The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1911, Page 16

Sfecommending American public + ‘met if there was a heavy movement of population thither, but which & a the China of yesterday, whose rulers issued edicts ending with the fermula “Respect this”—which nobody reapected. “our sympathies the spectacle of a weak nation hazarding all in vain ‘Teepport of an American. EP) ICHMOND’S grievance is unlike that of other outlying bor ay oughs. The Bronx thinks it has too little government. i eco xe RSTARLIAHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, @Bedieded Daily Kxcept Bunday by the Preae Punilehing Company, Nos, 83 | Kk Row, New York § RALLH PULITZER, Presi tent, 09, Park, Row. { Noe nreamirer, 01 Park Tow, soainrit F PULITZEN, Jr Be Jr, Becretary, 63 Park Kow. | —$—$—— ¥ Becohd-clane Matter, Boyt Ro ‘and the Continent and ‘All Countries in the International Postal Union, ate 83.50 ao One Year. One Month, ~ NO, 18,391 “LOSING FACE’’ IN ASIA. OT Shuster but Uncie Sam suffers because Persia has been forced by Russia to dismiss its American Treasurer-General. Shuster leaves his post with enlarged prestige. “He seen his duty and he done it,” and that was his offending. Our failure to support him has given American prestige about the heaviest blow it has had cast of Suez. What is the story that will be told in the bazaars of European Turkey, the Levant, Persia and India, and find its way into China, Japan and the Philippines? That Persia turned to America as a friendly and disinterested power to get an administrator familiar with modern methods. That our State Departmont recommended Shuster. That he applied American methods with such vigor and wkill as to promise Persia's eventual financial regeneration. ‘That Russian troops devastated Persian cities because this regeneration would have foiled the modern strategy of imperialism which is to “bankrupt and annex,” where Rome’s was to “divide and rule.” And that America never put forth a hand while Persia faced ruin and its wubjects death in the field in standing by an American official and “the American idea” in administration. Would England have been silent if an Englikhman recommended “by its government and employed by another were madg the target of Attack by » third? Would Russia? Would Germany? Would any power which had dealings with Oriental peoples and knew the mean- ing they attach to “losing face?” Would any country which assumes ‘to be a world power, and takes itself seriously? None save perhaps nN If it is too much to ask of our Government a vigorous foreign _ policy, it is tot too much to demand that henceforth it refrain from rvants to states in need of help. This would at least avoid misunderstandings, scape ridicule and spare —EE Y THE SORROWS OF STATE "y Richmond thinks it has too much. Queens thinks its public provements come too slowly. Richmond thinks they come too fast. “What makes the difference is that since 1890 Queens has tripled and the Bronx has quadrupled, while Richmond has not even doubled its epopulation. Some of its citizens aro protesting against public im- | ‘provements projected by President Cromwell—a sewer system and streets. This will entail asseasments which would be cheerfully in bear hardly upon men holding large plots of vacant land. Staten Island has not shared as much as it had hoped in the Tibvesteeee of consolidation, It is paying metrdpolitan prices for improvements without getting metropolitan result». It euffers from ‘ite island estate—“inviolate, twice-girdled by the sea.” It needs “and eventually will have tunnel connections. The time will come “when its singularly beautiful location will make it as eagerly sought for homes as it was half a century ago for estates. But the process) sof Preparing it for city residential purposes may entail temporary hardships beyond those experienced in the other boroughs, —— oo A WEAKNESS OF HUMAN NATURE. HERE is humor in the plea of Charles H. Hydo that local public opinion is prejudiced, and therefore the charge of bribery against him should be tried elsewhere—humor, al- | 6 grief and sorrow, trouble me,’ peaking of the New Y at Gu in short, dng, stop consorting with your cront be a better man aves World Daily Magazine, “Trouble does bother me and bothers * rejoined Mr. Jarr. “I was Sheecsssoccsoooee seceeceoooeesoore sesoostogooso+oet Thursda y. ™ \"Peace on Earth! & Mr. Jarr Tries in Vain to Put Across a Few New Year Thoughts 99999099909099990 0999900999999909909998888800000089 every way this coming New Year?" flcadii ig up to something, though. What] go asked Mre. Jarr. “Don't you worry about me,” was the reply. ‘There's a lot worse men than I am. I'm a@ pretty good citizen, all right, right.” 