The evening world. Newspaper, November 21, 1911, Page 18

ork hows” ow, In, Becretary, -Office at New Tork ag Gecond-Clana Matter. eer evening | For fineland. and the Continent for the United States All Countries in the International end Oaneda, Postal PEACE—A FEW MONTHS AFTER. EFORE the Sixty-first Congress passed out in March, President Taft launched a movement for world-wide peace. It was well received. Two arbitration treaties were drawn in conformity with it, and last Sunday the nation’s pulpits lent it their voice. When Mr. Taft sends his message to the Sixty-second Congress & fortnight heuce, and summarizes our relations with other countries, he must report that things began to break loose about as soon as he ‘undertook to clamp them. Mexico was convulsed by a revolution which ousted Diaz after a generation’s tenure. France and Germany engaged in a game of menacing bluster in Morocco, and England had 160,000 troops ready to intervene. Out of it issued a bargain whieh carries a French protectorate over Morocco and the first steps in a new partition of Africa that brings the German Kamerun in contact with Belgian Congo and anticipates the day when Germany shall claim an African empire incorporating the Congo state and fronting on both oceans. Italy made # sudden raid on Tripoli, and did ruth- lessly there. In China, revolution cast into the melting-pot the politi- cal arrangements of more than a quarter of the world’s inhabitante— and again the Cossacks are astir in Manchuria. A futile counter- Tevolution began in Persia, and under its cover Russia threatens to occupy two provinces. Ps The President can report that since he made peace his theme war has shaken the strongest Latin-American state, ended the sway of Islam in North Africa, convulsed the two oldest empires of the East, menaced Europe, and by s mere threat of itself changed the fate of Africa. He can report that his own hand sent an army corps to the Rio Grande, his own voice declared amid the thunders of an American fleet stronger than all others save one that we need more cruisers, more colliers, more destroyers. Mr. Taft has cried Peace, Peace, and there is no peace. able, but the fact. Deplor- EAST AND WEST ON COMMON GROUND. rebel commander-in-chief, makes Chinese affairs understand- able when he writes Premier Yuan, the empire’s strongest man, urging him not to prop a tottering dynasty which may ungratefully requite him, and recites the proverb, “When the rabbits are caught the hounds are cooked.” The western world uses monkey and. cat to teach a like lesson and admonishes men not to be cat’s- ws. China is ruled from the grave rather than the throne, reads from Fight to left instead of from left to right, and favors suicide instead @f homicide where an exquisite revenge is sought, Its social system Seems uncanny, but open its proverbial philosophy and one is on familiar ground. The western proverb of mote and beam takes this form in China: “Make it a habit to assail your own vices and failings before you assail those of others.” The Spanish proverb, “It is a ‘waste of lather to shave an ass,” is somehow recalled by the Chinese, “Bhave Chang every day, but skin his buffalo once.” Says Confucius: ' “Phe mouth of a dumb man and the look of a fool make a ruler; for the first outwits his inferiors, and'the latter his superiors.” ‘Thomas W. Lawson is no Confucius, but has said the same. The Chinese say, “A ruler should never neglect his near relations” —and western practice has avowed as much. The Chinese say, “Study without thinking is labor lost; thinking without study is perilous.” T. R. has spoken to the same effect. The Chinese say, “From @ man who is not modest in his talk, it is difficult to expect | much in the way of action,” and thus Americans appraise blather- skites. The Chinese say: “A gentleman regards what is right, a vulgar person what will pay;” “a wise man is impartial but not neutral and a fool neutral but not impartial ;” “be concerned not that men do not know you, but that you have no ability;” “happiness and trouble stand at every one’s gate, and yours is the choice which you will invite in.” All this is wisdom, East or West. nd WHAT PEOPLE WANT TO READ. SRF Senior Warden J. P. Morgan had put a million-dollar check I on the contribution plate which he was passing at the centenary of St. George’s, would it have attracted as much attention as the fect that he tripped on a cushion at the chancel steps and spilled éome gold and silver? When the reader has pondered this and answered it correctly, he will be on the threshold of the mystery, What Is News? Letters From the People Chances im the South, ‘To the Eaitor of The Brening Wo Can any experienced reader enlighten Me on the subject of the “Opportunities for a young man down South?" I am eighteen years old and healthy, but of 0 means, and have # fair education. Others may be interested tn the replies. ACR. en and women in Washington State and California? No, It was a contest, f think, between men and women wh. use justice 4 truthfulness in public than tn private life, and » Fewardless of sex, who wish to keep honor and truth at home and not let them get into the body Two Years, Te the Béitor of The Evening World: Does the Governor of New York serve for four years or for two years? SAMUEL 0, A Train Problem. ‘Te t.o Bétitor of The Evening World: Please ask your readers to solve the foliowing problem: “A train siabtye | eight yards long overtakes a man walk- ing along the line at four miles per! the un-American system of suffrage.” To Check Raitor of The Evening . 