The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1912, Page 18

| Published Daily Except Bunday by the Prean ‘ 63 Dark Row, RALPH PULITZER, J, ANGUS SHAW, Tr EPH PULITZER, Je, Entered at the Popt-omes, it New York ai econd-Class Matter. pSutecription Rates to The Evening (For Eneland and the Continent and World for the Tnited States All Countries in the International and Canada Postal Union, "One Year.. sees . $3.60) One Yoar. + 00.76 One Month, One Month 8 VOLUME .NO, 18,413 SIXTY-FIVE CENT BUTTER? COPY of an old price list printed in The Evening World yes A terday showed that in 1789 butter sold here at seven to eight cents a pound. Now it is forty-two cents wholesale ‘ill cost the consumer about sixty-five cents. Spring pasturage wil! > ting down the price somewhat, but there may be no adequate relief intil the first year of the Brennan cold storage law is up, June 15, when all of last year’s butter must come out. Meanwhile agitation is churning over oleomargarine. This but © ter substitute uncolored is taxed one-quarter of a cent a pound, but when artificially colored ten centa a pound. It was taxed to protect 1c farmer from fraudulent competition, but it has operated in a time , of high prices to shut the door of relief for the consumer. Like many another agent to avert fraud, it has bred an injustice, of which the Elgin “Butter Trust,” if it be a trust, has benefit. Unhappily, fraud ¢ “has gone on. Makers have been able, without using coloring matter, “to get a product yellow as butter, and unscrupulous grocers have sold » itas such. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue declares that the *slouble standard of taxation is corrupting grocers and fleecing the sepublic. Without knowing it, most of us have eaten oleomargarine in restaurants, boarding-houses and on our own table, and liked it «Properly made, it is as nutritious as butter. It keeps better and docs Sot become rancid. Ite constituents are almost identical—the fate Sof beef—but they have not passed through the half-way house of ‘inilk. It is not in itself a fraudulent article, but a food for the poor “widely consumed abroad. It ie the result of a prize offered by Nn- , poleon IIL, for the best butter substitute. Congress must revise the tax on oleomargarine; #0 much is cer- tain, The loopholes for fraud must be closed. In doing #0, the wounting price of butter and the palatability and durability of this substitute muet be considered. te NOT MAYOR OF BABYLON. MW GAYNOR said not well when he told the up-State farmers | that he was “Mayor of Modern Babylon.” Often he has averred that New York is the most decorous of great cities. That was not the repute of the Assyrian capital, as recorded by the Mayor's illustrious prototype, the prophet Jeremiah, His remarke on Babylon and the Mayor’s on Manhattan have in common only the former's words, “A aword is upon the liars, and they shall dote.” Babylon, like New York, was situated in the midst of the waters. It had an area about twice Manhettan’s. It, too, was a city of mer- chants. But it was deliberately run as a “wide-open town” in order to “make business good.” Those customs which amazed but seem not to have shocked Herodotus were intended, as Lecky guesses, to attract trader and tourist. People who say any of them are tolerated here have “their heads filled with vice,” a° Mr. Gaynor very justly observes. He is not Mayor of Babylon. a oe GRASSHOPPERS OF AN HOUR. O": can understand, although not approve, the motives that lead a McDevitt to spend his all for a day’s enjoyment in this “Modern Babylon,” and that lead young clerks of both exes to rob employers in order that for a little while they may give theatre parties and sup in lobster palaces. At all costs these hedonists would put a purple patch on the homespun of existence. Let it be but one night, if eo be it is Arabian. Their mood is a parody of Emerson’s “Give me health and ‘a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.” It is perverse conformity to what William James said—that eveh a spree might have value es specific for nervous depression. Thus do people of limited means assert their equality with the «rich, and make it about as convincing as the shop girl’s copy of Fifth avenue etyles, What thoy altogether overlook is that the world’s j final test of a man—and the thing that measures his success—is his ability to forego present enjoyment for future welfare. The misguided persons who trade competence or honor for an hour of gilded folly never realise