The evening world. Newspaper, October 21, 1907, Page 12

The Dae of Rest. By Maurice Ketten. obe ss Dally Brow! Sunday by the Breas Fublishing Company, Noe © 0 @ > Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciane Mall Matter. PARLOR JOHN. GET gig ate me | Smet Meee t ece Eited Bates, at in the Internati : z Postal Union. 0.78 MOWU ME ABE sss tsleeeees ei ceees COMPARATIVE HONESTY. | ||. eee HUE RS eee | IE Dp Ricca eID Vie) Gadel cttere ane é = _TANLEY FRENCH: |s_a_ bettin dasa De sp : Ane Bese Rabe eal pee ek ce a of rmeaieg Si < in the consdloumiess of Originality it confers on the teller. I¢-truth pays any dividends at all they are de fermnd till a better world, so it has to b6 loved for fta own sake, not for any bent to be derived from ft. © ie Whenever a woman fibs about her age that Angel of the Record, whose first tear waa dropped to Dict out the white ile of a nun in Hogv's “Les Miserables” sheds es» Saas ee S.-m other with similarly ‘c‘lacing purpose and remult. i ‘There are certain {tints ‘and occasions when to tell the piruth marks one ea either imbecile: qr boorish: For instance, when a mam s{ shows us the portrait’ of ‘hisicross-eyed fancee and asks us rapturously tf she ts ‘ not the moet beautifil woman we have, ever.seen. Or when a-.woman,cillie om . -, attérition to her new fall hat, which, having. been. shopping thd week before, we : garded as somewhat Provocative ‘of dishonesty. He went-to the) Belmont Park ttack with only $1 “in his pocket. }t-was a fortnight) since he had made a-winning bet, "Aman in such a-condition would “2 seemingly: be open to any lucta- tive temptation: On the train he}. 1 n tlhe nel te ‘ : OT RN : i ae CURNEW HE i | recognize as one we tried. on our own head. ‘priced. at $1175, and’ axka #f'it te a +“ fonind-a-roll- of bills which a book-| fs oo: eee Be eetee) Ses sat <HAD-A-ScHeEM! —[Pit-the cheapest thing we have: ever heart of——en tmported- mode! for ont a ot = maker had lost. In the roll were | VE: i ' G ae WE HAVE’ NO 2 | $8""—or when any one, man or woman, arhs us to xveas how old by.or she tsp —~. PHONE: 3 or when a girl Invokes our expert _afvice ea,to whether or not “he” “really. ~ loves her,""’ Theao qre only w very few of many: Instunces. wherein only the ~ foolish or the, unkind drag their real opinions from thelr eacret lair, -— ‘ -_Some-persons-are. born trathfulothers-acquire the habit of truth telling *by = Kotting loat_in_the-masee-bullt-by—a-eingltHe--mhich--necessita les the telling. : of a hundred others: before !t has run {ts course, re |. Not long ago I had oconston to suggest to @ woman with on aggravated cape | of veracity that she tell a very ama! white ‘le that would have smoothed the - [Course of true love very much. She decliced, and I forthwith reminded her e€ ‘ : | & moh earker time, of which she had told me, when the truth and she had not “twas beimg-deposed and a Stock Exchange firm was declared insolvert. Social ceria te, aes ; mé-men from Méntana-had formed a pool with afew rich New Yor! "eho admitted. “but I learned than that Twas euch a bed Mar thet bankers and speculators to corner a copper stock. To raise the money ; And ther are not a few other converts ef this kind. part of the stock was deposited as collateral on a loan. — “who: and ten $100 bills.” He took the th of them. were in favor of wil Mey French dic. even $1,000 bills, three $500, bi motiey homé and told his: wife-about it. Bot ki p-the owner. and “He was remarkably honest: .- SS “While ‘Stanley French, the betting commissioner, was hunting ur! the owner of the money which he-had-found the president of a big bank we THE STORY of the _ STREETS OF NEW YORE By J. Alexander Patten, An Old New Yorker. es d dollars. 