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The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Saturday, March 16, 1907. PEPE GHSPSSSGE LHS SCOE CHP EHP PESOS SHOSOSEOOSGOLOSHOSRESLOLSLOSOSSSOD ; _ The Evening World's Laugh-Makers 42 Broadway| *_* “_* Joe Miller on se — THE SOUL. ‘+ “Education”;| The Chorus Girl Bewails the: ‘Wall ‘Street Slum MP ‘sociology ERTAIN doctors have been, trying to determine by | ue te | physfcal means whether or ‘not, men have souls. Ac- en x Thro’ Funny’ By Roy L. MoCardall jand Flurried ofe “Published by the reas Publishing Company, No. 63 to @ P: _ Entered at the Post-Oftice at New York as Second-Cla MOLU ME 47.0 0.. ees cee ceeeee eonvee ® Mall Matter. 7 NO.16,643, * cessible to hospital facilities, they have placed dying I WANT-A. SEE R ; ' THINK : patients on’a pair. of sensitive scales and by a series it | Glasses oe wates! ' 5 Paeeet ote b i i Finance he of observations they. have determined that the weight | riences of the body diminishes instantaneously at death, the Joss being from. half an ounce to an ounce and a half. ; “ |Somehow or .other they have concluded that} the difference in weight can be accounted for nly | by {he presence ‘of a soul prior to death and its de-| parture_at the moment of death. { The announcement) of these observations’ has led to other scientists | conducting similar ‘experiments with rats, cats, dogs and other animals. What these experiments prove as regards to the soul of man is be- | ~—-yord-the-normalintelligence...1f the soul.has weight it must_be.a Jn: By In inS. Cobb | ROM HiGlasses | Glasses. Now. York, Mar, 16, Dear Green=You'd | be astonished 10 See haw easy it is for a young per gon to get an edu- jon here young porson does Homttpeen tege toes OF MILLER, § the author of! | rriting in copper long enough to throw a few ho} SAllops. intoo- th terial object, for only mundane things have weight. 1 chiles aliens Brote ae ist i, ~ Whe ram eovish rt ‘Therefore, if the soul has weight it ceases to be im- Maaco aT aiaahartaaa cori degree about i mmon people, material and can Ytodonger bea soul. Mink Greek his {dea of a proper Gress 9p eohi \ cried. combination fol Teceptions he argument in favor of the SruStenceToats end informal efening calls ts hounded “Dopey burst into tears. He'd been co anxious to eee the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Wales.. He'd never seen a whale in his life.” : t know any; human soul_and its immortality is far greater than on , thos,’ novby oY | : pad imperial an 7 noy N$L.75 ‘Topeka dqrbles,/ with a eetf-regia- and on. the “any experiment such) as these doctors have mad: that do When tay, never spend.) nohol? dropped a quarter over the rall one day this week, A bands ont of # Parade (which no-; sick Smoke in front/of an tering smeat-bhnd tn tt, bc J FEEL, as depressed as! a'tipht-wade have atiil got theirs, but ‘hat good does} “A visitor-in the gallery at the Stock’ Excimnge u “George, the wine agent, says tat times ts so/ and after t! over, the ee rallied | * a th b; regulation congress gal+ s The two ideas—the existence of a soul and immor : Reason Cn thdiclentatalner besitos the/cherus Glel! Ugit he knows four corner liquor stores, or plucce Ang undermincalt ——_tally—are essentially one, because. the soul would be_| / NV that -you-dbn'y-neve to cise George, the xina-agent, wha ttal_mould make! god stands. owhere_he_could_set | ons of “opr pammle i tem on. Other essenfial detatla~ co! fa till engaged to Amy {hls wine {n as soon as they was opened, that won't | 0 poe DOIN Hy ther deliberate an “only a human, transitory thing if it were not immdr- ~ tal, and immortality could’ not exist without a soul to fed attanks tr Branscombe Ull {t'a got chronic) be opened beravaz ‘even the breworles, that are al- a the wise ang with’ them, says that he never; W#ys #0 giad to back a store on a good corner, has} u “mons~ 5 | 'sccn guch times, |no spare money, ; “its awful “which to attach it ‘ eeriovern