The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1911, Page 10

SE oi thfee hours a week to mow and trim the lawn. Besides this, there ) ndt show these’ clegances. He is content to have it look decent— [> Most of the weeds out of the garden, the lawn mowed but not trimmed ay about the edges, the trees merely presentable, the gencral effect good | bat the detail deficient. If he wants to shunt the care of the place on another man for a few weeks, he may not succeed; in the villages ‘atound New York people with spare time will sometimes accept " work, but they are not keen for it. For the average commuting person a plot of land 75 feet wide by | feet deep will be found just about right. This 1 | beans, all the onions, radishes, beets, carrots and parsley that he needs. | He can also raise much of the sweet corn that his table requires, On such a plot the commuter can get his exercise, wreak his art ey . Pdlished Dally Except Sunday by the 7 7 Except Buty Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr Entered at the Post-OMce at ription Rates to The Evening ‘World for the United States ‘anada, and C Year. $3.50 “- mute daily to a city offic answers will range all the way about twenty by seventy-five feet. average man who wants to take care About as many persons buy too little land as buy too much. imaginative commuter can enj on a plot only forty feet own. On such a plot there is no ce for a vegetable garden, and for fence-room; yet with children he ought to have a fence, An acre of land is a little more ~ Jand than any commuter can look after, unless he lets most of it lie| - wild, or unless he has boys old enough to help him, He can look after a plot half that size, say a plot 100 fect wide and two hundred féet deep; but there are times in the planting season and times in the “lawn’s period of most rapid growth when it will not be comfortable to #0 much land. It will require sow and cultivate the vegetabl Better have a little less land than one can comfortably care for | are the shade trees and grape arbor ple with J: acre plots h?re men alittle more. Then if one has ably in putting his place in the pin masking purposes, in building an ergolas, The half-acre place cared Sig ‘mere. It affords a lawn that a vigo “raise all the salads, cabbage and t wel) ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, RAL PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. No tt bea Park Row. ‘ew York 753X150. W large a plot should a man purchase when he decides to remove to the country, build his own house there, and com- ies will consider during the winter. It will have as many answers there are real estate companies with suburban “developments.” ther more of his neighbors in summer than he does in a city flat; ey will be on their front porch, and it may be only a few feet from of landscape gardening, in creating clumps of shrubbery for : A strip from 15 to 20 feet deep across! the éntire width of the plot iy ‘Bhould be ect aside at the rear for the vegetable garden. This the uter can spade and plant and tend himself, and on it he can 7s passa cca eee precept —_ Presa Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to New York Q Secretary, 63 Park Ri is Matter, inent and Eecond-ch For England and the Cont All Mashing’ A petra omtal inion, ema One Year. vu lonth e? This question thousands of down from several acres to a plot What is the right answer for the of Jawn and garden himself? oy all the sensations of a Sabine | wide, but he must expect to see room for croquet, and inadequate one begrudges setting aside any- than 200 feet square. It is more nearly all his spare time to spade | le garden. It will require about to prune. Sooner or later, most to help care for them. time to spare he can use it profit- | k of condition, in achieving little | id adorning summer houses and) for by the commuter himself will @ quarter of an| rous worker can mow in an hour. | omatoes, all the string and lima ‘ |* irapulses, diversify his table, and yet have time to play golf and tennis, fi or go tramping. na realty sense is to hang in the collection o nationa! notables that adorns t: in a more vital sense than tl 75x150 feet is the golden mean, "¢ | ANOTHER GUARDIAN PORTRAIT. T is well that Eastman Johnson’s portrait