The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1908, Page 8

World Daily Magazine, Saturday, july 25, 1908. Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 88 to 63 ry Park Row, New York. QOSEPE PULITZER, Pros., 1 East {34 Btreet, UE cl eid dba daca : - oi Entered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Secand-Class Mail Matter. Bo tion Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent and ‘orld for the United Bt All Ci in the International and Canada, Postal Union, J. ANGUS SITAQW, Bae. Tena, 901 Woet 11° Street e Year. Month. NO, 17,140 TO CHANGE NICKELS TO DIMES, F the Smith street and Franklin ave- nue lines are allowed to increase their fare to Coney Island from five to ten cents their profits will be more than doubled. For years these lines have charged a five-cent fare except Saturdays, Sundays and holi- days, This enabled poor people) with large families to go to Coney! Island at half the expense, It ap-) plied particularly to mothers and] = children to whom the longer time of | i a trolley ride over the elevated service did not offset the great saving in, || fares. | The Nassau Road, before Tom Johnson sold it to the B. R. T,, also gave a Coney Island five cent fare, which, under the law, should have: been continued, because the fact of consolidation does not warrant an In| crease of fare, but on the contrary requires free transfers. | The obvious reason for this application to the Public Service Com-, mission for permission to charge an increased fare on these two lines is| that so long as two trolley roads car- Ty passengers to Coney Island for five cents there is every reason to} argue that the elevated road and the B. R. T. should not be allowed to charge ten cents. From the Will- famsburg Bridge to Coney Island is further than from the Brooklyn Bridge, and both are further than from the Brooklyn terminal of the gubway. Also elevated transporta- tion costs less for operation than olley transportation, - The Public Service Commission has had this Coney Island fare (question before it for many months, When The Evening World’s Coney | (sland Five Cent Fare bill passed the Legislature some Public Service! Commissioners, through the Citizens’ Union, argued that the bill inter-| fered with them, and that they were the body to reduce the fare, The! ne; pitorneys for the B. R. T. before the Assembly and Senate Committees) made.a like argument. Gov, Hughes, thinking that it was the business lof the Public Service Commission to investigate and act, vetoed the bill. | cl i al | [PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION) ———— | mi, | “Yet the Public Service Commission has not acted. It has conducte | summertime investigation which does not seem to have gone into the broad question at all but considered whether in ‘ertain specific instances | of cars running full and returning empty their operation paid. Now the Public Service Commission must fish or cut bait. | That will be one good result of the application to increase the fare. | The Public Service Commission of this district has been in existence | Overia year. It has spent more than a million dollars, What have the people got for it? ee er | WOMEN ARE TALLER, ‘Women are growing taller. A century ago the average woman | Gtood hardly an inch above the average man’s shoulders, To-day many women are taller than men, and in well-to-do families the height of the girls often exceeds the height of the bo If this keeps on women will be men’s physical superiors as they are now the social, mental and m phy ) | ra] Guperiors of the male sex. To-morrow’s World tells about this with] Pictures and also about fat men, There are an explanation of the rotary house where during the winter the living rooms can be turned to the south and during the sum- mer to the north, and a page story of how King Edward refused to| dance with an actress, which he was not so averse to doing when he fwas the Prince of Wales. Then there are illustrated descriptions of the rat which is now worn On so many fashionable heads, what a mosquito does when he bites you, of the man who walked around the world, and how the school teacher Married the Chairman of the School Board, The love story is “The Scarlet Letter.” The music is “Any Old Nag,” besides the funny, sporting and metropolitan sectior he news | and thousands of want ads., which are worth more than any other | of the paper to the man who is out of a job. | Please take the trouble to order a copy of your newsdealer in advance, part Letters from the People. f April 13 and March Wo the BAitor of The Bvening World On what dates did Good Friday fall Jory and jogs v rival.” Charles, fla the years 15 and 19077 8. F JOHN JOHNSON, | The Hot Subway, 289 Broadway, {tor of The Brentng World @e the Bator of The Bvening World f the subway was started the ‘What is the address of the Laga! Ald claim was made thet it would be cool Bectetyt AJC, Rin summer. It wasa't, Then fans, &c., e i t 4a bot. Why? | A Presidential Sentence, |S“? pieee cecea ha. See Be the Wilt of The Evening World: = | | ra ib: Baie th ome time ago one