The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1908, Page 12

_“ The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August 12, 1908. (Bubtided Daily Broept Sunday by the Pres Publishing Company, Now 6 te Park Row, New York. Youur POLITEEA, Fra, 1 Bast 14 Boer 3, ANOUS APLAW, Goq-Troas, #91 West 11f1 Mrvet (sn lado die ca ca heabibesdh ‘Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Ciass Mull Matter. and the Continent and in the International oe (VOLUME 49....0. csssessseeeerees MAN’S LOST CHIVALRY. HAT a Catholic priest should find it) necessary to wam the young girls | of his parish not to visit Riverside | Park in the evening points to condi- tions of license there which are a re- proach to the young men of the city. A woman should be as safe from insult in a public park as in a public street. It is a sad commentary on! the declining chivalry of youth. that | the warning is prompted not by at- tacks by thugs but by the risk in-| curred by young women visitors _ to this park of being subjected to indignities by dissolute men. "Conditions more serious and a worse laxity of conduct on the part of young men are revealed in the arrest of a chauffeur and his companion for! attempting to maltreat two young women riding with them in an auto- ‘ mobile. The publication of these arrests brought out the extraordinary * statement that within a brief period scores of complaints of similar mis-| conduct have been made to the police of Yonkers and of the upper] Manhattan precincts by women who have been forced to appeal for} « protection against their male companions, | Charges of this grave nature would hardly be credible of a Euro- pean capital. Yet they are alleged of the metropolis of the nation in) which women are held in most exalted esteem. If only in part true; they mark a sorry departure from the old American ideals of respect | for the sex. Is woman now regarded here, as on the Continent, as man’s lawful prey? Is she viewed as a form of human game to be hunted by masculine hawks and falcons? Evidence of the predatory pursuit of women by men is too abund- ant to justify the setting aside of these instances as exceptional and not distinctive. Nor can they justly be attributed directly to the large ad- mixture of alien elements of population in New York with their alien standards of morality. They are neither exceptional nor peculiar to New York. They are true of other large cities and in lesser degree of native American towns. They indicate the cropping out of a masculine animal- Divorce Is Not Always a Safe Subject for a Peaceful Family Chat; Mr, Jarr Starts the Topic and Is Caught in a Domestic Cloudburst. sercsins'ter tative tsa The Boomerang. By Maurice Ketten Vaan —— Fifty Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune HIS {s the first American love story. a T Capt. John Smith was a soldier of fortune. He was also a bully, a braggart and a most amazing liar. But in spite of all this he was @ great man and our country owes him a debt that should never be forgotten. Smith had knocked about the world ever since, as a boy, he ran away from lis English home. He had been a soldier, a sailor, a captive slave in the Orient and had followed many trades, It {s hard to gain a true idea of his career, since for a great deal of it we have only his own word to go on, | And he had scant regard for truth. A band of English colonists landed in Virginia in 1607, They were a motley rabble, who had gone there expecting to find gold. It was a sort of “get-rich-quick” scheme, When they could not pick up gold for the asking in the New World they were disgusted and cared little about settling down as farmers, They would have starved or gone-back to England but for Smith. He was one of their leaders and get them to ploughing, house- building, clearing forests and doing other needful work, They hated him, but could not get on without his help. So they sulkily obeyed him. Having ] » Gotten the colonists started on thelr labors, Smith set out No. 21--JOHN SMITH AND POCAHONTAS. e | e% Perilous. to explore the neighboring country. Situation. During this trip he was captured by Chickahominy In- r f dians, passed from tribe to tribe as a curiosity, and at length was brought before Chief Powhatan. The old chiet pretended to treat him as an honored guest. Suddenly, however, a number of Indians hurled themselves upon Smith, overpowered and bound him, hi throwing him to the ground and placing a great stone beneath his head. Then two executioners, armed with big clubs, advanced to dash out his brains, America's future fate hung in the balance. Without Smith the Vir- ginia Colony could not