The evening world. Newspaper, September 17, 1907, Page 12

e Evening World's Dai ne, Tuesday, Iy Magazi | ee 2, ANGUUN BULAW, Yee Treen, #41 Went OFA Mit Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Mall fatter, nd and the Con- Canada. + For Eni 1 ‘ { tinent an All ey les eeesenedeeees « S67 In the Internationa: One year. $6.75 1 apna a One mori NO. 16,828. FORCE OF DESTINY. D ESTINY decides most men’s. lives. | It is not pure luck, because luck/ alone: will not enable a man to take| advantage of an opportunity. Des} tiny creates the opportunities... Medi-j ocre ability combined with oppor- tunity~-succeeds where the same modefate amount of ability without opportunity would fail. These remarks do not apply to geniuses who create their own op- ' portunities, but they do apply to the great opportunities which create men to profit by them. An interesting example of this is the career of Lieut.-Col. George Tammany Mardi Gras. By Maurice Ketten. Seon comes Ane Punk, MAURICE "CAN You BEAT IT? ‘P. Robinson, U. S. A., retired, who recently died in his home in Cali- } Robinson was a Maine boy, living’ at a little hamlet in Aroostook County, His family were what were then called “Copperheads’—that 4s, they were opposed!to fighting the South, and preferred, If the South _wanted to go nion, to let it go as good riddance to the many ‘troublesome problems that slavery created. Naturally, when volunteers fwere called for by President Lincoln, young Robinson did not volunteer. {When the draft came he went away and hid. It took a provost-marshal “to find him and bring him to the soldiers’ camp at Augusta, where he =-was forcibly enrolled_in-Company- D of the Eighth Maine. “While Private Robinson did not _o so far as to desert, he tried to “Keep out of the combat. He an- Swered sick at the roll-call after nis “| regiment had started from Wash- ington, and was sent back to Wash- ‘ington to get well. Here he pro- Tonged his convalescence until he succeeded in getting a nurse’s job. He made a good nurse, He would much rather nurse: than interfere with the ‘course of hostile-bullets, As a nurse Private Robinson was a success. So good a nurse was he that he was not returned to regimental duty, but stayed in Washin ton hospitals. Peis ; ‘When Secretary of State Seward was sick Robinson was detailed ‘as { one of his nurses. School children fresh in American history and men who were alive in 1865 will recall that the plot to assassinate-Presi- a (Hes aS REGULAR, You DUDE — HE REAL CANDY CaN Cees WARS A (RID- HE WEARS “ME Pr’ BOUTONNIERE ASWWALLONY-TAIL PUNK: witisicerst AND ANOPERA HAT dent Lincotn included also members of his Cabinet. One of the assas sins went into Secretary Seward’s sickroom to assassinate the Secre- tary. Mr. Seward’s son, Frederick, who was there, was stabbed whil: attempting to defend his father Nurse Robinson happened to tc around, and, picking up a chai: knocked down. Payne, the assassi i Robinson was a sturdy Aroostoo: bey, and after he had finished with Payne, Payne went to the hospita: and from there to his punishment. Public approvalwas showered upon Rovinsor for saving Secretary d's life when President Lincoln's guards had failed to save his life. ‘ongress voted Robinson a gold medal and $5,000 in casi. He was hon- ‘orably discharged from the army and assigned to an’ easy, well-paic clerkship in one of the departments, where he stayed for fourteen years, ‘until, as asfurther reward for his having sayed Secretary Seward's life, { dhe.was appointed major and paymaster in the regular army. At the age of sixty-four Robin- y gon was retired as major on two- _ thirds pay. He put in a claim to be dvanced one grade because of his ivil war service, which was allowed, his retired pay and-rank were vanced fo lieufenant-colonel. Qn the money voted him by gress’ and his retired pay he went to California and lived com- =fortabty until his death. * — -If he had been a volunteer he + would haye—stayed with his_regi- “ment, and very likely would have been killed or crippled, as so many emembers of the Eighth Maine were, ‘He kept dodging war duties until ‘he was put into a position where fame and fortune ‘were thrust upon | ae ma: fan ret * How many Robinsons there are! Letters from the People. i That Uronx Electric Rond. "Fo the Filtor of The Myening World Flense let ine k ny the York, Westchestes and P Mlectric Rapid 7 Raroad doas |? Mot Go on with it« construction? Is/it} ® failure, or have the builders no more Money to cumplate tt I have a few Aollars interested in property trough Hwhiely it runs. My tniorest Pmrortly, and tf i isn failure 1 be all below in the hive; | ene super and take the Wi be Killed and no sting: WILLIAM One 1 street, New then rem hones 38 Wen {rd What Our Wee Ones Say. To the FE tye made ail pe Well, aft very dee: mani to wend good money after bad |) ie minke Mardy Mer CUGONOR:. Harlem, | {lid He mike: Marun 1 (a man] | whey bowed legs). On being an-} nwar The Man Who Makes Up Your Mind. Reddy the Rooter. . 