The evening world. Newspaper, August 8, 1907, Page 3

2 \ : lt Is the Age of Automobiles and Steam Yachts, and Old-Fashioned Methods : Are Out of Date. SAME OLD COURTSHIP, THOUGH. _ Nixola Greeley-Smith Disagrees With Prof.’ ' Shailer Matthews That Romance . ls Dying Out. By Nixola Greeley-s mith. ROF. SHAILER MATTHEWS, Bad ae P Dean of the University of ia | Chicago, in an address. be- fore the Chautauqua Assembly yes- terday, decared that the style of love- making is changing; that romantic love is going out of fashion, and the fine are of courtship falling into a sad state of neglect. “We go into family ‘relations with the same sangfroid that we 0 on a picnic,” he asserted. Certainly the style of courtship yas changed, as any one who reads ¢ sisi: of the times must per- ‘elve. But 1 disagree with Prof. Matthews when he says it. has 7a ' for the worse. In the hurry and bustle of modern life certain ancient formulas of! courtship have in some instances been discarded altogether; in others merely improved and simplified. = | ‘The greatest and most radical change {s, of course, in the quickness swith which the courtships of today are accomplished. Automobiles, vteam yachta and private cars, all the diverse paraphernalia of speed, in fact, tend to lessen the period of courtship. Whereas a lover had formerly to Journey weeks on horseback to call on the object of his adoration and was constrained during long absences to write her long and*dreary and artifi celal love letters, to-day hg can cross a continent {n fiye days to be at her, aide or condense the pent-up ardor of weeks of absence in a ten-words-for-, @quarter telegram. ° 1G LOVE-LETTER WRITING A LOST ART, | Love-letter writing has become a lost art. Engaged couples and hus- bands and wives alike sem@)thitr inst: barding! hati ey wite of wit The rapid courtship of the ttmes ‘tw reflected acctrately in {ts fiction. ; Consider the titles of two short stories I have read recently. One was ‘ ealled “A Young Man jn a Hurry,” the other “A Lady {n Haste.” In both two young persons met for the first time and became engaged in less than twenfy-four hours! To Prof. Matthews these and similar instances in every day’s news would seem less romantic than Jacob's fourteen-year | courtship of Rachel, for instance. To me these condénsed courtships seem \ the most typical of our age. / Bernard Shaw makes the young dentist hero of “Ydu Never Can Tell” gay that the new-fashioned woman {!s much easier to win than the old, and that in three minutes’ conversation a man would reach a point it ~ would have taken him-three-months-to-attain-with-the-old-fashioned—ra— ; riety. Cerfainly the modern girl has a tendency to abbreviate courtship by stripping it of the fantastic frills of he romantic love Prof. Matthews is mourning, for formerly it took a three-volume novel to bring any well- eonducied.-hero..andheroine to the altar..Now. 1.500 words..of. moonlight. ie} and a fost speeding motor are deemed quite sufficient to convey any young \e couple of fact or fiction front introduction to marriage. WHY SHOULDN'T CUPID STEP LIVELY ? Yet, fs the situation appalling for all that? Why should not Cupid keep pace with the times and benefit by all the many time-conquering in- ventions of the hour? Love and courtship are changing as everything else {s changing, but as in yerything else, {t seems to me the new Is better than the old. No man has time ‘to serve fourteen years for a woman to-day except he be of the variety that gets so many years off for good behavior. Besides, why should he waste his heart for fourteen years when fourteen days would do? Common sense and courtship ere not frreconcllable. ‘The new court: ship decried by Prof. Matthews brings them together. One is no less un- happy sighing to be married than sighing to be unmarried. And that’s all the difference there is between the old style protracted courtship and the ?