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The Mtorld, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to a Park Row, New York. | J, ANGUS GMAW, Bee. Treas, 101 ‘Frew 11th ‘Stret. | SOSRPH PULITZER, Pree. 1 East 184 Street, | —_— Fnntered at the Post-Offico at New York as Second-Class Mall Matter. For England and the Continent and \ Bubser! tes to The. Evenin p pWubscription Rates to stares | All Countries in the International | N and Canada, Postal Union. 93 One Year $3.50 ad Otie Mont a} { VOLUME 49...... ‘ DISCOURAGING MATRIMONY. JHE marriage of two members of an East Orange Church discloses the fact that this was the first wedding in the church in thirty years. It is| not assumed that there have been no marriages among the congregation in a period of time approximating a generation. But the disuse of the) church edifice for such ceremonies implies a discouragement of matri- mony hardly in accord with religious doctrine and in direct antagonism with My Policies, The orthodoxy of the East Orange Church may be Integra vn ere we, sound, but on the question of race) SanvHiiaan iin fil) suicide it is out of harmony with} NM} ] WANA MN NY Executive precept, AUN A At a time when the desire to lead a single life independent of marriage obligations makes a strong appeal) to the youth of both sexes any discouragment of matrimony is to be} deplored. It should be facilitated as the best guarantee of good morals. | Yet a new impediment is raised against easy marriage by the ruling of the Attorney-General that under the Cobb law regulating marriage the| ceremony must be performed in the city where the license is secured—| that a marriage at Poughkeepsie or Syracuse under a license issued in| Manhattan is illegal. | This ruling may be technically correct, but it is inconsistent with the spirit of the statute, the evident design of which was to secure regu:| larity and uniformity in marriages along with reasonable publicity, but! hot to obstruct them. The World is no advocate of hasty marriages.| But when a man and a woman have made their choice the best use of a| marriage law is to expedite the tying of the knot, Society properly | regards marriage as a contract to which its consent is necessary. But that consent once given the object should be to forward the union, not to impose hampering restrictions upon it. Official records of marriages have an important place among vital statistics, But the contract after all is one which mainly concerns the two parties to it and is not entered | into for the benefit of census takers or clerks of record. It is a question whether the mating instinct in humanity is not bound up by too much legal red tape. The common law recognition of a sim-| ple agreement made in the presence of witnesses may have conduced to, — | | | | | | | undesirable unions. Yet the restrictive requirements with regard to the issue of licenses and the place of the ceremony verge to the other extreme of making marriage unduly difficult, In a sense they preserve the old | idea of marriage preliminaries held by half civilized peoples, that they | ‘are an ordeal to be undergone, a gantlet to be run, just as among African races to-day the bridegroom-to-be is put to a test of endurance before he can claim his bride. | Laws reducing the technical obstacles to marriage to a minimum are! more in keeping with the enlightened view of matrimony as the institu- tion on which society primarily rests and which it is society's duty to/ make every effort to foster. Nature has endowed the young with an in-! tuition which is more often a safer guide in the selection of a mate than the counsel of their elders, To give that intuition its freest scope, subject only to checks which will safeguard the race from deterioration, is the main thing. | Fo the Editor of The Evening World: ately | I am Invited to a birthday party. On that ultimat the bottom of the invitation are the May berome a woman lawyer. Aa lam letters ‘R. SV. P.” What is the mean-,Aan orphan girl, of moderate me 1 ing of letters? cannot afford to pay much 1 in EDWARD STORK | this line, and thus desire to receive suf P."" stands for the French | ficlent knowiedge of law t words epondez, vous plait,” |.ng schools. 