The evening world. Newspaper, July 5, 1911, Page 14

=sE- Ea Che # om orld. Published Dally Except Gunday by, the Prose Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 1 Park Row, . . 3. ANGUS SHAW, Pros. aud Tre JOSEPH PULITZER Juntor, Bec'y. 63 Park’ Row Fatered at the Post-oificn at New York ae Second; Matter Subscription fave to) The, Lvening| For England tinent, and Wort tor the detaten AU Counteto h roation tad Cans oe Tostel Unton. One Year or 5 . . One 30 VOLUME 52 a yetia nite iey exe NOL IOs ICE-CREAM-SODA READING MATTER. UMMER season for is open best the fie- The bonbon at its now, sellers in tion tine, hooks is right in July, when it is 1a! to find of vaca tion readers cager- sampling an height not u the army output of some two hundred new books, mostly novels, in a single week, The new ml generation of sen- timentalists wants its literature fresh every hour—or, to adopt a seasonable baseball simile, hot off the bat. Tt gets what it wants. Of course the product is frothy, but it “touches the spot,” like an ice cream soda, and there is no limit to the quantity that can be consumed. It may not be nourishing, but it is harmless. All this may not sound convincing, but it is a statistical fact that in the last ten years, thanks to yachts, camps, bungalows and country house parties, New York’s supply of summer reading matter has doubled. In 1900 the publishers put 7,000 new books on this market. In 1910 the number had jumped to 14,000. Naturally, this was not all fiction, but novels headed the list, the histories and biographies were largely romance-tinged, and the travels either full of adventure | or bright with humor. It doesn’t pay to publish dull hooks any more, and the necessarily serious ones are not so heavily charged with “fine writing” that you would notice it. Result: A widespread popular demand for the very latest in light reading, which the department stores supply as regularly and as co- piously as they do the weekly household orders for groceries. People nowadays do not bother catalogues, about authors, pub- lishers or much less about criticiams. They simply ask for a firkin of | romance, a dozen or two of detective stories, or twenty-five dollars’, worth of thrills, then skim over the whole bunch and select for them- selves. | Instead of sending flowers or fruit to friends departing on the ocean steamships, it is now the thing to offer bon voyage boxes of hooks, ‘The latter are almost as perishable as the former, but not quite, for instead of being heaved overboard at Sandy Hook the vol- umes are liable to lie scattered around the decks and cabins during all the trip across, and then they go to the officers and crew, or per- haps wind up on some five-foot bookshelf in the ship’s library. * Is this light literature habit extravagant? Not alarmingly so, asthe books are abundant and cheap, and the bargain counters show some slashing cuts in literary values, Scott and Dickens, Balzac and Bulwer Lytton are ruthlessly lowered to the twenty-five-cent level of F. P. Roe’s “Open- ing of a Chestnut Burr” or the latest of a hundred best sellers by the au- thor of “He Loved, but Was Lured Away. Tt is too hot to moralize much, but really there is no occasion for vain regrets about the comparative neglect of the standard authors. ‘They were grand old writers in their time, but now they are dead. Twentieth century readers’ fancy lightly turns to aviation, | motor cars and the wireless telegraph. ineorrigibly up to date. Even so modern a story-teller as Conan Doyle has been forced by them to resurrect his Sherlock Holmes and put him through an entirely new set of stunts in order not to be a Lack number, These fiction devourers are | [ Letters From the People | !n the shopping district. orld ' Blut, HAVE You EVER BEN To | PUNK VILLE .BY. We. Breeze | WE ARE THINRING OF GOING THERE For ouR VACATI ATION ? WIFEY, BiLL SAYS WE MUST =] MRS BILL, WE ARE Now HINTING: OF GOING To MOUNT. PIFFLE .87.1HE Sea ( Mrs. Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). By Roy L. McCardell. HE Harlem outieok on Mfe is Aq UhrougR windows, the inlook, too, at times, but this last is only énto | the basemente and fret floor | flats, On thie trtaght July dey Mrs Jarr wae looking out of the win- running tic, day out. This fact and several others held Mra, carr prisoner in the fat, not to heed the lure of the bargain elther in the neighborhood or Duty and cir. cumstances, besides, held Mra. Jarr prisoner within her own home, ®ut with the privtlene of looking out of the front windows ever and anon. In the firat place, aa hae been etated, Gertrude was out. Gertrute had the Inteh-key to let herself in when ehe re- turned in the wee sma’ houre—tor when Gertrude had a day out eve made A night of tt Hence, if Mrs. Jarr jeft the flat ehe muat elther leave the door unlocked of eine snap {t behind her and have to em- ploy the Janitor to break it open when she came back, all other door-keys having been lost, strayed or