The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1906, Page 13

| \ 1s | By Roy L. McCardell. BSPITH all ramors to the contrary, we wish to announce positively that our Animal Depart- ment will be open for oontributions and complaints every other day if we feel Iie {t. There will be no deviation from thie rule. We have no quarrel with the 8, P. 0, A. We wish, however, to call tho attention of the present head of that organ- ization to the fact that any antagontem on his part will make him think of one of the attracttons of the Catskille—Hatnes Falls! A worl to the wise, &c. To hundreds of our correspondents interested in our Animal Friends and friends who are antmals we = desire to say that we cannot print or answer long Mere avnccieacs letters, Do not send us live stock by mail, The Ant- mal Department will be open for contributions, stories and suggestions every other day if we feel like {t. Advice and ice water free! Waiter Animal Department: Iam much interested tn our antmal frtends and our friends who are animals. I also am greatly interested tn the story of the Hippodrome ele- phants’ efforts in street-car jams. Where cen I hire a neat and respectful elephant to do my housework? Good wages and good home in Harlem epartment-house. Store-room for trunks, L, B, FANT. Editor Animal Department: T have a pet ant-eater I am very fond of, and my mother’s eister, whom 1am not fond of at all, 1s coming to visit me. Shall I let events take their natural course? HUMANITARIAN. Answer—Yes, {t would be cruelty to animals to deprive your ant- eater Of the food it prefers, Faltor Animal Department: I live near Larchmont and have a pretty lawn around my house. A friend presented me with a pair of pigs, but I have no place to put them unless I make a corral for them on the lawn in front of my house, and I do not care to have a stye In my eye, What would you advise? EH. FOY. Answer—Never mind the stye in the eye; never mind spoiling the lawn. Always remember that “The pen !s mightter than the sward.” Editor Antmal Department I had a bantam hen named Irene of whom I was very fond. She died recently, of old age, I think, for althongh she was a bantam, she was no chicken. However, I had saved a dozen of her eggs, and hoped fn time to etill be surrounded by her set, as it were. But yesterday a friend from Pompton, N. J., visited us and, mistaking the bantam clutch for quinine pills, swallowed the lot. A LADY OF POMPTON. Baitor Animal Department: I have to report a dastardly animal outrage, perpetrated this evening, While out walking near the Subway I was suddenly confronted by a cerfes of piteous wheezy, screeching, heartrending sounds filling the germ-laden air. Investigation soon led me to a nearby clothing store, wherg, on peep- ing through the blinds, I was horrified to find the proprietor torturing a tallor’s goose by putting it on a red-hot stove! BARNEY BENJAMIN HOFFMAN. The Girl From Kansas. By Alice Rohe. ‘Mt glaxt it isn't Majority. Since blondes are the pre- ‘@ Kansas man | Willing tint thts season, it may be the who is making | Major thinks he ie betting on a sure al this talk about | thing. I wonder what kind of blondes blondes being the| this brunette-hater has met—near or choren people to do| Tea? A tilonde or not a blonde, that ts sca) the question. the world's work,” | If Major Woodruff wants to know said the Girl from | whether tblondes are destined to ac- | Kangas. “The Sun-| oomplish the world's work, let him take flower State has/_ jaunt up in the Forties. Jane Mor- just about all tt can stand for in the freak line already. 6s and she {s‘all wrought up about this calumny. She says It's @ shame to think one touch of peroxide will make the whole world one. “Jane says if anybody should lose an prises me, though, !s that gomebody docs |T ton 1s the only brunette on her street, | mot give the astute theorist « Kansas (pedigree anyway. Every time any real crazy notion 1s started ét is put off on address and send a messenger Boy out to look for the lady with the blond- hatr in No, —- Forty Something street, ‘t would be worse than hunting for a Bleeding Kansas. Wiat I would ike t ¢0 iow fa—where did Major Woodrutt | seat in the Subway. There's Flouste iget Sdn etatiatica on wicndest Featherwolght, Tesste Lighttop, Malste “Or oT will admit thint In some | Frothbrains, Edstne Puffyheall, You Qnts the blondes do get in some pretty | 2 that's no proof that they didn't wood work. I've scen blondes who | art out blondes, Well, our friend, 2 ¢ he Major, doesn't seem to know the ould work anybody. ‘I do think the}! Bangor . going a little too far though | omalg says brunettes are of little “There's only one way to accou Magor Woodruff's rude assertion, that is, he either is a blonde him- or he {s trying to make good with Ft heart for keeps. A man in love might go to any lengths to win the fancy pf a fickle female—even in say-| golden-haired beauty who Js holding | ,. difference. Of course, we mustn't forget Marie Corel and Laura Jean. Give the Major his dives, But please remember the smart brunettes, too, There was Mme. de §teal—but why dig up the pag!