The evening world. Newspaper, June 14, 1907, Page 18

| ¢ * Roughly speaking, the hig “twenty years. = The Pebtiehed Dy the Press Publishing Hompany, No, & to & Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. | ENNcrtonbeieniea verse VOLUME 47... seeeee NO, 16,783, LONG LIFE. | VERYBODY is interested in know- ing how long he and his family) and friends will live. Barring ac- cident, it is not difficult to predict "within 'a few years the length of any one’s life if the mecessary data are known. Physiologically mankind is litt different ffom four-legged animals. Except fo the influence of the state of minc and bodily health, the duration of a man’s life should be In propor- - tion to the years of his growt! amd physical development, like a horse or an elephant ner grades of animals live five times as fong as it takes them to'ajtain their full-growth and strength. “horse is full grown at five or six years. With reasonable care a} horse lives to be twenty-five or thirty years old. The recent work fhorse parade proved that a horse can do effective service after twenty *A cow matures in thra: or four ‘years. Her age limits are fifteen to It takes an elephant twenty to thirty years to mature nd elephants have been known to outlive a century, In point of time men and women resemble elephants ™ Based on the earlier development of girls than boys, there is a popular opinion that women attain thet: ful! growth at an earlier age than men. This is incorrect. Most women continue to giin In height -aight and lung capacity up to twenty-three and sometimes longer, ... while most men have attajned their maximum height and vigor by the time they are twenty-ong” ‘The dangers of childbirth diminish the aver- age life of women, but these aside, women live longer than men: The speedier the maturity the shorter the life. : *"~ Precocious children are proverbially short-lived. Their growth i feo rapid and they are more liable to fall victims to lung, brain anc digestive diseases. Men are like trees—the more rapid the growth an the earlier the time of fruit-bearing the sooner come decay and death. * ~~ Longevity is not a matter of height and weight, but of the propor- ~ Mons the vital organs bear to the body. Large nostrils are a sign of eas) ‘breathing and freedom from catarrh and colds. Pinched or contractec Masa! orifices limit the supply of fresh air to the lungs. A big ches ay room for the heart and hngs. A short, broad waist lasts longe a slim, drawn-out waist. Depth of chest and abdomen is mor Waluable than breadth. ‘The barrel-shaped man-will outlive the pancake formation. Too long legs and arms are bad signs. Stockiness is a sign oi Mitality in a man or woman as in a cabbage plant or a tomato vine Given two persons of the same height standing, the one who is tallesi Sitting down will be the longer-lived, I People with low ears outlive the high-ecred. Pop eyes are rarely found in long-lived men. Deep-set eyes, not Gunken, are a long-life sign. Speckled fingernails are an indication oft weak digestion and lack of complete assisnilative power. (Colorless skir isa had sign. So is a tendency to pale or flush frequently, The length of life might be calculated from heredity if it were known just which dead ancestor is repeated in the living descendant Some children take after the father, some after the mother, some resem HM 2 great grandfather or grandmother more than either of their imme. @iate parents. Most children are hybrids, like the successive generation Of strawberry plaints where several varieties have been planted in one field, or like an ear of corn with some grains red, some black and others yellow. These physical indications, how- ever, fail to include one of the most ‘Important factors in long living. That is-the-man's- mental attitude doward life. Are his surroundings agreeable? Is his family life happ fs his work congenial? Has he the will to-ctive? A man’s brain may comain the power to carry his body far beyond the period when it would maturally wear out A cheerful disposition tends to long life quite as mu ‘Letters from the People, uy | | | | | big tors _ “Cortlandt Canyon,’ { wate to oall public attention to the | io w geairucied, whetly unpleasant cond iy Met. Coriandt street. At some places | water the thoroughfare 'e 90 obsiructed by | phant Pullding work. Ae to make OF #49 | oxnct of