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a, Pudttened Datly Mxosyt Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Noa 68 te 68 » Park Row, New York 7 WOMEN PULITERR, Pree., 1 Mart 184 Biren X, ANGUB BTLAW, Gen-Trens., 001 West 110M Street. — Rabo Wntared at the Port-Otice at New York as Seoond-Class Mell Matter. @odscription Rates to The Evening | For Engiand and the Continent and orld for the Unttéd Staton ‘All Countries in the International and Canada, Postal Unton, 0 TOar,. ro... wreccscce ess $350 One Year.. $9.70 1 Month. cseneae: seeesecnesee One Month eerey 85 VOLUME 4D eecccccnscsscsenns sevaeresservece: sveees NO. 17,268. SECRET OF SEX, : EVERAL doctors are making claims to the discovery of the secret of sex. One celebrated European physician asserts that through his advice to the Czar of Russia the Czarina bore 4 male child after having pre- viously had only girl children. Several books have been written which contain instructions by which married couples can deter- mine the sex of their offspring. Somehow the doctors and other advisers who have dealt with ‘his interesting subject have confined themselves to advice as to the manner in which the children may be boys instead of girls. Are there too many girls? | ‘ Maybe there are if the figures given at a recent economic con- ference are accepted that more than six million women and girls are now forced into wage-earning employments through the lack of a busband, father or brother able and willing to support them. | The unpopularity of girl children is nothing | new. In certain Chinese provinces it was the practice to drown superfluous girl babies like! kittens. In many parts of India the birth of a) girl baby is received with lamentations. : | Something is wrong in the social structure of | the United States if scientific methods that would diminish the number of gir] babies are to become popular. | The natural field for a woman is to have a home and a family ‘of her own. It is not natural for her to spend her life in a factory | or in a shop or in competitive industry like a man. Women receive lower wages than men, and by supplanting men in industrial employment diminish the number of homes which men} can establish and maintain. Thus the more women who are em- ployed at wage-earning occupations the fewer men will there be able to support homes, and the more girls will in turn grow up to be) forced to earn their own living. To diminish the number of women by checking the birth of girl babies is the crudest way to deal with this economic problem. | Without interference with nature the number of girl and boy) babies is almost equal, and the number of men at any given age is shout the same as the number of | women. If the proportion of women is to be scientifically diminished, the demand for cloth- ing, millinery, household women’s sup- plies and like articles will be 3 sed. There will be a sur- plus of men with the resulting social conditions which follow in any community where the men outnumber the women and where there is no possibility of every man haying a home, wife and children of his own. | Letters From the People Wants Athletes’ Advice, of nis with him Mo the Palltor of The Evening World e occurrence. He Ww expert lete tell me what ne ce 0 oe io to en pays out nm runn and paye Lue s f hours an a at Fe r A IT can walk eight or t e as nis Wo No, ) ari Po the Faitor of ‘The ¥ 4 I t 1 mitra Are and white Eh | j és No, Black is the absence of Yr oa White 1» a blend of all colors tt f , Yer t ¢ Byenine Worlds yy r receive any mon ee Bronx Zoo Bay Destify What the ¢ ror Lowe y np To th 4 ger kave him a bad hale ar, " rang up the fare and gave the ta up 45 cents change and the compa nde ‘ him “make good” the ri gent piece. He asks how muc!: he lost : mn fm all, When @ man accepts @ counter lavaated® 5 felt coin his loss te the exact face , @mount at which he ted it. For ire ene queries may be certain hie a, aay that Bh we’ hes ony’ “ will be read with grest interes Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, November 25, 1908, By Maurice Ketten. | The American Opera LIBRETTO FoR THE AMERICAN wie 1s THUS LO GENTLEMAN, te Se WE ARE SO HAPPY BECAUSE JoHN.0. HAS NOT COME YET an eS TY Sma LPS ny SaCES ts 4 i SCENE: CLEVELAND, OHI HAW - HAW IT'S 4 HAZARDOUS) BUsINess Now WITH THESE wi CENA SEE 3 HISRERS “THE GREAT OR~1G ~ ARES OR-~1G -INAL PUToN YouR HAT AND Follow: WAS POISONED, HE IS DEAD GREAT KIDNAPPING SCENE HE'S caugnTtt REPLY Tomy QUESTION WE ARE ON THE VILLAINS RM aoe) Rolle ® In the Jarrs’ Formerly Happy Home. Mr. Jarr to the Rescue ! By Roy L. McCardell. } ‘The way you grin at every woman you see is ‘Girl Wanted’ sign enough for | you! said Mrs, Jarr, acidly. And Mr. Jarr hurried \o change