Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.
ly Magazine, | “The Evening World's Dai _ @Pyitenes vy the Press Publishing Company, No. % to @ Park Row, Now Tork Beteret ‘at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mali Matter, & th arermeRra aati VCLUME 47, deseee es NO. 16,706. ese etenininenenenatrmnm HOLD ON e Ev VERY pocketbook should have a By Roy L. McCardell. Padlock or its contents will disap- | ““ MY DE BRANB pear. These days it is particularly A cath MA ‘ - ; i _ season in Royerstown, necessary for the ordinary citizen to Pa sald the Chorus” Girl en back at the flat says never Again for hers goen. BF keep a tight hold on his money, be- cause men of great ability and de- vious talents nave contrived $0 many of getting his savings away from him, It is especially dangerous: to _in- vest in any of the corporations whose sectirities Edward H. Harri- y. Went Te snap just the manager, who was of hers, and to at even orke, the wine agent who's been carrying on terri- bly ‘He's like a tot of eth 1 know who thik that bein SAgel means that a wirl mustn't n en- Position to manipulate, These men derive only a part of their. great | 48% he Dlesnen and theres ne tarts tnt ae ‘wealth from the power of their corporations to exploit the public, The |enaiden fair by passing her a ring and, grinning t ‘aking of other people's money by printing stocks and bonds and un-| themerives as if to 8 Schiele mata! loading them on the public by mergers, syndicates, recapitalizations and “wBecause there's only one way to break an en- flotations is speedier and cheaper than piecemeal extortion. For a remedy against excessive fares, high freight rates and: bad Service the public must look to legislation and the courts, or to the efficient performance of: its duties by the Public Utilities Commission, whose creation pursuant of Goy. Hughes’s recommendations is now assured. But the quick ways of being robbed by high finance ate semi- voluntary. : No man need buy any of the stocks and bonds of the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific or any other-railroad which Harriman controls, No man need invest his savings in the bonds and stocks which represen! nothing except the inflated capitalization of the Inter-Metropolitan merger. When Harriman or Ryan gets hold of anybody's money in exchange for & piece of paper which costs nothing except a lawyer's fee and a printer's bill the lamb has himself to blamé for being shorn. George looked gagement, and that i¢ to dh! back his ring. bet i That's why many a young girl treats on and loves, — thouga men are decelvers ever, somewhat 1 ; “4 *, oa io as he pleases, after he aged, The proceedings at the annual meeting of the Delaware and Hudson juat os 1 teil you. Mosoustee tha Ooemn't Dave te give (Company add to the list of Harriman corporations of which the public] DSck * Tea! diamond ring. does ne? And that's where . a , the wine agent, had Amy bound the Should beware. Before Harriman got a hand in its management the Lesa i ee, D. and H. was an old and conservative corporation, Its capitalization bannister. “Oh, yes, it was a reali diamond. George, the wine was moderate. It paid 7 per cent. dividends to its stockholders. Its se- Curities were gilt-edged. agent, is just if not generous, and he knows how it would hurt his standing, and, what is worse, injure his wine, if i got out around ameng the girle chat diamonde. No sooner did Harriman get hold of it than it began to buy up sub-|"“-Renpad as oreide ” Siduary corporations at inflated prices. It took over a bankrupt trolley _ Syste at several times the price that the receivers offered to sell it for. ‘Vf allowed Tony Brady, one of the Harriman gang, to unload on it an “No, dad as he is, he wouldn't do that, and any- Over-capitalized: system of street raways in Albany and Troy. It went| you leave me, child, for the firet_ man who dropped a tose at your feet? cific proved his mastery of corporate bookkeeping. He can make thé books show any profits he pleases by instructing the bookkeepers what way, we didn't trust him, The night George made good with the ring, and afer he'd ducked and Amy had poured out the hopes of her girlish heart to her mother, who wae listening behind the portieres all the time, Mamma De Branscombe said. ‘And would ‘nto the anthracite coal business and ran in debt fo~ =i 4 sot “And Amy sald, ‘(is,cotiage pudding! Pipe the Then it increased its dividend rate. spark. Momste: it's a carat and a balf! And then This increase is a well-known-Harriman and Ryan trick. The Object | Memme aei4, “How Aid we tnow thet this party, who of it is to catch suckers by making them think that the stock is really at more valuable. Harriman in the Chicago and Alton and the Union Pa- items of expenditure to leave out and what figures to put in as assets, The old President of the D. and H. committed suicide. He is not the only railroad official whose conscience clashed with high finance. The new President is a Harriman man, He will do what Harriman wants done. Men like Harriman and Ryan will speedily come to the end Fope as soon as the great American public who earn all the hones lars that are made in the U ate se to have anyt with their “securities.” 