The evening world. Newspaper, January 30, 1912, Page 14

orld Datly Wiagasine, Che. World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. By Maurice Ketten : we Pud' t Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 58 to erred Lad 63 Park Row, N York. « RALPH PULITZER, Pre: 68 Park Row. \ 3 Park Row. fe = J, ANG! JOSEPH PULITZER, y, 62 Park Row, THE WILSON HARVEY. | The Tunges oo 7 Ome Ne C7 Matte: s Ys wuss TUNE Atel ts The venine Por Boeland. and. tie continent, and WATTER SON -TILLMAn= WHY NOT? ‘World for the United States All Counter! « International Ri | ‘. and adi Ow = + $8.60] One Year. 20] One Month alti WHY NOT HAVE A COURT OF HONOR TOSETTLE THis QUESTION 2 + NO. 18,424 VOLUME 52. THE QUALITY OF MERCY. HE criticism of the Magistrates contained in Commissioner - f I ’ WATTERSON SS UPREME Court oF HONOR Waldo’s annual report on the work of the Police Department is hardly fair. The Commissioner lays epecial stress on the large number of suspended sentences, He points to a total for! the vear of over ten thousand suspended sentences for the Greater City in the Magistrates’ Courts alone, out of a total of 13,894 in all the courts. On the face of the matter the Magistrates would appear too lenient, or too negligent, or both. Much is to be said, however, for the Magistrate. In the first place he is tied up by his own Magistrates’ Law, providing for the sending of various classes of cases to the Courts of Sessions. This law is complex and unwieldy. It is often simpler to avoid sending the case further. But there is a better point for the Magistrate. How much good do a large number of the convictions for small misdemeanors really accomplish? Are there not too many arrests for petty offenses? Are not too many people arrested and ehut up largely through sheer bad luck ? A man takes charge of a friend’s pushcart while the owner gets his supper. A policeman demands a license. The friend has none. Re is arrested. Or a dozen boys raise a row in the street. A policeman appears The boys who can run fast get away. They are probably the ring- leaders. Two slower boys are caught. ‘They catch all the con- sequences. An intelligent friend of ours, now serving a term in the peni- tentiary, says nothing in his surroundings strikes him more than the mamber who are there just because they were “luckless.” An hour in any police court will show half a dozen cases where the victim has simply and literally blundered into trouble. Give the Magistrate full credit for a lighter hand where the offender is more unfortunate than criminal. —— AS TO BABIES AND SPINSTERS. O encourage spinsters is the aim of a society just started in | Cincinnati. “Better babies, better parents, better country,” came the slogan yesterday from the National Mothers’ Aaso- ciation in Boston assembled. ‘The same day the Equitable Life As- surance Society published a plea urging everybody to look after the babies on hand and stop worrying about race suicide. Against the baby-improvers nobody can say one word. Nathan Straus tells us that “over 118,000 infante (under one year) are de- stroyed annually in the United States by preventable causes—chiefly improper and infected food.” By all possible means encourage and protect the babies. . But with the epinsters wo should incline to go slower. A society to encourage spinsters is well and good provided it encourages spin- sters and not spinsterhood. No women are born spinsters. Few set out to achieve spinsterhood. In fact about the only bona fide mem- bere of the sisterhood are those who have it thrust upon them. Be kind to the epinsters, but not tod kind. London Punch once launched a famous word of “advice to persons contemplating matri- mony.” To make that counsel about a million times moro valuable, pot the helin hard over toward those contemplating spinsterhood. a Perhaps the reasom that no man has ever raised an objection to the| men's flatterics and fairy tales. POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE. “promises” in the marriage service te that before marriage he never thinks OLLARS and Georges of the Order of the Garter trailing |of them; at the altar he ta too frightened to hear them; and afterward he, about New York pawnshops, along with Masonic watch |4c#n't remember them, mp charms and college fraternity pins, ought to set the ancient Nowadays divorce te the Great Divide over which many men pase reels Se menarchies aghast. It is a singular story. ‘The establishment of] sury into the Happy Hunting Grounds. | ownership only makes it more interesting. The Order of the Garter is well known as one of the most his- terically exclusive of Hurope. The insignia can be worn properly ently by a choice and titled few. Even a replica would seem at home in America only ina museum. What then are “Collars and Georges” Going about the untitled necks of American citizens? Some morning 8 police bulletin may ask the loan shops to be on the lookout for “one Royal Sceptre of the United Kingdom of Grent Britain and Ireland and one Duke's Coronet—owners’ names