7 | (excuse PUT Him OUT) OH MY.SUCH a is = : WASN'T THAT : Reames HE al et id : ¢ THE-DOOR= DECANE B SEE) (MEAD - ADACHES CAE RID oF /, ite Te No. 19—The First Seventeen Streets. HIS city regulations of the Dutch are amusing at tniy Guy. but they Tieveloped cowpaths ints streets, and a village into a city. Indeed, all the history of thls period has a singular qualntness, ber itis er wanting in iniprosalvaness. 5 “Pre —ieeis—wiiont—the—town— walle—at—WAil_etreetapperiaintd—to- ight to sell the stock than a pawn- ‘broker_has to sell a diamond ring is kind of ‘dishonesty, when it is Successful, is Wall (ie \e9t India Company, an@ were used for public. grazing grounds tor the town Z J ee NA E ; cows, sheep or swine, or for the Governor's farms, wider the riame of bouwerles, Street. This particular thief is regarded as a successful Wall street In 1631 Gov, Btuyvesantbowght his bouwerle in’ the section about Second ave- Hie,Tenth_sirest_and_the Eest—River,_for_¢40-guiiders With the and —went-s dwelling-house, barn, reck-lands, six cows, two horses and two younk negroea, The present Bo' takes ite name from this place. On Broadway, belWeea Liberty and Cortlandt streets, on a company farm, was a public windmill, and there was a water mill near, the Collect. ee Stone—and-Bridge streets were the first to be paved. In 160 most of the seventeen streets had been paved with cobblestones and provided with gutters Ja “i | the middle, all-the-water running off in that manner. In later timea lower Malden lane had e gatter of thisWgind, and in heavy rains a lisht boat could-haye floated there. A ‘The gable ends pf the houses faced the street and were decorated with a. checker-work of small biack and yellow bricks imporied from Holland. Iron figures, showing the, dates of thair erection; were fastencd in the gables. Th main doors had hedvy end well-polished brass knockers, and over each xable was a weather-cock.’ The houses had gardens, places for cow, pigs and chickens _ patch of cabbage and dazzling beds of tulips. : Leaden sashes" were general inthe houres, Hiven Trinity Church-had them. AC house at No, 176 Water street was the first in which a change was made to JéS8 the first fire company.of eteht men was organized, under.the name. (OF. BPR re GANT money they had made in Montana a director of the Metropolitan Mu- seum was explaining that some of]. its choicest treasures of art had been stolen __from— Europea churches and cathedrals and that a sa-mpemntrrens Cr es ry foe ms es Senge = great part 5 ate Sears phe darpmamly What Would You. Think if Your Eu int Heinzes were being stripped of the are the proceeds of successful! 6s E-need a pew -room," sald Mrs. “Flow do you know all this?! asked Mr--Jarr.— , | the “Rattle Watoh.” 4 eupply of hooks and Jadders and 2 fire-buckets ware thefts, W Jar. 2 2 ‘Flasn't Mrs. Stryver waxed floors, and Mrs, Kittingly, and a lot of other|!mported from Holland. The men were on duty from: nine in the evening unui ‘es, It does Jeok a little on the blink,” sald Mr.! people I know?’ sald Mre. Jarr, ‘Besides, I asked at the rug department of one| ‘norning drum beat. a j Also there. was further public} | Jarr, agrecing for once. “I've often wondered why you|ot the big stores the other day.” Many of tho old Dutch houses wore destroyed in the grit res, and in 18 testimony of the traction thievery get a new 01 és “Oh, nonsense!" sald Mr. Jarr. “I read the advertisements In the magazines | not more than four or five remained. In 1827 'a house marked 1038,"In a fine 5 6 R “Well, said Mra, Jarr, “I thought It would be just a! for aM sorts of patént compounds that make old floors’ like new, and they enow | state of preservation, was taken down at the corner of Pearl street and O14 ‘and how another leading Wall street firm had received part of the loot waste \f money when the children were little. You inay | pictures‘of it." : s Slip. Another marked “1701,” was taken down on Coentles Sp, and on the op- which Brady, the ‘‘fence,’”’ had distributed, a: i "5 check try all you know how, but you cannot prevent young ch'l- Yes,and-that is all they do show!” sald Mrs, Jarr. ‘Mrs. Kittingly tried | josite corner was another, mar! ; i xf ra and nag reuited Brady's ch ‘3 dren from upeetung their plates and dropping food and} that sort of wtuft'on her floory and you should have seen thom! She had to have On both-sides of the city were great swamps, such as Beokman's Swamp, on foe -spilling-milk: on- the: floor, !