The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1911, Page 15

rry UNKNOWN # #2 & QUANTITY ae of an Amateur Socialist That Has a Happy Ending. (Monrrightel by Doubleday, Page & Co.) ft seems. Then if we consider the prop © Me be publisted in book form after Sept. 12.) | osition that ‘things are, not what they | pe ee eam,’ wh: | f " 1,| But this is heresy, and not poesy. We nr, onatellow or was tt) woo the weet nymph Algebra; we a eiadown<Femarked: | would conduct you Into the presence of TE Ite ta eal, lite te earndet the elusive, seductive, pursued, satisty- nd thitten & i | ing, mysterious X. And things are not what they] Not long before the beginning of this | ie eld century, Septimus Kinsolving, an old A@ mathematics are—or is; thanks,| New Yorker, invented an idea. He or-| Old subscriber!—the only just rule by| tainated the discovery that bread ts which questions of life can be measured, lot us, by all means, adjust our theme to the straight edge and the balanced column of the great goddess Two-and- made from flour and not from wheat futures, Perceiving that. the flour cro was short, and that the Stock Exchange was having no perceptible effect on the Two-Makes-Four. Figures—unaasatiable| growing wheat, Mr. Kinsolving cor- sums in addition 1 be set over|nered the flour market. against §=whatever opposing element! ‘The result was that when you or my there may be. landlady (before the war she never had A mathematician, after scanning the above two lines of poetry, would say ‘Ahem! young gentlemen, if we assume that X plus-that is, that life is real— then things (all of which life includes) are real. Anything that is real ts what to turn her hand to anything; South- erners accommodated) bought a fiv: cent loaf of bread you Iaid down an additional two cents, which went to Mr Kinsolving as a testimonial to his perspicacity. A) )\ Automobile Fiends. BY CHARLES DARNTON. NTER the “auto” as the villain! In cranking up “Speed” for theatregoers E with gasoline in their veins, Lee Wilson Dodd has painted the motor car a devilish red, making {t @ modern {mprovement on the villain who smokes cigarettes and shoots his cuffs at the quaking heroine. To be strictly accurate, the mechanical villain at the Comedy Theatre on Sat- wrday night didn’t dash in and collide with the centre of the stage. It was heard but not seen stopping just outside and making engugh | notes to break the Sullivan law. It threntened the peace and happiness of Edwin Wi Jessup and his wife. Edw! was anything but wise, while his wife was a little fool who Geserved to be placed in @ tonneau for observation, Even in this automobile- ridden community there can be little sympathy with par- A eecond result wae that Mr, Kin- solving quit the game with $2,000,000 Prof —er—rake- ir, Kingolving’s eom Dan was et ool- ieee’ when the mathemetioal experiment in breadstuffe wae made. Den came home during vacation and found the old gentleman in a ced dressing gown read. {te “Little Dorrit” on the poroh of his estimable red brick mansion in Wash- ington Square He hed retired from business with enough extra two-cent Pieces from bread buyers to reach, if laid aide by side, fifteen times around the earth and lap es far as the public! debt of Paraguay. Dan shook hands with his father, and hurried over to Greenwich Village to nee his old high echool friend, Kenwits. Dan had always admired Kenwits. | Kenwitz was pale, curly-haired, intense, serious, mathematical, studious, altru- iste, soctalistic and the natural foe of oligarchies. Kenwits had foregone col- lege, and was learning watchmaking In his father's jewelry store. Dan was smiling, jovial, easy tem- pered and tolerant alike of ki and ragpickers. The two foregathered Joy- ously, being opposites. And then Dan went back to college, and Kenwitz to his) malnspringe-and to his private library in the rear of the jewelry shop. Your years later Dan came back to Washington Square with the accumu. lations of B. A. and two years of rope thick upon him, He