The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1908, Page 15

The (Copyrighted, 199%, by the Press Publish- ing Company, N. Y. World.) DING CHAPTERS. described, the ro- SYNOPSIS OF PREC The earlier instain mantic and unusual beginnings of famous men’s love affairs (tho love stories of Wash- fuzton, | Franklin, ribaldi, Ruskin, &c.): the history and. philow: of kissing and certain atrange ways whereby wives have been wool and Won, Historie love letters form the theme of one chapter, and propos: of marriage by celebrities aro cited In an other. CHAPTER IX. The Humor of Proposals. “In love we are all fools alike.""—Gay. | HERE are many men who! would wall without a tre-| mor through a hail of bul-| or Jets on the battle-fleld, would dash without a mo- ment's hesitation into the flames to, fave a life, and yet these very men feel a terrible inclination to turn tall and fly when they are called on to, face the battery of a pair of sweet eyes and to ask a simple question to which they have reason to expect a| gratifying answer. This {s why so/ many thousands of lovers seek cour- | age in pen and ink and distance, and) make the postman the Innocent am- Dassador of their desires; but it ts scarcely conceivable that a man who had this resource open to him should choose the alternative of getting a valorous and obliging friend to pro-| Pose for him ™ this connection the Inte Mr. Spur- eon used to tell an amusing anec- ote. A young dissenting minister who was bold enough to preach dectrines | that were not strictly regular, fell in love with the daughter of one of his deacons: but, bold as he was in the pulpit, hie courage was not equal to the test of asking her to be his wife He confided his doubts and difficulties | to a friend who gallantly offered to act | as his ambassador. an offer which was gratefully accepted. A Rhythmic Answer. The envoy went on his important mii gion and returned bearing tne lady’ answer in a delicately perfumed en- velope. This was the answer: Who wants a maid himself should woo, Nor weakly do't by proxy! For that's the method orthodox. ‘The other's hetornioxy. An amusing stony !s told of a certain rich but bashful middle-aged bachelor fn Lancashire, who had fallen a tardy victim to one of Cupid's shafts, The very thought of having to make a per- eonal offer of marriage was sufficient to give him nightmare, and to propose by letter ho looked on as rather a cowardly shirking of duty. At lest & happy solution occurred to him, Pur- @hasing a phonograph and a number of cylinders, he sent them anonymously to the lady of his choice, who was de- Nghted with such an acceptable pres- ent. She excitedly proceeded to try the and her confusion msy be im- agined when she heard @ voice she knew well declaring undying love for her and begging her to be the speak- er's wife. | @er such conditions but answer to his pleading, and less than months loter the story of this strange wouilng was told by the bridegroom timeclf at his wedding reception. Breach of promise cases furnish a rich field for observers of human nature. In a recent case it came out in evidence that not one of the imposing pile of love from which plaintiff's counsel read eloquent extracts was actually composed by the defendant. From| beginning to end of an engagement | lasting tWo vears the defendant's sister | Pad taken th elm in hand and had} p.loted her brother through the shoals of the sea of love, It was she who concocted the touching letter, fully furnished wi sentim poetry. which had won the intiit's | consent, and she had dictated every billet doux that had emanated from him. Paying the Price. Consider the extent of her sisterly devotion when she could apostrophize a member of her own sex in this way: ‘Whene'er 1 stoop to kiss a rose T press my lips y cheek And ‘in the nightingale’s No flower that bloon ‘No bird that sings can ma And every sparkle from thy eyes ‘Makes my poor, fluttering heart rejolce. But he had to pay a heavy price for his sister's poetry; and, no doubt, it| ever he goes a-woolng again, he will | choose some one else for medium—pos- | sibly a brother But all Cupid's proxtes are by no means false to their trust, In a recent dreach-of-promise case it was pleaded | by the defendant that he never proposed | to the girl at all, but that a friend had} done the deed without hts approval. | Unfortunately for the recreant lover's | vase, a letter was produced by the plaintiff's counsel In which he not only begged his friend to act as his am- bassador, but continued, “Don't refuse me, for I know I shall never have the courage to do it for myself and I ghall lose the sweetest wife any man ever had.” | A Widows Wiles. | But even the most dimdent lover need mot have recourse to a deputy if all) AT CITY DOUS TH The Romance=—— ==Love-Making By Thornton Hall. jcate hints to coy | when they were oicycling together with Evening DODOODOODOGIHOOCOUVIIIOSGOwe 8 ladies were as sympathetic and helpful as gome we know of. An amusing story 1s tuld of a widow who had been in the habit of invoking the assistance of a neighboring widower witness her signature to transfers of stock and to leases, asd to ndvise her generally on business matters, a duty which