The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1908, Page 12

RTT IN, ei The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 83 to 63 ark Row, New Ye °S SHAN, fec.-Treaa., @ Park Row. —— Entered at the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Claas Mall Matter. becription Rates The Evening ) For England and the Continent and be World for the Taited States All Countries in the International and Canada P Year. “ $3.8 | One Yea @ Month... 30! One Mon VOLUME 49. Se ene CHRISTMAS GIFTS. ] HAT to give on Christmas Day is a real problem, nothing like so easily solved as a purely business matter, because without senti- ment a Christmas gift is a failure. To give something only for its utilitarian value is at variance with the spirit of Christmas Day. On the other hand, to make a useless extravagant present is a waste and a discomfort to the re- cipient. If a child is to reccive a pair of shoes on Christmas Day those | shoes should be different and better than the ordinary shoes bought on other occasions. The mittens or stockings, jacket, dress or suit | should have something distinctive. Neither should such things be the only presents. For children the safest rule is to consult the child’s tastes. So much joy is crushed out of children’s lives by making them wear , things they do not like and conform to needless instructions. Leave ' a child alone so long as he or she does not undertake to do something very wrong or commit a heinous offense. Letting a child have its} own way in little things makes it a great deal easier to yield its own way in big things. The 1908 Vehicle. Te.nete Where a boy wants a book, get him the book that he asks for, not | the book that will most edify, When a little girl wants a doll let her decide and do not get her a blond doll if she prefers a brunette. If a boy likes tools, get him them according to the bent of his mind, a scroll saw or boy’s carpenter set, or a little printing press and type. Christmas should be children’s day, and the best way to please a child is to do it and not undertake to instruct the child as to how he should be pleased and how erroneous his notions and standards are. As for grown-up people they give each other entirely too many Christmas presents as it is. The Christmas problem is more with By Roy L. McCardell. . H got your war paint on very early,” said Mr the grown-up’s than with the t his helpmeet approvingly child’s present. For grown-up But Mrs. Jarr had in mind an arduous day befc like, viewed the exertions to ci “Oh, it's all right for you claimed, “But ff you had the 4 ‘I have the same day befo dear.” said Mr. Jarr amiably. “I suppose presents the safest rule is to buy something useful but more ex- pensive than the recipient would ordinarily buy. ither that or give something wholly useless and e me stinas?”” sald hi: Mrs. Jarr. “And t crowded with women fairly tearing H ecaipin nomtontalno back! Oh, dear, why are people #0 si niake the recipient omfortabl of any but themselves! And t: until he or she has done likewise. . Sia ANGE 4 Mri . Selfish about what?’ asked Mr Whether for chi lren or for grown ups the Christmas shopping | UBSIAER TG Yon oot ace ny should be done in the morning or early in the afternoon, and the nt,” sald Mra. Jarr. “It simp! ; | everybody. It's just as casy to t shoppers should take their purchases home with them. NED eaY te & ahead as to walt till the las morn Try to make a little sunshine for the saleswomen and salesmen, stores.” Wen “Why didn't you do that?” asked Mr. Jarr the cash lioys and girls, the delivery department and the expressmen ar alanit have MONAMIAINatielany itl renileanntranie bills; and everybod ristmas, 1 need said Mr. J mil as well as for your own f I hy asks you to pay b m for Chris ve a big in: 0 get for 80 1 It's for you and ney 1a ance ie slow expect ¥ peo e children But pea eae (2 The name of the Iack-| plained Mr. Jarr. “It means malibsiaaltos of The Evening Sona: ne | eon team Andrew Jackson It means m y In reply to Pro F Publico, who sprang was n exactly the same | rm to deprive READERS Del PAD Bo Pe Smiths, for tnstance,| the year just for you to put m ne that who are arrested, I e is ri nts of the McGowans; this - oo —— — ——— after the politicians who he a MARAE the release of rowdies after PONE: _ A rested, I had the same ext pase a h M ll D I] Jveare ago, After the fellow was atren | e ition Volar Dok Upon as an ed some Bronx politician secu is derived ¢, lease, making @ fool of the officer and rnans. The words HELLO, MAY. LET'S CO also of mysolf Ee! || ARES 4ND GIVE SOME See World Almann and tn MONEY To THE . arpa eu Pete SALVATION ARMY!) “® Where can I 4 an accou -— if yw) Fequirements, age, &e., for joining 1 United States Navy? B, Amityville, L. The Mla t Card, To the Editor c The questi gard craze is ne come to stay mM. J, Wants Advice as to Career, like the na spirit of desp: to he so y before you uu know that I haven't bought a th! Jarr, as he glanced ore her, and, w that he stores wi slothes selfish Jars. rr. they need the Not But a ol | I have see herself to s and his w ‘gor ay; BO happen yc ea second out in her carriage! first Mr not going to s! sald Mrs. Jarr. Christmas ur ing fo expensive oes now. that's n lot of money