live. The colonists’ fallure would discourage other Englishmen from crossing the seas. France and Spain, whioh had already formed settlements in America, would probably have overrun the Atlantic | seaboard with a series of colonies, crowding out forever the Anglo-Saxon race, The situation and the country’s future were saved by a girl. | From earliest ages {t has been the custom among many savage tribes | all over the world to permit any woman of the tribe to save a prisoner's life by offering to marry him. When a woman interfered to rescue a doomed prisoner {t was on the understanding that she consented to be hia ‘wife. That this old custom was in vogue in Powhatan’s tribe {8 not im- probable, for the chief's young daughter, Pocahontas. sprang forward be- fore the executioners’ clubs could descend and flung herself upon Smith's breast, praying her father to spare the condemned Englishman. Her plea was granted. Smith was spared. Had the rescue been merely an act of girlish pity the affair would probably have ended then and there. But it did not, Smith went back to his colonists at Jamestown. Pocahontas fol- lowed him. She risked her life to visit him there on every possible oocaslo"g He told her the colonists were starving. She and her servants brought them food that tided them over @ “famine season.” But for her this first English colony in America must have perished for | lack of provisions. But for her love for Smith she would never have trou- |! bled to feed the settlers or to persuade her father to leave them in peace, e This {s proved by the fact that after Smith went back to (England Poca: i hontas lost all interest in the colony and neither returned to visit {t nor sent it ald. Whether or not Smith reciprocated the savage maiden’s love, he undoubtedly made great use of it In behalf of his suffering fellow- Englishmen. Whether or not Pocahontas actually regarded herself as Smith's wife, she loved him devotedly to the end of her days. Smith fell {Il and left Virginia. Word came that he was dead. Poca- hontas was heartbroken, When the English captured her by treachery and | urged her to strengthen the alliance between England end the savages by marrying a colonist named Rolfe she con- sented. Rolfe took her to London, There at court she came face to face with Smith. At first she thought ehe had geen a ghost. The unhappy girl fell to the floor in a dead faint. Recovering, she threw her arms about Smith’s neck, covered his bearded face with kisses and called him countless endearing names. 80 overcome with joy was she at seeing once more the man ehe had loved and lost that she forgot all the stiff court etiquette into which she had \ been go carefully drilled, and had no eyes for Rolfe, nor for the King of | asd } Back From the Dead. © Dna realized that she was bound for life to another man. Rolfe, perhaps with the {dea of removing her from ao dangerous a rival, prepared to take Pocahontas back at once to Virginia. But she pined away and died before " | over the poor getting married. Nobody fe interested|are free to go this minute If you want to. You are wi pon leation te in poor people, but everybody wants to read what! not @o grand and great! I could have married much Missing numbers of this series Will be supplied upon applies Cirenlation Department, Evening World, upo» receipt of ene-cent ‘ f ; cCardell. ism the promoting cause of which it may be left to the sociologists to By Roy bs Mecariel wife hes got| the rich are doing.” “They are getting divorced mostly, It aeems to me.” ld Mrs, Jarr, womaniike sticking to her opinion. better off than I did, but I have never thrown that up to you! If {t wasn't for the children I woven! ‘may another night under this ! My mother hea stamp. explain, The great increase of luxury following the unexampled mate- rial prosperity of the nation has perhaps had its influence, But whatever the cause, the result is visible in the multiplication of $< SEE that another mill- I jonaire'’s & divorce,” eald Mra. Jarr, looking up from the eve- ning paper. Isn't it queer | “I tell you you're wrong. Some weeks there @r@ a home for me. I can go th lover fifty divonocs granted in New York to poor “mashers,” in the evolution of a type of gentleman tough, not infre- quently a clubman, to whom the pursuit of women is an avocation, and < ——$—$ $$ $$ KK “Your mother is visiting your sister in Saugere| . e Bene a ee TR Heat gay a | yeni ak cine, The Laconics of Lady Aurelia. everybody wants to marry for Jarr; “but let a@ millionaire and his wife separate! money, and when they do it/ and everybody Is talking about ft. Now, you could tage of {t!” sald Mra, Jarr. — vo} doesn't