The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1907, Page 12

Published by the Fresa Publishing Company, No, 88 to @ Park Row, New York BEntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Clase Mal! Matt NO, 16,716 WHY ARE WOMEN MORE HONEST? CCORDING to the bonding com A panies’ compilations, embezzleme: increased 50 per cent in the United States in 1906 over 1905. The de-} .falcations by the employees of banks doubled. Ordinary business embezzlements more than doubled The amounts stolen wére enough to pay the whole expenses of the a State government. | “ Almost every’ embezzler and de- faulter was aman. There are more women cashiers than men The department stores and shops of almost every kind employ women to handle their receipts, to make change for their customers. Yet there “were a hundred cases of men cashiers stealing to one case where a woman | ‘cashier took her employer's money. Why are women more honest than men? - They are paid less than men and they are more subject to the vant!- ties of dress and personal adornment than men. It is also easier for | them to steal, since the-¢hecks which surround the innumerable trans- actions of a big store cannot be as minute as the books of a bank. Al-) though the opportunities and the temptations are greater in the case of | the women than the men, women are a hundred times more honest. | The tabulation of the men’s defalcations shows that in the majority | of cases the men stole to gamble. Among higher and better paid bank | Officials the' gambling’ took the form of stock speculation. With minor | Clerks and messengers the money stolen went to the pool-rooms and the | tace-tracks. In comparatively few cases did the men steal on account | of a woman. get lan ' 5 In the few cases where women stole it was almost never for thesns| selves. Where the woman, thief was childless the theft was for some | worthless man, and it rarely took the form of money, but of jewelry, | “which he pawned and spent the proceeds in a pool-room and in idle living. | Where a woman with chitdren stole it was solely for the benefit of | Ther children, and then she took only things that they could use. Where | such a theft was from a store it did not take the form of money from | the cash drawer or of expensive babies’ clothes, but of the cheapest socks, | underwear, dresses and shoes from the bargain counters, The mother thief when she stole did not dip her hands in deep, as does the thieving ‘bank cashier, but took only the barest necessities for her needy child. {| | | { | | The thefts by servant girls were almost all for some loafer, better educated, better dressed, than the man whom she would usually meet. | Her woman's vanity took the shape of the ostensible devotion of a well- dressed man instead of using the proceeds of her theft for the adornment ‘of her own person, The thing that tempts the man thief most is always money, He will take it in preference to jewelry or clothing or bonds. With a man’s | logic he realizes that money is less easily traced and more readily dis- posed of. With women, on the contrary, money is the last thing they steal, They will take gloves-or-silk stockings or a costly purse, dis- } regarding the cash to fill it. | | | MR. JEROME'S STATISTICS, Chief Clerk Henneberry calls The Evening World's attention to an error in th given in yesterday’s summary of the routine work The Evening ay 4 Daily Magazine, Tuesday, May 28, 1907. POLVSRSOLSOROS HOS GERTRUDE BARNUM World's Wanted---A Prominent R. R. Man to Be Put in Jail. By Maurice Ketten. ae per —— — — Organizer of TheWoman's Trade Union League — eo | ae aru) 18 Ta | : Tne WANTED } Toco to | Py, CAN'T LEAV SBR Too BUSY k Ta, | MY HORSES 3) l f l 4 : wire may { ‘oe a | WONT you Go? 4 a —_— it | ® S O ir S ) SAIL P / | wan't You Go? Girls Who Are “Crazy About Music.” GUnw L know gnee sent a friend to a small boardingy A house at a small summer resort. A week later, whem she went out herself, the landlady broke the news te nat her driend was inaane She seems perfectiy rational when she ts with people,” sald the woman, “but whenever ahe is alone she raves 50 we hear her ail over the houne. Juat at thix moment there