'm glad to hear you say 60," re- marked Mrs..Jarr, “I know you are Copyright, ‘ BLL, hand 1. by The ‘ublishing Co, New York World), now for New Y Mr. Jarr, rubbii Christmas ts over When You Are ‘Married. 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). ¥ a i hi M ; hae only ew Year's remains to be) though the joke is on him. Does Mr. Hyde take seriqusly the hun- | feed. Copyriaht, * @reds of opinions collected at random and submitted Yo show blac? | wiens rea eae aN ne uae “Fashion” Vs, “Love.” tt is not pleasant, of course, to be called “rascal,” “robber” and | 8° was eagerly scanning her visage In}, ““erook,” and to have people say “shoot him,” — of opinion or just expre: But are these ex- ions without opinion behind f talk more than they think, and =“ they talk of a poli- |! Aician or a rich man may be censorious. 4: »wote more intelligently than they talk because there is something |S ‘at stake, and in the jury box, under oath, and with responsibility for | man’s life or liberty to sober them, they shed prejudices and | marae Mir t “opinions.” Can one person in five hundred outline the acts! » ao the mirror over what Lentily, a But at the ballot box they jor tt the mantelplece, » what? asked Mr, Jarr, some- ‘I'M bet you didn't hear nord T was saying!" . 1 did, I beard every word, and a vemarked that if one pulls out ne Krey hadr three will come In place Thats what a ow Ye afte airs! What was it you w “T was asking about New Year's, down silly, purposeless Just for a fow moments. waterproof complexions, NCE tn a while I like to dress up in my very best and etroll Fifth avenue. It's @ proceeding, but somehow it gives a wo- man a delicious sense of being “in It", The people one meets are so like cuts from fashion magazines, with just the| . same atlens, blank expressions and | If fixing it—and It's the latest style! dare But they DO know how to wear e| you needn't snap « person's | $10,000 string of pearls as though the! ead was th “T believe 1 | woods were full of them, and the daintt- | ply. and stockings makes | yde » bi ° jam getting grey it's no wond ness of thelr boot: aereich the bethery charges ageinat Ms, Hyso aro based! Considering ail the trouble T've had." |one's heart ache for fortunes to lavish | Gossip is gossip. Let it go at that. And Mrs, Jarr sighed on fdoteear! +: HE groat pie belt where pastry is served three times a day dents from the farther side. Wherefore Mount Holyoke has done | <n unwarranted thing in prohibiting mince pie at luncheon on the | absurd plea that the girls come drowsy to their classes afterward The innocent habits of our people may not thus be overthrown, Letters from the Peop'e neem fashion Plat: foidom begins (ti! January and laste than of old. Ie the clin (Be the Béitor of The Brening World: J chang “Ie biting cold weather (yes, and we'll readers? What do other old-timers eay? I read once a forecast that sild “The chiid te now living who wil palm trees growing on the sout shores of Long leland.” Mrs. ay. | have it yet thie winter) the derby hat ‘fe useless for protection, Yet if one Weare ® cap or ear muffs one is laughed im, Fashion for women may be absurd, st it is calm sanity compared to the eae Prescribed for men, What eay | Te the Mittor of The Evening World | ~@ther cane readers? WHINER, On what day of the week dit Feb. 15, o Uo the Ciimate Changing! 1908, fall? TM , paths Biew of The Brening World) Cha Floriaat ‘To the Ballon af The Ivening World ‘Will some reader who haa had expert: ence kindly atate whether there are @hances for @ young man of ninet seoure @ B004 position in the oran ® growing districte of Florida and what ¢! are the ghances there? Othore may like te Rear the anowen uearty alweye had enow on the on Thankagiving and when Christnas” waa ae rare as a moon, Nowadays there ta almost Rima getine snow and frequent, pewataye this family 3% BR head of the ~~ I'm the one that's wetting grey in fad Mr. Jarr, “Bo TP must * that's had the trouble.” never bothers YOU," ‘ouble WAS shop window. a la mode. His Money re in the mirror back of her. all except a curls, ‘1 class to heave price » but on the chance They My! [had a guilty the bills on the e At home, aft hour, T was satisted and sat errtbly ter! with | hte arms, After a from him, “Have | well?" he asked anxiously, jo you've just come from the re. What did you see?” ‘Abcut nine pounda of hair on the comin on ST A ARRCMRCRNRN rr ote tliiac Asst of the softest, TY