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Daily Magazine, Thursday, May 21}; 1908 Vhat Is an Old Fool? By Maurice Ketten. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to G3) Park Row, New Y ) TT IOOOOOOOOO ‘ gomerm renitzen, ree 1 Rast 1H Sore TANGUS SITATY, Fee. Ties | } Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, = | Bubscipuun, Kaies to The fvening y For Engiand and the Continent and | World for the United States ‘Ali Countries in. the Inter! al and Canada. Postal Union. all One Year . + $80 | One Year .. on One Month 20 | One Month. : VOLUME 48 O, 17,078, promising boys to “There are too clares; “so many t by tended them for. Setting aside and considering on there are already than women, FOOLISH LETTERS. ENATOR PL. is another instance of how write more foolish letters women. | Somehow the wisest and shrewd- est men write the letters which sound the most foolish when pro- duced in evidence in a breach of promise or divorce suit. | What woman ever wrote to a! man, whether she was married to him or not, giving such details of her family affairs as the letter | signed “Tom” to “my dear little one,” and describing how son Frank, received an income of $100,000 a year “from corporations whose in- terests I looked after;” how son Harry “married a rich wife,” and how son Edward “‘is taken care of.” Women may be foolish in some things. They may have heels on correspondence men than |stood why the c | unnatural Increasing the number of men, with ences to her waiting list. But thereby the life of love would be destroyed. birth rate, As nature is said to provide bullets, the rapidly approaching end of bands to the least attractive of our sex. Are There Too Many Girls ? and who deals in human “futures | fail to see how a decrease of our numbers would benefit us. DDODOOOOGHODQODHDQHODODOHGOGOHHODOGHDOGHSHIDQOGHDOGHIHOSHGOS Nixola Greeley-Smith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY. DIDOQOOOOODQOO IALHOUN, one of several persons who RS. C. E. G. M claim to have solved the secret of sex determination, to the extent of expectant mothers, has pronounced her discovery a tremendous boon to her sex. many women on earth now," she de that they have to take their places side de with men and perform labor that nature never ine e Improbability of Mrs, Calhoun's claina ly its advisability, let us consider that 1,600,000 more men in the United States Hurope has more women, but the population of the world as @ whole shows an excess of several million men. Further to reduce the number of available wives by the Calhoun process—wha:ever it may be—would tend to | produce @ oondttion of practical polyandry. |operative wife of haif a dozen husbands be considered a boon to womankind, I And unless acting as the co- I have never under 'm 1s made that for woman to work side by efde with man .» Throughout the entire animal economically independent. The female parasite is exclusively a human institution. kingdom the female works and {ts its consequent decrease in the number | jot women, méght strew a few more rosebuds in the path of the parasite. The woman seeking to marry for money would have more of a choice. Also, having chosen, she would keep her husband in greater subjection by occasional refer that competition among women which Mrs. Calhoun should allow the Peace Congress of the world to settle the an excess of males to furnish food for all wars will provide a choice of hus Meantime, we should be allowed to worry along as we are. | | | their shoes of undue height. They may wear hats suggestive in size of a circus tent. They may peroxide their hair and delude themselves into thinking it deceives everybody else. But when they take their pen in hand they rarely write anything which would either make them Tidiculous or prejudice a jury in a claim for alimony or damages. Senator Platt’s letters are not ‘a: absurd as those which elderly fat men write. Senator Platt is a thin man. It is harder to make a thin man ridiculous than a fat man. At their worst the Platt letters fall below the unconscious humor of the Brooklyn 240-pounder who 8 The Romance of | Lov:=Making i By Thornton Hall, | (Copy. lighted, 1908, by the Press Pub-| lshing Company.) Cupid in koyal Palaces, Go, draw aside the curtains and discover The several caskets to this noble Prince.’* ‘Merchant of Venice.’