The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1911, Page 16

Bord. Can You Beat It? | Published Daily Excopt Sunday by, the ress Dublishing Company, Now. 68 t0 69 ong? ark Ro ew Yor i sav Ww? d Treas., JOS) Pi PCLITZER Juntor, Beo'y. 3. ANGUS SH Rows 63 Perk Row. Tavered at the Post-Oftice at New, York as Second-Clase Matter, 2 [ i The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. By Maurice Ketten. Enel i the Continent and BubeerPorid for the Waited seat “ bed Por Countron i ho Internations| ‘and Canada, ‘ Postal Unio an One Year $3.50| Ono Year... eevee 4 One Month 30| One Month | —— __ , Comsrieht, 1011, by The ress Publishing Co, (The New York World) , ).D EW | ‘o. 2.—A Blunder That Opened a New World. UP-TO-DATE NEW YORK THRONG of ill-dressed, wild-eyed men were making Ife a burden : : : | for the officials at the Spanish court. All were eager for an ins gl Mg i ' terview with Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen. Some Te ee ae SIRI ie of them claimed to have secrets for turning iron into gold. Others tus of New York Oi | had schemes for impossible conquest. Still othens begged for money ratu a ‘ % | enough to complete some crazy invention. Cranks of all sorts clamored was paraded in front of | for recognition. And, to the minds of the amused courtiers, the most the City Hall for the admir- | Idiotic, impractical crank of the lot was a gray-bearded, weather beaten | taan who was actually so foolish as to belleve he could reach the Kast In+ dies by sailing westward! | The courtiers were right. The man, Christopher Columbus of Genoa, who had journeyed to Spain's court in the hope of interesting the King and Queen in his project to “reach the East by sailing weat,” but one ; fdea, and that was a wrong one. But it chanced that several of his beliefs which led up to that {dea were correct, among them the theory that the rth was round. (Later he declared the world was pear-shaped and that | Paradise was situated at {ts smaller end.) He thought he could sail so in @ westerly direction that in time the rounded surface of the earth would en- able him to reach the Orient. He did not stop to consider that there might be vast bodies of land between to block his ships’ progress, ) Columbus tried for years to make some one finance his ing thousands to inspect. It looked well and fed the thought that New York was up to date. This is not so. ‘The city is one of the most reluctant in the coun- try to take up with inven- tion and improvement. Cos Cob, Conn., had an auto engine as good as the New York sample two years ago. “One Idea—a , He laid the project before the King of Por- ‘About every city and village in the country had electrically lighted j Wrong One. , who laughed at {t, and who then secretly sent out streets before New York caught on. The electric street car made —— an expedition on the lines planned by Columbus. A storm drove back the Portuguese fleet, and the great chance was forever lost to that country. One monarch after another rejected the wondrous opportun- ity Columbus offered. Columbus, from che storles handed down by Leif the Lucky, belleved there was a land far beyond the western ocean, But he thought that land was Indla He never knew better to the day of his death, It wou its latest appearance here. It is still possible to see horse-drawn cars “in our mitst,” as the country editors say. Good pavements, tuch as can be found in Buffalo and Cleveland, e yet to appear. ; Concretely speaking, New York is a slow old town. 1 have been useless to i} try to interest people in this new “India” rou for scientific purposes. So he eS eee | latd stress on the wealth it would mean, for Indla was then supposed to be ®& . | | Treasure Country. last a mere it named Pinzon consented to back the THE PARDON OF CAPT. HAINS. | i FM ect Mme bape the venture pos also agreed to ma not in the Interests of exploration, but as a gigantic mble from which she and § in might win mense riches. ave with royal indorse t the plan for a time hung fire Money was and men were scarcer. p one with anything to lose ¢ to embark [| Jon so mad an enterprise. The