The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1907, Page 10

Che Ceariorld: FeaMished by the Preas Publishing Company, No. 6 to @ Park Row, New Terk Mutered at the Post-Ofes at Now York an Second-Class Mall Matter. VOLUME AT vivccoccecee cece cesses cotece seneee serees NOs 16,620. THE RENT PROBLEM. OW. Intoresied-everybody is inthe rent problem the ‘\. correspondence received on that subject by this pa- per is one of the proofs. The problem itself is most pressing. That rents are high and are constantly in- creasing everybody knows. That this situation op- presses thegeneral public’ is self-evident. An over- aT proportionateshare-of -wages-and- salaries goes-to 2 ¢he “landlord” and compels the cutting. down’ of necessary expenditures nee for food, clothing and recreation. Rents have become so high that they “encroach upon the average man’s ‘savings and make It more and more <iifficult for him to, lay aside a reserve furid for sickness and old age. ” ©) Among these letters is the folowing from a member of the Execu- “tive ‘Committee of the Tenants! Union: | : 5 3 _ read -your editorial of Feb. 4 and would inform you that the Ten- : errs the Landlord .Trust. i ‘When people Have ‘their rents ‘raised from three to seven times a year for the same atcommodations it Is time somebody was Investigated. There is no landlord trust In the sense that there is a Traction Trust and a Standard Oil Trust and an’ Anthracite Coal Trust. Landlords are - not banded together to charge high rents any more than’ shop- keepers are combined to charge high —prices.—_Like-all-other-men-engaged in business: they try to make as much profit as they can and they charge-as high rents as the tenants will pay. 3 pj, 1 half the-poputation-of New. i} York City were to fall dead to-mor- may A—row, rents woukd at once drop enor- mously, because there would be few- — er- people -for- the -housing--accom- ———modations and the competition of landlords for tenants would be greatér than between the tenants seeking landlords. — ————-———— 7 If the-habitable _area-of New.-York were doubled to-morrow the ef- fect would'be similar. Every new tenement, apartment-house or dwell- Ing tends to diminish rent. Every man, woman and child that comes to ~ Néw York tends to increase rent. “The reason rents have been going up fast is primarily that so maity people have been coming here and that housings and transportation facilities have not increased as rapidly —#as the population. = - : <The main reason-why there are not more dwelling accommodations _. on Manhattan is the high price of land and the fact that many landlords find it -more profitable not to improve. The area_of Manhattan Island; _ elther vacant or covered in part with — dilapidated buildings, is sufficient to Provide comfortable -accommoda- tions for all the people now crowd-_| —<¢d_-together.in-unsanitary-quarters. The-area of Greater New_York is every family a_ by itself with a plot of ground big enough to raise the family vege- ~ fables and room for a flower bed "and grass plot. j The reason the landlords do not {Improve their properties more is be- ; 2 cause. it. does. not pay.-As-soon-as-a-plece-of Property is: improved the assessment jumps and the taxes increase. The more dilapidated and the worse. property is kept, the less it casts to carry: it, and to reap the specv- ‘increase which has made all the Jandlord families so rich. Then the traction companies help the tenement landlords. By re- fusing free; transfers, by charging five-cent fares with-no: reduction for children during the rush hours by giving-a poor-and-slow train -service, The e Ev en ing World’s Union is striving to get legislative action to investigate the worst of has gone the round of the preas. é are named either Victoria, living- where tand_is cheap and fresh air abundant is made impossible to men and women with long. working hours and-small wages, ¢ Possibly a legislative investigation would bring these facts to the ‘better attention: of the public. “But to investigate landiordisn i to begin’ =, With the effect instead of the cau —— Letters from the People. “High Telephoue..Mates. joing kind?.