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“pratisned Dal ily except So, 83 to | 3 Lerorest by the Press Publishing Company, No. s Park Row, New York. [SORRY FULITEER, Pres, 1 Zant 724 Beret, 2 ANGUS AW, Sin-Trese., 191 West 118th Beet. | ‘Entered ‘nt the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter, } Oxpecr peg Barer Sed For England end the Con- vorid for tie aren nent and All Countries Tatiod, Btates. 2 wees 85.75 International ie Boatal Unton, .t0 | Gne year, One month. NO. 16,782. VOLUME 48. "BABIES AND THE WORLD. HE whole world loves babies. The common saying! has it that “all the world:loves a lover.”. It doesn’t. ' Lovers are often nuisances, and most people prefer ~ them to keep by themseives. But babies! Everybody was a baby once, and thet | sight of a baby recalls the days of one’s own baby-| hood, infancy and childhood, with thelr string of memories. Back in every woman's mind there is a firm belief that as a baby she was cute, winning and) bright. Whatever her looks now, as & baby she was! pretty. Her skin was soft and pink then. Her eyes! were bright. Her hair was in ringlets. As a baby) he was no doubt charming. y Though they do not manifest it so much, because they are mote || awkward and bashful, men are as fond of babies as ‘women are, Every man remembers or thinks he “remembers when he was a fat, chubby baby and - could suck his big toe. The older a man gets, the more prominent his abdomen, the stiffer his joints, the more fondly his memory dwells on the acrobatic” feats pf his babyhood, and especially the. protid facility with which he could put either big toe in his mouth. Some babies can suck both big toes at ‘the same @ satisfying imitation. Toys are’an insufficient sub } _ Stitute in childhood. Riches, fame and power are no compensation for| childlessness in old age. 7 - Basic philosophy accounts for the popularity of the Newlywed baby, | “whom Mr. McManus Creates’ for the readers of The Evening World, just 4s it a¢counted forthe popularity ofthe Yellow Kid winch the Sunday; World gave to > its readers, ‘ The appeal-to the public of the Newlyweds is not the way Mrs. WNewlywed-arranges her hair, attractiveas that_is; not the google ev. of Mr, Newlywed, expressive as they are; but the naturalness of the Newlywed baby. ! : All bables are natural.” ne | They cannot—help-it.To be artificial, tobe! make-believe, requires thought, training and effort. A baby’s thought has not deveioped that far, Its; efforts are physical, to gratify its few appetites. Left, alone, it might grow up to be natural and genuine, a rarity among men and women. | Men and women have @ore to learn from babies than babies from grown-ups: A baby can) teach the fewness of the real necessities of life, the inert vanity of many supposed necessities, the pleasures _of normal: things, sleep, sunshine and plain food. — How many men and women would be ‘happier if they never knew*more than a-baby knows and if their. memory. re- called only” the innocence of childhood! t Letters from the People. Another Cane of Cruelty. To the ittor of The Evening World: Several times I haye een on the wireets of New, York truckloads. of —ghickens crushed into a crate in «cruel manner, Every time I saw: them the chickens were gasping for breath and | they wore but ! I ae also seen crates OT} ated chickens piled up oD piers, and—they would probably stay there for hours. I think that this bar- batous treatment of chickens should be ‘prohibited. Are we barbarians to allow this act of cruelty in a civilized city Mke New York? ERC An Infield Fly. To the Editor of The Evening World: What ‘x an infield fly, and ts a man font {fhe bite ong and it 1s not court? FB. “Van infield ‘Ay ts one that ‘Coon not £0 * gut Bf the diamond, If first. and scognd Yawea' are occupled and there ts nd one, | falling rivete and the elty from sults Tae law compelx nettines to protect trapeze performers. Why not mechan- ica? Such men‘a motto should be: We're killed!" ; D. CAVANAUGH, | For Bad Debts. Ta the Eetiter of The Prening WWorta: A “Brooklyn Grocer’ complains of the number of people who move away without paying bills and who petain credit under false pretenses. This is a condition that must be faced by all tradesmen who do a family supply dust. Nees. His suggcetion of an association of tradesmen of ai] ‘worta to meet at times and discuss the situation and re-| Port on thone who Go not pey thet bitty) I think, excellent, The expense ats be trifling and enslly repaid by the good done, BR. F, GREENE. A Riverside Park Plea, To the Bittor of The Drentag World: ALL READY FoR “THE GLORIOUS FOURTH raily Maciline. Wednesday. ' The Day aoe By. Maurice Ketten. WE'LL BLOW EACH OTHER OFF,EH? A TicneT Fok A QUIET, PEACEFUL, Bass, af Caro, Ml. “The kiss," he continued, an whistey, aruge-and-all-other—evtis— {ear ome member of the congregation might not know fo what he referred. he launched into a descriptive definition of the kiss eo furning and graphic that poor old Voccaccio turned over in his grave with envy and Villon and Veriaine and all the other spooks of passion held an indienation meeting on the other side of Styx. “When two seta of ips comé together, “tt is Uke two clewds charsed with electricity, thé one pos!) t The result is an emotional explo- sion and ctoudburat of excessive passion and ecsinsy!” “What a sentence aiid what.