The evening world. Newspaper, June 28, 1911, Page 16

RE 3 eee ee es - . _ . 7 — a ee eee ee a i i | | ie A in See | 1 as a I a es The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, peee 20, teee iz Such Is Life! What Do Girls Read? orld. Gud pam Company, Nos, 68 to 63 a By Maurice Ketten. | Canvass of Women Wage Earners’ Literary Tastes | Shows Interesting Phases of Feminine Nature wv, N a anavs, SHAY: Pres. end. ‘ress . JOSE ti PU } 17 vED. Junior, Bec'y. Park’ Row Park Row. -Cines Matter nd tho Continent and in tho International tthe Poat-Oftice at New York aa Bec to. The Evening | For England nited States — All Countels GOOD Bye, DEAR . HAVEN'T Time, (MUST tal Union 4 Good EYENING DEAR \ DIDN'T, DEARIE, Comvright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York World), Gre fetis + O00 One aonth ae hag Wn rae aly mY TRAIN You FORGOT To LM SMOKING S 11K matority of novel readere are women. Especially women whe —_—_—_— aoe eae LA . Kios ME work for a living,” said @ publisher recently. The average girl—thousands of her—traveling to and from worm, * is usually deep in @ library novel. As soon as her newspaper te finished, she opens her book and becomes lost in its pages. What {s she reading? And why? Fiction ts often her only means of rising for the time out of her own world of toll and petty economies, into a realm of | fancy. What eart of literature does she choose for that end? As @ psychological etudy Into girl-nature the reply would be vitally interesting. The Evening World has endeavored to find the solution by canvassing the literary tastes of representative working girls. At @ glance, the results will show | that the flashy, eensational “dime novel” epoch 1s long past that the works | ma girl of to-day hae startlingly original and discriminating in fiction reads ing. | No. 2 ~"I Like Maeterlinck; Modern Novels Are Trashy,” Says FRANCES DUNN, Saleswoman. | 9OR LIKE Maeterlinok’s works better than any novel I ever read in my fife ondabettt Seb atnmes adt . I I cannot {magine any more beautiful things in the world than the ones first, 500 second he puts into his books. 4 000 thi Frankly, it' eeeme to me that most and) vund modern novels are rather trashy and class. This means not worth even the time it takes to a quarter of a million dollars skim then. paid in passage VOLUME 81.... 00000. ceveee LONG FELLOWS “OF THE OCEAN. DAY the world’s biggest ehip, the White &tar liner Olympic, eaile from New York .NO. 18,208, on her firet east ward trip, carry ing a total o ICAN'T, I'VE 4 PIPE’ IN “e MOUTH Tuvge ! want To Divorce THIS BRUTE . HE be To SSES ISS ME Mrs. Edith Wharton fs the author most worthy of serious consideration on money alone for sometimes rather cruel, but he at least the single trip. had something to aay and was in earn- est about saying it. o by 19 ‘ ; y the stylist. In one of hia booke—"The exceeding by 120 fect the C anarder Mauretania, till now the world’s | { f é Sowi''—thete lo & gules toEktes record ship in size, with a length of 762 feet. The Olympic has al of-fact captain a motive-searching, displacement of 45,000 tons, to the Mauretania’s thinks he thinks the old captain site exceeded 25 knots an hour, while the Olympic thus far has done no| teage ve a fags and groans: “Oh, Lordy, Lordy! better than 22. In the matter of size, the Olympic is not long to stand alone, for thie side of the Atlantic, The Olympic is I like Henry James very much indeed, 00. The latter, word-twisting wife. After a monologue Mr, James sometin David Graham Phillips wee orude, 8821-2 feet long, | when he isn’t too much the mere ” : from her on what somebody thinks ehe however, is stil] the champion “greyhound” for speed, having often! asin on nrouses a similar feeling in his readers, but at his beat, e of the short stories {n ‘The