-T" have known scores of Te the Kaitor of The Evening World: girls and women of that name, and not a EC Oe be : By Maurice Ketten. Lovery PETTICOATS| SEND ME THAT ONE WHAT STUNNING "AND THIS ONC,C.0.D HATS! FSEND ME, THESE, Two, C.0.0,, ALLRIGHT SEND IT To! Gi ong the A friend tells.me of @ city out Weat Plind for $ a year to each sutwcriber. I know, from personal knowledg. York. Who oan explain it the company Mae “to change) nchigh-a- rate toeubsoribers here? le ‘there @ good reason, or is {t one more of the many casm-of. bleeding the stu- pid, sheeplike New Yorker? ANSELM E, HEINE, JR. How Many Yards To the Biltor of The Evening World; “Reader, Wow: many yards muat-a ——man—wertk—to- pat one-handed apples | — in a basket-it-the apples were placed | tn @ straight line one yan apart, the first “apple being one yard from the basket, and the man to start from and Feturn to the basket with each apple separately? CRAIG FOX. Myron, To the Editor of The Pr Who wan the author bf the » “Don Juan?” Hy A. Canadian Colne und the “L To the Editor of The Evenive Worlt How 3s it that a Canudian coin will not always be accepted ax legal tender? | The -2." roads will not take It for car fare, yet they make no hesitancy about | palming It off on the public during rust. Shours. There ought to be « law passed compelling all to accept the colns or else oar them out exchange tng World : More A} ffo the Edltor of 7 Ihave read y @ion on the effec bearer's | charact name?” There Is sate take: thon your readers honestly state -t know. some y' who, at the age of thirty years. bas not had somo eevere fetal, disappointment or, euffering of ning We one of them but had unhappy experl- ences-ineome-way. or-ether—eere-so than girls of other names. There is lots in a name if we care to investigate. , A.D. OHS. Oflore te Help Sichoolbey.: ‘To the Malter of Tie Wrentpg Word: The letter of “Heartbroken Boy,’ who: failed In examinetion th the fourth grammer grade, attracted my atten- tion, 1am chatrman of ‘the Leca! Bohool Board for the Thtra~ District, and— perhaps tf the boy will let “me ave tie number of the echool be at- tendn and the name of the principal I may beable to do something for him: 5 ISADORE “M. CEVY, No. 320 Broadway. The Cloth Problem. To the Katto of The Evening Wor Here 1s my reply to the cloth prob- lem If cloth 2% inches in width costs | 22 cents per yard, each Inch in width will cost 1:29 of cents, or .89665 cents. Therefore the cost of cloth 27 inches} wide Will bey4.2065 (approximately 41 and What 2% inches wide 52.274, o {$2 led -cantager yard.) The cloth ® Inches wide at 38 ts per yard will cost 1.1875 cents per a A in pride! TAnch-wide cloth therefore 2.0625, or 32 6-10 cents, and the 88-inch material 4 4 cents per yard All of which ia very simple {f you know | how L. G. Land-Value Taxes, To the Etttor of The } © muon Inteceat | workers of tho wectfuly ask the ‘our readers: How t che Increase should be taken to run al of taxing the homes of | ot GLb Yea, ‘To the Editor of The Brening World: Ie Belah Merr the American Con- sul at Jerusalem? Com-ic Artist Draw aFunn PICTURE? HAW! HAW! THIS WILL BE THE “FUNNIEST, PICTURE 1 EY! 4 “Mabe! saisetigtnmeniemmwenatie 1 a Oh, Not 50 EX-CRUCHATINGLY Fury, Daily Magazine: Thursday, BRebruarcy 21 a ‘1907. OW ID IT 2, oH! SEND THEM BACK NORA. 1 DIDN'T INTEND. To-trEEP THEM, Iwas JUST SHOPPING c.0.0 -Nicknames Royal Personages. Invent for Each Other. HE fact that Queen Maud of Norway t called “Harry’ in her own famtly| Dake of Saxe-Coboursg-Gotha, wes called “Ame.” ¢ “When the Sailor Prince Alfred joined the navy he, was otill of a most aby Is tt too much to expect royalty never to umbend and become human?|and retiring disposition, and begged that on no account should he be ether ‘The very limited’ choice of names that appear for use ut the christening of ajtreated or addressed as a prince After some cogitation among the officers and baby_prince-or_princess ts really-a very 00d season why royal families should! considerable thought have pet names among themselves, Almost without exception English princesses on the designation of “Mr, Alfred, Alexandra, Louise, Mary or Maud. Among princes| Alfred’’ atuck to the Prince for a score of yearn Albert has been most popular, while Alfred, Edwacd, George and Frederick practically txhauat the Ist. the hands who served in the gunroom bit né throughout the navy the-name-of ‘Mer. Prince Edward, who was always tall and slender, was once called “Herring,” [while tie -smanter Prince George answered tothe -name—of—“‘Sprat.”" The-edoption of nicknames in Engtand’s royal family was only.a part of tho! much ¢or their-senaible {dens of life that they wrote home-mwith great gle mmple, humanizing methoda of education and upbringing instituted by Quem! told thelr parente-of the-nicknamee. thelr shipmates had bemowed on them: Victoria and the Prince Consort. z | In tie family the late Duke of Clarence was known as "Eddy" and once Bince hia accession the English King’s nursery name of."