The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1907, Page 18

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CHICAGO woman has left her husband and gone to work as a chambermaid in a hotel, saying, among other thing moral for a woman to live with a Prévious to getting the chamber- maid's job this woman tried school teaching and failed. ‘brought suit. against her busband for divorce in order to get posses- 2 _J sion of their child. « Bea The same question presents Itself to many women and to some men. 1 With men love fs not so essential an element of matrimonial con- 4) tentment as it seems to be with many women. hod a Jf a. man’s wife is amiable toward him, if. she. keeps house: well: and ‘oes not bother him, if she sees that the food is good, the domestic life peaceable and the children are not too troublesome, most men in such circumstances regard themselves as objects for congratulation, particularly if in addition to these virtues their wives keep down the expenditures and help saye money. If women were to take this view of the daily life of matrimony no } such problems would rack their brains as haye led this Chicago woman| } $0 leave her husband and child. essential feature of matrimony is that it shall constitute a romance, that ' there shall be ideals, that some handsome, stalwart man shall come ca- vorting along like the armored knights in the novels which they have read | them to a realm of living which exisis nowhere out of the books and,! stops there with the Jast chapter and the marriage service. If every time a woman felt that she did not iove her-husband as; much as before she became engaged to him she left him, the divorce. records of this town would overflow the Hall of Records’ vaults and the whole clerical force of the courts could not attend to a month’s business in a calendar year. : cee As a matter of fact, such feelings of remorse and self-abnegation as deicethis Chicago woman manifested are proof of conjugal love, and not the a contrary, rey 3 ou? ¢ When a woman has not a particle of love or sentiment toward a man an’ ‘she pays no attention to him. She neither runs away from: him nor vmushes to him. She neither proclaims that her feelings are injured nor ‘asks a court to keep them apart. 5 If down in the bottom of her heart this woman did not love her husband and child she would not have acted as she did. The very fact that such doubt of conscience seized her is in itself proof that had she! uild get along quite happily and comfortably together. looked n marriage differently she and her husband and child) OL eee | | to do but to run around, and she expecta me Wo go get theatre tickets for her!" vening World Daily M | The Modern Oliver Twist. that it is im-: husband whom she does not love. She has also! { and shall release them from the ogre of commonplace life to transport |/ _ Letters from the People. pect no chivalry, But what I do object to {s the way men jump Into a newly vacated seat mo quickly that the tired The Fire-Lighting Problem. TM the Editor of The Evening World I would like to revive an old topic, and SyI do not revive tt fdr fun, but to wettie | woman who has ee in front _% quarrat and also because other mar- | for halt, an belie t got, the: seat unr. |iteadof him. This custom, Ia Hod couples of my ncquatntance quar-|(HeMlof him. | This cusrom, I cla el about ‘the same subject. lace Is Jt to make the morning Whose | elgn-born- m born Americans in our s than ue IRED GIRL, fir The husband's or the wife's? And The Former Is Correct. “Why? For people with xas stoves it Is} tp) te Editor of The veulng World no problem at But for thoso who| Which. sentence tg proper: “Which * Must get up on an ice-cold winter | weighs the more?’ (of the two), or morning and build and Hght the #tove; “Which welghs -the the fre it is no joke at all, fe it, readers? In the World Almanaa be Evening We To the World z aaa Where can 1 find » lst of terrttories Ratner AUR Iay Is) Worse) in the United States, including those BH ney eran nearly) Teoently admitt Sta together ‘y at rush hours with their cap tal FREDERICK. | there ts trouble getting on and off trains, other night “several men shoved their Way onto the ear while several tried to of, AQ freesfor-all pushing na ued. The gray-clad policeman platform stood by and took Stops to arrange matters SDRAP CLINGUR, The Problem in Phyaten, Marriage To the FAltor Marriage licenses i this Gtate after Ja York Wes ons of # distinction, I think. marry, the fact th dollar’ i Licenses, on. no ople want to ust g even To the Editor of The Hrening World A-correspondent aska: ‘What welght of Water at.%' F, ts required fifteen pounds of toe at gero water at F. 35 Ths, 12.65 15 1.67 tee. have to be cooled Abont 40 Cents, ~ To the Editor of The Evening World How much are two British shillings worth in United States money? tn Re = JAM. 8. heat x fusion) x Water at 9° through 53° quired to melt with yey Pp at Tothe Maltor of egy I don't mi, men hogging seatn on 26 one pou of water will give “ Bubway or for 1 suppose when a at heat unite, Therefore 238L67 = y lbs, of water at-Si* will ba re Roman Koc pet on & par wi Lis, of ice at zor E. A. POTHEMONT. to melt | | At one of these stations the, Many a Tactful Wife, Like Mrs. Jarr, Is Jollying Her Hubby Just Now Because Dear Old Christmas’s Hoofbeats Are Tinkling on the Horizon “I told you she did try to get them,” sald Mrs. Jarr, ‘and she will be #0 dis-| ‘Commuters’ Comi REE RESNS ines sunaanes e os sroeapuicanicse snc icin ceaeiacie ta agazine, Thursday, December 12 peer nner nenere 5 By Maurice Ketten. d 1€ you do not get them for her, becausa I tol her you could."* I can't! snappe pose you'll be sore about it “Me? I guess not! sald Mrs. Jarr. By Roy L. McCardell. bs TLL you be very busy to-day?” asked Mrs. Jarr, W ‘Oh, about as usual,’ said Mr. Jarr, “Then pleave telephone about my furs, and stop Off at the store that ady lar-forty-nine and see if tises white kid gloves for # dol- y are any good, and, If they are, order a pair home C, O. D., because the wale ts Just for to-aay, and eve: I do get a chance to go downtown Ihave so many things to end to that I won't be able to go to this store, and 1 suppose it will be just crowded with hargain-hunting women. Why de they always turn out when a thing ts advertised and jam around the special sales till a person can't get near?’ “Anything else I can 40 for your’ wearlly: ° f “1 promised Mrs. Kittingly you'd get some theatre tekets for her,” sald Mrs. Jarr hesitatingly. “She wants them for to-night, but they told her at tre-theatre that they were all sold out for three weeks, and rhe just won't pay speculators’ prices.” “How can I get them {f she can't?’ asked Mr, Jarr, ' “Ob, you men hb said Mra, Jarr, “and, anyway, you know so many theatrical le I thought you could use your influence and get them at Tegular prices a shame the way those out-of-town people will pay any price to nee a . and that encourages those awful speculators. It isn't the N ho are only in New York for a few days, New Yorkere Y “Well, Mrs to walt.’ said Mr. Jarr. ‘Resides, when told-¥ou that-I would be busy today, aa naval, I meant by thas I would be very busy. I will not have time to run the gantlet at any bargain counter and home a: loves. And I certainly won't and cannot ge! any theatre tickets for Mra. Kituingly at box office prices when they are all nold ahead for weeks. By Georgt! Women have a nerve! She hasn't a single thing “I'l tell her you forgot about tt. out for her? fitted, and perhaps they do not exchange t “T'll telephone about your furs, though, And you needn't mind about the gloves. se bargain sale gloves, said Mr. Jarr, m friends. “1 needn't mt them hurry any more than they are/’ “Oh, said Mr. Jarr, asked Mr, Jarr of course! vit believe Ms ears. ‘I'm always giad The only thing 1 object to 1s when you ni frlendy mo and I keep dinner waiting tor you and worry that somthing has haypened |now, at Radames's last hour, was there to « 1'1i be tate?" Jarr blinked et this, but sada carelessly Ghtuatowa. “After we've hed dinner we may go of that rort.”