and takes the place of breakfast food lies north of the line Mrs. Jarr's answer, as though to imply | the most extreme place tn towh running between Bellows Falls, Vt., and Portland, Me. thes ian I ganere) Bad wi Mt in| Phe window was full South Hadley, Mass, isa little below the line, but draws many stu. ee BO Pee SASS SNE [ehiblonts “ourilesh hate imaginable, andl i, ip there were three wax heads all colffed | As 1 \@ked tt seemed to; me that the features of one of the heads | ;, fussing for over an! the down to walt for Ted, excited, wondering what he'd fujly constructed headdress down about say, and when 1 heard hie key in the my shoulders, door T rushed down the hall right ina result l was moment he held me away ‘the woman in front of me,” swered gaily, tee {the change wi your daint ' The other afternoon on one of those | vere aint Dees TS feet promenades the crowd became #0 dense that 1 was forced up against @) nary my own little wife” It was @ hairdresser’s— | | Mghts dance on {ts surface. ; be afraid of my Ife to touch that head By Alma Wooiward 1 knew he didn't know exactly what “You look different somehow “Why, it's my hair,” I burst out, un- able to keep the great news any longer, “Your hair—so tt ts," he agreed. “in looks lke the deuce, Go and fix it, won't you?" “Fix iti" “Why, I was almost speechie: I've just spent an hour and He turned me around slowly and laughed a long, hearty laugh. [hegtag: after he had gotten over the spasm, “I |aay ‘Can !t! Why, If T had to sit oppe- site you ar dinner to-night with that fruits-and-flowers effect weighting down though I were dining with @ strange woman on the sly, Please go comb it and bring “You don't understand,” “I copted thi T told htm, from a Fifth avenue win- I look nice dow—it's the latest thing. “You do not!" he contradicted, “I lke you best the other way, and {f you ¢ you'H try to please me If you mbled the reflection of my own face! aidn't have any hair, if this beautiful T took par | jandecape thing made you one whit more ticular notice of the way her hair was done and decided that that style would tmprove my looks tremendously 1 had enough hair to accomplish tt—| of three Mttle bob- tablishmient was too high marks tn the wine of captivating when he came home that evening I tin to price them, hoping they Would, ang they won't take back hair goods!" I © more than the 610 Thad with me. | moaned, were seven dollars and a half. | feeling when I sea beautiful, I'd say, rit, by alt means.’ But tt doesn't, and you've got {loads of beautiful hair, and I love to run my fingers through {t and see the Why, I'd now~and those dingle beri He pointed to the bob-curls, “They cost seven dollars and a half 4 whistled slowly. Seven and a half! What really GOOD thing seven and @ half would buy! . We'll charge it up to the expert- ne account, Now, come!" And with oneiquick movement he pulled my care- At dinner he 1} and sald quietly: “Joan, I think you're the most beau- tiful girl in the world—don't buy any ned across the table ‘ou @ headache—don't you feel) more trimmings, PLEASE, don't!" And I knew that I'd never run the "a the style,” he said “Never felt better iu my life,” I an- Tish of hesine, tnt love, fat. aik Sue. feet ee to argue or whal aid Mr, Jarr, “don't think we more than we do?" “Didn't I suggest it?’ replied the good “Let us stop smoking— let us You never go there but it costs you more than we can af- lady, quickly. that's an expensive habit. stop going to Gus' And ford."" “ANT spend tn Gus's will not tmpov- | ertsh said Mr. Jarr. What do you want me to do? I can| tell you are up to something,” “I am up to nothing but what fs right “We are you know. And If we do not save a little some- and proper,” replied Mr. Jarr. not getting any younger, thing now we never will,” “Speak for yourself! family. dollar do the work of three!’ “I know that, my dear; that was the said Mr. “I just want to get I know that you will be could, | ‘That's why I am leaving it all to you. | That's why I come to you for advice; I know you are the finest lit- tle manager in te world, and if the: 1s any way for this family to get ahead very thing I was coming to,” Jarr, soothingly. your ideas. able to manage it !f anybody becaui it 1s by The storm Jarr'a countenance, leaving everything to you.’ let me see. ‘a Mudrid pay every week. C always hi count everywhere, and the bills to her husband, Of cours ridge-Smith doesn't save anyth! doesn't have to, because she’ rich old husband, got give me I could save it. open charge accounts?" Suppose December we you ould try to save a little said Mrs, Jarr. “You are the extravagant one of this I'm the one that tries to save. I pinch and scrape and try to make one) clouds cleared from Mrs. ‘I'm glad you realize it," she said Well, we could save great deal more money than we do if It were not for the bills we have to money because she never Pays for things. She has a charge ac- re gent Clara Mud- She But if I didn’t have to pay the bills with the money you - 28, 1917 What a “Woman Made State” May Become By Nixola Greetey- Smith. Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World). CENSUS mado under the direction of the Women's Progressive League of Los Angeles shows that there are 670,14 women eligible to vote in the State of California, as-against 683,000 men registered before the October election. This means that ff all the women register they will outnumber the male voters by nearly 9,000 at the next election, For the first time in the history of the United States, if not the world, a State Government will be determined amd controlled by the suffrage of women. Mrs, Charlotte Perkins Gilman has written a book to prove that this is “a man-made world,” and many of es agree with her. But at last women are offered the opportunity to demon strate to en applauding universe what @ woman-m State may be. The enemies of woman suffrage have maintained that the votes of women heve not benefited the States which have conferred the suffrage upon them. They have not proved their point and, in fact, it 1s not necessary that women should be better than men in order to claim political equality with them. Still the chance presented to the women of California of showing the world that government can be made cleaner, more hot and more efficient through the co-operation of the sexes is one they should seize upon for the benefit of thelr unenfranchised sisters all over the world. ‘The only place where men and women cooperate on equal terms, as Selma Lagerlof pointed out some time ago, ts the home, and the home has been @ tremendous success. If California through {ts women can show the sister States thai a Government by men alone is like a home where the mother-prinoiple to unrepresented, suffrage orators will need no other argument than to point to the sixth star on their flag—the symbol of the land of roses and orani blostoms—the one of a half-dozen States out of forty-six that are not half orphang, T from government is to show them just what the enfranchised mother can do for the humanizing of orphan asylums, the substitution of the industrial school for demoralizing prison life for boys, the Infusion Into the States of relations with the children dependent upon it—and into prisons for adults as well of the mother-spirit of pity and helpfulness, ‘There should be no child labor in a State controlled by the votes of womem There should be no organized trafic in the souls of women, There should be no capital punishment. Not long ago I met a young woman who had worked on a newspaper in A HE way to prove to these half-orphan States the folly of excluding mothers San Francisco, who inveighed bitterly against the ruthlessness of Western editors. “Why,” she satd, “a city editor once asked me to go to @ hanging. He sald he would arrange it to have me present, that no woman had ever described anging, and that I would famous next day.” What did you say to him?" TI asked, “Why,” she exclaimed indignantly, “I did what you or any other decent woman would have done, of course—I refused!” “But I would have accepted,” I told her. And so I think would any woman awake to the horrors of collective murder, in the hope of writing such a story of that hanging that there would never be another in the State, It seems to me that the only mitigation of disfranchisement a woman feels is that sho is not responsible for the taking of human life as are all men who vote under Government where human beings are executed In the name of justice, If women vote as women, in Callfornia—not as imitation men—if they use thelr ballots with pity, with hope, with tenderness—in other words, If they show that California has a mother—not merely an eaho of father—they will eet the half-orphan Governments of the other States to realizing their bereft con- dition and put them in the way of finding mothers for themselves, New York Streets, And How They Receive: Ther Names. Moreover, the Prince of Nassau wag a Dutohman, And Dutch were eu @ large proportion of New York's pop- ulation, So the thoroughfare was named Nassau street. William of Nassau married the daughe ter of King James II, of England, No, 2, NASSAU