4 | See een Letters from the People. “Me Husban Pe the Editor of The Byening World Ts it not funny that. with very few OFFICE BOY f ” 1») @kceptions, ali women enjoy tel Old Age Penstous. | | WELCOME | @bout how to tame bi ade? -W the aller ot © | ( ; @rest satisfaction they repeat that { >, "*, Pi tor of The lag ‘nate every woman “naturally te manage men. Now, ait W infallible. there ie ne men, teen tn all, are of humanity. But. aft Men in married life is Mavane each oth 0 wet along beat A Partwershiv Problem | Be the Baitr of The Bvening Worla * the que Here is @ partoership pr tor | - ' . . Peaders to solve: A. and B ¢ ala - : partnership io share al) prone losses alike Not thinking A -eereement A and B make « be AX There is an additional expense of & gents besides ihe f Mew much fan A claim of B of To tee A of Toe Rvecing W low? : HA, 1 wish to ask for the o: + of Newark, N. J mothers who have been reared ta this Amother Office Bor's idea, ony regarding young girls in 5 the Mller of The Bvesing Word, (hres and tour glug 40 den BMG Bs villee voy 1 My girls, nineteen and seventeen, T o'clock in the morning, | ™Y ‘ieee are (00 old-fashioned, as for dinner, and then ee ny eed pote AF Gao Paces without,a proper escor jo not ES Foy Rnd to be too hard) but ae I am « foreign u. Let & b.want Nop York readers’ advice neliers on the eubie: Mulhern please view + ore This ine eet eR, reek | , why 4 n who are and cor » STAAL Jersey City A vthers for Ady man or Thomas .F, Ryan is in a]ever took at any other feller, but that the man can} 8 | communtty 1s being stirred up by the popular price ening Wo 70 YOUR MONEY. The Chorus Girl ‘Tells About Amy’s Road Experiences |New York Thro’ Funny Glasses came to eteal her birding from the horme-nest, was snarling, and the first chances !t got tt bit him. worthy of her @irlieh trust, even if he wae of a! “He had a horse doctor cauterise the wound, but business that angels might envy? And defore we fell for his play we better see what it waa worth, | “trownes the goods, and Mamma De Branscombe gave them ber bieasing, when, just ae 1 tell you, George got to think he owned Amy and wanted her) to cut out Able and Loule and all her old friends | when he wasn't around, although Amy always brought home the corks to étow him when tre called! | and-prove she had been true to him and had only [let her frtends ask for hie wine. | “Bit tat didn't Keep him from éntertaining ladies | when his flancee wasn't around. And It was up to Amy to make him @#it up ahd beg, or else give Rim } heck his rite. | “So she went of the road awhile to see tf that id make him miss her and promise to behave. “And what Am) «ays she suffered on them one night stands! In/the big towns they played against Maude Adams a¥d Barnum & Batley’s, and in the | emall towns the’ five-cent moving pioture shows have simply put clamoes all over the ten, twenty and thirty cent high-class repertoires. “It's no wonder that the moral ¢lements of the WoT 135 per DON'T CRY MATTER OF CEoRCE! DoT FELLER? ELLER’ at Amy and looked at the rival wine, and then he theatrical managers to close them five ornt shows. “And Boyerstown had a religious revival going on, but Amy @aid the attraction she was with might have gotten away with enough money to make the next town at that, but the very day they arrived a nt saloonkeeper in Boyerstown was bitten by an oyster just a@ he was going to drop It in @ stew. ‘That made his place a centre of attracUion for them thet wasn't attending the revival, and Amy's repertoire company couldn't have hired an audience tf they'd bad the price | “What can you do with a town where the first time & citizen brings an oyster home to make a stew of it he doten't know enough to peel it, and gets bitten by the ferocious thing? After an oywter is husked {t's harmless, Anybody knows that. “Oh, don't laugh! In them Pennsylvania towns tt you ask a friend If they'd like some cysters they say “You bet! I'm bungry enough to eat a whole can! “It appear) that the saloonkeeper had been to Prttxteiphta on an excursion and saw unhusked oysters for the first time, and so he bought one to ake home to Boyerstown and make a stew of It. And cairying !t In his pocket, had got it sullen and r “ oN oer rmammassncsuais! ore tee Saturday, May 18, 1907. rld’s Laug] By Irving S. Cobb. all of hie friends wanted to come around and help From Hi Glasses to Green Glasses. t him Kill it, and then sit-up with him to hee he didn’t NEW YORK, May & Ret Une rabies, and so there was no show that night; WAR GRETN: Most of use here in New York he: and next day Amy decided to close her season and = — D been greatly exercised this week owing to the I come home. match that was pulled off on Monday ‘night end “When ahe left Boyerstown they had the oyster tied Tuesday morning by one of our best love matehers. up in the cellar for nine days, to see if it really had Need It be said that I refer to Mrs. Mabelle Gtlman- the hydrophobia, and if it had, the town constable, Corey, nee Mocking Bird? From what I can gather, thie intended fh