The evening world. Newspaper, February 12, 1912, Page 12

ao Sead ESTANLIS1 WPtianed Dally txcep: Sunday t 3 Pa PH PULITZER, tng Company, Nom 68 to * ynternational tal Unton 99.78 a6 $a.n0]One Year 201) 0re Month . NO. 18,487 FOR THE DAY. forth upon thie continent a new nation conceived in WO erty and dedtoated to the proposition that all men are @reated equal. Now we are engaged in o great ctvil war, teat dag whether that nation, of any nation so conceived and a0 dedi- ested, can long endure. We ore met on a great battiefield of that war, We have Gome 00 dedicate a portion of that fleld as a final resting place fer thoes who here gave their lives that that nation might ive. 88 We altogether Ntting and proper that we should do thts. But, in @ larger sense, we connot dedicate, we cannot con escrete, we cannot hallow this ground, The brave men, Hoing @né 4004, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our power to 44 oF to detract. The world will Wttle note nor long fomember what we say here, but tt can never forget what they G4 hore. It te for ws, the Hving, rather to be dedicated here to fe wnfinished work which they who fought here have thua for eo nobly advanced. It te rather for wes to be here dedicated to the great task re @otning defore we; that from these honored dead we take in erences devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full @meseure of devotion; that we here Mghiv resolve that theac 4006 ehall not have died in vain; that this nation under God hell have a new birth of freedom, and that government of thy people, by the people and for thy people shall not perish from the earth —Lincoln's Gettysburg epeecli, Nov. 19, 1868 English prose has nothing finer tian these words. The world has seen no nobler man than he who spoke them. To-day is a good (dane roverently to re-read them and learn them by heart. —_——_—++-- ON LISTENING. NE REAEON why so many people fail to be agresable in | convc:sation is that ell the while one is talking to them | thoy are thinking far more of what they wish to say noxt than of paying uttention to what ie being said. It {s as true to-day as it wae when a clover Frenchman eaid it two hundred und {tty years ago. It was doubtless true of discus. | ions on the Ark. How often, in arguing with a friend, you eco by his restless eyw end moving lips and fidgeting hands that he is only impatient for | you to end so that he may begin. How often his rst word shows he bas not canght a tenth of what you ssid. The most famous of English talkers once had « sharp word for euch an opponent: “0 me the honor to listen to me, Sirrah, or lot us drop the! @iscussion. LU I am merely to eoliloquize I do not need you at all.” — DIAMONDS AND DIVERSIONS. RE jewels than ever came into the country last month— 850,000 worth more then in January, 1911. Our demand for pearl necklaces is sald to be enormous. Yet the Chief of the Division of Production and Distribution of the Department of Agriculture tells us we mustn't equander | miekels on trolley rides or go to moving picture shows, because we can’t afford it, and that we waste too much time and money on vaca- tione and public amusements anyway. Where, then, are we going to wear our pearl necklaces? SEE ES EES Ce ree BURNING THE CANDLE. Essie are getting scarce because billiard players are Piers ee AND SEVEN YEARS cyo our fathere brought increasing. A single British billiard ball firm uses 1,140 elophant tusks every year. We are used to being warned that if we go on reading news- papers there will be no more trees, and that fast travel and steel | e@epecrapere are taking all the coal out of tho earth. Seals have to be protected, and fish, birds and animals generally need more and awe human help in the struggle to carry on their species. Man takes heavier and heavier toll from the earth for the com: | forts and amusement of his brief walk upon it. Though he tries by | rules againet waste and by planting anew to protect the sources of supply, all be really gives beck in the end for whet be has used is-- fatmoelt. How long will the price be enough? od years ago so pleased his uncle that the latter has just left | him $200,000, ought to be glad he stuck to the eafe side of the famous question. | = la fish peddler whove recitation of Hamlet’s soliloquy thirty | Letters from the People | trip that the wea te not at y Capt. Marry tps. Hoffman states that the child east side are going blind from the ti) Mghted rooms of the public so: I have been educated