ie street preciloalty inpus able | yy £ 5 ripe | Phrengs of con » hurrying both Hens ” 4 ae Waye #44 to the masse of confudon , Aogether with the voking. ‘building Conese an #opplios, wagona, etc. At best that | tT we dior of The thoroughfare is Cortiand any not| This la g oe et. In ite prowent con-| thar a yea ; @itien it ie not even & canyon, but 6 eraduates are taking up oa Works than the reer 4 ike « ¢ Mere uae When We mise /tel) us Mf they find « Reape pita oa Jer uTeR. |i dt Pe . ARSEY COMMUTER, y will be a good Rulde to thos. Reard of © ‘ evlded wie t Me the Raltor of The Bye £0 to collewe Ku 8 Where oan | epply A Moller Skating Men, Nite age. studies, term. nip . Marye! ap pad vey pS, Welwhing the Klewtans Pe iy cll arp iy Willer Ot Wea Pywntng Word shame Bome hoodlum ware there F MANE & PrOvIOM Ke HO how | *, Dut mom Of us were quiet gn slephant in and where | com people, arho eujoved # pleasant meniee only register ton! evening thet way Whw wot tet Me mr weiution. Trke roller-wkalting Qiniinwe on Weer #yenpe end detall & ‘oop wep hoodie in cheek? s “a AAEM CALI, Ji, om te eS want Evening World's - | Daily Magazine, Graduated! By Maurice Ketten. GRADUATION WEEK —- -9-r- to go We He aw-¥->- lve tn Once a month There | Dear Betty ye goes to wee her and takes ber to the veatre sometimes, and says she gaged and he wants doesn't the tkes her very much ‘n Going the square thing by me as my fiance? ia me about It understands he ts en-| to go out alone. He no love between them but he Do -you think he 1 am rot jealous naturally but You gave good advice some time ago, so I shall walt to eee what you say sae [FTN ol 1 VLG WANT UNTIL SHE COMES QUT AND TAKE HER TO. DINNER. WIRE 1S AWAY FoR | THE DAY, 100. dimer- and says I love him) ip = Ta. ees ST NE WSEH SS S . SESS Se NN => S Ss NSS SS PS SS Friday, June 147 19073 more than my life and want him to be} I don't gee why you shouldn't go with | |appy, but Tam not ALICE. Try to win him from this bad 1 think you are right and he should habit net take other young women out when Meaning of Keeping Company ex young thu Ayautr years of he ts engaged to you. ] for ‘the past ye and| | AM a young gtrl, seventeen years old 5 intimate terms wil Reeently I was Introduced by a mu- a Indy of about my own age, se tual f whom 1 respect to a | ing her almost every day. I have taker young man wi ston, drinks. before I met him. On one occa- T naw him tn a intoxteated condition, Do you think It would be proper f mocept this young man’s in this young lady to the theatre quite a number of times in addition to many other eocks! ons, but never asked her to keep company. I am deep- Interested in thie young lady and shasne full have me to {tation to | ly go to Coney Island some evening with | think t likewise in me, but him? As is very a ive and 1| before as to keep company J me ove & good time, I would jtke very mue fl If the young BETTY VINCENT’S ADVICE TO LOVERS. Trouble With Her Fiance. Deer Retty -l twenty-five and engaged to man twenty-#lx. ent towns in New Jersey, where he) He Drinks to Excess. works a# an engineer. * mn Saturday, he cx “Keeping compazy.” ae it ts erdi- narily used, meas the association of a Young man’ end woman with a view to ng engaged. You would be ex- ive the young woman your Uslve society They All Love Him, AM a young man twenty years of ag® and sadiy in need of your advice. | am tall and Wendsome, and on that account am often In & predicament, as I cannot go to ® party or outing with- out having all the eirle fall in love with me. I have received presents and even proposals from some of thew young ladies. Wl you kindly teil me how | can repulse go gy bedion pret Lat tham euffer You are too attrac- itive to worry about them. | “Fin SURE WIN-NER Amo MY No, Little Ones; the Lad The La-dy Kill-er isa By C, W. Kahles, ‘$0 GOOD OF You TO COME DOWN FOR ME, GEORGE; YOU CAN TAKE ME Kill-er Will DIN SIXTY HEROES | WHO MADE HISTORY) | By Albert Poyson Terhune. ] No 6O—MUTSUHITO, the Maker of Modern Japam SLANT-EYED, yellowish-brown baby was born In the sacre@ efty Kyoto, Japan, in 1852. His father, the Mikado, was part priest, prisoner, and had little real share in guiding the politics of his He belleved that his earliest ancestor was the sun, and he clal relationship with ‘various other heavenly bodies. He was a sort of ht priest of the