2 By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Indeed would grow oid standing on a street corner wondering which car to take, and no more ‘able to decide it than the Maryland girl was till the discarded suitor appeared, ehowed her a license and took her aw Very few women make up their minds by themselves. The married ones, acconding us they are of docile or Independent temperament, do as thatr huspands want or else as thelr husbands don't want. The unmarried ones have generally some feminine chum who exerts a simijar direct or Inverted dominating Influence oyer-then How. many of us starting out to buy a new fall sult or hat will return home with what we really axgnt ourselves. Jf we take a man along, husband or fiance, we will buy what he likes, If we toke a girl it will be wha says looks well on us. If we go by ouraclves, nine times out of ten It will be whatever the sales- ‘And he spoke the truth. ‘The other fallow could. which | woman wants to nell us. The selection of a husband presents similar exacting was tho reason he won the girl. Nothing so pleases the| difficiitles, Sometimes we get thé min We really want ourselves, ‘but tar more average woman as having her mind made up for her. The often we take the one that wants us or thatjour family and friends regard as a n who knows how to do that atmort Invariably wins her, Many women who| suitable match for us. The man that figures out the right moment of indecialon cy they resent what they term their husband's “bossy tendencies would not | gets the girl, as in the Maryland case. She took him because he saved her the &> HUNGER -M'M-m'mM — SMELLS Goonls GIRL in Cordova, Md., had two sultors, but could A not make up her mind which of them she preferred Eventually she said “Yes” to one, the day was fixed, 1nd the Mcense waa procured. Meantime, however, the dis- carded sultor heard of the wedding plana, obtained another license and appeared at the home of the bride-to-be when ae knew her flance was absent. : “Oh, Will, ~excintmed the fickle jade, delightediy,—“‘'m 30 glad to ae you, for now I know I love you the best!"* And #0 they were married, leaving the deserted fiance to declare sorrowfully, “Oh, these girlal I can't fgure ‘em out, anyway!” along half #0 hajmliy {f they were let decide everything for themselves. Some | trouble of making up her mind. &x 3) By George Hopf REDDY,IM Too Busy To Go our To LUNCH~GO NEXT DOOR To THE RES~ TAURANT AND TELL THEM ToOSEND ' tr bt PETEMERS EE: oi ILL JOST prop DIS CHUNK.o’ SOAP.-HERE AN! SEE Wor HAPPENS IOH_ DEAR: OH! DEAR! MosT JUN FORTUNATE ACCIDENT! IMOUST Go HoME REDDY ,Goucaliaan aeons {OH,%OO HANK! You QUINCE? TAKE OFF] YER BLINKERS:YER~ DECISIONS WoULD TEA ' "Yes," he rep “wer Ti | Ame the Editor of The Evening Worl [bet $5 He never made toms.” In anawver to Benedict Rega query, E. J. REALLY. MWhat is the best way to get beer! Croker and Astor. tram a hive and how to gathe!| ro the Fattor of The ae p honey? hat Tam not) Anse: "y Senior's” letter In| * pararal (reader; answer fh World, would tion. Wor years I have honey expatriated him- fn the cily, and to remove them is a Raking Uther necaskareostersta lie Mimble process, 1f It is stored In combs | beocme .a British mbsect and thereby an extra Dox or super, Buy A vee] renouncing his alleriance to. Uncle] « judér or bee escape | from ef|Sain, Richard Croker bas taken no] pny such” actlon, » in a word, is a elti- 6 Unite Ece supply. dealers, Ualtt the ext.a And Place it between diye and An twelve hours, the bees will nen of 4 States residing 0, Britian soll. HARVARD FRESHMAN. aay { smallpox.” 1 Sea EXPLAINS IT, Englishmen as Bad as Us. Liha Miiiecaeeana what areca SN nowadays are pshamed—absolutely ashamed—of tendering to (women! jan always give a woman a diamond any-of the Httle delicate attentions and courtesies that in the past en-| engagement ring? ‘eared them to womanhood, says London Judy, A man now raises his Grandfather—The SOMETHING OF HIS OWN. | I woderstand that Henpeck has go’. 1 ne contracted {t purposely.".f woman.