The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1907, Page 16

Me Bang ad rock i cbe Ren Ad? orld, e i Gudtiehed Dally xcept Aunday by. the Frees Publishins Cempany, Nos. 3 to @ | Park Row, New York. ~restty | SS peemeee rossrare, tr, | Ror 1 beret J, ANGUS SHAW, Bone Trees., SV Wert 111th Wrest. T | he Pos!-Office at New York a1 Breond-Clasa Mall Matter, | ya Fates to the | Canada, For England and the Con-| e iat tinent and <All Countries | nied peace | gers| i the Internaitonal | 200 BET is : 4 One yeai 2208 130 | One gronth.....-----2 .601 Ons mon ea) teed tavsee getssesees NO+ 16,908. VOLUME 48....,.0.50.-65 Le ae CHILDREN. : ae RS. BALLINGTON: BOOTH has been. sending out appeals for charitable contributions. One of these asks ald for a woman with a large family, whose youngest baby: is: two weeks old, whose older baby has pneumonia and: whose utmost efforts at the wash- and her children. | This particular. appeal was a - subject of discussion at the meet-} poste | ing of the Women's Peace Circle at the Hotel Astor. One of the speakers, Mrs. J. H. Crosman, said: = “That sort of thing does not excite my pity. It is her own fault.” Are children a fault, or a benefit, or a misfortune? Mrs, Crosman argued that the decision rests on the quality and cir- cumstances of the child’s parents, and that people who do not bring healthy. children into the world and who have not the means and in- talligence to rear children should not have children. i i * She cited a case where she knew a girl who was one of ten children | ‘and whose father was on Blackwell's-Island half the time ard engaged | ‘te getting drunk the other half. As a result his children were dependent | "+ ‘Through Mrs. Crosman’s instructions the succeeding generation con- ‘@octed its affairs on radically different lines. ‘All the ten children mar- Fhed in time, but there were only two grandchildren’ None of ‘the ten families was dependent on charity, and neither of the two grandchildren wes raised in a foundling asylum, or other public institution. This question should be discussed. It is too frequently the case! ~. that a father tacking in responstbility, of bad habits, with an alcoholic| © faint, with ‘no capacity for profitable labor, propagates a large family of: children. The mother's time and ‘health are exhausted at some ‘wage-carning employment made necessary to secure food for herself and - Such’men should be punished, and most severely, for their crime {s ‘hot only: against their children and their children’s‘ mother, but against society at large, whosé efficiency and decency are thereby impaired. To send to jail for a short term a man. with so little self-respect-as to compel his nursing-wife to toil all.day at a washtub is worse than in- adequate punishment. It is an encouragement. For such men, frequent terms ‘on Blackwell's Island, with enforced sobriety, prolong their lives and extend their opportunities for injury. . , A man who sets fire to a dwelling-house can be sent to Sing Sing + for forty years. The man who wilfully “abandons his child in destitute Grcumstances”’ can be sentenced at most to two years, and the inan jwho wilfully omits to furnish his Gilldren with food, clothing” and whelter is only guilty of a mis- , @emeanor, Between burning 2 _ |bouse or wrecking a family the lat- + -jiter fs by far the graver crime... ‘The man who wilfully neglects to eed and clothe his children should: (be confined in Sing Sing as long as \fhe man who commits.arson. This “would effectively prevent his neg- ect of any more children. { Every child is entitled. to a h ‘i | pind. It is’entitled to a healthy eee See Better, both for the child, the family and society, that it w. ee y 'y and society, that it were not born. _ Letters from the People. Net is peal peice hes ar A Clesea Blinds om Subwa her times. My best t ay ; it performance y Fe the Wilitor o¢ The Broning World: Wie about twenty miles, and I com- eae ; it an com a complaint as to blinds being the distahce tn less