tn the pulite oe half of it. How long tt takes to edmeols on the east side when the Werk Se Sapends Ween abaiity tuck rT % 0" » wood ni Yulldings were not half so well is MW letia| haa Gash at aes thine vaaen, trot ot ont reaHlele, and 3 aren 9) \oyhood up, who at the age of forty t to wear glasses, and have raised a forty-five were second mates o: fly of children wh @ been educate] steamers, and were earning $5 to $i | fm the east #de seh and it » 1 knew @ man who had for | hem wears glasses, and of al hy aptain of 4 ma emt women who have been je a mistake, He hi gladly tell you hed thetr high station—then thee enet wide there ts bul a small per ink quickly ’ were ninety-nine eemtage Of those persons Who Woar | things ie ouwht not to do and sust one | Ce A. R | thing he ought to do. He guessed | Chances at Sea. wrong. ‘The Admiralty Court, altting 1n We the HAitor of The Eveving World: crimson plush chairs, could plainiy see In reply to the reader who asks about | that there was but @ young man's chances at sea, here is him to have done, e thing, and my advice: Take a trip or two as cadet, that is Just what each of ther | ther on an ovean liner or on some of have done He lost his certificate, and| ee coast stows No man should) J saw pin last King for a gang of dense tor his life's work that whioh | stevedores on the Riv de la Plata, (i Gees mot Like, Teu mag fod atier| Maritond, Con, ‘ ae his vanity: } * ee _ eau , al lly Sons Fal Myer’ pw 7 Lru, Gree, perc UT Monday, bustly occupied. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Hilen Kowland v Copyright, 1012, by The trees Publishing Co, (The New York World.) 1H trouble with marrage, in these effete days, mate, and #80 many women for a soul-mate; nobody seema to want a helpmate, any more, One touch of humor may make a man grin—provided it doesn't touch Of course a man can't love two women at the same time; but he can! to wonder how and where he acquired his skill. kind “tatches’’ and Follow the String! Schooldays # When a man makes love to a woman artistically nowadays, ‘a | to be so astonished and delighted at the novelty that it never occura to her | something—but Magazine, February Stuy il AUT Tm: ©? 2 3 love one, and, er-—pity the bther, you know; which keeps him just as The stenographer who marries her employer may not be suspicious, but she ts apt to be eaceedingly fastidious about her successor. | “Keep neat” if you can, fair bride, but “keep eweet” at any cost; the | curl in your hatr won't hold him 4f the curt of your lips repels him, So long as marriage licenses continue to be given atoay as promie-| 7 fe that so many men ure looking for a play- cuously as trading stamps, they will be held at the same value, The serpent was juet the substitute for the sister-in-law in the Garden ot Eden; he probably told Adam and Eve all the thinge they didn’t know about each other. & (Ene) & By Dwis he te ant 12, | Historic | Heartbreakers | By Albert Payson Terhune, | Oopyright, 1012, by The Prem Publidting Oo. (The Mow York Wend), No. 1X.—BEAUMARCHAIS. / i a it won much of his wealth by marrying, successively, two vish | widows. He won much of his fame by attracting the fancy of two | princesses, He became involved in a series of troublesome aiis- haps through trusting @ woman too implicitly. Hie name Was |Pierre Augustin Caron. He called himself “Beaumarchais” and, later in |lite, bought a patent of nobility that gave him the legal right to his dhesen iname. He was a poet, ‘atesman, a playwright, a watchmaker, a gusi- jclan, an inventor, a courtier, a financier; and achieved success at al of theae callings. ‘ Beaumarchain began life as an apprentice to ke father, whe was a Paris watchmaker. He neglected this trade to stu@y music. Moreover, he was forever falling in love, and spent more time én writing songs te his sweethearts than in making watches, Nevertheless, he mastered his protes- sion eo well that he was appointed official watehmaker at the French Court. When he was only twenty-three he married the widow of a rich old govern- (ment offictal. In leas than @ year she died. He was accused of poisoning her. |The charge was never proved, but it became @ court scandal and cropped up | again trom time to time, for yearv, as a weapon in his enemies’ hande. Beaumarcha's then threw himeelf into the study of music. He invented several gmprovements on the harp, and acquired much success as « musician. Incidentally his playing brought him before the notice of the Princesses