the gentleman appeared to find agreeable. “Ah.” exclaimed the lady one day, with a sigh, “it is a sad thing for a ‘woman to be left alone in the world. When my dear husband was alive he used manage all these things for me." “But why don't you take an- other husband ventured the sympa- thetic widower in an impulse of bold- To this the lady answered noth- sigh, as if to indicate the impossibilty of such a thing. But that there was ore’ who was prepared to to undertake the responsibility the widower quickly demonstrated, and now the good lady has not far to go for a witness and a business manager. Equally resourceful was a north country widow who kept a small grocer’s shop and who counted among her lovers a local farmer who was as diMdent as he was big. “Here, Mr she said to him one day as he was looking unutteraple things at her over the counter, “just you tle that parcel up for me." Whether it was native clumsiness or the embarrassing effects of concealed affection, the farmer bungled so much over the knot that impatient widow exclaimed, “I know a man who can tle a knot much better than th “Who's that?” queried the innocent farmer. “Why, the parson, of course,"’ was the prompt | and unexpected answer. This was an’ opening which even the farmer was| not stupid enovgh to miss, and a few weeks later the parson'’s services were in demand. Caught by a Trick: \ But it must not Se thought that widows have a monopoly of these dell- lovers. A story is told of how a clever girl captured al/ bashful young man who had long | shown her a lover's attention without claiming a lover's privileges. One day @ party of friends the young lady | found it necessary to stop to inflate her tres, a task which her diffident lover! gallantly undertook for ter. It was halt an hour later when the pair over- took thelr companions, when the girl looked so radiantly happy that her sister ventured to congratulate her openly on her engagement, a congratu- lation which was chorused by all the party. In vain the young couple protested; the engagement was sxepted as a matter of course, and before the day's ride was ended the lover, thus encour- aged by circumstances, had converted {t Into @ fact, although he little knew that the deflated tires, the delay and the congratulations all formed part of a prearranged programme. “Please take me out or I shall faint,” another young lady sald to her partner, who had escorted her to a quiet corner of the conservatory between the dances, And true to her word she proceeded to faint, and recovered consciousness to find herself in her partner's arms—and to see certain of her friends, who had Wandered {nto the conservatory, dls creetly retiring. ‘The position ae- cidedly embarrassing, but there was a look of ha 8 and mischief rather than of confusion tn her eyes when she and her escort emerged from the conservatory to recelve the congratula- tions of friends. ‘There are, alas, some who say that the young lady fainted with one eye open! (To Be pine: judd.) Announcement Publication of “The Fighting Chance ”’ is post- poned for the present owing to questions raised concerning the New York serial rights. A new story by Fergus Hume, author of ‘‘The Mystery of aHan- som Cab,’’ and a romance /along the same attract- ive lines, will be- gin in to-mor- row’s Evening World. HELLO, Bess! WANT TO COME AND TRY MY NEW MoToR boat topay? OK, Looe! MiTH “A NICE Too! How iD bovety! Gy ty! World Daiiy Magazine, The Million Dollar Kid | KNOW How iLL GET EVEN WITH Looe! ie BUY 4 motor Goat! HE CAN'T BUTT IN | THEN | OH, ILL BE wuST OELICHTED MR Monte ! ELLO, Bess | WANT To COME ALonG? CANOE, ITS @ FINE LITTLE CRAFT , DODGAST I(T! 4 Got THIS CANOE WITH CIGARETTE Wednesday, By R. W. Taylor|: po aes /ourr $2,000 2 (ee TAKE \T B NOU SEE Ive NAMED HER “SBESSIE “IN Your Honor! 1 WU3T Love CANOES, coute ! ie 50 Ways for Girls to Earn a Living. | By Rheta Childe Dorr. This series gives complete infor- mation as to positions open to girls, the requirements, duties, pay, etc. Also how to get the positions. HE last census Work for Everybody. report con- I tains one large voluthe devoted to the work being done by women in the United States. Three hundred and three occupations were described he census report, and women are at . them. It is true R CXDornh ™ pat not all of these are available in New York City. Thou- sands of women are engaged in agri- culture, in textile mills, in furniture- making, and in other industries which do not flourish in large cities, Here in New York, however, the choice !s very wide. Besides the occu. ations described in detail in this sertey there are others which do not employ ax many women, but do offer o, portunities. Pharmacy, architecturay draughting, proofreading, interior deo. : ot in| work tn all ‘out nine | jorating, shopping fon out-of-town cus-, tomers, florist work, manicuring and hairdressing, housekeeping in hotela— these are a few tat have proved both pleasant and profitable. Let the girl who expects to ge to work soon ask herself what she likes to do, for congenial work !s always |better done than uncongental work. | Phen let the girl ask herself honestly whether she has the mental capacity, | educational training, physical