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Publishes by the. Preas Publishing Company, No. §& (o 6 Park Row, New Tork <2, Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Matl Matter: WO LU MES 72t verscccisccncss cstecs secasccceveosesret NO? 16,570, THE ELEPHANT’S PIPE. = of the superiority of mank ind fvices at Hat Men inject morphine and willingly and are bad for them. The lower vices and habits. : at the Hippodrome is offered In trtief in the inherent good haikits animals other-than-mas..It took time and pains to-teach this hant=to~ smoke. —H-is-temark- able that the first attempis did. not so disgust the elephant that he would refuse to try again, ‘Every man Tex) calls the disgust and natisea whic} followed his first boyhood cigar/pr pipe. The boy, however, knety fhat other, boys: had learned .fo gnjo. oking—and—that— One of {he proofs clain thermaminals: ~ tobacco, ‘drink intoxicating wilfully do other things that t! orders of animals never develop suc The elephant that snuck eyldence to the contrary of comfort j_pain were. lik ¢ pull-| teeth <that | “the early penalties of all bad = Monkeys, goats, dogs ==beer.=Bees and ilies will drink bi is sticky beer made from gluc have-the-opportuni}) S-RO-SO far. cow's series of stomachs reproducing the = brewery. Instead of vices being the monopoly of mankind, there is hardiy a eer without being taught, especially if i Birds wititdrink wine whenever they oget <on_apples, t i The Evening Woria’s ake 2 —preligtinary:| emical processes of the =the like ase comm2n_to-all-anim eries-and-zoological-_gardens. a The argument in favor of the superiority of man should te based = father onthe fact that of alt animats man ts the onty-on _ily reforms. A monkey once a drunkard is always a drunkard. A cow which once has: known the joys of intoxication on cider pulp will always = thereafter make -eftorts to reach the cider mill. The organ-grinder’s bear ~~ which has learned to like beer never unlears. ~=—This“would indicate the negative of Prof. Haeckel’s theory that a rudimentary conscience exists in {he lower_animals.The- emotions_ of joy and grief do exist in almost a tall forms of animal life, but-no-clear _case of remorse except among mankind has been noted. ! Conscience cannot exist without occasional remorse. The working of. conscience makes the difference between remorse and regret. z As to whether the existence of a conscience is in itself proof of the existence and: immortality of the soul is a question in higher psychology which it is unnecessary to involve in a discussion of the primary mental swhich votuntar-{- differences belween men and monkeys, elephants and cows, —_—__}. Waily. magazine, Wednesday, January 2, 1907. 2 To Avoid Wrecks - By J. Campbell Cory. 7 |TWENTY-FIVE 4 _.| ROMANCES « PROGRESS By Albert Payron Terhune — YO, #3.—-ALEX ANDER CRAUAM BULI, the San Who Mado the Human Voice Travel 1,000 Miles. DIGs beardel, farmer-lke yout found himself one day A =I 18T1—tha bere —at aya ALERATHIE. raham Bell, a Scot, who, had mo¥ed from kdinburgh to the Domin- fon the previous year, He lial tuveuted a coutrivance by walch-human Speech ‘could be carried across a single wire ahd transmitted with perfect * istinctnees for a considerable distance. ‘This “tel sdone,” as young. Bell called his tuvenUon, was regurded as a woudertul and highly amusing toy. Nothivg more. The country folk turned out by hundreds to wituess the first experiment. A. wire had been Stretched from the house of Bell's father in the suburbs to .the telegraph Office In the clty of Brantford, two And a half miles-away, ‘The test was successful. Bell wis praised, thouch some of the graver Canadian Scots thought he might far better have spent. the time on something really useful. r He went next year to"Boston to accept a professorship jn the University, there. From boyhood he Had devoted himself to a system, devised by hia father, for teaching deaf mutes to communicaté with each other and with the outer world. This was his Intended life work, although as a boy he had longed to be a musical composer, and had with difficulty been per- sunded by his father to give up that ambition. Bell when a mere lad con= s celved the {dea of forming a system of harmonic telegraphy. He found that sounds could be carried over wires that were joined to a galvanic bat- tery, and-that-by-adjusting a set of reeds -at-one end of-the line of vibration——— with another at the opposite end nolses on one set coitld be reproduced by © . the otler Thus, each could be-bodi-a_transulties and_regetyorof-musta 2 — Ps notea. From this ft was but a step to applying the RS Corse sane dea to spoken words, dnd the telephone, fn crude form, was (he reeult. Telephone. Scon after Prof. Bell moved to Roston a