The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1912, Page 12

the Even are ee TWiorld. PSTANLIsinp ny JOSOPH PULITZER Published Daily Except Sunday by_the Preag Publishing Company, Nom, 68 to 63 Park Now, New York RALPH PULITZM, Preatdont, 62 Park Now, J. BITAW, Treasurer, 8 Park Row, EPH Pt AVR, retary, 63 Park Row, Hecond-Cinom Matter, lant ard tie Continent ax@ International On, At Naw Yor Fovening § ror World for t) States All Countrien tn ¢ + 09.78 VOLUME ORs csvivcsssscucuvevsverseseuss seeee eNO. 18,451 “THE BRIGHT SIDE. such fine weather during the cold oe WINTER SUN is good to New York. No capftal of Northern Enropo enjoys mh} fust tli fe of j ahinc New York in the sa ith had eighteen fine days February has brought only four days of etorm. Paris ekies in winter are notoriously gray. Nowhore does it rain more easily and more often. In Berlin the weather is overcast for weeks at a stretch. Though fogs are rare, darkness comes down om the city soon after three in the afternoon on the short winter days. In epite of blizzards and big winds ft {s safe to eay that no other northern capital has anywhere near eo many bright, clear winter days as New York. Visitors from Furope eay nothing here proves a greater surprise and delight than the glorious ennshine and cheer- fulneas of even our coldest weather. s far ——_-___-—+4e-—— DESPAIR AND DESPERATION. JHE story of the hospital servant girl who haa confessed that I she poisoned eight babies is only another instance of how year after year of wretchedneea and bad living may batter @ven a young mind into a state where it ia hard to distinguish be- tween insanity and criminality. Novelista and «hort story writera used to find a certain kind of meterial in remoto out of the way parts of New England. A lonely, randown farm, five miles from the nearest post-office, two or throe disheartoned, dull-eyed human beings racked with rheumatism, dragging themselves about a dreary round of chores through cruel winters and profitless summers, would furnish scenes and actors for some horrible drama of insanity and crime. A big city can produce all the effects that follow unhealthy aoli- tude. After a long, lonely, losing fight against the crushing forces and cruelties of a city of four millions of people, a mind may well become eodden, insensible and at some moment crazed. In the case in question the only good instinct that survives in @ blur of half insane indifference in tho one that always holds the. longest—the mothor sense. —e¢e A WONDERFUL LIFE. 0-DAY is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth ] of Vietor Hugo. Beginning life almost atillborn, 90 sickly that his mother had little hope of raising him, he lived to be eighty-three years old. Tong before ho died he had become tho greatest literary figure in Europe. In the course of his eighty-threo years he was poet, playwright, novelist and politician. He wrote the most talked-of play (“Hernani”) and the most widely rend novel (‘Lea Miserables”) of the Nineteenth Century. In 1862 “Is Miserables” appeared on the same day in ten | languagea—an unparalleled honor. He is to-day the best eeller and | the most widely translated of French authors, | Fifty-eight volumes contain his work. During the last years | of his life he wes the idol and oracle of a nation. There has becn no greater literary figure since Shakespenre. Nor has any son of | France ever been more honored in life and in death, F | A at fifteon cents a plate, with a 35 per cont. profit, sounds like a hard shot for the hotel men. By way of rubbing it in, an actual menu card with prices of a leading hotel was attached to the list of dishes offered by the women. Nobody doubts that the best food can be bought and cooked aud a oo FOOD AND FIXINGS. 