‘Tum-Tum” has been! scratched that name on a windowpane. A fow weeks later the present Emperor allowed to lapse, but to thls day. King Edward ts known to bis royal consort! of Russia, who was then: the (Czarevitch,-was visiting his English: cousins. and bie nearer relatives as “Bertie.” For some years betore his death, in fact, from tho time he entered the Tenth Princess/ Hussars, the Duke of Clarence waa nicknamed “Collars.and Cuffs,” a little joke Helena, who afterward marrted Prince Christian of Schleawig-Holstetn, was at the expense of the extremely high collara he affected. and one which he bore known by the prefty diminutive of “Lenptiqn,” mille Pringe Alfeed, wlio dl4d;- with the good natars that owas.so characteristic of him- The Cheerful Primer. (WHAT AR. YOU LAUGHING AT? - \ DON'T SEE ANY-| THING FUNNY. ABouT. THAT! x 1t-says and He [noticed one day the Duke of Clarence's name’on the window, and with his ring When the handsome young Prince Frederick of Pruesta oame woping to! out beneath it his own pet name, “Nicky.” Engiand the Queen at once reduced his long name to the more friendly "Fritz,"’| which name he always bore with his wife, and inter with his people. Taming Husbands w-# "A New Society for Their Improvement ~~~ BY LAURA WITHROW HE Society for the Improvement of Husbands wad “6 ] necretly organized on Tuesday night. The Organ{ izerLwho has been thrice wedded—tn calling heg to-omber, said: 4 Ladjen, 1t 18 an open secret that man as a husband-ts failure. The Ideal husband ts ao fare tat he-need—not considered {n thle discussion, Unfortunately, the perfect husband 1» always the (win-soul of some one elee—somd other, happler woman, Look about you In Ife, You will note that the more honest and simple and frank the wife ta the harder she tries in transparent fashion to do her duty in the home, the more Ilkely !#-she to have a husband w breaks all. the: Ten Commandments, accepting her loyal homage us hts right at the sume tine. “It {a useless to lecture him in the home and berate him In the newspaperd and magazines‘and from. the platform. He. simply laughs nt us, colle ua the ‘shrieking wisterhood,” and, ({ anyOvng, behaves Works Uran ever afterhaying his shortcomntngs pointed out to-him,-tn-order to prove that he purposes doing exactly ax he plenses. |, / ‘ “Since one woman has shown herself to be entirely powerless to ctyilize,ond man, wa purpose organizing a society for mutual Counsel and assistance, Resping the fact of tu axintence a profound ‘necret from ‘the men. Our idea ta this: Td bind each member by secrecy by & solemn oath, Which also makes it oblixatory ‘on her to tell all the ‘pecullurittes,of her husband before the organization. Thed * we will hold ‘counsel over each husband und decide on the beat method of mand aging and lending hint gently up to Che Meal.” “T think I seo’ myselt talking about Jack~to alot of women," said a_fuity Yttle thing in the reur of the room, ‘ “F.was about to remark,” continued the Organizer, “that with womenkind forming 0 -noctety—copdiuctat along theres aiggestead—wecan-compel-the-met «to. lve us anything in the world that we’ want, and the: ® wilt-blindly suppase they are actiig (o please themselves; } They Hold the{ That ts the magic secret whtch must be the basta of all i we do: sl eyblawe Secrets | “I neglected to may each. member must Uind Herself bs 2 folemn oath to put Into practice any method of man agivg her husband that the soctety may, by a majority vota, dectde tn beat fot his improvement. She must report. her experience at the next meeting. It wé then decide that the method {x not sulted to hin pecullar organization we can suggest to_her a new schemo of management The Secrethry owill keep a ded scription of the husbands of members, describing thelr peculiarities, &c, By keep ing a systematic record of each case we will not alone be benefiting ourselves, but will be collecting data that will be of inestimable yilue to posterity.” + “Lam going home. this very ininute,* announced the fufty young person, and she started to the door, i “Lock the door! commanded the Organizer. Her order was obeyed. Shd | then imperiously w your husband was not pertention ari tat you were Not BAtened with hin “Wo trusted you and admitted you to our counrel, It In too late now to turn backs Think of the many avffering, oppressed and unhappy wives in the land and bé true to your rex!" y “Well, but I must be true to Jack, you know," pouted the fluffy person. 