The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1906, Page 14

@ubhaned vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 Park Row, New Yorke * ‘Bntered at the Post-OMice at New York as Sevcnd-Class Mall Matter. | ILL-FOUNDED FEARS. What the Mayor’s memorandum | on the Elsberg bill accomplishes be- not clear, That bill does not “compel the city to embark upon municipal oper- ation,” and the implication that it does is hardly ingenuous, The fact that the city is “n financially in a position io enter upon a policy of municipal opera- tion” is true, but what has that to do with the case? It is not seri- ously proposed that it should. Is there the slightest reason to apprehend that when another subway is to be constructed, large contracting interests will refuse the rich prize or that the richer prize of operating it will be allowed to go begging? The Mayor’s fears regarding the borrowing capacity of the city lose much of their force in view of the discovery by the original subway debt mit alarmist, the Comptroller, that $75,000,000 will be available for that purpose. Within a few years that sum will be largely augmented by the increase of taxable values. In spite of the Mayor's apprehensions over the Elsberg bill he yet feels that “the city should not be left to the mercy of the corporations which control the existing elevated, surface and subway lines.” But it is exactly that result which the defeat of the bill is calculated to effect. The Belmont-Ryan threat of “all or nothing” loses none of its significance in the light of later developments. _ By way of confuting his own argument the Mayor sees “am excel- “Tent illustration of the efficacy of municlpal operation used as a weapon i against corporation aggression” In the experlence of the city in dealing with the gas and electric light companies. The moment the Lighting Trust found the city determined on operating a plant of its own It offered more favorable terms. ‘es Is not that weapon still useful? Why should not history repéat itself 4n the matter of subway development? Once It Is understood that by the passage of the bill the clty Is unalterably committed to separate con- ‘struction and operation competing Interests must make thelr terms con- form to the new requirements or see the prize selzed by a rival. It is a harsher alternative than dealing with a compliant Rapid Tranttt - Commission, but It is the city’s only safeguard against further spoliation ‘ by traction monopoly. THE BENZOIC CRANBERRY. Dr. Wiley’s discovery that cranberrles contain benzoic acid in harm- ul quantities will excite speculation as to nature's purpose in putting the % drug in that inviting receptacle. | Happy were the generations of New Englanders In their ignorance of | the dangers which menaced them! Nigh on three hundred Thanksgiving Days have come ‘and gone, leaving them unscathed. On this berry tof the bogs with its turkey accompaniment they throve and fat- *tened. Likewise a thousand bacteria beset them on their right hand and fen thousand on their left, yet they lived out their allotted three-score years that foregather at the village pump., They were blissfully unacquainted ‘with many things which the modem world has added to its store of knowledge without increasing its peace of mind, It is expected that within six months a three-cent car Ine will be In operation {p Cleveland, O, The fact {s of interest that the experiment will be made In a city ‘Jess than one-tenth the size of New York and holding out a prospect of remunera- : ‘full absorptive capacity. 1 velope she would find beside the card Bent's own personal card was also to be found In the box for reference should this Kittle girl need his help. That muoh Fifi understood. What she did not know was that the little girl who waa to receive the gifts waa herself, the bonnets as presents, the contents of the envelope—cnoney—as a loan. When the store doors closed upon the This story is here adapted by the author from Fritzi Scheff’s comic opera, ‘‘M1le, Modiste,’’ now at the Knick- erbocker Theatres SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING Capt. Etienne de Bouvray, @ yous | American and Fifl found hereslf again Soman ble family, la betrothed to K p Frenchman of whe ue Vitk His uncle, |@lone her former doprossion returned. the Count of St, Max bitterly cpporee the| What if Mme. Cec!l bid chanced to 4 Tely on his own narrow |come downstairs during her folly? How ise to yield to St.| foolish she had been to fall such an| rmer course, Fifl has hopes easy victim to an idling forelgner's for- igh position on the stage a8 & sInk-|ward whim to while away a posalb! momentaril; ia inted, Hiram a a posi y! . Yaiilionsire. arrives in {dul} hour, What a ridiculous figure CHAPTER IX. ghe must have cut before this stranger. Yet he had seemed pleased by her vole. She had glanced searchingly at his face ceveral times for adverse signs The Promise. but edict ¢me she looked she had found HE song Fif chose was a protean |Mm apparently interested. Well, the! effect called “If 1 Were on the|™@n was gone, and she was again alone Stage.” ill her perubleselcne with this heap-| Added a able magni ry ‘x moun’ 0! ig and little concerns) girl feat scope * She ee ie that had begun accumulating, oh, long| funny girls to go on the stage wre | 28K and had multiplied, oh, 80 dread- folly. This girl, his review showed, fully within recent days and how Gas admirably equipped to win big suc-| The sudden entrance cf Mme. Cecil out eens. Hoe decided at once to help her.