8. ne. ig it a misdemeanor for by Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to uw tow. New fora ” polls The pollticlans have yet to | an earn that there ts another wet of | in the world WHO DO Nor BELIEVE hats intening to the everiating, domes: that the divorce between social and political life should be perpetuated by | ehec! HIS Box FoR Te Tom Gave ME A Box, But my WIFE HAS NO NEW CLOTHES « - MY WIFE CAN'T Go To THE HORDE SHow HERE fy A Box Ly | % By. Sophie Irene Loeb. A PROMINENT bachelor of New York was asked the other @ay why he did not marry. He an- * swered: “Girls nowadays expect so much! They don't just choose @ man, but they want to be married toa house in town and one in the country, an automobile, a trips and all the spare love and at- tention @ man can wade through, and thelr demands are 7 the seme in all strata of life accordingly. “Now, I can make enough to keep 4 iS LD LOER Uttle to spare, but if I were married I would even spare that little or spoil wife. “There is no use to call me up ou the telephone or ‘call me down’ for soine trivial thing in whica there ts ‘much ado about nothing.’ “In former years @ girl 414 not expect eo much and she was willing to start at the BOTTOM of the ladder and go wp step by step. Now she wants to etart at the top—the sky t# the limit. And a man’s at his wits’ end trying to KEEP PACER with Mrs. Butterfly across the street who has a new willow plume three inches longer than his wife's, “These are the problems that eon- |front the average husband of the twan- tieth century. Grandmother's daughter was willing to make over old dresses. But what with feshion's decree of straight lines TO-DAY and hips te morrow, if @ woman be ‘in the swim’ at all, the made-over variety seoms to sink her into oblivion, and the man hes aiMculty to keep his head above water, “Then, what with women’s clubs, suf. | tragette meetings and with all the cults 4 ‘isms’ that woman ts delving in, the hat, listening to the everlasting domes- tio problem and signing the weekly While there is no place like “one sex! home, sometimes it's @ good thing there tan't. | ‘The marriage game ts a lottery, But, Junfortunately, unlike any other, there to have a law| are no blanks—you get something, As any |for me, man wants but little here be- hour and passes him in ten seconds. |Person whomsoever in Greater New York | low, and sometimes he gets that little Twenty minutes later it overtakes a sec-'t0 Bive perquisites (tips) to city em.| fast and furious in the average mar- end man walking at a uniform rate and |Ployees? Also making it 4 misdemeanor | riage." him in nine seconds. If all con-!for these employers to accept such fa. tinue at fho rate above given, how far} VOrs for duties the city ls paying them | one gets tired of the club, the smokers, Ahead ‘will the train be when the first |for? Would not such a law prevent a) the bus rss propositions and finds him. ‘man overtakes the second?” iFecurrence of the present trouble the self !* two ttle rooms he calls his, : M. O'BRIEN, jhousekeepers and the city authorities walls echo back a loneliness— Between Women and Women?” jhave been experiencing with ash, refus|peraps be has hie ‘might have been’! ithe Wattor of The Evening World: and garbage removers? People who are|moment: But ian't it all better than & writer falls into the error of saying the suffrage matter is “a contest jee women and women.” think, could (ruth. Was it o contest between wom- Uberally tnelined ployees a Christmas or Now Year's gift Such a token is far more honorabl than the acceptance of tps, what is your opinion? # aaa ‘n give these em. | the ts Keaders, Yes, it 1s true that occasionally when always-will-be state, without end? jo| It 4s all very well for the ory of the eynie to reecho through the land thet marriage 1a a failure, and ao doubt there world MYSELF pretty comfortable, with a) . Say. Bree, ME MILLION Gave NE 00Y0u WANT T Go ? Such Is Life. By Maurice Ketten. ALFRED GAVE HE A Box For Tue Horse Show Bury Gave ME ABOK for The HORSE SHoOw- But mywife CAN'T Go — 00 You want, iT? LOOK wWHo Bx x ||MicLion| 1067 Iwise MONEY Are Bachelors Happier Than Husbands? Coperight, 1911, by The Prens Publishing Co, (The New York World). ere many failures, from the rapid re- Ports of the divorce courts, Yet there are perhaps JUST AS MANY FAIL- URBS in the state of single-blessedness. While there are good husbands and bad husbands and miserable husbands, yet the HAPPY husband is not an un- known quantity, and there are QUAN- ‘TITIES of them. These are not ad- while the others are. Marriage is a lotte: It 4s no differ. ent from any other game of chance by which the world MOVES and has its Deing—since