—we're'all brunettes In our set. “Maybe Major Woodruff only means real blondes, the ‘Nature's own’ kind, he's cut off that escape, Just Usten to his grand argument for the su- | (Copyright by Walt McDougall.) Devised and Illustrated By Walt MeDougall rat 1.—THE ARK SPRINGS ALEAK, * © * This Log Was Kept by Noah's Third Son, JAPHET, and Is Hers Turned Into Versified Vernacular by ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. * * * March 6, 2248 B. C. 0-DAY, through some amazing freak, The measly Ark-roof sprang aleak. Of course the Zoo used that mishap To cut loose on their daily scrap. The ducks and hippopotamus Grinned: “This 1s good enough for usP" The cat-tribe, on the other hand, Reeled off bad tcords to beat the band. The Camel rather liked it, first. (He has a seven-stomach thirst!) But when he'd stoked enough inside He thus held forth with conscious pride: “Dear friends, you're all atcare, I think, T go otght days without a drink”—— The Hippo butts in: “More fool youl! You're a disgrace to any Zoo! With etght days’ drouth one's joys to trammel, Oh, who in—Harlem—tcould be a Camel?” He stopped as Pa began to speak: “I've been examining the leak. No wonder that the roof-boards tilt! The dlamed old eoow ts ferry-bullt. The Ark-ttect who made this craft Bwiped ninety-five per cent. in graft. I pose we should be thankful, though, The leak's"above and not below.” It's swamped the Ark-ives of the boat. In other words, the “Log's" afloat. (For further details see Wednesday's Bven- ing World, this page.) A ROOF-TOP GYMNASIUM FOR THE BUSY CITY GIRL, perlority of blondes. He says that in fag that blondes are superior to bru- | 9) ect Seat th ey nettes, Maybe, though, he thinks it's | {cise Meaties the madority of the & safe bet to give the winning to the laughi” ~ THE SUPERIORITY OF MAN. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. certain doctor and pseudo-sclentist known in news- paper circles for his willingness to be interviewed anywhere, any time on any subject under the sun to tecture before tt, . tho club had not the foresight to inquire or specify what ine lecture was to be about. One may faintly imagine, therefore, the horror of the members when it was rumored a few days ago that the learned gentleman was to enter tain his hostesses with a discourse on “The Essential Ln- Werority of the Female Brain Cell,” with some diverting Gigressions, 90 I understand, on the inferlority of the fe- male liver. ‘What did the club dv? Cancel the lecture? Oh, no, that would slow that they cared about what the old thing thought. Prepare to groot him with smiles and applause and unspeokably weak punuh? No, they were not equal to showing thus that they didn't care, ‘They. called-a. hurried meeting of the Execulive Committeo and resolved to tavite two women physicians to be ready with speeches all prepared ¢o refute the base contention of their invited lecturer. ‘Well, tt hasn't happened yet. But the doctor, siili In bitsaful tgnorance, “pwahes bitndly upon his fate. Could anything be more absurd? In thore ever anything more absurd than ,dhe woman who 1s ever ready to assert the equality of her sex with man? People don't assert what they are sure of. And the female reformer shouts Qa much to. convince herself as the male copulace. A mam could talk to me all day about the superiority of his kind and ra smile and° agrés With itm, because It would bo the least trouble. And why shouldn't he cling to hts fing, old, prehistorie notions if 1t amuses him to do so? If the fethlo brain ceM ts egeentially inferior to his, then ‘there ts all the More credit to ps for playing this own gamy and so frequently beuting him at it, Argument,on these auwient subjects. heats the blood, cuts the nerves on the pough 8, of contention, , Let then amlle.and smite and he eupertor. Thore ts al! the more glory for