walters i heir aa ae | “George saya it certainly peccas| ‘When a brewery hasn't any, It's time to belleve| because a lady don't The material argument: that there isa soul is the faced’ tle that clamps jlo shim: tht nothing; bist lemona that the ‘banks, lai Cullof yacuum,o/Not that) thera | matters: except. Boas : “y niain't any mey. G 2 enty, ive 4 of exp “undeniable fact that moral ideas exist inherently in on to the neckband with a patent eee oe on the old abel BSE peoeeeseaye there ta plenty of It, | 7 Ree ic ot expected) aingus. ann. « ut s Is r = man and that no human beings are known or ever have been known to yeh epeclalnocakslanetauch Pesterede “The gay that Duys wine thead| “The ependers ts the hopeful, truettel souls, and n Mr {be wholly void of ethical concepts or standards. Animals other than} dines and diplomatic bails, ho would ohreppelnde pecan a! SG Ee VaRAnEIAICS EUS Se epee at oe reps 5 pants favor § salmon-colored hose and a zs pa man have no inherent moral ideas. They have physical instincts. They}, witte-kaittel cravat embrofdered by | Dasn't heard the word for ao long that he's forgot | to feel It ; Biss wth rete What {t-meana, ‘Mamma De Bransodmbe saya-ehe knows that A> canbe taught by rewards and” punishments to do this and not to. do that, hangs war shu oreetshe-n0Te POR EE? Yrowuiabairs and Dosle Zinrulter te Weclng away : = but the reasons for all their natural acts are the PhyS-| cause where he-came trom-you-alwa {so in the market that he shows upjfrom the flat because thoy ere too sensitive to call aS Saal every day at his office and raves !f he sees an expense | and not be ablo to. ask their frienda out to dinne: ‘ical impulses of hunger, shelter, warmth, danger and | took off your coac when you got yey, tigedgees ike i for dinner. At thia stage of the « account. podness knows, Mamma De Branscombe saya, but the like. ho would feel deep concern should any} ‘tHe wanted to cut out the ‘expense accounts, but all rent te MW isa 0 WE o-sst some new spring sate Si zi ee oe a pena ‘ thes {€ things keep this way. ; a weig one palm off on him one of the small ood firm, and sad. ‘Cut out our salaries | cle y Obv ously morals and_e! thics cannot be eighed after-dinner cups, His notion oftes You want to, but If you touch our expense acoounts} “Old Man Moneytcn was up to ses us, and the way in a scale of ounces and pounds. That quality of the} 1s-a commodious tron are we going to make.an honest Iving the markets been ging has got him faded. wserash’ # ate keep it Umpinge, ” ly—If, indeed! te% ¢ Nizodden widows $ tallats of brave} § a deep and abid ay a noe sine der and fils the morleys mar weon's ‘‘Remed)* 7 at the tel ana ofphatia ot end ell” the money | wlp them, and then | °° nt sug- Away, because tt Vt tasted canvas~| | G is: + = = rs = a oy Py f i Toret if qe] crock, welghing from half a pound to| “What Ie tt why?” Wall Street! Thava the an-[ “He says the danths and pikrrs was s00K oUt of | os ent mind which determines what is right and what is & pound and containing upward of e|swer. Say, the nancial district has had so many|the market two monthx ego, and now It's doe eat| te alah ato wrong cannot be a tangible thing like a yard of cloth} quart of a posullar dark flulg, with |crimpa put in It lately that {t's fa'rly accordion. | 40K among tho big félluwa, fimd-money en many ‘grounds. of wusplcion at the bot- | pleated. “Ho give tt to us straight that a certain financtal| call off hie trip to tom, the same teing poured Into a | 'Peopie that passes the Stock Exchange tooks-at‘it;™asnum—no._ I metn—magnate—whoso name ta A} to g@o and take Dop large saucer and then Ultyd into the | and sac, ‘I never knew defore that It waa bullt of| household word when the Common People want to| Dopay might—iook ore nfantatigl bietian aire’ earn neatentioes jouss-Old Man Moneyton told us that thia party Dut concediig that Hiram Js a wlso| “George ays that the oars brokers have put them-| "33 been out in-ths market torrowing