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a SST eae eee nm Che eee World). ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH “ Wrvnsned eC Mon, 88 to > My by the Presse Publishing Company, Nos. Dally Except Bupaey NY now, Rew York. i J, ANGUS JOREPH PULITZOR: Ir, p NN daichii Metab RAR rhnaln a f ered at the at-Ofice New York as Gecond-Claaa Matter. Preeeibtice Sites te The Mvening |For Finwland and the Continent amd for the United States All Countries in the Internati Canad: Postal $2.50] One Year... 80 [One Month Um veceesesNO, 18,427 THE POOR EXPRESSMAN. VOLUME 52 WELVE CENTS to send a five-ponnd package to « friend a I hundred miles away? Impossible! Why? Thousands of people in England and Germany de ft every day. Why not here? Because our private expressman is used to getting a enug forty- @me per cont. income on the money he has put into his business. Because, before he gets even that, the railroads must have sixty per rent. of his gross receipts. And then he likes to fix his own rates, Dessnse eometimes he likes to have « little extra money. He must get it from somewhere. And we never epeak of a parcels post he- ewase it annoys him. Why should the railroads enjoy thie huge profit on the express tusiness? Could they make any such arrangement with the United companies are not escred, and that older countries have long enjoyed the cane, cheap comfort of a parcels post? RAND JURORS and Magistrates in New York seem to bo as romantic as schoolgirls when a dashing gambler eweg- lest July only one conviction is on record. In all the other cases the Gamblers were even given back thetr tables and fixings. dollar bills which he plainly eaw might not be made of rubber or cold steal, and v0 not be real United States currency. to know all ebout the chances, how many times red comes up, and the safest bets. duty it ie to enforce the laws should deal lightly with him. SS ——— says Father Bernard Vaughan. But he does not with other preachers that we have reached the low level try, the comparison with Rome is intoresting, The Bomans for years had fow native dances save war dances. “The taste became a craze, Under Augustus dancing was intro- Quoc into the theatre. A few years lator thero wore three thousand The investigation of express rates by the Interstate Commerce States Post-Office? isp sennrnonoe G3 Ineufficient evidence was the usual excuse, “Insufficient” in Grand Jurors are described as taking the most delighted interest Ben in novels the gambler is not the fine fellow he need to be, DANCING AND DECLINE, the worst days of the Roman Empire. w wealth and luxury came a taste for dancing. Romo foreigh, women dencers in Rome. Dancing and pantomime became Commission brings out these and other astonishing facta. Will this country at last come to the civilized sense that express COURTS AND CARDS. Oat of twenty-one raids on gambling houses in thie city since emo case becanse the detective could not swear that the five and ten- in finding ont from witnesses every detail of the game. They want Society has ceased to smile on him. It is shameful that thore whose ry NIMAL dances with antmal nicknames are bad enough,” Ta view of the presion for foreign dancing just now in this coun- got Mer dances from Athens—tho Paris of antiquity. “Brom that time on dances grew atcadily more extravagant and imeproper, until under Nero and his snecessors they became orgies: Te there a parallel? ee A PROVERB. The unspoken word is your slave; Spoken, it becames your master. those in public Ufe wits "take oounsel together in clubs, or who journey up and down the land under tho necessity of mck eperch, we recommend this nugget of pure gold from the poems ow murees ghe wil receive an ‘dlank, also pemphieta, i tng fun information as to course betas Struotion, the duties and the salary pald eréay while learning. A L Gonwm. “Palma ‘Women's Werk and Men's. ee) Kindig cay what aay thet @ eran that thiaie 00 iittle ta the mastica! or of timeeit as to etep into the way of it @ woman and force her out of her ‘awn line of work