us Besides, .we meally don’t know that the are not. te haven't ask ft yet, great as our advancement has been, ‘And we. don't want o Basteh veediet, de we? T* other day @ well-known woman's club tnvited a needs more exercise than she or- dinarily obtains, On every flat- house in New York the rooftop is fur- nished with certain conventences for drying clothes, These can serve a dou- | ble purpose, and every girl in the city | may have a sufticiontly well-ftted out- | of-door gymnasium. There is only one \expense necessary: this {s the purohas- ing of a punching-bag. This can be ob- tained for $1.50. The first thing to do when you go up on the rooftop before breaikfast is to stop in the scuttleway door. On the ttle imside platform there 4s usually just enough room to enable you to take three steps back. Put one hand on each side of the door and walk through it. Breathe deep and well of the fresh morning air, Repeat this some five times. Back, near the dumbwatter shaft, Ne every girl in New York All perpli tain ex jexed young people can ob- t advice on thelr, tangled love affairs writing Betty. Let- ters for her should be sddressed to BETTY. ing World, Post-Office 'T Eve box 1,854, Ngw York. A Mystertous Young Man. Dear Betty: n of twenty-seven un} mn e with a yeare ad am In man four years younger. le working in the same place with me ; I have inquired and found out that he is the black s! of @ wealthy fam- ity and is getting eee Ge mote tia seh @ rooms. furnishe, ¢ palnce, and nobody ever cromed ‘the th in five years himeelf, Would it be safe for me to marry him has asked | re sisters several a et you will generally find a platform and what will look like @ Uttle iron fence, Grasp the fron railing with both hans (it ts best to wear @boves so that your hands will not be chapped) anit placing vour feet on the platform, stand erect by the railing, then drop back, still holding onto the rafling, and bend toward the ground, keeping head anit shoul- Wers erect. While cing this treathe deep and exhale as you rise, This will be found an excellent exercise. You will work until gradually you ere strong enough to raise yourself on gour arms and can litt your feet back elmost horizontally to the bar, Another goal exercise on this plat- form is thet of beniing forward over the dar. Stand in the same posftion, with the hands on the bar, then bend forward as far as you can and then! sai, tise, This fs good for ell the nruscles ASTEN the PUNCHING BAG to CLOTHES BRACE of the back. the other, grasp the bar tn thet band ‘The ctothesline braces are nowadays) 8nd raise youre en Si aiee ee several times. This will strengthen tne made of iron and there Is seldom dan-| muscles and raise the soulder. Bwing ger of their breaking, Standing under|a wetght, an iron or something as a ‘one of these braces, use it as you wonld|'veavy, from the bar by means of . ‘stant under this, allowing it to a borlzontal bar, Grasp it with both| touch the shoulder that 1s the lowest. hands and then slowly raise yourrelf|then by raising the shoulder raise the toward the top of tt tron. ‘This will bring about @ notice: able improvement in a Ime and At the first trial you will probably |thore {shape for the girl with a droop- not be able to lift yourself more than] {nz shoulder. fan inch or two from the ground, and|_ On tho bars you ‘will find emefl hooks. ing| These are just the things on n to it you are a city girl this will be doing! nang a punching bag. The other end @ good deal, so tf you don't succeed at) of the bag can be attached ¢o the slate first don't be discouraged. on the floor, 4 By degrees the «irl who practises this | ,,{f you want to use the swinging tog en every morning will find herself able/ rupber tape to the slats, but nearly all : v inners use the bag that ia held at aca ean Both top. and bottom: a very ous irself by one arm is pine| “The best thing to wear is @ loose at “ame bar, Be very careful in| flannel shixt waist ang @ short skirt, this exercise not to use one arm more On going down h tate & b, than you do the other. If you are “one good bath, & rob, ss dy for a healthy aided” Just try the following ex-| then ready for @ o y For one shoukier that is lower than! day's work, ‘brea! and a Ig the young man is pald to keep away from his family, tt certainly does not look very well. You must mot oon- sent to marry him without bis telling you the reason of his exile and letting you judge the facts for yourself, The money might stop if he married. AM