The evening world. Newspaper, April 7, 1908, Page 14

Pedlished Daily Wxoept Aunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 te e Park Row, New York. J. aN ow York as Becond-C! Tho Evening | For England and od States All Countries fn HAW, Beo.-Treee., 801 Woot 119 Brosh, Mall Matter. Continent and @ International 7% Be Bubsoription Rates Fl t ‘orld for and Ci Spe ree @ Month,... VOLUME 4S Postal Union, + 03.50 One Yea: ve 0 One Mont’ SUBWAY BIDS. DVERTISING for bids for the Fourth avenue subway began yes- ) the Elsberg law e concessions ac- table to Thomas F. Ryan, The city has the money to build tri-borough subways as fast as the contractors can do the work. The salaries of the 2,000 Catskill guards would pay the wages of 4,000 subway laborers. The i of buying needless school sites, of w aid for and un- used; the shutting off of Hunt's Point and Kissena Park schemes, and a Gittle ordinary honesty and inary intelligence would provide ample sums of the city evenue to bi hout the neces- sity of even issuing long-term bonds therefor. The Board of Estimate is now acting in great part with the Publ Service Commission and the people’s wishes. Every member of the Board, excep! McClellan and Metz, is voting for new subways for the carrying out of The Evening Wor'd’s tri-borough plan. 4. Public opinion is doing its work. “PUBLIC SERVICE COMMUSSION In contrast with these officials who are doing what they should do is the attempt of District-Attorney Jerome to Perkinize Thomas F. Ryan, Ryan, Widener, Elkins, Dolan a: Whitney divided the loot from thc sale of the Wall Street Railroad, which.never existed except on pape Now Ryan is reported to have gone before the Grand Jury and testifiec that in January, 1900, he and Whitney contributed that Metropolitan's $500,000 to the election of McK‘ nley, who was not nominated until six months later. If Ryan did not testify to this effect he either committed perjury or pleaded guilty to violating Section 541 of ‘the Penal Code, which says/ that “a person acting as * * * trustee of any description * “| who secretes, withholds or otherwise appropriates to his own use, or that of any person other than the true owner, or person entitled thereto, any money in his possgssion or custody by virtue of his office, employ- ment or appointment, is guilty of larceny * * * and upon convic-| tion, in addition to the punishment prescribed for such larceny, may be| adjudged to pay a fine not exceeding the value of the property so ‘mis. appropriated or stolen, with interest thereon from the time of the misay)-| Sates = . " and ee Per centum thereupon in addition.” | nder this section Perkins coul ve beer vic! is | Pecaieen ne Gee id have been convicted. Under ths | It may be, however, that it would be easier to convict him of perjury, because Cornelius N. Bliss, Treas urer of the Republican nal Committee, says that no such con. tribution was ever made, and if it had been made he would know about it. One of the best ways to facili- tate the building of the tri-borough subway would be to send to Sing Sing the man whose opposition above all others stands in the y maybe the Board of Estimate would be ‘Letters Ponaoma Queries, Mo the Bator of The Bvening World: I would ike to hear from * & | i Ryan and Brady eliminated, ous instead of ten to s' from the People. oe wo may be taken at one e sake of the “ad.” The WS at sta- the climate and general conditt aver 1 he girls will at present, Is tt customed to the there and work? Jeraey City, Bank Clerk's Grievance. ‘Fe the Editor of The Ev 6ince the mor fn this city have inc: ness considerably, perhaps #0 benefited Dank clerks are not increase In their tions are to he cc a ers and stay 1 all houra to do t work, perhaps on $12 a week. I wis @ome of the officers would take no oft 1 open their hearts ang raise the bani olerks’ salar POORLY PALD CLEHK. HICAGOAN, What He Lost, the offices are x Wi The poorly a T GILBERT, Beware, iee Creamers, March 17, 1800, To the HAltor of Ths Bveatne World What was the da the Hotel Wind. for fire AG R Eden, 4 waa given a ing end him oar-service | Of comrse ___ The Evening World | want me to know anybody. D ‘You Can’t Tell in This Town Nearing the Finish, By Maurice Ketten. Who Your Nextdoor Neighbor Is, and ally Magazine, Tuesday, April 7, 1908. | DDOQDDDHSGIDDOODDODOHDHDDHODHDDHHHHHHDHODHDHODHHDODODSS! ' Nixola Greeley-Smith} 2 IN TOPICS OF THE