The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1911, Page 22

= | cons ae ESTABLISNED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. fa Bunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, Pemtished Daily Dxcent Bue’ Row. New Tore RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. J, ANGUS SIT\W, Tre r, 63 Par JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Sect Potered at the Poat-OMice at New York ag @econd-Cleas ™ @wbscription Rates to The Fvening| Por England and the Con’ a | World for the United States AML Countries tn the Internation ada. Pot inion. +++ 08.601 One Year. :80]One Month GERMAN CITIES AND OUR OWN. I1E German cities trace back to the Middle Ages or to times | earlier. The German system is supposed to be “bureau- cratic,” overburdened with red tape. It might be thought that our young American cities would exceed them in freedom of movement and action, in elastic adaptation to new conditions and the new wants of their inhabitants. That the contrary is the case, the capital address of the German Ambassador on municipal government in the Fatherland shows beyond question. The German city is mis- tress of its own destinies, has been eince Prussia was made over by Baron Stern after the collapse of 1806. While American cities talk “home rule,” German cities have it. These cities have turned the impediments of their years into assets. Their engirdling fortifications, instead of cramping their growth, have been made into boulevards and noble “ring” streets. They have taken care that new growth in their suburbs shall not reiterate old mistakes. Here in New York fresh centres of conges- tien tend to build up in the outlying districte as fast as congested centres are abated at the heart of Manhattan. There is a constant struggle to weaken the tenement house law as applied to the outer districts, The city has no general plan to shape its future, and devel- opment is haphazard. In Germany there are government boards which determine whether outlying districts shall be residential, factory or mixed; laws which automatically prevent suburban congestion by prescrib- ing that only two-tenths of « plot shall be built upon, and the power through “excess condemnation” to control and finance improvements by acquiring and reselling land abutting new streets. The people of the Empire State at the last election refused to grant this large and useful power to their cities. We have something to learn from Germany. ee tae is & good deal of the dollar mark about the “devotion” of Mr. Clarence S. Darrow to the cause of Labor. A retainer of $50,000 compares favorably with the fattest fees Obtained by the most eminent corporation attorneys. pen WOMAN THE CONSERVATIVE. so badly as Job Harriman, Socialist, was beaten Tuesday. | | In N’ leading candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles ever was beaten It was the first chance women had to vote there, and their leader is well advised when she says, “It was the votes of women that snowed under the Socialists.” Of 70,000 women registered she figures that 95 per cent. voted, and of these 75 per cent. voted against Harriman. Their gradge against the Socialist party? In a word, that it stood for woman suffrage and woman’s complete “emancipation.” Something like this happened in Norway as soon as women were admitted to the suffrage. They used the ballot to vote out the party that hed enfranchised them. Their grievance was that it had enfranchised them. Of course the women of Los Angeles and of Norway did not put it that way. What they did in each case was to return a verdict against radicalism, and woman suffrage is a plank in every radical platform. By instinct women are conservative. The female of the species is more stable than the male. As the sociologist, Lester Ward, put it, she is “the guardian of hereditary qualities.” In religion, in clothing, in domestic economics, the woman conforms, and the man is the innovator, the non-conformist. The monarchies of the world rest on woman’s shoulders, on her inherited fondness for the pomp, the millinery, the stately and ordered life of courte. But for this, the masculine sense of humor would have made thrones impossible. Women’s essential conservatism is betrayed by their voteless con- dition, since the ballot will be theirs as soon as most of them wish it. Those devoted spirits who are laboring for woman suffrage are doing work not merely unselfish but eelf-sacrificing. As radicals hey do not represent their sex, and the latter will surely use the Dallot to rebuke and rtire them. Their natural leaders will be {ory equires in petticoate. This will be well on the whole, since most change is bed. ee TLL the ladies not only please do their Christmas shopping early in the season but also in the day and not cramp us men who have to go home after 5 P. M.? NS arene the making of time out of the question, there was not enough energy in the management of the Long Island Railroad to sweep the enow off the steps and platforms twenty-four hours after it had fallen, penne To Regulate Trusts. To the Editor of The Brening World: Having read the suggestions of Dr, W. T, Belfield to the National Wom- ‘s Council in Chicago that a law ht to be enacted to limit the num- of children according to the in- come of the family, I would like to suggest: Would it not be better to limit the power of the trusts that con- trol the necessaries of life and charge high prices for same? ‘The doctor is cuotetd as saying it 1s a crime against Letters from the Peop'e the trusts "You may only charge for food so much and no more?’ ALBERT FOSBERG., More About “Equality.” ‘To the Editor of The Pvening World A reader asks if women are the equal of mon. Another reader argues that they are because tn certain parts of Europe women work in the fields with men. So does the dog pull a cart, yet he is not the equal of the horse, Men are superior to women both men- tally and physically, What woman has ecolety for @ man earning no more than | brains enough und mental endurance to $i per day to have more than three chil- |FUB @ mighty nation through four years dren; I would ask the doctor is it not |0f horrible war, as did Lincoln? Now, a bigger erime to deny proper nourish. | for brute strength and physical endur- ment and plenty of it to poor people |#ce What woman could work in the because of the high cost of living? Ie| Nes or work for any length of time it not a bigger crime to see thousands |&# & #toker down in the fire-room of of children dying in their infancy owing sary pail weit A.M. R, to the high cost of pure milk and toe in ie the World Almanne, the hot summer months, controlled by | Myre Tiller of The Breniog World ai tag finer sale ad ° @ list of the cruteers tm the United States Ni the Gale adould have the right to tell‘ Statest MaYaR AnaybWita eo Ragen | nee meee The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, Dece Little Old New York. By Maurice Ketten. WALKING (3 OUT oF THE QUESTION i By Sophie Irene Loeb. A ND know ye by all presents Yule- tide is coming. It ts Decem-| put a vote in for a saf fe and eane ber. We are in the buying bus-! Christmas. inees. And there/ They are a friendly people, thes those who n, There is an army of them— © great army. But when you consider that you and I and all of us with our var lous WANTS at thie season con- etitute an army hundreds of times as large as THEY and we enter the battle- represent; ground of business activities almost 4s one man, it were no unwise meas- ure to consider the OTHER eide and tainly there are good clerks and bad clerks and indifferent clerks. is @ time in which they are DEL4 UGED with a mad maelstrom of spend- ers and they are often spent in the PROCBTSs. to the prospective present proposition as to whether it will suit “mothe: “John” or “the baby,” and are many times called upon to SOLVE these prob- leme with suggestions, but they must needs be PLEASANT through it else they be labelled “crank clerk: 3% A Plea for the Christmas Clerk ¥% Copyright, 1911, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York World). to say, these work-a-day individuals, instead of having “peace-on-earth-good- this will-toward-men” feeling during eek to SERVE. Cer- for them @ time that > is “up to” the individual for an all- und remedy, in the vernacular, to “COME EARLY AND AVOID THE RUSH." That is, to sum up this, that and the other thing, and get it in plenty of or| time BEFORE Dec. 24. ‘When you come to realize that ac- cording to statistics as many as three thousand Ch: Eve orders flash Yet here Not only must they listen I And often, very often, I am sorry Sandman Stories NE Gay when Bessie was play- ing in her garden, she heard her mother call. She oame running quickly, for the ohil4 thought that perhaps her mamma had something nice to give her. “Bessie, dear,” said her mamma, when Bessie reached her side, “I have just received a note saying that Jessie Brown {s ill; eo I have packed your new basket full of goodies, and I iknow thet you will be only too glad to take them to poor Jessie.” Now Bessio was @ selfish Uttle girl and wanted those goodies for elf, 40 she said to her mother: “Why, mamma, {f Jessie is ill she may not eat apples.” “O, yes she may,” answered Bessie's mamma, “for her own mamma told me 80," “But mamma,” went on Bessie @ lite tle vexed, “even if she may, my basket is so very pretty and I am afraid that it will break if I carry those heavy apples tn tt" Byt the basket was not so selfish as tts “ite r. Indeed, it was very anxious to carry the apples to Jessie, So while Besse and her mother were talk- ing together the basket wiggled itself |to the edge of the table and dropped softly to the floor, and made tts way to the door, and was half way to Jessle's house before Besste missed st. ‘The generous ittle basket climbed up on Jessie's little white bed and lumped all the apples into her lap and then fell to the floor, broken into @ thousand tiny. Boasle's little heart felt very sad over the loss of the pretty basket and the goodies too. But it certainly taught ner a lesson, For, in