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ae Evening World “D os | Why Not? # \ FSTARLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. sed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Now, 53 to 3 Park Row, New York. : ITZUR, President, 49 Park Row. TAW, Troasucer, 68 Park Row. Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Wit Not ? “NOT! DEMONSTRATOR INEACH CAR ToTEAcH US How To HANG ON A STRAP Entered at the Post-Office at New York ag Mecond.clane Mattor @wdecription Rates to The Evening |For England and the Continent and ‘World for the Tnited States and Canada. All Countries in the International L Postal Unton, One year “a One Month ni VOLUM » $2.60] One Year 301One Mont PERIL RUNNING LOOSE. provessoor T LAST the City Government awakes to an evil on which The A Evening World has long been outspoken, despite the protests of readers. Something is to be done to avert the mad Gog, stray dog peril, A judicial decision just handed down clearly legalizos the destruction of stray dogs, and the 8. P. C. A. agents are at work. Health Commissioner Lederle says he will wait one week, and unless the killing of stray dogs “materially lessens” rabies, he will “recommend radical at ps,” presumably a muzzling order. There are about 50,000 licensed dogs here and 250,000 unli- consed, most of the latter strays, All unlicensed dogs should be killed, all others inuzzied. Doge are muzzled the year round in Hol- | land, Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and rabies is unknown. Tn this y about three thousand persons were bitten by dogs last year, and hore one-fifth of all the deaths from rabies in the country oceur, WHY NOT ASUBWAY EXPRESS elaine FoR wer THEATRE CROWDS Only the national contempt for life eould explain this. i san | VISITORS. ily “Magazine,” (at ieiae ) WHY NOT SUBWAY EXPRESS CAFECAR HAVE Your BEFORE DINNER( Coc TAit A hed - TRAVEL|) eae 7 // BRONK CocKTAIL STEP Lively IF You wagaLe BLAME ITON Bg By Maurice Ketten | DRESS Sults | Sou REQUIRED STEP HERE. [lm By ornoen of ~ | Puaiic SERVICE cons : Dr ( iw) ren \\( Bu! Rotten} Sve) \ Wd See | UPFALOES do not wander into this town as Proctor Knott said | B they did in Duluth, but wild deer have entered villages not | twenty miles distant, Some weeks ago an owl spent the | morning on a downtown Broadway building. A week ago two bald | eazics had a desperate battle over the ice-jam off Hastings, This When Man “Wakes Up If He Doesn't Hurry He'll Find Woman Awfally Changed By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World). 66 A 11, this chatter and excitement about tho Modern Woman, end Ger Gu lies, faults and foldles, is beginning to make me intensely tired,” re varked the Widow as ehe towered the rose-colored ght to @ becom ing dimness and languidly arranged her violet Grapertes. Everybody seems lo be writing and talking ebout The Awakening of Woman.’ Why doesn't some bright sol raise a clamor that will effect the awekening of MANT He needs it, ut SHE docen’t.” ‘Why?! demanded the Bachelor. “Isn't he ewalte a ready?" The Widow shook her head sadly. “He has just turned over for his second nap,” she Ge Gared. “Woman has waked up, lighted the fire and put 8 the kettle, But Man won't wake up until the kettle elle) over and he has been called three times, as usual, then he'll be 1itprised as poor old Rip Van Winkle.” “Surprised?” inquired the Bachelor languidly. “At whett? “At the change in Woman,” explained the Widow. “He etill > fancles us ‘cunning Ittle things,’ you know, Mr. Travers." ren't you?" asked the Bachelor, ingenuously. “He still thinks 4t funny when we make jokes about him," continued the Widow, ignoring the Interruption. “It hasn't even occurred to him that we are developing a . He still thinks it AMUSING when we talk about voting and CUTE when we prate of economic independence, but that we'll ‘get over it some day’ and stay at home and be good. Tt hasn't oven occurred to him that ft 1s HIS tack of domestic