money to] At these worda paor I istence of ideas ‘apart from that instinct “which phys- lad, New York ory neots about two! selves on a nature cure dict of free lunch, and they |Carry his lines at 7 per cent. and given gilt~ redged | sald he felt mo diswpp months to work Sta wonders on him. |haye no thought of wine when they've been drinking ty for It. 3 fo seo the Pr ical causes and inherited experience create. must of it-] ‘Keine end of that period pe has m thale own ltenrs con alweeks “Why, that party, Old Man Moneyton saya, til! “a never ee¢ self prove. the existence of a personal ethical sense and peararsbe me gorect as to be almost) “And f want to tell you, kid, that I'm onty a ohild, oe Week only needed to ratse ‘a Anger’ and the| the prince of a i Y ,| painful, When he puts on sala! put I've noticed thts, that ydu can holler about W nited | States Treasury would work cvertime to) have interested ‘power. For this the English word is soul. Every people and every for Sunday. afternoon he looux as| treet na a dea of dips ell you. want, but when they| PFiat him money, 0 Eavalinteres ae ‘tongué has a Word of its own of like meaning. elena [sttle Seecteat Saha fare rubbing ive and alum on ast “Old Bas} Moneyton rays Ge automobiles ta pusheq mustn't eay Mrs : sca? e wake | there ro's to hold a gHp on tem, t's down to Wall street and offered fora’ dollar a And Dopey’ aid If there are no souls, where or how did the fiction of a soul arise? | ever nopa to look without £122 boing | umes everywhere can SNS Fe pee 1 an Layne stocks will xo Up tift-taundered —and—havin aH th mo ie + of the myth? Every other myth has its Hy and Edu ce hatha a rah Ad as ne ‘The country may be prosperity ick, but an” Tas gee oduprawanhe eas to eée the Russell Brothers at lot ‘to us. B poverlshment of the elrculating medium !s a strange|Hammerstein'a and one of them shrieked,. ‘1; “Ain't it terrible? All th _ basis in‘ fact or in thought. Analogy accounts for taseayend Renee! they're just | symptom of It thought I sw two dollars!’ {t reminded him of the leat tany myths. What analogy except 'a eagle oF thd same to ‘him a@s chewing tadacco | “ure tough on everybody when the spenders don’t] obessiona somo of the Wall street traders have nowa.!' ever_m \fashlonabl ¢ e910F7 | run 3 i eee _} get theirs; Phey_keep-the-moneytn-cireaiation: The} daya- bi @ ast he's 2.sloxe moves. comparedto!. ce idee iz ay, Gertrude Alfalfa, the apry but untutorea | __ a i i °. larete, Inte of Pawpaw Junction. Her stil fen ne the Gibson shift walst,| two. hundred ribbon bows on It, riving | | tat she's the only one In af The existence of the honda soul fists arr where you cet your genuine transforma. |The spit curl. dating park to tite Della| her somewhat the likeness of a week's |the appearance of having d aes “ thon gyene, with cclored light effects | Fox period, $s also doing played up; washing that das come undone. }with an egg-beater and 1x. {is immortality is thereby conclusively established israten (itatchengaiet coataines prominently. She docs her Broadway | It takes nimble Gertrude Joss than | with both hands tled deh unless some way of destroying a soul is discovered. ‘On het arrival in our midst Gertrude debut in her white organdle with tho three and a quarter minutes to observe | Before she goes four blod No way of destroying matter has ever been discovered, = ~What-is-calted-the death of -a~-man-is-neither-the-de- Another Little Fl ULLy., struction ef his soul nor of the matter which com- By Maurice Ketten. or a bone or a muscle, The mere existence of ideas proves the existence cf-mind_as-distinguished_from_matter,The mere ex. | ponds and Statks,—so-tiat—te-mamemtre t—— may blow the oof improvem: Throw a scare * small tnve! what) docs y Wurst into tears and uso he had been no | Thowas FL Ryan and other masor- oad ¢ brokers ts broke andyall! erais et Ue foned ra tes of the ri and transform ent trunk oi 4a pleasure as long as the train on ithe track her-halr| able