descended from above the sounds which had terrorized the countryside: “Oh-ho-ho-ioz hb; Wa-nacha; hi-yl-yl."' ‘The girl was practising vocal exercines, Very often gitts who seam perfectly rational on other hat they are “craay about music,” and when nuslc we think they are, It sometimes seema would be a relief tf there were no music; we much more pain tha pleasure in the long agers are crossed “over the left’ wnen we ax though # should St say much | The other morning Mr. Smith moved his family out of our apartment bullding,« | “That music upstairs,” he said, “may soothe ‘the savage breast; but {t hath no ;chatma for me." 5 The girl upstairs “takes” of the girl downstairs She has learned to rea@ music in the treble cleff, and to play airs with her right hand. With the left she makes passes up and down the basa, landing wherever chance leads her fingers op thumbs. Bhe has a good deal of company, and her guests all play and sing. There {9 a man who renders selections on a cornet which seems to suffer, There ts a little girl whose tremolo voice aska central to give her heaven, while j some one, improvising the accompantment, gots connections with the lower regions, WANTED: AR.R MAN To GO T | There is a quartet which practises popular songs of the Gay—four-part songs— Jail | with Jurisdictional disputes. WON T You GO / | Investigating the ‘‘@raze."’ | In short, {t was easy for us all to understand * | understand why the girl upstairs caged herself with such Finally, being horribly fascinated one night, I bearded the | to speak. To my great surprise, I found the gir! who was “crazy about music” a very dainty, fined-looking person. She ts an operator in w ladies’ white underwear factory, atid has listened to the shrieking of the machines unt!! she is partially ne-deat. In “taking music” she !s groping & way of escape from the drudgery of the endless, tedious days into some higher life, which she knows is open to others across the border, in the land of lelsure. She does not enjoy. the music, but she thinks she ought to, and Is trying to cultivate the taste—the way people try to e Henry James Many other giria create and encouraze horrible Siscords, with the eame idea. ‘Though partially tone-deat from tack of early training and from noise In their streets, homes and factories, they crave rhythm, melody and sentiment, and do i the beset they can to satisfy the craving. They “take” of Prof. Thumper or Mme, Catterwaller, or of any one ¢lse who puts out @ sign, extravagantly spending their hard-earned mor and their scant leisure, after work hours, tn the effort to decothe mustel, But there are among New York working girls, besides these would-be nmusi- ns, thousands of true lovers of the very best musio—giris whose musical taste Is | highly cultivated. They are to be found especially among forelgners; and many of thelr American friends say they are “crazy about music” because they go | without/mome of the so-called necessaries of life in order to save money for the | tuxury of mustc. - | Working Girls at Opera. Douring the Itallan opera searon {t is fn the galleries, not in the boazes, that real music lovers are discovered. And in the synagogues, concert halls and ates of poor Jewish people there gather working girls who starve thetr bodies to pave the toll for the road to the realms of Wagner and Tsohatkowsky. Th an artificial-fower gir! is not crazy when she pinches and saves for the opera The young Jewess who works all her days in dingy basement fur shops ts not crazy when she starves her body rather than starve her soul. Even the little white goods operator is not crazy when she tries in her un- couth way to escape from her grim realities into the spheres of the ideal. "No girl should allow her life to become a senseless treadmill of labor. American men have built a national machinery of tremendous power. American girls must save the heartless, conscienceless machinery from de- stroying beauty, by which alone the soul of our country can live. No girl should consent to a life shut off from beauty. ions tp thelr den, se WANTED'A BIG R.R_MAN To GO To JAIL WON'T You Go? Love and the Weighing Machi while of the D mey'’s office he total cases disposed of, not the number of indic as 5,265. This is almost exactly the same as] in 1901, the ve efore Mr. Jerome's term began—5,267. The exact} comparison be n 1901 and 41906 is: Convict 1901, 551; 4906 464. Pleas, 1901, 1,838; 1906, 2,001. Discharged on re izance or bail A scharged, 1901, 626; 1% Bail forfeitures, 1901, 113; 1906, 47 The number of i and | forfeit wa! under Mr Jerome. Th as and di nber of p ge rotc disch. 