The evening world. Newspaper, February 16, 1911, Page 16

Setorld. Published Daily Pxcept Sunday by the Pi Publishing Company, Noa. 53 to 63 Park Row, } York J. ANGUS SHAW, Pros. and Treas,” JOSEPH PULITZER Junior, See'y. 63 Park’ Row, Gar Now Entered at the at New York as Secor Matter, Subscrintion Rates to Evenin England ar 6 Continent and World for the 1 All Count the International and ¢ : al Unton, One Yoor ... . $3.50 | One Year One Month..... seeeeee 40 | One Month VOLUME 51 Cpe eeveceses sooceeesessNO, MR. SHEEHAN'S MIS} ORTUNE. DDRESSING citizens of B for election to t natorship, Mr. She “Nothing is so cnnobling or inspirit velops the patriotisin and hi y of man as does fell fal ww Talo ina plea han said: , nothing de- political str The phrase has the fault of all superlatives, but in a measure i is true, Volitics does develop a broader and a loftier patriotism and manhood than does almost any other pursuit. The Lincolns and Gladstones and Bismarcks of the nations appear much bigger of heart, much more broadly human, than do the Emersons, the Spencers and the Hacckels, for example. But it was said of old by Aristotle: “ formed by the corruption of the best.” If polities breeds greatness in some it breeds greed in others, and the self-secking politician is about the most harmful of citizens. It is perhaps a misfortune and not s fault of Mr. Sheehan that the people of New Yor in his politics anything ennobling and inspiring, any remarkable devel- cpment either of patriotism or of humanity. | + ife and leadership.” have not seen 29 Y the vote of 221 to 92 in favor of reciprocity with Canada tho House of Representatives has virtually red the success of the meas The Senate may hamper it, may delay, may postpone it for a year, but in the end it is bound to be put into NTAXEPD FOOD, UNHAMPERED TRADE, | operation, That much is as certain as any future | event can be, But alter the establishment of a fair freedom’ of t eda there will come an inevitable demand for an equal t Mexico and with South America, and then with all tl merece with any country can be made mutually b it would be # etupid jingoism to restrict it merely because the country is not a part of our continent. | Untaxed food at home and an unhampered trade abroad are necessary to our welfare as a people and our greatness as a nation assu with Can- procity with If com: | ROM evidence submitted in the trial of a restaurant | keeper charged with selling liquors in forbidden hours, it appe; rs that the trade in the vicinity of Broadway and Forty-second street allows in whiskey fifteen drinks to the bottle. As five bottles go to the m allon it is self-evident that the drinks are simall. ‘The first ctep toward them is about to be taken. Others will follow | soon. | + a stop to speculating in theatre tickets there 1s a widespread and warm popular sympathy. ‘I'he prac- | tice constitutes a real and very annoying nuisance, | and it would appear that authority to suppress it ‘The theatrical business is in a measure a natural monopoly. That is to ray that any one that wishes to see a particular play must | go to the theatre where it is presented. He has no option nor choice an the matter, for there are ordinarily no two theatres giving the same to pay an extortionate price for the privilege of enjoying it. As it is clearly right to suppresa such a nuisance, it is fair to assume the city has a right to do it. meena Why this moderation in a district denounced around the world | for the noise it makes? Only two explanat the bright lighted mid : SUPPRESSING A NUISANCE, easily falls within the scope of municipal admin. play at the same time. The ticket speculator has, therefore, a com: F.FTEEN TO THE BOTTLE. by never giving it a ay: the efforts of the Board of Aj istration. paratively easy task in “cornering” a popular play, and the public has | yns are possible. Rither the bar habituea of rhts of that locality keep their thirst down cl © to start, by sprinkling it continuously brery fifteen minutes, as it were, or else they a » incapable of a genuine Manhattan draught. Imagine Peter Stuyvesant or Mvynheor Von Pwiller giving fifteen gulps at a bottle of s ! Js New York becoming virtuous, or degenerate? t noennnmnnmnennnantn nme mn nnn nnn menace G {Letters From the People! Hasta ts ! Phillipats Tea Tr the b Frow tery t Dav aha of pala when ne ae the be ou adver a that duris Die solders march however, allirins " * common among svidiers, Lt