The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1907, Page 14

January 18, 1907. ‘SIXTY HEROES WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert Payson Terhune. No, 3—PERICLES—The Ugly Man Who Mado Greec® Beantiful,. MAN, whose homely face was so long is to give %t the look of a A horse's and whoso figure was far below the athletic Greek standard, {shment from DE ARER THAN found himself carly-in the fourth century, B. C. in danger of ban- another ayenue of employment is opened by the Women’s School of) crime. But he was rich, brilliant and ambitious, EVER the commonwealth of Athens. Ho had Coast eS ‘Those threa qq) ea, «Applied Design, While women’s employment in shops: and factories) - s 4 ae SOs OG ie Crawae or een ou eve stmt dey tees unpleasant thas been constantly increasing, there has been-a corresponding widening | The Athenians bad a custom of curbing any man who showed, signd ‘i a Fite telds. The jority schia: eqchet of becoming unduly pronifnent by ostracizing him; tm other wonds, “by; ‘Of their spherein professional eld ee The majority of schaol te | deel RSGRIaE REI AMET EA CHALICE ar Cas ERHTRENE EOE aN es “are women, and<also the majority of typewriters and stenographers. | dropp! -The Evening Woria‘s Daily Magazine, Friday, The Only Bargain To-Day. By Maurice Ketten. @udlishet hy the Press Publishing Company, N Entered at the Post-OMice at New York a. VOLUME 47 Pork -5# lot | __ MUTTON: fof BACON gt WOMEN’S WORK. YYEARIN Cy To the many women looking for 2 way to earn their own living COMMODITIES oyster shells on which the victim's name was written. ‘Tho Greek word) But= these two professions have been= for some years: crowded, and women desirous of earning more wages have had {to look elsewhere. Almost tinknown to the: general pub It—hes York. thwest corner of | Seventh avenue-and Twenty-third ‘street, and it -has grown vntil it now occupies the whole building with its 450 studer : : Thee 2 It. fits women for. profe tmpioymen wallpaper’ factories, lass-works, jew- ~andwhereve: designing or —dtafting is: needed. Its advanced courses in | “papers, silks, book covers, stained’ gl sce’ graduates! competent —for practical work Such concerms as the Tiffany Glass Company, Pul-; magazines and catalogues of women’s and children’s apparel are mor ang more every year supplanting men with women for their illustrative =——and decorative work. = This school is not-a charity in that tuition is not free, and -itis-1 at intended for young women who have not sufficient education, taste and ——means.to-assimilate its teachings;--To such young women it_not_onl. + offers instruction and a means of profitable livelihood, but it has opene an employment bureau, through which it seeks to secure situations for competent-students. = : The somewhat unexpected feature of this school js thatthe -major- ‘ity of the stidents-are not compelled by necessity to cam their own living. They seek to become proficient at a profitable employment as a “sort of accident insurance policy against the vicissitudes of life. On ~<becoming competent they often go to work by choice, even though they have fathers able to support them gr family connections which would} ~ carry them along. - -This-summary_of the development of this kind oP=vomen's work & called to public attention because of its broad meaning.~—Farmerly zall-svomen-looked-forward-to-matrimony-a5-an inevitable. career, off not absolutely inevitable, still to be taken if passidle, and to be estty sought -after-if-its-atlainment-seemed-too-long-delayed— he-alternative-to- matrimony —was-to-be-an-old maid ae mixtarey= young ofthe whole —not-furni: a school tencher or a hired} ofa companion to the okt and a-step-mother to the -famity-connection.