The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1907, Page 10

e Evening ~ orid | , No. 53 to 9 : ae Rete. et Dally except Sunday by the Press Publishing C. Py Park Row, New York. J, ARGUS AAW, Rec oTreee., For Weer LIRR f POMEPE TOLITEER, Pra, | East 194 Seren. treet i Hotered at the Post-Cifice at New York as Second-Cless Mail Matter, - For England and the Con: | presiog Were for the nent and Ail Countries 7 the Ipternatio! “eget aol ot bea Postal Union. $2.0 | One month... .@ | One year... bad One month i Ee 48.. NO. 16,784. | MORE OR FEWER CHILDREN? HILDREN are necessary to the, perpetuity of the human race. Therefore, if race suicide universally prevailed the world would soon become depopulated; whether that would be a calamity is a. matter for philosophical speculation, not for practical discus- sion. .Since the time of Adam and Eve there have always been children, and present prospects are*that the rich and the very poor will continue indetinitely to have children in sufficierit numibers.to prevent. the United Statés from’ becoming uninhabited. Between ,the rich and the poor there fs a large section of the commumity which under present. ¢co- =Gltsds nota. matter of speculation, but of statistics and fact. Men arid women who have no education or social standards propa- “Prte-2s do other animals little lower in intelligence than themselves. ‘The bringing of large families into the world is p= @moouraged in every way now. Matemity hospitals ) their services free. Pounding asylums, relieve parents of the responsibilities of infancy. -Protect- les and’ homes support the children at public cost. “Mf a man’ snd 2 woman are willing to have children public charity will pay all the expenses. « Fortunately for the quality of the human race, few'men and women are willing to become fathers ‘and mothers unless they can raise and protect their ‘offspring and have the solace of thelr childre fh return for the trouble and expense of their main- “tenance. So\soou as men.and women try to live decently, to have neat furni- “ture, to wear clean clothes, to have a habitable home, to educate their their conditions and stop struggling ineffectively to comply with them “Béeveral matters would speedily remedy themselves. { _ A> diminishing population would at once lower rents. Land- fords with improved property would have to sell to the fire insurance : companies, or reduce rents to secure tenants. The price of all manufac- tured articles would fall because the demand would decrease, and the manufacturers would have plants| on their hands whose products | would have to be sold at lower prices to increase the range of the consuming market. Wie SAILI ( ( You GLAD Veet } OHN Nae vy, OVER Daily Magazine, M SAILING OCEAN Blue ond Phe Day of Rest By Maurice Ketten. NOTHING BETTER FoR A Good a +. DAYOF RESTS MERRI lye Rou ALONG, ROLL ALONG,, AXERRILY WEROUW ? pens OVER THE NG, THE’ LK CHUTE THE CHUTES, Jon NOW IT3- Line THe ; Ws Cw es oO AS EVES IS Ss = fH eS Sy ni PUD 2 ee : » \ = AaUcEH OLB AIITON I FEEL So 7 Dee pow You wats BuPiny, Flory. \{ Jou! S\ ) erie MATTER vi HEALWAY: FORTHE JOHN ? REACHING GETS ae DON'T You UKE ITANY MoRE a7 Ns as m G22; — Sunes —_— _ es —, eS Sr SS oe A diminishing population would ! ¥ IRA wring the water out of the capitali- | S| zation of all public-service corpora- ig tions. The fewer people that used gas the less would be the value of the stock of the Consolidated Gas Company; the fewer people that-travelled the less would be the value of “inter.-Met. stock. If higher prices tended to diminish the number of} “charge less in order to have more consumers. 