his expression to “Or. dear me! I do wish I knew where to get a good girl!’ said Mrs. Jarr, | startled surprise, followed by outraged Indignation. The Servant Problem Once More Rears Its Fearsome Crest | ® peevishly, ‘What's come into them these days? Where are the good Yo," Mrs. Jarr went on, “you might ask those men down at the office. There servants? Where are all the neat, quick, nice looking, competent, isn't one of them that's any good, and what you see in them gets me! But at servant girls gone? least they might know of a good girl who wants a place. : Mr. Jarr suggested that they had all gone on the stage. But for his information he received a withering look. bliging sald Mr, Jarr. “I hear them all complaining, especially Jenkins, who lives in East ‘I do declare!” said Mre. Jarr, taking up the burden of | Malaria. He takes a new girl out every night, and she promptly comes back on her plaint, “I don't know what's c into them! The| an earller train than he, scorning even to get his breakfast.” wages they want, and the days off they want, and the nights “Oh, THOSE cheap people!" sald Mrs. Jarr, scornfully. “That woman, that they want out, and they won't do the iamily washing any Mrs. Jenkins, what does she want a girl for? But you might ask your boss. He's more if you were to go down on your knees to them! You a rich man and keeps a lot of servants, and I saw in the papers that a lot of rich have to have a woman in to do the washing and froning, and, people had to let their servants go on account of the hard times.” these want a dollar seventy ea da d carfare, and “It would be rather a delicate matter to take up with the boss, don’t you they'll oply work eight hours, and they leave half the tron-| think?" ventured Mr. Jarr. ; ing not done, and the girl doing your housework says she ‘Oh, I might know you'd have some excuse. You leave everything on me!” ex- didn’t hire out to do Jroning:” Jaimed Mrs, Jarr. ‘I'm simple so tired out and nervous about it that I could sit jown and have a good cry, but I wouldn't let that Delia see me. She might think | wanted her to stay | ‘ow look here!" sald Mr. Jarr, firmly but kindly. “I AM NOT going to any | intelligence office this time and beg haughty cook ladies to fly to the bower with me. If we never get a girl, I don't do {t any more!” Mrs. Jarr paid no attention to this declaration of independence. “Well, what can I do?” asked M1 “You might somebody if they AUD ACARD tint wants a good place, only four in Whom should J ask?" “Oh, anybody," sald Mrs, Jarr, vaguely. ‘You meet p talk about Rockefeller or politics, Instead of wasting your Jarr. knew of good gli rfect strangers an ne that way She knew he'd might ask: ‘Do you know where we could Ket a nice, neat girl who can do plain’ go when she wanted him to. cooking and is fond of children?’ ” “Oh, dear!” she said, “Mrs, Stryver has a lovely girl, Always so neat! But “I'd look nice going up to strangers and asking them that, wouldn't replied | then she's seeond maid, and hasn't a thing to do, She ts impudent, too, but I Mr, Jarr. “You might give a hand, anyway,’ vuldn’t stand that one minute. I wonder {f I could get her to leave Mrs, Stryver. grumbled Mrs. ella 1s going to| Of course I couldn't pay her near as much, and she couldn't get out i ‘ | 3 . e ever: : leave, arf i'm glad of it, fer my patience in Just ex here do you think | and she'd have more work to do. No, I can’t do that," she added, “Mrs. eee I found tour of the napkins, two of the bathroom towels and an old shirtwaist~ | {s going to discharge her, but she'd never speak to me again if I took her," of course I gave her the shirtwaist, but that makes no difference—and one of m) “Why not?” asked Mr. Jarr. i st oentrepleces—the one you burned # hole in with a cigar? Why, siuck behind) “Why not?" repeated Mrs. Jarr, “Well, I'd like to see anybody a . oy iy bod: the washtubs in the kitchen! What uo you tnink of that? | penta! y I know hire Terrible, terrible,” said Mr. Jarr, unemotionally, “But Carry a placard on my breast downtown, ‘Girl Wanted?'”’ what am I to do “Why don’t you advertise in The World?