The evening world. Newspaper, August 27, 1908, Page 14

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VOLUME 49 sere STO) 17,178. 4B manager of a New York hotel an- nounces that while abroad this summer he bought dozen bottles of wine to stock his ceilars, Those who have a turn for such fancies may com-| pute how many day dreams lurk in these accompaniments of hotel dinners and of hot birds after the play; how many vi- sions of wealth they) will conjure up; what an amount of hysterical happiness they will excite and to what degree they will banish care and lull the conscience. ‘there is considerable wickedness along with the good cheer in 84,000 boitles of wine, Their intluence will be felt not only by New Yorkers but by representative citizens from all quarters of the nation. But a main point of interest is that this is the wine stock of a single one of the city’s 12,674 licensed drinking places. It merely supplements | the bar supplies necessary to meet the hotel’s cocktail and highball trade. There is a further hint of America’s drinking habits in the ton of liquor shipped daily to Atlantic City, as shown by the freight and express re- ceipts submitted to the committee investigating excise conditions at that resort. These concrete examples of liquor consumption by one town} and in one hotel of this city make comprehensible the enormous total of 1,874,223,409 gallons of wines, liquors and malt beverages consumed by the American people in one year, 1906. This was an allowance of more than twenty-two gallons for every | gan, woman and child. It represented an increase of five gallons during ten years and of nearly ten gallons since 1886, It is, however, less an indictment of national intemperance than appears, the increase having heen mostly in the lighter malt beverages, The amount of wine drunk in this country in 1906 was cxactly the same per inhabitant as in 1887, | a trifle more than half a gallon. The fact chietly deserving attention was| the increase in the use of distilled spirits by half a gallon per capita in ten years, That is as if each inhabitant, children in arms included, had added io his annual allowance of liquor thirty “straight whiskeys” or high balls. The increase may be presumed to represent the “occasional glass,” ard it is there that the danger lies. In that period of time new drinkers have been added to the list of those who take intoxicants occasionally— among them young women who order cocktails before dinner or high} balls after a round of golf. The automobile has contributed its propor- tion in the form of drinks at roadside resorts. 7,000 | EAR BUNCH: D mediately contrast Liquor in moderation finds its apologists in growing numbers, Yet what is moderation after hours may %e excess in the busi- ness day. Can the merchant who rinks say that his head is thereby made clearer or his judgment -trength- ened? Can a clerk add a column of fig- ures more readily hecause of a yluss of beer at luncheon’ The merits of alco- hol as a food are still the subject ot disagreement among medical men. That it is the best of stim ulants in disease is f admitted. Its tonic PI AAZRZZ Q Properties in old age ——————_: g are recognized, Tha, Gazz eo W. Be i it gives inspiration to the brain worker is an exploded fallac: are more ideas in a cup of coffee than in a quart of whiskey, Alcohoi produces a momentary exaltation at the cost of subsequent mental leth- argy. Those who feel that they need it will wisely limit their indulgence | to the evening hours, and that by way of relaxation, not as an aid to work. | Letters from the People. The Cool Tannel. ee us. The men cocked thelr feet on | Bea tna Aller oc che arenlen wroris: the rail, Ht vile clgars and began splt- A reader asks why the Hudson River|ting all around the deck, while the tunnel ts so cool and the subway #0 | women kept up the mos: Idiotic chat- hot, Had hs stopped to consider that| ter it has been my misfortune to have an appetian e e directly under |to listen to, As we pald no attention Beira moving cool water. | to their boastful remarks about how I large part of the subwav (8! rmart people were In thelr Souther bulit under sweltering hot asphalt city, the men became bolder 1 pavements, I think the problem would | ; grand ied } h Wd | to annoy us by the rail. ¢ 1 have soived its Let the puazied | is sean in id reader take a rile on the West Farms | "8d been | & position to do so with. branch of the subway end he wil! | Ul Dringing disgrace upon the lady 1 quickly notice the difference in the tem. | WAS With, I should have chrasned the Brteece of the air as soon as the train loafers. I have read many com Elunsee beneath the Harlem River at| about New York manners, but lott avenue. , H.T, HOLDEN. |to my revollection has a New Y. 1 A 4 when touring In a strange Excursion Boat Annoyances. | hives zs did these “gentlem fo the Editor of The Evening World: MANHATTAN I had occasion to take a trip {n com: ¥ a5 af pany with a lady down the Hudson ‘a One evening last week and we were en- of The Evenine World: Joying the beauty of the sal! and mind. ! ; HEUHOHS! BAr tO) & ing our own business when a party of ™A2 Of any religton, creed or denomina. tion whatsoe' Shree women and throes mop, took seats this country? eee si tal Y ¥ | boxes we use in elf growing ng my nails streets of New breathless mitation of a rough-louse that ever been invented They are called squeezers bec: vonduetor has to jet the passengers ou with a can-open: Brave @ street car, and life and v up the road the uquire feebly f To ride on a Bro Instance, about § 0! brings out ing a tot of he had. The last census s street cars of New and palpitation of equare inch than tl lation of Tinkersdam and Got 1 strong nr d Every time {nto one of those roomy, comfort eet cars tn a elty of the second, third or even fourth class £ Im- it with the New York, and 1 find ved In the face and hose squeezer cars that prowl the York are surely’ imlt, aren't they? The squeezer car is the best gente hows us York ways of producing nervous have the bra e combined Amsterdam, — Rotte terdam The Same Old Game. 1 nop wood the has 4 ‘of the occasion I hung from a strap By M. De Zayas. Mids Zayas, ‘John Henry” Tells the Bunch About the Languorous Deligh¢s That Lurk in a Ride on One of New York’s Paiatiai Woodbox Cars ae Py George V, ‘lobart. the cars, put in America we find gerins, peil'o Reddy th e REDDY.GO OUT AND HAVE MY LUNCH [SENT IN! AD a > YOU BLOOMING IDIOT. erp —HK} [AH Stippeo] Ol Rooter. Pe 4 Bd [TAKE Gooo CAR COME ON,oL' KIDS | OF THE Office | TWO GRAVES ARE REDDY I[— FILLED | HANG BELLS ie ON THE NEXT ONES sy ung cars are ex- fo. wo York | n rud a kitten, spectful to are bull! 13a can of |"But to win at any game vou've got to that the street jartistte ke a lemon- sa space of you will al. By George Hopf. More Widow Wordalogues By Helen Rowland COIIAQOGCGHTDOS Misa Rowland’s brilliant dialogue story, “The Wdoto,” toon such unusual success and created so great a demand for further ad- ventures of the same characters, that the author has written ex clusively for The Rvening World the present series, 2—FINE POINTS IN 1HE LOVE GAME, 66) CAN'T see,” declared the Widow, laying down the I morning paper from which she had been culling the latest scandal, “how a man can make love to two women at the same time,” “Oh, it's easy,” returned the Bachelor, nonchalantly, Mghting his cigar, “That !s—er”’—— “THEY are easy,” finished the Widow with @ scorns ful tilt of her chin, “But I don’t mean that—I mean I can't understand why he’ wants to.” "He doesn’t always want to," protested the Bachelor, “He usually just—happens to’-— “It's bad form,” announced the Widow. “And dangerous,” sighed the Bachelor, reminiscently. “And unsatisfactory and tnartistic,” continued the Widow, taking up her embroidery and ignoring the !n- terruption, “It's just lke trying to eat two courses at once at dinner or drink- ing two kinds of wine at the same time or looking at two pictures or wearing mixed colors. You don't get the real flavor nor the best effect nor the fine points of elther of ther “Oh, I don't know," objected the of in—in battalions? Why can’t he walt Bachelor, lazily studying the Widow's |until he finishes and digests one before profile through the haze from his cigar.|he plunges into another? Why does he “A chap can have a lot of fun driving | want to put the new love on right over @ pair of horses.” | the olf? Why does he want to mix aft “I beg your pardon!"” jthe colors on the nalette of life until 1 “And a woman likes more than one ‘pothing but a smudge, and all the kis hat at a time.” {in the dish of si ment until {t's noth- | ‘The Widow sniffed, Ine but hash, and all the notes In love's | “And even an Indign wants more than leweet song until It’s a vulgar medley, { NO. one scalp at his pelt.” | “An Indian,” the Widow's lps curled | cried the Bachelor, desper- scorntully as she bit her thread, "can't! ately. “You're getting all tangled up in be expected to appreciate the artistic the thread of your argument and mixed side of anything—tven the love game. He's a savage.” }in your n phors’ “That's just what “So are most men," declared the) who makes love mor han one Bachelor shamelessly, woman at a 1 declared the Widow | “And that.” retorted the Widow ‘ls why they prefer quantity the matter of women and his proms thrilling affair, a string of one genuine jewel, Bu edge off a woman's ro- doesn't fa ks." returned °5 just ike do that when woman at exasper- crowd S$ the-the ri man relor, ‘Arent you even going to kiss-——?" "Even an actor gets weary of e same old role ta the sama audience every night. It takes a - change of audie: e or a change of giris to give a chap a fresh Inspiration oc= casionally and’-—— “It's getting very late, Mr. Travers,” Interrupted the Widow, putting out two fingers as she rose and glanced at the lock with a