The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1907, Page 8

Datly Exowpt Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to @ ee ee few York, J ANGUN RILAW, BoaTroea, 801 Woes Teh Sree Port-Office at New York as Becond-Class Mail Matter, For England and the Con- nent and All Countries’ in-the International Posts! . NO. 16,990, TIARRIAGE. LICENSES. 4 ARRIAGES have increased 2,404 in! this city this year over last year. | The number fast year was 43,844) and this year, up to Dec. 1, 46,248. ; After this year all marriages | must be registered and there must | also be a li€nse. The aw has| previously required vegistration, | but many marriages Were not) registered. The new 7 marriage] license bureau was ed in the City Hall the day afte Christmas and is now issuing lic : ‘The need of stringency in marriage regulations was ¢ used by the! “abuse: of the old-time common-law marriage. It frequently happened that after-the death of a man whose friends had always regarded him! @s-a bachelor some woman would appear and claim the widow’s right) in-his-estate. Also it was not infrequent in divorce proceedings for the man to deny the fact of the marriage, although admitting that meretricious telations had existed. s Hasty: marriages are one of the most frequent causes of.divorce. Midnight’ marriages, after-theatre parties and restaurant! suppers! are * often followed by-separation, alimony and’ counsel fees. ‘Where a mar- riage has been preceded by a formal engagement of some duration and = the fact of the proposed alliance has. been made known to the friends} _ of both parties-the probabilities are that any, serious gossip or scandail| ‘in regard to either of them will be made known to the other. LY Yb iti is undoubtedly for the welfare of ‘society at large that marriage should be! safeguarded. Every divorce tends to destroy the institution of the family. The main. economic purpose of the family ts the safe upbringing of ‘children, and anything which impairs the conservation of the family relation tends to diminish the vigor, the health, ‘he ae and the efficiency of future generations. No man and woman who contemplate ivanerit matrimony aye any objection to taking out a license and to announcing their tertions in advance to their friends. The old church ceremony of pub- Ny Ishing the ‘banns was desirable to the end of having only those niar- slages consecrated which were likely to be successful. + "The English system of prohibiting marriages at night has its sound {@eason‘in the’ tendency of sdme people in moments of. _¢xhilaration or alcoholic intoxication to contract marriages which they would not do in -their sober moments. , The story is old of the woman who brought a man to the office of an English registrar, who refused:to marry them on the ground that the} 4) man was under the influence of liquor. « | on eat 4 Saturday, Dece Going Away From Here. ~ - By Maurice Ketten. | | |. “Dit the third. girl shook her head tll Ker new ear-bobs rattled and sald: ‘No! Not X “Tt have to take off my gloves to point et the catapiiler, but T can put out! ELL, they a! came across, kid!* sald the Chores|a foot to tramp on it nnd shake my cartings at myself for being 90 cruel, too. Girl with « smile. “Wien I was a mere child at| Besides that, I can ety, ‘Dear me! An't it got fur on It just Uke my new mink home in Altoona my mamma used to tell me a sory of three girts and a warm Christmas that kicks In @ present circumstances. Nohody miisscd fre out of our ret, and the stair runner up to the snare ta worn away with the fect of many messengers. fy mamma sald that three girls were going to church| ‘rand now's the ome back. Everybody o7 carth In a serving capacity wants i a Shrisimas. “Ono had anew ring, another had altheirs, ‘The hnil-boys, the janitors, the Jaundress, the mad, all have their mitts new pair of shoes and the third had new earrings—‘ear-bobs lout. Now, T don't mind coming across with Christmas and New Year's tips for called them days. Aa they walked along, just dying/any amount of mony #0 long as it ain't over a dollar, ut I certainty shy at how off their presents, they. spled a catapiller that the|them subscription iitts i | warm day had woke up. “Wid you ever notice that they is always headed by some financial bell- n, see the ugly