4t—-1s—-allvery-well-forpeople > #¢}ves_or_plenty._of _money_to_live ‘on to advise people of small means ~ to have large families. The way to tocrease the number of desirable chiltren is not by encouraging pau- - Seconomic and social barriers which make the support of a family so ssytum trained In a public home. The abolition of ordinary crime, the Personally How About_Thi WHY Do You and Leave fF Alone in New This question ha World reader are children—and leay nnoyunces to which ich, ver, few that very he question j= T Gieegroe with thts view Hs a Wife Any Right to _a Vacation? who dectares ner husband has a right to go away—especially when, there ‘The newspapers, ho_sarx, are-full_ofscar from the wifey. summer varation, and he contends mance of two establixhments which It entails. persons sill be of different mings. I would like to know what Evening World readers think about ‘t. 0 | ‘The peparation of the summer vacation wt How About This, Husbands? WHY Do You Let Your Dear Little Wife Wander Off-to the Seaside $ Without You? By Nixola Greeley-Smith, Who Sides with the Wives. s, Wives? Go Away in Summer lubby to Grub Along York ? ts a tomia to love fonder of a husbend or wife to whose presence one han grown too {about equal to the auggestion that she ahould never cross tho t own flat for fear burglars might loot It while she waa gone. band needs watching, watching does Mm no good by an Evening loves anked Whe that no weman who 2 been, ne ¢ him exposed to the temptations and two montha of bachelor life sxpores” Mberty he forfetted at the akar. {if he is worth keeping he joes not abuse tt. Httle that bachelor itperty Also It reaones him: Reneratty sats results: mo’ lo afford the Se yeoman. Thera may be many husbands left ‘In lonoliness forlorn’ There may men are really able me. an Irteresting one on whch many and women who have strong opinions about !t one way or the other. very strongly Routine, the sameness of Is @ Wife Entitled to a Vacation? ‘immation-of-vice-and the-prevention of disease-are-all-parts.of the same! problem, of which race suicide Is only a phase. 5 | -- Letters from the People. | the Jargem hall in New York wi ac- commodate, Hare ta my_taty ¢ tter [on a WO pound steer: tivo « Including flank fat, {124-t0., $16.83; two legs, "No Miracte tn Sight.” ) —- Tire Dewolngg Wart To my amazement I found, Rovketoller was catcht and made to testify, my ges bil, “my «roosr's and Qutcher’s bill, mo rent bill and raflway fare had not been ctt down In conse- quence. No miracle In sight as yet. beet, sold for \noup meat, 2 pounds, each 60:., $1.00; agit |two fiank steaks, 6 pounds, at 120 two loins, Including kidney and all We hear much of sweeping reforms, |1% pounds. at Ite, $22.4); two but, somehow, we don't pec them, The | chucks, 120 pounds 312.0) Petmenét iia atfl cast cfor) his; thme-,|ermuiders, Including all bones, 62 pound ‘honored role of Sucker. The troets may |** 3.9; briskets, {& pounds, ot Ly $3.30; two abdomens. <-Be-trembting, but if so they're doing It &- = pehind closed doors, Gee! But 1 think | US eney're doing !t by proxy. And we /™ consumers are the authorized proxtes. | | Me, for some new deal that moans) lower prices! Not hot alr, LN. |, cof Lightning Roda, | Zo the Wittor of The Drening Workd Sabway $4.20;-twwo riba, 59 pou Totn! 720 pounds of HPRMAN HAUSER. A Universal Tick: t, To the Eaitor of The avening he fare on every ""L, line in Greater New York Is Tid lke to ask some sclentific readers | five cents. I propose a universal five- {f lghtning rode are really useful or mot {cent toxet, good on any }ine, It de a fn preventing housea from beme light-|Pulsance for a busy man to carry one ning-strick, Some years ago they were! bunch ef “1 tickets, one of Subwny, on nearly every rural house. Now one|4nd one of Bridge, and then to have wcldom seen them, Have they been} to Krone nickela for surtac Wroven no use of a guard or have w s, Let thin untrersal-tieket also be, simply grown careless? Let some one! mood for Staten Isjand. ferriage, Here who understands such matters teil us. )16 9 Bod thame for dlanuasion Aha willinterest every rimal_reader. POLITICAL