DAY. : The “Warning” Habit. i if fs a singular fact that no girl goes througn the period of courtship and marringe without reeelving at least one so-called friendly warning that the man whom she 1s about to wed {s a deep and desperate villain, Some- . times the warning comes from another woman whose / ; matrimonial plang sle has quite inadvertently upset by her | own more successful attachment, But quite -often tt ts sounded by some apparently disinterested man. I have never solved to my own satisfaction the problem of why if a young woman of any degree of charm fg thrown in datly contact with forty or fifty men she will not have known them as many days before every one of the number has separately warned ler against all the others. And the atrangest part of the entire affair is that each 1s quite in earnest in his denunciation and really believes that he alone of ail the goodly contpany fs fit for the smart young person to associate with. A girl does not have to be in love to ec this strange phenomenon. Any { sirl stenographer or clerk has met it in one form or another. Sometimes, {f she !s very young and inexperienced, she takes dt seriously, When Mr. Brown, for instance, says to her. “Pardon me, but you can't afford to be seen talking to Jones—you don’t know him, and I do,” she {s really undecided as to whether Jones has eloped with his best friend's wife, or merely com- mitted murder. And all the time there may bo nothing more serious between Brown and Jones than that one owes the other $10 or so. If a girl who {s the recipient of some slurring confidence about a man she sares about would only stop to analyze the motive of the tatiler, she would never under any circumstances regard his “warnings,” &c., except as a revela- ton of his own mean spit. This applies equally whether the things he ¢ells aro true or false. Very little boys even are ashamed to tattle about each other. The grown man ho stoops to such a proceeding might well go to the school boy and learn his hone Until we deolde that we can only Judge men and women by what they are to us, utterly disregarding what any one else thinks or wants us to think about then, we will always be ilable to the disturbances of spirit that petty gossip about & woman !s compelled to listen to various “warnings” against a man ares about. In this event she has always one safe rule to follow: Listen, and forget. { \ + DOODAAANe LOOK S TO GIRLS ON (0) {0} By Gertrude Barnum BOONE’ No. 5—Letter Writing. Thomas de Quincy once wrote, “steal the matle bags, and break open the women's letters.” And truly there {s no more delightful reading than the spon- taneous, idiomatic correspondence of famous literary women, But {f we were to break open the mati the “native beauty of our ch from the heaps of ru rth when moved to * “Dear Mary Ann: write you a few lines I did not get around to write before all ts just the same as always and I suppose the same with you I hape will cuse writin, &e “Beloved Amelia: I was devoured by impatience until GCererval Barnum your wandwriting threw me into transports of rapture,” &e. Selecting further, at random, we find bad English, sentimental twaddie, tedious -descnipong.ecandalous gc ssip, stilted erudition, hypocritical amenities, platitude and falsehood and cant—enough to discourage us on the hunt for the vivid, picturesque bits of hu rt and pathos we had been led to expect. As we | go on with the search, we develop an ever-increasing respect for “mere man,”* who confines his correspondence to telegrams and picture posta] cards, Is letter-writing, then, @ lost art to-day? Oh, no. But ft Js an art which 1s not so easily found as mpst girls imagine. Girls might profitably ponder over peech to Pistol: “If thou hast ‘ I’ you wish to read our language in {ts native beau- bags to-day Id be hard to un- s I It’s Not Wise to Call, as Mrs. Jarr Can Tell You, Until You Find Out (iso"7irr oe Bre ce Po a8, tne, os whateves co amar, By Roy L. McCardell. “a ON'T you think I “Don't furthermore, a social exigencies. “You know the lady th those terribly out without her the ou 6 articular.” When tn doubt, do: sald Mr, J keep in the house and vatch for you?" said Mrs ve all the friends ust be so car 50 Fittting I WILL on her “I’m sure I didn't say you shouldn't, means.” “But how do I know who she {s?’ asked M. for you to say ‘Call on her.’ member of the fa not her well enough,” sald Mrs. Jarr. moved