The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1908, Page 14

Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Pi ; Row, New York. 3. ANGUS AHAW, Ree-Troass, 901 Weet 11812 Street, ‘at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. bor Engiang and We Conuuent and au in the International Entered at the Post-OM Bubeeripuon Rates to The Evening ‘World for the United States and Canada. One Year .. One Month NWOLUME 455 svvcscccsscscseess PERSONAL LIBERTY LEAGUE is organizing to secure the repeal ot Yyy ground. of personal liberty. There should be a great deal more of it than chere is. The theory that some men should regulate the morals or habits of other men is undemocratic and un-American. The growth of the con- | trary tendency is one of the worst features of modern government. The Personal Liberty League, however, makes a basic mistake in| assuming that the repeal of the anti-racetrack gambling law would in- crease the amount of personal liberty in this State. What the Agnew-Hart law does is simply to make the penalty for betting on horse races uniform everywhere throughout the State. In- Stead of its being a felony to make a bet on a horse race on Park Row and a harmless amusement to do the same act at the Belmont or Van- derbilt track, it is now a misdemeanor everywhere. The change in the law is, therefore, the opposite of a restriction to personal liberty, because the greatest blow that personal liberty can receive is to apply restrictive legislation to most men and not to a favored class. If a rich man has the right to bet provided he goes in his automobile toa race track and pays a $3 admission fee, the poor man should have the same right without a proviso, or the essential feature of personal lib- erty is violated. If well-to-do citizens of this State are permitted by law to gamble with impunity, the laws against policy should be repealed, because that swindling game gives the poor an opportunity to gamble with pennies and nickels. ‘Preaching Is One Thing and Practice Is Another; Mr. Jarr Finds That Heathen Science Is a Faiiure. | But if you had a headache like 1 have had all this If the buckei Shop is to be closed, Stock Exchange gambling should likewise be prohibited if the principles of personal liberty are to be logi- | cally applied. A great deal can be argued in favor of allowing everybody to gam- | ble, drink and be immoral as they please, provided they do not act in such a way as to constitute a public nuisance. ¢ Nature let alone provides an effective end to most vices. The aver- age man who gambles incessantly will soon have no money, to gamble with. The man who habitually drinks too much will soon dig. The man who is constantly immoral impairs his vitality. Left alone, nature punishes violations of its sumptuary laws with inty and despatch. For the State to take sober men's money to conduct inebriates’ homes, where drunken men at pub- lic expense are nursed and cared for; for the State to lay the burden of tuxation heavier upon the worthy and industrious to support the fami- lies of incapables and derelicts—that is, for the State to act as a gual- dian and stepfather of the unfit at ine cost of those naturally fittest to ntrary to the Principles of personal liberty. It is as if the Nager of a stock farm were ‘to ye the most progeny from the most unfit sires and to raise the colts and calves of the worst Aeritage instead of the best. cé beginning its agitation the Personal Liberty League should ea ersonal liberty means. Letisrs from the Peopl tisrs from the People 5 What Shall He Dot although R. N. has not so specified, I/ To the Evening World | assume that he Talone, and wish to Iw ave experienced read-: obs. on who can afford to ers ad following: A boy of) dine extent of $1.80 or Hish n 4.30 A. M. to 10 P.M.’ manner, should be content to abide by eo ve th 1 would like t0) the con s of that class, O. H.S, an i His f nas There in No Edison Star. Sulctde. ¢ Evening World A.W. R., asks why Association ane race thousands of raise, that ein good « at | children, IW. Blue for Boy, Pink for Girl, rectly i. nk To the Editor of T ening World them for every attentiOp, which seems What is the color for a baby boy, fo mo all that ts req However, pink or blue? MARY E, KANE, | the anti-racetrack gambling law. It already has 4,000 members, most of them Brooklynites. Its cadge is a white enamel button showing the Statue of Liberty on a blue back- | There is much to be said in favor “tts fs imagination.” say that be The Evening World Daily Magazine, lLuesday, June 23, 1908. Teddy in the Jungles of Africa, By Maurice Ketten. y “a see » . 