took @ fillal look at Septimus Kinaolving’ elaborate tombstone In Greenwood, and A tedious excursion through typewritten documents with the family lawyer; and then, feeling himaolf a lonely and hopeless millionatre, hurried down to the old jewelry store across Sixth | avenue. Kenwitz unscrewed a magnifying glass from his eye, routed out he parent from a dingy rear room, and abandoned the {ntertor of watches for outdoors, He went With Dan, and they sat on a bench (in Washing'on Square, Dan had not changed much; he was stal- wart, and had a dignity that was In- clined to relax into a grin, Kenwitz was more serious, more Intense, more learned, phitoeaphical and tts. I know about it now,” sald Dan, finally. "I pumped it out of the eminent legal lights that turned over to Me poor old dad's collection of bonds and doodle, It amounts to $2,000,000, Ken, And I am told that he squeezed ft out of the chaps that pay their pennies for loaves bread at the little bakeries around the corner. You've studied economics, Dan, and you know al! about monopo- les, and the masses, and octopuses, and he rights of laboring people. I never thought about those things before, Foot. | ball and trying to be white with my fellow-man were about the extent of my college curriculum. “But since I came back and found om how dad made hia money I've been thinking. I'd Like awfully well to pay back those chaps who had to give up too much money for bread. I know it would buck the line of my Income for ‘ many yarde; but I'd ike to it square with ‘em. Is there any wey it can be done, old Ways and jeans?" Kenwitz's ble black |flerily. Ils thin, Intellectual face took on almost @ sardonte cast. He caught Dan's arm with the grip of a friend and a judge. You can't do it! he said, emphati- cally. “One of the chief punishments of you men of fll-gotten wealth is that when you do repent you find that you even glowe have iost the power to make repara- | tion or restitution. I admire your good intentions, Dan, but you can't do any- thing. Those people were robbed of thelr precious pennies. It's too late |remeay th i, You can't pay th | back," 14 Dan, ‘couldn t hunt Ughting his of the duffers and hand ‘em back the Meht chan There'e an awful lot of ‘em buying bread all the time, Funny taste they have—1 never cared for bread eapectally, except for a toasted cracker with the Roquefort. But we might find @ fow of ‘em and chuck some of da cash back where it came from. I'd feel Detter if J could. It seems tough for People to be held up for a soggy thing Wke bread. One wouldn't mind standing , a rise dn brotled lobstera or devilled crabs. Get to work and think, Ken. want to pay back all of that money ‘| cai wits, reneted Sarma, You do not do not ae how hopeless ie your desire to make restitution ingle stance ean it be done.” “The penny hae doNer cannot heal. ‘Not in one instance,” repeat “I will give you one, and fet as @ thousandfold to ther anderetend. You Not ina Up, phitosopher!* 0 @orrow “{ aceept the {natan “If you had a hundred mflitons,” ald | “Take me to poyne. 1 wi Kenwitz vehemently, “you couldn't re. dollars and buy hi a thousandth part of the damdce that has been done, Yo: your check,” raid ceive of the accumulated ving, “and the by misapplied we: that n, Bach up every one! was wrung from the lean purses of the! conseay IN THE PARADE ents who rob their child's dankbook to buy a 61,200 car. And when this motor-mad- ness goes to the length of plastering a mortgage on @ Long Island country home, those of us who walk or leap V THINK MLL PLAY THE CORNET! for life at street crossings can have little patience with the young lawyer and his wife who gre trying to get on in the world. ‘They are ridiculous without being fun- ny, absurd instead of amus: ing. Why bother about them? ‘Speed’ 1s essentially a play for automobile fiends? who may find tn tt the sort of talk that goes to make up their running conversation. Tt won't go over thetr heads —ané for that reason it is not Ikely to reach the balcony