The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1911, Page 22

ESTABLISHED BY JOSKPH PULITAER, Pedtished Dally Except Gunday by, ste Bre Pablishing Company, Nos, 68 ta nh ow. Entered at the Post ription Ttates to The ly World for the United States i id Canada. VOLUME 82. THE EMERGENCE OF THE MUSEUM. W'": get excited about the “Degradation of the Stage?” it! «NO, 18,382 ie much more sensible to consider the Conservation of Energy and the Perpetuity of Matter— closely related topic. Nothing is ever destroyed. It changes ite form and re-| appeare. Tet the Dakota Senator who declares that “murderesece | are lifted to stardom behind the footlights” consider this great truth and cool off. Two forma of entertainment have all but disappeared—the dime | museum and the “wax works.” Both exploited the physically or morally abnormal. They appealed to the sense of curiosity rather than the art impulse or the tragic emotions of “terror and pity.” The dime museums exhibited fat ladies, tattooed men, giants, dwarfs and other freaks, as well as people only figuratively tattooed—“re- formed burglare,” “pickpocket kings” and the like. The wax works were strong on chambers of horror and such studies in still life e “Sir Jasper Packlemerton of atrocious memory” who adorned Mre. Jarley’s highly moral sho i Disappearing as such, the dime museum and wax works have reappeared as theatres, ‘hat is why New York seems picketed with playhouser. The name is as elastic as charity's mantle. If people woud realize that the chamber of horrors had to go somewhere, that notgrioties must seek one market when another closes, and that, like, the rest of us, tattooed ladies have to live, thore would be leas denun- | ciation of the contemporary stage. iain idpinceetiinysnicsens WIPE OUT LAZINESS ? OSH BILLINGS said “There is no euro cure for laziness, but a second wife has been known to hurry it some.” ‘The South, the original home and last remaining stronghold for lazy people, | thinks it has found the cure. It treats laziness under the name of “hookworm disoase.” A South Carolina circular received | by The Evening World recites that 2,000,000 people in the South have this disease, and announces that “for a limited time” the State Roard of Health will examine and troat cases free. | It is deplorable to have ecience treat as a disease what has al-| ways been considered a philosophic attitude of mind. It would be| a calamity if the last lazy man should be robbed of his birthright by m of medicines. ‘In a time sick of hurry, everybody instinctively | admires genuine laziness, and respecte it to the point of reverence, as | something desirable but well-nigh unattainable. “Soest thou a man diligent at his business? He shall stand before kings.” Yes, but | your truly lazy man shall sit in that presence and they do homage before him, for he has won-~what they may lack—command of his soul. It would be better for the country if there were more lazy men rather than nono at all. Pascal has said that most of the evile of | life arise from “man’s boing unable to sit still in a room.” Bagehot says that “an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act di-| rectly, is one of the most conspicuous failurca of mankind.” “All the inducements of carly society,” he urges, “tend to foster imme- diate action—all its penalties fall on the man who pauses.” The: ancient counsel that “delays are dangerous” has been carried over | into modern life, and like all outworn truth has become noxious. | Its votarics, as the proverb goes, would “disturb the brooding hen. | ‘The contemplative men, who seems to be lazy, has given us not | only our philosophy and poetry and acience of government, but even those physical sciences which have shaped and molded’the age. The | man in a hurry has given us our problem, There must be space in’ our national life, as there is in our admiration, for John Smith of the, erecker barrel. | +4 | LET MEN STAND ASIDE. HROW BRICKS” ja the latest advice from British suffragiat leadera to their Now York sisters. It is expected to sup- | plement rather than supersede earlier advice to “impede traffic.” Although not so stated, it is meant for women alone. It is only decent to warn male suffragettes that they would better not throw any bricks themeelves or even accompany lady brick throw- era. New York policemen will not be rude to women, and New York judges are proverbially lenient with them. The authorities will even up things by what they do to the man who goes along. If he escorts four brick throwing suffragettes the policeman’s club may drop on him five times aa hand as it should because it will drop on him alone, and the magistrate give him a jail sentence five times as long as he deserves, bocause it may be the only sentence im- 6“ Letters from the People & few monthe #)s, If he has much t nd poard and many om are