The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1906, Page 8

\ i t —worked-alt night than that this strain should be delayed until the child} AORN ITT 5 meng cyan Kansnnsrsc sea Nathan lies. ber “YET at S06 ss sal! Publishes by the Press Publishing Company, No. 82 to 6 Park Row, New Tork Entered at the Post-OMice at New York an Second-Class Mail Matte VOLUME 47 .,....eeeere eee SEINO! 18,882. WOMEN AND, NIGHT WORK. If the subject were not so serious and important the attitude of cer- tain judges on the law prohibiting the employment of women in factories and workshops at night would be humorous. The Legislature passed the bill prohibiting women to work in factories between 9 o'clock at night-and 6 o'clock in the morning. The bill became a law. By vote of three to two the Appellate Division has decided this law to be unconstitutional on the ground that it interferes with the freedom of contract,.and that every woman has a right to work all night if she wants to. Who wants to work all night, man or woman? Who willingly sworks incessantl: and long hours at all? Nine people out of ten, and the -estimate is moderate, work at their present occupatigns because they have to. . They need the money. They must eat, wear clothes and have a place to sleep, And In lieu of in- herited fortune or a gratuitous in- come everybody has to work to get these things. This kw did not prohibit women from working at all. It did not in-} terfere with their wage-earning to| thelr disadvantage. It did prevent | working women on double shifts, and it would have compelled em- ployers to put in additional ma- | chines, so that the same number of women would have turned out the same product by working daytime, instead of one gang working days and the other gang working nights on the same machinery. What this law would have done was to induce employers so to ar- range their work that the product would be produced more evenly, in- | stead of crowding the working women during rush seasons and laying | them off the remaininy months. It is admitted that_men can work al what hours and what employ- ments they please. Even the time of men's labor, however, has been restricted in many employments, especially in such occupations where the strain and exhaustion of long-continued effort would result in danger to the public. The exclusion of women fom night work was based on the same hygienic and physiological grounds 2s the prohibition of the employment of very young children at any time and of working older children at night. : These working women ‘many of them will be the mothers of chil- dren. It-is more injurious to children that thelr mothers should be ‘ftself is at the age of ten or twelve. Working the mother all night is medically more injurious than working the child all day. That women are mothers is a fact of such general knowledge that} it might be assumed that any court would take judicial cognizance without proof. Yet the majority opinion of the Appellate Division says that in| corder to sustain the constitutionality of this law “we must-find that, owing | to some physical or nervous difference, it is more harmful for a woman | to work at night than fora man todo so. * * ™ Weare not aware of any such difference, and in all the discussions that have taken place none such have been pointed out.” Possibly the attorney who appeared in support of the law was dere- lict, but he can hardly be blamed for assuming that the honorable justices | knew that women*are physically, mentally, morally and nervously. differ- | ent from men, and that they would be “aware of such differe: the calling of medical experts to testify thereto. without | Since theadecision is by a divided court, three to two, and since the majority pitta is based on the theory quoted above, it might be well for some public-spirited person to start another test case and to remedy the defects of evidence in the first case. The comphinant should of course be a woman. She experts | -who would testify to Tob ens of her sex and to the physiological difference between women men. - This should duly appear in the printed record. It is absurd to assert that it is necessary to amend the Constitution af the State of New York in order to protect the mothers of the next generation. Letters from the People. I think three persone could live very comfortably on it with the ex- ercise of a ttle economy. At all eventa, | should appear in court with medi lig One More Transfer Kick, To the Editor of The Evening World: I boarded an uptown Ninth avenue ae ) tght av ta | they wld be much than | train last night. I gave elght cents | Hot feet of than | to the ler, telling him I wanted | month ae ees en Amsterdam ave: transfer. He . 