The evening world. Newspaper, July 12, 1907, Page 10

Sica eet sips shesionath weit . . > e World's Daily Magazine, Friday | The Animated Cocktail. | | | By Maurice Ketten. The Evenin | Dally except Sunday by the Press Publisaing Company, No, & to © ; Park Row, New York. OLITERR, Pres, 1 East 124 Breet, — 2, ANGUS AMAW, BecTrens., $01 Woot 119th Street. ‘Watered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. Mpecieine aE) ce Rice be hh One year. NO (0ON'T WANT You STAY WERE, a FESIDENTS of the Bronx are natu: rally dissatisfied with their. present transportation facilities, So are the residents of Manhattan, of Brooklyn, of Westchester County, of New Jersey, and everybody else who is confronted with the alterna- tive of using the service of ‘the traction merger or, as. Judge Holt ‘said, “of walking or taking a car- tiage.’” Rae The Bronx sttuation can be rem- : poled elther by bullding more subways or by additional tracks and trains on the present roads, or by both. New subways would be better, be- ‘cause trains can be run in them more quickly than on the elevated, and “@ four-track subway would carry many more people than an eleyated "The traction merger opposes 2 new Bronx subway and favors a - third track on the elevated road because a subway would cost $30,000,- 000, while the Second and Third avenue elevated can be third tracked for less than a tenth as much. Also the cost of operation Is a little less on the elevated than the subway. The traction merger makes 155 per cent, profit on every passenger on the elevated and only 140 per cent. on every passenger on the subway. , To whom should the profits go? ‘The right to third track the elevated road at present belongs to the this~ct iS much as they own Central Park. {The people’s title to their property is even superior to the title of a bi d to-his-property. If the Astors owned the right to third track Second and Third o ry OWn NLOSE sou? "RE SPoi ¥ Baier ( Profits, leaving to the traction merger only a reasonable profit over the “est of operation, just as the Astors do in their hotel leases? The Lover Who Is Sincere. * + By Helen Oldfield O man h: to feel dtwco ot wishes to marry her unless he asks her !n so many words to be his wife Aa N apaldeey Mihosne tie hired Sears sucker SS hmastien society leader is said to have declared that no woman ought to attach makes the object of his attentions desires to be eon-|"2Y importance to a proposal of marriage which ts not made at 11 A. M. There vineed of his sincerity before che will allow him to under-|must be « special visit for the express purpose in order to prove the suitor’s sorl- stand that ebe favors his sult. “Man wete decelvers ever,” |Qusness, As with murder in the first degree, there must be conclusive evidence thelr reputation hes not ehanged since Shakespeare's day, |that the act was premeditated, and not merely emotional, and she who surrenders her heart too readily ts apt eo] Men themselves undoubtedly think the more of a woman if she is able to take Tepent of her haste when repentance can avail her little, {care of herself tn love affairs—to “play the game,” as the saying goes. aoe human ndturé, more “expecially masculine human nature, to value a thing the Tt often 11 A reserves i fatten = Sarre areata rial ie or cana] ore the harder it is to get. Self-p tion 1s the first law of nature, and ‘yO —wae-teight se tundamental-princtple of female: education that no self-respecting girl must say “yes” the caution te fustified of her chfidren. first time of asking; while nowadays such precipitation ta! Why give it away? ‘1 To require that these third tracks shall be operated at a three-cent are would still be giving an immensely profitable franchise to the trac- -At-a-three-cent fare that would be 50. per cent. profit, two | there were only 400,000 a day ‘The wise women knows that it fs not well te be overcreduluus, The Qjushing maiden who ts proposed to by a bachelor Giscusses in her own mind the question said-not-to-be—unuens!,—and~ proposals pOImecmes ATS Ani tictpated, according to common report. However this may: be, parents and guardiens undoubtedly still endeavor to instruct their daughters and wards that too much trustfulness. is