of Grover Cleveland of State and city executives and he Governor's Room, the Mayor’s pins and the corridors of City Hall. These portraits by painters ie Trumbull and Elliott make that venerable building a Hall of he little temple uptown. Grover ¥ nd’s takes a well-earned place among them, and his memory : es the memories of an edifice which knew Lafayette living, and igcoln and Grant dead, A For officials who can receive inspiration it is there aplenty in the | Visage of Grover Cleveland. It should be hard for one to sell his % a i" Bese am is af i ' ; + ie ») Honbr or truckle to clamor or knuckle to a machine under the gaze ® of the man who said that “public office is a public trust,” the Gov- k | emor who espoused the merit system, the President who rebuked " The effigy of Cleveland ought ing influence. Y: Aured lips break into voice Majl, portraits doing. as We: Brave, stro} tioms, But if this city had always b mental integrity of John Jay, wit with the vision of DeWitt Clinton. haye claims to greatness it cannot quite another quarter, _ Phankssiving day was on ‘The Rallroad Problem, Fo the Kaitor of The ’ Inanewer to the railroad p: mitted to your paper by Mr. M. O'Brien, J (would say that the solution offered by jer {8 correct as far as it, put he falied to finish it, Me ‘@verlooked the fact that, after the train 4, passed him, the second man con- to walk at the rate of two miles (or #x miles in the three hours the first man to overtake © thet excesses of high prétection and stood out against the free silver » madness. to have an inspiring and restrain- : J et it joins those of other patriots which have looked down in helplessness on scenes sufficient almost to make their “Dic- ndell Phillips fancied the Faneuil ng men have sat in office under ‘ | The sanctions of the City Hall portraits and been true to their moni-| een governed by officials with the h the courage of George Clinton, » with the resolution of Hamilton - Fish, with the intellectual horizon of William H. Seward, it would urge to-day. eIf in all time to come the example of Grover Cloveland shall » he'lost on “a politican, one that would circumvent God,” the com- éeunity will be content with the thought that it may put heart and into officials—not politicians— in danger of circumvention in travelled after leaving ‘the second man by six miles, ARTHUR JEAN, A Street Cleaning Grievance. To the Kalitor of The Evening World: When are they going to clean the streets? The dirt in front of the houses where many of our citizens live is something fearful. It has been ly- } in front of our door over a week, aul tie peroage sare overnowing which {8 @ menace to public health. I think we citizens have @ right to complain when we get up in the morn Copyright, 1911, by The F (The! New York The Perpetual Prude. Ov: upon a time there was a Pu , oe fubdlsing Co, prude. ‘There are two kinds of prudes. There is the etrict- ly SELFISH prude and the atrictly unselfish prude. The strictly self- ish prude is car’ ‘that ts @ prude for only. You can keep away trom him and he is harm- The other kind is @ prude who ishness with every: one who comes his way. For a prude and his advice are easily parted. does not ALWAYS practice what he Evening SHARES his prud- | Manes Sindbis hil . Fables for Everyday Folks feewrrreeerereeeeereeeerrrrrnnn, Now {t came to pass, since the prude was NEARLY human, that he met with & temptation or rather the temptation met him} It seemed alluring, inviting. He became involved. He looked about him terror-stricken, To whom could he turn for aid? To hia brother prudes? Mercy, no! That would be the last straw. For the most important com- mandment for the prude is the eleventh —"Thou shalt not be found out.’ Sandman Stories The Unhappy Dollie, HERB was a little girl named Mary: who walked very proudly up and down the sidewalk wheel ing her little baby sister in the cal ri while Susan, who was Mary’ preaches, however; But he preaches the practice of “prudism.” The hero of this story, then, was of thie latter class. At least, all THINK they are heroes, But it doesn't take @ hero to make a prude. Any one can AVOID temptations. But he ts only a hero who WITHSTANDS them. ‘This prude kept within his shell so no temptation ever came his way, Therefore he thought he hed the RIGHT to reform the world at large. He did not emoke nor drink; in fact, he had not any of the so-called vices that earth-bound spirits are heir to. He did not go to the theatre nor join in a dance or frolic of ANY KIND. He believed thoroughly in the old adage that “an ounce of prevention !s worth & pound of cure.” ‘This is a very good old adage, But © prude has all PREVENTION and no CURE. Now, this would all be very well; but he wanted to prevent every- body and cure everybody. He was a walking sermon, His ever- lasting cry was a continual “DON'T”! And {f you did, woe to you! In @ word, | he was a sermonizing soothsayer, monious air crushed any spontaneous Joy that had permeated the atmosphere before he zame, His attitude was one of everlasting DISAPPROVAL. Ho threw a wet blanket on anything that did not come | within his set roles and regulations, | and made a cloak of that blanket | He was the death's head every | feast. Everything was ALWAYS wrong. |The world waa a terrible place, No- body did JUST what they ought to, ‘One day the prude met with a so- called “good fellow"—the kind of a man respect and vices with the lve-and-let-live attitude to- ward all men, Of course the prude did |not APPROVE of him. In truth, @ good fellow was something to be AVOIDED. And it was not long before the good ing and ame) is in the many * which atl jerme@ and i# @ menace to\our fellow learned of the disapprov: For body else what @ Baw good me ‘ 4 sie oe t ‘When he entered a room ‘his saneti- the prude took good care to tell every- man has been here alread: dearest friend and who had no little @ister or brother either, walked beside Mary wheeling her dolly in a go-cart. All the ladies stopped and said what @ pretty baby Mary's sister was. And the little sister would say “g00-g00" and smile at the ladies, But no one ever stopped and spoke to Dollie, And this made Susan feel very badly. “I want a real live baby like Mary's Uttie sister,” sobbed Susan. ‘“Dolle aren't any use, any way, Why can't you talk?” she said, snatching up Dol- | Me and shaking her so vigorously that | Dollie’ pretty brown curls flew all about Ike a pinwheel, | ‘Then she threw Dollie into a corner and went to play with some other toys, | She tried to amuse herself, first with | ‘one then with another toy, but after all, | NONE of them was 60 pretty or cun- | |ning as Dollie, And Susan began to feel very sorry and very much ashamed of what she (.ad done, | So she went back to where she had | left Dollie, And there Dollie lay, very quiet, upon the floor, with her heels \over her head and her face hidden by a pink dress, And she was crying, all 0 herself, and saying “I'm so sorry that Susan does not love me because T cay not talk ard; laugh ike Ma baby sister, 1 would like to talk, too, but dolis never can! , But T can always understand whatever Susan says, because T lo Now Susan was more ever, and she ped a Dollie from off the floor and valk her “Oh, Dollie! T am sorry, toot y for what I did to you, Ar Tl be very ’ Of course Dollie forgave Susan, Then they-huxged and kissed each other and were good friends once more. Just then the Sandman came through the window and Susan Dollie fell asleep still hugging other. “You see it Is Just as T thought," satd | Mamma to Daddy as they came into the | room to put Susan to bed, “|| nd nee, He did not kAow where to turn, ing @ prude, he could not fight it out Disclosure meant disaster. Along came the good fellow, Being a good fellow, he had a ready helping hand, through a world looked BIGGER. aione. No ‘he Daddy, how Susan loves the do!) that foves $ : ‘ _ ee nave bee, Dollie is Gusan's favorite ell tha; you say to her, Be pou must pie rs : WT hs a 4 World Daily Magazine, Saturday. Such Is Life. By Maurice Ketten. Sand- | companion,” y "pivinel AM ' ENRAPTURED! Be- MORAL: PRUDE. saw life lens. The He had been “The prude DIFFERENT living In @ glass house and throwing all “She wa two,” the stones. ton; “mine and He saw there was even ‘honor among ! Star, Written and Ilustrated December 2, thieves,” and that the world isn't such | a bad place after all. ALL PREACHING AND NO PRACTICE MAKES JACK A DULL ———— POLITICS, 1911. “Does your wife want a vote?’ eplied Mr. Meek- '—Washington hers.’ y Eleanor Schorer } |! Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). y little dears, YOUR dollie} her feelings and Susan did, Al : make her cry, 19:1 The explanation of the mistakes he made?” asked the head polisher. “I read tt very carefully," replied the laundry man, “but I vas not im- pressed with it as much of @ knock- out. The tore of the explanation is sincere enough. ‘The trouble ts that it 18 en explana- tion, (sarin onerry “President Taft has @ jot to learn about politics. No successful politician ‘admits that he has made a mistake. ‘The President shakes confidence in his strength of character by making such an admission. It will be @ day such as has never been experienced in these United States when Col. Roosevelt ad- mits that HE ever made a mistake ia his Life, “The President apears to be of the Opinion that the way to gain the good will of the people is to be perfectly frank with them—to talk to them in @ fatherly, condescending sort of a wa: Doubtless the time is coming when the policy of perfect frankness will appeal to the people, but that state of affairs “D*: you read President Taft's OH! 16 hie long way off. As Mr. George Cohan ys: ‘P. T. Barnum had the right idea,” “Dhe people are getting ready for a national election that promises to split the country wide open. Many patriots are looking for the nomination for the | Presidency. The fact that Mr. Taft has the Government machinery behind him in his fight for the renomination has not discouraged leaders of the Grand Old Party who think he may be beaten. “Keep your eye on those aspiring statesmen. Watch their public utter- ances. Analyze their platforms and Promises, You will find them about 8 per cent. Dunk. The one who uses the | most al in manufacturing and ped- | dling political hot air is the one thet will come pretty close to copping the prize. “President Taft has taken the people | {nto his confidence. He ts not eo etrong | as he would be if he were able to ‘conf- dence’ the people. Our politicians have trained us along certain lines and we WILLIE JARR HEARS ALL ABOUT— WHAT? HHO will stand up for the fight ss for the Home against the Man ‘Trap?’ asked Dr. Greese at the Brooklyn temperance lec- tur Prof. Slurk sounded a rousing abord upon the organ, and almost involun- tarily all present sprang to their feet, Master Willle Jarr not losing the op- portunity to tread again upon his dear, kind grandma's get bunion. “You villain! you demon!” shrieked the old lady. All present imagined that the Jurr’s children’s grandmother was addressing the two gentlemen conduct- ing’ the combined oral and musical es- |sault upon the Demon Rum. ‘These gentlemen, by the way, were on @ par in popularity with their audi- ence es the mwuch-discussed drama ‘The Playboy of the Western World” occasionally is with its auditors. Perhaps the peculiar methods em- ployed by the pair in selling tickets to the lecture be to do with this, At any rate, all eyes were turned on the Jarr children’s grandma and questions came hurling at her from all parts of the io audience. “What is it, lady," asked the stoop- shouldered man behind her. ‘Do those men owe you for board?” “It's @ breach of promise case," cried the atout lady down front. Murmurs arose on all sides. openly charged that both Prof. and Dr. Greese had run away from thelr wives and children, Those in the audience who did not know the Jarr children's grandmother personally were pointing out Master Jarr and little Miss mma Jarr as the deserted babes of either or both of the visiting temper- ance lecturers. Some of the most excitable of the women crowded around the Jarr chil- |dren, kissing and petting them, while Tt was Slurk |several of the more militant Brooklyn men present arose and shook thelr fists at the gentlemen conducting the meet- ing. But while the wicked flee when no man pursueth and the righteous is as brave as a lion, so Dr, Greese and Prof. Slurk, Knowing they were tnnocent of either ‘hoard bill or desertion, stood calm and dignified in the midst of all the tumult at the temperance lecture, In fact, Prof. Slurk whispered to Dr. Greexo that if the latter could only turn the affair into the proper channel of In- jured: innocence, they might be able to take up an extra collection on account of thelr feelings having been hurt. “Madame,” asked Dr. Greese, pointing his long bony arm in the direction of Jart’s grandmother, “do you oe- me of anything?" asked Prof. Slurk, throwing be v kind ry y ight hurt| his chin up deflantly, very Rind 40! ber OF yay Cisne Bir! *erled the old lady, {all procosdinge, and Dr, HAT would be VERY | 82 she dabbled the tears of pain in her) Prof, Slurk playeg Newark the follows svt "E mavan aae ‘om before im Oy }URG RMe ins ienmennlmnnenienes ‘as| ‘Drat the men Week’s Wash~ By Martin Green. Copyright, 1911, by The Pread Publishing Co, (Tee New Yors World). 