3 { Christmas “Bookke: : gave-me one. I dan Amster. | : cilegeosng lan aye northbound car at Sixty. | 7 the + of The Evening Wevid: Bixth ntrevt, the conductor my| Here ta a t y-| transfer. He refused “to. take 1t, aay-| body \ time, and I'd like} 5 ) good on that line. w | Some one to solve tt. [ never yet saw loa of three | 4n¥ one (myself tne > did not at least 2) par more presenta | standpoint) than he re tatmaa) Now what Q per cent? Out of so/ many people there’ must be a fow at| least who Ret about 1,00 per cent. more | Ive, ButeFve yet to fr most strenuously Manhattan a C LARRITY; Jr. | From» mathe | In 1889, Seventy-two Daye, | gig terekia nA sever ‘To the Baltor of The Evening Wi | Christ ) In whe Bly, of your |ure o} r Waper, Ko round the world, and low |pe on tatde.6¢ tha indie | Abang did {t take her to dos ly, goon? i POL. Tureo-lettor brecia ))) | tol are mireota the “names of ut letters. I 9 following names, and do not sf there ther ten To the, % Your as to whether a could live as we land on 428 u 3 here. er ten (the di. Writing ax one with years of expoe- ver thin lis, e New, Oak, Ash Fox, ivy, road, Poe Park Beltast. Ppo place and Hoe avenue | can rent @ one $76.8 year como a, coal, gan, &e than In New Yo W: would be considered a smal! salary in- | priests, | greatly to tils earthly his heavenly: | made him a sweet and a shrewishness, patiently for the|qulck repent to {dea of hiv va SO EASY. By J. Campbell Cory. DEAR LiTrLe FELLOW i's SO. EASY TO (KEEP) ae oe Se ‘Love Affairs of Great Men 4 Martin Luther and Catharine NE of the most importa history was on June lt, to dwell alc which t happin Catharine yon Hora wos: a onate wife. bitss which the r know would follow. iP Ho did everything he © de as a husba her Iife hap ed that 1 ee fF & By Nixola Grecley-Smith, Von Hora 1 $0 his wite: narria world’s| “The greatest favor | You can taro youra are the same. Ci your person, an tharine, thank God for {t."* are an empresa aid not p when he said rt of marble, . my Kit. my rib Kit, that ou mhouldst never preach! among. his endearing expresstons. Dhis unusually successful The gold of tortlire connected with !t. “ ‘atharina Boren, 18 Juntl, of sorrow renee Detween LA t was not m eet, even for shocked the world,. added 14 , dtd yl the month should have been so singularly su Luther's worst remo} nd t nerles and the Catholics, who at Mnoss, watting ‘6 had led hin { God ts to havo m good and pious husband, nd even your | you have a pious hi t him. from teasing her a little atx | ("Lf L were going to make love again, I would’ carve an obedient Ww. in despair of finding one tn any other way"? i But though he exclaimed over her independent spirit Luther was very fove with the ex-nun and playfully tender tn hts manner of addressing her, most learned dame. How much these same ribs haye to answer to whom se children and Who loyes you sba7, ut her wilfulnoss, as n much Catharine Luther. marringo was aolemnized by a ring algnifcant urface War engraved with the crucifix Inside was the Taitin Inscription, mand the emblems “D, Martino stitlous {t mihy neem atrange that a wmton effected on the thir- ess ful. erely and his wifo perhaps of all great mon's ho had,to @ndure. uth py, but that he had a falr|cf the ha marriages of grent men, And, the following letter written | unions, It has heen the mort far-reaching in {ts effects. w& 2 & ByF.G.Long } STEP IN HERE) {AND PICK UP £ (APIECE OFC . | BRIC-A- Aes |FOR HENRI fA! ree dusy, 81D 23} | OROP In HERE ( eee )ANO FICK A 3 : PIECE OF BRIC-A-BRAC > FOR HENRY, YRORSUEASS L L810 FIVE CEE Scowa!)) 