and gallery. A timely Mea is Re own excuse, but !t must be brought out interestingly or entertainingly ¢0 Ge of value in the th In thia case It has only the attractiveness of # dis- ease. Motoritis may be fascinating to those who hAve it, but to others who have Raver suffered anything worse than a mild attack of taxicabs at most the aymp- | @eme may be watched with a panionable degree of boredorn, | Gtrugsiing young husbands don’t seem to be at all well these nights. The one| fm “peed” complains of “gasoline poison,” while in another play of last week “Batigue poison" affected a healthy-looking specimen. The unwise Edwin has “wappreseed mechanica’—and Orrin Johnson, who plays the part, looks it. Mr. Johneon is euch a tolerant husband, biinking at everything Victoria does, that you wonder at him, The angelic expression he wears must have been made in heaven. As the eilly wife, Miss Oza Waldrop, with her hair “done high and in dresses {hat would discourage any ordinary income, acts childiahly and stridently. She ghoula k to her voice before !t goes any further. ‘The other parts of ed" have not been assembled by a skilled workman, for while the author makes the incidental characters talk rather amusingly at times he fails to identify them intimately with his play, The fat man who flirts with Viotoria and who looks as though he lived In an automobile doesn't get very far, while another chap, who !s foolish enough to take her seriously at first, makes a gudden turn and swings around to a talkative lady with motor cars on the drain. ‘The stray child seems lost, even at the end when he fs left looking for his happy parents, who are overjoyed at a Wall street windfall of $10,000 and the prospect of more automobiles. With $60,000 they seem to think they can go the limit in- stead of back to Harlem, NOW THAT You FELLOWS HAVE SELECTED YOUR INSTRUMENTS WHO WILL PLAY THE DRUM? And thus the villain triumphs! The automobile comes out ahead. Three hisses for the automobile! 3 All of which suggests that “Speed” should have a long run—in a The LiT7LE PRUNE THis hee diva AnD How's Ou KNOWY , dim, 'T AIMT OFTEN You MEET “Kro FELLERS WhaTs BEEN Bosom Copyright, 1011, 1 PICKED OUT THE FLUTE: oxeeaey by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York World), Copyright 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, in paym Draw the oud Dan. that the TRYING TO TRAIN anna! HELLO ~ WHAT 00 You PLAY IN THE STREET (The New York World) 1 PLAY THE Piccoun Let George Do It! 8% By George McManus a errr o! 60,000 Boyme went insane after his failure and eet fire to the building from which he wae about to be evicted. The ‘oss amounted to that much. Boyne died in an asylum. tance,” sata Dan. “T “Atick to the f haven't noticed any ingurance com- panies on my charity Met.” “Draw your next check for $100,000," went on Kenwits, “Boyng’e son fell into bad ways after the bakery closed nd wae accuse! of murder. He wa’ | acquitted last week after a three year | legal battle, and the State draws upon taxpayere for that much expense.’ | Huck to the bakery! exclaimed Dan, |!mpatfently, “The Government doesn’t | need ta atand tn the bread tine.” | “The fast item of the jcome and T will show you wits, rising, The Goctaitetio watchmaker was hap- py. He waa @ milionatrebaiter by na ture and @ pessinist by trade, Kenwit would assure you in ome breath that money was but evil and corruption, and that your brand-new watch needed cleaning and a new ratchet-wheel He conducted Kinsolving southward out of the aquare and Into tagged, pov- ted narrow atalrway of a aqualld brick tene- ment he led the penitent offspring of nodded to Kenwita as to @ fmiliar ace quaintance, One Little stream of sun- Nght through the dingy window bur nished her heavy hair to the color of regarding her clear ty In heart-throbbing ne into the press Kinsolving stood and pathetic th silence, ‘Thua they sloeves have the same finish. Each friil Leimming in exceptionally neat A costume in navy blue has a round- ed