The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1908, Page 16

"Seas es The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, ! “In the Spring the Young Man’s Fancy”- By Maurice Ketten. * Pwblished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, (3 to @ Park Row, New ¥ J. ANGUS SHAW, See. Treas, £01 Weet 110 Mirae POSER PULITZER, Prva, 1 Bast 104 Street he Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Ciass Mail Matter. For and the Continent and A the International Entered at Bubscription World fc the 41 Union One yeah One Year 5 a One Month. | One Month... c seseve NOW 17 0086. SCHOOLS, NICKELS. AND SUBWAYS. NEWSPAPER of wide circulation like The Evening World is certain to accomplish results whenever it is right and has the facts. Its power comes not from the mechanical Process of putting so many words on so much white paper, but from the force of public opinion, which when any question of great import- ance is presented in a concrete form | is sure to make itself felt. This power of public opinion is what induced the Railroad Commit- | tee of the Assembly to report a Five-Cent Coney Island Fare bill. Orig-| inally introduced by Assemblyman Wagner, the Republican majority of | the committee were so convinced of its popularity that they have dropped the Wagner bill and reported substantially the same thing, with them- Selves as authors. About this neither Assemblyman Wagner nor The Evening Wi orld cares, What both of us are interested in is not who shall get the credit] of the passage of the bill, but that the people shall get the benefit of the!| five-cent fare. Even more important than the Coney Island five-cent fare is the} making safe of the public schools. | The Collinwood disaster, where 180 children lost their lives because | of bad school-house construction and insufficient arrangements for exit, | caused The Evening World to make an investigation of the school-houses of New York. Many of the school-houses are old and have not suitable means for speedy escape in case of fire. This should be at once remedied. Thé city now owns fifty-nine vacant school sites, unloaded on the | city to-enable political real estate speculators to make big profits at the | taxpayers’ expense. Things like this, and not the real necessities of the public schools of New York, are what account for an educational ex-| pendituré of $28,469,764 for 19a8—more than twice as much as in 1899. Every old school building should have provided both inside and out- side separate stairs from every floor. No chance should be taken o! It Doesn’t Fromote Harmony in the Home, or Elsew here, to Discuss the Age ot People When a Woman Is Around | asked Mrs. Jarr mala wien you marriea me!" “Who'll I discuss it and discuss how much you having the escape of the school children cut off, as at Collinwood, by a} fire at the main entrance. For the cost of only a fraction of the money paid for needless gew- gaws and. trimmings every school-house could be made safe. If there had been some way of juggling with the stairway specifications as with the hose “specifications somebody with a pull would have long si loaded the school-louses with fire-escapes. If there had been some way | to buy stairways from the manufacturers and unload them on the city | ai double prices, like Kissena Park, there would be a surplus of stair- ways lying around as there are unused school sites. | It is_evident that the only way that the people of this city can get| what they are entitled to is for them to insist on it and prove their desire by their votes. By this process the people may even get.more. subways. Comp- troffer Metz has at last discovered that perhaps the city debt limit is not exhausted after all, and that the city sinking fund revenues are am- ple to build a city tri-borough sub- way if they were not diverted from theirsreal purpose. Lét ‘the people keep on. New York or.any. other city has the kind of government and is the kind of | ghee that its pec ple make i il, | Q4uy dangEROS Dont ie S320 Fa €EGGEELEREEEEE ELECE SEBLD @ 9 The Story of the Operas ® By Albert Payson Terhune. 8 NO. 44—MEVERBEER’S (‘THE PROPHET."’ OHN, son of Mother Fides, the old 1 wen innkeeper, loved and wis loved by Bertha, a gentle peasant wl who he had once saved drowning. Fides approved the and promised to turn over her inn the young couple. But by feudal Bertha could not merry without [consent of the Count of Oberthal, over- lord of the region. She and Fides, there- fore, went one day to Oberthal’s castie to seek his needful permission. On the road they came upon a mob of armed peasants who vere listening eagerly to the preaching of th looking: men, Thig triv of prea haria, Jonas and Mathisen—belouged to a strange sect. known as Anabaptise ‘They proclaimed a sort of Anarchist government and an overthrow of ail wealth and power, As a beginning to thelr campaign, the three were now urging the peasants to storm the castle of Obertial, In the midst of the harangue the Count himself { drew near, foliowed by his servants and guards. He sourntully dispersed the mob, ordering the three preachers thrashed. As the crowd scattered Bertha and Fides timidiy advanced and made their plea, But t unt, struck by Bertiua's | beauty, refused to allow her to marry John. When the git] and Fides protested he ordered them both under arrest, John sat waiting impati waited fo three Anabaptist Bertha’s return, While he h the mysti in his eyes, and saw he was the man for w , the fanat io whom they might set us as Prophet of th ose Seem, miracles they could w pon the credulity of the m s impression we stood crowned sent reincare him in ned when John told them he had twice dre reh, and heard the multitude acelalm nation of King David. But when the three hi King, John only laughed and & them begone, Bertha’s heart than over ng he would r hole : 3 left the room when Bertha rushed 4 She Scarce had the Anal had escaped from thal’s soldiers, and had fled to Jolin for re He her in an! stags Oberthal and hts gu tavern Fides captive, and vowed the ol n should die delivered up to him. Torn n love and fiiad was at last forced to drag Bertha from her hiding= Left alone in his horror of grief, the unhappy Mad with longing for vengeance t as thelr Prophet in the man who had wrecked his door. The { Lert! plac: lover was foun Oberthat, thousands of followers. sd to hie at {t= head the Anabaptist ca 1k feving is the Pi eastie was burned to the Anabaptist had again escaped Munster. he Prophet Munster he capal would mean everything te ced that he should he crowned “ides had found their way tion Day. As they were he had been murdered, by¥ coronation procession crossed the was carried by assault reat cathedral there 1 suppose you tell people 1 was ar By Roy L. McCardell. UST twenty years ago to-day we had the great bilz- zara, and now look what nice weather we're hay- * said Mr. Jarr. it onght to be nice weather after twenty ye sald Mrs, Jarr. “Seasons are the same, r they are than their wives, or how much “They won't discuss how much older I could name ular as to how they conv» their hair to cover no matter how many years “and I hope we won't have any lolizzards now, You remember how the snow lay piled six feet in the streets for weeks 2" i sald Mrs. Jarr, I remember what happened twenty years ago! mere ohtld then." I'm not getting bald because I'm old,” I was on a fis e sunburn was carried began Mr. Jarr “Why don't you ask Betsy Rosa and helpe Ros “Hey! look here. ! be telling people I'm old enough to be if I don't remember t make the first use she was a Di War, or if 1 was with Foy LIT Ardey) you are much older than me," said Mrs. said Mr, Jarr Juvenile that vou can't ‘Twas a men ince you are s ‘ou be getting off the ol remember the child when T was maz around saying ried at her age r than you, and that’s all," sald Mr. Sarr, das well as I do—I know that!” takes her for your sister and that you were mar- Gere B of tne f “But you are like the rest “Do you want to pick a . who was mad by this ) plek it falueniavereebnclonueeineinarise brother when her beaus came. r Say a dozen times that we were schoolmates." ‘sald Mrs, Jarr n and I wae te there playing ou may be getting so old that when you were a boy—but with her little more spiteful than women any day and she's a x nine when I was a boy ushed him gently out a again after Mr. * gasped Mr. Jarr, nd was in his vest Jarr was gone But innoticed by Mr. J She had been picking herse this morning!” said Mr. Jarr. ~ Letters from the People. Juvenile Courtship aS RHE MAH Ly BL0SS0M? DIS AM TRULY A SCRUMPTIOUS CHSION OG JoY To YO { HONEY BOY-y Me i} A fire has been starte stove and |" Bao: let burma week or more \ sin | 2 ital ‘ ou Is nen Vasa +e a started? OA says it t an fir } 7 ease It Is not, as being “shaker Mr a¥wn duify t s i ue) a6" that b ‘ ‘ week The s net thete 4 nothing Sohya hh as ® ermal: A f n aL es \ \ 1 dame tt Inw ‘ ’ Wad ne rt W ; Meee. : ‘4 Naat alee @ A Matter of Bennt wor s Yeu . = yer cd Ald ety w Mr or satiaty ; wity, aloe » 7 ‘ Aeon ~ Sy VE'S YOUNG DREAM IN DARKTOWN NS ‘B F G L But the wife of a jealous man must so often y $: iS ong and cnlldlike pleasure {n admiration as to be spiritual OES, ook HEAH, CHOLIYON DELY SE GITTIN’ SHOH NUFF SKEER’D! DONT Yo' FEAR NUTA WID CHOLMONDELY