|S0rt Fif's speculations. ‘The repri- He would have to be adroit about the) ™Snd that was polsed on the tip of manner of proffering her essistance,|Mme. Cecil's tongue faltered before he was eure. But if an opportunity to| the handful of franc notes that Fifi handed ber employer as a result of Bent's purchases. With an unsuccess- ner’s face he would provide the neces-| ful attempt to repress her satisfaction mary means to that end. None of this} with the sales, and an tll-tempered re- @i4 he say to Fif. What he said to|buke to the littl milliner because of her as he rose to go was this: her failure to sell to Bent a particu- “1f you feel ‘that you have it in you to make ocess in a broader feld. t a to desire, Mme. Cecil abruptly dis missed Fifi to her luncheon, Expecting praise for the sales, Fil frowned at the reproof. As she left the salon her mis- tress gazed after her. “he minx 18 getting too independent by half," she exclaimed to herself, “There's no time to waste in marrying her off to Gaston!" Poor little Fil. The knowledge of he Gaitver the bonnets herself to thie girl, address she was to find on a at her own address and other|had thus far been spared her. As |. revelations, incitding her] Mme. Cecil turned from her review Beskies the hats Fin hud been|of Ff she foun herself confronted by ted Dy Bent to give to the little| Gaston, who had just saimtered lazily ame and address she would] into the shop. OgneD te 26 BE. ar | ' yond befogging the main issue is| To the Editor of The Evening World: Here is a coffee recipe: ‘One grain or less of chicory, One cup of grounds, not coarse nor fine (Its cost not less than twenty-nine); An egg or half to clear, and mix ‘With cups of water five or six; = Boll in a vessel cleanly lined and ten. The perils that lurk in the oyster they knew not, nor the germs | (Not more than ten minutes, mind!) A listle cream ‘tis well to try; | That's coff’ delicio Not to forget that usi Just learn this recipe by heart. Complains of Pablic Sympathy. | To the Editor of The Evening World: | I read to his students, in which he said thai) there are more murders in the United ‘itive busi b ed with that enjoyed by the transit lines here. But States than ” usiness not to be compared w: CAO YER DY. 2 world. He is undoubtedly correct. But ' 4m Cleveland they have not yet learned the art of watering traction stocks to their| what is the reason for it? It Is partly this: The Evening World's Mome Mafazine: 2%, es ELA (LOX ere = SDA SOL LIT G, LZ MD. ae cA no EEL pC OLLIDS DD Ds Le. Tom Letters from the People A Rhythmic Recipe. pathize with the murderer, no! anytling for the crime he is of, The Train Problem. twister" problems, and I think , that’s no “lye.” ‘ul art. a * Favo F. DEBKMAN. Andrew D. Wiite'’s address | in any country in the} Favorite Favorite Most of the people there sym- | To the Editor of The Evening World: I read your two Interesting “brain- the best of Khe sort I have ever seen. Thumbnail Sketches.. UBJECT—Senator Ben Tillman, Favorite Task—Ratising blisters. Favorite Book—The Vendetta.” Author—Rey. Thomas Dixon. Artist—Jack Keich, Flower—Tne tabasco bloom. Vehicls—The fire fingine. Musical Instrument—Mhe pitchfork. Character in History—Judge Jeffries. # Answers to Questions very accused | Poughkeepsie and New cel-| Other portion of the inhabited elabe. Arc. ||lent. che Tanwer Ist weedy apie : ES OSC TALES Yet no one I've sprung it on has been Another Freak Ege. able to solve It. The two trains when] > the Edttor of The Evening World: A reader sends in an account of a nce trom oe tne| “double egg” and asks if there was They are also at ex-| ever another case of the sort. Sev- eral yeara ago I opened an egg as large os but heavier than a doubdle- yolked egg. Inside was a perfect average-sized egg, shell and all. The contents of the outer shell were broken as @ result of the shaking it got in examinution, Tt waa considered a great curkeity. Mrs, C, E. DE HAVEN. A “Bad” Boy of Five. ‘To the Bultor of The Evening World: Will mothers avise me how I can manage my boy of five years, who ts very bad? No matter how I punish him | me te Just the same. \ UNHAPPY MOTHER. A 20th CENTURY ROMANCE OF LOVE, VALOR, PERIL AND TRUSTING HEARTS they come together are, of course, ex- | actly the same digiance they are’ York, no matter on line they may be. rite Sport—Presiden:-Batting. Plant—The hemp. “Wednesday Evening, Febraary 28, He May Get Caught. By J. Campbell Cory. 1906. “Scientific Phrenology” Is the Latest English: Fad. that Dr. Bernard Hollander, the famous physiologist and allentst, has at last placed this