The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1906, Page 13

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> af ——_ et ove GkPcacrid by the Press Pubtianing Company, No. & to @ Park Row, New form | at the Port-Office at New York a Becond-Class Ma Matter. UME 47.. NO 16,474, Housekeeping has more to do with happiness than any other ety fer except health. And housekeeping has a great deal to do with th Life is made up of a multitude of little things, not of the fw big) fs. No one leads a tranquil life who has not a well-working me. | oman who begins his day in a comfortable frame of mind secom- More, and in the long run eams more. He works better.\ His are healthier. He ts a more valuable citizen. } Food and its cooking cost a third of an income. The hit, the heat, the fur-| rs and the like items of the household take a quarter of {Nc average earnings. Including the) r the American father devotes} three-fourths of his wages to Lt | his home going. Often all his wages/ are insufficient and his sons and} daughters have to add their contri- butions to the household stock. Every ‘year housekeeping be more difficult and experisive. To the people who can afford to} their work done the servant problem is a greater and greater terror. | Girls prefer the factory and the store aj half the pa he profes- i Servants of the intelligence offices #xefer employment in ie és or hotels, where the many help make a society of their own. Few American women know how to keep house when they marry have learned a little algebra, French, piano playing and fancy sew-| ig. They know a good deal about dress and have many society graces. | Such matters as the range, or the way to make coffee or fry an| Or lidw to launder and such matters of homekeeping are beyond experience and knowledge. | One result is the increasing failure of American housekeeping. A/ er result is the diminishing size of American families. | == What is to be done? - Something must be done, or the individual ferican home will be supplanted by the boarding-house, the apartment jel-and the semi-housekeeping flat. © In everything else except keeping house the American people_have pled business methods, practical organization and improved machinery have to be done in housekeeping, too. |The greater part of the labor in the weekly wash is the starching the ironing. Yet most things are better off unstarched, and the iron- “of bed linen, towels, underclothing and like articles can be readily ed with. While the old-fashioned wooden tub has been supplanted tionary washstands, the excellent and effective washing machine hot found in one home in ten. p Machinery does the work in a quarter of the time and at one-tenth effort. Yet women have an almost universal distaste to a me- substittste for hard labor the average Ar laundry, the tf niture, the reps nt | Every hotel uses dishwashing machinery to minimize the discomfort Wf what, next to the weekly wash, is the most unpleasant household work i ishing apparatus is cheap. A month's waitress’s wages would pre than pay for all the appliances, yet how few are the homes where 6s are not ‘aboriously scraped, soaked, washed and wiped off in the tedious fashion. Some things are simple and easy to cook and some dishes are diffi Yet in how many households does the wife appreciate the differe: @ reserve the elaborate dishes for special occasions, The way to dispose of the servant problem is to dispose of servants G not to have any. Eliminate entirely the old relation of mistress and nt. Have employees to do specific work at specified times App business system of the factory and the shop to the home i nce nuse squared (244) 2h feet The bimect ea The square root of is ‘approximately 16.65 feet. | Man who cam take his vacation Beptember.or who can remain tn the uring September and doesn't AE is foolish. This tx the gala time Fear tn the country and will be for @mu.ths to come It isan easy mat to get braced up for a whole week & brisk all-afternoon tramp in New y or West e the Bridal Quert The Byening World wedd: M the ¥ SH A The Conquerer's Auniversary eine W a1 . t t [that was to y t tn F Bend. Hiv deo ts whe “Wake Up, Manhattan fOlrect, reign in Engiand.t vig? What's the ma ‘ne: face care f ‘ Te tne 9 Kvenine Wor nae F Ie the earth pe y e it at [© Hite catten the p ckpenied . 