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or anette At A AnD: sleet | a THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SANUARY 7, 2022, 0 MAYOR ISHERE © |““Taxicabs Are Like the English Language; Extravagant,” BIRTH RATE HERE RATE HERE | seat oa ia tend No scatiatlen | ~ AS NEW ORLEANS Says Miss Emmy Wehlen, Thrifty Pilsener Beauty DECLINING FASTER “ives PANAMA ANA BOOMER} Tried to Write toaFriend| \..cng en | coool THAN I INF FRANCE” Fae : Once That She Was! ,4y : | | ee, varied of Eanay, OF Up = “Lazy,” Consulted a| MAGINARY oe Fe, ; #35 less santa riaitaitel ite (te i Tn ene et veh Wan Tells Wythe the Crescent City} Dictionary, and “Rot- Bs Asha : , Dr. Willcox, St Statistician, Tells | ier, ae given wer © birth rate fn oably been as Should Have the Canal ten” Was What She Set of Falling Off in Number |« | ' \ any y in Burope eed . mink. > ‘ Down. haa | hecked for one Exposition in 1915. Babies. rs no Births would In England She Went to Theatre Ten Minutes: Early to Talk With Has Raised $9,000,000 Toward] Girls and Young Men! AIDED BY NEW YORK. \ CHILDLESS LAND. daaeh' tad re ‘ 1 be needed, so no one belleves Chat If This Should Continue There | virths witt cease to cvcur within @ eam tury and a half. : a , * No Storks Fivine Disturbing Feature Fund and Promises Visitors at Stage Door-—But Not Would Be No Storks Flying | 1: 4, net tne decrease in the OD ‘i Good ‘Time Here. | in 150 Years. rate that ie disturbing, but rather 4 |che decrease lt @reatest among | classes whose children would poe | SEY |Mnherit most social worth and the ea (Special to The Bvening World.) | pacity for Jeadership. ‘Thus, figures ITHACA, N. Y., Jan. 6—That the de. | from Harvard College indicate that eagn 10) graduates produce in the next | cline in the birth rate in the United! only seventy-three Btates is proportionately «reater than . ‘aation, at eaee Bi the aimiiar deciine in France, though |New Bogland and New York, loses mare ott er in this the than it gains | the Ginth rate iteet fs higher in th » changes are due in the te country than in France, is one of the ; Ational ‘Gentian Oe a conclumons made by Prof. Walter F.| rate, a phenomenon of the last | Witicox, the well known Cornel! statis: / century, It calle for an adjustment tiolan and census expert, who has| our ethical standards of the new condi made @ long study of statistics of birth, | tons and more social approval end death, marriage and divorce and whose | *tpport of those who serve society By: BY CHARLES DARNTON. By Ethel Lloyd Patterson. D7 amen 3 aber sie ist! Saver cen ein schones Madel! Mayor {s in town. | ‘The Mayor whose And that's based plain Ger- city has raised | Man truth about Miss Emmy Wehlen, $9,000,000 of a $10,-|Who couldn't be plain if she tried. 000,000 capitaliza-4 It’s only natural she should be pretty tion toward 4/ on the stage—that's part of her bust World's Panama | 02 the stage—thate pal Exposition. T he| ness. But what I had seen at the ‘or who, in four Casino on Monday night hadn't pre- years, has utlt pared me for what I saw at an up.) ‘ : 4 e contributing to the numbers and query if deductions therefrom have proved valu- aixt « 4 cl en sixty-two miles °C town hotel yesterday afternoon. Stiss| ; f : SRANTECLER — Jani matorial for the study of soctal |". New sctence of eugenics sedis of the finest sewer-| Wehlen’s rare Pilsener beauty quite | ‘ ‘¢ Bia 4 we eF science and statistics in this country. hasten this change and to show Se systems in the staggered me. At the same moment} World, a model belt railroad, owned by |] was struck—hit hard!—by the fact! the city and not by any private cor | Doration, and a $1,500,00 levee system. | that she is amazingly, unreasonably, In short, none other than Mayor Martin @ppallingly young. Usually, you know, | Pog of New Orleans, is stopping it's the other way about—the beauty | the Hotel Astor. M¥ou think there te every prevaseny |" last night fades away In the light | the Panama Exposition in January, | Of the day after, and in spite of care- 1915, will be held in New Orieans?’ 