The evening world. Newspaper, June 16, 1908, Page 14

Se RR ‘the butcher add their taxes to their ‘ | @adtsnea Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. to @ ¥ Park Row, New York. i} J gemern PULITZER, Pree, 1 Kast 124 Street. J, ANOUS SHAW, Seo/Tveas., 901 Woot 11fth Street. | Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter, i @ubecriptio: ites to The Evening or England and the Continent an‘ World or the United ates All Countries in the Internationa! and Canada. Postal Union. Orn Bes Eres NO, 17,101, . RACING, BASEBALL AND TAXES. GREAT deal of fuss is made whether! horse racing will continue with bet" | ting at the race, tracks prohibited. | Thousands of people who never saw August Belmont’s race track, and were never any nearer Vanderbilt's track than a Coney Island car, and who have never been in a pool- room, discussed with vigor the rights and wrongs of Gov. Hughes's antiqace track gambling bill, the prospects of its passing the Legisla- ture and what would happen if it did become a law. It is doubtful whether 10 per cent. of the people of New York go once a year inside a race track inclosure. | It is very doubtful whether 5 per cent. of the voting population of New York have gone ten times in their lives to see a horse race. Yet the public interest is great. More people are interested in baseball than in horse races. The standing of the clubs of the National and the American Leagues is anoth-| ér subject of great popular interest. Crowds gather daily around the | newspaper bulletin boards where the scores are displayed. Tens of thous.) ands attend the ball games. | It is doubtful that one-tenth of the people of New York see five! ball games in a season, or that one man in five goes once a year to see any game of either league. Yet the standing of the clubs, the personality of the players and the happenings of the ball field are regarded with| much interest and considerable concern. While these things were engrossing the public attention the tax rate| for this city for this year was announced. There is an increase of twelve points, one-eighth of one per cent., from 1.48 to 1.60. That is because the city’s budget increased to $143,000,000 and a number of property | owners, among them the National City Bank, have had their assessments reduced. : Next year’s budget is to be about $160,000,000, and the tax rate is} to increase correspondingly. The budget has doubled in the eleven years since old New York, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island became the Greater New York. This should interest everybody. There are 800,000 families in New "York, and a budget of $160,000,000 means that the average family must pay $200 taxes. They pay that and more in the shape of higher rents because the landlord collects the taxes from the tenant; in the shape of costlier food because the grocer and a nm Lit S sent and other costs of doing busi- ness. In dollars and cents all the race tracks, horses and bets and all the receipts at baseball games are hard- ly as a drop is toa full bucket. Yet nobody seems to care. Whether the city spends $100,000,000, $160,000,000 or $250,000,000 is ap- parently a matter of complete in- difference to the mass of the 4,000,- 000 people from whose pockets it comes. It is doubtful whether all the payrolls in New York amount to five times the city budget. The wholesale price’ of all the food brought in the course of a year to this city is less than the amount of Money the city government spends, Of the three items of rent, food and clothing the only one that is larger than the city’s expenditures is rent, and rent is high greatly be- cause the bulk of the taxes are paid Jn the form of rent So long as the people of New | | York take more interest in race track betting and baseball games than in their taxe:, living here will be increasingly expensive, taxes will be high and the city government will be inefficient and wasteful. r J \ J t \ Letters from the People. A Bryantiatic “Cipher.” ‘To the Editor of The Evening Would readers care to work this puz- gle out? | | The “gentleman” | t piece to the con-| but she deciined to tleman" then | endeavored to © was a marvel-| color in her cheeks, He n his thereby | temper. I y hat (as | directly opposite me dui ft accept the elbow, slow Mr. 1-2 inevitable cand!