togeth 8 you buy your au ave to get Clara Mudridge something fine. | Christmas Is Christmas, and You Must Give Even to Those You Hate, or They’ll Go Around talking About You Worse Than Ever Before a time before this—the first wife slave and work and de- r, and after she has killed ber- home and abuse her children er jewelry and live like a queen on the money the poor first wife ve. Look at the Bign y e hardly dead three years, and look how the second Mrs. Did the first Mrs, Bigmore do that?” second Mrs. Bigmore had a lot of money.” poor as rats till he married a second time, and, besides, there 0 children,"” the princtple is the sam: Bigmore ; n ve and deprive mysel Going downtown with me?" asked Mr. Jarr, thinking It best to change the wife come in res! Didn't that man Bigmore mar: sald Mr. Jarr, aniffe ad le Mrs. ch. Jarr. dren for no second wif “And you'll haye to let me have some money. some little token for those you love. She always gets me a 1g, and I have to get something nice ed of herself. rs, Stryver sometiing fine because she's so rich she © presents, and I don't want her to turn up her nose at my | she never sends me anything but a Christinas card, and I suspect he she got and kept clean for a poor friend lke me, for of all the h are the meanest!"" Jarr earne! “Please don’t. Jarr in astonishment. “I'm surprised at Haven't you one bit of the generous spirit of to pay on Jan. 4 and sets ; ear, when I f p at Christmas the ri don't get p anything, dear,”’ if any money to spare to buy ntiment? . ©, Kid = #::% (>) DELIGHTED! T LOVE TO +SEE THE POOR GET A CHRISTMAS Dinner ! ening World | boiled collar y of fifteen and expect to be | fs in keeping the: The trouble & n February from public Teadily done by keeping a samplo |, ears om F of each and the securely wra: ee for my age oe ns expert reade up in packages o zen, In that wa: Dei Jers kin advise me what would be a good birthday, T) nkeg! Christmas and You ARE So KIND, MR. MONIC # New Year's cards would keep fresh, for to take up In the future? J. E. DON'T You KNOW ME, are not many the old ideas in this! The Diamond Breake! | Une as good as the ne LM. ¥. | To the Maitor of The Evening World | Irieh Na. There used to be an ol in that if| Po the Editor of The Pye ‘ |@ diamond was genuine it could not be In the ¢ > jan Mas" men en by the blow of a hammer. Some PRA ipo a She - je still believe that silly hoax. So, *Jonn."" Under an a Christmas, Gladys Maude gete « time by the Een Partia ammer and swate the 5 mond Irish fa “ 4 ariie Pete went broke to buy for military juris! of It breaks, of course. So dons the! ebliged to change thelr agement. For she thinks he handed | wdopt in thelr stead new er a false @tone A fine diamond te had the “privilege” of tak a red. So tye love affair, All because Phat wes synonymous in En. « Hy girl still believes w eiliier story @rels own, Among the families that & Jeweller, Lake my tip, giris, « Aid this were the MoSPanes. They took e diamond can be broken ae easily the BAM Which had the same meaning any other hard ston ee thelr Remnely “the son of Joba,’ MAIDEN LANY JEWeILAaOR, THROUGH IN 5 MINUTES) igen GooD MAN! NOU MusT COME Home WITH ME To DINNER! OW, WOT'S THE Use! { wish I HAD my MONEY BACK! See ro ser ee cree December 23, 1908. "and the “If Bigmore had had | I'm sure {t would be as t. I hate that woman, but !f I don’t buy | 11 go around talking about me, although, goodness anything get something for yourself. | to Fifty American Soldiers of Fortune By Albert Payson Terhune NO, 28—"MAD ANTHONY" HEREVER Mad Anthony Wi what he is th So WAPNE. ways a fight. That’s yne fs re for.” spoke a Revolutionary ice And his words sum Mad Anthony” was due to no courage in plunging into le where the odds against him seer He had other nick- “Dandy Wayne” was one them, because of his absurd love for wearing fine clothes in the wilderness and in battle, The Indians called him “Black Snake,” from the swift deadliness of his atte Wayne was a farmer and the son of a far tewn, Pa, on Jan. 1, 171% When military tactics and bullied or « ting him drill them into a militia r he was almost always fighting. russ fast to the rank of brigadie: British and the {dol of his own men ton’s troops were starving at Valley actual famine by recklessly dashing again and ag. and “running At the fearless charge t repeated this sa ba ham too. pr. He was born in Bast- jon be he taught himself 5 warll heighbors into let- vu that time untdl his death nded, always attacking, he w a scourge to the . while Washt saved the patriots from n through the Brit ep for mouth it was Wayni ed defeat into v: He erin Virgina, thereby saw he Re ed his ziment Frequent et army. } The Storming |} of Stony Point, } Veta annonces J ing Lafayette'’s army A light Infantry corps was organized and W He set to work at once on an effort to clear the H The strongest and most fangerous British Point. It controlled the road leading to the thought to be invincible. Washington, 1 | thought he could take st ‘T'd take the int replied Wayne. “Better tr: Accordingly, on With fixed bayonets « ‘ Stony Point, Wayne (dressed as emashed his way through every do: centre of the fort. There the conflict was | carnage followed. Wayne received a da |to die fighting, he