The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1907, Page 14

. Tho Evening World’s Daily Magazine, Wednesday | What Are the Wild Waves Saying? By Maurice Ketten. june % Row, New York. @Pebteves wy the Press Publisning Company, No. %@ to @ Park Basachl ‘Batered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Ma ——_ VOLUME 47 0. ..00eceeee coven: 200 PER CENT. XPRESS rates affect everybody's pocket. Fully as much as th cost of postage are the ‘crer| Proudly, ‘ae “They ate teaching it to her at school: * O& course the schools will close (iis week, etiil a etart fee start, and speaking French im a nice accomplishivent. When I went to private school, when 1 was a girl, I took French extra, and I suppose it cost mamma and pape hundreds of dollars, but I've forgotten eyery ~-ord of it now.” “What waa the ure of spending the money w it did You no wood ked Mr. Jarr “It did me a lot of good.” said .frs. Jarre; “at least T wre the mtinfaction of knowing that no expense was spared on my education! “There you ‘have the keynote to the fecminine chara No expense was spared! ‘The doctrine of showy extrave dearer than anything else in the worki to a wonan, They never per = thing ts for good or for evil in its results, but what aid It cost? # lot {t was worth while, and the more useless a costly thing Js the more value it has In thelr eye “They care for usele ad EMMA can speak French,” sata Mra. Jerr, charges collected from every- body everywhere, That is what) “makes the Adams Express Com- dividend of pany’s 200 per such general interest. | Most of the vegetables which | supply New York the greater | part of the year come by express. The shipments by steamboat or in carload lots by refrigerator Freight have their price fixed by the innumerable smailer express ship- 4 ments. Es The strawberry patches of the South contributed each tts sha | ter,’ said Mr, Jarr. -| agance think Tf tt comt . for inetance—I admit,” sate t the rest of what you say A woman's first thought i= n wants a thing and he t t; 8 woman wants a thing sad too, if she thinks she gets it cheap.” said Mr. Jarr. “and how many great fortunes are made by men who persuade women they are getting things they do not need, cheap?” “That may be true,’ said Mre. Jarr; “mon are decetvers In business ag in everyting else in this world, but I titnk dt is more shame to the men whe | Gecetve them than to them to be “nootved.” “What's Uuls got to do with Mttle Emma learning French?’ asked My, | Jere, who not care to pursue the other lino of argument any further. | “Well, ehe can speak French,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Come here, Emma, and (ell you father what is Frenoh for ‘Ye a fo this 200 per cent. dividend. Everybody in New York who eats & | . Strawberry before the New Jersey and Long Island season paid his Share of this $24,000,000 melon. This dividend ts in addition to the regular ordinary dividends of 8 Per cent, and to another hundred per cent. dividend distributed to the Stockholders a few years ago. The Wells-Fargo Express, the Ametican Express and the United States Express likewise pay enormous profits That the express business may remain so profitable fs the reason that the Unitéd States Post-Office keeps its charges at an absurdly CONEY ISLAND | “Try to remember for papa, that’s a dear,” sald Mrs, Jerr, coaxing!s “You ered tt perfectly 1 papa dim me ta “Yes, a lot of candy.” sid Mr, “I for maid the Ittle gr} “No, you must tell us what. js on now, Emma. What is It Willie wanted to go to the ¢ eirl "hat Is the French for ‘Yea? * de tandy now?’ ‘Yes,’ raid her mother, “Go ould say if you wanted to say that you and If the United States lowered its charges the express com- |; 7a manta to do to the cirtus,” sald the child, proniptly a high price. iia ta'tover talc. - Sp fomy te the Uoited States Post lane et us." sald Mra. Jarr. “What did the tte pig say when It ram Office Department charges excessive rates it does not get the “1 fordet.”” said the ohtld « “Wee, we Ww “What did de ‘t “Come, come, E ! all the way home,’ coached Mra. Jarr. le pig say dat stayed home?” asked the little ett! | . never mind the little pig; tell us what ts French for | yes. pronounced ‘wee,’ ian't 117" “Ems,” sit