1 have a alig meani Respond, if you please” (or /of the German lar “Please answer”). nteaant Uiibekiay et “R. &. V. Post-Vacation Reflections, fo the Faltor of The Evening World: Fiance Now that most'of us are through with | to the raitor _ this year’s vacations, can't we learn [et the residents of th ne ne great lesson from them? We are strong and well and vigorous after va cation, Why? Because we hi {n the open air and done lo cising. We can keep well only we wi!l follow out this c e in ye stayed of exer- | York Voloes W York vo town, Well v ed rooms, long walks, Sundays in the open air, The: rules if followed will preserve nealih : Tam a doctor and readers free, Wants to Stady Law. Te the Editor of The Evening World ced re 3 give thet ployed since graduat eollege, two years ago @ern in this city My sa ‘ Prevent time is $15 per wee when | firs: made frm now employing me | only received @ per week. My object in writing Whis nearing & veard! ae ener tural The Evening World Dail On Top at La By M. De Zayas. By Joseph A. Flynn. | “Did you ever get a letter from a girl her vacation, “Dear Tess: We arr! sult has got an awful tale to tell, and when I took it to a laundry in the village next morning a big Turk there had the crust to ask me 41.50 to do it up, and to think I never coughed up more than a dollar for the same operation In the city! told her go, and after a wi to chop off a . h she said she wouldn't do tt even for her own er to send me my blue skirt, - And Teaches Recipients How to Fr ——— % H, a note from him, on?” I re- marked to Tess dinner last eve- ning, hoping against hope that{ by the time the olives reached me there would be at) least one left in| the Jar. “No, {t's from a her," Tess replied, ~ by “Now We Blow By Looking the Other Listen: ilving? here a all in. My new w at and ans’ everybody tn Jennie.’ I: the « right then and blow by looking rking {t to de her I want tt r juers who's hero? Jennie Belden! two-step around 9 keep it party crazy about me. because the + but I her, came back you mind drop; the house and asking to me. ‘ sonal, Mabel, but I am a key Heres a secret y Magazine, Friday, A st! NAT (ONY y LEAGUE ugust 28, nthe meen pe ee Be OI 1908- ) PHDODOWOOOG : Fifty | Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune NO, ?8-BARON TRENCK AND PRINCESS AMELIA. Fe ie Fretherr von der Trenck—better known as Baron Trenck—« had the audacity to fall in love with Princess Amelia, sister of Frede | erick the Great, King of Prussia, Amelia's love cost him bis liberty, | Europe. Trenck helped to swell his own fame by the fact that he was ® raost brillant lar and an unconsclonable braggart, as well, In his autobl- than a half-dozen dime novel heroes could possibly have achieved. Thus It is hard to get at the exact truth about him. Here is his story, as it te pled: Trenck was of noble birth. {n 1742, when only sixteen, he became an officer in the Prussian army. He was brave almost to foolhardiness, and Great, and the lad was quickly promoted from rank to rank, At eighteen he was the King’s alde-de-camp. Then it Was that he met and fell in love | errs, == ig reputation made an instant impression on the \ {The Soldier and young girl’s heart. They avowed their love for one |} the Princess, Laon Each knew that there could be no marriage be ser. a King’s sister and a mere soldier. Yet, both being very young, they had Thus affairs went on for a brief time. Then came a sudden awakening from thelr'fools’ paradise, Trenck’s quick rise in the army and {it Fred- | soung hero's downfall, got hold of some of the letters he and Ame ta bad written to each other and showed them to the King. Frederick, in rage at cess, cast Trenck {nto prison, This term of {mprisonment was ended a few ricoths later, for a military campaign set in and Frederick needed every LY to teach Trenck what the inside of a jail was Ike and to lead him to s‘tdy wrye of escaping from such a place, This odd knowledge later stood him Scarcely wag.the campaign at an end when Frederick, still enraged at Trenck’s love for Amelia, bad the young man arrested on a trumped-up a chance for Trenck to apply some of his theories on escaping from Jail. He did so, After one or two fallures he broke out of the fortress and fled come known, Whether