strength and special qualifications required to | do that work. If she has not, then let (her think of the next most desirable work, Don't try to do something which you are not qualified to do, be- cause It 1s better to succeed in a hum- ple position than to fail in a lofty one. For example, if a girl fecls drawn towards commercial work she should look back over her school career and recall the studies in which she has gained good marks. If she has been rated weil in English, writing, spelling | metic, she has a chance to qualify for her chosen work. But if she has not been rated well in those studies all the speed in the world won't make her a good stenographer and typewriter, If a girl has shown marked ability in drawing I know of no better chance and in arit for her than in one of half a dozen de- partments of commercial art, Costume design {!lustration is one of Qhese, and there are others, In which the demand for workers !s rapidly increasing. Those girls who have not made brill-; much more detailed information than I fant records in school and who com- Plain that they have no particular apt!- [tude for any work should look about them and see what others are doin; Factory work {s by no means all sweat- shop labor. Some of it is very good in- deed. Making electrical apparatus for telephones, &c. pleasant work. Candy 1s made, packed and sold by girls. Nearly all food products are packed by Birk uch of it under good conditions, In fact everyth we eat, wear or use !s made in art by women. The man who does not think women are a permanent part of industry ought to be told that his hat, shirt, collar, tle, un- derwear, suit, shoes and stockings, not to speak of the chair he sits in, were all partly made by women. This article was written by a woman, th. paper it was printed on and the ma- chinas that printed {t were partly made wetaen, the compositor may have been a woman, and it was sold In the suoway by a girl. Women are a part of industry and they should be exceedingly proud of the fact. Dear Mrs, Dorr LEASE give me information about World containing your article, H, J., Stamford, Conn. Presbyterian Hospital, New York, ask- ing for their latest report. You will get could pessibly give you in this depart- ment, A Switchboard Girl. Dear Mrs. Dorr: ILL you tell me where I can learn to operate a switchboard? I have had two years’ experience in cen- | tral office. A.D. What are you doing but operating a switchboard? If you mean a private switchboard tn business house or apartment, I should think your head operator could give you full informa- ton. Nurses Must Know. Dear Mrs, Dorr: AN a girl of twenty-one with only | @ srammar school education enter | any of the New York Training ools for Nurses? © that I know of, K M. B. several other tnqulrers. This answers For Day Students. Dear Mrs, Dorr: | J HAVE been studying atenography | and typewriting all winter at night close 1 school, Now that it 1s about to school where I could continue the wi would like to hear of a day kK. M.S. P., Long Island City. Hebrew Technical School for girls, aoa » and Fifteenth street, ; Manhattan, has a free summer course of nine weeks, beginning about the first of July. Clarence the Cop 1 MUST HURRY. BEFORE THE BANK CLOSES JOUGHTER GIT PROMOTED FER, UNIS THAT COP STOLE MY WHY, !T'S, CLARENCE!) YE CANT vet lf About Nursing. nursing. I mislaid The Evening Send to Bellevue Hospital or to the BANK Book! MUST o' DROPPED! OUT O' THAT AUTO, = By C. W. Kahles YUL KETCH HIM AND GIT A REWARD! GRACIOUS! My BANK 800k's cone! -| AS I LIVE THAT COP Ss RUNNING AWAY WITH IT! p-— —_Y [You STOLE My © HOUSAND DOUARy | SOME BODY ELSES )\YE'R CAUGHT WD TH. — eN 40008! (1=151- THOT AT WAS)[ THATS TOO THIN } By Joseph A. Flynn, HEN I took at the Boarding House table last evenin- ing Tess appeared to be deeply in- terested in some reading —_matter over in the far corner of the room. Not wish- ing to disturb her, 1 leaned ba xk in my chair, and | was soliloquizing on the effect real | meat has on persons of different tem- peraments, when she tugged at my sleeve. “Here's some steak T saved from the , wreck,” she whispered, placing the remnants of a tenderloin beside me on the table. “But before you operate on it take a plke at this, and let's see what you don't know,” and she handed me a sheet of foolscap, closely written in a feminine hand. “Lizzie’s re- sponsible for it. She's been living In a Carnegie book factory Jately, and this is the grand noise.” Obediently I took the manuscript in question, covered my portion of steak with a plate, In order to protect It from possible invaders, and read as fol- lo 8: “Celestine Davenport was only a poor working girl, but she was honest as well as beautiful, She worked hard! every day In a restaurant and was well! liked, because she always kept her| fingers out of the meals. She was a} proud girl and scorned the tips the cus- tomers left beside the plates, never taking them.unt!l no one else was look- ing. “She got her pride from her father. He, poor man, never knew what !t w: to. work. He came of a proud and haughty race of people who always owned thelr own saloons, and he taught pinochle for a living. One day he went | out and must have