- ne 4—-10—2- | arousing my usually crossed the aisle and ¢ S$. He | the gallant knights o » but when) inquired 1 about that) to will al self mast pany recetved ness!” ‘| (apoloey to 1 embarked fish on Tand." The Former Better. hater since. HENRY a =v en F ¢ At the Astor Library, eens 0 the Ba Of el Brvcsne Wot Beer aince wae Ma here can I see files of newspapers published tn 1906? DM M Chivairy's Queer Reward, Board of Health, To the & ¢ The «World of The Evening World Ww I was rid a Madison ave e Ge era ago a Z| a complaint w Vly entered and took a seat next to tn the form of @ pro looking gentiemam and neighber? ' |Reddy the Rooter. ju The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Nobody Works but the Little Father. By Maurice Ketten. SETTLING TH WRITING BuRRows § KEYNOTE SPEECH WRITING THE PLATFORM CUTTING Down THE ANTI INJUNCTION EDITING CONVENTION By Roy L. McCardell. ‘ss H, dear, J do need a Uttle more money this week,” O said Mrs, Jarr with a sigh. "Yes, and last week and next week," growled Mr. Jarr, “You don't have to pay the bills,” “¥ou don't know how It is.” “You talk lke my Uncle Bill," said Mr. Jarr. ‘When he was out of work for tree months and his wife com- plained there was nothing to eat in the house he said he sald Mrs. Jerr, I'm not going te take In hoarders,” sald Mrs. "and you needn't complain about nothing to eat In There's plenty to eat in this house. If I didn't Jarr, the house. set such a good table I might have more money to spend | on clothes and things I need.” Rov GME Canaeis “There you go!” said Mr. Jarr. “You are like all the est of the women, taking everything sald as personal.” “This is a personal matter,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “and if you hadn't put that money in the cavings bank !n one of your fits of economy by which I always uffer I'd have plenty of money!” “All right,” said Mr. Jarr. "Go downtown and tale {t out. I don’t care,” Ml draw the interest you were talking so much about, anyway,” said Mrs. arr. Her husband only grinned, but made no reply, and Mrs. Jarr departed down- own to draw the interest, “Take your place in line,” said the uniformed attendant in the bank. ‘‘What do you wart to do, put in or take out?” “IT might know there would be something humiliating about it," sald Mra. arr grimly to hereelf. “I went to Mrs. Stryver's bank one day with her and here was a Indies’ room where there were screens to go behind to put the money | In vour stocking, or to take {t out.” However, she took her place in line fuming inwardly and in due time reached he interest window. |Mrs. Jarr Goes to the Savings Bank to Draw Her Interest. Being a Woman, She Can’t Understand Why There Isn’t Any} “1 want my interest," she said. | “There's no interest on this." said the clerk. “It's only twenty dollars and | there won't be any interest payable till It has been in six months. This has only been in three weel “How much Inte “Forty cen will there be in six months?” asked Mrs. Jarr. said the clerk. “Next!” repeated Mrs. Jarr. “I'd Mke to see myself. Give me my ur place in line at the next window and turn in your book,"’ said the clerk, ‘“Next!"’ Mrs. Jarr was in a Tago by this time, but she took her place tn line behind an extremely curfous set of people, and finally reached the window. “I want my money,” she said. "Go sit down on the bench over there and wait till your name ts called,” said the clerk at this window. “Well did you ever!" said Mrs. I have to stand in Ine, wh: lease sit down on the bench,’ naid the clerk. Mrs. Jarr sat down, tapping her parasol and regarding the people who came and went, Various names were called. Finally one was repeated several times, “I think that's your name, lady.” said the uniformed man coming over. “Clara Jarr!” called a voice loudly, | airs, Jarr going to expostulate, but she was led to the window behind ja stout middle-oged woman. “Please sign here, aid the clerk. “Oh, I can write ail right,” said the stout Iady; “only I have the lumbago in me back so terrible that for three weeks”— “Stand aside!” said the clerk, and Mrs. Jarr edged in. Here she had to give her name, her husband's name, her maiden name, her age, her whole pedigree. Then she signed and was handed a twenty-dollar bill. “Well, this teaches me a lesson,” said Mrs, Jarr as she walked out. my money !n real estate after this.” ‘But I can write a beautiful hand,” said the middle-aged woman, “only the lumbago""— sir Rut Mrs. Jarr gave her the undesimble citizen turn down and swept | grandly out. “Why should I have to wait, why ‘TN put REODY.MY WIFE WILL BE HERE PRESENTLY AND WERE GOING OUT~ So TAKE Goon CARE OF THE OFFICES Tith 1 Siick UP A REDOY,| WANT You TO TAKE MY POOR.’ DosgE HOME FoR ME-TELL THE MAIO /LL BE Hone} LATE! She By George Hopf TAHSELSA DEARIE,ON TIME 4 JUST A MOMENT BiIT_ANO we't START; yy C/NOW FELLOWS, FER A CLUSTER OF CLouTS ——==|AN' SCATTER DE TURF ne 10, 1908. DHHNGODOHOSOHOOGHOODPIVOOISOOS|GVOOTISGOOOSHHNHGSHOOOOHOOOIAB Nixola Greeley-Smith ON TOPICS OF THE DAY. 0. > What the Girl Graduate Knows. T this season of the year the makers of comic jokes and rhymes pounce with one accord on that blush- ing creature of many ruffles and much learning, known technically as the Swect Girl Graduate. The making of one of these jokes or rhymes is very simple, You mantion all the sciences and stories as having een mastered by the graduate you can thnk of, and wind up with the witticism, “but can they covk?' One daring originator in a North Carolina paper the other day 80 far forgot the venerable traditions of tle girl graduate poem as to end his verso in this wise: “\Vhat will they be as wifeys?” ( Both these questions and the answers to them have thelr importance in a rudely material world. My only quarrel is with their relevancy. If we read that certain young men have ‘oen chosen to contend for America in the Olympic games we do not end the Uiad by these exploits with an inquiry as to whether or not thi perambulators. We leave them to the glory that !s theirs. Nor when we are told that a certain youth is learned beyond all his kind in engineering or bacteriology or the dead Ianguages do we think {t necessary to minimize his exploits by a question as to his future merits as a nusbana. Both men and women should know how to cook just as both should know ‘how to button thelr shoes. Cooking, though it may have its EscoMers and other high priests of the frying pan. Is a very simple art. Though there may be 168 ways of cooking eggs, most of us, undeterred by variety, have them every morning medium boiled. A lunatic, a half-witted creature, may cook as well as any ordinary nousenold requires. And a man or woman of ordinary in- teltigence can master the preparation of the ordinary menu in six weeks. Too many wives have deen spoiled by unlimited bellef in the lying adage that the road to a man's heart ts through his stomach. The average man, if left quite to his own devices, would order ‘beefsteak, potatoes and salad for dinner every day in the year. So on that score he !s extremely easy to please. This taste in women {s, however, less inevitable. It requires tact and charm and in- telligence of the highest order to persuade him that he really wants the same linner companton all his fe. And the dinner itself has very little to do with ft. Better a dinner of herbs where love and gayety and wit are, than a stalled ox served with dreary platitudes about the neighbors or a small deer chronicle of troubles with tradesmen A cave man, befcre clubbing his inten#ted on the head, might well have paused to ask her if she could cook, might even have jJeered at the Sweet Girt Graduates if there had been any. But perhaps that particular joke dates back to the cave man. In this event, there ts no criticism to be made of it whatever, + Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. Ey Helen Rowland. GIRL'S idea of business !s a place where she can meet some man who w.!l take her out of it In the “relation of the sexes" a man is so Ukely to regard his wife as the “poor relation.” OCA GRERLE! y can wheel When two people have promised to make one another happy for life, they usually begin by opening one another's letters, interfering wth one another's expenditures and criticising one another's clothes; sad how often we marry for a companion and get a guardian! No man refuses to give a good wife al! the oredit she deserves; but some of them are rather shy about is her cash to the same amount Whenever a man falle