Better Sort,” I find him unapproachadle, ; Rage ‘ ; I i!ke George Meredith {mmensely as well, I doubt {f there 1s a more fault. her sister ship the Titanic will have the same dimensions, as wil! less character delineation {n all Mterature than his monumental depiction of also the next Hamburg-American liner. And all these will be out-| “The Ee : classed if the promised new Cunarder, not yet launched, comes up| to expeciations, This evolution of transatlantic leviathans is bringing about chonges in other matters than those of time, speed and distance, One of the most striking hereabouts concerns the landing piers in the North River, where up to the present time all the great ocean liners have docked in comparative peace and comfort. | At this point the river is scarcely a mile wide, and it is lined | “iis women are very charming and wonderful, too; If just a itttte bit tun | Then I read Kipling and Hewlett and Galsworthy—not to mention @, B, Wy | who {# a dramatist with three novels to his credit, because they all know how | to make people. That 1s how I$ 1F You MARRY AGAIN | WouLD ADVISE You To KISS Your on ) TJuvge twant Te | He Wises Tis BRUTE Too mae MATRIMONIAL. | Bureau (ge a book. T want to read stories with PEOPLE in them, | 1 care so very much more for the character drawing than I do for the plot, Of course there has to be a plot in order that the people may exiat, but ff, when I read of them, I can see what they think and feel 1 don't realy mind if they accomplish comparatively little. I want to read about REAL people—good, bad or indifferent. ‘Their badness can never offend me {f it's set down In truth and honesty. As to the manner of telling, I won't read bad Bnelish, Just as I wouldn't with the long docks on both the Manhattan and the New Jersey | / iiteen to a song out of tune, and I want my music and my books as beautifully hanks. Recollect, there are only 5,280 feet in a mile. Now, if a} u é =] | expressed as possible. steamship a thousand feet long (such dimensions will soon be reached at the present rate) backs out from a thousand-foot picr on this side of the stream and the same thing occurs simultaneously on the other side, you have practically a pontoon bridge all the way across the | Hudson. This is what might hap- pen, but of course must not, on any aniling day in the near future. What are the Dock Commission- era and the Inter- national Mercan- tile Marine Com- Legends of Old New. York By Alice Phebe Eldridge Copyright, 1011. by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The New York World). ered thetr peaks tm homage to the Heer, Dunderberg. the keeper of the mountain, so they UNDERRBERG— “Thunder | were aeidom molested. Mountain"—etanding et the| But once Skipper Oureleticker of Fish- extreme southern gate of the | kill was beset by @ terrific equall; the Hudson Highlands, # the| Heer appeared out of the mist end, mythical home of certain | straddling the bowsrrit, atesred the | smn of &@ great stoutness and of @| boat etraigm for the rocks, Luckliy | great shortness, ‘Their loader, the Heer, | there was & parson on board this trip, Mr. Jarr Is Suspected of Spiriting Him Away. | ta always dressed in the costume of the | who ntarted @ to Saint Nicolaus, en nennnnannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnt Help! Clarence Is Stolen! Clarence Is a Horse. Dutch settlers of two ccaturies ago,; Either the goblin could not endure | and always carries a speaking ¢rum-|the spéritual etrength of ¢he song, oF ; Copyright, 1011, by The Pres Publishing Co, °-s reminds me of something, Let me 0 . | pet, through which he bellows his or-| ite ears were offered by the worthy pany going to do ions ea tet POT eect Yon, haceicait pp penny ttle! PSE 6 col oem we | Sea out of my beat I'll run the three of | ders for