that wealth expresses itself not in terme of enjoyment but in power and service, and that they burned the bridges to both. ek Bai Other Pro! Yo the Baitor of The Evening World Answertng query headed “Teles raphera, Hell 1 would advise the thar many enc care while the small 4 rly wh i fea belonging to the city 4 for us I think they writer to seek some other profession than that many are not telegraphy immediately, ae he he is #0 nervous he cannot copy + should be. ( nT naages In succession. If that's How Much Does a lon Weigh? he may be a hopele wreok To the Bditar of Th 2 World er stering the full buginess, whtoh | Here ts a } n for your olever nometimes takes about ix of seven! readers to work out. How much would , veart After which the chances are! $1,000,000 in €1 hills weleh? And bow he may get on the “split trick,” day or! large would euch a bundle bet night watting let, and after @ yeer or) MATTHEW PB. ‘wo A steady Job at $13 to M7 @ week, To Recharae a Hattery, Having been an operator fer twenty: | mote nditor of The wrering Word five years, I'm speaking from expert-| 4 reader sks how (o recharge « fash. nee Even the finest and famest men jignt battery. I offer herewith a simple annot copy three messages without) manner of doing this. One way je to breaking, while at other times they) Wil remove the «i Wileh take from forty to elehty of even ninety sn hour and not touch che key, but} (hese are the exceptions. for wbaut twenty-four 0. 1, B,, An Operator Who Knows, |the zing, An electri St. Loute. flow, However, @ coll can never be re To the Editor uf The Krening World oharked to its normal condition and w What is the fourth olty in size in the! give a weaker current and for a sho United States? R. B.C. | time only GY Horses in Wiater. ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; I would like to know, readere, tf the @& P. C. A. bas authority to compel swners of horses to keep them groperly shod during icy periods. If not, should “et euch authority be lodged some- Mispah and K To the Editor of Tee Kvening W: What are the definitions of words “Mispah” aml “Kismet'? us “Mispah” atenifies H r the best grades and mey reach fifty, which means that a pound a Letters from the Peop'e | the “The Lord watoh | Ad thee While we are ab- | enothon” = “Kiamet' | IER DOESN'T MIND STARVING . WHEN 50 'S BIG HE Witt Give HER ALL THE Foon SHE WANTS mio) 2 By Maurice Ketten SLEEP SONNY. MOTHER DOESN'T MIND WORKING ALL NIGHT FOR SOWNY. WHEN SONNY 13, Big HE WILL REPAY MOTHER , WONT HE 2 WoodROW MOTHER DOESN'T MIND WALKING ALLNIGHT WITH ONNY = MOTHER WiLL GET HER REWARD WHEN SONNY 15 Big MOTHER DOESN'T MIND BEING A SLAVE To 1S Bice HE SONNY WHEN Sonny WILL BE SOGooD Ta MOTHER . WONT HE 2 Copyright, 1912, ¥ blishing (tha Now York Wont nias O% The Woman Who Did Not Care NCE upon @ time there was @ O woman who did not care. First of all, she did not care how abe APPHARED. Some women are BORN with beau- ty, come ACHIEVE beauty, yet none have beauty thrust upon them. As she waa not fortunate enough to belong to the first class, an her ‘don't- care” attitude ex- cluded her fro the second, she wae left in @ clase all by hereeif. It was a pity, For in the early yeare Moin SOPHIE IRENE LOEB | | her mirror reflected beck some truly , interesting features which might have | become MORE interesting but for her careless propensity. Most of the time the family found her ia @ kimono reading the latest Laura Jean, one hairpin doing ite level best to keep up what might have been her woman's crown of glory. When her brother sadd, “Tess, why don't you fix up @ bit Iike other girls? her answer would act like @ dash of cold water. When company came she did very LITTL® in their honor, Usually she appeared in something that would have Gone small credit to the rag-bag. Now, there are few womep in the ‘world who can AFFORD to be careless. The great demand {s for the NEAT, the tidy, the attractive, Impreseion is largely formulated by outward EXPRESSION. Sloveniiness is the expression of much that le WITHIN. ithe only one recorded. There Is little MOTHER DOESN'T MIND WORKING EXTRA. ADDRESSING ENVELOPES tig oa FOR SONNY WHEN Sonny I@ HE Won'T Forget MOTHER ‘The pendulum swings fast in the every- day. And a first IMPRESSION is often had some pride as to her appearance. or no time for “SPECIAL” occasions, Every hour of the twenty-four ie a “special” one, and one never can tell when @ record may be made. So it came to pass in the course of human events that the Don't-Care wom- an came face