The evening world. Newspaper, April 19, 1907, Page 18

. PadMehed by the Press Publishing Company, No. @ to @ Park Row, New York Rutered at the Post-COffice at New York as Becond-Class Ma!i Matter. , 16,6 —_—- VOLUME 47 SPRING SPORTS TDOOR sports should be more general! in, only two open-air attractions which draw large num bers, and even on their most crowded) days they are not attended by- one-tenth of the people who should be in the open air, And neither of these popular Sports gives exercise which the spectators should be taking. | Instead of the League and Association games it! would do: more good to have thousands of individual! games, with boys:and young men as players them- Selyes instead of sitting on the bleachery boards. {he enjoyment of horse-racing is limited to that small fraction of the ‘ total population which can afford to pay the large admission fees. Part of every seasonable day the year round should be spent in the yepen alr. Especially in the spring and early summer is open-air exercise {essential to health. A Sunday outing to Coney Island is good, but too often this degenerates into a ride in aecrowded trolley car and the drink- of too much beer. These three things—attendance at the baseball | games, going to the races and a few'hours at Coney Island—are almost the onty forms of outdoor recreation which New York has. irticipated ] : | This does not apply to the suburban population, but to the four! anllions of people crowded together in Greater New York. The golf] and the country clubs are as foreign to the mass of population as -in-hand coaches and automobiles. ‘| There should be some plan worked out by which everybody in New HMYork at least once a week, and preferably oftener, shall come in direst | ' with mother earth. The city parks and playgrounds do a little toward this end, but they are only a step removed from the stone side- walks and paved streets. They are not out of sight of the tenement- houses, the air even has thatimusty smell and not the fragrance of really ‘pural atmosphere. * ‘This lack of frequent contact with mother earth Is one of the great feasons for the poor health ofthe school children of New York. Their eyesight is used constantly with'a short focus. Instead of ranging across ample fields, with trees in the foreground and hills in the background, and watching birds flying in the air, the lenses of their eyes are kept drawn in ‘by the walls of their room or the tall buildings on the street. Their ears;| {filled day and night with the roar and rumble of the streets, become dull. | ‘Their lungs, deprived of pure air, fail to do their duty in purifying the ‘Blood. The constant drinking of soft water deprives their bones of the i@nineral salts which well and spring water supplies. ; Hitherto New York's physical sturdiness has been fed by immigra- _ tion from all the small towns of the United States and from the agricul- | {tural districts of Europe. The children of these immigrants noticeably : tack the physical strength and ruddy health which their parents broughi ’ here. The census of the school children; with its appalling record of over forty per cent. of material deficiency, sounds a warning which shou: be heeded before impaired eyesight, hearing, breathing and circulatior ‘Mave become confirmed defects of the adult population, i The office boy who shirks his work to go to a baseball game should \Be forgiven. He is only obeying a natural impulse of boyhood. It would be better still if all office boys and shop girls could go somewhere in the country from Saturday noon until Monday every week, and if the public Schools couki be held in the country too. Comparison is often made of the men and women turned out by the | fittle red schoolhouse with the product of th schools. The @ivantage of the little red schodthouse was that it was one story hick with every window looking out across the schoolyard to the hills and| grea } The baseball games and the race-tracks are the, ‘Monsieur Andrew Carnegie, Commandeur of the Legion d’ Bv Maurice Ketten. WE LOVE THIS LEGION of HONOR {SALUTE You, MERE Dor STAND? STAND BACK, ‘You "RE ONLY CHEVALIER) Tm oF ANDREW 12 ENTITLED To MILITARY HONORS WHILE IN FRANCE The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars + o x % oe BY Vitus's Church te» out WilHamsburg Bridge,” seid Mr. Jarr, ax they sta ng to a saloon I would submit to y Jarr. “As we are going to a shure