the releasing of winds and the | domince’s einging—et any rate, he shot it? ; . Then he turned to the man from| who was now threatening te t Mr. sok a 5 iC | kindling of itghtntnes. \upward like @ ball and, riding off with about it? Alread, By Roy L. McCardell, | nrookirn and repeates ponawousy:” "| insaion and Clarence behy | Mr "Diauacons tating” tne ners |, Theme ore are tmmndately put into | he ene, ook the plentcap of te par they are blocking is my horse? Where You have presented your Mill, Berry, wplagegahon rm {ee on, turning to Mr. Berry: | exeeution by the Heer's imps, and many | son's wife and hung ft on the weather- Mr. Berry rushed up and seized hts! You hav . ; , . y horse” cried an ex-| before it ts due, Berry; your father, the é | e@ @ carriage and I have @/q ship ts in dire pert! of foundering | cock of Eeopus steeple, forty miles out vast projects EA iaeug eke varatins [Wage Bey oudis BAN Gol tase Proce horns by be brass ene Cae tasense Horses le us pool issues. You,” here] when eo waylaid. Often, especlally tn | away. Be a oe Ath Me caeeny je era cna Re de a mighty endeavor to i be- | he glanced keenly at Mr. Berry's wh!8-| tne more distant times, cai ne er RE into Gux's cafe on] goons, Henrys but I don't eare al oved owner in the fa Kers, “are from Brooklyn, I take it?” | (Re, more distant times, has the sugar: | The Absentecs. Montauk oint, ormer, ; J ere ve jour hands from that am, and you'll never get me in Har- | " Pt De dashes aid of . Take them o He got no further, for, emitting a * commanded Mr. Dinkston. “Of-| lem again except," here Mr. Herry's ets paces heletiue toy sD lrg iat | T 18 9 one of the old sevies told ty Hens We oi c multin “1 BS beyon 1 a nich lows of Travers, the New York sta Long Island, some STAR ada FECL RULE Pe aa et gentoo ner | linted,, “unless for business reanons! I! 00 teary puers end ad the hat epiim | «ie aie Crore hmva fonts that the ave Long Island, som | Mr. + It's MY horse!” retorted Mr. Rerry.|am not a philanthropist, but I'd bury | mM : 3 ‘ Wall street broker is the inost hopest of men, | 126 miles from the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal in New York Hously, + and he) Brooklyn mortuary Girector rushed “My_rig is up around the corner down | everybody in Harlem tn Arst class styie| drew ve he clouds, haw the la ne yee ate ge ge “4 J e 8 a a a ‘OC “ a rk rave . 7 y 7 4 “A [ , save a yank at|from the place. the mext binde iy horse knows sa6.| 2 at |drew up the clouds, has the danger to roeet et @ yacht remetta, City. A party of these officials, with some steamship men, made the left, lank side} “Come, Gus," sald Rafferty, “that | you can see that.” “Then. bitehing Up Clarence he drove | Ze Vessel been past. We ae Leela oe hecae the run recently in one hour and fifty-five minutes, demonstratin WHlaMOr OE tne eRe| waaint scale! “Yes, 1 can see he knows you," aata| that sagest of steeds and Mr. Dinkston| Af the enclent Dutoh mariners who Neier. He famed Bai ; . strating cited aan, | “By golly," said Gus proudly, “I got) the policeman, “and {t looks Ike the| pack to Brooklyn, where thoy all be-| Pict slong the Hudson River aps that Montauk Point is actually but two hours from New York. “My carriage 4s| such a memory lke that feller Shakes-| mecting of two old friends with a/ longed my. "| proached Dunderberg they alwaya low: : outside, but my'| beer."