° |. Yew rapid-transit matrimony, It really doesn't matter where the aigh somes in, and the new courtship is merely a sign of the times, | _VicTiM oF SHOOTING Dies: AMMEN DAIEN-T0 SUICIDE BY HEA Suddenly Becomes Insane and Guts Throat with Carving Knife, *- t | tamal-Boat Captain Charged with firing Shot That Killed McCarron. Joseph McCarron, twenty-three years 14, of No. 88t Tenth avenue, who was hot in the abdomen yesterday after- joon on a pier at the foot of West Mfty-sixth street, died this morning at Yoosevelt, Howpital. 7, ‘Thomas Thompson, sixty-nine, captain | the cahal-boat Townly, was arrested f the time, charged with having shot fs .foCarron, and was looked up at the 4 Vest Forty-seventh' street station, Not until to-day 4i4 Coroner A. M. | Ambler report the death of Mra, John ie ks Bohutte, who killed herself yesterday | + : at her home on Spruce street, Corona, i L,I. When the police of that precinct } f made ‘a protest at not being notitied,| Dr. Ambier explained that aa It was . a & case of suicide pure and simple he | had not thought it worth) while to 14 hurry himeelf. : | S ry Mrs. Bohutte was fifty voars old and j i Segoe is fleshy. She suffered greatly from tho i Advertising Campaign? heat, ‘The Coroner thinks t+ was the Fi < heat which suddenly drove her insane. { i i There was no olge in the house 4 1 but a servant, Mra, Schutte became + Then'remember this: Upto @, violent and drove her from the houne. | } date ‘this cs The World rete. girl ran to @ drug. store across | Ra art | ithe street and brouwht back the clerk, } printed 858,255 separate ad. Edward Fetheringham, who found the | f | vertisements, or 184,542 | aoors looked, but managéd to get in “oo } more than the Herald or any oe a window, Mrs, Schutte waa ‘ 4 ther news} a a ww) Fi Ing “dead on the kitchen floory She b Ohne pane Any: here had stripped herwelf almost nude and) ¢ ty “World advertisements lead then cut her throat with a carving | ; cat Knife: THe knife Iny at her side and} i jin number because’ they lead 8) at aboot the body wore torn. frag. | { in results, ments Gf her garments, (aes ‘Mis, Schutte’s huiband, man, 9 eomewhers in the Bouse, (20th Century Love-Making Just as Romantic .. As in the Old Days, but Action Is More Rapid pf FARPIVEN BY ‘“*Step Lively!’’ Is Call Of To-Vay to Dan Cupid tic love making going out of fashion? Prof. Shailer Matthews, Dean of the University of Chicago, Says so, but Nixola Greeley-Smith disagrees with him. The change is in the quickness with which the courtships of Is roma’ to-day are accomplished. : It is an/age of automobiles, steam yachts'and private cars. A lover doesn’t haye to make Jong journeys on horseback nowa- | days. i Love-letter writing has bec even the wireless, is more up-to-date. Two young persons meeting for the first time and becom- ing engaged in less than twenty-four hours can be just as ramantic as Jacob’s fourteen years’ courtship of Rachel. Ors For Dan Cupid to “‘step lively’ is typical of our age. BICAMIST WILL - SORROWING WIFE iBut Girl Whitman Saved | .- From Surf and Wedded May Prosecute. }IN JAIL IN WASHINGTON, | |Held: There for Passing Bad] Checks, and Wanted Here for Theft. ‘ome a lost art. The telegraph, In the Livonia Apartments at No. 7 Hast Thirty-ninith streot, is a brok-| en-hearted family--the wife, the aged motfier and the three children of Frank J. Whitman, the fermer superintendent Range in the Market to Be Flashed to Yachts by Wig- Wags Great Scheme to Kee A Street Men Guided*on an Imporiant Market Situation. of the buildings, who was arrested yesterday in Washington, where, under the name of Frank J. Wilson, he had been enjoying a romantic honeymoon with Misa Dora Rowa, of Norfolk, whom he married at the Jamestown Exposition after he saved her from irowning In the- surt, t The first hock came to the little! household when they became convinced that Whitman was dishonest. But a} worse blow for the devoted wite was the news that her husband, deserting those who had a legal and a moral claim upon him. had taken a second | wife lews than month after he de-| the Nautical Wall| = o= en a reporter for The Evening World saw her today Mra. Whitman was preparing to start for Police Head- joarters, believing that her husband would be brought to New York. She hanged “her mind and stayed st home whe earned that tt would prob ably