because the Princess's name was lightiy spoken of by Austrian omcers or because of some we.,..der reason, Trenck issued chal- while wciung a chance to retu.n in safoty to Amelia, uc took service under the lan Empress, Elizabeth, and bore himself so gallantl; in her wart jhed ? vecome at court that a Russian princess, in dying, left him her | fortuse. j almost his life and indirectly made him for a time the romantic hero of all ography he attributes more heroic and impossible adventures to himself Benerally accepted bad ¢ positive genius for warfare, He attracted the notice of Frederick the )with the Princeas Amelia, His good looks, his dashing courage and grow- another and began a long, secret correspondence. not th: wisdom to part. evick’s favor had gained for him many engmles, These foes, seeking the Hs atde-de-camp'’s presumption in daring to lift his eyes to a royal prine brave officer Ite could muster. But the confinement had lasted long en ir good stead. charge of treason and thrown into the military prison at Glatz. Here as to Vienna, There the -‘ory of his affair with Ame.ia had presumably be- lenges right and left and fought a series of spectacular duels. Thence, {hat the Empress gave him a diamond-hilted sword. So much of a favorite Perhaps he thought that so famous. man as he had now become would |e 89/4 in returning to Prussia, Perhaps his love tour Ame.ja overcame his | prudence, At all events, after a sojourn in Austria, he ventured vack to | Germany, Frederick, on learning of his arrival, at once threw him into enn, prison, But Trenck had a positive genius for jail- A Gentus for breaking. No ordinary bolts and bars cou.u stop Jall Breaking. him. With no other implement tnan uis pesknite PRA he cut his way out of his cell, Then, recaptured, | he was loaded with chains and was further tortured by being forced to cus7er to the turnkey’s cry of “TreneL, awake!” every fifteen minutes ‘a the day anc night. He slipped off his chains and learned to answer ths | Jailor’s summons in his sleep. At last Amelia, by ten years of vearfil Ce ee | pleading with her father, secured Trenck’s release. She had pined away for Tess of the Boarding-House Discourses on Vacation Letters, © ame a Fitting ‘‘Come-Back”’ Way!” That was just the opening I was praying for, and I cleared my wered loud enough n room to hear, incher, just like she's pass away th and now we the other way. Nobody knows n Kate and Aunt to yourself, There's up here who's just They call him my he's always on the hy Just Kids. , a 4 ida, ab’ she gils e nag diamond cokwen Wudaes a Week us chorus giTh besides: “Dido't I tell yer de odder day I’d swash yer face if yer didn't stop bragging about yer blame family?” oaw. He wears slick clothes, too, but, the joke of it, I just despise him. He's always wanting me to go Ouu and I refuse him every time; though we play tennis every morning, together every night, and yesterday he hired a swell rig and made me wo for a ten-mile ride. “He'g just loony over me. Jennie {s making a grand-stand play for him, but what chance does stand with me around; though she ‘nas brought up every stitch she ever owned, even to her imitation tur boa, to help along the bluff. Now if I cared for him I wouldn't mind, but I don't, and the more I tell him he annoys me. Now are a good, sensible girl. all I do? te me imm: (because everybody in the {g talking about us. Youre, with love, MABEL.” “Well, that’s a shame!” T interposed, { astonished at the strength of the tea. “What does he mean by hounding ber day and night, especially when he knows he's not wanted?" “You're more to be this morning: “Dear Mabel: Yours received, Your sister says the walst belongs to her, as well as @ lot of other things you took away. When does the wedding take place?” pitied than} laughed at" Tess reviled. “I wrote back Jove of him. The two unfortunate lovers were allowed to have one fare well interview a few days before the Princess's death. Their two lives and Jeight futu:s bad been sacriticed, w gly if uselessly, for each other, After his sweetheart’s death k drifted aimlessly from place to plac.. Onge he was sent to an {nsaue-asylum, again to a son. From voth he won his freedom. He found time to write his autoblogra hy—a mass of