* ° : It is apparent, therefore, and has been repeatedly r hai ts A srudge, yr wen repeatedly pointed out, horse {s — gone! All Mr. Berry had to do, now that he| ‘The equine !s my falr won spoil," that the establishment of a port of entry at the eastern extremity continued the ex+| nad continued on the quest of the de-|cried Mr. Dinkston. ‘Mine by the favor bd tah alka aa alae il al als dala alia . cited man, as he ” " c 7 ue e of Long Island wonld cut down by at-loast four hours tho lenct te p parted Clarence, was to follow the| of the Goddess Fortuna! ’ h is “4 de A Z a eng! h] outtoned dis whiskers under 1 9 coat| crowd, Mr. Dinkston, who had won| “I don’t kaow the party you speak The Day s e a an on as iOns of the trip from a European port into the heart of New York City. a Shes them from the vandals of | ciarence in the raffle, was endeavoring | of,” sald the policeman, “but if you Good Stories In other words, we can already see in the mind's eye the Maure-| te sss Ge taxing nie ove trom |'2 "alk the horse down the eidewaix, | dont take thle horwe off the aitewalk Oars tania’s famous Queenstown-to-New-York record of 4 days 10 hours| the free and easy air of indifference Va aE oletn Sennen : 9 waist with un- and 41 minutes lowered to 4-6-41, Mr. Jurr, Mr. angle, Mr. Rafferty and r 1 Tie Colonel and the Cards. der-arm gores hia ix other customera bore toward | fate = as —|u tt | (OL, CWCIL LYON, the Republican National ia ono of the latest he, ee ted neweom r “Bay,” he , IC Commie teas’ Stee Rn developments of that ? peated, er Whoever-you-are, let By Sam I oyd one night to elt ine poker game in New favorite model, This me ax you something: Do you sleep | York, says the Popular Magazine, The play had one can be made just tters rom t e eople mit your whiskers outside the blenkit | ee a (Row ghana new om ‘Mustrated, # can or under it?’ \e mad Wane Se eipong Gee, be Be ean out ew form A stack of chic. ‘Never mind my whiskers, ert” ree) On the net and dealt the Colonel ed. three equare neok and it 35 South William Street * | tortad the excited stranger. ‘I want iny | soon ‘The newoomer drew three carts, and can be made with en A . and my mother gave me one month's! jorge, Who's got Clarence? | the Colonel said, in « nonchalant, bored manner, | applied yoko and col- Mumat io’ the address’ of the French|"ent and keeps me and my children from | “tet me see," anid Mr. Jarr, felgn- | Ang Ey | ‘tar of all-over lace or Congulate in New York? J. Moc, [MANNE | And he is loafing in saloons |ing to endeavor to remember, “Did I |e" Colonel “raised the stranger raloed a a Sey nd he can't bring @ dollar home from | have nin? Well, well! 1 must have jee enele le A Hightning Query. wil hie good friends. I tel him we wil | misiaid him, How forgetful h ‘The other man sp1 sette effect, and the To the Ratitor of The Dreuing World have to break up our home and he tells ee ree ee ER Ta, 30, He bed bald the sleoves can be gath- wm who understands 18} ve sure jack and queen, red into bands or left fome one who understanda|me not to let anything stop me, that |” "You told me you were going to take te Colonel, looking Uke @ man et loose, Im edition to nelenoe tell me whether water ts a|ho wilt put the children in an institution. | inet horse home and paste nin 4 of ¢ dear relative, remarked in shrill ton ita other advantages, nonconductor of Mhtning to such an|icindly give me wise advice, readers. : ith Nes oh ONE |" Down in my Gtate when a man dew | the plain wadst makes extent that @ person in bathing cannot ara, B. | SOmeDeok,” auswested Rafferty [tthe that comebody lee Grawe © gun.” | an excellent founda- be etriuok by Hghtning? This ought Witew Muon ky sold him to the second | —— | tion for the favorite to interest many, now that the bathe ro ine waiter of The Broving Worlds MO PUBS OR $a) e Hat raok,"| | A Strange Specte of Deer. embroidery, braiding tag eeenon 15 on, AJ. EX and ¥ and X and ¥ and ¥ of X Meet Pent cer etniea ca) ‘cried|| ee sag peal To (tw Diitor of The Breving World ged a Ae Seah ow SA Would | Mr. Herry, the Brooklyn undertaker, | | h Is ® man born in the United States Tite ¥. ¥ ‘and it's grand larceny, for Clarence | | leudiiaad 40 Mia vate without waking ap- B, most