free, but he wil have about # per month expense for barbers, pressing, do. The frat f bay may be taken up for ttle too humerous to mention, es for a fair ftting uniform Wiation does not demand this, ere sometines Promotion te not & person of intelll ounte much tn this { end punteni Compeny commanders do Wish too mugh time ket Ufa very day a week to titled to about three Oe an entietment a | as tt inconveniences me in \usiness I would be grateful to readere for their advice as to some simple way by whfol 1 ean cure myself of the affiotion do not stammer when talking out lou) | pecially @lone, but do when taiking with others I bellevo other readere will be inter. eoted tn thie Army rr bu pole: the ‘To the Biitor of The Eveniag World A reader asks how Columbus oould have discovered Amerioa wh tetiane wore oan ae butt respe ere the Glecovery of America Calumbus wae of, \ the first man to make hie discovery of | fine value to the world, It t# proballe, you You are though, that the Indlans may have lmonth's leave au originally core trom Agia, 1 think, HL N, nN. 48. Yea, World Twas born in bus country, My father wes @ Fienghman., He never became Am Ian American citizen? Jonny, CAW MIDE THis Box iw Your FLAT 7 IT'S MY X-MAS PRESENT Peat hone (T Hone, SHELLED IT | GLO Sure F The Wise Wife. NCE upon ¢ time thero were two a WISE wife, OTHERWISE, Both wives had AVERAGE’ hus - bands. ‘That is to may, they were human = BVERY- DAY men—not un- Nke in the general A, the wise wan not to be And therein the secret of her wixdom, While the other, Mra, B., wrought to be VERY wise. And thereby hangs the tale. Now each \oman had listened and heard quch pro and con on “how to! keep a husband,” and that being the) alpha and omega of # woman's proroga- | tive, profited or low The wise wife Mate and Iived wisely in her ki ine ONLY as her PARTICU Mra. ¥., the other wife, rule apd regulation a And thus her @ ALWAYS correct. cordingly, cording to st counting wae not had an everyday spectes of q For instance, if any human house-fly vhanced to run in and buaz Into thy ear of the wine wife some gonsip-stretched story, she nodded, emilod and allowed tt to go out the other ear UNMOLESTAD, The of.r one accepted gospel and proceeded to make a moun- taln out of a molehill that spread its vurning Java around her, ans many The Only Time. @ ables for Ever verything as Magazine, Such Is Life! 3% « yday Folks . 191) vy m0 From Poiana (The New York World), Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). times it threatened to engulf her. Ofyn she would start mountain and find in reallty that it was but a little molehiil, Yet the next mountain loomed up just as terrible, If the husband of Mra, A. telephoned |he had to stay downtown for dinner, similar situation Mra. B, thereupon im- mediately allowed her imagination to RUN AWAY with her. She acted on the theory that what ehe @idn't know OUGHT to hurt her. And woe to the man ff he could not account for every minute. something to know, wihiah she had not told her, ax long an It wasn't a matter of life and death and her general hap- Dinews, the wise woman was BLLENT. Some firat call over the tons, tends to the wire. ately yextensive pat j Ameri Heularly the lon, Jand eapectally out is San There Joh not ¢ runs one el iat Fran 0, re how large @ ti and complains let business is so large that @ year they built In that city a spectal Chines American exchange in the torm of other, the importance of the bullding Chinese “hello” change, that the Chinaman in san p Book subscrivers have ve have others. yphone as a quick way to the DIM comes round. Por exampl house from ot try town and telephon the street or rarily and let your house go past, un there ts another street or all as convenient wid b> moved. In that event, can make you go leas sust house of the company other way. to ecale this ste got busy on something else, In a Fven if there WAS It is @ curious thing, but proportion- the Chinese are about the most na of the telephone in ce, Chinaman, merchant, does jephone bill he The San Francisco Chinese telephone ra pagoda with three roofs, one above the the number of roofs indicating wirls are in this ex- and a remarkable feature te Francteco never calls a number, if he can help It, | name of the party he wante, certain rights according to law, and the com: Some of theae are lat a business or social friend, or when if you are moving your {ree are across oad and in the way, the company must take them down tempo- along which the the In the little city of Tola, Kan., which jat last accounts had close to 10,000 popu- “Who wrote ‘I Stood on the Bridge| tation, an active citisen was, a few at Midnight'?” months ago, the maddest man in the “Bome guy who didn’t have the| West. His business plant was just | tuck to find a vacant seat there, even | across the city line, Thirty feet y the rush hour, | sup