The evening world. Newspaper, December 25, 1908, Page 6

& i; i Published Daily Except Sunday hy the Prese Publishing Company, Nos 58 to 68 ‘ Rark Row, New 4 ark Ro} ‘ sosErH PC Fork aw Second-Clae Mall Matter, For England and the Continent aod ‘All Countries tn the International Postal Union, the Post-OMme Bubsecription Rates to The Evening ; ‘World for the United States and Canada One Year. | One Month ie Year. @ “Mont! 3.80 ee) —— VOLUME 49.. ‘ BE THANKFUL ANYHOW. ma) thankful for something to-day. What it is does not matter so} much as the being thankful. y fault a man finds, for For eve every discomfort he feels, for every flaw in life, he should make | sure to turn his thoughts at least | that often to the other side and{ think of something to be grateful for and some cause for being glad | that he is alive and has a soul) and is an American citizen. i The lesson of Christmas Day is that no one can be happy} through selfishness; that it is more blessed to give than to receive; that in giving pleasure to those whom one loves there is more happi- ness than in self-gratifi The more self-centred any one is the less happy he is likely to be. No man by thought can add a cubit io his stature, but he can multiply his woes or magnify his blessings according to the way his ion. thoughts turn and his reflections dwell. Any one who has health, a clear conscience, some one to love and} goods possesses the best basis for sound | a modest amount of worldly living and honest enjoyment. The ambition for other things can} it grows on what it attains, and never be completely gratified, because the further it extends the more there r That is why the life of a normal woman is fuller and happier than the life of an ordinary man. The woman who has health, who has children, whose husband is not a disgrace to her, and whose home is| a reality, can extract from her life mbre happiness than any man} mains to be desired. ean derive from his struggles for wealth and his strife for power, no matter how successful he may be in them. Daily Magazine, Friday, December 25, 1908. Under the Mistletoe. By Maurice Ketten. Ny NN \ x SN vt Sat SNS vi ! a It is more natural to he happy than to be sad. Normally, it Children are proof of this. Until the child has been taught to be dissatisfied it is always cheerful. Fyen sick in to) " erutch can give an example in cheerfulness to many a rich pases less tovpleace than to direatiely. | Mr. Jarr Wishes Gus, the Saloon Man, a Merry Christmas And Returns Home Full of the Proper Christmas Spirit. hildren take pleasure | newsboy hopping around on his) ® 1, By Roy L. McCardell, 1 ene EY soit : , : a glass of hot Tom and J ; s Gus, the saloon-| py ay gave Mr. Jarra ger Hy cep ae are sare wat f past on Christmas morn [led him to the pounded from a h Come tn | paste and hot water two mugs of the minute | delectable Christmas compound in ques- tion, A one-legged, whose extra fat interferes with his comfor Let any man who is not e some one happy, some child, the younger the better. Help a news- boy to a Christmas present, not for himself, but for him to give joving his Cl get ng papers,” aid Gus, mysteriously, after i the bar and came ur to his little sister or hi mother to the fat; Jart’s overcoat pocket, “I t them Help some older girl to gratify her know it isn't loafers over by the lunch cou Fee it if you It’s only for my friends. * But here's a nd {t with bottle of whiskey as a Christmas pres ¢ family!” ent. First thing you do, you take a 1 know,” said) drink atyhome and think of me. Gus, shaking his Mr. Jarr wished Gus a Merry Christ- head, “I know be-| mas and went his way. desire to give a Christmas present to her little brother or sister. This would establish a cha Christmas joy. The one gift would please three people, the child who received it, the older girl who gave fae NO a CAR DL oe Hquor store and when you've got that)of Mr. Rangle, who forthwith dragged | | May y ABLY, cause I've got a His way led him right {nto the arms OOH LOOKEY ! The best way to get the highest pleasure is by gi | 2 GUS IS GIVING to some one else. | AWAY PRESENTS! | it and the man who paid for it. a5 [MERRY XMAS wy Letters From the People — Row Mach Iront” Any one tell me how we he ‘Bo the Faitor of The Bvening Word |the value of a by the abi If wood is four-fifths ax heavy | Hons? ‘ ae water, and tron is n and one-half Anawers Ie times as heavy as wood, how much iron | To che Faiitor of The F ' wi) st take to just submerge a wooden| Here ts my solution to the probler @per weighing sixty-six pounds, read- as to the number of a ors? JOHN L. MORAN, |stole: Let x= the r A Marathon Race Problem, : & Me the Baitor of The Fivening World ine an) Angroad, Banando and ¢ a ka nA ® Marathon rur 1 