The evening world. Newspaper, July 27, 1907, Page 8

"Tire Evenin junday by the Press Pablishing Cotnpany, No. 63 to os Park Row, New York. ROME PULITEER, Pree, 1 Hoot 104 Owens. Te AMGUE BIAW, Rese-Trvas., 901 West 1130 Birerk, “ontered at the Post-Offcs at New York as Second-Class Mail M tion Rates to The Canada, Kur England and tinent and Ali ~—-Brening World for the United States. One| Fone = One month.. \ Published Dally except 81 50 30 COWARDICE. OWARDICE is a matter of training and habit more than of tempera- ment, ‘This, of course, may be said equally: of bravery, which is. the virtue to which cowardice is the op- posite vice. 3 ‘ If, everybody stopped to reflect before acting,. if ‘bith’ the present and the ultimate consequences were always considered and weighed in the balance, if judgment were sub- ‘ stituted ‘for habit, then. nobody would be either brave or: cowardly, but every human action would pro- ceed from cautious prudence. Timidity and rashness alike would vanish. The human principle that cowardice is a habit makes so important the cowardice of the few policemen who failed to arrest Frank -H. Warner, when’ their bravery would have saved the life of John C Wilson, whom Warner afterward shot. Some of these cowardly police- men were new men, who may not have had the time to acquire the habit Of bravery which has been universal-in the New York police force with- out a break for thirty-eight years. But some of the score of patrolmen who stood around waiting for some one else first to face the murderer's revolver are old patrolmen, men with years of service and service stripes. break in the police habit of bravery. A child is courageous or timid, according to the way he is brougat up. If he is told ghost stories before being left alone in his crib, it threats are made to him of what the bogie man will do, and of how spooks scare small bays, he will naturally be a timid child, and nless he shakes off the habit'of timidity he will devélop into a man afraid d7 a-shadow. > Cowardice does not proceed from the reason like fear, but from an {i habitual mental attitude of shirking risk and shrinking from danger. « Men filled with fear have done most courageous deeds. Men knowing. . that death confronted them on the battle-field, and filled with dread of cannon shot and rifle ball, have led successful charges and have gone to ~ death in forlorn hopes. : ie Lh Fear is as distinct from cowardice as thought Is from action. _ How a man acts when he js afraid, not what he thinks, is the test of ot Whether or not he is cowardly. A man in a battle line may have an ap UNcontrollable impulse to run, He may be'no longer able to lie still *Y- under a rain of hostile bullets. His legs twitch. His face grows pale. *” Beads of sweat trickle down him, He finally does nm. If he runs with his face to the foe he becomes the leader of 2 ea charge. If -he-runs with his face to the rear he Becomes a cowardly re- treater. The decision in such a case or tn any~Hke- Important event-of fife a ts not-made-of-the-moment.—_It-is the result of a long growth, of a io series of acts beginning in infancy. Like truthfulness, bravery is an innate habit. Its origin must be Inherited, but no baby is born wholif far devold-of any possibility-of truth ~ : and courage any more than any boy | Yen comes into the world with heredi- ‘* tary impulses so strong that no future bad training can turn him into a liar or a-coward. ye When a mother coddles her little boy, when she makes him_mun_ t<\from-a-fight lest _his eye may. be * blacked or his nose bled, when she «es punishes him so ignorantly that he *°™ ies to avoid other punishment, such 2 boy is a sneak at school, on the == police force he would be a sneak, and a-sneak shrinks from a smoking f schoolmaster’s rod or the mother’s slipper. eee ov te ray en ie \ y«. the Mahdi fanatics, timid natives of India until they defeated their, former ~ conquerors. This is proof that tralning can make men brave. What = Teyerse process had been at work in a police department? Letters from the People. @ Vacation Without Pay. thetr progreasiona, inversions an T the B of The Evening, World: lutiona, ull orowded into a Readers, how js this for miserly eon-|menaures. The contemplation of thts uct? profusion of harmony lavished upon « eM arm by which I am. employed| composition destined apon to be hummed told thelr employeen lant year that they/&nd drummed tnto oblivion would qaus’ could have a vacation !f they wisbed|® Beethoven to throw’ up bis hands in “gna; byt that they would lose thetr/AMazement. If our music biishere Most of tue| Would have less regard