young ninets years of . an nineteen years o age and like to eo with @ fetty looking girl of the ame age. Pilave never gone with a gil before reer thee che wl keep ateviy’ com pany with me. Whioh ia. the PPcan secure a girl So 6o wl 2 Don't you know any girls or young men with sisters? Try going to some church where there are pretty girls and Join the Sunday-school. When you find a week to keap |. chat “he ya& girl you ike ask to call, Take her candy or flowers, or esk her to go to the theatre. Gradually you will come to an understanding if sho cares for water (triple), 2 drams; sal-ammoniac you. He Wants to Keep Company. | " BETTY’S BALM FOR LOVERS. | | | HEALTH AND BEAUTY. By Margaret Hubbard Ayer. , 1-2 dram. Apply night and morning. Premature Grayness. essence for rouge—Finely bolted talo, 4 Iss a. I~ {@ ounces; carmine, $ dramas, Make @ solu- formula has! tion of gum tragacanth and warm water been used|_a very lttle only is required. Mix the ith watisfuction to talc and carmine first well together and ostore gray hair to sift; add enough of the diluted gum jatural color, Be | tragacanth to form into a smooth paste; careful to have the! allow !t to dry; apply with @ hare's foot air free from oll| to the face, Lotion for an olly skin— Xf greage before the ‘There is nothing more discouraging than application: Sugar | the otly face, which @eems to be constl- lead, 1-2 ounce; lao] tutional, almost, with some women. sulphur, 1-2 ounce; | Borie acid, 1 dram; distilled witch hazel, essence of berga-|4 ounces. Apply with a plece of old linen mot, ounce; or a bit of absorbent cotton, Every-day cohol, 12 gill; gly-| 5 lotion—Rosewater, 90 grammes; cerine, 8 ounces; (tincture myrrh, 10 grammes; tincture tineture of cantharides, 1-2 ounce; am-| 0popanax, 10 grammes; Uncture ben- monte, 1-2 ounce. Mix all in one pint of | Z0!n, 10 grammes; essence of oltron, 4 cture of quillata, suffictent Apply soft water. Apply to the roots of the hair, which must be clean. Four Remedies. L, R.Here are the remedies you ask for: Lavender freckle lotlon— e Distiiea water, 1 pint; lavender | grammes, ‘Ti | quantity to make an emulsion. when necessary. Hair Falling at Sixteen. G.—Nothing should be the matter with your hair to cause it to fall out, when you are only sixteen. Get good scalp treatment at onos, Q@owdered), 1 drams hydroohlorie acid, Monday Evening, Mareh 5, OUR ANIMAL DEPARTMENT. |THE LOG OF NOAH’S ARK 1900. (ROSPERITY {s filing the theatrical ft 1s an Interesting fact that the overflow ts responsible for keeping in town more than one attraction which otherwise might have been forced on the road without the prestige of a re- epectable New ¥ run, Out-of-town people who are too late to secure seats for plays that spell success in letters flnd themselves obliged to ta what {s left, with the result that small fry offerings are !n the swim instead of in despair, This was explained by a visitor, who, when asked y he had zone to a certain play, sa couldn't get seats for HH drawing power of “Thy Music Master’ !s as strong as ever Business at the Bijou 1s ex- pressed in one word-—'‘capacity."’ Mr. Warfield could probably remain there throughout anothe: season, but it has been arranged to send him on tour next autumn, after a four weeks’ engagement at tne Bijou. Miss TGianche Bates will also continue her Ne: York run next season. Mrs. Carter will not come to the Belasco Theatre until midwinter, when she will have a new play of ti modern type. It is understood that th’ production will be buflt upon a com- paratively simple plan, Mr. Belasco Carter and less scenery. Mrs. Carter's nate spoke for itself during her recent record-breaking engagement at the Academy of Music, and Mr, Belasco's hearing !s very good, thank you. eee OE WEBBER'S company will give an extra matinee to-morrow complimen- tary to Miss Blanche Bates, David Relasco, Willlam ersham and Ed- win Milton Royle. This will give the authors and etars of “The Squaw Man’’ and "The Girl of the Golden West” the first opportunity to see themselves cartcatured. The other members of the compantes at Belasco’s and Wallack’s will also be on ham to eee the fun. €: yey ce LL the folka at Weber's are shaking hands with themselves over the fact that success was enatched from failure with “The Squaw Man's Girl of the Golden West.” Miss Dreasler, who advised everybody from the doortender to the bartender to take it off after the frst perform- ance, is now saying I-told-you-so with the reverse