The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1908, Page 16

' WOFTaD .ifF"'Ms, AvIiney Tuesday She LHP sori, | hree Is a Crowd. Dadlishea Dally xcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to es By Maurice Ketten. Park Row, New York | 4 PPOREPH PULITZER, Pres., 7 Rast 18 Breet, J ANGUS RITAYY, Bee. Treas., 201 Wee 116 Atraet Entered at the Post-OMice at New York as Second-Class Mal] Matter. Budscription Rates to The Evening { For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries In the Tnternational nd Canada Postal Union. $3.50 | One Year. 0-1 One Monti One Year One Mont! VOLUMr 49 |! [nen BABIES. EALTH BOARD DOCTORS, scion-| | N | | sors and an occasional suffra ette arc a In the cities the birth rate is increasing. In over the birth rate. the country it is diminishing. Yet among the population with American grandparents the birth rate is diminishing more rapidly in the cities than in the rural dis-| tricts, and in the tenement houses | | the birth rate fluctuates accord-| ing to the length of time the family has been in this country, That | is, the American tendency is to have fewer children. : fr Why should this tendency be denounced? [ Who profit by large families? : Does it add to the comfort or the health of a mother to havea @ozen children? oes it make the father’s life easier and more free from care to have a large family? Cannot two, three or four children absorb all the affection and the care of the mother and keep the father busy earning cman money to clothe, feed and educate them and rear ‘them to manhood and womanhood ? There are several small minorities in the community whom large families of children benefit. | Many children benefit the landlord, because they insure a large rent-paying cle They guarantee a continued demand for shelter. They are a sound economic basis for higher rents. Targe familics of children also increase the profits of the rusts They insure demand for the food products of the Packing Trust, the Flour Trust, the Milk Trust, the Glucose Trust and the commission | dealers’ combination. Many children i sure child labor, Nine fathers out of ten who} have large families must depend on the older children to help support | the younger children. The older daughters must toil in factories and shops. The sons must go to work early in life. | Etymological. By Horace Dodd Gastit. logue. If there were two folks by a log They'd call their talk a dialogy Yet no one’s known To call a ‘phone, As it should be, a wirelogue. Nor is a feline spatol Referred to as a catalogue Philosophy. | By Helen Oldfield. UDYARD KIPLING says The great child-labor problem would be solved if all families were small, and if there were no children beyond the ability of the father ‘to support and their mother to bring up. z Also, the politicians profit. Large families are the d They must appeal to him to tide over periods of rict ‘boss's mainstay. loss of work. ‘They must rely upon his charities and political favors. | Much fuss is being made be- = - eayse the graduates of both Wherefore be it m To fini And si 1s no more ce women’s and men’s colleges do not have enough children to perpetu- ate themselves. What if they do A Real Conversion. MEMBE he Unio A of New York was p) character of the late O: not? Are college graduates the happiest class of the community, or the most useful, or those best fitted to survive, that such an ado Beer aie gaia ligeamsev tite ee Taft's Fish Story. should be made hecause they have | “Here was a of sincerity, He| He w lovemaking USTI HARLAN told a story , saul “te | was talking one er mber, of} prob wants of his and f Paft of ment out to. not more children a maid servant who had got religion;|all about Helen Oldfield In the C na te Anyhow, is it not somewhat , that | espon: , |and it seemed to mn {his own racter was of |thoroughgolng sort as that wh wher 4 the m intrusive for other people to be telling any man and any woman to have more children? months which precede Letters From the People ardly capable clare to be the agon was 2 Was a silence n Judge Taft co: Bed, endures Justice Harian told no more National Magazine up in a |‘since that there re t Washingt The High Const of Living, ning Wor <The Ambitions of Sonny and Sue i 1m EXPECTING AN OLD ~ “TREAT eo THUS THe Boss MEPECING TY OO oe ca ( nee Cashin arin 9) | bone, Ar { KE HIM COMFORTABLE ¥ ‘To the Editor of The When we prosper!’ price of living rose steadil "hard times. We looked for a si prices, Still they rose. Now, ‘told, prosperity is here agaly ‘the prices rise. W! And whereir does the prosperity at permit siea@y increase in cost of Hvin ‘and yet refuses a « sponding rise COME RIGHT IN) SIA ! . 1s MR | Boss's FRIEND nT WITh pee CON LEE — tr si Sen AND ¢ Hint J am chum | Le THEN YOO 7. f 7 haa vies yy Mey GET ni ( “f ‘wages? Som 5 is Wrong somewher Where, wise ers Apply to Superinten ISGRUNTLED. Unto é ) Bes “Harvest Festival.” of The Evening W 1 1 1 out ff a certain art ts {to tne & Evening World Pe aang ne England has a holiday not unlike America’s “Thanksgiving rieultural districts, where oRER | childhood the two had been sweethearts | When he was ruined the woman who had beguiled him cast him off, In despair | the youth awoke at la | loughter's deat! No. 7.—Puccini’s ‘Le Villi’’ (‘Witch Dancers.’’) ), @ young peasant In the Black Forest of Germany, was betrothed ovely d named Guglielmo, From h were wretchedly poor, but ideally appy in thelr love for one another, news came that a rich relative in Mainz had died, leaving Roberto tune. The young man was urged by his village friends to start at ire his jnheritance, A singing, dancing throng of peasants him to the borders of the forast. Anna alone was unhappy e dreaded to have Roberto go away for even so brief a time. She was troubled by a strange presentment. In vain her lover vowed fide 4 swore be would come back at once to her. She could nod wholly rid he If of the nameless fear that oppressed her. On bidding farewell to Roberto she hid a spray of forget-me-not tn his Vallso to remind him of thelr mutual vows. Then, tearfully, she bade him god speed, and he depar 20 In Mainz, as heir guter of an aged cottag: ey were One di nd many fair-weather friends soming madly infatuated pleasures he forgot poor, to his native village. , dreary northern winter is safety and weep- Rime fortuhe, Roberto quickly 1 into a carcer o E Dazzled by 1 t Anna, Week aft week Meanwhile, Ant ted vainly throughou 7a word f nt lover, Alt ng over his e unhappy girl pined away. In the early spr nately pra | she died of a bri hea Ro} rto's fi tune by this time was all gone, squandered in riotous lving. to a memory of to th peession wou for a Black Forest, arriving at t dQ its way a th Bis back upon Mainz, he Anna's fu lowed by sobbing wome Guglielmo, the dead g He sudd V's father, crouche bewailing his ed to mind an old 1 hat when a maiden e demon Witeh Dancers of the forest) avenge dies of a broken hi By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. HATS the sense in moping W/ when the sun shines bright? By Albert Carmichael men, and even children, t ‘share in gathering in the imual “Harvest i PE THAT] m7 vee Ay PLEASE agpenrs, wi Rent THIS } ywhose production SMALL ain You shou ) Di 7 I PAY GEE Nhe a ‘ ‘e i ani teh Ani ‘ete. \R VTABL SI TAY BILL COLLECT ' CrPenProPch ys wa liryd ] : \ —~ AWAY ANOTHER] ase Myy AND Ls WaT y [ engaged, hus Leen 3 n-renidenta marrie 5 N } bs 4— am oy fo L AMOUNT ! who have been toiling so long naturally | New Jersey withe es) te, 7 i ae hon vA neans whereby they ma ous fe Jook for some Give expression to their 40 Wants to Be a tae Evening Very wisely ut thie juncture the am a fourtee v7 steps tn, ca! ple together and 1 am ‘ : " inviting then oure, and would ma grow Wonk Yer to Hi fng upon Lhe leer arts SHOT RG RRING ” F " fw ar Went irtyomev street . ef. owe fd . A Boy's Dilemma § weed Vege the Ratios of Pos Evening Work ue a Tr Bem an office worker sevemeen years 2O%°8 w “ uring her fait to his deat mo prayed aloud that these And his prayer f his dead » sight of Anna's home. es mocked and cursed ned in the eerie te rd light pan tried to pr ) Dancers ost of An “Lam Reveng her cowering lover the bitt he had made. In an agon sched arms. On the \ vanished | sending one @ World, . Missing numbers of thin series may be cent for cach number to Circulation Department, Even! PUEOOPODHOVOOHOHDSDODIHEDICE TIATODOOQIOQIHOOHOPSDHODOIOTIOGVOS = Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. TRANSLATED By Helen Rowland. DOODOOOOQOOQODOPOOQOGDOQDODODOGWPDOSHWDHHIWOOOOS B EHOLD, my Daughter. with what gentleness a man ITSFOOSOOSOO treateth a woman; yea, with what patience he re- gardeth her WHIM en as one who shaketh a rattle in front of a babe, he bringeth her a bor of candy when he hath done anything PARTICULARLY unfory givable and offereth her cut flowers