once allegedly empiric study on a scientific basis. Of old charlatans at county fairs were wont to reap rich harvests by fingering the cranial bumps of country folk at so much per, and predicting weird fortunes or traits from each hollow or swelling. So common did this practice become that the genuine phren- ologists in many cases suffered in reputation, Dr. Hollander'’s chief phrenological achievements thus tar have been In the comparative study of the skulls and brains of men and women. His deduc- tiona are interes! ing and startlingly new. Dr, Hollander con- cludes from his in- vestigations that the average brains of men and women are not superior or inferior one to the other, but have essential differences, the chief of which ts the larger size in women of the occipital lobe, or region of the affections. Also that edupatton tends to increase the size of the frontal tobes, and that as long as the intellect 1s being actively exercised there will be a tendency for the frontal lobes to develop, says the Mlustrated London News, from which the accompanying {l- fustrations are reproduced: Here are diagrams of two average brains, showing that in a normal woman's brain the occipital lobe covers the cerebellum much more than in man. The affections are stronger in woman, Cranial measurements—Ciroumferential: Average in women one inch less than im men. Frontal (over eyebrows): Average woman less, educated woman equal to or in some cases above male average. Occipital or posterior: Average in women longer than in men. This gives color to the oddest of theories, namely that by study, woman can change the shape of her brain; and, perhaps, eventually the shape of her skull, too, Thus, in time, the ‘new woman’? may be recognized by the “up-to-date” shape of her head. Men king to marry an Intellec- tual equal will be on the lookout for girls whose fore- heads are pressed forward by the hy- per-development of thelr frontal cere- bral lobes. And the man who wants a dainty lt- tle old - fashioned maiden who will look up to him as a marvel of superior rilliancy will study out the shape of the loved one's brow and see if {t ts properly flattened and bears no tell-tale traces of over-developed intellect. personal or hereditary. The subject, In any case, {s considered of euffictent {mportance to excite Brit- tsh sctentists and to stimulate further and deeper research. The distinction of sex 1s more marked tn animals than in mankind. The sec- tlons show that It is the actual brain and not thickness of bone that makes the ifference. As a matter of fact, the skull {s thicker always in the case of the male. One may also note that the frontal sinus !s smaller in the female than tm the male. The female skull {s generally more long-headed. Evolution of the Eye. R, LINDSAY JOHNSON, the celebrated opthalmologist, says that the dor D has two ancestors—one round-eyed, the other oval-eyed. The first is the hyena, the second the bear, through the raccoon. All dogs descend from these animals. The “corpus niger,” or black body of pigment tn the eye of the horse, which has puzzled veterinarians, naturalists and zoologists so much, pro- vides, through the opthelmoscope, a new means of tracing the ancestry and rela- tionship of the horse. It {8 the same eye curtain that Is found tn tropical animals —the onager, the camel and the antelope—for protection from sunlight. Mercury-Vapor Light. ARIS hardly knows what to make of the weini Cooper-Hewitt meroury-vapor lamp. A newspaper correspondent writes of it: “The motor garages and agencies have. of course, adopted !t, but mineral-water dealers, tatlors and fish shops have been even with them, and in all their windows the flerce, unmis- takable bluish light glows. The opera-house, too, has adopted !t. A first look at it makes one think of Crookes's tubes and X-rays, and leaves a doubt whether It | fg not the very Hght which te some seems green and to others violet. It hae, in- \ieed, been called violet and green, but, in popular opinion it is a mixture. It makes the best complexion look ghastly.” @ HENRY BLOSSOM, The Famous Dramatist. Fest’ scientists are taking a new and deeper interest tn phrenology, now | THE LITTLE MILLINER © “What's this?” the woman shouted, making for the street. “Iwas just thinking of you this in- ute.” Gaston was very fond of his mother; | lasty shocking bonnet with long green | he was fond of every one. feather that no customer ever seemed | Mother gave inlin money, and ho liked her more than he cared for most of the other people that he knew, Placing his irgly about his mother’s buxom fon, od her greeting. {f his mother had been thinking of him| @mélly scoured Guaton's ‘onsent to he, too, hig | Propose to her best salesgirl, mother, Mme. Cecil's eyebrows arched to a frown as she felt the caress and heard her son’s reply. ( “I know what tha ” . me inthe, box by Bent, this new trouble of the day now tm-| marked. i WRN stent nore: ‘ visitor's inquisition of hersetf had} pending over her perturbed little head) mony then Mme. Cecile confronted her son with the wish