1 trial is twice the numbe increased routine eff nid of discharges higher than ation Working girls are at last beginning to group together for shorter workdays and opportunities to gratify their thirst for nature and for art, They are spread- ing the belief that beauty and melody should be within reach of all who are te be mothers of future Americans. —_—_ ++ woe é. By Nixola Greeley-Smith n a seat reside He ee ered bat iv Lae | bec stouter, or else to annex one of those lean thoroughbred clothe A | by the way, he is “kind, loving, gentle and) the: an aesthetic minority of his kind seams to prefer, Moreover, the generally lovable’), After @ series o- attacks of Ill of q gtout first wife not infrequently takes unto himself m thin second one, wiflo ODD JOBS FOR COPS. " Uy inairon of 48) pounds) the relict of a lean Burne-Jones lady often revenges himeele on his former By Walter A, Sinclair. Tre & mumer in The Kitohen, on Long Ishand there ts ertme—— 0 pounds, T! ly about haif of the wife e husband gestheticism by taking @ second helpmeet of mountainous sist. The husband cheated BRAT of whom his diminished oetter half has written me should consider himself ex- gained fOr. | centionally blessed, for he has combined the varied { double matriunony ¢ by From the Battery to Harlem crooks now @ & lovely time 7 think of tt? THE WIFE | tn ne brief experience of married lif Bui tobe! Des 89 ru etter of inquiry from.a wom vei Bacal cpe tah a Mees nls rent susie. Mee among From Inwood up to Riverdale they violate 2, Rapa lla ad tt pe sia me beg +o hi the middle-weights, and the wifely transtt battleship to ban hae With the foolish people shrieking very loudly for “Police!” seoma to” ime, though alf the wife her husband \ 7 " sepa a LP pin Beet | been too audéen. In this event I would advise the dwindled bride to look up Pray, do not disturb our agile sleuths, they're busy now, of course, pone fat-forming foods, get plenty of sleep and fresh air and quit worrying. She ought to be able to run herself up to 125 or 19) pounds and thus perhaps strike a happy average of domestic biiss. Seriously, it is rather hard to discover a serious side to this problem. By the wey, the man or woman who mi tes by the weighing machi I lated for hevitable divappointment. If we love people at all, it is mot becuvre they are stout or thin, beautiful or homely, w or stupid, good or otherwise. It is—as the musicad comedy tenor always takes pains to inform the lady of his adora- t because you're you. The quality of being “you” is Just as strong at t 110 pounds. So the husband has nothing to complain of any way we ook at it sa Woman because she ts In working up the evidence for Moneybag’s divorce of form and be- grievance If vie the| Of cours man and she then suffers a reversal ‘The pool-rooms tn the Tenderioin, where you can lay @ bet, May noon be wiped clean off the map—may soon, that is, not yet. The rubber planting borough hes tts daily little fright— The fat thieves are so busy that folks don't lewve home at night. In Williamsburg the hold-up men still slug because the Force Is buay getting evidence for Moneybag’s divorce. allen in love the hus! ye upon he really wit and of the #: ops ® lurking admiration for sylphe ntrary, gt th approving who is first one and then th variety which we are t in he Mos suCceasful siren: Ordinarily it is th ‘omb! With riots on Ure water front the city is haraesed. Most any day in Yorkville “phoney” check are being passed. The “con-men” tap the racing lines, the come-ons come this way, And pocketbooks are lifted on the street cars any day. But don’t disturb the coppers, pavement-pounder, bike and horse, They's busy “getting something” for the Moneybag’s divorce, paliaanate ey Wel Queer Things About