ONOMY ae: COMMUTER, To Gnin Height, To the Pattor of Meat Prices, ip Ratton of- The Rrening Wort Kindly tnform me through The Even eoording to | amrmde sd-caljed experts jing World how I inay obtain height Ae would-think there are Stetenendert ee Portunea: sto) be wathered Inthe retatl) Sleep nine hours a night in a well eat bbaxinens, Pf any mutcher In New | ventflated room. Kat plentifutly .of WYork can claim:a higher avoraxe 4a shown by the following food. ; ; pave Mauer and tobacco alone, Umeeith nnd prices, 1 shovid ike yer |Join some cood rymnastum where in oth th hear from fim. If he oan | xtructors/will give you pected exercince peeve i. he oan wet More eeliolare than tending tosincresse the heleht, £ Take plenty of outdoor ex Reddy the Rooter. COULD 1. GO OUT \ THIS: AFTERNOON AN’ TAKE CARE o! ME UTTLE BRUDDERP, CERTAINLY NOT? YOUR, BROTHER CAN STAY HERE WITH Your GUESS VAINT A GOOD SCHEMER! OH, NO! AN SAY,! FER COT TER H ASK YER GREAT SCOTT! TAME THAT KID: HOME BEFORE 140 CRAZYt ene SAY, MISTER WHY 1S AN OFFICE, WHY DO YOU SMOKE AN" SAY KIN 1 HAVE A BORG, AN SAY HEV YER GOT A TEDDY ‘AN’ SAY MISTER WHY ISAT 1 OCLOZK WHY DO YOU WEAR GLASSES?) AN' KIN 1 HAVE CANDY AN DO You ALWAYS KIB, YER A WONDER! NOW HUSTLE HOME? OH,You CY, GO ONT > | THATS A FOUR : EY A SACK WALLOP, Goan SURF) wry 1S THEY a STRIPES ON THE CANDY ? 1 ie a: ‘a worth {n comparison with the comforts and ¢ Hghte-of-2-well-ordered-bome-amd-the compantonanlyy of a loving and intelli e In_ these cases absence does indeed make the heart grow acoustomed. The idea that a wife han to stay at home to kesp her husband out of temptation | ~ By George Hopf ay, July | ii 1 old of her na hus Moreover, the happleat married man is now-and then covatous of the bachelor His wife's vacation gives it back to him, and who disagree witli be many wivos whose experience has taught more wis: on this question than I can possibly possess. There are yourte unmarried men ‘The Evening World would like to hear from them all what they think of thin It seems to me any| summer problem, Please send tn your opinion addressed to the Editor of The woman who has stood the grind of household cares for tan montha js entitled to. Evening World— | yecation, She owes it to herself and to her fatnily every day are the deadiient foos of love j frivolous, gay, light-minded, self-willed, , Dukp and descendant of these snme Norse sea-robbers, Hlearned to hate him. j was now King. | sence. |so then {n order to intervene between her younger son, King John, and the ther inflaming the mutual hatred she had so long ago stirred up betweem to hide herself. In a convent, as was the usual custom of a woman whose. enw JONG and bad life He. married Eleanor a few month 15, 1907" BY ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE. sade to snatch the Holy Land from the Saracens were vastly scandal Aquitaine. quarrels with one another. And Eleanor filled in the brief intervals bee Siravens. Louis. was’a”solemn, religious, puritanical man. Eleanor was On thetr return from the Holy Land early In 1152 they were Eee | husband had discarded ber, : THe Wite of 5 After the divorce, and, three years later, became Henty FLETY HEROINES | 1 # NO. 9—-ELEANOR, Foolish Wife and Wise Mother. if {zed by the behavior of two great folk among them—Louis VIL, King For the royal couple, Instead of devoting all their thought and zeal to] tween marital squabbles by flirting outrageously with other men, Alto~ The two were about as well rel Eleanor, though no longer Queeen of France, was still Duchess of Aqui- She caught the fanéy of young Henry, Duke of Normandy, helt to thy’ } Two Kings: Il, King of England. Her rich French estates of Gui —~ { OF &ULSTORY. HE pious nobles who had journeyed to Palestine on the Second C: of France, and his fair young wife, Queen Bleanor, former Duchess of the sacred purposes of the