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

| © -puptumet Demy exept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, No. & to © Park Row, New York. OS qggere: PURETEDD, Dow, 7 Pnor FOs Burst. B.ANOUS BUAW, Geni) ras 201 West 119th Sires. er Eoalaod and the Coh- rae ya. to Tne Canada, Wihentand All Countries, | Btates. aT Posi | + | One year... 078 » ne month. ‘Bntered at the Post-Office at New York as Geoond-Class Mail Matter. fn the International | tal a, seeeeeNO, 16,810, ne seoversceonss VOLUME 4B... eoreecsdeee reese eens A WIFE’S QUALITIES. HARLES W. WASSERBACH, of Albany, has undertakem to secure a wife by adyertising. The spe- cifications-are~jnteresting.-—-Her age must be between twenty-twc and thirty, her ‘height 5 feet 4 to . 5 feet 6 and her. weight between 120.and 450 pounds. She must also be.an. orphan. Mr. Wasserbach ‘says that he Inserted the orphan provision -be- cause he has seén so many mar- riages fail through interference by r-latives with housekeeping and other matrimonial details. . _ So far he has received several answers. There has been:no tack-of 4 girls of the right height, weight and age.and who are also “pretty or- | phans” and who had the color of eyes and hair which the advertisement + Called for. He came near marrying a girl who lives near Buffalo, but + when he found that she was a trained nurse earning $25 a week he con- Chided that she_was better-off than if she-married him. That was a sensible conclusion. Most women who are earning $25.a week or even less are better off . unmarried than married, speaking, of course, from a business standpoint. Few husbands can allow their wives $25 a’ week for board, clothes and Spending money. The average earnings of a male adult American citizen according to the last United States census are less than $600 a year, or _ less than $12 a week, half of what this young woman was earning. - Many wage-earners who make $3 or $4 a day when they are working do not average $750 a year, taking out holidays, idle times and wages lost through sickness or accident. It is doubtful whether the average clerk in New York receives over $600 a year, and New York City is an expensive place to live, where wages are higher than in Albany : If the financial or business side of matrimony were considered more and sentimental thoughts were not regarded as the all-deciding factor More marriages would be a success and divorces would be fewer. This Albany advertisement went into full particulars about the eyes, hair, religion, nationality, height and age of the prospective bride and * omitted wholly to mention the qualifications of most importance, Those are temperament, health, training and habits. Some women are naturally domestic. They love childreh. If they have no children of their own they mother their nephews and nieces or -=act-as-volunteer nursemaids to the neighbors. Some women like to : keep house. They enjoy cooking, sewing and doing the table-sctting _ Other women hate the stght of» cook stove. They wount rathe: | __typewrite than wash dishes’ They would rather go to a theatre than Sing a baby to sleep. They prefer the motion of a boat to the rocking of a cradle. To such women getting married means several years of palnful experience often ending in failure. _. This same candidate for matrimony (34 not become a trained nurse | 5, * Mithout several years of training and experience. No physician would al- + low an inexperienced nurse in an tn- _ trust an ignorant woman to tke g charge of ons of tts wards or 2 sin- { | sotve the problems of matrimony © must have a training in comparison © with which a nursc’s education }s a minor effort. She must know about able to-pay for her tack of knowl + edge, She must be able to cook or have the money to hire a cook, and} ' there are not enough cooks to hire for one family In twenty. She must! Le able to keep house, or hire a housekeeper, and only the rich can afford it. Happy marriage depends on other things than the color of the eyes and hair and the height and welght of the wite. Letters from the People. Otty Iate. ‘To the Milter of The Drentng Works: Average salartes in althes for men are | 6 + 4574, or 1,000 grains, the a! from $15 to $25 a week. Caicken ooops (for | being 1.2) grains, equivalent t etiquettes sake called “apartments”) | ounces troy or 26-6 ounces ayo! ® rent from §% to $0 a month, Gas {a| which ts exactly how much one poun $1 a thousand, Meat 1 and M cents @| of sugar weigds more than one poun pound. So by the time the roof and | of gold. A.B, ROBERTIDULW. the gable are pald for