The evening world. Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 18

; Magazine, Mondas The Day of Re st. By Maurice Ketten. y. Che FE aaiorio: t FSTABLISHED BY sORMPH PULATIN, | Beets vattz Except Bater. ¥y fhe Prean Pubtiating Company, Now, $4 to A PUL President, 03 Park Row. , ue "AW, Treasurer, 83 Row, TZHR, Jr, Secretary, 63 Row, Se ae as York ay Becond-clena Matter, Now.Go ano See Taat Hts a and ba “An Gonna 1 {89 rnterBadienal Sucre ARE WHERE HE CAR ; wert] One sronthestes rere ie Always MAD Ween He MAS oe ss . Ta gRAwit UNDER Me BED pons D ; WOLUME O8.ccrscccressrosnccosscescvensseenss NOs 16,874 BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL HOURS. HEN people condemn the schools because so many pupils geem to have gone through them as Shadrach, Meshech and Abednego went through the flaming flery furnace— without even the smell of fire on their garments—people really con- @emn themselves. That is the reflection which abides after ponder- fing Mayor Gaynor’s assertion that tho city’s common echools are try- fag te do too much, that children are overloaded “and get a disgust of the whole thing,” and that they come out with no accurate knowl- edge of anything and disinclined to work with their hands. f . The fault of the schools? No. Tho fault or misfortune of tho i fiome, rather. Wo are asking the schools to do too much because the é | home is doing too littie. An avowed reason for tho presence of “fads |B) end frills” in school courses ‘is the fact that city children have no but the streets. It is considered better to keep them - Jonger hours in tho schools, learning things that do not purport to be the strong meat of mental training, than to let them follow their own devices among horses’ heels and truck wheels. If tho “tired Dusiness man” or tho tired parent of either sex and any degree of BF fortune abdicates responsibility for the child’s upbringing he cannot “F) expect that anybody elee, anybody without the incentive of natural i affection, will completely take his place. His children will be ma- r chine-made products and fall as far short of their promise as @ shoe a half-soled by machino falls short of the hand-sewed article, 4 Some things which the schools may pretend to teach may never be learned if not in the home. One is the child’s willingness to labor with his hands, or to labor at all. It rests with the parent whether the child ehall acquire habits of industry and whether his tasks shall rae MOKING SET sou SET PUT Tus Littue BuncH oF FoRGeT.US-NoTS PA'S R To Stow Him ARE THINKING. oF HIM bad be eet for him so as to make manual labor attractive or distasteful. wefan Son StRSe oe Tt rests with the parent to train tho child’s judgment so that his (N AND OUT AND LING: choice of occupation shall be neither above nor below nor beside his My BED UP WITH STUFF. aptitudes and abilities. The child’s speech reflects the talk of father PUNtK ! PIFFLE | and mother and his manners the degree of refinement in the home, ecember 11, 1911 The Story Of Our Country By Albert Payson Terhune, Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Work), No. 31.—Bull Run and Defeat. FAMOUS pugilist once sald: “There are six rules for winning & rough and tumble fight. One of these rules is ‘Land the first blow!’ If you can do that, you needn’t bother to remember the other five.” In the civil war the South decidedly “landed the first blow.”* And followed it by several others. After Sumter’s fall the Nosth rushed toarms. fut ft !s one thing to be willing to fight and quite another matter to be able to. Our standing army was small. Most of ite members had: Practically no experience in actual warfare. Some of its most efficient oMcers, moreover, had resigned and gone over to the Confederacy. There was no lack of volunteers. But the thousands of men who enlisted in their country’s defense were raw recruits. They did not even anderstand the manual of arms. They did not know tho first thing about / military life. Years of war training would, of course, turn these civilians into hardened, perfect veterans. But in the mean time the achievements of officers and men alike left much tto be desired. The South, as @ former article told, had long been drilling recruits and had been making every other possible preparation for war. So the clash when it came was not wholly unlike the combat of @ soft-muscled, peaceful giant with 4 wiry, highly tratned athlete, : ‘Within ¢wenty-four hours after the fall of Fort Sumter electrified the nation, President Lincoln, on April 15, 1961, ssued @ call for 75,000 volunteers to defend the Unton. On May % Gen, Butler attacked @ body of Confederates ®t Big Bethel and was beaten. A Union force was also routed at Vienne, near Washington. These were “minor engagements,” but their result amazed such Northerners as had looked for easy victory, and spread exuttation through the South. Congress voted the raising of 600,000 more troops and authorized a national loan of $26,000,000, an increased navy and the blockading of all