The evening world. Newspaper, January 11, 1907, Page 16

5 NO, 16,579 The Evening World has received 3 valued communication from thes United Retail Grocers’ Association of Brooklyn, which says‘in part: y ‘Your article printed’ In the evening editton, Dec.—27, on dishonestscales eo eats ert man, and onaash the entire United States, “The United Fetal’ Grocers’ Association’ of Brooklyn, which advocates Pure Food only with “honest weight-andtegal-measutée has been keeping up the fight, not only to have ~~ honest scales and honest weight, but to have all. package goods marked what the -——-tngredients are and {he net weight of the goods, also to baye the quality and +. “grade of every commodity, sold in bulk Or. by the pound -or-measure-put-on “wrapping paper or can or bottle. — - ; > Then the consumer will know If he or she !s buying the pure, unadulterated article. >. f = «Every family shoufd haye-a scales and measure. 5 This will make honest competition wheré quality, honesty and economy in doing business will bring results. ‘ Beery citizen should hetp the grocers’ associations throughout the United ~ ©, States in assisting the National Retail Grocers’ Association in this fight. se With pure food and honest weight and legal measuré, every person will get r's value for one hundred cents. e TIES a Sad state “OF trade iar a targe proportign-of=the-procers “anc: butchers do not give honest weight and pure quality. It would be dis- Rraceful, as well as deplorable, did not all associations of reputable retail &rocers and butchers feel the same way as do the officers of the Brooklyn ado! © Association, whose sterling views are pritiled above. One dishonest grocer with crooked -scaies-and-adulterated_goods-can ‘emoralize the trade of a large neighborhood, Housewives are attracted by-his lower prices. They have no facilities for chemically analyzing the goods they buy, and they‘do not even go to the slight expense of a sei of household scales, that they may test the weights. ~~~ Fhree ounces shortage-in-2-pound—and-many-crooked-scales-stcal. =--more-than-this—enables a-reduiction of- five cents a pound on butter anda ___half cent a pound on sugar with an increased profit. “If dishonest dealers were labelled and adulterated goods. were marked] i eemaciormerercrere 4 ~=for-what-they-are, little harm-would be done. Everybody who wanted a “mixture of chicory and coffez,-or-tearand dried tree teayes,-or-butter and beef tallow, or lard and suet, would be free to suit their taste. _ The worst effect of this form of dishonesty is that it prevents fair competition and: compels dishonesty on the part of other butchers ang _Rtocers who would rather do what is right. Most men are naturally hon- est until honesty ‘ceases to be profitably possible, The breeding of dis. bonestyis-of- greater harm to the community than the drinking of =chicory “for coffee, the use -of- tallow for lard,-and -aniliné-dyes~ and glucose instead of wholesome-fruit-jellies and—jams,—__— s _ Every housewife owes the duty to herself and her family to co- "operate with the refail grocers’ associations. For tie tirst” step tether ~buy-a-pair-of ‘scates:and-have thenrtested-by the City-Bureaw of-Weight: ~amd-Meastires.—-Fhen -when-her-scates-and-her-grocer's-or-butcher's-serle- show an appreciable discrepancy, let her notify the Grocers’ Asscciatior ‘end the City Bureau and see that the dishonest man either ceases his trickery or goes out of business. The remedy is easy, and the saving in both health and purse -woulc be great. : __Letters from the Peop le. ve no one a cent. of people geting along with dit Ity on $18 and #0 per week, Le 1 Rad that sch should not know my. self, J would Mke those $18 and $0 week people to see the nwe little suD- pers I make all out of © a month, Of Course It In hard thng we cannat pal’ mway an: ik tO epeak of for a rainy” day, t Ave try and-do-the best t can, do.