te @urely to be fooked upon as denerving of Mttle respect. ‘The trades for women are very few !n| Comparison to those for men, and man, I think, should no infringe upon the rights of women (es trontng « shirt is), I belleve tm raising the price of ahirte to seven cente, also in mak- ing work houre from 0 A. M. to} 6.80 P, M.; Mut for women only. It ts bard work and they certainly earn thetr money, Let the men take this to heart and conaider the mumber of working women--widows and eingle— aleo many who aro compelled to work on account of unbanie who, after Promising to be thelr support, have | thrown them over—maybe with ohil- dren to work for, too, I t men wit speak for the righ { 8 g i" tt . be gota to be thirty- and up, when hie nimble as they for- ing alae into considera. influx of girl etenos at $10 per? Male etenos an- t do you know about tt? JAMES BE PARKS, Rallroading. ‘The Bruening Wor! want to know from readera there any great young fn taking up and in studying the new daw with intentions of tratfic ‘and whether there are hetter here tn the Kast than in the Probadyy some readers could gue out on this in the way of inter- riet information. EDWARD R. J Gh Well Chosen Pro of Thin Keven World Answer to Hern; i I g% 3 1 3s s 3 i ll fe it peo “eh” pro- 3.@, mounced as spelled or is the nounced tke ‘k''? renting Will some reader who {# acquainted with (the conditions of the Southwest }iet me know 1f tt would be advantage- loum for un athletic young man of nine- ecn with « fair education and who te Why Not? senses) MORE FIRES PRopuceo ey me CARELESS SmoKEeR THAN THROUGH ANY OTHER CAUSE . News iTem SMOKING PROHIBITED tn THESE PREMISES BY ORDER OF FIRE COMM, Copyright, 1912, 7“ talk to Jenking, the bookkeeper, in regard to the credit rating of © sas City eustomer. ‘As tho clock struck 12 Mr, Jarr caw Jenkins seize his hat and coat and Gart hurriedly out of the office Mr. Jarre was just behind him end called after him, But Jenkins @idn't hear Bim, evidently. ‘At the door of the restaurant that most of the office force frequented Mr. Jerr clutched Jenkins by the coattall. ‘Cat's get a tadle together. I want to/ talk to you," he sai she “Just can't “Oh, I won't have time te elt down Li tepdeg et eat, let alone ta! Just going into the @ar and have @ Glass of heer and « sandwich.” “Well, I'm up to my neck in work et as well as you art take @ san@wich and hurry back with yor But, standing at the bar, in @ plastic, Graceful position thet showed long prac- toe, was William Rangte, ériend end neighbor of Mr. Jarr. tue I would ike that the jo> of trained nurse te Chosen profearion for a your od 98 & stenographer desirous of folloming ean the . WHY NOT FoRBID MATCHES AND ALLOW ONLY THis For, THE CARELESS SMOKER 2 PERFECTLY SAFE NEveR. xe ‘They said they wer san@wich in @ hurry. theate way,” IDEAL OFFICE pw ‘Together Atnner, or rather luncheon, you fellows were golng to have Saturday by The Pree Pubitshing Oo, (Tue'New Yor World), RE was a brisk air of business t high pressure around the effice. Mr. dart had been too dusy to except NCH upon a time there was & hood O ‘woman. She had one popular r frain: “Getting on my nervi It was an ever- lasting refrain, for it was a part of her every mood, If the maid hums at her work—the hum geome to have etruck the nerve chord and ld Jenkine. When the tele phone bell rings, “How about that ther uncon, you | Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York World), THE WOMAN OF “NERVES.” pene of the nervous woman eaw the|“on't you think?” he asked. By M FoR THE MAN_ WHO THROWS MATCHES Benno HIS Back wey Nor ? PLIAAAAAASAABAABBABNAAAAAASH SS ANAS Mr. Jarr Joins the Famous ‘““My- Wife - Won't KKK KC CLK KKK KC CCC KKK KL CLK ELE CECE KEL | afternoon? asked Mr. Rangle. mumbled Jenkins. IFFHRENCE. Up to this time he ‘had teen absorbed with the process of CATERING to the woman of nerves, ‘Now, he could not help aeeing how much more joyful life might have been under DIFFERENT circumstances, Many times he would tell the wife this, that and the other splendid attri- bute