The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1908, Page 12

The Even World Daily Magazine, Monday, Published Datty xcept Sunday by the Pres finishing Company, Now Park Ro’ 84 Btraet inf New York J. ANGUS SITAW. 8 Class Ma Entered at the Post-Office at New Gubscription Rates to The Evening J the ¢ ent and World for the United States t 1 and Can 1 $3.50 30 ed ‘Year. me Month VOLUME ¢ ITIES in which to live for either he The rate is lower than on the far Of the percen are not the wor or happiness. city death population a larger insane ye goes to Ss morc jums. The city furn paupers in proportion, but that rT is because so many failures at home drift to New York. How many farms or little country villages are there where five generations of one family are all living, four of them in one house: Yet this is the case in the Miner family, of Brooklyn and Jersey City Heights. At No. 209 Reid avenue, Brooklyn, Mrs. Catherine Miner, the great-great-grandmother, lives with her son William Miner ‘At No. 234 Griffith street, Jersey City Heights, Mrs. Elizabeth Miner the great-grandmother, lives with her daughter, Mrs. Oertell, the grandmother; Mrs. Madeline Cooney, the mother, and Catherine Irene Cooney, the three months old great-great-granddaughter. Are there any other families of five generations in the Greatest New York, which includes the five boroughs of Greater New York the million people who sleep in New Jersey and earn their living in New York, and another million who live outside the city boun- daries on Long Island and in Westchester and Rockland Counties and Connecticut ? There are a few old families here. The majority of the adult in- habitants of New York were born somewhere else. The majority of the children were born here. But in most New York families of to- day the going back to the great-grandmother or the great-great- grandmother would mean some final resting place in Ireland, Ger- many, Italy, Austria or Russia. Mis ‘/ Out on Long Island there are some homes which have been in the | same family for generations. Until the recent real estate boom in| Brooklyn there were around New Utrecht, Flatlands and Flatbush farms on which lived the direct descendants of the first Dutch settlers. In the farther end of Staten Island, near Tottenville, there are several homes which have been the family abiding place for more than three I generations. How agreeable it is to turn from the glaring side of New Work life—the Great White Way, the lobster palaces, the ostenta- tious hotels, the automobiles and their joy riders—to the homes where quiet families live in do- mestic peace without a divorce upon the family records, with no scandals, no luxurious display, but with the calm contentment that comes from an untroubled conscience! Would there were more of them: Letters From the People et bi who start in to make a killing everytime they see a pre: the alsle seat sat two pet canaries rrom Plainfield, N. J. of the Soubrette S: the and they wore Merry Widow hats, and did @ sister act vad grammar than an east side plnochle game. could back Duse off the map, and yesterday. the castors on Buck's neok began to turn. Slim put us wise with a wink, ro We lit the Appo' more ¥ suggested Burress. | on the top of his head. | The Day of Rest. - By Maurice ( ee) TIRED of THE BED? oe WANT To Go INTO" 5 od THE PARLOR 9 Ketten. MY DEAR LITTLE HUBBY 1s GOING ( To HAVE HIS BREAKFAST XUN BED Tris MORNING ehh ie UTTLE HUBBY WANTS To SIT IN Kino Big ARM CHAIR? LITTLE HUBBY Does HUBBY WANT HIS LITTLE A CHAIR FoR CITTLE HUBBY’S WHAT CAN 1 DO NOW FoR AY LITTLE HUBBY? IS HE PERFECTLY 9 COMFORTABLE Does DEAR LITTLE Sweet HUBBY THIN IN SANTa CLAUS WILL BRING ME FURCOAT ? NOW WE WILL HAVE A NICE COMFY Time OH PiFFLE! VM NoT DREAMING: John Henry Meets a Bunch of Drummers on a New York Train and Learns What Commercial Travellers Are Like at Ciose Range | |he was s millionaire, who had escaped from Los Angeles, Cal., and he wos Just going to put them both In grand opera, when his three-year-old toddle din Mr. Pullman's down thw alsle and grabbed hi:- by the coat-tail: s “Papa! Mamma wants ‘oo to det my bottle of mi!k!”" him, but he wasn't| During the rest of the trip Buck was nailed to his seat. Every time he tri Buck is one of those goose-h to use the elastic in his neck, the wife would burn him with # hard, cold g! girl. Ac: The Roast-Beet Sisters seemed to be all carved up about something or other. p BER VN Sre members. The drummers went back to the shop, and were selling things again wnen a re Fe ae ge ene ey, Here soir oule te ce BY one ea Sledge fluttered down among us. Maybe you've never met Jake Sledge! lie fe) Gillie’ wavela for @ firm in Brooklyn that makes