The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1908, Page 14

an Ae sige mate neue Rady ns The Evening w Ss d Daily Magazine, epte eee Published Dafly Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, §3 to 6 Park Row, New York JOSEPH PULITZER, Pron, 1 Bart 18d Street, yj fi, ves. 901 We Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Ma!] Matter. @udseription Rates to The Evening | For England snd the Continent and All Countries !n the Internation Postal Union, J. ANGUS BHLAW, Beo.-Trous., $01 Woat 112th Birwet World for tha United States and Canada. One Year One Month ne Year. me Mont 50 ae VOLUME 49.01. seseseeseessennaeeeeee vee WHO CARES FOR PLATFORMS ? When Chairman Conners says that the average man who votes docs fot care for platforms he states a part of a truth When he says that the New York Democratic platform was made ‘after everybody had had a ebance to tell what he wanted,” he explaing in a way why voters do not | care for party platforms, | Platforms did not appear in this country until 1832, when the Whigs | put forth a brief statement of general principles. The Democrats let thelr | leaders and thelr deeds speak for them until 1840, and for several years | after that they merely relterated the views then expressed. For a genera: tion or more it was noticeable that minority parties paid more attention to platforms than the majority party did, but of late all parties have grown more verbose in thelr declarations, and while words have multi: plied, {deas and sincerity have languished. | ‘The fact that “everybody was able to put what he wanted” into and| take what he wanted out of the New York Democratic platform explains the abominable character not only of that document but of many another. Committees on Resolutions are mere waste baskets into which are thrown all the jobbing schemes of the interested and the tricky. Usually not overburdened with intelligence or principle, they are likely to mutilate or suppress everything that ts worthy, and in a wild rush for conviviality and | tow cunning to gather up the things that are dubious and embody them In @ long and futile screed which “nobody cares for.” Mr. Conners is mistaken, however, in bis intimation that voters are| wholly indifferent to platforms, They are returning to first principles. | They find their platforms in the records of men and parties. These are not made in a hurry, in reeking committee rooms. They are of slow and gure growth. They mean something and they are easily understood. The written and printed platforms of the day usually measure somebody's con- tempt of the people. If the candidates who are asked to stand upon them | have neither records nor principles of thelr own they are in a bad way. | ee | MOSSBACKISM OF THE MANDARIN. A Chinese mandarin, seeing a motor car for the first time, sald there was nothing extraordinary about {t. Today there was one new thing and! to-morrow there would be another, but nobody was any happler. In other | words, what 1s the use? This ts true conservatism. We have it in this| country, It 1s to be found in all countries. The things that be are for-| ever in terror of the things that are to be. So discoyery and progress must first beat down ignorance and prejudice before there can be any real advancement, All things are at stake, as Emerson says, when the Lord lets loose a thinker on this planet. There are spurious thinkers, just as there are useless inventions, but in the long run the true and the practl- cable must prevail, It the conservatism of this world were not so stupid and stubborn the radicalism would not be so violent. A man with a message must make himself known; he must penetrate,the dark places; he must make the quli ears hear; he must open the eyes that have been blind, even though all the mandarins of the earth beat thelr breasts and cry woe and havoc. 0 THE RETURN TO GUTHRIE. Not as a victorious warrior with loud huzzas, nor yet as a vanquished hero dead upon his shield and destined to undying fame, did Haskell return to his capital. He came with sadness in his mien, not exactly | grand, but gloomy and peculiar to a certainty. The Governor went forth | aggressive, proud, festive. He reappeared worn, haggard, listless. The| Oklahomans gathered about him and read a few chapters of their ency | clopaedic Constitution to him, but to uo purpose. He did not revive | From such broken sentences as fell from him we gather that he will! devote the remainder of his life to vengeance. He will have the law on | somebody. He will meet his enemies at Philippi. But, alas for Haske. He met nothing. He met nobody. He simply quit and went home. From | this time forward he is only a memory. He would do well to occupy his ume hereafter in picking the splinters of the Roosevelt and Hearst Save | pick lins from his person and in inhaling the fragrance of the wreath of rose | sister get somebody else. I should pe co: | think, But no, that's always the mary whieh Mr. Bryan was kind enough to send to bim. Peace to his | oil tanks! | ——_—_- ++ —___. A BILLIONAIRE GAME, tance than all of their conjectures, The National Government collects an-|_ week and I get another eit) and she proves satis- Worl The “Ladylike” Campa‘gn. By Maurise Ketten “It won't make such be looked after, of c be looked after, you'll be taken care of; but ‘The cost of ilving is increasing as rapidly in France as it 1g in Amer. | #bout me?” 7 fi | “You can get somebody for a week, can't you?” ica, and everything, from renis to horse meat, {s included in the rise, AS! asked Mr. Jarr. } usual, capital and labor accuse each other, but one fact is of more impor-| “How can I ask any girl to come for a week?" People Think Only of Themselves—It’s the Way of the World; But Mrs. Jarr Has to Think of Her Hired Girl and Other Things By Roy L, McCardell,, 46 Hy, ouear! said) Mrs. tone, “here i the girl) “Tell her to look for another place. That's easy Tat & dollar and a half and thelr car fare! That's you have a better girl,” sald Mr, Jarr. | why I want to keep Della if I can, and that's why I “How will I know she's better?” asked Mrs, Jarr./Want her to come back.” ‘They are all good when you first got them, needs somebody to look after her, And she doesn't give me any warning at all. They never have any consideration for any- body. All they think of ts themselves,” “She was evidently thinking of her sick sister," ventured Mr. Jarr mildly, “What do sister?’ said Mra, Jarr, angri + gala! "Yes, and make her more independent and harder x ‘0 get along with than ever,” sald Mra. Jarr. “If they think you can't get along without them there is |no living with them!" said Mre| “Well, I'm eure 1 don't know what to do to help Whether Delia YO 0Ut" sald Mr, Jar, "Do you want me to stay ome from tne office a week and do the housework?” “I suppose you think you are funny!" sniffed Mra. arr. “But I'd like you to try it once and then you ould see it isn’t go easy as you think. If you had to work like I have to work around this house you'd soon change your tune!’ ave her believe she's indispensable I've a good mind not to take her bac don" then,” sald Mr, Jarr. gh for you to s: 1 don’t know r not; {t may be only as take another place.” 1 she comes pack and see,” ame on I care about her sald Mi Let her sick lered, I ‘ay in this world! “How do I know she's coming back?’ asked Mrs. | Jarr. “I never heard of such a thing, to leave moj Pretty | “L know it ts hard," sald Mr, Jarr, “but we'll get People only think of themselves.’ with hardly a minute's notice."* | “Ob, well, If she's coming brick inn week, tt won't] gut it er alster ts lll?” suggested Mr. Jarr jsomebody to help you. When ie Delia golng away?” make such @ difference,” suggested Mr. Jar, “Her s might get well o: send word that it's, “O% 1 don't know that she is going way,” sald r you'll you'll how and she ts not il, or that she's feeling} M2 Jart. ‘But hor sister 1s 111, and if she gets Delia need not come or something of that | Worse, although the last Delle heard she was im- declared Mrs, Jarr, “But jproving, Delia may go, although she says she doesn't Nl that sort of} nk of Is to sult their own convenlenee! | Want to, and, anyway, her married slater has some- r girl, then,” said Mr. Jarr, “ana jt|body taking care of ber.” ‘ r than Della keep her and it ghe isn't let| ‘The worst 1s yet to oome, then?” said Mr. Jarr. What are you borrowing trouble for?” Na ett ort! people tt "Get she Is bet replied Mrs. 44 Mrs. Jarr. "Suppose I don't say It !s only for her 80.” ! lateesera not i , H ‘How can I get another girl?” asked Mrs, Jarr.