wealthy \+ 3 * Carfidrides man, Hubbard by name, sent his deat’, daughter to him for vocal inmtruction. An engagement between pupil and : teacher soon follawed. Miss Hubbard and her father became deeply {nter= 7 ested in the telephone, and Bell was {nduccd early {n 1876 to patent ft. Mr. Hubbard was placed In charge of the Massachusetts exhibit at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. He wanted Bell to place before the peuple-in-the Massachuertts Butiding-his-marvellous-sctentife-toy, But Bell did not care to do this, probably failing to realize the import- ance of Buch a step. Miss Hubbard added her plea to her father's. When all other means falled she asked the Inventor to como to the station to see * her off for Philadeiphia. As sho was about to board the traln she bural Anto tears and again begged her sweetheart to come to the Quaker City with: ° ee 2ee : Ee Is ve fh No single step in the long series of evolution from protoplasm to the _ ape shows a gulf to be bridged only by a new creation. But from the $:.-ape to the man there must have been some other process than the de. elopment of tower rintinents Tor man to have beoome possessed of a nce,-a-sense-of-remorse_and the -power-and-impulse-voluntarily to “erase the practice of a pleasing Vice. oe e The elephant that smokes the pipe should be tested as to his power eformation and his ability to understand the injury that follows th. of : ive absorption of nicotine, Letters from the People. lea for the Office Boy. Twake up, be badly stung. J OS BPH FITZPATRICK. An Unfortunate Ratio. To the Editor of The Evening World: During the past five yeara the atan dard of living has gone up 10 per c Not one-tenth of all the wage-earners in New ¥. 4 tm} are SOIATOLSOMOTETO ND: wages have gone up avout 2 per cent yuld have the right to and not say pleaso On him the way nobody to do tf, he waa older or 0..ber,: hie eing the priceless record which had been the means of. bringing them together. Api yet people continue to ask, what's in a yoice? Ag| studied brit though love, beauty, tenderness, everything !n life worth while were not better expressed by the-cadence of a magic voice than by the perfection of a magic face.. Fiver alnca | the telephone gizrl-came into belng and began her course of triumphant matri- - | mony, we baye needed no stale poetical quotations to remind us that the “ex- ‘Cupid in the Phonograph ‘“g ‘ge ™~ z Monday The World told the story of Grace Mover, : cellent thing in woman” O a Breoklyn school teacher who located a reoreant| of charms. = 3 hubsand by fecognizing his beautiful tenor voloe tn a slot-machine phonograph, and thereby tracking him to ‘hia lair, Yesterday tt printed a more remarkable tale of a young man in Jersey City who purchased e phonograpbic jong record and fell in love with the unknown owner of the soprano voice recorded on {t. Seeking out the dealer jomn_he_had_made the purchase, he was B by him to the fair originator of the plaintive inquiry “Witt | bg SYou Love Me In December as You Da in May?" proposed | voice. He ‘nix more music In the traine = owedding... gift to. the —bride|.4irl.To me the Amez s A woman's soft voice ts charming number!’ {t ts ons of the emall Joys other end, nx one often Is, that ne AL St. isan esse and -n carelessness famillariiy and “good {ellowahip: with for the heart of man. there cre na many good | ey 5p has_gones ; vhile=th fetes Pervasive! while tt MSG 5 COVE EE BCEAO asrocen oe hatewareai lel reses shor 1¢. Bo why not treat ear eta just as politely end|{™® G80 are necessaries in many the. good. eieewatnn ‘Kore are | NMC to-day. The people's tuste has Y r oN been “Improved and demand. e treated? FWICE BOY NO. 2 manda. more 2 Che ce) costly things. ‘This makes a housewite Wo Geed Resolutions for lilm! fuure more closely tian ever. A.M. We the Wastor of The Bening Word. Smoking in Public. Now Year's resolixions aro the fo0lr | Tp the Editor of The Evening World fehest as well. as” the moat hurtful | —Why i It the managers of eo man} things on ‘record. They ‘are foolish, | places of amusement alow mene hecause if-one means to give up a bad) smoke during the’ performances? ‘The habit he can do it without framing ajair becomes filled with smoke Cony —formal—resolution about tt, ‘They aro} them that smokirig. _ hurtful because it always: damagen | offens! 9 ladies? le 1not One's self-respect, asclf-confiderice and | one me the other evening who be future moral stamina to break one’s| came faint and hia to be taken out mora to one’a self. Let’a “call in’ the | Cannot the men keep from smoktrig for resolution habit. - nce? Look, too, at the danger trom COLUMBIA SENIOR. | fire. K What Countryt Spare the Rod, T of The Evening Wor fo the Editor of The Evening Word: | ranavenlercrien. Tuan Here in a rather Interesting poser for | sineway) oy students of geography: Waatscountry is found in Mes directly under Now York state by | (j.