The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1908, Page 16

The Evening 1908. $$$ : CO] ae Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 6 New ¥ ANGUS EITAW, Beee-Tr Published Daily Except Sunday by r JOSEPH PULITZET, Pres. 7 Fart 7 8 Er sot Wert 1131 Street. e at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, gland and the Continent and Bubecrip: 1e, Bvening | For Ei Warld States "All Countries In the International Postal Union, One Year... 3.50 | One Year... - One Month 30 | One Mont VOLUME 45 A COSTLY JOKE. aca aaa! eae DOLLAR looks big these days to most people without the necessity of looking through two pairs of gl to magnify it. The news columns tell of how two pairs of spectacles can magnify dollars and transfer them from the city treasury | to the pockets of the Catskill con-| demnation commissioners, lawyers, appraisers, stenographers and ex- perts. At present there are twelve com- | missions, costing New York $100 an hour for their sessions, sitting off and on in Kingston, passing on the value of pig pens, rose bushes, ivy vines, chestnut trees, swamps and like important matters. One commission carefully considered the question of how long tt takes a heifer to become a cow and decided that it was at age four. ‘mother commission spent a good part of last Tuesday moming asking @ witness why Esopus Creek flowed with greater volume sometimes than @t others. Here is the determination, that it “depends on the rainfall,” | md that in dry weather there is less water. Also that sometimes it is dry | : Bethe summer and sometimes less water flowed in the creek in the winter. That the value of a murmur is $500 and whether the boys stole the : Rom’s chestnuts are other $100 an hour matters. | ut TRE A NUISANCE OR AN ASSET, j @ COUNSEL To take this testimony requires the presence of three $50 a day issioners, one city counsel at from $50 a day up, one claimant’s lawyer, who gets 5 per cent. of the award at the city’s expense, one sten- ographer, one clerk, two appraisers and experts, for all of whom the city pays, making a total cost of $100 an hour. Two minutes time of the commission would pay a subway laborer one day’s wages. One session costs as much as the month’s wages of led workmen. ore of these commisstons are being appointed every tittle while, and there are soon to be eighty or ninety of them sitting. The con- demnation cost is now over $200,000 a month. If the money paid to sons, nephews, brothers and with a pull were spent in bifilding ‘subways, it would put thousands of men to work and would be a last- ing benefit to New York. To the $50 a day commisstoners every joke means that much miore fime wasted and that much more pay. ‘To the 4,000,000 people of Mew “York & means that much more ; tawes, that much higher rent, and that mach tess beneficial employ- \ x FW the thousends of men out of work In New York, with the| k Gemand for new subways here, it is a crime and not a joke to be f millions of dollars in $50 a day useless salaries and fees. i same majority of the Board of Estimate which outvoted Mayor (eee pet Cxeperctier ets, thet. opposition 16, new. subways honk outvote them again and put a stop to this costly Catskill joke. } Letters from the People. Amother Boy's Allowance. housekeeping” she did not aif him on Wovthe Baier of The Evecing World: the way to success and prosperity. Who A boy vecentty asked how much| would have been his stay if success pocket money he should have out of his| had not come his way—his wife, or @ @ week earnings, What should @ boy | the ‘refined, intelligent friends” he now wt sixteen get for spending money, | aswootates with. (Those that he says he weadere, when he ts making {5 a week?