than threo hose) on ‘Subway trains ao the passen- 1 |®ers could not see th» motorman. It is \ [not that we motormen care whether the , Or ut the rate of six and two- miles an hour, I don’ \ | people mee te or that the company has tothe aiden oe : given en order to keep the blinds closed. ete ees alee d Bat js protects our eyes, as we have to = See thaye the cab dark In order to nes ahoad Apply to Your Congressman. of us. If those shades were open we eculd hardly see twenty-five feet ahead aeutaaeany ae Of ua. SUBWAY MOTORMAN, Navil’ Academy. at A Proviem tm Fhyaton, Annapolin? M. GOLDBER ‘Te the Editor of Tet Evening World: Thankegiving i ‘Would readers kindly solve the follow- | T° fhe Editor at The Hventng W Where and ‘ing problem: What weight of water -8 | Day originate? degrees Fahrenheit will it take to molt ‘Aitteen pounits of ico at zero? g F. 7 8. Te Encourage Pedestriantam. the Balter of The Evening World: TU Am surprised that pedestrianiam {5 Meglected by athletio clube. ‘These elitha should hold walking competitions which, I chink, would ecome very Popular, as almont anybody could take part, It ts in the reach of all, whether rich or poor, An ideal route The outside path of ( Ing a rectangle of over five milex “an filustration of what I have hareto fore slated a more spleadid exam * pouldn't be found than that of Edward | “Payson Weston, toe demonstrator o ual youth, “whose journey. y by ty ree cetiseoutive days we've all| very, poor ~ ham very eqthusiastia abdut|| Mted. But ana TU adr tds aime re bis ‘ SpeTT mhy did A. Tt originated in New England {n the firat halt of the peventeenti: centy, and was a day set apart by the colo iste wherein to express their gratitude "0 God for saying them’ from staryva- tion and ecranting thein prosperity af- ter their first terrible struggles for existence. A Clerk's ENlenma, To the Editor of The ning World If they really mathy Koes to the Protaate class’? salary earner who has been eirning from {5 to $4 a week. The burden of high prices has fallen heaviest (proportionately) on him and ne enefited : expe prosperity. The and the vers rich both bene-| @ “man between" didn’t. Does de sie wet his inning, reader? USE BARE i “ tub/are unable to support herself | : ea S “Whe Eventing worra D ify Magazine, weanesaay, The Deluge By Maurice Kette n. | | — Jarr. | have them! eald Mr. Jarr, ‘Where'll T si HEEIHEEIHE WAS A Ca VEN HELEPT BATTERY! TI Now, Boy IN: Why Shouldn't Women Do ef F According to Mrs. Jarr; Is Because It Doesn’t Please Them to Do So.| By Roy “VY “Well, in as they will kre cheaper “I don't Christmas to in surprise. t ‘The. Jest-Balm for Kickers #/é Se) FAND, WHEN HEREACHED ™e}, [ i] | MARK TWAIN, WITH A CHOICE Lor OF SUBWAY. YOKES MUGHT PIAKE THE VICTIMS HAPPY. Way 1 WAS A. LEEKS KIL Y = OU'LL bavp to sive me a iittle extra monoy this week,” said Mra Jar. to do'‘one's Christmas shopping.” “How eoT' asked Mr, Jarr. that just after Christmas (and that's later on) ell the holiday goods are marked down to almost nothing to get rid of them." 5 “Well, do you think I'm going to wait dil AFTER r Christmas wns over? How wouktthey feel when they see other people's children daving toys and gifts and they not have then?” “Oh, you are oaly getting them things because other people's children wili ‘That's the way with sou women. Hyhole-life not on tho way you want {t, but ecoording to what other people will say or think nboct it!” “what difference docs to onfer their affairs by “It's a bad way, in my ney please, not caring wi ters think, lke men do?” “A nice atate of effairs st would be if women were oat ’till all night and hanging around places were they had no business to be,” sald Mrs. “T suppove you mould think ¢t grand if I did anything l!ke that, oh?" “Now, don't be golng over all that stuff again!" said Mr. Jarr, surlily. “We were talking about Christmas. "Yes, and I said you'd have to let me have some extra monpy this week to get things," exld Mrs, Jarr, “and you changed the stibject by meering at women because they behajped themselved and had somé consideration for appearances!” tra money?’ asked Mr, Jarr, tgnorng her Jast remarks. Al FE UAOSES FROM CHBUNCEY TIGHT CHEER UP inact Just as They Please? The Chief Reason, “I think you shoulda be ttying to saye, these hard times, instead of being eaxer for the spending frag! } “How can I save?” acked Mea. Jerr, “when everything 1s getting dearer.nil the time?” ‘ ‘We could lve cheaper, couRin't wre?” askajt Mr, Jarr, “T suppose we could,'’ said Mra. Jarr, “brit I certainly am not going to 6o It, I've teen living cheap all my days. I'm tired of it! I'd Hke to live a little ex- pensive for = while!” 3 f é “Dm giad you're frank mbout %.” sald Mr! Jarr, “What's the use of my} trying to save if you don’t?” ~ | “1 am trying tosaye,” eaid Mrs Jarr, “I'm the only one tn this house that does, I said I'd LIK to Ure expenstve onze, but I don't suppose I wil ever get the chance, and have things Hke other woman-buve!’ Here she sighed. “guyt shoul) Mr. Jarr. “I was talking to a shan the other day who was telling me his troubles. He told me his wife had been tnsane for years.” ‘What han that to-do with what we have been talking about?” ©. Wet let that so for's minute,” sald Mr, Jerr, warmly, ‘but I just want you to hear her symptoms.” “T don't want to hear them,” said Mfrs. Jarr, coldly. ‘te: told me,” continued Mr. Jarr, “that his wife was insanely jealous of nfm, That he couldn't ever even bow to another lady without she created a scene. He said that every time he mas detained late at business his wife always accused him of being out in bad company.” ° sea “And doubtless she was correct,” said Mrs, Jerr. . | “That's not all, a Mr. Jerr. ‘He sald ahe was always badgering him for money, and !f the didn't give !t to her he'd scream and carry on and wouldn't speak to him for da: ‘Well, what of it?’ asked Mrs, Jarr, “‘T had to laugh," replied Mr. Jerr. ‘‘I to him that If those were symp- toms ali women were crazy.” And here Mr. Jarr just Iaughed in the meanest manner, : | “Don't speak to me! Dont ever speak to me again! cried Mrs, Jarr, | bursting into tears. ‘If tt wasn't far the children I wouldn't stay under this) roof another moment!"* f i 5 ‘That's one way," said Mr, Jarrito himécif as he hustied down the street, ‘put 1s it orth It? I wonder where I can ralse some extra money?’ le By F. G. Long WHEN Pe L. McCardell. ‘Now is the best time the first: pinoe the stores are not so crowded be Inter on, and in the second place things, now than they will be later on.” know about that,” sakt Mr, Jarr. ‘I notice 100.0000 et things for the children?” asked Mrs. Jarr “What good mmild Christmas be to them after | You order your eT asked Mrs, Jarr, ‘“Other women have or think!" ? eld Mr. Jarr, “Why shouldn't women dp hours of the he Erie In NeW Time-Table rints Jokes About ‘Itself. WA HARLEM HE WAS: AN, DR /EN WILL THE. 771.00 MANS TER, vi br To dale fale VSOKLES. CHa PARE WAS THE LUM CANDIES. aan THAT.MONTH ct , THE CAS BiLt COMPLAINT: [1KDE EASY BY SY1- PATHETIC. JOKES, } when ghe fell in with the British frigate Guerriere, a vessel) of hich fame as |@ successful fighter, and commanded by Capt. Dacres, |The Guerrfere opened fire on the American ship, and’a running fight began. The Guerrier biased | away steadily for afout an hour without inflicting any especial damage. The Constitution, on the other hand, fired only an occasional shot. At last the © | Ami A Guerriere’s quarter, Then the Constitutfon's forward guns opened on the: ‘decisive victories, ‘The first-ot these was scored by the U; tution, which had already seen hot service in the Barbary war. She was commanded by Capt. Hull, nephew of the Gen. Hull who so:weakly sur rendered Detrolt'to the British, HILE England was winning victory after victory against our armies 4n 1812. our Ittle navy was making for itself an immortal recordy ‘Out of six sea fights In the summer and fall of that year we won five . frigate Const ‘The Constitution was