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

BOORDS of the relief associations of the city show that during the six months ending with March over 18,000 homeless men applied for re- ° lief. This was an increase of upward of fifty per aa ae VOLUMB Si. ...escoes secmesesssssess ssseesesNO, 18,165, taka taht Se VAGRANCY AND CHARITY. cent. over the applications during the correspond- ing period of last year. Moreover, the increase | has been continuous for many years past, #0 that | the evil cannot be deemed a mere temporary disturbance of social | and industrial conditions. It is to be born in mind that there is in this country a con-| sistent and never fully satisfied demand for labor nearly all the year | tound. The demand is so great that thousands of people come an-| nually from all quarters of the globe in search of employment and find it. Some of these immigrants are a very low grado of people. They cannot speak the language. They have no trade. They are subject to all sorts of barbarisms and superstitions, But they wish work and they find it. Why, then, should there be so many home- leas Americans, 0 many vagrante? May it not be that an indiscriminate chariiy breeds more beg- gare than it cures? —_—--+ OUR FIFTEEN THOUSAND. HICAGO complains that somebody has cut down the number of citizens eligible to certain dances to one hundred. New York hes a happier dee- tiny. The high dignitaries that have arranged for the opening ceremonies of the new public library admit five hundred to the feast of reason and the flow of soul that will begin the day, and thereafter will admit fifteen thousand more to walk around and sce the building. This programme that classifies our “who's who” into five hun- dred Favored Few and Fifteen Thousand Prominent Citizens gives us a larget array of the upper class than any other city in the world. It certainly makes the petty One Hundred of Chicago look very emall and village like. It is to be noted, however, that our Fifteen Thousand are not to be granted the freedom of the library nor trusted with any large liberty. The programme announces that they will be admitted to the building only by card, and will then “be tequired to proceed two abreast along a certain colonnade which will be indieated by the police stationed at short intervals throughout the structure.” It thus appears that while the committee has some confidence in the Prominent Citizens, and a little faith in the card system, it trusts mainly in the police, In Chicago it is different. AN AEROPLANE REPORTER. RENCH journalism achieves the honor of being the first to send a reporter in an aeroplane to Teport @ bicycle race. The success of the venture excites expectation. Why may not the press in the next war have its flying machino as well as leave of army headquarters? The ‘limitations of aeroplane flights and consequently of aero- plane utilities are being rapidly forced further and further back, both as to time and as to distance of operation. N aturally there comes into view an increasing variety of possibilities of usefulness in the high- est senso of the word. Almost everything within tho scope of aero- plane activity tends toward the continuance of Peace, and toward atrengthoning the forces that make for peace, But for the present thore is sufficient Gratification in the fact that a bicycle race has boen reported across country by wireless mes- sages from a reporter following the race in an acroplane, And the century is young yet. THE “LOAN SHARK” PROBLEM. chants’ Association on « plan recommended by the Russell Sage Foundation for the relief of employees who have fallen into the jaws of the so-called “loan sharks” policy that will provide such r a8 univergally as_is possible, Hardly any situation in our modern life is more distressing than that of the wage earner whom sickness or other misfortune forces to the necesezty of borrowing money. For exactly in proportion as his needs and his poverty are great, so wil! be the difficulty and the cost of getting the loan, The problem in our country has never been worked out because! with