The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1907, Page 16

eve GPRcan Tork PubMened by the Press Publiehihg Company, No. #8 to @ Park Row. New ‘Tintered at the Post-OmMce at New York as Beoond-Class Mall Matter, a WOLUOEE 47 occrcsevceecsss: caves sevess coves sosves NU. 16,607. =A sentence Sa AAA aS ad WHY RENTS INCREASE. COMPTROLLER METZ has been investigating the dif- ference between the price that landlorsis set on their property when the city wants it for bridges, schools or parks and the values as they appear in the tax assessars’ book. In Manhattan the cost to the city is almost double the assessed valuation, 11 Brooklyn the taxes are paid on valuations only 27 per cent. of what the property-owners collect from the.city. Either the city is systematically swindled or the assessment rolls are ridiculous. The fact is.that the city treasury Is defrauded ¢ both ways. The property is ‘assessed too low and an expert assessment’ wouki remedy this. The cost of schoolhouse sites, bridge approaches and new parks is too high and honest condemnation Proceedings would correct this injustice, - Little general interest is taken In such truthful statement as this ~ compilation made by the Comptroller, because the majority of the people of New York do not realize how their earnings and their expenditures, are affected by taxation and municipal expenditures, When butter goes up three cents a pound every housewife Knows it and every husband feels it. When roast beef costs two cents more or . the Standard Oil puts up the price of kerosene a cent a gallon.the great fwage-earning population of New York knows it; feels- it and resents it. The votes of the mass of the people are greatly influenced by the prices of the necessities of life. The comfort of thousands of householders is materially impaired when food and fuel cost more. Such things as the 40-cent fare to Coney Island, universal free transfers and S0-cent gas are and tangible to every family. But whether the city taxes aré high or low, whether the government $s extravagantly or economically administered, is something about which the average man knows nt little and seemingly cares less. The nominal taxpayers in New York are only a few thousand. fFhat is, there are only a few thousand property-owners and corpora- fons which send checks to the Receiver of Taxes. Nine men out of ten do not know where the Receiver of Taxes’ office is or what the tax rate is Much less do they know what taxes they pay. Even those men in the Long Island boroughs and Staten Island who own their own property do not appre- ciate how unjust assessment and mu- micipal extravagance affect them. They know that their ptoperty is as- sessed at its full value; they know that their taxes amount to one-half Or one-third as much as the interest on the mortgage. But they regard this as inevitable, instead of some thing that just assessment and honest it would relieve. If the Trinity Corporation or the Astors or the Goelets or any other of the great individual or in- corporated landlords is to have its property undervalued, every Small property-owner must pay more taxes and every tenant musi pay more rent. When syndicates of politicians succeed in a Tittle house and every rent-payer in Greater New York must make up __ the difference. When these politicians indulge in what George Wash- {ington Plunkitt calls “honest graft” by buying property cheap and selling ft to the city dear, every small house-owner and every tenant pay their More than any other cause, the Immense cost of the city government enormously high in New York and the ordinary cost of living so ex- The grocer, the baker, the storekeeper and everybody else who tusiness here have to add the taxes which they pay with their rent to the cost of the goods they sell. Byery year rents increase, ey ‘wil! continue to Increase until the systems of assessment, taxation and expenditures are entirely re- Letters from the People. An Office Boy's Grievance, ‘To the Bititor of ‘The Brening Worlds Wet back in time for even. Tacha tangy prtngea IO Poms 3s sarin if ao desiring. “Tae fours regulated why can't the effice | tadust’of peadere. It ee ee boyp and ether working boys? We} Ghani ‘save beers from't AM te 8 P.M, and from 9 A. M. to 1 A.-M. on |™ Se Biker of The Bventag World: Saturdays. A majority of us working a Aiscussion arose concerning the fact boys have irregular hours and st maxes (St te eatues of Venus have the t very inconvenient to theese of us erme severed at the elbow. A. asserts Mving ‘out of town Let me heer from | that there ts a reagon why the arms ether working Goys on thie eageeetion. Were out off, while B. claims that there OFFICE BOY. | 19 no reason, Is there any reason why More “Defective Speech.” Venus's wtatue never shows the ful Pu .the Bator of The Brening Wort | length of the arma? F, R. I have read letters about “defective; pn. only tamous statue of spesch.” I ams stammerer and 99M | wichour arms to t y Himbs stammer eo badly the people 1 | tr yy om om petreming think I have @ brain-| broken of storm. I wish some one could suxxest | turies ag [ # cure. A V. | @eddess have arms Bigmmertng Ws usually caused by nor A Obicago Problem, oes Build yp she general hesith | x, we waiter of The E ei 2 at | Ese youreeif fi (2 apek with 60 ree ollement 0 A Day in the Country. be the Editor of The Prestag World: Homily people wil) get out of town very clear Sunday fro: arer iy “! vily oval Sunday from | ter, over, He tries thre eo wns 1 gare soa (2 i lett over, He then ¢ fn ge om Into the country by Lp on Broken Arma, his son & certain numb, The youth pute an each of two boxes he Pecatné World’ aff itee’s ‘are easy enough, {t seems to. me, only one must be a born cook, a born dressmaker, a born lover avian Terry. erie knowa every move of the system perfectly, tt works Just | as well if tt happens to be the one adapted to her pecullar | four temperament ing sy {e perhaps the most frequent system ts based on the as-|so mu sumption that @ woman prefers to be taken for what #he ts not. The man whol sue it mucces emcee stp wean a or Ryan President of the U. S.? By Maurice Ketten. wasmington® PAONUMENT SHIT Hous) s Daily Magazine, Thursday, re ener tenes aan May 9; 1907. Haw! | Ha wl AUGIE, 1 EXPECTING JA DELEGATION Rance he e. CABINET MEETING PAYABLE To THE BEARER iN Suey TicreTs having acreage property assessed at farmland vahutions every man witt| MAKing Love by a System. G2 G2 &2 & fool of one's self tor a cake, to make a dress, to make love— | playa it, {f he | makes her live uj UCH {= Ellen Terry's contribution to the book of auto-| Wiser S graphs at the Actors’ Fair, At the risk of being ad Judged preeumptuo I must disagree with ‘Terry, even though she ls a grandmother and. ha! cording to report, just taken unto herself another husband The most successful lovers are made, not born, For each successful lover plays a system of his own, « 7 coldly acientific application of a system ta not o with the spontaneity en A woman of a of detect a man's syst with him—that ts, if he has selected her hia next experiment. And, atrangely enough, though » to make a cake—so m ic m to make a dress, There are any number of dressmak illy Is not ¢a PRESIDENT RYAN PRIVATE | OFFICE By Nixola Greeley-Smith. es to make love to an unsophisticated girl of eighteen or so, y by assuming thet {a a woman of the world, and then es he says things that an older and the sweet young thing feels that she ed their real natures does not love as he graciously permits fence to the winds. But If Miss Terry had written t having upon occasion wit ing seen various "Imystema” mocess by the aclentift alculation rather than inspiration h sugar, #9 much butter, eo much nese things to make love— slterated gall, And te pur- wut one of the rarest arts In the world yatem than elther ness, #0 Much una THE CHESS ; boxes, @c., Inte Jersey or Wostonesier at & pl... %fl iy low rate, wander in tw after puttin Beids and woods of the real coun number. of penaie s previous! ® it. carry ut when he Frye Ze eating at be Will the Strenasous Spares QUIT their RI-OTOUS LIV-ING "> wnaiteine se PLAYERS® RETREAT & 2 By C. W. Kahles, aa uves! THE 5) ee BUILDING IS BURNING Down!) Pipe the MAD A-BAN-DON of their ~ BOIS-TER-OUS HI- LAR-LTY. i Move Bishor Sh | Lone’ FOURTH —~; en ay oe eee re nen ED WRETCHES, PSOTOTDEOSELHTISVHS® GERTRUDE BARNUM 8 of The Woman's Trad+ Union League : ® Talks to Girls ox : Alout Reading HIP favorite reading of the average working girl te ttfe | novel of “high life.” A pale little paperbox-maker will sit on the floor of her factory at the noon hou, ost to the world behind the cover of her book. If you loom ver her stioulder, you will find she is perusing something ike “The formal compliment on Ruthvena’s tongue- - Up remained there unsaid. Ae Atleen Ini her cool | # he hesitated and his moment was gone, } mata ‘entered with the message: ‘Mra. to know whether Miss Afieen would care to follow the hounds at eleven? Aisa for the, rude awakening of the little readert jam aiing bells Announce the close of the noon hour; the factory sands horry and bustie about “ridding up" sandwich scraps and banana skins, and the volce of the foreman ts heard | remarking Chat this ts nota Carnegie Library. There ts « type of working girl who * use for novels*—who reads only the funnygraphs in the Sunday supplement airy tales for mine,” saya thie girl; “give me fun or money.” Then there ts the ardent young Jewess who tries to get the paperbox-makers to read Socialist tra Bho ta not eed, though day after day “The Class Striggie” ts crump and leaves from the “Co- operative Commonwealth” « \e Sometimes the funny girl # a] versus Labor” serosa her table and sets the “pax into roars c Howe 11 working girls know that and “no Joke,” and here and she weahes to know wh expect to “Ret off at millionaire “Ruthvens' " ns Mkely to eis a girl who rea e she ‘gets off a the gate of matrimony. Toltering around with ° limenta on thelr tongue-tips,” ner taat ehe will marry 'n So she reads it @ labor movemert, wishing to Know whore the working people are te “get off at’ Uptown tn the homes where the paper-boxes ion flesh and blood “Alleen” is eagérly reading a t “factory hands.” She can hardly be torn from “Mary, the Mill Girl.” to go to a “tea.” On the wings of fancy she follows Ler unfortunate, much-tempted heroine through lodging-housee and drug shops to the gutter or the river, and she comes to picture all working girls as engaged tn recounting wretched stories, circulating “hot alr-r-r" and | picking thelr ways alone, at midnight to the friendly harbors of “all-night She cays igh, for they not see many working class rry bonnets and bon-bona, the eating-houses, Little that is written