2) ITS Gone De ER) £ Ayes Vaan Polk EN] 3 31 ; fFouR At ~ {Don uars {T Bio} € {I rHoucHT I kWEW THE) \SSUND OF THAT VOICE EID DING ARLUNST. {You Loarer! You BID AGAINST; 3 How MUCH FOR) ». eee oun e, aa raed Tne vale “A HCG) “=a \ TW. Eeciing World"s Dally “Magazine, “Selardny “Decemb came by rail. regarded him ee thali as a I’ked to think of him aa of a man tormented dy. sorrow and his privitto life was always peaceful and serene, x children she bore him ware his sole refuge against the persecution | rs was one of the mont courageous as well as ono {hors |e dozen yoke of oxen dragging a wagon | Written for The Evening World. Wy The Vanishing @ride. By Anna Katherine Green. Author of “The Leavenworth Casz’’ and “The Woman in the Aloove/® | Was a very fair tavern there and that the manufactures of the place were @umMclent to account for @ strangers viel. The articles made were mostly, novelties, This knowledge he meant to turn t Account, but changed his mind when, , 1006, by Anna Ki Green Mohits,) DING CHAPTE) a _bewutitul Hazen, narrivg fo) they finally splashed tnto town and wed oad stopped before the tavern which had foberwle been #o highly recommended by his eom fatersiows driver, ‘The house, dripping though it who ayn he 1 Kite %| was from every eve, ud such a ro- mantic air that he thought he could venture to cite other reasons for -his stay there than the prosaic one of business. That is, if the landlady should give any evidence of being at all in accord with her quaint home and plo- { ic turesque surroundings. d Bhe showed herself and he at once ave her credit for being all he could wish tn the way of credulity and good- nature, and, meeting her with the smile _ which had done good exeoutlon In its Gay, he wsked if she had a room for @ writer who was ishing a book. 3 4 y asked for quiet and regu efore his own cozy fire. This to Imagination make her - to hia wishes for sécrecy. mmpio soul und fell eagtly, trap. In haif an hour Mr, mM was enscorned in a pleasant e porch, & room ¥ cd posaosiaed ‘ind de Gary. He adenits his request. aftor Ransom " ay foopain apeech With CHAPTER VII. (Continued.) TE coach, aT have said, was late tn the afternoon. This was to ac- commodate the passengers who But Mr, Ransom had not | 7 coach. That ‘would ature encounter with with the lawyer. planned to go! by riven there by some Indifferent livery= stable man. Neither prospect was pleas-|— It had deen raining all night, and ing. bade falf to rain all i The river at they W was clouded with ; the hills, which pe who’ wan. coming ad no doubt who > good had the are the glory of th . Were Obllt- erated from the c and the road—he had never seen “such a road, all littie pools and mud. However, there was no help for tt ney must be made, and seeing able sign across the road he lost no time In securing the convey- ance he At nino o'clock he Started out... The rain drove so flercely from the northweet—the very direction in whtot velling—that enjoyment o! impossible, Nor could pleasure be got out of conversa- 1 who drove needed. ace ol rain, that was all; and the splash |$ of mud over the wheels, which turned all too slowly’ for his comfort. And there were to be ten miles of this. /circumsatan ally he turned to his thoughts, valuabien te and they were all of her, to ascertain in ry which, claimant to y had Da not known her better to. pl puatman cate Unking his fate to hers? Why [Pol A? dat feared to show his had he never encouraged her to ta terest in the supposed stranger. Ho to him more about herself and her ear- walt Li and ly Ife? Had he but doné ao ho might now haya some clue to the mystery do- nee yourtng ht know why €> TE y rich and t a woman had CHAPTER VIII. a town, on an Elimination. completion of T about three o'clock in the after : A noon Mr, Bans: room, haye been signed in Ho had been c: almost from he was not nq’ He hi in few Ho ha +] slight p ad ve | ¢} n | the itn his door ajar. y to give it a when he heard golng on tn therefore, 0 hand walk o bustie of prepar two rooms in 4 taken ready to love fe and lfelong co: 4 bap, p! he had been content to keep alll pancy ho was so vitally q versation along nafural Ynea and) matd stood in the hall And now—thla brother, | was pusni ad thought dead, come to Fis kcouree menaco in his acts and con- yersation! Also a. sister—but this sls- ter he had no belief tn. The coincide was too startlingly | out of nature for him to accept a broth- tilt my T must yer In w Mrs, Deo. nding the rain Jer and a sister, too. A brother or ae: enndtenetben enn ote en eae uence ta | Ste came to bin alt edgerness and pers assurances mbould influence his “iva all bad, auch m days" acid oredullty to this extent. “Money! money : is at the bottom of {t all,” wad’ his fina! rar pee rd decision. “She knows !t and ts mak-|'™ dato her will, as a possible protection. |!) the cemetery ist'T he asked. es; do you object to