us it is a comparatively new one. But it is now in our larger cities as pressing as it is in the cities of the old world. It is full | time to deal with it in an efficient way, and the Merchants’ Associa- tion is as well fitted to solve it as any other, For it in not so much & charity as an issue of business. the People ) Gingular nouns of this clase baving two or more syllabi ally omit cho “at viladles thue usu- 1s unaccented, as in ers, Princess’ gown, ‘emias’ gun," and return it when the last syliable h the army and take observations without asking od © re edaadeciti Mr, Jerr. and he'e no friend of mine.” Caatio tone. UT of the conference to be held by the Mer | you was im business with nim.~ @ little bet!” ead Mr. Jarr. lows proposed the bet yourselves. Be @00d losers.” * promptly and | ao aaa By Roy L. McCardell. Dboys!” sald Gus, the popular proprietor of the cafe on the corner Jarrentered, ax him.” Muller, the gro- cer; Schmitt, the Gelicatessen deal- er; Glavinsky, the glazier, and Bep- ler, the butcher, were gathered @round « large dictionary on the end of the bar, “Where is your fen oy friend, that Mr, Dinkstom?t” asked Muller, with @ suspiciously sweet air. “I guess you mean Dinkston," replied “I don't know where he ts “Oh, ain’¢ bet" asked Gus, in a ear “We thought es how, may- “Oh, don't be sore because you lose “Tow tel- “We want to eee if we IS good there ought to como the adoption of some |1oser%" said Gus, “None of them words he talked was in the almanac, I was telling Rafferty, the builder, @bout what that Dinkston did to ua, mit you helping him, and he sent @round this.” And Gus pointed to the dictionary, “We want to find out ff it wasn't a ekin game.” “Oh, the words are in there, all right, ail right,” sald Mr, Jarr, carelessly, = Natural Mistake. ul window gar ed your house this morning. “Garden nothing! That wae my taught it should be “Louis's Hxper-|82 accent, whether princip fence,” Present custom, I think, favore|*'7: 8¢ in (b) ‘Hortense's the following uses of the apostrophe tn Bory =” fe oS wie possessives: (1) Before an added “e” for | ojura) nouns. mice i hi ma" singular Mouns, ee tn (a) “The dog's fa) gives thorough! @ reason why it bone,” news my nt tor om should be ‘Louis’ Ex; / a . “men's ohirte,” hoes,” 40. | singular noun endin, ree ® ‘Without 0 0608 “se” for singlar|having two ayilablee 8 tne aed | noune otis ia a where the |on the first (Sense 2-1), “James,” also, repeated be Cisagresnbie | ends in & sibilant, but hes only one ay: to the ear oF ove (20 iene words lable (Sense Ja), er those somtaining more one's" | $ BDWARD & BAHUDA, ne rn rms rw wife's hat, get on the window ell! to! By Mauri 120 MILES - aml 1 Se NUN neo sonnet “let me show you. Let's leok up Totemism"— oried the group in Rever want to hear that “But I want to find out if he has in- sulted me about my wife,” wald Gus. ‘T don't allow anybody to ineult my wife when she ain't around .And when she je around she won't allow anbody to do it” “Dinkaton, bad as he is (and I haven't The Interpolated Holiday. ‘aod fenitor, ANITOR (osiling)—@ay, Mts’ Bently, js Mis’ Kraus in your huuse? Mre, B, (indignantly)—Jn my house—well I guess not—I that woman! f wouldn't have her foot over my doorsill. What de you it her fort Janitor--7 have an important message fer her from de agent. Mrs. B.—Well 1 don't know where she 1s, @anttor closes his door.) Mra, N. (breaking in suddenty)—@ay, 1s that you, Mra. Bently? Mrs. B.—Yes, do you want something? Mre. N.—I just got in—what holiday ls this, do you know? Mre, B.—Holtfay? ‘To-day? fon't any holiday to-day, Why? ‘Mra, N.—Mrs, Kraus has her big flag out—ae there must be some holiday, Mrs, B, (hazily)—Let me see~it isn't Decoration Day or the Fourth of July | jor— | MRS. N.—Well, it nrust be something. {And can't you tmagine how ehe's suat | laughing .4n her sleeve at us, because) | we haven't got ours out? She's a co: Mra. B. (inepired)—Wait @ minute, 1'li get Willle’s history and look it up—all |the holidays are in there, | (Mrs, Bently goes in search of Willte's | ntstory.) ‘Mrs, N, (as sho reappears)—-Weil, have | you found tt Mra, B. (disappointediy)—No, there fen't @ thing in here about a holiday on this date, Oh, dear! Isn't that pro- voking? 