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Wasn't I going to ask you to do that?” replied airs. Jarr. «ne #fe fe By R.W. Taylor THIS WILL PLEASE THE DEAR OLD LApy! The Million Dollar Kid VEL TAKE THIS SWELL THANKSGIVING DINNER! OVER To POOR OLD MRS, SMITH! SHE '9 OLD AND POOR HUH} I COT THE OLD Lav's Goat, ANY way! \NK ON THE” GH ! Ne CHARITY "If they knew of a good girl that wanted a place they'd take her themselves,” | wn OD DOHOOODSOOHHDOHDODOGHOGDDHM Fifty American 3 ~=6 Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune OO | NO. 16 —LOUIS DE FRONTENAC, ECAUSE he and his wife hated each other, Louis de Frontenac, ia B 1672, took up the career of soldier of fortune In Canada. From bo» hood he thad been a daring fighter in France’s war@. But his love jaffairs, his quarrels and his craving for adventure had kept him ever in jhot water, To that same taste for quarrel and adventure Canada owes much. | Frontenac while still young had fought his way to the rank of gem eral. Then, forced to leave active service because of his wounds, he wooed and wed the daughter of a French nobleman in face of fierce family oppo sition. His wife and he quarrelled all the time. To get away from domestica strife he secured from Louis XIV. the appointment of Governor of “New France” (Canada). At fifty-two he sailed for his Canadian province, there to begin life all over again—and to win fame that has made him immortal, The French colonies {n Canada were badly run down. The clergy, ' pulled in one direction; the government in another; the settlers in a third, Among the three the province fast going to pieces. Frontenac, on his ar rival, promptly began to quarrel with clergy, government and settlers alike, ® 4» Soon ne won the confidence of the lower classes, but the clergy and officials always detested bim, He tried to reign as a sort of King of the Forests, listen to no suggestions or opposition. hi built up Canada, fought back the Ino- quois Indians, who were invading It from New York, strengthened its defenses and enlarged {ts boundarles. To stop the encroachments of English colonists Frontenac made raids into New York and New England; burned Schenectady and destroyed several Maine and New Hampshire towns. He also made allies "n n was to make all America west of coop up the Eng! olonies on the AU Mttle to win th) whole continent fc F King of the Forests. { A Quarrelsome | the Mississippi @ French ntic coast, and litte by ‘ance, But in 1682, in the midst of these | preparations, he was recalled to I e. His enen t Quebec and .fontread had succeeded in polsoning the King’s mind aca mpered old hero. Back to France went Frontenac. For seven years he loafed about Pari§, vainly would scarcely notice his King Meantime, under bad manage- ¢ province was a mere wreca of |seeking leave tu return to Canad:. But the Presence and would not grant hime single favor, | ment, Canada was again losing ground, until the fine territory Frontenac had | plundered it at wiil, Trade fell off. were wretched fa(lures. "At last, in 1089, the King tn despair turned to Frontenac for aid, reappointing | nim to the post of Governor-General. Frontenac was seventy, and was worn out by a life of danger and action. But ho gladly accepted the commission and hurried back to Canada ¢o undo the mischief caused by his absence. He was {an old man, and It was hard to build up what the incompetence of others had ltorn down, But he did {t. He crushed the Iroquois, won back the rich Hudson's | Bay region for France, and extended Canada’s borders aa far as the west shores of Lak. Superior. The Western Indians, on whos» help and friendship he relied, | nad been tempted to Join the English. Frontenao went to their council, snatched Jup a hatchet, danced thelr war dance and sang thelr war songs. This and his \rough charm of manner made them his devoted friends. Once more Frontenao was “King of the Forests.” France ordered him to capture New York and other English settlements, Frontenac started out to do so, But the ships, men and money promised him by the King of France were not sent. So he w soon at a standstill. The English then despatched a strong fleet under Sir Willfam Phips to take Quebec. Fronte- nac had only a handfu! of soldiers there to defend the stronghold, Yet he blind- \tolded the English messenger who brought the command to surrender (so that the man could not see the weakness of the city), and received him in the great ¢ in perfecting. The Jroquols The local officials appointed by the King | hall of the Government House. Frontenac had the room filled with armed men le Rann © (almost the whole of his Ittle garrison) and re- “ ceived the messenger {n royal pomp. To the de- | UW UU Ane weramnrouen mand that he yield town, Frontenac said: ‘‘% the Cannon's Mouth. will make «my answer ough the cannon's oer somo ‘The messenger, awed by such show of strength, carried back his report. Phips was beaten off and gave up the attack; thinking Quobec was bristling with soldiers and could not be taken Frontenac hurried on his plans for winning the whole West and for forcing the English into the sea. These plans were well-nigh complete when o treaty between France and England put a sudden stop to t quest. All |he had hoped and worked for seemed utterly Under the shock of disap- pointment the olé Governor fell {11 and died, } ter men to carry out the golden