no one can see the future, And though it may be a good thing, —_————————— in some inatances that there is ne piace Uke home, there are many other propo- sitions that are a great deal worse. While there is the continual wail of two souls with not a single thought, with all the accompanying contentions, 4f the right man gets the right women, by all the laws of EXPERIENCE and reason THERE is the condition that spells SATISFACTION. The human is prone to changes of temperament in the various STAGES OF LIFE and the bachelor has his qualms and quibbles JUST AS the mar- ried man. While men’s sports are men's Sports and may Gil a portion of life, yet {t 1s not BVERLASTING, and man was Rot INTENDED to ilve alone. From the very firet instance when sought shelter with the woman of the cave he has fallen heir to the NEED of woman in the home some time or Other. Yes, while it is all very true bachelor may BUY the services of housekeeper, and there may be people to minister to his needs, the POSSHSS- IVE INTERDST of the woman he call “Wife” can never be soquired other- wise, Bhe is @ part of him from the very reason of that very first rib, and of course he and she make or unmake thetr Eden. There may be triale—granted—but the | very feeling that there is some woman bearing your name that you ere RE- SPONSIBLE for, no matter what suf- fragette propensities she may have, there comes with it @ compensation— A bachelor may think he escapes do- mestic problems and rent bills, but there 18 euch @ thing as the joy. of a child's orderly linens-and com- | me ¥F as* i i i itt ti | af i iiity $4 i I edgeville Editor By Joha L. Hobbie KBE Reynolds says that the Craum family {6 going to have a family made, so people won't think they evoluted to the human race during the last generation, H BORGE Henderson would have got married last Tuesday, but he found out that he would have to Klas all of the girl's relatives. BV. Frost says that Adam com. mitted the firat sin by wishin’ for sampany end he was punished for it. . RS. Derks has manufactured enuff evidence in the last year to con- viet an} in the country. HEN @ married man says he is moboddy’s foo] he doesn't some- times realize in what ao disre- pecttal way be is relereta’ to hie wile “ . rama] | commas ig econ It Was a Wid Night For Both the Jarre. WN thelr lodgings (or we might a we Ragie Hotel in Bast Malaria, Mr. end Mra, Jarr had eunk once more sto the dull unconsciousness of utter Weariness, when, with a roar end @ rattle, @ ringing of bells and the low, mMouratul “recali" signal of the lumber yeed s\eam waistle, Bast Malaria's Dose and hook and ladder company returned frem the evene of the recent contlag- rauon of the Palace Launch Wagon and Woke them wide awake again. ‘The engine Louse was rigat next door, end the uppermost toplo discussed in the loudest tones by the returned fire- men fae the great loss to the social nd business Lite of the community in the burning of the junch wagon. The cause of the conflagration, it ap- bears, bad .een ulrough the accidental | Upsetting of @ Jacnp in tie lunch wagon When one of the merry royaterers nad endeavored to dance the “Grissly Bear’ in that crowded space, while the hare- Upped mouth organist bad enticingly | Glecoursed ite syncopated strains, Mr. Jarr 6. '\.4 grimly again, The dancer had been Jenkins. And, as the lwach wagon was not insured, the con- senaus of opinion was that Mr. Jare’s lit F jt An angry consultation followed this | and some of the more urgent spirits | counselled that the door be battered | open. Finally the landlord's brother- | in-law @uggested, in the harelip lan- By the broken window and they all coulé enter that way. This, after being trandated by come body who understood the harelip laa- suage, was grected with cheers. The landlord objected, saying that he could 0 up the ladder and get his keys and Jet them in below, as be had done once _ this pight Chief of the Fire Department objected. “That te no way for firemen to enter @ Place,” said the chief, “especially when they are in uniform!” In fact, the chief counselled that the heroic way, under the circumstances, would be to put up all the ladders and break all the windows, But this was voted down when the landlord asked to be reimbursed for the proposed damage. i “Anyway,” added the landlord, “you've got to let me go up the ladder alone and then let you in, because I've ot guests stoppin’ in that there room to-night.” A hush fell upon the firemen. It was the first tune they had ever heard of anybody ever actually staying in East Malaria who didn't Li “Who are they?’ asked the Mayor. “I believe they're pecigs trom New York who have been out visiting the Jenkinses to-night,” said the Jandiord, ‘Them?’ cried the Mayor, in‘ ecorm “Why should we pamper imposters of that kind who descend upon our fair city?" They ain't estate here! ‘They’ “Come on, then, my brave lads, and follow me!" cried the Chief of the Mass Malaria Fire Department. ‘And with loud buzzes the entire as eembiage followed the daring fire fight ere up the ladder and, brushing aside the nailed-on overcoat at the window, they tramped through