The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1910, Page 22

I Published Dally Except Sunday by fie, Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to @ | Ri J. ANGUS SHAW, Pree. and Treas 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Omice at Sapeeription Rates to The Evening orld for the Vnited States and Canada. FIVE CENTS OR th e sition genuinely 4 nine ly ent subway syster a part of the pre So a feasible confiscation is now offered tinaance of privi oge, Long ago Tho Evening World began a consistent campaign of +. education in favor of “a five-cent fare from the city to the sea.” ‘The movement, though welemently opp port, for its beneficial character and its essential fairness were revog- Still every effort to establish it by legislation was baffled in Now tho company its nized. one way or another. it on the bargain counter. at the price. But it ee THE OLD-FASHIONED SHOVEL. | UT of the snowfal ing party, and joy worker out of a ji the flight of fleet but the chance to earn twenty cents an hour with , food supplied, for shovelling snow, must have been even more pleasing to the hungry the coffee and the pay were given. Modern invention has mastered almost everything the weather | We can cool the the wind, or start it with an electric fan; we can shelter ourselves from rain and get out of the way of hail. we must go back to the primitive ways of Heinrich Hudson and Peter | Stuyvesant. Steam cannot help us in the business and electricity | won’t. Whenever it comes we must accept it as a thing of beauty, or | betake ourselves to the shovel. There is no other way. ey MR. TAFT AND THE PARCELS POST. brings except snow. ITH respect to tl recommend ite adi made the limit of message was read in Congress the gave a decision against the Adams Express Company in a case growing out of an alleged extortionate rise in rates. submitted to the commission showing that in Brockton alone the Adams Express Company was making at the old rates 83 per cent. per annum on its capital invested in that town. And yet it wished to raise rates! Upon that showing the President’s recommendation for @ par- cels post confined to rural delivery pounds is very small politics. It is like fishing for an octopus with wérout fly. guages desides his own. Nearly all the telephone companies of (Mite country lost money at the start. & French engineer has designed « low ‘eutomobile for the ase of invalids, ‘The munietpal officials of New York required last year stationery valued ai $2,800,000, Fhe percentage of infant mortality In York City wes ‘greater last year ever before, Tt ls now aSserted that there ie no such thing as a lazy ohild. There is ‘always some other explanation of the dackward child—generally sickness or hunger. igh Sh ial “Prices are very high in Rio an of public benefit denounced at one time as luntarily as an inducement for a con- Taft in his message to Congress, “I respectfully and that eleven pounds, the international limit, be By an interesting coincidence on the eame day the New, York. JOSEPH PULITZER Juntor, Sec'y. | 6% Park Row, | | 18,006, | ~ York Yor Fi An tier. Continent and es {n tha International Postal Union. $9.78 8 One Year One Month NO. CONEY. TO making its latest subway propo: ctive to the people, the Inter- “offers to equip and operate un- | year lease the Fourth avenue sub: n, including extensions to Fort Tsiand, when completed, as n for a single five-cent fare.” osed, was not without strong sup- | f comes forward to put behooves the public to look well 1 there came joy to many a sleigh- so to many a poverty-stricken | job, ‘The jingle of sleigh bells and | horses were pleasures to the gay; | fellows to whom the shovels and | | ir, or heat it; we can temper But in dealing with snow | he parcels post,” says President | option on all rural delivery routes, | carriage in such post.” Interstate Commerce Commission It said that proof was routes and to packages of eleven Janeiro, which explains why the Brasilian buy- ing in this country regarde the market aa very cheap and gets the reputation of being @ magnificent spender, ‘The annual report of the Lelgian Congo shows that the region contains at present 3,400 whites, of whom 2,000 are Belgians, 320 Englishmen and 6 Germans. The native pollee force con- sista of 16,409 me It 1s said ttfat kerosene or Ntumidating oll ts rapidly becoming @ mere by- product; the profita are made on the gasoline and the fuel olls, Both these find an ever and raptdly enlarging mare ket; fuel oll especially will have an enormous