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——————— _—_ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, April 15, 1908. , | Keeping McCarren Out. The Story of Pertiened Datly Except Senter Sy (Gp Br SEG Company, Now. 68 to @ By Maurice Ketten. Th e Pr e 5 i d e nts ry | J. ANGUS AITAW, Bee-Treae,, 201 YWeet 119th Street, [ QOBEPM PULITZER, Pree, 7 East 114 —— B Bntered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mat! Matter. scription Rates to The For England a Continen kd World for the United States All Countries and Canada. $3.50 One Year 20 | One Month. ang By Albert Payson Terhune BOODDDQOU Aw) DOQDOGOOGQOHOOGOS COOODOCOTOIOOOOSS“E i NO. 14. MARTIN VAN BUREN. 1 Eighth President, (1782-1862.) Very small and slender. Large dark eves, Vroad high brow, shrewd erpression. Curly hair and side-whiskere, VOLUME 48, PROPER PRIDE OF THE POOR. NO,.17,089. | your temper, Matty, and cheat them !f you can, uve got the gentus little Matty Van! ugh Cass and Col, Johnson vl and true, py're fools to trust thelr chance to suc! ygue as youl T HIS verse from one of the famous camp: zn songs of the day shows Buren, eighth of our Presi- State. The truth or falsity atty’s"” of St.} how political foes regarded Martin dents and first President from New Yor he verse car perhaps be 1 R. Curry, of the Chu James, over the manner of conduct- ing east side charities. Mr. Riiscame to the foreground in east side at-| fairs through President Roosevelt's certificate that Mr. Riis is “a model citizen.” | The Rey. Mr. Curry’s objection is to the attitude of the charitable rganizations and settlement w« ers toward the people of the east “maelstroms of mi yeral charitable organiz to their charity disbursements. of arned from the fo! ng story of career, | Van Buren's father lyed on said to have eked out his teen of our twenty-six Pr eight, John Quincey Adan walk of life, ‘Martin V: district school at fourte. years there he spent ay was admitted to the bar an f n. There he plunged at ¢ managed, by s of qxirty partner), James J post for hims Attorney-Ge: him the Attorney-G: cidedly unpleasant for Cli a little farm at Kinderhook, N. Y., and fs ing by runnl vern as well, Four have been f sons, Of the first the only one whos en began and going 1 w office to Kinderhook to » local polities. At his half-brother (and lew position of $ d win the iit De W turn Van “slum children.” He also cri disproportion of their salar’ with Go tp. In cutt for re- ) for a 5 1; election thus a wily and ministrative purposes as against $86,055 cha je relief. $n 8 Gan gerol These criticisms and Mr. Riis’s replies have started a discussion in Early __ New York politi d been in a turmol! for years. + bay Was rpose: ss the Triumphe Now, in 1819, 1820 and 1821, they were rent and tangle® which both partes seem to be talking at cross purposes and miss the ; U ROMER Ey don cl cmatciny aterm, mA Teal point. were many i loeal political this y =, period that none could cr p enough slative vote nited The east side settlements do an enormous amount of good. Ev ery: » a nanes gh A ey not only re as to have ‘body who engages in settlement work is benefited thereby. Everybody who contributes to charity is bettered by the motive of his contribut The fashionable young women who cut out dances and teas to s their time in Rivington street improve their health by keeping more ra tional hours, their minds by giving themselves this systematic work and “their thoughts by their ennobling purposes. enate ring orde Ser squaring TO- jan,” mere point. | and He tary of State. V and to 1 “Old Hickor; The Rev. Mr. Curry makes the mistake of considering this question solely from the standpoint of his parishioners. The fact is undoubted | that the “slums” have an excellent moral effect upon the young women| who are brought face to face with misfortune and poverty. But whether Mes — the victims of misfortune and poverty are bettered thereby is quite an- other matter. i istory. Ha zs the Rev. Mr. Curry says, “My r people need homes, not 2 wae A q : | the four-year Van Buren Adn Barks. What I am fighting for is decent ote tenements.” This is Make Your Wife Happy by Giving Her a Baby Irish Shirt Waist, Bee seally the need of the eas Heise tal es ete ge Reet ar cao Then She Won't Have to Wear a Fur Collar to Deceive the Public. """ ““""'" Buren that he m, but b Harrison, Hugh White and Dante pss all through other panie in Andrew Jackson was n but a poor financler. He left the unfortunate shape. Van Buren, reaped the {ll-effects of all th Van y, not the : Deemer nRIGNRHE MEN ca oroone throwing of sops to poverty, but the | erat uspecions:souicens yehone ta Wewaway, deni ryculhavelchei aR eapinguthe vas too strong for even his prevention of poverty, not the scru- By Roy L. McCardell, | tren ae sacaina/acat oeeeaal SeeTee Whirlwind Yot he estabiishe tinizing investigation of an appli- re HERE," sald Mrs. Jarr, in @ tense whisper, “that's “How do you harge account?” asked Mr. Jarr. « 3 handling era i oe I t ol what that cost, then you'd say “Who satd she replied Mrs. Jarr. “Are you cra af cant’s history, morals and family £0 I simply called y ttention to the collar of her shirtwatst. I rem: i relations, but the creation of such Be he ¢ Oiicourse $time yaonL ene nna ncoll neut a ania economic and social conditions that some oh eae aranette wats ee an Doren RGy tn ingly h five cents, fnued Mrs, Jarr. in't the fa z to be worth five cents he opinion se.” asked Mr. Jarr. said Mrs, Jarr. “You can't tell me you are as {gnorant as wear good so their Mas I do has a shirtwi of there will be no applications for charitable relief. Any man whose proper pride and self-respect are not destroyed has in him the possibilities of useful Citizenship. If he is out of work the he annexing of Tex: it. The Free Soi and in 1848 nominated Van