* friends Just ns soon I won't walt up for you. and enjoy yourself Mr. Jarr went a s:you had dined. wn the street muttering to hiinself. rong with Mrs. Jarr? hing wrong? But—- and then Mr Jer you self mas-tide, and that the tactful wives at this season of the year beileve kind words! th» ¢amous woolly horse wns also pastured ac Mr. nre ax bread upon the wate: Mr. Jarr. ‘And I don’t intend to try, and I sup- She wouldn't put herself out to do anything for me, so why should we put ourselves | I'l wait al I can be sed hat ho was not beiig reproached for refusing to do things for wife and home and) about them, elther.”” sald Mra. Jarr, aminhly. “I don't, think we'll have very cold weather for a while yet, and, anyway, they promised to fix them up righteaway and send them to me; telephoning them wouldn't make if forgetting something, “you won't mind if I'm not | nome for dinner to night, will you? Some friends from Baltimore will %: over, and they've never been to (hinatowm, and I've promised to take them. All men in the p uld I object? sald Mra, Jarr, while Mr. Jarr looked at heraeit when you @itertain your old nor mo or never t “Oh, there's nothing ‘to nee In to a variety show or something | “Oh, of course." sald Mrs. dJatr, “‘ wouldn't want you to run awny from your Now, guod-b: Was‘he going crazy or he have her go seq a spe- Jurr grinned to him- and remembers’ that st was drawing near to tho pleasant, prevent Chrint- eee ng Joys { As Foretold by Recent Events on River and Bridge. Ire J S ey er ly a aS TE THE. BRIDGE = ‘TIE-UP CONTINUE | BROOKLYNITES MAY DS HAVE To CROSS OVER THIS WAY: ———=— age aE ONE OF THE MYNY JOYS OF FERRY BOATING 2 THE TROLLEY- 00nGER With a TH NEW HAVEN COMMUTER Zt MIS O1L. STOVE. 18 Pur IN Hi AIR TIGHT SWERT BOX \ SOON HAVE TO GET OUT ALL OF THE SUBURBANITES. WiLL SOON GET. THIS | ByF.G. Long ) Siar) “ | Joyed at the news, “| member=that In the Turkish dominions the * geeesessenseacoe © The Story of the Operas 1@ By Albert Payson Terhane. No, 2—VERDI’S “ AIDA?" Et. and Ethiopia were at war, In the storming of « hostile city the Egyptians had captured Alda, Saute daughter of Amonasro, King of Ethiopia, She attracted tie favor of |honghty Amineris, daughter of the | Heyptan King, who, ignorant of Aldu's | Fan, made the lovely captive her per- fond! attendant, But Aida’s beauty also | ta ed gallant young Radames, cap- (of the royal guard, whom Amneris jNerséit deigned to love. The Ethiopian [girl reciprocated his adoration. 4 | At the opening of the opera news {im just arrived of a new Invasion of | Raypt by the Ethiopians, and, while the army were gathering to repel the at- ck, Ramfla, the Hig Priest, beeought 6 Goddess Inis ty name by a wlen the mun who should lead Exypt's: howcs to tory. The guididess's choice fell on Radames, In the great hall of the pal- ace Ramfis announced this deciblon to the King. Radames, who had longed |for auch a_ctiince to distinguish: bim- jself in, the eyes of Alda, wae over-- Ammeris shared hie delight and, in the: preserico of the court, gave him the royal standard, bidding im © forth and conquer,’ ut, as she did so, her glance fell on Alda. ‘The | Ethioplan's face told her secret. Her lover waa going forth Jo war against |her father! Should either of the two chance tozalay the others Radames wae jforever lost to her. Through the xeneral rejotcings Alda saw nothing ahead for [erself but heartbreak. 