ideals and destres which 1s driv- ing un into the professions and officer and crowding HIM out of them. He still miles or chuckles when we declare that as long as bachelors will be ‘bachelors old maids will have to be suffragettes, and that love and romance and sentiment are going out of fashion, and”. “There, there!” broke in the Bachelor soothingly. “What would Man do about ft all If he DID wake up?" “DO! repeated the Widow dramatically. “He'd come out of his dream tn a hurry, and hustle round and light a fire on his own account. He'd take his right- ful place tn the world and put us back in OURS pretty quickly!” “Where 18 your place?” demanded the Bachelor. “In his arms,” retorted the Widow promptly, “and in his home, and in his seat in a street car! But he's too lazy to give us any of th He'll have to leary to make love all over again and to acquire a taste for matrimony and to revive his chivalry before he can get us tack there. Even a KING car't hold hts Jol without a little work and effort, and Man can’t expect to he monarch of all he surveys without exerting a little energy. It's his INERTIA that 4s making cynics and wffragettes ond bachelor girls of us, wher we ought to be”— “Cunning lttle things!" mocked the Bachotor werk an eagle from the Palisades carried off a rooster from a Hast- ings henyard. | You can see wild ducks any day on the Kast River inside the | city. Only Wednesday a New Rochelle tomcat mastered a wild fox inv imekyard combat, and a muff will be made of the pelt. Another w Rochelle trapper found hie terrier and a large mink noosed in the sane trap, engaged in what Dr. McKelway alls “reciprocal evis- cosation.” A fox squirrel was caught in a rabbit trap near Totten- ville, 8 Rabbits, hawks, owls, crows and starlings abonnd. Laat fell an eight-foot sturge was taken in the Harlem and a shark | ighted in Jamaica Bay. These inetances of wild life asserting itself here or hereabout are cited as a setting for the emergence of a guinea pig, alive and well, from the ice and smoke of a Broadway ruin, “This modern Babylon” the Mayor calls New York. Did not Teainh say of the an- t one, “The cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owi leo and the raven shall dwell in it; the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wild beasts of the island?” | “Yes, and mothers and wives, and angels!” added the Widow. “But fust as long } as singlo men WON'T make love to us and married men WILL; just as long as bachelors continue to pursue their selfish ways, and husbands continue to pursue chorus girls and affinities, women will continue to pursue professions and careers and votes—and the divorce mils will go on grinding. The trouble ts that Woman is still a domesticated animal, but man has gone hack to The Wild in the last few years; and until he returns to the old desire for a home and a | hearth, and to the old belief in Love bternal and in the sacredness of Woman, | the world wil! remain topey turvy!" “Amen! quoth the Bachelor. “Let's begin reforming right away'’— “Begin what?" , ‘Going back to the old fdeals. Now, I want a home and a domesticated-er- SUBWAY , nagar LiFe fonsense! interrupted the Widow, PRESEAVERS Vhy not? complained the Bachelor, SHOCK ABGORBERS| “You can't tame an animal after it has gotten its second teeth, ‘, “nor a man after he has gotten--his «econd wind.” “Oh, well!" sighed the Bachelor with resignation, “then aing me a lullaby and j ‘let 1 I don’t want to WAKE UP, anyway! “YOU can never be tamed, Travers.” sighed the ——-—-2¢e- PARTIES OF THE THIRD PART. HAT becomes of the children of divorced parenta? People W have wondered, but no figures were at hand until Cali- fornia took a census of boys and girls in its reform schools. It reports that “51 per cent. of the boys in one of our State reform schools were from homes broken up by divorce.” There is one divorce to every twelve marriages in this country. ‘Assuming that divorced couples have as many children as other couples, not