exaggerations that won him world-wide renown. At length, Im Parts, during the Reign of Terror, he was falsely accused of being a Frua- sian spy and, at the age of sixty-eight years, was beheaded. Minsing numbers of this series will be supplied upon application to Circulntton Department, Eventng World, upon receipt of one= } cent stamp. es |, An Angry Emperor, By Octave Mirbeau. bs © you know the large fountain "By Henven, you are a Socialist, toot which stands in the Schloss-|Everyhody t's 4 Soctallst nowadays! plats? It was bequeathed to he shouted. ‘Bu: they had better take the clty of Berlin by @ very rich gen- | Cara: tleman. The Mayor, In accordance with| “Imagine the surprise of the crowd the usual ceremonial custom, invited the 274 of the officials when, on the day Emperor to take part in the dedication of the unveiling, they saw the kms exercises. The Emperor was absolutely Peror appear. His face was sombre outraged,” enid a friend to Octave Mir- {9d Uireatening and his mustaches beau, who repeats the conversation in Were more warlike than ever, Hurle "'Ameriean Magazine. ‘He coud |!mk himself upon the platform, he Ins y belleve that they would dare to '¢frupted the good man who happened Jerect in Berlin a monument which had |‘? be exputiating upon te virues of |not originated with him, He exhausted |‘%°,donor, all the administrative and, legal tricks city! cried Wiilain ‘aocialfan te fre that he could think of to prevent the ioe avert ond will not tolerate tenes acceptance of the legacy, and, falling given orders for ap Tenet bA roan 4 O arrest the project, ssnt a curt re- to be built right in the heart of Bere fusal to attend the dedication, He felt lin. It will be filed wi that this fountain was a direct blow at (ne Rociailsts ite fare his authority; almost, indeed, a crime mow down, of lese-majeste, I saw a good deal cat h of it! nim at this time, and tried to reason | "With this he turned his back om with him, but he flew into @ rage and (the crowd and looked scornfully at the Imposed silence upon me, fountaln, fountain’ “This fountain drives me mad!’ he ‘dressing thi gniteries one ee erted in French, (He always drops into form with ¢ shrug of iils shoulders, French: when he wishes to use violent jag’ he went as he had. come ik language.) ‘It Is a Soclallst plot! Mark tempest, leaving the crowd atupened iy words ei Gostaliat elotlt Strange to sav the story of this affalr y was not broadly cl ev “L tried to calm him. \Germany.”” po Siauinteds evshi fs hovering over this Reflections of a Eache!or Girl. By Helen Rowland. Grom cons of great men all remind us that there te some consolation in being obscure. Thai deliciously giddy sensation that a woman exe tracts from hovering round “the brink” of love and just not stepping over it always seems such @ foolish waste of tinve and energy to a man. Now that there are bachelor flats with maid service, incubators for babies, chorus girls for amu: ent and laun. dries that darn socks and sew on buttons, marriage seems ho longer @ necessary evil, It Is so much easier to get a poor husband than a riok one because, while @ man doesn’t mind ring sontehow he prefers to keep his money to himself, That wan look about a husband which his wife notices on her return from her summer vacation tg not always @ vmptom of brain fag acquired by thinking of her. A bald head may be & curse of fate, but a stubby nrustache is @ man’s owa sult. rHE DAY'S GOOD STORIES. WRLEN RONALDO Premature Explosion |Retort Courteous, “ ADAME,"” sald the street car OGER MINOT SHERMAN, while conductor, “is this your boy?” R arguing a celebrated case, said ‘Tos, vir; ho 1," she snapped. | that his opponent could no more And I am not going to pay any fare! prove his point than he could cut @ on him either! He Isn't five yeara| hair lengthwise. 4 yet!” “1 didn't dream of asking you tO Pay) nent, who happened to have a very ore ee aite bi staat oaly going sharp knife, pulled @ hair from his c eittle fellow I ren TOF many | beard and split it. As he held {t up the a day.” Court began to laugh, and Mr. Sherman eat “idm eponlae and enon quickly called out: “I ssid @ hatr, aly Yor breath.—Chicago —Phitadelphia Ledger buna, not @ bristle.” 2 ot PAIS RTE ESTE LOPE I TIO TT ie wey i