The evening world. Newspaper, May 27, 1911, Page 10

oy World. Qubpattes Company. Nos. 68 to 63 New York, | JOSEPH PULITZER, Junior; See'y, | 63 Re ark Row, The : Partiened Dally Except Sanday py,the 2. ANGUS SHAW, Pres. and Tress. 63 Park Row with those of thie city taken Inet year show #0 small a relative increase for the decade as to render | it virtually certain that within the near future we shall have in an equal area the larger popu-| lation of the two. The showing ia distinctly flat. | ; tering to our pride, but not #0 clearly encouraging | ; to our hope. For while pride can boast itself over having the largest | population of any city in the world, our hope is to have a well gow | erned city. And what statistics promise that? When shall our streets be better paved and kept than those tf London, our police better managed, our fire risks eo low, our pubway system of transportation eo sufficient to public needs? When shall our municipal budgets show such efficiency of administration along with euch economy of expenditure? We are going to exceed London in population, and some day we fre going to surpass her in all forms of metropolitan endeavor, but pet. while Tammany holds the throne. eS WATER WASTE PROBLEM. PROPOSAL to enforce a practice of economy by putting a meter into every building where water is used has been met by the objection that such a step would diminish the uee of water among the tenement districts and thereby tend to prevent cleanliness. How far the objection is valid sere cannot be known until the experiment has been tried. t According to the reports of experts on the subject, the menace \j of a water famine during the coming summer is due not so much to an uneconomical use of water as to a sheer waste of it. It seems we permit a large percentage of the supply to run to waste without using t it at all. This can be checked by a proper inspection and supervision t water pipes and faucets, without the necessity of imposing a meter end a tax upon every family. The one thing that emerges clearly out of the discussion of the rubject is the fact that the so-called consumption of water in this city is out of all proportion to that of many other cities. We have an average use or waste of upward of one hundred gallons a day for each inhabitant. Other cities that are just as cleanly as we manage to get along on less than half that average. If we can stop the waste there will be no immediate need to limit the use. cece piace THE TOUCH OF NATURE. OLLOWING the publication in The Evening World of the story of Mrs. Mary Meyers, who, with her four children and her aged mother, was being evicted from her home at the very time when a mesenger came to tell her that her ten-year-old son had been killed by a kick from a horse, there came from the readers of the paper a epontaneous | response of sympathy and of helpfulness. Every dollar thus contrib- uted virtually counted double, because it came quickly, because it met the immediate emergency at the very instant of need. The most significant feature of this response from the public is that it came in the form of comparatively small contributions. The givers are not rich. heir contributions came from the sincerity of f true eympathy and not from the ostentation of an overflowing purse. Jt was a genuine humanity, a real charity of the heart. In the midst of the daily recurrence of crimes and follies it is) gratifying to be able to record such things as this. It is a proof | that “the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin” is a touch of sympathy in time of sorrow, a sense of friendliness toward Bhose that need friends though we may not have known them. SS ee | DYE STUFF DANGERS. i ARNINGS against the danger to children involved in the sale of cheap ice creams and summer drinks have been again put forth by authorities on the chemistry of foods. It appears that aniline dyes are used to color the stuffs to give them the out- ward show of fruit juices. The thirsty consumer thinks he is getting the fine syrups of strawberry or raspberry or cherry, when as a matter of fact and fraud he is swal- | lowing a preparation colored by coal tar. | Some of these so-called ice creams are prepared in such a way | t! they can be “conserved” for a long time. Pee \y Specimens of them pur-| bacterin, And it is not always the cheap shops that deal in them. | , Summer time brings many dangers, especially