make them any hep-| g0 downtown to-morrow and see a lawyer, and !f I) thore are other places to go!” * “Yes, and you are cowardly enough to take advan- “But I have friends; pier?” abandoned you or treated you cruelly or did any- “Gee whiz!" orled the exasperated Mr. Jarr. ‘You England himeelf, 60 long as Smith was present. y ‘A quick reaction followed pon her joy. Though Smith was alive, she | { By Leita Russell, iy the decline among youth of all ranks of life of innocent and manly regard for their girl comrades. How far women themselves are to blame “Yes; after ell, the poor peo ple have the best of it,” said thing that @ divorce could be seoured for you could! ar9 giways kicking because [ won't alt down and talk] Mr. Jarr. | dttain { without any trouble and nobody would Pay with you, and when I do you pick me up about some. | any attention to it.” “Well, we might as well try to think so,’ said Mra, Jarr, “although, goodness knows, I'd like to have a lot of money. Wealth wouldn't embitter my life." “You think, then, that the wealthy people get di- for the changed attitude of their men companions through their accept- ance of invitations from strangers and their failure to resent liberties need not be discussed, But the theory that a flirts begun in innocence should nec tate an appeal for police protection is one that requires summary re- buke. That it is an un-American and intolerable theory should be impressed on the youth who holds it by means of a prison term, The Minneapolis judge who has sen- themselves?” asked Mr. Jarr. “T didn't say a0,” sald Mrs. Jarr, ‘but one thing !s sure, a woman that has money deesn't have to put up with things a poor woman does. She can go out to Dakota and get a divorce.” “Oh, divorces can be got In New York, and by poor people, too,” said Mr. Jarr, ‘Anybody can af- | ford $25 to pay a lawyer. Jch people get in Dakota in a month.” “That's because there's more poor people, maybe,” sald Mra Jarr. “That's a nice way to talk to me!” said Mra, Jarr, | the tears coming to her eves. “1 waan't talking to you. I was just speaking in general," sald Mr. Jarr, hastily. | “You were not!” said Mrs. Jarr, In a grieved tone. You have just told me as plain as words can say vorced because they can afford it, but the poor pe0-) inet 1 can H || ve 0 go get a divorce if I want to, and It | ple have to stick together because they can't helP | west be kept quiet! You might at least have pve- |pared me for such a bmital remark. And I could get a divorce, too, and mfghty easy! | people know how you treat me! And as for abandon- Ing me, you might as well do that, and you would | not find it very hard, All you would need to do is | Just to stay away from your home a little more ‘There are more divorces {n| thn you do, and a very little more if I do say it!" x York in a week secured by poor people than the| Here she began to weep afresh. } | “But listen, dear,” sald Mr, Jarr, “I was slmply gone It telling you'"— “Don't you ‘dear’ me! interrupted Mrs, Jart. "And furthermore, Little do you need not think you are thing and raise a row!" “I do nothing of the kind!” cried Mra. Jarr, “But when you sneer at me and jeer at me and tell me to jf go get @ divorce, that they are cheap, and you'll be glad {f I do, and here your aunt 16 coming to stay a | couple of da and you know I disitke the woman, and have always pretended to her that we got along splendidly together.” “pretended!” sald Mr. Jarr, in surprise, don’t we get along nicely together?” ‘When you talk to me like that, after I've given the best years of my life to you?" replied Mrs, Jarr “But I want you to understand that you can have 4 divorce $f you want to; I can get along. I won't take) a cent from you. I can support my children!” “7 don't want a divorce!’ shouted Mr, Jarr, ‘Dog’ T'm the happiest man !n the world, Tra la ja! We never have a word; you are the best woman | In the world!” | wphen why don't you say 80?” sald Mrs, Jarr, wip- ‘Why, lke the woman she talks @bout. There is a great des! of high living among very low people. In some lives the longest day in the year is the one vefore the wedding; in othera, the day before the divoroy, It {s considered good form for a» woman to have @ soft hand, but it would never do for her to have a soft head. The shortest way to happiness 1s smile, smile, emile Men are tempted more often than women, because they have a better acquaintance with the devil. Proposals used to consist of long, passionate appeals; nowadays a man says: “Let me be your chauffeur thre’ 2 lite?” and sho says, “For gure, I will.” LBITA RUSS = perhaps the reason that: married people have 40 litte to