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ng World Daily Magazine, Friday, December 30 | Swearing Off. By Maurice Ketten. The Eveni World. ae the Press Publishing Company, Noa. 68 to 68 | Row, New Yori J. AN@e* SHAW, Pree and Treas, JOSEPH PULITZER Junior, Bec'y. 63 Park’ Row. 63 Pi 5§ That Change Published Daftly Zecept heme 74 ‘a ‘ ai d | History | PO Bs sol Fintered at the Post-Office at Now York as Second.Class Matter, | ‘ * } E y tend sat GEN ined ae" | al Meech te cca By Albert Payson Terlay on Si and Canada. rislon'’ Postal Union. = \ve Real, an Ger HORT HTR (G3 OT x 0 ; ne Year 50 | One Your sreeeye 5. } One Fi $8 | One Xiah Dou Copyright, 1910, ty The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York World), \ i Sa euiacaenes: Bid todlemsat fl BeARO A PIECE ~ Jon | No. 16—A ‘Cold Snap’’ that Conquered a Nation. } VOLUME eet Ye ee NO, 18,028, | BEFORE BATTLE between a fleet of warships and a corps of cavalry something that the world has probably seen but once. It was m possible by a “cold enap’—a sharp change of weather that coi | quered a nation and conetituted one of the queerest, of bi torle “ifs.” | A French military genlus—and blackguard—General Charles Pichegru, had risen with mushroom speed from mere day laborer’s son to the conf | mand of France's army of the North. He was sent to check the flood of df | aster that had ewept over his country’s military glory. France, overthrowing the old monarchy, had become a republic and hai Incidentally, found herself in difficulties with nearly all her neighbors. Th (army was in bad condition. Almost all the officers had been noblemen. These nobles had been beheaded or forced into exile during the early days of | the Reign of Terror; and {t was necessary to find men of lower birth to take their places. Meanwhile the French suffered in their wars with nearby powers. or | artillery regiment here during our own Revolution. Hit, experience in war and his skill as a atrategist (backed by strong political pull) advanced him rapidly. He and Gen, Hohe were éent at | the head of a discouraged body of men to recapture the pfovince of Alsace that | had been snatched from France. They conquered the province. Then Pichegru ‘Was cent, in 17%, against the allied forces of Austria and England. The allies wete strong and were accustomed to success. The French were | badly drilled, {11 fed and demoralized by many beatinus. Yet, thanks to Piche- gru’e whirlwind tactics and the unexpectedness of his swift movements, the allies were dtiven helter-skelter before the French onslaught. Throughout the first #ix months of 174 Pichegru won victory after victory—at Cassel, Courtro!, Menin, Rousselaer, Fleurut and elsewhere, By autumn he had chased the Austrians beyond the Rhine and was able to turn his full attention OPERA’S CRADLE, NEW YORK, HE opera season in New York, though it is yet young, has already seen two first-class “premieres”— | absolutely first performances on any stage-—of the latest works of two of the foremost living Buro- pean composers, the Italian Gia- como Puecini and the German En- gelbert Humperdinck. Mascagni, of “Cavalleria Rusticana” fame, will perhaps add a third event of similar magnitude within the next two or three months. The other master musicians of the age (al- ways excepting our native Ameri- ‘an ones) have been represented, here at their best, in recent sea- sons, in the elaborate and in some production of such operas as Strauss’s “Salome” and “Elektra,” Debussy’s “Pelleas et Melisande,” D’Albert’s “Tief- ” Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffman,” Charpentier’s “T,ouise,” Pichegru was one of the soldiers to profit by the change. He had been in America and had served in an J aie vases unparalle to the English troops that were occupying Holland. The foe expected him to go i u ie ‘ a aa Into winter quartefs, But that was not Pichegru's way. Snow, bitter weather, fanne’s “Hans the Flute-Player” and Massenet’s “Juggler of Notre | | fatigue and hunger were no obstacles to him, i Dame.” | Then it Was that a cold snap intervened to change history and to make the ' aah ss ‘ ; f Frenchman's work easier. The English were snugly Intrenched on the far side Ame rican singers, ineluding Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, of the Meuse and the Waal, with the water as a barrier between them and thelr Lonise Homer, Bernice di Pasquali, John McCormick and Ricardo