The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1908, Page 14

The Lod World, Published Dally xcept Sunday by the Press Putlishing Cempany, Nos. 53 to 63 if Park Row, New York POSRPA PULITZER, Prve., 1 East 134 Street J. ANGUS STTAW, Ree Trean,, 901 Wort 117th Street, Watered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Mat! Matter. to ni 1 and the Continent and orld for the United Sta Jes in the International and Canada. Postal Unton. ‘3 One Year a3 | One : nee $975 | One Month One 8 VOLUME 48 . NO, 16,991 WHAT MAKES BEAUTY? | HAT makes women beautiful? Is it} figure, or complexion, or hair, or! eyes, or teeth, or grace, or charm of manner, or what not? i At the Hotel Plaza week a women gave tableaux vivants for a charity. Mrs. John Jacob Astor, Mrs. Edward R. Thomas, Mrs. Bryce, Mrs. William | P. Thompson, Miss Elsie Howland | and others whose names stand at | the head of the society columns posed as portrait and statuary fig- ures, Miss Edith Deacon, whom the German Emperor's son wanted } to marry, appeared as Carmencita. | In representation of Sir Joshua} Reynolds’s “Three Graces” were three of the most beautiful society women in New York. Charity reaped a large harvest from the many people who went to see New York's society beauties. And many of the sightseers went away wondering just what that beauty consisted in. If the programme had appeared without the names of women of well-known social distinction and their faces had not been familiar to the audience through the many newspaper reproductions the expressions of opinion as to beauty would have been even more frank. Any department store could provide an assortment. of better com- plexions and fully as good figures as the Plaza tableaux. Taking sepa- rately the points of physical beauty, the New York shop girl or factory girl has more abundant and prettier hair than the so-called “society wo- man.” She has softer eyes, fewer lines in her fare, and peachier,- more velvety complexion. Sometimes her teeth are not so good and her hands are not so well kept. Training the finger nails with little curved scissors instead of clip- pers and cutting away the flesh at the nail half-moon instead of push- ing it back detract from the beauty of the hands. Excessive manicur- ing, especially if the finish is bright and not dull, is bad. In figure “society women”’ are inclined to be too stout. A girl who has to stand behind a counter all day and walk to and from her work carries herself more gracefully than the woman who spends a good part * of the day lounging in an automo- bile or driving in a carriage instead of walking. The great advantage of the shop girl and the factory girl is that “she has not enough money to be very artificial. The color of her hair did not come from a bottle, her complexion is not applied, her figure | is not built up. The mistake she makes is in striving to imitate “society women” in dress and manners, For one thing, she had better wear common-sense shoes, which are easier to walk in and so much easier to; stand in that a great part of the weariness at the close of a day be- hind the counter could be obviated by wearing different shoes, s recalls the old question of whether women dress more for themselves or for other women or for men. The best answer is, For all three, Few women dress, first, for their own comfort. A very few women] dress to please some particular man. The majority wear a certain style A HN coat because other women do. Women judge mher women by] their clothes a great deal more than | men do. A man judges a woman more by the way she wears clothes than by the clothes w she wears, more by the tone of, voice in which she speaks to him than the number of feathers she| has in her hat. It is well so, because if the standards of men were the same as the standards of women there would be more unhappy women than there are, Letters from the People. ict Firemen's Hard Lot. geome to be up reninet {t, aa there te {Fe the BAltor of The Prening World nobody in particular he can work his My husband has been « fireman eight | little hammer on, “Ain't tt awful, years, Ho comes home very tired and | Mabel?’ “You're right, Stolla. so cranky that the children and I are ALICE JOHNBON. atraéd to talk to him. I think firemen Dog Folice—and Others. ll deserve na raine, eepoctally the fourth s To the Raltor of The Praning World graders, The wives of fourth-graders i ies eee ge chad 2 | Reading that Bingham ‘s going to have t hey Ket $800 © | poitce dogs patrol the streats of year, I know I had a very hard time Maca tantnel loos when we had that sal I was in reuliwouldiataravnntal debt. There was time I acarcely ato ener if he would make all the pol ao I could give my husband his moals, | -aeon criminals if Wow, everything {« dearer and the), s A he would get better results. Let him put hie dogs up there instead of men. They will do the work, keep