frozen smile. “Now, what have | done! groaned the Bachelor, reaching for hig hat and Rachelor. puffing bis clear serenely. “ Jove tlavine “Plaving!" embrolde iahing clance. “Didn't vou sav tt was a game?” he |inavired tn an Injured tone. ves,” agreed the Widow erudetngly The Widow dronned her shot the Bachelor a entrate on tt. A woman has the ie taste to orefer one sweetheart etd “Aren't you even going to ‘i ise” — a a ‘Apne’ well!” broke in the “I don't care to be & supplement.” re |pachelor bitterly, She 1s never marked the Widow coldly, led until she has soaked herself | “What? ‘or perfume and has hung on to a a "Nor a repetition.” ar an argument ora man ora filrtation| “But you aren't!" protested the inti] she has worn It toa frazzie, But aj Bachelor, “You're the only"— man realizes that one love affair or one} “And I hate to travel in—in crowds!” woman wil! plaue hicinterest in anotner | “I tell you, you're the only wo just as the hors d'oeuvre plques his ap-| man" — petite for the oysters, and the sauterne| «They all tell ma that.” The Conductor Pulls the Bell. LUTULSLE CHG » claret, and”— | “You're the only woman T've seen of “Hut you don’t want the oysters and|spoxen to or thought of of dreamed t in some ot ire He swung out wild Joties Ke @ cumstances foUT |i. nore dioeuvye and the soun and the! al nted to kise’— BoaU een sch alh 8.260 ohenPabeces Lae aonb ans! nay Ne squeezZer ewirorne and the claret and the cham- finished the Widow, tronl- ane (BEY Out KIN Is a as Ssmelof the New 4 st cars tation pagne ail served at once!” cried the) cally, ai One evening | rote & lead By Acuble Mite, e e (ey are jueezer condu An put tvantys w waving her embroidery aiiattallmaitwcta ee hola wesc tincorrecled ithe : ond street to F in BEE EM Gauche Gee ees GH ints id into mine and sull bave four tO just what [ mean, Why can't a man, Bachelor, maliciously, as he passed touching tne floor with my feet, efrigerator. A * have started {take his love affairs in courses Instead hastily out of the door, to Part of the time | used the out sa cold day wnen we cannot find ladies 0 a arted | Hee bon a pe P pus of a stout gentleman to come hetaeen it colder In the street vary CRUE le cons me and the ground, and during che rest. In Germany we find the Germans inf \sor pu thea res S cces ful W D mm bin U N) omen Dru ers. | | By Frances Von Etten. OMEN drummers are becoming more plentiful every day, and they are , successful, too. One has but to go to the firms employing these “ladies W cf the grip’ to learn that their sales are as large as, if not larger than, Mf the sterner sex. This fled for women Is comparatively new, but already ny bright and clever young women have entered Into {t who have met with al vuceess that It will not be long until they will stand equal chances with + ts." who have for so long monopolized this particularly well- pa tog business, And we have pot far to go in looking for a reason for all t! In the first place, a woman {s bound to gain recognition simply because isa an, for it 1s the hardest thing In the world for a man to refuse a request | made by a woman, especially if the woman be young and pretty, and, of course, | ows what he {s doing, he 1s placing an order, In many branches, such as selling corsets, ladies’ walsts and underwear, per tumery, inillinery, toilet articles and dozens of other things, a woman Is better adapte” tv the business of selling than 1s a man, and she {s particularly success- ful along these Hnes, A successful woman drummer is always in her element, for sho ts sure of herself and knows what she can do; {t {s second nature for her to ufiate and expand on the salient features of such of these articles as she mev oo selling, Asa rule these women are quick at repartee, some of them good \story-teliers, brimming over with original good humor, and have ® thorough knowlndye of men’s weaknesses.--Leslie's Weekly, DAY’S GOOD STORIES. 0 In: ph | so. betore THE Didn't Seem Possible |A Safe Future, WELL-KNOWN east end clubman mist doctor had discarded his horse who got married not long ago rented and buggy and had bought an a fiat in anticipation of his coming auto, As usual the repair bills be | nuptials and lived there In a state ofceli: | gan to mount up, Whereat a patient bacy for about two months, After the| sce: ‘It would have been cheaper place had ceased to be a bachelor quar-| +) stick to the horse and buggy.” \ters a messenger boy came to hia door) uy one morning. “Is Mrs, Von Doe here?” | to pteq the boy asked. ‘The inquiry for @ woman See at thelr old age.” re- the medico. “You know the State supports automobile owners in © \ thought the x er eepn ty Bother Mrs. Von Doe, Sr.| “I never heard that!” exclaimed the “Why, no," swered, “You must have the wron penreee! rah he a) | membered, “Oh, yes, he ' | course she’s Sera, Mrs. Von Doe ta my either to the poqas wife."=Cleveland Plain Dealer, house.” 4 —————————— sone ea he inne ya nem an