3 |__Radames, meantime was condiicted to the Temple and’ there, amid solemn ceremonies, received the consecration sword and holy “armor of the gods. Ue | {nvoked heaven's blessing on bis martial enterprise and set forth tor the at the head of his legions. * ° © in the apartments of Amnerts the Egyptian Princess’s slave xftla } tevel. For news bud just arrived that the Exyptian army had overwthe foptans in battle and were returning triumphant...Qn the approach of Ald Amneris bade the revelers cease, lest thelr rejoicings should increase the grief « the captive over her people's defeat. Then, dismissing the others, Amnerte ' spoke kindly to Aida, commiserating her sorrow and trying to win her con- Ndence. She remembered the look Alda’n face had worn when Radames went forth to Nght, and had. resolyed to find out pamt doubt whether or not tho | Ethiopian was her rival in the young chieftain's love, i So she muddenly announced that, though the Exyptians had won, Radanies } was alain in battle. Alda’s wild grief at the Udings revealed her heart to the jetuel Princess; who, after confessing the trick whereby Blie hed wrung from her jattendmnt the truth—reciled her for daring to raise her affections to the man | her mistress detgned to love, She further kembled tho unfortunate girl by j declaring that Alda should accompany her, aa a slave, in the triumphal | weloome to the returning conqneror. © © © | At the clty gate the King of Fy by thetr court, to gree ay Neon and Amneria eat on thrones, surrounded @ victorious army. At the foot of the da 1 | Alda With blare of trumpets and hatled-bf ‘the oheers of the Saar os j Victor marched past, Inden With spofis and followed by long lines of prisoners jin chains. Radames, borne on high, upon the shoulders of twolve officers, halted before King, who tn rapture hailed @iim fs savior of hts country, bestowed upon him the hand of Amneris, named him bis successor as King and | promised him any favor he might ask. Never before had a warrior been. honored. Yet to Radames the reward wan ax dead eva’ fruit. For he haa elas to use his viotory as a means for Inducing the King to. Jet him marry 1 His oarrassment was broken fy on by several guards wi! raced | etrigetivg, furious prisoner, cind as an officer. Ie wan Ament who ay thus dimguised limelf to escape death,” Alda, récognizing her futher rushed to bins with a cry of joy, but, checked Sy a Warning gesture from the captive jtmonarch, did not betray the latter'a high rank, Amonasro; thus known to hie ors only as Alda’s father, bexxed the Exyptlan King for mercy on hie [fellow prisoners. Ramfs and the priests clamored for their inatant death Radames added ht» own plea that the prisonera be spared. The Eeypuan jmonarsh compromised by freeing all save Amonaaro and Atda and holding the Baughter aa hovtages for thelr people's future Rood behavior. * 5 allowed to wander about the city at will, but. tho close watoh was kept on tim. In these wanderings Relea theouxh spies that eplan army was marching to his rescue, If he omuld but learn the Egypitan plats for detepve, he might readily avenge his 4 defeats. TO accomplish this, Amonasro did not healtate to. make ian ee! Radames’s love for Aida. Threatening her with the anger of her gods ade aS eternal punlsment, he so worked on her fears’ that she conaested wy att Radames the questions her ther had taught her, No hoo , Meeting the young captath one night by the Y : and he in all innocence answerrd.” Amonaaro, hidden rectty rece toned him, So did Amneris and Hecnis wha with « funni, were ypyinia on chetine rie Alda then wade known to jhe amazed Radames her real rank and. eee j identity. Hoth she and-Amonasro Joined in urging him to fy miei maenie Ethlopla, promising bim a glorious future of love and high noma em {2 with horror at having unwittingly betrayed his country's aa fenaet Radames stood spellbound. While the otuers were besxingdhim to dente them, the quard bore down upon the group. AtnonasreRecaned un ats me of darkness, dragging Alda with him. Radumes, scorning to nin aman oe yielded iin sword to Namfy and was marched to prison, ¢ « « Seenoualy, jext day Radamos was mymmoned before the holy council of th face the gruve Chirge of treason. Amneri® intercepted him anny trial and wildly offered him freedom {f he would but conse. to tila love Radames refused and passed on fearteaslyto h