The evening world. Newspaper, July 30, 1907, Page 10

orld: Pedlished Daily except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company Park Row, New York. POSEN PULITIER, Pree, 1 Fast 224 Sires SLANGUA BHA, Reve-1rvae., 094 West 11008 MH Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Sesond:Class Mail Ma Canada, {and t : ‘Wypscription Rates to The ming World for the United States, Con: One year, CONEY ISLAND. ONEY ISLAND + cr b : y vious fire has resulted in improving conditions. The} big fire,a few years ago which burned the Bowery and the slums did more’ to bring about improved “conditions than the~tabors- of refermers—and the; éfforts of property owners. Now that a partial rebuilding has again become necessary, why not make the rcmodelling sweeping | and pérmanent. : : ~ Coney Island is the great recreation place for the mass of the people in New York City. During. the, Nie é season ‘hundreds of thousands go there daily _ Tens: of thousands of families take évery one of their members to enjoy the “sea breezes, to bathe in the ocean, to have a: day of wholesome recrea- tion and to Vary the tendency to monotony in their daily life. go The necessity for. recreation and a change of scene’ is not confined to July and August, but exists the year around. A man, even more a man ora child, can do more work in six‘days than in seven.y and year out. The human machinery needs an occas ional dy off, just as_a steam boiler needs to have its fires drawn and its flues cleaned. _ Why not make Coney Island a winter resort as weil? + Philadelphia has in Atlantic City the most populous winter recrea- Mion resort in the United States. Many New Yorkers go to Atlantic City -4n'the winter months because during that season the near-by recreation resorts are. closed. : Beis In rebuilding the burned area of Coney Island, and in the continual ee ew building and alterations in the section that Sunday’s fire did not touch, there should be a new style of building and architecture. The “suggestion of the Brooklyn fire marshal that Coney {sland be included 4p the fire limit for new buildings might well be followed. ~ Lumber is now so costly ’that the initial saving in building wooden stnictures is slight. Including the difference in painting and sepairs, at the end of five years a frame building costs as much as one of concrete, stone. or brick, the difference in them depending on the availability of “material.. At the end of ten or twenty years all comparisons of cost are against wooden buildings at present prices of lumber, paint and labor. In concrete construction the important cost factor is the accessibility of.sand and gravel. Concrete is made by mixing cement, sand, gravel weight. | ~ Right at hand there is enough sand, gravel and water at Coney Asland to rebuild New York ten stories high. All that would have to _ be transported there is the cement, and that can ‘come at the low rates of. .water transportation... There is.no stone handy, and dittle clayte make brick, but for the concrete.of buildings the materials are right at band. SS = _ aes tite eet at C Ss {= A= Concrete walls could be extended into’ the ocean, inclosing part of it for winter bathing. Sun parlors and glass-covered pavilions would’ make a winter.day more invigorating than a summer day. The tneezes from the ocean, which blow cooler than the land breezes in the hot summer —weather, would-conversely-mitigate the-cold_of winter and-transport party of the warmth of the Gulf Stream : ~~ Coney Island the year round, summer and winter, spring and fall, is the place where more millions cf people go for recreation than any other ‘Spot on the face of the earth. __ Letters from the People. Hot-Weather Ciothes, '* t othe Witter of The Evening World Well. at 830 that venerable I waw the most comfortable and best! tub, the South Brooklyn, sallled ¢ @ressed man in New York the other day. | loaded down with The rest of ux were sweltering. Ho] reached the Battery at 9. meored coolly along in a pretty crash] for an efehteen-minute Bult (no vest), mmed hat.} becatian oY the fog, the @anyas shoes( and a. low-collared eoft) on the ‘Phinty ‘ehirt, The whole eomume was | Becoming and deliciolisly cool. Wi malh we others get sense BE, 3. 1, Bils Right. 2. No. ‘Zeithe Hiltor of The Greaing World; 1 I am an-thmate of Seton Hospital “YF also have a-residenco in the city, A ways Chat Lam alpublic charge and can- sot vote at the coming election. B says Keon fomister and yote from my liom thers w patient in the hospital. Which fe right? 