of the visitor. Oh, yes, quite im- personally. For he was thinking of the woman as « TYPE in CONTRAST to the one whom he had promised to honor an4 cherish unti! death aid them part. Aleo she realized that the husband ‘was making the comparison, for even a woman of nerves fs not lacking in her intuitive qualitie, which ts « heritage of all daughters of Eve. “It drives me mad.” ‘The color of her friend's parlor “jare” on her and she muet tell her about it. Little Johnnie comes in with « aplinter fn hie Anger, “I'm eo nervous.” When hubby can’t come home to dinner, “Now everything will be @POILED. Men NEVER care edout the feelings of their wives—just simply brutes, that's all.” Oh, of course, in all truth, it must be said that the poor dear woman was ter- ribly NEGLICTED, She hed nothing = |to wear but beautiful CLOTHES, noth- ing to eat but the choice things from the market. No place to go but theatres and parties and dinners and things, No home to come to but a little dream of a place. Ne one to help with the work but two etrong maide. No one to cater to her EVERY WIGH but a man with a strong right arm and @ wakeful brain. Yet she whined her way through ife, Everybody seemed to be doing her | WRONG, ' Life wae made @ downy bed for her, eaid Mr, Jarr. » you 1!” orled that gentie- | “what are you going to have?’ Not Their 4 pay them ea visit, hadn't any * rooted them in th made a fina! chord | real jatrong and mi RELIANCE for th were te je would be If the nelghbore had! an4 to HER, too, Ness you. But there was always something wrong |headache and keep {t @ secret, Don't jwith the down, and {t got ‘on her! remember that you have nerves, SING! nerves.” SMILE! Have a real quarrel if you Now, all went along this groove unt!) one time the woman of nerves invited an old echoo) friend and her husband to 001 friend was a woman who backbone of BELF- ‘Te make @ tong etery chert, the hum |TOREVER. Now evene women of nerves does not want a LOSING game. And she may tiae to the occasion ef being “game” ere ahe lose, So she went te her friend and said: “Tell me what ts the secret ef your happiness’ And, being the friend in need and the friend indeed, she answered something ike thie: “Yea, my dear, % ION'T fatr. You'll have te wake up SOME TIME. You know you can't fool all the people ALL the time. For goodness sake, aister, get {t owt of your system. Your poor hus- band te probably alwaye making efforts to please you and make you COMFORT- ABLE. Perchance he is GLAD of the dusiness meeting to be away from that harrowing little voice of youre that is beginning to jar on HIM. “Take things ae they COME. If duty calls, OBFY. It is much BASTER. When things go wrong, meet them. Forget to complain. Get e pill for your must, and be done, But don't whine, ‘The nervous system hes « funotion. It knows how to perform it. Give it a chance end it will give YOU one, IN DOUBLE HARNNSS, WHEN NDRVES comm IN AT THE DOOR, HAPPI- NE@s FIIES OUT THE WINDOW.” At last there wae a dawn of realive- | tion wlp |nerves, but her nerves got Friday. much work piled up on me that I guess “Tm afraid we'll have to postpone it,” I'll be working till late Saturday after- | “Gosh! I've got #0/noon. —__—__——_-— |engagement that she can’t break to meet some friends of hers West. And it mron't look right for me | not to be with her.” self,” eald Mr. Jarr. “My wife finds it’s | her mother’s birthday, and 1f we don’t call on her in Brooklyn there'll be nc Nving for me. So I guess you fellows ‘will have to count me out.” Februar aurice Ketten | j had | l wes ‘The to fi | nts eon’ O take mile had -Let-Me” Club. Besides, my wife has made an trom the “Well, I'm just as well pleased my- the ern Mr, Jenkins brightened up. le “Well, tt will be better to postpone It, “When will we Lave the dinner, then?” asked Rangle. “Oh, some day,” eald Mr. Jarr with affected carelessness, “I was talking to my wife about it,” remarked Rangie. “I thought it was a good thing. 