The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1907, Page 14

3 Children he has the better off. he is. ~ She will neither make her own clothes nor cook her own meals, Every:| The Evening No. 3 to @ Park Row, New Tork Matter PwdUshed by the Press Pudlishing Company Botered nt the Post-Office at New York ax Second-Class Mat! — WOLUME 47. wee NO. 14,689. RACE SUICIDE, RESIDENT ROOSEVELT again publicly rebukes “the average American family” because it does not have “a larger number of healthy children.” The vital statistics of all the older settled Northern States prove that the births in families with American grandparents do not equal the deaths. In New York City the people descended from American-born grand- parents are only one-fifteenth of the population. Not only does the proportion diminish annually,.but were it not for immigration from other parts of the United States the pure American families here would ‘soon become extinct. It is this which President Roosevelt terms “race suicide.” By that he means that a distinct race is voluritarily ceasing to exist. He charges that this is due to “unnatural prevention of child-bearing;” that this is a mani- festation of “gross and shallow selfishness,” and that if is a “discredit to American social life.” “Mr, Roosevelt is correct in his statement that the average American family with social pretensions has few chikiren, but his blame is super- ficially distributed. | ‘The reasons are economic and social, not moral. . The man whose wife washes, cooks, mends and tends to her own babies is economically better off when he marries. All matrimony costs him in dollars is the} ‘additional food and clothing. His own board and laun-}} @ry would cost him as much. His children are an asset. ‘They go to work at an early age, and their wages sup-} World's Daily Magazine, The “Where De I Stand?” Brigade, By Maurice Ketten, ences Alito) port the family when he is sick or out of work. They] insure him a comfortable oki age. His medica) attend- ance is free, His childrén are edupated free. The more?) But the girl of American grandparents will not wash, cook and scrub for her husband or any one else. child is a care and an expense. A costly doctor and a $25-a-week nurse attend its coming. Its baby clothes cost more than its father’s Sunday suit. Neither will the fashionable American mother nurse and rear her own child. Some other woman must be hired to do that. : Any single man can five luxuriously in New -York ‘on $20 a week. A comfortable room and joint use of a bath in a bachelor apartment-house, breakfast there “and dinner at one of the many college or other swell clubs and his laundry need not cost over $2 a day. of shoes, underwear and linen for $50 easily... That ves $5 a week for cigars, drinks and dissipations, ‘When he marries what happens? His rent at once more than quadruples. His cook land chambermaid's wages are more than his former rent diimeland meals. His butcher and grocer bills will be as much more, and household incidentals will Gbuble that. Then his wife's ¢lothes. He could clothe himself for a year on what one Easter dress costs, Taik about his having children! The entrance of the child into the world would cost $300 to $500 for doctor and nurse alone. Then would come the baby’s clothes, its nursemaid and its education as it grew up. If the baby was a girl she would not earn anything, but would be an in creasing expense. If it was a boy he might begin to earn his own spend ing money in twenty-five years or so. The average American family is becoming extinct because it does not fit present conditions. ‘There is no servant class in the United States. There is no heredi-| tary middle class, ‘ There is no fixed social status, In- stead there are vain strivings and fruitless social ambi- tions. This must be paid for.’ The life which’ thou sands of men and women live in the apartment-houses, |. hotels and fashionable boarding-houses of this city is unnatural, Therefore, being against nature, the eet of such pemele tends to extine ction, Letters from the People. Where Does He Stanat }to me than a good ¥ning up for him TH the Editor o: Evening W * associates for thelr, 1 8! Will the r of this criminal negligen a.'V¥, & eolumn Im to the Postmaster what rot The or a profession would be most remunera tive fo! I am an American youth of twenty- one. have failed as a bookkee and elerk and want something Wee capacity with a definite quture He] | can buy two good suits of clothes, two hats and pairs |” aay p+ .A , v ot f 28 {' = ‘ Ay Be ® 4e4 ‘ Wednesday, _ Lovers Who Are Handicapped by the Dragon of “Custom.” ANY 4iMoulties confront the Cuban lover on wooing bent. He deserves M the sympathy of mankind In the first place, he can never see ths object of his affections alone, and love-making under the cold, observant ye ‘ot = third party te not conducive to an overflow of warm sentiment. Even before he is permitted to call upon her he must submit his intentions o a rigid family examination and come to an understanding with the girl's parents. He may be entirely acceptable, and regarded as a man of most exemplary haracter, but ail his courting must be done under the eve of the girl's mother | ~r gome other member of the family. After marriage the bridal pair must be invisible for a period—he for five days, the bride for a week Very exacting are the regulations of Cupid. The accepted lover must visit his Indy daily, olisrsvise the hot Latin Jealousy would make things unpleasant, | says the Philadephia North American This