1 fully drawn curtains the lady shows eokea him. \her age, with perhaps a wrinkle or, ‘Congress is about to vote on the mat- | two, ter of designating New Orleans as the place for the Exposition,” Mayor Behr-| After @ time you get used to this man replied, ‘There is but one com-|and studiously avoid mentioning it Betitor and that city is 2,500 miles away | in print. It's part of the game, and a ha aggntre of | the | you don’t mind losing a fow tllustons, Panama.” | But when a stage beauty goes herself) “Is that conclusive—or, cather, will|one better without the aid of artful {t be conclusive to Congress?” I eug-|“make-up," you feel that your point Lo aad of view is badly in need of an extra rehearsal. @ee this Exposition he would have to} s is not lovely weather, in paid | travel fe half days more | | the fair young vision, with a smile that | should that distant city of which I have| de me reel, “You see, I have a very Dr. Willcox dented, however, that he! society may recrult more 1 trom had ever sald that there would be no| the best lines of descent, It is too soon babies in this country after 2015. ‘I never | yet to decide whether its alms are mere sald that nor have I ever predicted such | than Utopian, but ite claim deserve aert- ous consideration." bs outcome of the decline in the birth ‘Dr. Witleox claima that pestis iene: t rormerly; that the ‘dorn What Prof. Willcox does think about | Nortuern United States will ttve twenty the decline in the birth rate compared | years longer on the average than the to the decline in France Js that tn the| child born in Italy or Egypt twenty” nineteenth century there had been @| centuries ago. But the expectancy of steady and regular decline in the birth of a babe born in New York City rate in both the United States rua |i lens by 12 years than that of the France and that this decline seemed | chit born tn Berlin and 28 years of @ to bé on the whole greater and more | /0ndon baby. ———— ked in United States than in yee i sin"ecoms"to be no invapte BIG FINES FOR RICH VOTERS. lof the fact that there are now many | | se in Ohio Whe" more birtha to the population in the val Inited States than in France, Nave Money Get No Merey, Not a Prophet. WEST UNION, 0, Jan, TaSomn Dr. Willcox, however, does not pre- pei peer tanF gna a Brush @ict what will happen one hundrea | Creeks ae ak polcbn Pres a yeara from now nor does he carry out psc aa eee py svoke pane, his charts and statistics to a poamible | feused yesterday the highest sa aero point in the birth rate, Irom one | tna: Judge Blair has given—a $260 fine of his lectures on the subject an ana five years’ disfranchisvement, Sellers of Franc! He Has Little Doubt. “Should a New York man desire to Evening World correspondent has ob- |", distant relative of Coop's and’ diatan’ te delacted, acewared* tue | bad olds” } tained the Coighbae summary defining ‘pearing the same name was arrested* Mayor indirect iowever:: tars | Heavenly Blue Eyes d i 5 } hia views and the results of his studies | py mistake. He was about to be dip! the ; | d , " c he onne was» Seems Iittle dowdt as to the resuit in| Bu: I saw only heavenly biue eyes, PINK AND : of statistics. missed when confessed he Washington. We have canvassed the sentiment of the Middle West and have! mucceeded in obtaining the expressed A above them wavy blond hair that SPAN6LES “Ef the decline in the birth rate guilty. Judge Blair thanked him for te enough to make any man lose in the United States should con- | nis honesty and fined him the minimum tinue unchecked for a century and | of $5, with five years’ disfranchisement: j alt, at thi of that thne.no | Philly Hardin, » farmer worth $40,608,) inflorsement of more than 12,000,000 peo- a ington {t was that I catch pirths would plac was fined $100 and costs and disfran- ple.” the col murmured the beautiful} This ts the cold fogton “tion chised for having camtracted to deliver Five minutes’ conversation with May-| angel who seemed to have strayed from | rom the facta ond serve cieened sory: (heenie, Ds ete, Se or Behrman is enough to convince any| a Christmas card without first putting | ——| census rep: a part- in-law. $3 each one that the City of New Orleans {s| on her rubbers. “They opened the back} “In Germany you aing one ; i 4 of Mr. Pipp," John B Tymer in “Pom! Menta of health, But Dr. Wil:cox has and the son-tn-la® #0, I doubt, too, whether any-| door of the theatre to take the scenery! night, and then the next night some one ie Walker on Mars,” Clay Smith and the