Amnneris razed with horror at qthe outcome vengeance, ° ) The crypt beneath the mple was opened and Radamex descended int There, by decree of Rumfis, he was condemned to be buried allve, i a entered the crypt the stone above waa ftted into place, shutting the doomed jman forever from lght of day. As Kudames resigned himself to his horch | tate, « voice ~willapered his name—and bo turned to oinbrace Aida, ‘The teave | irl, unable to save her lover, had returned, crrpt unnoticed into the crypt; and are his fate and.to die in hiv gem ¢ pilests to on his way to the at to wed her, True ear hla doom; leaving: od of her own scheme of The story of “Cavalleria Rusticana” will be printed Saturday. Cos Cob Nature Notes. AIRFIELD COUNTY, of which Cos Cob tn the Hub, has bony. lead in nacure study and development. Kan It at Urlgeport, our county seat, about sixty years ago, when he med the iall of 2 codfish to the wishbone & monkey, and £0 cons:ructed, celebrated Japanese mermaid, which amazed and delighted all beholder Barnum's place In Bridges |port, which remains to this day a centre of the marvellous and wonderfui—ad- |raisston 6 cents, children half-price, Some suspicion of being mercenary has attached itself to Mr: Barnum’s efforts, Our Cos Cob nature sharps have escaped ne Mr, Phineas Taylor Barnum bee ra the thiz, except once, when a low-down artist who boarded at wie Holloy House: |took his paint brush and drew two stralent lines down through the big brase S'a on the gates leading to Ernest Thompson @cton's wigwam, making them look lke vhis: $$ But the rest of the fellows stick to nature for nature's anke, and the result ts a real nature céntra, E. Boyd Smith drew his fine Noah's Ark animats-tn the second floor front of Bill) Peck’s colonial mansion. Ray Brown got his beat luplration for a cover for Hverybody'’s Magazino—a jug’ of older and two ret Japples rampant—hereabcuts, while William Curtis Gibson studied navigation tor the “Log of tie Wnttr-Wagon’ on the edge of Alec Williar old dock More- over, Dr. E. F, Bigelow has a regular nature factory nearby at Stamford, where: also lives Dr, William J. Long, the great authority on wolf-bltes, Another au- thority, with a dffferent theory, lives at Oyster Bay, just acrose the Sound from here, when he $s av home. ‘ ‘The editor of the Greenwich News, who writes most of the queor things about the littio village of Greenwich for the New York papers, Is atill Jeatous because Gos Cob {s coming to the front. He in now trying to make out wnat we are Jaya. He, too, 1s a nature’ freak—an aan in a Lyon's akin, ‘ +--———__—__— ~~ The Holy Land To-Day.:.~ By Stella S. Bradford. Pie through the narrow streets where the lepera crowd around with hore rible cries and besgura seem hardly human fn thelr filth and rugs and qot-rmitiss, Go'up onto Mount Zion and took off to the. blue quiet hills of Moab, then atop to Uaten to @ little Greek funeral service, rhyramtoal, plaintive, sung by a Jong-baired priest,a litte blind boy and @ peasant woman, writes Stella 8 Bradford in the Travel Magazing, Drive to Bethishem and to the Church of the Nativity and sce the Manger where the Child lay, guarded day and night by Moslem sidlera. Why wuarded? Because every #hrine 1s con- sklered the propery cf some sect—Homan, Greek, Armantan, Copt, Assyrian on another, and, at the festivals of Kuster and Christmas, especially, unlona the Moslems keep order, blood ts always shed. Think cut over the land and ‘Te- ly lww is that of backshoesh,”* Pondering these things, drive up over the Mfount of Olives and lack down at the Golden Gee of the tty, walled up these hundred of years, dest that King who once en' It riding on an aas re-enter the eame way. The White Tails of Rabbits. }PPABBITS, says a naturalist, have white talls se that the young may be able to distinguish thetr mother tn cage of pursuit, The calor of the raiwt in se lke that of the ground that this would etherwise be tiffiowlt, i¢ mot impossible | » F * q