tn grape-frult and rubbe Millie wes fully aware thar ene | 1nnan_baddie. Jake i the laziest loosene {Bhat ever tied & string around SINK Con amet) 9 Ea A Spee roll. ‘The boys call him putty because he's the next thing io 4 pane. ite's ¢ could make Bernhanit feel Uke she Was out in the storm We had day before) (ye A tclieel Lesnener ERAT Bailecks: at FOR MiP GaP eye agle Ret ike) sweste “Slim,” sald Sledge to Arthur Shaw, “do you smoke?” It was @ knock-out. In the annals of the roud no one could look back * Warming for the( the proud day when Sledge had coughed. Once, so the legend runs, he gay “ity a plain case of ® Porter a nickel, but it was afterward discovered that Sledge was asleep, Buck tumed @ few AOt responsible at the time, so the porter gave !t buck. Sledge tried to collev three cents’ Interest for the time the porter kept the nickel, and the conductor had to punch his mileage and his nose before he'd let go And now Sledge had asked Siim if 14Psmoked! Slim was pale but game. “Sometimes!” he answered. “Do you ke @ good segar?” queried Sledge. We locked for the engine to hit a cow any minute now. “Sure!” sald Slim, weak all over. “Well,” said Sledge, “here 1s my brother-in-law’s card He makes Urass -| Widow segars on Sixth avenue, Give him @ call and mention my name. He and, will be glad to see you Then Sledge went away back and sat down By George V. Hobart. N a crowd of swift drummer boys going New Yorkw: sleep-wagons yesterday, one of the speediest was Buck Buck's wife and a three-year-old were travelling with ving it out through @ megaphone. “Bunch Slim called them the Roast-Bee? Sisters, Rare and Weli-Done, In a minute) fire and began to cook it up. Buck's heart was rds in the gilded cage. ‘The real Kibo!” attox; the war 1s over and they are you: ts into his twinkling lamps, “Lower your main-sail, Buc, and drop alongside; you've made the landing, Buck began to feel his necktle and play patty-cake with the little bala spot “Stop the hansom and get out; you're at your corner," sald Daye. Dreams a the way were giving Buck the glorious ey felt like dinner was ready, your hat, Buck, and gather the myrtle with Mary!” I chipped in. sunced over and began to show Millfe and Tillle what a hi Was at close quarters. He sat on the arm of the seat In less than a minute he crowded the information on n that! Sweet Foil, | brute b red up. A Sherlock Holmes Study, To the Editor of The Evening Worl: | would be inspossit) Uke, and in 1,00 years 4 Why do peopie sit and stare vacantly have died, Nature \ out of the cur windows or while waik- | Mitted suicide and pulled down } fngt They could put the time to ad- Monument BALDWIN LUDLOW vantage by developing perceptive pow- Migh Cost of Living. ers. For instance, the car stops and To the of The F r you notice several men nearby. One is In re to disgruntled,” I say that changing his umbrella alternately from the f living should be ¢ fur one hand to another, denoting a nervous the harvest was fine, and the Gisposition, A wrinkling of the fore- summer cattle t oous head and drawing together of the eye- that the trusts are Ming brows, with steady, thoughtful look in |cheaper. But what 1 ts? The the eyes, prove another to be a thinker. en, A crooked position of the middle and in- ex fingers shows a third to be @ habit- wal smoker, In like manner many other! telltale points may disc to man's habits and character Very useful in cultivating friendship. In @ short Ume one attains a marked de- gree of proficiency W. C. BA Hint to “Shorty.” Do the Editor of The Evenine World “Shorty,” who asks how to Krow tall, will derive great benefit trom pract r gewator the exercise called ing A sevelt Problem, Stand on tip-toe y mretch the Lody as ae Ip this position waik r . F: utes. If persevered i ‘, 44 ap juch uF two to the height ut 8.8 . a |e k a ‘ What Would Happent ' * r4 > wh A @e the Editor of 7 sw ; ci . De things allkaeaw.t. if she made « j i mi arathon Ae | many elep bettir D® cording wo " : MAD | ye “delighted” to make Ar Rowwey u 1s | Shgustn tances ee ee HOEMLING * ' ~ The Million Dollar Kid ely HEY, 80, PLL Give You %1,000 FOR ake #a By R. W. Taylor WELL, MEL LET IT GO FOR DAT, RUT 1T'5 WORTH MORE ! GEE! THIS ReLL OF | BILLS 1S Too BIG— JT MAKES MY CoAT BULGE OUT! ILL GET, RID oF jr! In oTER, \ TH YouR OTHER, \ BricKs ! HUH ,IT'S EASY To GET RiD OF MONEY IN THIS Town IF You Know How! Fifty American Soldiers of Fortun By Albert Payson Terhune NO, 24—JAMES EDWARD OGLETHORPE. ECAUSE an English amy officer went tc Parliament and was assigned B to a ceriain committee there Georgi: was co'onized. From the same indivect cause Georgia and South Carolina became Hnglish instead oft Spanish settlements. The