ever held reins ever Mked| ou ees and then it came in and caught me. | else sings, and you are forgot But ; pounerts ‘Twins, and Travato, violln-| the riding better. At first, in the hotel] All the time a doctor I have and my {tn England they remember you. I was n ‘ lobby, I saw in the Mayor only a stolid, | volce I worry about very much. Every- | much narrribeatwnen I appear in ‘The Crile ah sees eae te OO a PAtaGaE al ar tshav ta Well-fed person extending a perfunctory | thing I worry about very much. Ihave! Merry Widow’ and “The Dollar Princess" ; Paths Ma pu yg leg mo an. Then he sat down in the recep-| not a big voles, and I think Jf it gets' tn London, Every night I go to the the- , y | MeConnell and Grant Simpson In “A of the World's Panama Exposition} wha: you call ita hit?—then I shall talk with the girls and the young men and i Jwin Holt In “The Mayor and the Committee, who 1s with the Mayor,| be very sad. George Edwardes, he tei! | w cure." | | | Ma vho wait at the stage door, Always! | a spoke the magic name “New Orleans," | me in London I ought not to come here, | there are bunches of them, and the! 9) omen emes 0} ays' At the Bronx Theatre will be Master | . —— “ he 4 y ‘Tucker, T have lived there all my life, it 1s dL catch cold, What do} gi, me and the young men ea The Tittie where I was born and raised,” said \r their hats and say ‘Good evening, a a . lngra in “The the Mayor, and I knew then what the y staring that T couldn't | yiiss Wehlen,’ and I must be nice to | ¢ ” SA Tutheee to him. His round, are times when it is p them or they will not be nice to me| The Deep Purple” Is a Melo- The vill at Hammerste Victoria ed eagerly over the stare, and this was one of | when I come out on the stage. And n after. the performance more| drama by Paul Armstrong bunches, and though I am very tired T i i must be nice to them again, Here; and Wilson Mizner—Henry | there are not bunches—no? But the au- i Four Years on the Stage. |diences are very kind and I itke them! Miller to Appear in “The “T have been on the stage only four) Very much, only I cannot see them be- years. warbled Miss Wehlen, ‘In| couse the lights are so strong on the) Havoc.” Mannheim I went to the conservatory | stage that they blind me. At Daly's) brlef period of prosperity. All we have| for three years, but when they said !| in London I could see @ man when he accomplished has peen done in the last] should go three years longer I said | yawned—and sometimes I wanted to - ' twenty-five yea ‘We are mishty| ‘Wract ‘six pears in the conservatory? shake him. But here I do not see any-| 66" I MEE DORe hws ib eee proud, too, of our expressed adility a8! Nov 1 was to learn comedy. But I) body yawn—I see nothing at all, I just Wileon ini og gibi thay ahown by this Exposition movement. | went on the stage and played mony aif-/ go on and on hoping that they Ike meyi. y vic Theatre on Monday night Perhaps no section of the United ferent parts in Stuttgart and Munten | You think they like me—yes? Ah, then, | 10) O00 | ao On ee ot has had the contention that has occu-| ana other cities, and then I decided t it gives me en—en-cour-age-ment—that | | cieeeenen, Sane i - fe la tc hia Pied Louisiana in the past. We have} 1 ghould become a singer, and not £0 | ts It!" leanastas as a “badger” man, h Theatre will incl Irene Franklin in : vew #ongs, Nat Wills, Ward and Cur- ran, Harry Fox and the Millership Sts- |ters and Devlin and Ellwood. rhe Manhattan Opera-House will of- fer Valeska Suratt, Pat Rooney and Marion Bent, the Avon Comedy Four, Oscar Loraine, Mr, and Mrs, Mark Murphy and others. TEST NEW SUMMONS. |fawvers T slipped a ce grew bit down on| them. was never Warm over | like this, In this German songbird the his nose. His v Questions of sewerage and railroading | Casino had caged a re mance of the world | she had been caught rema Much to Contend With. “You see,” he explained, “New Or- Jeans has only had a comparatively Magistrate CMent Was Advised to rder. nes tinctse tan ormm Anty Drudge Tells How to Do “Dry mons used by City Magistrates was Cleaning” at Home. Uoned before Chief Magistrate Mc been harried by floods and pestilence| much an actress. You kn¢ nye | leorenaa tha actiabn tanta in. a. Wraatarn in the Tombs Court to-day by } f . a and war, followed by a period