The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1906, Page 22

(+ pubaiahea by'the Press Putiishing Company, No. _ Sintered ut tbe Post-Ortice at New York as Second:Class Mall Matter. VOLUMES? -csccvcessssssese . NO. 16,523, MRS. SAGE’S PROBLEM. Pa rN: Mrs. Russell Sage is trying to solve an impossible problem—how to give away $80,000,000 svithout doing harm. SAMSON 4 | AND DELILAH | ANTONY _ ‘s Daily Magazine? Friday} \ . “Cherchez La Femme.’’ wiving away morey is ; “*gome man’s hard-working lifetime to accumulate is almost as simple a : Sas tuming the lever which lets the water out of a sprinkling cart, yay to dissipate any fortume, large or small, Has too many prac- But the doing good with money Thhse most needy. of charity are not the insistent letter-writers, the clam: orous beggars and the. professional} paupers who are now flooding Mrs. in every possible way ito get eecess to her bank account. Mrs. Sage has investigated many applications made to her and shé ‘has found that the seeking of char-| ity is a profession by itself and that Hs followers avhp make the most prosperous livings are the ‘most un-/ -worthy. vs yments, that nothing Also Mrs. Sage has learned the danger of endowments, thal nothing) TYs so enervating {o energy as the sudden receipt ot urtearned Fiches, ang { that:fiothing so: destroys ambition as to have its limits fixed. he The fortune Mrst Sage inherited from her husband is increasing at "the rate of $5,000,000 a year. She has given a few thousand dollars} ‘aplece to the old family servants. She has doubled the legacies to Mr, “+ Sage’s collateral retatiyes, which prevented a will contest. _ she bought } home in the country for a young clerk whose. wife is an invalid. She igave an old friend $500. She will give Cedarhurst and Rockaway a new i church and a public square. She is having new granite tombstones erected over th “of her grantfather-and-grandmett . 2 With all this she has not been spending the income alone as fast as St accumulated, and all the initial gifts which had occurred to her have vbeen given. = : - She is now searching for more recipients of charity. How will she “find them? She has already covered the range of her personal and fam- ily acquaintance. Among the hundreds of applicants she has found none - “worthy and she refuses to receive further worthless applications, What is she to do? aay So ae The-same problem was presented to Mr. Carnegie. He is spending the income from the fortune he secured from the Steel Trust in_buil: Hing libraries. He would -have done more good had he prevented the Stee! Trust. aes Mr. Rockefeller has been trying to solve the same problem by en- idowing universities and cliirches. With all his gifts their amount is Jess than a tenth of his income. 1d do “more: good should h abolish the Standard Oil Trust. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan'lias given away vast sums in charity, but he ha§ failed if his purpose was to distribute his wealth in good doing He had better reform his railroad consolidations... Mrs, Sage’ will also fail, What Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan have been unable to do with their money, she will s y be able to ido with hers. ; : . Sage's fortune_in the at- ing. harm Mrs. Sage were to use the s\to-see that-justice is-done, sell ice to private famili ‘tempt-to~ be-charitable without. “power of her many millions of-dolis -ber found an ice com: Squandering weaith Wich tas taken- tising sampies from Pittsburg for any one to need instruction in it. ot by giving it away is most difficult. Sage with their appeals and seeking). Thai sald S hush: Rede are all sore and his nails b ing them. } “On, you and your friends very 8 3 Jarr;—tand~it ‘would be Ung Th you minded-your-own ‘busin women take me pride int appearance. And ff they put their #1 thelr heads CHAS, Stewart PARNELL AND: MRS. SHEA don't —tell_a married man a ig this d to pass the Well, I-don't- see Mrs, Jarr, evidently not catching ad's remar! n, I Know an put on theme: steps Into a skirt like a sensible person be the easiest way, ho always puts it over her head. out knocking her and Marcel wave: t know. As for her walsts—well, a sight it I How she dory a iley Ine says he can fingers | ta pg —thom—trom } - oe ; No. 3.