the end, she had nothing; es it alwaye ie with selfish, Greedy children. Still, when Bessie saw how pleased Jessie wae with the apples she was very glad that the beaket bad taken them to the Mttle sick gist, sire Geer (34% ies Written and ‘Mustrated he @ By Eleanor Schorer H Copyright, 1011, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York World). ere there is a sense of satisfactory SOLUTION at this time. Christmas may come and Christmas may go, but the tall-ender goes on for- ev a sometimes he wags his WAIL dehind him. For he does not always fare well. The question is not always solved for him. Christmas should be a pleasure, and not @ problem as it is prone to be. Besides, the spirit of give and take need not be a matter of arithmetic and figures, so that on Christmas morning the answer is a MINUS quantity. It isn't the COSTLY gift that gives the full measure of joy nor the gift that represents a great LABOR. In @ word, love's labor is NEVER lost. woman who sits up all ts embroidering some elaborate thing and sending it forth with @ sigh of relief had best save the weary hours and HERSEL# 1n the proc- ess, in the bestowal of some LESSER gift that carries the SAME message. For, it 1s the spirit of giving rather than the satisfaction of getting that or the joys of this holiday period. ABOVE ALIL-—LATE SHOPPERS NEVER HEAR ANY GOOD OF THEM- SELVES. AND: A LITTLE CONSIDERATION FROM NOW TILL THEN IS RELISHED BY THE BEST OF CLERKS. —$<——— A Prayer. GOD OF LOVE! make me of love thet I May give to her a life that shall not die; I who have dared to breathe her name must be ¥iret of all worthy to have walked with thee. Let me grow sweet with beauty ti! my heart Coprrient, 4011, by The, Pree Publishing Co, THE JARR CHILDREN . BUTT INTO SOCIETY, 66 IN we have company to-day, K™ the fittle girl, ‘fends is doing to tall.” “But you can’t have @ party now. It is #0 near Christmas," explained their mother. ‘‘Walt ¢ill the holidays and | there will be parties every day.” “But this ain't @ party, mew," said Master Jarr. ‘Jest eome of the fellers is coming round after school.” “An’ Mary Rangle and Gertie Sia- vinaky and some of my ¢'ends is toming " added the little girl. fell, I don't know what you're up to,” eaid Mrs. Jerr with @ sigh. “But if you don’t ‘break anything and don’t (mess up the house and don’t make any noise, I suppose I'l have to let jou emertain your company in the dining room. But, mind you"— But the ohfidren did not walt to hear the ‘ifs’ their mother was about to add to her interdictions, ‘They were bounding gayly out of the house and quarrelling good naturedly et the top of their voices as to what other children of the neighborhood should or | should not be permitted to attend the juvenile reception in the Jarre dining- foom that afternoon. Promptly at the close of school Master Jerr and little Miss Emma Jarr, at- tended by their familiares and friends, came clattering up the street with their echool books and sundry emall parcels. Some fifty fest in the rear puffed Master Iszy Slavinsky oarrying « | pasteboard shoe box. | ‘The shoe box was heavy and bulging | and it was apparent that Master Sla. vinsky’s bringing up the rear with it was due to the fact that he had stopped off at hia home to get it. The children stormed up the stairs G@iscoursing Christmas et the tops of their ahrill voices, contradicting each other flatly and making open acousa- tione of high onmes and misdemeanors against each other in that frank and open way that ts such an endearing trait of happy childhood. At the approaching invasion, Mrs. Jerr, with much misgiving for having consented to It, fled to the front of the flat, while Gertrude, the Jarrs light running domestic, aammed the kitchen door shut on herself, The youthful hosts, scattering coats, knitted caps, rubber overshees and achool books down the hall and around |the dining room, gathered in crowded disorder around the table with much jostling and admonitions to ‘“Quitoher Pushin!" and began to Danter each other on their several personal posses- sions of a mysterious nature. “tT betcha I got more'n you got.” “Aw, shut up!” F a woman seventy years of age can | make $50 net profit on @ city back yard garden why can't anybody with a back yard make such a profit? To the question “Does it pay to plant @ garden in @ city back yard?” Mre. Herman Lieb, No, 1441 Lunt avenue, Rogers Park, Chicago, answers em- Phatically “Yes.” She has no patience with the young married man and the young married woman who cannot find time to make use of the back yard the landlord has given them. Mrs. Lieb not only acknowledges to three score and ten years, but she had asthma, or thought she had, until she took the advice of a Western ranchman and went “back to the farm” in her Rog- ‘s Park yard. Mra. Lieb closed her @eason not only with @ net profit of $50, but with renewed health due to open air exercise and plenty of fruit and vegetables fresh from the garden, says the Chicago Tribune. This being the case, Mr. City Young Man with a back yard, {f you wish to hold the respect of the seventy-year- old gardener paste these figures in your hat for reference when the season of 1912 shall begin: Ground—Two lots in Rogers Park, 160x175 in area, Garden cultivated, 60x80 feet. Fruit grown in @ space somewhat smaller than garden, cosTs, Ploughing gardenpatch, 50x80 jet $1.00 Beeds and plants...... 