so- Der and oan always be found when | wanted, WEST SIDER. Compound Interest Problem. he Wttor of Ty rents ure higher, eo ft harder to got along. FIRDMAN'S WIFE must be much A Wholesale Grouch! ing World & proble readers, A man 0 ¢ ye Inveated for his three 1 twelve, fifteen and etaebteen, the mon are knocking among ent. 4 interest. He Deoause (iy know how to vote; directed that the meney should be no Roosevelt is knocking the capAtaliets, | divic {the obtidren would recatve end the capit ante whe! willingly peering tho knook along to the|of age? How m oor men, but the poor man, alas} ‘each onet sis aro cheerfully and equal am twenty-one years n Was set aside for, anF. Where Is There a Married Couple That Ever Quarrels? Nowhere. to a third party—this third party of hat or shade of gloves or cut of |" d Daily Magazine, Thursday, February 277 19087 |EROSEEE GEKKEK GE CEREE CEEED © The Story of the Operas ie By Albert Payson Terhune. Tim, Charlie and Theodore. By Maurice Ketten. lee NO. 36—PONCHLELLI’S '‘GIOCONDA.”’ A GIOCONDA, the singing girl, wes leading her blind mother, La Cleca (the IL bilnd one), across the grew! square of St. Mark in Venice o the seventeenti century, The square was thr 1 the gondola ruce on the Grand Canal, A dark, ev Gtoconda’s path and addressed ner with high-flown com naba, spy of the dreaded Council of Ten which ruled singing girl iu his own distorted fushian and eeized this occasion to urge nis suit. The girl repulsed him. In fear she ran off in search of Enzo, her eweete heart. Enao was a Genoese prince, wham the Council had banished from Ventce, bat who had retumed by stealth to see Laura, a high-born damsel, to whom he had once been betrothed. Arriving in Venice, he learned that Laura had been foroed by her parents into a marriage with the Chief Inquisitor, Alolée. In despair Enzo had turned to pretty Gloconda for consolation. She adored him, and ‘though his heart was still Laura's, the young exile became betrothed to the singing irl. In Giuconda’s absence Barna sorcery, hoping to win the giri’s of her mother's bind woman was dragged weeping e city prison, when drawn sword, barred the way and demanded her release. At this moment Laura and Aloise, crossing the square on their way from the race, paused before the group. Laura, moved by the old women's distress, pre= valled upon Aloise to release the aged captive. La Cieca in gratitude save Laura her chief treasure—a rosary. Barnaba. drawing Enzo aside and pretend- ing to be a messenger from Aloise's wife, whispered to the emesed, delighted prince that Laura would come aboard Enzo’s ship that night and elope with dim to Genoa. As eoon as Enzo had hurried away to prepare for sailing, Barnaba dis- closed to Aloise the story of the proposed elopement. Gloconda, overhearing, was heartbroken. * ° ¢ Barnaba arranged that three war galleys should bear down upon and capture Enzo's ship at a concerted sl Meantime, at nightfall, Laura came aboard the fated ship and was ardently welcomed by Enzo. But scarce had the prince sone below to give certain orders, leaving Laura on deck alone for a moment, when Gloconda, dagger in hand, crept toward the young wife to avenge her owm desertion. But seeing Laura praying, La Cleca's rosary clasped in her hands, he singer relented. A boat was seen drawing near. In it sat Alotse and Rarna- ba. Laura was frantic with fear. Gloconda arrange’ for the eloping woman -ate ascape to shore, and herself remained to face Enzo. In a burst of jealous wrath she reprosohed the prince, but suddenly pointed out {nto the lagoon. The three war galleys were rushing down upon them. Enzo, sooner than surrender, set firs to his little ship, ° *% ° That night Aloise gave a great feast AIR of esdom. The Enzo, wit a's arrest on a fn Drawing Laura into an anteroom, he v pointed to a funeral bier, told her he had disonvered her deception and bade \\ her swallow a phtal of poison he placed before her. Then lea the stricken ! woman, he returned to his guests, Gtoconda, stealing into the palace to watch Enzo, who with herself had escnped from the burning ship, overheard the scene Sy HA) 5) wD Se between husband and wife. Substituting a sleeping potion for the po! he threw Laura into a profound slumber and placed her on the Mer. Aloise, find- ing his wife lying there, supposed her dead and went once more into th nquet hall. But the revels were interrupted by Barnaha, who found the blind woman lurking about th come thither to pray for Laura's soul. supposed death, drow his dagger and 5 poisoning her. Guards seized and a the youth. nda, drawing B. aside, promised t y to marry him should he arrange Enzo's release. agreed. 