achemes he had so daringly inaugu nis | death (in 1698) and was the most remarkable 7 | Missing numbers of this series will be supplied upon application to Cireniation Department, Evening World, upon receipt of one-cent \stamp for ench number. :- Cos Cob Nature Notes [= Gos Gib Nal ne who tnt it the contiguous | 3 i a new Industry into our midst, They take a hard kind of flour, wet {t and work it Into a paste; then this paste {8 pushed through an {ron something with holes in tt and When dry it ts broken {nto little round mac hung out on the fence to dry. which ara hollow, and ts ¢ an be cooked vont or spaghetti, according to the Some of our netghbors who have tried {t say it 18 not bad {f you put something on ft that can be tasted. Mr, Mellen is gettin quite well with his damming. The A. A, Ander son brook is almost stopped up, and in a Ittle while its waters will be pouring Into the tank a power-house instead of Long Island Sound. It will run to the place in p are already laid. The tank stands on land that was sticks, | elze of the sticks. It es, which Ldwin Booth's country place rome years ago, though we do not understand that Edwin was ever a tank actor. Our neighbor, H. B. Fullerton, of Huntington, who runs an experiment farm r two over on Long Island, sends us a boastful little leaflet about the soll and rops of Long Island. He seems to forget that all the soil Long Island has came aped off the top, k-bottom, which ts says @ kind words being and ‘om Connecticut ng us nothing but rc eighbor Fu'le also or the quince, a big yellow tpult that {9 har] to bite, but can be botled into submission by a patient cook and urned Into @ tootlisome Jelly, He says quince seeds are used to make bandoline, , compound which ladies require to stick their hair in place, This ds a new one us. We always thought female puffs, &c., were stuck on a wire, ‘Amos Avery went fishing with Judge Brush aboard the Mystery the other lay. Off Sound Reef Amos caught a big codfish, Codfish are rare in Cos Cob, thoueh they turn up now and then among the aristoamey at Horseneck, President Mellen or some one has picked up the spikes spilled on the roade way under the track at last, except one that ts crooked. Yesterday we saw a car hog scratch a match six times on the varnish of Mr, smoking car to light what he ealled a cigaroot. It left slx broad Mr. Mellen's cars are not varnished often enough to stand much of We rode in a car out West once that had little brass plates stuck up with rough spots on ihem where car hogs could scratch themselves if they wanted to, but Mellen hasn't any visible. t+ ; Science and Golf. Wi the British Association pald its visit to South Africa three or four years ago the eminent seismologist, Prof, John Milne, and the celebrated Cambridge pathologist, Prof. Sims Woodhead, took clubs and balls to the Victoria Falls, on the Zambes! River, and there the man of earthquakes es- tablished a noble record by being the firet to drive @ ball across the falls, repre senting @ very excellent carry of 160 yards, We The Day’s Good Stories i Natural Inference. | FFICERS have a right to ask O questions in the performance of their duty, but there are occa- sions when it seems as if they might | curtail or forego the privilege, suggests Strictly Fresh. HERE was no doubt about tt; he was very angry when he entered the village grocery store and de- manded to see the proprietor, says the Philadelphia Record. | Youth's panion. Not long ago an You sold my wife some eggs year hman hose hand had been badly terday, Mr. Peavey," he said when the |imangled tn an aceldent entered the| grocer appeared. Moston City Hospital relief station in| “Wa-al, yes." said Mr, Peavey genial» 4 great hurry. He stepped up to ajly, “I believe 1 did.” man in charge and inquired nd you told her, that suey were “4 his the relief statlo: sor?’ fi ‘n eges,”’ continued the visitor, | “¥ea. What is/your name "Wa-al, yes, it seems to me I aid," | “Patrlek O'Connor, sor,.”" sald Mr, Peavey. “Are you married?” questioned the But see here, Peavey, you had no yiticer business to say’ that they were fresh “Yis, sor; but 1s this the relief sta- | essa.” | He Was nursing bis hand in Why not? I bought ‘em for fresh—~ | awony. from 8! Wiley, too.” [Hoey course it ts. How many children] ‘'l don't belleve it 61 Wiley t# am haye yout" honest man, ikut, sor, But, sure, this js the}, “Wa-al, Si said It, all right. He com relief station? in here with his basket full of ‘em “Yes. it ts, replied the officer, a lttle put ‘em down on the counter an’ tr a at man's stone: em off for a box of soda bisouits,"” i," wala "Patri ‘eure, an’ Twas "When was this?" begining to think that i might be the “Ob. 1 dunno, ‘Bout six weeks aga pumping station! ep 1 guess,’ ‘