condition of affairs 1s apt to go on for some time, as Coban courtships are usually of long Guration. Wealth is not common among the young men of he tsland, and there ts @enemtly the chance that the hapoy bridegroom will And himself compelled to support a number of his wife's relatives In Cuba the ald Roman ides of a home prevails; the hustand ls undisputed | lord and master, and, unless she has had forethought enough to provide legally Against It epecial again. Dolly appropriates w the widow or wh a doctor's certificate tellin te from his deceased another ¥ ary certs: passed to sequence of all thts, rities, who do n Oligrs slip away to th Havana—and are married there. ————+4 > » much formality, Am ne riean efty For Food, $90,000 a Week. TE cost of the Sultan of Turk md dor: he lives moftly on entrees and bolled eggs. I members of his household and pay ali doment nual income of $10,000,000 by $9,000 a week The Cheerful Primer. SAY, FELLERS! HA'na! V'VE GOT THE J Ho!no! He! HE! — ‘THE Fun NI EST THINGG — widower was unatile to marry again bee: 1 wife's pi Key West exceed $5,000 a But to feed the numer expenses | atever property the wife may have er who may wish to marry of the death of the former ens his year, as ne he had fallod siclan, and the ouples are now being married by the six hours from By C. W. Kahles,’ to support myself meanwhile, As t fe a live teeue with more ¢ thousand ban! ks, head office boys and the like, it is worthy of ame dis @ussion, and you readers. m and of suMeient ability to enlighten me, can confer a very great favor by # doing Where do I ma CONSTANT ‘The Kuiny Season Fo the EMtor of Te I think our et that ine have t Last » ey or two ax rained im June and Ju A Fe undeu milder COLUMBIA SENIOR A Subway Kapresr & Fe the Baitor Car No. & leaving One mie A M CE, had ey Pieely closed, 4 . 4 doot was & clomed ween sla We had « » “fresh # human eardine packed car, Perbaps 1) Bloke Bhould nx capeot to chat on this voca- | LY Mun, because I waa furtusate enoug’s | Mach & fo obiain & seat ai Seventy 7 the 2 It Is Lewal bot Not w Marriage seomed to n June to August. A » Having r account of Aflsi 1 wie perience Tree Evening World kpow f fewer Mrs GO How the fret time ln amow! memte-tul the stench from the need? 1 Breaths that prevailed in that car elok- | op Get me 80 Beak A wee mee Hi for duly j day, and MRR | disthhe to go after wha Diical roadura nore Will exy pad many a suinat hours suscedied (1 Ive i hear alt re #x hours puapd de tow cleat MBte W. Wao obs give @ rule and Work more ea oF hve vu 1 coh oe amg hn Ned would (elt her, Ae ly Thaw! nave a, bie LAUSHIN' Ho’ Ho! ~ WHEN LP % DibN 1 THINK WE Coucp BE 50 Funny May 1; 1907. 4 SIXTY HEROES\T WHO MADE HISTOR | By Albert Payson Terhune. ‘0, 45.—ROBERT EMMET, the Hero Who Led a Forlorn Hop Rover EMMET—bravest and purest of patriots, most unselfish and unfortunate of heroes—had the rare distinction of winning world- wide fame and losing his life when barely twenty-five years old. Ireland for centuries had struggled {n vain to cast off the British yoke and to win national independence. In early days only a portion of the island was subdued, but, by Queen Elizabeth's orders, England conquered the whole country in 1603. The British Government in olden times took scant pains to cdiiciliate Its territorial possessions. Ireland and Scotland were guided wit. a rod of fron, and oficial oppression was the rule rather than the exception. The same treatment, Flas & measure, was later extended to the American colonists, Various rebellions in Ireland were stamped out with greater or lesser degree of cruelty, the climax coming when, in 1649, Oliver Cromwell was, sent to punish that unlucky country for its allegiance to Charles I. In @ ‘bloody nine months’ campaign, Cromwell crushed out all open opposition, 20,000 Irishmen were sold as slaves for the American ‘colonies, fully double that number were driven for refuge to the Continent of Europe, the city of Drogheda was taken by storm and its garrison massacred. Though Ireland's rebellion was queliled, yet an undying hatred for her conqueror was instilled. In 1688, when James II. was driven from the English throne by William of Orange, the Catholics in Ireland took up the deposed monarch’'s cause. They inflicted several sever defeats on William's followers, but at last were beaten by sheer ferce of numbers and superior military discipline, the climax of the war being thetr defeat at the battle of the Boyne, July 1, Wilkam IIL. In Ireland. } i¢gs. ‘The city of Limerick held out for James. ——————~ William's representative, unable to capture it, persuaded the garrison to yield by making a treaty allowing the Irish rellg- fous liberty. This treaty was almost instantly bro! Unjust laws were made against local Catholics, the priesthood were restricted, and a million acres of land confiscated from James's adherents. In. after years, warned by the example of America’s colonies, England greatly mitigated these strine gencles, The American and French revolutions stirred up the Irish to new efforts at independence, -A society known as the United Irishmen was formed. Help was promised from France, But informers betrayed the movement, forcing the leaders to rise prematurely in May, 1798. The British Governs ment was prepared, and put down the revolt after a desperate struggle. A French fleet, carry 000 men, under Gen. Hoche, was prevented by storm from landing on the Irish coast, and subsequent expeditions of the sort were turned back from one cause or another, luck