The evening world. Newspaper, May 28, 1908, Page 16

mest ett Tet ee a ree —_ — _ nn ed ICES A IRIANE IES TO Sub a lees tsnmnealbL ie The Evening World waily Magazine, Thursday, May 28, 1908. a Te. * aie Wee Cur nee. eer OTe a | "os Sones GEeES 'Nixola Greeley-Smith | ON TOPICS OF THE DAY. ~ 4 a @odyphea Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 62 Park Row, New York. é DOREPH PULITZER, Pree., 1 East TH treet, J. ANGUS BIA, Bee. ¢ 20) Week 1120s Street, ©) — — —_— r Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, Bvdscription Rates to The Evening , For England and the Continent and World for the United States ‘All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union. About Gossips. 7 HE REVEREND HENRY M'ILRAVY, of Little Falla, One Year... $3.50 | One Year.. $9.78 _ has announced hfs intention of devoting his Mfe to yOne Month .30 | One Month 85 THE the suppression of the gossiping habit, date saaes “I have become a specialist on gossiping," he declared, .. VOLUME 48 NO, 17,082, PLAZA “I propose to suppress ‘gossip’ just as some men fight intemperance, sor heathen.’ DOLLARS TAXES. 0 to foreign lands to convert the ONGRESS has passed the appropria- tion bi for next year, which amount to $1,023,000,000. This is an immense sum, almost inconceivable in its magnitude. For its expenditure there will be little to show two years hence ex- cept a few more warships, fortifica- tions and public buildin Collect- ed from the people by the power of taxation, iis expenditure is almost ull economic waste has announced his intention s denunciation of gosstp, and has Invited the women of Little Falls to meet him every Thurs- day afternoon to te! all they know about their neighbors, I am afraid the Rev. Mr. Meliravy is on a cold trail. Ten sewing circles do not distil a tithe of the gossip that flows over one glittering bar. To round 1.) the women scandal mongers only would be quarrantining one huge * \ In a whole district ted wit d se, Wh 7 Sought the sum total of feminine R08 what does it amount oe ree That Mrs. Jones dyes her hair. That it's very queer that the milk disap- Dears from the dumbowaiter as it passes Mrs, Jolinson's floor, Petty enough, mean enough, certainly, but not to be compared with the things that Mr. Jones and Mr. Johnson tell each other about their friends All women gossip more or lass. Men elther gossip n great deal or not at all, |. The best cure for gossip ts absolute Indifference. “Be thou as pure as toa, | thou shalt not escape calumny!” said Shakespeare. Rut you can stop a gossip’s ,* [tongue from wagging as you can a dog's tail, by not paying any attention to It. ‘The dog's wag, to be sure, is friendly, the 8 otherwise, but both demand aftention and languteh and eventually die away without ft. Dignify!ng gossip by a clerical crusade fs a grave error. Only the individuals goasiped about can stop !t. Rut as these at one time or another constitute the whole of mankind, the task ought to be easy. If we don't care what other people say, ft very roon weartes them to eay ft. A twico told tale of scandal bores the hearer as much as !f it were a tamper ance tract. It 1s Goubtful, however, if the jor of goss! than compensate us for the pain of hetne gos: what has any one to complain of? Re SuaecaNy z Waoss oraeeve Sm Son = ping in our turn does not more about. And if this be tru 4 How huge this sum is the mere figures of more [than one hillion dollars inadequately convey. It is as Fif the property of the Steel Trust, the richest corpor- «ation in the United States, were to be blotted out, with all its furnaces, rolling mills, railroads, coke ovens, +coal mines and ore banks. If an earthquake and a fire were to raze every building in Brooklyn the amount of capital destroyed =y Z DADDDOSOODS s Gertrude Barnum’s Talks to Girls GQQDOOOSEOSSS At the Snuff Factory. E were waiting at the Snuff Factory to speak to”? W the prasident of the comp Forty girls sat at a long table, working at lar, stone slabs coated with mucflage, from whio} ey pasted labels and stamps onto snuff boxes. Ther fingers were no busier than thetr H tongues, which were engaged tn ‘making remarks" about ‘would not be so great as the annual expenditures oi ; A #the United States for purposes that everybody could a5, sido without. hay new forelady, in tones almed to reach her ears. i) “She's got a soft snap,” said a fat “stamper,” enviously, ” NY *roun people work, and CLRTRUDE BARNLM, flushed, while handing back, to 4 novice, a doz 1 been refused by the examiner, and, ceetically. marking a fine against a sly-eyed brunette for destroying re: turned boxes instead of #oaking and re-labelling them, As she came