The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1912, Page 14

ee ee od World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Whe, BEB ontoco. Such Is Life! 3 (ee ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PA (The New York World.) Pwitahed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Pudiiehing Company, Nos, to 63 Park’ Row, New York. ) % By Maurice Ketten SALEH PULITZER, Pra Ts FROM ) TADORE You, | ANGUS BHAW, Trea: ( JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., | _ TACK pe BROWS Ent Post-Om Yi a Ainsn Matter, Burecripuos stesso The Brenig py or Rineland. and the Continent end All Countries In the International ‘World for the United States I end Canada. Year ‘Mon' VOLUME 59... | HEROES OF EVERY DAY. Te. apparently was no thought of himsclf. He raised the woman to her fect, kissed her and clasped her in his arms. So they went to their death.” | On a cake of ice in the midst of the roaring Ningara current, afte: he had desperately tried and failed to fasten a rope about her, p { man and wife died bravely in the sight of hundreds of people on 2 | the shore. | | The newspaper account from which the above lines are quoted @escribes the tragic loss of three lives in the break of the ico bridge “LOOTE ON YouR COMPLEXION I WORSHIP Divine tate at Niagara Fo For simple dignity, self-sacrifice and bravery in tue face of horrible death the story is unrivalled. ‘The other man who was lost diod because he earlier turned back to help the exhaust- | ed woman | ‘These people were not soldiers with the excitement and drunk- | em war upon them, ‘They were not adventurera used to facing death. They were not life-savers trained to rescue, They were just three ordinary « rs caught in a terrible plight with every excuse for janie and scramble of each for himaclf. Yot they showed the highest courage, self-forgetfulness and calm. | ey did what they could for each other, They made a brave, hard} fight for life, ‘Then they met death firmly, and, in the case of the hvshand, with superb and supreme devotion. Such stories are good to read. They restore one’s pride in the eidinary man. After all, on oceasion he can hold his own with the heroes «all time. May the simple nobility of these three deaths be jong remembered, “— AN EARLIER CHANCE FOR THE CHILDREN. CHARND ME of cultivation. Tha earlier the work begins and the more gentle and encouraging the care and pruning, tho firmer the étwrn and the finer the flower. The country would do well to look more closely at this end of the education problem. In 1910 the colleges of this country received $53,000,000 in gifts Yet 4,000,000 children, about 90 per oent. of the en the ages of four and six, have no chance whatevor of early kindergarten training. Only in one State, Utah, is the kinder- garton a recognized part of the echool system. The National Kindergarten Association of this city, by circulars ling attention to facts like the above, by prizes offered to kinder- gerten toachors for eseaye on the valuo of kindergarten work, and by orgavized effort to got the matter before State Legislatures, is doing ite beet to arouse interost in the child at his most teachable sroment. All success to the Association. Kindergartens should not be Aft to private or charitablo institutions. As part of the regular echool system, they ought to prove most valuable. Tho tenderaat suind is the best for sowing habits of obscrvation, intercat, industry @nd conscientiousness, The hard unattractiveness of much primary @ci,00l work could be overcome and the work itself made far more bHlective by a gentle habit-forming introduction, When ono considers that in some parts of the country children erage only three years in school, and that only about six and one- if por cent, of school children go beyond tho high school, the value beginning early and skilfully tho work upon the child mind is only plein. OR: pays better than any other known kind ’ Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), “‘ Matrimonial Number.” " r the average man's opinion, the ideal wife should 7] When a man marrice nowadays tt 48 usually cither because ha has met some woman who has carried him be both a thing of duty and @ toy forever. off his Yoet or some woman who ts willing to set him 80 shocked and hurt when he marries a flaunting peacock and she fails to settle down into a modest, cooing, little dove, . Diana, the “virgin goddess,” probably remained an old maid because she always followed the chase instead of leading it, and hunted with a horn instead of with @ snare. When a grass widow remarries she is apt to discover that a change of husbands, like a change of flats or boarding houses, merely means getting used to a new act of inconventences and troubles, It scams to be becoming more and more the fud for us to burn our fingers with the divine fire by axperimenting with matrimony, but thus far nobody from Brigham Young to Ferdinand Pinney Karle has discovered any satis- factory aubstitute for plain, every-day, old-fashioned monogamy—"the kind of marriage mother used to make. Be LE AE THE EGG. GGS ere much served in the day's news just now. mostly boiled. They como mainly high. Whatever it costs, Jct us be grateful for the egg. All to the hen that Inys it. It fe the most wonderful of all foods. It is the safest, simplost, st, most healthful, most faithful, most widely available article man can put into his stomach. In