The evening world. Newspaper, November 20, 1906, Page 16

The Evening W Pudlished by the Entered at Be to 6} Park Row, New York, is Mail Matter. NO. 16,527, prise Publishing Company, No, phe Post-oMmice at New York as Second-Cl THE FAMILY. re Herbert Parsons has done a most desirable thing in-writing al 2 bodk on The Family’ from the standpoint of an educated, welt-bred and _Antelfigent American woman. The family is the most important of all’ s present condition is the result of thousands of years oct growth. ———fstnunot what the fnw has made-it or What idealists would hay an nature-in. its ae expression has’ wi oiNed) out, ie -propicms If has been't cial institutions. Its} What it} eit, but) iy, I zeny men-and s these relations: w ith an almost | women isfam {6 orld’s_ Daily Magazine; Too\ Small. Tuesday? vy J. Campbell Cory. Love oe oo by hizola Greeley-Sitl No. 3.—Washington and the Widow Custis. EORGE V@pSHINGTON, first in war, peace and the heart of ids countr3 yas not first in the affece tlons of Martha © For Washington, like Na- poleon, Jefferson amd many other: grea} men, enarried @& whtow Martha Custis was the daughter of Col. John Dandridge, und at the time; Washington mot her. She tid beef for two years a widow, She was mistres of one of the largest estates In Virginia, Moreover, she was young, pretty and intelligent, = hele romance © Sabet sone of the rare cz of love at first st = ateppet Rt of Daniel Parke Custia ne willow the Ox the much-desired middle} complete” t and lyon > ground) between the amiable and unfaithful pictures of sex relatians as | S depicted” in milk-and-water novels | on the one hand, and Comstockian | pruriency. on the pther, is this book of Mrs, Parsons, : The subject_is one an which tts “author is competent fo write. She ig the daughter of Henry Clews, banker, and the’ man Parsons, Chaifinan of the lican County Committee, and man-who-brought-about-Mr. Hughes’s~homination—at—Saratoga- 7 She Doctor of Philosophy and through her interest in this subject became a lecturer on soci questions | fd College, : { i sity for the study of sex relations | hellgyes that men and women} flicted with chronic had habits should Sh or Ww! are it becareful-and scientific training-for matrimony. Every and occtspation requires a prolonged period of study e {he great calling of matrimony is heedlessly and ig- profession, tr: tnd training, w Norantly entered into. Mrs. Parsons accurately —-arethe-mast ys that child-bearing and child-rearing mportant of all social services. Yet the faliure of-the par- ents to do their duty to the child is the most common of all grave of- fe i This statergent a the situation by Mrs. Parsons is faithful, but the teniative remedy which she suggests is perilous. Arguing that monog- amy is necessary to complete family life, she suggests that trial or time id insure fidelity— during their_continwance, and thatthe 1 to-perpetuity of the marital tie would be quite as likely were it ul, as under the present system . of open clive and secret palyeumy. ‘ sig LES Secret polygamy: is the state in which many men, if tat the majority of men in a great city live. The pulpit denunciations of Mrs, Parsons's book ignored this well-known fact. But it should be added that it is not ich the vast majority of women live. Therefore it would to follow that a remedy which might work excellently. s man_is concerned would fail-in-its holt upon-the- met ugh the difference in their sex natures, —Women—are-ifot. There ares reasons for this, inexorable in their working out. Polygamous womei are naturally sterile. The nature of woman is to cling to one man, ni so much on account of him as for her children’s sake, The nature o the man’s affection for his wife Is _not necessarily exclusive, while the woman’ s FEAR ‘for her husband is naturally exclusive to sex relation This S whle subject‘is worthy St the fullest public dase Then $s-nothing about it which cannot be brought to the public attention, and the customary mawkishness with which-it1s handled should be dc herets no prutiency In physiology ors iology Onis imagi m-can-pervert-the proper consideration ividual facts are known to every- ¢-to-its-proper_sphere-cannat-coniz 5 of the sex relation. the-elev; Tad Subway Service, ¥ Service, 7 at ated press To the Fai ‘The Evening W | as one of M has been | raredt and Has-Beena? | Many a night 1 areal feebox, naying fve cents for t teil Brooklyn Rapid Transit ae nd a stove In tt : t-lron i. here Is any ape- ard ~ se 7 the weenie H adhered (0 | plo of twentieth centurs ' ILVY ROBERTSON, : ; A “Walking Problem, ae , ti nnigt rete Redderm. two. me trom q ded an ext 1 end pf Br ear nt G15 and een ae & ne Hundred and miencnter