* Signed himself “little one” and {AT the “little mischief. “ 0 maker” is no respecter of| ‘your devoted baby. Persons is evident bhiksver page of the fascinat and weddings, He e in the cor Also wise men do not write the most foolish letters to pretty women, , or at least if they do the pretty | women do not produce the corre-| spondence in court. | When a woman has arrived ai the age of fortv-odd. like Miss or Mrs. Mae Wood. or Mrs. Gunness, who ran a matrimonial slaughter- | aaa house; or Rina Verrault, with her] matrimonial agency. then she une Mr, Jarr and Gus, the Saloon Man, Have a Talk About Wives. G derstands how to hand] ks + =I , n Bice pee ee ela but Do Not Exactly Solve the Great Domestic Enigma Not thronsh the bloom of beau- is equaiiy hb Peasants and the pai as tages of ces of kings, and s tricks on le as on thetr lo his re Was more s of Cupid within one s sealed in t vocably ess Sophia mall scale t in teous youth but the lessons of ex- rt set mashed on her, and when the young "What?" and among jence Q Sactvanatt \! vay ‘Hello, birdie!' she ‘That's w std 1 don't | fe* the D: perience are women best enabled to} By Roy McCardell. com ays I should go long with her see whys ele Ray elder and t | next t he is insulted.” on't get on ut a woman can “aust: e and Elizabeth draw forth the letters which induce juries to bring in verdicts. | The wiser a man is in politics or business the bigger fool he makes | of himself when he undertakes to cope with a woman in love letter for herself and but be: bs HEM must have becn hot dresses that caused a riot in said Gus, as he tacked uid Mr. Jarr, some t -dressed, “Every man who get zo0d g her to protect he Du ed her hos pap Jarr; “they mah France, iti ttl aoe 2 3 my best day because it is against | snfbky. Wineainathantinitaaistatesseeth he writing. petting poramen edhe Wivray See aho aG camp oH leyeuritestlarein America anarceur at There are a few rules about hata aie ett oh ts in, maybe them exe! mind oc: over the mirror at the back of } Resides, he forgets T have a «qn 3. But the wilful young Emperor writing letters which if observed his bar. I ain't here the stock goes out d not admit the plea married ang th : Kings and Emperors -:- -- In the Toils of | CHAPTER xX. if | i jfor ma o Love romantic accMernt should merourial Princess Elizabeth. dow impetuosity fall man TOK pdefall the Rushing pped and wo! adr sare It was a laden with unexpected consequences, fallen young Princesa, amed ton that stumble on the palace sta! was to make in her life She had al- ways evinced an almost savage distaste mat y would iwugntng say in answer to all proposals made to her, “I do not want to marry unless I can de Queen of Roumanta, for down there, there is still something left for me to do"—an answer which seemed conclusive, for at the time Roumania had no King. When a few days after their first un- meeting, Prince Charles presented to her at a the Princess observed the altar, n by mak- . Queen of There has seldom been a more ideal teat of the a a the Princess nd mest s of our own Princess is quite the personification ckname, Sun was Jescription of the Princesy this sunny dis- ater years a rare As children, the and the learned to love would lessen the humor of the A EOE) CH” CA Sh Ses eee n jeions pe DoSe cans Leni ether ireewauldl be Lif this country was Ite The Princess must come,” he s f 8 and - fi What paper do you read, a for my wife and the new hats? Ries ae er wear her plest dress vmps in the palace nursery at courts. One is never to write to monthiy?" as his own troubles,” said Mr. Jarr, | ve changed since wea tote there, |@ Fone in her hair and we will make} st put it w ntil_ many ye a woman unless you address her in Serine onthe ee Pont certis io Gad, CEURECE ceo yearay ago, The sw. Garmanyleren eRe ees tyatllcney charmine | ietottcaes Device - S ‘an on't get full of don't 0 me, bc Aare ent wears pe 3 Z hu ras Dg) tt sess en: a one of the formal styles which the excitements pletures like 1 don't care.” sea oe uparoraes aire) Wed are IDs ue county, derelia, in the simplest of gowns| Walton-on-Thames, that this childish is . sew ¥ . Jarr. | ‘ ee a ad be nd weart ingle red rose in her | appt we Seana erio books of etiquette nrint at length. enn OR eres ebere eer or what is a friend of mine |®% nr up next week, You'll find she'll forgiy Mind oantlio hel bell ceaoneetsrieed meen assume a serious i = se the place and jon't feel bea) ‘Say, why don ou go hom ae! ote Eoarait urea erates form. Pine iciher is malways) sien yyour msopy.) they | titeed: the German. nepers and (scent a1 Gu s ae Oe Pie Gene ean . the youthful sovereign with her girlish) rere amid some of toe loveliest scen- te ey o 1 o r) tter wi the sa. Gus. th ATE I i e danced with her al-|ory in England the two young lovers full name, which has a restrictive san go to sleep. What was the matter with them n places and I biow the mo ey fr keeping you tl 4 any candy G8 1 OE es ee a dresses? y ea-| “Aw. I don't care w h said Mr. Jar-, ‘ veda nates ans effect, + maybe that's the rea. ning. During the interval for refresh f % “They were split up the side, I understand,” sald eulleniy. he's mad at me about something, and TCs the Emperor, it ts cia vicatninione pore ‘ te Mr. 7 ri a r hei , er me , . » led 18 company and counting every The best advice of all is, that Resets PAA ar ese RC e SRE s 1 Fight to be maa, sald Mr. Sarr Lemire EVADE gine OMDET gett only amakesl herd: orciruimostienita) a) tablehonkwhichiliscrmure stn