The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1906, Page 6

’s Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 25, 1906. ee oe | ng Company, No. 65 to 6] Park Row, New Tork New York as Becond-Class Ma‘! Matter. CHRISTMAS. nz5. What Christmas is 2 hat moore BS ori PAY, ni Nene STN ag So aen Gl yes iil and the tradi- Ing of the Chris- tian era attrik the birth of Christ to the spring. The early Christian (Church célebrated the ndtivity in April and May. } The crigin of Christmas is really the old German yule feasts to which Caesar alluded in his writings and which antedate the Christian.era. . The same festival is found among the Scandinavians and: in all northern European nations where the day shortens greatly until the winter solstice | and then lengthens. eae ! The old heathen gods, Odin and the rest of them, were supposed to have charge of the mechanism of the sun and to deliberate every year whether they would let the sun continue being good to mankind. Their | determination to begin lengthening the days again after Dec. 22 and 23) was always followed by great rejoicing and heathen festivities. | These feasts were accompanied with gifts, with a lavish dict, with | Christmas trees-and bonfires, : ___. The early Christian Churdh took no part In these heathen festivities. Kris Kringle and Santa Claus are the successors of the German heathen gods, not of the early Christian saints. Not until Christianity had spread to the North and the Baltic seas and the tactful administrators of | , the early church saw the advantage of adapting ancient customs did} Christiaas become in any sense a church festival. When the reforma- tion came the Scotch Presbyterians and the English Methodists and Congregationalists alike opposed the religious observance of Christmas Day, basing their opposition on its-historical origin and its inaccuracy j arto time. | The present day popular delusions as to:the orlgin of Christmas | may account for the protest made by a number of-ptominent Hebrews | against the observance of Christmas in the public schools. Logically the Presbyterians, Methodists and Congregationalists could make a stronger protest. | MATTIE Cee ae Oh YS MESSAGE Ele f( Se oe LY CSCIC = Too Large for Comfort. By J. Campbell Cory. ys ete { ‘| MAKING A START IN LIFE. © o p = Engineer * » Chef * * Broker * * Locomotive Engineer | Salesman * WHAT WOULD * Plumber * Teacher Designer « * Physician Detective * * Motorman ;Stenographer * * * Chauffeur * * * Arlist * * * Music Teacher lawyer « * + t+ OF A Series of Authentic Guides to Those Who Wish to Setect Career, Giving Information Concerning Qualifications, Cpportunitles, Earnings, &c., in the Different Trades ard Professions. , 4 By T. O. McGill. THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEER, LECTRICAL Engineer, one with knowledge of the E a and art of utilizing electricity in the production . heat.and motive power, In the transmission and of energy, and in {te application to the great vartety oof metallurgical and other with. the x science and art’ of the erection and m: © of all forms ‘Aph and cable Ut w to obtats (he ary results in e:ery form of electrical generation und distribution ayerago new operations til the work but those who are resooas Salaty.— From $21 a week to $2.50 a week. © ¢o one can reasonably expect to enter fully into the work Before! al training necessary. Age. thirty years, owing to the practical and tech | .O become a member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, which is the place that puts the stamp ofme on workers in the fleld of elec I trictty, one muet Le thorough tn the eclence. That ta, for the ambitious and those who will go to the top. There are plenty of places between school Jays and a $2,000 a year salary as @ consulting engineer where one may make | Wie dally bread. The duttes of an elect wctance he-undertshes to cal engineer depend éntirely on what branch of the do the work in, Whether it be the laying out ang Instalintion of the generators and distributing Wires for a transportation system or the caro of the wires and currents for the. lis multe of affeetn, The range of duties {s great and grows more 96 wl development af the uses of the ‘Juloe,”” which is the name for olectricity in the vernacular of the eclence in {ts practical for | phe terms ‘electrical worker’ and “clectrical engineer,” famtifar to us all-are widely divergent, though closely related. The man who goes about telegraph / poles, the subway and switchboards with large rubber gloves on may make $18 a week na,an electrical worker of ability and be far re- moved from an electrical engineer. A man who cac take w place at S3-a:week as tho creator of a cwirlng system | mg Rubber Gloves. $ 41, an oftice buliding may be @ firm-clasa electrical worker Oa 8 and pool drmugntaman and never become a good engineer, Thee are thdusands of men and women employed in tho factortes that create electrical contrivanceg and electrical appurtenances who } great knowledge of the action of the fluid end yet never dre ricul engineera, be- cause to become an electrical engine nh working imowl- edge of calculus or the higher alge ‘The pay for electrical e: rs ranges fF the moro auccessful men, like I. Stillwell, who re Inoney A year ! ————? The Man with } ven eeents \¢ belag e must have a th us {Sl a Week to $2.50, Some of consulting engineer of sixteen the Presideht of the transportation systems, make far n | United States. ‘The opportunities to become an electrical e: | many of the other solences, but ono who hay acquired a sufficient knowledze of fractions may enter Cooper Institute, where, ‘a four-years’ course of | study, they may go out in the world with a degree of Bachelor of Electrietty, } This may bo acquired b c and it {s free asithe air to those who want to electrical engineering are Co! ta Collexe, oklyn Polytechnic School art cer are not so varied as in. a ke adyuntago Of course, the public schools are not the plac: for religious ob- | BROOKLYN A zayer, dear! Santa, genuing. woman f: or heart. Now, do and neal a fi jetmas time. n cary request of Rut it: may ng becaure toss be © icitizenship and individual morality wherein infidels and agnostics coincide | {qvith, members of all religlous- denominations. F But Christmas !s a religious feast only for those who make it so.| ~ @ gifts that woman la you think, you! A man's heart is be She specifies “a woman who say t forget, 4 moro th bring me—a real, warm, human friend, ) gift as she a servances except for the inculcating of those gener! principles of sox ThE Gift of a Real, Genuine Woman Friend. By Nixola Greeley-Smith woman las written a letter to Santa Claus, in my care, asking htm to send her ‘a real, end. from some church or charity place.” Not a professiona] sooth- Sign because theyre 1 am a woman- Hany other present you Santa. I am writer of the letter thinics she has made y thin © look- that ft aus might be asked rarest and best th the dlamond sparkling on your still conscious ¢. our sadly supplem i ee de the Stevens Institute, tn Hoboken, but In these Intter a tuition feo ts charged. tthe General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, at No. 2) West Forty-fourth street, New York City, also teaches free, three evenings of the week, men fmploved dist the day. A course In mathematics and mechanical drawing ln open to any man who wanta to ¢ Cooper Vnion and has not had the unity. to become sufficiently proiicient in matheniaths Tha New York n fingero And so it is—in a way, But that ts not y ask Santa Claus for tt It comes to so rare a@ gift that we every woman, rich or poor, good or bad, plain or pretty, at some time, But ; PPI ‘etree night schoola also teagh mathemacss and drawing not one woman In a hundred—pert not one In a thourand—knows what! gu —W~——————- ccensary to atart on a course of study for electrical {tin to have what this petitioner to Santa Claus asks for no confidently—"@ yo 1100 advantage} engineering, and many men who work at the lower real, _enuine woman | grades of electrical work for their dally sustenance’ take Men and women are of Opportunities. | tr intagy. of these ‘ine opporty Sy) ight schools which ere Srdivid o, is taught a form of technical knowledge in electricity, from $130 to $5,000 for the course, aocording ty the schoo Dig electrical concerti like the Wigallawticees Gem parcel unegeer Ces orth while {t would be wo 4 eral wieciske Company have In their various works grades that are called the ( he peacticat rudiment» of electrical engineering and where they 4 4t bringing reproying frown or a patronizing, indul-{ that teachos t i halts coun ennneen r I i | pay a sun) auflictent, for a person to live on while receiving practical knowledge } 4 om men of experience. bring his Brooklyn supplant what she asks, And) and information from men 0! nia Nine Thaieniee acai jor srom this xrade are recralted to the high places men who show mental alertness and proficiency in all that is expected from a man who ts starting s. Thero are several l enterprises, where, for a ‘The tuition fee ranges Men are sometimes ‘th never frienda, only lovers or : acquaintances, Wom envy, competition for to) so'many wom the favor of man, militate so strongiy against the existence ary sex as practically’ to render It non-exts: ° n «rade, enomien’ or tndtffere: friends almost ag rarely: Yea on still represents the sypreme goal, | f friendship in Yet, how sup whom we could be our can to mere mo with: kent smile to his uncomp I hope Santa Claus » fhe has two I wouldn . scustom of gifts is entirely apart from any religious observance. Ohristmas tree belongs to the gift feast, not to any religious Wherexthe Christmas of to-day can be criticised, and most justly, is} Insits ceasing to-be so pre-eminently a child's day. The necessitous in- I PARDON MUH, | inge of presents between grown-up people fs becoming more and 1B0S$— WOULD : ‘more an infliction, The use of Christmas Day as a general-tima for| | ‘oU>€ HELP. 3 ‘the: solicitation of tips large or small tends to destroy ihe best object Las lyf the day, guy lr \N \ | Letters from the People. | TT” Advice to Trade Beck To the Editor of The Evening World: In answer to F. L. W., who asks what in @ good trade for u boy to learn, X would advise him to try sign “paint: ing, it being an easy tride to lead If Ono has a Ntitle talent to begin ‘with and a good eye for'colom, But he mast Bay, and ride on the Bmith atrest jine every day to buainess. These cars are Uke ice boxes instead of jtransport cara, | and