-ISAAC NEWTON; The Man Who Turned Accidents to despair at the stupidity of her only son, Isaac. ‘To the horror of all crops and was forever sneaking off into corners to read some book on” about his mother's thriving farm. He took to devisi g§ mechanical toys ja AAC actually Wanted (6 be ree sane ROMANCES « PROGRESS Account. the neighbors the lad-could not grasp the first_princtples of farm- Science or mechanics. He had picked up taste for such matters at the, s oft hours, and even constructed a couple of sun dials: folk, meant aw sat 5 16, 1906. By Albert Payron Terhune. < z OOD Dame Newton, farmer's widow, of Woolstrop, England, was in ing. He neglected his work in the fields, falled to show any interest in Grantham Grammar School amt mney weaned-him-awaytrom—al-eoneern is, : the crust of ¢ A stholar, to the simple farti iwho was glad enough to eat vod in life. Yet for such a u in a tattered, ri y ge yand who accomplished 1 miserable career Isaac begged leave to throly away an assured future as @ prosperous farm And at last, worn down by hia pleadings, the mother consented. At eighteen, fii 1669, Newton went to Caribridge University, There he promptly- went -matherna theorent_and-worked-out-the-procesh Mhtegral Calculus.” Beidre he reac I professor of inathematies at’ Trinity College. Then the Pizgue swept England, a-scourging epidemic that wasted whole, cotnmunities, paralyzed’ trade and progress, and, killed ‘men, women and children Ike flles.""The dead were carrted out of the citles each day by the hundred cartloads, Inowledge of medicine and of sanitation was : 3 z limited and the outbreak could not be checked. The ‘colleges: closed their doors. Newton, .de- prived for ‘the time of occupation, returned to eee pert oolstron farm. e = se i ‘There, tn enforced !dtenes spent man weeks. One-day, as ho.sat uniter roth ago; an apple fell to the ground. gras! it head as itp: Newton lip from. the doze {nto which-ho h The fall of apple in to think- ing. Why had it fallen? When it had become detached from tke Mmb why did it.drop downward? Why did it not hang in-air or fall in some direction? What mysterions farce drew all detached, bojlleg to tho draws particles of steel? Siice the days of Adam apples had tumbled earthw no one. except Newton had troubled to. .con- siden the reas this trivial avcident And the result of this study was the di covexy of the great fact known The Attrichion of < to connect iis new” ered “attraction” s planets to 4bgir orbits and prev Galileo, years before, had He discovered the binoinial emploved-as-“Differential and age ai-twenly-seven he was, mad, Pn Discovers “Aitraction” of Gravitation.” tree fn hik mother’ a8 wit them' from whiz the force y ng oft inte 1) | Proven that a falling body xteen feet the first second and with arith- > metically {ncreas. quent second. Using this knowl- edge, Newton began to calculate the force necessary to hold the moon to {ts orbit arth, This, in spite of many dreary disappointments, he succe, n years’ struggle, in doing. He made known his researches nnd the scientific world went mad with excitement over them, At first the theories’ were 1 wt ed at. This derision 1 ly crushed New- ton's sensitive spirit. Wart ich the new tged all preconceived yetin time th fot DS selen- gh to see the wisdom of on’s demonstrations, he enemies and opponents. = He agal led the world and made for himself new {oes by dis- covering that rays of white light were not single in color, but! were made countless rays of many colorod i From this-followed a fresh — ‘King out of the theo Then came the heaviest misfortu “he had been at Work on a scientific dts a completion... All the papers representing t 2 evening on his Diamond, leaped frisking there upset one of the candles. Newton—could run to the rescue the precious papers were a charred, undecipherable maas of Instead of flying into a rage or bemoaning the loss he lifted the ehdef-making cur gently to the ground, saying only: “Oh, Diamond, you little know what mischlef you have done.” Then he set calmly to-work on the twenty: T task again. But the c#% proved too much for his overstrained nerves. ;He broke down men- and physteally. To make matters worse he was prac.ically pennilesd,* a lifetime of labor in behalf of progresz and humanity he was in Stute, j Usts were wis iso made hitte Work of Twenty | on the table, Years Destroyed. tally After danger of dying 7 THE JARR FAMILY % xy y baka? ventured Mr. Jarr, LAN you'd tink thar et 10 per cent. “profit over the cost ng-or manufacturing a storing and distributing it. 1 contract with: the thousands “skimmed -milk-at of prem without: preservatives or aduitera aie cents, Let her found a produce T collect the vege- 2 =: he—tene: ples and trit ment-house charging the “the fesy—remain ~and-sell their prod Mi Sage’s fc would bé enough le over and e- instead of} ute pus on the ok. oo Letters from the People. a letter trained ne gt a thr ‘ ¢ : r I of i high Visas 5 To the | The Where can 1 1 armies and n, in size and st World To the Editor of ‘The Bvening We 1 seo so many of your and am very much interested | Tam a good cook myself and co very nice dishes, but there ls one | road pl that I cannot understand—when Ione night, but'this measly tan-cer bake pumpkin ple I can never get it! poration takes weeks to cross a Brown on top, 80 if-you could pleaze lot mm. ne | clghth wahed_ond creased. you can make a skirt hang more & ng it, up-and