shoot It. Amy says she belleved herself young woman started out tn life with just about enough that {t was mad. It would make anything mad to intellectual apparatus to enable her to hold the offcial bed iteelf in Boyerstown, spear at the proper ‘angle during the grend march and “Amy, poor gitl, was dreadful upset to find when to keep the knees of her feehings from bagging [ confess she got babk that Gtorge hadn't even telephoned that I wee able to gage upon her printed likeness. with= about her, and Mamma De Branscombe said he was Out Oetng severely blinded. Yo far as I could. ascertain, acting like a demon, as he hadn't sent.a case of his Mabelie bad never been put forward prominently” for wine up to the house for weeks. ths diamond-studded beauty medal, withough, after har “So we all went out together. with Able Worgie- ing viewe* her pleture in costume, It seemed to me that she baum and Loule Zinsheimer, and, sure enough, the certainly deserved ble mention for Conspicuous first place we struck, there was George two tables (ase every ‘time she put.on tights and went out. end looked an audience im away with a prise fighter, a jockey, a prominent | po) nire-tapper nod another gent and when Loule| But here's the point I wae getting at. Suppose she had been content to go, raid, “Whatti-we drink?” Amy sald ‘Bring us @ bottle! 4. ner way in coniparative mutenese. Today she would probably be the third of Pink Beal one from the end on the second row tn hellotrope with The Prince of Preteelg’ ~ Wostern Company No. 3. playing night stancy in Arkansaw and Texas To ‘THINK SHE'D Tastead of which, Mabelle kept crowding (be Imelight « little harder all the DRINK THAT THERE time. In the otherwise silent watches of the night her pleasing voice was oft-, PINK SEAL dome! times and oft-soons raised to tell the pa ftranger how euperior she was, ‘ and how she would have Lulu Glazer jamz up against the back crop {f) THEM'S A PAR they'd only give her a real chance. And, now, juet sce what Dearie's dove? She 0’ FANCY LuoKInt hes given @ fleeting taste of f to a previously undiscovered and unexplored! DAMES! MEY? clergyman from chartlesa wilds of Derkest Brooklyn; she hes had one of] the swellest Puttepurg weddings that ever took place tn New York; and, in ad-} dition to half a peck of diamonds and a sew of desirable pross nutices that; will come in m handy when she goes back on, she has acquired a couple of casual ons and WiPyum Ellie Corey, Esqul: Dy all acenu tt must have been one of the most delightful ceremonies that was ever ceiet t portion of Allegheny Ctty, Pa. whieh ts Joeated, on Fifth eve from the Waklonf-Astoris, As carly as four o'clock tn the afternoon telegrams of greeting began to agrive from fellow meme legroom tn the Falla Divorce Club. Members of the tm- { the happy Pp were constantly being discovered tn obecure Ue first pages of new and ahiny bank books. ‘The leat trace Of objection to the marringe Gn the part of the relatives dirappeared upon re celpt of the news (hat another dividend had been declared on Steel Trust pre ferred ° One hour before the cere: where the private chapel (thousand @ollars’ worth of reports from the secret servi “My brave boys.” he said, “have you_succesdad in finding one-pot? i “Not yet. me Lord," they answered, ‘Out have courage! We have yet to expiore a part of Brookly and the greater portion of the Borough of the Bronx A clergyman who'll i for it shall yet be found.” “'Tis well,” said the proud and happy tnan, “continue the chase. May suse cees crowa your noble efforts the meanwiilie with the da let joy be unrefir.d." There was a touching acene when the brite appeared. She wore an Empire gown of white crepe de shite, Me bodice, of which there wasn't any y the favored gentleman entered the room been constructed aryl, carelessly brushing nine chids out of a chelr, he eat down and reccived (rimmed with rare old point d’Agullle and Government bonds. ‘Trurtfully, ahe burst into tears. leaned up aga © gentleman who was proparcd to weear to love, honor and protect, he having had previous experience in that line, amt softly murmured “Whe lly served at . ‘When George saw that wine actually “ah, darlir love you for yourself alone. Tell ime, did you bring that second he said our table he turned pale, and, coming o thought yuse were my friends! "Oh, we're your friends, all right.’ eays Amy, “but you aiu’t going to put our friendship to the test of expecting us to drink that chemical compound that you tout, are yout “At first 1 thought George was going to hand her one, bul his gentler nature came to the surface when he saw we was too numerous for him, and he looked at Amy and looked at the rival wine, and then he Rea Oe cea w on sone me aoeel| RUS GS UOMOLET al, And then i all came out that Goldie Magee had told him Amy false to him right along, and never pekgrediishista Si My adiad ax prens ha By Alice Hubbard. “Tt was the loveliest reconciliation I ever saw. Loule made a sign to the walter to take away the bottle (From the Philistine for April.) of ‘Pink Beal’ and bring in George's wine. And we never left the place till we was put out, De I agree