The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1905, Page 12

‘Tho Evening World's Homo Modosine. Wedneddsy, Byont n@. Septomber 20, 1908. —--—.---ey @ublisned by the Press Publishing Company, No. $ to G3 Park Row, New York | Entered at the Poet-Oftice at New York as Sccond-Class Mail Matter. | VOLUME 46....4. sescee seseee ss NO. 16,101, TAKING THOUGHT FOR TENEMENT BABIES. HE plans for the first of the T Phipps model houses, as given out, indicate the ginning of a regime in which t ment childhood shall have recog- nition, In the basement of the] coming structure will be a pla room or kindergarten to accommo- | date two hundred children. On the first floor will be ‘spaces for baby carriages. Boys and girls may share with the adult tenants the) luxury of the roof garden. “No babies wanted” will be a word unheard at this hospitable structure. Such evidence that childhood in the tenements has not pleaded its | own case in vain recalls the line of thought suggested by “one who| watched the recent parade of babies at Asbury Park. Necessarily that was a show of favored’ childhood. The happiness, brightness and beauty of the procession forbade to most beholders any thought save that of the utter joyousness of the occasion. Babies and | babies in line filled the eye. For the time one forgot that there is also a childhood which is not favored. Suppose, however, that a grand parade were organized of the tene- ment babies of New York. Is there a doubt that it would surpass in striking qualities, as in number and variety of exhibits, the proudest event | in the long line of Asbury turnouts? Each of the city’s hives of humanity should furnish its quota to the procession—‘‘east side, west side, all around the town.” There should be every nationality represented and every state of parental progress or ‘ignorance. Little Italians, little Poles, little Russians, little Yankees, little Swedes, little Syrians, little Chinese, little Germans, little babies of the Irish and | the French, little white babies and brown ones and black ones—they should all be there, hundreds of thousands of them, presumably destined | to the processes that make Americans of one kind and another. i It is a mistake if one supposes that this parade would be a spectacle | of sadness and wretchedness throughout. Whoever has walked the tene- ment streets has seen many bright eyes and heard much childish laughter as he walked. In the dry-goods box left by chance beside some mer- chant’s door he has beheld little mothers, bedraggled but cheery, aping the play of rich little sisters whose doll-houses are marvels of luxury. These merry players should be in the parade. | Yet the general effect of the procession would be one of pathos and| appeal, Squalor would appear and pallor and the dull hopelessness of a childhood that never has had its rights. The great spectacle would lure us, fascinate us—and what more? What of a distribution of awards? To the successful few in the Asbury parade went glittering, costly To the Editor of T:.e Evening World: Not Over His Vacation Yet By T. E. Powers. Letters from the People # Answers to Questions. An Agnostic’s View of Faith. — | trying to blame the frightful “L" |dent to one of two men? Alloy accl- | Subway men. Next our mail was de-| bly go no faster. This may account for that [eed because a contractor disagreed | the “skipping” you have fought against nue | wit ‘A Philadelphia paper quotes from |the towerman sent a Ninth th Wis men, Why not force arbitra-| 80 long. ENGINE. tokens as souvenirs of their day, Prof. Darwin's speech that the riddle of |train down Sixth avenue no one would |t!on tm ail public quarrels of the sort? ner san Asts UClisanie is the heavens will never be revealed by | be hurt, and likewise {f a Ninth avenue C. P. | to the Editor of The Evening World: What ought to be ihe prizes won by a procession from the tene-|sctence. It says: “And yet as science | motorman allows his train to go down Subway's Wooden Cars. Will some traveller. among your ments? fails, Faith steps in and rends the last | Sixth a je dt certainly was no crime, | qo the Bdltor of The Evening World: readers kindly inform me what the &, yell,” etc. Indeed! But what !s Falthy | and no one would have been hurt !f| Are they going to take those wooden | Usual climate and temperature is of More fresh air for babies to breathe, more grass plots for babies to |Holy Paul says that “Faith 1s the sub- play upon, more sunlight to coax babies into growth—and these not for jo things not eeen.” (Heb. xi. 1) the few, but for all. Private enterprise or public requirements that would reinforce “new- block” and its kindred structures would help to bring these prizes, the rest, more small parks and still more, with no iesp off the grass.” The Phipps ventures will be merely the good beginning of a great task in human betterment. cane 8 A ° 5 |. in Great Britain and RCopyrightes. 