imprudent, as well as undignified, and! that love-making cannot always be accepted az a guarantee of matrimonial in- securely tied; while, if her wooer be a widower, she wonders whether he adores her es frentially as he professed to adore No. 1, and also—iet there be no mis- take about this—whether his charming assurances of affection are mere repeti- tions, This may be a cold-blooded way ef looking at things matrimonial, but it ‘cost of construction liberally at $3,000,000, a three-cent fare would pay the cost of operation and over 20 per cent. onthe investment, —Fhe-peopie-of the Bronx ‘sxve-$1,500,000-4 year, — This -saving would. make Bronx more attractive _WProperty would become more val-_ ‘gable there. ‘The gain in taxes from the increased valuation would bene- Wik everybody In Greater New York. ents would be lowered through the ‘are, so to speak, lovers of all womanktn( (at teant! the pretty and agreeable part of it), who like the company of pleasant women, who flirt naturally and instinctively, not because of maloe aforethought, but because they have the art of pleasing and ‘ike to make use of It. Such men pay ‘graceful attentions without serious thought, and make pretty speeches which they regard simply as the smatl coin of pelite conversation. They are not in leve with the-women whose society they seek, and have no idea whatever of taking a wife. ~- Bvery—well-brought-up -girl-le-expeoted-to-understand. thet she-hea me -right fo realty word te believe that any man, however much he may appear to admire her, fm love with her unt he tells her so plainty and umbisikatty, ether ty of mowth or “over Bis own hand and seal,” and then she damnot be sure thet hi Bill Hustle, of Harlem. ) WANT THAT. FLAT FIXED UP RIGHT AWAY UNDERSTAND? Science and the Eyes. T is sald that the best eyesight Is possessed by those people whose yanto are yast and barren and where obstacles tending to shorten the sight are tew. Muktmen will detect « white fox In the snow a ereat distance away, while ear. The owners of Bronx real sestate would benefit. Rent-payers everywhere would benefit, and the tion merger would get over 20 nt. profit every sale ete ieee » If the arithmetic of, this appeals to you write to the Pub on and the Board of Estimate and tell them so, Go to the} ! gs of these two boards and tell them so out loud. Keep; “ee “Bier tn ht if CERTAINLY, MA.HUSTLE! the way the traction merger and {ts lawyers do. Letters from the People. the price to ehable him to win from 2 ‘ thin new patronage a sum equal to hin ‘the Either of The Mvening World: ij bate me as a Jerseyman who has| original profits plus Ala present pronts? Hyed pretty much all over the United| This problem came up in-my asonts- tates to may a word In favor of the | #chool at Boston and none of tte young Betsey mosquito, There are monquitons Men. could solve tt. Can any, of your Jersey Monquitocc, An Now Jersey. But fower than in| readers? P. x. TELL YOU? Istand or Staten Island or the! Electric Fans, NOTHING ORE, or along much of the Connect- | iro ee mittor of Th Rrening Word “ett shore of Long Jeland Sound. The Ta ike doctors to tell if electric “Beweoy moaquito has a bad name, but fane are harmful, and {f one Ja lisble to De is rontly overrated. Hia Conpecticut catch cold trom them ‘wad New York State brother ts as bad @F wores, Ti's time New Jersey got 4 x Goal. It is one of the fingst| they Inju mien in Amertea and has a glorious Crawrht? hby would tn- terest many readers, What effect have on the air of a.room, and can who sit in Shove their story in war and in peace. Let’s hear they stir up germs or purity thea! on other Jerseymen on this theme. GERMIPHOBR, PASSAIC COUNTY MAN, r More Free Baths, To the Iotitor of ‘The Evenina Wi The poor, suffering east aide people more free floating so batha are great ttle children of the mal A Boston Problem, ithe Biitor of The Prening Worl: WA man produces ‘an article for a cer-|fesl the want Price and maken $19,000 0 year, Ho|batha dadb. 7 idtices the price by- one-third, thus | blessings town bis profits by W per cent. | east aide, to «0 int on or morning and much extra patronage must bel iV) a nice oold tnth., Benides, it le in thareby to sratle him to double his those