—— — | 4¢-seraped-off- by-a-man, who charged her Ha day,-and, as Mre—Kittingty said, | the Eaat-River, and Lispenard. Swamp,.on the Hudson, schere.now.are.ztroate. “Yee, that's so," said Mr. Jarr; ‘but now the children | seemed to have mado up his mind that he was to work for ber at that rate for| bearing the same names, Beekman's and Pock’s Hills, in the neighborhood of ~Are.getting bigger and.are more careful we‘can gots rik. | the rest of his natural life." = : pees - | Peart, Beekman_and-Ferry streets, were high, while Duane street, from -Broad- can’ wer" E; “But I know there sre other methods," sald Mr. Jarr, way, was greatly filled up, and at Hroadway the filling was teen feet. ¥ echted Mrs, Jarr. ‘I guess not! Ihave trou-| ‘Yes. there fe another method, staining and oiling! said Mra, Jurr. “But an| At the present Leonard street and Broadway wna a hill, having a fine kreping this hor eras ; olled fivor never looks like a waxed floor, It always looks greasy. lt gathers} orchard. “Bayard's Mount,” on Grand Street, was also called “Bunker's Hill’? 3 Bo “hrgthe: care oping ls Rouse 1_onder 7 i Ja ith Z Hint-lt-you-de-net-go-eter It-aii-the-tins,-and-it-simpiy ruins the hems-of-your | amd wes the-scene-of rouEh: Roninre eae -factions-Mortay- Hit sttht remain: directors gy Lh, OY Wo A] “T_sometimes_thin'<that_the-servant_queation—la_such-a-galling-one—because+ dresseg. Oh. I-know all about olled floore. The only ood thing atsat them Je} an 9 part of a wealthy uptown Co. RCE TAS WHA BRNEA AE tay MARE y i ; "Yt o wa got too refined, we have too many things to take care of,” sald Mr. Jarr. | that you can wash them without thelr turning white, ike a waxed floor does,{ The city gat ovary let at # o'clock “and opensa at day Nant CAO" explain-ex-— iit i j | "OR, 10a all right for (he rich,” sild Mra. Jarr. "They can keep an army of | #70-then they won't snow nall-marks-trom=the-teols-of- peopie's=#i0en; end aD} © : tn--panceedta..the. fort. \with-A-sernenit tnd 8 cept that it isa-ha¥it of Wall street FY if aS) ___| servants; but where s person only, has one girl it's fust impossible to have ruga | led floor doesn't cost so much and-tirt so hard to keep 1 “to fetch the keys, and return pe sas ain ere uis je wates Whendigging trenches for the “Manhattan wooden wate and-wexed floors-«-I- Know they Tonk artistic, perhaps -they—are~healtater, et 1 and get me the dining-room, sald Mz Sarr, nrere- found. but we have to do the heat wecan. If we were rich, now, the children woulhl eat “We will mot, wo'll_get_a carpe id Mrs. Jarr. ‘tugs are all very well in the nursery with their governces and we wouldn’t need Rew dintng-room | for people who Dave no children and who only use thetr homes as show Places. carpet.”” Se re “ = Look at Mrs, Stryver! She's so afraid of her waxed floors that she. 5 A = “I may be primitives and old-fashioned,": sald Mr. Jarr,‘wut I want my chill- l{f people call on her. T nt sonre comfort jn my house, and, beeides, ~~ Honesty should not be comparative, but absolute, dren arownt-me_even If they are untidy. What home life haye the rich, ufter|can get a servant-to-took-after floors properly, and I've plenty of work now-to The experi erel 4 Son pa gat = al? When 'thelr children are young they are relegated to the care of servants, | do without looking after waxed-fg-rs!” x anes aoe ‘a h 2 ae above recited would Seema to indicate that of| cat atn table separate trom thelr parents and elcep in a nursery. When they-are ‘] only suggested a rug in the dining-room,” sald Mr. Jarr, gambling places in New York or its vicinity the most demoralizing}0¥¢ enough to go to school they are sent away. Tho happiest recollections I ‘Well, we'll have a carpet!’ said-Mrs. Jarr. y - - ard Mrs, Jorr asked her husband to go dowptown | ‘and-dishon 1 J == + have of my childhood and_my_youth are my mother seeing that we sald our day or no after and : aries Stock Exchange, and that the police -shotld lose no prayers and then kissing us gvod-night and tucking us in, And then our family St aaeaikea tine out aTUK. - “in raiding and-losing it. : ie meetings at meal-time were jovial and happy.” 5; “Carpeta are not hcalthful,"’ satd-Mrs, Jarr, "Besides, {t ts Bo easy to take ~ as ‘i “Yot I notice you are always corrécting the children when they cut up at the up a cug and cledn {t."” Me tnt a & = table,” said Mrs. Jarr, “and sometimes I think It would be more pleasant for me : ci x sa Lett ts fro t — {f I hadn't the child-en around me ao much. Anyway, they are big enough now : a aaa — LG m 6 cop 6. to be careful, and 1¢ I gat a new-carpet I'll make them be careful." Len rnatlabedgaaiiatsean ed i orelalaoneer aici tie ean Tobacco“and Jewelled Shoes. ind: that gambling” on the Stock Exchange Even respectable peonle, Ilke ood weather, are often talked about. ' A airl may be as pretty a4 a pkcture=but some pA ree. It lové would-only remain-blilnd after marriage—but what's the use! House painters and noveliats are. respensible—for. some “highly-colored tor bem 2 E eeoDhe average man Je Glesatisfied either with what he haw or with what he Be eure you get a round-trip ticket when you take a trip on a merr$-go- nd. * ‘A business woman should never propose to a man who can’t cook or sew taeoareful they won't hurt a rug or @ polished floor, . eee OBBLERS are proverbial sniokers, and tho Syrian shoemaker {s no exception | J on button E ; Foads and many provision markets’ un “Who'll keep the polished fidor polished*—axked Mra 4 . —always tmagifies she is charitable when she lets her husband pre the altar ot The Bvening, Wort; der Fedarsi contro}. = Lahat He ~ have to Ket e Tew Noor, In the fret place. have shisiown Ways =a ci) ts Then you have to havo {t stained and then sheliacked and then waxed, Then “ayatem—and find a common ES aan ee m {t has to de gone over with a cloth, and once-a month, at leant, Sab TOT eae mS Plane Sy ee eines seman = 3 jaimed | ) f @ud dead piuyers mark “every season. He eeeRL ‘BE Tootball, “Yet thousmids’ of people| «7? ABtumn—A Grouch. alf st K ds patronize the eames and‘ifje? ‘have' the | Te the Editor of The Evening World: U 4 ] S cd & as & Cd Doubtless the way=of-the transgressor may be hard, but the people who orate with colored allks, Jewels and bullion tne Korxcous fcotRear of hia fem- con ime 1 cage thie castensre = Bauer wn wit and wholenaty alu, —Queer Old Korea. = UAINT and ourlous are sorce of the Kofean news liters that find thelr way, | wanction and encor of the The sky {n azure bright. th. ; supers For inatanvarst"fhe-native curiosityof: the-cic: sgrent seats-of learning. “Tilats nil ast chainpaere ed Me He Mey — — Mee aa eerente is quite beyond description, and In many cases rather’ as- 6 Mf should be. Football 4s.