The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1912, Page 18

Eveni —+ — | ESTABLIGEHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pebliedes Dally Except Sunday dy the Prees Pudiishing Company, Nos. 68 to “3 ” Row, New York. se RAL! PULITZER, President, 48 Park Now, TARGUS SHAW. Wrreanicen, 2 Park reasurer, G3 Park Now, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Souretary, 03 Park Now, Tntered at the Post-Offine at New York av Becond. @ubscription Rates to The Eveningpror ng ‘World for the United States All Countries in the Interoational and Caneda. TRIMMING THE GUILELESS EAST. | HE West does not know its own mind when it deals with| | the East. Its purposes are as contradictory «s the Kuro- penn colonies in the port cities of the Var Vast, made up of missionaries, marines and the floating scum of creation. Presum- , afbly the West wants to help the East—it says so at any rate—even yonif it “hustles the Fast” in the process. Tf the heathen Chinee is peculiar, how about the pious Kuro- pean or American? “Put your house in order. Reform your finances, Open your ports. Borrow our money. Bo like ow ” Such _for generations has been the demand of Western nations upon their | vedlder sisters of Avia. ‘The demand held the promise of fellowship. But those Oriental peoples that have sought to fulfil it have been penalized for their pains. Japan was the first to take for its guide the pious texts of the It has been strong enough to protect itself from the conse- , but it had to fight Russia. It sees its subjects virtually ex- cluded from the ports of the country which forced its own ports | to open. The “Sick Man of Europe” took a dose of Western tonic | by adopting a constitution. Its reward? Austria seized Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bulgaria cut the painter. Italy occupied Tripoli. Persia followed Turkey's liberal course and placed the reform | *9§¢ itd finances in an American’s hands, Just for that it has been, seeruelly punished and Russia is in its northern cities. The moment + Whine heard the shout “Wake up!” and atirred in ite eleep, it be- "Fame “‘the yellow peril” in the imagination of Europe. Its emi- “/Brants are excluded from this country. Its contemplated transform- ovation into a republic is likely to be signalized by the loss of terri- w tory, When India shakes off its seclusion and the Hindoo trader ; looks outward, Australia slams the door and Canada and America mips hand on knob, puny The East may be incomprehensible to the West. But eo the, “i West must be to the Fast until its leading men have read in thet -secelebrated cighteenth chapter of Macchiavelli the passage which asserts that “it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qual- ‘Mities I have enumerated, but it is very necesstry to appear to have —rthem. To have them and always to observe them is injurious, but «nto appear to have them is useful.” eT CO THE DEBTS OF ACTORS. , A CTORS and actresses will not get themecives taken soriously lon off the stage—will not shed the last trace of the tradition that classed them with rogues and vagabonde—until referees in bankruptcy are enabled to file a different echedule of liabilities from what the public has come to expect. "4," One can be bankrupt and still be taken seriously, but not chen most of one’s bad debts are for piffle. The average bankrupt ‘actor's liabilities are an exhibit of taposition and folly—hundreds »@ dollars apiece charged against euch items as tobacco, taxicabs, ingerer and candy; # mase of unpeid tailors’, milliners’, laundry and eodaoarding-house bills. They limm the likeness of a man or woman -Aponging off small tradesmen and wallowing in dishonest luxury. sree Orsay, “last of the dandies,” vowed he would “dio like a| ygentleman—beyond my means.” It was a losfer’s language. 