The evening world. Newspaper, December 3, 1907, Page 14

The Perennial Foundling. = By Maurice Ketten. uesday, J. ANGUS SLAW, BeosTrene:, ft Want 11th Street. ‘as Mail Mat ‘ngland and the Con- GAT] Countries 1 - Greele y-Smith Discusses Heart iliepics ype. Rares to the | Canada. : merWorid for the ited Siates. 45 $3.00 One Year.....-+e+s. | One year + -@ 1 One mont! ‘One month...ssssee0 CHILDREN AND PAMPERED PARENTS. J= ALSTON MUORHEAD, of Pittsburg, wha mar | Sea cec 4 NG: 16,808. wHo ARE TO BLAME ? : S] R. ALBERT WARREN FERRIS, of i the State Lunacy Commission, chab- '}} CAN T ! lenges the accuracy of The Evening A LOSE HIM, sWorl’s exposure of the abusiv 7 treatment. of patients on Ward’ S. , DARN IT | stand.~ He says thaf he personally | 1 : visits, the hospital ‘three times 2) week and examines the patients, and | | that he cannot believe that they were | - treated in the manner that Dr. John | C. McCarthy has described. This statement -helps centre the responsibility. ! Goighint its exposure. The Tevee World has not placed the if Diame solely on the brutal altendants, many of them human waifs re- ctuited from the Bowery missions. If the patients were abused—and 2 were—highly pal officials in charge of the aie are the partjes jzesponsible. _ They should be investigated. "If Dr. Ferris visited the hospital three times a week he should be le' to state what days he was there and for how long and what he did | Ewhile he was there. He says he ‘examined the patients.” | How many patients did he examine? Did he examine them with their | . {elothes on or off? If their clothes were on, haw could he tell what bruises y had on their bodies? If their clothes were off, was the examination a sual inspection or a real search for injuries? How many hundred patients ‘hour did Dr. Ferris examine? If he did not exdmine at least one a anute how was he able to examine them all once a week by visiting | __fihe hospital ae) three times? rled hls mother’s French maid, has been forgiven by hin fathsr, a millionaire stecl maguate. This. soinewhat lated parental blessing cntafls the introduction of her former mald to Pittsburg society by Mrs, Moortiead. And aa Mra Qlooriiead is the very matron who ied thy Pitts- burg opposition to Eveiyn Thaw because she had been a @ancer, everybody ts wondering how she is golng.t) do It” T whould think this Incident would furniah one more |evidence, if any more were needed, of the exceeding toby. bf that parental opposition we so frquently hear of “on mocount of the difference o¢ socin] standing.’ The only noclal standing recognized jn UNs covatry by soclety_ia based on the. possession of mney. A few per- fone with ancestors may tiang on to Uhe outer edge of + aociety by their teeth because their names lov well on the invitation lists, of |the newly rich. But that ds all, As the daughters of Midas prefer to ex-hanke thelr millions for w.ttle rather than for equfvalent amount of American [‘eold) what {s there left for the sone of Midas t& do seek their mates | Smong the porula:e? | “And wwhethor they marry you or'me or their mothers’ French malds «howld I think, de left to thelr personal seloctl:m, By tie time tho next generation has crown up then Moorhead, jr., will herself be in a posttlon to forgive her Eel ; from the gilded continer of Pitteture’s elect. So much has been written about the spotled’ Rrnericonk child that tha subject of the pampered, American parent lina been overlooked, It Js not a pleasunt thing for a young man‘or w1man to be slowly and mag~ nan!mously forgiven ¢or what he or whe conalders the Joy and wonder of !ife— jand not a crime at all. Yet tnanv parents divide their time between didiwning | thelr children for getting marriod and then reluctantly forg'ving'them for it | Take the care In point, Young Moorhead was disowned without a cent. He 1 of a Perinsyt- i He had cvery ch ng A rtron ful citizen. Work and poverty, the toreli-bearcrs and sof au | cess, had clalnied film. Now his father Mrgives him and wil drive both away, ho resolutely turnf his back upen tho money that. {offered him, He could forgtve—indeed, he should even be gmtetit forthe -distaierit- | ance that mado Nim _take the Hee'sy cure and go to work and boxme a lseful, | hard-working man, But can he—should he—forgive the forsiveness that may | deprive him of the blessings of tndependence and self-reliance he has found? If I were a young man and had married-the woman of my chctce an] been disinherited, T douhic If 1 chould allow myself to be forgiven ao easily. .