The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1907, Page 10

-Wublished Dally except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. 63 to 6 : j Park Row, New York. PORERH POLITEER, Pron, 1 East 18d Ptreet. J. ANGUS SHAW, oe. 7 reas, 201 Weet 118th Sirerk Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Seoond-Class Mal! Matter. * becription Rates to The Canada. nd and the Con- ening World for the 4 Coun 3 7 io the International Unfea Suacen sll Postal Union. .60 | One year 5 Oo} je month NO, 16,793. When-a married-man elopes it is.an old custom: for his: wife ‘especially and his friends in ¢ blame the other woman and-to attribute “his act to her allurements. The other woman is likened toa spider drawing guiteless flies into a Web. 4. No Such yersion can be.aitributed to the Whaley-Cooke case. B Cooke was. the rector of the church. at. Hempstead of which August Belmont is senior warden. When Floretta - Whaléy’s | father died his estate was-left to his two children, and Cooke, was made Floretta’s’ guardian, Floretta was _ohly seventeen years old when Cooke eloped with her several months ago, leaving a letter that he resigned his pastotate. _ Nothing had been heard of either ibs ~ of them since until yesterday's news 'What Cooke had abandoned Floretta in Canada, where she is now in a Sanitarium. Where Cooke is, the news does not tell. There is a warrant fout for his arrest on the charge of abduction. Fioretta was under the tage of consent when she went away with him. He would not have had the lawful right to marry her even had he-first induced his wife to lidiyorce him. ) tin Tal to. The Evening. World’s Daily Mag azine; Tuesday, August 13, 1907. ' “Leaving Business Behind,” ' ‘, | | | By Maurice Ketten. FIRST DAy AWAY FRO} OFFICE DARN | BUSINESS ! ve Got To’ | FORGET IT, “AE FOR THE DEAL MAY FALL THROUGH {This Cooke-Whal : “;Motoriety than most elopements be- \cause he ‘was a clergyman and she ‘was young, tich and attractive. ' {| {These frequent elopements of married men and women are a new ‘Social phase. Elopements are old, but they used to occur only when both parties were unmarried and ‘the objections were family and so- cial, not legal. Some girls preferred “an elopement to a church marriage, ‘It was more romantic and attracted more attention, Some parents were not averse to their daughters eloping, since it saved the bother and éxpense of a marriage reception. i Nowadays any kind of lawful marriage is too easy for the old style elopement to retain its popularity, It would also seem that divorce is so easy and fashionable that there is no excuse for married people who desire to shift husbands or wives from not proceeding as the practice of the courts prescribes. To do otherwise introduces the Police. At the end of every such elope- ment as the Cooke-Whaley one there is a policeman waiting. There is-a-cell-ready: There should be. - Marriage is not a personal but a--sociat- institution. 1's~-not» pri- marily for the benefit of the indi- vidual, but the community. Its ob- ject is the stability of social order, the protection of children, the, sanctity ‘of womanhood. It would be better if there were fewer divorces in- stead of more. The majority of divorces are to enable one of the parties to marry somebody else. If the mere failure of matrimony to come up to expectations was ‘| herself at seventeen crushed and proken because she took’ | en and Wome Break Their Lives Ufon the LC ommandments | By Nixola Greeley-Smith, | LORETTA WHALEY, the seventeen-year-old Hemp- FE stead girl juredfrom her home:by the married clere gman, Jere Cooke, 1s reported to be {1 and deserted in a Canadian sanitarium. The. aged grandmother from: whose home the little git eloped, .{t, is, announced,’ will receive her and give her ¢ Y deck: Y cure, notwithstanding the ation she made at the time, of Flo-etta’s .disappear- ance that she never wialitd to see her again, Meantime the unfrocked Mr. Cooke, who deserted his wife for Floretta. Whaley, has left her in destitution to réalize what .apparently no woman) can ever learn from the experiences of thousands of others, that he who weds and runs away will run away another day almost inevitably. ~ growing better and saner and more just every day than men who commit crimes of this kind. Formerly the girl, no ftw attitude toward matter how young and innocent and foolish, paid the entir penalty to society, Jand the man, however bound to guard and protect her, went his way unharmed, But so much ras the world moved {nthe Wirection of right and justice that