2>o— WHAT TO DO WITH BUSINESS MEN. UEENS has the worst highways in the city and @. Howlend| Leavitt, @ wealthy business man who has been chosen Bor- ough Superintendent of Highwaye, may be just the man to qrset them right, for he knows roads ani railroada too. His appoint: | «tment shows the proper way to use “the business man in politics.” ‘4 ‘Tho successful business man commonly makes an indifferent , Mayor and a poor Governor, amd would be impossible as President. «*'Those are jobe for lawyers, publicists, politicians—in general, for vdhe men whom he is wont to call “mere theorists.” Hin tendency "ip to timidity, compromise, conciliation, rather than to bold policy. "Mis tradition is to please for @ consideration, Business thinks in sterms of profit and loss. Politice should think in terme of human | Welfare. tp sot an administrative department, and give him the execution of a © programme, rather than its formulation. As the lawyer is his ‘‘fight-hand man in business, so he may be the lawyer's right-hand -man in politics. Letters from the People In The World Almanae, ty cigars for $100. This ts my solution, and ng The Day of Rest 3% (- & The thing to do with @ business man is to put him in charge : | PENcie The AfMiction of New Yorkitia. NCW upon @ time there was @ city. ‘The name of the city was New York, It hed many OTHER names, Some of thei names T would not lke to mention. They would not be pleas- ant. 7 names were given to it mostly by OUT- @IDPRS. ‘This olty had a berm. The name of thin germ was NEW YORKITIA. Now, etrange as tt y neem, the people who lived in LOEB the city were rarely bothered by the Germ, for they ADJUSTED themselves, took the goods the gode provides in it, REGULATED ¢ oe, were thelr own STOP-WATOH and grew up very much as ANY OTHPR people in any other city, For the nature of the germ te such that it enters only upon dnelination to it. In truth, you can live a y wafe and @ existence in this ie ot uu want to, ‘Those piain New Yorkers loved the Uttle old town and respected ite ad- vantages and disadvantages allke, But the Wttle old town was the NTRE OF GRAVITY for all oth ‘That 4s, many other: Liko Caesars, they came, whether they eonquered or not is AN- OTINR tab Thus it came to pase that a bunch of strangers came to town and, being ore, the good people of New York “he the bAitor of The Brening Worlds 7 . T would itke tt (f somebody couki give a "Where can I find @ conservative lis\| simpler means of arriving at the an- tf ef the five strongest navies in the] ewer, J. J, BREEN. _gdvorld and thetr respective strength? A Walking Query. MB. To the Editor of The Rrening World Will some reader who t# good at com The Cigar Problem, Damely, L Thus we get the required Inco! nee pu oO? doqmower, vin: 9 cigars at %, 1 at M1 and “what } Foot rebpinladded 3 ? ca 45 cents, which makes @ tom! of 100! case? One Call Too M Year's customel” _Worla Daily Ma ever more for me on those quaint old New i'm GOING To Ce) WAL / gazine, Tuesday, January Coprria’, 191 Oe ha ) & WHY Dot ‘O Hi RES Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), took tiem in; but they thought they were “tuken in” in @ DIIMFERENT way. They ila many things, In fact, they id go MANY things which the REAT New Yorker GELDOM does that quite were inoculated with the w Yorkitis. nce, three or four ing an evening was not enough, Imust be a COMPLETA ROUND of them EVERY night, and they wended their ways to their hotel in the wee sma’ hours. Taxicabs were their partioular means of conveyanc many things that they ordered to eat they could not be gin to pronounce, To leave any show unseen would have been impolite to the germ. To DO or Not to do New York was the question, and there was only one answer. And that was, to take In BVERYTHING, Now, the aforesaid residents do 0 through the various performances ip a YBAR that these strangers did in @ 'WEBK. But the strangers took advan- dur: By Mme. pyright, 1912, Pubitsht CovrTteht, Dae tok Wold OF | i Yesterday’s Resolutions. W': ie it always the MAN who ‘s | supposed to take under his wing | all the v ‘The: Intimate Chats WITH WOMEN ‘Y tage of the advantages and then thought they were ken advantage of. It was one merry-go-round of all that ds, was and ever shall be, world without end, in a great city. UNDONE or to the tmagination, They They left nothing wanted to be shown and were shown. paid the fiddler to whose tune they danced. For example, several “bunches” of these strangers made it @ point to come to this town on New Year's Hve and Join in the ringt the ringing in of the new New Year. But they were not tisfed with chimes of CHEER, They demanded cannons and battles. That is, they wanted to ba the TOPNOTCHERS on the firing line. . Now, this would have been all very well