The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1911, Page 8

t The Evenin . Publishing Company, Nos. 68 60 68 Petembes Dally Except Sunday by the P ww York {PO8EPH PULITZER Junior, Seo'y. 63 Park Row. ‘ark Row, ARGUE SHAW, Pree. and Treas, hed %8 Park Row. a } Eni At the Fost-Oftice at New York as Second-Class Matter. ates to The Evening| For England and the Continent for the United States ani All Countries In. the In id Can UY ’ fon! Se: Bee one Seer... steal Union. One Month eevccvccevceee NO, 18,258, SPITE FENCES. MAN in Harlem has plans and specifications out for a “spite fence” sixty feet h If he builds it his own little property will be as if down in a mine ehaft—but then he will have the sweet satis- faction of shutting off his offensive neighbor's light, air and view of the surrounding landscape. What ean the neighbor do about it? Practically noth- fing, under the written law. The question is an old one, and has been threshed out in court before now; yet fences and other etruc- tures continue to be built, and when they are torn down it is usually ther because the builder has had time to become ashamed of his work, or because so much of the spite has rebounded upon himself thet he has finally figured ont it doesn’t pay. The Oourt of Appeals of Kentucky decided a recent case against the epite-builder, but only through an interesting complication of facts that enabled it to rule him guilty of contempt of court. The case was based on the act of the defendant, a dog fancier, who had been threatened with injunction against raising dogs in a city neigh- borhood, and by way of retaliation had told the plaintiffs that if they gave him any trouble he would build a fence that would be a skyscraper of its kind. They went ahead and got their injunction, and forthwith the Fiffel fence cut into a large section of the e:r- cumambient atmosphere. That was where the court had Mr. Spite. Tt oouldn’t punish him for making a contemptible ass of himself, but got him dead to rights when he stood in contempt of court by “at- tempted intimidation of litigants.” In the unwritten law the contempt fe all against the architect of the spite billboard. $3.50 Mee ECONOMY. 'T is remarked in Wall street that Mrs. Harriman, widow of the great railroad financier, is a wonder of self-reliant tact and shrewdness in the conser- vation of the vast estate left by her late husband. “She is as economical here,” they say, “as she! always was in the management of her household.” There, it appears, she maintained the home in lux-| ury, comfort and beauty on much less than the income allowed her for that purpose. And she did it, frankly, by utilizing whet many a modern chatelaine would regard as scraps and remnants—making it @ point to waste nothing. It is even more important, she be- lieves, to know the value of a dollar when you have many of them than when you have few or none. This definition of the word, which is the true and etymological one, shows that economy is no niggardly virtue, as it has sometimes been disparagingly called. “Boonomy,” wrote John Ruskin, “no more means saving money | them #t means epending money. It means the administration of a house; its stewardship; spending or saving, that is, whether money or time, or anything else, to the best possible advantage.” Mrs. Russell Sage, stewardess of another Wall street fortune of etaggering proportions, is another economical administratrix in| the best sense of the term. In euburban home-building and various philanthropical works on a large scale, she spends in a spirit of econ- omy the wealth which was accumulated hy—well, by methods to whic some other word must be applied. on WHITE HOPES OF THE SUBWAY. & | AKE notice, pards! the subway guards now rival Phoebe Snow. In. spotless suits—excopt their | boote—they make a pretty show. Their togs of | white all eyes delight, upon the Road of Out-of- Sight. Since under ground white wings are found, it) seems angelic quite. And, stranger still, hence-| forth they will be gentle and polite. “Please watch your step,” and “Lively, please,” will tend to put us at our ease upon tho Road of Out-of-Sight. | “a 1% Letters From the People the Hoak. perhaps some of the settlement schools | Fo the Baitor of The Evening World [mizht use my services for teaching | I read with interest your editorial en-/a free shorthand class or something| titled, “Standardizing the Honk,” and of the sort. I am all alone in New agree with you thoroughly that the time York, alone tn the world, in fact, and has come when automobiles should be of not much use to any one, but I} | teks ell the muctlage off Copyright, 1011, by The Prese Publishing Oo. (The New York World) Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), ) ? ** Girvology.’ IRLS may be generally divided into two classes: girls.” “THY girl” is always @ rarified BEING, composed mainty of virtues, inacoessibilty, ourling hatr, a dimple and a special brand! because the of perfume. She has no faults or fi moment you begin to find flaws in her “THE girl* and joina the vast majority or “other girls. “THE gir ehe is fust if all the rest. yet loved, and giris you never will love. ay ELEN ROWLAND when they are picking up your remains. A girl is built on the plan of a maze. Once you get into a filrtation with her you find youreelf going round and round without ever getting anywhere, and it fs ten to one if you can ever manage to get out without catling for help. A girl never does anything in a@ straightforward way. She ts all curves and curls, from her figure to her Aisposition. She talke in circres, walks with @ ‘twist, and approaches everything, from @ man to an argument, m a roundabout manner, There's nothing straight about her, from her hair to ner arguments or from her hat to her opintons. Fiven If a chap could manage to see through her, ne never sees all the way She's as complicated as an adding machine, as crooked as an AROUND her. accordeon pleated ruff Moreover, a girl herself never can tell a postage ‘and as deep as a well or a problem in Buolld, you why she does things; World Daily Magazine, The White Sprite ¥ % By Rolf Pielke “THE girl and “other | ie always “different’’—until you discover that ‘Other girls may be subdivided into Girls who Amuse you, and Girle who Bore you. Also, these may again be subdivided inte girls you have loved, girs you have not It te all very complex, But, then, @ girl !s @ complex creature. You never know what ehe is gomng to do any more than you know whet an automobile or a motor boat is going to do. Just es you fancy things are skimming along beautifully, she may belk, or skid, or overturn you, or blow you up. An@ you can no more Glscover what caused the smash-up than you oan discover why @ motor car went to pieces why she p-and then expects it to stick; why Saturday, nn. aan! WEDNES DAY Transer:bed by HELEN ROWLAND she makes a solemn promise without the slightest intention of keeping it; why @he wears openwork stockings, a high-water alirt, and pink suede shose—and then annihilates you !f you stare at them; why she Kisses the woman she hates and enubs the man she {s dying to marry; why she cries at a wedding and acts trivolously at @ funeral; why she seems offended if you don't make love to her and gets furious if you do; why ehe elgns a check upside down, gets off a car backward and begine @ conversation in the middie; wh uses a hairpin to piok @ lock, @ buttonhook to open a bottle, a hatr brush to hammer @ nail; a hatpin to rob a letterbox and @ razor to sharpen a pencil, A girl will sit beside you for hours patiently waiting for a fish to bite, and then make you filng {t back into the water because she “feels ao sorry for the dear Uttle thing—and, ANYWAY, she only wanted you to CATCH it, not to KLLL it” She wil ture you out onto a dark piazza and simply goad you into taking her hand or putting your arm around her—and then turn on you with that “How-dare-you-sir!’ manner end make you feel I!ke an {diot or a cad. As for arguing with one of them—well, did you ever try it? This !s the way it goe: you been waiting long? What made you come so early? ve just arrived. “When you KNEW I expected to be here an hour ago!" An4 there you are! She gets you coming or going. Oh, I have no doubt there ARE a few nice, sensible, reasonadle girls—but they aren’t the kind you cai] on or take out to dinner. The average girl would look in the mirror to see what was the matter with her !f you catled her “nice and eensible.” I'm not attempting to explain her. She is inexplicable. Sne ts simply the trimming on life's garment, the dessert to the feast, the spice in the pudding, Of course, a chap can manage to eat his dinner without champagne or de and to live his life without girls or kisses. But, somehow, he never doe I can no more answer the question, “Why ts a girl?” than I could the ques- tton, ‘Why is music—or painting, or pate-de-fols-gras, or champagne cr !ce cream, or anything else charming and delicious, and expensive—and unnecos- sary?" ‘A girl IS—and that’s all there fs to it. She is WHAT And the puzzle is the White Man's Burden! 1s, yust—BRCAUSH, AAPL PCL LL APPRPAAP PLP APPLPRPAPAPREAPPPRPRPAPP PLLA APAALAAPRPAAPPPRLLALAPRAPALALA ALAA Mr. Jarr Undertakes to Bring Sunshine Into a Grief-Stricken Maiden’s Life Copmight, 1011, by The Pres Publishing Co, yrowal" aad Mra, Jarr, reproachtully, (The New York World). By Roy L. McCardell. ie these two] hi ELL, how about “OW theatre tckets?” asked Mr.