The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1909, Page 14

wblished Dally Nos. 53 to 63 ept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Park Row, New York. JOSEPH PULITZER, Pres, 63 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Sec.-Treas., 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second lass Mail Matter, The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, January John D., Playwright -0vews nen) By Maurice Ketten. ty. f the Operas. By Albert Payson Terhune, DOQDOOOSE. H ates t ay Sor d and the Continent and | eee tan Rates te a Staton | AN Gountrles in the. International | NO, 18—DONIZETTVS “LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX.” ; and C 5 | ‘TON 'STOLO Chamow . . $3.50 | One Year } NTONIO LOUSTOLOT dwelt on a farm tn the beautiful valley of Bas Manthin 9! One Mon A nix, With Maddalena, his wife, and his daughter, Linda, he was honored Tey SPE NO. 17,904. ! by the whole neighborhood. VAC) OD ASHE CDOS MAE Ce a tea Ra ea a Ae But hard times caused him to fall behind with his rent. He was about to be ai a evicted from the farm, Linda, unknown to her parents, had met and become be a 7 trothed to the Vicomte de Sirval, nephew of the dissolute Marquis who owned the THE 80-CENT GAS FIGHT IS WON. valley, « HE EVENING WORLD'S long fight for S0-cent gas is crowned | at last with victory in the unani- mous approval of the United States Supreme Court. The decision of Judge Hough, the findings of Referee Masten and the initial injunction of Judge Lacombe are all set aside. Everybody who paid $1 for gas is entitled to receive back the | other 20 cents. Commissioner Shields has $9,000,000 ready. to be distributed with interest as soon | as, within a few days, the remittitur from the United States Supreme Court is filed. Everybody who has followed The Evening World’s ad- | vice and kept his gas receipts can now get back his money and hence- | forth will have to pay only 80 cents. | The Evening World has always been confident that this view would be taken by the United States Supreme Court. It had no ex- pectation of any other result from Referee Masten, whose decision was reflected in advance by the Stock Exchange quotations on Consoli- | dated Gas, It had little hope that short of the United States Supreme | Court 80-cent gas would prevail. More than three years ago this paper began urging for an in- vestigation of the exorbitant prices charged by the gas companies of New York. That demand was granted by the Legislature. In the gas investigation Charles E. Hughes won his first public fame. That Pommittee in findings drawn by him reported in favor of 80-cent gas. But the Senate that year refused to pass the 80-cent bill. When, ® year later, the 80-cent bill was passed the Consolidated Gas Company at once secured an injunction from Judge Lacombe, who appointed ‘Arthur H. Masten to take testimony. Since then the Consolidated | . Gas had an unbroken series of judicial victories, terminated now by | a its final defeat. The lesson of this is that the only way that the people can get their rights is to fight for them and keep on fighting for them. To secure a victory over a great monopoly is not an easy task. It takes|® time and persistence. That makes the victory all the greater, The way in which the 80-cent Mr, Jarr’s Mother-in-Law Comes to Visit Her Daughter’s Husband; No, It Wasn’t at All the Sort of Visit You Think It Was. By Roy L. McCardell. Listen! “a & row. It made him mad to eee his wife’s mother altting back rocking and look- ing amiable. She wasn’t amiable, and he knew it. De Strval had introduced himself as Charles, a poor artist, and under this name had won the girl's love. The Marquts, too, had seen Linda and hed fallen in love with her. To win her for himself he promised Antonio a lifelong lease of the farm and sald that Linda should come to the castle to be educated. Antonio was overjoyed, until the village Prefect opened his eyes to the Mare quis's vile plot in vain for a plan to save his daughter. The Prefect cume to the rescue. A gallant young peasant, Plerrotto, was about to star} for Paris, It was arranged that Linda should go with him, and there be placed under the care of the Prefect's brother until such time as It should be safe tor her to return, The girl bade a tearful farewell to her parents, but mourned most because she could not say good-by to Charles and tell him where she was going, Then, under