The evening world. Newspaper, August 20, 1907, Page 10

* 0 Evening Ww Sunday by the Preas Pnblishing Company, ‘No. & to & : Park Row, New York, PORETN PULITZER, Pree. 1 PLANGUS SHAW, Reco rynn., 91 Went 110A Bireek Entered at the Po: ption Rates to The ening World for the United states. ‘One year. One month. Me Hiren. ¥ 60 | One year Gne month... .--NO, 16,800, FFICE boys are the first round of the business ladder. They start at the foot and every one of them. who ‘rises has. the right to know that his success came from: his; ‘own “ efforts and worth. : In these days when so many multi-millionaires are endowing universities and founding colleges | and book education has become = cheap and easy it is well to recall , that experience cannot be learned from books and that practical know!- ~i edge is the road to tangible success. “The reaction is coming from the gambling orgie of the past few years. Rallroad presidents will again be chosen because they know how : sito railroad, not for their aptness at manipulating reports and their sub- ~ weserviency to their stock gambling masters. The heads of great industriés i will be selected for their experience and knowledge of the business, not . because their bankers and promoters insist on having control of the « Management. # Without disregarding the benefits of a college education the office “boy should appreciate the benefits of an office boy’s training. He begirts - earlier. At twenty-five, when fhe college graduate is trying to re “cover from the chill of his first en- y.counter with the outside world, the . Office boy has had ten years’ prac- «tical business experience. If he utilizes the advantages of his earller avbeginning, of his insight into minor “Metails, of his lack of fanciful no- ~ petions, he will have a start that will eePlace him first. Of the tens of thousands of of- fice boys in this city how many are considering their future and preparing for it? ‘What every business demands these days is men with special train-| ing. How better can special training be obtained than by starting at the “bottom and working up. i ‘When the office boy shirks his work, the loss to his employer is slight, only a few cents, for an office boy’s time is paid less than ten La cents an hour and he can not cheat his employer of more and that not for long. . When he loafs he cheats himself. The willing boy can choose his own business and develop into whatever branch of it he prefers. He is always on the ground ahead of a vacancy. He can assist his su- perlors. By his fidelity and prompt- ness-he can win their confidence. For the profane, idle, untruthful . = - boy~there- is tittle -prospect-ofad~ vancement. He is known too well. If he wants a better job he will have to look for it where he is not so well known, = \ ~ Many office boys make the mistake of shifting employers too ‘fen. They will change from a law office to a store and from there to a fac- They had better stick to one become more evtory-and again to a wholesale house. thing and usually to one firm. Thus every year they valuable through added experience. » They can do more work with less “effort. They are making a reputa- tion. ‘ Mr MeCardel, whe ts now awrit- ing the Mr. and Mrs. Jarr sketches " for. this paper, is an authority on office boys. He has written a book “about them called “Jimmy Jones: ‘The Autobiography of an Office Boy,” which contains more wisdom -——~On- the -subject-than-this-articte,—be- sides a supply of humor in‘ which, 2 _~ unfortunately, thls column is lacking. Every employer should read it Then he will better understand hls office boy’s point of view, } Letters from the People. Notny Freteht Trains. ‘Je the Editor of The Evening World Please publish another protest againet the ajl-night noises in the freight yards | thove n at Port Morris. We, 2A [Meni -One Hundred and Thirty-elghth street, ‘olgn wa ought to Join hands with our neightore | {f toon of One Hundred and Witty-sixth street | { wntll the proper authorities take action Te \t necessury, readers, to hay. a Tinging of belly and the scream whistles ail nlgiit? tively quiet in the day for the acoomma \"aetthout conatderat If an ontinar; a auch @ disturbance | would. promptly | eS Why not do #0 to the railroad | Slow Cortlanat pany? |To the Editor of The +t RESIDENT OF 18TH STREFT. | People's