baths the poor ctrildren lear to ‘and how far.must he have cut swira, AMELIA J. whether_herlorar_will remain true to her, not only. forerer,.but until the knot is}, OF HISTORY. BY ALBERT PAYSON No. 8-THEODORA, the Circus Gtrl Who Ruled the East, . N the great cellars under the cireus buildin; Constantinople at (he © - beginning of the sixth century dwelt a Assortment of peapte and animals. Gladiators, buffoons, animal tamers, acrobats, scoters, Nona, elephants, tigers, bears, all jumbled together in the black, {l- smelling, underground labyrinths. A motley, miserable crowd they were, living and dying for the amusement of the bloodthirsty populace. Among them—one of the humblest members of the subterranean community—was’ Acaclus, feeder and @ainer of the fierce bears: ‘He had one child, a elen- der, fairy-tike, precocious little girl, whose impish ways and ready wit made her the pet of the place. Her name was Theodora. 5 As she grew older, Acacius used his influence with the circus magnates to secure for her a chance on the stage in some of the coarse ‘farces that were part of the public games. She could not sing, Her dancing was awk ward. Her speaking voice was not strong or Sweet. There seemed small hope of her earning a living. Yet the eity went wild over her. For she was an actress to her finger tips. Her cleverness, her mimicry, her audao- lty, took the audience by storm. Soon the fame ofthe bear-feeder’s daugh- ter apread throughout Constantinople. And at lest {t came to the ears of Justinian, nephew of the aged Emperor Justin. | i ‘Justin had started life .as a Dacian peasant. He became a roldier and by brute force and trickery hud risen high. When the former Emperor had died one of the candidates for the vacant throne had intrusted Justin with large sums of: money to win From Circue{ the army oyer to his cause. Instead, Justin had Stage to Impe- used the cash to buy his own election as Emperor, goal ‘Throne. and now, with his wife, Euphemia, ruled the mighty ~~~ Eastern Empire. Ho was childless, and his mephew, Justinian (a shrewd, vain, well-educated man of lowly ancestry), with his chief adviser and heir. Rome's early power had been revived by Constantine and had once more swayed nearly the whole world. But not tong after Constantine's death {t had broken down by weight of its own unwieldy wealth and had been split into two empires—the Eastern (embracing-the-Orient)—and the Western (including Italy and most of Europe). In 476 the Western Em- pire bad gone to pleces under the repeated assaults of stronger, less clvil- ized nations. But the Eastern Empire, with Constantinople as {ts capital, wus to endure for another thousand years. Justinian met Theodora _and- fell \in love with her, He wanted to make her his wife. But his aunt, the Empresa Euphemia, would not hear of so unsuitable a match. Euphemfa died in a short time and Juatinian’s influence over his old uncle was boundless. He induced the Emperor to consent to his marringe with Theodora and to repeal the law which forbade & man of senatorial rank to marry an actress, Now, left to himself, Justianian would probably have done nothing of the sort. But Theodora had already acqutfred an influence over him that made his will-power as wax in her handd. She had not long been his wife whan the Emperor died and Justinian came to the throne. Theodora was Dot content to be @ cdloriess Queen-consort, but made Justinian raise her at once to the rank of Empress, with power equal to his own. Then she began her career of monarchy. |__The_ex-cireus_girl_forced_the_highest_nobles—in-the—iand-to themselves before her as toa goddess. She put to death any of Justinian’s friends who did-not favor her rule. She ordered Justinian to make or to nd wars according to her caprice. She started an informal match-making bureau, in which, for her own whim, she forced people to marry each other, whether they wished to or not. She-also formed a court where she per nally interceded for wives whose husbands had grievances vgainst them. » fickle, alternately violent and just, she swayed tne cmpire to suit > her own unrestricted feminine fancy. Were this all she accomplished her name would never have come down through ‘the centuries