2. Have wo a national holiday | in the United States? S08. | Whe Thirty-ninth Street Ferry, ‘Be the Wititor of The Evening World: A’ word nx to the way officl, Mmaneging the ferry between tery and ‘Thirtyeninth stre Brooklyn. The boats |are supposed to Fanon 4 twenty-minute headway. 1, mith about 30 others, went dewn tho Verge dock As usual <o catch the’ &10 | Went only to learn that the next boat |” y et 6.00-(It was peat 80, the] Society? tTrazon being for repairs. pat was iaid up » Recently, t ran no boat nth street Ineo: We hooted !t down the long dock could not the ferry officials ne sign at Second avenue and Th intend y } Ay K. LANGAST mat Inch of m Cigar, » Brondway, To.she Eliitor of ‘The Evening Worta; ta the gudress of the Legal Ald i & powerful and unscrupulous women. pment, but-it tecertatoly. inom unlversally becoming lo the American woman, And the husband who objects to It ix trespassing on the {nalienable rights of | Jooking twenty years older than she should white he entertains her by reading woman possessed even by the African belle who rears her locks in a buttéred) poems written !n hts leisure hours to younger, loveller and less to eriticise. Concerning cer- | abject Indies. In my opinion ‘whe deserves her fate, And so does any woman once of opluion, but the right | with a similar door-mat disposition: a pyramid no wayage chief would be brave enough tain rights of women there may be a wide div to keep up The Evening World’s Daily Magazine, ; “difen and Now. By Maurice Ketten. STEP LIVELY, THERE, You! HIS AINT NO P TEA, DING Bust IT! |) STEP LIVELY [7 THERE You! = DING BUSS IT! ahd water. The cement is about one-eighth or one-tenth of the total by The Husband and the Pom i) adour in self-defense last week because she arranged her A WEALTHY man of Alabama was shot by his wife hair in a pompadour, contrary to his wishes. As «| Perhaps the pompadour has won more Nearts than any > ywoma other arrangement of feminine locks, and the man Who) for ea objects to {t {s rare enough to qualify for a museum. It | parel. beauty draws men by a single halr—-and it was the grouchiest of old bachelors, Alexander Pope, who sald so—| clothes, to her own [his wife did name of tire pam. | n: padoured, coronetted and supplemented tresses can only be faintly estimated. 2 There is a fusctnatlon In the vory pacour, Ghristened after one of the world’s most beautiful, It ia not perhaps the most ar [Mhesith-walsi, dea, eds to be beautiful according to her own lights {s one the meanest man should not dispute with the meekest woman. What man who for twenty-five years, had worn a festooned forelock sweep- result he declare that she had to die, and grabbing her bY | ing Gls right ear would cleave the hirsute drapery in the middle because x the offending cotffure endeavored to execute the sentence. | woman objected to the sido Rud Woman to minke herselr pleasing to nain Tt h to follow the parting? The trouble ts, man at least does not know his own taste in women's and the wife whose husband dictates her costume and colffure 1s too ttre peer of thinttsa tide of ea reinity emoctherd- amd pom apt to: be nesieeted for some-other-weman-who (raing her tresses -acoonding 1 know a physician who after hii marriage decided that She was a good many years older than he da_gratefal and docile nout—Se-when he told her -to-part her hair and pr: ry it down smoothly on either sido of her face because 1 made her resemble a tony | decearod aunt of whom he was very fond and to discard corsets and wear a she obeyed him-meckly,-end now she sites spectacied meekness | 0b Work: “ dress hygienically, Reddy the Rooter. OY,IF MY WIFE COMES . {RED INS TO-DAY TELCO HER iL =] RETURN SHORTLY, s-4 3 WE NEED ‘Em, OL Boy! THE REAL DEFECT. “remarked Mra, Ilgh- | TO BE SURE. What State do you think Ja worse for ua in this matter of | and * slghed [adverse legistition?: ' enstye ute Lawyer—The etate of eal Baltimore American, ( Railroad, Magnate- whistled lowed? | Mrs. Ambiah, Intelligent NATURALLY. Judge—You say tho de fancisoo Chronicle, | , STN pte aan NOBODY SAFE. ant turned| to the dog, Whas fol-) womdn ever get too old to marry? ) The Witness—The — dog.-San | doe! ifs always Oring misdorm.