The evening world. Newspaper, July 11, 1907, Page 14

(eptieres Dally except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. : i Park Row, Now York. S pewere YULsTeRn, Free, # ast 1 Cores, J. ANGUS AMAW, See-Tress, 981 Woot 110th Street Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Class Mali Matter, Cana: Engiand end the Con- 7 Ninent ad All Countries in the International IU “ Pi inion. VOLUME 48. ——_—___ HAT is the wickedest street in New York? One of the most pror the churches on Fifth avenue has ded to undertake the ‘reforma- of that neighboriood. It will tegin by holding evangelical meet- ings Sunday ;evenings. Next fall it will attempt a series of revival y,). meetings. Its assistant clergymen -swill do missionary work among the guests at. the Fifth avenue 3 hotels. eee —It is well that missionary work should,spread from the Bowery to the neighborhood that needs it most.To confine evangelical effort to the slums is beginning at the wrong end. The need of morality, of _ © Christian charity, ‘of the truths and the- principles. of religion, is much Gteater among the rich and powerful than among the poor and heipless. _— Fifth avenue is a wicked street. The hotels which border on it are the resorts of Pittsburg millionaires, the haunts of rich men with purchased divorces, the scenes of orgi “more costly and more demoralizing than any on the Bowery. Near by live the most successful criminals of this city. Unsuccess- _ ful criminals go to Sing Sing. Successful criminals prosper on the pro- - ceeds of their crimes. | "A WICKED STREET. | | | The Evening World's Daily Magazine, Thursday, July-11, 1907. In a Hole. By Maurice Ketten. waar |! mi tees VENTILATOR! to pick.a pocket. ‘It is as much a violation of the statute to water fock as to climb in a second-story window. It is as much a crime to steal a franchise as 2 loaf of bread. _ The difference is that petty eft is unremunerative and_ that ity. thieves<are caught sooner or Tater. Since the measure of the orld’s success in most undertak- f is financial profit, it is. self- ident that only successful crime* can be profitable and that Fifth Avenue is there! the most suc- cessfully wicked street on Fifth avenue. They should taught how immoral polygamy is and _that-the consecutive polygamy of the —bé taught that the man who extorts two cents additional_profit from th: poor people who pay nickel carfares is meaner than the Bswery sho; ‘Keeper who puts raw spirits in his whiskey to make it bite. + Wickedness as a relative term depends on the amount of injury | does others. The man whose criminal or immoral acts injure only him _ self does not harm the general community as does the churchgain criminal who is possibly sincere in failing to distinguish between moralit: ~The man‘or woman whose sins result in public degradation, whos. drunkenness lies in. the gutter, whose immorality patrols the sidewal ~ aré horrible examples rather than enticements to follow their example. 4 Sinners who have mad a failure of-life are wamings of the i vitable punishment of such a°caréer. Sinners who have made a wordl: “Success are those whose examples are demoralizin and whose influenc “On Fifth avenue, and not on the Bowery, are Successful sinner: found. ‘Their conversion is most important. lf this Fifth avenue rescu: mission does iis work successfully carfares will be reduced and the ‘ser- vice improved, rents of such property as the Trinit: y Corporation a inst oferm—orto_conduct_a—trust ast — prea mse BEG PBOREROSED® TRUDE BARNUM ®& ¢ 2 Talks to Gls About Slang. ! tx X OU know the story of the American girl In Rome whe” YY rer ela tact Y coca sat ity baa ot Se out for nineteen centuries. Without hesitating ee: “ moment she gaye it a visorous blow and mad. angrity; } “Iva out now!" red American girla niny not have a highly developed “hie. torical sense, but they have originality, cournge and a nensn | ot humor, andiall there they exhibit tn dealing with the Englieh language. 3 ber @ charm: g young Chicago girl, who, when mn Oxford dons in, London, sang lous ‘Alities, much aw, “Th sy Cat “dined en mince, ~ she carolied. r—r—uncible spoon, you know vh—I worsian if there fs auch a thing as asked one of the Englishmen curiously, “Oh, no. It's all nonsense—just plain nonsehee,” ladghed the girl. . The American eociety girl takes all sorts of liberties with the King’s English without a moment's compunction ’ “She's terrible pretty," one says of her friend. T'm quite mad about her,"” “We ‘toted’ her all about!" laughing “We danced .all the time she was hore," a\ third. “Fahney dahneing all the time exclaims the Englishman. If he 1s mystitied by wich discourse, the exprexsions he tx-apt to overhear. tm j the conversationn of s: For tne e, here aren few bi —“He—is_the mata —sey. certainly has [His taik is git-edsed, “She's tec cute and ounningt seid another, /‘\We had a dandy time and died a supporting ‘giria will surely be Greek t> him constant use 4 In ng ade ux o on rinntony “{ braced up, wi 2d paddle my own “A—restine—faiie + —Fte 7st — of whole cloth. “Thetakes the Ned tn and put it 5 anos. { wie anil _kicked 3. Hie gave his hand but it's a b xt he couldn't I guess ne _ground Fi exainst overything. I was hopping In . but [ kept esol. {away and played a losing gam fe mude a lot of breaks and I won out.” -> “Et was great; \t was out of sight!’ “It's a ro, now. | “Che thing 1s cinched — & OW kK." "When we are willing to go. the whole ¢ can't stay on the fenoe.* be “Any way, we've got It fixed. vo !f he does x oack It's him funeral.” ‘He has 4 — to face the music and can't back out.’ ‘Now p to us to hustle and deliver }SUBWAY. JENTRANC ¥ YOIK woma. purse and the tfe explain band at home i we lease her tevotes her dayn tot ylelds to his opinions, tnan's {deal of a mode he fk nway, f When the policeman arrived ropes had cut-into his flesh. that she had taken the ‘only way to don't try husband, at 1s not his, to keep her husba according to yesterday's papers, tied her husband securely to the bed with rope an then went out and got a warrant for his arrest. husband had been bound In court her husband to raditians of how ted tdea is to give t feel tt, for if tne comes-to-the end-of-tt ng himaelg with ft, castest things In tha world too hard. A wife who who welts on him, in fact, the moat selfish a at home. But when he teat who has her own thoughts and x, cannot to: me, him. clr husbands the etal is contagious.—Hf-a-man-tr The Cheerful Primer. Got DING it! UP vatnt “the other great landlords own will be lowered and the a improved, food. will be cheaper, life will be healthi Near approach to a local millenniu the doctrine taught. in the Bowery mmodati r and happie 1 Will come if Fifth avenue ptactise mission, Letters from the People. troy Netter “L" Service. Po the EAitor of The Syening World: an ermency al Living in Manhattan, $t is quite a! stantanecous eto Journey to go to Coney Island, where I of course, the nevwar mm employed, every day, My hours are saseongers ns to tie from 8 to 6, and I have a hard day's! wk, coming home tired at night. 1! 7 \fheve no objection to standing up when I on the “L'' train, but whon I reach th aga atham Square it $9 @ nutpance to) li BES be prepared: to act whon nat. A law should be made com-| 7°h 80 emergency prementa ttselt and ex Second avenue trains to run to| !¥ URobserved by the conductor? Hall. I hope others will take un| A J. MEISWINKLE. ject. A STRAP HANGER | The Mexican War. To Avert Accident, or of Thi Maentng Worid: Editor of The “Brening world the—Sexiciin war, begin? Me riding on a surface Brott pariohpetis AM evening T had the misfortune ‘to w war | Jady whose akirt caught on the vetWeen Mexicg lind this country? i ef a plece of metal on the back | JAMES PY BULLIVAN, of the car dragged @ block, ex-| ,. Elfzabeth, N, ‘J, ine the) posetillty/ oc tring her |/ Je Neate wer aren (a a oe Seared out; Nhe shoutsy ot the oes mus countty hae hea Genes lacking in aumicient yolumé Teas upon the motorman to stop pars gabe Eeelae wedi ipatantly, owing. to the ueuml! “ts, President of the United ata passing vehicles, ‘'L'* road eligible tothe privil other nolees peoullar to the three terms or | city. My contention t=, Why se and almse of ammo, and display coples of the instru ons tn easy car whe can see Hod be-oroe | eve MRIS PROM HOME WITH A FLAT TIRE AND. NO PUMP To BLOW IT \dry up. a Husband Rope #2 w& & we By Nixola Greeley-Smith. asked that question too often by his wife he may end by sking {t of himself. It {s far better to tell him how happy his love makes you and how much fatifi you have in him and how noble and true he has proved himself to be. If he ts these things he will be glad to hear {t, and if he is not he will be ashamed and will try to deserve your praise You can hypnotize @ man into a atate of doubt by the doubt In your own mind, and you can hypnotize him inte a condition of serene servitude by belleving in his sincerity and making him believe in it himself. The best way to keep a husband ja to aszume_that he wania—to—stay—and doesn't have to be tied. Tying him, figuratively am well as actually, by any save the Bonds of amect jon never ~hoxtama pi oe ¥ he should go, one need only arsume that y he wants to go and that {t was in reallty his {dea, Says Salton Sea Will Dry in Eight Years. ITH the final closure of the Col gation canal, and rapidly con Inasmuch as there ar the Sink must naturally eva 4he-Balton—Bea—wittirs—up-in abet do F rted practicntly> rats n to 4 jn © outlets for this vast body of water, ers. According to scientific. opinion, reat Salton Sink, which o an tninnd sea, wil gradually & 7 (STEP RIGHT UP AND TEST You GOOD DAY, GENTLEMEN! UHAVe USED YouR WIND AND CAN RECOMEND IT, By C. W. Kahles, oda and put the thing thro That ts all pure American s): heard any of 1! before. It de ra our ow English cor Rhy oF Une piitases =te g0ot have “come to sta All, American gir! knage In the making. We hay . races of Europe, and we néed ani cig a. lang should we slavishly tmitate ¢he ‘Fo be x “pahat," but we are a people with a futury | tench British