The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1908, Page 12

_Luesaay, riarch 10, 1908. Exhibiting His Treasures. |\DE CEC BE CEA KCLES 4 GE AEEEHEEG® S 1 ® The Evening s¥orid Waily Magazine, @ Poviished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 6 Park Row, New York cs ; JOORPH PULITZRN, Pree, 1 Rast 134 Street J. ANGUS BIA, fee Treas $01 West 1108 Btroat Mal) Matter. ¢ Continent and » Internationa’ es) @ co) By Albert Payson Terhune. 8 Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Clas Bubscription Rates to The venting World for the United States anada. No. 41-WAGNER’S “PARSIFAT."’ N the mountain castie of Monsalvat i dwelt a community knights, appointed guardians of the Holy used at the Last Supper) and the cred spear i nee oplerced the Saviour's side King <Amfortas wag ruler of the ts and guaniian of tie Kilngeor, bed eonler, Being "WONDERFUL! THESE ARE | MY CHOICEST $3.60 One Year 30 | One Month. VOLUME 48 seceeee A MISGOVERNED CITY. OMPTROLLER METZ issues se¢v- to ex- eral statements undertasi plain how and why the city has no} y to build subways. ] ’ en- chanted castle in a nearby valley. There, by wiles and spells, he sought The gross funded debt increased) i di Gaon re who dene $135,000,000 in the past two years gia ais holy allegiance. In this evil 2 x ask} was 8 y Wandr i It is proposed to issue $96,000,000 itch woman, Kundry, when in her more bonds in the next two years. s these bond issues and the 1 fund revenues there is a tax levy ear of $101,950,253 The average citizen cannot un-| derstand why out of those hundreds | of millions of dollars provision cannot be made for new subways. The) Sinking fund alone has $23,000,000 a year automatically available for but the Grail tra Bur | unpere i Sore wounded, d ed of the sacred weapon, Amfortas had made hia way back to Mousa.va v iN Bs " boasted at by means of the stolen spear he would in time steal the Grall as wel The wound of Amfortas refused to heal A message from heaven declared that the king could not be cured or the spear recovered exc ess foo] whom coms wit this purpose. All that is necessary is for the city to issue bonds to the passion should gt The knight young sinking fund and to apply the proceeds to subway construction. ee 1 erased casi catlehslidie seldom pert This alone is enough. to wax old. The glory of Mo The subway connection to Brooklyn embracing the Manhattan| Bridge need not be completed until the bridge is built. In the mean time| the east side subway from the Bronx could be built over the Williams-| burg Bridge and on to Coney Island, which would give one fare from the Bronx to Coney Island. | Mr. Metz is indignant at The Evening World’s repeated iteration of | this fact. He says that “neither floods of oratory nor personal abuse of | City officials” will be effective. It was Mr. Metz himself who first called | himself “Napoleon of Finance.” He used the term in complimenting him- Self on his management of the city’s bond issues. He said he was either a “Napoleon of finance or a financial chump.” The Evening World | would not assume that the Comptroller of the city of New York is “a financial chump.” Therefore it is forced to adopt the other term. | Mr. Metz says that the revenues of the sinking fund have been ap-| Plied to the reduction of taxation and that otherwise the tax rate would be higher. It certainly would unless the Comptroller and the Mayos| ceased to be so extravagant. ure, one day, a pon himself The newcomer was dry inforn that the battle and his mother, to save b desert, keep m ignorant of life and ng armor ride ib ng stranger uardians’ wrath by slaying skins and seemed without z, tt it into Whose care the pr Parsifal, son of a famous warrior r son from lke f arfare. One day He had tried to To test his theory he allowed t With staring, seemingly stupid gaz n splendor of the celet y It all, thrust angri eee Gurnemanz, fi from the castle through sy The sorcer . wounde uypeared, weapon poised magical lepear and le w the sorcerer’s castle crum. in alr just abov ed into dust. | \ nim to the castle hall of eto die, refused to a Parsifal advanced to where the wounded monarch ‘ay spear the wound was miraculo! benefactor’s feet. A wond ard from heaven and se! a hy ssion” had acc 4 his mission. No } {gnorant w r, but King of Monsalvat and Guardian of the Gra with calm dignity the homage of his adoring subjects on Atay n The Bachelor Friend That Accompanies Hubby Home for Dinner | Oe Haare eee we Hare Is Liable to Have Very Nice Things Said About Him After He Leaves , nothing but a cough,” said Mrs. Jarr, adding the iast when she s4W) Deeaeea@OOd! iga28 will be published Thursday. The story of “I