wherever the Rey. Jere Cooke may go and make himself known {t will mete out to him the contempt and opprobrium he so wel! deserves. Yot,, still, a girl finds an's word against And still no woman will learn from ‘her, any moze than from the untlews other victims of man's weakness and their own, that the command- | ments of God or man are ever broken, that the more foollsh men and women merely break, their ves upon therm. | It 4s of record, to be sure, that Mones, angry at the Indifference of the Israel | ites, smashed the tablets upon which he had written th But he ts the only person who ever did !t successfully, and he was severely punished and had to jcut them all over again tn stone.’ In this revised version they must endure tl [the end of the world. The realization of the !mmutabillty of the laws under [which we lve comes to every one sooner or later. To many It comes only through trying to break them. Our deepest pity and sincerest help are needed | for the weak children Ike Floretta Whaley who learn this lesson so earty-and tm stich cruel fashton. : In the torture of thefr own souls,.in the panss of love outraged and be ptrayed,-they—pay—penaitr-enoveh— Ant any “man or-woman wh thinks oF wpeaks unkindly of the girl Nictim: of a man like Cooke or makes St any harder for her to piece her broken Ife together is simply an accessory after the fact of his, crime. And what about the wife Cooke left behind him? | world's sympathy and, what !s far harder to keep and retain, the world’s respect. All society 1s organized for her protection. But for his other victim, and any j Young creature like her, who, being a silly, heipless child, threw aride at his word all the safeguarda with which the protected woman {s surrounded, one cam sive pity—and what {s greater than pity—forgetfulness of all save her wish te. forget and live rightly according to the wisdom she has learned. | the world. She has, of right, the Pointed Paragraphs.. XPERIENCE teaches a few and fools many. I A girl with pretty teeth will laugh at any old joke. Only a woman is capable of transforming a yawn into a smile. When there {n't anything else wrong with a woman her shoes hurt. Many a man's good Intentions are due to the headache next morning. There {x more or less charity In the, heart of every man—usually less. -Unless a man badcsense in kis head it is diMcult to keep dollars in his ‘pocket. A woman realizes that she {s getting the worst of an argument with her husband when he refuses to become excited. When a married man brings home a box of candy instead of a box of cigars, his wife imagines that he has been doing something he la ashamed of.—Chicago- ‘The Best ioe of the Day by Evening World Humorists. yl any of the emoluments that usually go with that position, He expecta to meet Hubbard Sqyash, right out of the seed catalogue. He Is astounded at being greeted by a prize-winning Early Hunderson. Cousin Hy descends trom the Pullman, not the day coach, Ho is dressed up lke Pain's Last Days of Pompell. He {s violating all the traditions of car- By Irvin S. Cobb. tooning by carrying an alligator kit bag with harness buckles and horn cal- > 18 the sladsome season vhen the second coustn’sends | tousos all over instead of the customary and popular carpet bag with rope hand- I word from Bosky Dell. Pa., that he will be coming! grips on. it. Tha City Relative faintly recatla that Cousin Hi up to town to lay in fall stocks for the store {} dicted to moments of wild and delirious dissipation when he smoked a defec- to tear off a few strips of metropolitan excitement on his/ tive flue from Wheeling, W. Va., which cost two for five and tasted like. rid- own behalf. This, of course, js rare good 1 for the Ll-} ing through a tunnel. With careless grace he 1s now handling one of those starred city relative who is expected to do the entertain- ich: yellow Havana mulatto boys that fs fat amidships and. has a little gilt ing—s'most as good news as {ft the surgeon had just leaned | oyesity belt around Its waist. over him and whispered in his car that both legs would ‘After going down and coming up again several times tho City Relative He yennpicome somes) the ,nip: makes his way to shore and, as a starter, offers a tentative suggestion in Ho tis a faint recollection that Cousin Hy ts a tall. | rocard to sewing the Aquarium before gding elsewhere, at the same tme Indi- pallid person with about eighteen inches mere of red wrist) Ohne a South Ferry siréet. car than anybody could poastbly need, and a hablt of wearing ‘fi : “My boy,"" says Cousla Hi, kindly