The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1912, Page 16

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Publishing Company, Nos, 68 to ‘Pwtaned Daily Exoept Sunday by the Frese Putts h RALPH PUL! st 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS BAW. rreas rs Per J08mPH a : yond-Class Matter, eeeeetvisn all td he vet rer Pagans the Limtnnt a j World for the tinited States All bata! in the International and 4 0} One Month. w teak WE VOLUME 52......ccecceeeceenseeeees veceevee + NO. 18,460 A THE CUCKOO. EFERRING to the aproprosness of eome recent remarks in this R column, Mr. Paul West, the distinguished librettist, writes in to say that the cuckoo is NOT the bird that uses another : bird’s nest. We, therefore, take some space to refresh the mind of this carping poet. If he will turn to page 515 of Vol. V., Inter-| HUBBY, i must national Cyclopedia, he will! Go SOUTH To RY find full and confuting de-| Sere eer - tails. As he may be too 4 YON HAS BEE tired to do this we quote| |) VERY STRENUOUS »| |] A es the main points. “Cuckoo oo MANY Wakey is “a name given to many Trot DANCES birds of the picarian family Cuculidae, which contains about 175 species. * * * y There is no pairing or con- £ tinued attachment of the “male and female; and the female, after having laid an egg on the ground, takes it in her mouth and deposits it by means of her beak * in the nest of some other smaller bird, leaving the egg to be hatched and the young one to be fed by the proper owners of the nest.” ‘ We hope upon reading this Mr. West will turn from vw. peng “verse. There are, it seems, but thirty-five varieties of the bird in the New World. This just about equals the number of advertising ee aes SAGGee our. “cuckoos” who encumber the Sunday newspapers in Greater New! SOUTH = ‘York with their counterfeit pages. Some of their names are rather To REST y musical. We commend the following thesaurus to Mr. West for his muse, and will pay handsomely if the result is up to standard: Roulston, Blumstein, Merritt, Weinstein, Legrand, Goldburg, Flani- gan, Greenberg, Heyman. Some use nom de plumes, like “Berlin” im Brooklyn and “Bostonian” in the Bronx. > Sing, Birdie, sing! Go Soutw ANYTHING BUT THAT! SPECIAL TAX on hotels, restaurants, theatres, cigar stores and the like is the latest scheme to raise money for the city. § The Commission on New Sources of City Revenue hes de- ‘Cided that whutever depends on its city surroundings for its profits ought*to give the city part of those profits. Other kinds of business ' that might be scared out of town by threatened taxes are to be left : slone. On the other hand, restaurants and theatres that can only Prosper in the midst of the great tide of money spenders flooding the city should be made to give up. ; _ |. Howls of protest have already been heard from the hotel man. ‘More will presently be heard from the consumer. No restaurant is going to pay « penny of that tax out of his profits while there is place on his bill of fare for prices. The “citizen” will groan that, as usual, he pays. , ‘ After all, why shouldn’t he? Oan he expect to eat his cake and hgye it? Can the cost of extravagance and waste be met without @ecrifice somewhere? The only way to replece what is destroyed is Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York World), So doesn't ming taking a back seat for these! color scheme of the wedding decoratior "fs not to spend it ail. poker without drinking or golf without swearing. Nevertheless we' shall go right on tucking the sheet in at the ed dasedall, dootor. Bach hair is attached to an almost invisible ane Geld wire hook which is stuck into the ecalp and left there i by the use of an injection needle. Five hundred hairs an hour can |) ‘be planted without pain. The resulting crop can be washed, combed end brushed without harm or discomfort. One of these wigs is still eanooth and oft after five years. Geld rooted hatr ought to appeal to the gikled few. It sounds eres at myaein The hairs of onc’s head will be moro v ever mumbered—on the bill. ee EL cb won co tet as beans, bare fect and birch rods make the best dhildren was careful to apecify Boston brands. WaaT (2 A MON! Address: London, Go wT & Feeo. What mighty {tis Rave not been done by woman! © ¢ ¢ clotnes Destructive, damnadle, deceitful woman! ‘ ~—Thomes Otway. more telephone exchanges to meet the) Tush of custom. And people are often| Just Jabbering twaddie into the trans- mitters and wasting busier people's time, Especially te this true of Now! Yor’ women. Their present mission in life seems to be to take up men's time in endless phone talks that have DO real object. M. K, “Will He Be Hurt as Mucht” we ‘Will your readere kindly write their ideas on the following? If an elevator, with the elevator boy inaide, falls trom tieth floor of @ bullding, and re the car strikes the bottom shaft the boy jumps trom floor of the car up in the air and Ja) struck the bottom, wi de hurt? 4£ 90, will he be hurt as much as if he hadn't jumped? Is it possible to do this 7 1 Chink chat this is « veryZnter- eating W. 1. Oar, TOREST | BuT Younave PULITERR Ire secretary, 63 Park How, OuT. NEVER DONE A LICK OF Poor wiFey! Too Muc Turkey TRof J WHAT'S THE MATTER Reflections "Of a By Helen Rowland forty days. 40 long as he knowe that Oupid is etill in our midst to carry his work right on, A man can no more understand why a woman can't te produce something more. The only way to have some money left| Play bridge without talking than she cam understand why he can't play ‘bottom wondering Thie 4s the time of the year then @ man begins to figure out how many hax why i doeen’t get longer et the top. Wo! pascdall