of yo adore | en y aot e @thed for a sentence by which he could | PTDlem and stop our sweltering? femember the order of the Presidents. Bk London. Girat letter of each word stands for a! To tne EAitor of The Kvening World Which is the larger city, London or The Evening |e nt | Lilian Bell —Says— ‘A Man Is Only Half a Man ~~ | Who Doesn't Know How to Swim. | HAVE juet spent a week at the seashors, where I observed many things, 1 never go any- where nor talk to anybody that I do not learn things | didn’t know before, therefore In look- ing back and ana-| lysing my {mpres- sions 1 find that} the strongest one besnsscae I brought away | Sit” with me ja the pitlable figure a man outs at the seaside when he in- dulges in aquatic pursuits without be- ing properly aquipped therefor, Ry being properly equipped I do not refer to yachting clothes nor to nautical language. Oh, no. The man who, up to the time he got off the train, had never been in more water than his morning tub baths, and who never wes aboard anything more seagoing than a ferry-boat, will hop blithely on the beach olad as a sailor, will speak feel- ingly of prow and stern, of fore and aft, | but when It comes to seeing him try to row or to sall a boat or even to get into hs bathing suit and disport himself in the water, you will see what an ineffable land lubber he Is. Than this question arises, Has a man who cannot swim and who thus could not even save himself from drowning any moral right to take a/ girl out in a boat? | Unless the girl can swim and he takes her ag a@ protection to himself! I never! thought of that possibility, Rowboats are bad enough, for the man who cannot swim Is generally Ignorant of the dangers of the sea and| is often the kind of @ fool who thinks it Is great sport to rock the boat and scare the girl The man who loves to frighten a woman is always a coward, fora truly brave man knows the danger he is up against and realizes the value of self-control, The man who can swim and who knows how feels to be over- board in deep water with only himself to save js never the sort of foolhardy imbecile who rocks a boat, There 1s no music to him in the timid squeak of @ frightened girl, But to the man who Is at heart @ coward, it gives a feeling of manliness and courage (o see a creature proving herself weaker and more timid than he knows himself to be. Therefore he intimidates her maliciously—whether ne 1s in a boat or on horseback, Wher- ever he oan get a woman at his mercy the coward needlessly frightens ber, The brave man never does, 1 should think that oblvalry alone would compel every man to seam to swim. For not only does it make more of @ man of him, but it puts him in a position where, in an emergency, he can be of use to those Weaker than him- self, What must be the feelings af shame and chagrin which aseall a man in @n expensive bathing suit who sees a child carried out beyond iis depth and possibly drowned before his ey while he ja able only to run up and down on the dry sand, wringing is hands and ailing to others to do the man’s work #e would be able to do for himself if he could swim? And doss this gallant who cannot swim ever stop to th of the anxiety he causes the mothers of the giris he tukes out in his boat? Of the nervous- ness they suffer until they eee their dren safe on land again? No, The sort of man who cannot swim is too selfish and egotistical to think of any one earth but himself or to consider yehing in the world out his own pleasure Yet to the thouguttul o mly half a ma eer For and Against, PHILADELPHIA Jawyer, retain. cd 4# counss! for the defense in a m tells of the fa jury oring,’ says his lawyer, t from the various yrospective jurors thelr views concerne ng the death penalty “One man to whom the question was at, ‘Are you against the Infliction of the death " replied, ‘ “ ‘What is your bust asked. ‘I am a butcher, When the same question was put to the next man he answered that he was againat the death poi “What 1s your business?” “Life insurance,” said he. “to eli pena he re ,to see J | In the Saddle Again. By “Scar.” Ate Why Shouldn't Men Wear Flowers on Their Hats? A “Straw” With Roses on It Would Be a Real Joy, Harriman greeting each other, politely, beauty, but the latter’s preference {3 lifting theiir claque chapeaux, modestly for forget-me-nots, By Ann Evans. ELL m6, (trimmed with sprays of goldenrod. Only gardenias, creamy blossoms 7. Chauncey,| A fail of thistles from the left slde of among dark green leaves, will grace Ci) al the Merry Widow—or will it be Char- ing to have your lotte Corday?—of Frederick Townsend HORROR NAG Martin, and Fifth avenue will follow his lead, Longacre Bquare will see everything trimmed with roses or with or- ange blossoms in floral headgear on ite heroes, from this year?” Faversham's Sweet William to the Dutoh- Well, really, inane eOHIY Gt to Sam Bernard. 