-Where-a-woman's-own-fami ‘opportunities, the next refuge was to become companion or governess. ——_This_widening of women’s’ sphere _means—that matrimony ger—an-alternatlve —A_woman-_who-can_earn-$25-to- $40-per—w will regard the financial inducements of average: matrimony as a de-| **> traction rather than an attraction. She will naturally try to continue “her income. This desire will react in causing smaller families. The} ide =P he-present-day-chanze-in-the relations of \Y life is the recult-of business, not sentimental, cau: suicide, the relaxing of marital ties and the moder: continue on these Hne $23 to the Wilmington Asso If Mrs. Runecll Sago does throwing her troney. away she will go broke. They ought jaw -to- stop her from. spo “pinch money; ABET An Electrical Training. "To th Editor of The Evening Worl Will you kindly pring { “Mable paper how I can o} mion to the training school of t inghouse Electric Company « uucation required. Also if t trie Compitny hitte me Yours very truly, companies hayes grades and where graduates from classes in sectrical enginecting, are taught practical, work. Apply to the al @uperintendent of each compan. The Wet-Weathe *To the altor of The Evening W, val- your Vlaying with Fire tn To the Batter t ic, the School of Applied; s and general jllustration pro-|, While on the mubject of car hogs let mocall uttention to the r Lange his ye Sait. drips upon your Mp the Fattor of Te F Fowr attention ty called to the mate force of astondanis me Courts, the honorahl Ate The honoridle J y Hey Wonld te On. ate-aworn officers, to ad-| To the Esto: Tam a boy o: .| very skinny. Can some its method fatter FREE ot | ‘(co A See By TeRUSALEM ATLAST!. BS SOMETHING'S & OF LIFE ADVANCED 7 DURING CAST 20 YEARS Love Affairs of Great Men. » Etcar Allan Poe ard Virginia Cl:mm.} sreatest American poet and of 1 wan a fragile, u se than the post himself. star of the poot’s wand. Take most horse and Sowell Had fe nat been f nt Poe and his inv: tarved to death, be maite to 1_preearic peddled the post's n ut tributed the dinstpated hi oh after death-were uscd Uy Pharisees an Mra Poe djat Si7/In the no Leald—that-an— te j fu , and in order to warm ¢ SSScrnt2 ture to dire > hh Out after death t ilove It Waa = ot ctoud, - By Nixola Greeley-Smith n iife most interfered with his auccess, and 1d-Phitistins to minimize tis fame. ted cottage nt Fordham. It hija been. rtyartidan—housshotd—was—-withortt- rat at her feet and the large family he por 3 he notn and bushand. {nasmuch aa nip, loved bis wife with a fine poetic ton after her death tn the cad MreoPosconty tree years, he told 's-Annabot-Lee,-ant-drciared tronger by far than lder-than we, fe-was,hawers fn -year after Virgini a post. Mra, Whitman ons hut-mt-the-thme-of vx -YQU-Had-@_Wife_Like [hiss a By cstany. 2 D0G IVE CYOURE FIWAT. (HOLD PETS. WHT DON’ LW HRE— LE OTH, 5 HENRY PECK | EVER SINCE You LosT MY PET HEN SO LONESOME WHEN P05) PEOPLE HAVE HOUSE Yau TREAT YOUR [s HE a = GENTLEL SHIVER} © My TIMBERS~/ (+7 = MENL— RUERITAESS| HEN-RI-EF-TAL Hen-RI-ET- TAL rape EF — Pt: THIS. x : IRRITATE ME LF want You FO Tm THAT L AM CAPABLE _OF DONG ALL THE . TALKING FOR , FAMBY, HEN-RI-E T= D— LIKE HER PLAYINS Mice are fond of musi Close to it na they can, and-I'll send {2 to LOST INTEREST. “Noes whe take an Interest In sports?” “Not as much as she used to! “How came she to jose intorest?"t "Ghe married one!''—Sketchy Bits, Pace 2 ARTISTIC NOTE, “That painting ts worth $19,000," “AWhat, that litte thing?’ Ht “Well, If ever 1 got $1, do my owa painting,’ f EN #-deatht for auch shells was “Ostrakon,* and from it come our modern avords “‘ostra~~ cize” and’ “oyster.” One man Aristidén;—was exiled, it {a sald, for na: worse crime than that people werm tired of hearfng his goodness.and/ justice praised. : Now Pericles, the man with the face {like a horse's, hat grat plang for his own future and for that of Atheris. He did not wish those plana smashed bya decree of banishment., So for years he lived in seclusion, doing all he could to build up future power and at the same-time ta keep spublic atteution away from ‘himself, 2 é x “As a poy he had been laughed at for his ugly face and uncouth ways, Ugliness tn ancient Greece was jooked.on almost aa a crime. So Perloles spent his years of retirement in studying dignity, rhetoric, personal develop } ment and all the. virtues and accomplishments of the ‘age in