if, realizing that they had the af- fiction of New Yorkitie, they had gone their way and crowed no more. But now, having spent their coin and themselves in the process, quite of THETR OWN volition, and having used Legrande. you én @ touchy spot—and then ‘make up your mind to adopt it. ‘OU needn't proclaim ft to the world, It seems to me that @ resolution made within one's self ts more apt ® matter of pride and will power. I, I will try to see the good points in my friends rather than their faults, 11, 1 will appear as neatly clad at Dreakfast as f do at dinner. my husband would appreciate being en- teriained, even when there are no guests tect those whom T love. ae puting tell me the distance walked | LG * : over in the following course! Startii 801 the “yoSeeing Mr. Goldastone'’s query as to ned ic the wing course: Starting Heap hd a finding how many cigars at prices of 5] 70M Prospect and Longwool avenues nr to be 7 ‘¢,| the Bronx, 1 walked directly down ; a cents, M and #5 can be dougnt for £100] Wr eoh enter averne until T reeched te open or sub rosa my olution te: As the average price of] jaro Hridge From Bere vue om the loth of the inm 1 « 4 find what com? sartant taviemont ayia iver me? sdefon of cixars at 5 cents and % resulta! roxstown to Madison avenue, and down | Ifan n the habit of smob ng average cost of $1. Take this} Madison avenue to One Hundred and jtweaty, clgare or mr five boxes © dverage cont ($1) in the lowest denomi-| eit, street. d turned into Pitt olgare day, why does he resolve Pational cost (0 cents) and from i] ie ied to twentycthitd strc on wt day of the year, that he 4inke the lowest denominational com (j! (1% NAUECG TO iwentycthind sure Will never e again, When, even a soar) This gives the number of clKATs) Heoudway to City Hall Parke im wae the moment, he is wondering how he's pape) at Scents each, Now take tho aver! q good day's tramp for an amateur, ‘ ‘ ne "ace cost (100) from the higher cost. We! readers? he lothes ti the qt (000) the number of cigars at 1] a howd day Tigents. Now, 95 canes at % and 400 a0 6) 1 the Peltor of Tho beens | ‘Theratare, you women who read. be > (ypenta gives an average cost of $1. This) 1 purchased sume ex¥s on Satuntay not like the men’ If you make resolu by tlons at all, make sensible ones, serious sqapwmber (9+400) te too eres’, #0 wolnight last, and paid top price for fresh ‘ Just bec hi -4ittivida both by @ common factor (5),/eee. On Monday morning when cook: Si Hee reererntenegierd eAWhich does not vary the average cost,|ing them I found they were bad ‘The bP SEARO (BS bone ste Rt LORE 1h pis gives us 19 clgare at and # at 6) Kcr from whoy I bought them said “Did you do any New Year's calle Sd al! your friends are ing OF ones he was “sorry, Couldn't understand Promises to themselves and their fam- ents, or @ total of ® for @9, Taking 9 f ' he thi 4 rom 100 gives the number ef ol ow" Rc, Bul what I would like to The other {lit don't you .olm the throng an er ars Bt) know te how to obtain watlefaction for ¢ add another name to the Ananias roll of honor! women. Read them, eee if any one hits the plague | XLT will try to 4 he verb “to knock” from my vooa! XI. I will endeavor to create an at- mosphere of happiness and content in And now for a list of resolutions for|my home and thus wn the everlasting love of those around me present 1V, 1 will remember that Just because Tam a woman there js no reason why my conve on should consist chtesty In comments on fine attire and house holt toples V. Twill not skin the headiines of the papers Joon the strength of knowl- edge thus acquired, break !n upon the aswons, &e, and ate my van views fore | will cherish and pro- VILL TL will drop affectation and re- \4eica tn being natural | 1X. 1 will tell the truth. By Maurice Ketten | INT You ay) oJ LATO at ciao y ea By Sophie Irene Loeb our waye and means to satiafy that which they SOUGHT, they proceeded to @ and say all the MEAN things they could about the city. ‘They went away telling how they were robbed—the exorbitant rates of tais, that and the other thing—the very ter- srible Great White Way, the demands made on them here, there and every- and, in a word, it was a bold, bad place for any 6BLF-RESPECTING INDIVIDUAL (whatever that is) to eut of the old and jeome te, They could tell yeu how