crews of Columbus's three little ships Wee chiefly made up of the scum of the Spanish seaports, Convicts were freed from prison on condition they would join the expedition, Broken debtors were de- clared solvent on the same terms, Down-at-heel adventurers, beggars outs Jaws for whom Spain had Wn too hot sw 1 the ist Thus, financed by n uneducated woma ied by manned by petents, the world’s &1 was begun. Fi VFECTING SCENES are described as accompany- ing the release of Capt. Hains from prison. Everybody was touched. He will see his children | at once, the reporters remark with much feeling. Tears flow until the ground must be dampened. | There are no chronicles of the struggles of the family whose head he killed; no outbursts of emo- tion over their needs and grief. True joy is manifest when a guilty man escapes his just dues—not when justice does its complete duty. erect Sbtheneninee PASSING OF THE PEACH-BASKET. | HE peach-basket hat of feminine fashion is now obsolete, and the peach-basket or skeleton military masts of Uncle Sam’s battleships are likely soon to follow into the discard. The latter change in naval modes is foreshadowed in the official an- , nouncement that our next new dreadnoughts will ~ probably have heavily armored fire control stations | placed low down fore and aft, like the latest British models, instead | of the twin openwork structures of steel 120 feet high and from thirty to forty feet in diameter at the base, which were just begin- ning to look picturesque as we became accustomed to their oddity. re and overy ne three tiny ships beat westward into the Unknown. western Atlantic In the fifteenth century was un- d, and was called the Sea of Darkness. ‘A man to-day setting out for Mars or the moon would have far better ideas of his route and dgstination than did © lumbus's ragamuffins on this desperate trip. Th | ment permitted them to turn back if they should not find land within miles, So Columbus kept a false “log to make them think the distance they | nad traversed was shorter than It really was. Even so, they mutined and were | with diMiculty kept from turning thelr vestels back to Spain. (A hurmorist has | said Columbus deserved little credit for finding America, since America was | there and he was bound, sooner or later, to run up against it in his western course.) | At last, on Oct, 12, 1492 (after a stormy voyage of two months and nine days) they sighted land, It was a tropical island (San Salvador) at which they | first touched. Columbus thought he had reached India, and he named the cop= } per-colored natives “Indians.” He skirted the group of tslands, reaching Cubs Desperate Men. ee Hayti and other new territory, On later voyages he planted colonies, discovered South America and went to the western verge of the Gulf of Mexico, where he thought he had reached Japan Jealousy and ingratitude dogged his steps. Once he was dragged back to not rewarded. The man who had discov. Spain tn chains. 1 j ered and helped to ynize a new World was allowed to die in poverty and | | obscurity. Nor did he even have the joy of knowing what he had achieved. | But picturesque is not shot-proof. Naval gunnery has advanced Mr. Jarr Learns Ju st Who | Columbus discovered Americ He hi and he died without knowing he had disc Is the Family Financier ‘°° "™ ARR NpNUENE NEUE HOON EeNi cnn Mngrne gE Rainbow Stockings Newest Fad. AINBOW stockings are the newest) to harmonize with the stockings. believe he camps out on the stairs the land, That's what the French used toy “I'm not criticising, my dear. I guess R fad for we They are of every | Women who do not ike to wear lbsy 2 night of the month so that he may ; designate her in the Napoleonte days.""