stolen (by various persons. although blamed on Mr. Ja ‘The ohildren, under tron-clad agree ment as to behavior and companton: | ship, had been permitted to go out on the street to play. -Also had they been placed upon parole to keop within bounds and sight—to stray no further than their own doorway and immediate sidewalk A daytime burgiar scare had all care- | ful housewives of the neighborhood on | fentry duty this day as well, ao Mra, | Jarr attended to her household duties with many peevieh sollloquies and with more than occasional looking out upon t to see how the children were | ing her. \ Ya ‘The ‘How Macht” Problem, | stews they laugh at you, Of course, To the Biitor of The Evening World they don't know that there is sometimes In reference to the “How much?" more nourishment {n a good stew than proviem, 1 hereby offer the following, in @ chop or steak. Cold water should the correst answer: “Half of X and/ never be drunk when eating @ hot meal, palf of Y combined wilt cost 9.01 1-6. | A cup of hot tea te better. Raw fruit JACK GREENWIELD. | is better after meain than before. April 6, | JOHN ROSS, To the Kulitor of The World In The Ww Almanac. What wap the date ef Easter Sunday | To the failor of THe Evening World in the year 18007 ce Where can 1 find a list giving the er Diet, comparative sizes of toe United States To the T he Event and Brit Navy and the number of in The Evening World a we so) #alpa each ae J. G. ¢, ago I read an article by Dr, Cutter on] Soft Coat Smoke on Trains, what to eat nd drink. I quite agree | To the Editor of The Evening Works with Dr. Cutter, from my own experts} It Ix bad enougn for ratiroad Jocomo- ence, I've suffered with a slight attack] tives to burn so: winter, But of gestritis and found nly way tol num: ft burning tt in ure myself wes to abstain enti |summer. The car windows are open | from carbente be ages, espectally | (u se We Want to wuffocate), and the yeer, and to eat simple food, I think| soft coal reek is horr annoying. As that a person should have at least| most of us are commaters who suffer, on good meal a day tn winter or) and ap momuters @eeem rated by rall * Toe only trouble with some! roads as r least precious form of ar is that when It gets a| freight, 1 the ry old oft ie warm they continue to eat a a! game t bilthe as be- ‘Jot of cake and pie, which ts » fore. Why not? A commuter hes to limes very bad v the digestion, That] commute Hie is at the rallroad’s ig why we have 60 many dyspeptics, | me: Dumb driven cattle’ are in- y alno eat too much of one thing. | depenie ens compared to him. Vor instance, if you teil toon iy eat SUSQUEMANNA, «wus © ) T wonder what those littl rascals| are doing now?" #he said to herself for the twentieth Ume, as she craned out of th om This, twentteth | time, she got aight of them, ‘They were in their nlvest and newest summer clothes, having been permitted to #o ar- ray themselves under solemn promise not to do more than sit decorously on ‘the steps that the garmenta might not Le disarrayed or soted Mere they are!’ cried Mra, Jarr again, “WHAT are they doing?” 7 PUNKVILLE -By. THe-BREEZE (T's THE COOLEST PLACE ON EARTH more of coal upon the struggling men. Daily Magazine, Such Is Life! By Maurice Kett GO BY AL MEANS, TouN, ITs He COOLEST PLACE On EARTH FoR OUR VACA = MRS SAT BILL. MY WIFE DOESN'T. LIKE i i Go | SeeNcen tee a sie | WE ARE THINKING OF a ney pene | PUNIKVILLE by. tre -Breeze| [MOUNT-PIFFLE-BY.THE-SEA HOTTEST puace ITS THE HOTTEST ON EARTH ~ you'll PLACE oN FAIRLY Sizzle WIFEY. WE CAN'T bd aoe MOUNT_PIFFLE ‘oru tal OF THE HOT IT'S THE COOLEST PLACE on EARTH MRs Bit, HAVE You ever BEEN IN_PUNKVILLE .8Y. Tue .BREEZE WEARE THINKING: oF Wedne en. 2 D OH Me wou ' : ONT GO THERE | a THERE 'TS THE HOTTEST el GO. Bit Says 'S THe HOTTEST sday, LACE ( You'tt aLEA ‘dl 2 i OI, YES WE CAN Jon MRS Bit SAYS MOUNT -_PIFFLE 13 He COOLEST oF THE Coot AnD So Goes IT Keffer. Jarr noticed that Willie Jarr was fol-, down a coal lowing efter him throwing ‘mud and | tater as bl @tones at him. Then a bag of flour | chase to the children. was dropped from a window upon the| A policeman now fantastic man. This burst and whit- ened him all over. A man near by watering the sidewalk | all with @ hose dropped the hose and went| of the neighborhood. hole, to em Whereat iittie Emma Jarr ran tn on/ the coal ho After ¢ on the man who hed come to his sistance. In @ moment both men, now prone, swiftly as the rest. upon the akdewalk, were a mass of wet | lowed flour and coal. For a wagon had driven | in an invaild’s up and the driver, evidently not heed- tall, lank negro. ing the fracas, had dumped a ton or, Mrs. Jarr screamed rubbed her eyes when a Whereupon they both disappea: k as negroes, and gave turned on the run and foined the chase. ran Willie and Emma Jarr, followed by | the shrieking and yelling children to the assistance of the fallen man, | were the two men who had fallen down | the sidewalk and turned the hose upon| fat policemen