the little girl. “Now, @imme de tandy!" | “There you see, now!” said Mrs. Jarr, in triumph, “and yet you said she t know It "I want de tandy! I want de tandy! cried the little girl | “Papa wilt bring you home some to-morrow, mamma‘s precious Jarr. And then, aside to Mr. Jarr. “Don't you bring her home any candy— they get too much eandy as It tf, She'll forget it by to-morrow.” But child showed no Indication ef having a bad memory for anything but [the French language, because she commenced to cry, and intimated that eanéy had been promised her before and she hadn't recetved It as promised. Mra, Jarr had to send her from the room. ere, now,” said Mrs. Jarr, when she returned. ‘I think ft Is #0 nice starte an young. When sbe's older, {f we can afford it, we will go abroad, aad Emina can acquire thé Parisian accent,’ ave to have a bigger stock of French phrases than she has nOw,* ir. Jarr, vat lke You: you have ne pmbitiona for your children at all!” eal@ Tt is so refined to know French. The Tartop family all speak ‘h fluently, and they are lovdly people. Whenever they have a quarrel end ant t6 say things to each other so the servants won't understand they do It in French.” 4 | “We haven't a servant half the tine; so we need not bother,"’ said Mr, Jerr. Ne rr. “It makes the servants so angry they can't understand what the Tartops say to each other when they are elling that they leave.” . | And St tsn't polite to speak foreign tongues before others who cannot com- |prehend them unless tn case of necessity, 1s {t?" asked Mr. Jarr. | +O, bother Mrs. Jarr. “You are rode enovgh when you want to bem ‘That is, all large packages, which are the most profitable, must a ace Ba Bs : by express. Ghe Story of Titer stn tor sr ces coaed spears ann. | rue.Luve Versus Common Sense FJ By Helen Oldfi-) The Streets of New York. Work to London, Paris, Hong Kong, wherever the Universal Posta! F* men appear to follow the example of the Vicar <f apt to marry not a woman whom he chooses Uut the woman who chooses him and j The express companies do. i. That is why the postoffices do not pay. De At a cent an ounce the post-office could charge 80 cents for @ package. At half this rate the express companies ma “eDough money to pay enormous dividends. Of course, with the ~ States charging double the exmess rates the business and the profits gc ~to the express companies. Also the post-office’s limit of weight is four pounds except on single By J. Alexander Patten, Union rates apply. To send the same package by mail to Ne Wakettelt, whe, Wil be. remembered, “chose % ee wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a £ t was said at the beginning, ap- costs a third more than to send it to China or Japan ®ioery surtice, but for such qualities as would wear well.” parer ts that the fudement of a man, however clever. 18 fre An Old New Yorker. i chay ew Y at i hia thing No one Is surprised when 4 man marries a woman for love quently clouded by overweentng self-confidence, which makes him sure that fa ie Sending packages from New York to Newark is profitable, there of her beauty, Moreover, no one may geinsay the fact that| woman impreszes him favorably she Im all that she ought to be No, 9—The Prison Ship Martyrs. fore the express companies do that. Sending small. parcels to ( ‘a fine glossy surface’ thing tn (ts way. [t Is When a man likes a woman he {s almost sure to b ye that he understands {EN I was a young man I saw in Jackson street, now Hudson avenug, is costly, therefore that b is left to the Post-Office Depart: higtly desirable that the-Wife of a prominent man shall do her; resents advice from any one who dces not admire her as much as he docs, W in the then Oite’ oF esckire, a 'etene tieetuareaeiltel ane on ~ him credit by her pergénal appearance, shali look well at and refuses to credi anything to her discredit, however mg the evidence may dignation. It was an old wooden structure standing on a small gore head of bis table,and be admired when she is seen in be, His amour propre is in « defense of his own and he will not} or iand, with the Navy Yard wall in the rear ané a retaining wall alone fMe public; but thts deaideratum, Itke others, often ts lacking. [even doubt, sometimes in the