| you are a little out of sorts,” said Mr, ol c dic vere anged the future of the earth anything more important tha@ since the first “inverted peach-basket” was set up on the monitor Florida several years ago. As a result of the Russian-Japanese sea fights, and the recent target practice that battered up the San Marcos | (formerly the Texas, of Santiago fame), naval officers have come to, regard the skeleton mast as offering altogether too easy a mark for| ee (?) the enemy's big guns. If one or both of these floating Eiffel towers) “SS were shot away from a vessel in battle, the wreckage would tangle up turrets and things rather awkwardly. Moreover, high explosive shells such as the Japanese used in putting Russia’s navy out of business imag 1are in keep: | work stockings in the street hi wake people up at daybreak Ike those) “Well, the landlord has been here| Jarr. wearer, Time] on the Idea of wearing wt landlords in the old Irish dramas that |three times now id Mra, Jarr,| “You'd be out of sorts, too, if you) was when lace inset stock A stocking used to come to Brooklyn when I Was |And these are not the Napoleonic days| were Worried as Tam, plied Mrs. | white and black, but with the introduec-]| The style has a girl ‘Pay your rent or out you go!’|nor the haleyon days, or anything ike|Jarr; “and I'd be much obliged, Mr. | tion of stock! and was always the hireling of the that! I wish you'd stop in at his real] Know-[t-All, if you would see if you Ing with the tastes of thi e or flesh- nder the lace Inset, American women varied colors It has] so forcibly the stockings may be ob- served Fifth avenue, at the horse ngs were only | colo: become popular to have insets i British army and betrayed the patriots | estate office around the corner and pay| can 4> better!” like color. The lace Is » a shade! shows and the aviation meets. would find such tall structures just the thing to explode against, . who wouldn't pay their rent to him and |nim the rent, since you sympathize so] “Very well, madam," sald Mr. Jarr | =-—— pelts = Bid siti ai id seibs eile AEE . ‘. i . 1 who hit him with clubs when he asked a re stiffly, “I'l do so, since you Insis! | dane thereby bringing down a rain of fire on the ships that obligingly Re 4 Pane te tue biccaaderey og [much with him A “Sure,” sald Mr. Jarr, “I'l be coming| Then Mrs, Jarr’s n nd." a went up in the nN nA ™ 4° | io HG 2 vi Ihome with my calary to-morrow even-| ar and Mr. Jarr squared his chin and t A: {x to ay Ce) “Well, a landlord has to live" eald ing.’ - gloomed out of the window and thought Ye MANY WAANn Mm 4 ASMMONS UW you ever see such a land-|Mr, Jarr soothingly as Mrs, Jarr stopped h ‘: fl of all he had stood from that woman nnn nnn a basket hat war. But the United States battleship has once again met “TD lord 8 we have?" cried Mrs.|for breath, “and ours evidently isn't In th ‘pant Mire ie “People over alnee they: Ware’ marrinl, and how, ita w ear ; F An exasperated pay o ous Albion.” eek UATE hi q 0 thi had hi ite worst enemy—something more formidable than a hostile flect in|soneaoce ny perated tone.| the pay of perfidious Albion. she never seemed to think HE had his, way he acts, we] “What ha own troubles and worrtes and never, hattle—and that is the fickleness of military fashions backed by un- had Sust yo carried them. One must think of these possibilities, sooner or later, | ed Coprriaht, 1011, by ‘ge free t The peach-basket mast is not a failure, any more than the peach- (ido M ald dt ishing Oo. @ anennanssece about it, to who owe the tradesmen big bills are ap- proached politely. But let honest people HB blouse made of the Alblons to do with ed in yesterday; and were] \to" asked Mrs. Jarr. ta, Albion is|Wwho pay tnelr bila rexvinrly, when they (complained about them, and so on and limited appropriations. Kolmg (0 nove out to-day, owing him’ q very nice ttle young married woman | have the money, get the least bit behind | *°.0h" | three months rent!” that has the three canaries that sing s0land there they are at your door, or|, Th® next evening °fr. Jarr stepped isone —_—— | "We could hardly owe him three ene vel ney ore At YOU p is ax simple as It ts attractive The fronts a er-lapped and prettily in the next flat, Her husband| shouting up the dumbwaiter shaft that | (Pt the real estate office nearby and} months rent if we moved in yesterday lis q bushelman for a Fifth avenue u patd the rent to the agent cf the pro and out to-day,” sald Mr. Jarr, “At | tattor, sh avenue! they must get e settlement, You act | told me, but he isn't