The evening world. Newspaper, November 23, 1908, Page 14

Pediishea Dally Hxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 6 Park Row, New York a J ANGUS RILAW, Ree. Trane, $01 feet 11208 Btroek, — — “Bntered at the Posi-OMce at New York as Second-Class Mail Matter. . ter » Th FS 1 and the Continent and a tort r a sted Beat es in the International and Canada, 1 Unton. For Engla All Coun: ening Year Month $3.50 One 30 | One One Yenr One Month VOLUME 49 OPERA, FASHION AND THE HORSE SHOW. S NIU] HORSE SHOW week is over. The =S 4 opera scason has begun and the 43 two opera houses are nightly crowded, New York's annual exhibition of fashions, extrava- gance and splendor is approach- ing height. No matter how many people are out of work or how the free are crowded, lack of wealth’s manifestations. The big ditference Between the Horse Show and the opera is that if wealth were evenly divided there would be a demand for while one Horse Show would still suffice. lodging houses there is no many more opera hous Most people who attend the opera yo to hear the music, while most people who go to the Horse Show regard the horses as the pretext for the occasion, their main object being to see the fashions and the people and to be seen themselves. The stage of refinement, cultivation and civilization that a people attain can be measured better, perhaps, by their amusements than by their toil. Of all the diversions from routine and thought,} of all recreations from ordinary employment, music is the most popular. There are many people who prefer a hurdy-gurdy to grand pera. On the Pacific Islands the natives prefer a music box to the strains of a violin. In Africa a combination of ba drum, | ¢ymbals and a high-pitched hor. fill the Ethiopian’s musical de- sires. To be able to appreciate grand opera requires a cultivated| comprehension even more than a crained car. ‘These qualities are found less in the boxes than in the gallery, less among the wearers of tiaras than among the school teachers, the music teachers | and the people of small means who look forward to an evening at) the opera as a translation into another land. | As a race the American people are not operatic. They prefer | with a marked time or something with a cheer and a shout. | Tunes like “Dixie,” “John Brown’s Body,” “Marching Through Georgia,” “The Old Kentucky Home” and some of the rag-time melodies appeal more to what might be called the American type of man than does any German, Italian or French production. That makes the experiment of Mr. Hammerstein in Philadelphia more interesting than in New York, hecause Philadelphia is an American city, while in both thei American i w York hardly six per cent. of the popu- lation have had ndfathers born in the Tnited State: lined ore } to go to grand opera as an edue cational or informatory matter than fo ure of hear- ing the music. This may be the same racial feature that prevents the American young man from writing poetry to his best girl or seren- ading her. Italian und German cities lar than Albany or Syracuse have their opera houses and opera seasons. So far 1 opera is confined to on ew P t nd to in all, except the largest ones, ew the blood and with increased imn Southerr ne may becc as ) ar here r Letters From the People . newer : I : \ think of ¢ f i weque ' f be tered wit! e $ ' ree 1 1s & f A : my wif une e tae a (vis, and turbed? WI ar “ x I + nx . the that 1 « Former Is Correct. the bu r of The Evening World The Farmer of the follow ts owing | a or “Betwee sted $150 in On Breed’s Hi yo el GEOKGE WELEKSHAUSED Ly } World Daily Magazine, Monday, November 23, 1908. WOODODOOOOOGDON Fifty American <-: -s« : Soldiers of Fortune | By Albert Payson Terhune m | Old and New. | By M. de Zayas. ss FOODS: NO. 15,—PEiRUS VON STUYVESANT. CERTAIN red-faced, hot-tempered Dutchman with one leg deserves | A high place among America’s early soldiers of fortune, if the term | “soldier of fortune” deiine a pioneer who obeyed no wil) but his | | own and conquered where he had no right .o. Such a man was Heer Petrus von Stuyvesant, last Dutch Governor of New York, Stuyvesant was born in the Nethe: lands in 1602, He was o clergyman's son, but so scandalized his father's friends by his wild temper and flerce self-will that no one was surprised when the boy insisted on becoming a soldier Instead of a parson. So able a warrior did he prove himself that he soon gained the Governership of the Dutch West Indian Company's Carlb- bear Island of Curacao, There the flery Stuyvesant threw aside his em- ployers’ orders and governed to sult himself, backing his decisions with deeds of ferocious courage that won fame even in that wild land. In 1644 { he lod an attack on St. Martin, a Portuguese island. During the battle one of his legs was shot off. A friend condoled with him on so sad an end toa promising career. Stuyvesant tn fury bawled that his career was Just Deginnln, | He procured a wooden leg so