3.00 HOTEL MENU cooked and served by Chicago women served at prices lower than those that prevail in restaurants, \ But—it does make e difference whether we are willing to eat fet same food in a vacant lot in the Bronx or whether we must have it at some crossroads tavern near Broadway and Forty-second etreet. It does make a difference whether wo eat it on board tables in @ church vestry, or with marble walls and mirrors and two changes of tablecloth. It does make a difference whether we are content with the cozy family circle, or go forth to break bread in a world of fine feathers and diamond tiaras. Dining out is costly. Most of the prive, however, is not for the food, but, aa usual, for our own small weaknesses, vanities and out- breaks of self-indulgence. nenrnrnnnnnnnennannnnnnannnnnnnnnnnnnanel Letters From the People} Merwennnvnnnananannneennmnnnennnanannnnnnnanmnnnnnmnnnnnnnnmnns, | Beat To the Ee I would lucky subordinates, who are in no wa: to blame and who cannot defend the To me this ts the very aub- Umest act of cur-Mke cowardice on earth, Compared to it the kteking 4 baby 1# @ sportsman other Western ing World Dail metabo Lar ft '1The Day of Rest 3% (-2mtm-) Lis . - as EXcuSe ME. VLU BE RIGHT Back 1 HEAR THe PHONE eat Ea lone cy MONsY | Owe Him HELLO Bit! 1 SusT CAME IN SO GLAD TO_SEE You Copyright, 1912, by The Fume Publishing Co, (‘The \« “Mother-in-Law Number,” HE infernal triangle—husband, wife and mother- in-law, - som Workd), Most people pity the brow-bedten son-in-law; @ few pity the much-abused mother-in-law; but nobody ever pities that cheerful little human \WIFB, who stands between the two and tries to keep ELEN ROWLAND punching bag—th: the peace. No, Adam didn't have any mother-in-law; but then he managed to find another kind of “serpent” to dlame for all his eine and troubles. Once upon a time there was a woman who believed that Venus might have been beautiful enough, Cleopatra rich enough and St. Cecita good Schooldays “a Gee FLOsNS Ld ) DIDNT Live ¥ { Woutd Ay SHOM you “ms / PAnTAUTY (oeeaore of\ —< RanITiOM | advise ene? is the answer to C. Ris By arithmetle-If doth he same, th ¢, Dut one c other, Therefore, a In Any French from $1.10, the the Editor of The Evening | a the cot oo Where can I read ory of the | « Beek $00. Ot the Huguenots? RKL How Many Gattonst To the Editor of The Bening World Here {9 @ rather interesting prob- lem for readers: How many gallons ' ef water are there in a hone 50 fret cents, cont of Jong and 3 inches in diameter (inside Cou of neo preasurement)? < The Boss's Grouch, To the Editor of The Evening World: ‘The boss's grouch t# the oMoe's mis- | to me ery. The boss gets sore at something, | ma: whitch ta cost of other onn, 0 x + % « HANK, ht of an Atom? of The Evening World: a fentific readers plesse explain = at ta the weight of an atom of end makes toli a horror for his un- which they weigh? aM. . or 52% cente for one, f2% By and the welght of one oor ‘Me comes to the office or etore or shop 'puscle and the name of the unite with § \@ Anouses / = . \ Magazine, Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Find “‘Patches’’ and Follow the Stringl Monday, By Maurice Ketten IN T LET Hi Ra Bae tue AcT as IF (Just CAME & Jonn, | OWE You TWENTY DoiARs , LOAN ME FIFTY ano Give ME onty THIRTY. 1°" DEAD Broke — THANK You I WILL STAY FoR OINNER enough to marry her son—but thie ts only a fairy tale! Somehow, a man always seems to feel that the only thing he owes the tcoman twho allowed him to marry her daughter 4s a grudge. Never try to convince your husband's mother that you didn't “lure” him from his happy home. Would you try to convince a Moness that her cub followed you out of the jungle of his own accord? According to the comic artists, men's mothers are all angels with eweet, adorable old faces; white women's mothers, alas! always have hooked noscs and go around wielding rolling pins. A women who hae kept her son tied to her apron atringe te always shocked and astontahed when she discovers that he has got tangled up in some other woman's shoe strings. + ~aEENas ) & By Dwig February 26, 1912 istoric Heartbreakers By Albert Payson Terhune. . Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 15—GOETHE—Genius and Lover. MAN, eighty4hree years old, lay dying. To the aged nurse who watched at his bedside and who had been his friend for years, he murmured: “In all my life 1 have known just three weeks of pertect A | happiness.” “Who wee she?” asked the nurse. ‘The same question would have come to the mind of any friend who ‘heard the old men’s words. For from the age of fifteen he had forever | been in love—and the love had nearly always been reciprocated, | “He was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, the genius who not only opened a new era in literature, but inaugurated a por in German civilize. tion as well. Like Byron he was one of tho most handsome men of his day. Says one biographer: | “The beauty of his countenance was irresistible. When he entered en linn, all conversation would stop and the guests would