Plerrotto's escort, she set out on the journey to Paris, * * ¢ Linda reached the house of the Prefect’s brotler and for a time was safe, But her protector died, and she was forced to sing on the streets for a living. There Charles found her. Revealing his real rank, he renewed his pledge to_ marry her, and {t was arranged that the wedding should take place as soon ag his mother, the Marchioness, could be prevailed upon to give her consent, ‘The Marquis, too, discovered Linda's whereabouts and once more pressed his sult, only to be rebuffed with scorn and ordered never again to address her, Charles, meantime, was commanded by his mother to break his engagement with Linda and to marry a woman of high rank, He was forced by law to obey, yet dared not tell Linda the terrible truth. Antonios hearing of the approaching wedding, cursed his daughter. The poor girl's mind gave way under the double shock, Plerrotto, coming to the rescue, took her back to Chamounix. © ¢ * Charles's appeal to his mother at length bore frult. The Marchioness relented and gave him permission to marry Linda, Wild with joy, the young man hagtened to his sweetheart's Paris lodgings, only to find she had gone. Thence, hurrying to Chamountx, he learned from the Pree feot that she had not yet returned home, but that her parents had declared she was henceforth dead to them all. Heartbroken, Charles resolyed to search for her throughout the whole world, | But before he could start on his quest, Plerrotto appeared, leading Linda down | the village street. On foot they had made the long, slow journey from Paris and had just arrived. The mad girl was et!ll murmuring of her lost love and declaring she would |marry him in spite of everything. Charles, bringing to Antonio the title deeds to his forfelted farm, was cone | fronted by the sight of the insane Linda. She did not recognize him. But she knew her parents and, little by little, began to discern other familiar faces. Under the influence of @ love song she had been fond of in happier days, the girl at last regained her reason, Finding herself clasped in Charles's arms and with her loved friends clustering about her, Linda's memory all at once came back, She understood now that she and her lover were reunited and that the clouds that had darkened their lives were forever gone. Missing numbera of this serica may be ont ained by sending one cent for each number to ulation Department, Evening World. & DECRG PPODOOQODDOODOEDHOOGHIULTOOVOHYS' _ Sayings of Mrs. Solomon { Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wile. TRANSLATED By Helen Rowland, 820299999999990009900000000000000000) OW, my Daughter, in my youth I knew a man of Babylon and he was a “dream”; yea, he was @ thing of beauty in a dress sult and hig should ars were NOT padding. And he called many times and stayed tate, yet he ala NOT kiss me. And this seemed strange, because he COULD have. Anl after many months he said: “Verily, I know not whether or not I love thee. Yet I THINK I do, for thou art fair unto the siyht and of @ fascinating variety.” And I replied, saying: “Decide quickly! For when thou hast made up thy mind all shall be settled, since there is NOTHING more to be consi& ered.” Then the luckless father was in despair und racked his brains. RS. JARR'S mother was spending the day. Mr. Jarr’s mother-in-law was one of the sort who make It a boast that they get along famously with thelr sons-In-law. You know the kind that constantly say: ‘Why, we never have had a word. I always take his part; and, as he'll tell you himself, I'm better to him than his own mother!”" And, the jokes of centuries to the contrary, sons-in-law generally get along well with thelr brides’ mammas. Mother helped pick the husband in most instances, and she is com- pelled to stand by her choive. And women are prone to side with a man anyway. it {s the daughter-in-law that feels the stings and arrows of her husband's mother. “Most any man will do for a husband for my daughter, but no woman is good enough to be the wife of my gon” ts the unwritten law of the mother-by-marriage. Mr. Jarr, wise among men, had surmised all this. He knew his mother-in-law had to be good to him because all her malice and meddling were devoted to a daughter-in- law. So he yawned and sald: “Gee, but this {s a stupid “My dear," said Mrs, Jarr’s mother, ‘if Edgar wants to go out to the saloon let him go. It only makes matters worse trying to keep a man in the house.” “He can go !f hs wants to,” sald Mrs. Jarr coolly, "I'm not detaining him.” “Oh, I suppose you wouldn't raise a row if I did go out and did drink?’ asked Mr. Jarr. “I wouldn't. Not a bit of it, sald Mrs. Jarr. “If you want to make a show of me before my mother, or If you have such a craving for liquor that you can- not control yourself, go ahead!" This took all the temptation out of It, so Mr. Jarr threw himself back on the sofa again, And he looked at me. For, my beloved, «¢ had never occurred unto him that when he choulg } know his own mind my mind should not accord therewith. Verily, verily, a man thinketh that he hath but to Nght the fire of love \ in the heart of a girl, ant it shall go on flaming while he departeth to see | if he cannot do BETTER. } Yet a grand passion, like unto candy that te kept too long in a showcase, | \| shall become shopworn. And, peradventure, when a man leaveth thee ett “Well,” sald mother-in-law, wine sroeole mile, pues wore ae mee ting too long on the doorstep of Doubt, thy love shall grow cold, as pudding 7 U e t & man drinks 16 1 lwer, dhoughithet Abed enongh Bites Radi coneatrevariaeitthatera | that 48 left too long outside the window, and thine emotions shall crumble | |he does do. But these mysterious men who have no faults, who never drink—ah, | £0 piecea—even as stale bread, | those are the ones to beware of!" Yet though a man shall keep a girt toatting for seven times seven‘ “T haven't touched a drop in a week,” sald Mr, Jarr, years, he expecteth altcays to marry one twho hath not been KISSED | time, either.” while she hath waited. OH, Selah! “Ah, that's a bad sign, a bad sign,” sald mother-in-law, shaking her head, I should say It !s!"’ snapped Mrs. Jarr. ‘I hate hypocrites. If a man wants gas fight has been won is the only | method by which any great public result can be achieved. To make better the government of this city } is not a fight of a week or a month or one political campaign but of years. To make the traction sys- tem what it should be will be even a longer fight than for 80-cent gas, All the more reason for every- body to enlist for the struggle and to make it his business day in an victorious 2nd. “Not going to for eome- ee Bir b NCAA DEL day out to keep at it until the ——a —mnanromas bunch! I think I'l go out and get pickled!" j Unsteiky aM, ‘ } “How can you talk that way in front of mother?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “You | t® ee Se eee eae nce COICO LET AED Cad | know you do not mean It. Anyway, you've sworn off.’ fA Ff : Th A W ki G l “Ob, you wouldn't care!” sald Mr. Jarr digging the sofa pillow a vicious poke. “Yes, the worst,” sald Mrs, Jarr, “Mamma bere eorel bony @ ree with € merican or ng ir etters From the Peo le “T was reading an article by some doctor who says that it's bad cooking that | Hilen's husband (Ellen was an older slater). He hadn't @ single fault—t ey were | was a bum supper I had." all marred ones. Prided himself he never drank or smoked—and didn't poor| © r drives men to drink, and that certain! ar : a very girl he met i} . 1 !" said Mrs, Jarr, ‘Mother cooked the biscuit. Ellen find out he filrted w every gi : sae e a nee wer “And it broke her heart!” murmured mamma, ‘Demon!’ “Then I can go out and take a drink,” sald Mr, Jarr, looking out the window. | CONSENSUS of opinion, appearing from conferences with two high-grade employment agéncies, four large commercial houses (not department stores), three large profeesional offices, and a large number of miscellaneous ke — ‘Fried steak, Brooklyn boarding house atyle,” enlffed Mr. Jarr, | General Housework,” , We can invest $16,000 for the continu- 5 To the Cy ¢ Evening Wi ation of the tuberculosis exhibit. Our| girl to do Board of Aldermen should get busy ly expect her and donate the necessary amount. The people who hire Beneral housework usu w ve a good cook, laundress, chamber- know I couldn't get angry at Edgar!" If there was anything that made Edward Jarr mad tt was to be called ‘Edgar.’ “Oh, he's only trying to tease us, dearle, murmured mother-in-law, “you | “Hello, here's Mrs. Kittingly just coming In!" “Well, you walt till she gets up the stairs!" sald Mrs, Jarr severély, “Don't you let him go out at all!’ sald mother-in-law sharply. ‘‘Here, I'll men of experience In the business world of New York City, says Harper's Bases, which has been conducting a symposium of working girls’ experiences, is that: Taking education, family training, and influence, and personal qualities an@ | REUBEN BROWN ‘I think I will go out and get pickled,’’ he announced again, thinking to raise | make him a hot toddy!"" characteriatics, into consideration in determining what is meant by “the best’ —~of ; mald and waitress, Whereas, If a girl sal A es — the wages of ‘‘the best” women employed in this city as clerks, bookkeeper, ~~” ; were capable of all that, she could earn Subway Squabbles, 2 Lon cashiers, stenographers, filing clerks, saleswomen, &c.—the following seems to be 3 a month, Some employers take so | 7° the Editor F ry / Y? ¢ ¢ By F. G. true: Jong to pay servants! I have seen one| 7 1 g O a n Cc y 4 4 a Mid Vd BY De They (generally) begin at seven or elght 4ollars per week. month glide into another before I re- . It (generally) takes about three years { ' sevance to ten or twelve doliare pep celved my pay, and then I had to’ ask r week. ; for it. And I have found very few em- expresses at Fourteer } It (generally) takes five to six years more to advatice to fifteen dollars per 3 Ployers who paid promptly. Do readers e evening rush hours are dan- | fl week. think this ts fair? 8 and should be suppressed by i J Not more than ten per cent. ever go beyond fifteen dollars per week. GENERAL HOU Ice. jabbles, insults, discom y r Advance in wages {8 very rare after ten years’ service, except with the tem er result from such rough- p “Nyctalopia h : pala “mo the Eutitor of The E ci VICTIM y S CN | per cent. who develop pecullarly strong characteristics and are advanced te ~ @ SO | administrative positions. S CSS [> Or L | It must be remembered that this covers only employees who can property be . | classed as ‘the best.” Others begin at three, four and five dollars a week, and | rarely rise above seven or eight dollars a week. , It seems also true that the younger women and the better-equipped women | crowd out the older women, as appears from the fact that except among ‘the best’ few remain after thirty or thirty-flve years, and even among ‘the best” few remain after forty or forty-five years. Ee ; Ohana narnia nanny ‘| The Day’s Good Stories She Was a Real Orator. | £%%,,vith s srose of be own manufag- , ENATOR BEVERIDGE during a re- | ture that he had purchased from hes’ h S cent vialt to Portland talked about | Portland Oregonian. ‘ oratory. ’ “The campaign,” he said, “has given Why Didn't She? us oratory more remarkable for quan- A LITTLE boy of five years, plays | * | Model Dwellings, and ar out any Nght? e is a rare eye disease, retalopla,” Able to see by daylight and have or less clear y possessor of @ “nyctaloy & The are n building sue lea | ica, too, good e n darkness a@ malady is called » parts of tee ti hibit for them t Jan. 17 ef public swer, ‘with a gross of bottles of wrinkle. $8 first payment; in monthly tn- eas fora flat, M that way fs used to t e ea ple who Howard it } } i not yet d the exhibit demand its John benefit conf du those wh aw W wa r. the exhibit (and it certainly has bee testa ite Breat) the advisabitit Payne, tity than quality. True oratory is that ing with his alster one day, which brings results, {8 that which con- leaned too far out of the second- & verts an audience of enemies to an audi- | story window, lost his balance and fell > i AG a GEC sft {nto the yard below. Very miraculously |? Gi ea friond whose wife, a ‘ | . , he escaped being injured, and hig f getioy’ is 8 great orator. Her speeches | he saceped belng injured, and hid | from the platform are wonderful, and her husband the other day gave me an|they gave him quite & number of pene iHlustration of the efficiency of her pri- | nies, nickels and dimes. | vate speeches. The next day, after he recovered from the shock of the fall, he was © “*An agent called on my wife this i , ‘and tried to sell her counting his money, and on seeing his Show wrinkle eradicators “ Uttle sister enter the room, excla! i Unuance admits of n fs tt not as muc administration as that wr individuals to tend to promote We all know the city’s debt is but ff we are in a position to, through spend thousands on trials like that of | thick? Thaw and now of the Hains brothers Jersey City, N. J. “How Longt’ Se ee new wrinkle erndicator, “e ‘And how did the man make out? “Gee, Gladys, look all the mete . ot for falling out o; ai To lett in half an our,’ wee-the ame Teas sou try