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g World Daily Magazine, Monday; August 31, 1908: Vaiting for the Cat to Jump. By M. De Zayas. | WOOSEAHOOHODODOOOHDOHGDHDHGHGHHODHIOOOGHOSOIODIOSH Fifty Great Love Stories of History By Albert Payson Terhune Dally Bxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 te a Park Row, New York. | PULITZER, Pree., 1 East 4 Strovt, J, ANGUS BITAYW, Bee. Aveas., 0OL Woe itt Street | Bntered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mo!l Matter, Th ing | For England and the Continent and Woe tor'the ubitea Beate : ‘All Countries in the International and Canada, Postal Union. — | | | | | NO. 29—DEAN SWIFT AND “STELLA.” had ec has many children, They are Repentance, Discord, “LET US ALONE.” HEODORE P. SHONTS, president! of the interborough - Metropolitan and of a Western railway system, renews on behalf of the railroads the “let us alone” plea. He denounces the criminal finance which has brought down the wrath of the people on corporations, but bitterly assails the lawmakers who enact drastic railroad legislation. The evil is done, why make mat- — ters worse’ by harsh laws? Railroads Bad Temper, Loathing, &c.” So wrote a crabbed, cynical clergyman early in the seven- teenth century, He was not the sort of man whom the average woman | would be supposed to care about, For he was homely, and of awkward, |slovenly aspect. His temper was savage; his satire bit like vitriol, He was not rich, nor of high birth, He was a bully and lacked all that women xe 0st aimire, Yet he is the hero of at least three famous love stories. | The man was Jonathan Swift, dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, His | youth was passed in poverty and struggle. His pen later won for him @ |geathless reputation as a satirist and enabled him to rule his fellows by jfear and ridicule, He rose slowly from post to post in church and politics juntil he became dean of St. Patrick's, He also fought hard and sucecs@- ——___ [fully for the better treatment of Ireland’s poor, and achieved his greatest — fame by writing the immortal satire known as “Gulliver's Tayels.” ry It was while Swift as a youth was secretary to 4 statesman named Temple that he became tutor to little Hsther Johnson, the eight-year-old Tae «= daughter of his employer's housekeeper. The child ——> ja ‘ S veil: ; Py ; i ) — n Earl was not only clever ana lovable, but beavtiful as we. g ceased their law-breaking and reformed, why punish them when ' ——————ee | Love pene Swift wrote of her: “Her halt was blacker tha @ ‘Tresult will be to punish industry? Think of the smokeless chimney, 3 y raven and every feature of her face is pee i * tndustri PAPAL : oR, Tiss “star” § ‘8 “Stella. ifsilent forge and the idle hammer. Mr. Shonts foresees industrial | ———— joreneae te Ber atie ga Berea eae Ione Sa Hel a if legislatures are not curbed. \ a that affectionate nickname, i P far ri o When Stella was older she and an elderly chaperon came to live near * The “let us alone” plea has a familiar ring. It was the plea of the { canta ai 3 i i s Treland, For years she and the clergyman had kept up a constant gfield rioters. “Let us alone” say the Atlantic City saloon-keepers. correspondence, As she grew to womanhood their early friendship deep- Jaw which denies us the privilege of selling liquor on Sunday is [ened inte love. ane girl adored Swift with her whole intense nature. foe ! iw : Ae jon his part, recelved her worsbip as a deserved compliment, flattered or t and arbitrary. Our local authorities do not enforce it. What “== neglected her, according to his whim, and bullied her unmereifully, All it has the Governor to interfere and threaten to order out the troops?” ead ee an pin nee ne ways Stella bore without complaint. a ny ri wn Ae |... teatime Swift had earlier fallen more or less in love with a Miss me alone” says the homicidal automobilist as he runs away. “I did Waring, It was an age of poetical, high-flown nicknames, For instance, —— mean to kill and 1 won't do so again. Are not my pangs of con- a sufficient punishment?” It is a plea heard since man’s first transgression in the Garden of @ man named Peter Jones would sign his love letters “Eugenio,” while | John Smith would call himself “Roderigo” or “Amyntas.” Swift called a Miss Waring “Varina,” and is said to have proposed, She rejected