English, thére ts no reason w outworn English forms except as pur! upon the “u’’ in “' "and * haul down our American colot “Not much!" Americanisms, well’chosen, used rather soggy orthodox English, nti! Ii Uterature, and much of the so-ctiled © gunge of to-morrow. The real best that {s fn us. to ayokl co which exprossen our beat selves. Let the American girl continus to bo her: superstition, stupid convention ant unw pictures, add her own indiy’ let her continue to cheer us reason to be p: New York sea has never staetling to our at <8 of speech and” y? Slang 1s lane wn from all the “= =f of our own, Why ‘en people with a 6 ersity profesnors * interested In the h\publishers insist “Shalt ws od¢x Jan= Let her cultivet+ a scom for Tet her speak in toutworn form Wel have every r American language, Thro’ Funny Gla By Irvin S. Cobb. ROM the mountains come tidings that all the wood- SSCS peckers this year dug two seta of holes. In one hole the birds hetr family and in the other they take summer boarders, When you see a thin, hungry. lookdhg woodpecker It's a boarder This is one of the reports brought back by the home- coming vyacatlonist se from dally vares by the sen and who four sing business there was nol as satt! y HAA bern ted to helleve -frem-the language of the printed prospeot!, state that u same old_waves ane the same old ‘passed out by t ater, the main, differenc “that alarge number af parsons have-had-neceas to-thin ike Interim since the patron was there last x At many of the seaside reataurantx the customer jwho wanted ‘em softbolled for two minutes 1s again engaged {n wishing that he had ordered dropped eggs, btcause when a seaside ¢ a certain stage begins to suffer from hent pr fon along toward the middle of July SPAS do except to drop tt haw Tn fact, tie only cha lords of some of the summer p) er butter than t iting worl 3 bisa tat n-beeanse the butter wher stabbed with the molst, warm of -& bale khdied thle knife showed an thelination to run. Thanks to ‘mpro' 1 in kiln-drying the finished prow duct, the butter now in use not only stands its ground firmly but often bites back. At divers of the larger and more exclusfve resort« the cuisine contintes je, everybody except the persons who are called upon to eat the food. Filet i a ja Something in-Freneh- te stiit-tnterpreted to mean a-cireutar. eof Deer absut the xize of a silver quarter and somewhat thicket! which has the ap= pearance of having bean snagged off the pattern of the cow with a patr-of butftonhole acissors, and which 1s served on a large platter with a snric of water. creas off the port side drowning in tho wash from a low ude of dark-brown gray 5 | According to the same precedent an entree of mushroom means a ‘thin and '¢ pallid slice of toast buttoned down the front with a shirt set of three mush= rooms, atmilar in size and appearance to moss agate studs, Catiping parties returning from the North Woods report that the fishing and niing Were never better, A camper in constantly finding plenty of other fish =” tered about the Woods fn tents, snd as for the hunting, tt 1s only necessary ~ 4 state that {t {s often takea an hour to find enough dry wood to kindle the merry ip fire. i « —in—n—mibseqtent-number-moeredetails_regarding—summnerontinge wit be gre — {n this column. Incthe meanwhile there ix food for reflection In— THE FUNNY PART: The popular impresnion that people Ko on vacations In order to enjoy theme selves continues to prevail despite evidence to the contrary, The Suffragette’s Hubby’'s Finnish. By Walter A. Sinclair. iy re (The husband of « female member of the Finnish Diet tried euigide becavee he had to tend calldren while she yoted.—Item,). tits And where Czar Nick the Tooth can seg his Finnish any day, A husband tended babies, washed the dishes, while hia wife, Who was a legislator, bad the time of all her Nf," is A haughty representative, sho drew swell pay ag such, % sy But gave him just twelve cents a day, which isn't very much. i Now hub was not a manager, and found it not enough To buy the meat and groceries and other household stuf, _ 1 Pap ke out Jn good old Finland, which 1s gather far away, n ‘With wifle at the Dict! the Diet! the Diet! While we are not half nigh tt, X sigh it," he'd cry tt. “The Diet makes her fat, x But we're starving at the flat, And the thing that I am longing yor 1s quiet.” Now, this husband's plight was sorry and his form was very thin, 'Twan plain to see that wife had just up and shook her Finn. And Hubble pondered whether he should take the case to court ‘And sus his buay wifelets on a charge of non-support. . And while he beat the bedticks up and olled the ticks in cloaks His wife indulged in politics and handed Nick some knocks. One day heiplew the whole twelve cents and bought a little rope, Then slipped it round hia neck and sald, ‘My Winnish, this, I hope," ‘While wiflo’s at the Diet! the Diet! the Dist! I think that I will try 1t, Pll try t ana die i Hor wiet te immense, But our diot'n just twelve ocnts. Mo for quiet where the Dict den’t nigh it~ {