The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1908, Page 12

The Evening k Row, New York J, ANGUS SITAW, See, Bubscrintion Rares « da. Evening Wor United One year. One month. One year... ne month “A SEVEN-DAY TOWN.” N general interest no recent event has exceeded the Thaw trial. In certain respects the verdict of the jury in the second trial was awaited trial. Why was this? The que: psychology involved is far reaching. | The classes of people whom! crime most interests are not crimi- | nals, but good peopl, The detec- tive story appeals proemitzntly to | young women who have never had any experience with the police and who never expect to have any. De-| Scriptions of crimes of passion are read most eagerly by those who have never committed any crime and whose passions are under excellent con-| trol. Everybody knows the temptation it is when the tooth aches to hite on the aching tooth. Everybody knows how when temptation is pres- ent the desire is to go as near the temptation as possible and still under- take to resist it. The example of the moth flying as close as it can to the flame and often being burned to death as the result has many human Parallels. The interest in the Thaw case did not arise from sympat sion for Harry Thaw, or his wife, or White. The women with whom sympathy was universal were Thaw’'s mother and of them good women. But while the sympathy of the crowd them, the popular interest wa th the c che great interest in the jury’s verdict was akin t mhich awaits the climax of a melodrama at the theatre or the last chap- ter of a sensational novel. ion of n the ters, case hers. 7D YOU HEAR Taw = es, So Deen Asour *, . ” se RES acquirep"” \ * pass IT ALONG TO Mike” = ante te i w COMIN UPCENTER ST T HEARD. ra BEEN AW eth ACQUITTED This Thaw case is also another illustration of how speedily new travels through this community, The verdict of the jury was received at 12.47. Before 1 o'clock the result was known all over Greater New | York. It did not take ten minutes for the afternoon newspapers to issue their extras, but before these extras - could get uptown the verdict had al- ready been telephoned to hotels, barrooms and apartment - houses. Everywhere that word of mouth could carry the news it had trav- elled. Now the Thaw case is over, Harry Thaw is in Matteawan, where curiously enough the lunatics, like the presumably sane people of New York, are taking the greatest inter- est in him. It is not likely the interest will long continue, fo in the words of the sagacious “Dry Dollar” Sulli “New York is a seven-day town.” A ’ A h rd Times Don’t Hit Women. SALMA TADEMA. t us Eng painter's er happiness. On this su c i >» Alma 1 an eatoneinine nes had s f s giving, had worric , - At dinner one t ned “Brownstone, 1 fa ne rate Christmas. | wonder B. “OT hal know,’ was the quick answer “Do y What is it “oA set Russian sables a a f sit F 1 nstone asked my ad a A him what I should like nificant! Charity Organization — So: n Meo taitertre Fourth rand Twe : militar inte a Street. BEN raaite nee : ¢ > find em t 8 4 len we ned a depot | 3 the 1 minvierancen| What They Say, | A Foreigners View. tween \ 1 have > tall « tron a cle ep. Hence, !1 fm spite of hot weather im May and MAE) even more eagerly than at the first , rld Daily Magazine, Tuesday, February 4, 1908. | Not Much Left. Maurice Kette n. 3 \ \\\\ \\\\ Mit IP oY Hy \\ \\ = ut \ Sad, Isn’t It, How Bad Companions Will Lure Husbands From Home! Here’s the Case of Mr. Rangle, Who Makes Mr. Jarr Take a Night Off. @aid Mr. Hangie. "Well, lm too wise for that play ‘What's your wife sore at you for?” asked Mr. Jarr. “1 suppose ahe thought you were holding out too much, so what's the difference?’ ‘Maybe you're right,” said Mr. Rangle, “but, anyway, I've the price of a night off t good, so come “Tell you I can't pay my share," By Roy L. McCardell, OT anything on for to-night? “G t -d Mr. Jarr at the e day asked Mr. Rangle as latter's office at the on. said Mr. Jarr. Rangle genially “I want company. I'll 1 t going to have my dress suit on, if that's what ae eA UTA Lal ott eR ata espe iaad TaN t # do the same next time,” said Mr. Jarr ing to dress for things. It may > ight for men that oul edo the next tm Mr. Jar keep bankers’ hours, but when a” Ww comes home tired| They went r, and ia very good dinner with wine, sis | 2nd Mr. 2 and > All right when I| As to fuss around an hange out t's too muct cab and rode around, and Mr Rangle paid. e Dewey, and Mr and he bought ihigh- got box seats at t eaving your wife and day, and when I you were out riding Money + hildren perishing with cold, 1 down to the Janitor he cabs and spending your nething of that sort.” Jarr. place and th fe Gunn, or s nt.” said Mr while but