| is ashamed to have meet his wife.) He I bave no expenses, but oannot agree} complains of her poor “style of meal with my parents as to what they should} service.” I guess more hearts are broken give me to «pend. Please answer, read-| Dy extravagant and poor cooks than aca 8. SCOTT. | by their “style of service.” He asks yey Ce Pee advice, If he had made his wife a ‘To the Editor of The Evening World oI letter. FAIR PLAY. For a “Junior” National Guard. the Editor of The Eventne World I geo there ts an {dea tor having junior Guardsinen Guard t nobouy | Whose axes Is it} to elh other thing: As a str: S hear from you! should my nefghbors Y KESTENLAN, or should I first make myself known to| them? PUZZLED, River Edge, N. J. Consult the paste inch ast your desire to Older resider e 1 ke the social 4 es eo new comers. The plaining Husband. | World A Victim to Shaving. To the Kiditor of The Bening companion in plgto of kitchen help I | ton't think he would have penned such | World Daily Magazine, Thursday, April 23, The Danaides. _ | Nixola Greeley-Smith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY. OOOOH GODDODOODODOOOOHOOOOHO HA By Maurice Ketten Arias Versus Lullabies. 6“ VOR mind arias, sing lullabies” said Olive JN rrecenas, seine donne, tn Chlongo when anced to tell girls how to become great singers. “Most girls ambitious to be singers ought to gel married,” ahe added, Now lullabies are, doubtless, just as tmportant es aria, Only in & commerical world where the lullabies may ne® the singer less than $10 a week and the arias may command as muoh as $1,500 a night there must always be sordid pereons whe will consider the arias more worth while, Miss Fremetad argues from the assumption that lullabies are easter to sing than arias As a matter of fact if @ lullaby has any meaning at all, it implies more care, more preparation and even more talent than the most E diftiouk aria in music, for i must be sung from the hear§ | of a good mother. | Hew to be @ good mother is the hardest and worst paid work in the world. | As women, we have it eternally preached to us that it te of all work that for which we are most fitted and indeed the only work for us worth while, Yet as a matter of fact to be a good mother implies as great an aptitude and 4s careful a cultivation ef it as is required in the production of @ great writer or @ great artist. | ‘The mere fact of parenthood is no glory to @ woman any more than St Is to a mother oat or a mother chicken. Not having borne @ child but having reared it te health and intelligence and usefulness makes the crown of womanhood. The singing of a lullaby may mean merely the mechanical effort to put ® peevish ahild to sleep by ‘a mother anxious to get back to the perusal of the Intest “best seller,” or it may hold all the highest and tenderest aspirations of woman's soul. But to have this deeper significance implies the cultivation of Nish thoughts and unselfish deeds; the elimination of all that 1s shallow and petty and insincere. That an unmarried or a childless woman should be small oF selfish or untruthful, may matter to @ few persons. But that a mother should possess these meaner qualities of femininity concerns the whole race. To be able to sihg a lullaby well means to be a tender, high minded woman, alive to the large joys and griefs and injustices of the world as well as to the individual pleasures or sorrows of the home. In this sense the singing of lullabies {s muct more worth while than the singing of arias. But the arias are easier to learn. There ate more great larynxes than there are great souls. And to be a perfect mother Is a rarer as well as a higher achievement than to be a great singer. However, neither Miss Fremstad nor any one else can turn the larynx into @ ul or the soul into a larynx, The world fs full of mediocre singere and mediocre mothers, and there 1s no particular use in increasing the number of either. APPRAISING THE MURMURS oF A DEAD BRooty 4-2. {10-0 00-00 000000000009 00 00009! ‘(Fx | Gertrude Barnum’s | i Talks to Girls. | In the Spring a Young Girl’s Fancy, &c. Foss working girls lived together in the alcove be@ chamber of a ished room'' house. They were treakfasting in dishabille around the gas-fixture ar- gement upoa which they had cooked the tea and breake st food. pretty dentist's ass! t was telling fortunes from “He's coming in June," she assured the eager young millinery’ worker, Who Was peering over her shoulder nto agen \ be slack season. I'll be rested and neo “It will be a four-room flat and a back porch, with s and a canary bird.” : The laundry worker, with rheumatic fingers, next rust out her cup. “Don't say fh 2" she stipulated. “A cottage will do, but it must be in the country, with a rose garden and real birds.” Bat the “professional whistler” was hardest of all to please. ‘The fact of | having