the Jarra’ bed- chamber in single file and down the stairs and into the barroom below, “I forgot to say my prayers,” sald Mre. Jarr, oalmly, when che last Kast Malariaite had passed. And she got up and knelt down an@ prayed that the whole town might bur guage, that the ladder be put up to|—end SOON. | Copyright, 1011, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York World), | N eingling out Rollin Jinks from & Uttle multitude of Dogwood Ter- racers whose systems were smpres- nated with the “borrowing” virus I must vouchsafe him one compli- ment—he possessed transcendental nerve. Indeed, he shed an aura of nerve about him, wrap- ping his wife, bis twins, the Jinks hand maiden and the Jinks dog in « wonderful cloak of ft, When he wasn't on deck to do the borrowing his able team of substitutes performed that office with great eclat. He began upon me on the day I moved in by borrowing a cold ham. The next day I met him in the bridge whist ca- Doose of the Dogwood Terrace flyer. He ‘was all smiles and unction, and there was a merry twinkle in his eye. “I want to thank you again for that ham, Riddle,” he said. “My wife's ets- ter had called, with her Great Danes, and they were ravenous, So was my pup. They made a great feast off that ham. Got to feed Great Danes on meat, you know, and all we had in the house was chicken and baby lamb. Don't hesi- tate to call on us any day you got some hungry dogs in the house. Repay the compliment, don't you know." “Bo YOU got that bam, eh?’ I said, etiffy. “gure thing!" laughed Mr, Jinks. “Didn't your girl tell you about it? I saw it on top of the icebox on the back porch, gathered it in my Little mitten and sung out to your maid, Tell Mr, Riddio that I'm @ thousand times obliged.’ Now, surely she must have told you about s."" “Bhe told me," I responded, with a hiss of melice in my voice, “that a tramp in a red sweater snatched that Her Knowledge. RESIDENT CAROLINE HAZARD a 6 romeo, 8 ‘Wellestey (College said apro- | sngBtt SEEM Foe eredunten have anid t0 them, absentumindediy, such @ thing as was ence sali of a Western girl, “T..4 gl im taking leave of ber dean mar. 1 am indebted to you the professor, ‘pray don't men- trifle.’ "Cincinnati Boquirer, Mid-Ocean Repartee. 6 evidence that Englishmen are mot with- out s dty sense of bumor, the Btates, told the following story during his New jen were paying court to the same American girl on tle trip, Thelr on. either rivals @ould alt for it American, ¢ach trying to One of the two was notori- ously parsimonious ‘The men spoke of him as ene who “had never bought drink in his life,” ‘and his stinginess was manifested eve: in the way he smoked bis cise down to the last quar ter of an inch, Que toring the Baglish “tight-wad,"” while monopolizing the American girl's entire attention, amoked a cigar until it begen to singe bis mus | teghe, ‘The other chap waiched him languidly as cat the other out Memoirs ~f a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie ” be ais Gt! queensberry,” sow ‘touriag ‘the ‘United bar, ham off the icebox. That was e fed ham that I had bought against coming of very dear friends to tea. WERE COMPELLED to feed chipped beef.” ‘That person Jinks doubled up mirth and sputtered and spouted Joy all the way im to Jersey City. “Isn't that @ lest, though!" he cher tied. ‘Tramp in @ red sweater! Lovely, lovely, Mr. Riddle! Don't think I'm @ bit offended. Not @ bit of it. Got @ sens@ot humor, you know. Haw! Hew! Haw!" I committed a dreadful mistake in not laying my hands on him at that mo- ment, There was an emergency axe ia the rack above my head, but I merely stared at ft dully, without raising @ finger. I could have suspended the bore rowing eperations of Rollin Jinks for aif time. But with what else but vain regrets 1s the life of the commuter filled? Eves the bitter gall of experience will net teach the dweller in fair Suburbia and guide him from the thorny path into the fair road, Three seasons running have I planted my crocuses and tulips upside down. Five times in one summer I loaned Rollin Jinks my lawnmower, an@ each time he returned !t @ wreck, apol- ogising for the cracked and broken blades with merry quips and quirks, 1 padlocked my icebox against him, but he ingeniously removed ‘When hts wife had a heada: hig twins in to play about our drawing room. When I locked them in the cee Jar they took the furnace apart and flooded the laundry @o that they could float about on a raft made of a ma- hogany table top I had just repolishea. Rolin Jinks just miased laughing him- self to death over this lively prank of the Jinks twins, but again I wavered and hesitated until the passion to slay had left me. Did this borrowing fiend ever lend? Yes, in @ way of speaking he aid, But that te another story. (To Be Continued.) [The Davis GO0d Srories. Ae he returned from the rail his rival drew his observed: pipe from his mouth and : “I aay, old chap, 1 do "bope that won't gp im the propeller,” A Woman's Sarcasm. ease whtle tutunsits iain hele ‘Huszetas the sarceom welch "o weensS ‘peed, je of when occasion ‘be escne to tom the tiny cigar stump overboard, Home Jowmal,