of ro-| Hadn't the faintest !dea—hadn't any | rea) Stee ee was tn © bad i andi aco eae Bred eeiok His Wife— ‘Come out from under there, George! Your Gapetrvotion more bitter than what had! iaeas, in fact! aac | won and who agrees to meet him in W. Evers o ast Twenty-first clothes will be all covered with grease again and you gone before. But now, with yellow] pien you shall hear," she confidec | New York, where they are to be married. street Appleton issued it won’ fu ” fever banished and our $1,500,100 levee] wsinging {a better, because there is Leland misrepresents his position, tall- fimmone onvdanr Oat tie shaGent be know it won't come off, We'll walk home. senrlen: 8? THI: OFF ee NY more nuaey. 18 Ae ed camel aeweet | [tng Laura, the girl in the onse, that he Aas) lovanhenn etary. 't2r Be tw Anty Drudge—Let him fix it, Deagie, and don’t fear the ng! The angel hed con 0} ‘has an {uterest in a mine, but that this wing 0 262 Lenox avenue, whe Sie A ‘How did the yellow fever affect the | earth, After she was only human, | fea tes ely [ap og as lage wanted an accounting with Evers. grease, Fels-Naptha will taRe out ‘all the grease ances of the State and city?" Tasked.| ang money--vulear shekels!—rang like misunderstanding he has had with his Kyers is in @ bankruptey proceeding, | spots and stains. It’s as good for ‘dry cleaning’ gar “Two ways," replied Mayor Beh | ’ a jarring note in the muste of her votce. partner, William Lake, Lake, it seems, man, ‘First, younz men were afrald| we dream of i e dres ilsener only to awake | | will not discuss the situation with Le- to come to New Orleans because of the} and find it Ia | | ian, and the Intter sugwests that Laura yellow fever, and that cut us off from| sho smiled brightly, only to add to see the stubborn parner, who, perhaps the new, enterprising blood the city| my sordid misery in the next breath, | 1 ind the summons wae served on him| as he was leaving the Bankruptey ag | tat ments as it is for washing clothes,” s ; will listen to her, That ts the attempt Wat (ne Grand aaeieid Bveyah ie ie Where there’s a will there’s a way. needed. Second, our ports of commerce | when she sald | at blackmail, Lake being, In reality, no Ladurwptadetrr tae ag meray were being continually quarantined un- Taxis Here Expensive. | — partner of the scheming Leland, but a ave. thems, until Monday 10 SuOmS A But, usually, only one way. ul trade wi fously impaired. pe ae 3, 1 x » Whowe visit to Ni jo Meee eee eee tat gant. Uke your taxicabe. They | Awakened, He Starts to Follow | 7a eee ty eland a. ithe = Fels-Naptha is the way throu . the yellow fever waz due to a cer- are what you call expensive, are they) aoe = 8 i ta holdup. In t it will be , a tain kind of mosquito, of which 2 in London 1 ride for « shill Pie but Falls to | Meeker eeeae Ab ire ong St be NEGLE TED C which you can free yourself from t we have since been able to rid but here It {s one dollar, two dollars, | Bmmett Corrigan, W. J. Ferguson, ‘Catherine Calvert and Ada Dwyer, ourselves, and people are emigrat- | three dollars I think T shall have | Reach Door, sat the rate of (no mone left. xicabs are like the | eee English Janguage—very extravagant, os eal italia «ss? Wheg I begin to study English I | Henry Miller comes to the Bijou on Braga | One man was burned to death and| Monday night in “The Havoc,’ # new ns 30 OR uTORs ged to escape from | Play by H. 8. Sheldon, “The Havoc” ts | built on the dru triangle. It dove not glorify the principale of an ulelt drudgery of the old-fashioned wala ARE DANGEROUS if you will, \ What is that drudgery? You know. Boiling clothes, making fires, hard | By the way, how far !s# the Panama Canal from New Orleans?" 