from grace it !s a toss-up whether he will blame the w.te who “drove him" or the woman who “lured him" to ftv It may not be necessary for a man to use force in order to kiss a girl, but at least it's polite for him to pretend to use it. “Old bachelors’ wives" are so perfect that they must be Just “old matas’ children” grown up. When a man declares that he knows his own mind, his wife may some- |times wonder why he seems so proud of the acquaintance. The Hardest Worked New Yorkers. By Wharton B. Kellock. HE hospital Interne, it can safely be said, is the hardest worked of all in New York Clty who toll with brain or hands. As a medical } student, from the very start he has an intellectual nine-hour day. In the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York Untversity, the largest university mefical schoo] in the city, for ex- ample, the student is busy from 9 o'clock in the morning until 6 o'clook at |night, having solid chunks of medical lore hurled at him in the lecture halls, | working with microscope or with scalpel in the laboratories, or getting actual bedside expertence at the ollnie of one of the big city hospitais. The only tn- terruption is time for a hurried bite of luncheon. On Saturday he may leave a few minutes earlier. But often he may be found tolling over some bit of laboratory work until far into the night, writes Wharton FE. Kellock in the Mluatmated Magazine. But {t ts at the end of these four gruelling yenra of study, after he ts an “M. D."" and has become an interne at one of the great hospitals of the city, that the student begins the hardest part of his apprenticeship. This hospital apprenticeship 1s considered so essential to a physician that all the high standing men in the medical schools enter into the stiffest sort of examinations to qualify for service at the best institutions. If a man is admitted to this coveted slavery, for which he recetves no emolument, he will ye about thirty years of age when he leaves the hospital, and, as a “young”? Joctor, starts to build up a private practice. Bellevue, the great free hospital maintained by New York, constantly has aver fifty such internes. All social classes come to this house of a thousand diseases and become the concern of the whtte-olad interne. | Married Women Have [lustaches. HB Ainus, aboriginal people of Japan, are peculiar in this respect--1 mare I rled woman {* not honored unless she has developed a mustache. The men dre very hairy--in fact, often resemble tho bears they hunt fn the forests of the tsland of Yezxo, Living in @ s2ml-civilized state, these people ero among the strangest tries uf the earth. Hair on the face is an Il in the eyes of most civilized women—now ‘mngine to yourself conditions in the country where, if {t does not naturally “come” the women cut open their Ilps and rub into the sores cuttlefish black or soot, whieh tattooes above the upper lp the representation of a mustache. This operation, performed on the Ainu women, is excruciatingly painful, The crudest form of tatooing Is employed, and after the shellblack or soot is rubbed into the open wounds intener inflammation ensucs. However, when the lips heal, a well-defined black mustache appears, tattoced indelibly in the skin, | The “Fudge” Idiotorial. | We are asked by a LADY whom we are glad to oblige what {fs our Opinion of MANI We answer at once and Frankly that we think he is a HARD CASE! Most m3n Swear! The ma- jority Smoke! Lots of them DRINK hard Liquors! Few will REFUSE a Brt. Even Mr. Jerome chucks dice. sucks Cigarettes and ROLLS High Balls! This is a Lamentable State of Things. We wish we could {Ix it. Perhaps if we had been Governor, in- stead of this man Hughes, we would have done so. Ladies who wish to be MANLY had bette; beware, will find the task very disagreeable. Perhaps lf MEN were not so TOUGH they would not be so useful. Many men are INDUSTRIOUS in sp'te of their FAIL- INGS. Daniel Webster often TOOK a DRINK and got away with it, Thomas Jefferson liked punch! He panned cut pretty well, Big Tim Sullivan never tates a Drink, and never Swears. His only weakness Is that he does not KNOW how to COUNTI Still he ts never described as a MODEL CITIZ&N by the EVEN ING POST! Our Opinion of Man. Copyrot, 1908, by the Planet Pub. Co. They