Confederate ports. Northerners who did not understand the difficulty of recruiting, equipping and Grilling @ huge army grew impatient at our Gpvern- Mment’e slowness in crushing the Confederacy. Ang the cry “On to Richmond!" Was raieod. Richmond was the Confederate capital. Under the pressure of Popular opinion a move was made, Gen. McDowell, commander of the army in front of Washington, marched egainst the main Confederate army, which was massed near Manassas, Va. ‘The Confederates, under Beauregard, were 27,533 strong. McDowell, with bout 28,000 men, joined bettle with thom on July 23, west of @ marrow rivulet known as Bull Run, about thirty miles from Washington, Gen. Johnstone, with nine Confederate regiments, had come up to reinforce Beauregard. Never before tn all its history had the United States put into the fleld so many men as were mar- siialied on either side that day. The troops actually engaged in fighting were about 18,000 Northerners and not quite 19,000 Confederates. Throngs of fashion- ably dressed women had come out from Washington, with escorts, and watched the battle from the surrounding hilltops, ‘The Union army began the attack. For two hours it was “anybody's fight” Then, ttle by little, the Northerners began to beat back thetr Bouthern foes. They forced the Confederates eteadily backward toward Manassas. Success seemed assured. Indeed, a éremendous Union victory was joyously reported throughout the North. But the report was wofully premature. At 3 P. Qf, reinforcements, under Jackson and Hampton and Kirby Smith, It is the opportunity and privilege as well as duty of parents to lead his mind into the paths of literature, and from his first demand for a “story” open up the enchanted land in which are all the great, alm ply expressed poems of the language, its myths, its folklore, its fables, its sterling tales of romance and adventure. The right sort of books hould be in the home and children made acquainted with them. F The parent, then, has @ responsibility no less than the echool’s that the child shall demean himself properly, speak correctly, think Clearly and—that universal mark of mental capacity—shall properly judge evidence. Honor, obedience, patience, gentleness, unselfishness —these things should bo taught in the home first of all, and the parent who slights them has no call to complain if they be not | deeply underscored in the school. The latter does a necessary and a time-saving work, but for all we may glorify the public school it is _ only « supplement, a substitute, a proxy for the home, po ; we we hate to differ from our venerable parent the morning edition of The World, we cannot accept its dictum that “three _ fingers” should be taken as the true standard for a drink of whiskey, j and believe that Senator Kern’s two and a quarter inches in the glass ie safer and fairer to the man behind the bar. We have taken soundings and find that the barkeeper’s glass is exactly two and one- | half inches deep, inside measurement. ‘I'his gives two and a quarter ’ inches a sure haven with no danger that the ambrosia will slop over. 2 SENDING THE CHRISTMAS PARCEL, E person who eends a Christmas present out of town in Jarr Plays in a Drama Entitled ‘“‘Harlem at Dawn” 9OS990S9000909098 8000999900909090099900090899090999 “Do get up, Gertrude,” she cried. been up for hours and she’s grumbling “Thip is the third time I've knocked at |becayse the breakfast is getting cold.” ck went Of | The angels do not even chronicle these wifely matutinal misstatements. Mr. rr began to talk in yp to the that he was going Jo “jump right steam at early morn by hit! the pipes with a hammer. A aiticed ones why #0 many fiat dwellers kept komeranian would temper the furnished room, while a dache- hund would be aplendid to call out from under the bureau and send down the hall to warm (t on @ wint ‘With such thoughts phase Jarr drew her dfessing gown around TRE flat was icy + 1d, like @ Rus-|her and, going to Gertrude’s room ae @ian steppe, The clock struck | again, ea upon the door and six as Mrs. Jarr raised the W'D- | besought that Jarre’ light runnmg domestic had torn e up.’ herself reluctantly from the land of By this time Mre. Jarr was in the children's room ehaking them and turn- ing back the covers. “Get up! Get up! You lazy children! Your papa is up and dressed and break- fast 1s ready, and it's nearly 9 o'clock and you'll be late to school again: Then she rushed out to the kitchen and put on the kettle and lit the gas range amd set the table ¢or breakfast and retumed to repeat the reveilie to the rest of the family as the #leepy eyed and half-dressed Gertrude passed her in the hall, “Now you MUST get up!" she cried to Mr, Jarr. “You'll he late to the office again and blaming ME!" And ehe tore the bedclothes away from hie manly form and threw up the bed- room window. Whereat Mr. Jarr arose and secured the bedclothes again after having shut down the window. In another minute he was asleep once more. But Mrs. Jarr returned gallantly to the charge, nor would ehe desist until he was awake ‘and spluttering in his bath. Now ehe descended again upon the children and haled them from their downy cot, whether they wanted to or ot—their mother. “Look at your neck!" cried Mre. Jarr aa she busied herself with tha mipertes of juvenile sti and buckles of her offspring’s un ine. She was speak~ ing to Master Jarr while at the moment ‘she was busied plaiting the hair of little Emma Jerr. M ‘Then Mrs. Jarr, the domestic provost quand, began the secondary: daily task ing Mr. Jarr ‘Bd the children to of the day. She started early, sk was long and persistent. 