front eallor collar and turn-back cuffs of white hematitched chiffon, and the white, A graduated side frill test- ened under the one-sided revers the #ame double effect. ‘The soft, clinging crepe de Chine te becoming a favorite material for foun- dation and linings, Naturally that hev- ng a high lustre surface is preferable. It In especialy desirable for coats and manties. A pretty fri! may be made by tuok- was a tiny heading, and atl in all this iver this hematitched navy blue chiffon a0 adjusted as to show just the hem of fo in PEDEDDHDOHNOODOOD harily know what to do with so much Her eyes turned, brightly #oft, In the Airection of Dan. A fittle pink spor came out on her roun pale cheek, Kenwit® chuckled e¢ @ dlabolte raven Wise Boyne,” he watt, “let me pree ent Mr. Kinsolving, the son of the man who put dread up five years ago, He thinks he would i!ke to do sometht to ald tho by that act |_ ‘The amtle left the young woman's face. rose am pointed her forefing the door. Thie tim@ #he looked ing straight in the eye, but at not a look that gave delight. who vere inconvenienced, The two men went down into Varick atreet. Kenwits, letting all his pessim- mand rancor and hatred of the Octo. pus surface, gibed at the mon iis friend In an acrié wre nt of word Dan appeared e. hy and then turned to Kenwi kk hands with hin, wag m obliged to Oty, he said yaguelree oblige “Mein Gott! you are eraayt vies ae, watoomaker, dropnite Ale exectactes the firet time in years. Two months afterward Kenwits went the Octopus. He knocked on a door, ints a large bakery on lower Broadway and a clear voice called to them tol wy) a pair of gold-rimmed eyegineses enter. that he had mended for the propetetor, Tn that almost bare room mx young|""\ tady was giving an order to @ Clerk woman @at sewing at a machine. Shelas Konwite passed her. | These ten cents," eatd the clerk. Tt always get them at sen fay a “You need loavee are upt id the tad) an ancient Tuacan's shield. Bhe flaahed | Wn’ thc order ae ‘rive by there 1% a rippling amile at Kenwitz and a 100k | ny hom of somewhat flustered Inquiry. co was familiar, The wateR- ised. nwitz'® erted the Indy, heart- ‘How do you do?” rertere are plenty of charities AUS SOSIAMISTIC — [ence of the inst Item of the tnatance Kenwitt was trying to train Mia sociale "beay, the Ae D ECONOMIC How many this week, Mt * | tet r comprehension om . mold ic : pete aol COMPREHENSION |asked the maker, A mountain of | her Jelty a park, or endow an asapargus bed | | “ae ae FUR eaeeait essa bak ike Pougik| Cates e In a hospital. ‘Tut T don't want Paul Reariy TENT Serre Aha ayo eel with the proce: inov e * Vee ty atinneen, Petr ite “ine bread free ia Vern met tn eet Tm linproving, Mr Twite'"t| pan and T were married a month age” orts I want to cover, Ken." | d to the poorest people. When the | -——————--=- eee So The thin fingers of Kenwitz moved sof flour went up he had to raise rapidly. the price of bread. H ole. "Do you know how much tt would take| too poor to pay ' a ppl gered | oA New Style No during that corner in flour?” he as! he had tn the world. i e ty e te Ss. “IT do not, sold Dan, stoutly. Dan Kins ing struck the park bench lawyer’ tela me that’ T have twola mighty blow with his fat, Cy Aes nt A pretty finish for the front of the lace guimpe Je a narrow double frill of net or lace separated by a band of beading through which {s drawn velvet ribbon. Soutache braiding, which has alreaéy had a long vogue, has apparently lost none of ite popularity. Many of the new models show a profuse use of this in tailored suite tt appears on both skirte and jackets in the form of panel-like motifs, Afternoon dresses are adorned with it and the eheer chif- fons are effectively braided in gold and silver soutache, A newly imported model which em- phasizes the new Ortenta! trend of fash- fon has the foundation of East Indian led with bright blue chiffon em- red ing the net horlzontatly to within two |brofdered in a floral pattern with dull inches of the edge, thus