him, This was in 1694, when he was twenty-seven. Two years later “Varina” =n. ' ——E | became so am r , \ —— AIG 60) enamoured of him that she actually begged him to be her huse . It is equally PUBLIC ee | amen ves band. Switt, who bad had time to change his mind, rudely avenged hime plea of the ar- rahe et earlier neglect by writing her so coarse and brutal a letter of f | Petusct that the acquaintanceship ended then and there. sted pickpocket ENTIME 4 | Then began his famous filrtation with Hester Vanhomrigh, a London ; Ces ( girl of good family, al whose mother’s house Swift had often been at Jone | | ored guest. He called Migs Vanhomrigh “Vanessa,” and in his pootical au- sions addressed to her agn@ himself “Cedanus.” When he wen! back to veland Vanessa followed hiaa and settled in his neighborhood. She was Kes | glieen, He was forty-four. He seems to have cared little for her, She fers, It is 2 vicious If carried out logicai conse- of the traction | pany receiver 0 discontinues him with all her heart; so absolutely, indeed, that she was deaf to es © ° | , i his h ts that he was tired of her devotion. Swift was at his wits’ ende i) L \ to keep Stella and Vanessa from meeting and to guard the secret of each uf from the other, U In 1716 { at midnig e privately married Stella, The wedding ceremony took place every man i | fat See eee pouTe on the deanery grounds, At Swift's zs I | positive rs Stella kept the marriage secret, for his sake bearin; * id be the final ly w 4 ) Hic ubs and coldness of her nefshbors sooner than to Hasse of his own p mS her c nd. Meantime Swift continued to correspond with t. Juries and “.) iY) = ea hot having the courage to tell her he was married, At last Va- would be ( gee HG ies of the wedding, wrote to Stella asking if the latter J pe . Nally Swift's wife, Stella replied, telling her everything, and for- ed, alon g ) warded Vanessa's letter to Swift. The dean was wild with rage. He gal- a fe ilatures fal oped to Vanessa's home and furlously confronted the miserable woman. ‘ a ROTA ribing the avelie afierward, Vanessa sald he wag aries, The G A Double ee ens ie oe He slammed her let-~ i ‘i i is o down on the table withor y, (Bg mM taxes would more than make up for the great loss to industry O.d¢2 4 AAs, |} Heartbreak } Vanessa's heart was Ona Tore eee amare withheld railroad expenditures for new equipment, ete., which is “ “dled. ‘ A wn | Mve years afterward, Stella, y " if 3¢d by Mr. Shonts to be one of the punitive results of anti-railroad havior and by the need of Ueepner eet ae Bee ail He lation, There is at least no doubt that chimneys would become Tess, of the Boarding-House, Has a Soul Stirring Evening lay on her deathbed Swift at last consented that thelr union should be ' ikeless and “industrial chaos” ensue under suct An - ; | made pit lic. But she murmured, “It 1s too late now,” and died. t) Mr. Shont holds “ ‘ hy at t e eatre, in Ompany it t e aug ty andia y. } ricken with 1 ‘morse, Swift turned to literary life for solace and won 4 ir. Shonts upholds “honestly conceived laws to compel a service] ; aan sreat and greater renown, His savage temper and cynicism dally grew } will meet with the reasonable approval of the patrons of the roads. sy [ax he Neier fo Malan heuer eeu side of that everything was} uo Hi a me ie He By ah tees at seth Ny a ent in oe ands ater three years of lunacy, t Peder fj Ws aes Fine: H h th | rn re sh Jesus PAT Ee . t § his treasur ter death was four 8 5 ( law under which New York's Public Service Commission was created] By Joseph A, Flynn, — Ssured out our seats must be some-| “The place was just Jammed and every | one of those very hoxes with a carved black ringlets, Written in handwriting on te (ae cHuree ( ; honestly conceived. Does Mr. Shonts indorse the manner in which ears where out in the middle ot Broadway; woman in the boxes had a cast-iron face too, and wearing glad rags worth) {t was tho brief, cynically pathetic Inscription: “Only a woman's hair!” y i i s . ‘ 667 UNDER put the usher crossed my guess and! face, as {f she was locking for a rainy, thelr weight in steak wift was buried fn St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, in th nf a 4 ‘As been disregarded as an example of railroad obedience to just legis- arene ok led us down front. Our chairs were|day. You ought to see the way some! “You