forward to speak to us, the Ji 4 and her flush deepened. . then new here,” she explained, ‘and they always haze a new forelady..,, w it up. I was too long looking for work be. paralyzed mother to support. I've asked , make just as much, and the girls won't it wouldn't be #o hardivy otare ‘aristocrat’ zen imperfect boxes which As a Congressman from Missouri put it, in the House of Representatives: [ | S g “In $20 gold pieces this would weigh 1,854 tons, | Loaded in wagons it would take a wagon train seven and one-half miles long to transport it. It would fill ninety-two and one-half twenty-ton freight cars. Packed on men’s backs, 150 pounds to the man, it i) would take 24,063 men to carry next year’s appro- priations.”” were red T hate the Job, but I've got a crt the firet plece-work vacs be eo hard against you. If it was! She's shiftless; lots of her work !s bad, and St comes back, Then @! Ahan 2p. jon't you offer to change plac © thinks It's such a s¢ | ex with her? asked my practical little Taking the average year’s earnings of the work- ie 5) eT . j feces triy beamed Ww ingmen and farmers of the United States, which are Zhe Season of Straw Hats and Rickeys Coming Together, iho) Care a eee etre latices less than $600, 1,600,000 men would have to go Just then the president came tn, ped their slurring. « Makes Mr. Jarr Somewhat Apprehensive of the Future sieves soos ov a meek ort iow ain, ant pent ait eos enereteg 10 (helt ‘ ne hether you have any kind ef a hat,” suggested Mr.) And 1 te As: our urrand was performed and we had reached the street Fana ex- By Roy L. McCardell. : claimed in disius sald Mr. Jarr, ‘In | tun inch of snuff, They're not worth sneezing , they won't “Those girls don't amount to a f GRE the) COG Fale 0 aS t hat 1 ri be a desert a - Adi soot forelady, as tf she made the rules | hat See ate 5 arr of BAP Rebs ake Nee a NY arlavanalaunvesorahen fete cpes nse tele erauci On aeno: hat) RODEALOT SION Lie ee ita ee > rend Ra itt a iLL Nid yon cesta Sar eer tna val and fam- | —and all honey to the boss! Big cowards! They're brave enough when ia | is friend ngle, a8 P sanacoas os ; Such Be aie adi L % started uptown together. can 1," said Mr. R im me GER d inan. ft will be ee. to tongue-lashing @ poor girl like themselves that's gl tina for hencelioviata Ne 2 pra Se care of her people; dut the } bullies would never t However, he tok up together for their rights at headquarters.” them,"” said the matt linistscendlailicur:monevainnonenplace in coal will be all gone tn a = uch food for thought, and I find myself enon ¢ ie * ABER et 5 of = = This tirade of Edna's gave me much food for thought, fin Shungry, naked and shelterless to pay a renel8 vaso mol Mme ECCALEY, lav's Walk up to the next corner; the you aid Mr, Rangle morone- | | TNS Me Tost of is are a reat deal like those Snuff Box Workers. Do 3 pay UI and some of em 100K reno- syny owded about this time jly. 0 fron ore; it looks bad, old man. onvinoed that mort ie to the grave, “take out our groich"” upon the defense the volume of these appropriations, A | A Oi i | vated.” where and sit down and get up town after the rush J {ghed and shook his bead, and all the ih no Lee eaTe al , 4 ere's noth: thi mont sances eee weanty A (Pa CG PERE HIE A at ess and non-resis ‘ People wonder why the cost of lo lg \o ta| There's nr th aie rene $ over; we'll be In plenty of tim way ne two mates mela and worrted over ‘As mere bables, ,when bullied ty big brothers, we find reltet tn opanklaR, iiving is high | | wus col Dero ei Sein Bear ene (are the innocent rag doll. Through childhood wo obey the stern father wit ving is high. i lit ton buy What alter?!) asked Mrs. Jerr when ney) eee ee eal ur sense of injustice upon the gentle, long-suffering mother, JN enkwexpenel ie setts Maewenore with @ gloomy brow; “have you| question, venting OF Oe tne lover whose true affection makes him patient High taxes are one big reason. The United States taxes on the *asis of five persons to each family ‘amount to 10%. of the average fearnings of the average man. nen si Later, we tease and aby reiving, while minding our Ps an) lords tt"? over our entire social lar kind—e year, amd t when it got yellow and x. 14 get tt cleaned. It always looked bright and new after a cleaning for ry days and then {t would be a sight again ny a cheap straw ya gets yellow lo: ws?) asked Mr. Jarr. “Bad news? Don't) and | you know there won't be any coal or wood left In| popu id Mr. Rangle, “I| this country in a few hundred years?" I wonder when we shall cease to be k enough, and t + Well, we'll all be dead by that time," said 2 more than a “pinch of snuff, ful jag. Did you ever Jarr, with that cheerful feminine optimism | wormy about the far future 4 Qa with the tyrannical egotist who, 6® eye lanteeaes FplteteAs \y leo a Bho le bullles’’ and “hie cowards,* and endeavor to be really “wortR pout that m if yi t gin gives you an at gin was depr at.” + Excluding bond iss il © |!o © other cheap straw," added Mr. Ja Mr yaleraneversbes| that's what makes hard times," said Mr. Jarr K 5 - "Eeosneieat : pg cat “meg tang oases ngee eames n° 5 Dp octigns of a Bachelor Girl, * mise workingman in Ne oO} 1 0 Mas tony that ome amet] one ot ue Teun TH owe want Reflections of a Bachelor Url another niskey roused is a fifth of h said Mr. Rangle. ‘“Golng to get a “Phe Work of an Old Sailor.’ and solicit the cor ffar himself and family verage earnings, in ampagie was ext By Helen Rowland, Ieity taxes alone! ‘ Bane Roe ssities, that er red butions of the charitab Here Mr. Jarr commer : t i { Sey alee evra gem te erie EEE vere : ee Be eat way to heaven or to hel fat ve Add to tt y taxes the State taxes, and the men. 4 T may get one Saturday ‘although business | Then he refused to cat uldn't deprive ye nak 7 nay to heaven or to hell ts via the Lo’ j i mt f r lokey: n man.’ he on t Cy ute, Limitec yho produce ey sir earnine’s y entered a cafe and ordered rickeys ainly len a man The noxt m ned that : eh pao ; Wiest : eT Carns ‘This is more cooling than a straw hat," said Mr. | I don't know what's heen overcome heat and wanted It may be bad form for a man to pay his wife. dn taxes. | Je 7 the times don’t get Jarr could let have two dollars |i compliments and call her pe' ies in the presence of other women, but It's awfully geod policy. toh has been prevented by ve on her best silk stockings An y People pa mot come arou how much be to taxes because the tax ctor does 1 get enough of them you don't ca bill to them. They do not realize S neaper this would be, because i By F. G. Long howemhow Fits His Wife's Dress. Many a foolish runaway n the fact that a girl didn't } at the critical moment. uid be such a Strange how a man will trust his bosom friends not to theck on officia feos — = EI fe Ts SEO 7 a a ie 1! y 1 fe, wh he ows perfectly well how The landlord coll from the tenant. The importer, the! | CAT UES Ws Ra | \ Tusa rus ThE. TO Eee vO LOTHES J SKIRTS TOO ong HAND | eh t i ae betray - " i oon THE DRESSMAKERS FORAS ¢ FIY G R Ou DUI ES ME A PIN a ie c h thi v tobacco manufacturer, the er and the brewer pass their taxes on to Tr G N. Nhe Sa a pe | It takes real strength of mind for a man to look dif fa MBE) terested when his wife tells him about the pretty widow * WELEW ROWLAMD who has just moved in next door. SOME 7 NS.) the consumer, which is the w collect from their customers. Consumers do not pay taxes in mone They pay in shoes, clothes, furnitur rand baker | A man often marries a woman to get her off his mind A confirmed bachelor girl 1s one who hasn't marrie 4 3 Teop! e less that a horde of pub! ee ee | | The ‘‘Fudge’’ Idiotorial. | | | é ‘@ | States would have disappeared in two yea Pay.in lower wages, smaller incomes and 1eF This article is full of figures and is dry readir because the facts are impartant and everybody sh In the Interest of ourNumer-; | ous Readers we have been No Straw LOOKING INTO the Strawberry i crop. We find this Berry Is ay in the good deal of a FRAUD, There {s+ Letters from the People, (JUST KEEP QUIET! Gr (du ; I'rt DOING THISY) BE You'vE GOT JN MY ORI Berry. ff Xo STRAW In It, and of the Rest’ R New T — NINETY per cent. ts water and press! (Copyrot, 1908, by the Planet Pub, Co.) TEN per cent. seeds and PULP! : ) GET_THE RIGHT. &) | LENGTH FORTHE We demand that this fraud, | shall cease, and that every berry shall have a straw with It. j | Mr, Burbank, the Plant Wizard, should sse that this Is done; | | aia aking - j AT ONCE. Until he succeeds, howsver. we may mention that} Reece rior es cellos atlebrs: thine. : a jwe have discovered A WAY OUT, viz.: i : 5 As ’ | Secure a large glass pitcher and half fill It with cracked Ice, : marrle 4 omen a Gia giesetare one A i Sprinkle the Ice with half a pound of powdered sugar, and then | RN ee ee eg tone coe [eondition of ® Ky that means, | add a pint of water and a quart of claret, Trim the edges of the; a Stina: Ay emusag story told | es to guard the pitcher with MINT, stick a slice of cucumber peel next to tho} i is Proposed watersheds State. If we ‘ef the late Queen Victoria, who, hear- 4 boys continue to pidad the » ccess! of (ag he was a woman hater, ts said to| guch en ore if nf wanixation y fhave had him drought before her and toning NS, | hand's, SCATTER STRAWBERRIES over the top and then f Titers 25 ‘ | PUT IN THE STRAW! RNASE