« sentiment for a hot July| I hope the weather man will take thls utterance Into consideration In cal- culating the duration and extent of the present warm weather. persons will {nfer x high degree of exporlence in the Rey, Mr. Tans's définition. I) @o_nct: only the unbridled imagination of a truly decorous p-raon unlearned in} parsion anq ecstasy?” the emotions could discover.all those thinge="exptastons,~ ~clousbursts,"* the other nezative. in a xermon last Sunday.\ “dopa more to populate Hnites The Parson and the Kiss. ‘6 ORE evil lurka in a poor little kiss than In all theyan the other vices put together.” I know of only one sentiment which equals M other vices put together, said the Rev. L. dD And_then, for! sata the dtrine, | Doubtless many ke} in s0 sinple a monifestation:’ Think of calling a ‘poor lttlo kiss more evil than| HERES ME CHANCE! THE MUTS ALLUS WIN DER FIRST PRIZES |N DER VALUABLE PRIZES Fon rhe nest | HIGH CLASS tae Oran hee ENTRIES OPEN pear 1USPE— eit, a mufted or dropped Infield fy te ‘an out for the batter, She Married Rolfe, Not Smith. “mo the EAttor of The Evening World: Did Posahontas marry Capt. John Smith or did whe marry John Rolfe? H, DIAMOND, A Life of Danger. S| Me the: Extitor of The Eventos World: Your payer rocently ywblished an ac- \gount of a painter who fell acrons two electric. feed wires and was roasted in the presenos of hin +*eompanjons, The report also ‘states that had ho missed the wires be wavld fave fallen two huncred feet Into the ftreet Below. While crossing the’ new ‘bridge recently I noticed a riveter-stand- Wig on & narrow plank 3% feet above the roadWay’ swinging a long-handied | Haranier and pounding away as vigo:- usy and unconcernedly aa you please} ‘the whilo tho thin Jotat was bending I noted with pleasure the letter ooin- platoing of the way people abuse the privileges extended to them in River-| aide Park, by tearing up «mss, picking | flowers and scattering papers all over the velvety lawne, We New Yorkers | are like awkward chiliren with a frag- | fle toy, Riverside Park is a veritable Exton, ‘and 1@ the delight of thousands, ‘The rule againet walking on the grees 4a not enforced and the lawns afford Dieagant-rambies and resting maces tor | tired workers. Don't let's spoil our good | {hoes lenres tea eajoy the privileges | without abusing ther. JANITOR'S WIFE. Our Immigration Laws, To the Dsitor of The Evening World; Immigration’ laws detnand that a man have po many dollare befory he Joan come here, but he cin have any kind of a charmoter (barring ‘a murderer) and he will be welcomed; wile a decent, able bodied man wi bp re- | tamed for being a few dollans eae Where. ie the fot killer? Laat * By CORLIESDO. » ‘July 3) 1907: LETS ETY liGROLVES © | OF KLISTORY. | BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. | No. 4—AGRIPPINA, the Author of. Nero’s Crimes. ‘ : DON “WANNA MILK, | WANNA CRACKER READY FoR. FIRST CALL 2 By Nixola 4 Greeley-Smith. this declamtion tn sternnera and injustice—the cheerful doctrine that ‘Hell is haved with the skulls of Infants unbaptized.’* But perhaps thja perfervid denunciation of the kiss ‘will add a certain xeat to the midsummer pastimes of the Illinols.summer gtri, and 30 will not haye been spoken in vain. Personally, I envy the Rev. Mr. Baas his tmagination. T should say, from his standpoint, one kiss of the calibre he described would be worth all the eternal tortures he declares ft entails. Tennyson, a strictly well-behaved poet, as correct in his conduct as in his technique, wrote of Guinevere, admitted!y a reprehens|- bie lady: i “A man would give hil heavenly bliss, And all his worldly worth for this: ‘To waste his whole beart in ore kies Upon her perfect Ipa.’