1 are naturally suspicious of one Whe seame to feel that he is accountable to the pubiia” rested ‘ Thesplaniom, ' , 667TCURNING trom politics 6 stage," remarked the igher, ‘I nee that the Patt woman who was acquitted of ing her husband in Denver is coming to New York to act out as an actress afd entertain the populace,” a “She'll never do," replied the laundty ‘man. “We etand for actors and ep- tresses who murder dramatic art, but the time has passed when a woman can attract people to the theatre because ste has been cleared of a crime. ‘The Pat- terson woman is quoted as saying that sho has always wanted to be en actress and now ehe tas the chance, (if she hae always wanted to de an actress, but has been unable to get & chance until she has killed her husband and @ jury has turned her loose, talent and ambition have no place ‘hind the footlights, With hundreds men and women of the, stage out of employment because of the lack of Da- tronage in the theatre Mrs. Patterson ds due to run against e frost in man- egerial circles in New York ttiat wi make her wish she had never wanted ‘be an actross.” ' 66] SEE.” sald the head polisher, “tha! I W. E. D. Stokes complains Lillian Graham, thé shooting show girl, was always asking him for chorus girls don’t ustally ask middle ed millionaires for iocka mt. thea Whole life, and I hope never to see ‘ again. I thought this was a free te Deranc® tecture, because tickets wer sent me without my having asked for them. And yet, when I get inskie here, ) I am made to pay for myself and for} these two children!” “It was stated In fine type on the back of the ticket that admission would be charged in a nominal sum,” said Dr. Greese blandly, “but I submit that itf was most unjust to shout ‘Damn!’ andj ‘Villain’ at two such consistent workers for the good cause, and bearors of the conflict in the heat of the day, aw Dr, Greese and Prof, Slurk, the Moral An- archists!"" “Nonsense!” snapped the'old lady. “I wasn't talking to you. T was speaking to this little boy, who stepped on y sore foot, But since you've been #0 J smart, Mr, Man, I'll say right now that this is the worst temperance lecture, ever I heard, and I, for one, want m¥ money back!" Cries of “That's right!" arose from alls sides, and but for Prof. Slurk jump\yiE ‘into thd breach and giving his famoua imitation of @ steam callope on the ore gan—always @ sure fire hit—the meet- ing might have ended there. | Meanwhtle the excitement quietgt’® down and the Jarr children’s grand) , mother placed ttle Emma beside her” as a fendpr between ther and Master! Willie Jarr, that that young man mighty g have no chanée to “accidentally” step) upon her pet bunion again. @ | “was telling you of the case of John, | Armstrong, the wheelwright, who spent ig lan tia money on strong drink and; | whose famfly never ate anything dutig liver," continued Dr. Greese when Rug ‘hed the meeting once more in hand, | “John Armstrong, the wheelwrighiyht | with his blue ribbon badge, after he hasby been converted to temperance, walkedal proudly down the street. And, my) | friends and little children, what was Jvtc> that John Armstrong, the Wheelwright, had pledged himself never to touchsad taste or handle again?” Sl “LIVER!” cried twenty childish voices at once. 4 Slurk together, WTA TA ee you all to stand up aga the fight awainst the Man Tra: Yoluntanily rose again as the orga’ | peated an dnapiring chord—all ‘except Uttle Emma Jarr, The cobbler's wax [that bir brother had placed upon the boa @& & Woman trap for hts @randie held timht the Iittle blue ellic dress, Tho scrcama and shricke that oman: mted from little Mina Jarr put a elop. tant Gree and.> boomed Dr, Greese and Prot.” “LIQUOR]" .