1 think more of him than of all the oppressed women In the world, and I do not care who knows Ht- Of course he-dues kick my precious poodle and call him a ‘Nttle beas@ and I cry a bit then, But I am not going to have Jick written up {n your old books for posterity, just the same, I do not care-anything about posterity, and Jack isthe bert TaIOW ever “Tao not Want you to wink for @ fioment I was finding fault with him when I told you about Fido." “You will take the oath,” firmly declared the Organizer in a tone of finaltty that admitted of no further argument, and the oath of secrecy was administered to all present. 5 9 When a Bachelor Woman and an Old Mald each presented herself to de sworn remonstrances were heard from every part of the room. ‘Put them out!" somebody cried. : 1 “They are here to work with us," replied the Organizer, now President, firmly. ois -}*Theoretically. they know much more about the management of husbands oy) do the wives, They have more time to devote-to-abstrac Aras “thought than hare the latter on-thia, to-them;-deeply—tns Analytical { teresting subject. They are willing, nay, anxious, to give Old Maide, the married women the benefit of thelr ideas, and are en= gw, tirely certain they can give us yaluable ald tn the mans agement of especially difficult cases, because of the an« alytical study they have given to man as a husband,” All the wives present saw a new era opening before them. There was a news born hope that even yet they might be able to see the lover !n the husband, Ie was a thrilling thought, and all were so happy they were afraid they would babble in thelr dreams. i ‘The Prealdent was about to announce the meeting adjourned when a small dark objpct_In a shadowy corner etralghtened up. Then tho thing atarted fom the speaker's table. : —"A-man!gaeped-the-women.—It-was smail,wrinkte¢—« fretful; thin, nervous — looking _pernon. The President raised the gavel to call it to order Impertously; then looked and recognized !t as her own. The insignia of her power dropped from nerveless fingers, She lost her commanding air and became—the wife. “Archibald, Archibald, when did you come?’ ahe gasped. ~“I-didn't-come;"* sata: the-ema!l-person’tratcurately> "I have been here aft the time. I heard all your foolishness. ‘ “Barah, I think you had better cut it all out and come home Nf ts getting late. The children will be crying.” The meeting adjourned itself instantiy, Ngt one of those women now will admit she was there or that there ever was a Society for the Improvement of Husbands, tg@- Time Yourself. Reading This. 2 GREAT MEN f EPICTETUS ON RIGHT LIVING._ R EMEMBER that in life you ought to behave as at.a banquet. Bipposo ti that something 4s passed and ia placed in front of you, Stretch ous }' ——your hand and take a portion with decency. Suppose that di ta passed {. by you. Do not detatw tt; Beppe that tt has mat yet reached. you. Do sot } send your desire forward toward tt, but woatt #11 4# 4a act before you. Remember you ure an actor te play, enacting much a part’ 6a the euthor may cRoase. If short, of-@.short-one; if long, of o long one. If the Author (or Creator) wishes you to aot the part of & poer man, eee that you act the} port swell; ¢f the part of a orlpple or of @ magistrate or any other person, do & the same“For-4t 4s your duty to sel} the part that ta gloen to you To} choose the part you ore to play in life ta not dn your poicer. eee et More Frivols. - By Margaret Rohe. = 10 Ince mates cwaiat se Fine feathers are seldom marked ‘down." You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but why -bother—a pigskin purse Ja gi x igh for avybody Misses with fortunes never atay single. . 8 Women are seldom for giving, but always for getting, enie cine A man of tho world who has cut alt of his teeth ts not necessarily a rake. * e@ ‘A phort temper Is soon flurried. * 8 Beauty {s often sin steeped. . Pelente Many are called up and a few are called down. seco Ise A woman Is never the same except her age. Ome Licatg! There are three kinds of women: Those who talk about themselves, those who talk about others and those who just. talk. e 8 6 A wiseacre onght ‘to know lots, , A New View of the Japs. RTHUR M, KNAPP, {i his “Feudal and Modern Japan," points out, A parently other observing historians have dono bafore ttm, that the: a | miraculoys conversion of Japan to ,modern clyilization in not #0. @ jonce It ts realized that Japan was Glready tn u high state of civilization at the upening of the present modern era. Some time before America waa bea - the Japanese had their banks, clearing-house, and Europe's supposedly mhoddéta syatem of bank checks, drafts, letters of credit and notes‘of hand. A therough’ rural delivery postal system, alno,;wax in yore Aunong the Japanese jn the Sepa Atlan’ when painted Indians stil! roamed the shores of New, England and tho coat. aeaians} ayed the little woman to9 chal, “You led us to believe