thickly crusted with silver bands that his men gave | nim the affectionate nlokname of “Old Silverleg.” Then, on his recovery, he looked about him for new fields of conquest. - : | ‘The Governor of the West India Com 3 New Netherlands colony, with New Amsterdam (now New York City) as lie cupital, was a worthless income petent named Kieft. He was removed from office and lls given to Stuyves é Oe Here waa a cha Old Siiverleg” had |} The One-Legged ‘ | Governor. \® b { that he was go! ed at thie news, for a hate tempered, one: wrent. From the fi leagues in wove! ie forbade the vale of liquor t holding | atoof from ¢ a stone | palace which downtown street jthat etfl bears t > re farm for | tumeelt, far to the no et what 1s now Elghth str Fi about his house, Dally he drove tn s sa road known a@ | the Bouerie (now Ut a e chapel on Second ite of y ) whose Uttle cemes body | But tt was less S han hls domineering ways that | vexed the stoli Jecided to send @ delegate to | Holland to protest agains uy : threw the dele- | kate into prison and struck his n ist promi ware chants appealed fr Jecisions, He sentenced them to fines and bar t to complain to Holland he would hang the: e ment to his colony {n general: “If any one + his head off and Yet appeal was made t dered by the h at to the ch against bim. 18) Amster |that he should continue to 2D n colony he sald: “I No parsel bof burghers can akened de- [tenses of the ania G | overstep the |local Indians, and a; of New Swe ling their te | In spite of St | grip on the New Netherlands, \iinally, in 1664, King Charles IT Gus Tells Mr. jarr Why Thanksgiving Hasn’t Reach:d Germany And Inciceatal.y S.zes Up Rooseve.t and Kaiser Wilhelm. ving to ony » Swedes and annex- iponithie fast losing tts Governor himself, The Loss of New York. |o~~- at trifling fact did not t came to New York Stuyvesant eagerly | » > and demanded | prepared to drive off the Invaders | Dutch were tired of h: | Duglish sent a written fe paper to s\ nglish entered no sufficient ald. The nd thelr colony, The 2 vid man tore Nevertheless, the were in nmons to St ds and stamped o Nios mean ain m took peaceable possession sd eff to Holland Ce ~ too m v h mouth te f 23 By Roy L. McCardell. edt a word about the Kaiser!” sald Gus, wrathfully, “He ain't fF assistan g to get It he came ba hearted ar | AAT UTHaTEecLWInE Day Ini Carmien Gua Tulaencolns Ate Senaos worn out, and ended his days on his old Bouerle farm. Dying in n his O they hay ‘6 It va ming and enjoying {ts blessings and seventy-third year, Stuyvesant was buried in the cemetery of his Second aveaue said the sal country j ime 1s had alwa prote against our President!” replied Mr. Jarr, hotly. chapel. i “ “Wh I s protection? I'm a trade freer! And don't And there he sleeps, surrounded by the roaring turmoil of a huge city that hes { . you sedt av sald Gus, “Such a man he ts that makes SWept over and engulfed the pleasant farm lands he loved so well | Sted, wh Germ e sulcider, either; he has all them crown princes, a day and when they was b » German people !s mad and say: ‘Here's another Missing numbers of this series will be supplied anon application to © in this coun ‘one we got to feed!? Ax 1en they get married the German peoples say, ‘We Cirouletien Denertmest, Evening World, upon receipt of one-ce at home and got more and we to pay to ralse their families!’ And the Kalser ts bounties fericht and he should mind his own business | = ty p talking in a f nti sald Mr. Sarr, vat's just what T was saying. | ‘sol to it, I'll tel you shut up! it ain't none of your business!" said Gus. C C b N N 4 et eae pe a ela aman ta) | os Cob Nature Notes. -: gether mit a 1 1 be a good thing if he went to Africa, too," safd Mr. Jarr. | Yes, like “He Is a shooter that can beat Roosevelt,’ sald Gus, proudly | i i 4 piled Mr ‘What docs he think ot Soctalism?” asked Mr, Jarr. ‘Roosevelt 1s golng to UR Congressman, Ebenezer John Hill, of the neighboring community ef eer relic Sete cient & m." | Noro Das sent word roundly he wants to be United States Sen- Thanks gly “What he about Soctalism?" asked Gus. ‘He wants to talk to people) ator, in place of a man named Brandegee, Who, tt seems, now hulds the ARDELL go home to eat; t RETIRE SCHLIUE Le kwanin on tell aneliiomads caintanvmalauprtatere ieee Lo Ho. Our panpleienerallvanould pei gladito: Nexe Bueneses John iene, a ‘ i ini , ; | = moted, if that's what tt Is, If for no other reason than that he is the Pale PERI pedt aul e Ane ; 26 lake e same kind of @ felior, only in Germany we aln't got no Mr.