The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1912, Page 8

Evening Ty NY JOSEPIT PULITZER, ay he the Prow Park Row, New York RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row. J, ANGUS BIT ! Ro and Canada Postal Unton, +o seveceeeNO, 18,447 Yoar 201058 Month WASHINGTON. LORGE WASHINGTON, without the genius of G Julius Caesar or Napoleon Bonaparte, has a far purer fame, as his ambition was of a higher and holier nature. Instead of seeking to raise his own name, or seize supreme power, he de- voted his whole talents, military and civil, to the establishment of the independence and the per- petuity of the liberties of his own country. In modern history no man has done such grect things without the soil of selfishness or the stain of agrorelling ambition. Caesar, Cromwell, Napoleon ettained a higher elevation, but the love of domin- ion was the spur that drove themon. John Hamp- den, William Russell, Algernon Sydney may have had motives as pure, and an ambition as stained, but they fell. To George Washington alone in modern times has it been given to accomplish a wonderful revolt theme of a people’s gratitude, and an example of virtuous and beneficent power.—1.0RnD JOHN RUSSELL, Life and Times of Charles James Fox. —— 26 THE FLAG. WO new stars for Arizona and New Mexico will be added ] to the United States flag next Fourth of July. The Navy) Department has adopted a design providing for forty-eight! to be arranged in six rows of eight each, with the correspondins ¥ # of each row in vertical lincs, This is likely to be the national | fag for some years to come. Only Alaska and the Philippines re- main to be provided for. ' The present flag dates from June 14, 1777, when the Conti- nental Congress passed a resolution “That the flag of the Thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” ‘This was the first official designation of a na- tional emblem. | ‘The origin of the design has been much discussed. Simplest} _,and most probable is the story that it came from the Washington | “family arms. j Already, at Cambridge, Mass., on Jan. 2, 1776, Gen, Washington had displayed a flag designed by three men—Franklin, Lynch and Harrison--consisting of thirteen stripes of red and white, with ihv| Union of the Thirteen Colonies against British oppression. What more natural than that the designers should compliment the General by embodying his family arms in their design? What more natural | than that Congress should perpetuate both design and compliment?) In the village church at Brington, England, are the tombs of two ancestors of rege Washington. Both hear the Washington arins—a simple shield crossed by three horizontal stripes abore which are three five-pointed stars. ‘Ihe stripes of the Wash Ge stones (red) and white. On both arms and flag the stars are five-pointed, though the commoner form is six pointed. Could probability be stronger? Or could one wish the flag o better origin than tho shield of Washington? AeSht Ek AE CHILDREN KNOW. O-THIRDS of the ten million books given out by the cir- culation department of the New York Public Library in the course of a year go to children. In some enst side branches from five hundred to fifteen hundred books are given out to boys and girls every day. Bible stories and Shakespeare are mos: popular, particularly among the Jewish children. The older ones are fond of hooks on the government of the country. These facts, straight from the daily experience of a well-known Library worker and story-teller, make good reading. His natu taste for the best is about the finest asset the child starts out with. How long it persists is shown by the way even sadly world-worn elders will now and then give rapt attention to a fairy tale in print or on the stage. Ten years ago the Library started story-telling for children who wouldn’t read for themselves. Any child will listen to a stor day at etory-telling time the rooms at each of the thirty-six Library Wranches are crowded with hundreds of small and eager listeners. The crowds grow bigger every week. Give the child # chance and how joyously he jumps at it! scammers HE most beautiful woman in the United States at the time of the World’s Fair in