field of employment in. the railways, the navies and the mercantile feets of the wor! ‘The Wall of the Tip Victim, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World: Tips! Tips! ‘Tips! ‘pa! To butche! grocer's and laundry doy, ‘To Uft boy, to janitor, porter and matd, ‘To swell the sum of their Christmas Joy! Tips! Tips! Tips! 1 ‘They range trom a dollar up to five, | And /€ anything's left from my Ghrist- was week pay | Vil need it to keep the family alive. | I'd ike to give presents to those that 1 care for, | But when Ups are I'l be} penniless, ‘The: let my loved ones.of Chrietmas gifts blithely be strippec What matters it? Every one else will be tipped M. 8. How Much? To te LMtor of ile Will reade \ one be gained 30 pe f he lost % per cent. What is its total gain or loss t 1 betieve there 4 Lows. M. MW. he 4 amt. To the Editor of The Evening W Readers, it is hurd to secure a j tion, One starts to hunt for a job. 1 asks for work, and some of the an wwers are laughable, but for the mo part they are gity discouraging. ‘The usual retort ‘Have you had ex- perience” at this or that? No matter what the position happens to be, even the places that require no especial in- telligence and are held by an unintelll- nt class of men, it is the same cry Very often the person Who has charge of a department is a man that does not seem to understand tat the applicant could do the work as as, 1f not better than, any man he fs employing. But till experienced men only e will answer an, | Jersey City at Propheey, World: Event , ffort afoot to Ret foreign A » the United Sta of ¢ May that effort wt f on meat, I ve, ts | . A pound ra j roe the trust drop p: ‘ Now, 1 havo a pros Mark it well, readers, m 1 prophesy that if the | " Afied from foreign meats, | t Ho mpathizers) will| 1 the country with wild, gruesome e imaginary unhealtn- | jualities or Rad 1 nomeats. If that | \ appeal to our | ‘ us 10 be robbied »wn corporations | Imported me cynic. | News S By Maurice Ketten. THE EARTH THe REAL MORGANITE STONE PG Y\X) o. “A 9; CLK KA avOwar SNAPSHOT and Mrs. Mr. napshots. ren“ pThe Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday: December 8. 191 Jarra Abroa A favors, he 1s being Injured In that school more than he can be benefited. Priv- The Very Latest Scene of Their Travel Drama Has a Fea rsome Climax | flege, except as the bonus of love, !s polson. Mother may give life itself for her Congright, 1910, by the Prew Publishing Oo. trhe' NewYork Word) By Roy L. McCardell. CoG AN you make out mamma?’ course, the boys from the office will be there—Jenkins and Johnson and Wat- kins. Maybe the boss. But then it may be too early for the boss—just a few fellows from the office and some other friends. Brother Gote of Brooklyn and &@ committee from the lodge, maybe, Rangle will be there with his wife, of course, and Gus. I hope you’ treat Gus nicely. Poor Gus 48 a goodhearted fel- low even if he does run a cafe. “He'll be down, I know, and maybe some of the rest of the bunch. I hhape they don’t have any horseshoes of flowers or @ band or any silly thing lite that." asked Mrs. Jarr, as she looked eagerly over the cide of the ship in the direction of the dock. “I can't tell one person from an- other at this dis- replied Mr. Jarr, “But 1 do hope there won't be @ lot of people there mak- ing @ fuss over us, That sort of thing always em- barrasses me," ‘Vm sure you shouldn't talk that way if our friends have been kind enough to get.up at daybreak on a cold day and éome down on that old steamstip pier and wait hours and hours for us. For the steam- ahip company always tells one over the Phone that the ship will docks hours be. fore it does,” sald Mrs Jarr, “I'm Just dying to see my children! 1 know the little darlings never slept a wink ail night, thinking thete mother was com- ing home!" “And did {t make you fee) good to see the Stat, of Lab, and good old Staten Island, and the skyscrapers of old New York!” said Mx, Jarr, "I suppose so," sald Mrs, Jarr, “But how can you think of anything else but being warped close beside the dock “I cannot see the children,” said Mrs, The Diary of a Happy Wife By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1010, by The Press Publishing Co. .(The New York World). One Night at the Theatre. AST night when I heard Jack's key click in the lock I lovkea at the clock in astonishment and decided it must be terribly slow; then I ran out into the hall to meet him, “ “Did I surprise you by coming home so Kissed me. ’ “Then it is early? How do you make it?’ I'm always happy to have an extra hour with him, For answer he dug into a vest pocket and pulled out a small white envelope with an advertisement on It. ‘Tickets for the theatre," I exclaimed as he drew the two bits of pasteboard out, “and for the orchestra too—you extravagant wretch!" and I gave him an {extra kiss right on the tip of his nose, “Yes, for the orchestra—I just felt like seeing a good show decently to-night and four dollars onee in a while won't break us. You'd better hustle and get dressed, curtain goes up at § sharp—that's why I came home earl: I didn't wait to be told a second time. I love the theatre—I'd like to see your cllldren When you know the ttle |¢V¢rything on the boards, but it's #0 expensive, I dressed quickly and called angels are there on that cold pier wait- |!" to Jack to come and hook me up. ing for thelr parents? And I do hope| “Just wait a minute til I get this lather off my face, mamma has their heavy underclothes | the bathroom. ‘I didn't shave this morning’ you know.” on them and thelr thick coats, Suppose,| When he had finished he hookea me up—he does 4t beautifully—and I stood er being well and hearty all the long | before the Jong mirror and admired my reflection in my one really pretty even- ime we were away, they should get a|!& gown, I've only got one, because I never have much occasion to:wear a low- ful cold to-day? I'd ne’ for cut gown and though I've had dt two years, it's just as pretty as ever—s dull rose chiffon trimmed with silver, $ rly?" he asked when he he shouted back from ay myself!" ‘Oh, I don’t think your mother would| “It’s @ shame," I remarked, sticking out one beaded slipper, ‘that we can't pring them down to stand on the pler! go In a taxteab 1 & cold day like th Mr, Jarr; “We can go in one,” Jack volunteered over my shoulder, “but we'll have to went on do Without something else to make up for it-the fare from way up here to} Maybe you don't ave if you ever the theatre district ts pretty steep, you must remember.” e your hildren?” cried Mrs, Of coltrse I knew it would be absurd for us to squander money on taxis, but ‘But 1 feel sure Mrs, Rangle and T can't help being silly onee in a while, so I sighed and sald: “Oh, dear, {t's trude, to ay nothing of my mother, will hard to be ppor, isn't t them nd out on the expe Worse than that,” Jack acknowledged, ‘but let's. hope for better times.” pie “You know I confessed, pinching his cheek, “I wouldn't give you up for “You think they'll all be there?" \ ine biggest millionaire goin . asked g Jarr, i} And 1," he returned boastfully, “wouldn't give you up for a Cleopatra— | ‘Oh nt expe ther n dat, old selfieh thing 1 gaspeit and then giggled from pure content—it's so refreshing to talk non- Bat T wouldn't be surprised 4 She | conse once in a while, especially with gone one who “understands. My long ’ closed automobile, 60 We Could | Hack evening cape covered my ‘gown completely, 8o I didn't look a bit out of ¢ together with the children * place in the subway, ‘ idridge te eure to he there There have been a great many taxicab accidents here lately,” Jack sald Cor uA Hott aad lige iptt re way es . | suggestively as We stopped at one of the stations and he could make himself Masts CID aW aia FARES SIDI. OF At: Ap) I uhderstood, of course, and added: "¥es, and not énly that—we might have They all wrote me to bring them | been delayed and missed the first part of the first act—and that just makes gloves and shirtwalsis, Lsuppose they'd |e furious!” Then we smiled at our make-belleve game. vine to the pier, though, even if they | BUt when, after he play, we saw the Jaded, weary looking couples waiting timught 1 didn't bring them anything, |i the lobby for thelr limousines to be called, we decided that Jf taxlcabitis Who do you expect af the dock?” wought with it tha: blage, raised eyebrow effect, we'd cheerfully stick to the Ob, 1 don't think many people will | Subway for the rest of our days. bother about me,” said Mr. Jarre, “Of You can be happy even if you do'haye to travel in a five-cent conveyance! é ee lg ttl By this time the ocean steamer was, Jarr. “I guppose mother and the re} have them in @ sheltered place, Let the | crowd get off first, although “I'm im- patient, too, Do you see anybody?" “Not a soul I know,’ said Mr, Jarr, “but I guess they are waiting “where the gangplanks are.” But Mr. Jarre wis mistaken, and so was his good wife, Although they "eagerly “searched the facing crowd, calling and waving to friends aboard, the Jarre did not see a face they knew, And when