to face with the prob- | &a em, One day there came a man her way. She liked him MUCH. He wondered why she looked so CARDLESS, but he thought it was accident. For he found something INTERESTING in her. He paw her again and again, but it ‘was just the same, Now, while he was knew little or nothing Pparel-—yet the careless ensemble is APPARENT to BVERY man, He may not say eo, but the IMPRBS- why he turned from her. not. Nature had given her. which sometimes does not happen. TO CARE ANOTHER WAY. Ge WeHen PUL Ham PS © Wren vece. ESS Taman wo EAT, my AED! SION ls there. So one day he TURNED from her to a girl who DID care-who now The Don't-Care one now looked with | LONGING eyes at him and wondered | the broom handle he runs first the end MORAL: SHE WHO “DOESN'T CARE" AND HAS HER DAY LIV ed The Evening World Daily Magazine. Friday. January 19, 1912 Such Is Life! 3 (xe THEODORA: Co-founder with Justinian of the Civil Law. HBODORA was born about 607 A. D., probably in Constant tople, of humble paerenta While etill @ ohiid, left desti- tute by the death of her fath he was sent onto thi a0, delighting the capital crowd by the impudence of , her actin, In 6% she married the ambitious Jue tinian, who had obtained from his all- powerful uncle, Justin I, abrogation of the law which forbade a member of the Senate to marry a woman of humble origin of who had appeared on the stage. Some time after, upon the death of Justin, Justinian and Theodora be came the sole rulers of the Roman world, he being then forty years of age and she eightecen. Theodora became famous for her beauty, ambitions and talents and speedily acquired unbounded influence over her husband. She was not merely his consort but Empress Regent, and as such entitled equally with himeelf to the exercise of all prerogatives. The scandalous stories circulated against rest on dublous evidence, but whatever may have been against her character before marriage, never there- after did the breath of scanda! touch her name. The spots on her character are the venom of one Procoplus, who had enjoyed her full confidence, and who, while in his other writings was extolling the triumphs and wisdom of Justinian and Theodora, was laboring in secret to destroy their reputation, We may well hesitate to put any value on his testimony. During the twenty-two years of married life she showed herself | @ most worthy consort. Her husband consulted her in everything and allowed her to interfere directly and when she pleased in the government of the em | pire She saved the throne by her high cour age at the crisis of the great Nikks insurrection of 68% by refusing to fiy when the rebele were attacking the | palace; saved her husband's crown and | A Steady Job HIE broomeorn comes to the fac 1p tory in bales weighing about 900 | pounds each. When they break @ | pale the first thing done is to sort the |eorn into lengths, which is done by & | wind man, The next sorting, which te | tor color, 1s one of only two operations | When the corn has been thus finally |eorted it is ready for the first broom maker, the winder who attaches it to the broom handle. ‘The handle has bored through ft, at \the end to which the broomcorn ts to be attached, a mall hole. The other end of the handle the broommaker now lthrusts through a hole bored horizon- \tally through @ post set firmly in the floor and rising to a convenient height \tm this hole through the post the broom |handie ts held securely, while at the ‘game time it oan de turned freely, and the winder begins to put on the corn, Through the little hole in the end of jof a wire which he makes fast there, Soon she saw ft all—the look of admi- | and then ne picks up all at once from ration at the neatly arranged hair, the pile at hand half a dosen sprays of th Pleasing simple dress of the other girla, |corn, says the Philadelphta Inquirer, |Within conventent reach on the end of I do not know if tt was too late or |@ bench is a horizontal wooden bar upon Perhaps she began to care IN| which he now spreads out the butts of ‘TIME to make the most of what Mother | the half dosen sprays he has picked up, Perhaps ghe|and then with @ sharp knife and with won him back, together with the kindly | one single aweep of it he cuts off accu- RESPECT of those about her. How- rately half the thickness of the corn ever, she learned to know that while the | putts. first impression is not ALWAYS a last- | ing one, yet it laste until the NEXT one dozen sprays around the broom handle dosens. yard of frill, Patte) ure, e for neck No. 7280 at THE BVENIN The World’s # # w# & Great Women By Madison C. Peters. | here required to be done by seeing men. | th Then be laye the butts of those half Over-Blouse, Pattern No. 7230. 