Ade- laide and Victoire, daughtere of King Louls XV, The two princesses, according to most chroniclers of tie day, fell deep tn love with che handeotne, Mriliiant young widower, In any event, their by By Two | open favor helped hin tremendously at court. Lhaetrteed Beaumarohais also turned his attention to finance and began piling up a fortune. Here, too, the influence of the princemes and of other women whose hearts he captiired did much to boom his | Vartous ventures, Veteran beartbreaker and moncy winner as he was, he paused tong enough in his career of flirtation and wealth-cetting to run over tnto Spain and there vengefully wreck the fortunes and future of a young Spaniard named Clavijo who had broken an engagement to marry unarchats’s sister, Beaumarchats came vack to Paris and in 1768 + ted a second rich widow. She, ke hie other wife,. died @uddenly within a few months, And once more the old poteon stories were raked up. < Next he had a love affair with a pretty actress whom the Duke de Chaujner edored. The Duke had his successful rival dilegaliy thrown into prison. On bie | release Boaumarchats became !nvolved in @ jaw The only offictal who eould settle the sult in his favor was Judge Goezmann., Beaumarchals promptly patd | court to Goezmann's wife, and gave tier @ large sum of mor on the deloately | worded condition that it should be returned 1f her husband should decide the | case againat hém. Goegmann decided the case adversely and his wife refused to pay back more than @ part of the money to Beaumurchats. ‘The latter brought mult against her and a@ series of ecandalous trials ensued that brought to ed! parties concerned a lot of unenviadle notoriety. Beaumarchats proceeded to draw down on himself the hatred of the court and the applause of the plain people by writing two playa, “The Barber of Seville” and “The Marriage of Figaro” (both since turned into operas), whic | assailed the morals and privileges of the nobility and were full of satiric slap: et royalty. A few years earlier so tressonable an attack would have landed Beaumarchats in the Bastile. But the first echoes of the French Revolution were already heard. And uthor not only escaped scot free but did much, |®y his satires, to hasten the Revolution's advent. It was Beaumarchais, more than almost any other one nan, who urged France to help our country in our fight | for lberty. He spent hts own money like water in behalf of the Americans, Ie oontributed or ratsed more than $1,000,000 toward arming and equipping our colemiets for the | etrugele against Great Britain. (Congress patd off the last of t's debt to Beau- marchais's heirs in 1835.) During the French Revolution hts sale of a quantity of guns to Holland ted to his banishment from France. His wealth was confiscated by the French Gov- | "1799 he died, shorn of fortune and half forgotten by the dozens of J once found him {rresistibl | The Day’s Good Stories ?, followet him to the woodshed, thinking he ted The President’s Pastor Too. | jet tsivit be wanted to ahew ‘ue, But veshe EV, ULYSSE8 G. B, PIERCE, Chapisin of dug « flask trom the wood eying, You bad the United States Senate and Presvient cold this it help come, But Teft'e pastor at « Weshington Unitarian eburch, told @ group of Genators a few daye ago of @ letter he had received the pm morning from @ etrong Methodist friend of bi ‘The letter read: “Dear Dostor: Yesterday morning while os the way to services in my own church | was overtaken east by the heavy rain we bad. As I did vot have an umbrella with me, and wes near your church, I bead fa, and for eg first time listened to one of your sermons on the tenets of the Unitarian faith. Next ‘Sunday 1 am going to carry ap umbrella.” — Seturday Evening Post. p= Jl a True Hospitality. DRUMMER out ip aseee thee reeten to . ‘Strmanie experisce at the Bouse ote ene. tomer who had invited him to eupper: “When T arrived [ was introduced to his wife and son, je went to the dining room my host took :, TPemhape you'd Uke ttle mention this to my promised and be dug up a bottle, ‘Then we oh downetaire and T got to chatting with the so women who HE two-piece akirt this season and m addition to tte smartness it 1s simple and easily made. This one {8 of moderate width and the seame at the sides can be left plain or trimmed, a pretty effect t# eb- tained by ar buttons in groups over the hips and egain above the facing end often braid !s arranged over the seams. 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