c hopping Off the fuffles and | her collar 4 her back she ta make bee ‘a Matte |alone. Their inter: ars’ worth of clothes’) farious. They must hundred, Her batr has thoss of small moans Reesta the Wip-) business | discretion, Would yo rather (rusts yeuromaner ton men own have made sttorte th ome: she is using tho broad tho same ar if she had teen n Mawr twice, ahd when s by thelr own } to ines n to poses his body, but only the dissolution of their partnership: Living, sentient naan is merely a com- Title Brothers STA" oe th ti bination of chemical elements and a Soul. No way We cond ett witht nono to destroy ‘\a.single atom of his body is known. What seme to ipaeabecseeatit Sladeemaant owned the ra Tae Gove: mene | rt the possibility of the destruction of his soul! And unless its de- struction can be proved its immortality i is of-course. Letters from the People. _ {certainly cotlt not afford to pay Mrs eight weeks. Yours, Ti, x arriman, M — dorhood, Depew One on the Nobleman, that et HEN-Lord-Elphtston waa tn Amer- a waiple of ; entertained at dinner by # the head of to accompany his Jonivilp on 5 ehind as tie Cly National Bank, wilds of the Ndthw = “tam—taking—tip—a—new—atudy—nowe* One of the assata ofthe family waa | concluded Joe. Miller, —“It-Is-ealied -eocle ay a oliid of about five named Ethel, and | ology. At present I'am taking tho'!}, during the dinner the child was big-|Cross-Town Trolley Car Course. Only eyod and big-eared with wonderment—| yeaterday I accumulated three red in fact, completely overawed by the] supers anda leather that I stripped for 4 presence of the distinguished _for- 1 that would make r yellow blanket I= elener, says Lippincott's Magazin i oF aarali her ROOT PA rts next course :s known As’ they fy-iord, tila, and | Second “Story “Course. When—protictent’ my lord, that," or “Will you have nome|in that I, shall take the Strong-Arm” this, ‘my lord? or somo of that?" the the P. A OGRA A Ee eA Course, the! ater cause and a. Bie | Finally, when itiel's mother was_in~ OE OT tekssted ins thavconwred tonletlanother Poe aoa iatpecoueais badger and): Rust, Ethel noticed chat milond was) panelwork, chitting the pipe and blow- "| Gazing interestedly at a dish of rellohes| ing the birney 1 expect to be awarded | quite out’ of his reach, Ethel, child|q certificate stating that Iam p) qualle <i though she was, thought she saw a|tied Sociologist. Iti all quite faycinats chance to please Lord Elphiston, and|ing and I never w uid have got Wide Xe and experts of ea jen they reuld Tees G We would revert to the conditions 5 Prevalent When travel by stage coast at was consitere, going somo, Ask eny | capitalist 1% my arguments are not ap! F | “a General Charity: [evening rush {s packed to its ulniost oe the FAltor ot ‘The Evening World: oapacity,—and plenty — of paksenger: SS Tt would -be-ayood plan-to-erect-an | Prebedis—after-a-tong—watt are —unabic old people's home with the money the | tet on, : Mrs. J. G. gas companies haye in trust for the citizens of New York (that 1s, provid- ‘ing ‘tho courts decide the S-cent IAW | J] read the article telling how tt has in favor of the people) fam sure |taion over fourteen months for a poor eadera would be glad ta sive the small ineasenger boy to-colieet- (85 due amount which "would be due them, |from a rich corporation. Can. we n swhich inthe agereente—amotints_to°ao_ bee &-bill-pasacd-enabling- poor people smuch, What a monument It would be |tg recover the amount due them from = 4¢-sueh-a- building -nr-institutian—cauld ~ sgrporations=whe= (relying onthe por be built bythe people and for the peo-Jerty of the employees preventing them pial... Then-the-people could. point with trom: taking the necessary steps to-cat: pride, to an tnatitution which could be fect) force them to accept less than the| ;Made self-supporting because of the |amount justly due them? There arc ‘vast sum of money whith ts being col-|many cases when the amount {a lected from the people gby the