at a ce t plidh Sereiact Banando 1 one-siateenth of w furlong) ty ty .ye yyy / apart from one of them; Chase is lead: | 1, Aare pana . ing and as many yards apart from An-|i)6 poy encountered the t greed as Angroad has miles to run yet) yg (xg, tk r to the 25-mile mark, If one is three and | scoping in mind that the @ Dale times as far away from Angroad | yopie tert, and clearing of tracts as the other, how does the race ptand, | Onn e Ith vile astane and readers? ALBERT ROEHL adding the quantities Six 21 number of apples the boy stole Clover Fallacy in Mathematics, | benefit of HB, who states HERE'S YOUR CHRISTMAS PRESENT! SH-H! RMA Rbier Of The Bvening World |jesy ‘Dap tires tines the money B has GUS MYSTERIOUSLY SLIPPED A LONG, NARROW PACKAGE IN MR. JARR'S OVERCOAT POCKET. and together the ay interest some of your reade It may ur readers h have?” I would ‘say that if & be able to prove that twice two Is number of dollars B aint gs y and you ain't! him to tne Rangle apartments to par- not four, but on the contrary that two ft dollars A has, 4x ¥ me vife, Lena, she goes take of old-fashioned eggnoge. ftwelf is equal to four, as shown by the A's mone: ri \ to her peoples, and = Mr, Jarre was feeling the genial Christ following algebreic paradox: Assume ine anciinitieeeds Im? the bar all day listening to mas spir » he got home. Mrs, Jarr Gem Then multiplying both sides of sat ential Gennka, ers te heir troubles. J ain't had, was , @uuation by x we lave: ax x suvare | OF what religious der Le : ' mas since | was a kid in Ger 1 thin 1; ought to be ashamed of Prem this, by subtracting a square, presigenta Van Buren and Garfield? |” On We had & CO TIGAs bee OD | going out op Chrisuinas day fe have Axa squnre ox aquare-a| Saeere & table, a little one mit candles lighted | for hour he began gavare. By factoring a we have: | pe ahs aoa ; ag on ita ed we na and sing } much you care for your home! Oh @ Ge (aea) 1x0 Dividing this Daurekt Garhaid 45 earme ine ‘Tannebaum Jon't say a word’ It means @ great deal ave ¢ Disciples menus tmas tree, oh,,to me. All we get in this world is @ and tt cost me And the girl's burni and broke one of my ‘best and you go atters and Wa: erry, muh dear,’ and closed his eyes and on jerry Rangle called sald Mrs. Jarr cheer. thank | Poo Fifty American Soldiers of Yortune By Albert Payson Terhune | NO, 29.-LAVAS ETTE RIE JEAN PAUL ROCH YVES GIRERT DU MOTIER, Marquis de la F tle He was a soldier ete” was his full name and of fortune, in that he left home, wife and rank to draw sword for a cause and people not his own. Am | Lafayette’s life story is < him much, | natic, He was a nehman of noble birth and chose to follow a martial career, His head was full of the revoluttonary Iterature of the day. He When the American | revolution broke out he saw a chance to put his high theories into practtee, Accordingly, he came here in 1777,at the age of nineteen (he had married at sixteen), and offered his services to Washington. He was not the first or only foreign adventurer to do so. In fa ss Was embarrassed by the quantity of such offers. B a powerful |family. His influence might he America. | He himself was brave, and had some knowledge of military affairs, Moreover, his charm of marner pleased Washington. So the youth received a Major Gens jeral's commission and & temporary © on the Commander-in-Chief’s staff. His first active service was al the battle 0. while trying to rally t ceived a severe (oa ® wound that laid him ly was he back Wounded at in active se wher eated @ larger band of Hessians fr ester Point. Conway and aw in their a. OW 1s a disciple of libe the Brandywine. é orward Was Soon jscheme to invade Ce aw The |plan fell thr Ls next at Barren Hill, but shortiy aftery battle ¢ nmouth, He had not thus far been al " jpatriot cause. But his ne nee t future. In January, 1779, he saile t 1 t there more deeply in « \board hiss | formed to mur us prison England | (there to the Americans had captured) and thirty promoters were put in trons I ‘ sulted in the sending of mone A patriot ) Andre wallis, The Bri £ ‘ 1 Lafayette \in fuil retreat b u ey nits, while follwing up the retreating Lafayette, and 5 pen him in some corner lwhere ne could not 4 t But “Mad Anthony 1 s ue, and saved him and his little 4 rsuing n and hosen Commar as a badge the fa copied from o © Versailles. Lafayette during the Reign He hid in Flane m one prison ta en put to much was saved from another fo! {Thrown Into {Irs (Austrian Prison. § ¥e4 | | as guest a him he next in 184, in ghters was arlike exploi whom the bitterest p Missing numbers of thin series may be obtained by sending one ent tur each number to Circulittion Devar Hvening World. 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