5 irther west the flat brim of Oscar She mer) a2 ee Hammerstein's famous topper will be SCN EME e sarlanded with “larks’ tongues" and have decide. to - wear lemon fic v- | ANN EVANS: agin That 1s the sort of conversation we will be hearing in Fifth avenue ‘buses shortly if prophecies rome true. W: ‘shooting stars.” Dippel is selecting his Paris hat at present, Will {t be a laurel wreath or only rosemary—for remembrance, we wonder? Special hat rooms are to be construct- The Johnny's Johnny-Jump-Ups an’s adoption of man’s collars, neckti edin adway restaurante to hold the walstcoaty and Panamas Is to be re pig bonnet would become Andy Car- “Johnny-jump-up” lids of the stage: venged. negie, Taft has already selecteq a 00r devotce, and the managements are making special preparations to house wreath of scarlet runner for his now the crop of new evening hate with the ampaign hat, and he is urging Bryan to belleve that a garland of weeping willow would beco} his style of ceontemtteme some Si Telling Her. By Charles Buxton Going, HEN the hedge blows, WY esatron and inne Through the green cover Warble: “Begin it! Tell her (oh, haste to her!), tell her you love her! Tell her this minute!” Oscar Wears Shooting Stars When the leaf glows Carnegie and His Thistle. And the haws soften, European men are already venturing n leaves, and even a wreaths of gre Robins call gaily: 7 ¢ care not to crush the flowers. atrLvaiowerel hats f greatest care ni ish th r uray flower or ingle duel als te Can Wad NESTA Ont SILL CEM ISev LYS APPL sliniry) eae! excuse {sth ‘ell her (oh, tached to their proper sky-pieces, and wreath keep their heads cool, The fact ieeharcan hind WILEGES WIL Be eg da POUT becoming to almost Is they are very Over and often!" ve y gentleman, venir to every man, They give an effect as of as vine leaves In the halr—a decoration In | phen, when it anows, which every man Is secretly convinced | Wrens, growing bolder, A Fatal Situation. he could make Bacchus look like a Urge tt: "Caress her! ‘s » so, Bummel, the student, watack. Hold her, man, hold her! A was almost drowned when he ew York men—the best dressed on Yell her (oh, cling to her!), tell was in swimming yesterday? her—God bless her!— ” Love grows no colder!” July Everybody's. —————— How did it hap ‘The bailiff went by, and the poor boy was forced to remain under water earth—-will not be behind tn adopting this fascinating new fashion. For next winter's opera season we may expect Plerpont Morgan and EB. H FE, LOOK WHERE THE BoSS LEFT DE INK, AN’ Look AT Reddy the Rooter. 5 SEE HERE HOW MANY TIMES HAVE | TOLD YOU NOT To PULL THE BLINDS OOWN NLL WIND DE TRING AROUND DE BOTTLE AN— OH WELL, WE'LL SEE! TUPIO ACCIDENTS GOME REDDY,WELL GET OUTS TELL THE PoRTER To CLEAN UP, SERVE HIM A PORT=SIDE: FLINGER ,GAWGE, DONT LET ANY GUY ANCHOR, AT DE HAVENS 320% The Chorus Girl Says “A Wine Agent in the hand is better than the Millionaire you ain’t yet met.” VIDIO AV Os ODODE ® © By Roy L. McCardell. E haven't decided where we'll go this summer” “W sald the Chorus Girl, ‘because nobody has askeg us to go anywhere, Mamma De Branscombe says {t's slmply shameful how selfish men are, Here was race week at Larchmont and we got passed up, “You hear all this talk of a Chorus Girls' Hotel because so many girls are in town and they want an excuse to give for their sticking around, The excuse that they are so ine terested in the Chorus Girls’ Hotel that they are waiting around till it's built don’t go with me. I was at several of the meetings and everybody offered suggestions that would get their names in the papers, but nobody offered ang money. “Dopey McKnight wanted the piano playing privilege Gasctie’ %t the hotel, und if he couldn't get that he wanted to be night clerk, provided he got an early relief, because for years he has had to go to bed at dawn because the morning sun hurts his eyes, “Poor Dopey, he 1s a nervous wreck trying to compose music to a ‘chuckle’ song. Charley Ross composed the words of the ‘chuckle’ song, although some of the ‘chuckles’ 8 by Lew Dockstader, “Dopey can't make near-rhymes of them even. For instance, you do in the way of fitting music to a lyric like this: “What is an intoxicated actor? Answer; ‘Potted ham,’ “Why will it be unwise to elect either Taft or Bryan?’ Answer: ‘Because fn elther case Uncle Sam will get a big Bill’ “Dopey McKnight has wrestled with it for hours and hours, sometimes for ten minutes, too, and has neglected finishing his new ragtime symphony in color, ‘The Cokey Moke.’ “I will say for Dopey that although he Isn't pretty he !s handsomely marked, and he can fetch and carry and we don't need no license for him. “He did one good turn, though; he has reunited Amy De Branscombe with her flance, George, the wine agent. A coolness grew between them when, on account of hard times, George said his expense accounts had been cut so that he wasn't allowed to buy his own brand for hie friends. “Show us something doing,’ said his firm. ‘We don’t kick at your expense account at a Larry Mulligan outing, where our wine has been laid In, or anye thing like that, but this promiscuous buying around where they ain't no other customer but yourself ordering anything stronger than imported beer or horse's necks don't go. The only aign of returning prosperity we lamp {s the way you are cutting into the grape at our expense, and even the fact tnat {t's solely our wine don't appeal to us!’ “When George showed us his hand in them regards, Mamma De Branscombe eald to Amy that she was too young to know her own heart as yet, and she better walt till the wine business picked up before she gave George any more Ravan what can encouragement, and men was decelvers ever, and after the way we had touted his d, George, if he was a man and not a mouse, should have come to the front for his flancee and her friends tn words to this effect: “Lye seen them ladies walk out of a place, and pan {t as a drum not worthy of first-class patronage, when our wine wasn't on the card, and by so doing Dopey Shot On the Popgun Six Times, incurred the enmity of the proprietors of plunges with whom thelr tab was good for any reasonable amount of eats and drinks. If we don’t stand by our friends that plug for us and who do call for our wine, even if our house has to pay for It, when nobody else on earth {8 calling for any brand at all, let us have @ settlement and I'll go boosting a pure spring water that I can make myself!’ “George should have faltered not, Mamma De Branscombe said. We wasn’t so bad off. Loule Zinsheimer and Abie Wogglebaum ‘had come across with new sheath skirt gowns, on condition we tell everybody who made them for the trade, and we looked like ready money. But George showed the yellow streak and wouldn't come to the front for us on the proposition at all, and Amy would have given him back his ring, only he had taken it from her, because he sald the stone was too small, and had hocked it, "But we hear that George's firm thinks {t good business to make a return of prosperity play and has unbelted on the expense account again We had been at Coney Island that day and Mamma De Branscombe had sent Dopey Mck ht to buy her some popcorn, because we hadn't met anybody |to ‘blow us to dinner, and Dopey comes back saying the first place he struck was a toy stand aud post-card emporium and they had no popcorn, but they had |Popguns, which they told him would do just as well. “When we get back to town we go to Churchill's and we hears from Boston Charlie, who ts waiting there, that George had been in asting for us, and was lable to be in again any minute, “Dopey, poor slob, seeing Amy turn pale when she as money on him?’ ast Boston Charlie If he would set us behin in half a dozen empty ‘Pink Seal’ bottles. i “Hoston Charlie do this for us, and we no sooner got behind the screen with the empty quart bottles in front of us than he tips his mitt that George ts come in, “When he hears this Dopey commences to shoot the popgun like a Christmas tree orphan. At them sounds we can peek and see George {s all attention and getting nervouser every minute, and Boston Charlie goes over and tells him thag it is his old friends making them joy sounds with ‘Pink Seal.’ “When Dopey has Shot the popgun six times George can’t stand the strain any longer, and he comes over just as Dopey sinks the popgun in hig hip pocket, George wises the wine bottles on the table and sees they ain't Pertect Brut, his brand, and he roars out, "Take this stuff away and drink wine!’ At this Boston Charlie brings In a quart of George's brand in a cooler and Amy bursts into tears and says, ‘Others has been trying to win my heart, but I've been true to you, George. I've never drank a drop of any brand but yours!’ | “At these words George takes out his money and says he ain't ike some 'pikers that 1s on dead ones; when he hes friends to drink his wine he also comes across with the eats. “Mamma De Branscombe says, ‘No hard feelings, George, but I could not see you cold and distant to my child, and when the ‘Pink Seal’ people tempted me I fell, Amy, my angel, !s not to blame.” “Ot course, though, Amy {1s keeping her eyes open and !f she can meet © | fiance that is a real live one George will be shoved out on the ice, | “But what he don’t know won't hurt him, and & wine agent in the hand ts | better than the millionaire you aln't met yet. “But that was one time we caught him bending.” ‘Did he have any a screen and bring Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. | By Helen Rowland. HE mau who tries to mix ‘his women friends nas ay about the same unfortunatae results ag the Tae | ttl | who tries to mix his drinks, One reason why a dainty ttle thing Mke a woman wastes her love on man-creature with @ rough chin, stubbly hair and a smell of tobacco about his clothes 1# that he ts the only thing in that line. Playing with platonic friendship, like playing with live wire, is very eaniiarating but full of shocking poss! bilities and Hable to leave you with burnt fingers, A man will forgive a woman for almost any indtecre- tion sooner than for leaving her hair in the comb and tor breaking tie Ten Commandments sooner than for leaving her hot curling tongs where his fingers can get on them. Marriage is a legal contract which merély gives ene man the exclusive right to find fault with a woman, P} "Tie-better.to have kissed and pald the cost than never-to have kissed. e.4ihy ora Vi if 4 “