order rto offset these drawbacks: : | “At last, when he was nearing early m{ddle life, the time came for which) |he had’ so long walted: Politics were in disorder, the common peaple wera{ Z d{ssatisfed, the oldér leaders were dead; deposed and i gar qe CIROR SE. demagogue and arfstocrat{” t Pericles chose this ‘before the public. : : He proclaimed tho rights of the people, and In a _serier_of orations 90; brililant and forcemMl as to dazrle his hearers he ehowed ‘fora the need of; reform. Backed by his own vast wealth and his genius and fortified by years of careful planning, Pericles carried all before him, Soon he found [inlmeelt the real master of Athens and the chosen champlon of the plain jPeople. — - — a — —- | _Thero ts no‘spectal reason for delleving that, Pericles was tn the very, - Jieast {nterested in the people from a personal standpoint, or that theln| [condition concerned him: one way or the other., Fle was an-nristocrat by. +-lirth, breeding and {nclnation=—Tho wrongs of the péople,howove;,had— | occurred to him as the most potent weapon within his reach and the-peaple themselves the stanctiest nllies he could posstbly have, ‘here was general} fsgatistaction among the poor because of tHe high-handed methods of }Pertcles’s” predecessors. “So; Tike niiny "A Tater popular hero, tis “horse=— faced’ genitis availed inikelt of thelr ald to rise to the hetghts which he~ ‘ould not reach without such heip, He formed a so-called Democracy, but™ {in reallty he-himself ruled-the-countes—es pletely as any tyrant | 4 As soon as be was falrly secure in power Pericles began the Mfework owhich-has-made_ancient-tireece the -rternat-synonym of culture, beauty, — intellect and the art Athens was Tittle more than a commerce centro and | eeaport when Pericles began {ts adornment. He transformed it {nto a won {der city, crowning {t-with buildings that are still the wonders of the archi- tectural world: ‘The Parthenon, the Erettheum and other famous temples were reared under his directions, The dramn. isteratire-and-a ruldance reached heights hitherfo undreamed- of. drawing about hin te greaqyest men of all times and of bringing forth atl — that was Dest in each. The famous writers, Sophocles, Buripides and | Aeschylus; the philosophers, Socrates and Plato, and Phidias, the sculptor, were but a few of the countiess notablo geniuses of his regimoa. \Norer= before had any nation attained such eminence as that to which Pericles raised Athens, Thanks to him, Greece shone forth like @ star in the biaok- ness of a world of {gnorance and burbarism. Having thus transformed his own commonwealth, Pericles noxt set about forming all the scatttered Greek cltfes and, provinces {nto one mighty _, federation, with Athens at its head. But before he i could accomplish this the State-of Sparta, always at— of-nil-sorts-were-enconraged,and-by hie 6~ ee War and Its ¥ ods with other countries, pleked a quarrel with him’ find tnvaded-Athenian tert Tete Pees BOWE > himself as great in-war as In peace. Instead of try: iing to defend the whole country he kept the Athenians within their walis, — while the Spartans wisted the outlying Iands at will. Meantimo an_Athe: Jan Neer yavaged the unprotected Spartan coasts, and When the Spartan }army-of invaston-was worn-out from {ts cnmpaign Pericles followed the foe Hack-Into thelr own territory, scourging and-decimating his late _assetiants, But nowseven the poople ha Wad made greatand” prosperous” qurned against their benefactor. Periclas was acctised of various crimes, and when the Athenians could not convict him they revenged themselves by attacking his closest friends, They. threw Phidias into prison, killed other adherents of Pericles, brought his wife to trial on a false charge und {n every way — made-the great man’s last years a burden. His friends slain or banished, his fons dead, his own power assallod, Poricies dled tn 429 B. C. ‘This Was 0 WAtlon’s graltude toward Mie man Without wioKe ald Athe might neven. have become more than a market town and but for whom | Dreek af wisdom und Titerature mirht never have been devetopeds == “ + | { ‘Mme. Melba Gives— Evening | World Readers Six Talks on Voice Culture. 