The ¢ shunned 3 country too much | | Wealt tal, / 1 hea. if over-{adulgenc . if they. ty Or in ti Street Bo ening W which I Utte the Extitor of r i} Where in New Y Bike voou! lessons at Chances. Persia Ejetrien' tos much wealth Githar America In airea wieh readers rival advantag peead to ruin, I ventura (to us) marlon \ @ Okbervation: A nation [cannot pomsesi ir ‘ereby ‘Ourdvest ¢ Booch wenden tor ah siasite, mex; Ses Nant thereby as grourhent kind of jaugnt Tite for ¢) would Hot_be worth while. ing for a living for themsol: these th Bill Hustle, WHO 1S THAT HURKYING 50? > Perp By etual Motion. Maurice Ketten. orld’s Daily Magazine, Tuesday, August 20, WASHINGTON The Frivolities of Women. ins, JOHANNA HARPS BROWN, wh M “1 never indulged tn the usual frivolittes of Poor old lady! I thought, | planation, looking back over the century mweep to sweeten the lean, dry years of age? none of sentiment revolves. upon them. And laughter, of pretty ‘clethes, and, last and most greatest frivolity, man. tuey of women. Laughter there might be of { echoes from smoking-rooms after dinner making of tt like the dress of the socle at ua time after dinner, and then vance at the theatre or plenic In company of that oth er Mfe an Injustice tn mi was marr that she m amt teak her Me eee) a le 1 thos; of all other Jovers n of Worcester dia ing, and stood In tremulous tn celebrated ber one-hundred-and-fifth birthday, wh: asked to what she attributed her longevity, repted whon reading her-little ox- what smiling recollections, what tender memories Has sh For around the frivolities of women the whole w The kingdom-of the heart ta bul! What are tose frivoltties by the way? The love of There would be no Kagety were it not for these frivol happiest Woman Js a pertous affatr, and but for her frivolities | There aro many thousands of iris in this city work and often for others. The bright pote tn dull. gray days of work ure the quick trip uptown to shop for a new gown—one of ws _ by Nixola Greeley-Smith, hung, tll only his se & wantrobe or closet where her stmple } minent arrival elied @ choloe among th eans that things which never interested her betore—windows of tallore and haberdashers, out prices in straw hats, everything belon: 9 the strange wardrob, of man-claimed her attention, that she might tell him pridefully and with a c nical air of tmpor- tance and aollcltude, where his possible purchases could be inade to advantage. TORENT a rst marrettoaaty sertous piiprimege to bey hie whlets on welect peck— ly dignity that w put that of a crowned queen to shame. other pilkrimages, after these mere appurtenances of man nonplace, sacred, mysterious journeyings from shop to shop, veiled that tiny garments asked for with many blushes and iremore..were sold by. callous young. xeomen precisely an if they were so many bara an. e things that no has ju women."” of her ife, I could sec a ma of all, her xe our bodies and keep our hearts forever young the n presupposes. And she 1s foolishly wrong in say- 6 “ususl trivollties of women" were Hever hers, rt Make Combs from Skim Milk. >. Ean ‘8 are bullding up a considerable industry in the manufacture of galalith, a he a or milk stone, which ts cheaper than celluield and has the im- { portant advantage of be!ng noninflammable. The raw material is skimmed milk from large co-operative d ‘o-this, In large tasks, is added ren- coagulating the caret which Ls dried, powdered and fread from Mta “cheesy odor by Fepeated\s ashings, and ts finally hardened by formaldehyde, @he product Js more brill: ty an easy to work nv wood, and sneit es cambe,-hatrpina_mwlano key, du leaner ple- Anal t er frivolity, net ng that she and in this have loved tetas ran be made Sato a grest vartety of articles, jles, umbrella handles, and fine polish. It can be given any color tortoise, shell, &9. Ision before te marble, coral BE £ARESUL- TODAY. WILLIAM — IT'S FRIGHT= FULLY HOT ~ DON'T ) GET SUNSTRUCK t eee Css MIND HOT WEATHER MUST 4E1 TO BUSINESS! MY Busy DAY | THATS MR HUSTLE THIS Me HIS BUSY of Harlem. C2 G2 G2 ByH. Methfessel i / 0 BUSY To NEAT TE ATS eae i TP. HUSTLE 1, CAN'T STOPT = MHNUTES: OWN Dat TELL HIM MAN. OUTSIDE SO To SELL THE HOT ‘ : WEATHER NO! can't : THIS Is MY YOU SEE THIS! Busy DAY! 18 MY BUSY | tnanitios of more solid and a trife heavier than celluloid. It| © . Inlaid