5 IR Biehmong WHY : ' The Carpet Problem - . ® [Re we Kdiior of Tre Nvening id . Sak 3, Huddle ; . : : Estimated at 83,009,000 rie the ¥ f The Evening W ¥ ¢ we te equal to | Curien n t sam of tle savares of the ofher this country tn 1906 at 83,600.00. Zhe be sites, ‘That te 19 squared 0) estimate for Jan. 1, 190, of the United Waguared Gal equals the hypothe Gvase ead its lsinods ws 66,100,000, vening World’ vn —— | 4 HOUSEKEEPING. | | jagonals of the respective squares | } Avaunt! By J. Campbell Cory. BACK BACK | You SHALL NOT ConTAMINATE HIM - ® Daily Magaziné, Friday, (IMAGINE HOW } _September 28 THE MEN IN THE NEWS—Straight Talks to Them—By Nixola Greeley-Smith. | ®eain It ie quite customary for the brider To the Bridegroom Who Left His Pocketbook at Home, A Mistake He Cannot Make Too Often Now, | remember it only when the best man BAR Mr, Frederick Gebhard—Please acd my congratu- aap to jog his elbow and remark. lations to those of your friends, Your marriage | ti hecs he digs it up ene of the original Picrodora girls te the mort orig: Bu ined thing you have done. It is @ bappy and appropri conclusion to the butterfly career the papers and gossips have attributed to you Dut it's not merely to congratulete you that I write. Ac counts of your wedding say tha. you were very nervous that you forgot|to take your pocketbook along, and had to tah the officiating clergyman to trust you for the fee, see ne excuse for being nervous, Mr Gebh weor fret offense. I know men ale, or are supposed ve iformiy perturbed at auch crises, and it is as essential 16 seronttie the bridegroom's nervousness in wriling about « caring aa to note the “firm tread” with whiah the cor Tomned man mounts the scaffold ‘The nervousness May or may not have been there. But the pocketbook cattainly should have been. Tou forgot t eody certain that you'll never be permitted to forge If it Is posable t 10 realiza that yc Y But you may be perfect! om to forget the ring altogether or to ama ritual long Where's the | And then from « hodgepodge of pocket pieces, penknives and subway kno a very t time. Of o ketbook, an Ue Odd Statistics: |The Diary of a Bad Bo need * of cork c - : — potted beer asd) [| = “T 7 1] ers consumed an] > = in Britain F ii } There are no paupers in the Gold | (GEE ais Coast Colony. and there are neither (gee esti fc gaxlums, reformatory nor poor 1 5 Mo eer ne | ~ The Australia vintage} lded ns, as compared vith 2 tn the previous r In Germany more than &0 out of phous womén reach the age tty years, while only 413 men live} vf 3 are now upward of 40 bunches on Hamp- | which {s| 138 years old New York beats the cities of the world aN! Look ous PER in the length PE WIND. TL tracks. If Ga BE Bak ina poe face, ele — minute ths 7 makes four = ave you in your ribbage Aediy t , sums | (Mow aut You iia ala ek ree | II WORLO' NET STICKINT Seth JoO ANYway Fipo\t al enean |] AST _AcAim, You MELTED, Pais cE WNOws With » GUY'S DAT READ DE EVENING DN'T LAUGH AT AME, CAUSE ip | |] YOU'D SEEN ME AN’ PR RCHEAR SIN’ OUR | | AES TALKIN’ ABOUT A READ ONE AFTER 40, DE 4 om, 2 that He SAS oUt Piagand ] BEEN EATWi pie a Pe PANTEL- Piece HIT atome * et fe A: Jook Habertesber—To sell Custaner—Who on earth buys ‘emt? Haberdasher—Women, to give to thelr | husbands Cleveland Leadan NT RO HEART WOULD HAVE TT’ STR. EVERY GAY An THe T GUY OSLER Don'y WHEK | And because on having Gebhard. You are already ode allowance bhard, and don’t forget urea, there den't | The Political Liberator Who Forgets HIS ts the gledvome season when we ste so mach T Of the patriotic citizen who has taket a chilled- steel, paralyzed oath that he will lend his alg to end the hellish sway of the political despot: who have throttled the rights of the great common or roting, people. Too long bes he sat supinely by while the brutal veurper held the community by the ihroat, the leg and the breast pocket; too long has he permitted & horde of remorseless marauders to grind wnder foot the priceless heritages that our grandsiree ought for ang bled for—(bled the Indian for, in particular.) But this year he solemndy swears to do his duty and snatch the fair form of the city, State, nation, Assembly (istrict or | ward, as the case may be, from the greedy maw that flaps its ful wings jover the community like the feelers of an cetopus that cam neve be de- stroyed unt! we shall bave torn vp, root and branch, this Mdequs upas | tree which now has its fangs at the very keystone of our political ‘ntepend+ ence, threatening even to trai its Joathsome colla, with all the fay of « | hungry wolf, upon the ermine of the judiciary, eparing ot a singléone of the sanctuaries of the popular wil! that rear themselves even as thé house beacons of the sea stand in the midst of the sands of the deset, but delighting ever to sweep like a besom of déstruction which invade: the very hearthstone of the mess of political pottage for which our immotal birthright has been surrendered But he gets so busy promising himself what he's golng to do to te aforesald combination maw-octopus tee wolf and be upa | gets when {t's election day. Abowt 6.45 on the afternoon of Nov to start into his regular barber shop to get @ shave and find th premises occupled by