found a job, for he never came back, and poor Celestine} was loft to support the family. “No one could say a word against her, not even the woman downstalr: and all the cops on the beat called her How to Write a Story -: -:- With “Literary Merit” The Stari of a Boarding-House Effort night her front name. Her salary could be counted with one hand, but every | when she climbed the soap- washed stairs she carried a bunch of Towes for her gray-halred mother and & box of candy for her crippled brother, who was damaged following his hat out of @ four-story window. “All the customers were madly im love with her, especially the han manager; but she gave them a haughty glance from her beautiful brown eye® and punched their checks for une right amount. One day Percival Morgaae feller, whose father owned the house which she lived, entered the restau in patent leather shoes, a smile on his manly features, and sat down at ber table. 4 “She happened to catch a fleetii slance from his clear, blue eyes; Mttle heart stopped, two small s' an. three cups of wet coffee landed the shirt bosom of a steady customer and when she came back to the ground Percival wag holding her on his stro: sleeves. She had met her fate at last. ‘ow, that's as far as she's got,’ continued Tess. “But she’s plu way on the second chapter and ex pects to be finished to-morrow.” “In this her first offense? Pardon I meant her first attempt at st writing?” I asked, trying to sink lump of sugar in the coffee, “No,” Tess replied, ‘she wrote ‘Hea: broken Edna, the Poor Millionatress? two Weeks ago and sent it to a magae zine. But, lke that sult of clothes and red tle on your floor who hung Mrs. Starve-em up for six weeks’ board and beat {t through the roof last night, Jf never came bac! That's strange,” I remarked. “She should have heard from them before th Perhaps the story possesses some Mterary merit and they are giving it the benefit of careful criticism arid just consideration?” of “Whatever that means,” Tess 1 joined, and there was a cessation of hostilities at the table as a young lady entered the room. with a black nat blouse over a new white China alle waist and took a seat beside me, to all appearances utterly oblivious of sensation she produced. Ps “Lizzie can’t dope it out, but that lot drink of water who sits over there and thinks he knows it all told her to ab ways Inclose a two-cent stamp whe sending anything to @ magazine you'll get back in the mall next morning.” it By Helen O break away from. me-down garment; of out his with your ideas. A man If all the men competition in business; besides, there gladly exchange a typewriter for a sew late evenings he !s always celighted—an It 1s easter to wal, boots. Berlin’s Ele tc spaces, facement of streets by elec in ugly or confined I erection HE blouse that al- lows effective use I of the fashion- able buttons or em- proidered disca as trim- ming 1s one certain to be in demand just now. Here {8 one which ts made of pongee with trimming of applique and chemisette of all- over lace, while the wide tucks at the shoul- ders are trimmed with buttons. But in place of buttons embroidered discs would be hand- some and equally smart, while the blouse itself iy sulted to almost all seasonable materials. It can be made with skirt to match, or be worn with an odd one, as liked, and the pretty band which truns tho neck and front edges can be embroidered or covered with applique banded with sou- or treated in any that fancy may sot. ‘The quantity of ma- required for the n-year-old size 13 yards 21 or 24, 21-2 or 13-4 yards de, with 1-2 wide for yards of or Via way isses’ and six No, SOSS. 1s sizes for girls of fourteen all or send by 1 may not consider a woman immoral she smokes cigarettes; far worse—and that's unkissable. all the women who hold them they would —_++ 'T 1s announced that the Berlin pole signs. best streets und from places where they are Ii to THE EV York. Send 10 cents tn coin or stamps for each pattern ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your name and address plainly, and al- er TON FASHION BUREAU, No. 132 Saat Obtata These Patterns, } Ways mpecity sige wanted Refiections of a Bachelor Girl, : Rowland. NE week of actual practice in love making makes ® man more expert than a knowledge of all the the ories that ever could be invented by the most emi- nent board of education. Many a man lives with his wife simply because she has become a confirmed habit that he hasn't the courage to Marrying a widower is like trying to weer a hand+ it requires real skill to get the creases haracter put there by the other woman end to make him over to fit your disposition and harmonise because but what he does consider her ts > need good positions would marry t need to be worry about feminine Js not a woman Hving who would not ng machine and a career for a cradle, w When a woman ceases to quarrel with her husband because he stays out dso is another man. kc over @ man with French heels than with common-sens® ctric Signs. e are taking steps to prevent the dt= No objection will be offered to ther but will be excluded from the y to produce ‘a discordant they be piece Blouse—Pattern No, 5983. VORLD MAY MAN- Pwenty-third street, New