Chicago died in this city last An- Until two day remembered her d Where are the Queen g Bt. ago, when her will was filed, nobody tinction, of last year's Carnival? Oe peennnnnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnle jLetters From the People} ON aan eg tana ana mam nae) 014 Age Pension To the Editor of TI w No man can & competence in these days of high prices W any objection to the following eLA every man be taxed 2 per everything { Mnake that fun of th r mes and our streets on bitter or wet wrong ant no plan? t, of | hos Who makes that snug @ Waile they freeze of drenc mented by the Government to a sum t! 4 Word for the Pot Bo thy Haier of The Mvening World: every day but for him. bb oe wuny by lame bhp pot! MRS. POLICEMAN, \ { I one any harm, 80 let's boost ¢ and not knock him, | tereer and peril bor ‘ishing Companys Nos, 8 to Eeteved at the Po ja Bubsertotion Ratee to T 6 and and the Cont t and we World for the United States ‘All Countries (nthe International tion, and yet to remain to all future times the | ington arms are recorded in ihe Herald's office as alternate gules . To-' to Who guards our nights while we are snug asleep, and j vat 1 efor us| mp, hie pos anuwers Atty fool questions an hour] sends the children to him to ~ World Daily Ma Press Vunlishing Oo World). RS. JART w Copyright, 1912, by ‘The (The New ¥ n't speaking to him. Generally she spoke to him M too much, But sometimes, 4s Row, she didn't speak to him at all. | Mr. Jarr would have preferred the “too much," but he hadn't the ordering of these thing: Mamma," said tho little Jarr Poy. “why do men rob people from text: cabam" “AwK your { coldly, “He ts 1 {erima than 1 am Mr. Jarr lowered his to his plate, feeling somehow that he was properly rebuked; while the Nttle Jarr boy and the little Jarr girl regarded him, in this new light, ax though he were @ curl- ously interesting visitor {n thelr home, “Paw, kin I be @ taxicab robber when 1 grow up? axked the little boy, “I n a wicked one, but one that church and give money to the or, ke Robin Hood did?” “Saseh! Willie!’ cried his mother “Good Itt "t talk that way, Mr, Jarr said nothing. He felt simply in the position of a payl wuest, as one outside his own family cirele, He regarded his empty coffee cup intently He would have liked to have more cots fee, but he thought perhaps he better k for ft a, am T going to have a new replied Mra, Jarr, conversant With !p dovess? asked the littl girl Rangie has @ new Sunday “Hush, my ehtid!' aatd Mrs. J) diy, “Mamma 10! tyouad ‘or a long tine. Mamma is very poor, She sald this In a tone Indtcative of widowhood and destitution, ‘This can be explained from the fact that Mr, Jarr had bis week's pay still In his own porsession An bis as he was in a measure, she saw him or spoke to him, Mr, Jarre had the slight of holding on to his money sked for It 4 is one of the humiliations a wife dure. When #ho ts not speak his annua} earnings to form an old age lice. Who keeps the honest man secure ue a + husband he holds the power penvion fund, w Hallo aug: |and checks the crook? The police Who A eU Sake Gin) AMAL AR PARE dim the be cop | for It ae beat sue may We would be in At the news that + | poor the little girl ray Nailed @ reproachtul anna was very ded her futher The instinct Upto Date. Union Jack in place of the stars, the stripes being emblematic of the); ———— ter gazine, ( Th ily to blame for this sudden blight of pov- erty. An Odd Letter Written to Washington by His Mother. vife wasn't conscious of his which would keep oi poopie in con-/and piloty fussy old people acrosa| miikman or the grocer 14 at the duor- | feri—not barely alive. The Governmont | streets end acts ana walling wignpost?