The evening world. Newspaper, June 17, 1907, Page 10

aoe ano The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Monday, June 17; 1907 a an ae , (@wetened vy the Press Publishing Company, No. 6 to @ Park Row, New Tork. Bntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, VOLUME 47 ...0.ceeces cesses ceseee cess senses ceeeee NOW THE TELEPHONE NUISANCE. 'EALTH Commissioner Darlington has his telephone disconnected at night. He found there were too many people who woke him up on H the theory that he was a universal i complaint bureau. Instead of writ j ing a formal complaint and send } ing it by mail to the office, it was easier to work off a spell of sudden wrath by calling the Commis- sioner up on the telephone at his house. \ Dr. Darlington ts not the only f man who has to safeguard himself against the annoyances which the tele- i phone has brought into modern life. It is as big a nuisance as it is 4 | convenience: Welcome as it was at first, the time has come when some ; Systematic method must be devised for checking the nuisances which the | abuse of the telephone breeds. k The telephone and the typewriter have been two most effective in- i struments in destroying civility and conciseness in business intercourse f They are also. destroying social formality, which it would be better to i keep, because formality is the opposite to familiarity, and too much familiarity is destructive to friendships iad aT Naa oh GER “So Jong as a man had to write ‘his letters pen in hand he was) not fiven to many words, bécause the physical effort of writing, restrained him. He wrote only when he had something he really wanted to say. and his letter stopped when he had said it. Now, with abundant stenog- raphers, the effort of writing a letter.is no more than that of ordinary conversation, copy-books have increased in volume, correspondence has grown to interminable lengths, and even judicial opinions take many more words than when the judges had to do the transcribing themselves, ‘On the whole it is doubtful whether stenography and typewriting save time. In like manner with the telephone. Before it existed, when one man desired to say anything to another man he either wrote or went to “see him. The result was that many trivial things were left unsaid and _Matters of little consequence were passed over. With the telephone at his elbow, especially if he has some Clerk or typewriter to make the calls and attend to the connections, a man is very prone to do'too much telephoning. A matter occurs to him and he telephones about it at once. If he had not been able to telephone, four times out of five he would have found a way to dispose of it with- out either writing the letter or making a call. The Day of Rest, By Maurice Ketten. BEA GENTLEMAN ANO LET PAPA EN TOY WHAT'S THE MATTER NOW ? CAN'T YOU BEA Lady ? fous HEY! THERE Come BAC Y Here | AND ADMIRE as NATURE OH SToP THAT CRYING READ THe PAPERS AND Im PROVE YOUR MIND Love in Twenty-four Hours. The older person who marries on @ day or « week's ; ; | This is seen in the Increasing number of calls in every house or office where a telephone is installed. Its use is a habit and it grows until it becomes a bad habit Women had far better do their marketing in person than over the telephone, They would then see what they buy, they could compare prices and they would save money. A man had far better attend to any business matter of importance by a face-to-face talk than over the tele- RENNES VEO eR out is more harmonious. | The telephone is indtspensable for certain purposes, It is a con: venient way to make appointments, It is a substitute for the telegrapt It is the quickest way to get the doctor. But the man who invents an adjustable telephone padlock will make a moderate fortune. — : Letters from the People, ' Tobacco Versus Perfamery. \* 4 the loss of ef money. Where i FW the Edkor of The Bventig World an ta for help in collecting it? It may be true what some people aay MARY @bow the smell of tobacco being o fectionadle on rellway care, but these ax te Cheaper Cohs, People are not lovers of tobacco, The| 7 th Miiior of The Beening World women among them are. in most cases | 4 correspondent that it Jovers of the more objectionable hatdt; V4 be & ocd adopt the Of using perfumery. Buch people need Cheap cab eyatem ae Bei wide in the smoking-car if they|#0 that we New Yorke: 4 @an't stand the smell of tobacco Many these vehicles more ¢ © time | got = headache which