I can’t nh (hie!) when x id Mrs. Jarr frigidly. “If you choose eens that Rangie and let your family perish from is iddie of the room (hic? asked Mr, Jarr, e ae it w-w-w-warmer (hic!). Eascuse muh!" imi? said Mrs, Jarr Se said Mr. Jarr. “But as @ mu-niu-matter said Mrs, Jerr, much relieved * aaid Mr. Jarr, showing the aires Miss Lonely Goes l ] setd. to Operatic Fields for Mr. Man (OUST GIVE ME FY CHANCE INA C SMALL PART. Wp 2k ws7) f plicie ff) S —) 0 (GO AWAY FROM HER )svA Hy POON'T COPE J” ese RGACK = CBE NINE. es i ( BE MINE!) FIEND IN OBILE ellow m getting too old for tt now.” races folariay ne oe i vrae vou to the Duchess | Priced clxars and other re: ts ad | ey came home in @ taxicab. | Pepa a My "T meant t| Mrs Jarr was sitting up ner, reading a book. couldn't go off tox nme," she began heatediy. eae RR IERESTHS s acting in a manly or decent man- @ESSLEETRE CECE ECCT ECCESD ® The Story of the Operas & By Albert Payson Terhune. NO. 25.-MEYERBEER’S ‘‘ HUGUENOTS,"" AOUL DBE NANGIS, « young Huguenot nobleman, tresh from the country, wus guest of bonor jat m banquet in the Touraine castle {of the brave Count de Nevers | Huguenots and Catholics had rent | Franc with civil war for many years. | Now that the Catholle princess Mar- | guerite was about to marry the Huguenot leader, Henry of Navarre, a |(ruce had been called. Thus it was | that Raoul (sorely against the advice Jef his gran old Huguenot servant, Marcel, wae drinking amicably in oom- pany pith @ gay group of Catholic nobles. The young countryman was amusing his host by telling how he had rescued @ gloriously beautiful gir] from a party of ruffians and how in one brief glance jhe and she had fallen in love with each other. Scarce had he finished his tale when a veiled Indy entered the ad- Joining room, requesting a moment's n- |terview with De Nevers Glancing | trough the open door as she and De Nevers were conversing, Raoul was horrified to recognise the fair unknown as the girl he hed rescued. Te his Tustic ideas, her presence in De Nevers's castle could mean only that she le’ the count. In reality, the maiden—Valentine, daughter of the powerful Catholic Count de St. Brie—was betrothed to De Nevers. Having fallen in love with Raoul, she had persuaded Princess Marguerite to arrange a marriage between the Huguenot and herself, All that remained was to secure De Nevers's release from tne formeg detrothal. To this De Nev ‘antly consented, and Valentine hurried backs to the Princess with her good news. Marguerite, to enhance the mystery, sent her favorite page, Urbain, to find Raoul and bring him blindfolded to her Presence. Raoul, desperate at loss of his love and eager to shine hefore his new friends as hero of an adventure, agreed to sun's request. He submitted te diindfoiding and was led off by the page to the Princess's pulace * ¢ ¢ When t ndage was removed from Ra eves he found btmeelf in the palace gardens surrounded by Marguerite « ng court. The Princess explained ¢ that she wished q and beautiful girt Dazzied by 3 rank and beauty, b sed to obey her wil] in all Juced to the old Cc Bris; and, at lest, Valen- recofied from her in herror Remembering what he had seen at the evers he scorn used to marry her. St Bris, in fury for the insult, but Marguerite ) depart in gafety. © ° © nad also repaired, challenged the ranged to have the younger ling ground. Valentine, overs t Marcel, bidding him ware de Nove svalrousiy renewed his plea for Velene > wer lk was while praying alone In churoe after the wedding ceremony hod learned of her father’s intent te murder Raoul Marc 4 too late to warn him, but as 8B Bris's assassins rushed u nt summoned from the neaxby taproom @ party of Huguenot ie ne fight became genera, and was only of Princess Marguerite. Raouwk loarned fro: Ais bride to her new hom AJ Heartbroken at the injus: neh secretly to the De Nev Valentine alone tn she great hal approaching steps was feard. Raow Nevers and a number of Cathy the assemblage, telling them tr ¢ stroke of midnight all Catholtce were to arise in arma and slay every pot in Paris. De Nevers refused to join the conspiracy, declaring he was a soldier, not an assnsein. He was placed under arrest and the other noblemen hurried out to prepare for the slaughter, whic Was to be known to history as the “Massacre of St. Bartholomew's.” Raoul rushed from his hiding place, bent on warning his Huguenot brethren of thelr danger. But Valentine berought him to remain where he wes, lest he, too, be slain. He refused, saying “is place waa at his fellow-Protestants’ side Then, as a last resort, the frantic woman avowed her love for him and bade him, for the sake of that love, to remain in safety with her. In the midst of fer avowa!l a bell