ridden into and still lacking means to get the baggage “out of hock’ was mer tall to the soaring kite of her fancy. | “While you're geuss! ust make it a city and a country home aDay: COMMISSIONERS for mine, with high ceilings and beautiful furnishings and talented people al- Winning a Wite May Be Like Running After a Street Car, | Wansecrecea tsk erates tet tereut tua aentinre ccastane lesermealcrenuceta aus haugntily ignored the tea cup of the professional whistler and ostentatiously oc- But It Won’t Do to Forget Her Atter You've Caught Her &isied sesscit'n cieaning wp the vreaktast dishes ple are too good to walk on common groun she volunteered. ome | “Would you have sent ber a@ letter Jike that, looking xe tat, to Bave (WO) enut Tye notic clinging somewhere near the earth 1s safer than balloon as- B |cents before you were married?” asked Mr. Jarr. | censions. It isn’t very romantic to work in @ dentist's office with low ceilings, ry Roy L. McCardell, | T mignt have,” said Jenkins doggedly. “1 was never one of tuose SuySth@t | without anything more beautiful to look at than laughing gas machines and Put on style for anybuly.’ ounded by people that ain't talented enough to open thelr mouths right tor 2, the ps, but {t brings.me in seven real dollars per week and suits mo better ba 118} label goodlesbeme/asente Itt ised) Jenkins, ©.) "Oh, I know all about it” sald Mr. Jarr. ese things mean a great deal! tne ¢orc bookkeeper, holding up a eomewhat Caney to a woman, Is there uny reason you shouldnt take her home a box of candy) . velope that had a printed address with inked now and then, or send her a box of roses to get home alead uf you on Ser through {t and a written address above that. A _| birthday, or ask her why she doesn’t get a Merry Widow hat, as you know “What is it?” asked Mr. Jarr, coming over beside JM") theyG be becoming to he: kins, “What's the use of chasing a street car after you've cougit it?” asked Jen- “Why, you know all these book publishers, investment | kins doggedly | brokers and other people after your money, who send vou ““And what's the use of not getting off and help give a push w stamped and addressed envelopes for reply—generally ©N®) stops on a crossing where the electric connection has a gap in it?" repWed Mr, of those stamped envelopes yvernment sells that YOU! Jary can't soak the stamp off because it's part of the envelope?”’| = “On, tf you had a wife ike mine!” mumbled Jenkins. “Oh, yes," said Mr. Jarr, “I get ‘em, too.” | _ “I've got a wife just lke yours, and so has every other man," said Mr, Jarr, “Well, I just run a thick ink Mne through the printed | you don't know how they appreciate a little gift or a Mttie attention, a Ii address and write the address of somebody I am Corre- courtesy. Suppose you got in some terrible trouble and disgra sPonding with over It, and so get the use of the stamp. pose you were arrested for robbing the firm, spending t y on an-| Pretty cute, eh?” ther woman, maybe, Who would be here on tne first tra ing at your cell “Anything #0 pelzscane for two cents 1s petty cute, not pretty cute,” sald door and swearing it was all a ¢ acy? And who would stick to you and not| Refiections of a Bachelor Girl. | Mr. Jarr disdainfully at’ your correspondent think of such a sloppy affair?” | Lelieve a word throughout it “Oh, that doesn’t matter,” said Jenkins with a laugh. “It's only to my wife. | v Betsy w She's a trump!" sald Jenkins enthusiastically, “But in 5 | the little things''-— | thi by helen Rowland. y livin ored and the dentist's assistant had completed an y pot hat and gone out for a street-car ride with » good-looking young agent for dentists! supplies, the laundry worker said medita- tivels “1 wonder the car The vhat made her so snifty all of a sudden?” little milliner looked wise. I'll bet was that young man of hers gave her the idea of the fours | room flat and back porch, with vines and the canary bird.”’ The professional whistler gave a pecullar long, low whistle. “Well, she’s in luck!" she cried with enthusiasm. And added, with a itte I wonder if I could get her job when she leaves?” +-—___. le Sup- | | She's visiting her folks down South and I'm sending her a money order.” | your wife!" said Mr. Jarr in surprise, “Aw, get out! You're the little man in the little “gure! said Jenkins, ‘She won't mind, It has a money order in !t, and] tear up that dirty old envelop» and write her a wl that's all she'll care for."’ “I won't do anytaing of the kind!" said Jenkins “Look here, Jenkins,” sald Mr. Jarr, ‘Fur be {t from me to pry into your! dred and s private affatrs, but isn't your wife away with her folks because there ts er—er) your own busine: MORN Teo cat ainsav on nahen an wonlan avai trectl @ itttle difference of opinion between you?” When Mr. Jasr,arrived home, glowing with the consciousness of u g00d deed, perspective? 7 ‘ action really lies al! in the “Well, it's all her fault!" snapped Jenkins. “Jarr, you got a wife among al he remarked how pretty some plants, looked across the way, r . , y L plants, looked oss th y, and Mrs. Jarr “why should matrimony interfere with pleasure i thousand. She never finds fault with every Httle thing you do, If you had a sighed and seid, “Yes, some husbands remembered thelr wives at Easter, and By ieaeekine kraniesttand aiaiipneet aa Sled Sayace welt rocking, erank to put up with Ike I had! Every litle thing I did she"— ‘with the women, it was the little things that counted,” aaa atee anf asiatvauleieiyoukcan Uimalenurcadiastnishter’s A ’ y ¥ c her used to | make it, simply give him a chilling glance and ask him why he can't make |“gough” as your father used to make it Mr. Showemhow Hangs Some Paper & 2'syrnacicanng time BY F. G. LOmg ems rea cats tn te, wate aloe as oneiy a eouen me = | ideal woman is the one he couldn't get. not theory, that makes an artistte lover, feel like a brute ‘at taking a kiss from @ nice after he's gotten the kiss, wits Why is a man never satisfied until he goes behind the scenee Ings," said Mr. Jarg. “You! letter."" I'm going to wire her a y, ‘Please come back, first train,’ and that I love her. You mind | Tne man who breaks his social engagements with you before marriage = ‘wilt break everything, ffom his word to your heart, afterward, Everybody ought to think twice before marrying; but nobody does, or they wouldn't. In- love, the best way to erase one face from the tablet of memory ts to |araw another across It. If street cars never broke down, what would the man who gets home late Neen his wife? The longest way round seems to be the shortest way home for the maa | who ts on his way from the clu The Making of Meerschaum. By Fritz Morris. HERE are two places in tne world, Vienna and Ruhla, which for 15 years. have been the centres of the meerschaum trade. The latter is a small village in ‘Thuringla, Saxony, near the famous old town of Elsenach, where lin Luther was confined for his own safety, by the then elector. Ruhla {s in gh which a small rivulet runs; in ancient times tt belonged to two So writes Frits [| 00 You HW You CAN [DOT ? usr WIT] 00 THIS JOB TOURSELFE || FIND SEE!) WHY DIDN'T You HOLD IT Mi a valley, throw Dukes, brothers, each of whom owned one bank of the river. | Morris in the Tecnnical World Magazine, 4 aes imeerschaum industry was brought to Ruhla about 1745 by one of the relgn Sit J SENO Jing Dukes, since when tt has held ite own more or less in commercial pro BEcoRATOR!| O | nocday it is a wideawake town with electrictty, water Power and gas, with facto T must HAVE BoucHr THE WRONG KIND; OF PAPER ries for paper making, brass works, meerschaum, and, of later years, briar wooa | making. ‘The meerschaum trade 1s a house industry, tke the making of toy Sonneberg, only a few miles distant. But, besides the work at home, there are | teveral firms having factories using electric and steam power, one of which em- ploya In and outside of the house between 300 and 400 hands. +-— Camel! Better Than Horse. 2 = OSTING about as much as a good horse, the camel's speed Is equally great, (G hia Mfe aonsiderably longer and his ability to carry a load equal to that of th horses, while the fact that he can travel a week, or, If necessary, nearly two weeks without water, renders him invaluable to those great sandy qiretches, says the Natlonal Geographic Magaaine, He can also go for several days with little or no food, subsisting meantime upon the fat stored up tn the humps on his back, which nature seems to have previded as a storehouse tor | ictenanos in case of ebeence of toed, ae —_-