe- ment. Iam not worrying about that, because I em going with another girl I like better. But she has mot returned the presents and I would like to get them bark. Would tt be proper for me to write for them? Please advise me, i7. HERE is, of course, a tradition in favor of the return of presents received during an engage- ment when it is broken off. But if the young woman doesn’t fee] the force of it I really don’t | see what you are going to do. After all, the view you take of the love tokens you seek to recover makes it seem as if you had always regarded them as just so much on account, mere sentimental contingent fees, as It were. Of course, the fact that the young woman hasn't. of their value and did not esteem them because they came from you. Else you would have been at HMberty to bestow them on the other girl long ere this. But don’t you think it would be fairer to give her a complete new GHE FVR_GHER. HISGORY OF FJ She-W ho-M & pate endeavur Loo grduped if, Polling over and over s eturned them indicates that she took an intrinsic view | By Nixola Greeley-Smith, j deal? Maybe the furs wouldn't fit her or would prove unbecoming to her | complexion. Besides, no amount of love would blind her to the fact that | they were of the style of yesteryear. Let last year’s girl keep last year’s clothes. But you don't want to give them to your new fiancee, you say? Then, what do you want with them? The kind of thing you give to a girl doesn’t usually come in handy in a bachelor's apartment or attire. And you surely don’t want to sell, or pawn them, do you? You owe the young woman you were engaged to an eternal debt of gratitude. Perhaps you will never know the extent of it till some other woman has married you. But then you will understand. Once in @ great while a man may be grateful to the woman who mar- ries him. But that rare feeling never compares in intensity with the more frequent thankfulness inspired by the woman who doesn’t. | Take Omar's advice. Let her keep the cash since she lets the credit ; go—that vast credit which it takes an entire future to satisfy. If she wants to Keep the few glittering gewgaws that you gave her realize that ther feeling is just as reasonable as that of a man, who, after having saved your life, should display your searfpin. Don’t be in a hurry to hang ornaments on the new girl, either. doubt she fs very pretty, charming, and needs adorning. But she may marry you. I've no ust-Be-Obeyed. ® “Throwing one arm about her slend er form he steadied himest, Mapai i. jy Poder tedden) his arm, old man, Leo L Septembor 14, | boay trom | other diseases may be spread by suitable culture bearers of | 7 190 5. _ 1 Grouv of Oddities in Picture and Sicry. UTHER WALSH, of Kangas, aspiged to be a naval cadet. He was one incl L short of the required stature. Last June he triumphantly passed the physical examination for Annapolis, being nearly half an Inch over the required five feet two inches. In the interval h 1 been stretched. The theory the tendency of cartilage was placed upon the 1s one of cartilage and vertebra « To rest to settle and flatien a machine ws.s invented. The subsec machine in a horizontal position. The body reclines supinely with the muscles relaxed. The operator then applies a slight pressure to the legs. ing the hips downward. A like force was applled to the head and shoul= ders, pulling out the upper part of the body. A potato resembling a human body in every particulur even to the eyes and lashes, was dug up recently on Kitchen gerden maintained by Mre, Harry B. Newton, | Moorestown, N. J., and ta attracting considerable attention Mrs. Newton keeps her garden merely for pleasure. Si etarted one day to gather in the few potatoes she hai planted. When about half-way down the row the spad turned up this extraordinary freak, which astonished he: almost to the point of fear a ‘When tossed out on the top of the soll it looked exa Mike a man lying on his back. With che exception of stun Mmbs every member is p»rfect and in good proportion. It ts ebout six inches long and resembies the body of a corpulent person. The abfomen ts very large and the nose, while bulbous, is well formed. The eves and eans are particular | well defined ‘This ts the “Molarla Mosquito,” a very different in y Jersey or Long Island variety; as differcnt as a cobra from te fs these mosquitoes against which science {s making wa is yungens, ard it ts a night flyer, as all !toea are not, a: Fa houses. Twenty-four hours after dts eggs are | Te depending cn the food supply in the water, in t ys r begins. ouple of days there after the perfect in ts reacting about, armed to lo mischief. Only te female bites, but both sexes hum on@ sing, and there seeme to be nothing hy t- ter than human blood to fertillzs their eggs. The life of the insects from sum mer to summer is secured through the hibernation of the females, which gather In S$, particularly of empty houses and other Itke places, and remain there until the warm sun calls them to nem activities. This may be in M even earller, for Nansen apeaks of see= ing myriads of mosquitoes on sunny days in the furthest Norzh. One important tact in discussing deals ing with the mosquito {s that {ts larvae are aquat When the eggs become “wigglers,” which ts a term that evem scientific men sometimes use for ta 7 In this case the water ts the sce: of their first movements and of their Intest activity. If the eggs do not hatch cm | the larvae perish on the water sur‘nces whore they rbound there are no ms quitoes. As Jt has been Icarned that malaria, elephantiasis, yellow fever and he mosquito clasm and as man earnestly seoks rcepite from the more Itching sensations of a coma mon toeguito bite the war against the insect gocs on The reasons for thelr great prevalence are complicated; {t ts largely due tq rainfall and climatic conditions. These thing® are arranged for us, of course, and cannot be alteter to suit the needs or the fancier of the residents. But comfort |and some immunity from disease through the malaria] mosquito can be sccure@ through an attack on the conditions that grow out of such conditions as ar@ irremedial. When rainfall and hot weathor ao ald the propagation that every catch basis at our street corners 1s @ brecding-place of millions of gallinippera, the applicad tion of some form of kerosene to the surface of the water will check the ¢ before {t becomes a public annoyance. And the use of oll will kill in oth places, too; for example, the salt marshes, brooks and email rivers, the swem| and ponds of the suburbs, the little puddles in waste land and yacant lota, &e. ee eee During a trip through Kansas a St. Loutsen spent mugh time in watching t! andos of jack rabhiis, Onc habit of the jacks which was new to him was ¢ way In which every ten or twulve jumps @ jaok will make one great hop up the alr'to take his bearings and watch out for enemies. The observer found t! | young Jock makes observation hops about every ten jumps, but an older more experienced jack te eatistied to make an observation jump every twalve |fourteen leaps. In the accompanying diagram is sketohed the course of an ol wise jack, The smaller curves represent the ordinary leaps, while the thr larger curves show how the old jack took his observation hops, jumping time eight or ten feet in the air and looking for Ganger as he jumped. Y H. RIDER HAGGARD Author of ‘‘She,’’ ‘‘Allan Quatermain,” ‘‘King ~*~ Solomon's Mines,’’ eto, solemnly with his dim eyes. He spoke,| narrow, winding gorge. Prei but we did not understand. Again he eee Ou p land eners sireton: tried another language and without| | onservea then—for ms memo success, A third time and our eara were opened, for the tongue he used was Greek; yes, there in Central Asia he addressed us in Greek, not very pure, {t {s true, but still Greek. ‘Are you wizards,” he sald, “that you have lived to reach this land?’ “Nay,"® I ‘answered in the same tongue, though in broken words—since of Greek I had thought little for many @ year—“for then we should have come otherwise,” and I pointed to our hurts ‘and the preotpice behind us. ‘They know the ancient speech; 1 "he sation that passed is very w: burred—was that it seemed be mighty wall of rock in which a pathway had been hollowed where doubtless ono Passed the road. i On one side of this stair, which we beran and scarcely moved his lei Indeed, at the head of the first file! he sank down in heap, nor did o1 olfgnih pion 0 1h ug a a he done, I heard footsteps, and. loold river, But Leo had no such caution, oF rather all reason had left him; he was t-headed, “ ive wevk,” he stutteres end tl which always been i vt and mixed