English, AGGIN CLINE missed a birthday M at the music hall on Saturday afternoon. It wes afl Tony Pas- tor’s fault, He sat in a stage box and looked greatly surprised when ‘The Girl" sald to the cowboys: ‘There won't be no school to-day, boys; it's Tony Pastor's birthday.” . in “The Squaw Man,” is going to strike the traf] for the boundless ‘Weet as soon as he packs his press no- toes, Baco is an Indian, but he never was @o sure of ft as now. First he got rheumatism, then he got homesick. He has knocked out the rheumatism, but B=: WHITE, who played himself Mush Bread. EAT one pint of milk In a double bofler and stir in slowly halt a pint of white cornmeal, Boll until It becomes a mush that ean be poured from. the spoon, Remove from the fire and add one saltspoonful of salt. Drop in the yolks of four egas, one at @ time, Beat the white wo a stiff froth and ad4 to the other ingre- Gents, Bake for half an hour. This should be nerved in bowls and eaten as a breakfna: food wth a fork. Vinegar Biscuits. AK two quarts of flour, one large I tablespoonful of lard or butter, one and a half tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one tablespoonful of soda. Put the soda in the vinegar and stir well. ~ having decided to give the public more | he declares that his other aflment cad” only be cured by a return ticket. 4 ee ‘TRONG rivalry for the affections of | = pretty eight-year-old Evelyn White, who plays Little Hal in “The Squaw Maz’’ has sprung up between three newsboys who haunt the stage door at Wallack's, Before and after , every performance they walt for her _ there laden with apples, flowers and candy, which they crowd upon her with ” more ardor than gentleness. 60 far / honors are even, little Miss White hav-' ing distributed her smiles and “Thank ' yous'’ impartially. This has decided | one of the trio to change his tactics, He's golme to “s#\ve up” and buy” an artomobile! AYMOND HITCHCOCK will give 4 R his professional friends an . ‘ tunity to see him in the Gale loper’” at the Garden Theatre on Thurss / day afternoon. The performance will begin at 12 o'clock ments ‘Susan in Search of & Husband,” a Jerome K. Jerome play, i which she will begin her season at the Liberty Theatre In September. Mise Robson will remain at that house for thirty-five weeks, during which time she . ISS BLBANOR ROBSON fs now , will be seen in eight plays. vet R. BRADY might set his Indiang |10 | CHARLES DARNTON, “Wo —_ or | m Had to Get Something. a Hamm—When we played in Squee- j, dunk last week every seat in the house Y was taken. We Fatt—Yes. I suppose the people had | to get something for their money. — A Problem, ‘The of salt said: “Wher'er I roam HINTS FOR THE HOME. I cannot underetand. ‘Why on the ea I feel at home And ail at sea on land —Chicago Tribune, Deaten Nght. With warm water make & dough stiff enough to roll out. Cut in fancy shapes and bake in @ bot oven, All sorts of prettily shaped biscuit cut- ters are sold in the stores now for four / or five cents apiece, Among the most attractive is one in the form of a heart, or @ set of four outlining the diamond, olub, spade and heart in a pack of cards. it Sweet Johnnyoake, My Tr sugar, two tablespoonfuls of tara, one ess, one cup of flour, one =~ teaspoonful of soda, one-half teaspoon- ful of salt and a dash of nutmeg, Stir in with these ingredients enough cornmeal to make a Gough ae stiff as @ loaf cake. Bake in equare tin in quick Q ote swe tabinpontae of Mix in the flour and add two eggs make exceedingly ways epecity size wanted. ‘attractive evening 7} Qlouses of the sort, of while for daytime 9) x the chiffon 7p" eollennesand = the like are equally ° desirable. When made with high 9 neck and long | eves, the yoke . > and cuffs can be of | o® lace or of any con- ° trasting material te that may be prefer- "he th of . " uantity wy material required 5, ) for the medium size is 3 yards 21, 2M yards” 27, or 1%, ty yards ‘4 inches. 4 wide, with %-yard 21 niches wide | for — the t, as re re Fancy Blouse Wal st.—Pattern No. 5291, ee Pa caces Te. when low neck and short sleeves are used, 1% yards when high neck und long Mf sleeves are used, Pattern S201 19 out in sizes for a $2, %, 9, 98 and 40 inch; bust mensure, ab! 1. mowiie Gall or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN= i reh ON FASHION BUREAU, No. 1 Weat Twenty-third sizeet, New, a Obtain } ore, gend tea cents in coin or atamps for each pattern oraeres, pi IMPORTANT—Write your name and eddrese piainiy, and st) "