Buren as {ts more he was “snowed under.” After this he seer political hopes were dead. He became more of a the field of public life. In 1862 he died (on his way home an trip) at the age of eighty n Was a strange man n the ng to prominence te for President. Once realized his actor a Euro- e buying prete Mt expect to be dressed decen out to you sittin sus look. “Do * replied Mr. Jarr, “If you mean Shifty, alert, time. ften chang: way to remedy his condition ts to ten tails hanging down m ing hi p for his own advancement, but once or twice firm In Baie egies ance OOS Oe SiGenint ciety joking up, because tt goes way up under her ears ciple his days he w: arget for political abuse, much of which he sprovide him employment. If he is sick, the remedy should have starte shmore. a the favomte advice they said Mrs. Jarr, probabls His pr! ‘e was irreproachable and was never z kin b ridi ft able emplc while telling them how to make ten thousan “In Baby Irish sked Mr. Jarr, assailed. The Whigs in view of his craftiness nicknamed him “The Li ‘far back in both providing him profitable empl eee eee etal Tr "That's all handwork, and a shirtwalst lke, Fox,” and in one of their songs summed. Mm up ase Littlo ‘him the value of thrift and saving for time of sickness. 18.77 | at the very leasty “A tricky horse that slips his bridle.” Jart | pesca was a safe guess. Kittingly's n Cin stores, Not that I'd man for all 1 Charitable organizations are now urging the State to provide tuber- | seulosis homes in the Catskills and Adirondacks where men and_ thei families who have had their health destroyed by bad working conditions and unsanitary tenement houses may be sent to receive medical care | end a wholesome diet. | seru There should be no tuberc Every case of consumptior rect accusation agai ng and home c tim. No man who lives under proper condit (hat is no more possible than fora water supply i contaminated, or to g cal att Here the lady arose and came out past the Jarrs, and Mrs. Jarr regarded her rane collar,” sald, “the watst 1s just machine-made nc numbers of thia serles may be obtained oo ing n one-cent atamp for ench article to “The E jon Department. sister tention World do Mrs. Jarr ay, ree account at several of the big New Y. rd Mrs. Kit sister may be a scrubw r, “when T can ralse the money, you shall have! ing to make you happy to get a Baby TI “I'd get a new spring suit with the r “That Mre, Kittingly’s alster is a } rish lace shirtwaist ey, and has a charge Yet there ¢ women th: ve a charge a and {t's a ow're on! said Mr. Jarr, But, alas! 1, as I sa e's a woman right ahead of us has that buying clothes and shoes for Am ne, too," the Baby Irish or its equivalent, Nixola Greeloy-Sinith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY It's a pt t week the rent was due, and after in bables kept Mrs, Jarr from having a the w ditions of t he consumptive, if his mins Reddy, The Rooter |} “i°nndssects vans” {f1 By George Hopf He Got There. 5 IGEE,IM A REGULAR 3 ‘ = FLIPPY RIPPLES!NOW HE'S SICK ANI FOR DE OFFICE! CAME To HELP; if Thad phoid fever Blaming the Woman. AM BAKER, twen ndition to West Vir of m a yesterday a warning to young men rder, pub- which ‘he his troubles on various women, and uttered the famMiar sentiment that a woman can raise a man's amble tion higher, cause him to der than he had ever thought posstble, or else she his ambitions ‘a thousand miles helow the fathom hs of hell.” The first person to 8 was Adam, the first mau. But tt man has no monopoly of t dQ custom of blaming ft on the other fellow, To be sure, it was Adam who sald “The woman tempted me, and I did eat,’ but I've no doubt Mother Eve entertained her grandchildren with the story of ‘her own unappreciated self-sacrifice in stealing for Adam the apple she knew he wanted. Certainly, women in our own time ‘have too much the habit of Inying thelr slummers” ¢ sting statement, be admitted that ~ Letters from the People. A Husband's Co nplaint. nota : troubles on some contrilutory man. ‘The most degraded women and the most Rac enreen | criminal men alike shift tne burden of their delinquencies on other shoulders | Yet, as a matter of fact, no man or woman need go outside himself or her= | sett for the source of misfortune. Nothing in iife is flnal but the ending of tt. | There is no disaster that comes to any one which cannot be m Monte \ Cristo, lessly imprisoned in a dungeon of rock, lived to say, * orld ta KID > may any ono else, no matter how poor or grief-st nor sin= y S THEY SAY You've. Z 1 | ridden, provided he accepts his own responsibility for au 1 : does not try to sh on some one else. te i Pash coaeKs SA) ONG | The man who !s weak enough to blame a woman for his cri has that weakness, not the woman it led him to blame. ‘Nhe woman who whines that “some man" contributed to her downfall should look Into her own soul for the | real cause of It | Some one, to be sure, may jostle us In the street and we may fall. But ts |that any reason for sitting In the gutter and wating about our fall, Instead of pleking ourselves up, dusting off the mire, and going our way with our eyes openedt ‘here are women in New York who would say that they couldn't Ive honest lives here because “some man” In New Mexico or New Zealand had taught them first to err, ‘There are . like James Baker, who would say they are criminals are because some woman in Budapest had taught them to steal. Well, a ‘women may blame “some man’ for one etror—perhaps. A man, with a shadow of excuse, may argue that “some woman" is responsible for one crime to witch |ehe lured him. But that is all. The fact that either goes on sinning proves @ naturel talent for #t, It is so in Mr. James Baker's case, and in every, othen, re and & and a few tration ang presence were wit young man’s quickne ¢ mind. GAVALLERLA BUBWAYANA. 4 |