to the young and | to the poor from the taint of disease. But we might at least keep sophisti- |» cations off the market. There is no reason why we should be given dye stuffs to drink when we ask ‘ tor ice cream. oe i Letters From the People \ The Drag © ke fo the Editor of The Evening World I read recently an article which spoke | for lemonade, or ask | » we of the “thin, white, undermaed drug-! feild. ‘Tits cirsie saving & radia ae gist's clerk.” Facts prove that tne! 10 soot 4 Seouial Tetris drug clerk generally ives to @ ripe Old) feet (ioxinx LAA’ AuGatS f401) age, and when we consider his hard! put since the ba at work, close confinement and long hours, | mei it ts. « tent t o 1 think we must admit that he ts not feed all around it and conseque such a Weakling after all PC. arauna lk 8 aan cannot feed within a tcirele, ‘The The Horse and the Rope, ize of the barn t aqua Ho the Editor of The Evening World area must be 1 ( One of your readers asks for the square Therefore land of square fect of answer to the following problem: “A ihe erazes ts barn 2% feet long and 2% feet wide ts tn | iii up the centre of a field of grass A horse and fe tied at one corner of the barn with, w © rope 100 feet long. How many equare t (Aron, nich 4# 90,791 square feet 3. B sULLIVAN \] the old saying goer ser den krankhett !* g00d health is better than bad health.” re ts stock that wa going to marry again, and #0, My! she fa nh painful reflection the tungstarter chased on the streets or in shops have been found to be swarming with | t It is not always easy to keep nature’s own fruit free |" The Evening World Mr. and Mrs. By Roy L. McCardell. i, landeman, wie gehtat’ sald Gus fovially, as Mr. Jarr came into the popular cafe on the corner. “T ain't seen you for a long time. Mr. Jarr was taken aback by this unwonted cordiality, “What the matter with you? Have you insulted and driven away your west custom- ere that you should be s diithe and gay?" No," said Gua, “tt ain't that, but, ae ‘Genundhett te di Which means that “I'm glad your health 1s #0 good that makes you happy,” said Mr. Jarr, “Oh, my health ts all right, but my ifo's healtl {t ain't good at all, hat's ba aid Gus. sald Mr. Jarr. “When my Lena she . then phe ts afraid I'm nd pleasant!” you do not encourage euch ventured Mr. Jarr, “T hope “Here you!" cried Gus, ploking up the amgstarter, “you drop ft “You drop it!’ said Mr, Jarr, meaning If you make any hos- ystration at me I'l draw a ree rand stab you!" s eyed him a moment and put down tem 6 bungstarter ‘Of course T ain't going to hit you ith it,’ he said, “because you owe me vur dollars and efghty and if I a4 to crack you In the oe mit al arter or anything then you'd AV) An OXcUs not to pay me. But 1 Best Roasted, keep roasting our and! she's afraid she's going to dle," replied Daily Mag azine, Sat urdey. May 27 : J By Maurice Ketten = —e Hurry uP! THis WA JOHN TOTRAINS -< g AAP AAnnnne ohn. Tentered at the Post-Offico at New York as Second-Ciass Matter Budecription Rates to The Evening | For England and the Continent ané, _. World for the United States AML Countrles tn tho, Internatio | JOHN, 17 GOING TOBUY A F me ND Obs Romie + $9.55 | One Moni LITTLE THINGS = I'LL HAVE Tem JOHN ¢ One Month.. 80) One SENT HERE. They CAN'T Deu VOLUME Bliivisossveverse woevecveen veovsasNO, 18,176, IN THE ae — ——$—$—$—$$_— _ bet pian in TIM! me SURPASSING LONDON. ||| Sunoay TATISTICS of the London censns compared! AFG uTTe | | To Conmute! | | Give you @ warnation that you can’t use) they mean even if I don't understand em big worde to me. I know what them.” The Browe Brothers (Hiram and Loerum) By Irvin S. Cobb \66 | during a moment of leisure; being, in fact, engaged in skimming through a fascinating and chatty treatise on Zymology. “Let me see now—how does thet quotation run: ‘Oh, BET me see sow,” mused Hiram, as he laid down volume “Yiz to Zyz” of the Eneyclopedia from which he was culling a little ight reading woman, !n your hours of ease’ "— | “Forget {t!" said Loerum, breaking tn in his crass, \ crude way. ‘The only way that quotation runs {9 for Sweeney. Woman doesn't have any hours of ease any more. She used to, When she did all the housework and raised a family of eight or nine children and took in plain sewing and cooked for a family of ten and two hired men, and in betweer spells made bedqutlts, rag carpets, clothes for the heathen and quince preserves