AT DE HELM! LSE DE KING O08 ALL DE CHAFFERS I | (eu ee ||'gour DEM)! [DOES You MEAN TO TELL (PIE, PUSTOH CHOLHONDELY, \OAT TOU_OIDN’T DO dy N PURPOSE NE S520 LEGCO! BH CANT) (ee } et this life an argument for their justification or even thelr exp! nip John as the crown rward to greet him. John im- an. Then, re: nbering he wae therefore have no earthly parents, 1 Fides !n happy 2 mas her son. The John 7 erplece of trickery to 1 that he was her son and bade the guards siay He knew that Fides's love for him ife at hazards. Nor was he mistaken. ed that she had led and that she had never before is brow, she r: s arms to the « eave origin and an overwhelming army (including as marching upon Munster, that !f they would betray. They giadly ac e stronger enemy. sought her fn her ded for her former fia (eo CHERRY TRY ssing his {mposture. ted Just then. guards brought Rertha before y slay the Prophet for her lover's murder. herself and fell @ er former lover's feet. shed hresiinnauant Yrought to John. He vauite filled with gunpowder, During the coronation feast < oMeers, headed hy Oberthal, and accompanted by Jonas, ia ve a secret comman@ the falling walle alt forward and threw reivenees and Aving with him. r forces ns onder, been tmprisone her foretveness, She a torrific aynios As the palace c off ring him her oThe Elixir of Love’ (ast of thix sertes) will he prblished to-morrovw, aboard the boat SS BEPDMOBOODOSS) $ODDDAOCOOOOY NIXOLA GREELEY SMITH Writes About WOQOLE 3 The Flirting Woman. § RNARD SHAW has come to the defense ng we He has said of her that she fa a sensible, weil 1 person who. exerctses ier power of selection in choosing a husband Iam glad that at last « good word has been spoken for the woman flirt. She needs it. There is probably no woman allve—certainly no wife—w jas not at one time or another been called a flirt. For according to the masculine stand of Mirting as applied to women, we must all come under classification of flirts who do not follow, spiritually at least, the ancient Japanese custom of blackening our teeth, pulling out eyebrows and wise proving our devotion to our nds, if we have them, by making ourselves hideous to all other men, Of course, we do. not undergo the actual distigurements, arp her carcely 1 iral wayety a less deformed. In discussing the ethles of flirtation we get back to the ancient conundrum Jor whether or not women should propose. For as they are not permitted to a direct chofce, they must of necessity choose !n ly, by Inuendo, by. sh playing of the men who want them against the man they want. And this of nece: 8 flirtation Iwi pac am not saying they should, for I don’t believe in looke x for trouble vould be an end of “flirtation, If convention permitted Angelina to say you be mine?’ she would never be compelled to Work up a madness In Algernon’s breast In order to bring Edwin to the proposal point. Algernon’s heart would not be broken for a week or two after the wed- ding and Edwin could never say: “How can you pretend that you have never joved any one but me when you admitted before we were married that Algernon nad pr st, don't take me for a fool!” it It is a question whether we should sacrifice the delights of flirtation and upon ourselves the responsibility of proposing Just to deprive men of the ilege of suspecting our sIngieness of neart. Once a woman is in love with him as he Is. [tls only during the initial period of to look his qualities over and decide whether or pr ns the sensible Mr, Shaw remarks, endeavor to do, The Mystery of Human Life. By: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. A { seems to me that there are, when all ts said, but two ways of rex I garding the mystery of human life. Either give It up, the whole thing, as a tragedy too black for respect, and give up with it all the beaue tful bellefs which have come Into it from some source of unutterable patience, or heroic faith, writes the author of ‘The Gates Ajar,” im | tarper's Bazar—give up, frankly, God and goodness, Heaven and happiness, | faith and purity and peace—give up all that makes life tolerable, death cheer- | rut, pain rea «, and hope possible—or else accept the system of things at | its worst, c ly admit its monstrous perplexities, and boldly swing the whole array of them over Into the gaze of a sweet reasonableness which sees in the fackest of them the shadow of the eternal sun. If we make angels of our yectres, we need not be afraid. In a word, If we can see in the worst facts tion in ane other, we have gained a point of view of which the most brilliant sceptic in thie | scofting world cannot deprive us. CD Bd dada atk ah dd A