9 8% ed in La Cleca. He had eo bad Gioconda, Laura's senseless form was bo privately te Gioconda‘a home after causing her s'eaping rival be + yi there, was at first tempted to slay her, but the singer's bett triumphed. Enzo entered, heart and bent on suicide. He th onda had stolen Laura's boly In fury he was about to r the singer when the voice of the awaken- ing Laura stayed his hand ing the'r gratitude, showed t inited lovers a menns of escaping by sea from Venice. Left alone, the singing girl was about to go out in search of her missing mother when Barnaba suddenly confronted her. He had come to ciaim her promi#e to be his. The maddened Gloconda, to save herself from the man she loathed, drove a dagger into her own heart. As she sank down dying the bafe fled Barnaba shouted in her ear in a last effort at punishing the woman whe haa eo tragically escaped him: “I have strangled your mother!” The story of *Ernani" will he nublished Saturday. - How to Be Silly Though Clever. By the Debutante. © you know that it is the proper thing to be correctly silly? This me@ crage for silliness has seized every one of us and our ruccess depenis Drop In on Mr. and Mrs. Jarr Any Time and See How Loving They Are. entirely upon how much cleverness is mixed up with the foolishness. ie a net do they want, what do they went, anyway?" asked Mr. Jarr, appeal- Although one would think tt im the almplest thing tn the work to be By Roy [L-, McCardell, iss 'y. “A mem can't say a word in his own house. A man works lke @ dog, he silly, yet we girls are finding out, much to our sorrow, that it is ‘no cfach,” ae ToT, ver has @ decent suit of clothes, he oan’¢ afford to go around, himself, amd) prother would say. To be merely silly is ordinary and vulgar, but to be fooltsh Ee" Wiscgedli wari Ged\inct! amocthed)| kal wrinkled afraid to bring a friend to bis house—what doce a man get out of it?” lin the approved fashion means to become inatantly popular end fascinating front to any great extent this day in the Jarr house- “If young girle only knew!” said Mrs. Jarr to the third party. “If young Bince every one in studying this new pore, the girl who has acquired It Is wele hold. : @ris only knew thet when they married they were giving up everything—and | jet >yyall of her friemis with great joy, and then watched just as carefully Mrs. Jarr, being of @ particularly sensitive nature so! for what? For nothing!” eahi Mrs. Jarr answering it herself. “A hired girl gets| and enviously as the chorus does the “‘aumhty leadin’ lady.” Few of us are far as her husband was concerned—that 1s, she did not her wages When her work ts done she oan go out and enjoy herself. If a pright enough to originate, but nearly everyboty can {mitate successfully, and @ mind so much what other people said to her, she could Cross word is spoken to her she can leave. But a wife—look what a wife hae to| few even improve on the original, writes The Debutante in the Chicago Tribune, listen carelessly or answer back acridly, but let Ber husband) Put up with! She is en unpaid slave, she {8 treated as if she had no soul of The gir] who can be cleverly silly {s a perfect godsend to any sort of a soclal say one wore in impatience or scoffing jest, and then the|her own. She ts expected to be patient and cheerful and submissive and abject affair. SAq way pe relied upon to anve altuationa, to keep people from the sub- War medicine commenced to seethe. [When she's etormed at and sworn at if she ien't nogtected and passed over an.| jects better Int uvincunsed and from “showing thetr aire.” Thia new, merry So, for some simple thing, the entente cordiale was ‘eft alone night after night but the picture of her wrongs was too great) girl utterly «qnores relicion, politics and all topics of conversation upon which shattered for the time being; hostMitses had broken out,|for Mrs. Jarr at this point, amd she gave way to tears. | people are apt to differ no ralieally, and only talls about amusing and pleasant succeeded by a sullen armistice of silence, which in turn] “Tf @ man wasn't nagged ag all the time,” said Mr. Jarr, taking no heed to| nothings was followed by an tmpatilal chanting of wrongs recently| Mrs. Jarr whatever, “if a man waen't rowed at and had a H¢tle peace and com-| The silly girl never delivers one of those Inng, wminteresting monologues on remembered. | fort in his home or ff anybody had any respect for him why, why"— what ‘T think’ or “I Delleve."” She has acquired the subtle art of making other At this stage of proceedings married couples talk as if/ Here Mr. Jarr choked and blew his nose and thumped a dent in his hat as people amuse themrolves by their own talking, and then she just smiles enooure or may not tbe present. In this case mo| if the subject was too great for words, egingly at the right moment and Iaughs heartily and unconsciously when a joke third party was present, but Mrs. Jarr led off in this wise: “Ig anything were done to tnculeate respect,” said Mra. Jarr to the absent! '* told—whether she thinks ft good or not. “I'm sure I get no thanks for trving to do what's right in this house! | third