‘ splendid,! It doesn't interest me— {| ae ==) towiiding. ince the opeuing of the raliway traffic, which 1s one of The recent =e ai : “@anly Kame. But so Is boxing. Theni'm at the treadmii why bar scentifie—pugilism from our Rea ur Mine Coat Gtatos on the round of brutality, while! In drear monoyény. @hoourazing the more perilous and no|I wish that we Mire sportsmanitke game of! football? spring Td Uke this discumed. FAIR PLAY. | And wake to be 1 x in the chronicles of hermit nation, almost all third-class eom- Leen each train are filled Fen A Breat number of native passengers, eo | that there Is scarcely a soat left unoccupied. Afost of the passengers take che j train’ not for the tranmction of any business, but only for the mor satisfaction | of thelr curiosity, some of them being foolish enough to exnauat, their means an@ | ran Into debt tn the constant pureult of this idlo pleasuro, ‘ oes HM sleep from fall to No, 33 Broadway. Where buds are waking and UD only early marriage recma to be the fate of Korea's rulers, says the | epctne sa ores pal Mxenine NY oria PSSA: Ce ohie: Ht Gnteago Pall Y News, “The latest sensation in Beoul Js that measures are, being. ‘ AYAC In) the addresn ofthe Austrian | Their rhapsody, \{aken to-find a consort for the Prince Imperial, although he ja only eleven years Oonsuiate in New York Cigy, It's tough to turn from golden moun- of age.” : ‘Again: “The imperial household of Japan has present da carriage and ‘a vair of horaca to the Emperor of Korea. This is doubticns a timely sift, in view 'S.. SUK'ENIOK. tain heights ‘ | Notay New York: And silver sea | ime the KAltor ot The wrenisel wide To sutty, cold-ment boarding-house 4o- Had Mrs. Rice, who complains hy. the 4. lchts noises of European cities, not.beep.an |i AP4 Prunes for tea, American lady it certainly would tave| ~ M'GROUCH. been partectly obvious to her that:there & Fraction Froblem, iu more nolaa made by the New York | To the Biltor of Thé Ever , : Averhead railway trains than by all the| Will readers tre that any eel molees in capitals of Kuripean coun- > Qrfoa put together, HARRY BRODY, |Muhbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9, 0 into| Gas ners two fractions whose sum shall equal| SUM Ss area unity, CHARLES F, REUEL. Here are a few things*thé coming sas- Same Slow Subvway! ti sions of Congress and Btate Lestela-| ro mo Zaitor é: trea might (and probatly, wan't) acc| Much good the Publis sens Com j Science and the Mosquito. jgomplish to make their members’ names{mtasion has done for us! It took ae LTHOUGH the mosquito specisiises on yellow faver isod malaria and is wank with Washington and Lincoln:|trom 6 to 10 P.M to get. tron| g Universally recognised ea an enemy to be fought outright, solentiats have ‘Cut down the prices of' living, reform|Times square to Ninety-sixth «treet in| “Does de tightness In de money market af- come to regard the common house fly as the more ilangerous, ‘The mos. the tari for the people's personal ad-|the, Sabway lest might 1 could ha “I hate ter be harsh, Miranda, but I've die- “It must be lovely ter have er corrugated| ‘iuito will spread enly ene or two diseases, bak) thesnauee Ay sepreada many i Ly= Y, i} , Yked tt in that time. fect yer any?! five os decent local and mub- | sume” dolay at “his out every nint’®| “Well, | guess! Say, | ain't found er decent covered dat Lillian here,.wot's got er Job In er brow like dat, Woolly, but don't yer find dem Pape Kies Kec iiend Gh ba cee vaeteaendenad ttre Aine trae LN DBEGN, P. ‘AN. | cigar snipe in Wall street since | dunno when.” candy emporium, le me real affinity” creases terrible fer catching de dust?” te at ‘the fact that the present sovereign of Korea Intends to inaugurate the custom: | | | * joe ‘emerging from the perennial seclusion of the palace.” ye ce * o me 1) ““When Sunday. Was Monday. NTIL a few yearsiago the Philippine Islanders held thelr Sunday on the day U which was Monday to the Inhabitants of the nvighboring island of Borneo, ‘Thie curious anomaly arose from tho historic tact that the Phillpoines were Aiscovered by Spanish voyagersa coming from the east around Cape Horn, while Borneo wes Glecovered 6y Portuguese coming down from the went, and sallora lore or gain e day uocording to thelr direction. in crossing the Pectio,