queer, little, semi-barbarte, old-fashioned emptre, and was pra@ ally confined to his own sacred city, The actual governinént of the was in the hands of a Shogun (commander) In former ages the Mikado had ruled supreme tn Japan, but in the teenth cent the political sway was usurpel by a Shogun, whose cessors had ever since held tt, The stanteyed baby, Mutsuhito, was to change all this and was to lift his unimportant little country Into an up-to- This is the way he set about the task In 1867 Mutsuhito came to the throne. At once he perceived that ol fashioned Japan would stand with the West, America had, in Mutauhito's babyhood, battered open the closed ports of th’ country, and forced a treaty {rom the reluctant government. Other coun- irles had followed suit, China was already partly in the grip of progressive , Europe. How was Japan to escape a like fate? How maintain her strength and independence against the constant and Increasing onrush of Westerfi civilization? The answer Mutsuhito was quick to find; By adopting West- ern {mprovements and customs! He had been on the throne but a year, when this sixtven-year-old boy broke down forever the power of the Shogun. In @ ® brief, decisive revolution the Shogunate was over thrown and Mutsuhito ruled supreme over the whole country, His was an absolute monarchy, and all tn its power vested in himself. ‘He could mould tts destinies to his will, The old feudh! systett was abolished, the great nobles shorn of thejr outworn privileges, modern methods introduced. Young men of talént were sent to Europe and America to learn Western customs, trades, economics, laws and military tactics. Foreign ‘officers of high ability were imported Into Japan to reorgactze the Mikado’s army and navy. Great shipyards were built and conducted under the sppervision of Europeam master-mechanics. European education and a Eurdpean code of laws wero adopted. The railroad was brought into use, the first line of the sort In japan being built in 1869. In these and countless other ways did Mutsuhitg prepare to meet the West on {ts own ground In 1889 he went @ step further. Absolute monarchy and despotism had proven a failure In America and Europe. The greatest nations were those with @ constitution. So, again taking a leaf from the Western book of progress, the Mikado in 1889 granted Japan a constitution. But he was by no means minded to become a mere figure-head, like so many Europeap rulers, He therefore reserved for himseli the right of declaring war, mak- ing peace and settling other matters of moment, besides declacing himself sacred and above (and in no w accountable to) the law. He also re- tained his claim to. being a descendant of the sun-godtess Se Stronger and stronger grew Japan under its mighty ruler’s wily guidance. At length came a time. to test that strength. The most con- venient enemy was {ts neighbor, China. Japan and China both claimed suzerainty over Korea. Complications set in sulito struck the first low, unexpectedly, in true Oriental fashion, by sinking a Chinese tran port ship before war was formally jared. Having opened the attack, hi never for a moment paused in’ his onslaucht until he had driven unwield); semi-mediaeval China out of Korea, beaten her navy disastrously at the mouth of the Yalu River, taken the Chinese fortress and arsenal at Port Arthur and pushed the war {nto Manchuria, chasing the bewildered? beaten foe before him. China sued for peace. The European Powers stepped in and deprived Japan of most of the promised fruits of victory, in this interference Russia was especially active. Russia was also Ube European nation whose encroachments the Japanese had most r then to fear. So Mutsuhito set secretly actively to work making ready for reprisal for new manoeuvres along nis well-.aid echome of military advancement. After the war of Chinese intervention, { i900, had given the Mikado further proof of his armies’ prowess the cl: with Russia grew daily more imminent. The events of the RussoJapan war are of too recent occurrence to need description here. A nigi attack on Russian ships (again before any formal dectaration of war been made) was followed by whirlwind campaigns by ‘land and sea, endinj tn the defeat and humiliation of the Czar's forces, Mutsubito had prove to himself, to his subjects and to the world at large iaat he was not onl Ania’s master, but a foe to be dreaded by even . ¢ mort progressive nation® of the earth. This military genius, who began life as a semi-barbaric land, has lived to accomplish miri ized his country and has caused one of Europe try. date world power no chance tn competition Cree Solves the Problem of the Orient. Wars with China | and with Russia. a OS “celestial” potentate in ¢ les, He has revolution: mightiest dynasties to otter. Mutawhito is still in full vigor of life and activity, Will such a man rest content with what he has already achteved? Or ——? (THE END.