go by way of the Brooklyn Br proterted, but {t was no use, and In due OU forget we were 40 go to Brovklyn to tne wed ding of Mr. Gote's sister to his head bookkeeper,” aaid Mrs. Jarr when Mr came home, we don't have to th go,” wala me if I “I don't sce w k of elevated road in at the church § ey wathered wi direction of the Bediord ave © wedding was over and the « ne guesia at the steps and wate © go to a funeral! ®, Ja How would you enter their carriage. Thompson's Night Out &2 &2 &2 LB YOU UNDERSTAND)| SURET TEL € TRROW |[HARRY,ARE You | | WILD HORSES THE GAME? A PAIR OF CRUTCHES|| REALLY GOING COULON'T DRAG | LJ TQ STAY AT \MeE our! HOME TO-NictHT? — — Letters from the People. Fire and dium. Bo the Pattior af The Evening, Writ I have o Kick to make. J was pass fing slong Amsterdam pyenue Geventy-clghth street, me other tue. A gang of bore and youths were hauling (egparently from the sllcrw bq biasing ash Darrel, witch they 5 Joith in high gies, and which « showers of sparks and fire nea ayed fire ts eparks might easily ave set curtains of open Windows, Also, {hone melay hoodlums, running through ¢ narrow alleyway with thelr fire and emoke, were enough to sare People 18 the houses to death Ix ) / where are the pif me sort of rackety ° there and elsewere in tn els ood several times Fire | Bias ww piny with BAL ¥. MARCY, JI Girls! Independence Br the Kesitor of The Bve A corredpendent do New York Giri,” th get along better without me ever Mid ie argues tr Lat girls back-bite instead of compltine F Wee another | think i wel! -Know \ that there have nen ar With nothing . bite ever ince (he b ; but if the rea a Majority of girlie co waste the he pays ® poor compliment to Wnt Selene, ip reperd to tile wate ¢ al ea 9 es - v MR BROWN a \NOw DIDiT | HAaePeENt / [ Tee cane— “3 ! FUL YOU ivecel : Don'T L&T 2 a, \ rHE (NANTES Té “f YOK AP HARRY). gee | {CTWOULDIT TAKE ga i, 4 ie Home TO (ox "| ( IKLYN AND JWOD Hit UmM~/ }GRELLA OvER| \mMBI CANT | 'T My veer) 4 5 9 THE Foun DER OF THF ORDER OF Tre in the Bedford avenue district se dist \BoTH FAKES The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Friday; April 19, 1907. Honneur, G. PRERIOENT, nee aus IDS MI wien FRANCE ADA COMMANDER OF THE Roy L. McCardell! down town. vy better Judgme: think you h hey crossed n Mr. Jarr insisted that St. V Church was not out F y but Mra. Jarr declared she would turn right around and « 7, ’T know the way, and we are going right there ey arrived hed the bride and groom By W, J. Steinigans MR BROWN WANTS To see NI NK THEY'R y We should take ao. For the Red-Headed Man. ; better| bridge.) SIXTY HEROES (WHO MADE HISTORY By Albert. Payson Terhune. No. 41—HONORE DE MIRARBEAU, Leade: NT HONORE DE MIRABEAU connecting Mink between Aristocracy & struggle the world has known of a Forlorn iTope. the st ve in the. t ‘ Mirabeau was the son of a marquis, and was educated f t army [the only profession except the church then open to a ¢ an, He was | hideously disfigured by amall-pox stars, In spite of this Ne x most jfascinating man of his day, and was adored by innumerable women.’ In 1767, when only eighteen, he incurred his father's pleasure a lore jaffair and was put Into prison. At Intervals he served nearly a half-dozen |such terms in jail during the next Afteen years, sometimerSt his father's jorder (for noblemen of high rank had the power to send their sons to |prison for minor offenses) and sometimes because he dared oppose the tryanny of the French Government. France had for centuries gone from bad to worse. The noblés ved jn luxury; the King was a despot; a series of foreign wars drained the treme | enn ry, And for all this the ptain people pafd. | Th The poor were ground down by iniquitous taxes If Hy Detain and were practically slaves to the nobility, {2 Genius for Blundering-} Other nations. had outgrown this state of ac “© tairs, but in France they continued unabatdd. Yet the oppressed common folk were gradually awakening, and were pte \ paring for a terrible vengeance on their oppressors, Louis XIV., in dying, had left France poor and in dire distress. Lou!s XV. had managed to make j national affairs even worse. Then Louis XVI. came to the throne. He bad enius for invariably doing the wrong thing. His blunders were the mar vel of Europe. Weak, stupid, stubborn, gluttonous, he was not fit to gow ern & pig pen. To make matters worse, he married an Austrian Princess, Marie