-hetter -I-ahall—be about it, ‘For Drooklyn Subway. ~ Christmas, 1 Ge the Editar of Tho “Brentne Wards a Why not connect the Battery tunnel fc swith-the-Porty-secomt-street-tannel?—} Suggest the following routes: Route 1— Flatbush avenue and Eastern Parkway to Kast New York loop, making that a centre of distribution to all lines of the = Brooklyn "L.""~ Route 2—Queens Brandi trom Bast New York loop, partly follow =stng-the-course. of tife-Long-Isiand tail “[roud, td Metropotitan-avenue, connect: ink there with the Mprile averiin Te" Thar | continuing: down Metropolitan -avenue with @ apur_to (a) WiWamabure Bridge, | N@ Tlecnse Needed th New Yort (b) “via Greenpoint to Forty-second | To the Faitor of The Evening Wort “elreet terminal, “Houte 3=From Metro- Polltan avenue terminal of the Myrtle avenue “L,"" via Winfleld “wwelt's Ininnt—Hritge, and Forty-second street tunnel, Rout Fouttn avenue line, Bay Ridge er. town, connecting. with the Brooklyn “ crossing same. W. T, FERGUSO: = ~itegents’ Exauination. othe Edlter of The Evening The Evening World's artic’ which profession a young m @hoose have interested me ye @nd have led me to write ask! “can bos: prepare for a exec amination. I coud only attend even Claasea, ” PHOW, 2 Communicate with the Secretn “the Blate Board of Cure for $ To the Editor of The Evening v i} Having read) many compla'inis of Ceeplensness, I desire to submit what I have reason to believe ls a very ga DoT lave to kscUfe a Hiente-in tht p State (New York) to be marriel? to Glack=! PIAZZA RE to-+ t | The Eyeting Word: | tdge suggestion: To butlé | ® large moving platform In the spac upledhy the bridge teama nn it no an to make It is of we ther. Tila ww ninal with | hold the Crowd and-apace for more nto bulld a large tere cars and udway—clear tbw cure. Go to bed ant do pn) yY hard to I wonder more. pe Bet to sleep, but Just 1 you wilt | © At thigperilous snot. | The woon find yourself in dreamland to be! foreed to and to . Nhs been found very suceensful to n pas s. Also, ‘ effort, and worry In try to cause wakefulness. A passivo tends to sleep. HJ. 8. On 850 a Month, ‘Te the Estitor of The Evening Wor ord P 5 I only «et £0 per m and I keep i © Yery xood table with plenty of good! food. 1 pay $12 per month rent and buy | our clothe pay for the co mul and Jauniry (¥, Mke m Look Out t for the Grip, . | {The Byentrs World Tt ise hls unbleasant al sta the Beason Ras ar of wire, only look out not to expose fwould Ike to go to some phice {to wold, over-fatigne or tat Amusement. with my husband in t and 1f on vwa rigidly all evening at times, but of course we c not afford it “Yet f manage at, times If everybody would do would be no grip lete In to no to a matiner, I save $3 per month | Am ‘4a by this time next year, It is In case of sickness, I managed to send | worth a try, readers. glsn’t {t? few dollars gh my old mother: at ) A ULMER, SVS * i} January iis 1907. By J. Campbell Cory. Thin Ice. (| AINT. Got No SKATES Daily Maga zine, Frid ay . stroke her sha. you tove me? Uon and loo! dea of Emerson's: lowe ts cot. in you, and slot not DB). you whom you ad features, for Just then an tangible anayer, you aro yor ean-never k The Radiance of Those We Love Johor sh Ir, and frequently ahe ask Whenever she put. p ely with her oves of but ently your will 11s ow. but above that in you tt-is—not-an—n ciasic Contours oftentimes nay chance, occasionally repalant Nut neema to bo the outwanl glenm of some innate, ethereal glory, ‘ubjugatea one from tha beginning—before are spoken those primal