getting one's pettic most exp: dw many women dress themeclver?” ean-hy that-stur,"* said Mra forthe pre by letting It down than ts all bunched and aw Anat sho Ww wWomen—put on their clothes ye thelr husbands or fat replied Mr, Jarr. "They must be conto: M_{mposition, to look those princess Jarrquickly, “Te {t tsogtch NO, THANK. YOU, CHARMED! HOION'T KNOY YOU) HAD suet Aetg DAUGHTER ¢ and \tinsmith’ eR andr Ing to say were gold braid waa a gilt ested Mr. Jar. lo took ewagger® grcaned My. d_no more and atatted forth, But with tardy generosity the Government came to his rellef, appointed warden of the royal mint, and so well did he discharge his duties He was, that, In 1696, he was’ promoted to the office of mint master. Queen Anne, in 1705, made him a knight. Thus England was spared the eternal disgrace of allowing her greatest scientist to starve: Nee In 1727, at the age of elchty-five, Newton dled. fellow-scientists spoke In high praise of the dying man’s profound-wisdom, "Wisdom?" echoed Newton. “I fee! like a child who, wandering along the shores of the boundlcss,seas of learning, has merely picked up a tow tiny shellst"* At his deathbed some Article No. 4 of this serten, Dictionary Makery? will be publishe: ncon 7 Le dare the -hundred-year-old lady-resalis tmport the gown she wore at her_firat party. ee Moutenant-who-wenl-to-the war and never camé back, how Richard loaked when > sre refused him and John when she accepted him, S For her the horizon is bounded by the gelden circiet of jove, the readings) The “Hurry Up” New Yorker ue 7a Little Dinner Call OTHER By Maurice Ketten sing. and all her gossamer memories are drawn through tt as were the filmy. qmustina-she-purehased for her trousséai eer = Tho-happy old lady ts-sho who has a Sappy lbve affair to.remember, There} are a good many happy old ladies, for most love affairs, at least in retrospect, »| . weer worth white: = % = Pain ts luckily the castest thing in Ife to forget after {t {s all over, Love's wounds, like those of Milton's angels, -heal-on the tnstant. -The most-+ red_and embittered heart has some memory (hat Causes ff to beat mora {i apply. =F In ago atleast wo may find comfort tn dtytwion of the records of the We should’ remember.of thors we_have loved only what was brightest en Our memories “wil Keep us young: = 5 Pastorals: Enoch Arden Il. ~ By Walter A. Sinclair; N Harlem, tchere the Subsay sticks high up above the ground, I * Where once the fragrant goat roamed free, whieré nodby flats abound, Abides a std and mournful man emitting doleful sound, The, ichich witt be detailed before our ball of yarn (Os teound, And the nature of the twhichness is intended to astound, | A Who dwelt with other patriots on Washington's own helghta. He preathed the famous atmosphere that’s sprinkled o'er those sites, He never ling {s way tc athe Ue TVown's*rites, But at the Brid aned nightly for the double ruby Nghts. He “step-quicked” with the others and Indulged tn all the charms Of hanging to tho leather, good for musc of the arms, | Enjoyed the keen excitement of the start-and-stop alarms, rd watched the passing locals hound for far-away West Farms, fis ‘AWhile he prayed his waiting household would be kept from many’ harms. | rhe years rolled by unceasingly. At last he landed there, | ye ‘found his home and tottered vp the aged, crumbling statr, He peered In at the window, saw his wife, grown old avith care, Now married to nnother after waiting in despair, He'd gone away smoothr-shayen. Now he wore long beard and hatr, ‘ PATRIOTIC eltizen was Gettin Holme O'Knights, N Harlem, tohere the Subway parador-like cleaves the alr, Abides a sad and mournful man twelghed doin with lots of care. ‘And in bis cycs he ever hag that dead, lack-lustro stare, aie And he howls at the express trains that across the trestic tear, ‘ Ob He's left the quiet highlands for the city's noisy Vlare, ~ ‘And he thought that THAT was dotwntorcn tchen he moved clear down tat i SAMT JONINSON, Gentas, Crauk and i fonday. j i = a 7 = Woman’s Memories of Fond Loves Jer Growing Old- Keep Her from Ever Growing By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ie N old lady of one hundred and five danced at her grands * A ghter's wedding in Boston yesterday and. wast tared to be the youngest-and most enthusiastic of-- six hiindred” guests, 5 We have all niet just sich old Taales, women with wintry = cks,sperhaps, and withered faces, but whose hearts pre- parva the appistisssom freshness Sy oapeine t= A-woman-after middle aze is i her. If they are sweet and joy { are Ditter, so tn she ditter, i empty vase, whic! he and frank-—) | tneente or with & pet A woman's memories have not the scope and variety of |_| ‘The male centenarian remem the Presidents | | he voted for, the horses he won money on, the names of + the men he ‘had ‘to give a hanc playing pool: sad