sagacious and valuable | tems ja we tat {he listening neck seems piioation for oltizen papers, even if nis! 4 FEV) SCRAPS OF arse ; 4 Or a ae parents have not yet become natural | Ladi I'll look in the foe b said Gua, » ised? MG. | ODD INFORMATION, maybe vomeboay put h mn ry [ation a time, he ove nih sonal sate effect ie destred, oWh ari awnal | fravie tneasiness, ‘mont a i can be aps Wante t Stop Blushing. ° | Lav neh of youl la oir. award for comfort. filed (on indicated tic cah wattior of tte Brenina Word | mankind signifies in. the b f inaliy the youngster asked to be excised and | ines, aquare nec ; ae la chow eae was 1 from in frout of where Uh ft frome cha going tno the best” in fe'fited, the arate on nN Can any one help me overcome the Bro. A De cut’ on the same habtt of dlushing when any tw ation of the Italian Prof : | Une, speaking» to me or whenever I 1 L Ww va has figured out, amor | or A 6 medium Mena te iio strest? Xam eaty nee, that estimating the world’s ; | pizo will be requtred years old and it 1s very embarrassing Population as 1,(00,00,00, the whole | 37 Te ees to me and makes me seem backward, eo at Eresent living could » blind fol REatake CabeGmn le next own, 1 yards 44 inches i GRACH tably s to shoulder tn an |?! y i i pe SARIES sia Ps ah @ yard ae | inaead “a 2 e environs of see ta Nee eis A Wife's Grievances. ages of five hundred aquare miles, ‘his man Jarr shall | Gallant F.re Laddle. Wile and Ta yard of | Te the Editor of The Eveuing Workd Among the very ,|pay for the loss of my horse, and fn Tiinala town yon eam flud on the map inert Lett What Kaind und wie reader ean ad! werg goto vot tare Ota aia pay me Wl dor-the: hive | then fle arinent line an enea en) woven Hn hal View ehudren, and my husband thinks 80] gerson and Andrew Juc kson, considera. Mother, aw they positively refuse to pay lee RS, CHAIRMAN,” said the; has defeated the motion by a majority | ann with ‘pote tape that fuudtosted | Plain Peasant Walet—Pattern No, 7060, ate doa ane 4 much of his friends and his drink that! ply more than @ feet In height. Among {t! Jarre tn here and I want him M secretary, “the call for @| of two, berth ot mare. mpl calaitaecont cl Ap lis “tae 4 i j ‘ ; nan AARC ORLA R ODOR RADIAL LION Nase nes ieee, Ta git 8 # NOMS | thone of 6 feet and over muy be men- | Peinted out to mel’ AtamdIng Vote Sed ee eee tome ater timed ‘on le hor ne Call at THM EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION — . Bag! at Pe Be | Stoned Samuel Adams, George Washing- ‘It's rude to point,’ said Mr, Rangle | motton to be carried by a majority pd se | Me aA “not gone ft flags BURBAU, Lexington evenee and Twenty-third street, or send by works steady " gives out o | ton, Ltnooin, Biemarck, Thackeray, | @Weetly. jequal to one-fifth of the opposition, | «RECIPROCITY PUZBLE” SOLVED, | in a ee ‘ependi malt to MAY MANTON PATTERN CO, Us L. Twenty-thirg street, eg ais tata deena | Charies Daruty Hours Ward Beecher | Sve 0 sa) ORs ge Se tn ae at a ern Reciprocity ts epelied out with the | RY Ait ver NX. Wand ton. ronte. im Gale of Mamare far. eorh pattern “Urdared f 4 81.10 $01 Rufus Choate and Dante! O'Connell. The | J4FF Pointed out to me!" repeat o to ft & dozen alatere| movable dlocka by @hifting them in| m, b\y and pay for my husband's clothes, ac. ; ‘There's a bia bi lst of famous men of medium hetght fe | S2STY Ondertaxer, “My name te Berry, | trom eftting Gown @0 aa to record| tm, Now, he has not worked since|jong, including Browning and Yohn|! want my Dill pat their votes in the negative, the @rat of Jemexy. W. evited Adams, ‘"Wadt © minute,” sak Gus solemnly, © see Meh mA. following onde VOGhLARR ERO & ere emt ed seca? pectty give wanted, AGA two conte for letter postage tf in 4 we wish IMPORTANT.Write your e@trese plminiy and always |