with- hela” > (mi) y YY SD WS ONY Quill Os “AU PRG DB PROSECUTING RORNEY, | Ate ce THE Fore FENSE [Awanns CLUB a) ee % Reflections of a Bachelor Girl 4 & By Heten Rowland @ Copyright, 1912, by The Pres Publishing Co, (Phe New York Wortu MAN'S heart t# usually torn between two women, one who cures his headaches and one who helps him acquire them, and tack “Mre.” There comes a time in every love affair when a aCwtnD Ne." Ch: thetn: names, man sctties down to a state of self-complacent coma, from wAtch nothing but an explosion of dynamite Would auaken him to any enthusiasm. ie ROWLAND the woman he loves, In the game of flirtation benedicts rush in where bachelors fear to tread, Find “tatches’’ and Follow the String! Schooldays # & (oaietigke ) wf By Dwig Wir You LOVE me Wher THe WARTS Have Gone % seen? a Oe GOOD NEWS FOR BAD SAILORS, HE Long-Suffering Sodality of the Seasick ought to be espe- cially grateful to the new Ounard liner Laconia, which —_— arrived here on her maiden trip yesterday. ‘The new ship (OW FATTY, T Never DIO BELIEVE is equipped with the latest Fram anti-rolling tanks. The tanks are WHEN You HEAR tw TEAcHIN’ vee « RUT said to have proved successful in eteadying the boat even in unusu- PATCHES Toot ThE U ee an ally heavy weather. Here is another fond hope for those who go Worn LET GO down to the sea with drugs and dismay. | Tg BOARD AND [eS Youl. SEE THE > om | BIGGEST SPLASH | ee MMANY TO LIVE ON BOATS AT BALTIMORE” SINCE The Flood reads a newspaper headline. This does not mean that! the braves will be on the water-wagon | Letters from the People | As to the “fons M To the Bditor of The Kveuing to lead a goo. A reader asks if he did right on an! ens jog “L" train in asking the man next to dim |} ater song. To my mind |; first place, the|1 scious of the fact fag and would be annoyed. ond place, no man, if a thorough Kent man, would be guilty’ of annoying! °" ® fo " r owen others. (Mrs) MARIO B, Tall Men, To the Editor of The Evening World: A young man inquires how to stop s 4 growing tail. He showid try to over-| that day (Jan. 1), ta this legal’ And is velt-cpmeciguensas inated gf Af lame do ali Denke do 43 hy rs How- nk 1). Poca ‘Vuesday, January should form a “union” demanding more pay and shorter hours—but pshawt even then, there'd be @ lot of little “strike breakers” who'd be willing to rush in and work for nothing, just for the sake of wearing a wedding ring \ine United States. Love is what makes a woman prefer sitting at home and listening to) one man's complaints and criticisms to going out and listening to a lot of Sentiment is like genuine buckwheat or maple syrup, in that it is almost| | impossible to find the pure, unadulterated kind with the swect, old-fashioned) Pyere are many complaints that 30. Copyright, by The Press Publishing Co. New York World), MRS. JARR JOINS THE “IN WRONG SOCIETY.” “ow BLT, It's about time you came home!’ said Mra Jarr arply. jate,” explained Mr. Jarr. I'm not over ten or fitteen and that was beca were just a Ntth ly filled and peo; |ting out at the express platfor: | to crawl out over the heads of t! |Sengers, and one fat man bus many ladies’ hats getting over—t all the men were sitting down—that it started a riot, and that tied up traffic.” “They are going to bulld more sub- | Ways, so you'd better use that excuse while it's good,” sniffed Mra, Jar, | “It'll be good for many a day jMr. Jarre, “But, say no more, las jlads are coming down Becke: | from the haying. ad the thorpe So buss us, an’ please you, good mistress!" | So saying Mr, Jarr endeavored to Press a kiss upon the cheek of his bride, | “Oh, go 'way!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Your nose 1s cold! “Not so cold as thy heart, haughty Dame Ermintrude!” replied Mr. Jarr, in his best Elizabethan manner. “Marry, come up, lady! What ts it to be, a buss or a buffet?” “I wish you wouldn't talk that way in front of the children,” sald Mri | “And there was that snoopy M we in the hall, “What care 1?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Te it treason that a man fe fain to buss his helpmeet “1 can alw 11 when you've been drinking,” remarked Mrs. Jarr coldly. “I do not know why it ts that when you stop in that awful Gus's place on the corner you come home and display @ surprising amount of erudition. One would think that Gus's place was a public library, instead of a public drink- ing place. I suppose, though, it's nd use to complain, But J will say that if saloons were educational inetitutions you certainly would be a learned man,” M en't been in Gus's," said Mr. Jarr, “From an educational point of view, going in Gus's is only a post- graduate course in German and philo- sophy. But, why object to giving us a kles, honeybunch?”" “I tol® you your nose was cold,” re- piled Mrs, Jarr. “And If there is any- thing I disitke It's to kiss a cold nose, 1 guess that's why I never cared about dogs. Which reminds me that Clara in New York City and went home believing he had seen A diplomatic Burban™™ New York A man will sacrifice everything—even the