| onty Congressman in captivity who will not take sass from Joe ( Incld they come in my place and eat all the p O'Pryan to In politica against him, The Kaiser he has been minding! city, the Timothy Lester Woodruff, wh abe assy from Foe Cannon. Ui olgeaty 4 my free lunch and ask me why I don't &) ev ofly’a business but his own fon twenty years, and Roosevelt only did It | ciotar Genctor pom tin CNT tte oe ee bally ‘mentions himself for United “Oh, that's only the few rummies you far even eats | States Senator from the adjacent State of New York, ts not a proper New Yorker ; knew the Germans hadn't h a aay for th 1 “You should go back to Germany If you are not satisfled with our President,” | ot * Bavine. been born HDS here in € banertient Nearly all of Connecticut's i Minott paid Gus, in But thelidamllantagnand iplenty: iesinistci cert U have no right to eriticise him! You forget you are living | Eres, men have gone somewhere else to grow up, while others, ike our Permanent On a birthday, on such a tum er When the children haf @ tn the United States.” | Selectman R. Jay Walsh, have come here from elsewhere. first communion and everybod And the good dinner, birnen can't help that,” aald Gus, "I read the Staats Zeltung every day, and! »_,o°me Of Mr. Mellen’s electric locomotives have becomo strong enough to pull « Ing else | train of cars, though usually two are still required. The sparks from the trolley wire continue to light up the skies. euppe—that 18, pear soup— AU's to dimpiinks~and vonce # man ne any Ganzerbraten—that’s roast du hat ans don't know what Thanksgiving Day ta, just itke J sald,""!| the any but none for the care the ei Tero nee ne ny De:plenty of eleotriy Usbt tie, No turkey!" sneered M m" J aa Dae Pere 7 rn am Our netghbor, Theodore Roosevelt, has ordered us all to take next Thurs Sonne: OE Gueh ie} ee LaNiA ¢ iG “y Hay, sahovt ue GAY He sall from Bremen oF ow and be rete that Taft 1s elected, and that he is gol Africa to be eaey rthern an aber, West ' t are getting away before they have to go in the M al and thas Bs f Dd “Oh, never mind t 4 : ain't good enough for me, but it will be all right when more! some time. We shell all ty to do just what Theodore says, Though as a general thing in Cos Cob we can be thankful wit! Dad Holly 18 going to Cuby to spend t As we understand it Cuby has a very nice clin out being told. a Thanksgiving Da. er on t ein win estate near iuevitas, er requiring few cloth Aan D if A © | beyond a straw hat, while bananas and guavas grow on every naud. There ta 2 kK d Ce B R. W. Ta I zome complaint among the inhabitants that these luscious fruits have to be picked I he Million ouer i “ ©) y DY ylor In order to be enjoyed, but the same trouble applies to apples, plums and peare | raised hereabouts, except for a few that fall off and these are usually N, G. ‘The : ~ —— | enakes in Cuby grow very large, but do not bite » iything eacep! rata and mice, ONK [Too BAD, BUT SLL i) (0% Yov ARE $0 V DONT Mind A LITTLE and now and then a chicken 7) | To | ni Fe ONS rr KIND, MR MONK! wore , CARRIE! It ts very cold fishing for melts, Toby's whiskey will warm up the aystem ¢o r of |THE THEATER TonicnT OR ' ya es or Se some extent, but it never gets to a fisher:nan’s fingers, | CAA LEFT Fo! Sam Lee, our popular laundryman, bas not yet been interyt. a: by the ree OUR MAID HAS (ano 1 myst porters of the New York papers about the crisis in China caused by ‘he Emperor and Eqnpress dying both go near together, It might not do the reporters any good to come. Sam rarely uses his mouth except to squirt through his teeth dampening clothes, Harry E, Jones now stays in @ burrow called Brooklyn, Wt comes out on Sundays to Riverside to rub the rust off his automobile and tik at Lish Kelly WASH on — = a if The Day’s Good Stories 2 | rf re Strategy, aif NE of the members of the Stwte O Legislature in the South was @ The Battle of Bangolango.| IM HURST, the famous baseball | umpire, in a Western town re- You Ake $O KIND} THE Dog Gone IT! CIRLS ps WORK SA DONE A ( 1 « of Pd Y ARE THE mosT cently was one of a group to man whe had lived a farmer's if Ng . A T WITH UNGRATEFUL CREATURES | whom a young soldier just back from life most of wae time until he was ; wr af the Philippin was relating the ad-_ elected, and his Wife, having never seen ventures of his latest campaign. | @ railroad train and having no wish to “How many men did you lose?” Tim | test one, refused to accompany her hus ked. | bund to the capital ‘Two killed and fourteen wounded,” When the legisiator rerched his dee a IN THE worto! GOODNIGHT rs — oS the soldier replied. tination he found that almost all the “And you call that « battle?” other members were accompanied by ti “I gure do,” sald the youth—"the bat- | their wives, and he sent an imperative q | \ Ue of Bangolango. | massage to his brother to ‘fetch Jane i \ 'm glad you told me," Tim remark- | #100) 7 aapemnnattas a or - “ u - ne brother telegraphed wh Ne eer AN ar eT pan Sie ee | eee ARM ook at the A of Pennsylvania, where 1 come from, engine. ne u Hibernians give their picnic After pondering over the message for bathe Fourth of July, it they vagivt | awnlle, the legislator sent the follow- noe : {i ‘and cripple more people than phat | ing command: L ——— aa ope taln checks good far the | “Blindfold Jane and back her onte the ext your, . 5 1." Lippincott: