The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1911, Page 26

THE AMERICAN IDEA. NE can forecast before the River and Harbor Congress is fairly O opened what will happen there. Several wise projects will be recommended, such as the deepening of harbors and of the Hudson and Ohio Rivers. Any number of foolish urgings will be made for the sinking of additional millions in inland rivers upon ghich commerce has long been dwindling. The thing that will dis- tinguish this congress from any foreign one will be the theory run- ming through the speeches that it is the duty of government to “put gbdney in circulation.” ... That ia the original American ides. Americans are eupposed to be self-reliant to a fault, the enemies of paternalism and collectivism, But perhaps no other people are 60 wedded to the delusion thet money spent by the Government is so much pure gain. No matter whether p. <>athe object is practicable or sensible. If the Government spends y in the districts, the districte are eo much ahead. The Ameri- i ees the money pouring out, but will not see that the other end <= te pean ens or poset * Tt is hard to believe the extent to which this delusion has got | | fittelf written into law. When the River and Harbor bills are up ~ the favorite argument of the Congressman in behalf of the local mud- hole is that through it money will “circulate.” Good Americans will | spend it, trade will benefit. Thus half a billion dollars has been wasted “improving” rivers and creeke. The debates on the general pension bills show the same thought. “Give the veterans this fur- ther help. Their money will make business boom, and none will be Wisted.” Thus the nation has been led to expend four billions in ions and last year to epend $160,000,000 on account of a war hose fiftieth anniversary we are celebrating this year. jon Because local taxation is direct, and people are made aware of every increase, the doctrine that all public money spent is well spent is not openly avowed here. Yet it is practised. It inspires tory ealary increases by Legislatures, McCooey grabs and pay- Fell padding. As Wilcox says, in his “Great Cities in America,” “New York would have been bankrupt long ago if it had been able 0; make itself so,” and may yet become so through “the shifting of t¥ade ‘movements or the decentralization of the control of the nation’s industries.” S, “You can’t ruin this country” is the American’s boast. The Wide application of the doctrine that government is the source of favors, rather than the medium through which people spend their @#p money, seems to verify the boast. TWO HUNDRED A DAY. ‘WO HUNDRED telephones are added every day to the New York Telephone Company’s system “in and around” this city. Every year, therefore, it gains 60,000 new subscribers. Pop- ulation shows an average yearly increment'of 133,000. The increase in, telephone patrons is nearly half this figure, although the com- pAtison cannot be exact since it includes suburbs as well as city. As fast as families can afford it nowadays they have a telephone ‘imstalled. The increase keeps pace with savings-bank accounte—and helps keep down the latter. The nation-wide use of the telephone more than doubled between 1902 and 1907, in the latter year reaching 11,000,000,000 messages. In this State in 1907 the per capita aver- age of messages was 128, The American people will pay in telephone tolle’far in excess of %200,000,000 this year. .. It is hard to grasp these immense totals. Let it suffice that the telephone—the scientific toy of a generation ago—has elongated the ae T sneeyenrnnr rr OW CHAP ? "ER ON. LESH SH WOW IT Looks (WIC) LESH HAVE AN O22HER logs and projected the voice of men, making the world a whispering ry, realizing the myths of the Seven-League Boots and the Magic t and enabling the reader to hold in a eingle day a greater number of significant conversations than fell to the lot of Methuse- lati in his nine centuries. one ‘ i. THE EAR AT THE KEYHOLE, a CASUAL reading of divorce court news leads one to think _there must be a vast amount of surreptitious listening in the world. Every case, it seems, reveals a listener or peeper at a keyhole, a knothole, a stovepipe hole, a transom, a broken shutter- or a door ajar. Eavesdropping and tampering with private cor- respondence are disclosed as too common for reprobation. Servants, Dearding-house keepers and relatives alike have occasion to amend ab old proverb eo that it reads, “Listeners seldom hear good of them- selves, and never of others.” » Polonius, lurking behind the arras to overhear Queen Gertrude quiz Hamlet, met his death there. A multitude of other eavesdrop- pérs have brought trouble on themselves by telling about it and then having to testify to a furtive act. Some, however, could offer the | justification of the girl at the keyhole in Shaw’s “Arms and the Man”—where the matter at issue deeply concerned her, she was ing to inform herself by all means at command. ' As to the rest of-us who may be disquieted at the thought of invisible espionage, wa have always the defensive recourse of behaving properly, Letters from the People An Army Carcer, Bahor of The Evening World: give me some information as to what Would be the prospects, &c., for a young maén joining the United States Army? first scene he saw here was the red men or Indlane. A question arises in my mind; “How did these red men get here?’ They must have landed here some time before Columbus, If they did were they not the real discoverers “apis eiecreera 3.N. Be 1 of America? How about it, rengerst Bo the Rattor of The Bresing q an editorial you aak: ‘What Is Ple- Saturday, To the Editor of The Eveuing World: What day of the year was Dec, 20, sn? Ls 8 Cc To the Faget’ You inquire as to whether the term applies to comour or coinplexion. Biridentiy this ept terms applies to the b not to the complexion or What does the Pio-Face" ox- Only mush, This Amoricanism RH. M. eee in the Phill Eaitor of The Evening Worl I wish some one who has Uved there the would tell briefly what are chances for a young man twenty years of agp in the Philippine Island At presen I am employed in a railroad oMce. This may intergyt other amibi- Did Indians Get the el i el ERE'S my cigarette pictures,” valid Master Izzy Slavinsky, suiting the action to the word, “Now go on and tell us about Brook- yn." ‘The other children of the neighbor- ana other merchandise premium-tokens —to Master Jarr to pay for like priv- ileges for themselves. “None of you ain't ever been to Brook- lyn, eh? Asked the cautious Master ing round at the circle of his mpanions. AM shook their ids to signify that Brootlyn was an ynknown land to them. ‘Brooklyn ain't nothi: “No, ‘deed, ‘tain Jerr, primly, as she shook her head to signify that the marvels of Brooklyn surpassed al! belief. Whatever the conspiracy against the goods and simplicity of thetr playmates it was ovident that little Miss Jarr @ party thereto, and in its execu- tion was deplaying discretion far be- Can By Maurice Ketten. WHAT HAVE You H@Re, You hi! bid ie On You AND AN OZZHER Ten |MUSHT Go HONE Se a ree me mpeg The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday: December 6; 1 9if™ - Beat It? (HIC) WIFEY S'UTTLE PRESENT FOR You (Htc) Pally well, if none of you ain't never! been to Brooklyn," said Master Wille Jarr, “I can't tell you nothing about It, because you wouldn't believe me. Unless you @l! give me five more cou- pons and trading stamps and cigarette pletutes aplece.” Such Is the glamour of the mysterious and the unknown, that the children who had gathered in the Jarrs’ dining room to hear the until now only hinted at wonder-tales of travel paid over the extra backsheesh without a murmur, “They ain't no policemen tn Brooke lyn," began Master Jarr, ‘The streets is wide and you can play baseball and football outdoors all you want to," “"N every time a ‘ittle girl does to ore to buy anything for her mamma © grocery man dives her a baby doll and a baby dolf carriage,” interposed Uttle Emma Jarr, that the company might know she, too, had beheld the wo of Brooklyn, Master Jarr was about to rebuke his ide Timeiy Hin Christma HE busy other who’ can see no T way of finding time to make the Christmas doll'’s trousseau need not worry over it, The exhaustive sup- Plies displayed in the shops this year would lead one to detleve that ready-| made wearing apparel {s the latest de- cree of fashion in dolldom A new idea is the outtit which is a dress and all the usual muslin under | wear. One of these sets | ginghan? dress with a yok embroidery and sells for 75 cents, whe | one with the dress in two-tone sailor | effect Is $2.50. Cute baby doll outfits marked as iow as {0 cen ands # are part of a The various article e) can also bo pur- The dolls most in favor are the char- acter dolls, with thelr expressive faces, In this line a baby doll, all dressed, ts ‘a gpecial offering at one prominent shop, | tho price is onty $1 N dolls are the delight of the older girls use they can make clothes for them. This} joften lays the foundation of a good| home dressmaker later in life. Where Santa Claus nas carte bi he can deliver th small dolls, pi a “Your father says you are marry- Ing a man who will do the family credit.” tous young ma, AB. oreditors.” in baskets or trunks, together with @ French trousseau, at from $5 to $0, the! \atter being a small sized trunk with! nothing to desire in the way of a ward- |robe, But the a Vwill {tent with this year's new ofte }amall dott and warar basket that has nickel ng, @ straw | a “1 think he'd rather have me marry lock and key. ‘These are $3, but even at | ad a man who would do the family $1 there Is a tiny doll and outfit In @/ is that they have the style and touch of little trunk, CP rr rr rr rr rte ral hel hehel halal alah al ala kal alfa al al Willie Jarr Wins High Rank in the Ananias-Munchausen Army FSS SS SS EE OE EE OE EE Ot ES Et little sister severely for her interjectory remarks, but noticing that they had tremendous effect on the other little girls present he contented himself by saying: “Emma, you shut up and let me tell about it! But Mary Rangle and Gertie vinsky protestingly, “I'm paying out all them cigarette pictures I got from you, and I don’t see what I'm going to get out of this{"* “Oh, very well then, Izzy Slavinsky! 1 won't tell another thing about Brooklyn, Just for that!” 3 ides. Siavinsky and a few or girls has| . [ndignant murmurs arose on all s got to give us five more trading stamps | ANd Miss Mary Rangle, as the Amazon or coupons because Emma told you}! the Sroup, selzed upon the paste- about the doll babies and doll carriages, | B08 shoe box containing the treasures of Master Slavinaky, the capitalist of the juvenile community. A violent struggle ensued and for & moment Mrs. Jarr, hidden and overhear- ing all, thought she would have to be called upon to restore order, However, @ juvenile community can police itself If {t desires to do #0, and Master Slavin- sky was fined ten more cigarette pic- I was going to keep that a secret.” The little girls present showed they Appreciated the favor done them by little Miss Jarr’s disclosures of the de- lights of Brooklyn fe from the small rl's point of view, by gladly paying the 4 assessment. “They has moving pictures in the eee eet Gach lessen’ |tures for his unseemly Interruption and 2 , ishment (to schools is all nothing but moving | e7*uspended sentence of banis! be put into effect in case he made an- other outbreak) him. “Yes,” Master Jarr resumed, “kids in picture shows. Everybody gimme five more stamps and pictures and covpons."* “Lookee here!” cried Master Izzy Sla- was decreed against The Story Of Our Country ': By Albert Payson Terhune Covyright, 1011, by The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 39—The Attack on Fort Sumter. EVENTY-FIVE men—haggard from sleeplessness, gaunt from hunger, grimy with powder and deafened by a ceaseless roar of shot and shel: -were battling for the American flag against an overwhelming force of assailants, one April day in 1861. And every shot fired in that bombardment helped awaken to flerce action a nation that still lay dreaming of peace and compromise. For these shots ushered in the civil war. ‘When the first Southern States seceded, late in 1860, they seized such United States strongholds as chanced to lie within thelr boundaries, The harbor of Charleston, S. C., contained several forts, One of them—Fort Moultrie—was defended by seventy-five United States soldiers, commanded by Major Robert Anderson. When South Carolina seceded, Anderson knew the Confederates would at once annex the harbor forts. Fort Moultrie was not strong enough on the land side to be held by Anderson’s handful of men. So on Decs 26, 1860, he secretly moved his little garrison to Fort Sumt newly-built stronghold on a shoal in the narrowest part of Charleston Harbor. Anderson could save but one of the local forts from capture and he wisely chose Sumter. He wrecked the guns of Fort Moultrie and was safely at Fort Sumter, with the latter place provisioned and ready for defense, be- fore his purpose was guessed by the Confederates, ‘The Charleston arsenal, post-office, custom house and the harbor forts were captured at once, and the Confederate Governor, Pickens, eent Anderson a peremptory order to get out of Fort Sumter, Anderson refused. Then the Con- federates set to work erecting batteries at various points First Shot sen #05 aati: could most advantageously be turned of th The United States Government, learning Anderson's plight, sent the steamship Star of the West to him with reinforcements and provisions, The Star of the West tried to reach Sumter, but was fired upon and driven away by the new Confederate batteries. Thus, cut off from outside aid, Anderson and his gallant men held the fort—and waited. On April 11, 1861, the Confederate Government, through Gen, Beauregard, told Anderson to evacuate Sumter immediately on penalty of being driven out by force. Being short of food, Anderson agreed to leave tho fort by April 15 unless fn the mean time he should receive supplies or instructions from our War De- partment. ‘This reply did not suit the Confederates. And early on the morne ing of April 12, Anderson was notified that the bombardment would begin in one hour, At 4.90 A, M. that day a signal gun waa fired and at once all the hari batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter, Within the next thirty-six hours more than 8,000 shells and solid shot struck the fort or fell Inside its walls, The walls were battered and the barracks burned down. Anderson returned ‘the galling fusillade as best he could, keeping hig men at work at the guns day and night and carrying on the hopeless cone flict as bravely and calmly as 4f victory instead of absolutely certain defeat were to be the outcome. In the mean time, a squadron of three United States whips had been sent to relieve the gurrison. But a storm prevented these vessels from getting across the harbor’s outer bar, And they could do nothing in behalf of the doomed fort. The garrison at Sumter could seo the useless relie¢ squadron outside the bar, Dut were forced to fight on without tts aid. Some of the big guns were smashed. Hight times the flagetaft from which Old Glory flew was struck. At last the staff was splintered near the Saving peak. The flag was rescued by one of Anderson's officers OW! Glory before it could catch fire. Sergt. Peter Hant climbed um under galling volleys from the Confederetes, and nailed the @rimy flag to what was left of the pole, Again and again Beauregard sent messages demanding surrender, and always Major Anderson stubbornly refused. But the walls wore gaping where solid shot had torn them. The inside of the fort was untenable from flame and smoke. The men had been working ceaselessly without sleep and on starvae tion rations for thirty-six hours. Further resistafice was impossible. Anderson at last consented to evacuate‘the fort. £ But he made his own terms. He and hig men were allowed to depart with their anma and luggage, and were permitted to keep the flag they had @o eplen didly defended. ‘This flag was later used as a winding sheet for Anderson’e burial, but not before it was once more, in 1865, raised triumphantly above the recovered fort, ‘The news of Sumter’s fall swept through the North, strangling forever tye hope of compromise and turning peace talk into a mad clamor for war to ‘the death in defense of the threatened Union. ‘The civil war had begun. Some Oddities of the Great. UCH was the attitude of Julius Cae- sar toward tobacco that not one cigarette was smoked in Rome dur- ing his entire lifetime. Senate, Cicero would not be seen in a frock coat at even the most formal scs- sions of that body. Abraham Lincoln would never set foot in an automobile, Nero, fond as he was of music, refused to allow a phonograph or self-playing plano to be brought into Italy during his — long reign. Napoleon Bonaparte would not have a telephone in his house. Throughout his nine hundred years Methuselah could never master the Eng- lish language. So great was his dislike for electrical contrivances of all sorts that George Washington would not even use the tele- &raph to trarismit news of the Yorktown victory to Congress. Christopher Columts pointedly omit- ted all mention of Roosevelt's name in his report of famous Americans he had met. Nor couid he be induced to visit New York, | Although several times elected to the The May Manton Fashions HE @raveful house gown @lways makes an important pert of the wardrobe This one ‘6 charm- ts tor s Shoppers. The fashionable do! must have her dress accessories, and so there are cor- sets with supporters at 60 cents kid or silk gloves from 20 cents upward In furs, there are soft brown sets at 5 cents, chinchilla at 75 and ermine at 25 cents, Fur caps, in el ermine or pi , while a pretty fisher cap For dolly's motoring trips there are long co: ' elts at $1. For the co'd days there are lovely tur coats, satin If A short white coney coat Is $1. Auto goggles are 10 cents, — | Raincoats are $1, and a dainty um- brella ts 40 cents, An evening coat of pink velvet, trimmed with fisher fur, and a large matching hat with gunk plumes ts $7. In tollet articles, Miss Dolly can be supplied with tiny cakes of soap at five cents, Wash rags at three cents, mant- cure sets at % cents and the latest tm- proved rubber hair curlers at 2 cents there are sk covered coat 's at 60 cents and cute safety pin rs to hang on dolly's dressing table 0 cents, Beaded handbags are 10 cents; a pretty gold mesh bag ts 50 cents; a bandeau of celluloid, ribbon and flowers 1s 25 cents; handkerchiefs with colored borders are five cents and tiny hot water bags to relleve the aches and ins of the oft much abused dolly are ng » assortment of hats, caps and nnets are being shown, and the ntage of buying these ready made a real milliner, 4} to-day, but anybody that wants to hear Brooklyn go to moving picture shows | to learn their lessons, And when they | have lessons to study at night the mov- | ing picture man comes to the shouge | and the children's mother hangs up a | sheet in the dining-room. ‘But I won't | tell any more unless everybody gives me five more stamps and coupons | aptece. “And now," said Master Jarr, ‘that's aM I’m going to tell you about Brooklyn more can bring round their trading stamps and coupons to-morrow." T ain't going to do 4t," grumbled er Izzy Slavinsky. ‘I got an uncle what lives in Brownsville, which Is near Brooklyn, and I'll get him to take me there himself!"* z Hedgeville Editor By John L. Hobble WO jalls would be larve enough to hold all ‘the people who have violated a taw. Just build a wall right around the equator, was given an egg to hatch out he 1" the man who 4s too lazy to move would walk around to keep from work= ing. Gown—Pattern hit can be drawn left of the front, and front edges. a y at the ish the neck o KE. Reynolds says he !s goin’ to join a different churoh from his wife and take a chance of there bein’ a sepa- rate Heaven for each religion. w wide with 1 yards of band chomisette T iz best to pateh ur so it will w somin’ threadba Call at THE BUREAU, Don and Thirty-secons MAN in coin or sta MPORTANT—Write you ented. Obtain These vatte KE REYNOLDS says that the foam off ov one of his thoughts !z more profound than all the knowledge ov David Craum | be require 1-2 ing the features of the sear gon, but the gown can, neverthe! be finished quite different in effect, ithe -qawa con. stats of blouse an skirt. ‘Th one and the skirt Is out in five gores. There @re three tucks over each should that provide becoi seams can ished with or Busse be | without ‘The upper ed; the skirt ts finished with tuck shirrin is arrang the blouse, back te to pose tion, nt the tropta are’ finished wi No. 7212, casings and ribs upto any desired size. ‘The closing Either the collar or banding can be The chemisette can be used with either J closed at the back, 11 yards of matertal 27, 81-2 yards 27 inches wide for the to trim as shown in small view, 5- ireeley Square, corner Sixth avenue: or send by mall to MAY e address. Send ten cents, attern ordered, r address plainly and alwa: ecity Ada two cents for letter postage tf in a hurry.