TRUTH—for the sake Of leas that he can attach himself to the political Plum tree without grafting. “Government wins point in meat packers’ trial.” That will postpone the acquittal for another two weeks. business is not good. By raising the irents another notch the workingman's surplus can be put back into circu: lation and business will naturally be peje | stimulated. i | We should not judge the millionaire | too harshly for dodging his tazes. He |might have gotten the habit when a | small business man, like ourselves. “Man turna his daughter out be- lcause she returns home after mid- night.” And still some people are op- | posed to capital punishment. The working girls may not have che JOPp Rall 1912 Mudridge-Smith has the cutest ttle white Pom. It looks like powder buff, or a curly little feather aigrette.” what you'd call a regular remarked Mr, Jarr, who would have his joke, even though his cold nose got a reception to sult. x I'd call ft a ridiculous “And rr, “talking out in the hall actor in @ Shakespeare I Mrs, Kittingly think? Does she ever think?" queried Mr Jarr in turn, “Only too much of hi dalous things about e answered Mrs, Jarr, going to take your hat off in the house?” Mr, Jarr was in the hall by this time, He took off his hat as he was bidden, for he was the most obedient of bus+ bands, “Well, what next?" asked he as he noticed Mrs, Jarr regarding him fixedly, “Look at you waiking down the bail in your muddy oversnoes!” she cried, “How can 1 keep the house clean, and me only naving one girl and sne not willing to do a thing? Not that 1 blame her much, for what good Is it to tidy things and then have them mussed up by you coming home and walking you expect It to be cooked spen- taneously tne minute you enter the door? was the reply. “I don't see why we can't @ a regular nour for dinner like otner peope. If 1 only other people have it, But what's the you come home at all hours fe like a fiend if the things are cold or burned? And yet when you dy wet home early for once, you start to find fault because everything isnt served to the minute! “1 thought you said I was la remarked Mr, Jarr, The Papers Say By John L. Hobble Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World.) 4b WUs U NUUiE thoUYAt OF the WUMUA Why TECENEy eHoes% but Woces| N English Duke spent four days “Well, that's what I did say," re- joined Mrs, Jarr. “But if I had gotten dinner it would be spoiled by now, and and"—— here Mrs, Jarr commenced to ery, ‘You never kiss me when you come home, any more!” been benefited by their recent strike, but we people get a lot of free enjoy- ment from our outburst of sympathy. The newspapers are not able to agree on the proper way to run the Governments of China, Russia, Ture key and Paraguay. We are in favor of putting on the lid in Missouri for fear more Preah dential candidates wilt come out. Mississippi wants a law to abolish the New York Cotton Exchange, They do not appreciate a good thing. Exchanges often keep the people so poor that they have to wear cotton clothes, An attempt is being made to repead the race track law. The objectionable thing about this law is that it fixes the blame on the guilty parties, An insane girl sues a lawyer for misappropriation of funds. She's crasy. Lawyers do not misappro priate except according to law. The Day’s Cood Stories | “ ‘Why It Hurt to Wait. 4 having shipped fourteen gallons ot caped colliding with the jronwork of @ rier, Alay rested on lus oars ‘and gazed into the eo of his companion, ; * he erted reckleasiy, “I love you! he dropped ye ey J gave a blush; then ¥ gouming his rowing lands mind if T give it to you costs a dollar an hour," Knowledge. IDENT CAROLINE HAZARD at a re a at Wellesley College wail apropos es have said of them, ug as Was ouce said of amped Lim vigor it make any dif. take to Greenwood a im, | ingly, through I ’ irough an opening to the orowd.—Ladies’ Howe RAS OS i Topsy-Turvy Honesty. WO piles of apples !ay upon the ground, One contained a large-sized and roay selection ; the fruit of the other was green and omall. Large on the top, air, and small at the bote r new assistant to hie master barrel, plied the farmer virtuously, policy, my and one I've eld to, Put the little apples at the te the lange 0088 at the Dottom, 1@ Aaristant complied. His 6 dently as green as his greenest fru va‘er “le the barrel full, my lad?" assed the farmer, nawered the assietan ere, See ny . Old Acquaintances, HERE are few men in this coun- try fatter than President Tat, there are equally few who get more amusement out of their own avoir- dupols, Senator Nathan B. Scott, who always tries to get off something funny when he goes to the White House, told Mr, Taft one ¢.y: “You know, Mr, President, it ia very usual thing for fat men to Bet thin as they grow older,” yell,” replied the President laugh: “if ‘hat happens to me tt with give me an opportunky to see some- jthing of some old acquaintances of o are they?" asked Scott, “My ribs," replied Mr, Taft.—Populag Tbh tem madam” de caso, aivwiag Magesing BAR in Mh AM a ae