\t any rate, I should insist on retaining all the privileges of disinhieritance. Rete ron Eas HEE AK HORA IE x Just One Minute, Sisters! Briefs on Dentistry. 3% ‘ly forgiven Mra. ives for straying By Helen Vail Wallace. * HE dentist's chair !s one of the best possthla locations in which to demon- strate over the flesh—to Christian Solence principles into action and n the nothingness of ter. And not only affirm jt, but-act up to-th, fe) eI Many people ‘act up the other way, in which statement most dentists will bear me out. eo 8 Brace up! Don't expect your dentist to sympathize with you. Remember that even tare but ene, that he has many “ones” to deal with; that sympathy strength: that continuously applied aympathy would soon find not only our dentiat, but all ocher panderers to human pain, auch as nurses, phy- ns, surgeons and ministers, slumbering beneath the daisies, lese_continuous @ealers in human anguish s00n learn to be philosophical clf-defense. =~ The State Commission in 1 y is composed of three members. giltdns under its care and: cusiocy twelve insane hospitals located at dif- Bt points in the State from Buffalo to Long Island. The commissioners | adhemsely ves cannot possibly dhorous y esa all the patients. | Under the State Commission there are va 1 boards “of | | 0 ee . enter the dentist's clinir Iny aside not only your hat but iment, your scathotic feeling, your vanity. Resort te Sisters, when you your nerves, your * entire self-forgetfulness.. Also Jf you have anything to say to the dentist say \it before -the ‘ceremony’ begins or “hold your peace.” In most boards two-or three of the memt a Ap ie sais heads of ihe | WY Is It a Man Always Objects to Going to Brooklyn With His Wife, | | Do rot in, any way pander es the Beal and concrete, Remember that ee Ci Oe eine merdcenen! belied dovn [ofl and When the Question Is Settled Wife Herself Is Glad She Didn’t Go?,/*"*"™* Ae a cee tl eee icnrlz, lotecto) 60.03% on that day I've eome very tmpor-ant) : a C S_ Gob Natu re Notes. By Roy L. McCardell. i | didnitementiony anyday) iysaldy rari Jerri rou) Just want me: to/ eo aione| HE rallroad tlea to the mtuge are pleasingly coincided at, Cos Cob, where a I's SOTE is always asking me to go to Brook-| way out there among thore stupld people.” | President Mellen has built his new power-house for the New Haven Wynitseald (rt iJorr/ sa ieie beren tek Se 22 pea vous dlp mention lavas yuu anda Mtsadatts it tor eet MALONEY ON road on the rocky promontory where Edwin Booth once made his home. Theva very tmportant business andj really couldn't go!" | cottt house ts undisturded, except that railroad folks, Instead of actors, Eee chat if {t ‘The railroad folks can ride on a pass, but actors walk, as usual "replied Mr, ars ME 1 wag any other day but that Leould oven the show dusts at Bridgeport, though the wealiiy one can take a trol : ley’ and get back to New: York in five hours. Mr. Mellon frat New ® big hole tn the rocks and then tucked the power-house Into {t, right where the smoke can tow across the river into Lincoin Steffons's eyes. The power-house’ ts visible from another house of the same kind on Sagamore Hill, eteven miles away, on the other alde ofthe Sound. The New Haven road {s now run-ne another was long ago—by x pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, the cloud ts of soft coal amoke, which Mr. Mellen wild wouldn't be vislble— | sefore he moved in—and the pillar of fire at night comes from the fuses that plow out on his poorly instafled wires. Ernest Thompson Seton haa chopped down a lot of trees at Wyndyehoiy so that his modest wizwam Is now yiaisle to the naked eye. At frat he dwelt In the deep, dark wood, raising hin own mosquitoes in his new 310,000 pond, but has now become ike other folks. ‘The Minnus River has the widest mouth of any etream