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2 RENAE ps oe a ee Bn A ge dite lot i The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, March 18, 1911. We AAA AAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAADOORARAAA vse O00, SME CAtoriD. The Umpire. | Shakespeare's *# y Maurice Ketten. |_ JS Rove S Ories 3. ANGUS Say: res. and Treas., JOSEPH PULITZER Juntor, Sec'y. 68 Park k Row, By AtsEert PaysonlIERHUNE. OW. 6% Par! Convent, 1011, by The ress Pubbauog Uo, (Phe New York World), No. 4.—PORTIA and BASSANIO, in “Merchant of Venice.” HREE richly engraved jewel caskets— one of gold, one of silver, one of lead rested in the great country house of Portia, the Itallan heire Portia the eccentric daughter of an ec- centric father. Had she lived inour times she would have been called a “new woman.” Not content with the meek, almost illiterate life of her fellow damsels, she had educated herself | to an unheard-of degree, even taking a course lin law. She was one of the richest women In | Italy. To prevent her from falling prey to for- | tune hunters, Ler father bad made a strange will. | By the terms of this will Portia was to remain single until a suitor should arrive who had the wit to win the following test: The father, Just before dying, caused the three caskets to be made. In the golden one was placed @ skull; in the silver casket the image of an idiot; in the leaden easket © picture of Portia, To the man olever enough to choos hand and fortune should go. One suitor after another selected elther the gol or the silver casket. None would risk all by choosing the box of dull, cheap lead. }And so in turn each failed and went away. J | Portia was glad to seo m go» bor, “new woman" though she was, she had secretly failen in lovee The man of aer choice was PROT Trg Havmanto, @ young Venetian spendthritt. ye beet Bassanio also loved her. Nor was he averse to refilling for Lovers. his empty purse by #o rich @ marriage, But, in order to pay his sult to such @n heiress it wes secessary that he go to her home in the splendid dress aud with @ retinue of servants at bis heels. This sort of equipment would cost much, And Bassanio had no money. ne |" | Entered at the Post-Office at New York os Second-Class Matter Oubeceiption ato £, The Evening | for England and the Continent and } ‘orld fon te. inited States All ¢ ounte an Oana One Year. + $3.50] One Yoar,, One Month..: + .30] One Month VOLUME 51...0. sesceeee eee in the International | ostal Union. 89. | . | | «NO. 18,103. ) A PROVERBIAL QUESTION. | OR more than two years the examiners of the State Banking Department appear to have examined, accepted and approved as good security in the hands of the Carnegie Trust Company certain stocks issued by comparties so dead in all financial vitality that they ought long ago to have undergone the triple exequial rites of embalming, cremation and burial. We are further told that during the two years the examiners passed these stocks as good collateral no less than four times. We learn from ancient writings that the problem that perplexed , the Romans was not so much that of getting custodians for the treas- ury as of getting and keeping custody over the custodians. “Who will guard us against our guardians?” The question has been a proverbi: | porer for at least 2,000 years in all languages derived from Latium. | There has never been a correct answer. Good Jaws are good, but not wi popular vigilance. 1out good officials and a tireless There is need here for a general awakening. a. POSTAL CARD DUNS. OSTMASTER-GENERAL HITCHCOCK has fesued an order notifying postmasters to return to the es memes sender any postal cards that mention a debt. The design is to put a stop to that method of dunning debtors by collection agencies, but it is going to make a lightning reader of the postmaster, for ho will never know whether a debt is mentioned on any one post card in a day’s mail unless he reads them all. The most interesting feature of the order, however, is the atate- ment from Washington: “The Department has no authority to ex- clude them from the mails, but can refuse