| It Jarr, “You're always com the crux of the matter, self at home with a broken heart. A be a charity to take her out, what you've done.” haven't done a thing!" plaining you never to get wee any-| "I cried Mr. She paused a moment and then got here's poor Clara Mudridge, hiding you owe her that much after | Jor: You, You | Jersey City, I'm not responstb! women went too far with hi become of you-if I should watt til a man's married be you?" you badger him—dressing him up in| Mr, Jarr didn't want any hostfi bride's costume and springing that) campalgn begun against him at home, .| stupid old ass of a father him,|so he mumble1 that as he was tn for and"— |{t, no matter what he did, he'd take “Now, you stop right there, Mudridge to t!e theatre. cried the good uy Where would you bo—what would have adn't married on equipped with some standard, distinctive |want to be. Perhaps some of your! means of warning. The question at on readers can help me. I am busy dur-| arises ae to what should be the nature ing the day of course, but would like! of thie standard signal, Time and again to two or three evenings each have I personally seen a horn inatru- | Week to something of this kind ment mot only fat! utterly as a means, ELEANOR, of attracting the attention of pedestr: fa. is. gator a teen ery aa, ans, but not infrequently has it be Pireieiad ie Teac) yh ape entirety inaudible above the noise Of tniy question? A man works for @ firm | aesing traffic on busy streets. There for some time Business ts dull, His employers being heavily in debt, but not 0 many devices, as pointed out in Your editorial, that {! would be very dif- ficult to arrive at a reasonable selection of amy partioular king. It t# necessary to Rave @ signal loud enough to be al- waye heard and sharp enough to invert ably warn, While I believe the law should prescribe the use of some good signal, tt should none the less emphati- cally proseribe its abuse, In the hands of careless, tres) rists these loud notse mach undoubtedly a nuisance and mei public welfare cuM With Initials of Maiden Name. Evemng World t a Wedding present showld be marked with the Initials of the bride's maiden name. “B" claims it ghould be marked with the initials of her Married name, Which way should day to accept @ quarter of his wages, at the eaine time agre « to pay him balas of his Wages as soon as some bille owed to the firm have b n paid. The worker, tn order to hold his Job and not knowing at the time the oir- cumstances of his employers, accepts and works at thie rate for @ month, when some creditor of the company has an attachment placed on the fac |tory and @ receiver takes charge, Not wishing to run the business the receiver the factory, sells au the goods land collects the bille of the bankrupt pmpany, Later on he turns the monoy over to a trustees appointed for the readers, the question is, who, ac- cording to law, {8 supposed to yay this the e to | clones Now, employes his back wages—the receiver, it Be marked? 1. B | trustee or the court? The answer might aio: wi ia pd wele Ots interest a number of readers. L. B. Battor ¢ Evening Wor iP ? MMB. experiended readers tell me of|, De for Boy) Pink for Girl, To the Editor of The Evening World anything & young business woman can! p, gays pink is the olor for a boy do tm the way of assistance ‘o other ieee FP. says blue 1s the color for @ to ocouppy evenings which are t00/ hoy bay, Via the correct anewer’ lonely for endurance? & bed thought! 4 MBB, X, wishing to lay him off, ask him on pay | | man that you want to be tag@ing him ‘Does he ever take YOU anywhere don't se you admire so in that |around with you everywhel have the queerest friends! “Well, who ghould I take then, Bug- | west somebody!" eaid Mr, Jarry, @ little impatiently. “Who? MEI" asked Mre. Jarr in mild | | eurpri i wouldn't presume to se- your companions for you. But you think of anybody in great to whom a night at the theatre| be a solace and a relief?" replied Mr, Jarr, ‘I don't arthquake survivors or per- fons who've had a total loss by Ar |no insurance. And if I did I can't | imagine it would be @ jolly, carefree at the theatre with a gay com- | panton wea) ‘ng crepe and using a black |Rorfered handkerchief to wpe away | hia teara during @ll the laughable in- cldents of the show, "You shouldn® talk eo lightly at tho \@orrowe of othere-deep, fervent eor You do can't troub! % ‘Well, when you telephoned me you # thing. Put on your! Jarr, “You know I haven't. She |you were always sneering and snick-| had the tickets I telephoned to her./ thinge and let us| knows I haven't, If Jack Silver haslering at Mr. Silver getting married.) You know sho mistrusts me for some 0," » to the South Pole in disguise or|Poor fellow! You should be the lIast|reason, and after al! I did for her, too! 7 “f£ told you I/!s hiding in a safe deposit vault in!man to make a mockery of marria, yond I wont you to find out what ah wasn't feeling| —-- mer — — mn ~ |gotng to do, I believe that her father | ) well And, besides, | has put detectives on Jack Stive: fr/ mother 19 coming} trac! Find out, And pump her !f JY over trom Brook-| she's going to sue for breach of lyn, You can go. promise, Maybe she as found Jack Never mind me.