The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1908, Page 29

SaaCT Dedlishea Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to & ° Park Row, New York. P-POREPT PULITZER, Pree, 1 Rast thd Birovt, J. ANGUS RITAYY, Bee Troan, 201 Wea 11H Mtreet Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mal) Matter. Bubscription Rates to The Evening { For England and the Continent W s ‘orld for the United St All Countries in the Interna and Canada Postal Union. and One Year an . $350 | One Year. One Month....... . 0-1 One Mont! 49 BABIES. EALTH BOARD DOCTORS, seien- VOLUM: tists, college sors and an occasional suffragette are arguing over the birth rate. In the cities the birth rate is increasing. In 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- | y has been in this country. That! is, the American tendency is to have fewer children. . | ... Why should this tendency be denounced? it Who profit by large familics? ; Does it add to the comfort or the health of a mother to have a @ozen children? Does 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 enough money to clothe, feed and educate them and rear them to manhood and womanhood ? ' WSTrTrd¥D : y, December "sy" 1908) | | “Three Is a Crowd.” By Maurice Ketten. ATF" M Ss, aAvIinee Tuesday, r of an aged cottager, named Guglielmo. From rd the two had been sweethearts. Moth were wretchedly poor, but : . ippy in their love for one another, hs \S | | t nee for Maing t me that a rich relative in Mainz had died, leaving Roberto \\ Pie young man was urged by his village friends to start at re his inheritance, A singing, dancing throng of peasants ssembled m to the borders of the forest. Anna a p was unhappy She dreaded to have Roberto go away for even so brief a time. She vas troubled by a strange presentment. In vain her lover vowed fide! and swore be would come back at once to her, She could no@ wholly rid sit of the nameless fear that oppressed her On bidding farewell to Roberto she hid a spray of forget-me-not in his to remind him of thelr mutual vows. Then, tearfully, she bade him god- , and he departed. ° © In Matng, as heir t d flatte 1a famous 3 ustful Anna. | Meanwh @ wor NY his nat age dreary northern winter his safety and weep: springtime ve v Anna waited v: {nly throughou ver absent lover, Altern ness py gir | ing over his the unl pined away | she dled of a broken hea to's fortune b was 1 time was all gone, squandered in woman who had beguiled him cast him off. tous living, In despair w the youth awoke at last a memory of his old love for A 5 back upon Main tened to the Black F arriving at the st as Anna's funeral p on wound its way along wed by sobbing women Guglielmo, cott hed at nd an old on Witch Da nd that ers of the f mo prayed a a maiden ty avenge ud that these gea Roberto. d his prayer t closed in about the forest Roberto, the cottage of his dead sight of Anna's home. dw 1 i cursed tried to he eerie es mocked an. 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 class. They guarantee a continued demand for shelter. They are a sound economic basis for higher rents. \ Large families of children also increase the profits of the tru They insure demand for the food products of the Packing Trust, the Flour Trust, the Milk Trust, the Glucose Trust and the commissi dealers’ combination. Many children insure 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. | 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. s Also, the politicians profit. Large families are the d They must appeal to him to tide over periods of strict Doss loss of work, ‘They must rely upon his charities and political favors, | Much fuss is being made be- - cayse the of both women’s and men’s colleges do not have enough children to perpetu- ate themselves. What if they do not? Are college graduates the happiest class of the community, 's mainstay. graduates or the most useful, or those best fitted to survive, that such an ado should be made hecause they have not more children? Anyhow, is it not somewhat intrusive for other people to be telling any man and any woman to have more children? Letters From the People | The High Cont of I So 1) 6 Editor of The Evening Wor! When we had prosperity price of living r dily "hard times. We looked for a prices. Still they Now ‘told, prosperity 18 here again, and ‘the prices rise. W And whe does the prosper) steady increase ‘and yet refuses a ‘wages? Somet! Where, rose. correspor 8 wrong ne wis Apply to Superintendent at Cooper Unton England’ {me ine BAitor of England his America’s “Thanksgiving.” In t rieultura! districts, where men and share in gathering in the crops, th jmual “Harvest epecial { to va yal, It te intimately associated v | fevents of every-day life | lyear the farmers | | When at last t } appears, wie sghose productio | engaged, y who have been toiling so long naturally |New Jers } feok for some means whereby } give expression to their Very wisely att nae Is Necesmury has Wants to Be Tall, { ie juncture the church, I am a boy fourter a } inviting 0 house, and would ma grow work fag upon them ) Yer to Him | off: rite @ k b leper "2 Uianktul hearts ernie BHORTY ' GHORGE GERRING * x Fa fw 437 Wes h etreet. some f ae nig ily A Boy's 2 © Me the Baie or might » Bam an office » seventeen years SOR" 8 . ~ @8 ase And 6 10 an evening high » pia # calculated 4 . ¥ Missing numbers of thin series may be obtained by se cent for each number to Circulation Department, Evening World. Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. TRANSLATED By Helen Rowland. BVODQOWDOOWDOWDODWDOWOQDDOOWODWDODODIHDIODIOOS a B) givable EXPLANATION. With what nobility he D000 00000 00R00000000000C TSEOOSOSO® e EHOLD, my Daughter, with what gentleness a man treateth a woman; yea, with what patience he re- gardeth her WHI Even as one who shaketh @ rattle in front of a babe, he bringeth her a bor of candy he hath done anything PARTICULARLY unfor- and offereth her cut flowers tn place of an when Etymological. By Horace Dodd Gasti' HEN one sits lon W And talks, ‘tis ¢ logue. If there were two folks by a log Philosophy. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. in condoneth her wrath and forgiveth her unkind words when he cometh in ak 2 A.M. with his shoes in his hand; with what unruffled temper he greeteth her recriminations and biddeth her be calm rent hath fallen due and there is naught wherewith to pay 18 because a certain Lorse hath lost ona ed a mon By Helen Oldfield. We pases UDYARD KIPLING when the tno one Yea, he telleth her fairy tales at night and offercth her weird excuses MolcallseMovenes ap SHO in the morning. And if one excuse pleaseth her not he hath always another As it should be, a wirelogue. Yr a pve aff 2 Nor is a syed siya! prepared did not hold it t He patteth her on the head and smileth at her opinions on politics. Mae laugheth when she raileth at the trusts and telleth her that her dimple showeth prettily. | s¥ea." he saith, patronizingly. “would it put its cute little vote into the ed to tre Ne'er call the Wherefore be it Te my ippylc ish up this dippylogu ballot box wis all ge naughty man around? Nay, it shall not! Its husband ote for it, so he shall!’ And she smileth while she grindeth her teeth, He is as one that offereth a child a new dolly and a bag of sugar pluma when it sobbeth because of a sore finger; yea, as one that jiggteth a string he distracteth her attention from her woes and tickleth her A Real Conversion. MBER of the Union L Though fortune late, Just brace up and laugl | before a kitten that she may cease to weep. : = ‘And in all the days of thy married life thou shalt receive no answer to character of the late ©: 1 ‘ ard Perry, He said Taft's Fish Story. thy questions. For a man considereth a little kiss better than much argue “Here was 8 i e ‘HARLAN told a story tol ment and velieveth that a small check worketh wonders where good excuss ot Taft of ent out to! falleth flat! Selah! tharos ee Sr *viatni un ve N38W Science Teaches ‘Sleep’ Formula. lowed the 1 By Ray Stannard Baker. 1m ought to not lie awake. I cannot lie awake. T am going The blood is flowing from my brain to my The muscles are re~ p., 1 sha yes are closing. er any pressure on the brain. r my senses. They are growing numb. I am getting {tly sinking into sleep, dreamless sleep, I am sinking m almost asleep. I am asleep, asleep, asleep.” e+e ingid's Lo | a There v a aid that hy rn 1 etter NE great effort made by the Emmanuel movement Is to encourage paw maid, 1 ses oa a ULE DL eakO sO ‘ at asthis rdly capable the y t stion, that is, in the efforts to heal themselvos, great « fal much) Ie f t, whiel: elare to be the t to power over their own natures, says Ray Stannard Bakar, MW ealt 1 na of falling Sn And: t . can Magazine, Those to whom auto-suggestion Is an une since e 1 abs par wh 1 Jonah’ imillar thought sometimes find diMfculty in beginning to use it. They, inder " but a strong att on wh 1 | need to know how others have found 4t helpful In inducing steep actually use it, Star. jund gr¢ tronger for The following f ch has helped several, 1s given for illustrative pus at eneannecial = - roses, If used au ld be said slowly, drowstly, soothingly, whisperingly f nd. re until sleep comes OF SONNV aNd Us Ambitions T EXPECTING AN OLD . (ren THE SE CHUM OF MINE, BE SUHE . PS. {ARE MIM CCMPERTABLE BoSs'S FRIEND ) 4 : \ SWELL AND ww. ssa ys p ITHEN YOU /, Th | to sleep. | extremities, Th xing. Sleep is sisaling o drowsy, T (Vet Fe E BOSS! The COLLEGE COME RIGHT IN, SIR, ! Ce T MUST MANE 46 HiT WITH rm Hirt i 1s MR od [== Cos Cob Nature Notes: KIGHBOR FULLERTON, of Huntington, the Experiment Farmer, now Of his eloquent circulars, Do not go West, young man, | says in one when vou can come to Long Island, which he claims 1s one of the ten | places in the U. 8, where there Is the most sunshine {f you leave out He also says that while 1. I, canpot raise much rain on top the fog t gets plenty dow got its fruitful sol) fr below, by pumping, &e, We have already shown that L, 1, n Connecticut, and Nelghbor FP. cheerfully admits that the Water comes from here also, It appears the raindrops trickle through our rocky sof) and slide over and snuggle up under L. I. by @ subterranean route, where they are used to help raise cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, &c., and a little for tS 4 ~ VEIT drinking ‘OL - VT HOPE, Th ET GEE ITS A - > h “ ‘, a Fl ; 4 < Thevamart Alec who poses as dramatic critic for the New York Sun says the ORTARLE } ( LL STAY [nanniEe.. BILL COL LECTOR Cea hace that farm part of the scenery of & now play in the clty of that name are ‘ais PLAWAY ANCTHER HH) AND TF ALL Ine ae those #een at the depot when the train comes in at New Rochelle HORI a ying AMOUNT ! id Cos Cob, and adds that they were greeted with loud applause. We guess é ’ vat if this person’ had to walk @ mile in the rain and mud because there was no hack among those present, he would greet {t with loud applause If he saw one comin Vusmanent Selectman and Town Counsel R. J, Walsh held his put off town ioeeting Saturday afternoon, One eltizen who expected some of our former and present Selectmen to start for the Bridgeport Jat! were disappointed. All the harsh words used by the Chatrman of the Lid Lifting Committee were kindly said, and as the id rose for a few minutes R. Jay W. maintained @ perfect juillbrium and never slipped @ 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 to try for renominations next fall, after the committee of good men had been enlarged with enough bad ones to emother them, by the tactful eddition of Pere mapent Selecynen James ¥, Walsh and William J, Smith and assistent P, 6M \John Maher, — ts a inant. | \ ~y » it