| “Me? I haven't sald anything, only that maybo she factory, what am I to do with Della when she comes “Mrs. Rangie can't get a girl, All girls want to do|might go. 1 told her It was uns rly not to," sald do these days !8 to\work out by the day and they Mrs, Jarr. nually by taxation §740,000,000. More than two-thirds of this sum, as {s ee case in the United States, ts expended on account of wars past, present ‘and prospective. War always bas been a murderous game. to be a Dbilllonaire game. Poor people, and most people are poor, cannot play 1 They always have furnished a large percentage of Its victims, How long will they consent to foot the bills? ————_+++ HOW TO BREAK TH BANK, | During the week that Lord Ross: It has come | n and diram Maxim were play ing a sysiem experimentally with stage mon see If It were aot possi bie to break the bank at Monte Carlo no less than seven persons who lost their all at that resort committed suicide. of them died on the premises. Others were fo cold and stark at ir hotels. Thus, !o epite of the mathematical knowledge which Rosslyn and Ma have brought to bear upon the subject theoretically, an old and eim: truth {s most impressively presented. There is only one way to break the bank at Monte Carlo, and that is to keep away from it Letters irom the People. It Means “Cowardly.” Te the Editor of ening What is the meaning mous?” s A Plea tor Whiskers ‘ To the attor of The Evening \\ KL The glory of a man is k- teks: Piosiler never was glory more the F {The Evening W And annihilated. never fe eile BPA lip. receding chin. pro, 4 m i ales jow cheeks, effeminate m © Ane cles spiewous than now, Th ht th \ Shiki shave, for the sake of cleaniiness, eae i i Bot because it makes them look young get of each kind to make 100 cigars ead boyiah, but because it & tas fash- for §57 JACOS KBLLBR Broax. back?” ‘Reddy the Rooter POOH. DE CUBS ARE By George Hopf REDOY, THIS 1§ my ] NEPHEW FRom CHIC Gor DER RAG ALL eee raealay ene aa NOTHIN’ To IT.KID, | NOTHIN’ To —— a ui AS fail) MEANING: RAY HoT =} UNDER. THe South! 2 5 Com& NOW, DINGE IT, ANO START) A HAMMER -FEST=DONT LET US LOSE GRIP ON OE BUNTING = EVERY- BODY Ger, Ar BAT I!) 7? A golng away to spend a week| after that they are all alike.” sald Mr. Jarr; “that will mean you have/ with her sister in Jersey. Just) “Well, ner go, then, and take back Delia wnen|S0mebody to help you and It will please Delia to find because her sister is sick and! che comes.” said Mr. Jarr. you have kept her place for her." mber 29, Soauty Talks to Men | No. 1—The Hideous Hair Cut oc Sor By Helen Vail Wallace CORK ror TEOOOOV yen when love and admiration do Jo a sad Jockstep retreat, but lurk around, patlently waiting for the shorn locks to replace themselves, it {s, to say tha least, a dangerous experiment for a man very much in love. Give ear, oh my brothers! Lest ye think this but the indigenous ravings of ONE WOMAN, I desire to assure you that I ami tn the {deal-halr-cut-for-men “ourrent” and am volcing the distress of all women ing to your maseu- chritude, and all BE- WHAT? Why, because you went and let your barber remove from your augustly noble cranium almost every vestige of what Is to you, no less than to your sister, a crowning glory, Every daughter of Adam among us has many a time and oft felt her heart sink!ng down—down below zero—at the sight of @ “dearly beloved’ approach: a triumphant and or what 1 rived as de Why do our folk persist In per- mitting thoir ba s to distleure ther so? Ich cannicht versthay. I canno: presume, belug a mere woman, to indicate JUST Hi me should hay hatr cut; bu Straight Hair Is Attractive nee to have a large and nd head, quite equal to vedere it, then you anger of dlsfig- of an unskilled a small or {f head he either by He y careful to wear his and cut ao cleverly as bead appear as well pro- Right here {t hat Apollo-like ; but a man wt pos: ed aa may be as well though Reniuses h heads not above the average in size and frequently of an irregular form, as compared with Apolio. hen why ne t i co to display the genius? 1 df not think you would say ue Genlus Js ever much prefers the 0, cranial drapery nod and a curly But to go back to your baiver, Here's waey arti | a maxim: A generous Drive thy barber; let not thy barber equally attractive, provi barber | drive thee—away from che woman who has not mutilated it out of all sem- t luanceitac ange aegiy fairly revels your he side or Women are always looking for pleas. | Outside of tt. Besides, ti's your gon- jing effects. That le why Paderewskis, | 7 duty to humanity to ornament tt Buffalo Bills, poets, artists and wily In | f° the public weal And whon a aay ened polker gees te ao a we ‘tubes (3 ne 0 ald, She evident. Dectedly appears upo |ehinks with the rest of her sex, * Wat it's dispiriting, that's! the use.” dlans appeal to them ao. shorn hero un |her horlzon—w __ Odd Facts About Your Eyes. ; By