1 suppose it's one of those new things that Congress has just passed, Mra, N, (reluctantly)—Well, you've cer- | tainly got to hand it to hi though she {8 such a friend—; things! (A door above opens quietly and a hatohet f with beady eyes, pro-} ‘There Dumbwaiter Dialogues By Alma Woodward Oopgright, 1911, by The Pres Pubtishing Ce, (The New York World). |itor! Speed Madness. ce Ketten. NoTi HING tn THREE WEEKS Mr. Jarr Learns That Friendships and - Frenzied Finance Make a Bad Blend any use for him, either), didn’t insult your wife,” said Mr. Jarr, Gus, with a cunning look. of words that could be sald we wouldn't understand that would be insults. Let us see! What was that word he called about me marrying my Lena because she was Cherman.” “Exogamy?" asked Mr. Jarr. “Yes, that's it. Find it!’ cried the rest. Mrs, K. (coolly)-< coumin’t help over- hearing you ladies discussing my ¢lag. ames The Wate, Apartments. san, Mee | There is no holiday that 2 know of, but T've always hear’ that ic hang out ® flag full mast was @ sign of victory and rejotcing. Mra, B. (with curiosity)—Well? Mrs. K. (chuckling)—Well, ladies, I've beeq wasing war for one year and to- Gay I've won. You know my next door neighbo?, Mrs, Maron, moved to-day. T've always hated her and it's taken me| one year to make it suffictently uncom- | fortable for her to have her get out! I've won—so I bung out my flag, Sim- ple—isn't it? Mra, N. (whispering to Mrs, B.)-Isn't shet— Janitor (mudenly)—Oh, Mis’ Kraus, is that you? Mra, K. (otly)—Yes—do you wish to speak to me? Janitor--Say, I bin tryin’ to get you all| day, De agent ‘says you got to move to-morrow. He says dat yer lease Is up/!n my p! and yo didn’t sign when he wanted y to and he got some one wot's gonna pa: five dollars more an’ you ain't a desira- ble tenant an’. - (Mra, Krause slams her door with thunderous force in the midst of the| outburet.) Mra. N, (gigeling)—On, Jor! Say, have! you got @ flag, Mrs, Bently? Mrs, B.—Have !? Just watch me! Jan-| Janitor—Ye'm. | Mra, P. (atage whisper)—Do you want | to carn a dollar? i} Janitor (delightedly)—Sure 1 do! | Mr&. B—Well, you go right through | the house and tel! all the tenants tn the front apartments that to-morrow ts day of great rejoicing and that at thoy should all hang out the bing flage they've got; and if some of ist send them t xtra, Do you un t Janitor (tumbling)—You bet! (exits) Mrs, B, (jubilantly)—Weil, 1 gues? | Wook Uke some cesebration, all rightl Title? Work. | lein,” as the*present custom entails. Qo MILES | AN HOUR of women? way? hotel in the good days coming. reply. | ™irer will not scramble around for an in Germany.” | to the roung man seeking a wife and a ing flirtation. few enough. | trolling a Wayward child for ai hours the other eighteen! | brought up by the public echool teache: SUBWAY RELIEF | woman to control her child, | ttle @fri's naughtiness | There may be some far more intelli way to get resul them the why of everythin ment. talty of reason. Bchool teachers have to te patient, Nixola Greeley-Smith’ | Little Talks to Women 1—“‘Mrs.’’ as a Spinster’s 2—Teachers’ ‘‘Unpaid’’ 3—Must Beards Mar American Men? I J sroaie to ont the venerable and self-evident eaying that it impossible to ent one’s cake and have {t too, a number of women fn ) Germany are conducting an agitation to establish the right of epim sterz to be called “Fraus,” just like their married sisters, {nstead of “Hrau- Certain unmarried women in New York in advocating the German project have expressed a stmilar desire to be called “Mrs.” is only suitable for girls under twenty-one. r They assert also that there {6 a certain protection in ¢he word “Mrs., particularly to women travelling alone. Men, merried and unmarried, they | say, are known by the one title of i athe and why differentiate in the case | I suppose the best reason for differentiating 1s that @ difference exists, and “Miss” offers a protection to the unmarried woman