lasted Yorkers t for hours from the smell of perfumery |are short Mved No expensive tine ¢ Phone. A talk is always more effective where the parties are face to! face. Arrangements thus made are better understood and their carrying naturally resents being excluded twenty-four-hour marriages. the hero and heroine to| ng ause very exper one or f|for making young people to|and announc’ gement by the time they ance and then unfortunately to quarrel in|!s on Long Ia tion may not be and women who emulate them in re. quaintance on es which get there precipitous a# It sounde marry & spa What the story young people from He’s a Regular Flirt! as the stern parent usually prevents very arrying the ular form of folly to its disastrous conclu: | calendar. & AT THe Stating RIMK TONIGH fe the-cam. if our smoking habit is |be consumed riding in». Pi | Wad, H can be eosily Axed for doth | vehicles as the cab, in guing wor 1 Sides by pulting smokers on our differ- | keeping an important engagement, et « ent roms, bul this can't abate our per | As It is, aside from these, New York , Samery Bend Le, me fom my |e-who cen and woud efford i: fallow emokers Bas ware ride i) cate we for inatance Rewel 414 Beciety, 259 Broadway: , Pe the Maker of The Deentng Worit: | re W8 Ab | bse et a Settatit 2 Tam 8 working girl 1 was employed (paves ced vatite ten enn Be | By © Mroedway merchant as 6 clerk,| would Ge © good thing to lene! A MATTER OF TINT A WEIRD REQUEST LEARNING EASILY CONFUSED. Qa when giving up bis oMice he owed great modern ex : + ead ‘ er, 4 or day We village physician Soker—I won $50 from Bings last night | ‘Whe brought us little brother, papa?’ plas died 40 anh ne | Maine casts © gave, motto YF Rem | was Lauded this pater startitag playine poker. The doctor. dear.” et |etilt etter to heap vanity whens’ s: RJ bya sae sovd Dear Doctor ww you kindly give Jaker does Binge know how ¢o | a. Jones said it wae the stork.” | 'Well.” replied the junior riner,| Robert « h chloroform to kill « tlelay poker “Well, there's some resemblance; pared ys waking @e tool for oe loaerie y : ~ | end oblige then, Masten Sean Meces ot Yet~Léppincott's Maga- presente © bill ike @ stork,” thou . ba Lineal 0 aime, atom ee wed make » bigger bit by eay- By Nixola Greeley-Smith PORGE BRONSON HOWARD, according to Saturday's! Sion. quaintance, tn my G papers, woeed his wife in twenty-four hours and spent OPinion, de: his fate. In very rar es where a marriage is contracted a delig honeymoon of two weeks with her. Then ,24stily the mental sympathy, which develops much more slowly between two thes, quai 1, and the writer, who } to live, his own Bersons than the physical infatuation on which such marriages are based, con weie the hero a ehoxt a fs back in New| frms the hasty first impresston. and the couple lives happlly ever after. But xeneeally these untons, as in the George Bronson Howard case, bring quick dis s for himself, notwithstand-| aster. The Head nearly always follows the heart if it {s given time, but {t quite the contract altogether as it ts in these bate gh: Any man may be a hero for a Gay; any woman wear the gil6ed aura of that onday and marry on Tuesday But in real life man’s ideal for the same short time. But the wise woman gives herself time to ian oe ois eeding almost inevitably entails &) aiscover whether the heroism ts real or of the stage, and the wise man has Puragon ny oie RR leisure to discover whether her halo ts tinsel or pure gold. ens some actua Heroes and heroines of magazine fiction have developed quite a fad of late the train en route to a house party If the house party But men life are not dismissed to eternal happiness at the bottom of @ page, but are rather heading for the top line of the divarce By Gene Carr. ps | arms or PEQRBPBPBHD”BB® GERTRUDE BARNUM Talks to Girls A Jack of All Trades. “ ON'T be a Jack,” said Josephine, the young elgli~ maker, to her friend Nora, , They re going to Coney with thetr beaux on was late. Nora was kneeling on the floor trying to prem e on @ shaky little apparatus Xttached to the gas. The night before she had puf the finishing touches to a strange, wiid hat. At daylight she had siWallowed some abomignBle coffees and a hard-bolled exe (which she had meant to e60k soft), and ever since she had been struggling with the ghirt t. Firat she had made two ale: for the same atm; secondly, her white thread gave oS she had to finish with cream-colored ailk; last! 4 scorched @ grant place