¥° found in Girect, line through centre of the earth! (00 77% OF trap GR TT at vo that-at Umes chiidren live tet The New York Nechive, * } be punislieg but parents sould us (fo the Editor of The Evening World |rod -imoderately, espeasully on girls “UI the ‘Recording’ Angel ever noars| Many a girl hay loft home simpli toyer New York City what rights sha couse her parents have spanked must see. Teoming millions penned | otlierWise Ul-treated her. Children {ike cattle in the stockyants (only the | pecially girls, derive no good reauite Mwattle aro killed quicker), whlle re- | fom togging, 8. E. B, @pectable corporate monopolistic vul- How Loug Ie tte ¢ ures hoyer over them and gorge o Whetr necessities. Mothers, somo ‘of K€. World: very case that played an tmportant Ife of the runaway: the | P@erwear for themselves and the! Wren, are lectured on tho evt : “You will see ‘son t was «Ue ler ONE HELL THKE 0.4, . DON'T. WOULONT Tis JAR, YOU- HER GIVIN? ME THIS CIGARETTE HOLO ONT SHOKE IN KERE. CO OUT ON THE Hints from the House Horrible; or, How to— < LOPEMENTS . Ny Ws OM iy SS S Raa SHE SENT STE AWAY Oty TO SMOKE — WhOWE WOMEN TAKE QUEER OY THERE olihg {a indeed the moat effective weapon in her hglgarmory Tecelver to our ears and expecting the usual quick strident “What's your “There ts sweet music here that softer falls petals of blown rosi “Henry James has written recently, and disparagingly, of the American woman about educated-American apeech that Indicate a h utterance docs not exhibit We use our excellent English as pve do our good clothes, ina free and easy way™that alows wo are accustomed to Mt. It 1s of course an outrage on establinhed belief to say no, but tho most charming voices 1 have ever heart belonged to American women, And the voice, va Lheve sald before, and others have said before ime, ! 7? COME AND-, her. He ylelded; and the telephone apparatus as well as his luggnge was shipped to “hin by he next train, = 5 - a7 ~~ -Butonly half the battle Was won. Before the-telephone conld be ex-—~ hibited a committee must pass on {ts merits. 1t was Iate in the afternoon when the tired committeomen reached the Rell tnvention...They.were-on- the point of deciding sucha toy did not deservo a place in so dignitied-an Exposition when Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, chanced to wander into | the gommittee room. The Emperor rushed over to Bell, shook hands ef-— Ny with him and asked a number. of questions concerning the tele- | phone, which he had ecen tested during a recent visit to Boston. He went. on to instst that Bell let him talk through {t at once. Accortingly, po- tenate and Inventor shouted Hnes_of Shakespeare back-and forth to each othor across a ilmited stretch of wire untll the former was tired of the plaything. 5 i = ‘ < The tmpertal approval had turned tho tide of fortune for Alexander Hell, The committee promptly decided that a contrivance which conld so de- a y Mght a real live Emperor wae worthy of putting be-#* @ ni ror Ti fore the—public. —The—telephone- was accepted and Emperorglurna { attracted muliftudes of eager yisltors throughout * Fortune's Scale the course of the Centennial. But before Bell could ‘» | ‘put {t- to practical use a number of cther men claimed credit for sim{iar inventions, and for years the fight waged in the courte...At longth Bell won. It was sald at one timo that ha cave Miss Hubbard, as a wedding prosent when she married him, the royalty-rights on the telephone. These rights, of course, have accumulated to a fabu- joussum. _ tr, = Z 7 i Z bs iti ‘Apart from this great device Bell invented the graphophone and in‘ 1880 the photophone, au instrument for reproducing and recording speech by ‘i ight vibrations Instead of by wire. This apparatus has been made to carry }+ 7-7 — sound’ 700 feet, but is not yet in practical use. ix Despite the wealth his Inventions have brought him Prof. Rell still _de-~ = a yotes himself to the welfare, etic Loand advancement: of deaf mutes, z whose former pitiable condition he has improved as vastly as his more manne famota-device-has-eniarged-the seope-of- the humalt votre By Nixola Grecley-Smith.| jeaits the world owes the Bell telephone yo cola _Greclcy- resto etter women. paring « wonove| TG FAMOUS Women in Make-Believe History — of Mfe to’ be reminded by the voice at the By Margaret Rohe. 7 S Y¥__eodnese! nal —chide: peavishly swt Le “MI jose-girla never _get-enapgh to rat? This athe 2 7 tonth Job lot of ‘ot cakes I've slid out and they‘re clamosiig for (bere ‘They must te hollow downs to their, heels. If T Jean over this gaa stove much longer, I'll gat} the pends, thr-saine_as_a_turmet-worker.