they got down the gang. plank no arma were thrown around them and mot even a relative cried: , “Oh, look who's he “Maybe they are outside the gate. Aian't think to get passes '% fadtered Mra. Jarr. were brief, merciful art . But what the ezpresaman, an ser face greets them. A welcoming hand {s waved at them on the other side of the barrier. “I heard you was coming in to-day!" says a familiar voice. “Would you mind paying this Jittle bill, Mr. Jarr? It's been standing since you went away, and I'm short for cash this week." It was Muller, the grocer. hg Good Stories Her Preference. T° pastor of «colored church tn, the Hout jh 7 too much be ."" introducing in his church that we hioned, darkies. ideas the ‘pastor had ranged for stained glass, in the church windows his he was showing in triumph to one old woman parishioner, when he asked her how she liked it shore beautify was forced to admit; “but ‘deed an’ prefers de | lass fest’ ea God made it * fn lta. The Modern Way. COUPLE of young men on the Market street viaduct the uther evening offered a new version of an old saw, After they Had passed a couple of auburn-haired dam- | sels one of the young:men took his stand at the |ourb and gazed up and down the bridge, | iat are you looking for!" inquired his com- | panion, . Vointing to the red-headed girls, the young man answered; "I'm trying to see al white antomo- Wle,"=Youngstown Telegram, inclined to was ral “hi | i} | | A An Object Lesson. 66 ZTEARLES." said a shiarp-rolced woman der “hiusband in a railway carriage, you know that you and 1 once had @ romance in a railway "" ver eard of it,” replied Charles in ued tone. "I thought you hadu't; but don’t you remem r, it was that pair of slippers T presenta to you the Christmas before we were married that Jat to our union? You remember how nical they fitted, don't you! Well, Charles, one day when we were going to picnic sou had your feat upon a seat, and when you were not looking T took your measure. But for that pa ere I don’t believe we'd hai A young vnmarried man, sitting diately took down luis fens from, the seat, ‘sub oe : Reflections ofa % % Bachelor Girl} By Helen Rowland . |’ Gemrsight, 1910, tg The Pros Publishing On, (The New Lock Werth HE average husband's devotion, lke @ cheap T watch, cannot be guaranteed to last for more than a year, Every Jack has his Jilt—and likewise hie jolt, so A man’s soul lies 80 close to his digestion that alg toife can seldom tell by his grouch which happens to be asserting itself, The first baby makes a man proud, the second makes him happy, the | third makes him wonder and the fourth makes him tired. ’ So peculiar is the feminine sense of honor that a woman who could be trusted to the end of the earth with your diamonds cannot be trusted across ‘the street with your secrets. If the price of folly could only be paid in “cash” instead of in daily instalments settling up wouldn't make us half so weary. | Tt te hard to tell which 43 most pained—the woman who watches a man | handing her baby of the man who listens to a woman telling one of Me best stories. | When.d man has to acknowledge that he Wkes his mother-in-law he | augue feels: that he ouyAt to act.apologetic avout it. an Bunce of kiss 49. worth a pound of logic in an argument with any | man. | + : {The Man Who Wins 133 Traits That Make for Success, And the Way to Acquire Them. Dy eectantnd peepee By Emory J. Haynes. | | Refuse to Be a ‘‘Favorite.” | BWARG of being a favorite. | The man who thinks himself favored In distinatian and competi- i} tion with others is sure to stumble and fall. Give him rope enough and he will hang himself, embodies a truth that 1s fle co appear in } the Bible, Since history began “the favocite of the people,” the | popular ido!, has proved the saying true thousands of times. { The favorite is vulnerable because he is credulvus and not cautious; because he {@ selfish and mean; because he Is false at heart, for he really knows his | desserts are not in exc t he accepts favors. It 1s very easy co break @ | favorite You have only to aiow him up by good proof. It ts simply a ques- tion of getting hold of the proof, for ne honest man will consent tc be held a favorite any length of time. | The exceeding favor of affection is its own law. Except that not even parettal | affection has a right to discriminate between children, aave where worth or | unworth is very pronounced; nor can friendship be limited in what it cleases to | do. It should be always the faithful employees reward that he is favored. The capable