Mar- Frys CoUtAA Ui HODHAE, (heels caFeyIRA avGEyIBIAES HEAETS ‘EK; SOS REESE ons 3 ‘ aa : yak ‘outed the Fi , and, ca fi bim- ih] tin, have triumphed in leading roles of these operas, singing in French, self master of all Holland. j Italian and German. The campaign was marked by one of the most spectacular and seemimaty tme |) i a‘ ¢ ‘ : Wise ZZ| | possible feats in history. A strong Dutch war fleet rode at anchor in the Helle! i we In the current Humperdinck piece, “Koenigskinder,” or “Kingly a fleet on whose future operations much depended. The same cold spell that > i Children,” we have Miss Farrar and Mme, Homer singing in German solidly froze the Meuse and Waal had locked this fleet into a mass of {ce | with a polyglot chorus in a New York Metropolitan production of an opera founded on a German fairy tale. In Puccini’s “Fanciulla del West,” which is Belagco’s “Girl of the Golden West” Italianized, « simon-pure American story, as Western as the Sierra Nevada Moun- inins, is interpreted by such imported atists as the Milanese conductor ‘Toseanini,. the Neapolitan tenor Caruso and the Bohemian prima donna Emmy Destinn, all talking their California mining-camp slang the classic tongue of Dante. ‘ "rom this general analysis of the situation it will be seen that despite the people, events, achievements and money-spending in which we all take pride, our Metropolitan cannot as yet claim to be a mother f opera, but is rather its nurse, In otlier words, while we have native composers, librettists, sing- ers, dancers, orchestras, conductors, conservatories and theatres— everything that goes to the making of a national grand opera, as well as the money to support it—we still lack the one essential thing, and that is an American opera, written and composed by Americans for Americans, in their own language. It will come, but it has to creep before it can walk. Mr. Tito Ricordi, an Italian music publisher and impresario, is quoted only yesterday as declaring that opera in English, not only in New York int in Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and other musical centres of the thick that not a ship could cut tts way out. And out over the fleld of tce dash Pichegru's ragged, hussar regiments, galloping, sword in hand, across the frozen’ Helder toward the line of moveless warships, —— A corpa of cavalry attacking a fleet! A sltuation| Queerest Fight In History. worthy of comte opera. Something that had never been imagined by the wildest visionary. Sailors aboard their| own Vessels engaged in hand-to-hand battle with eot- ders on horseback! The Dutch fleet was captured. The Netherlands were in the very hollow Pichegru's hand. The victorious genera! returned to Paris, where the Fren went wild with enthusiasm over him, The convention solemnly conferred |him the title “Preserver of the Fatherland.” He might perhaps have won almost as great power as was later ‘apoleon, But the man's greed overcame other ambitions. When he wi across the Rhine again with a mighty army he accepted a heavy bribe to be | his men and his country. ‘This treason ruined his career. Afterward he was v: waged in one unsuccessful plot after another. , In 1803 Pichegru came secretly to Paris as head of a conspiracy against Na- Poleon, He was arrested and thrown into prison. On the morning of April 15, 1804, he was found dead in his cell—strangled. t » { { ; ; zed Mrs. Jarr Has a New Dress, and Her Husband IRE SISTEM, the furniture king, having | HE farmer and his wife watched thelr dog] made lus pile, had settled down to th I ts he chased madly down the track after| | Vited his friend Plane day and always returned winded. stay with him, says Spare Mom “1 wonder why he chases that train?” remark A Perjured Pair. | A Lucky Escape. pursuits of @ country gentleman, the 4 o'clock train, He did it every One day, armed with the la.cst appliances for eves on @ little cloud of dust Acquires a Brand New Secret About Women country, is a practical certainty within the next year or two. As a matter of fact, the “Kingly Chil- dren” was to have been done in English, had not unforeseen diffi- culties intervened at the last mo- ment. dealing’ out sudden death to anything in the game Two years ago Director Gatti- Casazza induced the Metropolitan management to offer a prize of $10,000 and a production for the best grand opera “by a native citi- zen of the United States of America.” The time is up now for