—Smith’ “3: Weellly. : Tuesday, July 30; 1907; By Nixola Greely-Smith. And yet since man seeks to attract Would Keént proper taste of the other in matters of hairdressing and ap- oF foolishly By George Hopf SH Ss ee Bachelor-Not necessarily. Age] \rieq by modern fellaheen women, does not seam to affect the. blood | BEREDPOOS RE THE IDEAL MARRIAGE By Dr. C. W. Saleeby, of Edinburgh University, 4 Rebuke to Bernat'd Shaw and Other Sneorers From Harmeworth's Self-Educator Magazine. ‘f nas, unfottunately, become. a recent fashion for novelists, writers of plays, other men who earn their living by more or less imag- fnative iiterature, to jivade the realms of socivioxy, to pose as at thorisies upon -{t, and te-lay down, propositions witch the public {a expected to cecept. ; fas fe Now, it la no'less a social institution than. marriage that has lately furnished material. for copy to a number of contemporary writers. Thus, we have the problem play and the »roblem novel. It would be easy to exaggerate the harm, that these’ do, for, after all, we do pot take the theatre or:even our fiction very serlously~and in‘this we show a rare degree of wisdom. But serious harm ~ | must ensué when a:man like Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr, H. G. Wells, and even , Mr. George Meredith, who have gained popularity, or even the homage of the wise, as imaginative writers, use the influehce thus obtained for the purpose of Propagating views upon social questions which can be described only as-puerile, superficial and pestilent. : ‘ i ‘In this country we. are familjar with marriage asa civil Institution and as A religious institution is regarded here as a civil contract, and there as @ divinely ordainec sacrament, Now, the first fact which we have ‘clearly to | recognize is that no Churoh, living or dead, is or, waa the Inventor or originator of the inatitution’ of marriage, This institution 1s definitely older than anys ° - existing ‘Church or any historical Church; it is definitely older .than even the most primitive of all primitive religions: nay. more, it {s older than the human vaca itself, ; . ~ . We are not concerned for the moment to assert any superiority of monogamy, but merely to state the historical fact that, superior or infetior, natural or un- natural, ecclesiastical or civil in origin, monogemy has been the dominant form ot sex retation in the history of, mankind, It-may—be permitted; however, to inquire Into tlie causes of this general dominance of monogamy auch various times, in such various places, among such various peoples. it Ss true iat the practice of polygamy is found to lave been most extensive among porely military peoples of a low order of civiilzation—as, of course, » purely ——— military people must necessarily be. Jn consequence of perpetual war, the number of men in such communities |s disproportionately small, and thus te | Citablianed a state of affairs especially advantageous to the practice of polygamy. } j the Only frue Marriage. " | But the survival of any social institution 1s not to be explained, and ts not__* | determined, by the wills of Individual men. It is determined by the needs of the race. Many forms of matrimonial or seml-matrimonial inatitutions may be 4 | named, besides polygamy, which offer marked attractions—some to men of one * . jtypé, some to men of another type. But these institutions have played ne lpart of-any note in the history of mankind, because they did not make for the ‘survival, but instead made for the death, of the peoples who accepted them. |The writer believes that the true cause of the dominance and triumph of. monogamy, as opposed to other marriage forma is to be expressed Ip terme of the children. The theory of the present writer. is that monogamy haa triumphed because \1t provides the best conditions for the children, produces the best children, who ! |erow up to be the best men and women, and who survive in the struggle for existence as compared with their neighbora who practice polygamy. On super= ficial examination it might be thought that in the course of the struggle for existence between two neighboring peoples, one practising polygamy and an- other practising monogamy, the polygamous peoplea would tend to outlive | their nelghbors because of their presumably higher birth-rate. Now, doubtless {polygamy does make for a higher birth-rate, but {t also makes for an infantile | mortality compared with which our Infantile mortality, disgraceful though tt be, seems almost decént. In this instance we pce illustrated the general proposi= tion of the writer that it Is In terms of the life and health and character of- the children that we must express the condition which leads to the triumph of monogamy over its riva oy Says George Meredith; ‘Certainly, however, one day these present conditions 2 of marriage will be changed. Marriage will be allowed for a certain period—say, ten years.” This statement of opinion naturally attracted a very great deal of ~~ jattention on both sides of the Atlantic, and also on the Continent of Europa Indeed, !t haz boon intimately discussed ail over the world during the past two [yeare; and it has found favor in many quarters, though it need hardly“~be sald that no one with the smallest pretensions to be regarded as a poctdlogist has ‘een found to express anything but richly deserved contempt for Mr. M optmions. 