Parttan DEGAS made in the Accor ‘ir. Metz, out of the sinking fund investments of By R se ree eee pene: 1g SI ‘ : » out s 2 Q oy L. McCardeli ‘Then she took Mr. Jarr aside and told him to run out and get nome chops, @ U Y Y $32,722,903 in 1906 only $250,000 were for rapid transit purposes, y iL, some fce cream, some lettuce or romaine salad, some fruit for dessert and a bottle 2 NIXOLA ELE SMITH ~~~ Writes About ~~~ Whom to Kiss and When. T= editorial columns of The vening World dwelt tising a most dangerous plan in issuing revenue bonds and then paying these revenue bonds with the sinking fund receipts which should be used for the redemption of the city’s long-term bonds. Long- time Londs should be issued only fer permanent improvements and not | “ey VE brought our old iisad silver to dinner, YOU 4+ good claret. remember (Jack: Eilyery: bey was) stlOlnsWecaulne aoe “I'l entertain you while Mr. Jarr 4s gone for the medicine,” said Mrs. Jarr, . ieee never given us a chance to be at his?” rattled .. her husband slipped away, “I'm wo sorry I didn't know beforehand yeu were ehhh : oming." Mrs, Jarr was all smiles to-night, as she greeted dashing Ne Jack Silver, Mr. Jarr’s bachelor friend, but she gave M: Jarr a side glance for one brief second, and ft was SUCH & look! “Lm po glad to see you Mr. Silver,” said Mrs. Jarr glow- ingly. "This is indeed an unexpected pleasure! “Ah it makes a lonely old bachelor like me discontented to see a cosy home like thie!” said Mr. Silver, pretending ne belteved himself. ‘Then why don't you marry and settle down?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “I know a lot of nice giris*—- “They wouldn't have me!" said Sfiver quickly. “Oh, I know they wouldn't have me. I'd have married long ago.” added Silver, with ciation, ‘but lucky dogs like Mr. Jarr get all the nice women, se, the kind I want I can't get, and the kind I can get I don’t want. said this last with so much unctlon that it almost appeared to be You must accept my apologies. I wanted Jarr to telephone you,” sald the lant prevaricator Silver. “I know how ladies dislike to Nave company com: unannounced. ’ yesterday as lingeringly and agreeably as a kiss itselé on “whom and when to kiss.” | would not for the world steal the editorta] thundem Nor am I temerous enough to oppose !t with feeble fembe ne twitter. Still there was one sentiment advanced in that editorial . in the interests of true love and lovers, shoul@ go unchallenged “A girl ts foolish who lets a man kiss her before they No matter how tond she {s of him, the fonder areful she should be. Most men think thes t one man kiss her will permit the same favor to other men.” . every girl over sixteen has heard this argue of the prudent from the beginning of time. And ®@ said Mrs. Jarr. “Of course, it would be nicer to have you up a special dinner, but I feel sure you won't mind taking us just as nd us. I never like to make a special fuss over such an old friend, and 1t lo supper Isn't just what {t should be the welcome must make up for ttle that the city has to show for the $135,- the last two mate a real ust ank you for the welcome, and I know I'l! enjoy the home cooking, ver. "We poor, miserable bachelors don’t know what it ts to ha nd if I had known we'd have the pleasure of your company I'd have had a charming young lady here for you to meet. You should know Ciara Giddings She'd be just the gi 0 “I'm sure of it,” sald 3 for everywhere he wi The gaging of the dustry of New Yc ime renu SMiver, but inwardly thankful he had escaped thix urried ladies set traps for him in the shape of “the rk lies and extravacarce of cristal a eee 3 te tan von now | Very gin ror does not seen to have occurred to the preachers aj] this while that it ts no® ministration the pec Mee ee ea re ee ea ee ia citeoicie Fant eet uae Jarr butted tn with an armfui of bundles. “Here's! what other people think of our actions, but what we ourselves think of thems ! ence peapls i | eiad Tam that you have come to dinner at last Make yourself right a Ae nea miccreotaninelc that should be the mainspring of conduct. We must act according to our owm@ will be for fifty years | and go out there In the hall and hang up your hat and coat. | Mrs. Jarr ff martyrs are made of. She sa!d no word, but took consciences, not according to the tongues of others, living up to the test Is come. Tweed gas [geri iter Bless Biles Sasi dednel tala Mirsis Tare fbisperen tion ae aoc eeeir| | unecnarcels 9 the dinner was getting ready and during ourselves. ‘ seers Vp Os CURR NR Lhe Cam any : oning me? You know that | the din and light, as !f to show Mr. Silver what) “I wouldn't adviss you to talk with Mr. So-and-So," said