The evening world. Newspaper, May 12, 1911, Page 22

hi | ii | i ii | ‘ SS RUN Wiorld. ‘Pebtuhed Dally Except Sunday by the Prose Pub) Company; Nos, 63 to 68 8 anovs saw sa tres: TOREPH PULITZER Suntor, Beery. s 63 Park’ oe Pate Row D tered at the Post-Office at New York as econd-Ciars Matter. Petey Rates to. The. Evening | or Epgiand. and the Continont tag” Wor! ted States al 83s Eeonis + 58] Ons Sones: WOLUME 51........00 eecwwssercscen evecseee+NO, 18,161, FROM NEENAH AND MENASHA. OME men have objected to reciprocity with Canada on the ground that it is « cunning echeme | to disrupt the British Empire and annex the Dominion to the United States. Others have de- nounced it es @ echeme to ruin the American farmer for the purpose of enriching the Cans- dians. But John Strange, a former Governor of ‘Wisconsin and now a ropresentative of the Boards of Trade of Nee- nah and of Menasha, in that State, says it is a scheme of the news paper trust, the most vicious in the world, to get cheap paper and to | monopolize the news of the world. It mmst be conceded that his last charge is more portentous | aml appalling than the other two put together. The dismember-| ment o* the British Empire would leave several other empires intact and the world would go on as usual. Should Canadian produce be peared into our markets in such quantities and at such prices that | our farmers could not compete, they could at least move into town | and live like the rest of us on Canadian foodstuffs, But should | the news of the world be monopolized by a vicious trust through the ‘medium of cheap paper, the consequences would be something be- what we can imagine. Therefore, John Strange has a right to protest in the names of Neenah and Menasha, for if the mo- nopely were once established, the proud names of those cities might be beyootted and no one dwelling forty miles away would ever know of their existence. res. and Treas., ow. i —_— Ho OUR WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. AYOR GAYNOR, sddressing the Civil Service Reform Association, said: “When I took office there wasn’t an honest weight or measure in the city. And, what is more, the United States Gov- ernment had three standards of n yard in use—the manufacturer's, the customary and the true.” Universal statements are rarely accurate. Doubt- less there were a few honest weighing and measuring appliances in the city, But asa general rule the Mayor's statement is true enough. Absolutely correct weights and measures are rare, not because we are as a people generally dishonest, but because we have an irrational and absurd system of weights and measures. We bave an artificial yard stick, an artificial pound weight and am artificial bushel measure, and neither of the three has any rela- tion to the other. There is no means by which an ordinary man can determine whether his scale is right or not. We need in this evil something more than local reform. No power less than that of the National Government can apply an adequate remedy. The society that long ago undertook to promote the adoption of the Trench metric system should renew ite activity. tt is needed. oe FICTION AND FORTUNE. WING to the lilt in the rippling of its syllables there is a suggestion of musical comedy in the phrase, “Every work of fiction is a gamble in itself.” But it was not so intended by the author. It was, in fact, a plain business statement made by @ publisher at the meeting of the American Booksellers’ Association, He went on to say that the gambling element in the business 4s derived not from the nature of the fiction offered, nor from the quantity cf the popular demand, nor from the repute of the author, but solely from what he described as the “inadequacy of the book- ecller.” The argument {s that it {s just as easy to sell fiction as to sell | orp, there being no fixed consumption of the one any more than of | the other. In both cases the trade and the use are mere matters | of advertising. In putting s new work of fiction on the market, | therefora, the author and the publisher are