2 MICE RR eR ge ww, S, 71 \ We. SES By Roy L. McCardell, be FTER all,” said Mr. A Jarr, “this fe is just what we think it” | “That's true enough,” re Mrs. Jarr. “One has trouble and worry and poverty and sickness to contend with, and all those things make one wonder if life 8 worth the living.” ‘You don’t catch my drift.” sald Mr. Jarr testily. "Most of you speak of are not are just thoug a Vorry, for instance. We worry sout something and worry and Bev GARE CAROES worry and worry. The rent i due, or » meta.ng like that, and we can’t figure out we are going to meet it. We don't meet it— well, if we can’t pay a thing we can’t; and time goes on and ‘the days come and go and we are Mving and eating and rinking just the same." ‘It's easy enough for you to talk thatgway,” eald Mrs. Jarr. “You don't have to meet the bills and put up with black looks and impudence when you can't pay them and’-— *And as I was saying.” continued Mr. Jars calmly. e same thing about sickness. Most sickness “Ob, you think so, do you?" said Mrs, Jarr. “You Ause You never have an ache or pain blessed day!" “Don't think about it and then you won't have, it." said Mr. Jarr. ‘The older I grow the more I sec that We might as well think we are happy, and we will be happy. I'm going to think I'm happy, and I simply am not going to let anything worry me I'm not going to think I'm poor, I'm not going to think I'm sick, and Iam not going to lose my temper no matter what happens or what you say or do." Oh, I knew you'd bring ft around to blame me!” said Mrs. Jarr, angrily. ‘I'm the cause of your worry and trouble.” ‘'Now, why take a simple remark ina way I didn’t mean it? asked Mr. Jarr. “I simply am going to apply @ little Heathen Science to the affairs of lite, and I'm not going b» let anything worry or up- set me.” “I don't care what you do, if you'll only stop preaching. About once a month a man gets a new sort of fit on,” sald Mrs, Jarr. ‘I know I have worry and trouble and have to think about it!’" The room was dark, for the hour was late and the Jarrs had retired, The windows were open und a breeze stirred through the flat Just as Mrs. Jarr concluded her remarks the most hideous yells rent the darkness in the dining-room, with the sound of glass and china objects falling and being smashed “Oh, dear!* cried Mrs, Jarr. “The cat has tried to wet at the canary and has caught herself in the cord of the window shade. Or else, it has knocked town the catch and has got my poor little bird, Run, q ‘ek!" Mr, Jarr arose and made tor but tok occaston te th worrying avout. AS he entered the the electric lig’ e dining-ro.m in a dining-room and reac up, and had trapped the o Jarr, as his head as Mr. Jarr se through the china of fly paper off face see I'm bleeding m-kes this horrible stuff stick the “apply your He: s, all the neighbors Neve Mrs. Jarr scratched himuap that way, Love In Darktown. | AHS GREEGLE TER DAT Bl! MANIFEST) JON 5 = MISS MONTRESSOR- AHS ER GOIN’ TER /NDORSE DE —="{ POLICIES 08 MISTOH The Courtship of Cholmondeley Jones and Beautiful Araminta Montressor. w = =By F. G. Long. ROSENFELT AN’ TRIFLE WIF LONG WY TENNIS - WILL You JinE MEL, (DIS AM How }YoH CUTS DE (™us' AH PLUNK DE Li'L BALL WHEN /7 COME OVAH DE FISHIN'NE YY (rassin! AH DONE 5 USE You- ) AH “SCUSES You, De (we PLEASURE | SLIP! MAH Rackrr SLIP{ Tree 30 iTasbands More or Less Undesirable Described and Analyzed By Nixola Greeloy-Siaicu No, 3—The Husband That Has a Perpetual Grouch NexSGe1 012 6 NLS) ! T me introduce you—unless you are unfortunate I enough to have met him alreidy—to the band of all—the Husband that nasa Perjet Luckily th hese ur ny of him. But what he lacks ity of effet This husband has a a gcouch for no retson at all. He br 1 Mon- ise he has lost $2 on t y he wine Being agiin process of reasoning known only Perpetual Grouch, he 5 gloom on nis customa @ she happens to tell him tt ds the evening tirading on the . Dy some subtle Husband with a for it. Mence tt i nnically known as a good } is a nics, pleasant creature about