face of proof written all over the object of hi#| greet. ‘The lot was muddy and covered with refuse thrown from the adjelw All of us know men of brains whose wives seem wholly choice, that she has a good temper. ing tenements of a poor class. unsuited to them; women who are not simply common-| There is an inner vanity In most men who have justified thelr faith tn them- The oor of the old structure was so rotted away that water ran inte the Piece, but stupid, tactless, and sometimes positively selves by their success as to thetr own Judgment upon points where the world) vault, and, peering in, you could see the great coffins that contained the remains Gisagreeable; altogether “impossible.” A women may be/ holds accuracy of judgment to be a mark of intellectual @bility. This vanity !* | of 11,000 martyrs of the Wallabout prison ships, For a great length of tune the ommonplace and yet be an excellent wife She may look | usually tempered by common sense and experience, but when @ wife is to be | erection of @ proper monument in enemory of these martyrs has been a subject P to her humband with pride and pleasure, ghe may rejoice tn his euccesses, ard chosen it wakes up in its full strength, @ strength po great as to be often trre-t's¢ Giscussion without its eccomplishment, although always recogaized 48 & par ake his home a haven of rest and peace to him; she may train her children sistipie. | triatic duty. Government {s desirous of revenue | wisely and well, and “do him good and not evil #1! the Gays of her life. | If this is not the true explanation of the dire matrimonial mistakes whic In 17% Wallabout Bay consisted of a ship channel, mud flats and salt meadows, from the Post-Office and presidents It ta not the commonplace wives of brilliant men who excite astonishment. /are sometimes made by men of great abt! ‘* miuat remain forever) with the surrounding shore occupied with farma of the Dutch settlers, now as ew preside ly, stupid and ill-bred. A self-made man often leaves his| inexplicable to the human mind.—Chici iinportant section of Brooklyn. The cruisers of England brought to New York f express companies are not mem- behind him in the race of life. He grows out into the world and grows with 2 large number of priconers of war, who at first were eonfined in some old hers of the § this profitabl In Great Britain, where the express companies are not more po. erful than the people, the post office does a profitable business in carrying parcels and packages by mail. Aiso in Germany, in Franc and in other countries where the le she stays at home, and, “cumbered with household cares,” is : anchored sbreast of the Battery and in the North River, Many of these . to keep step in the march of progress. Nevertheless, she may do her duty Cold Weather and the Automobile. made desperato bx, harsh treatment, escaped, and Wallabout Bay was then business is conducted for the public] weii and wisely all the mame, and deserve honor and praise. Such marriages “Ts atecnce af any spring-ike weather in April and Slay Is estimated to/ ag @ more ‘tting anchorage. In October, 176, the Whitby prison ship re not blunders {n any sense of the word. have cost the automobile trade over §,000,0% in lost sales, €c., while the ae moored there, and subsequently many others, the most noted of whieh were benefi ‘are quite as often made Inte {n life as in youth. A man| motor boat people are figured to have dropped no teas than $1,000.00 f70™1 Goog Hope, Scorpion, Hunter, Stromboll and the Old Jersey. The Whitby’ Fed F Recently the United States es- re in the world, and becomes a desirable party, whereupon he is|the same climatic causes. burned in October, 1777, and the Good Hope op March 6, 1780. 