taking a sporting chance on whether or no the booksellers are going to adequately push it. The theory is doubtless sound. At any rate it merits a trial. ‘A year of more diligent advertising, and next season the publisher may sing, “Every work of fiction is a fortune in itself,” and do a Gance with it. ——_ ++ ___ CONSERVING THE FAMILY. HE second day’s session of the Conference of Charities and Corrections was marked by an in- I teresting discussion of a paper on “The Keeping Together of Families.” In the course of the con- ‘ ference it was pointed ont that the city pays $117 | nat a year to a widow for taking care of another | widow’s child, Thereupon the question was puc.| “Would it not be equally economical and infinitely wiser for the| city te pay widows for maintaining their own children?” This question carries its answer logically along with it. But humen affairs are not arranged in logical order. Something more than reasoning will be needed to solve a question seemingly ao simuplo. | {Phe payment of widows for taking care of their own children would open the way for a good deal of fraud. It might even encourage it, | Experience has shown that charity based upon sentiment s Dardly better than indiscriminate charity. There are times when the heizing hand paralyzes the self-help that would have come with jauother effort. There ought to be as complete and as careful a| supervision of charities as of any other form of municipal activity. | iWere that adequately provided, it would probably be found pos- | sible to achieve at once any of the reforms the conference is seeking sto bring about. Letters From the People someamabenmaneas which will give the exact 1 i The Diameter, he Féitor of The Evening World: Whe answer to Mr. Fred Linton of, diameter of circle to be Becranton, Pa, who “What ts the (Which In this case ts 2). Miameter of circle to be inscribed in a | © the two sides of triangle, of which wight angle triangle whose sides are 3, 8 °nd 4 form a part, the point of whose 4 and 5" Bisect, the jonger of the | diagonal intersection will be the centre aides containing the right angle, | of the inscribed circle, Wh & of the parental love. rights of others to consider. hy Mr. TSA Bwaste You S00 ICRET On You AGouT Tre Gane’ Bury ! 1am PRoud OF You -You ARE A REAL SPoRT- WHERE DID You LEARN IT ALL By Sophie Irene Loeb. BF course, every mother thinks HER obild ts the most wonder- ful im the world. Every father delieves HIS boy to be the only boy. A babe, no matter bow irregular its | features might be, | the mother, It) makes no differ- ence bow dull the be the case es) long ag there are mothers and fathers in existence, No ee ea ikea ftspring. It is just opinions of their offspring. tu AS IT BHOULD BE. INTE>'D- -y change parents’ ‘Nature ED it. For, by the great love thus nur- tured, does the child receive the blessing It a @ fine thing; yet there are the aid @ great lawyer the other day: “Actually, my dinner was epoiled by the woman who eat next to me last night, She ts a mother, She ie a worthy mother; but from soup to aute she talked of NOTHING but ber little rola. “Truly there is NO child in the world lke Harold. He ts an angel. :ie is the brightest child ever known, When be fell down the stairs and hurt his leg he was SO brave that thedc tor marvelled. He has the BEST manners and knows just what to 4 He just tives the r. He has the wis- person, and asks the | Ree | is not unlovely to |; at heart es much as you, And some of | ‘i on ths desert air, and Mrs. Joh By Maurice Ketten. O, Just Picrced it uP JOHN GREAT GAme , JOHN. WHO 9 OT eR AO DOOPO ODL ROIOL IOP OORAADDDOOCDODPDDOPLOPEDDRDDOODDODDDIDDDY RODPODDICPDAPOO DODD DDDOPPLADIDDDLONPDDSDODDDODODDODDOOEDADODOLDELD |T'wo Mothers--The Wise and the Foolish| Must Com@ bo © sooner or later lie. 10 the fact that each and every person hes his or ber “Harold” to think about; whether it be a rea) child, @ business Duszed with Harold! Harold! Harold! and I kept wondering if the woman's braim ever formulated any OTHER thought that wasn't centred in “Har