In the State ex “You uned to be gdcd enough to go to Brooklyn when | you Hved there,” suid Mr, J a vhen ny a " repjied Mrs. Jarr; “but | - i A Se dea dauruivettacce Sai? pein Sek i ‘said Mrs, Jarre in trlumph, “T knew I'd catch your-t-didn't say_1t| Whee 1 wes shopping to-day and eho told me sie’d bo) Was noxt Friday, 1 didn't ma “, Uvt.aa a matter of fact, she mute sean pS ‘ ot ccurse, I had to prim-|Me promise to come over next Tuesday Hat acre CaS tn Brookiyn always want| And that's the day my tnaurunco fal!s due; oh, T couldn't possibly go on a Gene Tuesday! said Mr. Sarr." Tucslays and Fridays I'm always busy." ieee gi “Well, she sald 1¢ I couldn't come next Tuesday just to ¢eiephono her what day Bs ‘Misery loves company,’ sald Mr. Jarr. rae pulsery ues eee apeopia that lye, in{E Could come,"" afd Mra, Ji 6 plainly you don't care to go w ane z Cheartel. New | @nywhere. I can go myself; never min Hrooklyn serialaly Gla iaaalved ane Lense eea aout i go with you, {f that's the way you feel about it I'll put off paying my ar eee ea on you. Whe they dogive « party of | mince, Only,” dnd here Mr. Jarr mpoke solemnly, “I do hope I won't dle think to ask you If you, hav “ety © oe mm rp ro Rea eee (anon ere Kind, does it consist ct?” shen The head of Ward's Istand Hospital is a noted insanity expert, Dr.|$¥ Kind. nist Coen 0 02 Mabon, whose income from his outside work is in excess of his salary aS| and cali s Ie he caninectinuca ivan made imon lore Nel conieetten teem ie Coes Vermont. “Superintendent. He Js a friend of Mr, Jerome's, who, as District-At-j°n¢ PN tran HERS te iin City cua em ca tine ent een coc zouncaalt ron beletadioe es and New Hampshire, while the Miarus {1 a home-made stream. : tomiey, frequently calls Dr..Mabon as an insanity expert, for which ser- i tex talatrat i sighed Mrs. Jarr, Bs THEI St “Never mind,", sad Mrs. Jarr. “I only wanted some excuse to gét out of It Grecn mCi aepecou ne as om un Cy or ani loneiressendicoachmen: * vice Dr. Mabon receives $100 a day. the reason property {a sc reasonable in Brooklyn.” sald Mr. Jar. |r tetepbane her the children aro alck. = _» ~Witha State Commission th ‘No matter how fine a ‘housw rou haye, my one will come to nee tt. So wh t's as ; : Me 3 ie re Winen ha ditecetes’ aati Mts rar, “Whenever you vist anxvoar in| ON Marrying and Burying Wives. Yjot inspect all the patients; with supervisory boards composed of citizens) * asked Mra. Jarr. | “I'd prefer not to falk about !t," sald Mr, Jarr, significantly. “We won't go, then,’ sald Mra. Jarr, ‘I'm sure I don't want to go, and !f aald Mr, Jarr. ‘They put vinegar on hash Bome day I'll see real food at a New York luncheon t, no matter what Dr. Ferris says, can~| tne use to have it If you can’t show ft uff3" y : What the differen “Thad ® promise I'd go over to see Drs, Gote arid take luncheon, she.was 20) progivn they always bring you back with them to New York to Ko to tite i atu Mia, Jarr. [theatre or a musicale or something, and Mra. Goto will be just as pleased. y George Harvey. who give only a part of their time to the work, and with a superin-; .. ou should go," aafd Mr. Jarr, The Gotes are very: nice people. Gote’a| Mayb) she only asked ts to vialt her out of politeness”? és PINION of that satir{e poet. Ilppomax.’* to the effect that the only twe now that would lend me any monoy needed it." “But you sald she insisted.” mizgested Mr, Jarr. pleasant drys a man has with hin wife are those of her marriage and ,-tendant who spends part of his time as a $100.a day nls) expert, the the poly $22.a month nts, graduated from the B i ; Proper S hem, and the poor p: , At pre sent the officials of the Manhattan Hopital are in stigating| ‘oud De aura to come with me. Mr, Gote will be home early that “Yes; that's what pakes me suapictous she really didn't want us to call,’ of her burial, could find response only in tho shallowest of minda, Gote sald {t would be nice if you came with me." rail’ Mra. Jarr, “Women are always extra Insistent when they would prefer you| An observation based upon aught else than truth Js not satirical, but allly—and A Chicago Expert ) in = themsslves. Pe the abuse of (he patients -forj a