1 was telling her I was| @oing to propose euch a dinner to the éellows where I worked, and that I'd go ret to the dinner you fellowes were giving and get some pointers. But my wife has promised to ¢ake the children to the Hippodrome Saturday—it's the only day that won't interfere with their achoolwork, and ehe says the children ‘will 6e all broken up #f I am not along | with them. @o I was going to tell you I couldeyt come this Saturday eftex- Reon.” , “Oh, it will be just as well come other Saturday,” said Mr, Jarr. “anyway, @ thing ifke that ehouldn’t be gotten up tn a rush,” euggested Mr. Jerfins, ‘TL det a Collar that Johnson will etve we the laugh and sing ‘My wite ‘won't let me,’” sald Jewkine doletully, ‘But I assure you, olf man, I've got to keep thie engagement with our Western friends, They're Aine people and we ex- | pect to visit back out there when I take my vacation, and you know how ol4 home ¢olke feel ff you don’t show them | some attention when they eome to town?” | “Oh, what €o we eare what Johneon | says?” replied Mr. Jarr. “Tt would do dim good if he wee married and had « wife to look after him. Now, Mrs. Jarr fe @ good fellow. She couldn't help it | that {t was her mother’s Sirthday and that he had promised we would spend the afternoon and evening with her Bat- urdey, could she?" “My wife’e just the exme. She never interferes with any little sport I want to have," esi Jenkins, “but this is Gifferent, eo we've got to tell Johnson it'e all of.” to Johneon, Sat that gentleman tuned | pale “You have. the dinner, boys,” he eaid, work this, She mede them act rather thi Te-act—perhape in good time, MORAL: 4 HUSBAND WILL GO ‘TEE NERVOUS WOMAN GOBS ON ' Aageting he apoke, “It’s all right Mew {BURDAU, Doneid Building, 10 West Thirty-second street (oppe- for you » You're married and your te sie Gimbel Bros.), corner @ixth avenue and Thirty-second treet, wives don't care, But I'm engaged, and Ovteta § New York, or sent by mall on receipt of ten cents in coin o¢ aA ea de fast ger |f Thee IMPORTANT Write won! we.’ TAN ite your edéreas plainly and always apecity “Cowerat” Manet Oar, dare and Gis, | Potterns. } atwe wanted. AG two conte tor letter gentage tf in a herry, % 1 snr r ENT — A great Spanish family and just then # the ery climax of his career @@ > ependthrift and profiigate. (So many legends are woven among the histeste facta about Don Juan that it is hard to tell where facts end and Getien | begins. Some writers even deny that he had any existence outside of lites ture. This story will deal with what ecems the best authenticated vession | of his exploits.) ‘a refusal te his plea. For he was the type of man whom women found it dificult to resist. And already his name had become the synonym for ue | cessful love-making. Gaughter to marry @ man of abandoned character. And he toki Juan go; met mincing hie words or in any way seeking to avoid hurting the suitor’s feelings. Juan, balked in his elopement plan and grossly insulted by the Govemner, word followed another. And presently both the disputants drew their swords. ‘hls personal wrongs. There in the gloom of the courtyard he and Juan fought. man and a youth of Juai dead at ris feet. Then, before the household could be fairly aroused, he Bad Not content with the result of the duel, Juan sought an even more spectacular method of showing his hatred for the man who had #tood between himeelf end Giraida. One night after a revel he forced his way into a memorial chapel where & stone eMigy of the Governor had been erected and drunkenly invited the statue te come from its pedestal and dine with him. accepted the invitation and at the end of the banquet dragged Juan off to ¢he infernal regions.) terrible penance for them and ended his days {n a monastry. ‘This latter version may, éf {t 1s true, account for the other statement: that Juan mysteriously disappeared from the lives of his gay comrades, leaving eo clue to where he had gone. {The Day’s Good Stories Fred to-go any further, "After the toy had al- pein thes 2 ; Moat pilled his arm off, trying to get him to @, an old doctor came along and asked Wrong Man. ‘with, your ‘mul wy eon, what fp the ma “why, poured 901 ia much less time than it takes to mule was galloping down the road at a rate he “| MAD a strange experience with an intoxicat fo over his shoulder. wire, Orlea: omitted and the frock worm with any preferred belt or girdle. ‘They started to speak on the subject -¢ 1912 y 2, Historic Heartbreakers By Albert Payson Terhune. 