from the first was @ i Cromwell! and Jagainst the revolutionists. This rebellion led England to desire a union of the !r'sh and British Parliaments. The Irish rejected the offer with scorn. Then England's Gov- ernment tried bribery, spending $8.000,000 to accomplish their end. As @ result, the union was accomplished Mf January, 1801. The United Irishmen raged at this step, and in the general discontent that followed one figure stands out pre-eminent. Robert Emmet, a young law student at Trinity Coliege, Dublin, was heart and soul with the malcontents. His physical beauty, charm of manner and fiery eloquence won many to the cause. But this same zeal caused his expulsion from college In 178, when he was but twenty, and made him so marked a man that he was obliged to go to the Continent. There he re« mained until 1802, working always for the freedom that was his life-aim, At last the time for action seemed ripe. He came back to Ireland, and by a brilliantly daring manoeuvre tried to seize the arsenal and castle of Dublin. A fierce fight ensued, July, 1903, in which his untrained followers were hopelessly defeated by the disciplined, English troops. His band was scattered, and Emmet himself fled to the en MOURtAiNS Of Wicklow pending an opportunity A& Love That/Was “a cross oe the Continent. At last the way was . clear and by prompt action he could elude the Stronger than Life. | authorities and safely take ship for France. But he refused to go until he had revisited Dublin to say a last good-by to his sweetheart, Miss Sarah Curran. Though warned that a visit to Dublin at such a time amounted to putting his head in the lion's mouth, love conquered caution. Emmet entered Dublin, and was alnost at once captured. When brought to tfial he asked nomercy for himself, but made an impassioned, defiant plea for his country’s lost freedom. He was condemned to death on a charge of Rgb treason, and executed in September, 1803, being barely twenty-five at the time of his death, Miss Curran soon after pined away and died of grief for her lover. Emmet’s last command was that his grave be marked with no epitaph unti!l.such time es Ireland should be free. His college friond and warm admirer, Thomas Moore, has, however, immortalized the hapless young Irishman’s heroism and love in two poems that remain as deathiess epltaphs of a man who, however radical or premature his methods, repre sented all that was highest and most disinterested in patriotism. oa area are Wave nee iTo Make a a Woman Care for a Man | ; By Margaret Rohe. ——___—___} Marriage. Her Taste In Droste Range IBF in dress, ‘This will p critical observation has If ahe wears blue, tell her pink Is her col her why she t that roseat of ribbons and such Uke fixings, ins with a cofer scheme that makes her * to complexion, If whe No. 6—Afier Critic her taste are in i+} her hae! been withdrawn. with doesn’t ace look Ike a meat and has expressed a desire for ® sewiskin, ¢xplain to her th ut persons look shape less in that sot of towmery. In addition to showing yow off in the fight of @ sartorial superman, this utternnce will «7 cronoth h your standing as a person Tihaen of praiseworthy” Economy, by the way, Is a quailty you should do your! | utmost to ennourage tp Ler. Nothing #0 weakens a w acter as an lopportunity for foolish indulgence in luxuries Teach her id this fart, A g00d way to bring this about ts to do her shop for her att very outeet. my her the matertals for shirt sand owns You can get them ata verw low figure !f you go downtown: far down as the Bay. Allow her te fashion this raw material into garments. If #he pleads that she does not know the sharp end of a needle from the eye laust tly and never learn younger,” She will be pleased at this humor In case the product she turns out from the goods you have brought for her shows the appearance of having been made by wonvict labor and she is unable to leave the houge so garbed, do not repine. Sho may improve in time, and meanwhile, if circumstances compe! her presence at her own hearthstone, « cons siderable sum of money will be saved yous he cannot | cannot accompany you to theatres and restau’ |to lay up quite a tidy plese of change, for expensive for two to do these things t j pabiiity, unable to enjoy these outing should take care to remind her as you say, ‘Qh, well, oun leave the house she uts, and thus you will be able N the world kno it is more her own as you Rot yours, d her good-by for the evening a A Moving Lay of Moving Day. By Walter A. Sinclair. 'E furniture's upon the walk, the van is at the door, T For tt is May, and now today we're out to move once more. The breakables packed underneath, the heavy stuff on top, ‘The brica-brac thrown loosely on, along the route to drop. All breakfastless, neglected, too, our kids of every age Are gathered in the entry way to guard the parrot's cage, Then nip hurray! ‘ta moving day! We'll trip today. We're moving ‘way. With drioa-brac we'll make a track, Forgotten stuf will bring us back, 1 Tonight we'll step upon @ tack. \ Hurrey for May and good old moving day! The fam'ly coming after us is waiting at the dawn. ‘They've started taking out their goods and put ‘em on the lawn, ‘They ring the bell as daybreak breaks and loudly want to know Why in the name of common sense we are not packed to got And so in haste we carry out each table, dish and pan And pile them out #0 recklessly it takes another van. And 40 we say, Away! away! Tt is the gay, glad moving doy. We have enough of fragile stuf For men to buf! in manner re