ornaments for furniture and{ ef ly tan't easy for a man to keep cool when st tn up to him te choose be- About American Voices. HE girls from the Vacation House sat h hour. “Clouds of glory” were trailing «a Garkened the purple hills in the detan: ed by the spelt of the mumeet y and their shadows 1 yolce suddenty Ifting At from the tip-top of the great butternut tree ous! ‘butternut tree nearby wouttene: ote ? the leaves in an exquisite soni. i oS eee “It's a bobolink,”’ ATES womebody 3 Soon there was a concert of bird voices jounding and resounding, calling and answering, soaring and quivering and oun The nk all around an about... The gift who knew about birds whispered the name of each new singer as its note ap- Deared. Che thrush, the song « wand oriole each had hie own note, Walt And deen-throated or fine ast enfant shale sont apaltone} belle ant, thrilling: mad or merry) there wir tn ter After ‘the laat echo had-died. away { minett dread= ing Jost the company mhould break nlleice JR jarring Note. : “How aid you ever learn xo much about birds? Phe tones of.t estion wed thevair with jerky. harshie: "Oh! mhe used to live tn Phe ested n i ae , : edn told In the “I'm going qo lenrn all the birds around Arre ¢ Igo back Thte Yociferous remark sounded jike the warn “Tat's all learn the: It might have 1) “Ob. yes, do let ust criad an affected maid jot a Bowery Ay. Then the ply. “To appre: rds you will ha could tell by the purity and syste: of h war, When Birds ao naturalty express themselves m: sly, why human voices offend the ear wi ken an F Apeech {s almost a song why should an American woman be tnfar over for her nasal twang Formerly young ladlen ey rn to listen hat she bad a a h hideous discord? hwoman's 3 the world ywhere posed as timid, shrink to utter an unnecessary word; and many who aulfor to-da apeech of the “modern woman’? muat keenly regret the women like chikiren were “to be seen and not ares, afrata m the hold, harsh good old days mien | ~* heard.” If we could all hear rielves as others hear us we would soon sat about controjiing our votces, kK Babel of Tongues. Just Usten to a passing city crowd—the din of Babel tongues! Chetterings, gutturals and grunts, whines, barks and yelps; scraping, blaring, exploding pounds fill the air. It seems rather thy bubtnm of a monagerie than the con- And almost worse than the ui parlor affectationz of the voices are bad enough, but tle monotonous Col Hee WOTES.Mtowt ot att onre Cos mmthS ings of the fa “college of votes entture and dramatic ati” So long as our cities roar and how, biss and buzz and emte of our auditory nerves {t will be diMoult to eradicate all the feults of the American voles, But fortunately public fefuence ts at work to abolish from our streets the worst noises, which have already been abolished in many European centres. Some day evon our elevated trains will be run so noleclessly that the quiet grounds beneati may be used for restful public parks, as bas already been erranged in several foreten cities. In such quiet every one would become more senaittve to unpleasant human sounds and set about bunishing thena Ag ft fa, eurety pur town itfe is ugly @nd discordant enough, and! thore ts no goed excuse for making of our yolces further puhlic nuteances. With eftert we must cease wackling, eroak- ing, snivelling and shrieking. The Affeeted Girl. The affected girl can casily drop her affeetatton end honestly and pi n The fog-horn tone oan be cle. versation of men and wo: barbarities of “hot poliot Our public seb scious street perfect Indies’ ft op @er-ewn voice th A Iittte ‘prectios, | ct us The whine | c he-head sounds whic is probably deeper-seated, springing from « natGre 6Lt of >> andthe whining ~—— girl must begin by cultivating a sense of harmogy with icv -urroupdinge \The © shattering tongue {s rattling in an empty head waleh will have to be filed with a few thoughts before the monkey or parrot quality of voloe is eliminated, Let us learn of the birds to salute the new Qage with joyous mugia Let. us uitivate y which will be worthy of the lovety sunset hours. Let wh ¢catter selody and harmony rather than discorda over the “nad old earth” There — should be tn American girl votces the freedom and joyousness and the vari 1 and spontaneous melody which we hear in the bird songs of our