1012, by The Prew Publishing Oo. (The Mew York World), NO. 6—DON JUAN. YOUTH whone wild Iife had shocked even the essy morale of a Seville made his way secretly one night to the courtyard of Ge © local Governor's palace. i ‘The nocturnal wanderer was Don Juan del Tenorio, ecion ef 6 Ooprri Juan had fallen in love with Giralda, the Governor’s daughter. An@ he come by night to persuade her to elope with him. He did not expect Ho eafety duded the guard et the palace’s outer gates, But scarcely had he reached the courtyard when he wes confronted—not by the fair Giralda, but by her father, the’ Governor. The father wae well aware of Juan's unsavory reputation. He had no idea whatever of allowing hie enty A Midnight Duel. net at all the eort of man to ondure meekly tho epithets hurled at him. One Governor, by merely raising his voice, could have eummoned men-at-eeme Impri@on or kill Juan, But family pride forbade him to let others avengs And the rewat what might have been expected from @ combat between an old and Cedte ‘sage. In a minute Juan hed stretched the Govermor ped (According to tegond the statue The same tangle of fact and fiction that describes el! his naventures goes on to relate others of Juan's conquests. In fact, his Het of sweethearts seems to have ranged from Peasant girls to duchesses. One version of the story anys that Juan mysteriously vanished or was slain white sti in earty prime. A second telis that his old mother’s ceanelens prayers for her @ anlvation at last were answered; that Don Juan repented of hie sins, aid Starting the Pursuit. NF day an old farmer borrowed a mule from IMs neighbor; after he had finished bis ‘work he sent his fourteen-year.old boy to ft home, ‘The boy had ‘about a half @ when the mule stopped and positively re- fm emall change and started hie Cleveland Plais Dealer. wi a't you se murmured the little man es be qatered the doctor's consulting room, “But these things get put off, you know,” lero he was seized with a very victeat @t of ‘A nasty cough,” agreed the Gester, “Sew, fost, etand over by 1d aald: “Doe. | the etuft?" ” | SHOULD have called before, 1 em ofiratd,” said the old man, opening his ‘out a bottle labelled ‘Carbo! what we cam de. for 0 of the acid on tho mi never gono before. did you want to alle. pour some on me, ‘that mule,” answered eee Me Travelling Man’s Tale. to eay 99 conts, That's the amount you ome electric light company, I’m @ collector! | burgh Leader Jai hos Not the Western Way. 66] BEEN reading al! your Eastern papers,”” commented Grizzly Gus, the three-fingered, | terror of the bad Jands, ‘and I bem a- trrin’ to keep up with the stories therala cen But, your eportin’ sections gete me. 1 ’ re Gghts youll hes 4 East. Nine times out of ten, the paper.» states “The fight ended in a draw,’ That's what Y . T can’t savvy.” couldn't hear what it was | ns we asled. man in @ telegraph office down-State other day,” aays a travelling mau, ‘@ message myself, but t ecreen, but 1 Finally 1 got dmpatient and shoved my mesage “When tro men er equally matched, why should the fight not end @ draw?” quem you have diffrunt kind o fighte tn try. Out here, a fight boging with @ Ch Piaia’ Dealer, At the same time I saw the} wl this eouse was endeavoring to get on the It was eddresed to somebody in New ns, yore je fumbled tm bie pocket, produced 62 cents draw,” girl that Gress mato T' is with panels at front and back ie ene of the 'y newest and latest. This ene also includes a round bertha that is ex- tremely becoming to childish figures, for it gives just the needed breadth to the shoul- ders, It also includes the kimono sleeves that mean simplified making. 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