the award, but the only news con- cerning the matter thus far comes in the announcement that on Christmas eve somebody stole forty pounds of manuscript orchestra scores, entered for this compe- tition, while they were being carted from the residence of Walter Dam- rosch, one of the judges, The thief must have been bitterly disappointed when he opened iho box and found that the scores were not European, but only American. op i STOP MR. HYDE’S PAY! } R. BRUCE seems to have become aware that City Chamberlain M Charles H. Hyde is very much absent, and intimates that he will try to find him. This is all very well, The importance of Mr. Hyde ae a witness in the racetrack graft inquiry is now small compared with his persistent neglect of the office he holds and for the conduct of which the city pays him $12,000 a year. If, as Mayor Gaynor says, his absence is of “no importance,” his alary should be stopped. The only inference from the Mayor's re- rk is that it doesn’t make any difference to the city’s business whether Mr. Hyde works or loafs, It does. It makes $1,000 a month of waste on the city’s over- yurdened payroll, The Mayor should stop this scandal before it un- does his administration! ——++ ARE YE MEN OR VASSALS? T° newspapers generally are wondering what Mr. Murphy is go- ing to do in the way of providing New York State with a Sena- tor to replace Chauncey M. Depew. Some of them are pleading ith the boss to give us a nice, fresh one, with no bad smell about They all exalt the boss when they do this, and forget that \ssemblymen and Senators have been elected by the people to select the man. The exhorters who appeal to Murphy are doing the very thing they decry, which is to increase his power and fortify his position, The men to call to account are the Albany statesmen, they think? Are they thinking? Are they men or vassals? him. What do Covreits tthe Now York Word) ne By Roy L. McCardell. 66 OW does the skirt hang H asked Mrs. Jerr, as she walked up and down the room in the new dr that had just come the drese- trom maker's, “Um--er, pretty 6004," mumbled Mr, Jarr, rateing this eyes languidly from the sporting page of the e ning paper. “I do decléte!" Mrs. Jarr burst out. “You take great Interest, Indeed, in anything that concerns ME!" “Why, my dear, you ask me how the skirt hangs and I say it hangs all right. What do you want me to say?” faltered Mr. Jarr. “It's enough to take the heart out of a body, that's what ft in!" said Mrs. Jarr, plaintively, but addressing no- body in partioular, “If I didn't take a Uttle pride in my appearance'’—here she! WAS addressing Mr, Jarr, and he knew! \t, for he wiggled uneasily and let his pamper fall-—‘if 1 didn't take any pride in my appearance,” she repeated, “you'd be the first person to criticise me, Yet when I do get a new dress and put it on, Just to slow to you, you won't even look at it! Is it because you think I have #9 lange a wanirobe that a new dress ts not a conspicuous event? Or are you hiding, under’an assumed in- Pference, the unjust suspicion that I am spending money for clothes that we n't afford—the money, I mean?" “Why, no, r, nothing of the ly pleased, greatly in- stammered Mr. Jarr. , T must say you most success- fully conceal your pleasure and inter- est!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “I suppose if it was some other woman who had a new dress you'd jay HER a compliment!” Mra, Jarr could think of any nin particular whom Mr, Jarr would compliment upon seeing her In a new dress; in fact, Mr. Jarr never knew a new dress when he saw ét, un- os he was told, as in this case. “And, in reply to what you are think- not won |ing.”” Mrs. Jarr went on, for if persons don't say anything a woman always guesses their thoughts are not compli- mentary, “I want to say that, although I do need not only one new dress but a dozen, the cost of this one will not fmpair your finances. had in the for over @ year, and the lace yoke and collar I see you looking at so ingutwitively Is some lace It's some goods left from a dress Madam Smith was making for Mra, Stryver, She's very good to me and docs a lot of iitte \things for me, and she's #o fat she never knows how she needs—so she's all much oF too lttle."" that uch material ys wetting too stout,” ventured Mr. Jarr, 1 sew her, I thought i “I'm talking about Mrs, Stryver being stout and buying more material than she needs—or not enoug' aid Mra. Jarr. “Well, since