'DO get up!’ ehe cried to Mr. Jarr. ‘a after $ o'clock, and Gertrude has ors Be eR Rane the next fortnight will be made aware that this country docs not have a parcels post. If he sends a box of candy by mail he wil) pay the post-office sixteen cents a pound, and nowadays you Be can get pretty good candy for fifteen cents a pound. If ho sends 3. a toy engine of cast iron to come nephew or godson in the West, he " ‘may pay the post-office more to deliver it than he paid the store- keeper for selling and delivering it. Whatever ho sends by mail will dow blind and looked down upon the Gevolate winter Harlem residenci Memoirs of a Commuter By Barton Wood Currie Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Wows). OW, Joratemon Pierce, with all his;the General Houseworkers' Union, the demoniac cunning, wae guilty of| grand larcenies of Borrowing Jinks, the the fatal mistake of estimating| Dilly, Dally and Delirious Raiiroad, the that there was but| Village Provisions Trust and the Fur- one constituent ele-| nace Tenders’ Blackmail Society. I've ment ‘1: my men-|€iven you my pedigree and genealogy, ta) pabutum—bonet | my, resin fn Sian Cy named the tar if imagined | Not that I blame| sinister of my dog, but when tt comes dese apunds to bo the eoweusting spirit | : him for reaching| (@ letting you get away with an insin- There is a bill before Congress, hearing Representative Sulzer’s | of s:cam at work, and from that on felt | uch a conclusion, | uation that Mrs. Riddle wears new hips, mame, which raises the welght limit on postal packages to cleven ¥ 4 genial glow permeate the apartment He had itved seven | Louls Quatorse or Renatssance shoul.) pounds and cute the charge per pound from sixteen to eight cents. . 9 ly hy | Years in Dogwood | °#r# Of any other method or pattern of Aare Lr a ier Aly 1 Terrace and had|™#ke-up, you are tossing the lignum After the holidays {t will have the support of every man thot sont a Christmas package out of town, to him and warm his hands upon the | watched it grow| Vitae in the dynamite alley, po ENG PEE a ’ . “Why, you dinged busted sawed-off OaNlh pereca waa arideeiiy an. sale the broken nenrte|'all-potdion of a auburban ferret, 1 you i. NCE more, will the ladies please take heed and do thoir shop-|?y the Janitor simulating the sounds of nl decided pe ealbad ping so they can be transported homeward before the 5 o’clock gush begins! About 500,000 tired folks have trouble enough now after that hour without a crush of bundle-laden critters crowding _ fatto the cars. Plense leave baby at home, also, if possible! ; te “But, my deer Riddle," cringed th professions! euburban Inquisitor, ‘I as: sure you that I did not mean to Insin- | PPVHE bridge authorities are again “experimenting” with devices % for loading the trolleys during rush hours, They have tried | everything except having cars on the loops to walt for the crowd ~ instead of always having a crowd walting for the cars, The remedy - is apparently too simple to warrant a trial, and gome empty, stood at the gutte: edge. Fs cost him a cent an ounce, and must weigh not more than four \% Bi % of muck and dirty If one sends parcels by express they can be of any slze he chooses. > The charges for emall parcels will bo just a shade cheaper than the postal charges. They will be too high because the postal charges “ate too high—twico what foreign experience has found to be a| "living rate. and unsightly aftermath of ‘he street cleaners’ strike, The janitor had begun the day with his dally joke of etriking the steam Pipes in the cellar with a re Ne i and one-time deni- sens of fair Ca- 5 Natural Mistake.- ‘posaibic ‘He only: whimpered that he had washed last night, honest he had, He had watched me only shortly since h with arm step and prideful stride fresh from a steam-heated flat to ens in mortal combat with the beasts of the suburban jungle, Yea, and much more, Gtill, nevertheless and notwithstand ing, he erred. There was yet some | norve tissue enmeshed in my cran’ inlay, and I got Central when he day casually asked if Mrs, Riddle wearing the new hips or was naturally In his thousand and one pre- queriag he had been personal enough, He had not spared any detail of my bachelorhood or married life, I nad fatuousty ¢ed him with suffi. cient data anent the Riddle menage to ira, Pierce the platform at every Dogwood Terrace sewing bee for monthe to come, but when it came to the ques