gtves American girls of one clans @ true idea of another class, If. Aileen could decipher from the soft-tinted cover of her fan box the es true story of the girls who made it, she would know that paperbox-makers are scept in the matter of opportunity, and she might be moved a fairer division of the opportunities, frees with theif work Into the secret chambers of the tan owners they might find that to many an helress ilfe seems only a huge, hollow paper-box, in which human betngs are sent hither and yon, like aster bonnets or bits of frou-frou. But what chance have these two classes of girls to read anything true of each other? A col sirl decides to write an article on “Women !n Industry.” She collects “4: rom the Bureau of Statistica and publishes in some Journal of Sociology, which the average reader never sees. A journalist finds that the will pay well for “copy” about laundresses, She dashes off Job.” asks questions like a Charity Organisation Visitor, an@ sufficiently recovered from her day's work, writes « story centring tions of the Laundry Wagon Driver to herself. je the author of “Tales of the Upper Ten™ ts getting “lo¢al color™ and “action” for her “Great Society Novel” from the top of a Fifth avenue ‘bua, or behind the counter of @ Broadway jewelry ahdp. Bo far {t hae not occurred to the two classes of girls who are #0 curious about each other to write true stories for each other. But that Would not be « bad idea, would It? While tt could not bring about an ideal “Co-operative Commonweaita” over night, as the ardent young Socialist would expect, I for one believe that it might “help some.” Ten Ways To Make a Woman Care for a Man By Margaret Rohe. No. 8—After Marrlage—Dtscourage Theatre-Going. | F she expresses @ Gesire to attend a place of amusement ive her a reproachful look over the top of your book, squirm around in your chair, then get up, step Nghuy over to the baby’s crib, and murmur softly, “Poor ehilal Poor little one! Never mind, papa loves her.” Theb pace up and down the-apartment and hold yous hand on your brow. Finally come to « halt and say, “And so you really want to go to the theatre? You actually meam to run away and leave this poor infant a prey te whee may happen while you amuse yourself in = gross way @t & vulgar show? Well, well, ft ls no more thant expested, I have no right to complain.” ‘At this point she may remind you that there ts mare fully competent to administer care and bottled neurite nent to the olive branch. Wave your hand resignedly ang murmur to yourself something about, “And she would eave our child to the care of a hireling!” If she further insiste that the play, in not a vulgar play, wave your hand again as who should say, “It's mo wey no use” ‘ Suddenly confront her, Say flercely, “Do you know what class of persons » act on the professional stage? Do you_read the newspapers? I am astounéea* She may attempt to argue that relaxation ts @ pretty good investment ter tired folks Bhe may speak of the wit and humor, the golden note of the mustoal comedy. This is where you must assert yourself, Tell her that rather than hawe your ehild grow up with such notions, you will organize a Herod gociety. Recall every stage scandal you ever read about, If she interrupts and potnts out blots on other escuteheons, get your hat and rusk sorrowfully from the house, first taking the precaytion to atop at the maid's room and tell her her gentiemas friend awalts ber tn the hall, ‘This will insure your lady wife's strict attention to household duties the while you seek the solace of the nearest public house and ruminate on the unreasonableness of the female sex. —-+ How to Take Care of the Eyes. r reading or writing, in either standing or sitting, the head and Body should be ect. The act of bending constricts the neck veins, hindering the return of the blood from the head. ‘This is one of the common causes of short sightednass, Do not work by flickering light. Fine needlework, particularly colored em broidery, should be worked only in @ good Mght Be careful not to read lying down, as the the eyes and the externa! muscles soon become very tired, Do not read in the direct sunlight, as the glare is # direct irritant. In reading by artifical light the back should always be tumed toward the souree of {lhumination, allowing the light to pass over the shoulders. When working by artificial light 1t should be high enough to permit the sbad- ing of the eyes by the brows, else an opaque screen or, better still, a transuoent shade should cut the gtare of the Mght from the eyes, ‘The ight of an ou lamp ie very rem{ful to some eyes, Yet gas and electrie lights may be made almost equatly eo by applying some pf the modern improve menta to the ght then too much blood prone = | i PA Ga RCO Osh ca Queer Origin of Ice Cream. H HOUGH th ks and Romans used ice for table purposes to @et I through the hot n were introduced In they, Knew nothing of “ices.” These from Italy about 1660, and. wi mages giaces, although they were made of and \ apricots, “ng contained not a drop of cream. Later, cream anu miu 40 give consistency, and then, gradually, the » evolved. But, up to leas than a century tards, &@, ae desserts et fashionable dinners much later that ice cream became popular for such occasions, commen grerenes Science and the Sunflower. 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