when did Mrs. Stryver ever become good to you and give you (ace? You always said she was stingy,” was speaking you'd know I was speak- Ing of Madam Smith when I said ehe was good to me, and aleo that I was speaking of Mre. Stryv: being fat nd buying more lace than was needed, “Why, I don’t think Madam Smith is The Diary of | a Happy Wife By Alma Woodward j OU can atways find something to be unhappy about if you took hard Y enofigh—and it's strange how acute one’s sight can become on « hunt had indulged in a few post-mortem statements on the plays that had been made during the afternoon, they settled down into a discussion of fusbands. Copyright, 1910, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). Attention—Weighed and Found Wanting. of thie sort. ¢ ‘The other afternoon I went to a bridge party, and after the ladi I've never felt much like Giscussing my husband with people—first, because to do, and second, because it's no one’s business The husbands of these ladies woult have been highly edified, I'm sure, if they could have heamt their shortcomings and accomplishments discussed, classified and ticketed as I did! But, no matter what failings the unfortunate men possessed, Dlessed with the faculty of lavishing attention—according to the wife. I absorbed all the little incidents they related, and then, a little later, our hostess's husband appeared, home rather early from business; and tn his hands he bore a ravishing box of bonbons, which he dropped carelessly into her lap. Going over the past year rapidly in my mind, I realized that the little atten- tions Jack had been wont to display had vanished so gradually that I hadn't noticed the lack of them. The more I thought of {t, the more it worried me. Then what I consider a weak point in my make-up (but what Jack says ts the most adorable quality I possess) came to my rescue, I can never harbor a thing—a grudge or a feeling of resentment; I have to come out with it and settle it one way or another! So, finally, I came out with what Was troubling me spoke to Jack of his disregard of the little things that they say make women happy. smile crept to his ps “I dare say I hav gently, all righ I didn't offer a reply, so he went on: “Of course I know women magnify the importance of ‘attention,’ but, do you know, whenever I see a man who's particu- ch seemed nd he leaned toward me over the table. been rather lax in the little things,” he acknowledged it, YOU nee, It Was because I was so eager that the big things should be larly strong on that, I'm suspiclous of him—I always think it's @ cover for some misdeed!"* "Oh, no," I interrupted, “you're mistaken!" ‘Maybe. Don't think I'm knocking the other fellow," he protested, “but I'l! tell you of a few o When Billy Nast and his wife were first married, he was the most atten: man one could imagine; used to call her up six times a day and bring home flowers and candy galore. Well, It ended in Reno, Nev., less than two years after thelr wedding day! Then there was Tom Waters—poor Tom! He'd come home pickled every night, but he alays had a bauble or some flowers tucked under his waving arm to smooth the pathway. “Harry Everett was another—you remember Harry, He'd never let his wife stoop to pick up her handkerchief or lift a chair, and he deluged her with trifles she fancied; but one night, when she was very fll, he left her to go ‘to a card game—and she died while he was away!” 1 wan nervously drawing designs on the table-cloth with the tlp of my finger. “Bo, you see,’ Jack ventured after a moment's silence, ‘the little attentions are all right enough tp the but they're not vital, However,” there was hint of apology in his tone, “I'll try to do something in that Hne from now on if {t will please you.” “Don't you dare!” I flared back at him, “I don't want them—they've lost any glamour they might have possessed in my eyes. Just go on loving me in your great, serious way—that’s all 1 want!" Attention had been weighed—and found wanting! shtml tanta wes For a moment he looked vexed, then an amused } two different people? Of course, she doesn't know there was any left over, and ehe'll wonder how I could afford to buy hand made lace of the same Pattern’ she bought, Mrs. Stryver 1 Mean, but It's none of her business, Does the dress drape well behind?" And Mre. Jarr again stalked past like a young lady model tn a wholesale skirt house, Now that Mr. Jarr was asking