man who accomplished all this was James Edward Oglethorpe, son of a British nobleman, America owes him much. As a mere lad Oglethorpe joined ue army and saw active service in his ountry’s foreign wan. He rose rapidly from rank to rank, and at last, dur € a lull of peace, entered Parliament. Therc, as curirman of a . smmittee . Btudy the Jail system, he first beheld thy horrors o. the debtors’ prisons, n chese ju.is men were herded togetue’ like beasts and kapt nfined, often for life, for no worse crim. than owing money they could not pay. Ogle thorpe’s heart was toucaed by the wisery of che untortu arate, innocent cap uives. He kuew there was nu hove tor them in Eugiand. So he cast about ior me u- enabling them to swrt life afresh At iast he hit upon the plan of taki. _ a auge grant of land tu America and populating a n»w colony there with English debtors and continental victims of religious persecution. He and some friends secured from King George Li. @ tract of territory on the south- ern Atlantic coms: and permission to colonize it with the victims be bad set out vo rescue. Oglethorpe, with about 150 of these emigranta, arrived off Charleston in Janu- ary, 1183, expiored (he Savannah Kiver and chose tor his first town the site of the ~ present city of Savannah. As Governor, he named bis Pcoluny “Georgia,” in Louor of George IL. of Engiand; de clared it @ harbor for tue oppressed and forbade any traf: fic in iquor or slaves, Unlike most pioneers he made intends at once with the Indians, winning their trust and cven taking their chiefs back to Bugland on a visit, in 11% Oglethorpe brought vver to Georgia second und far larger dewuchment of Buropean coluuista. This new body of emigiants included tie two immortal evangelisis John and Charles Wesley. Thus tur ail Lad Leen peace and prosperity in the debiors’ colony, But troublous Umes were at hand. War broke out between Spain and land. Oglethorpe, {n view of his past miliary eapioits, was ordered to march in blorida and capture Su Augustine, is Spanish capital England never tully understood her American colonies and seldom stopped to consider whether or not they could always carry out the er country’s commands. Hence, Ugiethorpe was sent with an insufficient humber of troops to overcome the Spanish stronghold. ie invaded Plorida with such meagre corces as he could scrape together and gallantly attacked Si, Aug- uo-ne, But his weak, unsupported lide army could not capture the powerful city, Then, in retulimiion, the Spaniards invaded Geo to annex that colony and South Caroline to the Spanish crown. ‘he fate of tue South hung upon Ogle- thorpe. He met the advancing Spaniards in baiue, defeaivd them and drove them forever out of Georgia. By way of reward he was ordered back to England to face serious charges accusing him of incompetence, &c., in failing to capture we Augusting He emerged triumphant from Ue trial, and his accuser (Col, Cook, one of bis owm soldiers) was kicked out of the British army In disgrace. Yet the ingratitude and degradation of it ail seem to have «mbittered Ogle- thorpe. He never returned to America. ‘The colony on which be had spent his whole fortune and the best years of his life saw him no more. His statesman- 4 prosperous and safe from um poor, He went back to of commander-in-chief of all at an end. Because he failed he was court-martiailed on ore he Was acquitted and a ; The Settling } oO Georgia, mot But us services to the colon ry profession and rose at last to the ran England's armies. But bis misfortunes were not in the mission of capturing “Bonnie Prince Charlie” charges of treachery, Once ~~ : } few years later was re! half pay A Friend $ in 1775, when the Amer Revolution began, George to Liberty. § 111 offered Oglethorpe command of the British armies in “Y America. Oglethorpe, though eighty-six years old and worn down by a life of labor, consented to take the offer on condition tha! be allowed to do ail in his power to reconcile the American co.onies and to win them back to England by gentleness instead of for ve King would not per- mit him to adopt such concillaiory tactics. Su O; orpe refused the glittering offer and retired once more to private life. When John Adams went to England first ambassador he was coldly received, But Ugieihorpe called to see as our him at once and expressed warm sympatiy with our country’s hopes. The old explorer's remaining days were peaceful and unmarked by important Ji pings, In 1785 Oglethorpe died at the extreme age of ninety-six, having lived to see his beloved Georgia an important unit of tie new United States. Missing nombers of this series may be obtained by ecnding ome cent tur each DuMber to Circulation Depurtment, eveuing World Players of the Period No. 16 —De Wolf Hopper.