For it 18 a wise wife that keepeth her own counsel. But our lady ®f trouble would imme- diately set up a howl—for contrary to the watched pot AL- and a scokling would fol- But the wise wife realized that a scolding way on the WRONG END of the magnat far as drawing power was concerned. In a word she had learned her lesson in the achool days to “never trouble trouble till trouble troubs you." The second wit might hat 1a ‘with that knowing old soul, “I have known many troubles but most of them NEVER HAPPENED.” Now, the firm, domestic drive is to hings You May Not Know About the Telephone N England the King has the telephone at cll times, over his domtn- 0 “divine right" ex- out an extra payment for installation, The local telephone company had the rights of tt. ‘Their charter did not com- pel them to put In @ telephone anywhere utaide the elty mits, What made the worthy citizen most angry was that other manufacturers, two or three mil outside the clty, had been able to their telephones all right. ‘They happened to be in a growing sec> tlon where It was worth while not to Inaist on technicalities, This man whose plant stood alone, yet so temptingly near a pole, couldn't get the company to budge one inch, A telegram is frequently delivered by telephone now, but the receiver does not have to accept {t In that form unieas he pleases, At least that fs the general con- struction the combined t graph companies are putting upon the service, So far as records go no serious on seems to have come up over than ‘any When telegraph messages have been refueed over the wire they have eimply been sent by messenger in the old way. No legal light has predicted what might happen if the telephone people said “Will and the subscriber said Won't.” It ta another of the undetermined ques- ton One of the I that nave not yet been framed (# for the discouragement of dropping over the telephone. There talk about unauthorised but nobody knows just how to get at the sinners. Too much of it te Gone innocently and merely for purposes of goesip. But the telephone wire 1s not guaran- teed to be @ secret passageway in any event, Legally it 1s practioally nothing more than a new road for the voice, made for purely business reasons as eer- viceable and perfect a» possibl Meanwhile it 18 perfectly good evi- dence for witnesses to testify as to con- versations overheard over @ comnectin: telephone. Even in telephones it te from his factory wall was @ telephone| very ill wind that does get blow come pele. Yet be could not get service with: ope good. Tuesday, ‘December o) Rd By Maurice Ketten By Sophie Irene Loeb make the marriag wheels go without screeching and men cannot be driven ANY OTHER WAY; the main {dea be- ing to keep the double harness strings TOGETHER, ‘And strange to say they are only run by fnvisible HEART strings rather than ever-present APRON strini Therefore, the wise womal not being continually dragged out of his natural bent and allowed full rein, r alized her worth and put forth every effort to be in accord with the other hal, On the other hand, a tight bit and continued hold on the rein t# conduct of continuous “kioking over” of the traces, A_ LOOSE RBIN LNVITETH CO- OPERATION IN THE DRIVE OF) MATRIMONY, AND: A LITTLE LIBERTY NOW THEN 18 RELISHED BY THE BEST OF HUSBANDS. Professional Parents’’’ Woes N the Woman's Home Com- panton there {s an article on “The Professional Pi Following ts an extra “For many years we have had @ neighbor who fs @ professional parent in every breath she draws. Sho has enjoyed her authority, ber impor- tance av arbitrator of her children's Mfe—the only importance she has ever known, poor woman! Her pride of motherhood has been excessive. ‘No, 1 been hor favor- Any questioning of her decisions was disrespect. “Her two litte girls died young, but not before they were old enough to They had no love for their they ylelded her @ semblance of respect only through compulaton, Though she has made her love for them the centre of her life, before their deat her love for them w eclipeed: by her sense of offended dignity; she could not forgive them for withholding from her what she considered her due. I have often felt thi her grief te merely another manifestation of ego- tism. Surely love te not love that goes Gown before vanity “I remember the day when she found Paul, her only son, amoking in the eummer-house, She summoned boy's grandfather, and in his presence solemnly rebuked Paul for the sin he was committing, Paul was a boy of diecrimination. He knew even then that no offense against morality lay in smoking. Its very real objectlonable- ness rested on other grounds, “Paul has grow man in spite of his mother’s and grand- father’s influence. He {s kindly Indul- gent of them beth, but he never gives them a glimpee of his real self. He never argues With them, but takes his own way without words, He