leo states| The Evening World Dail y Magazine, Thursday, Februar Such Is Life. By Maurice Ketten. p pene. », Copsright, 1911, by The b (The New York By Roy L. ..cCardell. HALES the matter with o1 “W Pov L MtCARDELL tanen to « bad thing. auction p. good, The wholesales upied 1th venit u M "This i ove Leena ry Mr. Jarr Hits Upon a Brilliant Idea for Fooling His (More or Less) Trusting Wife oer pinoche game Jarr as he took , too, when is any dull n 8 story.” alu't the bar her ing th my come in said Gus. st ciuzy 0 sald vate thercughly ‘How's that?” “They grt married and |happlly ever after.” repeated Mr. asked Mr. is place a he p Lsed at—Gus's, ° 10 1 chink some of | the feliers hie ap sore the more ad the b rom my bar ut Monday nights?" Phat's a dull night.” what | here race it don't do MB no wae Ard asked hear that Gas prto ive sto go to tae ‘L Jarr -date un: le ; Q pretend we are going to the dina ee Slavinsky he can't be out much for #;to be @ union wife." said Gus, “He's got anew babz| “I'll have to own up and tell you th: of some lodge we belong to. When our by his house. My, ne is pleased, That|to keep peace in the family, I had to) Wives kick we can say ‘Yea, but taty makes thine boys, and ald to me hi Wear { pinochie, oo," said Mr, are going to have beautiful souven: " Wi! show what a fine baseball team he | Rangle. “It's a grand game but it keeps) “Ho we ge thea svowenirs? will have tn his family He will empire /a man out too late." jSased Gui the g He says baseball ts an| “We could get up an excuse to be out = “Hasy," replied Mr. Jarr. “Just go +? American ga ‘and now he's got nine/late once in awhile,” suggested Mr. | Some of those wholesale novelty dealer) boys to play baseball he is going in for | Jarr. and buy @ dozen cheap ‘Made-in-Ger- |ackledicks, Hut he used to say It was! “Our team work ts bad,” sald Mr. any’ Japanese va or rag dolls, 9: nice to have Just three boys to play pin-|Rangle moodily, “The night I think up| anything of nd, and taKe nie with him at bome and ne coul good getaway you fellows don’t, and|4 camel's hair orush ay : save money.” | when you think up one I don't." paint print on he way to do fs to not to try to/ Annual Dinner of the k of a good get away,” said Mr, | of Wok Wok,’ or som ut a good come back. The thing | That sort of junk only {to do is to arrange for a game for one cents apiece whoiesaie, * | night @ week and allp out and play it| “Good,” sald Mr. Rangle, “I know a s what was the{and then have a good excuse when we | piace on the Bowery where you can Duy that it didn’t get! get home. the usual sort of dinner souvenirs cheap “It's a good thing he doesn’t get in- terested in football,” said Mr. Jarr, takes eleven to play that. At this juncture Mr. Rangle and Mr. er came in ng like that costs about fou: 1 was just Ing trer with the bu together tv play auction pluochie any| “An excuse what would go with your |#s dirt, Chip in. qual fe and * remarked Mr, Jarr to the new-| wife would be nix with my wife,” said|1 ll bring home en souvenira tur Muller. “If I was to c me with (Right of different sorts to square us on: fe kicks at bel ne in thw|a gold necklace mit diamonds and say |Pisht a week for six Weeks at leas: Gus can give us a place benind the ba \to keep the souvenirs tn and we'll take ‘turns marking them with gold paint.” then the pinochle ime ir Gus's hay been played in correct evening tire and an octet of happy wives in Har- \iem have their china closets brimming with ‘dinner souvenirs.” |} won i: in @ raffle it wouldn't do no good.” “I've got an tdea," sald Mr. Jarr, “We * sald M k and . and now . “My clerk mt want to ny wife wants! sine 3 Reflections of a ’ & —_.. Bachelor Girl} (ine Day's | | By Helen Rowland Good stories sear, WL, by Aue Wee Wubuang CO. (hk New Dore Wate B From the way in which most “devoted” couples | quarrel, jove must be merely an electric spark struck by contact of two bad tempers, Clean Up, © ers suuled, says ‘Be EFORE marriage a man exciaims; “What fasci- nating little curls!” After marriage: “Where | did you get that bunch of hair in the back?" te iad found am eas ava a’ to shernd laundry aa’ urty. Ry Teariuh out Wea 4 becseraal Aot now aa bike After all, it's nothing but the strenuous effort to “tame” a husband that keeps married life from becoming too tame for the average woman, |: and gave bim a Diva baad ead, toed e kind of widow Heaven makes is very contemptuous of the kind of | ts te ier + the va ; but Satan merely laughs and puts the “ysinishing |. Ve Meee on both of them. yes were as: yw baer widow make touches yer seva mo mora, Why is it that brains inside the head seem to run to frowziness on the| outsides | poo ERISMS 1S a, Weary Benches. wife a a fread Dont forget that the man who the neat girl avout you. telis you about the girl before will tel) abu bth = j tom and iaquiriag whh { takes @ woman who cun convince her husband that he is merely a| Me! tet eS lurury and not a real necessity to keep him as meck as a spring lamd with |». But wat sue mint sauc live it do ny one of ¢ to ‘OL Spooner tributed lo a cv If you really want to see yourself as others see you, get married; der ins » woud mweclings ; cause when it comes to dissecting his wife's appearance every husband tg greene ee aed it was time to drew I jevige Washington, a close. He begs s last raph with che paresets) AAOTROVEAAD MYRRH [remark “Bat 1 perceive that 1 am talking to leery, we A waitress at a Strand teaahop recently countered + writer that abe bad once been asked for @ bath of mui sad 8 bias of bus!” —Londow Curvuicie, G The most pathetic sight on carth is a big woman trying to cry on a little | man’s shoulder, y 16, 1911. ! | Wives Who Have Made Their Husbands Famous: ‘ By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Coprrgat, ALL, by Lhe ress Muviusinug LO (Lue New Lore Word), | No. I1.—Helen. JAUS, King of Sparta, was the “Sherif anier of his day. He enjoyed @ slight locui ichown, as all kings do, out it W t unt® he became the husband of an international beauty that he awose one morning to find uimself famous—and ceserted. + Helen, daughter of Tyndareus, King of Argos, was cailgd the most oevvtiful woman of her time, Famous veautles are made, so: born. In acquiring renown for puichritude @ press agent is worth far more than a Greek nose. Helen of Argos, Sparta and Troy—three addresses were considered very exclusive even in those days—had doth Greek nose and a posthumous press agent, Homer, who did as muca cor her repusation several Hinu.ed years after” her death as any publicity promoter of our day accom pllshes for the particular “most beautiful woman im the world” who pays him a salary to say 80. Perhaps Helen was really beautiful, but that {s a mere detail. At any rate, she had many suitors—so many that when she daided to accept the hand and turone of King Menelaus hes father, Tyndareus, exacted a promise from the other young men that they *euld form a syndicate for the preservation of Helen asa fireside companion—in other words, agree to heip Menelaus keep hes Gli to himself if a Hkely young «wapetitor should happer a.ong, lend her @ few French novels, persuade her tnat “love is everything’ and that the bow sailed i half past 10. Eviden y, Helen‘s father had a prophetic soul, or it may be inerely that Re | krew Helen. | When Parts, the shepherd son of King Priam of Troy, told Helen was his affinity, Helen placed her wedding ring where Menelaus would s fared forth with Paris to start the ten years’ war. | RRA AAA AAA AAA AAA ARAL | i Leve, Boredom or w Wish .o Heip? ; It may be that Helen loved Paris, but it is more likely that she was bored | (mn Sparta, and perhaps she may have been siightly influenced oy a desire to help the Goddess Venus iuifll her promise to give Paris the myst beauuful woman in the world for his wif For, you remember, it was an apple that started trouble for Helen, Just as ft did for thé first woman who made her husvand famous—Eve. In the first beauty contest of history in Which the Goddesses Venus, Minerva and Juno were the sole entries Paris gave the golden apple to Venus, who knew | What sort of a bribe would reach him, | A great many people like to help the gods make good and Helen may have CUAEERE UC t abe it aad teen one of them. While the Trojan war was going on Helen lived very happily with Paris until he was killed, Then she married bis younger brother, witu: wnom aiso she lived happliy until he died. Then, when the war was over, With Menelaus until he died, Helen seems to have been a nice, comfortable, womanly creature, with a vers ccommodating disposition, 1 am sure she made all three of her husoands aa fe. And incidentally she made them iarous as well—particulutly Mene+ who could not have behaved better in the matier of “lasing batk his a vent back to Sparta and Lived very happ! jaus, errng wife’ if a woman dramatist had created him, Some men might not care