ought to see that dance. It was Stella, , Dublin, in the same coflin with / aa? The State and Federal legislation making rate discrimination and any SD. HS VC EA Can ey eed ty lon Ca ci kee Fe tocTe CEM EEG POM Capes reaearat eure CERN] onrgh 5 ; : , | % yers, . | i tarve-em wore was a glad emile, sor ssing numbers of thi iting punishable was honestly conceived. Is it honestly com-| night?” Z remarked gt the very beginning the old Indy got| strange world, and If her poor Brother Jewelry and a pound of clothes, 4nd whe |1o Clrentation Department, Evealte Were ees een, Ap pllontion 4 with? Why is a law like the Sherman or Hepburn law studied by! to Teas at break-/ sito a little argument with a woman in| Bill, who, just for a joke, borrowed certainly looked fine; but I supose I'd) cent stamp, ee were etiones pave aiiial vow cnelertalthe daccus f Fa fast, reaching Te the next Seen bstas payer ERs ee ere ube erate house look the same and perhaps better it 1)" sco, a lone plum on the | ¢orgot to stand up and bend her knees/ and sa ‘or Australia thirty year, e D t ‘aa : A a Bid ove de oer inn ok tn es, ht ap wi ene tena t'aeessae's'tts| Reflections of a Bachelor Gi ! That there has been a reform of railroad methods admits of no di ——————$—$—$—$—$_$_$—_$—_— "Piro over my golden locks before | acneior Ir \ k oad methods admits of no dis-| }j UY ‘4 and after every performance to yet !t : 43 sala itera eal sue reriled, eying Cooling, but Dangerous. the right color, Oh, you a | By Helen Rowland. been voluntary stl oer leu FLD Wate ot ee lenlicadingian Goeela ihe ark ecdisi ae ine cit io le fl Uushach ite 1] LOVE affair ts ike a run in an antomobile-the feyceaint en + duel ee ” Indy opposite W wonderful cooler on a hot day, it has its danger it too suddenly used | ° RRP an aay cee at ere | higher the speed the surer the smash-up, , fo enforced com | gRomenedy tent mo gai Aan Panicentia ate mathadeiceete en trananene fe tiel| eect ee ere. eat eR Ae er nustned oh ete ashe Te ae ra ced %|Starve-em by mistake, and she gave i LichienlcxitHi dca tneasl eouernlelenti tata vin® Gore faceciallnte er iit come 2 Bor Hotuunder tueloollenre| alwavaniesita) piehennt lacuna at he lost her, ‘ FOALS pliance with’ the law) me an Invite, so we okeue our a ae 4 e ba ate and wanted to tell peers ri e Beate erarase Widow; } | need not be inquired! jooxea x younger without tiynat have; you been) doling ito youriears?isidemanded the) great man| Sa ae eae eey Tae ae ine fo fascinating before marriage und think thas nd ” y | AWORnRET ground and safd {t was only the moon-| hagas k they are going a : into, But guarantees! wingows, lokges, Out pee ‘ BTAGLGGd Any! Budden EHO Cricola tl eaters and those who didn't pay fo to enjoy afterward are no more like a real matrimonial e . are lacking that the roadeloth Daa ered her boasted ¢reatment, whose merits a heir seats that started rows In a tl row than the swell from an ocean steamer 4s like @ storm e are lacking that the pleated : patie hi joasted treatment, whose merits she ie at sea, ef: js re | my new to all ees Reannnawaak Tel ¢ y | ough as to make e skirt and 1e blood from the surface and forced the delicate | *uccess,” Tess replied ad Lp ake pete bl estan i) we 88@ would be go fascinating r Fait Hs Hine Sholineiwald 3 us to hear to expand sharply, Repeat this fre-| °f black velvet ribbon whic reir that no man could resist her, urther — Segislation r colffure, “I would have se Delicate sentimen hat ¥, A veces i f t ee nt is what you feel concerening the unnecessary. “When were certa “If 3 t in that way bathe the throat and roots of the hair] ‘hole thing if It wasn't for aby | woman; drivelling sentimentality ja what the other fellow the devil was. sick,| P s the curt first ly making it colder.""