Gasjsmali that the poor clatmant cannot af: ‘Trust, I would like to see what read-jford to fight and Is forced to accept The Law’s Delay ‘To the Editor of Tue Evening World: Lg) erm think of auch a plan, : auyramountisirereaintsetdameat Ina firm, clear, vulce exclaimed: |) [it"in the world r, the Mra. I, Bae CEs CHARLES WATSON, Mamma, Ged wants como vlekles,”| | sloughing of the Hey. Atte Mears, af Port Richmond, 8. I. SARS x A Then He Woke Up. T PIERPONT TAKE 4 Rn nn rrr i aaa gn con mates: To the Editor of The Myening World: Mo the Féttor of The Evening World: Last night I boarded an express at A reader writes of a canary which | Fourteenth atreet which, strange to say, fied, aged elxhteen years, which ame | wan not crowded. On our way to One ee claimed, In @ record. I wish to state | Hundred and Tenth Atreot we passed no (that we have one at the present time |jess than six Jocals, When I reached \uiborn in 1888. Ho {x totally bilnd, but | my destination I found that tt had taken atill sings beautifully. MRS. L. M- | me no more than seventeen minutes by al aie my watch. T was still upbralding In my A ip ALTO LTE LE \ mina the newspapers for accualag-ntrie porte ate ene ort ie 1 [Subway companyagt bad-service, when ‘ it eo Jaat) Av Fi uddenly the condup: d “thavetheard good deal of trashy music ieee Rivane ones ot Sei outine played, music which has meant nothing to the composer And can mean nothing “Why Do They Marry!" - to the pleyar. ) The exlatence of thla ls. ne ute c@ The Evenine World stuff 1s taking advantage of a privileg®) Will uny reader diccuss the motives "granted tous, for music ts a gift given |that prompti.the average woman to 0 Us not to be abused. but tp be made | parry? It is cfiten conceded that in the useful and loved. MARY DAVIS. | working classes a woman magties ror the sake of a home, Does love ui s ect ad gu n the choice of a hus Hho the Baltor of The Evening Wort an in | bind oF doce ste merely marry the man While we are relieving our minds I) 0 can pest support her and trust to ESET te tre reeideh viv we, have | {be fueure to bring love Into her sphers ' attan is Hoven i pilineara no protest from the victims of |Of fe? tn tie nigher cltines doe ee tho miserable service on jhe “‘6tein..) SNe w nds tmony for tt 5 aes Wine In Lone island Ciy. Durfig | Worldly position that may accrue tn the treexing weather of the past two | from? Does” Tove decide her choice” goontha It haa been by, a lucky chance | And sf not, why_does a woman with 'e ‘df during the rush hours one could get) comfortable Income often marry some par within from ten to twenty min- | brute of a man? Speak up, readers, and port ‘oftener the wait was longer. |!et ua hear your ylews on this wean as gar leaving the terry during the wide topic, CASSE-NOISETTE. STEAMBOAT ~ 00- 000 | HE FLY AWAY, = * 3. | Pointed Paragraphs. iN 6 Se men Diane thelr wives every time it ralna. The soubrette haa the laugh on the comedian who gets none i A youss man always sneers at the love affairs of a widower, People are less interasted In what you did than why you did tt. Sometimes a girl is shy of a young man because he ts shy of money, | Veually the average man's good judgment shows up a few minutes late, — The man who fa willing to do anything Is seldom without anything to do. 3 Aman may admit that he Jaa fool, but It 15 neldom niewalte hts aequatnt- ances. If a.man Ja ignorant he may loarn, but tf he knows too much there 1s no hope for him. Long Island ‘Traction, ae Many a promising young man. has found himself posing as ne defendant tn a breach-pf-prom!se mult. According to statistics nine-tenths of the men who commit suicide are mar- ried. Comment Is unnecessary. Q Thp average man dislikes to lve vp his crowded cAr to a woman becaure he je afrafd sho will .thidk he's trying to flirt with her,» | It's @ neyer-falling sign ‘that’a girl js In love with a young man whea ahe ‘ begins to_want to read the Idtters ho recelyes from otter girls. —Chieago Nowa, i