that would win first prize at the county fair, she had her hours of ease when she'd sit down to the cottage organ and render ‘The Blue Danube’ and otler sultable selections, But she doesn't any more. “These times she's too much engaged. A vactum cleaner sweeps her floors and an electric cooker prepares the food. A patent attachment plays the plano for her, and the only little thing she haa running around the house {s a chow dog, but she doesn't have any hours of ease, She's far too busy, what with the {desnands of soctety and the requirements of sport, dress, drama and the need of travel, not to mention the Suffrage Movement and the Emanuel Movement and the Swoboda Movement and all the other llttle movements that have a mean- ing of thelr own only nobody can find out what they are. If the stork comes mooning around the flat she warns him that he's at the | wrong adc deeply interested in the welfare of the heathen Jas her grandmother was. But she doesn’t have any hours ef ease until the rest Jeure sanitarium claims her for {ts own, and even then she can’t rest for thinkin Jof what {t's costing her by the day, } “Just Msten to this,” went on Loerum as he picked up the paper and glanced |down an article headed ‘Fashionable Folk See Exciting Matches:* ! “Mrs, White found herself stymted on the green while Mrs, Brown was practically dead after only four strokes. Mrs, Pink In attempting to jump the ball with a mashls knocked the other into the hole, At the elghteenth tee Mrs, Gray-Green was dormle and Miss Mauve won, with seven up, running down two of her first puts ‘ou'd think,” continued Loerum as he dropped the paper, “that T was reading you the horrible account of a female massacre. But {t appears the |ladies were merely playing golf, I <atlier as much after reading on for a couple | te | up twte ns. A pleasant time was had by distr Land the lst of the eset « as much space as the Mr. Jarr Decides (With a Little Moist Help From Outside) That It Isn’t Such a Bad World After All | stair to live in? | “I was only saying I hoped you didn’t! talk to your aick wife about marrying — |egain,” explained Mr. Jarr. “Oh, don't I!" rejoined Gus, “It's the only time I can do it when she is @ick. By gollies! I say to her, ‘Never mind, Lena, it’s all right! If you should die I can marry your cousin Christina; and then there {@ Bepler, the butcher, hie h @ fine, grown up girl that would make & g004 wife, and she has got money by her grosemutter dying on her!’ By Chimminetty! I don't know who my| wife don't ike the most when T say| that, her cousin Christine or Bepler Lisle. Sho'a so mad mit them that she fa nice to me.” ‘Well, run your own affairs in feat) own way,” counselled Mr. Jarr, ‘but it'e queer to see you in such a «ood| humor when your wife ts sick and busi-| ness ts #0 bad. "Oh, my wife #he ain't so very sick, | {t's only indiscretion,” aid Gus, “Indiscretion?” repeated Mr. Jerr. “You mean indigestion. “On, what's the difference?” replied Gun. “Don't they mean the same thing.” Mr. Jarr, after thinking a moment, had to admit that they did, In a meas- ure, “You gee," said Gus, “I'm a feller with an education. And I got senae, You ses, I was worrying about my Lena, because) the doctor charges me more for coming to see her than he pave me when he! comes to see me, And, am for business, | I waa worrying myself to death about it, And then [ sald to myself: ‘T ain't going to die that way!” Good!" said Mr, Jarr. ‘ure! aald Gus, “Ain't I got a good stand here? Atn't [ got a nice place up- Bight rooms, three of them mit furniture in them, If my Lena should dle, couldn't I marry her cousin Christine or Bepler'a Lizzie? Besides, my Lena has ineurance to bury her, And, as f sald to her when T told her all this; ‘What have we got to worry about “Lm glad that philosophical reflec tlon convinces you of your enviable re- lation to the scheme of things entire,” said Mr. Jarr, ‘As @ friend,” said Gus earn) thy, ing details of the game, “as a frlend Lam etying you a wa You'd also think that ly had been stymied and dormte and driven! ation that if you talk to me that way [into @ hole In the ground with a mash samo day, she'd be ready! Til hit you, What furisbuneshun have \for the hosplt it It seems not siie'll take a look-tn on anj you to come in my tiquor store and Ibsen matinee and then attend a tea f t of The Cat talk that way to me‘! Then his face | wind up a pleasant evening moking a feav at the Ritz broke into smiles, “By gollles! 