ih three and one-half ‘ at | many) feck dose (Sy : uf meet? Both to same, ae taken d on Iriand times and Asphalt for Terminal, One Girl'm Philosophy, -}an asphalt ps B 1 of the N for | lyn Bridge: ndid im love 1a a ga0d | proveme! those who lo ay better | OnvalnelycasentiOurts: thing, A gentiem fault Bl, Uie Editor of The Eyentne. Wortd woman, and to other, n Bata ety eeth inc Se NGam with ringes are made tn hot in WOFK~| teq jadfer, should he walk between ‘shops. SB TIERNEY. | tno gy on the ade nearest the curb? { Welrd Exh{hiia for Munem. Fou J. M To the Eautor of The Evening word: ae : atone ie a hanes tor people of se & o Evening Worldn ao girl to thank a get ‘thelr Ramee tn || TREN- DEFTLY Me 4th mt | exclaimed vse IT RICKE more ways vibuel They aa tr ot look ike block whi Tex yin the own, tr how yOu now? ver saw stich a Wo children run the stre Soxe—das sone as when j2"la tno late sorry.” eald en you will real = 300 forget THE ast while 1 vet! [Al children get th “And {€ you on You «i 8. Jarr turned aw hen a large cold s w ever some fs “Huy some old it 1 dd* ml a Mr. Jar: What have Jiminett I done to them look natural idren Fr moth: tHe she had we ow dls. Tust the: that ndy, with r thatt the. Mr. Jo “Lister to the| 5 ies to wound than by = replied Mrs. Jarr, ay $3 do elect my { outeasta or st Lian ae + her-chlldten it. makes the! Sune much DET TET ETE pmother they will be, my_prectous abused da: sald Mr. Jurr; r faces dirty en of the chitidr ve _blneking * for tren, spare yourself writing: you leave-the obildalonal! is on the floor j Srought ta the ind ‘the Widow. Custis walked: up’and down. In ‘front of the old Virginia mansion, saying good-by over and Over. An hqur passed and Washe* ' chad his horse returned to the stable. The next morne rode oyer to Mrs. Custis's own home, to which she had fag bright and early he rejurned,-and made her a formal offer of marriage, whies she -recepted ae Thetr engagement covered a period of several months, but there 1s only ong yk letter sn existence Known to have been written by Washington to his fiancee. n Yt turniahes an interesting contrast to the burning missive sent by the young — 4 Napoleon to Josephine de Beauharnals, It'wns dated Fort Cumberland, July 2M e. a gS andes "Wo have legin our inarch to the - iy | Ac Rare Coantet A edrlersia|stactng\cor WWjilinmsbure, aot t le ce the opportunity to send a few worls to one oy Love at Firat Sight. on tife tn now inseparable from mine. Since that \n © happy hour x our pledges to each other ‘alae thoughts have been: sto another self, That alk n powerful Providence may thet t-your faithful aL and ever affectionate friend, G. WASHINGTON, ‘This ts-not-ardor— Wapolean_sent—a kiss toto} ineg}a hoodie; — Washington did not even'send one serene affection which their final parting: Washington has fest widow tn Virgi “Where would ¥ ington once sald re “And where wo irreverent answer tter breathes the sincere, and which led her to say at to the widow herself, But the ho preserved for her always, Ids over now. I en accused of mer: be {fit hadn't been for the Revolution? President Washe fully to a subordinate A you be {f it hadn't been for the Widoiy Custte?" was the Whatever the motives of his marringe—and ‘t 1s only fair to assume that he iF may have belonged to the order of men who find Ax easy to love a poor if woman as a rich one—Wasiington was a mode! hus nd a devoted stepfather is LE ee AO a SE RSET te 2 of Mis. tare fire Model Husband, but $ whom he ador He had no children of Now Mosel cysts ta model lover, being too reasonable : ® ate and too secure to merit that romantio c 's he had fatlen in love with Miss Gurah y ds told of the manner in which the s devotion. Returning into Williams accompanicd onty. \by" eee maid, she too distinction. Before meeting } Carey, who rejected him. A young womam first-icarned of Washin. 2 military: rul orn for the first time t jot the Weail —_Binshing,—— But | am Mise? nonplussed and very angry, r foot and exclaimed] Saltle Car “Pasa! stamped hi Ing arms and making pretty Miss Carey aware giver: her name te sald the sentry, progen Is sentries ax the ec nd, whom as that wi ich made him the happy-husban@ New York Thro’ Funny Glasses. By Irvin S. Cobb. Aud oman in Her Hours of Ease—Only She Never Has Any, BU widow DIRTY “FACES, Mr. WekeMpt ant Jarra Dom area for7, iz “you know I didn’t mean anything by that. It don't hurt them. It’s healthy. ant their pictures'takes on account of t clothes, le photographs taken of their new clot and T'll ge n just as they Renerally the Nttle rascals!” ax {f everything wi ained and #ottled on thelr. faces, dd Jarr, snappishly. ntly wife Teta our abused and neglected ‘Here is how my like Uttle ragamuftins.’ rran-anytinte-ofthe-kine By “began ainda — Yon of children do not mak atural must have grimy, dirty faces,” can say" — room carrying a kitten from {ta haven of sald Mra and siste na JArY came int dragged. the kitten It was seit refuge, the coal eried Ate. Sarr all over 4te hands nnd face! and tell her to wash you! snapped Mra. Bealder if you ro skina sengittve and they chap. Jarr. “She will only get sh them too much pois And a Mttle coal dust cried Mrodarr, Rut she led the child to the ba desplto its er! om and Hints from the House Horrible; or, How to — FILL WITH INK OR PAINT OF CoLoR DESIRED- To MAKE AN ATTRACTIVE FRESCO FoR THE NURSERY GET THe Firs ExrinGusHer AND - REMovE BinwyAm’ and You WiLL Find A CHARMING REPRODUCTION OF HIM ow THE WALL - if way do peat not subscribe and REPEAT OPERATION ALL AROUND Room. To CHANGE THE \e <2 By Jean Mobr. Place Witte AGAINST WALL AND SPRAY NEATLY AT HIM WITH ExTINGUSHER- LT With BE OBSERVED THAT; WILLIE HAS COME LIGHTLY. SoiLED BUT HE MAY BE SAND "A PERED- OME Lavies and) then send thoir pictures lo your people and #0 | oppressed feo! Tptrdseed for breakfast, compromises ona gteat-gross of marshmallows for hincheon, A thnta ty ‘To strangers from © never looks ax tallas the _seiiventr postcard. And-many vist ea pain that Js po'gnant in the extreme on firding ‘oad way’, F dark, doean't live up to the pletures Were enjoyed tn the Fe home In MWink_C Creek of a Saturday night jovely noman,ever_ruca true to form," whether in a palace’on Fifth avenue that cost a million dollars and js neurly sixteen feet wide, or in a Bronx flat affording Umate view of. the aelzhbor's wash out of the back window, an ring inher Sat x stuffed pa ie Amalgamated Assbcjat i eral an old thing and the lattes re‘aletos by making af miladi comes away Breatcmistake-to—ns Parila ry code. cause sve has no children to be Congress, be- Finding that she has an > is glad that she can join the Mothers’ keeping her at home, ng when laced into a gown two sizes too emall, she pays:an ex: ive ind highly perfumed spectailat a gratifying ‘sum of money to\prescribe the ment by eating a raw egg nnd-n pinch of canary She be mayonnalse and a custom-njade mince pie, Jo you one speck of go makes her dinner off a peck of lobst sadannaunces lp anyhow, It goours to her that she ts strongly In need of a slight relaxAtion. she has to fall- If she lived In th intry she would go to @ fur Living in the city, ‘ ack on the drama. Stralantwny she buys a-matinee ticket for a problem’ play arrester: gentloinan who was poorly at the time. We know of Tocherring the xombre—voul_and-chasing—dark—thoushts epentin_-witnensing tho, untolding: n xentleman just after eating @ da blue mass pill. because you can't tell for quite ® OF eas tnpoMluny— Hut oveasionatty the actors ston tniking long enov_l-to shove the plece along and at the end the audience finds every Uilng turning our pale heroine has used up-aeveral-thoussnd—of—onr-mostemon———s sping {t out one only enjoys Hfe when one tx dead. “She takes fe gulps ort nx potron-out-ot-an-emnty-hottlewiitecthe: lgea with a few bars of music. such as Would be suItAblE To | Seconipany-an-autupay.— thn naizoned. Indy. then-falls down among. tha tootlights, fecorda her farewell impressions is & voice full of guries, ike the suds tinting tat of A wink,’ and dlox in an attractive and Nighly successful manner with her of the leader. eased ose ‘ot tts brief #kotch returns to her family mp as @ ‘ fax, with her nose red and her make-up nll wept away, and atates that she has, a, fagine headache and never enjoyed anything as much In her life ‘HE FUNNY PAR ally cheere' up until she's perfectly’ miserapla, over ot theanind-as-an_at a_plot_thiat wax thought up pb: 5 al cess of raw fi th { xvmnptoms tlon of the st grand The A woman doen't begin to feel re: —_———++ Pegasus at the Horse Show, = By Walter A. Sinclair. \ \ UD Pegasus raised such a fuss ; \ O They had to let him go ; : Sih} To see the styles.and winning wiles | ‘They call New York’s Horse Show. 3 Upen a beam he pérched to scream, When he beheld the sigbt. ‘ vith loud horse laugh he had to chaff | The show he saw that nightt G "Ts that a Horse Show? How adeurs! Might just as well say I'm @ bird, Though T have tolngs, 60 they have, too— The girls sith millinery new. A Horse Show? No, Likewise neigh! neigh! ‘At least, (t doesn't look that way. “Tle time of year the Bromides sing That good old Une: ‘The Horac Is King.’ Although the meaning's quite obtuse, To me he looks more like a deuce, A Horse Show? Neigh! ° Well, then I guess, ‘A Clothes-Horee Bhoiw ts better, Yes?” Ia “Bo foolish Pegasus now sings, ~~ seats the bird-seed from ba wing