7 SP The ideal family Is that produced 67 monogamy. Not very far behind It. perhaps, 1s the ‘type of family produced by a qualifed polygamy: such, for 4 instance as we observe in the patriarchs of the Bible. Relatively to\these, and especiall\to the former, all other kinds of marriage stand condemned; and this constitutes the ultimate warrant for monogamy, 6 Why Other Systems Fail. In general {t may be sald that “the nearer our provision enes toward the establishment for those children of conditions simulating those of the family, the better are the results.-* * © Indeed, what sane person will dispute that the best prospect for an orphan !s afforded when it Ss adopted by some parental- dearted palrwho. will treat Stas if it deere one of their own. children?” No ene —— ~~~ who has paid-the smallest attention to these facts can hesitate to admit that the proposéis for leasehold marriage and nationalisation of the children touch the ultimate bottom for ignorance and short-sighted stupidity.’ The more we study the family, and substitutes for the family, the more clearly we see that the- institution of monogamic marriage has the final warrant of Nature __ Monogamy has survived, not becauso of the injunctions of any Church, but be- * cause It has supreme “wurvival value. Communal, or collective marringa, group-marringe,teasehotd- marriage, an ~~~ hil all been the subjects of experiments by man tn and all for the same reason, beci “a7 the past. There is a natural automatic process which haa been at work since the bes ginning, and which will continue working to the end; ft 1s the process which Darwin called “natural selection,’ and Spencer “the survival of the Attest," and {t Insures that whatever individual character or social institution makeg for life will survive. Marriage, we have demonstrated, ts such an institution, and it will be practised upon the earth a hundred thousand years hence. Just 1 Minute, Sisters! Briefs for Scolding Mothers. Se TTL et E (By Helen Vutt Wallace.) HEN you feel cross (ake a mouthful ef water and retain tt. The feritability, will spon cease, _Reselve to control_your voice, When whirhwinds of cress words assaf! you~ speak kindly, slowly and with deliberation, Compel yourself to be pleasant. o 8 Never nag co e : When you refuse, refuse finally, When you consent, consem cordially. oe Ce Commend your child often. One word of commendation goes further than a wh@le cyclone of hasty words. Poss o 6 Soon you_will have gained control over your own spirit-the dynamo for the scolding supply, and the switch to that battery, will be turned off forever, while the energy wasted In scolding will be chagmed into good-managenwnt material, You are now, instead of a continuous menace to yourself and your family, a weet and permanent foy to your household. i Golomon's comparison, “A continual dropping en a rainy day and’s com | tentious woman," no longer applies to you. shitev ie. j ‘The sume force that makes the thunderstorm makes a beautiful, bright day, Uso your force aancly. 4 _ Science Finds Germs in Tickets, EN tramway tickets, dellvored by flye different conductors and thereupon I immediateley Inclosed in sterilized paper envelopas to preserve them from further contamination, have beeen carefully |aralysed by Dr. Rusquet, of Bordeaux, France, with ghaatly results. Each ona ylelded a separate culti~ vation of microbes, Among these flourished staphyloceee!, pneumococal, Loefe fler's pacudo-bacilll and others with even worse names. ten tramway ticket* a were severally administered to ten white mid ight of theno 4 dled rapidly jand the remaining two became very ill, Five white rate drank a of tho potionk and all expired. Dr. Busquet’s conclusion is that four out of five | 1% tramway tickets taken at random may transmit daigerous diseases, i a OH Wigs and Thin Skulls. T° curious thinness of some skulls of Egyptian muminies of the fourth te” tho nineteenth dynasty has heen studied by Dr. G.. EMMott Smith, pre’ fessor )of anatomy &t Catro, and he suggests that the cause may have’ Iteccura In both male and female skulle, Ye poen the wearing of heavy. wi: {e found only In tummies of wealthy people, and the upper clasves of the period « 4 Spinster—-Do you think men and’, nich thp phénomenon belongs are known to have followed the fashion ot ; wearing enotmous wigs, Intermittent pressure, such as-that' of the waterjens © * | qumclently-to cause the’ bone. to\atnoye.: _tmprtemwnrrry Yes