cruising. of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Aug, 12 edican ship manoeuvred into a position where her liow covered the. - Britisher and almost at once followed with a succession of broadaldes, fred 3 86 quickly and accurately am literally to batter the exiemy to pieces: ‘ Guerriere's masts were shot away and her hull punctured like a sieve. One eye witness of the battle wrote that the Constitution fired so rapidly an@- [ & | continuously, that she seemed to be sailing along wrapped in a sheet of ‘flame. a Dacres fought gallantly, nailing his flag to the ~ ® stump of his mizzeninast. But when his ship was Battle of reduced to a battered, useless hulk he was forced to Guerrlere and surrender. The Guerriere was so badly damaged she Constitution. was no use ne a prize. So Hull burned and sank her. ® ‘ro Dacres and Hull the contest between their Te TactnAjly bad bet a hat Jones's day that a British frigate had surrendered to an American. n The spective frigates was a sort of personal duel. They, on the result. This was the first time since Paul jews. was hailed with joy allover the country and received with incredus s' is lous dismay in’ England. Then followed a bevy of sea victories. Fy On Oct. 18 the American sloop-of-war Wasp fought and captured the rolic, a British brig. But on the samo day the Wasp was taken by the seventy-four-gun British ship Poictlers. Just one week afterward, off the Canary Islands, Capt. Decatur with the frigate United States overhauled and captured the powerful British frigate Macedonian. The final naval victory of the year was scored by the Constitution on Dec, 29. Capt. Bainbridge was'then in charge of the gallant old ship. Sue ran across the British man-o'-war Java, off the Brazil coast, and after a three-hour fight hammered the Britisher to pleces.‘The ‘Java, like the Guerriere, was too badly damaged to be of use as a prize and was burned. The Constitution never did things by halves. sctvateers. These were warships fitted up by private enterprise and com |= lone they captured fifty British men-o’-war, 250 merchant vessels, inca { ened with {nterest the wrongs of their brethren who had been forced to like — filet on the American frigate’s stanch surface the Constitution received the Ss |nickname “Old Ironsides.” After her period of glorious activity was: past, and more modern craft had taken her place, it was proposed to break owed out to sea and used as a target for the-big guns’ marksmansh!p prac- tice, But even in this Bistling commercial age the nation preserved some ife from vandalism, in Boston Navy-Yard, From the scanty amount of \\amage the enemy’s shots were able to tne nd sell the splendid vessel. But Oliver Wendell Holmes, by a stirringly atriotic poem, awoke public sentiment to the sacrilege of the plan and the ‘hero-shIp was for the time sayed: Years later, in 1905, some bright, up-to- © naval official was credited with suggesting that the Constitution be nants of gratitude to the gallant frignte which did more than any other sel to make us hold our own In the war of 1812. And the abominable-plan her destruction was abandoned. ‘iue Constitution now lics, momentarily, Braye and successful_as was the tiny navy of the United States in ’the st year of the war, the chief damage done to England was’ by out {ssioned by the Government to prey on the enemys possessions, As SOOM - s war was declared many such ships began to scour the gceas_ In that year | other valuables, and over 3,000 prisoners. * ‘Great Britain /had hitherto been considered: wre j conquerable at sea. Being an {skind kingdom she, relied on her navy as chief protection from foreign foes. Yet representatives of this mighty navy were being shattered, sunk and captured by a mere hand ful of Yankee “warships. British pride recefyed) # Btdggering bDiOw, and American Seamen syengee serve won This was a check ilable sums of money and ———— England Wins on Land and Is Beaten at Sea. laves on English ‘ships. In the fall of 1812 Madison was re-elected