1904, in, 3 Pratt and the you are to start for the city, whither the Khania has but now gone on to make ready for you." “Yes; only you told me that she had gone some days ago, Well, I am sound again and prepared to march, but, say, how is my foster-son?” “He mends, he mends. tT \e “ne | see him for yourself. It 1s the Knania's pariah TRA A ei In| Will. Here come the slaves bearing your robes, and with them I leave you.” So with their assistance I dressed iny- self, first in good, clean underlinen, then in wide woollen trousers and vest, and! fastly in @ fur-lned, camel-hatr robe | dyed black, that was very comfortable to wear, and in appearance was not un- | Nke a long overcoat. A flat cap of the | Same material and a pair of boots made of untanned hide completed my attire. Scarcely was I ready when the yellow- faced servants, with many bows, took me iby the hand and led me down and stairs of the gate- oor, Here, to my great Joy, I found Leo, looking pale and trou-| bled, but otherwise as well as I could! expect after his sickness. He was attired like myself, eave that his garments ere of a finer quality, and the over- coat was white, with a hood to it, add- ed, I suppose, to protect the wound in his head from cold andthe sun, This white dress I thought became him very well; also about it there was nothing grotesque or even remarkable. He , |#Prang to me and seized my hand, ask- ing How I fared and where J had been hidden away, a greeting of which, as I SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. $ Vincey and Horace Holly. two Ena- start ‘for an unknown country be irkestan in eearch of 8 wonderful. and a PE former years they had. met i ad loved But you shall gatas. | There | they een) of the count ican. The in love with Leo. e has seen in dreams,” The two re worn out by the Journey and in separate apartments of a tower rn a ountainers ie priestess is Ayesha. wears a "talk between the Khania and ‘this ergat Jearns that the ie Gonesiaes “ot Nhe “mountain has the coming of Leo and Holly, and and brine ne to ner. Also the Khania, if resolved to 4 ‘command, —— CHAPTER XIV. "he Pillar of Fire. ‘Deen 10 o'clock on the fol- 1s, Faith 4a belief without evidence. mind" which impels the ‘‘come-on" to Pranamnantii ‘ ‘ fant |xo by Nghtning express to the rendez- Taw-tenement” influences by causing the destruction of the lingering “IUNg|\yous appointed by the “green sods" the tracks had been properly laid, as | “cremation coffins” out of-the S#bway | Bermuda during November, December any civil engineer knows. Why is the |and put in only metal cars? and January? DR. R. e mok, pull wnere: 15 Drlonmer ti PRO BONO PUBLICO. | Schoolboy Advises Rockefeller. banked the c happened | «1 Speed, Past and Present, | To the Editor of The Evening World if every Ninth avenue train ever TUN |, ne gaitor of The Evening World: qigroa’ about MF. Rocketelier trying to often speak of the old slow-going| find a way engines. The present motors beat tance of things hoped for, the evidence That Faith or Credulity is that “state of to spend his money. A friend and myself <GINEER. Amfabilit New Yorkers’ For |dealer. 8) WIGGINS, (lacus woaltoplng the) weeding vara \ehom just four minutes from Harlem to, conclusion that if Mr. Rocket made Why it that the people of New | South Ferry. That thme was 42 minutes. and equipped gymnadums in ev pub- shiscing ithe:Risme: York every-aing Ww It 1s now only 38 minutes, by my calcu-| lie sehool he would be doing great ser- To the Editor of The Evening World: Kick? First we had to e |lations. Besides these motors are fixed! tng atnietiese eG) eng a tare Why is it that every one seems to be | Mr. Belmont had a qu: Is|to gota in speed and can proba-| Public Schoo! No, 18, GHE, FVR_GHER. HISCORY OF « eo * B of She-Who-M a ust-Be-Obeyed gould see, the warmth was not lost upon Bimbri, who stood by, I answered, well enough now that we Were together again, and for the rest 1 would tell him late “We aro but gnats moshed In a wo band yonder, Khanin ta'the baldor ea) lere it |masestic aight in that clear alr, Many | beyond and ia anow beneath: juvinl [leagues trem the hase of its peak tl y ‘wens ) ground ove m | ch met ° of gan. fo ree Jn brown and tm the holy from which | laughd 4 mfr eal ay Atself, a white i i 2 oat lg have come to the| The Poker or the Strap? By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Silt eeaiadl 4 Mr. Henry Labouchero, of London, says that I “it his wife he should take a strap to her und not use his hand, and that pokers are apt to lead to serious consequences, and should be avoided. I did not need to read the London headline to realize that the author of this incredibly Jgnoble and barbario sentiment Is an Englishman, But I am surprised that American news- Fupers print such trash, He ought to be tarred and feathered. “A man who lays his hand upon a woman, save in the way of kindness, {t were Dear Miss Greeley-Smith: ers, the base flattery to call a coward." ¢ If my husband, or any man, should at. mpt to beat me I would kil?’ him. And any proper spirited woman would do the samo | Mrs, EL Re Dear Mra. E. R.—You want so much to be taken seriously that it would be a pity to disappoint yott. And yet, my dear sir, the next time you take your pen in hand as a female impersonator, : please wear your skirts long enough to cover: those No. 10 bonts. Don't you know that no woman, even accepting Mr. Labouchere’s mild raillery in sober seriousness, would object to it im, he least? Have you never been made aware of that peculiar kink in the feminine disposition that converts a projected coffee cup into a de- Mghtful evidence of a man’s mad passion and & diligent use of a trunk strap into a reassuring proof of his continued devotion? Why taik of pokers and straps? These are mere matters of detail that the man and the moment settle It {s the impulse behind them that counts. 