The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1909, Page 8

er ree ee The AS attorin, Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 83 to 63 Park Row, New York. JOSHPH PULITZER, Pres., 3 Park Ro’ q ee Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Mail Matte Bubdseription Rates to The Evening | lor England and the Cont! ‘All Countries tn the Interna’ Postal Union. World for the United States and Canada. 2.50 | One Year. Year... | one 30 | One Month One Month, VOLUME 49.. THE STATE OF MANHATTAN, MONG the many bills, resolutions and projects with which Assem- .. MO, 17,837. blyman Cuvillier is fecund is the revival of the proposition to cre- ate the State of Manhattan. The State would have more than half the population of the present State of New York. It would include New York, the rest of Long Island, and the thickly populated coim- muting neighborhood from the Hudson to Long Island Sound. There is no novelty in this proposition, It appears periodically. _It has never received substantial support. But its ancient history is no sufficient reason for not considering modern problems. It is assumed in most Legislatures—in Albany, Harrisburg, Springfield and every State where there are large cities—that the seat lof virtue is the rural comnmnities and that the farmer and small | village vote is needed as a corrective on city vice. i Is this a fact? new Would the State Government be better or worse if all the rural and semi-rural counties were created a State by themselves and the| State of Manhattan were cut off to govern its: So far as independent voting is considered, city voters are much | more independent than rural voters, Majorities thictuate more in| cities. There are fewer hide-bound partisans. Ca Ties are more largely attended. suises and prima- Tn vote buying the gr Well-to-do farmers will insist upon being paid fe ir time and their team hire where a city wor sing man would scorn an attempt to! influence his vote with money. There is more drunkenness in proportion in small country towns, especially in local option communities, than in New York, day liquor law is even more tly election laws are less rigidly ol The Sun The ved in rural districts. | tantly violated in the eountry. The real objections to cutting off the S of Manhattan from | aterial, Unless the State of Manhattan were extended far enough to take in New source of water supply there would be might be transpor cations. There wou in Albany whom the people of New York City could blame for their own bac the State of New York are not moral but n tant difliculiy t li- 1 be nobody government, Suppose there were a State of Manhattan. Thy people of New York would then be with the necessity themselves, which mi 80 bad after all, Maybe the les- son of a Governor as feeble as the present Mayor, of a State T ury as diso werning KS ized as the City and extravagant as city rs, might have such a stinging effect upon the pockets of the people of New York as to bring al | Letters From i it a reform. eS “te ” fe orl } Tect; "He fl s i kn there « and I tive case “me” Is the ¢ tive. To make ma s re \ when you are in d agcte i MAXIMILIAN Apply to Supreme Court, der construct la n impossib “It ie 1" 1, “Nike? (Pronounced “Nerkay") 1 To the Ed eV ea s the Mara To the Editor In reference t *hetr,” the expla of usage «@ in er nent in Rogland throug outside of the d js | The Chorus Girl Scorns Going Into Vaudeville-- r amount of bribery is in the country. 4 reasury, of State affairs as wastetu!| § “M The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, February 27, 1909. a The New LID. : By Maurice Ketten. TR re a ee No Trained Seals or High School Cockatoos for By Roy L. McCardell. ANY a time | wanted to fal weeks when she re with sed them in their « the Chorus) wearing a coat to . “But I'm gor! probabl ~ to stick to. them small salaries and bad e: the dignity thel her In legit. thl they cut high school fi mut the efforts o nd Wings supply specta While she s i 1 have hearts for La Pe e Adelaide and and saw how mn er on the prog you'd agree w foller ge act In rubve bill and not had to Mile. Fr ust to be dressing-ro. high his cage THE CABRIOLET" AGE } Her | 3 TRAE mal boosting tt the crowd After this Cha streets ld have thought that some » form was § ng him 1 with eue ve they took him off {t then Jotne s 1d be did to half a house, ey Jan ev is Newark’s favorite sion thespian Well, you care, We start re- Charley Pace, who ain't doing noth. | hearsing pny Rang R Yee g now, was w He met Sen Erlend ADO GS Rene Aen : t when we open, We ten extra sper to make ft 1 ey Pace says to him He in moving cockatoor | been sure fire was crabt @ wa ed eer ears ‘ and to Thoms that lion would snort. And, not con t from that he joined | 08! Ghar race nas nag ds plants or rmwood's Dog and Pony | tent with crabbing his own act, when) hond Juek's Essence of Dogwood trhat he ain't nothing but @ pest-o-mist.” loo «Watch Him Re ¥ ‘ ; Watc im Roll! § Looie, the Bowler gaye Wr kell: By Ferd G. Long | = rene & 6 oe | Yust LEAF IT \To ME! SOU hon i NOW, LOOIE/ } ITS UP 70 You! \ wae " DROP THAT p IE GO/N? UP IN TH CON ER 14 AIR-LOOIE t REL OlE ¢ Y 4) IT VOS A SKINCH! | .