* \ Little cared Cinderella's half sister for her woes. Deng + — stepechlid, she had to do the kitchen-mechanical work, / when much rather would she have trod a measure with * Danny Ryan at the ball of the Timothy J- Doolican Asso: — tat Tammany Hall, ayo 5 yt Sid is your lot! i sinters had to ‘breakfant a iairy qulck-lunch magnates, low he amacked { ain Qapiecka! How he went after the sausage! How Se smeared that New Orleans contralto utterance of the Fnglis! jn good.at all, ta far incre pleasing. There the language that the more trained and Cup!d's deadilest enare 5 xg By Jean Mohr. “1 did,” sald both slaters in a breath, perceiving (hat the provendeF haa> Pleased the Prince. And by Ua Ens wer to knew—cach—had—torgotten—the—— Ninth Commandment. anil a quite A TOU AB to the truth, ‘Inderells, Uke tho irl nhe Was, had been listening hersolf. COME ROMY} = EOP GACH. — ‘ cakes! Then he-amked: “Wiloh of you — Bes (NEATLY WITH [ers : oo = wBol' said the Prince, »y are juat Hke mother used to make, Why do they call you Cinderella, my ‘Because that ie my vinme” tJumt Hike Oi ‘and’ Wien witdnd, We alone, -toroatt time - "Tt ustenel proposal,’ breathed the fair girl, with downcast eyes, OPetterveven-than that: said the Prince. "I-want you to cook for me in the” window of my principal restaurant Ive you a whits cap and a ble cake shovel, and advertise you on the eclovated stations. Lt oughtn’t to be long before you make Phoebe Snow look like a quitter.’ + ; sald Cinderella, salty, aid Ue deal was made ‘And if pase the principal restaurant controlled by the Prince of Quick-_ Lunchers, you are sure to aco ttle Cindy engaged !f tossing the cakea thad make the quick lunch famous, She has a good job, money in tho savings bank and tho esteem of her customers. ‘As for the wicked sisters, they have toveat what a Bwedish cook, with'y rudimentary ideas of cuisinelng, ets before them, and are rapidly succumbing to indigestion, . ‘Thia beautiful romance teaches us that the way to success [les through the kitchen, ta \. Wifie’s Bills and the Law. ; By Walter A. Sinclair. 66 NE needn't : ay his wife's bills,’’ the French court has decreed. The modxtes should remiember when the limits they exceed, ‘The old-man-gets his rights at Inst. "Twas long {n coming. Still, He's mighty glad to know that he won't have to foot that dill. ‘The verdict came in timely, Just as Now Year's came sround— That glad and festive season when those awful bills abound 3 Cindereiia, whe had awit ef her own. id the Prince, laughing heartily, Hapjacka for-me,-and tor. N'HER 50 DOWN MTeoR SOTIONS-/ WONDER The schome the Judge suggested ought to work out very slick; : ! Just put ttup to hubby when he tries tw buy ‘on tick." ve m For instance, when the butcher has a pound of sausage weighed, ee Born Diplomat. Wise Precaution. | Itemized Bill. | Grab It Quick! He'll baye to call up bibby dear, and have the bill “O, K.'d-~— i N iba spenlyeniodectaten teestiindien | soa"tecestnteerei ther pat | M‘i LANGTRY sald -of-the un! (\PPORTUNITY knocked. aye, ham-| She'll have to met pa'e permit when she buys a spool of ilk, * hervant of the Inte Lord Dufterin, | hutidings, One-day one Of the ona ooweanatrueders insures a RTS cee iiea kth The payer-now must sunction ere they “trust” a quart of milk, : the edge! when he was Viceroy of India. “We what sort of sport tins Lord Blank ha e| servant, English aiid Lord Dufferin, one day to hin 1 nded a you shooting excursion scrupulously polite Providence waa very merciful to ee the birda’ i’ young wahib ahot divinely. | My caught fire and the extinguishers | ton $ to do thelr work. A few dava rules, had been put to het a ng in America: ON ci er ow all 1 have to do ty to 9m! pho man behind the pocketbook no more will have the chills? in fame. and fortuna” No more will he be rudely shogked by unexpected bills? rs fF at the tawh mecoting some clu-! ine of that lawyers bill which is some- f 13 Wyeth , ren he \paused and. began golng f trled to! Je: he quoted) to show what a lawyer, web a. Dusineas directory. He'll know ebout it from thestart ond suffer thrive as’ mych, had’ freely 18 b lon't remember have to xo to a photograph gal- va one of them sald: "M r ut aa wer ocauiet, lery and Ket a good. picture of m pele, As from the time of purchasing he thinks about the toneh, fe “ "To waking up in the night and! ¢ in the nowsonpera. when 1 be- ake ne Moon at Thinking “about “your: case, $740. Tol SomeMactoses omni tore ning with you after the casa was 9 famous,” he muttored. Don't think the French judge changed the game, Nix{ Not‘upon your Him 4 lty paswed on and never! ye takes more than a mere mam Judge to handicap a. wite, :

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