aveek or a it I \proving Our Ra pid Transit i j Offers Suggestions. \® 3 out of the question for me to go to Brooklyn on that day!’ sald Mr. | not to call nuch js this of Hipponax. The fact, as, of coarse, every one of experience well By F. G. Long Reh rere Oy ” night, bul unie upon the men > Knows, ts that the mont trying and profanity-provoking days in a man’s life are ent of a.few Be 7 _ ASLIGHT REDUCTION OF THE SEATING CAPACITY 15 PROPOSED. THE GICAGO. EX- revolts againat the enforcement of passivity no less than against the {nterruption of-business. A week or #0 later, In both cases, he hecomos reconciled, enthustas- tically or decorourly, aa the case may, e, to the requirements of fate; but for the time being he 13 the most wretched ofvbelngs. To offer ax an outhority upon A topio a0 yital to the human race a choleric humpback whose sole claim to dis- tinction resta upon hia Invention of a choliambic méusure-mibatitutink a spcndee for the final iambus tn-an txmbic trimeter tm, to our mind, absurd. A “satirte poet,” forsooth, who apared neither his own parents nor the gods, who never experienced, even his own vauntod gratification at elther marrying or burying @ wife, because he never had one! A lot he knew about tt as compared with us ef the present enlightened day! ——____. Dr. Osler Was Too Easy. By Prof. Charles S. Minot. © we not sce that the now Ideas are Indeed for the most part the ideas ef young people? Aa Dr, Osler, in that much-discuased remark of his, has ; sald, the man of forty years ts ‘seldom the productive man. Dr, Osler also mentioned the aintabls suggestion of Trollope in regard to men of sixty, whloh / has deen so, extremely misrepresented In the newspaper digcussions througheus | the country, causing biologists much amusement, writes Prof, Charles 8. 2atne, In the Popular Science Monthly, But I think hat Dr. Opler probably took a Sar too amiable view of mankind, and that tn reality the period when the learning: power ‘s nearly obliterated is reached in most Individuals very much eartex As In every class of biological facts, there 1s here tho principle of variation ti be kept in mind. Men are not alike, The Kreat majority of men loso the power of learning, dowdtless some morg-and some less, we Will say, at twenty-five years, Few men after twenty-five are able to learn much. They become day laborers, _ Inechantcs, clerks of a) mechanical order. Others probably cay go on somewhes longer, anc obtain higher positions; and there are men who, with extreme verte ationa in endowment, preserve the power of active and original thought fer om Biter cr ihe ca Into Ifo, These, of course, are tho exceptional men, the great mon. | Biteytion is eds both GAO Re paid our of tho At y REE wana / iy ‘ a: - i , Sacmuspanded or wrecked -inatitutio; ne | eda ts J . ie Children’s Playgrounds. a nat ered S number of children's jay 3 In ing rapidly in Recelver ahowld be required top: y HE ber of children’s playgrounds {s tnorenat idly in meng Nat of the securities, cash on h cities, Recent atatistica covering twenty-four oltlea” between 26,000 am . HE ALSO ADVOCATES A TARTER W/7H A 00 population show there has been !n two years an’ increase of per Cent, STOPWATCH. F/NE/ in school playgrounds, and @ total increase of all kinds of playgrounds e¢:-B0 ° | per cent. in that period. \ those when he marries and buries a consort, wrkes George Harvey, In the North ‘American Revlew for December, On nettiier occanion ts ho the central figure; on ‘each he Ja an object of sympathy, rather than ef envy; and hls masculine spirit PERT. FINDS THE , DOORS ARE Nor QUCLY Oo show what fh Ming eaiial) ¢ Ali reo ebout the Cor «When are wo to co aa . Tisa, (he expresnes How WHY WOT DO AWAY WITH SEATS ENTIRELY? VOrRY HE RECOMMENDS GREATER. FINO UNLOADING CARS. EXPEDITION IN 7 LOADING ~ BAR. | the highest bidder, JON T. d | beer) and Baorifice by the ‘mame auth ieraréated compensation tness | ot money racrifices {f only a lead to Jor Srices; And those normally low. prices come, let us ley atand shoulder to shoulder to tians them stay, H.C, Sure! Push pq our QUICK- THIS WAY! Gy@pnk ould be besterrea, Aa soon ap oy if ERPs ie DW RING NP aCe Se Ee