} . 2 The Woman Who Always Wins. By Helen Oldfield. (From the Chicago Tribune.) MAN unconsciously will learn 4 great deal from a clever woman, provide@ A te clever enough to o er knowledge of her own cleverness, an@ to exalt bis. The mome: pects that a pill fe hidden in the sweets meats which she offers him, or {magines that she ts trying to {netruct oF to mame age him, presto! he will depart from her and be seen no more within her gates,’ * It ts the woman who is pretty and bright and merry, and good or net good, ag the case might be, who winds « man around her ite finger, Such a woman i too wise to set up her own opinion tn opposition to that of the man whom eh wishes to please, but sits at his feet and learns of him. Rudyard Kipling makes his favorite, Mra. Haukebee, past mistress m the ost of the Jation of men, say: ‘The first proof a man gives of his interest tw & woman |a by talking to her of his own sweet self. If she Matens without yawpe Ing, he begins to ke her; if she flatters his vanity, he ends by adoring her. Often men Itve and die not knowing that all their lives they unconsciously have adored brains In women; never suspecting that those whom they have loved aa dear ittl¢ simpletons were in truth clever women, who have known how to wear the mask of folly so admirably as to fatter by contrast thelr own intellect and mora) greatness,” +40 1 Polnted Paragraphs, ME people are too polite—to themselves. S j And the foo! with money to burn may drive an ash cart in after years All women are consistent, hut the majority of t uur-Worrtes: w< Be up and doing If you would not be down and done When a woman has no one to talk to she writes @ letter No, Cordeiia, footnotes are nof produced by blowing # shoe horn. m refuse to work at it, 1d be few if It waan't for the things that never happen. Some people are purse-proud because they haven't anything else to by proud of It tan’t necessary to keep the milk of human kindness in the refrigerator, It fan't heat that sours it . After a woman bas succeeded in getting a man to say that ho loves her she begins to find him untnteresting Woman lawyers are scarce, yet almost every least one woman who 1s capable of laying down the Ite pan say® mean things to your face ahe is diragreeable; if she says (sem behind your back #he lv deceitful; if she says nothing~but of | Tcourse ahe never does.—Chicago News. married man knows at w to him. 5 4 The Queerest Relection. Tw not an Unalloyed delight to 4 writer to get ® manuscript back from @ pub. I Meher. However, if one's manuncript must come back, It Is pleasant to have it with as much #ugur-coating a# possible, says Harper's Weekly. | The Chinese editors excel all others tn the art of returning contributions 1H |wueh ® way aw to spare the contributor's feelings, Instead of curtly saying that | the manuscript ie “unavatiable” or “not adapte hey send the writer « letter i lke the following 1 ious Brother of the Bun and Moon nd by Hehold thy servant prostrate bes of thy sraclousnems thou meyeat grant huscript hae designed to cast the Nght oF it. By the bones fore thy feet. I bow to thee U may speak and.live. Thy bh ite puguet countenance upon us of my ancestors, never have I 1 sich wit, such pathony much thought. With fear and trenib! ure the writing, Were I to publish tha treasure you sent me the Emperor would order (hat It should be made the stan@. ard’ and that none be publivoed ex such as equalled , Knowing Mt am 1 do, ond that it would be vonaivlo In ten thousand years to equal you have dove, L send your ¥ ng V Ten thousand times I crave pardon. Tehold, my head i¥ at your tet Vo what you will Your servabt, £ TUR BDITOR" ro How One Dumb Beegar “Spoke.” Ae tramp has been Arredt) ia teria for demos, ey alike wb es houaee only, where bly maghle owner's mintoriyare "