more than 81-2 per cent. of the children in reform tchools should be from the families of the divorced. But in six cases in ten divorced couples have no children. If California figures ure representative, or nearly so, when a} husband and wife dissolve the marriage tie their children have from | six to twelve times the chances of other children to go wrong. ‘The thought ia more or less sobering. PECEEREEEDOSOD NES LESSEE CEROOERE SEES SEOEEEOEEESOOENOD ll Mr. Jarr Finds There’s No Place jeccecnevmme oe Re INO anmencccoents —* 0 Y Like Home. He’s Glad There Isn’t G98ISISSSSISITIVSS 99999999099990009 POSIOS “Gee! IT thought aome of the bunch] “Look at the clock {n the face!" erled) why ain't you getting youre?’ would be In here,” eald Mr, Jarr, dole-] Gus. ‘Tt ts supper time for every de-| “I don't want any dinner,” wa Mr. fully, ‘Hut it's no wonder. I guess] cent man. That's why I em the only|Jarr gloomily, “Gus, thia is a hard! you have insulted and driven them] person in the place, My bartender, Kl-| world for @ poor man.” “Henry Clewn & Co., Bankers," in Broad atreet, New York, Direct! away." too, So! “It's a hard world for loafers,’ said | across the street from hia window ts the New York Stock Exchange, and ont {1 Gus shortly. “If you was home mit} front, beneath hie window, are the ‘curb’ broke doing business in the ops: your wite getting your supper !t/| strest, wouldn't ‘be euch a hard world.| . Henry Clews herame a member of the New York @tock Exchange in 1%, There's your wife home mit an apron| There are only three living older members, H's name ts of the very heart of ts 3 F. Sn ne Cer Crea OCL Cs oenanaanannnasenananananenatdir’ 9 on, cooking with the ve, and | Wall street. And he has steadfastly, all his iife, practiced a HS | h e W e e k Ss W a Ss h you out having a good time spending | widely known as tho Clews motto—"Be Always Cheerful!” Reet eae k ie ie the money you make! He was born tn Staffordshire, England, in 1838, By Martin Green. “Il know your wife roaste me and “How 44 you get your first thousand dollars?" [ asked when the hum ef thinks I keep you from going home." | wan atreet machinery ‘had quieted after 8 o'clock in the afternoon, ‘ continued Gus, in an outburst of civic “In England, where I was born and Byed untt! I was fifteen years old," began’ Cnpytight, 1912, by ‘The Pres Pudtishing Go, (The New York World) righteousness, name mit you! A| Mr, Clews, “a boy's future occupation was marked out for him by his parenta, ONE people,” ald the head pols|kreat work in handling the rush hour] feller what has a wife what stays 6Y|1 was one of scven children, and the youngest of four boys, My father planne iwher, “seem to be of the opin-| crowds, But tho limit of safety is not) ‘he house and don't go out in fancy | to eend me to Cambridge University, and after gradirating my career was to fon that the eminent financters|far away, Running crowded ten-car| Clothes, apending ail the money in the| that of a clergyman. My cousin was vicar of Wooltanton, In Staffordshire, and officeholders| express trains #o close together that the | Stores and riding in automobiles!” T was to be his curate at 100 pounde—$i00 a year. In time the vicar would die, ‘ho are. framing| motor engineer of one train can almost| ‘This last remark was occasioned by| een, if I lived, I would puccead him an get the vicar's ‘Hving, up the subway exe| hit the rear car of the train ahead with | the sound of an automobile passing by “In 1868, during my echool vacation, my father came to America for a visit tensions are also f® rock 1s some railroading, Maybe we|the place. Involuntarily both Gus and | ang prought me with him. I was in New York but a short time when I felt the: framing up a dare-|need a collision in the tunnel some morn- | Mr. Jarr looked out of the window, and | greet scope of this country. The very atmosphere wae freedom, I sald to my faced looting of the|!ng or evening to weaken up the com-| there was Mrs. Jarr