near her heart; that he should marry Fifl, Speaking Uhroe languages, blessed with a gentus for selling bonnets, despite her occasional tardiness to re- | too far or too often, Fifl would Jost the girl, the mother explained, to make Gaston a good wife and herself & life-long, inexpensive employee. Amused at first, Gaston demurred against being handed over !n marriage to one who might not care for him. Sweetening her arguments with prom- | es of money, as fast as it might | reasonatly be required, the mother paired to Fifl, mow in an adjoining | loft of the store, Some moments later Gaston was twiddling his fingers in amused speo- | ulation concerning the marriage plans suddenly thrust wpon him. when Fifi, fresh from the interview with his mother in the adjoining room, entered | the, salon, “Ah,” greeted Gaston, “Mile, Fifi" | Her son won over, Mme, Cecil re- the salutation, ‘Monsieur Gaston,’ shu responded amiably. Gaston looked at the girl for some aligns of the effoct of his mother’s pro- posal upon her. “ trust you are well,” he said. “I am," Fil answered. “And happy,” the young artist pur- sued. 'No,” FAN answered. p “Ah, then," Gaston continued, ‘‘moth- er ‘nas told you?’ “Yeu.” “Aud 4t made_you. angry?’ the youth asked. “No,” responded Fifl, her face break- ing into a smile; “It made me laugh!’ Gaston laughed too when he saw how iN looked wpon his mother’s plan, It did not take Gaston and Bin tong to come to an amicable understanding to dicountenance the commercial matri- monfal bargain Mme. Cecil aimed to effect. Jf had left’ Mme, Cecil in thy an- nexed loft with thy statement thut she would grant Gaston an interview de- aigned to lead him ye @ proposal for, her band. But Fif did not tell the mother that she would under no circum- stances entertain her son's offer. Before leaving the salon Gaston, with @ laugh, warned Fifi to be careful of the wrath of his mother when the latter should discover the fruitless issue of her plans. Notwithstanding a brave front to Gaston when so admonished, It was with @ quaking heart that Fifl awaited the return to the salon of his mother, Fortunately, here she was offered passing distraction. A woman, fairly young and expensively gowned, now entered the store, . The little milliner at once directed her best efforts to her self-appointed task, and soon had the woman interested in the odd-looking curioalty in feminine headgear. ‘Where shall I send it?” asked FYfi, as at last her customer con- sented to acoept the queer bonnet. ‘To Mrs, Hiram Bent at the hotcl"”"— As her customer began her instruo- tions Fiti stood beside the box in which were the three bonnets pur- chased earller in the afternoon by Mr. ‘Hiram Bent, the owner of the card that appeared on the counter near the box itself, Mme. Ceolle interrupted the woman. “We're getting “so much American trade, madame—an American gentle- ‘man boight three hats here an hour ago. 1 wonder if you know him, Fiti, what's his name?" “I don't know, madame,” Fifi an- swered, remembering that Bent had told| hie fortunes, broken ae they were no’ her he was married. Fiti also caught herself speculating about thelittle girl for whom the bonnets bought by Bent were intended. “Where's his card?’ Mme. Cecil apical. Without knowing exactly why, Fifi scented trouble for the tall, lean pur- chaser of the hate now !n the big hox. Bhe made an effort to drop her hand over the cami and so convesi it, But Mme. Cecil was looking at her, awaiting an answer, Reluctantly Fifi produced Bent’s card. “Mr, Hirem Bent,” sald Mmv, Cecil, reatling from the card. ‘The young woman in the loud gown emitted what sounded to Pid like a | her hands, Mme. Cecil hurried after her customer to the door. But Mrs. Hiram Rent had fled. “She's gone" Mme, Cecil sald, re- turning. ‘Well, her husband shall pay for it. ders?” ¥ “The woman took #t,” Fin anawered. “What!” Mme. Cecil fairly shrieked. “Sho certainly did,” Fift replied. The dread conviction that this bonnet that had haunted her counters so long ‘was again on her hands waa too much for Mme. Cecil, Her two dauhters, attracted to her by her cry of dis- tress, now came forwarl. Together they took the fated bonnet from thelr mother's hands and carried tt back to {te place on the shelves. Fin's thoughts were busy with the purely comic side of the events that had just. transpired. the successful sale of the bonnet, the Gscovery of the {dentity of ita pur- chaser and the climax that had left the hat again unsold, She was startled from her review by the sound of a familar voice. The evho came fram the Where !s that card with his ad- addressing Fin. ‘Here ts Capt. Btienne, Remember, you've given your promise to Gaston.” Btlenne had called during the morn- ing and left for IVA with Mime. Cecil a thuge bouquet of flowers. At the same time he had communicated to the girl's employer this own desire to marry Fifl whenever he would consent to share or repaired, ae they might be lat Gime. Cecil had latoned sud sald norh- pro} Her desire to talk to the little mil. liner early in the. moming, as communi. , oe 1%