per-|as though you think you can run the | ort: Then the agent suggested the: r that rate the landlord would oWe US} adious at all, and 1! b ‘ ish 9 drop into Gus's and have a little some- Lette $ Fr om the People | the money for nearly a month's rent—| Day the tandlor he Paya or doesn't house beter than I do, the way you eee the sing is mats e a to the back, n my thoandiard ive none of our busle YOU thing, Here they met Muller, the gro’ at the | n the landiords always give you a| hey me Vue Nu stand around with @ sneer on your| or man with a moat remarkable his chee the, aim month's free rent, don't the wigeca ah i face, not saying @ word and Utclsin€ | memory, for he knew to a cent what eof airaver ce | replied Mra, Jarr, | ‘BY ‘perfidious Aiton’ 1 mean Eng- everything 1 do!” feof all-over li and promptly names the other two,| “Don't ask me Z the Jarr bill was, Including the balance) ee and the blouse ing ¥ Very rful” until we considers |“T forwet, for we've lived so long in) | due from the week previous, | of mardi t sete heard People claim that|that the middie number of the re. tls old dark barracks of an out of} “And it's a dollar sixty you owe me banded with alli, neral of the| mainder will alwaye be 9 and that the | ete flat, when up at Two Hundred 4 sal Woman--And Her Infinite Variety. for them last rounds of drinks you had| mit the bunch thres week | Gus, “and twenty-five many transparent materials that can be used in the same way whlis ¥ dopend upon the|first and third will add to 9, Thus ig) Tenth street L could get much nicer | being a novice, would|the right hand figure is 8, A knows the @Partments for the same money, with | be pleased to be informed by readers| remainder must be 69% Mow easy. porcelain washtubs—not slate or soap- ago," said s for a raffle for a aii watch for the eft of the blow will be Wiser thas T by what proceps of prac TD. a, |stone washtubs 1 cas | the tceman's wider, whien { put your found an tlead operation the results of the winners a Piskiat Renin Auakey, ‘Wouldn't so pstone washtubs be the (A Leaf From Adam's Dictionary.) | name down for beca ldn't know tlve one my best? asked Mr. Jarr n you could wash the clothes by Just running ; in the hot wat nd rubbing the fam rata @round the tracks contribute to the high state o: training of our horses two contrasting m als without the — transparent effect, as the itor of The Eventng World hieved In the | the letter about the “Hr business and | girl who objected to the flag f him, And here cone er, Maybe} it Is a bil you owe hi vich you want to pay him out of the fortune somebody ellence By Helen Rowland. ' . reas Fh - ror We louse of taffeta iv earminie & the soapate 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Weel) | ateq and give to ¥ E a; es, namely, our powerful h Amboy school, Isn't she rather h ted | OMAN— pine crea > the died and: Kive to yeu of crepe de chine Se EAISnAIA ‘ook: Hin tune eee isla: Te) ' don't bot ver me! interri AN—A etasne reation for the comfort and) yy, Bepler said there was a trifle due, on oF imensalliney oper respect to! Mrs, Jarr, “Excuse me for belng ri ie amusement of mankind. ‘oy meats supplied t ar With | ie | Olin + Aandem 14 plain of a nalien| of whose gift oflvae ine leinot time’ for Joking d. for meats supplied, of $8 And Mr, Jarre datlnnvae inne che high stepp ducation she is taking advanta ft's the first week of the month and| returned home with six dollars of his Rib—That part of a man's self, of which ardie takers, he thinks the least and brags the most. of fancy silk, or, » need no! in the of | a pt y rated i nan essarily be disloyal to the land | salary and proudly narrated his finan rd around for the rent, T de | HELEN the la the # for practical and pleas own flag. If ao intensely patriot) | ROW! Wifae(Uha Talarion Bragitonl Pha ceo clal_ promptnesi gulmpe under tt ee varies ae sehieae Wid. plea | Lar oma ne. 36 0 Intensely patsiatio, LAND he Inferior Fraction)—The excuse for all; sang {x this all the mo guimpe ur t bur last esi for in: 1 Rive Chiffon or marqu ked OMMON SENSE, rper of me to e me through the week @ man’s sins, the cause