refused to be by @ soldier on either side of arging ever into the | Wayne treated his beat tions to the ground and Q Next year he was sent with a pitifully small New Jersey. He attacked with all his wonted fury for him. This was almost his only setback rounding co} leaving the dist of the British G: Major John | poem's final was appointed {ts leader, er region of British, on the FE n was Stony England colon and {tt was bt, asked Wayne {f the latter tress New rnal regions themselves if you so commanded!" Ston: Point firs on the fort. “rushed’* Anthony n two col iz th {f for a Mad 1 gained the and, and @ scene of fearful Determined f carried his men, rrendered. fortifieas to West Point. apture Fort Lee, im t was too strong Lit by ravaging the sure and cattle, fled certain and led young Cow Chase." ‘The He av y and taking from the British t! too poor to feed tts E eral, Clinton's, best pl ngre to describe the raid in a poem called verse ran: Wasne should ever ca phe 8 treason It was a squad « anza prov Arnol | stood on guard at his e: In 1781 nearly 1,400 Pei so large a number from h going to the mutir tents return to the: ing of Cornwallis at Y: his were ‘by ef Guisters: surprise be p was cc lemned to yne's own men who a troops rktown, T 1 one ni > and a British officer), wh 1 for a moment thre en, Greene, ek Indian ‘ound ned to ove: roused from sleep, rallied his startled soldt x attack aga fierce single } Fights Duel With ¢ ‘' tersigo, greatest of | Indian Chief. fe SDE EO a DR COnLRBIOR: oe is nd went |to Congres from that State. In 1792 he was appointed Gener: f of the Ur Ronee) he marched against s tribes in the c ence had led to rebel against our Gover Failing to do so he met them tn and stamped out the insurrection ish-made guns, nt. He tried to attle at Maumee F ereifully tleficld had iians on the ba RS ° the thet against Uncle Sam. By Wayne's he I prs 09 said Mr. Jarr. ‘Something may happen, you | the settlers a permanent peace and to the ch of new territory, In the midst of his successes Wa from an u,” replied Mrs. Jarr; ‘nothing ever does. And | attack of gout. Missing nombers of this « jor each num ries ned by sending ome reulation Department, veuing World, PPODDOQOQIQOGOHDEDODODOGIINOOO® Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife. TRANSLATED | By Helen Rowland. | man selecteth @ EHOLD, my Daughter, how a B Christmas present for a woman. For to him this 18 noi a matter of sentime but a sentence—to hard labor. A woman purchaseth dark blue cigars, or a pipe that will not pull, for her Beloved with exaltae tion, but @ man goeth ‘eto a department store in a state of acute suffering Lo! his head buzzeth round asd “aM eounters danc proach. e gleefully at his a; He treadeth upon euffies and he getteth wmbrellas in his eye. ee 18 as a stranger in a strange laud and he heareth women babbling in an un known tongue. He recleth in his tracks. walk into a store and say “Gimme that.” way to turn. For a man's idea of shopping ia But now he knoweth not which And peradventure he spyeth a pretty clerk and he seeketh her out. ste asketh her ADVICE and cometh forth with a i hath gone in to purchase a fancy hatpin, or hath sought a silver curling iron, the same to him!" Yet @ wise man commenceth to collect junk early in the days of De- cember; for he is like unto the wise virgin that kecpeth her hair curled and the chafing dish ready with cheese in the ice bor, He the hour of great trouble. ‘ Rrenarel tar: And on Christmas morning he bundleth the junk into many packages and addresseth cach WITHOUT looking inside. He writeth the same sen timent on ALL his cards and attacheth one to every package. And he calleth a messenger boy and despatcheth all with great glee, heaven, that's done!” Verily, he masseth his sentiment in one pile and spreadeth it around INDISCRIMINATELY on BVERY woman of his acquaintance, as one that sendeth out wedding invitations. And she that getteth APPEARETH to have a personal significance is lucky. ’ carpet sweeper when he with a phonograph where ha And he sigheth with relief, for it is “alt saying, “Thank something that For unto a woman Christmas Day is a sacrament. but unto a man it ts a SACRIFICE! And he heaveth a great sigh when it is over, Selaht 0 +2 ‘"@ The Day’s Good Stories { ene e Mark Twain on Books. YOUNG girl once asked Mark A Twain if he liked books for Christmas gifts , that /Sich Is Fame. A n YOUNG engineer who has been doing a job in Kansas has re- turned to Philadelphia with this drawled the dependi great humorist, “If a book has a) One night he happened to beat a little leather cover it 1s really valuable a8 | cross-roads grocery store at a village a razor strop. If it is a brief, concise | beyond the Ozark ridge of the moun- opal |tains. Getting into. conversation with work, auch ae the French write, it the frequenters of the place, be hap- useful to put under the short leg | pened to mention Chauncey M. Depew, wabbly table, with @ clasp, can't be beat as a m! to burl at a dog, and @ large book, like @ geography, is as good as a plece in to over & Sroken pane of name art been placidly dan old fellow who smoking beside the he mused, "Chauncey paw? J,don't recollect no feller of name abou ere. ma come vem beyond the Ridge”