an elderly womam ple something for their mone | Se ere Korman nee Kicking about the bills, so I have pachelors mis n the way of helpmates and happiness to a girl in my presence. “I am not sure his Intentions are good." + a mac over étnner. I suppose you met him tn a saloon ave 18 good enough for me it's good enovgh for him!" 1d. Mr, Mr. Silver's return from the Jarr hatrack preventing him from Peeriiaa Fe ee teeter nc tha aacnen ate: eecrem or denying the saloon charge When Mr. Jarr came back Mrs. Jarr sald, ‘If you ever bring that man Women are fast!llous and exclusive by Instinct. A woman should not pere u'll excuse Mr. Jarr if he runs out to get me some mecicine for the cnil- here again I'll slam the door in his face® Then she lapsed into an {cy silence. lehtly and without love because all her finer feeling@ of what he is going to think if she does. well, and when Mr. Jarr “And why should I bother about his Intentions,” the girl replied, ‘so long ver was s0 enthusiastic in as Tam sure of my own?" And {t seemed to me she had the better of the Riverside Drive was a scheme. Ceniral were made, thefts. Water improvements ning besifes the memory of his | forbid Her goodness stould not be based on the evil she surmises In him. Certaim B F. G Lon people, of course, ave to have formulas to live by. It saves them the trouble y -uU- of thinking. For any woman within thls category the conventions of sentimend ven necessary, I know of a case where a man in a moonlit met with this startling protests Letters from the Peonle. |WaSp Waists For Our Army [{ s.ccoe nent Meomst : | «(Ss Te), THE RIDING TEST : | 5 WILL _BE DANGER- | ‘ ‘ OUS 70 THE WHSPY may be servic: moment bent forward to kiss a girl and was “You can't Kiss me—yet. You have no righ ‘To my mind this view treats Kisses too much as !f they were commodities Mke Ice cream soda, for which checks could be purchase! at the matrimonial connter, and turns the Uttle blind god into an all-sering cashter, This, of course, belongs to the new-woman ordcr of senttment, which ol@ Iss fail utterly to understand, but do not fail to condemn on tha IT WAL MAKE REAL APOLLOS OF THE FAT A Max 8 © is extremely kind To the Editor of ‘The ¥ If you will publish t ft may prove vaua care to follow insignificant, but ¢ cent. WAISTS. tof a man | 80 he eri any one knows | child 1 woul sentim, account. ‘And this little plea to women to govern thelr actions by thelr own minds an@ consctences rather than by that mindless and consclenceless person, Mrs. Grundy, may even be held an argument {n favor of promiscuous kissing. For though we have a common language, words have not the same meaning to the new genera~ tlon and the old; they have not the same meaning to the young men and women of to-day, A woman tn talking or writing to a man seldom realizes that words an@ phrases which would carry exactly her meaning to another woman, when transe planted to that strange medium, the masculine brain, take on new quallties and Aa coarser fibre all -ROKEN MOTE Monday. I wish exper me what the ci a man to make and works it five or ten acres of or Long Island, + to {is owner than t mean the same thing to men and to women. Kissing has nog sienificance. If every woman knew how little a man thinks y man guessed the deop portent It holds for a woman, the man woul be Pe aon enn Ata niRAteGaradnelintei nara cwoulannmhel knees enough in the world to furnish forth an editorial, Meantime, as such 1s not the caap, each sex shonid determine its own standards and women should live and Ing to thelr own ideas of right, not according to what men think, love accor ++. Tie Sailor and the Parrot. Motor Aska AUyice By Cast Pritchard, of the Mauretania. ; . rea bluff lot,’ sald Capt. Pritchard, “Did you ever hear about the 7 ‘ “cs sailor and the Well, an old lady was returning from abroad eon F with a parrot ) she was very fond. Sho Intrusted the bird, with , many admonitions, to the voyage. Seasickness, or something, killed. St. and Steth (Ct the parrot the third day « sailor, know!ng how upset the old lady woulda bi Je he, could not bring liimself to cll her the sid Udings, but asked a companion, The eld ai. Ww ' is of 7 Pe famous for his skill In such matters. to break the bad news to ber very, veur 7 this M ENEMY A } gently. The man assented. Approaching the old lady with a tragical face, the Ui - pe 3 Ky GREAT Cui famous newsdreaker touched his cap and sald. ‘I'm afraid that ‘ere bird @ ing v he Koes Hea cy S LS yourn aln’t goin’ to live long, ma‘am.' ‘Oh, dea ; 2h exclaimed the old la@y tm jelarm ‘Way? ‘'Canuse bee dead,’ wes weoly.’ ent Buiiling, ee feto convuisions In appearance be ls @ Mith street and sath avenue ADVANTAGE