for c a time if/they did take one. abe Y expert pianii Nationa abo ns were unable to ufford a va- yn and thus lose thelr pay. ‘This Pie year, however, the firm—forces the employees (o take a vacation without qupay, What do readers think of thi» philanthropy? A SUFIMERER. In Torning a Corner, "TM the I:ditor of The Evening World WIL readers ploase decide this argu ment and give their reasons? When ® ‘wagon is turning a cornet quickly, iawhich wheels leave the ground, the intinaide or outside wieeln? ALR and provide t score nin $1,200'in Town To the Battor of 7 A friend of min ve roome, all of Npne look out Popular fougs. Spe the Diltor of ‘The Brening World: abe ‘While stumbline across one of the lat- eed songé I counted no less than oni} a De Winéred and t sen natwommee a : The Newlyweds HE'S GOT A HEAD SHAPED LIKE NAPOLEON, AND NET — BO YOU EVER WONDER, LOVEY, WHAT HE'S GOING TO BE WHEN HE DOESN'T MAMAS PET LIKE PITTY SINGS’ PAPA sgrencnmeeien § Worra"s Daily Magazine, Saturday, July 27: 19077. ACE EE: PPS OSHS SH HSHOPLSHOPE OPP LHD HOHILS PHPGLHLLY SH LHPODLHHSHHSH PHS HHH HHS HHHSOSHSOHEGSSOS wo Their Baby % By George McManus You THINK THE LITTLE TOODLEUMS 18 TOO KIND HEARTED TO GE LIKE NAPOLEON? EVER PASS MY LIPS! Mr. Newlyweds Daring Dive for Baby's Pall in the Sunday World Comic Supplement To-Mor - . » ~By Roy L. McCardell, $47 PROMMSE you one thing, kid,” sald the Chorus Girl. | I “When I go away on my-yacation I ain't going to send anyboiy any picture postcards of Watkins Glen or the Soldiers’ Monument, New Rochelle, | “One reason ia 1 don't get any vacation becatie I'm re- | hearsing now, and another reason {s that this souventr | postcard gag {# the sure exasperator for me. ‘Talk about your wave of crime! Them {illustrated post- cards showing Main street, Baugerties, or Lover's Leap, near Ashtabula, Wis, 1s what's got the goat of all that's true and beautiful and goodt ‘What can you do about !t? Total strangers that's only been Introduced to you once or twice som you a penny pic- ture of the Boardwalk, Asbury Park, and write across It, “Having a good time here!” And people you know hates The Best Fun of the Day by Evening World THE CHORUS GIRL. the very sight of you sends you one you can't show when the minister calis and pencil over it, “Wish you was with us, kid!" “When my morning mail comes full of them kindly remem! nces from people I want to forget then I realize that I don't love nobody, that an unfortunate guy who robs the malls these days unless he's searching for materials to paper a lunatic asylum. ‘Tied can imagine your worst enemy stifiing In tne cupboard over the iditehen in the farmiess. farmhouse in East Meilaria, rubbing ammonia onthe monquito bites and wondering what she can do to annoy you froch a distance. ‘Ha, I have it!" says she, ‘I'll send her some ploture postcards of the local Views of interest, and she'll think I'm having the time of my iffe, and that will drive her wild. “No, I ain't sore exactly. I could have a vacation, but I care more for my art, and I'm rehearsing hard, and 1 jthink our ahow's going to be a winner, It's a funny thing about the show business that as long as you suck In Jt you never grow old, but If you drop, out of It for two seasons you're a has-been for fatr. I ain't twenty yot—well, anyway, I don’t look over twenty, do I? And yet Nature Faking £2 £2 £2 {2 £ By Maurice Ketten fi : YES, IF HE CHOOSES THE BANK HE‘LL BE A FINANZIER, IF HE TAKES THE BooK HELL BE A SCHOLAR AND IF ETS, THE. PAINT Box HELL BE AN ARTISTI CLEVER OF You, LOVEY! row, 7 , \ Humorists. jin the short timo I've been on the stage I've saw that it's fatal to leave go aminuts, If you do you're done for . id all that remains is Pretend you 1f you would, but you can't use you're married now. “How's Dopey MoKaight? Say, he's all. right. Ho's reformed again, ang doesn't try to make anything out of himself to the great Pnnoyance of bis friends, but 1s once more the same good-hearted slob he used Yo be two long ecks ago. : 4 “He got a shock whioh impaired all his faculties except his arettes and his hankering for the ees Snatrastticte fepreiatioaed ener | He ‘comes homé to the flat from Wall street, where he’s been trying to foag |! {hla scheme for a Penny Arcade Trust, because he'd forgotten his olgarsttes, and” What does he walk into in the partor but Mamma De Branscombe and Poss Montgomery, just back from a face-skinning treatment. “They sure are, the lady horrors to look at, and Dopey gives a yell an@ | faints away, and when he comes to he is playing the piano, and his reason fa Just as unsafe ax it used to be, and all je