STREET. | I olden days Nassau street had homeller and longer name, A certain Dutchwoman opened a ple shop Somewhere along its length and her Ples won so much local fame that the thoroughfare on which she lived was calle? “The Street That Leads by the! Pye-Woman's.” It was not much of a street’ in those days, and wheeled traffic could not well rough it, For, in 16%, one Capt. De Kag begged that a wagon road be constructed, leading out of Broad street | to the street that leads by the pye- woman's, leading to the commons of the city, (The “Commons of the City” was the istrict, part of which {8 now cov ‘by City Hall Park.) William, Prince of Nassau, wes a bright figure In European politics at | the time when a shorter and more suit-| Jable name was sdught for the newly | improved street that passed the pye- woman's doof, ; Afterward he kicked his royal father- in-law off the British throne and hime | self. became King of Ue of Willlam IIL popul. for Sngland under the (William street ts y supposed to have been named him, But it was not. It was amed for Willlam Beekman.) After the Revolution there came sharp reaction against honoring royal personages and titles by naming New Youk streets for them. So King, Queen, Crown and other streets 1 in @ fashion less obnoxious | to & Republle, But sau street was one of the very few that was allowed to keep ite old appellation, To-day few people ree member that it was named for a Dutch Prince who became an English King. (Nezt; BROADWAY.) Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers «Resolu:ions.’ To-day I am going to suggest one for the girls, Resolve never to break your word. Of course, all nice girls pride themselves on keeping all the big promises, But the little ones have plenty of tm- portance, too, and they are so frequently neglected. If you tell @ young man that you will meet him at a certain time don’t keep him waiting anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour, If you say that you will be at home one special eve- ning don’t let even the most fascinating eleventh-hour invi- tation take you out. ‘The only promise that ought to be broken ts a promise to marry too hastily made, Too Short Acquain‘arce A girl who signs herself “A. F." writes: “Last summer I became acquainted with a young man in the park. A few days ago I met him again and he pro- posed to me, What shall I do about ar ° Your acquaintance with 1| man has been too brief and for you to beeome cngaged Walt tll you know each other better, T* season of New Year's resolutions is here again, fave been engaged for several months, but have no ring, I know that Hoy shall £ If you are willing to be the first to speak of the matter, make some joking reference to it. That should jog his memory, the young informal to him A girl writes: “My flance gave me no Christmas who signs herself “Fy Ww." vane I'd ave to pay them,” said Mr. present, though I gave him one. Whieu rr. . " "lof us w right?” Hs : trl who signs herself “D, 1," |of us rs ‘Oh, something might turn up, you Bey fd You were. The young man should Know," ald Mra dar purn| “A young man has called on me for certainly have presented you with a A 7 s- | sift. te books or death of an unknown AL yeare Bag PEOUBGs a BESS: | att wealthy relative, Mrs, Jarr did not say. ee a A: gir! who signs herself “A, E," “And, another way,” she went on,[¥0U think he cares writes: eagerly. count here and there, you know, and save the difference." Mr. Jarr thought a moment and then “I could pay something on ac- Not pay in full, joes, Pou a0) If he does, he will tell you s “Should I accept flowers and 4 from one young man when I lo other?" You should never accept Jewelry, but ry an- A girl who signs herself “F, W.") es: have a very good friend In a New . York volunteer corps, and he has asked unk you are engaged you may receive Well, maybe you age right, I'll think) 14 49 join thelr hospital corps as a fo from any acquaintance. even" have. Jarr, gay at the thougnt|BUrae, 2 am seventeen: Would it we a ee eee eee, 4 . r to do this? aclt . RY of her flduclary ingenuity, went out of PP Pik you are rather young for WFites: the room Mr. Jarr groaned and mut- ‘What's the use?’ But whether he meant wh: s the to “My friend and I are in @ continual such a serious step, and In any event you ought to be sure that you have a quarrel with two young men friends be Vocation for nursing before following Cause of the criticlams of outsiders, 0 What shal we do?” your friend's suggestion, Learn to.trust each other or else Glas A Girl who signs herself “A. A." continue your sel peenvenes