1 guess it that's one place wh we mere men stil! on them, ‘There are 1 can talk some cf that Mnkston talk, mighty few Women that can smoke in public and look as if they were enjoying , too * ad “That jurist themselves at it. Personally I never knew but one that could, She lived in the ty a dandy, aint {t? I'll use Stato of A sas, 8) reed a pipe a ani sometimes she Slavinsky and tell hin am A@ipped sm’. But she didn't belong to the modern school of advanced thought Swede, What'll we hav jan he wouldn't count | “We need rain, There's a water woman has abolished the hour of ease-abolished St for herself} shortage,” sald Mr. Jarr land for everyvody et well ay invaded the learned professions and} “I didn't say t we needed, T sald, taken up law, medicine, burg other Ines of endeavor that used to be- |W we have?” retorted Gus 1o the feobler sex, She's copping all the medals at tennts, horseback rid- | cold one for me,” replied Mr. | ing, bridge Whist and trap shooting, [t's oniy a question of time until she'll be! Javr, “and’I'm glad to see you in good putting the shot, winning the pole vaulting cham wntest and sitting on) humor,’ lthe Supreme Court Sem black silk gown w fi poves and a polonatse always In good humor,” sald | | t on the overskirt nothing for us, except to commit sui-| au ma regular occulist.”” | ort Me sea ai “Well, that's one way of looking at All levity aside,” sald Hiram, “1 understand that a woman has been ser- said Mr, Jarr, yes right!” | tousty posed for Mayor of New York And then they took an observation, Phen,’ satd Loerum, in a resigned tone, 8 Indeed time to remove the men [and Goth felt that it wasn’t such a bad apd boys to # piace of safety.” eld world after all. Nixola Greeley-Smith’s Little Talks With Women 1.— What Is Woman’s Best Age ? 2.—As to the “Core of Life.”’ 3.—Love’s Beautiful Kingdom. Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York World). Wisin Justice life itself may render to women no longer young and who have ceased to possess that swaying slimness which sug gests the breeze stirred daffodils of carly spring, the novelist until very recent years has given them scant consideration and less space. Tn plays, also, elderly women are too often presented as blind and narrow oppressors of youth. So that while the woman of more than forty years of age may fee) that life still has a job for her, she has also been compelled to realize that to the purveyors of romance she is merely a superannuated min later of fiction retired from the fleld of sentiment on third pa But Mr. Arnold Bennett, whe hae change! many th nes in what was antil the last few years the pale expurgatory of the novel in Eng ho recognized that the woman no longer young, no longer slender, no longe effervescent, 1s about the wisest and most interesting of human beings “Bundry experienced and fat old women, who ti child-bed and at grave sides had been at the very core of life for long years, who saw tore than most,” {s his characterization of the old wives in “Clay! er And in that one phrase he has defined the gr pas of the old woman She has been “at the very core of life,” and unless you are ¢ ne Huek- leberry Finn persuasion that “there ain't gvine to be any core,” you must admit that {s where al! of us would like to be wees HE core of i!fe is never sour, It Is the people who nibble aro’ 1 the edge that find {t less sweet than the rosy surfice led them to believe, At the core of life ts love. And those sad and futile and women who lov first one person and then another—they call it lov ast—are mere nibblers of the rind. Most of usa@ ibblers when we marry. Nearly every one who gets & divorce ts a nibbler—very apt to become a perpetual nidyler Over tn England a ver Interesting ard eviter ronte nibbler is an American woman novelist—Irene Sherard—who is sulin third husband and former secretary for eeparation. Perhaps you remember that Sherard, who was a friend of Oscar Wilde and !