crusade, spent most of their time in violent gether the King and Queen set an example that horrified even the heathen to each other as the traditional dog and cat. i taine. She was only thirty and was a noted beauty. So she had:no min& throne of England. He was barely twenty-one and on the threshold of 7” es §, onne thus: became English territory, much to Louls'é’y chagrin. - Nor did his former wife's new marriage please 3 the French King. So a series of disputes sprang up between France and { England, forming the true or{gin of centuries of later wars i After the Romans had conquered England they had in turn been j{ driven out and replaced by the Saxons from Germany. These in turn had been overcome by the Scandinavian sea-robbers, who, in time, had on¢e more been supplanted by the Saxons. William the Conqueror, a No ons and become King of England tn 1066. Since t Norn swayed the country. Henry II. was the first King of England who himeelf neither Norman nor-Saxon,; and who may be termed (despite tis French ancestry) an Englishman. é 4 j He found the nobles too strong for his safety, 80, pretending-to be the! champion of the poor, he aided the plain people by giving them juste and more privileges so they might help him humble the ¢ 5 This did not tend to make him popular with the great, and even the people in time 5 Moreover, the quarrels which had enlivened the fame of Louls and Eleanor were enacted over again with added bitterness, r more than once plotted against Henry, and had a way of killing ny n.of whom she chose to be jealous ave offered one of th wom y name, her cho ad rand ® cup of poison, 8 miserable domestic life of the King and Queen dragged on. came the crisis lif Then Henry's and Lleanor’s two elder sons, Geoffrey and Richard cited by thelr mother to rebel against their father, and she persuaded Louis, were ine her former husband, to help the rebellion by joining a 1 Geoffrey died and Eleanor centred her efforts on Richard, helping him fn hi efforts to overthrow his father. The revolt failed. Richard fled to France to ally himself to Loufs. Eleanor was about to follow, when Henry had her seized and thrown into prison. She had wrecked her husband's life (except so z _ far as his own eine had saved hen that trouble), had! Sa————~~~~~~ © emb{ttered his old age and at last had forsaken him, j Rebellion and $ jotted his ruin and turned his sons against him. Bupisnments Henry died, heartbroken, in 1189 and Eleanor was re! peers leased from imprisonment. Her favorite gon Richard (known as “Coeur de Lion,” or “Lion-Heart")! She strengthened his throne by marrying him to the daughe * ter of the King of Navarre and by shrewd counsels. He went almost at once to Palestine on a crusade, leaving her to rule the country in his abe> While on his way back he was seized and {mprisoned in Germany, Eleanor ratfeed this huge sum by exe She was now an oli] woman and Yet she undertook it without ague against Hen where he was held for heavy ransom tortion and hastened with st to Germany the Journey was one of hardship and peril complaint for love of her son She set Richard free. On his death conyent. Only once thereafter did she em she retired to @. She did soon afterward rge from the cloister. wn from danger. results of some of his misdeeds, and to rescue his cr In 1204 Eleanor died at the age of eighty-tw aving accomplished much {Il and some Httle good in her long, misspent, busy life. On her death her French provinces reverted to the King of France, thas stil fur> the two nations, Next Article: “Philippa, the Queen Who Taught Ensland a Lesson an? 0 yo! wi anv asked Mraf o% xa BS) Sarr ‘Dear, u.a!.1t {eter Aik the Japanese } have ever 5 Sur tacus and pleas Don't ‘you reme one hide was at Coney Island when yo: ) saucer as 4 prize after you bi ww roll “Thad to take the saucer, and It was wo: i pentye As for the war talk. I don't “hear