is serious: husband, AND! into @ fine young | ™ 19, Covstight, 191i. ty The Prue Publishing Co, Mr. Jarr Has a Bout With a Mind Reader. T and Mrs. Jarr were deeply inter- cated the experiments of second sight—call it what you will, spell it as you may, rapt hypnotic spell, had been able to tell the nature and color of objects that that all—save the blindfolded “subject” —might ee and concentrate thelr minds Dr. Greese had concentrated his mind upon them too, and Prof, Slurk, con- spell of hypnotis. . and all the other | minds, 1 ds oken from the tnnermost and without hesitation had sald ons object was a bell and tie color of been named to him) was yellow. Mr. Jarr the only scoffer, blindfold him and ring a bell, yes, or blow a whistle, and he would be able Furthermore, he added, what color did expect a lemon to be—pink? say that she had seen pink lemonade at every circus that ever Visited Taylor- Doubtless the circus used nothing but pink lemons. ‘o there! | acoffer with such an air of pitying sad- jneas that Mrs. Jarr (on behalf of her- Interested witnesses to this remarkable paychological expesiment) had told Mr. was plain he hadn't, please to have some respect for the opinions and feel- “And now,” sald Dr, Greese, when Mr, Jarr had been properly squelched. ple demonstrations of the fore of mind over matter and demonstrate a more “We will show the force of mentality over inanimate objects, My friends, do vitation?’ For I can, In the mystic East I studied under fakirs— ly," muttered Mr. Jarr. “Yogts, pundits, dervishes, I was ‘he New York World). HE friends and neighbors of Mr. thought aference, thaumaturgy, Prof. Slurk, bi'ndfolded and under a his confrere, Dr, Greese, had held up upon, centrating HIS mind, der the mystic cerebral recesses of hfs sub-consclous- the other object (a lemon, which had ‘He was heard to say that you might to tell what it was. Old Mrs, Durorberry was heard to township, Indiand—tubs and barrels of it. Besides, Dr, Greese had regarded the self, Prof. Slurk, Dr. Greese and the Jarr If he had no respect for her, as it ings of other: “And now we will pass from these sim- ‘wafting and comprehensive phenomena. not ask me, ‘Can you demonstrate le- nd learned the business thorough- and devotee of the Great ‘And we're the goats,” sald Me, Jarr, softly. Mrs, Jars trod on his foot. “And my confrere, Prof. Slurk, tasted on the Pinnacle of Inhtbition, on the Tower of Self-Abnegation, for twenty years!” Prof, Slurk didn't look St. doubting voice was raised. Now to proceed,” sald Dr, Greese. shall make material objects dis- But no Jokesmit LAYING jokes on honeymoon- era Is @ pastjme antedating clv- iization Itself, With increase of perspicactty, however, !t de- velops into an art, The ving wooed overs th “it” being the twentieth century swain, and won his lady fali “getting away with it @ more perplexing proposition i At this juncture, for some reason or other, one of his kith, kin and | acquaintance who happens to consid himeelf gifted as a joker gets busy to the end that the first hours of double harnese shall be fraught with anything but that bilssful tranquillity that ts sup- posed to bo the highest ideal of matri- montal blessedness, says the Scrap Book. It ts in that forlef period be tween the conclusion of the marriage ceremony and the commencement of the honeymoon that the practical joker comes into his own, Separation and kidnapping may be re- garded as the pinnacle of the Honey- moon-baiter’s ambition, In the carry- ‘ing out of his plans he sticks at noth- nothing and nobody. if he can invoke the an alder and abetter, Not very long ago two people in pros- perous olrcumstances were wedded in an up-State city af New York, It was a rather fashionable wedding, with an |imposing array of groomemen, @ beau- | teous bevy of bridesmaids, floral decor! tions, newspaper reporters and the ws- ual trimmings. of the groomsmen sought out the plain clothes detective who was guarding t presents, He was plainly In @ great state of perturbation. He took the cop by the arm confidentially. “Hist, officer! An unbidden gue Just come, looks Jike @ gentleman Stra n ng the Keg. UFUS BLEVINS, & giant wood chopper, whose goot ure and ready wit made him a welcome addition to the store circle, | entered the village grocery, says the Youth's Co ‘The laters. wor little eloser to make room for Rufe on a soap box, but arched past the feiendly circle, plumped ap Tmolawes keg slowt on the counter and drew i from lis pocket, which he held out | etor of tne store, An expectant grin | went around the ¢ Storekeeper Joues lad the rep never wrongite himself by over. weighing ‘The merchant at Justeel his games otal looks! expeotantiy frou to the: wood chopper, | SbNotise you charged molawe | titioa, | the extr me gallon, Mr. Jone Toward the close of the reception one: M appear. ‘They must be objects have