passing by 10! rather_and I can now remember almost the exact words I spoke—I sald to him elty.”” munity and force action on the exten-| great state, wrapped in a fur robe, father, I have made wp my mind not to go back with you, England’ | Mhnen Let the| stone on the east side and the weet| With Mre, Stryver and Mre, Mudridge- | overcrowded, I cannot rie to be a duke, nor an earl, but only e vicar. Te be, looting begin,” sald| side. I repeat, if the so-called subway | Smith in the latter's costly and ornate) cone a vicar I have to become a clungynan and the curate of my cousin at 40 the laundry man. looters are going to go through ua let) French, oar. oy xnew tt Now| Pounds a year. How oan I reoonctle my oalting to the service of Christ with the “tf we are to be{ue hold up our hands and stand the| “Aha!” said Gus ‘ble lookin, mm yoliban let the ceree| aft There will be other olty wamims-| Your wite she Tr a, aport, too, Well, 1 | Revitable looking for my ooualn to dle that I may etep into hiv hoes? prefer th . ion't blame her, n't that Ora, | tay in America, The way to start life ts to #tart as an acorn. The acorn’ mony proceed, We] trations after this. Pas gill wedi) thought 1s to grow up to be a great oak tree, ‘There te that Shee peavelitd for me.’ “That te what I said to my father. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Wold) HENRY CLEWS SR. i TFTY-FOUR years ago Henry Clewn becan his career as a banker | ; and broker in Wall etreet. He ts atill, at the age of seventy-three years, one of the mont active of the leaders in tanking and brokerage. Each day, rain or shine, he goes to his desk !n the spacious officas of iw Copyright, 1912 (The reas Publishing Oo jk World). on ~ oa epeemnennrers ha \ 4 marries all the bunch?" asked Mr. Jar, | SIX DOLLARS A WEEK. Gua gave him @ gour look a pe wan as he wiped the bar. RINCETON’S PRESIDENT says a college graduate te worth] ‘1¢ you mean whore ta Heppler or! 66 ; ak re ey : gap ) | Slavinsky or Rafferty or Muller or) about ®6 A week.’ That is an office boy’a wage—83900 a) Trans oe et they ain't in wy | nee the Eastern etudent spends $600 a year at col-| piace.” he said | “Oh, 1 can mee that,” with ected gayety. the wate year. i i ver H 1a Mr. Jurr, | loge, it would take eight years at that rate to get him and his parents pela ar dsr, hack where they were when he started. wagon Duc me. L Does the higher education pay? Yes, nevertheless. ‘The monoy | VieRe drunkard, hanging around the . " : : tavern, hard by th vt poured into it is like a factory’s undivided profits which are used in| "1 don't know. wha you are talking bettering the plant. "There are no dividends meanwhile, but by and | ®out.” said Gus. “But if you pay. Iw there may be big ones, . ’ * ing you are a rummy, It don't make me As Princeton's president himself puts] ike you. 1 run a respectable liquor it, college aims “to create a high potential of mental possibility | ore ae 1 don't want the trade of rather than actual attainment.” ne “Ie that why the ra a“ er Pretiy soon the graduate learns the world and graduates from| Heve you chucked tham out?’ asked SATIN GHEE can atten 1 Mr. Jarr. robbers Jater. If we can't get subways the office boy clase. Then his figure mounta. “Vor the last time 1 ask you not to: Without giving the city the worst of tt, “Grade” at $6 Per. } insuit my place with them cracks what | [et Us have subways anyhow, because SI cel | you make’ reptied the indignant Gus, Were te no More room in the present! ¢ geyy HE new President of Prince-| EY i i cop 5 1 subway for the traffic. | py ve gr tad gon ic. HARVEY has just written a book on “The Power of ‘Gay trade te trom the best people in| T'S on," remarked the pol Why not try it on Woodsor Wilken? thie neixhborhood, and I ain't going to, who are yelling robbery taher, ‘Aoesn't seam to put a) Letters from the People epee aee make mee email allowance 14 eke out . ay admit you to give tt @ bad nam |faven't proved it. The subway eltuae| very high vaiuation on hie graduates rt outta ride in te, Hee only | MY sslary waa increased to toto a yeas apn ‘then, Pao e Ce dh Zea arent, omg 50. 