woode., 4 should contribute naturally to @ great American hermony. The Hughes Mystery. By Waiter A. Sinclair, T Atbany the politicians worrled day and night, A hey tried to Katte the Governor, but they couifn't get him right, “The Governor Js distant, he ts cold and far away, He's dreaming of the White Houme,” they were often won't to say. “That strange, abstracted look of. his, about three points abaft; “He's doping owt just how to put the hooky-heoks to Taft.” ‘And when that guese was proved all wrong they tried another one: “He's framing up another bill to put Graft on the run," Said all the busy dopeaters, “Don't you see his scheming Jookst He's going to usk Kelsey why he doesn't read his booka. He's thinking up a scheme to make the next Assembly squirm Or els he’s freezing up to win another two-year-term.* And so the politicians trimmed to catch a sudden blast ‘And satled along most carefully mith nothing en the mast They tried their dest to guess. the truth, ft kept them in the btves, Until one day the Governor with siriles brought them the news. Ne nomination, recount, graft—that set their fears awhirl— The unxtous, far-off looks were sulved. Hoe spoke: “It is A GIRTE oo As Foreigners See Chicago. T = Chicago's stockyards mre not the only local inatitution known tm | i Stns England is proved by the following from the London Qhrontcle: “The ‘free lunch’ 1s, according to a consular report just Issued, flourishing ip cago, from (he highest-cliss drinking saloons, which have an elaborate menu , lat the disposal of customers, down to the humble establishments where’ the | lytaple fare of the freeluncher ts ‘bologna bull’ sausages, The free lunch bes }ietped to Hotte-theounemployed question,..fer. Consul. Finn tates that mang aM... who work only a few months of tho year live during tho winter in the dheap, | lodging-bounes in Chicago on the free junches ctrtained at the ‘barrel salgons.’ ‘ where the purchase of a ‘tub ef muda,’ the name for a glass of low-quality Beer, 4 © the consumer to as much food as he can stow away in a reasonable; A. New York despatch printed in the St. James Budset of Lonéon: “A trety , hiful story comes from Chicago, and {t is to be feared that {t will bea long | ine before the professional musiclane of that city hear the last of it Toe stery | pors—and ite authenticity ia vouched for—that immediately they learned Of the: landing of a Simian band at New York the members of the Chicago Musictems’ [Union held an Malgnation mevttng-and-parsed-o-rewolation temanding-the -arreet-+—— of the band of foreign mustclana from ‘Simia’ on the ground that thetr wes a violation of the Centract Labor law, On learning ‘that the ‘bund’ composed of monkeys the indignation of the musicians melted speedily away—end 0 did the meeting. The musiciana of Chicago, tt is added, are just now themselves as little as possible.” Remarks a London newspaper, “A barber in Chicago sends hte own cat to his customers’ houses at any time ef the day and takes them to his free of charge.” 5 A ee pr Pointed Paragraphs. If you would tell a man of his faults use a long-distance telephone, Few men look a gift horae in the mouth because they never have & chance 5 The more popular a man 1s with himself the less popular he ts with other. people. ‘ If you don’t belleve the world Is daily growing worne axtc the oXest, habitant At the present stage of the game the widow's mite isn’t in tt with the widow's miliona Woman will never rank ax man's equal untf she can read and explatn the report of a baseball game, Vie. can't push ahead by patting yourself on the back. tween the frying-pan’ and the fire. Probably some man whose wife refused to laugh at his alleged jokes was |] the Arst to discover that women have no sense of humor.—Chicago News, A Novel Pavement. ! ONORETE fs now belne employed for paving purposes, This material 1G promises smoothness, liness of surface and’ durability, A foundation of olnders to the of ten inches is frst mac | well for a week. Then the concrete curping ir. Finally the concrete Is mixed and throwtl fity pince, sonelderably higher i the centre and sloping to elther gutter. Immediately before tie conorete hare ena st 18 marked off with on Instrument to resemble a pavement Iald with ‘This method will Insure a firm footing for draft horses tn the winter’ > oq NG