party, “lf some kindness were shown, if @ man appreciated a good wits | The popular gir! of the rnason must learn how to tell a story well If she Women that don't eare are thonght more of and are trented better!” land showed her eome little attention and loved tis home and loved hie chil. | Wither to be a auncens, There is nothing more embarrassing olther to the gird wr eee as Bao man can do tren 1 ao! moaned Mr. Jerr, with dren and stayed long enotagh in the one to get acquainted with the otler, if”——| OT the attentive roomful of people than that awful, painful silence that follows y ber, was not addressed to Mra Jerr, but to the nore: idstenessInoslemjesidoeletch | putcns] bec|tsedl cal cis) Soor i Mra: Icittioeiy leds aia aia ag i suuelaa eB Oc ihe meee aie *X-'saya can she come in?” | nalainrranvateninentiirates tr! Mrs, Jarr Jumped up quickly. ‘For goodness rake don't let her see us quar-| alec i Telling!" she cried, as the girl withdrew, “let's PRETEND we love each other se Mr, Jarr, in the heat of the hostilities, had | &t least!” pulled a bureau drawer clean out of {ts socket and let it fall with a clatter. “Why pretend?” asked Mr. Jarr. ‘Don't we love each other?” “Ifa man don’t bust out with {t,"" explained Mr. Jarr to the invisible arbiter. ‘Yes, we do!” eald Mrs. Jarr, putting her arms around him and Ictestng “Tf a man don't bust out, just for reef somewhere, some how, some way, | tm, “and you are a dig baby to pay any attention to anything T nay!" \ such as swearlng or breaking things, he'd just go crazy!" | "I declare, you two are the two greatest olf ushers!” ald Mra, Ktttingly, | “My nerves can stand { said Mrs, Jarr. “There ts an end of all | looking in. ‘Don't you ever quarrel?” | things, and thts is the end! e said Mra. Jarr, and Mr. Jarr grinned and no@ted. | $800,000,000 a Year for Drink. By Sidney Brooks. HE part played by the drink traMe in the socal and politteal lite of England 1s enormous. The people spend $50),00),00 Year om rink. The revenue derived from it more than floats the British navy, and amounts to 28 por cent, of the total revenue of the kingdom, ‘The olf jest that the Peerage should change its name to the Beenge gives the measure of the social influence of a trade which In Amertoa, I bee - |iove, is not claesed among the most reputab'e industries. There ts another point of contrast between the Fnglish and the American attitude toward the drinig “A man who ects This was said possibly bec} When Bill Thinkuvit Comes Home at Night. By F. G. Long. Long. vars Sires IT OP ance - 100.000 hae been invested in the trade In the United Kingdom; over 110,00) premises Now, DONT FORGET Ca PES are liconsed for the sale of alcohol, and the number of people who hold shares To TIRIL THIS LETTER, ES lin ’peowery eompantes must run into many hundreds of thousands, Moreover, Th most of the saloons in thie country are what is ealled “tied” houses. That ta TS WHAT eae 2 Ito ‘say, they are awnod by the browing or distilling companies, whose influence Oo) thus finda a local rallying potnt in nearly every tewn ami village in the land )) i : cl — Harper's Woolly. ere You know ME Eo The Income of Pullman Porters. By Ray Stannard Baker. Hm very difoulty of getting hold in the trades and in salaried employ ment has driven many colored people into small business enterprises, Grocery stores, tailor shops, real estate or renting agencies, If they | are-being driven out by white men as walters and barbers, they enjoy, on the other hand, growing opportunities aa ratiroad and Pullman porters and waitere— | laces which ara often highly profitable, and lead, If the negro saves his moner, to better openings. A negro banker whom I met In the Bouth told mo that be got his start as a Pullman porter. Iie had a good run, and by being active ang Rocommodating, often made from $150 to $20 « month from his wazes and tipa— IM GONG To TAKE THE |The American Magasine. SugWAY WOME MAKE IT IN, 9 | FIVE PUNUTES z m | xO) | near the estate of a millionaire jam manufacturer, retired, This ae heaving married an eart's daughter, was ashemed of the trade whereby he piled up his fortune. The jam manufscturer one day wrote Mr. Jainee an tm | pudent letter, vowing that it was outrageous the way the Jamos servants were \ trespassing on his grounds, Mr. James wrote back, Dear Bir: I am very sorry to hear that my secvents have been poedhing on your preserves, P. 8.—iixense | my mentioning your preserves’ ” Their Age Is in Sight. OMEN of the Ivory Coast in Afries imgtben their necks by weartng tron rings. Every year thay put e pew ring around the peck, which they can stretch a few that & & nething wuumal to Gad it as long os tho 31 +<—___—_——— Henry James and the Jam Man. UR novelist, Henry James,” safd a publisher, “lives at Rye, Engiec@, but recentiy he left Rye for a time ami took a house in the country HEARD THe LaresT? War) DOES A HEN) iW