been worn on the person, cherished—sb that they partake of the soul aura, the psychic personality of/ehi Dossessor, ‘These shall vanish, digap- ear, be gone! Small obj enly, Dlease."" And, taking Prof. Slurk's old stl hat, he went the rounds of the company and gathered watches, coins and jewels, From young Mrs. Mudridge alone he Secured enough costly Unsel to halt fill the hat, Mr. Jarr refused to participate in the experiment and Mrs. \Jarr, after ghak- Ing her head at him In high dtspfeas ure, yielded up a bracelet and the di: ner ring she always wore when the had company, even though the Pany did not come to dinner. Now," sald Dr. Greese solemniy “keep your eyes upon these object Concentrate your mind upon them. B hold hands tightly so the telepathfe clr cult be not broken, No matter what happens none must rise, none must speak, or the spell is broken, the charm 1s flown All grasped hands Greese continued: “I shall now rouse Prof, Slurk to a state of somnambulambic subconsctou ness. I shail hold out this hat, and without a word from me he will rize— his eyes still blindfolded—take the hat and walk straight across the room, avoiding the sofa some two feet from the left of the dor, and neither shal he hit the music stool almost direet!: in front of him, ‘Then, opening the door, he will disappea: “{ will then concentrate my mind upon where he js, and, still in silence, pass out the door and find him, For I lone will know where he will be hidden with the objects!"* There was av impressive silence, De, Greese made some mystic motions. It would seem that, Dditndfolded though he was, Prof. Slurk could eee the significant gestures, for he arose and came forward. And while the awed auditors watched breathlessly he took the hat and its contents from the solemn faced Dr. Greese. The subject, under complete control, walked to the door and placed one hand upon the knob while he held the hat against his breast with the left hand and forearm. top!” cried Mr. Jarr. But as this was an exciting and cpiti- cal point the thrilling recital will be continued in our next. con Ughtly and Dr, The Honeymooner Was the h’s Earliest Prey cracksman; he's slunk upstaire, third door on the right, Probably desperate character posing as a guest. Get |i: away as quietly as possible; no scene.” The cop nodded @ nod of comprehen- ston and forthwith went to it. Third door on the right, Sure enough, there | was his man, well dressed and even then handling a valuable gold watob. Details of what happened during the next quarter of an hour were never known, but it was a crowded peried, and then two men went out by @ aide door, both much disheveled, One wore ®@ look of grim, virtuous triumph, the other a pair of hendcuffs. The latter appeared to be overwhelmed by hia emotions. It was late that night before the esr weant in the station house permitted himself to be convinced—by a Gelegae tion that included @ tearful bri@e~ that the prisoner wes indeed only a victimized bridegroom, ‘Thus it te the world over. Whether the couple Le wedded in Wineted, Conn., or Patagonia, in London town or Tim- | buotoo, the practical joker ts an ever Present menace to the newlyweds. ‘There hae from time to time been talk of legislating against him, but whet's the good? Even if laws were passed to restrain him he would probably in- duce the bridegroom to be arrested as his proxy, Jokes on honeymooners are ne mush- Toom growth rising up as e@ sign of modern decadence. True, the custom {has been developed wonderfully in late i years, but even in the time of Tom |Jones, and that's nearly two centuries go, wedding couples were considered fair game, and the bridegroom's friends ; were considered to be wotully lacking in the proper spirit of the occasion if they failed to ply him with strong waters until he reached the point where the London police court formula labels a man “drunk and incapable,” —— The Day’s Good Stories | ignorance,"* said Mr. Widener, ‘and milMonaires who paid them were as bed as Jauob Cash, ‘aonb Cash of Chicago, after acquiring « fortune, decided to wet up a library. iy he sont for « ‘end ordered 10,000 vol: umes, all to be es fine end hendecee as posal: "Very good, i, eaid the bookseller, ‘I'll Give you nothing but standart books, I thet half of them bv bound in Huse’ ond half to Morocco," i no, sald Jacob Cash, | out protections ‘I'm an outent. {a America,” baad am, Let ‘em all be avon Bt oeounennetimenemec A Policeman, Ur doubted! RS, BROWN 4 mistrem who pk her servant, Ji into ber Kitchen’ at pighta, Mx. Brown wes very inquisitive, end good keg strained to pieces” ——————_—- Not an Exper TS E. WIDBNDR, the Philedeiphie capi- side the door to the conversation, A short time ago Jane got treh and the mistroms noticed how quiet al be the ‘kitchen, to have a + and 4 ie ‘horesme o's or Howey. ‘tom a prions indicated ignorance, sank ama,’