quite equal, although different, to that which “Mrs.” affords to the married. Have the dissatisfied spinsters reflected that the change they edvocate must certainly diminish their chances of acquiring the coveted prefix in the customary “Who ts that stunning girl?” one young man wil eak another et the summer i} “I don't know her, but the head waiter calle her Mrs. Brown,” may be the | And discouraged by the presumption that she ts married, the unknown sé 4 unattached and actual “Miss” Brown may be following the new fashion Bes'des discouraging the eligible, Miss Brown's Nttie masquerede must most certainly attract the ineligible and semi-detached. As “aire.” Brown with) / no visibte husband, ettentions minus intentions would prove As things are now, the prefix “Miss” is an advertisement of Incidentally the privileges and tmmunities of married women are to-dey And I am eure they will understand that the best way to pre serve their distinguishing title from the al conquering and marauding ‘epinster te to convince her it won't do her any good, and ehe should let justice follow at the heels of expediency in rhe good old way. } | —ee \66 OU make my girl mind from 9 till 8. Please make her mind from 8 till Y 9," wrote a foreign mother to @ teacher in the public schools. Poor teacher! Having accomplished the imposerble task) of con- i} I doubt if any of us realise how many American children ere practically cares of @ delegated maternity and none of the joye of actual motherhood. ‘The author of the letter I have quoted felt no shame at esking another It Goes not seem to have occurred to her that her @ reflection on her own lack of discipline and potees. corrigible children, but there are many more spoiled e then the patronising adult is willing to admit; and the from them is by approaching their understanding; even of the obedience exacted from them. In the United States at least the family is or should be a republic, An-au- tocracy based on force is as foreign to our es as to one conception of govern- And the household in which a father or mother beats @ ohild ts more barbarous than @ government where torture takes the piace or yuatice and bru- “Miss,” they declare, introduction: though, ell the time, the wade ) marramenard 4 ‘warning eignel to the pnilanderer } her reward is the offer of the job for who for #0 many hours have ell the ‘They have to say the same things over and over, day efter day, year after year. Even were they not forbidden to beat children, they possess, as a rule, too much imelligence to wish to enforce with muscles what their minds cannot convey. the children in their charge and why #0 | “Here tt 1s," eaid Mr. Jerr. “‘Ex-! ogamy: The law of certain peoples for- bidding any member thereof to marry @ beard ifke the oresent King’s 0 bearded Edward VII., the late and “Oh, that's all right,” said Gua “I can't see any jneult in that!" But Mr, Jarr was thinking. ultimate danger to the clean out, clean be overlooked. us,” he said, ‘He wasn't so infallible as | 1. he thought he was. He mixed Ex-| "store to the be fm ogamy up with Eudogamy.” “I don't care,” sald Gus, “I see now that {t wasn’t an insult. But go ahead and tel! us what that other one hal? @ gruntache on the other, “*Eudogamy. ” read Mr. Jerr, “ ‘the Perhaps beards, like G sbrut custom of ome uncivilized tribes of | snimeis. marrying only within the tribe or clan,’ . “Oh, I see,” sala Gus, ‘Why, he ain't a bad feller at all, thet Dinks- man, or whatever his name is. He didn't want to dneult me at all.” “But he lost hie bet,” ead Mr. Jarr. “He did not!” ead Gus, rallying, through the spirit of contrariness, to the defense of the absent champion of involved diction. ‘ “We-only bet on that first word ‘Totemism,’ which I dow't want fo! hear mentioned, We tet this other word out. 60, vou eee, when he found I had married my Lena who ts from Dusseldorf, he don’é want to hurt my feelings by saying * am the other |thing and belong to the Incivilized with the varying profile It may be aidegation for the tastes of women whiskers out. 3—Big Indian. | by exactions and indulgences that are equally unreasoning. Most children have |‘ telling | Which {® perhaps, why so many of our teachers are exosilent mothers to —-_ / { N Englishman has suggested that, as a mark of respect to King George, every loyal Britisher shoul proceed forthwith to grow a beard. To weat | TTY | Of course, only the American hetrem need care what an Englishnian doce within his own tribe, clan or family!’ | +, nis tace, but #o meny of our men met thelr fashione from One thing only may we bope for in the event of “t'm afraid Dinkston put one ove- on! ang that ia the employment of landscape gardeners Women have learned the Japerienee puff the heir « trifle more on side, or let it droop on fascinating on one cheek, while a touch of piquancy would be At any rate, if men must revert to the beard, let them have 6 Mttle Legends of. Old New York By Alice Phebe many mothers ought to €0 to echool. would at the same time be a tribute to | says this would-be reformer. Londen shaven American countenance is net that eight be clipped to the ghapes of fancy and empy an expwt to ly | se ech binnaelinaca Eldridge. tribes.” “I don't hold no spl! Bepler, the butcher, decided to elope with Winnlecok. N Esopus Valley, at the place! All trace wae lost of them for @ lotig | eslled Big Indian, there stood} time, until, one dey, Winniscok having until. few years ago, when &/gone (own the valley to—et least ee thi mailroad company covered 1 oso mu know !f that law ts passed yet that you~ with en embankment, a tall can't carry a pistol and shoot people? 1, D!ne tree with @ hollow trunk, The read in the Staate-Zeltung that Big Tk | ory that eurrcunded it ts this, Sullivan 1s got such a law,” Long, long ago, when the wifite setters ‘Nhe Sullivan measure against the in-/Nad been in this country but @ short discriminate sale of fire arms hae not| me, there lived in Esopus Valley an yet been pawsed,” sald Mr, Jarr. Indian, seven feet tell, by name Winn! “Weil, then, I got to hurry up and|#00K, called by the white people “Big shoot him," gald Bepler, “When ta he| indian." He loved, a» wae common in coming around?” Lory Gare a welte sul, Orrtrine Mars Wha Sey Pete ei clan tn ‘nlovens|ieved him in return, but her people ob- The unten baad! "| Jected to the ufion and ehe was finally But Bepler was sullenly angry. forced into marrying @ Joseph Bundy, @ “You fellers may be suckera and put | ea Of her awn race, but @ mighty poor up with It," he sald “but J been think+ + Sersrude e200 Gaee ve ing It over, We each bet him 4 doilar, mith of her peo: didn't wer" y all nodded. Tow much did he bet? asked Bep- ler. “ie bet a dollar, too,” maid Slavinsky. | “Phen if wet had won the bet we] would have got a dollar, But be wino the bet and gets * dolar from each of! us." For Her Father’s Sake. os] WAS retandiag with you." anid tho out Mr. Jarr, “and he| wed his dollar from me, and |¢ away In such a hurry he didn't | 4 no pay it back." | well!’ said"Gus, philosop What we care? A man who b ni) at's #0," 6 own, according to the tell me the truth about my bo don't ask me to Ao that, Th te Do you dare to look mo in the face that she is never likely to be able un very sorry, wiz, but ff yon will gompel 14,0 evens Ue truths Ma tn yor ma." “Then boy to ee! him, tov man keep onto: novody thinks to buy eny cas me for what he @inks,” hee | a Sari hare path hese letting ber come, hare for (wo years 18 Good moner tn return for your lceson ong Fvoung iadien they enn't sing they #9 98 phe Clocs below, and be abemges 3| 667 PUT « cow men to work a | tai ral hoon Somme tp 1 asi + et yieuat wing deme why th saat roatyot ine day.” bp perige A | ra version of the a .” y 1 have wished 10 sorve you, alt, Whene | wa, my foot on &. sight. But tater, Gertrude, standing upright—etone der * Then the broken hearted woman brows her dusky children to the place refusing to leave, epemt the rest of Gays mourning by her loved one's ith SEL te ———— How It Happened. . Tis frienda, "and left hin’ tag | the foreman, It was @ clas | waan't exactly used to, but 1 entely started 1 visited anoth |e ae ee in — eet together rd