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World’s Daily Magazine, Thursday, January 10, 1907. lS She Haeeiiorld “ (eabiished ; Pi New York. by the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to 3 Park Row, er Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. NO, 16,578. a THE 3-CENT VICTORY. For their prompt acceptance of lThe Evening World's advice the Rapid Transit Commission and Mayor McClellan « deserve great credit. In-the face of the B. R. T.’s powerful pressure foran elevated loop between the Willkimsburg and “the olf Brooklyn Bridge and the rine for the—c double five cents. for interborough travel, the Rapid Transit Commis : sion’s action is directly in favor of egies (Che ‘Evening World's long-continued: fight for interborough subways “pnd a three-cent fare. poste sige cH -‘The route 1s already laid out. Proposals for the construction wil once be advertised: Mr. McDonald has staked his contracting repu- tation’ that the new subway can be built within three years at a cost of Mot over'$12,500,000. ‘AS soon ‘as this‘ subway ts in operation all that: populous nelghbor- d in Brooklyn lying between and adjacent to Flatbush avenue, Fulton ‘Lafayette and Bedford avenues and the East River can be carried all_parts of Manhattan Islmd“below Delancey street for three cents. Instead of two five-cent fares to the South Ferry or to the downtown bullding-acighborhood there will be ‘ane three-cent fare. } ‘This means a valuable saving to everybody living in this extensive of Brooklyn who is employed in downtown New York. At the = -estimate it js four cents a day, or over $12 a year, Based ona a ‘Matty round trip of only 100,000 people, it is a’ saving of $1,200,000 ‘annum. In fact, the volume of travel would be several times as large “the “saving correspondingly great- —Most-of ~all-the “saving woukt to those who need -it-most—the-clerks,-officeboys, typewriters, rs, laborers and other employees of small means who live in Brook- because rents are lower there. Further than this, the. benefit will extend far out on Long Istand: Living along the line ‘of the Long Island Railroad is now too expensive -for people of small means employed on Manhattan Island, because, in spiitsition-to-the-commutution;-they -have-to-pay-every week day at least. two-and often: four-five-cent-street-car fares. This interborough-subway. sy access to the main Brooklyn station-of the-Long tstand-Rail- aoad and puts it within the three-cent distance of lower Broadway and the office-building neighborhood. —The-openingof_this subway should be followed by an exodus of © population from the crowded east side tenement neighborhoods adjacent 4 >fo the Williamsburg and-Manhattan Bridge approaches. These people fares twice-a day were beyond their resources. The reduction of fare itherto afford to live in the ‘distant boroughs because-two-car]- That Po l By J. Campbell > qwill enable them to vacate thelr crowded and unsanitary quarters, which vill necessarily reduce tenement-house rents on Manhattan Island. __ The Rapid Transit Commission should be also highly commended —for-not-combining-the contract for. operation with the-contract-for-con- _ Building a subway is as distinct from operating a railroad in dt as is the building of a factory and the manufacture of boots and shoes or pie plates in the completed building. \ The contract for operation should be such'that a passenger by the | payment of an additional two cents shall have a transfer over either Fie Bronx, whose three-<cént fare would wring the water out of the capi- -of cast side elevated roads;-another-spurto- Long Island-City- h-would-empty Mr; Betmont's iiiegaltunnel, and-a-third-spur-to (Coney Island, which would be even more effective than an_amendment bf the law in remedying the trick in the rattroad-taw-tevisionon-which Court of Appeals has felt bound to sustain the ten-ceni Coney:Island see This great’ victory won by The Byening World's persistent and Peithful voicing of puolic opinion should be followed up_until from any ~ paint fn any borough In New York City to any point in any other hor- =pligh-any passenger canbe promptly and comfortably transported for So enree cents. : : ae The ‘people “are-greater than wD traction trinity. Letters from the People. es Insomnia. “snifbe recent co The: Brening op sinking of < gpecaiis to one's mind tt alépnis which have @uring the past few years, Yagitho ferryboats occasional sha splemn warning Buide be a@An-nothing be a i | of overcoming a8 One | drede fo spun se iit h Dun will