Dr. E, A. Ayers. the moon or earti zon. Birds’ and Ashes’ eves at rest are nea? focussed—will make no effort when jooking at nearby wornrs and min- nows. Man's elastic lenses are under constant flattening compression. Imagine a er bull of flattened convex be tween two disks of canvas, and the uniting edges of pring. They would atten the ru Pelasticity. The thicker the ler Reedie wy relax th | rounding each lens, ensiike shape, laid se cloths stretched to a sown would thicken by ts focus. For r he lens by contracth tension o { muscle sur- through their elas- tlelty, In fish ¢ is set against the cornea (approximately), short focus, and when it wants ‘o see whether the shadowy object sone feet away ts rk or a log, {t pulls the entire round lens toward ‘he retina, and gets clear a vision as possible, says Dr. E, A, Harper's Magazine, Now we see why so nmny hu beings need * as they grow old—the [elasticity of the lenses !s gradually lost, just as it rubber. One more | method of getting focus is employed by eyemaker, which Is dealt to some anakes. ‘Their lenses, which are set near the retinas, are pushed forward, after the manner of a pump piston, by blood pressure. eap eyes for cheap crea- [tures Focus regulated by excitement. Sonto of the “eyes that can see tn the dark” have no power of changing focus; 80 it makes no difference whether they wet a ‘night edition’ of the day's doings or not. There !s a prevalling “they say” opinion that bird's sight !s keener than ma This {s probably not true, @s only man and the simlae, which have * possess a highly concentrated sensittve area in the retinas—the macula ly But birds aloft aro in clearer alr than man, and thetr eyes can change focus with remarkable apeed, as necessitated by rapld Mights. Birds of pray have vol (subject to the will) muscle as well as involuntary in thelr irides, and con increase the com vexily of the cornea and Its refractive power. + | N strictly obs | Some Fast-Day Superstitions | ‘Armenia fasts, both of necessity and of choice, are very general and J ved, The most common length of time for abstinence from food 1s seven days. ‘Throughout this long perlod the Armenians, !mbued with religious ferver, partake of no food, Only In the case of the young, unmarried men {s any con: cession allowed. ‘ The young men, on the seventh day of thelr fast, are allowed, by old an} sacred custom, to eat a little cake freely mixed with salt, By this means dreams of pure, sparkling, tresh water will be certain to vialt the young man. ‘A strange superstition ts connected with these visions. The dreamer will see a maiden approach the stream, and she will carry him a jug filled to the brim with sparking water. The dream maiden will be the gir! whom Fate has decreed he shal! marry, ‘This strange superstition {s found in Armenia wherever the habit of fasting {s observed, and it {s belleved in with the utmost faith by the unmarried men. +-+-2—____—_— , Sp:culations on World-Making. ROF. SVANTE ARRHENIUS evolves his world-bullding theory from the P principle of the mechanical radiation pressure of light—that rays/of light falling upon a surface tend to push that surface back. His book, “Wortls th the Making,” sa for example, that this minute radiation pressure can palance and overcome the gravitation pull; hence fino dust particles are abi te escape from the sun and enter our atmosphere, and by magnetl¢ forces give aise io polar and aodiacal light, More dust travels out into space and ts caught by some other planet or nebula, and therefore these are absorbing the heat of the sun, and themselves growing warmer, while our sun grows colder. Comete and fragments of former worlds drift Into these masses and condense inte new suns, old suns collide with one another, new “stars” flash up, and new star clusters—and the cycle repeats, so titat there has not been, nor can ever be, bexinning or end to the universe, It {s suggested that such a process can explain why it is that the famfllar elements of our little globe are tdentified ce, and that it refutes the possibility that the untverse nd in all the bodies ¢ ie driving toward a final 29% | Frightening Off Rabbits, | NOVEL pian is being experimented with in Austrada with a view to rid. A ing It of the rabtit plague. A newspaper Is placed at the mouth ef the burrow, and the hole Is then stopped with earth, The rabbits ere sald to be eo frightened by the rustling of the paper that they will not ap proach the spot again, preferring to die in the burrgw,