yet firmly, as te motions to « passing browghtcon white ue Gnd a fad for going to Wednesday) om, “1 never cared for sardines in the summer time,” With’ your consent New York Thro’ Funny Glasses i ch tte ‘to cause a divorce, almost every married woman would be divorced 25, soon as she found out her hus- ant —awas “not — the “hero” of “her. dreams. Most married men would 9 be divorced when they found how Y i q much matrimony’ cost in dollars 7 and cents and how inexpert was their wives’ housekeeping. Elopement does not improve =. things. It fs also doubtful whether divorce i§ not more often a failure than marriage. Happiness, the in- crease of which is the object of matrimony, is more a matter of tem- perament and health than of environment. . . t very ti | the Aquarium and Chinatown and the Metropolitan Museums of Natural History | I want and never go off the front stoop. The German Carp and the Mononga- and Unnatural Pictures and cther places that have been touched an from time | hela Shad pass my house on West Main streot twice a day, and I live right tp time tn the pages of the Shoppers’ Guide. | next door to the Original Man-Eating Shark. He Js the president of our little . a | “He. buxe a Dackgammen.beert for use inthe Jelsure hours. orders in_an, Sayings bank. ae exira-supply—of-the-most-doniosticaiad ani well-broken_brands of breakfast food——— With —your_anprayal we_will_now climb inate this little vehicle, eer eraikt vould Le more souas conservatories to the block If the blodk might be lying around. ‘After which he commends his soul to Providence and) where there would i startsfor the ferry all rigged up mentally to spend the next week giving an imi-| were larger. When I'm if home I have to walk the straight and narrow be. tation of an orator on a rubberneck hack, without any expectation of deriving | cause tf my foot slips it's all over town quicker than a fall of dew. But here, Reddy the Rooter. &2 &3 ) By George Hop: hol en PRAYMOND LJ” flow REMERGER G HELLO WHATS THAT ? You “pHone ops) SMITH? No,-NOT IN THIS OFFICE OH!-A- JUST A MINUTE PLEASE! HEAVENS |WHAT'S} THE TROUBLE, AND I'Lt SEE OATS ME, Boss) YOu LATER) Letters from the People. DEY JUST HIFF HiIM-o SERVE Him A COUPLED MAN } HE NEEDS OF PORT SIDE BENDERS, i) YOUR HEART HAVE ME DEAR ~\L-LITTLE YE 4OT A. DOG, OL BOY-HE'LL P@GUIDE To GIT, S-SISTER 1S ORFUL SISTER SPLIT DE Breezes To Fost! ' COME ON! YER GOT. uaed.ta head: | nich | [JU] | and cautions the janitor of the flat to bo sure to hide any stray beer bottles that, looks #0 much Ike a coal-hod on wheels, and ride up to the neighborhood rey | far from the Sowing Circle and the secretar; auercial Club, I propose to unbend to un sional contortionists ashamed of themae! Are you sagacious?? THE) FUNNY PART: - i We will tnsist on getting our ideas about rural visitors out of the comie supplements. = oc ; ss f see ‘The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars. By Roy L. McCardell. be“ ERE comes Mrs. Pettigrew!" sald Mrs. Jarr, as H she looked out of the window. ‘Who'd ever thought she WOULD come, and on an evening Uke this?’ “Gee whiz!" sald Mr. Jarr. "Didn't you invite her? Didn't you name the day? Didn't you tell her, the last evening we were at her house, that you positively wouldn't come to seo her again if she didn’t come to tea this very evening?" u “I didn't say ft lke that at all,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “You know how. tussy shes over people -and-when-we calf }—there-she—makes—a- big committon over us; when T kiew that woman has no use for me at all. I hate a hypocrite! And I HAD to aak her to tea “Well, you were just as gushy as sho was.” “Do you think I could let her outdo me in the ordinary civilities of lifer sald Mrs, Jarr. “Mrs, Rangle warned mo a long time ago that Mrs. Pottigrew. never had a good. word for anybody. I suppose now she will be running Mra, Rangle down all evening, and jyet sho'n so sweet to Mra. Rangle when they. mast that butter wouldn't melt in jher mouth. One thing sure fs, though, that I'm not going to sit by and let ter abuse Mrs, Rangle to me! Mrs. Rangle has her & good-hearted soul!" BORE cetnee mee : a Mra. Pettigrew. Btre's coming up the steps,’ sald Mr, Jarr. “Put on your coat, for goodness eake!"’ cried Mra, Jarr. “Don't let her think. you alt down to the table in your shirt sleeves! And I've only got a picked-up inner, too, I didn't think she'd come, Run out to the store and get a nice salad and aome fruit of some kind and a 6-cent plece of ice. We'll have to put ice on the butter, and I don’t think I've enough ice any way to make iced tea—and don't forget to get a lemon." “Oh, I'll get the lemon all right,” sald Mr, Jarr, “Why, what's the matter with you, Bira, Jarr? You look so worrled?’ asked Mra, Pettigrew, “Now, teit-me;-dear, to-go right home! Weather lke this, tt ss stmply an imposition for any one to have callers te “Now, if you talk like that I'll be real mad!" sala Mrs, Jarr. been worried becauso 1 was afraid you'd disappoint me! and we'll have a good chat. Everything is all ready. It's no trouble. waiting for Mr. Jarr to come home, 0 pleased to think you were coming to tea to-night, Hasn't spoken of another thing all week; and yet it would be just like the man to forget that this was the day and stay late, because there's a meeting of the Board of Directors thing like that. I don't know what his firm would do or how it would without him; and so many other firma clamoring for his services, too!”’ Just then Mr. Jarr stuck his head in thy door and said: “I ordered the things. They'll be sent in in a minute "I Just paaged the Rangles's fat and the windows are closed,” sald the guest “You ‘know they haven't gone away,‘ sak Mra, Jerr, “But that woman, Mra. Rangle; will sit and stifie all day in her flat with the windows closed an@ the blinds down to make people bellove whe has gone away. And before I'd de anything Mke that!" “Oh, I don't believe she pute on airs ike that, Of course, they are very poom but she's a good soul,” sald Mra, Pettigrew. 4 Mra. Jarr shook her head and alghed, ‘It you knew what I had to put up with from her," she sald, with. the alr of a martyr, “and it isn't her gossip alone; it's the way she bothers me borrowing. Not that I care for what I give her, for she never pays back, elther coffee of’ sugar or anything, but ahe'd have the nerve to ask you to Jend ner the carpet off your floor!’ ‘Who would think itt’ ssid Mrs, Pettigrew. ‘Then thuy had tea and toast. Mra, Rangle was toasted. And after Mrs, Petv tigrew had gone Mrs, Jarr said: ‘Didn't I tell you how he'd talk about poo. Mrs, Rangle, and Mrs. Raogle ls worth a dozen of her!" x I'm only You know how the men are? And he's been t along 4 Congested Chambers Strect. times out of a hundred) clench fis To the Dattor of yentng World: hands when. telling a Me. Watch a I note with pleasure that a kick mas|man's hands, not Dlx Tce, w ne ‘at last been made about the clogging] tells you something you a cunea of Chambers street by trucks, &c., 1) to doubt, Also place no rellance whai- [othe .atterioons. misdédtuatiy| ever in the old fake about « Mar or traina Ddecaure the sir crook never looking you s In tue . horse © or delayed) The great Narn can do that, trom es between) Whereas many a truthful “Broadway and West street by wucn| look squarely in hin inte y wagons, Let the Aldermen close CHEIROSOr U8. OAambers sireet to trucking betweei Durean of Vital Statiation, ECW tig on rca Sen racking tae. Editor of The Bvening World TREE TAY thats will leave ihe al car| Where could I find the correct date |: track free. And how about the police. {Of My birth? I was born in this city They Yously regulate Broadway | : AK tram, ly not that of Chambers} Apply to Burau of Vital Statistica, street? HIRAM £ GLADEN, gr. | Health Department, 5! avenue and Sarin Z | Pitty -n(th street. Tents for the Poor, The Vacation Question, rey ery {Tne Bveutos W ete Street Merchant’ aska wi ld be expected to give hin en jauinmer, up (ehts, nightly, “ Ze ‘ faiiover tha public’ parka; and let the 4 a yacation, The fact that a ipeor. alecp int raln or shines} Yacation puts new energy into an eme Aes a ontn tate “| ployee does not'mean much to this man ee rare ainctend weild’ cost Our friend knows that there {s no one Rate acinc wiliscies cor. puniie wn his force who falls to draw out on Ee pian : Ir nterest in the busl- Outdoor sleeping and coolness are grand |.) 5 . too, krows of thle Deealth restorers. M.D, PISHE. | feoling and acta accordingly, “Human ‘ 1 . Hand: nature gives no more than it {s pad ; PALM Manas. for, but the employer ia to be pliled the alitoe at Tie Kvening World: who thinks that the only pay we value is the kind that can by bate and put in ‘Blere's a tip for readers, founded on taken from the mtudly. Aman wilh (ninety-nine eo ’ Electric’ Funerals. OBSIBLY as 2 gunmantes of speedy funerals Berlin has acquired tts fret # electric motor hearse. The hearse has been approved by the police and service Immediately, Ite owner saya that i wil) one-third of the: B I think there fa no greater evidence that the world is ¢ r some , *