Birds and Animals, r proportion to its size, the horse has the smallest stomach of any quadruped. man to wed « stout woman who remains stout or alamity Jane’. WELL FOR A GOCDNESS SAKES. By W. J. Steinigans FUNNEL SHAPED Crouod? The deer really weeps, its eyes being provided with lachrymal glands. ‘A remarkable mode of incarceration is practised by the hornbille, bints Lt with immense bills and horny crests, which inhabit Southern Asia, the Malayan ne Islands and Central and Southern Africa. In most, if not all, species the brood= f ing female is walled up in @ hollow tree and fed by her mate. She remains con~ r prison until the eggs are batched, and in some species until the young inde pag to fly, says the Philadelphia North A: Meanwhile the Mmotuer hae become temporarily incaphble of fight, as she has moulted, or, at least, ahed all her wing feathers, during her captivity. But the male fe inde- fatigable in providing for his family, and t# said to work so hard that he ie reduced almost to @ skeleton at the end of the brooding season. The flesh of allgs rs, it is aid, tastes very similar to veal, and is regarded cy by many people in India ” epoonge Reh John Tukes, of Butler Valley, Pa. was driving to pasture stepped on the tail of @ rattlesnake, and the enraged reptMe turned on Tues, hed to the barn. The snake chased him to the door, which Tukes closed. as held prisoner @ half hour before the snake coased its rattling and who fi ‘Tukes Ww went away. Resembiing in appears nee and action Jackrabbit (s @ Nebraska calf, accord~ Ing to aii accounts. It has no tail, and its hind legs are longer than ite fromt ones, Tt # over the ground in leaps and bow Not very long ago there was on the coast ancashire, Engiand, « pottage t entirely from the remains of score or and @ boathouse that were made alin: \~/ GET RIGHT } |] HOME, SARAN! that had been driven asho e years before. The tramework of | , no of whales THERE consiated wholly of whalebone, and the dried skins of the huge crea~ atly and strongly fastened as a covering for walls and roof, There exactly the same kind In Scotland, and in this case the 4 some of the heavier bones are used with great effect » A & Comin! \\ereron Tear hy ] Aw a WELL, YOU NEB ON'T LAUGH! KN | as outside ornaments, +> The First Lighthouse. HE Pharos of Alexandria, which was regarded a8 one of the seven wonders j | of the world, on account of ite grandeur and utility, is perhaps the fret | lighthouse of which we have any definite description, It stood on the Labe | and of Pharos, at the entrance of the harbor of Alewandria, and Is adil to have | been constructed about three hundred years before the Christian era by oa sees Cnidus, and wag dedicated to the “gods protectors of the safeguard of tailors.” ‘The height of the original tower i# given at 4% feet, but Josephus writes that the light was visible at a distance of about thirty-four miles. This would have necessitated @ height of about M0 fret et treeserenremner The Lifting Powers of Men. XPPRIMENTS on @ number of men have shown (hat a man Ove feet high | ‘and weighing 1% pounds will lift on an average 1# pounds through w vere toa) distance of eight inches of 217 pounds through « height of L2 tnehem ‘ Othere 61 feat igh end weighing MB pounds vould lift the 166 pounds to » height COMPROMISE NOT EXPLAINED. | PRACTICAL JUST FOR A MOMENT, | poy perce i pounds to a height of 6 inches. Otner ‘men 6 Cort & inchap $) Jimmy, there were three Jars Bir, I want your daught hand Look here, old. man; when I let you! ign gng weighing 188 pounds could lift 166 pounds to « height of 18 inches, oF Howl . r in t pooard, and now there | "You may have It with the greatest | have that money # week ago you sald 17 pounds to « height of # inches. By a great variely of experiments it wae Bhe « ‘ moe How tw that pleasure, dear boy, you'll take the you only wanted It for & little while. shown that the o Quman strength Is equivalent to raising # povnds tureugs org mine. 3 nyt vont know, ma, unigas Lone that’s always ip my pocket." Ww 1 told the truth. I only had) ee ee eee aaa, jase) Jou overlooked \i~INusiveted Bas Leish Packet it @ tthe while, "—TiteBite @ dista tea iat Ni Sia