> BALLOON A BURSTS Ano- LO! LOOIE MAKES iiesae AHESINAE 4 STRIKES L. H NETSLOG, at rf x mm BE IXOLA GREELEY SMI ! NO. 1, The New Moon. "sald ask you aq It was dur “Whether he ought to be true to hei | or not,’ she finished breathlessly, “Now, would you?” The bridegroom threw down his pa- per again, He had learned in three days that such questions from the bride mu be taken with the utmost seriousn e bride, “If want to stion.” ng a luctd Interval cele aten eo [that for the moment, at least, sh Sere ah Make thought her eternal happtness huny and the bride andi ipon his answer. Nevertheless, he bridegroom sat on the front porch of a big house by the whieh had been lent to them for this dulcet oc- Feould not resist the temptation of—L | regret to say the bridegroom might have Jealled it “getting her goat." Is th in your fam> "he asked, sepulehral "No; thaf Is—I think not," gasped tho casion by the) bride. bride's uncle “Then what are you worrying about?" The bride hi “Why, because I don't want you to looked up from the | love me now French book she! won't love me just 4s much when Mm old and ughy or have AGI OTH was reading—she Was reading merely In self-defense be- | \ cause the bridegroom had betrayed an ( unbecoming Interest in the arrival of | Alp the Sunday papers now spread before | NM him, He had indeod walked all NEL Way down to the front gate to hall t Joggipg comfortably the glistening Long Isiand road. 1 Was buse treason, and the bride had $e r three whole minutes ra) What 1s It? asked the Dride- eth: r rapt serutiny of the "Standing of r ‘4 the Clubs. the Would yo brid of @What are you ing about?” in- fate terp. i room | inva she pursued at terruption, “if 1 were | ' | oom laughed and forgot momenta y the baseball score. “You "he sali © other womer about you," the bride admit me just because Then fear he might take the for t and presume “that's a}at alr, grabbed her up and held bride. nded in the alr, the French her bronze slippers da g on- 1 coldly “ ed in s wide she walled Mies dreadfully reall than y Then, to go ¢ Weil, come to the beach,” ne her yeed down to where, through fields, the jay xt upon It w whether they sat \ irs or moments, y Watched the Httle a little vc so much unt love; so much 1 understanding of f » White frilled wavee 1 Paper weed toward them and, as the tide capitulated, Securely back In her ehair Same In, lapped the potnts of the Ittle she began to burlesque the confession Re Eee eeu Piere mm And ag abn I love you ‘fondly, madly, with a d the bridegroom laughed, i PER OET EMR RTIE ance hoon sky hung Hke an \ in a play hen, as the bridegroom cup from which hape bride's arms stole about the n’s neck, while far out on Yacht anchored in the bay w s levelled at her and the woman who held ft pled newspa for the hurrl was on ous in that question [ ert You see, th story of a mi French book who {s very u would love me if I were crazy? i 1 the bridegroom: t to be crazy." Then he kissed i It's the greatest thing in all about whether he you know—whether he m ought to’ — tt e bride stopped short and blushed | ¢), guin un befor th more furiously My “Cycle of Readings,” } | By Count Tolstoy. fa) —— Translated by Herman Bernstein, —= (Copyrighted by the Preas Publisiing Company, the New York World, 1908.) (Copyrighted by Herman Bernstein.) The italicized paragraphs are (Jount Tolstoy's original comments on the subject. ra teiently not of wax D ry education, the principal necessity. | the definition of the meaning and the end of living i i ments of people a thousand years ago cannot This is a terrible error. If it were only possible to educate children in ally the case, in such @ manner that all the improbabilitics of superstition | ROCCO OOOO OCOD 7 such a manner that when they grow up they 1 ott ty their\ OOOO TOC COO eee to leave this to fate, !f we may so express ourselves. I feel er) exactly as they ight the most essential things of life. In the gether, {t is true that not so many devout “night-oaps” @re turned | Heaven forbid that man, whose teacher te all nature, should become @ plece O not mention to your pupil, and especially do not pasa aa a aaored, | ! een / The Basis of Buc avionil R satisfy the people of our times, Yet children are taught first of aly such a manner that all which is vague should remain entirely unintelligi- may take firm root. CMldren so educated grow accustomed to vague, halj- HIS idea of Kant is like that of Lichtenberg. It is necessary to | | knowledge. KE always traci fol, espectally with a child, Fulfil your promises made to a would be well to investigate the question as to whether ft Js not dangerous yedagogues succeeded {n attatning thelr aim, to educate chil- man, We were usually never t Imes some of them are completely rulned~but a satisfactory influence | ipon Which some professor may tmprint his exalted image!—Liohtenberg, | indisputable truth, something in which you either do not beleve at } | | RUTHFULNESS ie in all cases, and particularly in | i if eDOCS | | HE basis of education is religious training; that is, FEB. | is 27. | 2 | ELIGIOUS training such as satisfied the require- } that which satisfied the requirements of people thousands of years ago.) ble to them! It would mean that children would not be taught, as is usu-\ proofs and regard the unintelligible as clear. transmit to children only that which they can underatand, and in | child, otherwise you will get {t accustomed to falsehood.—The Talmud, if t » too much polish to our children In education. We do not know max would wish, we would no longer have a single truly great blic schools, where many ciildren not only study together, but also play 4 exerted upon the majority ~~ ali, or which you even doudt, To do that ta to commit a orime,