whatever corner of the world finds ono’e-eclf, however soiled the surroundings, however un- Witing the inn, one can always count on tho egg. It is eure to Wome at tho call with its clean, wholosome, etrongthoning contents weatly protected from dirt and germs. Unlike other foods, the egg is not n carrier of disease. Onc @ever hears it blamed for infection. Milk may contain a hundred Bangers, bread may be unwholosome, but tho fresh ogg is a model of sanitary sweetness and antisopticized purity. Nor can its contents be tampbred with without destroying its integrity and making plain a)! tho world ite fall. Alone—boiled, dropped, poached, shirred—it offers itsolf always with confident assurance. It seeks no nid. Yet it is an admirablo “mixer.” It will lond itself with gentle wil'ingnoss to almost any society. It improves and olevates what- ver company {t enters, It atrengihens the bowl of the invalid, It tempera the cup of the roveller, Tt has one of the most beautiful shapes m1 nature. Its oval has been the despair of artiste, Ite surface ia a joy to the hand, Ne record or ancestry is more ancient and honorable, Yet it offers itself freely and impartially to rich and poor, Its price is not fis fault. All glory to the agg. Whenever wo meet hor lot us inke off our bate to the hen, | (aa LIONS AND LIMELIGHT. | MOVING-PICTURE film showing a lion lint in Africa with the lion charging full tilt toward the camera only to be prought down by @ bullet In the nici The real hero of modern life ia the man who goes right on pretending to be happy with a wife who hasn't any sense of humor, Thoy come If the average man would study ornithology A marriage of convenience is the safety-pin with which @ woman fastens rhapa he would not belon her pride when the hooks of tove are lost. Schooldays # & («iA 3 tio) wt By Dwis | ONce UPON A time THERE WAS A STevied PRUNE THAT Home , SO T seer Ho et came out AMO i mes Hit uP To A RAIS! Arto ALONG CAME A oper AnD THovenT HE WAS A FY AND Ale Rim UP —— AND ely ona is VF you tusT @E A PRONE DoT Have A Home, dund “atches'’ ana Follow the Strung! Now FATTY = wine aay Go! ou GRAe Tre Pe Awe THar SILL RING Te eee = AND That wk Oe THE Sterna Fou Mme Yo Stary The Aprcavse —~ of time, was shown ng a private entertainmont in this city the other night, From ¥ersailles comes the story of an enterprising moving-picture man who arranged an open-alr act between « lion and a lamb, using a, rial lion and a real lamb, but becoming terrifled at the goings-on of the lion, left the latter in possession of the fleld and the camera, The moving-picture film eeems likely to leave poor nature little privacy, Widespread publicity of doings in tho animal world will - goon be the rule, The jungle ought to put up a etrenuous fight be- Pore it consents to fall in and lead the investigated life, 4 ( | February 6, ! | it, 1912, by The PM Pi COE. he Now York Word) eo MR. JARR’S ONLY SON QUALIFIES AS A HERO. ASTER WILLIE JARR knew full M well where the dentist's was. In fact, he had been led up to the door of the neighborhood molar me chanic and bicuspid operator some sev- eral times. Sursical, medical and dental ethics are all the same. Representatives of all these profession irecuy Advertise to pull but professional Pride prevents them from coming out ing at their door lo enter the dread por- tals in the company of his mother, Mas- jer Jarr, under the dire and atrictei commands of his father, had been cast forth from the parental flat with an ex- Plicit order to return with the affeeted tooth in his hand or never return at ail. Mra. Jarr watched from bebind the window curtains, wondering whether her brave boy would be too brave to r turn home if hy 't brave enough to enter the dentist's torture chamber. Mr. Jarr had been determined to bulla up the child's physical and moral cour- | is Spartan t But it was he suggested, in a whispered aside | to the fond mother, that the faith Gertrude mould dlsgut Dusenberry's old gray 9 the son and helr of the Jarra to see 414 not, in desperation, run away to or West to kill Indians or becom drummer boy and be in battle rather than face the terror and torment of getting a tooth pulled. Master Jarr, holding tight to the dol- lar bill to pay the torturer, and sobbing heart-brokenly, crept slowly down the street, while the ever falthful Gertrude, who, lke Mrs. Jarr, felt it was “a shame!” lurked and followed on the j other si | She was just about to cross over and kiss the unhappy child and bring him | back home in triumph with a deciara- | tlon that If the tooth must go so would | she, when a group of urchins, led by! | Master Slavinsky, came flying around the corner, assaulting Master Gussie Bepler, the butcher's overgrown and somewhat feebleminded son, with sticks, This, in juventle circles, 1s catled | “Playing P an,” y, Bul, where yuh goin‘! cried * Hepler, halting in his fight. got a dolar!’ erled Master Slavinsky, who, through some strange fort of sec ht, could see through | Master Jarr’a cloned fist. ng his young playfellows, Master Jarr drew himself erect. Ail trace of pain and fear had vanished, “Lm gonna get muh tooth pulled out!" he sail proudly. tention on thie interesting member of thelr tribe. “Does it Gurtt” they esked. “New! sat Master Jarr, “It would hurt anybody else but but I laugh at it. Aaybody got candy? TH eat candy. That's hew | nd pulling in the faltering and unwill- |1 care for that eid tooth! Nobody had any candy. Novedy the wherewithal to purchase candy. “Why don't you buy canéy and it, eticky candy ithe Jewbreakers ‘hard candy ithe ‘All Day Suckers? asked Master Izsy Slavinsky. “You goq & dollar. Buy @ lot of candy and us all.” Master Jarr affected great going to chew terbacker. “I got tO go to the dentist's. ‘t afraid of bim, like you éel- Betcher are! Betcher are!” cried Bil dear playmates, sticking thelr tongues out at the courageous lad, and making derisive and, alas, even vulgar gestures. A twitch of excruciating pain struck Master Jarr about .this time, bet ee a ato If it was hurting you fellers Iike st ‘hurts me now, you'd be screamin’ ea’ in’ home," he said proudly. ki betcher hollered when you was home!" sneered Master Slavinsky. ‘And run cryin’ to your mudder,” said Master Gussie Bepler. He might have added that such was his own procedure upon all painful ocea- sions except When he ran from &is mother to escape them. “Aw! Hi a fib! He ain't got go toothache!" cried Master Slavinsky, the skeptic. “Ain't I? Look at tt!" And Master Jarr opened his mouth and pulled the right hand corner down and away with his forefinger to dis- horrific cavity in the second molar. re afraid to let me stick @ pin in it!" said Master Johnny Ranglo, the boy demon. “Yes, Yes! Ho's afraid!” cried the other dear little Zulus, Master Jarr stood firm and prowd. “Go ahead,” he said calmly, “I kin stand ar” “You'd ibe afraid to let me pull it with pinchers my papa’s got in his shop, and wive me the dollar,” said Master 6lay- inky. But the pure commercialism of this In an instant “Playing Policeman” was of civilization bad centred al! their at- Proposition was repugnant to the rest, en, and the young savagesjand Master Rangle suggested they pull the tooth but share the dollar, By Sophe THE “GOOD FELLOW.” a iP O pon a time there was a good ae There are various kinds 1 fellows. Yet a real good fellow 1s one who never misses an opportunity to be one, Neither docs he have to prove it. However, a good fellow does not al- ways get the BEST of it. Many times a good fel- ow, | | low {8 the host 9 that is FORGOT- pie TEN the morning SOPHIE IRENE after. LozB This good fellow had many friends, which ts one thing a good fellow is usually sure of, But there are various standards of friend- ship. This man was the good old RELI- Fables of Everyday Folks ‘other good’ fellow. Hy drene Loeb Copyright 1912, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York World), But as is no unusual. circumstance, the lady met ANOTHDR 004 fellow. in fact, @ better fellow (she thought), | low was left out of it, as it were, He’ ‘did not know WHY. He thought RB | was at fault, For he aid not’ believe that thing about. the “female of the By several coincidences, to make @ long etory short, the first good fellow saw himself SUPPLANTED by the cepted tt; which was also his natural dent, and held to his creed, Yet by some more coincidences, th second good fellow saw the situation. He too accepted it. ‘The tady on the other hand would NOT accept. She returned. to the fret and wanted to make him see t! was the best fel But: even a good fellow has feelings and, like the worm, will turn, ABLE kt Me could be called upon tn » of OBLEMS as well as of ASUIRE and not be found wanting. ‘a nex, And, wher- PROVED it. sin that direction was © Kipling and went some- me for his moth ever he could, b One of his worded by of the dog ie upon him by whom Is the secret revealed, If she hath written a letter, delay not an instant, but burn 1t; Tear tt to pieces, O fool, that the wind to its mate may return It, lif there be trouble herward and a Me of the blackest ean clear, | Lie while thy Ips can move, or a man ia alive to hear.”* Now, strange to say, the same man those words later wrote the Species Is More 1e Male.” But the good feved the GOOD thing, to pass in the everyday a t, with his jo gracious to sev: he met ONE to whom he sclous. ne Was a good fellow and 1 his graciousness ACCORD. orty to say, as It many jut Tam the ¢ dited to we that he wa: 1 ite @ difference ber | tweon Delp a GOOD fellow and being |the RES Rei vorthy him- rdingly and self, he | trtea to Hive up to He TRUSTED her. the best fellow, “And it was not the feast what the lady meant, but a ‘good fellow’ mus follow his natural bent"—which he did, He told her many things—many beaut!- ful things, Bhe accepted He took his medicine. and was not an kind to the lady. No, he dia not faith in the sex; but he SAW himeell as ohe woman saw him—a good fello\ for the TIME WING. He reflected, OBJECTS T. COMING IN LIKE LION AND GOING OUT LIKE SHORN LAMB! —= “The Great Within.” Ry Cora M. W. Greenleaf. HEN emergencies ariee and W don't know what to ‘go, Tt 19 often with rise Alecover something new In ourselves; some unknown trait wll awaken and come to life. When necessity {8 great epportuntties are rife. . There are depths within each heart fathomed and unknowa, |For we only use @ pert of the wealth all our own. Self-limited and lind, content dross and chaff, With dull, somnolent mind, we wake to half Our ability and strength, God-gtr our birth, And ne'er know the depth and of our heritage on earth, “Occasion makes tl him years befor And on that same broad plan He | countless thousands more, He gave us strength and power for G lke 4 But we wi within and see ‘The image of His face, thine thre’ and he too was made:to believe HE wae