# mentioned const Wyoas “i. &." tn Wilde's letters from prison, recovered the value of #Ix pigs from his wire in a Britieh court some weeks 6 “When T needed m T rang for {fed the noveltst of her husband “But T didn’t treat him as a servant This certainly is matrimony with a high hand, and, rending of tt, one can't help sympathizing with the bewildered Britisher — RENF SHERARD-—or “Irene Osgood,” as she signs her novels—is an amex | ingly pretty woman, I saw her when she was over here several years ago saw her under rather unusual conditions; for she was {Il In bed in the filmtes and Incest of nightgowns, with a $50,000 rope of pearls about her neck. The husband whom she testified she summoned by a bell seemed an un- usually gentle, scholarly, angular Englishman; and one would have said then they Id grow okt In happiness, or at least content, togetner. I believe almost any two persons brought together by the mutual attraction of youth can Il happily ever after if they both try, ruling over the beautiful kingdom at the core of life. But, after all, so many nidblers, after all. cores are worm-eaten’ So there's an excuse for ———+4-— The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copy eight, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), GE TRROM the reports from New Ro-!panton, But thet F chelle,” rem ved the h dogs run at large to associate with their pol-jand are al Isher, “where they held a maas| Kind should not be allowed te play meeting Thursday | with ehtldren, Men and women qtck up night to protest|disease germs on the street and carry against the activ » thelr homes. A dog ts much tty of dog c hers, | more ly to ar germs, because he one might infer fe built yer to the ground and fa that the town has an investiga a paition, At tha gone to the bow-| I've never any more sickness wows.” In a house at harbored dogs thar. “phe aituatfhn at\in a home where a dog was not tol- New Rochelle,” | er said the laundry | Tn): vis anotner| Pre Name and the Job. } iMustration of the STN GREENY power that can be wielded a few determined people you get the declaration of with a grouch. A persistent, noisy m! Anna Shaw that men nerity can put the kibosh all ove foreign names shou quiescent. majority until the majority Rot 41 office?” asked the. he wakes up. “Dog haters are not numerous, halit of mind that dictate! |they are always busy. assertion ig common among they become active with the arrival of| strongminded no have 1 warm weather. ‘They a ght of the a ancestr writers and flood th newspapers witlt 1 the “Dr, complaints, One of their main issues in vy considera oh name iife Is to apread the fear of hydropho-|tinctively” American, bia. If they had their way all dogs would be put to sudden ¢ t | “No doubt {tis an V's personal priv- Hlege to hate dogs. For my part [can't | understand why anybody should feel) that way, because I lke dogs, Tv owned dogs ever since I was big enough to toddle around. And, believe me, the! friendship of a dog is something worth while. “Of 0} some people. seen a mad some dogs zo mad I have never he application of her tdea in the past would have amounted to a atrangl: dog. I have seen scores of dogs that| hold on the progress of the natiot were supposed to r it were only | George Washington had a foreten namic hungry, thirsty, tlred and excited | Patrick Henry's name was almost «« HN lost de andering around, kicked) foreign as that of Thomas F. Grad and bufte and dod missile’ | ‘The signers of the Declaration of Inde le to find water| oendence had foreign names, Abraharn | Lincoin would have been debarred fro: holding office if there had been a bo on forelgn names. President McKtnle\ ould not have bean elected, nor cou! ‘Theodore Roosevelt, who borate of the fifty-seven variettes of forelgn blood tn Dis veins, We would be ina bad wa to-day were it not for the part thet | | being played in etatesmanship and po! tles by men with what Dr. Shaw oa!'s ‘fovelgn names!” or food, ved, Perhaps he] foama 2 the mouth, ymebod sees] im and yells ‘Mad do that’s the] fr Cropsey'’s Last Cry. | finish of t JEHE BRN: NALA. se tea ol SEE," sald the head polisiier, at ity In no place tor 166] & : naw hateretwho live in the ‘that Commisstoner Cropsey in ’ e ntry is no F his expiring oMocial ery said he ihe Bh te thera; left the Police Denartment without re stay until the natural | T¢ s of mankind is dissipated, er, there is a degree of eration in caring for dogs over dog owners should not go. Put jewelled collar on a dog, furnishing a dog with siik-lined baskets to sleep in and equipping a lit twit a sw | er, boots and a hand of is not only foolish, but it embarrasses the dog. A| pampered dog Is always unhappy | “Peed a dog right and keep him| “Well,” ald the laundry man, “that! ‘alean and be is a jally, enjoyable com- makes (t unanimous,”