ques- tions ehe had forgotten she had even mate accusations of indifference. ‘It's great!" said Mr. Jarr, feigning vast enthusiasm, “let me see it in front?” “Oh, I can see it in front,” said Mrs. Jerr. “The front ts never the tm- portant part of a dress, it's the back You never see a dress in the show win- dow of @ atore with the front toward ‘@ always turned showing th back. “I never noticed tt before, but, come to think of it, they do put them on eaid Mr, Ja a “Because there's where a dress gets all its character," said Mrs. Jarr. you notice when @ woman is wearing a striking dress no other women she meets would let on they cared what whe was wearing. They pass her al- most without Tooking at her—but they turn around and take in the back of the dress, and how It !s made and how the skirt drapes and how it fits.” 1 “Yes, I belleve I have noticed that,” "ste Tore weakly. rere yov've noticed it!" Mro, Jarr sharply. “Women al tum arouna and look after each other. Even the woman that cuts another woman dead always wants to look back after and see what she's wearing, and, of course, if ahe's cutting a friend, she has to look over ther head and can't | notice how her dress is made or trimmed in front. “] shall never forget the time I cut Cora Hickett and then made up with her afterwards because her dress was so beautifully made in .he back. I just had to find out her dressmaker, and that's how I got to know of Madam Smith." “It's a great system," sald Mr. Jarr. He meant th» whole dress system, ting and basting as well as “cutting.” ———_—_ The Tree-Spirits. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. aid H, spirits imprisoned in the trees, O Who whisper in the summer breeze, Who sadly moun when winter's nigh, Who writhe and shrink when the wind sweeps bj Who fettered stand in the cruel cold, Why your secrets so long withhold? Thro’ ages dark, thro’ ages light, Thro’ brightest day and darkest nignt, ‘Thro’ summer's beat and winter's cold, Your story still remains untold. | of a belt and the | box plaits are ar- | Joining is made. furrows; but at the en still looking for something to start the bag with to capin’ seven years apiece for perjury, ‘cos it "s ‘qt | Made of wool ma- line, he and bis friend trudged over the brown of three hours they were bothering me," anewere dering what he'd do witt It if he caught it.""—Tho Housekeeper, peat teats) Johnny and the Worm. A PROMINENT jurist wae discussing the Suddenly a hare got up. Bang! from footed one. shouted the former furniture King. " crted his friend, ‘They argued for ten minutes as to whose weapon it. ‘Then the keeper was Bang! came from Hire ne Figger, and over went difference in opinions by different peop'e on different laws. aid “The matter of interpreting I called up to adjudie take your oath it’s your ‘are, would) much like the story of the little boy who was he turned to Hire Sistem, fiercely, told by his teacher to read something from his necessa! tainly," The boy read as follows It “And you'd awear ‘twas your ‘aret" truculently | or Plane Figeer, “1 would.” Then, think yourself can't be Maht. “This is what he found “Dh is a worm; do not step on it! YamNar tional Monthly. folly lucky you're pens ter be my dog!" plied box plaite are used to ad- vantage. In the {Mustration it 18 terial trimmed with velvet, but the skirt can be made of one, ma- terial throughout. There {8 a band flounce joined to the lower edge, ‘out many mothers preter simpler skirts, The short sleeves are cut in one with the body portion and the frock ts quite sim- ple to make. Thewaist ie made over a body lining and the un- der sleeves are in- serted in the arm- holes of this lin- ing. The skirt is five gored. When the band flounce 1a used it 1s Joined to the lower edge. The waist and skirt portions are joined by mans ranged over the dress after the For a girl twelve 7 years of age will Girl's Drese—Pattern No. 6881, be required 61-4 yards of material 2i or 2 inches wide, 23-4 yards 9% or 4 inches wide, with 1%-8 yards of veivet, 11-4 yards of all-over lace to make as Mlustrated. Pattern No, GS81 is cut in sizes for girls of 10, 12 and 14 years of age, ) How } Cail at TH EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION: v4 BUREAU, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street, or send by mail to MAY MANTON PATTERN CO,, 132 FE. Twenty-third street, Obtain }N. Y. 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