4 for So ALERE ide ahs Lea NS a free rural delive ‘They were supposed to have been set on fire by the prisoners in the hope of 3 the benefit of farmers. To prevent this peta ‘i , ie exes | Bill Hustle, of Harlem. GQ G2 G2 By H. Methfessel peteeting: tnabrionynee. The Old Jorner sppeened tn am and femoined wg 5 i carriers were forti mounting seventy-four guns, Portions of her timbers could be seen sixty years a Companies the rural carriers were f Ago upon the flats, In recent excavations timbers were found belonging 10 same ® fore the rural delivery shows a loss of these vessels, and bones have been dug up. On the one hand the The average number 6f prisoners on board the Jersey was 1,00. The guaré > en ¥ ee ay was composed of English, Hessians and refugees. The prison ships were tf tron the other the people in the rural charge of a Scotchman named David Sproat, who had @s clerk his nephew, . : Chandise, all in order that an ¢ cent. dividend, pe of noes Me NUMBER AND @ To ono wid irt ] 14 HURRY | To Gfl To [HE OFFic<e ,BUT IVE qT TIME FOR mS! Robert Lenox. After the war Robert Lenox became a beading merchant tp New York. He was the father of Robert Lenox, who founded the Lenox JAbrary. The prisoners were fed on food of the worst quality, some of It the candemned stores of the navy, They were cruelly treated in every way. It was charted that some died from polson, and they certeinly diet from suffocation in the crowded decks, with the hate beaten and constantly insulted “Rebels, turn out your dead' wae the ory of the sentinel when the hacchep were opened in the morning. From six to eight died in the Jersey every The boats went off with the dead rolled in # dianket or without it each | Are Talking About be Ks Seale | ing, and they were buried tn long trenches, and: eo slightly covered’ that the f “y = n 4 thd oned the No. 1—His Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, on Peace. ve ae een ea tye Dade lived in @ Colonial house on the shore, labs Tw by Gomparisons and conirmate tha “a | took me to his window and said: “I have seen that beach covered with ‘the aa? eat ¢ t c z | whitened skulle Of American patriots a» thick as pumpkins in @ cornfield.’ 3 Let uy compare t ' y history ¢ t it ‘The bones were disturbed by excavations for the Navy-Yard. In 1508 twenty Aewndation to the time of Ca . milita f« hogeheadfuls had been diaiuverred. 3 American Republic. tr the ei ° , i | By an organized effort Congress, the Btate and city have contributed funds Th pagan Kume, war wan the 5 9 0% to of ‘which, with other collections, now furnish the amount required for » mowumest Janus “ n " une of ' ‘ i |Gor (hese martyrs, The bones are now in a vault built in oue of the terneces of From the re the | > a 1 of Park, There te & stone tablet in it Mundred years, the Tex Fort Greene Par @ front of {t, but it Dears me WHY DON'T YOU 4O os ' — —, Ag " scription, It Ja necessary for visitors to make many inquiries before they enmetaae Serr ane nas. Xt wae ache ° ¢ : ot cake uate avn | TR,EHE BALL GATE.) | ccscover the sealing place of the bones of thie «reat. numher of patriot, im SPURS Gratien Grades tae existed ne ‘ CLP eT / orice, Bur re DETAINED me \ \URVERLANY IN4ING To Hors and soldiers, but martyre in the cause of Atuertene an th Rar ‘ ) 4O1 to REPORT MINUTES ON fr - er ne twenty (ears, wince the cle oF \ ‘ ; <q es | Zorito’ReponT Rt wan fo. Re Ee j Masioo, from 18 i 1818; the ¢ trom ' 1 ia ‘ remeron ee Bs Cro HUM! MANIC wor Tho evrnbinnd tenet) of ov) Kt) er : Sentence Sermons, Walled Biates hes enjoyed tw tm of “> INDNESS |s @ M604 that never finds @ barren soll, the Roman Kurpire enjoyed loan tiv er att K Virtue for profit will become. view for more profit f "oot Pe 2 AY F in ye ‘The best friendship te thet which brings out the best in us, len. and that 4 Inrxe whare of the r ty te aia’ What we call destiny often is only s):agiter of determination, What te history of the Helwe peotie as pn in t If you would lose all foros, (sink always of your own’ feelings. ERs ants BATTS SD Gt Malate! Tbe icra) « from The tre man fears the power of sin more than ite punishment. Accabeca, compriatig "| a pre . werlea Sf warn of cater ware military ow ma Ae When Wowitlition were annunily 1 WORN Ot the Lime whos kings ‘ ww wd t ' prell jarked ay we have Hur hewsvre for 5 ' = i 4 Influence of our Coriean clyitaation Wa» Leen wxverionced -~ : the Muunber Of warm, but BM mone in mitiguiing the | Meding your ways |* (ne best way of mourning over p.m. If you cannot hate hypocrisies and evil, you are not likely te love Many ® man who is proud of being wickgd Is really only week tp ead vo 1% will not give you wings Lo have your mame on the Ay Leet of the » ihe ill. si sales nie salable es witht RRNA en ls