any wa do your In_ Japan. they call the war talkers “Yarkivuma,’ of “Rhoughitless Ones That sounds very polite, you see, it Is just ex-E-waid + poli prople, so if we will only be a little polite, tur > won'e ‘be-mny wars "I have been told that there are no swear words tn tie Japanese lanzuage™ ania Mr. Jarr. “They are, as you say, a yery polite people.” “It a po wonder that Japanese women watd-Mrw Sarr, —“Fheir-hunbands-are-siwayet as you say, there are no swear wonia in the Japanese “{f there are no swear words there are other thin Japanese nan js absolute master tn his own house. Ween his Wite is not expected to present herself except fo Tumbty freshments, She !s not supposed to speak, and inxn't spoken to,” “1 don't believe a word of It!” said Mra. Jarr ind they dress just Mie American women. do, 6x \otresves haye Japanese maids and make them we 40 everybody's attention will be attracted to the nctrons miacinnanecar inald, Didm't I used to seo that May Yohe making a show of Jicrself around! w York with her Japanese maid? Idrr. “Say ni then Tow = J E E matter 2 I intend to f “Loayon't be pat off ike that! You tell me that Japanese worven are slaves and Imply that {t would be well if American women were alaves and men could lord It over them ang theyy should not be allowed to speak in the presence of their lords and nvisterat: Wouldn't I look nice coming humbly tn the room when that sot of a frend eff! yours, Mr. angle, calla to ‘Amell up my house with his vile stoxien? Wouldn't]. it be sweet co you and him to nea me bow down till my head touched the floor! - and crossing my hands humbly over my breast eay: ‘The honorable beer ts! setyed, Will my gracious lord and his fllustrious and sublime and condescending! friend deign to honor her who 1s unworthy to kias the dust at their feet, by age epting the same?’ i ‘The very thought of such a wcene seemed to rouse Mrs. Jarr’a Ire, ay she deel + ribed {t. , Hofore the astounded Mr, Jarr could reply, she exclaimed: \'T'd ike to ned! myself doing such a thing! Almost all the books about Japan are written byt! men, and they tell those fies. Women are women the world over, and they can: take care of themselves! Besides, I see Dy the panera that the Japanese women ; are adopting the dress of European and American women. And when a Anlatic Jady puts on corsets and gets a Green that hooks in the back, she kno i what she's about, and won't let any one dictate. to her!” “The Japanese women are courteous and obedient to ther husbands, and I'd bet on that! It's shown by the fuct that there are no swWenr words in the Japanese language!” sefd Mir, Jarr, hotly, ‘"That’s all a man, exasperated beyond all endurance, can do—reliove Imaelf by a little cussing! 0, when you ene of a nation or @ race that doesn't cuss, You may know {t's,a nation oF @ race that has kind and gentle women folk. Take !t from me! i epake {t from you!’ exclaimed Mrs. Jarr, ‘Hayen't T heen tkinig It’ from | jou for years? What olse do I take from you tut abuse? How many times O@ | jvesta) send_the Children from the room-when you get on your tantrums bet ‘ayse I do not want them to hear much language? And I just wish the Japanem + vould fight. thia country! It would show that there were men who didn't sweat at thelr wives, but that didn't prevent them from shdwing real courage! lke they did when they’ fought the Russians; and Russians beat thelr wives and wear and sinoke and drink!" i i} “Gee whittaker!"” oxolalnred Mr, Jarr. “Don't you ever ask me seather)] question about anything an an excuse to get me into an argument and ofuse me! I wish wo had a war, It would bea relief to go out right now and hil lot of people! Bo'eaying, he rushed out, | we ae “say, said his friend Rangte, meeting him outside, “Juat had it with my wife!” said Mr. Jarr, ‘And I'm the prize Yakitigumat*! re the “are we going to (hi Japanene war?” ih