worm!" sald the girl withthe new|wether against whow? name ts marked “S—PaidT | pointing at It with the finger tht had the ring on it “Fon skiliy tathut play, Somebody goes down for them large amounts on | Let's tramip on It!ynaid’ the other girl, putting her best}holiday subscriptions for the help and others who gets_a # rer ceat. rebate off foct foremost will the new tasselled hoot on It. for cash and the written merker, Them that follows sees the high-water mark “1 can never get him to come when he is sober,”’ was her plaintive response, =} er oo9 ‘Unfortunately there are clergymen as well.as justices of the peace | and others authorized to perform the marriage ceremony—who will solemnize marriages which never should be allowed. | i ' There is also much to be sald in favor of the French system of re: Suiring young people at least to apply to their parents before marrying, and-in the case of very young people to make the parents’ refusal effec-| tive as a postponement in order 'to compel them to take the time ta think things over. | Many a girl who now changes her mind after marae would change! bet) mind petore if she had to wait a year “Letters from the People. Yea, Wo the Editor of The Evening Worlt: I jhave' been’ saving the articles of streets of the Bronx, north of One Hun- red and Sixty-fifth strest. ara infeated with dogs, which should be summarily + @ome series on Wara and other topics'in {disposed of. I am told that a recent your paper and I have missed one, or] statement of the President of the A. 5. P. C. A) ways the soctety disposed of two, and ono have some of my friends. _ NVe would Itke to know {f your paper > could supply readers with copies of the! (missing articles of any series upon re- quest. If 20, I and some other readeral whom 1 know want to apply for nom yet Mra, M. (P. HAASE, Nome Untversally O¥aerveas Po the Kditor of The Bening World: , i 2 x Are there any lexai holidays observea| ,* G08 Mors with a fox. At Cie start ; A the fox ty fifty ¥ards ahead. At every Merigpout! the) Yokes Se RRAHAAL, | Yarda tho dox cuts down the dirtance és é > j|between them by exactly one-half, How Job for the Aldermen? _ fur must the fox travel before the dog fo the Editor of The Hvening World: pasres jim, readers? Thte provlem Now that the Sunday concert. Inws! looks cauy, but ft tan’t, ere adjusted, why can't the Aldermen! P, OLAIVERN. tackle other theatrical nujeunces while) Frowi Clrete to Coney faland. snes ey and et Tea in zat ote Brenig Werts aim, ae ‘Aldermen, and we'll ree! overt | writes that ane. walked deans} from -the Prospect Park Circle to Coney, APN: | Island Parkway in seventy minutos ‘|along the cycle path. Last orening we id tt in sityehve minutes? from, the, water, to the park thi ircte, Let us ‘near, from VAUPNTING AND SMITH, $0,000 dogs inst year, If that ix true there must be at least a million lett nie would be-a-fine rource of revenue CIVILIZHD. Dog and Fox Problem. (To the Pudtor of ‘The Evreane World Degs baie meas. ’ OOCOCOO C000 COLDOISOODOHSGODOIDOITOOSOVOIGDIHISGOHIOHINGS) >The Newlyweds w Their Baby George McManus GenoasnessonsoateooasoosennTaTODOGOSOOOa DOOOOOOO WHAT ARE Nou GOING . To 9C WITH (THESE ARTICLES SWEET HEART? OH BABY ! SEE Now | PUT THEM IN FRONT OF BABY ! NOW WHAT DO:YOU THINK OF HIM TAKING THEM ALL) YOU WANT | Yo. SEE, IF HELL TAKE THE BIBLE APPLE OR HE BELIEVES IN MONOPOLY t HE'S ANOTHER, JOHN D, —! THAT'S IT | We' LL, FIND out WHETHER, HE'D LINE To BELA PREACHER | FARMER OR BANKER ! tls AT lla ' \ To retrieve his money losses and save his head, he planned to marry Lucia to a | this was insufficient to shake Lacia‘s fidelity, | foes—stood Edgar of Ravenswood. He had jist } A dozen swords leaned from the | enemy. land her house, bering the angry mueats to slay him whem hi with diMmculty restrained Henry anc: the rest from murder and at last got. the | frantic: nouth away in safety F uproar, | for Lucta's gentle mind. | had plunged his sword into his own breast. ‘| nothing, that the American man dislikes. ‘The woman with reul brains finds that mber 28, eens The Story a the Operas By aed Payson Terhune. é 0. 