| pending the child as should give in all ono-half a man's! The cop. If he grafta w vit it is not! peom to wh average. Income yeurly to him when he | from honest, law-abiding people If | where no children the wits reaches sixty-five, If the 1 per cent. he stops at a aide door for a nip of| mest bear tre ny of not being the people it the stuf€ that Killed father it does nol apie to met money until she aske Vi TOPE 1 OUSY C3 * Me Mou ra” Lek ave a to be almo: Hen is a reproduc Org: at ho (we) when you went t ¢ her sex told her that her father | ove » mother are 90 unknown to ion of nal ts Valued at $9003 ruly unsy My Not being hrou fredirecksburg it was a un ( ) thing for me now I am afraid I never shall have that (¢ ) pleasure agin | am soe very un- well & this tlp over the Moun- ius has almost killd me 1 gott the 20 five ginnes you was soe kind to send me & am greatly obliged to you for it 1 was great. iy shockt ¢ ) ever be driven up Wis Way agin by we ¢ a Uy The Trew re emcee Thurscay, Febru By M. de Zayas Copan. New Yore M + POCEEEOLEE SESE SOE SOERESESEDEREESES COOEEEESESSEOSSES Mr. Jarr Once More Joins The ‘‘I-Am-In-Wrong Club’’ PIFPSISSTG IG HIGSS FITHGISSTISIIIIIS BEVSSIONTISSOSIOOGY Mr. Jarr groa solved to be ask though by : 0 inwardly, but re- 4 for his salary, even Supper concluded in gloomy silence, called, “How are you all?” ehe rattiea on gayty. “Didn't we have a grand time at the cabaret show? My husband has been sick in bed ever ince, And, mind you, he's @ terrible old grumps when ho is sick, ind he wants me to stay in with him all tho time!” “Well, 4t {8 a good thing he is wok in bed. Then you know wh rs Mrs. Jarr. iid tay we “Indeed, I wish he were well and would get out. He just drives tar" sald the visitor. baal “They never appreciate whet for them. Never," said Mra, fern iy She said this as Sravely as thous [Mre. Mudridge-Smith were a patient eee devoted and attentive helpmeet, not!" replied that “Indeed they do |young married woman, “So that's the made up my mind, from almply to do as 1 | } “They think all the more of jou do," eaid Mrs, Jarr, | “Oh, I euppose so," sata j “but I don’t want him to une oo of me, He pores me. Why did I ¢h |my life away on himr’ dad “Why do we all throw our jAway?" agked Mrs, Jarr, “well, 7 ie jmado up my mind to one thing: m, ttle Emma shall take @ college course in one of the professions—something fined. She ehall not be compelied to |marry for @ livelihood. Thank good. |ness, that fate for women te a thin, 7 jthe past!"* sibs | +on, 1 wish 7 you if had been et, jnuree cried Mra, Mudrid, reined jangling her gold mesh pu: ome niform 1s #0 becoming to me. And f t have nursed some handsome young millionaire through an attack of brain fever and married him. Of couree, jif 1 were trained uurse, '¢ never {take the case of a gouty old man, or erywipelas or any of those unpleasant or contagious disorders. But brain fever ls 90 pootic. They go out of their niinds and call for water and murmur your name. I'd just love to nurse!" “Why didn't you stay home ana puree your husband, then?” asked Mr, Jerr, “He's a good old skate to you,” “You mind your business! You leave other people's affairs alone!” cried Mrs. Jarr, fring up. "Clara Mudridge-smith ts only too good for him. And I am glad there is one woman I know who isn't @ slay my one if it is ( ) twelve foott squar Benjamin Hardisley has ) four hindred akers of Land of yours ges by George Len ( ) it you will Lett me goe thear if I should be obliged to | will goe in some little hous of Mr. Jarr ga) alari Come over the Mounttins agin | MM". Jame Save an alarmed look ana 1 shall be very Much oblig “There, you see!’ cred Mrs. Jagr, fi ) you pray give my kind That's all @ man cares for one!" love to Mrs, Washington & am My Dear George your Loveing & affectinat Mother, Mary Washington. Mr Nurs desiord me to Mea tion his son to you he writs in the ‘Treasure office of Congres. MW. re —>—__ AT THE THEATRE, “I wonder why the people on the floor always applaud so?” ald the dame in the proscenium bom, “They can see the stage,” explained the other lady In the box. “I tied it ence, just fore lark.’’