and a motley crowd of | the fallen, flour-covered Fantastic, and) butcher boys, street loafers, nurse girls | | with baby carriages, and a one-legged | | boy with a crutch, who pegged on ae | hen an excttable old lady hair propelled by a 4) dian jumped down from his wooden erge a moment | pedestal and, hawk, followed ings. the corner Away | after, the street. Hot after them| rengers chase, the poured these came the | the front of the trousers. In her horror her darling child in fright and | clgar store In- street, knocking they did so. oh Copyright, 1911, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York W ‘| Like Best a Man's Story,”’ ays MAKE PERKS (Saleswoman . isn't romance call tt far-fetched, I have liked Mr. Winston Churchill's stories so much, one I read amount of love-making. The novel I like best ts such a book, I mean, as Eben Holden,” or Judge.” tral figure some really 4 sarily handsome, but # I lke him to b so carefully that T feel knew him. I betleve one from a book with suc just life. real And then such a man tke a tall tree field. enjoyable, as well as more helpful, that the fhifty love story Next to the novel pivoted on a single male character, I Mk novel. Iam particularly fond of Pumas—probably because he dereri esting types “If 1 Were King f !s class ny fa » novels of and all his women are naughty or There's no au one's hooks? \imost naughty. It gets terrt h uniformity of type in the real world, and This ts what they © doing, while the anxious mother watched, too far for her vole to reach them: Tirat, a fat man came waddling around ‘the corner, two blocks down, Vite was fauastically attired, and Mre, ) 1 ike my atortes to end happily: that way as to Kill off some aed much better pleased with the book, It's just as easy for the t makes me feel mueh m What Do Girls Read? pl AM Nt AM A Canvass of Women Wage Earners’ Literary Tastes Shows Interesting Phases of Feminine Nature DO not like a book which is just a love story and nothing more. We girls who work know that there is a great deal in the world that and when we find courtship on every page of a novel we there was a ridiculous 1 tke the book whioh has for its cen- type, not necessarily young, not nee » described and, studied as one's mind grows Digger and knowing worth-while people in ‘To me such a novel is honestly more thing about all the sword-and-cl storfes that makes them eminently readable and enjoyable, The one thing T cannot stand in a book or an author {# monotony. Robert W. Chambers writes pleasant tales, but all his men drink too much at. | sliding down a ii chase at thelr through mortar of brick, went Mre. Jarr the patter of 2 fori), cents for five pl they oried and said 1] Gee, they did tures when I wi but m the i while every running riot, ping at a bulldog that had darted to in the course of A moment later the children ret | anti the children muddied, and panting, entered. “Oh, mamma, eee! The man gave us| And what do you think? {ther was told about it he only laughed Jarr From Her Harlem Windows Beholds A Cigar Store Indian Come Suddenly to Life brandishing his toma- the fight of her dar- A milkman's horse and wagon ran with the milk cans tumbling to Old gentlemen over, a street car stopped and the pa Te bowled out anf joined the cur dog joined in barking and snap- running mob and had seized the policeman by the seat of his and excitement Mrs. Jarr screamed, and was perilously near failing out of the window She beheld ren enter a flat-house erection down the over a hod carrier as came adder with the whole heels, Through sand, boxes, upsetting piles | the hase, and then turned the corner and was gone. t in a chair by the open window, sickened and faint. And then feet wae heard disheveled tidish laying in the moving pictures, right down on the street!" | When thelr n't hav sa kid!" moving plc- pA a man’s story: | Peace Puzzle. david H The Prodig By Sam Loyd. teresting male MAN. as if I really gets something ya character, gives body to a in a@ flat green ¢ the ‘historical bes such tnter- There's some- bly tiresome. why put it Into Carnegie. e comfortable, | "\ newer to Mo! puzzle: \# to take that war lord into the mine dark goon fo tt itd tranetonm them into a silhouette of author to do 1" 1th) Dove of Peace." Who can do {t? RE te another pussie posed from | H suggestions sent forth by Andrew Andrew's proposition 's head, cutting day's Summer Resort unoook’’ and ‘ Walpole," 4 July 5, | pretty collar | well adapted to the trical pieces, | 1911. Coprright, 1011, by The Press [Publishing Co, (The New York Worl! No. 1—Bulwer-Lytton’s “LADY OF LYONS.”’ AULINE DESCHAPPELLES was the most beautiful girl in the old French city of Lyons—and the richest. Her beauty and wealth brought her dozens of ardent suitors. Some of these wooers—M. Beauseant and his friend M. Glavt for example—were attacted as much by her money as by her lovely face. Others—aotabdly Claude Melnotte, the gardener's son—adored her with no thought gf her wealth. Pauline was spoiled by flattery and riches. Influenced by her ellly mother she sngered at all her jocal admirers; declaring she would wed no one of less rank than a Prince. When Claude Melnotte ventured to send her a love letter she ordered her grooms to flog his messenger from the gates of her father’s house. When Glavis and Beauseant proposed to her she laughed at their pretensions. Then fate threw Beauseant, Glavis and Claude Mcinotte—the trio of angry, rejected men—together, Claude was the idol of his village. His good looks and aristocratic of manner had won for him among his fellow workingmen the title of Beauseant overheard some one address Claude in this wa and a . clever, despicable scheme occurred to him. He suggested i that he and Glavis advance Claude enough money to buy ee { A Plot for Revenge. 2 One fine clothes. &>., and that they then Introduce him to Pau- Ine as “The Prince of Como,” a travelling nobleman of vast wealth and estates, They knew Pauline craved a title, and they belleved she would readily consent to marry the supposed Prince. Then afier the wedding she would find herself merely the wife of a despised @ariene:’s son. Her pride and her heart alike would then be broken and the rejected wooe: would be r nged. In hig normal senses Claude Melnotte would have refused to take part in eo vile # trick, But he was mad with rage over Pauline’s cruel treatment of hie against his better nature, he agreed to the proposal, auseant and Glavis decked him out tn costly raiment, provided him with sand jewelry and arranged that he should meet Pauline. The girl and j her motuer were overjoyed at this chance of numbering a Prince among thetr aequainiances. Claude, in his assumed character, sued for Pauline's hand end was joyfully accepted. Too late he repented of the imposition. Pauline h not ly with his false title but with the man himself. couraged by her love and bound by his oath to the two plotters, Claude married Pauline, Th they started in @ coach on their wedding journey to his mythical palace vy Lake Como. The trip insted only as far as the village where stood the cottage of Ciaude's widawed mothey There the penttent bridegroom confessed to hia wife the deception he had practised, Pauline listened tn utter horror to the von- fession. Her rage and mortification knew no bounds, She turned from him with loathing. almost insane at realizing that her pride and her love of rank had at Jost tricked her {nto marrying a mere gardeners so: then made the only reparation tn his power he confided the stricken bride to their care. Then he home and enlisted as a soldier. Napoleon Ronaparte was the rising star of ¥ Just then, In his armies there was high chance for promotion, wealth and—death, Claude sought only death and forgetfulness Oo se 8 Oe ta ae Though Pauline'’s marriage was annulled and her parents @i@ all in thetr power to make up to her for her bitter experience, the girl could not forget Melnorte In spite of herself she discovered too late that «he loved him with ali her heart and soul. When the first bitterness of mortification longed for him to come back to her and be forgiven. But he did not trace of him was lost. | Unlucky investmenta wrecked the fortune of Pauline's father Himeelf on the brink of financial ruin. Then {t was-- ¢ Kemet f three years after Claude's disappearance—that Beatseant Sacrifice. aerva at last fallen tn love, Sending for her parents, arned back on his old lie found came forward with av offer to qave her father from dis- aster in return for Pauline’s hapd tn marriage. Pauline loathed Beauseant. She adored Melnotte. Yet she « | Sentea at last to eacrifice herself in order to save her father, | Claude Melnotte meanahile, under the assumed name of Morier, had risen t> a colonelcy in the French army. Risking his life a thousand times, he had expiated on the fleld of -battle his ain tn deceiving Pauline, Rich, lauded hero, he came back to Lyons to claim his lost bride—orly to learn she was ab; to wed Beauseant. Just as Pauline was preparing to sign the marriage contra “laude made hin way into her presence. So changed was he tn appearance no one knew him. From her own lips, before Pauline recognized him, he learne:t that ler heart was true to her old love and that she was sacrificing herself to her father's welfare. Tearing up the marriage contract, Claude made known hie !dentity, paid his father-In-law'a indebtedness and demanded Pauline as his wife, Thon, clasping the happy girl in his arms, he exclaimed: one “Look up! Look up, Pauline! For I can bear thine eyes, The stain is blotted from my name. I have redeemed mine honor. I « on thy divine forgiveness. Ah, the same love t be true love—works out {ts redemption!” o¢e THE HINT THAT FAILED, Visttor (walting an {invitation to luneh) —Two o'clock! I fear I'm keeping you from your dinner. Hostess—No; but I fear we are keap- {ng you from yours.—Meggendorfer Bleetter. 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