11-4 yards 44 inches wide with 3-4 yard 31 or 91 for revers and cuffs und dei {6 cut in sizes for @ 34, 36, $8, 40 and 42 inch bus. BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second streat (oppo site Gimbet Bros.), corner Bixth avenwe and Thirty-second stroct, a Copyright, 191% by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World). strengthened her command over his mind She said in her Council: “very man must die once, and for a king death ts better than dethronement and exile If you wish, oh, Emperor, to eave your life, nothing is easier. There @re your ships and the sea. But I agree with the old saying that ‘empire le the Dest winding sheet.’ Officials took an oath of allegiance & her as well as to the Emperor. She not only corresponded with foreign ambas- sadors, but instructed Belisarius how to deal with the Popes. It tg ae @ legislator and @ codifier of the law that Justinian’s name is most familiar to the modern world. He found the law of the Roman Empire in great confusion, and his success in eimplify- ing and digesting the law he himself admits was due to the suggestions of Theodora. No female sovereign ever manifested | larger interest in the unfortunate of her own sex and strove more earnestly to alleviate their condition. She differed radically from her hue- ‘and in religion and other matters, but the differences never disturbed either his affection or his confidence, She was looked upon as @ safer friend than the Bmperor, for while he abandoned bis favorites to her wrath she stood by her protegee and never failed to punish any ‘one whose slanderous tongpe assailed her character. Whatever may have been the possible faults of her youth she atoned for them by her trreproach- Je life as @ wife and by her devotion to the best interests of her sex. She was of small stature, rather pale, of @ graceful figure, beautiful features, expressive eyes, & piercing glance and fascinating manners. Her health wes delicate. @he died of cancer in 68 at Pythia, whither she had gone tor the paths, at forty years of age, after relgn- ing nearly twenty-three years Justin- fan was py birth @ Slavonic barbarian, whose uncle, Justin, adopted bim, and whose wife, Theodara, made him “the Great,” the most famous of all the Dn perors of the Kestern Roman Empire. cca ah a i a OE for Blind Men. and takes a turn around them with ¢he wire, and then he keeps on in just the game way, adding bunch after bunch of eprays and building up the broom. When he comes to make the broom’s shoul- ders, the projecting sides at the broom’s top, he bends the sp: to conform of the sprays he the top, around the handle, and he may sun the wire In and out to make a little ornamental pattern, and then with the Jest bunch on he cuts off the wire and turns in the end and makes it fast. Next the broom goes to thi machine to be freed of the buds that may otill cling to the splints, {this being the other operation in the room making here that is done by a seeing man. Next the broom goes to the sewer, who sets it, hands down, in a wooden vise, in which it is squeezed inte ex- actly the proper shape and proportions and then the sewer sews the broom with as many rows across as may be Tequired; and though the sewer cannot #ee, he sews these lines with perfect epacing between the loops and with the Unes perfectly straight and true. And then the trimmer gets the broom, He eets it in another holder that holds it Just aa it ought to be, and then he ‘brings down upon the still more or less Jagged and uneven tips of the end of the broom a big hinged knife that cuts it off true and even; and then ther's your Anished broom, ready to be la- belied, and then to be bunched in aa Ww . "9 able f. le @vail, sometimes on one aide, sometimes in two portiona that are joined at the back and with the new kimono sleeves that ere seomrad 129 ithe louse slightly below the shoulder line. tne fronts are turned back to form the revers, whether they are faced or tne blouse 4s Lined, Peplums are exceedingly smart and this one is of becam- ing depth, but the blouse canbe finished either with or with- out it. In either ease Mt Ja joined to the belt, and “the closing ig made at the front, For the medium siz will be required 21-4 yards of mate- Mal 27, 1 3-4 yards 36 ‘OR! Y MANTON FASHION veseipt ef ten cente in coin of