1 asked Only 1,300 Miles Away. Why is It that one » Would not this be! the building ‘generally’ ut anything to cover clothes, in a fire which: him but hts i is but 1,300 miles trom | ™ i : jove affair, but shows the havoc that ao a aes ica | and ‘usualls* and ‘com—conv yes, "eom=| qegiroyed the tWoratory frame COLLARS | follows the flanies of such & papal miles rubbing. i wea ei Hee ‘ig monly,’ and there ts yet another word a+ the junction of the old Boston Road | pag theme of the play {3 a merelless (er i As - : Ie te bu four days’ travel That 48 iat meuna the same thing. Ob, such @| ng the Bouton Post Road at Rye, N.Y. | areuignment of thie philosophy preached rs) Fel: -Naptha lops it all off, takes it | leans th nt for the exposi-| * OF Wes to-day, Just how the fire started 8 not| py those who prociatin women's right . Sigal Z Ee ae tna hung, checpolti | Is 30 Ree eee scmiatitiaa ate oineing anil etic ne Gonvantion: Mec Milera| um RomerY Burll fi out of your washday program. ton. On Band he gelatine tered to me that the title of that | MONT tion bupporting company will include Laura |, "Fads and t Fels-Naptha itself does all the work { ip betwe at we | 1 the plece at the ¢ sino should | ‘The victim, John Corcoran, was sev-| Hope C 5, Francis Byrne and Daniel n ° eat } tn busine him) people. from | nged to “Thrifty Little Bmmy." | entytwo years old. He lived in the | Pennell , that you yourself would have to do in the ¥ is but: D uttered novsouns house with Patrick McKenna, forty-five. oe . will be the offering ey Fone ty. | I did a funny thing” she! Little ts known of Corcoran except that | One of the features of the testimonial | at tie Moir : roundabout way, summer or winter. hogea FFA a “[ was so proud of my Eng- ee Yorkers Gan he seemed to have money and Was re- | performance to Marcus R, Mayar, to be a} point vrkors <a yigh that 1 decided to write a letter red from business. According to Mc-| given at the New Ainaterdam Theatre VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. And it does it in cool or lukewarm come to our 3 vi ‘ itl Fifth Ave Theatre B * i. . came -10 us RO, yas. by » language to an Bnglish tndy. feenna, the fire atarted somewhere on gn Friday afternoon, will be Tha vil tb Axaipe Tuan water, without hot fire, without nauseous poat and ano days to the I ¥ anted to tell her 1 was a lazy girl the lower floor, When he was awakened | Maunee Girls,’ a Lambs’ Club one act p . é de eee : h h : : h h: Gamat” TW 9, ays it the far not having written her before. So by the amoke the house seemed to him | musical play in which William C ! ateavon “tore acene suds or steam in the house, without hard i] that will be necessary for your Il J to see What the German word tg te all ablaze. | will have the principal part, 1 r Botue and Mr rubbin ens to see the exposition thorough- in English. When I find that) Without walting to put on any clothes | pe many other features, Crane f t Su 1 igs ohn nn tak i tten’ I write, ‘Th ned into Corcoran's room and | oe ‘ I . ly, And we will promise to take ¥o “ Snglish is ‘rotten’ I write, ‘I he rushed in ci nd | Gare of at neyo” We luve’* | qm rotten Kirk’ Since then 1'do not wwoke him, Calin om him Wo Loul0W, | wgoyen Days will be the attraction seit Have you the will to cut loose from . ed the Mayo! already begun iia GIRHOnaae, un McKenna Jed the way down the smoke- “we 0 i 5 ra eee > ; SEE ee er eaatng our hntale niet: da ono a tn A fed aatra t iaiot bt Careora | Beta PeTeHOU Nogloctet colds lead to longstanding the Old ways—to free yourself from this of wregent eapacit hen you ¢ A ry ot with him when he got there. mak aan [Daa tecubbes, upale : ‘ whieh enabies ust) entertain watson rie Me not? Hut of course tho | f%% nol with im when he Wot tere. | wacea” will be aeon at the Weat Eni i throat and ung troubles, pneu) drudgery P ; our Mardi € carnivals, Dur- understoos j driven ba Theatre. ts Atadicins tod efore colt : H ‘ 1 Be ard eae preparation, we| "Of course,” 1 echoed, bilth TGA Ne Midnight. Bone" remaine at the n's Medicine voaay, before that cold Follow the easy directions on the i the four years of prep gets any wor Father John’s Medi (OE, get ready to house comfortably {00,- Likes Enalleh Audiene ‘A search of the ruins revealed Cor- | Circle for another week. gle say ‘ 0 people. We would expect fully 10,-| pe eng ualense lcoran’s charmed body. It wag removed | The Henman Show will be seen at) Orchestra jeine has had ) years of success in the) back of the red and green wrapper. 8,000. of people from outside to visit | "But the English audience of colds, coughs and lung tp exposition before it was ended.’ jt are det-| to the Morgue. ‘The police will try and the Columba. | ‘Features at the than the German ones,” she aitpped | locate his relatives. At the Murray Hill Theatre will bp charles Grapewin tn “The atsee seit viet - we pene etal sony ec eh aonets, — — —