—-Pick-Me- hy Ww he world should he do such a thing as that??? hat to a woman mot ann tribute to the sex, a sign of renpect and observance, | Up, Oh, Just the novelty of having some: | Dut mor the enforced fulfilment of an irksome duty, Whero are the grace: ‘ ne that hig wife would not claim | fl curves andfourishes of the hat, the s(ep back, the deep bow and courtly \ STIGMATIZED. ‘owed to her, and that he woutd nox| Mole af tho, seventeenth, nay even the eighteenth century? Then it was a pleas- | alokerRiches have wings. . orto dave in Her aamot"eSketohs | Ure to meet aman in the atreat; ona felt one’s sway of,nex. Who ls now Inclined) Bocker—Probably another nature fake, New Tork Gun, ) Ate aokmowledge @ hideous smirk and 8 grudging touch of @ hot brim? ’ September 17', Ligpseresmenenr omeame Ss el cama i 190727" LL, I'm thanktul to be bact etied Mr. Jarr, throwing himself on the sofa, “after two weeks of strenuous rest, Hving on bad food, weree cooked, watching two hens and a pig iaying in the dusty road, having to fight fly swarme at the table and be eaten up by gnats and mosquitoes by night, with ali of us packed In two small whitewashed rooms cheerfully warmed by the kitchen chimney, with bede that go down In ‘a hollow in the middla, with no bathroom anywhere, any place, any time, you can exouse me from any more of ‘a quiet piace in the country,’ I wish I'd stayed tn New York, right here at home and had a good'tima Instead of going off where we went and paying out all the money id and’*— “And coming home cross nas dear with a sore back!" sald Mrs. Jarr sharply. “Everybody goss away in the summer, the children nemiéd the change and I needed a rest to be away from the house and all its care, and, anyway It's too late now. I'm sure] didn't want to go anywhere, and it would have been better to have paid some bills with all that money we spent, and I'm sure I didn’t en- Joy one minute, and it was a horrible place wa went to, and Lite Wille got folsonnd by Iry and looks a eight with his eyes swollen shut, and litle Emma was :nearly stung by a bee and had hysterics, and it ts very dangerous for a child to got a Aervous shock like that, it may affect It mentally for. life, and aithough {t waan't a beo at all, but a bumblebug, atlll the child thought it was @ bee, and I'm sure I dkin't enjay.myzelt!” ‘Well, tan't that what I've been saying? away for at allt’ ‘iverybody goes away in summer,” replied Mrs. Jarr, hotly, ‘People that haven't as much aa we have go to Asbury Park or Atlantic City or tho Cat~ ekills or aéme good place, aud you would go to the country, although I begged you not to!” “All the places seem better that other people xo to. ments af this place we went to read just aa well wanted to-go to the country this year, andthe country, eo don’t blams me!"’ said Mr. Jarr. “Well, don't blame me and don’t blame the children!" said Mra. Jarr, “and ¥ never had a happy moment while we were away! Cet up off that sofa and help me alr the house! I wonder if the motts got into my winter things? This house needa @ good cleaning and It needa to be aired, and you Ko out and get a piece of foe and some milk for the children and a loaf of bread and.some chops ot some thing I can cook quick on thé gas stove! Oh, dear, t's the use of living? Nothing but work and worry! I wish I had stayed home!” And Mrs, Jarr throw herself down in a chair in the attitude of a g004 cry. “Hold on there! exclaimed Mr. Jarr. “I'm so glad to be back in my good old comfortable New York home, and to find that the gentle flat-house burglar hasn't carried off the {nstalment-plan furniture, and to realize that I can ha cold bottle of beer when I want {t, and that I can sleep to-night tm | real human bed and not a man-trap, that I'm not going to fuss.”’ “I didn't want to go away, you know that,” said Mra, Jarr, ‘and it is good to be home, where you have every comfort and peace"— Here they were interrupted by loud squalls from an inner room, where the children had dragged thelr box of toys from under a bed and were fighting over them. : 7) “Go in and make them de quiet,” #aid Mrs.Jarr, “I've had all the care of them while you enjoyed yourself, and the frst thing they do when they get home !s to fight!” = “That's the first thing you seem to do, too!’ grumbled Mr. Jarr. “I'm sure that’s mort unkind of you!” saMt Mra. Jarr, peevishiy. “Here we n away two weeks, and the first Tht you do when you get home ta to snarl at me, You might go out to the kitchen and put the kettle