the house whenever for a few moments. Then, too, there is so’ med for everything. Only wives and Provi husband c e happens ttering Subway about everything y display and WOMAN ,YouR EXTRAVAGANCE | WILL RUIN me! Besipes, J} } lost #2 on THe races / / Topay' GRRR a ISN'T THIS \ HAT A ) Bargain? | i ony £2 46! “ite Ssends the Evening Tirading on the Extravagance of Wives.” r h the lobby. after fumbling tn all his pockets, he finds that he ft the is other waistcoat. And then, > ou did not b the e and the blick arts discover y he kept them and n the Change, he proceeds to poliloquize on the ness and incompetence of wonia e the Husband with the Perp Grouch out of his gr complish it ost masc nal, He and conse- [7 7 temper, as |/ WOMAN, WHAT , he stands |} DID You po Rot so much from WITH THOSE om the thickness of |\THeATRE Ticke his skin. How often we hear a wife address her band in tones that a self-re- Specting snafl should resent—yet not even the flash of an eye betrays his anger. But if he ever puts the least public slight upon her he eats for days the and water of explation and d » polar domestic atmosphere all husbands in disgrace are sadly familiar, Such is man in his unfermented state—a patient, philosophical, long-suf- fering soul, an amiable air cushion to fte wife's fall after she has hit a few drinks make of him a raging lion that quails not even before his better half, Man must elther boss or be bossed by her. And the H with the Perpetual Grouch !s he whom King Alcohol assists to s¢© “He Proceeds Grouchily to Solilo- himself in the former ri ailized It has been noted by astronomers ‘i starr have periods of extreme brightness, others of comparative dimness. wives may deiect a corresponding deepening or paling of the indigo i to | loom the Husband with the Perpetual Grouch brings home with him, But in some one of its many shades {t cloaks him always and makes of him the most objectionable husband on earth, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, By Helen Rowland. P HYSICIANS say the heart is an organ; but by the « Way some men manage to grind out the same oid love songs over and over again it would seem to lore Hike a street plano, One whiff of an onion will do more to kill love than the breaking of the Ten Commandments. All a man demands of a woman is a knowledge of what she ought not to do, w she ought not to say and what she ought not to think. All a woman need know in order to‘wear a halo in her husband's eyes is how to keep it on straight. Married men should make the most successful fictii Writers, because it takes a highly developed imagination to Invent a different story for one's wife every night. ‘ After marriage it Is sad to sce how soon the poetry of love turns into an itemized expense account. eM WaLan ROWLAND Don't marry a man merely because he can write nice long, soul-sat jetters; walt until you find out if he can write equally nice checks, ° One man's folly is often another man's wife. | To Get Into the ‘*400.” By Edgar Saltus. © enter paradise you had to be good and you had to be derd. ‘To enter Society you do not have to be either, On the cont i b wnat you do have to be is harder to tell than it is to ct t Hut core tain requisites may be mentioned, Those are treasure, tomporament ara tact, Treasure, which Js the basis of all scrumptious tor itseit, ‘Yemperament 1s more complex. ‘Temperament is the art of holding you on the stoject of nothing at all with experts who have devoted thetr | ‘That Is clearly abnormal. ‘fact, while less unnatural, {x more ad stra st ts the ability to put your vibrations into harmony wit) those of others about you, Aspirants may be rich, righteous, and reac , it they the suiject lack that abt whatever their efforts, they are nowhere, If thoy 23 It f then. though they be nobodies, they have only to choose wher want to go. und get thera, Generally speaking, that ts, Gnd provided they are net in @ huey. ‘Taste ts very mercantile, besides being unbecoming.—Brosdway Mogae zine. +42 An Esperanto Kingdom. P ROFESSOR ROY, the French Esperantist, Is urging the estabiishment of an Independent Esperento State in Europe. ‘Ihe site he hes selected for nis expe‘tment is on a neutral strip of territory which Iles on the frontier . | between Germany, Belgium and Holland, some five miles from Alz-la-Chapelie, a) * yo