President. j to the cowardly Peace Party, and left the Administration free to push the war with greater vigor. In spite of these alds the year 1813 opened darkly, 5 | for the American cause. On shore British arms were triumphant. ‘On sea the English, furious at their setbacks, prepared'to blockade every American port and by sheer force of numbers to crush their stubborn opponents, [O00 000 0G DOD00000000000000000C00G0000G, | the cost of a kiss. |foollah to contend that the crude product of m sixteen-year-old child 1s equal be | the eubtler gn | mhould age ceane to b !alady to her fortiotH year, when, | Nixola ew we w w@ Greeley-Smith. Discusses Weart Topics.» COGDODOOSHOS } 1 The Worth of a Kiss. aie USTICH GARRETSON, sitting in the Nassau County Court, at Mineola, L. I, has decided that a Kiet enslly worth $5. The decision was rendered in the slit of @ contractor for 380° for rebuilding a barn en@ plgeou-house, the debtor claiming that work on the piseod= house to the exteh$ of HS fad been pald by a kiss from - ha stxteehsyearold daughter, Rosis Vitro, the crediter having elected to accept the kiss {n Hew of paymant, ¢ Court upheld its claim, so now we have a J precedent for amuming that the kiss of a sixtcen-yearol girl a worth $85 Taking that as a prorking basta, it should be easy to armnge @ fixed scale of labial valves’.and” put an end to the many legal controversies_turning ‘AN Kisses, of course, have not the same worth. It.would we 4 more experienced aalute of anioler beauty, But at what point be a merit? Should a rising schedule of Yalues accompany penhaps, her kiss might be estimated at $100, dnd thon gradually diminish, or stould gallantry copoefe that Kisers, Iike Bum » | gundy and Perstan rv) | person, than |p eestent just before they begin to decay.” Vanity compels me to disclaim, sng responsibilty or approval of these views, lest I bo niimbered—most unjustly. . among the pineapples. fixed {s that of*consent. Stolen kisses, we liave been told, are sweeter those voluntarily bestowed, seo haw anything so entirely one-sided aw a stolen kisa poswes: et all. It to be the bestower. of courne, the stolen Kise should come higher, But !, as in the Minsola, matter, the kiss wos given In payment for a plseon-house-or for any other. valne re celved—then the fact that {t was conceded of the girl's free will should Increase” — fts worth. Half a kiss may be better than none—th: amounts to—but the prepanderance of evidence tends to estnblish that the em changed kes is much more worth while, . in: M The bride and bridegroom enter by this door, and it is then nailed or barred up until a death occurs, when {t {a opened, and the body is renfoved by this ext, gray because it is ifighly watered and hydrocarbonized. ne: iA RRR ALTA es, Seated A now Industry, ex, KTOw more and more priceltss with every year? ‘Young giris are unripe apricots,’ Kyette Gutlbert onos sang, and po lese.@ n Oliver Wendell Holmes declared that ‘Women, like pineapples, are "T merély xive the idea for what It in worth, 9/0 4. tobe considered before the value of tho klwa 1s permanentty Another pol Icannot agree with this theory, Indeed, I don't. - any value ee The quality of a kiss, lke the winch-quoted quality of mercy, is not strathy blesses him that gives-and her that takes, or vice versa, if the Indy happeme, If the question be one of damages to be awarded an tnvohintary victind, ths Is all tho stolen variety, Judgo'Garretson should have ruled on all: fitse stead of confining ‘his deolston to sone Rosle Vitrc ew oe ee The Door of:Death. ANY old houses in Holland have a spectal’door which ts:never oponed‘eure. nn unusual occasions—when there Is © marriage or @ death In the famély polnts while-he was about 3. ; ———+ $2». Color of Tobacco Smoke. nee He amoke from the bow! of one's pip is blue because, coming from tae rpd-hot tobace, it {se vory highly oxidizkd; tut the smoke from one's tipete a Oil From Rabbit Skiné, fog vehoable tubricating qualities hai anc dbealbeee net