in next door, Wears the big hat and a heeled shoes and never thinks of going “A charming person to know, y, “but still I have never been introduced to shoes or I should call, I know that, but one has to ibe so Jar, ave no nice friends, tut stay at home and see anything. W. s me as a real lady You can make all sorts of acquaintances, but one mily at least has to be careful. am?" asked M know replied Mr. Jarr. “Call on her by all who your nextdoor ne} on a short acquaintance. Mrs met at a bridge whist party, and t | yee they have been thick as thieves ever since.” Kitting ought to call on that Mrs. Jarr. “Oh, pshaw! the party, sald Mr. Jarr, ‘and, anybody on my account. in @ position to advise you upon to” “Of course, lived next “She's “Wel about t “T hay call, then’” sald Mr. Jarr. ean T have no doubt," said When Mr. Jarr came home a few nights later there was a gleam of triumph jin Mrs, Jarr's eyes. there was something queer about her! me in, I saw through her. call! Mrs. has been in trouble for shoplifting. “I guess not! That fs just like a e can be on the go all the time. careful that mustn't in spite of your and a very desirable of any people you are Interested in! “Me?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Yes, you; you asked me to call on that person! Jar Jarr. “It's all right enough “Oh, you can’t turn it Into a joke!’ Don't bother me about it!" sald Mr. Jarr. Call if you want to, and don’t call if you don’t want {t's my place to call," said Mrs. Jarr, reflectively. loor for a couple of months and appears to have plenty of money, and her manners were charming and she {!s anxious for me to call.” “What an awful fuss you women make much to attend to that I declare, I don't have the time. “What did I tell you about that woman!" she said excitedly. Well, thank goodness, she didn't take And to think she had the tmpudence to ask me to i i Kittingly was telling me all about her to-day. She's divorced and 88°, pase Into a phrase, and thi I might have known there was something : a le wrong, and yet you advised me to’ call. Thank goodness, I'm always careful | To*lize that a good style does not “just happen,” but results from study and They are all alike!” sald Mrs. Jarr. You can’t tell in this big town Mr. Jarr would have advised ‘her to make a social faux pas. bor is, and I nave made {t a rule never to get intimate | introduced me to the woman. t's all Mrs. Kittingly knows about her, and intended to cal!, and that's a fact,’ said Mrs. Jarr, “but I have Mrs. Kittingly eays the cab, and could not tell you that Mrs. Flittingham is from an old Southern family, and she has beautiful hese distinguished articles |CUt Sass." up by our eet. 2 “All ts well {f that’s the case," sald Mr. Jarr, grinning. “sald Mrs, Jarr, “I can't ask you a beware! Plenty of cut glass, unassailable social position.” without you try to be funny. You don't ; ‘Oh, £ ove’ _ Don't deny It! “Ah, but the cut glass, that's what decetved me!" said Mr. Jarr, smiling. And she still belleves | Love In Darktown ( Al RECKON DAS ALL RIGH DE PROPER WAY TER GET ER MANS LUE IS TER PLEASE HIS APPERTITE | FER GOOD COOKIN ~AALE (VES’ TRY MAH Lit BAK HAN’ ON SOME BISCUITS FO’ /115- (JOH CHOLMONDELY,) €F RA Don’) PETCH DAT MANS CON- FECTIONS, (WAM 7A ST He The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones wr wa te rd Beautiful Araminta Montrescor *« DIS AM A _UNSUSPIC/OUS. PLEASURE: AH HOPES You's BRUNG You APPERTITE, WIF_ YOU - FO AW'S JES Purl a » (00! OOCH.! ala shave the last Let me add a sugues this" make evorr other window a mirror; put | wes given. & not lees than ten chewing-gum slot- | formed me that th due to the fact that not kept clean. Wt!l come reader ty tell me the name of this new species ‘OuUIB Machines and farten a powder-puft to @eoh strap Any powler manefacturer Will put In @ on. of facial four (bolted Another cr ot tat the sizo of « I found the cam: © more glasses that 1 complainant in- * was probably fountains wi By F. G. Long AHS GoT ER WEAKISHNESS FO! BISCUITS: ( You CAN'T MAKE NO MORTAR 4 ey 1 08 DIS CHICKEN! DERE AM A Limir TER MAH They “You needn't call on “She has| “No out glass, "On,, I knew sald Mra) ever, they should spare the mall-carrters. If they have tklings, they should de- iver them simply. A Scotch servant girl, whose elegant and chari the admiration of a well-known English critic, explained the mystery of her \ beautiful style when