right in the front. So she wept. But her friend, being trritated by the long delay, offered’ no sympathy, “Don't be a Jack,” is wha e said, “but get a move on.” When Nora complained about it to me later I said X thought her friend had spoken more wisely than she knew. Nore te @ Jack tm one sanse at jeast—a Jack of all trades and master of none She sings and plays a Iittle—the leas the better; she has studied for the stage @ Uttle—a Hitle too much; she papers her own walls—they look like It; she codks her own meals—they taste lke it; she makes her own clothes—they fit like It; and she paints water-color pictures of the sea—which do not look like ft. Incidentally she ts a tobacco stripper in a shop where her work is mere unskilled drudgery and does not-pay well Nora feels very superior to her friend, who does not recite, paint water colors, trim hats nor make and launder shirt wais however play, sing nor ‘This friend, beng a skilled roller of sample cigurs and an artist at her trade, re- celves twice Nora’s wages. She can afford to buy well-fitting shirt waists and becoming ready-made hats; she lives in a comfortable house, paying board to « woman who hires a good cook. Her spare tr spent on concerts, where the music is better than the home-made of which Nora is se proud, Why 4s tt that drudgery ts usually left to women, while the interesting, stile ful, honorable and highly paid work is monopolized by Have you ever thought of that? It is because men choose seriously and specialize upon @ par- Ucular Ine of employment, realizing that they are “in for life,” while women look their work as makeshift, and, Ike Micawber, are forever waiting for ething to turn up” to-change thelr fortunes. This difference in attitude | toward work, rather than any superior ability on the part of men, accounts for woman's position In the factory ani in the her acquiescence under bad ‘onditions, her tolerance of low pay and poor equipment for work. The men in our families believe that what is worth doing is worth doing They demand the right tools and aim at excellence of work. They refuse to undertake a piece of carpentry with a string for @ tape measure, a stove lifter for a hammer, a chatr-and-box combination for a stepladder. We women do many an extra task ourselves rather than listen to the extraordinary language men use when offered @ nail file for an ice pick or a button hook for a cam spener Why should women not demand fit conditions and equipment and dim at perfection in work? Working girls are just as likely to remain in the workin class as workingmen. In their case the drudgery of the factory may be but drudges they will remain so long « “turns up” for can variety men? home, hanged for the drudgery of the home they r remain in the Micawber frame of mind-the thing which m will continue to be the drudgery Which men refuse to do. ¢ who refuses to remain in the monotonous, and works her way up to stand shoulder to ne man who makes the finest grade of sample cigars. When thle * will not attempt paper-hanging, wood chopping, coal heaving, ooking, dishwashing, laundering, dressmaking, millinery, tailoring, cleantns, lyeing. kindergartening and carpentry. She can always get high wages at her trade and join her funds to her husband's to pay properly trained and equipped f people to do various kinds of necessary work for the family, This will leave the nother more free time ‘with her children in the evenings, Saturday hajf-holidays, jundays and vacations than the average poor working woman now enjoys, and will secure for the children at -the creche, kindergarten and school more inteltt- gent and regular attention than the average child of poor working people now recetves. No wonder @ prompt, skillful girl Ike Josephine grows impatient with har clumsy fri who constantly attempts ‘the impossible and worrtes and delays every one-by her cont agitation and despair. No wonder Josephine sometimes los@ her ter “Don't be a Jack!" It would be very wise for Nora to ponder this sensible advice and for all the rest of us women to weep in erb, “A Juck of all trades is master of none.” Ghe Story of The Streets of New York. By J. Alexander Patten, 5 § An Old New Yorker, No, 8-More About Chambers Street. : N lower Chambers street was the famous sugar refinery of R.L. & AL Stuart that grew out of the candy shop kept by their mother, whe was a devout Presbyterian woman of Scotch birth. Although the refinery* business was immense, Stuart's candy