—Chicage Journal. fi ary 22. and then Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Smita | | | Reflec Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland (Uopreight, 1012, bp Tho ress Publishing Qa, (ihe Now York Wedd) GIRL always believes that she hae solved all of 1912 tions of a Woman's economic probleme when she has gob ten some man to shoulder them for her. It tan't the question of divorce or suffrage that | fa harrowing the soul of the average woman, but the question of how to get @ twenty-twoinch waist into an ecighteeninch coreet, and @ natured | Auman figure into o “hipiess” gown. i 4 woman would always play fair in the love game if her pertner 616 | NOt weually so stack the cards that she can't afford to. No, Clarice, when two people get divorce it ten't because they “don't | understand each other,” but because they have just begun to understend | each other—and ure shocked to find such a stranger within their gates, In this age of advanced actence the great problem that seewus to be | adsorbing most men is the problem of how to kiss a girl without becoming | engaged to her. 4 man of forty always fancies th at a girl must take him for ten years | | younger decause of his looks; @ youth of twenty, that she takes him fer } | twenty years older because of hie brains. | After reading about the east side “crime wave” and the Fifth avenue divorce problems we are apt to conclt must be in that delightful place just ten. jude that the eoctal “Seventh Heaven’ between the lower Ave and the upper 4 kiss may be worth millions when sold, but it’s worth nothing when bought. When You Married | Copyright, 1612, ty The Pres (ab! |The Cost of “Little” Things. ‘VE always had a dread of ask: ing for money. When I was @ very young girl every Sat- | urday morning after I'd poured my father’s coffee, he'd reach down Into his pocket, draw out two new | bale dollars and slip them under my | plate, pretending the; were @ Up for my services. One Saturday, owing to an important | engagement, he forgot to give them to ime. 1 watched him put on his hat and coat, and my heart sank lower and lower in my breast, be I had planned to go to a matinee and I had just 18 cents left from the week before! When I kissed him goodby the sobs in my throat nearly stranglod me, out I couldn't make my lips ask for the money, and when 1, bad waved: him ground the corner 1 burat into oltter tears. I've never got over the horror of ask- ing—!t seems such 4 near-reiation to begging. | And since we're married Ted has al- ways suggested a check ‘ong vetore I've run out of casa, Some women friends of mine who hsve been married much longer than I have toid me that that wouldn't las: long, jast night: “Aren't you going it @ bit strong, Joan—in money, { mean?” 1 could feel the hot blood flood into my cliceks. “Do you mean that you thins I'm spending too much money?" 1 asked coldly. “Yes,” he answered firmly, ‘that's ex- actly what 1 do mean.” “Oh, very well! Stop giving * to me doctor!” “Why can't we ha quiet, sane dis- cussion that leads somewhere?” my husband asked gravely. “Why do you tude? We're not children. We'r, not ying to ‘ke impressions on each other. We're trying to arrive at a solu- tion that will be satisfactory to both of us.” . “I hate to speak of money!" I re- torted. ‘Tod laughed heartily. “But it has to be spoken of, dear, Ym not @ big salaried man, I can't give you things,” he said slowly, “] know you're generous to a fault: I came back at lilm, “Now, let’a see where this money has veen going,” ho suggested gently, eo it wasn't] fuch a terrible shock when Ted sald) tmmediately adopt this pugnacious atti. | By A re Alma Woodward lishing Co, (The New York World), “Food has gone up terribly!’ I mur- ured. { 2 \ “Yes, I know, dear,” (1 could feel | him emile behind my back.) “But {: hasn't risen 60 per cent. In a week!” \ “Well, Ted," I remonstrated, “I | haven't bought myself one BIG thing— I méan anything that costs REAL money “since we've been marred!” “No,” he cgreed, “still there are little things. You spent the day out yes- terday. Will you tell me just whae yeu did from the time you left until you gor home?" 1 looked hurt. “I'm not being mean, Joan,” he pleaded, “I just want to show you what ‘Kittle’ things really cost. Come on, dear. We'll have some fun over it!" | “Well,” I began, “I called for Waith and we went cowntown.” How did you co down?* oll, it just happens that Edita fuggested it would be @ lark to go down in a taxi—but we don’t usually! And of course we went halves.” “How much wr: your hast? my husband. “Only % cents. Then we went to lunch, And that was only $1.10 WITH the Up, $1.10 each, I mean. Then Edith {had @ little shopping to do.” “Did you buy anything?’ Ted inter- rupted. | “Only a vell and a pair of silk atock- | ings, because they were having a sale |The vell was $112 for enough to go | around my hat, and the sftockings j Were #8 cents @ pair.” t “And of cosr: you have more velit jana more ailk stockings than you'll be able to wear in the next siz months, without these,” he interpolated. “Wha; else did yo: and "ith dot” “We had some time left #0 I treated her to a ploture show and abe treated ime to soda, and then we each bought’ ourselves @ Uny bunch of violets and asked came home. “The total is about % for ‘Lutte’ |snings, And that's Just one day, And) there are others just itke it im the! week,” ‘Ted remarked. “Joan, for pity’s sake, don't think I'm @ tightwad, put don't you sec we can’t afford it, litte girl? J just wanted to ehow you in cold dollars and cents whet LITTLE things cost, Women don’t seem te realize that stray quarters and half dollars ever add up into real money!” ‘And now that I've looked into it, I've lextravagant thing & women can in- lduige in! —_— Most Famous of Old Time Penalties HE “piliory” was done away with T by act of Parliament in the year 1837, and it {s amazing thi it should have endured until that date, for ft was a mode of punishment which could be made so extremely barbarous as to be a crying scandal to any nation. This engine of torture seem: to have been known before the Co under the name of “stretch-neck, which ts y suggestive of {te functions, area i Menacted that all stretch necks should be made of a proper size go that the life of the occupant should not be endangered, and a print of the reign of Henry IIL shows very clearly what the pillory was like in those days, The culprit mounted upor a stool, at ‘one side of which was fixed @ pole, sup porting a pair of boards hinged together and with holes cut in them large enough to admit the wriste and neck, ‘The hands and arms were thus held on a level with the face, and the ap palling atiftess which this must have caused can well bo imagined, saya the London Globe. Thus confined and pow- erless, the offender was placed in some ite spot, where the riffraft employed ee ie hurling dirt, sticks and stones at him until they were tired, or until the object of thelr sport suc- cumbed, @# not infrequently came to pase, Tt would geem that primarily the pile lory was intended for cheats of all Kinds, such as mountebanks, fraudulent dealers in horses, coal, corn, &c. and we read in Fabian thet the Mayor of London 1 1287 “did sharp correction upon vakers for making bread of light put in the pillory, ae also one Agnes Dalatia, tor selling of mingled butter.” | “Is aid thea. weight; he caused divers of them to be| Soothsaying and other magic arte were also punished with the pillory. It Would appear that famous men aid not appear in the pillory until after l1037, when @ star chamber decree for- bade the printing of any book or pam- phiet without permission from the Arch- Bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London or the university authorities, and also made an order that any printer | Who did not conform to this and set up | printing press should not only be pil- Horied. out also whipped through the jcity of London, Siafford is told by Garrard the way tn which three men underwent their pillorrings, “They stocd two hours in the pillory, The place was full of peo- ple, who cried and howled terribly, | espectally when Barton was cropped Dr, |Bastwick was very merry; his wife, | Dr, Poe's daughter, got on @ stool and | ktssea_ htm,” | One of the moat remarkable piliory- |Angs on record was that of Dr. Shed- | bet Who in 1758 was sentenced to an tho in the pillory. The pillory was carried out at cn, | ng Cross In the presence of a vast mu!- j Htude of people, In place of having his {neck and srms imprisoned, the good jdoctor stocd by the pillory—having riven up in a coach and been handed out with great respect by his execu- toner, the sib-sheriff—and in order that the elements should not annoy bin a \footman stood at his side, tn gorgeous jattire, holding an umbrella over him, ———$<—_____. USED TO EXCITEMENT, “Are you the inan who was map; lin a cage of tigers?” arrion “I'm the man." “DAG It seem « xolting? % woulda’ seme