aemathacaaitainor 5 3 3 will th a s to be ashamed of yoursel | Wor ; was when a man has anything to tell a woman he should talk it to her either in person or over the telephone. “Say.” said Gus, “you go tell my wife how sorry 1am, and I'l! go tell your wife how sorry you are? “You aren't very popular at our house, Gus.” sald My wife she wants a new hat, all the time a new hat. I have a hat I have worn on Sunday for ey? asked Gus “Anyway, T/ e it to her; it was to pay my us national costumes of Austr! he said, “are all my sub- en years, only I can't get nowhere on Sunday, 80. «igi she finds I come home broke and a att aril Just as good as new.” che makes a fuss because I spent the money for the | Mr. Jarr. : jectts Bay one fecralpond hs veumennll But your wife gets out on Sunday,” sald Mr. Ja: her never mind, {t wasn't for the So.” sald Gus. ell ata dian ltatelllimyaimiten te Seen ial our aeaaliheed hana lili was only just some money I was| was with the brewery collector. I said I was with vOuRtE od Yes, she goes to see her folks by Hoboken,” said e dresses up like as if she wanted some- \ r. Showemhow Star's a Gerien. that of her lover; and thus simply was sealed the compact which made her not only Queen of Francis Joseph's heart but Empress of Austria, * A Madcap Pri c:3s. Letters from ‘the People. Try and get husband to look a’ And if he ¢ law on you By F. G. Long Here are two problems for readers to eolve: If a silver dollar measures ono ME | inch in diameter, how many dollars, xs T GUESS WELL HAVE SOME DANDY THE SWEET PEAS WILL CL : Jald side by side on the equator, would Kitchener Again. FLOWERS THIS SUMMER, ALL RIGHT! UP. THESE. L CLINE en more romantic was the first Teach round th 2 The sHow You ~~~ —-——__1|_ | Goop FLOWERS IF You 5 meeting of Carmen Sylva, the beautiful i : aa Ee ae betigh SUST PLANT THEM THE and gifted Queen of Roumania, with her future husband, the story of which is thus jgid. While she was on a visit to the German Emperor, William L, at the Palace of Berlin an adventure befell her, and {f, as Lord Beaconsfield as- serts, adventures are to the adventur- ous it is but right and proper that aj could travel at the rate of a secc of time, how much time would he re- quire to travel round the earth? GEORGE scorT. The “Inside” Wheels, To the Editor of Do the ins! How To GROW) (<4 3 THE SCIEN) $e" 7). wheels of an album full of pictures of the!.paadiing in little w bac matches have |future’ ruler of | pressed } it. |contented in this rustic : |rejected all the t offers to }amuse him. He went to no raci fled all dissipations and ge: rendcred himself te hi But the path was not all rose-strewn, There was one serious obstacle be- ‘tween love and Its consummation; for, before the Princess could become the wite of the man who ha} won all her heart, It was necessary for her to sao- rifice her strong religious ¢ and hecome a convert to the thodox Chureh, And many bitter tears were shed before she consented to sac rifice to love the cherished faith tn which she had been cradled. (To Be Continued.) well-mea Qn automodle leave the turning a curve, going ground when a fast pace? As tony To the Editor of The Bven. I have read oonductor of is true can sci lain why e lamp bec turned on Advice to By Helen HE right man e of an in hot when )MAS BEIRNE AS BEIRNE Husbands Two Sides of ‘a Story, ISN'T THAT A DANDY GARDEN 2 > SILL MAKE THAT FELLOW BURBANK, { Look LiKE A or \ Two spor VACUUM. Mother, WHY THEY'RE, (Tr's LEASURE To SIT Ir's 4 PLEASU VEGETABLES! (HERE AND HEAR. 'EM GROW: you get. Cleverness is thi wants to turn the eu . Ny : y re because the doy . triclan Instead Dand’s trade before long will r take. By al! me to be an electricia band should be ve has a useful encourage hi game experience forced to leave to say he and has ne contrary, My ady s Mosher is, do not turn > ning your real thing for the HH. +4. Fg Poo about women, and his wife a question when her mouth is toward him he forgets that love is not tering ram. more to be pitied than scorned. ur boy adrift. ;man‘s wife. . When a bullying husband begins to wonder why hi If you don’t understand the meaning of | Refiections of a Bachelor Girl. Rowland, is always a little shy of the woman's rights woman. are like Christmas gifts; you can’t choose them; you've just got to sit down and wait until they arrive, and then appear perfectly delighted with what e one crime that a man cannot forgive a woman—unless she is clever enough to hide it. The beauty of variety in love or wine ment a man discovers a new ‘brand he forgets all about the others and honestly believes that he !s tasting the that the mo- first time. A man may read everything that ever was written yet not know enough to avuld asking full of pins. wife has changed, precisely a woman's feeling for a bat- No doubt the average man is secretly convinced that Henry VIII. was bsent ti tment,” ask the club +--+ ersnteiaiinnianallaita