be a good while before he reaches here. Ho han first to answer a charge of pasaing worthless checks on the Ameri- can Hotel In Washington, and after chat he will be lucky {f he ts not turned nver to the Virginia authorities to face trial for bigamy. He ts wanted ‘here for failing to make any’ returns to his smployer, Edgar J. Levy, of No, 13 Broadway, of tie $20 In rehta which he collected from tenants of the Livonia [before he disappeared three weeks ago. Despite all that Whitman has man- |aged to do since he abandoned his fam- ly, Mrs, Whitman {s ready to forgive him. “[ have a ttle money in the bank," Hone Under Commodore Cornelius Vander- bilt three hundred and o¢d yaohts of ww York Yacht Ciub are assum- biing off Glen Cove this afternoon ready to start for thelr annual cruise The trip, will be to the enstward—a three days’ crulse to Newyort anda one day‘a run to Martha's Vineyard. Qe OR ETE course Martha will use her own discre- tion about staying on the vineyard or biking for the mainland. But that {s neither here nor there The point ta that The Evening World, ever on the alert, has arranged a wig- wagging system by which the har ymarivers ot -the New -Fork~¥ackt ‘will be provided witle they are at vex with the latest news of the market, It amight as well be understood tnat this special service has nothing to do with the plan of a contemporary. Ah, no; it ts the intention of The Evening World to relay straight to the boats of the fleet” the very latest tidings, bulle- tins, quotationa and rumors of a market wehich ts. nf Yachtay ian To wit—the Scotch and rye market The Spigot Is On the Job. completed Arrangements were night Spigot, now lying off the Savarin Bar, will, under charter of The Evening World, accompany the yacht club dur- Ing the entire trip. The gallant Utte Spigot has already been equipped with 4 wireless apparatus by the Wireless Tolegratt Company, and no matter how far the fleet msy get from the mafniand, the very latest quotations will be gent Iaat straight from the main office on the] Br roof of the downtown Delmontico to the temporary recelying office on board the Mary J. Spigot. There the code men- mgos will be translated by an expert who was on the late trick at iahn's for many years. After that they will be wigwWagged to all the vessels of the fleet by a trained assiatant, who, by CARRIES MESSAGES TO DELIVER AT SEA. .Dr. Charles F. Bandel, the Brooklyn who fought the bill through ture recognizing Vosteopathy a legitimate healing method, sailed the Kalserin Augu: his’ wife to-day for & Vacation In Bu- ry on. Auguate Victoria will “moet the Adriatic aome. time to-day, with D Rile: re. Dr, Ba dol patients duri: and wants to He wi 0. the shi ot, odd message to communi coriihe jiaters fully [sh igh“ DAI are RON RTO; by which the good tug Mary J./ {White flag marked with double cross: Victoria with; she sobbed to-day, “and I am going to draw it out and use ft fn trying to get Frank out of hia trgj "4 |. a e will anly come back tb a ne Y a4) +6 forget aid forgive ‘everything. He was always a food son And! husband and Teason of ‘long experience in, mixing with a shaker at Bherry’s, 1s one of the best wigwaggista anywhere, In view of the excited and uncertain of the mi . owing to disquiet- ing effects of the prohibition movemente inthe Buti weat—and—the news from Lexington, Ky, thatthe Joval option how attained great healway ‘ed that the offorts of 1d to keep the yacht- ted will be appreciated. orth. “In the Main code ternational Rarkee> and laritime So: which has tie offictal sanction “of the Associated Plokles Trade. will be followed, but for use in case of great emergencies It has been eomed wise to arrange these few epecial and extraorHnary signals: The Signal Code. Should the Spigot suddenly dreas all her lines with red, yellow, green and mauve flags until she looks Ilke the E-beliere some er him. ening W ted him he wrote her a long loving , saying he would be home In a ‘or two. We believed him—God day hel us—and then came the news that ha wea in jail and bad confessed every: | thing.’ —_—_—_—_ MOTHER LEAPS INTO RIVER, SAVES SON. Longshoremen Cheer Wife _ of | a pe airy street element: aaa a will clenity that prices for wines, Hauora and cigars are Barge Captain for Her ly and unchanged, and membe: may go an far ag they ke Braye Act. A black flag with a red globe in the Shureson, five years old, son centre, rapidly lowered from the mast.| A* Alex Chures of.John Chureson, captain of Erle barge | was going down In East Ry @ yesterda: afternoon his mother Jumped overboard nd caught him, Unable to swim ‘she was about to be carried down with him when longshoremen threw her a line and wed her and her boy to shore, he uccident occurred off the foot of past Nineteenth treet and was wit- nessed by fully 200 persons who crowded fround the brave mother, cheered and | Showered congratulations upon her, | A green fiag shaped like a ‘plmola moving in an irregular manner. from north to south—the Bronx cocktail making inroads onthe Manhattan, with @ strong buying movement in the open market. A Red Cross flag displayed under the | colors of the Emergency. Hospttal—fie- ports from the curb are that mixed drinks after going down all evening ‘| for her experience, but the buy’s\con= dition for a half hour was critical. D: Cutherback. of Bellevue Honpital, fin ly revived iim, and to-day he is ‘out danger. oo MRS.TAFT BETTER, MILUBURY, Mass.,-Aus-&—The-eon- dition of Mra, Loulsa M. Taft, mother Becretary of War William H. Tate. oe fmuch improved to-day. She had Rsilght relapse on Monday, but ral- lied Monday night, showed further tm- provement yesterday and to-day has fathen, and [ capfot believe that all; ju co, Bir? Ob, Bor wr the mpittt ther kind of spirita, None at all what | ever. Well, as I was saying, I tried to, fas her. And se told ine not to inde) a “Don't brs. Chureson was none the worse | © _ ‘THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1907. Daughter of Doctor Weds Circus Who wan DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR CIRCUS Pride of West Side Physician’s Heart Spends Honeymoon Under Canvas. SHELBYVIULE, Ind, Aug, §.—EA | Van Shaik, of Dayton, O., special rep: if yesentattre of John Robinson's circus, ~ * was, married here yesterday to Miss ence L. Hackett, ef New York City. She elapéd from home by making §. rope of her bedspread. i circus camels Drees agent has ve, “Mise Hackett went cway front Rgre wicnsgur full and. tres ocases 1 was no stranger to the fi two yoars SO AFFECTIONATE, HIT WIFE WITH CUP Newman’s Spouse Said ‘“Fool- ish” When Spirit of Court- "ship Days Returned. 2 scenery nt the Metropolitan /Opera- House, told Magistrate Breen about it in the Yorkville Court to-day: “You know, Judge, Your Honor, It's the don't care for me any more. Now.) I'm an affectionate man by nature, JJudge, I'm that affectionate that you wouldn't guess how much just to look | at me." “But how about that big bump on your wife's head?" asked Magistrate Breen. “Yes, air; I'm coming to that. Last Sunday I was feeling very affectionate, somehow. The spirit of my courtship | days came a-steallng over me some-} Just like that. fool of myself. ..£091.,,06. YOU vet married Sava, ‘and you ought to be wetting Now, Judge, what would you do in a case ike that? Why you'd do just Kk air, all in due time. | Well, Judes Tm an agtostionate man, but we na words and Sne thing led to another, BralT way tof th a ten: on. But ie was one mail” teacups,” Judga Mnere was heavy pisses on. the table, aera T saya, Jim an affectionate man aiiHere, you £0 along home and patch is row, raid Magistrate Breen. Ue ote ay you are sorry. It happen aha I guess your’ wife ia worry, to tway sho ought to bo With a -tump: AUE"eat on her forehead $> John went home. ooNewmane jive at No, #28 East Sixty-ninth street. cao Ait SCORE CAUGHT IN 'CAVE-IN. heen decidedly better. Semi- } Annual Sale Brill ‘Clothes Reduced 25 to 50 ter Cent GET THH HABIT-GO TO | 3 jare apt to take an upward movement }at any time, Cari buyers will do Well to, cover. i" — Storms Are Breaking. | Three bright red flags waving back | and forth In a weaving mauner—Hud Weather conditions aré complicating the way situation. 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