tm place of an PLANATION. With what nobility he condoneth her wrath and forgiveth her unkind words when he cometh in ah 2A. M. with his shoes in his hand; with what unruffled temper he greeteth her recriminations and biddeth her be calm when the rent hath fallen due and there is naught wherewith to pay ia because a certain Lorse hath lost Yea, he telleth her fairy tales at night and offercth her weird excuses in the morning. And if one excuse pleaseth her not he hath altcays another prepared y ve patteth heron the head and smileth at her opinions on politica, Me } \ laugheth when she raileth at the trusts and telleth her that her dimple showeth prettily Yea.” he saith, patronizingly. “would it put its cute little vote into the ballot bor wis all 4e naughty man around? Nay, it shall not! Its husband will vote for it, so he shall!” And she smileth while she grindeth her teeth, Vf He is as one that offereth a child a new dolly and a bag of sugar pluma lichen it sobbeth because of a sore finger; yea, as one that jiggleth a string | before a kitten he distracteth her attention from her woes and tickleth her that she may cease to weep. : ‘And in all the days of thy married life thou shalt receive no answer to thy questions. For a man considereth a little kiss better than much argue ment and believeth that a small check worketh wonders where good excuse falleth flat! Selah! Nsw Science Teaches ‘Sleep’ Formula.: By Ray Stannard Baker. vement Is to encourage Paw efforts to lea! themsel great effort made by the Emmanuel suggestion, that is, In th ny power over thelr own natures, Says Ray Stannard Bakar, « American Magazine, Those to whom auto-suggestion is an une {iar thought 6 mes find diMculty in beginning to use it. ‘They, >w others Jit Helpful in inducing sleep actually use it. averal, is given for illustrative pus juld be said slowly, drowslly, soothingly, whisperingly 1 to know following form ila, roses, If udibly it ai and repeated until sleep comes: I shail not He awake. T cannot lie awake. Tam going closing. ‘The blood ts flowing from my brain to my longer any pressure on the brain, The muscles are re~ ver iny senses. ‘They are growing numb. I am getting I am softly sinking Into sleep, dreamless sleep. I am sinking most asleep. I am asleep, asleep, asleep.” —__—_++*———— I am goln | to sleep. Je nities deeper, deeper. 1 am == Cos Cob Nature Notes =:- i KIGHBOR FULLERTON, of Huntington, the Experiment Farmer, now | says in one of his eloquent circulars, Do not go West, young man, when vou can come to Long Island, which he claims {s one of the ten ‘cs in the U.S, where there is the most sunshine ff you leave out the fox. He also says that while T.. 1. canpot raise much rain on top it gets plenty down below, by pumping, &e, We have already shown that L, 1, fits fruitful so! from Connecticut, and Neighbor F, cheerfully admits that the ‘iter comes from here also, It appears the raindrops trickle through our rocky iland slide over and snuggle up under L. I. by @ subterranean route, where are used to help raise cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, &c., and a little for they drinking. , Te smart Alec who poses ag dramatic critic for the New York Sun says the hacks that form part of the scenery of a new play in the city of that name a on at the depot when the train comes in at New Rochelle ind Cos Cob, and adds that they were greeted with loud a se. We that if this person had to walk a mile in the rain and mud because there was no hack among those present, he would greet tt with loud applause if he saw one the same as those ee coming. Permanent Selectman and Town Counsel R, J, Welsh held his put off town joweting Saturday afternoon. One eltizen who expected some of our former and present Selectmen to start for the Bridgeport jal were disappointed. All the harsh words used by the Chatrman of the Lid Lifting Committee were kindly said, and as the Md rose for @ few minutes R. Jay W. maintained @ pertect 4 equilibrium and never sipped @ bit. He made and seconded all the motions and our citizens favored them all with pleasure. Having been chided for violating all the town laws there are in Connecticut our ex-Temporary Selectmen went away ’ renominations next fall, after the committee of good men had been ~ to try enlarged with enough bad ones to smother them, by the tactful addition of Pere b] mapent Selecynen James ¥, Welsh and Wiliam J, Smith and | en |e