—By Johnson Briscoe. E WOLF HOPPER, vastly popular as a comic opera cut-up, was born im D New York City, March 30, 1858, belng the son of John and Rosalie (De Wolf) Hopper, and was educated at the J. H. Morse ol. After making a brave effort to follow paternal precedent and become a lawyer, Mr. Hopper determined to give vent to his desire to embrace the actor's calling, appearing for the first time be- hind the footlights at the Lyceum (now Fourteenth Street) Theatre on May 1578, in an amateur performance of “Con- science.” He made his professional debut on Noy. 4, of the same year, at New Haven, Conn. as Talbot Champneys in ‘Our Boys,” with the Criterion Comedy Company, of which he was the financial angel. piece called “Our Daughter in 1881 he was with Ada Gil- man in “One Hundred Wives,” and the next year he sup- ported Edward Harrigan in ‘The Blackbird." About this time Mr Hopper became imbued with the notion that he was destined for a grand opera basso, and he devoted year to vocal study. The year following he be- |came one of the principal comedians with the McCaull Opera Company, with which organization he remained five years} appearing in the following operas: “The Black Hussar,” “Chatter,” “Don Cesar,” “The Crowing Hen,” "Falka,” “Die Fledermaus,” “Josephine Sold by Her Sisters," “Jacquette, he Beggar udent,” “Fatinitza,” "The Bellman,” “The Lady or the Tiger,” “Lhe Begum,” ’rince Methusalen ‘Lorraine, “Boccaccio,” “The May Queen,” ¢’Captain Fracasse” and “Clover, Mr. Hopper made his debut as a star at the Broadway Theatre, May 5, 1890, tn “Castles in the Air,” the year following bringing out “Wang,” which lasted In 1893 he was seen in “Panjandrum” and the next year “Dr, {son's “School.” The season of and on April 13, 1896, at Boston, him two years. ‘The season of He made his debut before the ‘apitan,” and on the DODOOOE: m two seasons. sntax," which was @ musical version of Rob 1895-96, he toured in “Wang” and “Dr, Syntax, he brought out "El Capitan," which laste Mr, Hopper was seen in ‘The Charlatan.” ion public, at the Lyfic Theatre, July 10, 1899, in "EL Lor following Dec. 13 he was seen at the Comedy Theatre in “The Mystical Miss” (the British title for “The Charlatan). He returned to this country in 1900 and for two years was @ member of Weber & Fields's forces, appearing in the burlesques of ddle-Dee-Dee" and “‘Hoity Toity." He then resumed starring and for two years appeared in "Mr, Pickwick,” followed by # season's revival of “Wang.” He then starred for three consecutive years in “Happyland,” which brings us up to the present scason, Ho ts now holding forth at the Majestic Theatre in hie newest offering, ‘The Pled Piper." In the matrimonial stakes Mr, Hopper !s anything but an amateur. His fret wife was Ella Gardner, @ second cousin on his maternal side, A divorce soon separated them and he espoused Ida Mosher, a McCaul! chorus girl; one“child, @ son, resulting from this union, A divorce also followed in this instance and in 1893 he married dna Wallace, becoming divorced for the third time five years later, In 1898 Mrs. Nella Reardon Bergen became Mrs. De Wolf Hopper, @ title which she sUll wears, Alinsing numbers of this series may be obtained by ding ome cent for ench number to Circulation Department, Evening World, ~~ | The Day’s Good Stories { Over-Reliance, | His Ambition. H Marion Crawford was in 4go he Was the guest at dinner trust and dependence which acterized Rey, Mr, Brown's at- titude toward his wife's Judgment all practical affairs were sometimes | of a Boston family who were most “In- touching, but occasionally they were tellectual.” Only persons with high amusing | brows and low collars were at the table “Lm sorry you've been troubled with |and they discoursed most polysyliabl- |the Woothache,” sald the family dentist, | cally upon the aims of art and the when Mr. Brown appeared in his office |#chool of higher thought, ‘The novelist one day. “I gave you the first minute |did his best to be intellectual, too, and 1 had free after receiving your wife's flattered himself that he was as ses- which 2:ipedailan as the best, when @ wo: jtelephone message. Let's see, With blue glasses and short halr tur tooth is it that's troubling you?" jf0, Juin ‘and asked in & tone of great M-m, it's net aching just at present,” |@olemnlty: | said Mr. Brown, after © moment's heal |ansthing ther will live ‘etter yee eee tation, during which he made s cautious |deed? |, WAL i oe investigation wi tongus ‘Dida’ oe ex! Mrs, Brown ton You which tooth author 1 aun waye try! to it wast 2 alw on ber in suca Praia.) me tatters Youth's s a e next year he appeared in a +