tolled. giving signal for the massacre to degin. Shouts, clash of steel and wails of mercy rem the Shaking off his sweetheart's restrain- Ing arme, Raoul, sword in hand, leaped from the window into the sea of murdor thet surge! through the street below * (At this point the acting version of the tinues the narrative as follows) | Valentine hurried forth through the night with Marcel, whose life De Nevers had just sav ng out of the way, no obstacl marriage. Scarce twas the ceremony conmleted st as De Nev ers arrived to conduct el, Raoul hastened eness. He found s plea the sound of @ curtain just as St. Bris, De St Bria addressed he room opera usually ends A finnl act con- search of Raoul dat and found him oss of his own, De Nevers they were joined tn + Brin and a party of Catholic scldiers appeared 4 ate the old count “Who are you?” H entine and Raoul them in the dim light. ordered s When the smoke cleared the dead bodies of the lovers and Marcel lay | stretched on the blood-soaked ground | The Story of “La Boheme" will be pu What to Read and How to Read It. By T. P. O'Connor, M. P. — principle w should under! reading of every mam ; ia first for the esthetic or Intellectual bliss to be derived from. ' is tie: His perusals should fall into two divisions—the diss ! cipiinary and the purely joyous. When he Is beginr to form his taste in Imaginative literature his disciplinary ading should consist of classical imaginative masterprieces, say y of Shakespeare every week for three months, “Hamlet” may le the greatest dramatle poem in the world, but that je no reason why the reader, raw and unskilled In the appreciation of Mterature, should enjoy tt at the first re Indeed, It is a reason to the contrary. And T have Ittle doubt that the first impressions of nine people out of every ten who read Shukespaare are not remote from tedium and an inability | to understand w so much fuss 18 made over § Te. Nes are toid it Shakespeare than about anything excep ght of trout. Upon the ab [ous ft must take years to gain even am created by a great literary artist, but trying to like a noiversally acknowledged masterpiece will almost always result In king {t, sooner or lat As time proceeds the tnoxpertence’ st + growing exp cover that his Joyous reading approximates more an reading, He will d er that the verdict of the ages was right, even thouth i not accord with his own early views. He will discover that the reason vhy the classical writers from Homer down are esteemed and {mmortal is not primar!l; because they are deep, and correct, and restrained. and shapely, but |primartly because they give Joy, sheer joy, to the largest number of cultivated | readers —Chieago Tribune rate Insight Into the beauties fenced, will dime ore to his disciplinary ‘American Women Are the Best.”’ By William Jennings Bryan. HE American woman is undoubtedly the finest in the world, and I want to add that the American man far surpas: the men—eneral y speaking, of course—of any nation of men the world over. Of coursy, ried visits to the various countries did not permit me to muke a studied | observation of the people, but I saw enough to convince me of this,” said W. J. Bryan to “H. H.,” of the Washington Star "Noe women of this country are far ahead of those of any other country. They have more Ifberty. | think tois | accounts, In part, for thelr superiority. They are more Intelligent, they possess | more energy ‘and more influence than any other women of the world. i ‘The attitude of our women, #i0wn In the various felds of study of pret lems that present themselves for solution !n this country, aurpasses the work or interest of women engaged in similar work anywhere. One noticeable fear:re of progression in this country ts that men and women work aa copartners. ‘ihe result of such co-operation speaks for itself, where conditions have been made better and progress ts shc\wn In work of vital benetit to the community and country at large.” my t How a Wife’s Snore Sounds. INCOLN BEACHEY, the well-known ballooniat, E about Henry Farman’s recent marvelous filght with his aeroplane tn Paris, “The aeroplane will some day rule the air,” he sald. ‘odern invene lon makes this probablo, particularly the invention of motora that are at once ery ght and very powerful. hat a useful thing modern tnvention ts," sald Mr. Beachey, with a laugh, I know, for Instance, a Toledo man who started the phonograph going sude jdenly the other night His wife looked up from her book. “what kind of a record ts that?’ she cried, Was talking tn Tolede ‘It sounds like a dog fight in @ sawmill.” % ‘It {a your own record,’ sata the husband, triumphantly. ‘I set the maching on you last night in your sleep. New, maybe you'll believe that you aneve’