to transmit them to their destination.” If a refusal on the part of the post-office to transmit a postal i 8o he appealed to his dear friend, Antonio, a merchant of Venice, for @ loan. Antonio's ready cash was all tied Up in various sea ventures, To raise the large sum Bassanio wanted he borrowed from Shylock, the Venetian money lender, Shylock hated Antonio, So, instead of accepting interest on the loan, the made the merchant promise to forfeit a pound of flesh in case the money Not repaid. Antonio, thinking the odd pledge a mere jest, consented. Bassanio, taking the money, hurried off to urge his suit for Portia‘’s hands | He chowe the leaden casket, urged theroto by love's intuition, or perhaps by am unconscious glance from Portia, The lovers were overjoyed that Fate had thus united them, But their happiness was short-lived. Almost at once came a fr, message from Antonio, saying his various treasure ships had come to grief, that he was penniless and that Shylock flercely | demanded the promised pound of flesh, Portia gave her bridegroom the money to defray the debt and sent him hurrying to Venice to Antonio's ald. But made a shrewd guess at tne usurer’s character, Antonio's bond being legally forfeit, Portia “did not believe Shylock would forego the mortal | revenge of cutting a pound of flesh from the merchant's body. To avert such @ calamity to her husband's benefactor Portia disguised herselg as a man and went to Venice. Winning admittance to the court where the trial Was even then in progress, she introduced herself as a lawyer and offered te defend Antonio, | ‘Pho law in the matter seemed plain enov \ieed the usurer the forfeit of a pound | bargain. Yet Po card to its destination be not an “exclusion from the mails,” then the | Department must give to the word “mail” a very narrow and depart- mental meaning. It would seem to be about time for the Government | to issue a dictionary. However, the order in itself is good. A private debt is a sacred | secret, not a public financial obligation. No creditor should be per- | mitted to feature it on a postal. | Seen eo canny -~ DIPLOMATIC DECEPTIONS. PON a protest from the Mexican Ambassador at Washington it has been decided that there will be no “war game” of a fleet along the Mexican! coast. It appears also to have been agreed that | the military force on the border has not been as- sembled with any intent to crush the insurrection against the Diaz Government, but merely to enforoe the lawa of neu- trality. Since the affair is so simple it is a pity it was not plainly eo stated at first. All the uneasiness in this country, all the excitement . Crus cruel are your mistudements, | between ¢ and 6 in the ne. and alarm in Latin America, are due directly to the foolish diplomacy By Alice Eldridge. | h. Antonio had voluntarily,prome flesh, and Shylock heid him to the A appealed first to Shylock’s better ‘aealaie? Ser 14 ““, nature, begging hin to show mercy. Snooringly he ree A Clever fused. Sho then pointed out that though the bond called Legal Trick. for a pound of Nesh, no mention was made of blood. And she showed Shylock that If in cutting off the flesh he | should shed one drop of Antonio's blood the usuret must by law suffer the death | penalty, Cowed and bewildered, Shylock yielded, withdrawing the sult and sube acitting to a heavy fine. Antonio was saved. The supposed “lawyer would accept no fee for her clever work except the | ring Bassanio wore. It was a ring she had given him: on thelr wedding day. He | Was loath to part witt it, Yet he could not well refuse, So reluctantly he gave tt to her, When Bassanto returned to his wife's home Portia was thera to welcome him, Almost her first question was concerning the missing 1: When he to her how he had lost it she pretended to be furiously angry with him, declaring | he had given {t not to @ lawyer but to.some woman, But, af: making the i tricked bridegroom thoroughiy miserable and repentant, sho showed him the “i Rn ring and laughingly confessed the part she had played tn the rescue of Antonios (Nest: OPHELIA and HAMLET.) The Day’s Good Stories An Expert. cg Wel Ner Honor, 1 ain't, bad much educa Feckomi’ of it.’ "Clover ead Handwriting | lend Pia. ———s Just What He Wanted. Sreat world. Will you never | to} but Just home from a co f holiday “ ” faa i 4 th . The curved lips, and the eyes, shaded by of calling the movement a holiday “war game,” a mere exercise in wide taf He, 14,8 New York heiress, surrounded| the beating pulses of broken hearts, not | light throws. back tho reflection of @ lasies that, heavy and thick, tip upward | fan give her. Tht i 5 mecca garetpostanon have force? uso O64. | derstand? radiant in a eh at midnight. My hair is so dark 66 Yom knowled Popular confidence in President Taft’s conservatism and patriot- SEP plana he, Bes to Beary aS | r the parsls guadone anrces | M : i m has saved us from any keen agitation on this side the line. It Dap ys world, to those who watch from the/ of pearls hang like ned temples: y | CAs TER 11. outer side of the golden bars, to those| upon a neck wond M considered vi yon the cheeks, scarlet upon the | SYNOPSIS OF PREOMDING OHAPTMR. | be more lenient, to try and hearken to) gone on there from military manoeuvres. \ Mal, Neart-| gaze upon the face and think you un-| figure, tall, supple, evend, are, as I said, lke forest Let me tell you what I ehow to the | grass cloth over pale lawyer in hist ; ‘ +, 1s the slave; fit for a has been different in Mexico, Latin jealousy of American supremacy | mg n oo | | R. HORRIDE J y beautiful. | within the cage of gold. Let me de-| translucent, 8: don't you egree? And M A bri } is always easily excited. The assembling of our army on the Mexican That la @: great pitysto. m ribe to you, without vanity myself, | arms, bare to tt rec abe ae WHIO on Det then) ot Fay duic that i i ified the st: ly that Dine 4 ‘d it at least. I know I am beaus | tor 1 take no pride in it, yet, having aj|and perfectly moulded as a sculptor . the Ss are there and Wear ke j border eo intensified the struggle that Diaz deemed it necessary to| ful, that born in different! critical eye I cannot fail to comprehend | could long for, tapering to the hands, Tuel, heavy, Gentleman, what | + asd] "Speak up, man!” eald the judge in @ tone of | proclaim semi-martial law and summary death to rebels. Many men| circumstances I might have) put that 1 am beautiful. which, I must a are @ trifle too what price, what old English | examertion,” "These twaite gentiemen want to | doy ‘i ’ made some man's heart beat with Joy| 1 stand before my long mirror; tt 18 thin and sensitive for pure objective | t or French coronet, what landed the huckster contradicted, | heer su, You'd talk louder if they were twelve will in consequence be shot without trial. And for what? and a rapturous pride of possession. ‘To dicass = lestat a 1 y roi the: Oca, 208 | Beli | p 0 on, estates or ruined castle that my money inutes there are in au’ hour,| “As I certatnly hope they are," said Mr. Hore } paca eea SC me it 1s a frightful pity. Others might \ l<| can restore? Tell me, what price, what | goa't sou!” ridge, beaming blaodiy at the Jury on belall o8 \ flirt and for the excitement of the game | S ° f ie prs oe | does all that beauty bring? | ‘The huckster hesitated, then sald frankly: hus client AP. STREET WORK EXFOSURES, Win men to thelr feet, then laugh them | ayin g § O rs ig | S oe pea : oo away when won, or, do the same, tn the | i a CHAPTER III. E are giving @ wondertul dance | to-night. ‘The Duke of Ruth-| erford 1s staying with us and everything seems to point to| @ satisfactory arrangement. | Ihave not the remotest {dea | what the man Is lke, I counot help | ut Wonder sometimes if there tn a heart beneath that waite mask of a and back of the always scrupu- nner, Does it beat or Did it ever hope? Perhaps, | 0 (he ts over fifty now), nter, sweet, | haps, they : itt . spirit of getting even with the world, F the conditions of our streets we may say much | “pur t cannot; partly because Tam too the same that “Dundreary” said of his penmanship, | sick at heart, too worn out with the “ ri ala ” failure of ideals to have the energy to If I take the trouble to write more