with Rose Stah! that chorus girls should carry pistols to protect themselves against mashers! Sure. Half them fellers that want to get acquainied without an Introduction haven't a cent!” million with you Don't you see how touel simplicity governed the eve And now they're honermBoning weas. Well, I guess they can't come too high for Mabelle now, because sho has the price That's qbout all the soclety news I know @t present, Yours, HL have been? Good taste and a quiet nly one brass band present OR the beautiful woman whose only bank balance ig beauty, we must have «pmpassion. Thetr attractive. ness is their sole jegnl tender, and they oftem culti+ vate it at the expense of the development a’ brain and body,’ War and Peace By Maurice Ketten ‘The fabled Sirens of old were represented as women. who lured men upon the rocks of death. And these women? spent their time, when no ail was in sight, in efforts to enhance thelr beauty, to cultivate charms and in planning campaigns : This legend ts founded on a very stern fact: women of power who do no useful work, who ure made exempt from. honest effort, either by cholee or circumstances, must and will find some way to give expression to their energy and{ they use the means at hand. They use the only ones they |have been thugit to use, or in a degree allowed to become familiar with, B@) instead of helping to build industries, to bless the world, to help guide Ule ship? of state, many beautiful women ®re composing siren songs and playing at life on the fatal rocks, singing thelr Loreler where the waves at their feet the bones of their victimed dea Beauty as @ business is @ bad habit More than a century ago, Mary Wollstonecraft lifted up her voice in a ery of agony for such sacrifice of women and men to cease, and she herself died a% martyr to thie cause, The remedy she pointed out. And the only remedy known was to make women economically independant, to give them work, side by side’ | | with men, make them equal burden bearers with them—politically, physically, morally, spiritually free , It was the voice of one heard in the wilderness and her “Rights a Womes* shows a world yet untried, but one of which we are dreaming dteams. . | | Our own Susan B. Anthony died with the of her life's efforts still in the’ \Gistanee, and the cry upon her lips was the regret that she must go out from | thin life jout reeling the political freedom’ of her sex. “Let no woman @ {without having’ done her part for the ent’ranchisement of women,” were her éf« (Ing words | Across the sea, Mra, Cobden-Sanderson, true daughter of a great man whe?! | eave hia life to freedom, with « score of other women, has recently spent {6ur | weeks In jail. And the crime charged against these women was that they hed! | anked to have recorded thelr wishes on certain subjects in which they were pére ponally Interested, matters that affecteg them individually. They eimply me@e? the request a# men do and for the same reason—they asked for franchise rights. And there are noble women who sing no siren songs, whose hearta and lives! are consecrated to the caine of the development of the highest and best in hes manity | A principal of # large normal echoo! wes once speaking of @ young and very promising girl. We were adding to her work responsibility because she HMAC er, and we knew ft needed expression. The principal agreed with us that th | girl wes extraordinary, but, he sald, “It is of no use, ehe will never scoomplith lanything, for she is dowered with the fatal gift of beauty ; But beauty ike ancestry becomes fatal only when it ts considered of value | byr tteew, ont 1°” Nothing te of worth over night. Our efforts, our enersten, our love, ety our joy, must be new every morning, and fresh every evening or we dle morrow never comes The NOW ts our only possession. Beauty of free and form are accidents for which we have no credit in th lbdnk of tmmortelity, No eheck of our wil be honored except the voucher | aby and oavabllity for useful efforts, or right intent—the beauty of soul end a of mind which we ourselves, in large degree, can create and control. e+e | Phonogravh as Witnees In Court. | 1 0 wyer, who recently made 00d use of @ phonograph tn, 1 - © had heen continually annoyed by tho noises of hammering a4.) an iron foundry in his near nelgvorhood. Finding that complainte were | availing he brovgtt the matter into court. But before doing eo he A phonograph ‘m bis Whrary for one whole day. When the case came befor he produced the phonograph and set going the spectally prepared | oy An Uproar and din as from the forge of Vulean was the result, ena the Ingenious lawyer won ‘his enge. a ae A Woman Is Judge. WOMAN has Just heen elected Justice of the Peace in a suburd of Chir cago, and, being “interviewed, she said she did not feel that she had been extraordinarily honored, since she thought » woman Who was @ first-class cook was superior to @ Arst-clase Justice of the Peace. _—-—_ —--- ee —— - Sherifi's Horse Shot a Girl to Death, Ne Goldiield tho other day ® deputy ewe < ° |] pocket by the restivenese of the bores he was and ie a horse stepped on M and fo disoharged ©