4.45 Weeding, three times 4.50 Sugar, twelve p 85 Gas used tn pre: Total .. In a Dilemm3. HE newly returned African explorer foand Himself jm a horribly tight corner, at ue 1 , maya THe fire octal function, es F Ghall always be an altar where thou| >, ° me from the fevered ways of in That my breath shall not blight upon her when I look into her face, and give my s Rapture of dreaming on the white sur- prise Of her pure virgin beauty, that the more Shall train my soul to wors}!p and adore. Make me as pure as night that I may rest With dreaming fragrance on her lilied s clean as dawn that I may Holily wed to her simplicity, fe forget all other things the consecrated wings Of love that {s a prayer to reach the Diace ‘Where t may turn my eyes up to her face, Seeing a}l purely, what I need to see— ‘That if I leve her, I am loving i Laurence C. Hodgeon in cartes roungatere”? gasped the antique one. edt course, bow is your family? means to say—zour husband, for instance!” y—dea erring to your brother, Just as much as if be T'm cure you were your husban mine—ba, your—uma: ur piessnatey of mother w is sour, id you over hat Travelling Man’s Tale. HAD «0 stra with an intoxicated strange man {u other day,’ How One Woman Earned Money. “Yah, I got twice as much of ‘em (a8 you've got!” “Gussie Bepler, if you don’t take your e@bow out of my ribe Tl smash your 0! Fortified as she was in the front of, the house, Mrs. Jarr tyid her hends 1 ovet her ears and regretted the con- ent she had given to the meeting of the juvenile clans tynoath her roof. But curiosity overcame annoyance and she opened the door of the front room slightly and listened to the din f trom the dining room. /" ! In assemblages of this kind the fpmale 0f the species is more dominant than the male. Léttle Mary Rangle, who was almost old enough to be a guf- fragette, grasped the altuation end began to bring order out of chaos. With eundry commends of “sit down!" and “Shut up!” the cries that fome one was pulling some one's hair and some one was standing upon some one's feet subsided, and Miss Rangle wee then heard to remark: “Well, who'e got the most gree ones?” “But blue ones is just as good as @reen ones,” the volce of Master Jeet ‘was heard to sa; “But coupons ain't as 00d as trading stamps,” the voice of Izzy Slavinsky explainad. ‘An’ 1 got @ cigarette pictures which I'll trade. Ten for Breen coupons and twenty for any kind o' trading stamps. Now, Wale Jerr, where's all them trading and coupons you said you had?’ “I took ‘em over to Brooklyn,” ge Diled Master Jarr. ‘Over in Brookéyn you can get moving picture tickets for ‘coupons or cigarette pictures or trading stamps." A fierce babble of childish vetoes arose. It was evident that the present convention of the children of the neigh- Domhood had been brougnt ebout Ge cause of the wonder tales of the @ar laod of Brooklyn Master Jarr had told. It was also apparent that hie youss friends had gathered round him with their treasures of trade tokens, such es cigar coupons and merchandise gift: stamps, that were being hoarded up Sor Christmas presents. P “Now, tell us what you seen jn Brooklyn,” commanded several votess. “Not till everybody gives me two trading stamps or four cigar coupons," tepied Master Jarr, the boy Marco Polo. And the spoiling of the juvenile Egyptians had becun. PROFITS. Lettuce, radishes and onions ...... Early green corn, 12 cents a dozen... seteeeee Wax beans, fifty quarts at cents each at grocers’ tis ol Tomatoes, three bushele at 65. Cucumbe! bushel. . Melons, twenty at 10 cen Total .... 928) FRUIT RAISED IN BACK YARD. Crab apples, three trees, five bush- els, 49 cents a peck.. Cherries, two trees, ten quarts at 15 cents 1.50 Peaches, fifty pints at 20 cents Crab apple jelly, fifteen at 15 cents.. Canned crab apple: tomat: Canned oes, fourteen jare fat 20 Cents. ...csiseee > : Tomato cateup, ten pints at 26 cents . . Cucumber pickles, one Ja : “Government” sauce, five pint Jars at 20 cents... tle | cide," Ideas, Piccalilli, one two-quart Ja “*A* eight, ol’ man,’ waved the inebriate’ angrily, ‘that’s all I got with me right now, Just end it as far as you can f'r th’ money!"— the In airing the evidence the fa ful that be eve seemed nervotis, and the ens Jor the defense endeavored to Nor feaaried, “ane tee" tee Jo 't say he did shoot them,'* ded reply. “1 sald 1 euspected, 4 ‘Ah, now we're, h. now we're coming to it, What made you “Well, firatly, T caught him on my land wi? « aun, Secondly. 1 heerd a gun go Some plgcona in his pocket~and TL don't hasty think them birds flew there and committed eule ——____. Boosted His Hobby, owe Eke Seats thee lene Rua course of making two local address took occasion to 0a: Gs pe