the head of the | America’s “New Blood.” house has often emptied bis” pockets, | Mind unless hie wife wishes to dress her. | 7 2 Tater of Dee Pre ora welt and children a Ja Adam and Bre | 7 anrwer to Columbia Sen | way thet the United States cai the old lady will have to hetp earn the| tng fate of “Persia, Rome, family living. Now, what oan she 407| cause we aro always reoetvicn Every woman wants a home. Whet ts | plood, thus infusing new blood 1 the definition of a bomef With an | country’s veins. Rome had always th old maid {t's @ cat and a canary, a| same people hardly ever having « vocking chair and a cup of tea. With | immigration. YALE FRESHMAN, A wife it's wherever the old men and | Roosevelt or Long the kidh arm But how wan this be af- | forded in New York? 0, OM The “Sugar and Gold" Problem. To the Milter of The Drening World: Tm the dispute ea to the weignt of «| pound ef gold and @ pound of wugar, an| ounce troy is 4 grains, while an ounce} thi evciraupels i¢ @T% grains. Theretore, | ™ ene pound e@f gO, which i twere| SPs 5 grains, while one pound of eugar, whic | | | iar To (he Wiltor of The Mvening World: Ti ts sveral months. «ince Ro: denounced Dr, Long 24 « nature Since then reputable men have ind fed many of Long’ I missed readii Yens hoe ee to the operator. atton had for breakfast- Yensen, Yanitor | \ Fix, DAT BELL {wonder if the wife of this Cuvoted man appreciates hls rarity or whether, as she holds §212 worth of letter In her |y4.4 and, she will reflect that she mould rather have the money, | in? Of letter tse Wives have a wonderfully practical way of looking at thesa of the Sunday World OUR APARTMENT! VILL! NOU HAVE AY UTTLE SVEDISH puNcH? MIT YOURSELF, He Bane Giving Prince Wilheim an illustrated Lesson on Ruling. ‘YENS.. MY GAS RANGE ts BROKEN AND 1 WANT IT FIXED. NOIVE! HY ELECTR BELL TIT 15 OUT OF ORDER! J “Dear Mary sent It speeding ATs | thonate is probably not worth @ postage stamp rdor, Pertmpa-{t told what Mr. prone to dwell upon such til] now—ever elusive model husband, Artived !n Boston on the 9.5%, morning at 73); had breakfast—ham and egRs, buckwheat cukes and “took a trolley trip to Brookline. Have an appointment with Blank Your affec- ‘ JOE” “That,” said the proud finnoee when I had Whtened reading tt, “te Just the ‘Thére’a no mush In {t—fust tells me what he has been doing and ends ‘Your affectionate Joe.’ That s | ne kind of man that has $212 to cable a letter generally has more common | tilde feet lniots Gon Geel i aire Se orl pena: yan postry in hls soul fo that ama literary document Mr. Patton's epdat the reciplent of the $212 cable may argue cause from effect | and wonder if Charles does not need her at home right off and what base friend could have tured him from the buttermilky way. Moat itkely this costliest letter did not make the cablo sizzle with Its It was Joudtlees a more or less provaio chronicle of the day's doings, not the epistles of Ananias in styte, but, of course, true. The masouline letter that I have just time to keep, Will write again to-morrow | woman who received it cun estimate its value he considers {t priceless; If practical and thrifty, 12 may seem fo her a lot nike of money to pay for a letter. But whatever her view of it, Mr. Patton's action ‘entities him to earnest consideration as the much-ialked-of, long-sought and— Has the Model Husband Been Found? « By Nixola Greeley-Smith AS the model husband been found at last? Consider details, I reuiember a letter @ little girl showed me several years ago, which the case of Charies Patton, mining man from the|ran about lke this: West, and decide for yourself. Charles forgot to mail his weekly letter to his wife, who Js in Vienna, and straightway sought a cable office and through the cea at a cost of $212 for the letter and a $5 tip everything, doesn't Itt” | Of course, as a testimony of her husband's love and thoughtfulness only’ the If she ts of a sentimental nature ean | By R. W. Taylor. ) NEMS 1 TAKE MYSHAT OFFT ‘ou! You'Re More OF A DESPoT THAN i AM! —Tavion — Went to bed. Got up this Reddy the Rooter. &2 &x &2 TLL BE GONE FORTHE DAY,REDDY, SO TAKE, Good CARE OF THE OFFICES nae AKE CARE OF OE OFFICE, AND DE GIANTS PLAYIN’ TO-DAY 2 By George Hopf ss oi Se TT 807 1907? , ew ¢ e Between Empire and Diegrace } No. 29-OATHERINE I. OF RUSSIA; The Pauper Wie , Became Empress. PEASANT child was born in Livonia in 1684. Her parent Che@-wign she was a baby, leaving her a pauper. The Lutheran pastor of Marlenderg church brought her up as @ servant In his house, sixteen she married a Swedish soldier. ‘ . But a day or two after the wedditg her husband was ordered ewayan military service, and she never saw him again. Soon afterward Martenberg was captured by a Russian army and the young wife was made pttsonen, She decame the servant and later the housekeeper of Prince Menachikof, & powerful Russian noble. Her lavt name {s not known. -Her Christian name Was Martha, and on going to Russia she changed it to Catherine. To the end of her days Catherine could neither read nor write Butahe was clever and handsome, and quickly gained boundless influence over Menschikoff. — os ‘At that time Peter the Great was Czar of Russia.. He had -found:the country Oriental and semi-barbaric. By following English and French examples he had strtven to make-# an up-toxlate European nation. * ' He had alo,’ by conquest, ‘extended {ts boundaries aid ratsed-the whole country to a standard it never before had reached. Genius, brute and born leader of men, he ruled Russta in.a way to-arcuse the envy of the world. a One day, while visiting Prince Mensch{ikoff, Peter met Catherine He was charmed by her wit and beauty, and in 1711 mar. Cannan @ ried her. The pauper was rising fast toward the high- The Fortune of { est seat in the Empire. a Slave Girl. Peter, the same year, was waging war with Turkey 2. > on the Prath, and by an ‘nexcusable blunder allowed himself and his army to be cut off from their base of supplies and surrounded. + He and his dynasty were in instant perii of destruction. “ But Catherine by stealth raised all the money she could lay her hands on, and, adding her own jewels to the hoard, carried it all to the Turkish zeneral and bribed him to let Peter and his army out of the trap into which they had fallen. Peter, delighted by such devotion, had Catherine crowned Empress ta 1712. For the next thirteen years she was his foremost counsellor emé closest companion. To her many of the reforms of that period are due. The former beggar, the woman who could not read or write, swayed the destinies of one of the greatest empires on earth. And, high as she had risen, she was yet to rive one degree higher. But in the mean tinfe an era of peril dawned. Peter, always eccentric and violent, now became an invalid, suffering horribly. In a gust of rage he imprisoned his son, and is believed to have murdered him. Catherine was tactful. She humored and wheedled the sick old man as could no one else. But at last he grew suspicious of her, and in his fits of illness made her life a burden. He—rightfully or wrongfu!ly—-suspected her of conspiring against him. Prince Menschikom, her old master, was ever at her side, and Peter feared lest the two were plotting his downfall. ‘He threatened to cut Catherine out of the imperial succession, and more than once is sald to have threatened her life. But Catherine and Menschikoff were too strong for the old Czar. Peter died, and his wife kept the death : secret umti Menachikoff could win over the soldiery to her cause. Then Catherine was proclaimed sole Empress of Russia, an archbishop swearing that such had been Peter's deathbed wish. Menschikoff, as her Prime Minister, proceeded to run the Empire to suff himself; while Catherine, who had always been a heavy drinker, gave hem self up to long debauches of drunkenneas. she died suddenly, in 1727, at the conclusion of one of these sprees. The peasant girl had made a great Empress. But for her love of tion she might have lived to make as great a name in world politics as her more famous successor, Catherine II. . ’ © The Jarr Family’s Daily Jars. By Roy L. McCardell. RS. JARR had been chaperoning ‘her niece from Ab if bany and the latter's beau to Manhattan Beseh, j while Mr. Jarr looked after the house. | Mrs. Jarr came in at midnight to find Mr. Jarr trying to keep himself awake by playing sBlitaire on the dining-room table. > “Why, where is Emily?" asked "Mr. Jarr, seeing his good Indy was alone. “Bho T Be up ie minute, eat Mrs” Jar, —“"} weent going to stand around and be tn the way all the time, es pecially when the young man was bidding her qood night” “Ia this what you call chaperoning?” asked Mr. Jory who, having been rather wild in his youth, was a great ‘ for the propristies te-ottiers ashe grow older w you mind your business!" naid Mrs Jarr sharply, for she was tired and pecvish. “Emily can take care of herself, and besides, young Mr. What's-bis-name waa just grand to us We those shoot the chutes things, and-I sat down on a bench and watted for ll they saw everything.” “Did you have dinner?’ asked Mr. Jarr. “We certainly did!’ sald Mrs. Jarr, “and that reminds me that I'm a hungry. I wonder !f there's anything in the tce-box?”’ “Why didn't you eat your dinner when you had {tT asked Mr. Jarr. “Oh, well,” replied the good lady, “the young man was a» pressing as could be, but !t was bad enough to inflict a chaperone on the young people, though they said they wouldn't go without me, without being a great to him, for a thing lke that will often diecourage a young fellow, so I wo let him buy much.” “Oh, that’s the way It's worked, is tT’ asked Mr, Jarr. “‘All precautions taken not to sire of the bird tnd! hws safely in the tapt™ : “[ do not understand your remarks, but I suppose them to be meant asl) cut.” sald Mrs. Jarr, an she brought out some cold chicken an4 bread and butte), “po { won't answer you. Who's been at this chicken? I'm sure that poor ts nearly starved.” “Oh, she aid the ‘I can't eat a thin thing to encourage the victim that he’ Lexpecta man to bankrupt himalf on her, eh?’ i “T told you to mind your own affairs! said Mrs, Jarr. “No such entere our heads. Emily, poor child, was #0 pleased, that she had no appeti! at the thme.” : “Oh, that’s ft, t# tT” sald Mr, Jarr. “What id you do then. after the repastT’ “We went to Pain’s fireworks,” said Mrs. Jarr. “It was so grand, end yet. so restful sitting there in the dark watching the display. And !t waa educattonal, too—the Battle of Winchest : “Oh, they Iiked ft in the dark, aid they?” said Mr. Jarr, grinning. sryou never mind,” replied Mrs, Jarr; “tt was as bright aa day on the stage with the fireworks, apd they threw great beams of light on the acrobats, an@ There was the funnies: German on the fiying trapese, and « man waked = wire purrounded by blazing fireworks, and two funny fellows were fishing and fou + too, did'she?” asked Mr. Jarr. ~. getting a plain, sensible girl that dopen’ GOSH,BOSS LOOK AT OAT!!! SEE BILL |PILFERIN’ SECOND!!! AND DERE GoES |\CT HOME ON DER S QUEEZE!! NOW, DE PAN AN? A I : ce MIGHTY INTERESTING GAME. Bile CRosses/ A ‘ =(REDDY, MIGHTY INTERESTING! HOUSEHOLD HARMONY. Bobby (to Mr. 6., who is spending the evening)—Won't you show me your fid- dle, one day, pleaser Mr. S.2ddle, Bobby? I have no fd- die. Bovby—Oh, yes, you have! Papa says you've played second fiddle ever ainoe FAN £04 merried.firmiles, poetoends anism {s controlled !) (> y ae la i A ‘Penny-in-the-Slot” Post-Office. EINNY+IN-THE-SLOT post-officea are the latest thing in London. The busy man who wants stampa or packet of postcards hes only to drop his money in the slot indicated, press: a button and his wants are puppiied. ‘Two automatic machines for supplying penny atamps and sixpenny peckets of General Post-Office. ‘The mech- hare been placed in the portico of the | THE RIGHT MAN. “Now,” 2014 Fiannigan, after the acct- dent, ‘we'll have to send some man to break the news gradual to the poor man's wife.” “Send Hennigan,” suggested Binne-| fthe good ‘There gan. ‘He's just the man to break the nnd ts go delicate it rejects QU} news gradual—he stammery se."~Tit- Bite {nto the water.” ‘Phose are a few incidents of the Battle of Winchester that history falls te chronicle,” said Mr. Jarr, “and yet tt goes to show that grim-vieaged war hag ‘a wense of humor, withel.” : ny] know it was just grand and Sheridan's ride wan magnificent” eid Mra, Jarr,“and then the victory was celebrated ty colored jubjlee singers and ploy tures in fire of President Roosevelt.” wand what were Dmnly and her beau doing all this time” asked Mtr. Jase, \ sow do I knowT' enapped his wife. “I was there ae thetr chaperona angi not as « spy. We had # box and they em in the beck of ft anf I wemt going to turn round and talk to them and spotl their view.”” *On, very well,” said young man if he-won't etay for breakfast!’ _ ; Mrs. Jarr gave him such a look! ‘ ; —— 4 Sentence Sermons. ng INDNESS 1s the sign of divine kinship. 5 K You cannot knit the soule cf men with soft sawder, Your credit tn heaven depends on earth's debts to yen. To attempt @ great work te to become a great worker. ‘The practice of happiness docs much for the power of hotness. Living in !tself 4s the great lesson in making @ life. ‘No man ever found ttis world a weary plane whe bad a worthy work to do, | jt's no tse talking about the retigion in your heart tf ft te not visthie tm tate ei i “When the pulpit sees bo good tn eng one, the piw ts not ifkuty to anywhere. fs no profit in the friendship that knows no investment of the sated ry went to Coney Ialand first and saw the sighta. Of course I woulin't go on any of Mr. Jarr, ‘“‘T'm gotng to bed Gail Gown omg eck tm | a e ya