of all his failings, the ke It All Depends. le conscience, the sett could be lt A. WARWICK SMITH is dhe Asteatinn sth guardian of his digestion, and the repository of his ie Jane, regerd ng Hie Ae Galles me Wan tania 5 ches 8001 surpr ow ay 1 ‘The Three “Jaw Fracturere. | To the Editor of The Esening World | |! y ana Wain hte pee To the Felitor of The Bvening World | answer to the “duestion about Better-Half—The half that is always left at home. It's all right, I've patd them," 3 one and tt will be | Fa Sestienee to Gs B's nde pee win eae neta, te me Coquette—Any woman who is so unreasonable as not to return a man's Mr. dare he ‘ Ae Tegel « “w M4) advise the “hustlers to tr th | apections But thia is the week T let those bills Sith the cone a to the of three Ger opel a AO snVea) thelr | Biiviedou aomon c stand and pay t and milk and for th j atida ‘words, 1 bave noticed this ki money In a Ko sinexs with | ny woman over whom a man has insisted on making a fool of) |... Mra dare blouse oan’ bo | combinatior word ny par | active service New York | himself, Mr vein Ghls tine raade tn color te | pers many a t pote malnins or Old Maid—An unmarried woman with more wrinkles than money. | for a with the trimming ! hold eten ent propos: | " F = of the matertal, so | tlon | Bachelor Girl-An unmarried woman with more money than wr es. ; iti Avi 4 if ing enough A. Y , Kit y than wrinkles nconventionalitie Re cal 8 One if BT oer ceerconlone wh Kitten—Any woman under sity for whom a man fecls a temporary Min srentant when, bE r Blouse—Pattern No, 7161 same time that " tively the meant | tenderness, $f dining room curtains dy ‘ancy 5 r . thinner, I!ghtex ‘f Dinations is somethin pe \, w to | Peach—A pretty woman to whom a man is manoenvering to be intro. Mrs, Nextdore, is that w? 1 nsists of the gulmpe louse. The lining ts ' word, “District Tax cde 8 violin al | duced. seen you rubberin made with front and tions. an os are sewed to the armhole word, "Ci r f to highs | > F | “Inasmuch as neithe! ® wants to The three-quarter slee » puffs that are new and smart. The overbdiou F faird wor ’ ‘ piteh, 1 hat they “always | Prune—The same wonan—afterward, | kine, Mrs, Jipes, why should we do tt two pic e with the sleeves. The fronts are ove: ] apector of the Railwa Ao nat, Ot to une strings Baby—The particular woman to whom a@ man happens to be making) “Yes, Vi lend you my. wheelbarrow d me wilt require Sit verde of material $7 or A Mathesmat shat @ e very good love Rummidg w Tl have ad ra of ail for the trimming; for the re or of The Even Wor “ that is buying a a ” " ‘er it t back.” gulmpe rd 4 inches wide, Pane Beer of The Evening Wong: Pepin reta hy Clinging Vine~A woman who allows her husband to think that he is, Sfter tw it ba y 4 fh I s'pose I ought to thank you, mis- Pattern and 4 inch bust measure. tev, but that's the darndest sma nanamaaemanntd Helpmate—A combination of a playmate, a soul-mate and a Light-running | any man gave me for a $1.7) meal low 1 EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASsillo: having his own way | By I think that he r ng mathe- | Violin string made from s fume result, I wo ing to recall this y that he in reply to Ww 5 wh as W e@bout taking three fig a to tra pose them and add, j BUREAU, Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street, or send domestic to tb . | W Wil t@ MAY MANTON PATTERN CO. 132 K, Twecty-third street, Kk you keep the » Lever sin Goddess--An impossible woman, who evista only la novels and a man's OMtain FN. ¥, Send te ola ur stumps for each pattern order sd ce ¢ le! w hree bieh ere are any bran o . ” ' : laht 4} hat . 7 alin, M mma ite ?. pias by 5 btract th eh ese stand unt! hoo ‘. | ety " speci E pte ac cents for | ta lesser from the greater; A 1s then told ‘actually “sawed” through ee up oer just now? you'rs| _ Paragon—The kind of woman a man ought to marry, wante £0 Marry) ee oon tg naautt vegun te | rottorue zl? Wee, Wonton, AAS INS cPRy far IBMa DeRtage I Ja: fhe right Land figure of the remainder BEN W. HARRIS. | @ purchaser or an assessor. | intenge to marry—and never do GOW yet"—Chicago Tribune be Y ‘y '