on—be mure to\let the water run a while—and make me a cup of tea I just dreed going into that kitchen. I know the mice have Veen In everything that was left, and that the icebox wasn't left open and is in a terrible state, and I have a head- ache and nobody cares!" Mr. Jarr quieted the children, put the'kéettle on; and then announced that he couldn't find the tea. 2 “You can’t find anything because you don’t want to give me a hand," said Mrs. Jars, “and everything !s so upset, tt will be Gays before I get the house straightened up, and I know there's moths got In—wasn't that one? And I'm sure it's foollsh to go away and spend all the money we did and I never en- Joyed one minute! Please go out and buy half a pound of tea and order some things sent in right awa Mr. Jarr took his hat and went out. Mrs. Jarr looked after him. “There he goes In the place on the corner,” she said, “and here is the tem right before his eyes!" ee But while Mr. Jarr was telling the bartender what a bully time he had had, Mrs. Jarr, while the kettle was boiling, called up her friend, Mrs. Rangle, om he telephone to inform her she was just back, and the place they hed beem AST YUST RPA LS, aH ORY A AT ROE AEA ELT WOME ———___+4>___ —_ i The Passing of the Straw Hat. By Paul A. Passanante. anid Mr. Jarr, “What did we go I'm sure the advertise- ny of them. You said you pidren—wanted to-go to the h WELL you noble straw hat,| Before it's time to go. A F You hgve served me faithfully. | Your color {t is fading I hesitate to cast you off, I know you take the blow How sorry I shall be, To heart as much as I do; Tideed you made a show, |Good-by dear straw, |We must now part, T cannot bear to leave thee; Good-by dear straw, My aching heart In throbbing as I leave thee; The best of things must part each daw T feel disconsolate. Straw hat, farewell, farewell, ( Good-by "tM 19081 z ‘She day-you blew into the river— Well, ‘twas a mishap, It's lueky I recovered you, Or I'd be wearing a cap. But In all other respects I found no fault with you. You shaded my bald cranium, I used you as a fan; ‘And now to think that we must part Is aad for any man. aide mé wear you once axa(n. Just One Minute, Sisters! , Briefs for Letter- Writers. He “By Helen Vail Wallace. RR OIE N replying to all letters, first answer all questions asked you. it fs Just as rude to neglect to answer written questions a: Remember that spoken ones, Always re-read a letter carefully before answering it, 20 as to really answer tt Do not throw back, after maybe weeks of neglect, a mixture of apology and matters the antlpodes of a reply. i Who does not heartily detest answering a neglected letter? Some of the beat letter-writérs make {t @ rule to answer all social letters at once, or Very soon. Here 1s a sample bginning b¥ a clever woman correspondent of thia type: ‘Yours to me was @ long time coming, but, even #0, T shall jot attempt to retaliate, for if I do the punishment 1s mine. I so dlaitke to answer letiers a long time awe recetyed,"* £0, write more carefully than you speak, ax a rule: Letters are objective reale tien, ‘The destiny of one's whole life sometimes turns upon a letter, Never write a letter when angry, If you do, don't mail {t. You get the griew ance out of your system by putting St on paper. Some one nays,''-A wicked letter tp all the more wicked becaure It can never repent,"' and {t may be wale with equal fervor that an over-sentimental letter to a-man friend ts all the more ailly because it can never become senalble, its writer ts capable of doing. The mobd will pass and you will regret having immortalized It on paper. ee Bustriens tettera must be brief and to the point. Answer all business letters and-invitations at once. Always inclose a atamp when asking personal favors of any one not an Intimate friend, +———$_____— About Dr. Felix Adler. ADLER, head and founder of the Ethical Culture Society, pers D sonally leads in Camogie Hall each Bunday, saya 4h A congregation of 4,00 people who are adherente of Mir who In of: Hebrew ancestry, was bore & 21: Germany, in 181. He was hrovght to this country when five years of ago. His father wan at one time’ rabbi. of ‘Temple mmanvel in New York, and the boy wan educated to be & | rabbi, but found, when he c&me—ta- manhood, that he could not accept tn iite entirety the Jewiah faith, He was graduated trom Columbia in 1870, and after ward studied at Rerlin and Hejdelberg \niveratiies, for- several years he se chatr-of Hebrew and’ Oriental languages at Cornell : pare