us 5 of 1_want a mea Immediately Ido get to p world and c: ‘Mow Many Combinations? ot ¥ Fdlter of how n: Be adors, In ‘Lhin Che Japanene Ident read from the foll ‘© the BAltor of The Hipning cach ume at the central verhapa it is not "yh and reading th all dire Engltsh (abye all, ¢ Eig and every! other way) ) ts of such great Imports corners, Who can my to Japan has committed heraee Gpatical solution of the n t 6 for the same goal of civ! dione? i Western ni DLNOWGNINGWORLD {tt Japan, I th aE Ae a Deena tan ‘a for the frat pLROWGNININGWORL mediate a Row an? GWwoR Bho knowa that “Ow GN © {t ta but framowork | owed; that the ven that language itse! rou medl AM thhaue re young DLROWGNINGWORLD | era tiaren D, MAG, CALLUAL rail WE WANT THE > RECOUNTIN CONTRACT a wh atti Y i) M7 {} WO itical Purity May Prevail. Cory. ~ uplifting the B. R. T, or the Interborough-Metropolitan systems, If these monopo- | new woman elviltzat swill not assent to these terms the city should build a north spur to be permitted to serve as the crown. of woman's eZort, as she has served hitherto without a redeeming man. RS. MARY F, HAYDEN, of Chicago, has concluded | %8 his rewar Vie purchase of fifty thousand Refusts County, Texas, which she purposes_to use 4s a colony for women exclusively. The colonists af the Adamless Eden are, expected to move in in February, and thereat ence of man mill reign on that Texas ranch, This will be the first time since the fabled days of the Amazona that so extenstve a colony of women has been M sttampted- Our present civilization, snonts, fa diatinetly man-made wbrow up from: the dust. wit tts wonderful In-Texas woman whl have 4 chance to begin all over again and show what she can do. 4a doubtful, however, {f man would not ati be aj taboos, and the gentle bond: created between sinter souls by recalling the ronved, Contented care-awelter tad tt not been for the! attractions and anyings of a_particular: man Jenawn to each tn the paat will not inspiration of the woman for’ whom he worked | be possible. What ‘a to be the Inspiration of the ucres of tand in unmanned women th admit the Inevitably turns out The T: ter buss unalloyed by the Inds iS is ucthitere-[onslider f teacups? Tow long subjects aa Interesting as “BMl" and —‘Jack" and — war By-Nixola~ Greeley-Smith- Il the colony Jast, do you think? “In Its present unamended and condition I doubt if ft-even gets started. Whatever we aa men and nink of each other‘in tho moments untouched by romance, we must truth of the too-much-quoted Tennysonian statement that we are ea sot together as “perfect music unto noble words,” even If the music to be ragtime and the words ale made to matoh. ‘exas_exporiment will be totereating as showing just how much..of. woman's beauty and attractiveness are due to the presence ofman. Will the of the Refugis colony ever dresa for dinnor, ever curl thelr halr or have menicured? t worth while to prepare and~ ext a3 Will they—and this probably ts_more imporant—2ver re healt IER) has Quid larry"? to discuss over the Man's presence being exeiuded, I should say his memory will be equally The Adamless Eden will not Inst, for what ts Eden without Adam—a “wildor- lon In Texas? Man has been ruled out. M{o will not evenness without an oasts, x day without suniiqht—oh, just.a plain colony of women If YOU Had_a Wife Like-This. 2 2 2 —# byF_c.tong HENRY PECK! D0 You REALIZE “THAT WE-ARE SURELY COMING. AIRSHIPS ® WHY DON'T” To WORK AND INVE) SOMETHING ¢ THERES CIERPS OF PIOMEY INIT. Ive HAO THAP IN. AY MIND SOME TIME HENRIETTA To THE PRACTICAL USE oF Don'r You PUT YouR BRAN, I TATHE_ PROBLEM. rT. LF- SS LPLEASANT..SU HE PAYS FUPY OFTHE. FLIGHT -OF. CANARY BIRDS. VCONVINCES ME THAT I-HAVE SOLVED wiht BE A. IRPRISE FOR_ \HENKIETTA: Lift hal You CRAZY 1010T WHAT ARE You TRYING TQ,00 WITH THAT GRASSS, Look HERE, HENRY.PECK! 17 SERVES YoU RIGHT FOR BEING SUCH A Fool AS TO TRY To FLY! IF-WALKING ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR You, You \MUGHT: TRY § THESE ROLLER SKATES. WHERE'S MY “ CANARY. BIRD ELECTIO elt Hfe—On Ui ance tn’ bo things they .say ebaolitely \rue.—Plak-Me-Up, eae N this braiat' AN INFERNAL MACHINE, here paper says that a} Magistrate to stubborn prisonor—| first Bachelor—Let's ask Lamb, Io's received mn Infernal mas} Answer me plainiy—are you gullty or] married and will be able to speak from | infernal machine" | not guilty? ; experience, i noblla of 40-horse~power} WHAT WAS HE THERE. FOR, Prisoner—What do they pay you for If drivem by a! fool with a 40-Jackess-power you can't find that out for yourself?