look in surprise at each other.” | ‘The first of hie love effaire came when Goethe was fiftcen. He was in- | tatuated with Gretchen, the daughter of an innkeeper. She returned his love in a way that pussied Bim and piqued his boyish pride, but which made him | doubly dangerous to the next woman, for ehe tensed him, laughed at. aim, and alternately encouraged and enubbed him. It was he who tired of the affair \pefore ehe did, While he wae still a mere boy he became engaged to Charitas | rioh merchant's daughter. Her famfly were of the opinion ehe | Metzner, @ could do better than marry @ poor man’s dreamy son. So the engagement was broken, rt Th Goo! 0 engagement, too, more gerious fi alonder, blue-eyed, flazen-haired girl of atxteen, who ts veHoved tc original of ‘“Faust's” heroine; and whose love story ran a #om course. Goethe tired of Frederika and left her. She lived to be hever matried. She once eald to @ friend who asked her why 0 beautiful @ woman should have remained eingle: “phe heart that Gosthe has loved shall never love another.” “A Iittie later came an attachment that wor {mmortal famo for Goethe A. Wotslar he met Lotte Buff. She was a pretty, attractive and extremely dutitu, young person; and while he made no great secret of her fondness for Goethe, the primly consented to throw htm over and marry a commonplace Govern trent oficial named Kestner, whom her pacents had picked out for her. Goethe could not bear to Iive longer in the same town with her after the wedding, @o he fled; and proceeded to put the love story tnto book form, under the ttle ‘phe Borrows of Werther.” He wrote this novel in four weeks. It told ¢* the love that Charlotte and Werther felt for each other; of Charlotte's drut Inurivce to another: and of Werther's flight and sulclde, ‘The book in thts common-senee day, Savors of a sentiment that fs almost ridicutous, Dut when lie was first printed {t eet all tho world afire, Goethe became known from New Tout to China, Some countries barred the story's publication, as dangeroms and wicked, It made heartbreai and suicide the fashion of ths hour, Lover lomn German youths by the dozen shot or potsoned themselves while claaping a copy of ‘The Sorrows of Werther" to thelr hearts. Naturally this sore of sotorlety did not score any wort of a hit with Lotte and Kestner; and toth ef them treated the author somewhat frigklly when next they met him, Tail Schonemann, a banker's daughter, soon made Goethe forget Lotte. ‘The two became engaged. But neither family Hked the match end it was broken om. There were wid scenes and sentimental letters: then « dramatic parting. | (when Lilt was sixty-three Goethe saw her again. She was palsied and a hope: | Jess cripple. But she aiiil loved him.) After « few minor affairs, Goethe met the Baroness von Stem, a mature beauty, the mother of «even children, He Wrote more than a thousand ardent love letters @ her and declared thet he had lain awake three yocees er hearing’ @ second ha scription of her beauty, PRE aston eel ’ithelm Meister.” At hie father’s wish Goethe sity of Letpalc to study law. heart of Kitty Schonkopt, went to the Untver- the original of the Countess in his “ But he tired | Speier as he had of go many others, and forsook her for a stout, flashy, hemd @rinking woman named Christiano whom he married, For twenty> | eight yeara he and Christiane lived a lyme ut affectionate wedded Iie, | {nd be mourned her death in true poetic fashton. ( When he was seventy-three, Goethe fi eda certain Fraulein vou Lewezow. He wanted to marry her, but his friends interfered; and he trans- ferred his aged, somewhat battered heart to Mme, Szymanowska, @ Russiam who declared herself “madly tn love" with him. | Wheublime genfus, frequent rather than constant lover, slolized for hus brie Manco and for his beauty alike, Goethe differed from the average heartbreaker ‘by hia not especially creditable custom of perpetuating the memory of hte | principal sweethearts and coining thelr affection into money by éntroducing | them and their love stories into his books rn en “And when you awoke?" | EXPLAINED.> & . “How do you explain the peculiar ac- I was out on the foor."—Chicago at euffragette?” Journal, JOYS OF THE SURF. 1 love to bathe in the sea With fts dillows wild and free I love to find A cantaloup rind Come bobbing along by me, “Two men."—From Judge. 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