7 “Are you one of those women that likes to be beaten black and blue?” asks Shaw’s Napoleon in ‘The Man of Destiny,” and the lady answers: | “I've no doubt the sensation is very voluptuous.” cae But it needed no Bernard Shaw to discover the feminine craving for and response to brutality. The wedding of Beauty and the Beast is the most natural {n the world. Beauty likes him. And I've no doubt the original lady inthe fairy tale, | when she saw her Beast turn into a beautiful Prince on her hands, w | woetully disappointed. In her heart she would have preferred the opposite | metsmorphosis any day in the year. We all like him. He can't overplay his role. And so long ag he fills it convincingly the poker and strap alternative may be left for the “prop-, erty man” to settle. , Said e« On x the 2 Side. | HE prospectus of the | model tenements for the raises the hope that millionat may some day erect model apartment) cee houses for tenants with moderate in-| New Jersey at the front, however, ; comes Otherwise with rents what| With a burglar who sang for his hostess they are they will goon find It neces- | Defore proceeding to rob the house of; | sary take to New Jersey or the/ Silverware, , Phipps, Kentucky st!ll ahead with Mrs. Wiegs’s poor| “Cabbage Patch’? producing the funds es| with which to start a bank. rthe theory of the Chicago advorste| Lives on 7 Cents a Day.. 3 cure for rheumatism 4s prob- S's cents a day fs all that A. J, {t 1s only a more attractive Seaman, a professional tax-ti t by electricity. buyer, with residences in Denver | and Omaha, spends for food and drinik | “Cats In Cleveland attend a Japanese | according io his own statement. ' tion and eat tce-cream and He is thought to be worth at least VeaterD stopped in Colorado Moun- | $100,0, and {s known to have presented |tains to minister to a dog taken fll en a certified check for $50,000 on one occa- lFout appy Jot of domestic animals | ston J roevciimos envied by less fortunate hu-| Despite his fortune he lives tn. the man beings. most frugal manner, renting a amall room far out in the suburbs, for which protest | he pays almos: novhing. > against the use of profanity. Move-| “T nave reduced the cost of Uving to ment has jess to overcome in a @ science,” says Seaman. ‘Seven osnts ‘rhere there are no rush-hour crowds,/a day {s my Imit, and what this’ subway air or obstructed streets. amount buys keeps me in excellent DG health. This allows two each for Small antl-profanity crusade started breakfast and supper and three cents In Brook yn also by a woman wino has for a hearty meal in the middie of tho hued che Brooklyn City Rallroad for day. For breakfast > nave coffee and $000 damoges because a ‘onijuctor crackers; for dinner a bowl of soup shocked ier by using a swear word. | with bread, and at supper bread, butter eae end tea, suai saveait $35 a your and always ve two complete or id Hold up of an automobile in’ motion Bester docecol | ime oie sersetreaas: by New Jersey “road agents” reported.) 74 ie to his suburban lodgings; New point of resemblance between M0) aigg for short distances through the tor cars and locomotives. j country. sirngearenes the railroads Ss Thirty-three pumpkins grown from one ot anergy water tance eth Glsposing. seed by a Crestmoor, N. J., farmer. of them at higher prices. f Y H. RIDER HAGGARD | Author of ‘‘She,”’ ‘‘Allan Quatermain,”’ ‘‘King Solomon’s Mines,”’ etc. that I need much reminding, for I am not Ikely to forget it. Do you know I cut the rope because I felt that I was going mad, and wished to e? What happened to you. Did y the form of the old treatm: oe e Parade of 15,000 Jerseymen t savage men, with whom we are often- times at war; for when they are hungry they raid our cattle and our crops. Moreover, the when the mountain labors, run red streams of molten rock, and now and again hot ashes fall that slay the traveller.’ “Do the ashes ever fan in your coun- try?” asked Leo, “They have been known to do «0 when the spirit of the mountain ts! angry, and that is why we fear her.” “Who is this spirit?’ said Leo. “I do not know, lord,” he answered. with impatience. “Can men see a spirit?” “You look as though you might, and had, not so long ago,” replied Leo, fix- ing his gaze on the old man’s waxen face and uneasy eyes. For now their horny calm was gone from the eyes of Simbri, which seemed as Whough they had be- held some sight that haunted him, “You do me too much honor, lord,” he replied. #0 far. But see, herg ts the land! where boats await us, for the res Journey ts by water These boats proved to be roomy and comfortable, having flat bows and sterns,| * since, although sometimes @ sail was hoisted, they were di not to be rowed with oars. tered the largest Joy were left alone n. | Behind us was anothe: (pew cies Sit shies oe ace Sareied bows words. "Now, “oe T jumped afier you. It seemed best to end together, so that we might 11, never mind all that." T broke, “you see you were right when you’ that we should get through and have, Now for your tale,” is Intererting. but not very lona,'* he answered, coloring. "I went to and when I woke it was to find a beautl- ful woman leaning over me, and, Horace —at first I thought that it was—-you know who, and that she kissed me; but perhaps it was all "It was no dream,’ a —very sorry. At any rate, ‘was the beautiful woman—the Khanta—for I saw her plenty of times afterward, and talked to in my best. modern Greek—by the Ayesha know the old "My skill and vision do not reach| Surous."" not reach| °"ighe knew several of the sts?! tongues, and so did other people, of our: . on,” of them, except | «4 \ f