forming 4 ruffle | blue and mauve eilk floss and dark blue odge narrow Valenciennes lace. Incrensed the popularity of all jabots, ind so the woman who does not like the side effect will be aignally fash if she makes up a cascade Jadot or ny Cow's Birthday | Than makes a ome the on by trust to his unthrifty son, to be: ty of his granddaughter y-first birthday, The girl had t told the date of her birth, and when her twenty-first anniversary, as she sup: posed, came around, she cialmed her th heritance, But her father refused surrender the farm, By Clare Victor Dwiggins oeal which may be finished off with | * The favor accorded the aide frill has! able OBPRT W Infant mortal fays that 275,000 hables die each year in this coun try, and that half of them pertsh un- necessarily. Mr. Bruore 4s divegsor of the American Assoctation for the Btudy and Prevention of Infant Mortality, and | he reports many facts and suggestions in the Woman's Home Companion, On the cheapness of human life In general he tells the following | “Dr, Cressy L. Wilbur, chief statistt clan of the Bureau of the Census in Washington, tells a story taken from court records, which fi typifies ou National attitude toward vital statistics Farmer Hadley,’ ne said, ‘of 1 ana, on dying, lett his valui Asserting that she| wooden Deads. A band of varicolored ed altk forme @ foot-band simulat- {ing an under-petticoat. {| The bodice ia made up in the front ‘ aouble crossing and the kimono sleeves have the flowing drapery effect, both characteristic features of the now fa tonablo Fast Indian attire. More Important Girl's. Was | taken only nineteen, The dispute was to court. ‘The family ible was but the page for births and The father had ren- d no report to the town authoritlen: the family doctor was dead. Finally a neighbor remembered that @ certain ih prized by the wrenéfather, n birth to a calf on the very day the gir! was born, and “he could rto it!" Perhaps, the Court opined, grandfather had recorded the birth yor the calf? d farm book, carefully pre- 1 in the family strong box, sua | 1 tie Judge's theory; all the oir.” imstances of the birth were fully recorded, And t of the h tablished “Tak about the registration of births J : exclaima Dr. for not mach more than total pubation Is there irate registration of deaths, ng of births of which we n the country reliable er ton." t nowhere thar fSeaoruie Has Hat Pais Since. BovHood WITHOUT HAVIN’ A || HA: HAs Ha EVEN Now | OFTEH ouT- Winat De. "vou QUARREL 1 1S.1T? HAL HAS Nov Wrow/] LAUGH TO MYSELE, THMMKIM! | fore oy ener eee are ee RS MANY Timeshs Wwe Licked You, | SE co MASH Week Pooh Youd Howny ALE) Ovck ! B ‘ YoU LITTLE PINKEADED Cheese , MISERNBLE BABY FACE 1 AHO int ae Getadgt ‘ i neler GOT_MRO AT YOU. Fal & cAY & bee me © Wwe ine / —— (TAKING ADOT (7? IN Fact, ( Endovep Doin! Tw! |/Yes— Them was Tre. Happy Dnts: |REMEMPER The Time | WAS |} Goin’ T PUT A RING THROUGH > Nose, LIKE WE OID HAD, 10 DOWN. Fano io Ou GOT DESPERAT, THe. PGS—— 7 Han THe PINcHERS & THE RING IN IT SETTIN' OH YOY = OUR x | | PULLED ME ) You Toud # \\] Arty, Hol SAY - cried ABOUT Cand \WpisTlep FoR YOUR Dog AND He | OFFtn You ~Ha: Bas | . MOT TH 1 ok A CLUB A KILLED Him! RECOLLECT How You ) At | | (ecient Bile MeE— HAPPY Dats: Foot Dog (WAS GONG 4b Re tira uP TO THe 200 oe Pusan, Bina in TO Lion's Di iin M4 WT | Carr i Ves ALF OLD A OF Wwe yes- THEM WAS THE + T REcmL Twa Rince & THE DOG, \ at gigs aid \ a, Lp ne, ab, ttt % oN he ortea Jol tn black and white) other pretty full arrangement of sheer. repay his fpulard has three single box | lace i i iad pleated frilis about three inches| Uneut ‘Velvet ts largely used, beth b> Kenwita, |n width, at the foot of the akirt milliners and dressmekers. It fe shown begin. to] These are bound at both edwes with|{n various high-class novelties, and tof the train of | bright green sil. The very tow, round | prom! to be very popular the coming next one for Kk of the bodice and the elbow | s¢ason. SF. 284568 25 ee y] & Seana az .)