say to each other is that they used up “ll thelr ideas before marriage fm trying to keep each other Interested. Love must be sweet, else why 80 many honeymoona? ——— tp t A WOMAN who says another woman jaa gossip {s very =} tenced two mashers to the rock- | “No,'' sald Mr. Jarr, ‘but the papers pay no more at- tention to the poor getting divorced than they do complimenting me! I want you to understand you' ing her ey pile for ten days has the right idea of corrective measures. For the prisoner convicted of attempted assault there should be the severest pen- alty the law allows and the most offensive possible publicity. Letters from the People. The Noise Nulannce, — {ter 6 A. M., and walked to Willams- bure Bridge, TM the across there and cross-| Stop corner of Spring and West Bingham! Bu Yiret to Fulton tures of Don Quixote oft can be Jat effort m stop bo a month before July 4 | Bingham ordered the pre ome, sweet home, cracker nuls checked. It wa arrived about 2 P. M. During checked to any very notable extent me 1 called in about fourteen Will the noise nuisance be, readers? F es and never sat down| CRANK h to repeat ri T have no A Smoker's Query. thanc that me to ajo. WORT soa i: In the World Almanag, excessive. I'd tell me if effects and Also, w can smoke s¢ ¢ clgars w fort in the open alr than I've found |t so. E. K p A Walk for Work, jail! To the Baltor of The Evening World Here is a walk I took the other mor ing be reakfast t vious training except a ful regard = W Qo light dieting: 1 left my domicile near Indians Mewiqnn Creek, Brooklyn, shortly af- , find ou: through whoin t ISAAC pontaias f concerning West W to enter Point ply? Also all The World Almanac f mation I've been ilars n why many m ication for adm should be nada thioug 200,760, ing World mate e comes home widont a cent Jn hie jeana”’ ed States? “SRY TRAUB, n the Ur Just Kids: My father’s such a good feller dat lots and lots of Saturday nights “Aw, nuffin’ special. "Dere youse go bragging "bout yer dad blame family agin!” wo & ws w ByT. S. Allen: “What yer kickin’ o' him fer, Mike? | her keepers by laying ab: ~ Americans and Their Athletes. By G. K, Chesterton. F the American athlete breaks @ rule or does something that seems ‘prutal or cunning in order to win, then the best and most represen- tative Americans would certainly condemn him. But they would not | condemn him, and we must not expect them to condemn him, exactly Sere), we whould conden him. We should condemn him not only as & cad but as a fool; as 4 man who In his desire for victory @urrenders that gen- eral applause which alone makes victory pleasant. We are almost es much | mystified as we are angry with the man who cheats in a mere game. What tan be the fun of being a winner if one fe not admired for one’s way of win- ning? What is the pleasure of gaining glory if one loses honor? The game {s not worth the candle when the candle burns down your castle and your coat-of-arms. But the Americans would not condemn their unscrupulous com- patriot In this Heht and contemptuous way. They would condemn him as @ selfish tool who lost the fun of playing for the sake of winning. They would : vondemn him as one condemns dignified but desperate men for yielding in great moments to the powers of darkness; aa one condemns Clive for forging, or Henri Quatre for denying his oreed, or Bruce for killing Comyn, or Hastings for hanging Nuncomar, er Nelson for letting his official actions be swayed by Lady Hamilton, One may condemn such men, one may shoot them, but one does not understand them. The American is a bad sportsman because he te a good Jingo.—Ilbustrated London News. i —__——_++ Bugs That Eat Bugs. HE Department of Agriculture cultivates insects that destroy any and all lh crop parasites, The polygnotua hiemalla can whip any Hessian tly ever born; the tysyphlebus tricit ja death on the green dug. ‘The green Dug eata the other, which promptly lays {ts exgs Inside Its devourer, ‘ne young @at their way to the open alr, thus killing the green bug, says the Van Nordan Mage azine, To one lone lady bug Is due the destruction of the San Jose scale which Ga { millions of dollars damage to the frutt trees of California, When the pest nad become a positive menace the department heard of a species of bug in Nora | emina which was fatal to the scale. A large number of the bugs were procured, ‘nut all were dead except ono w n they rerched t ‘Thia One insect rd of the ¢ She rewarded % In an Incredibly short space of teme bat was taken to Washligton It’s jist one o' dem natural antiphathie he had @ flourishing family of several bililons and the reign of the sale wae | oven, met at