to reform many, many things, and that New York only wanted your m &e. In a word, they had eaten their cake and WANTED (¢t too, They had no {dea of the word “MODPRATION.” They invited the whole germ or none— and got it. ‘The average New Yorker looked on them not unlike wary’s lamb (though now shorn), thinking to himself, “ them alone and they'll com ging their talls behind them.” And aid. They ‘knew the olf adage that “they to ‘be out.” NOT GET NEW YORKITIS! Had to Speak. A ners or duty; her beauty, tongue clove vainly I strove, | | | Should T tell her and lose her forever! and ever— |T knew if I apoke ‘twould our friendship | dissever. |1 tel disdain IT, I will try to realize that perhaps! And acornful, “Don't speak to me ever | again!” Hopeless I stood—I must speak at al cost | And 1 did, breathing hard, knowing wel all was lost of my At the risk hopes the music | ed rong of your walst.’” ~Partland —> Oregonian, High Heels and Hobbles. AKEN singly, high heels and hob- fent handicap b ekirts are sultte for any woman; taken together they are more than the sex oan sustals tn safety, After the study of seventy: months, the Pennay! Railroad ha: bn ‘bination of high bi descending station stairway | caught on step of coach and “High heel caught Ing etal! wore hobble askir sais entries in the reports of cel: $ e who play with edged tools must expect MORAL: IN NBW YORK DO A8s/ THE NEW YORKERS DO, BUT DO T PHYLLIS I gased and drank In | Stared hard, anmfindful of man- I felt I must speak, tut my wretched To the roof of my mouth—for words it T must say ft, though tt courted spitied soup and egg on the three cases, covering a period of three ched thé conclusion that thie com. nd hobbies ta | rasponalble for a farwe proportion of the | X. 1 will shun “nagging” as 1 would | !njuries sustained by women while get- ting on and off trains and in mounting 5 re Publishing Co, World) Mrs. Jarr Tries to Tell Fortunes in Furniture. Gor MPRE'S & family moved “tn I next door,” sald Mrs, Jarr, when her lord and master re- turned at his wonted hor at eve. “What sort of people are they?’ asked Mr. Jarr. “T haven't seen them yet, but it's a couple that’s been married about four years, and they have a baby just learn- ing to walk, and the wife !s a stout blonde, and they've moved into’ town from the suburbs, possibly only for the winter, out they are fond of excitement and go to the theatre a good deal—at least they dia before the baby came, and they probably injend to go out a good deal again now the baby sleeps well, for {t's a strong and hearty child, ‘The couple have money too—that 4s, the husband, wh short and very neat in hia appearans has money, or ¢ he has @ very good position that p well. Probatly he's in Wall street manager, or something, because they don’t get up early in the morning.” “Servants tell you all this—seeing as haven't met the people them- asked Mr. Jarr. . I think they've moved from the country on account of servants leaving. !@hey have @ nurse for the child, but they are trying to get servants. The wife's mother, who lives in New York— |1 know has no money, though—4e jlooking after things for them while the | husband ts going to the agencies to get servants, or maybe only one servant, {seeing that they have a nurse giri— forelgner—while the mother and tl y and the nurse are stopping with friends in New Rochelle, where they've been living til) the rugs are down and the furniture arranged.” “Well, who told you all this, then? erked Mr. Jarr. “Nobody told tne, haven't I eves in my head?” asked Mrs. Jarr in turn. “You must have soen some of these People” @aid Mr. Jarr, “to know @0 much.” “I @aw the furniture come in, and tt came in vans of @ New Rochelle mover,” was the reply, “And I saw an old lady euperintending the piecing of the things. Ghe had the janitor’: wife up cleaning the place, so that's why I know they have no servants. I A Moment of Triumph, B™ NG had just finished bis poem “Son ‘aello."” There, by George!” he ejaculated as he tigoed his name at the end, “If that hasn't got Henry James and the Sherman law ekinued ninety. ‘two ways at once in the line of periphrestic am- Dagiostty end nubiferous obfuscation I'll & for vitrified diaphaneity from thie time on, Lippincett’s. Snes aan Brought Up to Date. N @ Jacksoarille court the other day a lawyer uoted Shakespeare: “Who steals my plrse Gteady trash’ "'—to o deaf Judgr, ‘What's aur the Judge demandet, wes ie, end fen slave’ ' “Louder! 