clearly,” quoth | ao it_and oh, how could any human be- that astute gentleman, “my correspondents will see | 1ng intentionally cause another to suf- = a , 4 ine ta® fer. To make sport of the most sacred UW Up = how bad my spelling Mi of human emotions, to play with that eS When we clean mud and slush from the streets which brings us near to divinity—they h it " ‘ ae + must be fools who cannot see the sorry we see how bad the asphalt is. If we strip away the asphalt we will | Pi icy tare in vo doing. Blind, blind, uncover a new abomination in the cobbles and foundation work, Thus) to use that which makes us gods as a ; a aie | plaything for children; those that can every effort at improvement exposes a new defect, and some folks) 40"), Go, in tho degrees of man, must are tempted to pray for more snow. rank lower than the lowest grade, must Costly as will be the task of a complete reorganization of our Mrs. Solomon Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth Wife Translated By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New Yors World) Hee: my Daughter, unto the Sage of Sages, | HE breakfast T Jacket ‘that comer dines a fitted back, With loose fronts ig generall decoming, Unis one can be made even G. Bernard Shaw! For he hath sounded a trumpet, dectaring | yo and fair, dd that ANY woman preferreth one-tenth of an husband | ,v0ne an’ fans and 2 28 with @ big round collar still be held in the kindergarden of life, or with a plain nec, MA 6 > the ne wild rapture of first love, an ‘i cs So, I am considered cold, a snow t with a good incom shole ; ¥ | and this plain neck can § nad € unto an whole husband with no income. Did they? Did they | te mares dj UM DLRtT ARYA Gatnine GA: ‘ 1 y they steal out at : | ayeven, and'e complete retarmation of our practioe in atrest CODSETUC: | many a itheat heart who tony} Yea, verily? Better a satin-lined apartment in Conatantinopte with one-| dusk, to meet, she from the rectory be cut round or square, | tion and street maintenance, we might as well begin it. The cost of | iat put correctly plays her part upon the| tenth of an husband than a kitchenette apartment in Harlem with NO car-|°ot'aee, ho from the state! tolerating present conditions will be greater than that of satisfactory | gorgeous stage. No heart, no heart! | fare, ahead aire eer { wish it might be | The jacket will be found pretty both for 5 : owers ub ; is now hopin then atin improvements; and, furthermore, toleration wonld mean the speedy | Sree! Powers shove, f wish Mt might be Por, behold, the Turkish woman is a pearl of great price, but the Amer-| store? eae te E morning H coming of something worse still. | be so. I is white, oval of a face | 'Ca% woman ts as a cheap souvenir, kisses in wih ean anit werr | ee nena might never quiver into Ines of pain, | Lo, the Turk selleth his daughter and buyeth his wife, but the Civilized | throb did they part i skirts, Or these eyes, black as a raven's win, broken-he with mo: of the The jacket 1s made with fronts that ure tucked at ‘hetr upper edges and with back and underarm gores, The sleeves are made Man giveth his daughter away and yetteth his wife for NOTHING. unfathomably deep, might never ache by . po a! be ‘sweetness of life gone, she to grow old be ant ng Nata iain Yea, when a Turk wearieth of his wife he disposcth of her unto another) among the Lngiisa hills, in the quiet . = ass | who will cherish her in comfort. [Little village; and he to go out into ees But when the American tireth of his wife he sendeth her BA . 0. D,| the world. and now, after inany years, Principal and Interest. | 414 jumcmn the Alimony Club th h her BACK 0. 0. D.