old." Now, in all the ages there is nothing more beautiful than mother love, The hand that rocks the cradle verily rocks world, Yet, my dear little mother, o thing is certain, There ia NU ONE the world ~ho can rosSible look at iIcrold through the same -OSY glasses that YOU do. No one has his interests terested in your Harold's clever sayings or care particularly what he does or doesn’t do. I might even say it isn't FAIR to thrust his greatness upon them, They probably have enough already to keep them busy with their own affairs, in| & word, to be more explicit, NO ONE | CARES. In all sincerity, the woman who forever puts “my child” into the conversation of Tam sorry to say, is lal your sweet thoughts are truly WAST“D The plain unvarni: tut is ceeeenaaanaaanmananaamasaaaasamaoasoaaaennmmammanaamanamammmnet a Can YOU Answer These Questions? Are You a New Yorker? Then What Do You Know About Your Own City? [i SO rr ttre eeeeeneenmennede 4 Evening World's series of New York questions continues to serve as a first rate test of New Yorkers’ knowledge of their own ety. 4t aleo affords @ splendid source of information 0 all who are tn- terested in the biggest city in America, Here are five more questions: 16—What New York City fort was turned fret into a place of amuse- ment and later into a public institution? . Ti—How did the “Little Church Around the Corner” acquire tte wick- name? 18—When was Cooper Union duilt and by whom? On the site of what building wae tt erected? 19—Where and what ts “The Marble Cemetery?” 80—For what unusual price was the block occupied by St. Patrick's Cathedral purchased from the city of New York, ‘The foregoing queries will be answered in Monday's Evening World, Hore are the replies to last Wednesday's question was the regular thoroughfare laid out in New York City, 7#—"blannattan Island” the ‘Island of Manhattan” a century ago were widely different places, The “Island of Manhattan” is the term that bas always been applied to what is now Manhattan Borough, But “Manhattan Island” was @ small Wact of land :n the Wast Aiver which, at high tide, was completely cut of from the mainland, The space once known as “Manhattan island” is pow bounded by Third, Houston and Lewis streets and the East River, Te-New York City was firet divided into wards in 1083, wnere were six of these wards, They were called “South,” “Kast,” “North,” “West,” “Dock” and “Our” 1¢—In 1808 the course of Broadway was twisted sharply at Tenth street to allow it to connect more directly with « straight highroad that led to the northern part of the island, This accounts for the “Tenth street curve.” Wb—Bellevue Hospital was named from the old Belle Vue Farm on whose grounds & was built, + ¢- —___. Notes From the World of Science, NGLAND has twenty-eight railway River has a capacity of 10,000 cuble E tunnels a mi! of men be 5. yards of earth @ day, Blectricity now does practically all the work in the kitchen of the United States Military Academy at West Point, N. ¥, “he frst ateel roils ever rolled im Australia recently were turned out by « New South Wales tron works, Grey horses are th> longest lived; cream colored ones the most ear''y af- fected by changes in temp -nture, London requires taximeters to be oon- nected to the front wheels °f taxicaus because the rear wheels do the most slipping, dansterdam har three flor \~ : drydocks “1 shouldn't - wort of drudgery.” “Well, not that | like drudgery » you'd like that lees, but my lawn moweel’ for repairing ships and is building &| Tests in Dublin have shows nat the jing done all that is good and t eutiful venture, or @ hobby. They are not in- | n. SLAP HIM on THE WRIST! Kole Perhaps she wonders why she ts not | invited oftener and given more consider- ation, Naturally, she thinks thet hav- “8 @ mother she has performed ber DUTY, It is true; but there is duty to fellow-creatures to be considered, The wise er ig she who enjoys all of Harold's attractions to the full; who develops all his virtues and cor- | rects his vices and gives vent to her feelings and opinion of him WITHIN | °’ THE HOM®, There is the place for it. There ie where it gets @ real hearing— an interested one, It is a private con- cera and no outsidor -olicits any stock therein, WHAT MAY PROV“ ATTRACTION TO A MOTHER 18 DISTRACTION TO ANOTHER, Certainly there may be the occasional Gear, personal friend who seeks and asks questions of you regarding news of Harold; which is pleasing and happy. But aside from this, it ts unfair to burden people who are not seeking tt, It must be admitted it IS a burden, Here we are living in a great worid with thousands of interests, with new inventions, with up-to-minute views of life, in which there is a universal, com- mon interest, These things may de aired and philosophised upon and the other responds, He shares EQUALLY in the game, Tho ‘iscussion means as much to HIM as to YOU, He lstens and TALKS; but when the concern t# all ONE-SIDED, such as matters pertaining to “my child,” then indeed does the hearer fee] OUT of the game, no matter how good « listener he may be, Sometimes he is a verita.:e martyr to the cause-YOUR cause, Consideration is the keynote of it all. ‘We live fast in this era, We can't ap- preciate but few things, Thus, be it known, that when talks that exclude all but ‘my child” creep in, in the majority of cases Interest files er Therefore: “'TIS A WISH MOTHER “HAT KPEPETH HER OWN COUNSELIY Hedgeville Editor By John L. Hobble | STATIN’ sinsie does net necessarily indicate smartness, | RIN KELLY, the aquatarian, says that even Mary's Uttle lamb got stewed. PRING ts here whenever the young | people begin to mistake lonesome: | ness for love, RED RASP, the lawyer, says that ownership conaiste in the ability to hold on to something that belongs to you, |} ne om eto The Jarr Family Mn Jare Assists in a Welrd Word - juggling Exhibition, Coprright, 1911. by The Pree Publishing Os, (The New York World), By Roy L. McCardell. 66D OU ove,” said Gus, the genial NA (occasionally) cafe proprietor, “I ae that this “I think it tes lotausm, his keen business instinct urging him to aide + th eomething that ight have a pos @ible chance in winning the betting Lippodrome that was under way in Gus's, the same being that those present couldn't guess what Mr. Dink- stom was talking about, even after he had announced his subject would be ‘Totemism and Exogamy. Bepler, the butcher, looked undecided. But Schmitt, the delicatessun man, took Beart and aid he thought it was total- isa, too, but he wanted to know what totaliem was, “Totaliam?’ said Gus, “Any foo: should know that totalism is how much it dae.” “How much iss what?’ asked Schmitt. Yolock till " But wlauem be about how muca J OWe ine Wholessier for 60 Many viates Of wire glass, sixty by eighty, ould Slavinaky, And toteusin can be how many cases of capmed gvods or bage of sait 1 ge. enolder, aud ais, Dinksion, tne lex. cograpner’s buye and beavyweigur champion of tae English Janguage un- der algubrow rules, stood aside non) chalanuy walle tole discussion was gv: | Waat foolishness!” cried Gus im- patiently, ‘nis Joaser, with nis bis (aik,” be indivaied Dinkstwo with an expressive thumo, Bis recent respec. veuisning pow that be bud, as ov thought, solved the puzzle «. his con- Versation—"this big-talk loafer wasn't thinking @DOUL suiMilem 4 a, 4 gut bim now, He was talking sbout toc. tem." Gus turmed around and scratched among @ lot of loose articles—chalk, chips, pinochle decks an. the like—in « ; | inely. ‘| ebout exogimy, ter @rawer behind totum!" the var, “Here is a And be spun on the bar a six. He Matched It. trled to match for your ¥ ti 3 was a difference of an the width of the folds, and 1 vowed ever again return from matchin until 1 bad found the ‘Me handed ber a kage, “Here a that ol rose binding braid that you told me to buy, J found {t last Monday in Bill- ings, Mont, J have lwveed for it in Uulrty-seren biater, Bhe tore off the wrappings “It fe @ Uttle too dark," she said, “Mut the sample bes faded sowe in tom years,” be reminded ber, ‘Tt to @ tle toe beary bealden” “But banding by thousands of clerks eat the sample