cemeteries? Ours is thought to be very interesting. Wo have stones there whose inscrip= tons are a hundred and fifty yeara old, gleam of light Into the darkness which But its a bad day to walk gmong had’ Litherto enveloped the whole mat-| cies perhaps you had better £0 She had once spoken to him of her | i f I'm sorry we should have such Meese Shexunadsyqyentionedis al) m on your first day. Must you go it why come here? A every reflection ended. iddenly a vanished, | hait-forwotten memory oame bd: It brought a by ¢ whero she used to play aa a ohild; tioned it lovingly, longingly. | forced a suffering look into his Tr , she had 6. nile and insisting that nothin Kans tot ° al woods full of ches ae eHataire + woods, where she gust selzed him w ler at will. And the roads t he drew Sone loved to walk the roads! purtnine ae tiggestion Hi piles then, not even blcycles. One | to RS Dank os tt | ould Ko miles without meeting man or r » meant to search the Sometimes a’ heavily-ladert cart | © 1 go by drawn by a long otring | “4Y sturesque and] of wh three pers: of oxen; but they were pt ved to look at Rim ah ed to the ch Oxen were nec-| was in vi On the dliside he Ry iste wrereiwen joire liebe | met, nobody. \Wind and raia-and mud essary whoro there Was no rallroad. proapect and }were all: desolation tn th As he repeated Uiede words to tumaclt| ai! 1 Ar the 18. 1001 ough the d our | br of the ae whi calenval rilapwcrotathal broke Wi separated the By Ox ea COMI Eee D eee mbeosce at Gl olaiburyings piace from the road, Chore ad before tim, winding up @ long hill-/ tay his Hani y he could tread side, Down this road was approaching | it unpotic Ae apoteithin sight. high or low: the spent a half hour amot piled with bales of some wort of mer-|¢clii, Vurore he struck the name he wae Ghandise, Ong question in his mind was| looking for. Another ten minutes, be- nawered, TNL. was ‘not ah u pund those of wife's tam- praca pe jot an un-| 6° men he had his reward, On known one to her. It was connected | jow brown shaft he read the names of By father and mother, and beneath them | the following lnes: Sacred to the Memory of AN Died duno, fy 1886, ged Six Years and One Day, with her ohtidhood ‘days, There was reason back of her cholco of tt as a place of meeting between hor and her lawyer, or, {f not reason, ansoclation, and that of/ the tendereat| oeAS1 {) ine Icingdom of Steaven, Kind, He felt himself relieved of the) ane twin! Georgian was mad. This gxtreme welght of his oppression and | record showed that her ietle a | tar lay, ventured Ke: u here, Anttra—yea,. that was © ave asking © qusation of two | here. Ather jini. He remembered it moult Sisor ds wrest Hp: ook Pens. 2 | well.) Georgian (bad mentioned (tty: Aim aay ho was visiting for (he first ime, | more than onde. And this child, this The information he obtained waa but | Avitra, had been buried here for Atteen, meagre, but ho did: ledrn that tharal” ont to be \y This Week’ s Prize Winners in the | “Domestic Hapssand Mishaps’’ Contest. | i | HIS weok's prizes in the “Domea-|houra and a olumbor'a hire spent try- tle Hans and Mishapa'’ contest |ing to thuw pipes. AreLma fone mas MRS, N. ROBPRTS, ‘No. 987 East One 5 Hundred and Thirty-third street, Now | | i's Prize, —Liggey City, for story of man who SF S fied drip trap under sink to recover 1 MoU Pa Th IAs Ae JRoctor Jobt atud. Poured water from bowl aet street, Po Neekin under trap back Into slic without <l '$1 Prizes. ! cat | mouse In mothe 3 nightsown dleeve. nbd daleoe heraelf fore ing trav, Wife laughed, and wrung mop Into eink, gotting the open trap MISS AUGUSTA KOCH, No. 344 East] MISS MILDRED SMITH, care of 3, for Thirty-frst attest, New York City, B. Lownebury, P. 0, Box 28, Croton-on- Igtory of cat and dog fight In cake /}urdson, for story of how her uncle dough. j varnished tho floor, i MES. G, LANGE, Nor 83 Parker! The Evening World tm giving sd m stro wark, N. J,, for story ofquar-j week in cash prizes for the best sug- | ter-fn-alot Kas meter which gaye out,) gestions (which need not be accompa. ene guest wna singing. {nied by drawings) for the of water pipes tumed off to prevent 38 MABDL BOWNE, No. 15 Cherry arcalh Brooklyn Hills, L. 1, for story Haps and Mishaps’ comic series. nuxgestions must bo sent to The |. Comlca Editor, Evening World. P. } Box 134, New York City." y ‘ ‘The “Domestic | freezing; next morning no water; two