—Philadelphia Press jollars’ worth ot Diese pufts on & ner-| feels, 9 ft a pa J MUCHO UNE SVG | The bachotor girl has gained something with her richt to carry a lateh-key, ’ the devil a monk as = ee = = Sie but a man consoles himself with the thought that there won't be any rea) sex. would be.” ; B Alb t C i h ] equality until she has sidepockets to carry it in, a e e the ast tris ot A Soft Answer Scores Once More -3- -2- By Albert Carmicnaed err eens maser cose w not to be aie to boas this wie eeu di . : ut is ® e | is sentimental conquests, 1@ new public pol- (pete = a eas t i c di- ARN THAT JONES! } JUST THE MAN : — of a more radi He | TE WANT 10 SEE 3 eal’ St é Statuett Di sTegulation of railroads have included some en {Sy COME OVER HERE rine CGS We SCT AN EXTRA | 7 I'VE HAD rang U 6 iscovered. mved by their operation to be too stringent. The railroads have found AND TRACK fond | OVER AND wy COUPLE OF THEATRE By M, H. Spielmann, F. S, A. 4 avi \ S! annathtiraan UP MY PORCH) me SETTLE WITH ; 7 TICKET : D JONES, NOW| ae 528 yy wmmediate remedy in the courts. But for one law p jitional the statute books now contain numerous mod (Jecting common carriers to a reasonat ui Hid obligations to the public. For railroad mar rt it of this legislation is the best method of securing the desired end HE statuette recently discovered at Monembasia 1a contrasted with the Louvre Aphrodite of Melos (popularly known as the Venus of Milo) so that the reader may judge how far there is correspondence be- he two, and what credence may be placed in the claim that discovery, 80 loudly hersided, solves the mystery of the real position of the lost arms of the Aphrodite. As I have before stated, | 4 : Ir ve that there 18 here no new suggestion, and that there ts no connection eing "Yet alone.” |between the two, says M. H. Spleimann in the London Graphic, As to the new —s = Se Ls eee ee, lis y, Several other such statuettes are already in existence, such as the ronaes in the Etruscan Museum (seq Gorl), and in Fione (see Englehardt), that Hy L tt i th P ] rom the Villa Negton!, now in Beriln, etc. Indeed, the evidence js all againat i; é ers rom 6 cop 6. |the supposition, for tho Ittle muscle under the right armpit of the Louvre > | Venus proves that the right arm must aave come across the body ae in the , Balm for Jersey Commauter. them any lasting good. Times have ry numerous corresponding statues known by French archaeologists, from the " phe Bitor of The Evening World changed t an H pose, as “Venus Pudigue."’ Such we see jn a modified form in the Venus at Yew Jersey Commuter,” who says tory d America has t Arles (in which the drapery strikingly agrees), in the Dresden Venus, and friends laugh at him for living {n chance of pre this awful calam- = =< = especially in the Alban! Villa statue in Rome, known as Venus at the Bath. | suburbs, must be rather sensitive. ity by reasor allen times an I~) ( TkNow You = COME ON |Th> evidence 1s profuse, if not absolutely conclusive; but of this we may be { olty friends probably live in crowd- her great res AN - LIKE GOOD CIGARS OVER AND gure, that the new statuette lends no assistance whatever toward the solution a Apartments and are only Jealous of From ¢ andant of the Yard. \ HAVE A ¢ HAVE of the problem, being unlike in muscular arrangement, type of head and figure, % + I would advise him to tell them To the B he Evening World: ( 5) DRINK and {n spirit, as well as in the period of execution. *\Bome people are easily amused. How cu ® pass for th X 2 ee i. BRONXIrs, | Brookly Yard? Lik ; Jap Prophectes THE DAY’S GOOD STORIES. Phe eattor of The Evening World, 4 | ¥ Dy do Americans portray imaginary 1 See Ware with Japs and describe our | P : Not So Much Needed. Satisfled, i ? Ber seria, inosine tole t u IKE most minister's families, they] PACOB SMITHERS, criminal, sat in MINNA fhatatans OF other great nae | reue ton a were not extensively blessed with his cell making paper boxes, when Ms thet have fallen? It etands to | der present conditions t this world's goods. She, however, a dear old lady visitor looked Tare are detiberately pointing at piece page was the youngest of ten children until| through the peephole in the door tn- ‘ fei bind truth, inspiring a growing na Sveblng Word | her father explained to her of the baby | quisitively. . Rae Whad with past glories an i thb” Gaak mp | slater who had come In the night. “You poor man,” sald the old lady, - S pries, to eeek greater glory and tree adi n to the Museum Art Well,” she said, after due thought, RAT RY CE had when your time is up Bi pwn. Napoleon and Caesar sought |! Cuntral Park | HS BE vote the Bt eh Pentre ieee "iWell, no'm, not partickerly,” Jaco uy fe things. They obtained them with | yo, Gay eacent Mondays end Jie many a thing we needed worse. Smithers answered. “I'm tn {ur life" Wehed and power, but it never did daya- d Uneator. ne nn Tete. Bibladalable Fyautsegs, wate + ro ’ ; ; t ; 4