for the sort of fame that came with Helen. But tere is every reason to believe that Menelaus enjoyed It. dle was, you see, a very modern person, and I've no doudt tf he were a! to-day he'd be a member of the Sunrise Club and take Helen—uniess sh vened to have another engagenent—to its monthly dinners. amie Be see este NOU ENN Ng SE “Cheer Up, Cuthbert!” if What's the Use of Being Blue? There Is a Lot of Luck Left. By Clarence I. Cullen e | Covnrgus, WAL, Oy Aue Hines FUuuag LO (Lue New LU HH UEIUe | PFPACITURNITY sometimes 9 the The ship \hat's on an even Keol at the ‘Trademark of Timidity! deginning of a cruise is pretty liable t» — Tight herself when she hits the nallow- “Getting @ good) ing waters! | run for it" doesn’t | | entitle ;ou to a! The Lady Fortune won't stand for a | place in the Pi Touch, but she's known to nave been | Of Line! | Wheedied! es, | — Somehow the fo!-| We can't make Miam! this yearaeo low always 10ok8 we'll Just take it out in musing om the ke a winner to us fishin’ we DID ve there! who refuses the — casy carom shot! The moment iteclt may have been und takes a couple of cushions to make it! happy—bvt we've @ dim sort of a notion that it didn’t measure up to tne Ant! | pation and thy etrosvect'« It's hard to get the people who tm- | 6gine that they've a Claim on your me to send in an Itemized Bill! The cocktest man we ever know was he up one night Catcago by a stick-up man who merely pointed a |corncoo pip at him! i The Sulke: -Stoughed, onty| ‘ The Bulber ee res eS Ha It's strangs what candy little eato 4€8 too busy wi is and sleepers some of us are who hapt: See Utt | ually tell our sympathetic spouses tha: we're Overworked! , al “Laugh and grow fat’ is 4 maxim | that scares a lo. of folks taking the| tan who tipped us on a 20 tod shot Obesity Cure nto enforced solemaity—/ that won at Ju the other day, t most great bumorists were and are though we didn't play it, has been thin! | gloating over us eve. since. Said he'd | — |have played it himself if they hadn't Our Remorse sometimes is merely cleaned him ‘way b.2k in 1% , agonized hope that nobody tha:) beiseres Rg De 7 ‘There's a Bankruptey Court to e \ knew us saw ust jthe Busted, but none to salve tne wd it It comes pretty hard to have to Pay | Bioders! | tho Fiddler when you can't rem | Our idea of Rad Medicine ts to Be having heard any of his Mus! | The man who pron nself a | Fatlure theresy g.ves you the clu gin with a Elaze of Glory and then Flop. That Blaze of Giory Thing was | meant to Close the Show! + ances * Interesting Facts * About New York City fare a few interesting facts; all the world’s ban you or may not know, | thirty-six ; about New York City, It's] of money ain you don't know all ot] Ur n reserve in tates was in Now ¥ ed Out of our country's to'al | 2263-4 square miles} ings, , more than C2 per | area, city, Chicags,}of New York Gity (a.uos: It is also ja a4 those of Chicaso, St Its water Philadeipnia and opr 18h cities. eri frontage totals to 4441-2 miles, {ts ed), ry otreets almost 3,:i0 miles (a distance as} York has seven colleges tor mat great as that from New York to Lon-|two for women, two universities, fous theological semina schools and five Jaw s: don). | Now York's children of school-going | age number 1,047,012, which is a bier! New York in iw figure than the combined populations Of) puniic school education: Buttalo and St. Lous, assessed valuations of { New York's goods in foreign commerce | 9 population runs ten medical for thaa the sone eitles 0,000 Le whe for 1903 were a 11,000,000, 8 | ay), c0y, | 03,000,00) in Hamourg (next : f : | sum), Of th ted States's ew York's day public schools (la comme my 1 were taug total forely 1, New | UN? Tas bare i York's sn one-hait. i : pty =three bridges New Yor > gir) four oe Sts ing auiong the wore great br our country’s mau : ments. New sing’ onaratineiin New ¥ tures of clothing | 1 incre T cent, over the pre 48 one-h 1) States clotuing | Vous year, as against an average las trade's total product, rea cent. in other cities, New York is America’s publishing me centre, ATTENTIVE READER, f Of the world’s banking power (e. taney toe cles z he closest attentii | mated at $45,730,300,00, of which §17,-| to ev. rng that sutra 642,700,000 48 the share of the United] “Indeed I do. I'm one of States), $4,668,700,000 's in New York City, | and 1 understand he gots ¢ ‘Thus the city bas aearly one-tenth of word"—Washogton Stan 1s credit enty cous