4 i Winning: [a Advicetethe Girl Whe Ge —Talk No. 1—Not attordto Study Abroa to young women who are fostering _ ] the fond hope of one day becoming Efeat prima donnas, It must be empha- aired GC Me Begining Te would be n_great mistake to lay down 0 bard and — “Taat wet OF Yuled. — 7 Prima donnas are not made by rule, and a great volee can not be produced — “py Rcret of navtsory “Tregulationy, WHaty ta-suttable for-one-wrotiid be-entirely-ums— suitable for another, although thelr musical knowledge might be tho same,:. Thin ts becatise of temperament. No chance should be lost to encourage the temperamental sido of an. artlet. — If tof rules for all, tem: dhe = abeolutele—— dies ° N giving advice to embryo singers or droyed. sana In giving advice through Tha Even- ing Worl who cannot afford to study abroad, As Mademe.Molba- to recommending her to-teachers-I-ean— only advise her in a general way, ae I have had no experience with teachers in this country, A young singer cannot be too caroful in the selection of a teacher, and in this matter she can only be gulded by puplls who haye obtained good re- ‘ sults until she has taken lessons herself, If at the end of a lesson a pupil teola that her voles "IN trea —sho--witt know at—oncethat- she ta—recetying— tm: proper inatruction and elie should cease taking festons trom that teacher ut once, i ‘Tho girl whd cannot go abroad must take every possible opportunity to be- come, I might say, permeated with music. Tho greatest disadvantage agains Fecetying musical inatruction Jn a comparatiyely new country {a the fact that while in New York they have the appreciation of good muste, In old coun= | tries therp. are the traditions and the genuine musical atmoaphere which only, como with the centuries and creations of muatc-loying people and culture, In New York, however, the young student hks the best adyantages tn tt world so far oa actual musical presentations are conosrned.” ‘And Ue great poin In her education would be to hear all the beat ooncorts, It ta quite possible for, her to live th a musical atmosphere if sho will only go Into It. She must hear the greatest number of famous classics “she can, and theso are all given here, ; During the opera-season the American gtrl gets an exceptional chanoo of hears Ing the flower of the whole musical world. This 1s of tnestimable advantage to the novier. If tafont ts really genuine It ts sure to defy conditions and come to, the front, no matter whera tt Is cultivated. Of course, Iam speaking of exceptional talant, not ordinary’ vocal accomplishments, As [am a great belfever in tho, Individuality of singers being developed, I think (he greatest latitude should be given to ntudents In bringing aut their personality. eA great disadvantage with which the girl who cannot etudy abroad has to struggle is the problem of learning languages. A thorough Knowledge of Deallan, | tman and French 1s necessary, and we all know the greater ponalbilities of hand {n studying © language In tts own country, |For the American who cannot Ko abroad my strongest advice on the subject would be to conquer these languages aa nearly. as ponstblo among the Seople themsolves, ‘The thie to do ts to lve with an Italian family while- Studying thts language. and in turn with a French end German family, Never study @ language with any one but native-speaking people, The knowledge | jt mn language ts the, only sway to give a comprehensive Interpretation of role. jro-ndvico.to the girl atudying at homo ts—educate the mind. Tend omni orously, Bronden the Intellect, Tho greatest yolco can never reach perfectl linlena there is intelligence and Intellect back|of It, The student should realize thin and broaden her mind by reading not only muateal qubjects, such as thi ves of great musicians, but by becoming thoroughly acquainted with the greats est wotks, of ilterature and ast in every Aeld. Q : Tube Y will start our withthe get =" ele be d He-bad—the facuity of ef