* Now, {fa plain ordinary kise was in the estimation of n third person iving more than a (housand yesrs after, worth all this, what rhould-not a man be willing to forfeit for a whole “emotional explosion and cloudburst of excessive | It-ooks.to me as {f the gutleless Mr, Bass had constl- | tuted himenif-the devil's stees agent. arely His Satanic Majesty, with all’ hix summer resort concessions, docan’t need. an: ow W. Katiles, “(ALL HE NEEDS 1S A HAIRCUT, A BATH, U AMANICURIN, A SQUARE MEAL, A PED -GREE (PLENTY. OF COLOGNE ANS RIBBONS nen of a particular Kind” of-rug, These are seMiom in the maricet. Agrippina, one of the cleverest and wickedest women of history, She was. |due to her that he was an Emr jshe hinted that unless he sho’ THIRTEEN-YBAR-OLD girl (daughter of a royal Roman fami, and of the blood of Augustus) was married in 28 A. D, to a/disso~ lute nobleman named Domitlus Ahenobarbus.. The girl-bride was. Her brother, Caligula, was Emperor of Rome. She conspired against him while she was still at an age when most girls are jn sch: ool, “Her conspiracy was hot aimed’ to place herself on the throne, but was for the sake of her in- - fant/eon Domiting. In fact, this child—late? known and hated by the title of Nero—was the inspiration of all his mother’s countless crimes, just as’ her teachings and example’later incited him to the series of atrocities that have cast eternal horror over his memory, ‘ Caligula discovered the conspfracy. and exiled Agrippina to a lonely {sland. Meantime her husband died and she married.one Passienus, of whom she so quickly tired that she poisoned him within a year or 80. In 41 A. D. Caliguia died and Agrippina’s uncle, Claudius, became Em- peror. He was a weak, foolish old man, easily led, and was wholly under the infiuence-of his wicked wife, Messulina, He was fond of Agrippina, an zilowed her to return to Rome. ‘Then began a duel of wits between her an ‘Messalina for mastery over Claudius's feeble intellect. For seven years it raged._Then of the two bad women the ;worse > triumphed. Agrippina brought about Messalina’ A Life Due! Between} lisgrace and éxecution, and henceforth managed Two Women. the silly old Emperor as she chose. She made Ga im marry her-and ratse her to the rank of Em or ‘press, Then she set about planning to put her son, Nero, on the throne. All through her life Agrippina seems to cared little for personal ambition. All her hopes, her love, her will-powe? were centred on her son, She secured for him the wigest tutors and the most celebrated advisers and in every way sought to improve him. Claudius and Messalina had had one sou, Britannicus, a handsome, manly young.fellow and rightful heir to the crown. But Agrippina pém suaded Claudius #6 disinherit him in favor af Nero-and to proclaim the latter as his succezsur. Many powerful nobles espoused Britannicus's cause, But by meking Claudius execute or banish some of these and by po! those who were too strong to be thus disposed of Agripp gradually cl away all opposition. Moreover, sho had Claudius scatter vast sums of m to the army and the populace in Nero's name to win popularity for the lad. By 64 A. D. her plans were ripe. She no longer needed Claudius. So she polsoned him and, by keeping his death secret until the army could be rek led to her so; protection, managed to proclaim Nero Emperor without-giw ing Britannicus’s friends a chanco to interfere, The young ruler, thanks to his careful training, gare promise of be coming an {deal soveretgu, Tho first five years of bis reign formed a golden’ age for Rome. Prosperliy, justice and progress ail flourished as they had not for generations, Agrippina was the power behind the throne and Nero obeyed her stern decrees with filial meekness. But a sin-bought heritage cannot Jong prosper, and at Iasi the tide of affairs turned. ero’s advisers, wanting for themselves the {nfluence Agrippina held over the young Em- peror, began to set him against his ma r. They pralsed his own greatness, pointed out how wrong and ridiculohs it was that so marvellous a man should consent to be guided by a mere woman and condoled with him of - Agrippina’s {mperious temper and iron will. In time all this had its effect. Nero rebelled against his mother's orders, @ronzed-_and tried to subdwe him as of old. but hacked by his"ade visers, he refuged-to-qbey her, Then she her misiake and attempted te flatter him into ob. adiekce. He st it Gpposed her. In rage told him it was - ror instead of a pe: dependent, and ed proper respect toward throne. ero retorted by poisoning Britannicus, dis missing Agrippina’s personal bodyguard and placing her in sem!