away some, it was bearer w started out,” fourth, wind will carry disease bacteria 200 feet — and as high as C) feet into the air, even yetsioay dredge om thé Zuken when there is o heavy en 1) a RE ‘ se * yp aaaacnessanbisaniaaiietiatnhani ean eeeenene ee eaaRcn WEEN ‘© man says that everybody is giving him the worst of it he doesn't have » oone won specify size wanted. Add hurry, May Manton Fashions sided teetotum of ivory. ‘Mr. Dinkston sighed wearily; Mr. Jerr erinned, “Bure it’s iti” cried Gus. “Dida’e Re say totumism was peopl one oe and people on the other side interested im an objickt? This is an objickt, and it’s @ totum, J spin it and I'm the péo- ple on this aide of the bar betting the Griaks against the people, my custem- @re, on the other side of the bar, We used to do it like chucking dies ‘What?’ But Mr. Jarr shook his head. Amd GQus threw the teetotum on the floor and put bis heel on it. “What is it, then?’ he asked, turning to the other bettors. “Are you a lot of @umms that you leave it to me to de all the thinking tli my head aches?” “I think I know what it i,” said Mul- ler, “But let bim go on, so I can be gure. But, here!” And his face lit up as he seized upon a quibble “We bet this feller we would know what he is talking about in ten minutes. But we only bet for one thing, and he is talk- gle topic of totemism and at its co sion tell you what exogamy 1s,” “1 wish 1 could get out and telephone to my lawyer. He'd tell me what that Leg me eald Glavinsky despatr- tan.” But Gus looked at him sourly and tela bum te shut up paving put in the ia the interruption to throat, went om with bis “@imilar folk lore obtains oF institutions in groups dissimuar remote—entirely diverse races, so: speak. This proves that al) tovomisdl ip more or lems relative, “You got my angora, all right,” aut. tered Gus. “The Roman comitia and the Teutento folkmote," continued Mr, Dinkstom, “a dispassionate invesugation Of these con- notes that tribal assembiuges jong prior to the Henaissance were characteristic of the Aryan divisions as well as tae nomadic primaia,” “Paoew! it iss bot in here for this time of yearl” groaned Schmitt as he wiped bis paid head with # dingy blue naad- kerchief. “J should be back im my “The totem, animate or inanimate, of iteelf’—— continued Air, Dinastoa, “Stop nim! Now 1 bave got it!" cried Muller, the grocer. ‘We will eee to-morrow if be bad The Day’s Good Stories Justified Alarm. ERY much excited and out of breath « young man whe could aot beve ‘The attendant looked at register and ro plied that there was no Mra irown im ce hee pital, “My Godt Don't keep me waiting mm this mpanver,” aid the exciud young mea, “) must tmow how she in” “Well, sbe wn't bere,” agin mid the at tendante “Bho must be,” broke in the vister, “far bere 1s @ note 1 found on tue kiches tabs when 1 came bome from work.” ‘The note read: “Dest Jack: Have gone to have my bmene cut out”—8t Paul Dispatch, Ts Little git's Gress giving a Dolero effect i very attractive, It eam de made from any we fe combined with cH Over embroidery with embroidered banding, but, as dress can be either lined or ual it 1s adapjed we wools and ma- terials of the kind quite @s well as to the wagh- able ones, The bolero Portions appropriately can be made from amy pretty constrasting material, The dress ts mage with body portion amd skirt, body por- tion consists of the bo Jero section with the full front and backs, When unlined the ¢ull front is joined’ to « etay. The be straight, If @ Beck, unlined dreap wanted, the yoke ean be joined to the meok edge. For a girl 10 years of ass will be required 28-4 yares of material 2 or 2% or 21-4 yards 4 inches wide, with 13-8 yards 18 inches for bolero por- 1d 6 1-4 yards of 3-4 yard 18 for undersleeves, as shown in to Call at THH EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street, or send by mail to MAY MANTON PATTERN CO., 132 E, Twenty-third street, N. ¥, Bend ten cents in coin or i IMPORTANT—Write your mpe for each pattern ordered, address plainly and twe cents for letter pestage if ia a eg