was sold at a store in the building on Chambers street, until this branch was turned over to a former foreman. o. Alexander Stewart lived in a largo brick house adjoining the refinery unt! his death. His brother built @ magnificent house on the corner of Fifth avenue and ‘Twenty-first street, where he had a beautiful flower garden. He left over $60,000 to the Prestyterian Loard of Foreign Mission’ nd with this money they bought the site of the residence and erested the esbyterian Bullding, leading to mush ‘nancial embarrassment. R. L. Stuart was President of the Metropolitan Museum of Natural History, and bis widow took great Interost In It, but on the decision to open it on Bunday withdrew her patronage and cancelled a bequest in her will On Aug. 2. 1823, Alexander T. Stewart, later the great dry gvoda merchant, ad- vertised the opening of a store at No. 283 Broadway, with “a well-selected stogk of Mnens and lawns.” He wns located at severs| places, until he erected great marble store, which {s now the Stewart Building, formerly the site of Washington Hall, the headquarters of the Federallats There was a line of defenses at Wall street, from which !t takes Its name, and quite acroms the island, back of Chambers street. This street was eut ugh a negro graveyard, and some of dhe bones were found there when emea- vating for skyscrapers. Just where the’ thousands now rush about the bridge and the entrances to the Subway, and directly opposite the Pulitzer Hullding, stood the old colonial bulld- ing known as the Provost or New Jall. The Hall of Records that was torn down there for the Bubway wes this structure remodelled, and looked very different. ‘This ancient building had a fearful history, It was erected in 1767-8, and wa a pipce of great security, havin, rieades, doors with bars, bolts, chains and porgerous |o |, besides six sentin: William Cunningham w Provost-: and the most-hated man who departed with the British Army, He was execu! for forgery in London on Aug. 10, 1791. In @ confession he stated that 2,000 pere sons were starved in New York and 215 executed, The executions took place met far frum Chambers street, about Clty Hal! Park. The people there complateed that they were obliged to close their windows on account of the horrors of them executions, ‘ The famous North Duteh Church was long @ landmark on the northwest corner of William and Fulton streets, ‘This church was dedicated May 2, 300, | had contained 40 (o 1,090 American prisoners of war, Before it was torn down, years ago, I saw the marks of the British bayonets and pikes on the stone ——— nother of the doorway. The property belongs to the Collegtate eformed Charch, the oldest educational organization in New York, tying Deen founded earlier Chan 1640. It Is @ wealthy Conporation, Hike ‘Trinity, and has churches and property | different parts of the olty, Some valuable property on Dutch and John streets te now to be Improved. ‘The celebrated noon prayer meeting held in Fulton eteeét. wiginated from the efforts of a misstonary of the Cotlegiate Churah during oe pante of 1857 ‘ SEER eo The Danger of Dust as Science Sees It. OMAN asserts that efforts toward the eradication of humaa tubsrculosté H fail which do not take full account of Mousehold dust as « factor Vt dissemination of that disease, says the Medical Journal, Selentific have shown that the seeds of pulmonary tuberculosis, harbored within door, in Uhe dried state, are capable of retaining thetr effective vitality for protonged pe- rlods of time. Any method or procedure employed in inhabited buildings whigh ca Gust to be disseminated must be consi¢ered as tending to spread the seeds of consumption. Hotels, clubs, theatres, oMice bulldings, schools, churches and business establishments generally should be required by lew to introduce ‘erid operate duatiess methods of cleaning, tits part af the mechanica equipment be- ing a# necessary as provision similarly made for warming, venUilation and for fire protection asd fire escape. The employment of dustiess methods In private residences is urged a# being equally imperative for the contre! and suppression of all forme of tuberculous disease. 1 —_——_— oo Automobile Fire Service, ANOVER wae (he fret city te purchase « complete automotsie service, consisting of engines, hose carte and book end ladder kit. over te also (he only ety In Germany that bas & complete automatic Are sireet service which giver the signal wub-elstions _ " lad 4