9—DONIZETT1’S “‘LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOH. wey 1E Scottish families of Ravenswood and’ l.ammerméor were hereditary foes, I Lon Henry Ashton, master of Lammermoor, bad fain the master of Ravenswood. The latter's son, Sir Edgar, vowed vengeance on the whole family of Ashton. Rut, chancing to resoue a deautiful girl from a mad bull aod learning chat she was Henry Aphton‘s slater Lucia, Edgar forgot his plana of revenge He secretly wooed Lucia, And, on the eve of his departure for France ona political mission, received her assurance that his love wis returned. Henry Ashton, meantime, had hecome involved in a conwpiracy agatnat the Government and found himself in danger of losing both his fortune and his life powerful young nobleman—Lord Arthur Bucklaw. spy, Normasy told Ashte® of Lucy's love for his foe, trolling his first wfid rage, Henry planned to separate the lovers..pie inter cepted the letters written 6y each. during Edgar's absence in France. Findirg her brother showed her a forged > \letfer purporting to be written by Edgar. ‘This epixtie broke oY their betrothal und declared that the absentee loved her no longer. Hearthrken at Edgar’e seeming falthlereness, Lucia yielded to her brother's {mportunities find eon sented to wed Bucklaw, °° * The areat hall of Iammermoor Castle was thronged with Kayly clad miests and attendants, It was the day mtereon the marri: c Bucklawwas to be signed. Henry and Buckiaw stood tn th awniting the bride's appearance. “Lucia entered, hyr face her whole aspect botokening utter grief. “She ts weeptnk for her mother, whose death. she stil] mourns.” explained Flenry aside to the bridegroom. Leading the half-fainting Lucia to a table, he alood threateningiy over the miserable «irl wh ashe trembiingly affixed ber jenature to the contract. Scarce had she signed \t when « comimojion drew } eyes to the door, There on the threshold—alone in the stronghiid of bis arrived from Francs and had the man who hated bim to.deinand Zucia’s hand. rorcabbarde at steht of the Arhtons’s lifelong But Raymond, the old castle chaplain, stepped between Edgar and <nose who would have «lain him. He handel the Young men the marriage contract. “In thie your eignature?” asked Edgar, turning, incredulously, to Luciss “Yee,” she fultered, Eée@ar broke into a storm of furious reproaches at ber inf Then’ it wea that! his Edgar Ravenswood. Con- ned with tears, cdme straight to the house of . cursing oer stood. Raymond But Henry followed the depatting man ¢ {and challeaPed him tu morta! combat. Ede: renee accepted the defance, and . arranged to mect et dawn. Henry r ed home to And, his castle in wild ‘The ebook of Edgar's return and his reproaches had proved too great She had gene violently Vnsane. Scarce had the mar- riage ceremony been performed when she snatchbd up a aword and stabbed Bucklaw to the heart. Now her first mania giving place to a softer mood, she wea prattling of Mefir and of ttelr early love Horror-atricken, her dttendants sought to quiet her, while Henry gazed in dumb remorse at the outcome of his the ruined forer of Ravenswood ; Edgar, coming at early dawn to keep ais appointment with Ashton, was met fy & group o? servants weeping for Lucia. who lay dying. Scarce had they xplained to him hls ewcetheart's terrible pitght when the solemn note of the passing bell broke upon thelr ears. Refore the frightened attendants could prevent him, the wretshed Edgar “They parted us on earth!” he panted as he died. “In heaven we shall / Never partr™ The atory of ‘The Flying Dutchm will be published Tuesaday. ——_——_-4-__ Gompers Tells a Good Story. S AMUEL GOMPERS once got into an argument with a bani At the end of one of the banker‘s assertions Mr. Gampers retorted gay’ Yes. 4t tapos sible to say.a good word for almost any state of things, isn't i? 1 emer her once, In a very untidy chop-hotse in Syracuse, hearing a guest exctaisa he took up a aolled bill of fare: “By Jove, what an excellent {dea—samplea’ of the various dishes glued to the menu! and (alle for It, But, kid, (t's all bunk. and I bia you beware! fm on to the play and I come acroas for a dollar, no mao: course, I says to the edevator boy, ‘Oh, you must mea or New Year's, Billy! Where'a your llet?’ and et for it, he mays, “Here, here! Lat me do that? And s0 makes good. “But be that us it unay, them bellwemer leading pricas ia hard to i 5 even by the moet generous of your gentlemen {rienda, these hard i ea ofttimes, Albertus, “ia