the poor heating apparatus in such weather as this is enough to give the strongest of men pneumonia. Won't the Tallroad people notice this "knock" and Hemnedy the matter? étart rigtit among geod workmen. Com- zi destradle. RUTH MENGES, : to #7 a day for Sheepshead Bay. i It’s a Foolish World After All! cae By R. W. Taylor. out te succeed as an electrical engineer. prot, W. A. Anthony, of Cooper Union, In speaking of the promise In a career ea} as an electrical engineer, says: “ro my: mind the fleld of electricity gives more promise than any othes of the niechanical sciences, Some of my confreres ayer that It does not lead, 9 WENT ‘are al entitled to our opinion; however, the tremendous changee that ~ ay RAN ! dy MERRY CHRISIMUS, [As \ SUUSE CAN'T and wine place In the transportation world whore electricity Is taking. the: 2 15 RS lace of steam, the big undertakings of hitching water power to electricity, HES SAW WO HANG AROUND)52 \\ nee che’ huge generators belnx constructed for municipal use all over DE USE WOT / ven world. indicate that the fnportance of elsctrical work tas but begun to SY MY BEAT! S be recognized. . “yo do this work requires mon satisfy the mon. with the money behind the big enterprises, and the fact th. much cxpert knowledge {s required bf men who may engineer the practical work of there enterprises is In itself the real reason why good men are x0 scarce, Few moa have the chance er opportunity, and mony of those who have don't possess the:grit to atick to the grind of equipping themarlves for the high places, but. tle demand for men abvve mottocrity {x constunt, and I encourage overy cone who shows the least inclination to beconia profictent in the mysteries of figures and the fluld, 1 know what reward Is jn store for the man who accom- plishes a dogree of Baclielor of Electricity. Some of our pupila find mental jane g Tecreantion In the atudy of electricity here at night after a ipuce day at m work-bench, and tn some of them one can almost Ne, 088 Of fe ihe progrean go on; and many @ mnn_attting at an the Workels } grecuntye desk with a big salary caming along every month ar nag on the wall somewhere his “shoepskin' or its substi- tute In parchment’ that ho received hore after ho had done his work which gave him the start’ towardw the place he holds.” \ Any young man may obtain employment {n the vartous lower branches of 1S DE USE? who may. men! receiye| Peonle's Choru: fon. = tea elie ata Bion NO USE - DEY Where? can I hay toe cult AINT NO SANTA CLAUS NER NO dt practise | Yated fe or at amall cost? exe W. W. WALKpR 5 BULLETIN. Is “Harry Up” Hadet CHRISTMUS . NER, To the Edttorinf The I atid nployed with and would ra the follow! n AB steno. lke to put to’ your oblem {n polite asked moe for a wing on at day, I sald * that dt was rude furthermore suldn't aay ay. Boing ant B § Co-Operntive Food A Word fn Senson, AHA! A QUARTER? AM 1 DREAMIN’ OR IST CRAZY electrical work In New York City by applying for work at the places which do such work and after aMliating himself wih the Isbor votons that ‘control the gy fnore phyetcal branches of the science w hich contempinte the apprentice stare, Tn this way he can make enough wookly wages to keop him while going to the night schools to eaulp him for the moro technical and dimeult branches of eleo trical scence, GREETINGS, OLD PAL! MERRY |) CHRISMUS GREETINGS, wHooP-EE! mt; The Christmas Spirit—and Pa. By Walter A. Sinclair. HE bundles are opened, the stockings are frinked, I ‘And taok to cold Iceland Old Santa has whisked With Dasher and Prancer and Hiitzen and all, \Weile Joy filla the hearta of the kids, great and small. ‘Then Pa feeln the Docket where cash used to hie, ‘And sinks In a foz6 while ho heaves a big algh. He's copped off the elippors, the rama comits ipalr, The song-and-dance necktie he nover will wear, ‘i Hin pochetbook's flat and hin waten In In pawn— It all went to buy what wos found at the dawn. ee t Care of Mwats a: ‘@go next March Qs, Mtoe Nox”? Wo the Eaiior of The tvenic palin, | What Dad Would-Say Laas to Bay It, H. Ay dad be mad wi aut ti him you dla A) deat, ind Dad whole of it bumselt.—Big eT: seas = He Jingles his keys, for his \coln ts all “loone," He waggtes is head and detnands, "What's the user’ The Reason Why. , ladies, Who Were strangers to He looks’ round his home at his wife, girls and boys, met at a reneption, After ‘'The Jatler all busy with breaking thelr toys, sUtes’ dusultory talk, the first the wife looking happy ax tér woman can, 2 rather querulously? ‘And every ono beam#: “How we love this old mant'* “Hold On!” | and offered to help Win} | anid | sal cept your nasistance,”’ nfvilaaia: theoante@ur faye inoner naman nee tape matter Then Pa foela hia heart growing: large with geod cheer Atoinet founds aometidng | WiKi that tall gentleman dyer ther. ‘Anil buckles to work td save up tor next year! e Miitoeltaenosept! le was so attentive,a while ago, out = oe Sy shrieked the editor. “Wily ‘on't look at me now." 4 to soll at Joke when Tget) seyocisa ego Teer Ran cea CeaG MORAL. a De is ae PAT EO TSE Spirit can never be beat ,- Sx, : * sald the cont me come in, 4 4 iy husvand’— Ease Er onal conlltest '—Smilos. nmilea 5 € fy 4 abe ! } We ab citadilie (iba daliS iad allL ta Ss LARS a a Sst