words, that | ‘resage kindred sympathies and lea Helen the Instant 1-frst naw ber. harm she herself has no conception, and {f I try T felt this radiant tof je;-ehe dloés not comprehend me. ature. She alts. here nightly in \den_tresses I totd her once petrol tk—etranch ‘ounly replied: al Krie Tus—z0—eett vfairy's spinning wheel," tut thelr: gold glint thrilla ma. ¥, dear, you used to like my hair becanse you thought| Ore timeyou sas It worn‘t hatroat wl, but fax trom a mun Tor to undermanding, This brittency my quiet atints Tho fArelt fo it Jn," T gravely answered, and gently pressed my Ips upon It, Helen cannct understand my admiration for her hands. She holds them up!Chicago Tribune. this-now. fom Lrevall each Ume those discerning lines this spiritual effulgenos of those | her shines -torth -from-eyeny reasoa why I Jove to Jook upon them wan| Sha was deeply hurt | ves-are_dlended. 1} "Why fs tt that aiNar_ques~ find bi I tel! her tiribnte-of parts Aare cold, and, it Ita influence {when her years will nui wht giitters on her It’s a Foolish World, After All!” FROM NOW. ON IM : GOING “To. SMOKE ONLY ON! A DAY! ONE AN MORE! GREAT GUNS! | MORE CIGARS! WHAT BDO Nou E CIGAR vust D--NO FRom JAKE! AND 1 CAN ONLY. PACKAGE , Boss! THINK OF THAT 2 oy A SALE ON CIGARS AT SNACKSES AND L BouvcnT You TWO » DEAR! [her how that can be true—her grow! HERE'S" A PACKAGE FOR. T amfle and ask | carbled misstatement on ihe part of a faise! ae ~~ By Robert W, Mallaby n dreama with moe these winter evenings for critical inspectfon and cays, with nalve deprecation: “They are not white, | before the glowing embers In the grate our thoughts nor small and tapering—not pretty hands ike Marjorte’ diverge, perhaps, yet are confined within the pounds} T tell her Tam glad that they are different, and trace for her her own hands’ Of -that-love-wevee: Web in ws curving outlines, portraying-—Unelr rounded grace, thelr atrength and asymmetry. T assure her that their touch {s like the balm which flows from angel fingers, but ahe shakes her head, with dubious sadness, and says she does not believe me. THerveyes airuKe a wondrous radiance. sictee reflected hr w-meattsin-deke.. They ohange with every mood that passes. fT love you, what fa that to you? What [| Pensive, now sid, theo bright with sudden merriment, Sometimes, an happened It ts the radiance of | Yesterday, If by a thoughtless word I wound her groat crystal, tears llc quivering which you know ; SN her lashes, to-fatt-upon-her cheeks ke April_raindrops. Quite rarelhdor Toknow it tx-a dangerous exper|ment—I-eross her wilfully: in some small matter that I may watch the storm clouds on her brow and req hereyee Mosh thunderbolta In outraged majesty! Then 1 am-overcome by-qulck | contrition. I take her, struggling, Im my arms and plead, “I'm sorry! until at ment partot-visuat beauty, tast whe taintty smies-egetn-and-thon I knox she has forgiven,” sieoenand Helen laments that sho ts growing old, She dreads ‘her-¢omihg birthday, | coritats r the grave sum of two and twenty, 5 old—becnuse sometimes she's only seven. Arai OWN! Over the Instre of her wemantwod there falls at times another radiance. Those metines to tell her what) traneient moinents when her swect face Swpal tthe Sbrsweontatthe children, I tell_her that the astronomers discovered during-the night which yelled her natal day that one of the slars was missing {from-the Mletades. Since then it never hay bern found, though I, perhaps, know | meal ticket, and they all ate heartily eve: whet-berame of it. She isoks up ewiftly. with hel? = | blinded, by the glow wiilch rests upon her gentlo countenance Grayodays, a gloomy. room her presence brighten eae as 1f-wan shadows furtively creep