The evening world. Newspaper, May 7, 1907, Page 14

| The Actors “Pevtehes by the Press Pudlishing Company, Nv. & to @ Park Row, New Tork Bantered at the Post-Offce at New York as Wecond-Ciass Mall Matter. VOLUME 47... JNO, 15,608, effort things often go on worse than before. ‘i sections of New York where the ashes and garbage are removed by private contractors, paid by the indi- vidual property-owners, are more efficiently served than the tenement and factory territory, which only the official Street-Cleaning Department looks after “Show me’ is Missouri's motto. - Applied to the practical affairs of local government this means “Do a thing yourself, and it will be done.” * The Missouri towns formed Clean City Clubs, (Out West every Place of 1,000 population is a city.) These clubs were organized by the business men and the society women. The storekeepers furnished the dhorses, carts and wagons. The women bossed the job, it being well! Tecognized that a woman is naturally a better housecleaner than a man} and that she will find more dirt to remove than any score of men. All the small boys were enlisted by offering 25 cents a hundred for old tin cans and bottles. In the town of Trenton 130 small boys Qathered 78,000 cans and received $2 apiece, or enough to take them to}, every circus next summer, | | | | One week's work cleaned the whole town—all the streets, alleys, back yards and everywhere. The cost in money. was trifling. The | result was accomplished by the intelligent self-interest and personal su- pervision of the people. i Those two things are what New York most needs. Here in New York everybody is Selfish enough, but their selfishness lacks intelligence. The-workman who turns out a poor job and loafs @uring his working hours may think he is selfish, but he is doing him self harm. He hurts himself more than his employer, because the employer makes it up in the price to the customer, while the workman is Gestroying his own efficiency and possibilities and gets nothing in return. The employer who pays low wages and provides unsanitary work- ing conditions is governed by self- \ Way ishiness, but if he were intelligent he Evening World's Daily Magazine, Tuesday, May 7, 1907, ’ Fund Fair. By Maurice as EE GOLPSELPODD D SFSSHEOD . be SELF-EDUCATIONAL SERIES . No. 14 How Plants % & Ketten, : DOYou HEAR , ® MISSOURI'S MOTTO. Lertnem awe. | § wt Fioht E WAY to clean the streets. has been f Meee hae ABSTRACT \ as om ig ner ? 1u1éS ell towns where they have no stree AND BRIEF CHRONICLES ) aa by J. B Ainewonth Davy Bee ae hon vate oF THE TIME” oad Frofessor in the Untbersity of Wales. York. Somehow when a municipality assur task that has férmerly been performed by p: Neprinted from the Harmsworth Self-Educator Magazine by special arrangement.) Copyright, 1807, International Publications, No. 2M Fifth Avenue, New Tors nt etrupete for ch has taken place for Hess ages among plants has 4 to the evolution of innumerable de ces for te maintenance of the. lite of the individual and the perpetuation f the mpocios Plant food ta largely taken ub by roots trom the soll, but, as the wappiy is itm ted, & plant {9 obliged to struggle viz lorously to obtain ite due share, and fafure spells death. Shallow-r, |forma 4e their dest to extract nutrt Deep-rooted planta mainly rely upon the water with disolved mults to some distance from the furface, The roots of many desert and shore plants are obliged to penetrate for an astonishing depth before they |eet what they require. In sand-sedge nd sea-holly a vertioal length of some forty-etght feet may be attnined; while in some of the plants which live tn the African desorts the roote may be twenty Umes es Jong as the parts ground As leaves absorb from the alr carbon | dioxide, which constitutes an essential part of pliant food, tt 1s clear that the competition above | be as keen as the comp tition below ground for food | the matter is complicated by the fact that the leaves bulld v | ment of the plant into complex organic sub: by the ald of the characteristi: J only work in the light. Her above The Weeping Tree nd for this must Cypr ne © a climbing habit hare of light without having antmals, especially insects. One of the most familiar carnivardiis plenta tx the buttervort. « damp patches near moorland streams and springs. The ow nmon tn the rs are nomething \ \\ SQ would realize that well-paid em- Ployees in cheerful surroundings dc more work and do it better. The public service corporations are selfish in giving poor service fo extortionate charges. They could make more money if they were in- telligent and adequately mef the public's just demands, The government would be bette: \\ \ \ A N unmarried man may, with tolerable economy, live the married man can upon f. amount. A man really aacrificea something when he mar- ries nowadays, and he is not altogether to blame if he hesitates before putting his head into the matrimonial noose. As Goorge DMot enye: “It is a noose, you know. He may be selfish, but he aleo ts prudent and perhaps wise. There ts no greater fallacy than that whi: oserts that what 1s zh for sto live on ts enough for tro if the public personally supervise: Xt te not, nett athematics is an exact its affairs. If every constituent of a Raines-McCarren-Gra: asco ye cde { Beurtey make the belt Tru to the wh r; and the eecrifice of « er of herbe, whe latabl . there are ea when it may made him feel what a miserable, contemptible object he is, | Official who does not do his duty was personally and publicly execrate: by every honest citizen with whom he came in contact, the People ner tht not only more nutrit than en aldermanic feast to which The God Mammon Too Often Puts Cupid to Rout. 5y Helen O:dficld. better upon an Income a’ 12,000 or $3,000 e year than }owever bitter, which or five times that/| }to look out for nu |that before he is aware of tt he alk the susceptible age and seities dowr Into the co: J bachelor and clu with his tmbite fixed and reagonadly proof aga wiles of women As to w o can tell? Marriage undenladly fs a lottery, but it hen love Ja gpnuine lasting marriage 1s| one is healthy and hungry, ts) cup of love which is held by the hands of two will sweeten any other draught, ‘ate May have in store for these two. The trouble is that the young man of to-day has learned, as the saying goee. r He knows @ great des! more than {s good for him and ia wary ashe is w Wherefore he dodges matrimony gently end pleas antly, but with frmnees, just es long’as he can do; so that it often happens zea than blanks, and a good wife anc to man. need of sorrow, or. a happy home are God's bi Into consideration, it is well not to be too cal that one §e truly In love, to marry to grow sensible together.