she said: “Always when I sit down to write a letter I choose those words which are so short that I am sure I know how to spell them.” | Depth of feeling and simplictty of expression were the secrets of her art. The peculiar charm in good letter writing 1s spontanetty. The body of any | composition should be solid, and conventionally correct, held together and: jointed | by the proper particles, which are the “very bolts, pins and hinges of the struce ture of language; and yet, capricious, pecullar idioms and the “exceptions” which break regular rules are happy signs of life and growth tn English, Inter- {Jections are admirable: Ah! Alas! Pooh! are paragraphs condensed into a syllable, but headlines and exclamation points do not constitute a letter. Ad- | Jectives, girls should regard as special temptations, never to be ylelded to when a noun might better speak for itself, and superlative adjectives are fit only for uupreme occastons. Curiosities of language may be Introduced to add spice—bits of picturesque slang; dialect, ltvely expressions, such as “topsysturvy," ‘*helter= And the powerful effect of onomatopes 1s shown in such exame & love letters once excited you mind your own business!’ said Mrs, Jarr, snappishty. Tl think | skelter," &e, | ples as Tennyson's “Break, break, break.”* “Selection” has been called “the greatest faculty of the human mind.” Not one of the three leading members of the famous American Const{tutfonal Con- © vention spoke over twenty minutes !n the debates. They knew what to leave k words. And a celebrated French author the desire to get a whole book into & Phrase Into one word." altogether too carelessly. It 4s time for them to | | unsaid, and how to say most in fewe: | declared himself ‘ever tormented by Girls “take pen in hand’ | practice, Let them deliver real tidings witn their feet on solid ground instead jof Jumping about upon broken tnterjections and disjointed verbs or floating cloudily upon superlative adjectives, Let them study the historic masterpieces of letter-writing and develop the faculty of condensing a page into a phrase, | Then, perhaps, we might be tempted to ‘steal the mail bags and break open the women's letters.” | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, | By Helen Rowland. | HE average man looks on matrimony as a hitching post where he can tle a woman and leave her untt] he comes home nights, ‘There {s nothing @o uninteresting to a man as a contentedly married woman. | A man’s sweethearts are ike his cigars; he has many of each of them, loves each one as tenderly as the preceding, and appreciates each according tu its expensiveness. | | A husband can always find fault with bis wife, but, then, even archangels ‘could pick flaws in one another if they had to drink coffee at the eame table : levery morning. | Matrimony {s, ke the weather, mighty uncertain, and the happtest people | are those who ure neither looking for storms nor banking on sunshing, but ere | Just willing to go along sensibly and take what comes. | it may mean nothing, but it's very mortifying to a woman when she takes |her husband's dog for a walk and he tries to go into every corner saloon. la me easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark, | to | “It's Fine to Be Poor.” | It’s Fine to Be Poor. } | By Edward W. Bok, | ys makes me smile,’ said Edward W. Bok tn an interview 166) | in the New Broadw: hen some woman, a reader of our magazine, writes me and asks: ‘Wiet do you know about the | needs, the life or the struggles of poor people—you who were born with a silver spoon in your mouth?’ Bless her heart, she ttle knows that I have been through it all, I know what ft Is to live on | practically nothing; to stealthily leavo the house at night, go to the lots and | T alwi pick up odd pieces of wood because we had not the four cents to buy a bundle of kindling ;to pick up odd bits of coal; to sift the ashes until my fingers bi | of kindling; to pick up odd bits of coal; to go around afraid to stoop because of the patches im my clothes. Know it? Oh, yes, I know what it is to be poom, | ana ft was fine, I tell you,” sala this man unexpectedly, “Fine? You mean poverty?’ I askedt “1 do,” he sald, emphatically, “The finest thing that ever happened to ma the finest thing thet ever happened to any young fellow é hadi poor. There js no greater stimulant than poverty—not as « eonditien ép wi J a as ah Sa