better to kick tn with your iittle dollar alone than cy tans your cacort’s hand, for the best of them hates to be made the mark ron fae Utde Anancial surprises: euch as holiday eps and C. 0. D. packa eee end you suffer for It sémehow. Sala ‘They geta (Ime when alone to think {t over and tho¥ been put on therp, and they says, Never again for mine!’ station fe closed to m young girl forever by sust such thin “The akilly ching 8 60, after y. is to duck out of towmfer the holidays. “why, you know our ete man? Ho's a big blck thac with the correct chanse, away goes the wash ‘lil his next-rialt *round. bai d get, when we breaks In on uur shirtwaista back from the wash yestitdy, insite 14 “Happy New Year’ card und wfitten or tt ‘Don’ yndry , t forget jth man’ As {¢ we could ever forget him! anid ‘Topey gor * 1 prenents,’ of course. ‘That's wh 0 ts handed, Thins te wear other people wouldn't put eniaad Dalpnaiee is aides. Dopey don't exre. He knows pawnahops on Tenth avenue that wilt ks second-hand socks ani as Dopey says, ‘anything that’s portable 1s yuckable!’ “Dopey in going to linve scene of his music in the new siiow at W ohertare he's composing the’musie for a song for Pets Dalley. Dopay don't know fae the song but he's written reveranble musl> that will Mt anything Dopey, ; anya toat Peto Halley aln't at‘all proud, although he's celebrated arid hae ac naméd aitery bln arate CaM sive them to anybody to smoke because no ra ‘ wot nn en@ny in the world, but Dopey says ther OY i y: e's fame for you, to be named “Pete Dailey tells Dopey that If there és a fair dea! Dopey ought tn have a pips named after hisself. eee Tone “Dopey {a still taking them breathing exercises while smoking olgarettes and hopes to become an incuradie athlete eto such an extent that he can go to the Olympic games in London on the All-American eum. Dopey says there ain't aobedy can biai hini as @ shot-putter, and, as for hanging on the ber, he hdlds the long-distance record ef etghteen hours, “And, mind you, Dopey McKnight ts thero with brain as well an brawn. When he was fpund guilty of committing alimony and was sentenced to Luilow Street Jail, he passed the thme in prison compiling a book culled ‘Who's Who in Buppiomentary Wroceedings.’ And up at tha snare the other night he stopped pawing the ivories and turned round and ast, ‘Do'married men make the best [Eusbendat: And Mamma de Branscombe and T'vas Montgomery turned pale pd left the room. “Many a trie word ta sald in cae kid! . "Well, bye byel With you a happy New Year re, no lees, Of = let me forget yourtChrist- ‘heaotvee the bes has ‘@nd maybe a coaling hws aa them ¢ got all that's coming to you. Christmas, lf H iA le vd lls iNixola: Kx * K : * x Greeley-Smith 3 $999399999 u Men and Clever Women: SET S66 HIE feminine type most sought after in Australia le. >” , ty T the picturesquely foolish type,” says Alfred J. Hula The Heal Australia.” The AUs- “4 declares, "that the ayerage rian, despite his occasional giimmerings of reason and intelligence. is rendered uneeay by tov much cleverness in x woman lst &s a mediocre piano player 1s alarmed hy tho play7of virtue OMity in a rival! For various reasons tho average woman finds It still to her interest)to placdte the average man.’ Whatever the presen: c{atus of the claver woman in Falla, in America sho {x to-day supreine! “There 13, to be “tere of clever waman to which aienshave always, ob- Jected and who Js ax unpopular to-day as ayer, This te the joudly solf-assortive croature—whess one tdea of demonstrating: her own pos- | aegsion of brains Js Lo deny them to cyery ono else, and who makes ex muca noise, ‘over her own Ideas and witticlsma as a particularly) high-sirung hen does over her eggs. She sharva. too, the hen's belief that the firm, finest and only egg is that phe is Celubrating with auch vociferation, ft is only this type, whose cleverness x’ mostly nalso and fury signifying. | B hane In’his book, trallah woman knows.. he ' mien greet anything rerembling originalty in women with a degree of apprecia- tlon that ie almost totiching. The yery stupid man resents teminine clevorness, perbaps. But among Americans thero are few very stupid mon. An American Xemprcts pratees eewerey pelOnee Ce Seet belin che hens btinis oi ae. x iene oes there jhetter than agen elsdf forthe