Antoinette, who was gay, frivolous, intriguing and devold of any |common sense or noble traits. They were a well-mated couple The country -was almost bankrupt and seethed with discontent, Mirabeau persuaded the King to summon the States General, a body com posed of nobles, clergy and delegates of the people. But the aristocrats refused to confer on’equal terms with the people’s delegates, and the States General was dismissed. The people's candidates formed a new body known as the National Assembly. The King, at Marie Antoinette’s advice, tried to break up this assembly, and the people promptly protected. their delegates by raising a national rd, with Gen. Lafayette at its head. Louis was aghast at such audacity | Mirabeau now tried to Incuce the King to grant a constitutional form \of government and placate the malcontents, but, as usual, the poor, silly | monarch was dissuaded, and planned to fly to the € nan frontier, there to summon foreign ald to crush his rebeliious subjects, Mirabeau die suaded him from this last rash step and at the same t/ oy his own flery |eloquence partly held the angry people in check. He was the one point of contact—the one arbiter—between King and populace. Both parties trusted him, thoveh neither would wholly follow his wise cou 1. ‘The Bastile (state prison and stronghold of'royal powe:) was torn down by a furious mob July 14, 1789, and the waveof revolution that was to engulf al roy! nd nobility swept onward, only held back by Mirabeau’s genius. How far this one great man might have changed history and averted the horrors of the reign of terror can never be known. For, in 1791, when only forty-two years old, he died. Then the revolution b t forth in full force, Louis and his wife and children, disregarding abeau's warning, fled toward the frontier. They were caught and brought back to Paris. Austria, Prussia and Spain formed an alliance to re- * ~ THeInivahos ier tore Louis to, power.. The allies entered a ts France. The mob, in wild rage at the invasion, an Oppressed People. } attacked the palace passacred the S00 Swiss guards who sought ‘ prot seized the King and Qucen and their pares) the royal family, and threw them into prison, The King was . ied and put to death (J 1793), as, later, was Marto) | Antoinette. Danton, Robesplerre and M. fhe leaders of the revolution, ordered all political prisoners executed, and geveral (housands were thus slain. France was declared a Republiq model§ed, allegedly, on the lines of the United States. Then, as all the ar@tocratg had figd to other countries or had been killed, the revolutionists spt up th several parties and began | killing each other. When the guilloting proved too slow, the party that |chanced to be in control shot down its grisoners in platoons or drowned them by the hundred. A breath of Palast a was enough to send a man to death without trial. Danton was guillotingd, Ma last Robespierre, too, fell under suspicion an@ (Ju ‘Then came a reaction from the horrors of that jc: | more than 1000.00) men, women and childrem gre est | put to death. A new government, known as “The Direc |to guide tue young republic. Meantime foreign fe country, and trade and progress were at « standstill. Out of this horrible state of chaos and natéem@l exhausviep srose cue mighty man—Napoleon Bonaparte as stabbed, and at 704) was beheaded. of terror in which to have been y." was formed harassed the stricken By Nixola Greeley-Smith. MAT,” asks @ young man corr “W matter with the red-haired man ur article on the ideal husband thet a gts, a after thinking of al) other men, might be satisfied with the ey rode on and on, Mrs. Jarr’s #trength of purpose faltering somewhat, and red-haired man. I know @ dosen red-haired men, and they finally, at @ remote station beyond’ Atlantic ayenue, she-declared she thought} are just as nice in appearance and manner as any brunette, this was the place to get off at | blond or any man of any other colored hair is. Why ée ated and walked in various directions. Finaly a solitary po. you and other writers look at nim eo?” ptly declared he didn't know where St. Vitus's My. daa redteated ‘YOUNE wan, 7 dont iXiatniea cae “Obeoktt ieealegaia ats Jane | I believe to be true, that no girl's {deal ever started Ute vig pany epee ss eae aie cada) mbeal Wage They took @ train back in slience, At the Bridge Mr. “Jérr took the right line with red hair, thpugh later she might come to love a5é marry @ red-haired man. The on for this is simple. & girl's idedis are colored by what she reads. She reada now s mainly. And the novelists, save tn occasional instances, have preferred to endow their heroes with black or bloni@ Nee eer Caan wg At.this juncture Mr. and Mrs, Gote enco: I was afraid] hair, and even when there was @ tinge of russet in the ne I don't wan you were not coming!’ exclaimed Mrs. Got y's locks have written on the princtple that red hatr, by any other nama, funeral. I em Iw ve ated wre” began Mr. Jarr. for m e would sound romantic and have dieguiged it as “Titian” or auburn. } “You shouldn't talk t 5 auld Mrs. Jarre ¢funera) ingly, and Mr. Jarr would have done » History ha n far kin) red-headed man. And if a red-haired mam shows resndet, and we at ivest hat for the departed. Of course I We thought it, was beautif interp dsomest! wishes tq’ promote his interests or the interests of his kind he should encourage | know you wouldn't give me a nice funeral, & couple I ever saw, and a lovely ser Even! any gitl whose ideal he wishes to become to read history. Then she will read of “Aw, don't let us f again over the fuvecn! question, maid Mr, Jarr.| Mr. Jarr was much tmpressed, and you know t » things!”| poq-neaded Alexander the Great. She will learn that Jullus Caesar, before he { We're going to @ wedding now.” But on the way home she told Mr. Jarr coldly but calmly that the next tine) crew bald, was sandy-haired, that Nero's locks were the oolor of the devouring “J don't see why want to @rag me there. I son't know those people,” anid he dragged her off to a cheap wedding of that sort among HIS triends to ploase) riames to which he doomed his city of Rome, that Frederic Barbarossa, William { Mre. Jarr, as ehe proceeded with har tollet | be sure he knew where he was going! icfus an@ a long line of other warriors and kings were all red-headed If she i has been attending the Peace Conferenoe and fancies momentarily that she has ‘son and Alexander Hamilton, great her heart toward you. Red hair is generally considered by artiste more beautiful than any other, | Nevertheless there has come down the ages « strong, unaccountable prejudiee Against it. And notwithstanding the fact that both Helen and Cleopatra were red-haired. it le only in the last fifty years that the beauty of the redheaded woman has been generally conceded. Our great grandmothers ecapaidered the glorious birthright of red hair ® curse to any woman to whom it fell. Now, any f them, were they still alive, would be tempted to look upon the henna leat | when it Ie reddest and dip their silvered heads in {te deepest brew jee him woman's enshrined Ideal of manly beapty a aiiasaenmtaibaniatamansiad Skagging the Inspectors. i “The titles new and shake-ups, too,” said Sergeant-on-the-Btreet, “What makes the high guys all so grim?” asked Copperam | “They're getting all the hollow laugh. It doesn't make 'em gay, | They'll all be just plain captains ‘ere the merry month of May. | The General has taken their inapectorships away, | He's bound to bounce the whole blamed crowd,” said Sergeant-on-the Street, “Why is it they are glum aloft?” asked Copper-on-«-Beat. Because from loafing ‘round they're soft,” sald Bergeant-—and repeat. No longer can they ‘sleuth’ their time im some nice drinking booth, — For he's skagging the deceotives in their mourning.” | “What makes the flatties open eyes?” asked Copperon-tBeat. “You've questioned me enough, enough,” said Sergeant-on-theBtreet, | “The System's weeping down its nose; you've heard the buyle blown, Inspectors will retire to the hendsome homes they own. rr, *. The red-haired woman has risen from her once low estate to the pinnacte of admiration. Let not the red-haired man despair, The next hundred years may By Walter A. Sinclair. “ WV" makes your coat #0 blue, 60 blue?’ asked Copper-on-e-Beat, Sore-Feet. “Their chance is slim, their chance is slim,” said Sergeant—and repeas, | He'll be skagging the Inspectors, all in mourning.” |~What makes the Bureau bellow loud?” asked Copper-on-«-Beat, “You bet it ts a bitter pill for ev'ry portly sleuth, They hate to look 4 im the eye and face the awful truth “A chance to rise, & chance to rise,” said Sargeant-on-the-Btreet. “What makes the gamblers all so gruff!” asked Copper-on«Beat. He'a stripped them of their power—hence that loud ond awful For he's banging the Inepectora in tha mourning.”