the majestic and awe-Inspiring machinery of sover- |elgn suffrage, uaciuding the officers of election, a wooden booth about the | Size of an eight-day clock, with a cheesecloth drapery in front of It, @ | fragrant odor of gin in a bottle and a policeman asleep in the front cha’ Thereupon {t dawns upon our hero that the liberties which he meant ;to seve are in serious danger of being saved without assistance. | Promptly he undertakes to cast his vote and so put an end, ome and for all, | to the acoursed power of the bosses. But too late he discovers, to bis intense disgust, that the polls have | closed and thet the officers of the election are now engaged fa crossing off the totale—croseing some and double crossing the others. Indignantly the patriotic citizen tells who he ts, giving alro a list of the clubs to which he belongs. If he bas a father-in-law. who ‘s a irustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art he mentions that fact too. But, strange to say, the officers of election are not deeply impressed. They insist upon the observance of |a foolish rule, and, disregarding his dem they go right ahead with | the noble work of making the tallies correspond with certain decisive ma- joritles that have already been arranged for by the district leader. So the man who would have preserved the bulwarks of the commonweal if his memory had been better goes to his home so worried over the future of our republic that he ts unable to get to sleep before half past ten o'clack. THE FUNNY PART And next year he'll go through the same t TWO-MINUTE TALKS WITH NEW YORKERS By T. O. McGill. 6 he'll try tonsorial BY Over again. m EOROM 8TF n of prominence in whe ¢ity and 4 PHENS ts out nation of the Hoss he place threatened to become the Hotel after |rendezvous for Democratic poll continuous per-|for @ while, but Green ance of euh-|MuUch for that kind of advert c behind |he discouraged {t adi “I have seen more tragedies and {pone |COmedies of human nature in that place of the very popu-|Mince It began changing hands. than clerks [there are in afl the books ever written know every-|O28 night we hed a shooting. a wed. ding, = birth and « death between mid- Right gnd daylight “Another night the place wi by @ crowd of they would have cleaned us ou had not been for a chambermaiad who body In the United States worth know-| ing. This is what he bas to my about | his career: "I went into the hotel with Green aw (the affair from @ stairway and ne whitest men | #4" y and Putney, two of the The |Sreeued so loud that the invaders that ever walked up Broadway vere frightened off. She later formed place wae @ success from the go while thoy had 1. It wag pretty far uptown, but they made a cafe that, as & really he weQuaintance of one of the men and maryied “They are going tof put up a_new butidine on the wit the hotel When comfortatie place to pass an hour 10. | the oid place is torn down tt will take i fy Away oue of the Isodmarke that hh hag no equed in the city. helped make Broadway history. it w “Tl have seen a day's receipts of the bar go up to $1,100 and I have seen the time when we had as guests every never be duplicated Stephens ts going to before b rig tow Animals’ “* Musical Ears.” | VIOLINIST says spiders are notoriously and historically fond sf. mus A At @ performance tn Missourt the concert bail was made disagreeable by a sudden invasion of spiders, which were drawn by bis violin out. from the cracks and crannies of the ancient building They crawled about the floor and o © stage, and he gould see the an- | noyed audien mping on the Jnsects. The writer adde that he has known a email gauden anake to be attracted ty plano playing, and « young calf to whisk his tall and prance about most gleefully e lrst notes of & French horn. oofs tread lightly aad his eare wag never quieted down Ul the mame his and he | Hig, neck would curve abou: proudl Joyously when the tooting began ceased. -+-2—____— n in Love. Lines to a Literary Ma OVER, if you would Landor Next, on a Heayen-Glesing Hill, now. A Grant of Land go buy And my Rivice will E w » will be seen far Fieldw of Raleigh your courage, storm her Gree we | Harte- At Hay sid Romany Rye In other wordy, be Thoreau ® twefitory Houseman builds; ry Here away some The bestjof Holmes If you mm@e sure that doy of peace Hai You'll have to Stowe Band, For doubtiess you'll Pindiater That to eecure the maiden's hand Hugo and tackle Pater j “Hough es one Wrigh} thy Motley vert Then Hunt a Chureh to Marryat, This ary persifiage? An Abbott for the splice; Marvell) no Moris to Wowttt's And as you ride out atterWard Dre, Yeu both must Dodge the Rice. Just leade Wateon thie Page! —Wiimbeth Diskeoo Cover in Pucnam’s Monthy, sins ta

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