well. : What's face akinning? fay, don't you know that young boauties gets their faces skinned once a year? youre! I oan't mention no names, but if you will think af a few ,footligh j belles with complexions like thelr grandchildren you oan take {\ trom’me thag they've been through thelr annual faceskinning treatmen oad | thats ho Tie.. a eee i ' | all these Stty-yearcla |) “You just go at this time of complexion works and you'll eee with acid plasters, be Mss these come off their complexions Js green and yellow. It are the trentment, and théy board at the special; {ndoora at home,, Misuiaadiiban \ b en Nee ny ge OSCE over It they may allp out with harem vells for © park, Dut yt’ that pect aa poeta Gate y it's etated they are summering at thelg “Mamma De Branscombe has been doing ft for that: was Invented-tn Parts, anq-It's the pixater of Par Te akin off thelr races. with eve! ment burns the skin off their han “Say, kia, there’ old. ‘he year to any of those facial factories amg fitty vain old dames with their faces covered talres ist'e place or else wad years, It'e an acid plaster fa the old ying ladies bury "+ ry year, Them that takes thorough tree@] | ds, too. during the process they are a sight, and, oh, how they suffer! Bum, end that's to grow "s only one erime a woman won't be forgiven for, It's the unwritten, law, : .|had ninety-four thousand (94,000)) separate end distinct waya of stabbing inte |!) From Hi Glasses to Green Glasses, State still wearing our pin feathers and those wide fi ] ‘ide was, very tasty and salubrious form of entertain’ “But not for mino, Wall,"anyway, not for some years yet.” , =O sss NEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES . By Irvin. Cobb “New York, July 7, D= GRREN—I recall when we were in the squay. | 5 mouthed extensions that go with the Young Pigeons and other bipeds we had a notion that a strew !]. ment for @ summer night We used to plok out a night when there was oo breeme: erate hia own perspiration and not have to send out an@ ‘borrow any from the neighbors, We would climb into @ large tired wagon that was suffering trom defective springs, —the youths and the youthesses—and alt down crose-legged on a pile of straw. It was a peculiar kinf of straw; 2 over maw any Just IMre.t anywhere ¢lee, It was straw tha¢ /don't recoliect that I you through the boiler deck of your white duck trousers, But Green, dear, since moving to New York I have diacovered a form of mume mer madness that has the straw ride ghoved back as far-as the Thirty-nintly Meridian, It {a entitled “Going Out In @ Ballboat,” and I have taken all three ef ‘sn which {s followed by a great many peregns, including nd unde very sumtner up on the river under the lea of the billboards, and ral estate ads of Jersey and the Palisades that serve as a foundes tlon for same. I am loth. however, to believe that the owners of the sailboats _ really derive any satisfaction from steering their craft. They get thelr pleasure * |) taking out thelr unsuspecting friends and then gloating over them. i You would be pained to discover how much a sailboat shrinks after you get aboard. From the bank the Molly, Coddled appeara to be a fairly eommodious craft. But when you climb in her and.are standing on ono foot because there doesn't eeem to. be any place to put the other one except in the skipper’s lap, where It would Interfere with the steering und hia digestion, you discever that she's about the atze of ons white chip, 5 : It Js tho delight of all seasoned skippers to walt for a squell dnd then te skim with you out along the dark brown edge of a damp eternity, laughing merrily” every timo a largo wavo cbmes over the aide and alips down your throat. ‘Thus | it was with ma, ( By skipper gave me a rope to hold and then he suddenly rémarked something than sounded Ike ‘Hard a Leo” Supposing that he referred to his Jaund and haying but )ittle-personal {ntereat in the Chinese race, I pald no attention. at i that Juncture the New York ahore unexpectedly tipped over on my brow, # | new no more, . } When I came to I was wearing a lump over my’ eye about the size of @ | | ripe ogg plant and far more painful, ‘The akipper, atifing with diMeculty a bitte | aw haw, waa saying that be had supposed I knew what todo when she wag | iff about to fibe. I Informed ‘him coldly that had I kndwn she was about to jie Zin | would certainly have jobe with her or maybe a little sooner, I then domandea te) |) bo returned to the Western Hem{sphe: ; Hl ees Since that experience I have been the-atrwwrzide, -Yourm je to think more kindly thoughts towaed |” ponte ynpeprtnonerneemneyrt onrorergtiye