—Cnicago EXAMPLES OF PARASITIC CARMIVOROUS PLANTS \ like those of violets, and rise from the centre of a rosette of pale green leaves, of this city need not long be ashamed of their politics. eee ee eal cece at 2 hie mind ts not whether he A collective civic spirit is good. Private civic spirit, which manifests | etal! ack her to marry him, tut what her er will be to his request. The itself in every detail of life, is better, SE 7 -_-- — —— ———— H Letters from the Peon! iThe Cheerful Primer. #2 se ww wo ple, moore | : H SAY: THIS) VLU NEVER GET Women's Manners. he has answered, a « any peo; ts Too GOOD ANOTHER CHANCE To the Wtitor of The Eveutng Wor ay a To BE TRUE LIKE THIS In anewer to Mr. B. K. W's 1 and the evn aes = woul @riticising women's mann @ay that not all women fs most of the people that @ise to do but go visitin thelr money on Gress ¢ manners Tam on Girl, ‘out I could tel that are away above me something jeter regarding the curl @bout manners. Some of them would es much as get up five an Me@y about the age of se y Years eest. or if a lady co ® baby tn her iting aid look at Of the letter would give Working girl I would tke to t ys he would get a word of t Of course there are always » » that have no manners. I just want t» do depress the writer that not all girls in aed ew York are alike. a, 1 | just as yo tke, ictiucky 1 nothing egy smashed between lo abit. lam eyo ung mar smoking for —= ~ ) po aeent ied (iF WR. HAMMERSTEW Acout D ONLY SEE THIS | ee 4 Pay Po the water of Tre Kees — r expe 10 web WH! some one with exp eon - . “ ese oe ‘ ¥ see #0 many , F « & seat now ; Mrs. J. W fonnt| —-Wenld Beonomise on ¥ PH Subway Atiendants. the Edhor of The -Brestne W At the Bridge siation iv Digeme oof the attendants mee my q A. Many peoy at “|i @ut the pame of the walting ‘ y an am bors te.» os Will the 7 of food And be sometimes answers very) aes, seyalien, end insoleatiy, And by ine ime Slap stick Av'bist whioh, being slippery to the touch, have given rise to the popular name. On the upper sides of these loaves, near thelr margin, are a large number of peculiar | heire, whieh pour out « sticky Muld. Should @ small insect be eo unfortunate as to settle on some of these ft is held fast, and the sensitive margin of the leat curls over It. The fuld possesses digestive properties and reduces parts of the body of the victim to a solution, which te absorbed by the leaf as food. Associated with the butterwort we often find the sundew, which ie « etill more eadly foe to insects, even large ones, Here, again, we find « leaf-rosette, the members of which have « remarkable appearance, for the rounded or It may bes oval leaf-blade te studded with reddish tentacles, shaped ke pins, upon the tips of which glisten drops of fluid—hence the name “sundew.” This fuld, however, ie not dew, but a sticky digestive Muid which exudes from the ends ef the tente- cles, and serves the same purpose as the Muld in butterwort. Venus fiy-trap i# a North American relative of the sundews, possess. ing leaves which are specialised into @ peculiar kind of capture apparatus, Bach half of the leaf-blade is fringed with long spines, and upon its upper surface are three sensitive hairs, If an inseot Is unfortunate enough to touch one of these the leaf rapidly folds up, and two sets of spines Interlocking so aa to render escape impossible, & digestive Muld ts now poured out from minute hairs which stud the surface of the leaf, and the last act of the drama is as usual In the pitoher-planta, of which numerous spectes inhabit the warmer parte of the globe, we find that the leaves are modified into variously shaped recepta- cles which prove fatal to many Insecta, These are attracted by the color of the pitchers, which are commonly blotched with purple, and also by « sweet fluid secreted tn the neighborhood of thelr mouths. ‘The small organisms which swarm in fre#h water are not altogether spared by carnivorous plants In biad@erworts, for example, parts of the leaves are swollen into little rounded traps, each of which has an inwardly opening door, By C. W. Kahles, ‘ecb Plante which have # large amount of water at their disposal get rid of tt by transpiration, In tropical forests transpiration goes on rapidly as soon as the sun rises, and the water Vapor condenses Into @ sort of fine raiu. The so culled “weeping tree” is a notable exemple, | See the susenick Ze Betty Vincents # | we « Advice to Lovers. } LOOK OUT For The ELEVATOR They Had a Quarrel, | ee ane stereo mamety. 6, te quarrel Deas Betty Lobes an Only Child, with @ young man whom I have| Dee Bety: | AM # young girl desperately in love AM & young Medy, twepty years of Awe, considered pretty and have been keeping company with» young twenty-aix yeare old, for a year talf, He often speake of mar- riage, bul on account of his being the only Obild ho thinks it bis duty to teke cere of bis parents, What would you advise me to do, give we or jive in hopes that some dey will be map ried, for it would break Bb; fant ad @ve tim up f ba You Whi have to you love known quite long: ‘We were friends for quite ® while, and he thought & great deal of me, and I the same of him. Through some misunderstanding we got angry at each other, We then made up, but he does not care eo muc’ for me now as he did before, Tell me how I can obtain tie love, as I could not do without him, My parents know him and like him, end Neve no o om ing with Co Jections to my going a as sweet ond naturel in your man- xg you can. Do not try to win him aud 4 net neem toe