— / @implicissimus, cs THE USUAL EFFECT, Gecond Bachelor—On the contrary, he'll keep his mouth ehut from experl- enoe,—Mespendorfer Blactter, ay MAKING A START IN LIFE. Electrical Engineer * * Chef * * Broker * * Locomotive Engineer z Plumber Salesman WHAT WOULD i Lawyer & * Destener + Detective * x A Series of Anthentio Guides to Those Who Wish to Select @' Career, Giving Information Concerning Qualifications, Opportunities, Earnings, &e., In the Different Trades and Professions. By T. O.. McGill. THE TRAINED NURSE. AINED NURSE—One who laa been sctentincatty* —— trained to care for the ie and helpless. rt & Ago.—One may begin the work of equipping for thef career of a trained nurse at twenty-one years, but the majority of institutions that train men and women to be nurses do not accept novitiates who are under twenty-three That many girls begin the work at & musty! o- true. They m tnto-the work and sat the requirements as, to age the same as boys mus into the army during. the yar Compensation.—Few institulions pay a # E more thin $10 month, and board and lodging; during the @ atudent may recgive fa high as $16.a monthiand board an@ diploma or one who has a standing ns a trained nurse} to $0 a ‘week and [: Probationary period lodging. A nurse w Receives from $20 tases, alg ‘Hours of Labor,—In places ike -hospitals-and cha {son duty twelve hours wt day, with nn hour and a demands of the work on hand, In private work a nurse may hav pup fora full day at e.atretch in the earlfer stages of a dinense — Duties.—A trained nurse of to-day 1s practically an assistant pi wha Fives medicine to the si¢k in her charge and who looks to the comfort an@ conUnuous wants of a sick person. Aside from the duties of nurse as come monty-accepted, a nurse of to-day must: be-profictent in-the-exact- scence} ventilation, bactil relation and with auch of the whims of m patient as it tet helpful to indulge o y 1 trained nurse requires; fitst, a sound constitew ton and powers of endurance; second, a professional tralning extending ovew$ (three “yeura. A common school education at the beginning ls predicated. A severe physical examination must be passed by every candidate. I than a man. The demand for women nurses ts about a hundred to one as compared with the demand for men. Here and there a patient ts found ¥ will have only a man nurse, and In cases of violent patients men are necossdry, Fbut they are in many cases no more than high-class personal attendants. reward ts not sufficient to nttract men to go through the prell! necessary to be a nurse, The man who starts to become a nurse u: ‘at once to be a phynician. rt ‘The demand for nurses 1s-tess-by—tar-than-the supply. Each"tnatttution-thag) trains nurses always has an excess of applications over the places to Mil. The person who wants|to start in the work of a nurse must go well recommended by some well-known citizen or be unusually well equipped physically, mentally, and with plenty of real enthusiasm. as Ittwthe history of every-traintng echool tor nurses that many girs cronse@} in love or moved by romance apply Tor places, wi: idea of A career as nurse t is soothing fevered brows and keeping their pretty “caps on straight, As_a_matter_of fact no-schdal of tratnisi¢ (s tess romuntle than a tral ; school for nurses. An applicant who has passed the examination as to phyat fitness, common education-and <n Serie AAU fa Very tn TtAnt, end can > z questioned As to.their past Hfo—? ts to enter the Instiwution ard work tn tay, gard, Tho wark given them to do {x not calculated ta foster-any-romantis ders: —3f-tlelrentiniaidam out: Kix weeks of the novitiate term where they see ang@a yan Over Ree I Equipment. -To be } ) HE. career of a trained nurse offera infinitely more advantages to a wa: idates are closely att : 2 experience the worst th given a cap and parsed on to Hghter and In about. nlx om f tures on the phar tera Into the probationary —f where lgresting” cases, and may a Uissecting lectures, rom time to timo. there exam!nations end of three years a stuteat has p: awarded, after whidh the holder of places from which nurses are vit and begin to reap financial reward. The hospitals that have finely equipped training schools for nurses tn New, Tork City ot PreeteptontenFenmevait Ft —letaite' a, tew Vark,. pera F and Bellevue. Any one desiring to enter these schools must address the Bupere intemtent-of the Trs Oo) f1 Nurses_attached to each. orntey, M.D. well-known in diagnosmy Way Uf a-career usa nuree: owed No Place tor T Romance nh may go out on private wore! Work, The Career © ‘ i ho_career_of a_nuree does not _ofer much to gl a Nurse, negative tem her enthus! & {. rument, To the woman ®ha can retat Y, m St ts, however,-one of the surest pure{” ' if shoe has confidence in herself and 1s independent of new, It offers placea of !mportance {n the public Institutions where technical and executive ability are needed tn chargo of departments, and aa Bre protected in the case of Municipal, State and Federal institutions by Qyit | Service. “Private practice ta remunerative if a nurse {s not too particular as to the: | Kind "Of capes who wil accept. “I have tn’ mind one: girl-who saved $1,200: in-twa years from her earnings as a nurse, but she was willing to (fake any case to Ved, ed att tase baton reeitn—the-tea—veare. Threw ane ter-€ witty worked alt monihe of the year and when she indrrled a ‘patlent™ she was able to spend a thousand dollars on her trousseau, whith sho had soved jin fouryenrs from. the time.of receiving Uiploma, These, are perhaps, exe) cepUlonal cases, but when -a woman dats gone throu the student” period ang} — hos become a first-class nurse sho ls an Important frisiltution. I would ratnes | — | Nave-acouple of nursesauch os Miss Maxwell, eroduntes fromthe Pressyte Hoepital, pnescriba for mein aniilness than a medioero M. De i “Inthe -caresr of-g-nure ttle very mucha cage of the #ury: the | Attost, for ‘pull won't help a nurse {n private practico uniess her lot fault fn unusual places." > ‘ ‘ "A woman-beginning a -earearcas-a wurse has to be careful to avola— =a | cliques and patty intrig toh are prevalent In the Institations where nuraad re 3 ate > a a Ti . The history shoots for Huraes shows @hag « there Ix more danger from petty Intrizue and corridon } ¢ } t scandal thai there isin qny of the diseases they>huvet +4——Scandal_ ——-to-contend-wiltt and theteadaof thase places say thag 1 % a woman who hax the!montal dalance to get throug thin danger-eafcty WH ever lose a pationt through lack of-tact. — + Just now the several training schools attached to the city Inatitutions om _ Avoid. Corrids i t | Blackwell's and Randall's Islands are recruiting from Canada, where strong, | nerveless, unemotional girls come from the farms, and after a course in the | achoota, go tothe elty inst ‘na that have sick, and work Ike men for wnat {_. [to them ts-a fine compensation, but which a New-Tork-trained girl-turng up | her noso at. | Registered nurres from public tnatitutlona, who are plentihil, are preferred by physicianna to tratned nurses turned out by private schools or sanitartuma, \Phe former haye a more extensive expestence, and therefor thelr mentality, and endurance have been more satisfactorily tested, f —et< Science Discovers New Garments. UFFICIONT attention has been directed toward the warmth generated in the { body by paper vests (o demonstrate tho fact that there Is reason for seriow § conslleration of paper-garmont manufacture. ‘There have been for some | thme past vests mado of paper; also cuffs, collars, shirt bosoms, &c,, but it haa, rematned for a firm In Saxony to spin narrow strips of paper and catton ins. finished fabrics of common use, says Dry Goods. Paper and cotton and pages | ‘and wool are so combined that serviceable outing sults, Jackets, skirts and many other articles of dress wear are now belng produced.: The new textile, if 60 may be called, {8 cream-colored, and may be washed repeated!) without tnjuring ; the surface, and in marketed for a ridiculously amall price. SuMclent xylolin, as | It $s called, ta produce a complete plain sult oosta but two or three dollars, | Doubtlesa a meanx wii! soon be found by which the giner fabrics may be repro.” duced throvgh the use of paper, to which end oumerous inventors are now at work. ' ——— of Rainmaking by Absent Treatment, ‘ EAR rice waa the omer of the day for some months this fall at the walled { D city of Yunnan," rites a correspondent from «southwestern province of China, “Planting in the paddy folds was prevented by lack of rad and the price went up to 12 taels a teo, that Im, to 10 cents a pound. Ait the usial | | methods wera tried to bring down tho rains. The Viceroy went so far as to ii n the year care ¢ the gods to take ten years off hts Mo If he wore the cause of the drought. He Jalvo pait a large sum of monty to the Mobanmedan thulinhs that they mighe | doin in the dally prayers for ruin, At last the Hest rainy reason in and/put the people of the province in a good mood."