\ to int an Amerioan helress to restore the old place where as o@ boy be The Turk doth not require his cook to be his soul-companion, nor his dreamed and played? | | A Prescription Plaint, moisture, Fill in about etght inches of | Wo the BAitor of The Evening World Good oll and then set’ the tree, Fins GRR Brug fn one piece eax Will some druggist Kindly te! me how| spreading well the roots, , After the PRIZE BEAUTY to scrub Me floors, (Po Bo Continued.) Whathvanciaain ey it is that ws arus sores CA not mere hole t# about half fled tn gently Ltt | But unto each wife he apportioneth her specialty, unto the cook his Both the elbow a 4 the prescription from @ doctor or won't|the tree two or about an| > he ho: 8 , cer he le 5 Ment tem? Je © poor temiy com-lingh cr two: te | Ritohen, unto the hourt is kisses and unto the dancer her bracelets, ‘Hedgeville ‘| todas alseved ars ca palled to sve @ doctor again and pey| roots into line, Fill in the hole souw But the civilized man seeketh a Venus, who shall do his stoceping, and|$ : 4 (ui Lande him a one or two dollar fee to get the gently, and then prune 5 darning, and cooking, and kissing, and PRAYING ; Editor} War the Meira ame prescription made over adain? A aif of last year's growt 1° Yea, verily, the harem wife is a specialist; but the civilised wife ts at aril Une mean druggist tells me it ts against the lan grow better than ever before. > u needed 8 5-8 and that the prescription can | JACK, peated nor can @ copy be given, Is this Good Freneh Children, true? ALK. | au the Matior of The Brening World “Right Now Is I do not agree with “Jamaica” tn re- ott GOOD THING. by jona us. 449 00% LP NN eran | Why, then, shall ANY woman desire an WHOLB husband? For is it not easier to please any man part of the time than all of the J ST touching & button might turn on| iJ vhe light, bur @ lot of people can't | time? yards of material 27 inches wide, 23-4 yards Moor 21-4 yards 4 | " 4 hind the button, | {nches w te, with 31-4 To the Ediwor ot The Evening Wo ward to the French way of bringing up| Js it not pleasanter to endure one-tenth of @ man's grouches than ALL! —_ | yards of banding. In answer to W. H. W. tn regard to’ children, I lived in France many, many na hia opauchea? EORGE CRAUM spends 80 much 5 nme transplanting trees, right now is the! yeare and I never met there one disre- jer ale B 5 ‘ time talking about bein’ poor that Fattorna Nu, GOTT tg ume. Dig up the tree, allowing am- spectful ¢ cs. 1s it not easier to love a man sometimes than at ALL times? | 4 ple room for the roots, Any roots that One Distinction, fare broken in removing the tree should | po the Paitor of The Ev be cut off just behind the break with 1 believe tt @ good clean out, on the slant, 80 48 jtem, w ) never gets anead none. | | fe alWays a chance left-turn | House Jacket with Fitted Back—Pattern No, 6977. and hope for the best, cut tn sizes for a 3 26, 38, 40, 42 and # inc bust moa Go to! I say unto thee every man requireth SEVEN wi One to cater to his head, One to cater to his heart. wort re. on Rn ANNA NNN r sada aatarta Aik ail asin — Tow Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION not to shatter the root again. Tie @ paper once: “We don't know | One to cater to his diyestion an used to have every-| BUREAU, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street, or po rag on the north side of the tree and was a silp of the tongue or One to cater to his pride, ut now he {s usually ghort- id mail to MAY MANTON PATTERN CoO., 18 F, Twenty-third street, in resetting the tree have the same side struck us as a peculiarly hal One to cater to his conscience. than the man who Is shorter, Obtain . | N, ¥, Send ten cents in coin or stamps for each pattern ordered. This book is full of good princl- facing north. Dig ® sueh jarger abe was uttered at a public One to cater to his amusement. | These IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly end always! than necessary and fill the bottom of | cently by a well known lawyer, ples. a 10; 7 KE REYNOLDS says there ain't no specify size wanted. Add two cents for letier postage the hole with tin cans, fust phrown tm, Said he: ‘We are talking about law, not| But the better a book's principles} Ne #0 cater to his GROUCHES, — ENfich thing <a wise widows: tt they| [etter fore. dt ‘They provide drajusge and also bold nonesty.'” SAMULL M, | the poorer is its interes And many others for VARILTY, Selaht was wise they wouldn't be widows, CPI OOOL OO LOOP POEL ODL, SLI PALE PL EI OPPO PEPE 1 40 atti nay aaah n0 mate rt Bn vetirnt é ” 4 s.