to us. But she made history as well, not only in helping to direct Justinian’s two wars with Persia and i driving back the savage tribes which were trying to invade and dastroy the Eastern Eur Pire as they had the Western, but in savi the throne for Justinian and for the royal race. among her claims to greatness is the large share she took in suggesting, ‘raming and enforcing a new and wise set of laws known as the Justinian “ode, which endured unchanged for many generations and helped to ahape she civic destinies of the world. as 2 In 532 a violent revolution broke out in Constantinople. The swept the city and attacked the palace. Justinian was about to flee, - cating, leaving his country to the victorious rabble. But as he was to leave the palace by a rear gate Theodora threw herself in’ his way, in her robes-of state, and cried to the scared Emperor snd his pants stricken followers: “The road is clear! There are your ships in the harbor. They will carry you to safety if you want to run away. Nothing is easter than to save your life. ‘But empire is the noblest winding sheet. So I rhall stay here.” Shamed by her words, Justinian remained, put down the rebellion and was once more master of the East, though still the slave of the ctreus girl he had married, By many another stroke of statecraft she and strengthened his throne and empire up to the time of her death in 647, at the age of forty-four. Some stories say she was at last disgraced and exe- cuted by her husband for a real or fancied misdeed. During her brief reign the royal adventuress had made an impression on history that was not-for eenturies effaced. = = Fi > Empire Swayed | by a Woman's 5 Whim. & ay Next Article: “Queen Eleaner; Fooll: Wife and Wise Mother.” Six Dress Hints for Swagge r Men. By—Margaret—Rohe.—- No. I.—Button the Coat Proper ly.- green or red etripes on a saitow ground are always mm the running (w end dewn) cheoks are quite the square thing, aris’ ‘affects to be spotted as a veal Begu Brummell. highly recommended from Watrriew, In, and Meno bl kerohtef te afways striking {f it's a good match. to t The Planet Mars Is in Its Old Age. X judging of the habitableness of « planet, fts heat and light, the force ae gravity or weight of bodies at its surface, and its density or consimengp, must be primarily considered, Of All the planetary bodien Mars bears the closest analogy to-the earth, and seems to sive/Gil telescople and oa_of conditions favorable to fife as we know it. And we are bet! acquainted with Mars than with any other planet, on gccount of {ts favorable poaition and the freedom of its atmosphere from vapors, saya M. 8: Brennas th ,S8t. Louis Post-Dispatoh. vee sene tanse of Mare ta: Wttle more than dhe-sighth of that of the earth, amd the force of gravity on Its surface 1s less than one-half of what it {s on the earth. Its atmosphere Is much finer than ours, and (nstead of welshing fifteen pounds to the square inch tt weighs only two and ® quarter pounds, Its day ib ‘a Ixtle longer than ours, The encroachments of Gusky upon bright tints suggest vast Inundations occasioned by the melting in summer of the immense quac+ titles of snow and fee gathered at tHe poles during the long winter and com pletely Geluging the entire surface of the planet. \ With {ts foods covering the whole surface, tts atmosphere rarer then that which oppresses the respiration of the traveller on the topa of our loftiest moun-| tains, and (ts extreme vartations of teinperature, it le scarcely credible that man coutd-live:ljust pow in the Martian world. se Mars receivés from the atin but between one-haif-and one-third the amount lor Vght and heat that we do. Owing to this and to the pocullarity of fte seasons, arising from obliquity of the equator to the plane of {ts orbital pagh, tho cold on thia ptanet mlist be truly enormous. Idnnaeus ts of the opinion that, the Martian year of 687 days is utterly destructive of vegetation as known to em, Mars seers to have reached Its old age. An Invasion of Sharks. Aik HARKS sere almost unknown in the Adriatic until the Suex Corml wes ‘opened. Now the hmrbors ef Fiume and Pola are so Infested with theca that the residents ire no longer bathe in the open sea. wugeten