'an “ean ae ree epee ose. searpliantee Met fhe liste them se worth We week.” O7CL tinder oar x aay my father I did not need his allowance, bial dee? veihUnid Wie daar: anybody with a pencil aid a plece of commented the laundry Q a taineer art rape eb eens crnet te whet eatd," replied Gue, (Paper and the gift of making Agures! man, “the average coMese man te worth Sct the old style poppet vaive engin pa ee oe) Fae ts eneny, ond Seo be 8 pales: A “Comin ‘To the Eliier of The A business man Stryver's oar. ‘Where aia she get i?" “It waa presented to us by the Bociety G for the Improvement of the Condition ‘So I started at once and got a stuation as ussistant bookkeeper—for Thad of the Poor,” said Mr. Jarr. deen well schooled tn writing and figuree—in the big dry goods house of Wi !son “That's the Fresh Atr Fund, ain't |G Hunt & Co., one of the great mercantile firms of New York at ¢hat time. My 11?” Gue inqut aalary was $260 a year, This was not enough to keep me, and my father had to —~—---—242-—--—-— Tolerance.” ” 4 . That brought me tn contest with customers fem ugust for that you can't have anything Jump through hoops and roll over and only % a week to an employer when he Besidos'’ here he sank his volce to « ahs STS Ore Fas. i oebieet) tien Svea s tS. Ore Le Srwee, UNL: Fea tig aie |play dead can evolve almost anything ia graduated, unless he has a technical So eentel Wieper: Ot have! e. eae making and keeping my acquaintances and friende, I realised Suton 3 from highway robhery to philanthropy. ing. that shouldn't worry the s oleh’ ‘come largely thro: id = |farsona' who have slept with, the mip ata Look at our leading citi, Wife can be patronized by cold, organ: behead reart oe: Abal ey totus sTuSSain ERA. poate eh my ability iY + {zed charity if she wishes to, But I, , xtension ach wot ak, " " ve oe eg eal Luo ig zens who have for one, will not accept anybody's cest- ‘In 1857 I had paved $600, and with thie I came te Wall street and entered the speaking terms with It yet. How, then, off automobiles!" partnership of Stout, Clewa & Mason, dealing {n eecurities and business notes, pes as Debtor's Paradise. jon” Problem, the Britten steamer Bombay ran into Wertd ue y4 wank There wae never a wernd a request | yraver man than Commander BP, ameased fortunes | Nix fon, @ collete boy, ae follows: | wWattams. He went down, standin The actual money I had wan not the moat important part of the ; e x on Jare the peaple to know the Inelde and Gus regarded him in emasement. tal T put tn . ot averse to granting your re- : i ; i. ' ni - BR ae as crise Clowanee it you| oe, ieee, Ninmete imam slond Outside of It? ‘There, thers, my, ood fallow,” wala] the frm. My partners valued highly my ehorovh experiance in meroantte Iie, quent for an extra allowance if yout |around him and ahared his fate, sooner “What the people of this town want Mr. Jerr loftily, I know ‘what you) an eran a ary aoote saiceman made among tustnens mer, eccording to the test I have prepared. han make ® bre lor one of the two Js another subway on Manhattan Island would say. It is on your tongue to been wood spp boats that we had left, having lost our boats In a typhoon some time before. I heard the frat oMcer tell the Captain ship would be mink tnekte of three # and the captain anawered: ‘I n with the ship.” And all the officers atood by him, Yankee pluck! remark ‘Never look @ gift automobile | in the radiator’, But with me it ts ‘no- blesse oblige,’ you know, I can never! forget that T am descended from E4-| nowadays as there were when you began?’ ouard Jerr de Jarr, whose ancient Che- | “Yee—there are more! The mon who degan at the Bottom of the ladder i do Jardientore is right ite | hanks coe Os havior jhe ja right opposite | in q past generation and olimbed to the top in business have worked hard, that will relleve the strain on the pres. ent subway. After that rellof ts grant. ed tt will be thme enough to talk about bways In other boroughs. Woe need subways where the poon'e are and not where people are going to be, Locked in yonder safe ts 8. Th combination is set on four numbers, which form an arithmetical progres: @ion. The square of the sum of the four numbers ts to the sum of thetr Tle to 7% If you have tm “Z have been in business in Wall street ever since. When ¥ was thirty years oi I was worth 98,000,000," "Do you think, Mr. Clews, there are as meny opportunities for young men through their own efforts, They all started at Sashapal. onper bane a TE lsgtantiee ins ah ne ieee, at Man» a Week man will stay at % a Ww Why, £ never knew 6 word wm | have gone through wearying anetetics which the wpe and downs of business ast year yc utd hay CHARLES BROV 1 4 the Bronx that the populace ‘ . vhy, about wpe Jono Nee ee einink tne Bee BP Haan tee tat aeeen eeatce iy galted that way, whether he hasacol| won, we are connected with the fax entatl, and they are Hred, They now wont to tare things cary. fo they combination fvom the tnformation T ng World have given. If you succeed tn opentne | © in time between the safe within the next threo houra |New York and San Franctwo? you are welcome to the money.” With: | ACR | tone Seupaien or cae wonsee how mous Mrs. Jarley of Jartey’s wax| are all the time looking out for young mon with the qualities they them- much of a salary President ibben of works,” maid Mr. Jarr loftily. “But, | selves savaced, to relieve them of the burden of busine: Princeton drew down when he wae jeaity, T shouldn't tell you these things. | 1 op ai Se Ee eee eer thao aldee wan th Mid i we Banogement, it graduated and whether the size of %&, you wouldn't belleve me." ja ada iy ry a" 1e assistance of young bothered him any? fn the alloited ti the bi 4 | ——_—— | | “On, I ded you when you tey me| men, Sol say there are more openinge to-day of that character—a thousand in the allot me the boy secure | io wal | nat oporionce—j ” qhe money, How mai ochis SARA, NEW PHILANTHROPY. | | shine Uke Anat ie Ka an times more than in my early o jenceo—for young mon who ere qualified, could bave done as wo AB, “What have they put up that ac \ i | Herotem at fea. for To te Malton of The Bvening World EEE E EEE EE TRO ne me peewee renee } Why the Start? i many, you got @ right to brag.” “But You've hurt my feelings ing round the church tower for ‘a for short-sighted people who | vore. 1 “ " " THE CLO! fi 0 fn .| Want to know the tim Pele Mele aml said the head polisher, ‘Yes, yes, but I didn’t know them dolly treet Oe tee only Nese pbb iad ald better trannlt Tactities ber oon The \$ST chat the percentage of suicides vs watd Gua, “Here, take a cigar| ‘Md you regard that clone vote in Dootor—My doar lady, yon are in pers ih ick "in tee would ihe FRIENDLY ADVICE. [tery and the dnner Bronx recessos, | in Bridgeport, Conn., t# higher t 1s real Chinese Havana, the brew-!my favor as a vindication?” aaked one fect health, I can't find a thing the “The days in the Arctic are six Brooklyn has h! | . {f thers ave any other sur: urna on) our Srkonae BY gate Ue Tenaid ‘* now allve besides myeelf. 1 3004 enough. Now surprise ‘em by | “W! a cinch for th ’ a mi think there were 122 ves lost the night eteying married"—Chicago Journal, | motes are due in three days!” a tunnel and two new: ¢ | Dridwes since Manhattan got her ube) whose | Way ! epne eubwa; In any other clty in the East,” y-collector give me, And {f you won't stateaman, matior with you, “Well,” asked the laundry man, “why bemadat me T'll open a bottle of wine."| “Not exactly," replied the other, “I Patlent—I wish you'd try again, doce the note of surprise? You've been in “Ah!” said Jarr, “that's what you should rather call it a narrow e tor; 1 do #0 want to go away to rey management ls doing Bridgeport, haven't yout" | Washington Star, ouperate—Century Magasine, to know — Aad NA Sei ess, nid aT aI 28