man is valued over the ineMcient. ‘The handsome, boyish face: | the alert and attentive mind wins favor, Nat this kind of favorite ts in mind | when favoritism {s condemned as unmanly. But the favorite by caprice, or who wins by ob yi the ve era vain presumer who capitalizes his past popularity without continuing to merit tty ge | conceited fellow who relies on what is da pull--this is the Cishones man. | One should insist on standing on an equality with his fellow workmen, dectin- jing extras that have no reference to his real value, but are calculated as the | bondage of obligation. The capricious and impulsive employer is to be found | everywhere. ; But his favoritism should give Alarm, for it may chgnge to-morrow, ‘The sweets of partiality quickly turn rancid. ‘The school b o 1s treated with | partiality ls never comfortable in his own mind, even. If he does accept unfair boy, and in preference to al] the world’s boys, But when to one man, at the expense of other men, the State is a tyrs | seeks or accepts such unfairness 1s morally debauched by it. ‘There is no one word to describe St.. It 1s a combination of theft, deception, unmanliness, cowardice, weakness and greed. No price was éver piled so high 3 to pay for such meanness in republic. ‘The basic truth of the Government under which we live is equality of rights. The good American steers all his hopes and plans in that truth. He scorns special privilese. He asks no pass at the gates where lis fellowa pay cash. His dreams of success do not contemplate unearned dieidends. When the sinister whisper hisses in his ears, as it often does, that he can be let in on the ground floor, to other men's disadvantage, Ne deciines wud no thanks. For once it might pay, but the education is bad. ‘The ink statis the silk of honor. The end {s a mind bent to dishonesty and energy betrayed into laziness. ‘The “ground floor’ men eventually learn to lke the basement. and honest men lock the door on them. It 1s grand to live in thé open, with the sunlight in one's face and the limbs unfettered by old pulls that may trip oge at any moment. The Joy of success is thet it was won fairly, the State ts unfair ‘The citizen who Modern Mythology By Barrett Hanson Witherbee 2. Gawrtget, 1910, ty The Prose Publishing Co. (The New York World). No. 10—Hymen. YMPN was the God of Marriage, although lots of People think of him as a Probation Officer. . | He used to be a pretty popular God, and was engaged to watch | over the happines® of a Newly, Married Couple until “death akf ‘em | part; but nowadays he is taken on Trial) ahd if he doesn't Make | Gooa his NON-UNION cousin, Divorce (fierce joke, ain't it?), takes his Place, |" In the old days he was Superintendent of the Ideal Match Factory, and Every | Match turned out of the Shop was stamped with. ahe Trade Mark “Made in Heaven;” but the Factory has since been shut down on account of Matrimonial ‘Agencies, Suffragettes and Imported and Domestic Nobility. Consequently, Hymen no longer holds a Regular Pesision in Society, althoum he Ocegsionally does edd jobs for the Lower Classes." i When Hymen first took over the Business of the Marriage Department‘og the Universe he kept but one kind in stock, and thlat was the Common. or Harlem Variety of Marriage for Love Only, (OM Song—'You've Got to Be: in Love to Live in H-a-riem."’) "Since then the Department has been enlarged: to include the Marriage of Conventence, the Money Marriage of Argent (very desirable) and many others too numerous to mention, , ri | Under the title of the “A B C's of Marriage" Hymem once published « boak- let containing his personal observations arranged as follows: RULES FOR HUSBANDS. RULES POR WIVES, GENERAL REMARMS, Aways allow your wife — A wife who nags means | the last word, She'll take , @ man Who Jags. it anyway. cas Marry in haste and re. 3 a oy pent in Reno, Never throw flatirons, If Serine i anc Wan yo miss her the furnl- bit ee —(ask Sherman), There- ture suffers, Try a car- et beater —: fore—— Do you get it? be " It's a wise divorcee who Don't tell y wife yar can remember her. first husband, love her six months after tse honeymoon is ov: —-- Wives rush in whore ates The shock might preve hogtaphers. would know fatal. —-- bettye. Hymen left the midile column blank because he knew that you can't tell a woman gnything, anyway, anyhow, any time or any place, because she nevar believes anybody but herself, and she generally changes her mind about thats a Smokeless Coal. 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