tion of whether or not my good frau Hildegarde had bought her a eet of the &@ hundred and one things for every- Rew hips he everpiayed timtt, I ther Weston would give body else in the house before whe got came clear wp out of my trance with Tnea thamh off to school and oMoa, murder ip my e7e, OM Mrs, Dusenberry dropped in a lit- . “Look here, J, Pleree,” I whirled on later and severely chided Mrs, Jerr “A wild guek lighted on Broadway |nim, “you've jus rung your n jast_ week,’ T'm hep! I've mtood fer this dal); “From the cendition of our atreete examination of peo 3" the fhe probably mistook It for a march.” depbearance with Fre eteed tee) vate -_ .3 uate anything. Mra. Pierce was merely « Tgmarking at the breakfast ta’ at ® deasutiful igure Mrs. Riddle has. I @m sure you misunderstood me, Why, Tr" dled and fooled at putting on ‘his etook- ings, and the little girl was dressed be- fore the boy had even etartad. These proceedings included Mire, Jarr’s dragging both children to the bathroom and personally scrubbing them. From this on Mra, Jarr hadn't @ single thing to do except to find clean linen for Mr, Jarr and ew on shoe buttons, walet buttons and trousers buttons for all hands. Then she had to mend « tear in the little girl's pinafore and find a hair rib- ‘bon that wholly euited the exquisite taste of thet young lady, By now ehe wes called out to find tho breakfast bacon that Gertrude had ‘That's enough,” I choked him off. “If I let you get another sentence out of your system you'll back into of gossip eradica- | your exouses to the Gweeney Marine Band. I've mapped you and will write you down in my Giary as the capital and peimcipal city of the Province of Pest. “Pou beiong to @ eubtle cuit of he-gossips, compared with which an old maid ts @ eweet in- Letters from the People Mindmess and “Soares.” In a Ten-Vamily Honse, | Miditor of The Evening World: To the FAitor of The Erening World) noticed a few letters from dog ° fara, Lalso wisb to say afow words| w" ‘ly to @ reader who asks how mB praise of the dumb but most faithful|™any tone of coal it would take to + , There tendamfly epartment house and te chi furnish hot water, I would say | Soneeere to etxty, siving all “ etheet, §=LAN! a PA canttrernen = laced eomewhere and forgotten, and to | ame to the aid of the retreating Confederates. The Souvnern retreat was checked. Then, slowly, it changed to en advance. Over the ground they had @ained the Union forces were driven, Falling back, at first slowly and in order, a lerge part of the Northern army ‘was quddenly ststckén by panic. Regiments dissolved into little groups of ecared men, who threw away their guns and knapsacks and ran for thetr lives. Men tumbled over one another in their eagerness to get out of danger, Soldiers who a teow hours earlier had been fighting ke heroes now behaved like frightened children. The majority of the Unton army had all at once become a disorganized rabble, frantically trying to get back with all speed to the safety of the forts that eurrounded Washington. Into Washington the mob of beaten soMilers rushed— helpless, nerve-broken, without @ shred of discipline or combativeness left. The Confederates have been criticised for not following close at the rabbie's heels and seizing Waghington. Perhaps they could have done ao. Perhaps ndt, They did not make the attempt. The Union losses at Bull Run were 2,806 men, as well es quantities of cannon, small arms and camp equipage that were left to the enemy to capture. Tho Confederates Jost about 1,980 men. The first great biow of the civil war had been struck. And the nation stood aghast at its defenders’ defeat. The Public eought for a scapegoat. It blamed MoDowell; it blamed Lincoln; it blamed the War Department; it Blamed every- ‘body coneerned. Gen. McClellan of the Ohio Department, who had been successful in driving the Confederates out of West Virginia, wes put in command first of the Army of the Potomac and later of all the Union armies. ‘The year of 1861 saw little more important fighting efter Bull Run, Hach side was otrengthening itself for what ell men now realized must be « death struggle. Some Interesting Facts. N the United Kingdom there were last | year, according to official returns, 18,23 Mormons. — ascribed to one Alhazen, an Arabian, in the year 1060 of our eva. ‘The forestry service ts conducting ac- tive warfare ag: Wolves? coyotes, wildcats and simil The grapevine was brought from the Island of Crete and introduced into the Canaries in the fifteenth century— the source of the famous wine named for these islands, The Amsterdam diamond trade ts In the hands of ten Grms, employing ten thousand workmen. Over 220,000 people left the United Kingdom last year for Canada, the United States and Australia, The invention of magnifying glasses is The May Manton Fashions OTH little boys B and Uttle girle Wear pajamas in these days, and they are exactly alike for the two sexes, Consequently, theseare ted to both. 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