| | Silver and they have meade up thelr I'm used to stay- < spat. Give her my love and tell her I ROY L * re: Cur autthe fi am broken-hearted. But find out every- © CARDELL g008 ura then cur’ thing you can, For {f that girl thinks SCA | Ryae on |she can get along without me she's “Oh, chop that and come alc lines. Faate fic: very much mistaken!" pleaded Mr, Jarr, who thought ure ona piece. | Mr, Jarr realized now he was in for only wanted coaxing. at card-board it, and also realized why Mra, Jarr But Mrs. Jarr shook her head, thea same Size inted him to do so etran a thing “Well, I'm satisfied to stay home, and sha be- as to take another jady to the theatre. too,” sald Mr, Jarr, a little put out. tm cave tut to [ane maa aise A llttle curlous Minsalt | “Oh, no. It's @ pity not to use the the ig esides, Clara Mudridge was a good-| tlekets,"” said Mrs, Jarr, “Why don't ey a8 |!ooking girl, and she was in grief, and you take somebody and go? anly an parts it was only right to try to cheer up @ Really, 1 won't mind," \ indicated poor girl in s a case, espectatly She said this so guilelessly that Mr. | black in small | when she Was stylish and fine looking. dart Was taken‘ | drawing. ) Mr, Jarr hurried over to take the pesos eee eres Re er rete low and ship it st. She was also dressed tn her best hack and forth f Herveen the | “How nice of you to take me to the tre!" eried she in her gayest tones. | “Ah, after all, there IS such @ thing) true, platonic friendship! Do | you know, 1 have always thought that married men are the nicest! Doesn't that eound dreadful? Well, I mean tt. They are not as aelfish as single men; they are more considerate; they are more thoughtful. It was real nice of Mrs, Jarr to suggest that you take me out.” “She was worrlel about you, Thought you might be grieving or something,” aid Mr. Jarr. ‘OE grieving?" retorted the fair creature. “I wouldn't grieve for the best man living! That's why I threw over Jack Silver. He expected me to wrieve about him. I only wish he could @ee me! I wish everybody who knows me could seo m Mr, Jarr was glad that Mre. Jerr didn't see her, for she was smiling tite and the d= bi ; The ov Nae ill August 12, | proprietor of a livery stable? 1911. Coppright, 1011, by The Prem thu (Eas Now Yor We) Thte Volume Is Affectionately Ineoribed to My Dearest Sweetheart of Them AN, the Only One Who Hee Not Jilted Me, MY FOTURE Wire (God Only Knows Whe She 18.) NO. 5--DOLLY, &@ desk one morning whioh had been vacam, 2 Of @ girl neatly clad tn black and white, whe aweet, refined countenance she had, and her kissable. During the weeks that followed I vain to win an encouraging glance from Dolly, I wrote to Dolly telling her aa eloquently as I could how her charme had ensiaved mo; thet I craved but an opportunity to prove my worth; thet 0 far from thinking of trif_ing with her affections, I sought but the encouragement from her to ask her to be my wife To my great delight Dolly 414 not tenore my appeal or trent It with contempt. Hor answer wes prompt, and sald that !f I would come to aes ner at No —+- Forest avenue the next Sunday evening she would be @iad to vik it over with me. 1 was feoling rather nervous when Dolly ushered me into ine parlor of her humble home the following Sunday, but Dolly herself appenret not in the Saast agitated. [Wher Love Must Viele to tense When Love Must Yield to Sen H “T amked you to come," Dolly began, and her tone was almost severe, “besaure I appreciate the compliment you have paid me and I don't want to hurt yo feelings $f I can help tt. I hope you will excuine me tf I seem impertinent, but | want to speak plainly #0 as to make my position perfectly clear ¢o you. What your income, Mr. Grant?” | By the time Dotty had deliverat herself of that masterful introduction realized that I was in for tt “How much have you A hasty inventory « announced to Dolly, rem pay day, “And you neve no bank account?’ No, I had no bank account, not that T knew of. Dolly certatnty had mo there “Sunpore you were to de married to-morrow, what sort of a home could yo: Provide for your wife?” “If I were to br married to-morrow,” I replied, ‘before the ceremony too place T would have consulted my flancee and rented a flat et eome place agre! upon between us, and” “I may be particular, you may even think me mercenary, dut I woud rather be mercenary and comfortable than miserable in a state of wedded bondage.” “Dolly,” 1 sald, “would you encourage me to save for « banis roll end strive for the Income that will meet your specifications?’ Dolly gave me her hand and mmiled arohly. ‘When you hewe succeeded !n that,” she anid, “you may ring my doorbell again.” T told her--$70 @ month, . aved?' wae her next inquiry. y pockets discovered something over $12, which I du ing her at the same time that to-morrow would Now # #0 happened that less than three weeks later Dolty teft the firm 0° | Baskom & Jones, having secured a detter position elsewhere. “Ag hope springs eterna) in the human breast,” I wroto, somo day we shail moet again.” We did. About two and « half years after, while I was duying some po*! cards one evening in the very place where I used to buy pretty powtals to send | Dolly, whom should I discover but Misa Dolly herself perched back of the on: resister! By Jove! but she was Just as pretty and sweet es ever! Before I cov launch into the disclosures I had for her concerning the progress of my bank a count Dolly whispered in my ear that she was to be married within a fortnis: “Yo a miceessful Aootor, © explained, “in the Bronx. Ile has a prect! ‘a0 I hope, too, tha’ averaging $2,000 a year and ‘s worth nearly Oy sum alread: I thougnt as I walked back to my room, Lucky Dolly, end et!) luckter doctor! I thought of Dolly's sermon, dullvered in her parlor years ago. thought of the struggle I had been through 4 build up my bank accou there I had reduced my living expense well as T wished to, I had Mved more had elapeed self here e: For every dollar I had saved I shed @ tear that night. The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1011, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Wor!) UITE « hike that young John) “Our hata off to the young lady Edward Paul aghty, the | cago! She lowed John ward Newport chauffeur, and his | Geraghty and she married hum with tv beautiful bride! knowledge the her aati led the private | would cause, No cne can tel! what t sleuths hired by | future has in store for young Geragh the Vanderilt/ and his pretty, courageous wite How family,” remark- ed the head pol- isher, ‘I'm sorry thi young folks were landed,”* replied the jaundry men. “They @hould be left to enjoy their CSTD PT a quien peace and quiet Now they'll have to spend !t in the | company of newspaper reporters and photographers, an4 poor John Efjwant Paul will have to wet his picture taken, “Why all this excitement over the marriage of the apparently: sensible daughter of a millionaire to the hand- sone, energetic son of & prosperous Tt ap- peare to de th» destgn of the Vander- bilt famfly to have John Edwant Paul Geraghty arrested and thrown Into & Of courre there la no danger of anything like that happening to the bridegroom, for if he had the nerve to steal the girl he'll have the nerve to But whet’s the use in «i ering that the young @a! he family of the girl opposed eloped with her in an automobile, wake | up @ oountry County Clerk in the ai¢ | ale of the night for e ttoense and mar | ried her Defore @ pureuit could be | ganized, we have no fear that Re wil! allow her ¢o starve, If we hed am av tomobile we would give him @ je a: chauffeur night now.” Our Charter-Dieecctore, the new City Charteny” enif the head polisher, | “Have we ever had a charter passe’ or contemplated that certain peregms, hotding themeclves to be pessessed 0: $3 per cent. of the wisdom, 0 per eomt of the ability and 10 per cent of the honesty of the community afta Miek in and try to dons the whole feb? asked the lnundry man ‘Meaning « charter that will please everyboty 1s some task. New York te well equigped | with professional charter dlssesters, | who can pick owt @ paragraph, @ Mie & word or @ punctuation mask end utd « holler ike @ oydione “The people appear to be wittag to allow their representatives to mate en’ adopt a charter. Bo tar they @e Mo! Appear to enthuse over the iée@ of ‘handing the proposition to the prefes. an sional reformers, ex-oMce hold a Tf the wife of John award Paw had) gaittioiane who want to be on the ‘nsid never met him and hed consented tO ‘eoKing out instead of on the 4 marry some middle-aged English noble- (iooking tn." on man with a face penchant for Gayety ohorus girls and bracelets, all Newport would have calied \¢ Sims to be lots of kioking abou! “People In New York who know the young man from meeting him when he was down here, working as & demon- strator for an automobdtle concern, tell me he is @ well set-up, curly-haired, rosy-cheeked Ind with a lot of common sense and addicted to good habits. Crowd, aweotly up into his face and holding his arm with one hand while 4¢ with her other, ane her lucky. If she had deen ploked by ‘Gm ease thee some elderty millionaire at itberty to ay mat © Puedctohs tooee, marry by virtue or a divorce decree fae ont ese an ome Ce erented to the mother of his children, | ot nie denomination will be wating «0 the Newport telegraph offices would marry Col. Astor and Miss Fores,’ dave been swamped with messages of eongreminios "Well, eel the laundrymem, “ esdremes te ten ebweye cota” sige: ° wrafotentiy