owt, taking Thelr azure depths resemblo summer ines with ight that lngera usually parted lips, and Iam aimost nil_when she Is away it atdKe of Ter absence — 2 a By R. W. Taylor fT Jase. yon to 4. Love Affairs 2 SF o> GPCL bo BY TK OA GLOOM; a Some Sentimental Journeys ot the Rey, Mr. Sterne. '. he Sentimental Journey, and a clergyman’; AURENCE STER Whore distinctly giddy life belied the austerity of hfs name, prepared a brief uutoblography atx months before ho dled for the benent of t's daughter Lydia. In this cursory: | feslew-oalv-ore love affair ta mentioned—that which made Elizabeth Lumley his wife. ‘At York,’ he wrote, “I became acqualnted with your Mother and coimted her. for two years. She ‘owned sho UkeL the, DU houant hareet not rich vaquah, or-me too. = DOOT; “to he-jolntd-tosethen She wont 10 her. sinters in. GB—* and 1 wrote to hor often. T believe then she was partly determined to haxe ine, but woul Hor sty" vo--AT her rolurn sfe fell inte a sumption, and one evening — _ that Lowsn dting by her gith an almost broken, heart to see her wo All she sald. “My dear Lawry, Iocan never pe author of ‘Tristram Bhandy*{ yours, for /l to live, batt. ahitiing of Any ed me her will. {This geherorliy overpowered me. It ploaned and Tomar rled Wer tn t7 = z Th) two yenrs of courtship wera porsod mainly at York, where Steme, howe Interest-of an un t : Wr were ke merry and {nnocent arch fend ehtere: 4 The "My Taw Nie tern: | turn ti her alsters in. Staflordshire, sence, hired the todgings «te xe {a tooh to his bed “wotn out by fo oment the mald,’ F began to spy oper WHI his h.' and & chaperon! Her AS — rm owhere he bad often a him : tary phate, one kul. fork, one * Tumtey tn despa ove a thousind vetietgiting looks at the chalr thou hadst 20 often wrace a laid down my Kilts and fork ny handkerchief and Ido ro this moment, My tz-for y pale face glows and tears arey J clapped it neross my face and wept like a child. ts I take up my pen my. poor pulse a! trickling doren the paper as I trace the word * THT AGE -Olier erst rere her marriage, Mr, Sterno folind they came tn ye! fore hin death, In Ule (hvoes of hts tsat grand: pai edt the fFand coffed out the more ¢«ffective passages to vend to his new love. Sterno's marriaze ws happy one. There tx not the slightest doubt that he drew, her portratt {n° the immortally commonplace and aggravating Mrs, Shandy, The lady Wada ge WEAL tO putup with, and Steen knew4t-—Oncey In speaking of marriage, he sald: “My wife is easy, and I ehould be a foo! to -pratacict -- = = AW cliuranctertstte glimrre efethe> Slerne menage is afforded by_this extraot___ from a letter. of Sterne to his friend. Mr. Joho Bh “f-tore-off-the bottom of yours before I let ny wife sre It to save a Ile. ever, she has fince dixcovered the curtailment, and seemed very desirou knowing what {t coniained, which I conceal, and ray ‘twan something that nev way concerned her or me; 50 say Lie satne tf she Ipterrogal Tn 1333, when he was forty-six years old, folb Jove w woman, Catharine de Fourmantelie, and began a serien of | sho cherished aa Mrs. Sterne had preserved her b Kitty, and Ww! have but ono obstacle to my happiness, He sent tis dear Kitty everything from “pots cf honey" and pickles to rer mons.—She wna-one-othe longent but not the hist, of his loves, To record 4 their names asd tintoricy would exact of the reader a patience equal to that-of ‘lstrs. Sterne, who placidly bore with them all, pot econ Ten Famous Women iD Make-Believe History, | No. 4—Little Miss Muffet. By Margaret Rohe. “|. Saag ITTLE MISS MUFPET swept laughiily into the ree taurant and ordered a bow! of ‘Coorce.’ Bhe had “Dar Very —catetess-about-epending-—her-salary-latelys— A Ittlo louse change left! However, bee. me bee agin A_youns' French ers-to her, which t tors in worth‘n stenk-amothered in onions a¢ Blink‘s, Miss Muffet devoted herself Industrously to the mastleas ¢ ton of her bow! of pulverized husks. nil the thme keeping |, her cyea_moleatly cist down, in onter to observe closely every one who came tn, It wasn't long before she sighted a far octopus of a party with 4 prosperous Pittsburg appear anco and a generous openwork face. j The minute he—“splde Ing Muffet—perhaps the effect. (| of the near-foml she had beo: Tiy=oot oni near miaeFs tion of the smile that won't coms off, Immediately the bread boy drew up at her table whereupon Mise. Muffat blushed rather neatly and brokenly «ald: eo N=exauseciia: LU)sbetit you were someienty €le “Well, so Tam,” beamed e Proxperons patty, who was enay land yom. hg! we are-mih-oll friends why not_have Junch together? “Whereupon he rat down beside her, : ft you think It frightened Mins Muffet away you'd best do an encore ~ Phis cruel vaberston-anent her —timitite-ts-only_an erroneous and : torian. Miss Muffet did no such thing: Instead, ahe-pushed her bow! of “Coerce’ hastily aside and ordered all th real fao¢ on the ment, from conrommme to protoids, and a bottle of fussy bubble water: bealles. = ‘Then, doing an economtenl and careful young girl, with.alware-n weather aye. Cristie tutte, - Bi bee Mf an: promptir antiexed the fat oll party aa a perpetual afterward, hs +% The Russian Cop. By Walter A. Sinclair. Ho whoowould-be-a-copper-in-tho-czirdom or the Czar? You tan't-tel-when you'll leave your job sith such an awful Jar, No higher court decisions o'er restored one to his fob, = When_once he vanished through the roof—abadly scattered blab. ' He's bound to get promotion while the hich explosives last; Ag soon aa he Js boosted, why, he goes up yery fast. Tay The copper's lot, they say, (8 not — ‘A-hanpy one wor’ cat, Sipe As-on-the breeze le rides wlth case, ‘__Rpurred forward by a bomb, ' ‘They never band Injunctions nor such nonsense to a chlof Who runs things in St. Petersburg, Odessa,“Lodz or Kiet; i No writ to cover poolrooms nor to make him think and stop, i put just a little fron ball that goes ““Fick-tick!" and."*Pop!"* Ex ‘The cops don't file complaints about the-way they-quit-the force; - iene They get so badly reqttered that they can’t complain, of course, } The Russtan cop need never stop } At roofs, but keep on to the akles, 4 Oh, happy thought to keep then catght: Anbditlous Russtan copa till “rise.” cei} —— + + 3 Pointed Paragraphs. HE. whole world loyes to get the laugh on a lover. Don't hope to please others if you can't please yourself, Marriage {an't apt to bo a fal'ure unless you marry your !oal. Bownse of the wan who ts envious ‘of the happiness of othehs. We are told-that man ts niado of dust—and yet dust always settles, Some love affalra end at the altar—but the majority never get that far, Every Uine a large man worinks from his duty a small man rises to! canton, Many a man talks as though he considered himself chief adviser to the Almight Wise men oacertain what Js on the other alde of the hurdle before ji | ing at concluslotia, ‘All heroes are good and all villains are bad on the stage, but it Ls otherwito:in real life, Men guess at'a thing, and if {t'happena to come out thelr way they boas! of thelr, good judgmont. s Lintn No, Alonzo, men and hogs are\not in the same class, Hoga sometimes know when they have enough. i : y f Mogt men belleye in the honesty’ of thelr fellow-men until they haye in- Morse! @ few notes for their friends. NaN f o, may be money, but no ‘barber ta willing to accept a2 payment for | ve the time a man wastés while awaiting his turn.--CAleago Mews. } _ Tim the sha’