1 can't hear ‘said the Judge, trritably. Who stele my puree,’ repeated: the un fortunate lawyer, ‘atenle trash. "Twas’ '——— 't Fou apeak up!" growlel the deaf Judge. his point the erler thought it time to in- ‘He bent over the Judge end shouted in air, you! | | th vhody what | | | H 1 I a 2, 1912 ————$—$—$S— 1S $a © know its the wife's mother, because’ @ husband’s mother never bothers her head about how @ daughter-in-law seta along, and I know the wife's moth isn’t wealthy or GITE wouldn't do ft “How do you know they have only been married—the couple moving in I mean-three or four yei i have no children but a strong and healthy baby learning to walk?” “Because the nut diniag room “that's how I know they ha been married about four ye cassian nut dining roo came in about four yea look very pretty but the; of syle already. They have no children except a baby and that baby ts strong and healthy because the furniture inn't jorat or marked except the dining room table, which is the only thing that has any dents on ft, and those are the marks of a silver mug being ham- mered on it up near the head of the table. That shows the baby {x stron and healthy because it {8 sitting In a high-chair at the table near it's mother and it hammers with its mug, like all healthy babies do. The maid is a for- eigner because one of the trunks was @ emali tin one like those that come from Germany or Sweden. ‘Che maid must be with the mother and baby or her trunk wouldn't be with the things, and it is a nurse and mot @ cook or general houseworker because a cook or general houseworker would be help- ing with the moving. The furniture ahows the couple are well-to-do, 0 they mi keep servants and the father must be golng around to the agencies while the mother {s with friends with the baby and nurse. The mother can't be in the city or she'd be at the flat. T must have been out when they engaged the place.” “But how do you know she's a blonde and {s etout and that the husband is a little, dapper man and that they are fond of the theatre?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Because their bedroom furniture is white and the hangings are blue,” said Mrs. Jarr, ‘and a bandbox came open with Some wrappers, and I could see they were the wrappers of a stout blonde by thelr colors and the way they were made, and there was a dress sult case and a man's leather high hat box, both with several tags on it trom the Grand Central Depot package room, that shows they came into town to t theatres often; and there was a whole lot of shoes, men's shoes with high heels, and they had boot trees in them —that shows the husband is little and dressy, And they don’t get up early, because, even though they lived out of town, they hadn't an alarm clock. “Did you ever read Sherlock Holmes’ ed Mr. Jarr. “Oh, yes," eaid Mrs. Jarr, ‘but what's that got to do with new people moving in next door?” his pocketbook won't get noth! 1 n ot ing." —Loe Angeles Casablanca’s Consolation. HE boy tanding upon the burning-dech Thence ll but him had ‘s 4 cold feet Whereupon he went below, gayly whist popular/balled, ee ae > —-- Sir Walter's Good Fortune. 1B WALTER RALEIGH had call com nf ten with: Queee Biisapers, 2 ae ® was very good of you, Sir Walter,"* aid Her Majesty, stalling owestly’ upon the wi. Tent knight, “to Tula your cloak the other day se that my feet sould not be wet by that horrid le. lay I not instruct Ter pan et my Lord High Dyess mention ft, Your Majesty," repli Me. Mt ‘only cont two and ait, ant I’ heve 0 th y sold it to an American collector f nd pounds,””-—Tdppiucot eis Giri'e Dress Pattern No, 7249, For the 10 year sl 86, . yarde 44 {rrches ttern in . Taam REAU, Donal eut in sizes jullding, New York, or etampe for each pattern will be required 4% wide with 1 yard heels for the 0 and 12 years of age, ot ailie for gt D MAY 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo tite Gimbel Brog.), cormer @ixth avenue and Thirty-second street, nt by mai] en receipt of tem cents in cole og a, ° IMPORTANT=Write your address plainly an@ always epecity Peters, faine wanted. AGG two conte for letter postage ff ino barry: ¢