-imprivon- ment. The woman who had carried him to greatness through a sea of crime ~ began now to taste the bitterness of retribution in her son’s ingratitude, But worse punishment was to follow. Nero fell in love with Poppaea Sabina, a beautiful, unscrupulous petri clan. Poppaea wanted to become Empress. She knew Agrippina hated her and she feared lest the older woman might still have enough influence over Nero to prevent the marriage, So she set out to destroy her. Now —— began another such duel as Agrippina and Mes salina had once waged. Poppaea worked on Ne ro’s love and fear and jealousy to such a point as to make him believe Agrippina was plotting his death She prevailed on him at list to send Anicetus, prefect of the fleet, to conduct Agrippina from ~ a festival in a ship so constructed that {t would split in half at a given sig- ~ nal. The plan worked well. Agrippina was thrown into the sea when the ship split, but she managed to swim ashore. Nero pretended great Joy at her safety,but consented to Poppaca’s plex that a party of soldiers be dem patched to Agrippina’s villa to murder her. This was done, and the moth who had sacrificedeverything for her-son_was-stabbed-to—death— guards. She met death-fearl , a8 became a daughter of the Caesars, Unchecked now by*Agrinpina's prude pro cast decency to the winds and profited openty by her exnmple. He tortured thousands of Christiang to death, burned Rome for his own_emuscment, slew his old adviwers and was at length dethroned and driven “to aucae by his outraged subjects, HisInek—and—sanity hada. from. nt Assassinated the mother whose genius and’ sin had rateed him to Smpetial power. : Britannicus on th | A Strange Trick Played by Fate. POIIOESE) € Next Artiole: “Boadicen, the Queen Wlio Defiled Rome.” ——— Pointed Paragraphs. WOMAN Ss just a o]d ap.she pretends she isn’t. Some men ere willing to do anything—exoopt. wor) If you kecp turning to the right you will never get left: Few men would borrow trouble if they had to give security, Winter has gone and summer, ts here—but spring forgot to shite ap Good habits of wome men-are es-expensive as the bed hatite of others: ‘A woman isn’t necessarily homely because she jx unspeakably hands. some. A shrewd man may be both wise and honest, but the chances are that he ign't-elther. Tye -tewer-ettiractionsa. ‘eoman hss for a sensible man the more she attracts. 2 Laugh and the world may teugh with you—but tt would much rather! unite! at: yowe expense. —Clicago” News ‘ ‘Are You “Rug-Wise?”’ ——. o¢ Persian ar any other Orientat burns of exceptional one ought (0 Foughty—unterstent a rug student &)d oultivate patience and a willing stors are sometimes Oblised to walt many years before obtuin ning @ fine speck Visit: stores, — tug deniers, and auction rooms frequently, and biy Witch you happen to see m eae acquaintance of mino, writes Lillian Lesile Tower, in Good Housekeop! ‘once wandered into an auction room and paid 310 for a rather disreputable Iook- ing Tug. Xt wes so badly soled that {t was necessary to give {t to a professl ‘cleaner, A week later he rectived an offer of #100 for the rug. Me declined. fow days afterward the offer was ralved to $0 and then to $1,000, but Mr, H. fe lqueed to part with what proved to be @ Persian masterpiece. Of course, mioh cases are npt common. T once saw « small fragment of @ rug in a museum for which many hundreds ‘of dollars had been paid, It was a ragged bit, one and one-hal by one foot tn ‘stze. Y have heard of oases where $90 and a 2) haye been’ pald for such fregy ments, Many antiqses, good once, have been aay injured,’ both tn sotor: ‘and tem ture, by improper néethods of cleaning, .A rug contalning vegetable dyes can be [washed with a good. noutral white eap and cold water and a ncrub brogh amd) \ ot autfer injury. Indeed, it becomes brighter and more lustrous, te Divers’ Delights.. * FAR by year the diving appliances have been »o Improved, according ts eam Y utWiority, that & is now quite « pleasant experience to go down in shallow water. and prowl around on the floor of the wea with an electric light. In shallow water, says Ocean, an experienced diver can remain below the mas | tace without a{Moulty for three hours, | As the diver Ia paid by the hour, and moreover, recetves @ great doa more for the second hour under water than hé.does for the first, he likes to wey Mion the surface as lore @a possible ‘ evOne veteran sea-captain told the writer that fe had been down himself and oe fourtecn men, Who were supposed to be hant at work, fast aeloap tn OO |eabin of nm sunken vessel. ‘They hind crawled tn there to «et out of the way 68 various marine creatures who disturbed thelr slumbers, at ; For the “Tennis Cabinet.” Ts new Chinese Minister, Liang ‘Tung Yen, who $s to succeed Sir Chenting fe ’ Liang-Cheng at Washington, will be entitled to full membership in the _ “tennis cabinet," unless he has forsotten hiv athletic days at Yale Hie | fellow students at Yale ued to. call him’ ‘ling, In his time at Yale he waa bone of the moat nsyiduous sh players there, aa well aa one of. ‘the. + plona, Ge giclee 0 wen great renown at Amherst as” player, “Ting” seam .Aapert-in.that game while e.etident is