gaware he could ace for the price of his wife's spring het, and she “ae looking for any wey to eave money except by economy. Degine to consider how many hate she could have if he would give up P= tate on bald heads is new achievement of a Euro- ‘A woman's mind is 80 much quicker than a man's that while he ts try- pean Schooldays # Fico tise FATHER || MusT Go SOUTH To REST- TRRKeY TROT K ie) BeSUTANTS DANCES (0, SIR, THE BUSINESS SEASON HAS EEN VERY HARD oy fi - You GAVE To WoRts EVE FROM Six TEN AT NIGHT ing to discover the color of her eyes she is already trying to decide on the Perhaps the reason why only “joy rides” end ina smashup is that when @ husband takes his own wife out for a spin he always gives both hands and @ll his attention to the machine. Everything has gone into vaudeville. Even love and the weather are becoming a “continuous variety,” with a change of dill every fifteen minutes, Many @ man has asked a girl to marry him in an impulsive moment after reading an article in a woman's mangasine on how to make a “stunning reception gown" out of an old pair of overalls, \4 man who's married against hie will will be a gay Lothario still. ee > Wet 1. An” Evo seg, xe ‘A CONDOLENCE OARD. : Sing tHe OLD OMEN EO nenicn & March 6, 1912, Bachelor Girl Es— | Thm, 1m Tercnin CHNDAEY » “Twet THEY SROULD Be ENCOURAGED To DEVELe THEIR INDIVIDUALITY — ALLOWED To BE UMHAMPERED A UNHECKLEO ' AnD Gwen A €Aee Re eRe Is Too MUCH Wettaes INFORMATION im THE AVERAGE. i Dae Sib br odine. > Historic Heartbreakers By Albert Payson Terhune. Coprright, 1902, by The fram Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 19—GEORGE IV.—“The First Gentleman of Europe.” SEVENTEEN-YEAROLD boy sat in the royal box of the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on the night of Nov. 20,1779. The boy was George, Prince of Wales, later to be Georve IV., King of England. A fat man and a solemn-faced woman—the boy's parents, King George III. and Queen Charlotte, sat beside him. The King dosed; for the play was one of Shakespeare's and old King George had loudly proclaimed his opinion that Shakespearian plays were “ead stuff.” His son all at once leaned forward; his handsome, bored face suddenly aglow. For Mary Ro inson, pretttest actress of the day, had just come on the stage. She wrote later: “Just as the curtain was falling, my eyes met those of the Prince of Wales. And, with a look that I shall never forget, he gently inclined bis head.” Thus began the first notable love affair of the most notorious heart- breaker of his time. The young Prince had been brought up so rigorously and under euch sheltering care that at seventeen he knew almost nothing of 11f6 But he was qutck to learn. Eluding his royal parents’ vigitance, he managed tv make Mary Robinson's acquaintance, She adored him—perhaps for his good looks and cleverness; perhaps because he was a prince. And soon the secret fove story grew to be @ national scandal. The old King was already sufficiently bothered by George's behavior, for by the time the Mary Robinson affatr reached @ climax there was already a second flirtation in which the gay Prince ‘was fast becoming involved. ‘The King offered to tet him leave the patemal roof and have a bachelor home Of tis own (which the lad had long desired) if he would break with Mary. George, who was elready beginning to tire pf the actress and who hated to live in his father’s Palace, gladly made the bargain. And he kept it far more faithfully than he kept most agreements or promises. So Mary Robinson was cast aside for a new sweetheart. Atter finding a dozen or more successors to Mary the Prince met Mrs. Fits- herbert, « fascinating widow, who seems to have been the foremost love of his misepent life. He was then twenty-three years old. Already he had squandered fortunes in dissipation, was up to his ears in debt and could wring no more Money out of his disgusted father nor from an equally disgusted Parliament. He Joined the King’e political opponents in the hope that, when they come into power, they would raise his allowance from $20,000 @ year to $900,000. Thia echeme failed and the Prince tried to rouse public eympathy for his poverty by selling his horses and carriages, shutting up his town house and Gtecharging his retinue of servants. Instead of sympathy he got laughter, And, in dire mortification, he turned for domfort to Mrs. Fitzherbert. She was only twenty-five years old but had already buried two husbands. She did not encourage George's advances. Or, rather, she encouraged ‘them in the cleverest possible way by seeming to repulse them. The Prince was mot accustomed to this sort of treatment from women. He begged Mre. Fitzherbert to be his wife. She consented. And they were secretly married. This marriage appeared, ion the surface, an impulsive and chivalric act of eacrifice on George's part. As a matter of fact, it was a clever piece of trickery. For he knew as well as did everybody olse—except perhaps ‘Mrs. Fitsherbert herself—that the law not only expressly forbade the marriage of the Prince of Wales without the consent of the King or of Parliament, but that euch @ contract was an illegal, empty form which meant absolutely nothing. The Prince and Mrs. Fitzhenbert, moreover, were of different religious creeds, and according to the law of England, George would have forfeited his future right to the throne by marrying a woman of her creed, He had no intention whatever of forfeiting the throne. But, as the marriage was not legal, he was eafe enough. However, the news of the wedding ceremony raiged a storm of protest. George met this by denying the whole story. On the etrength of the denial he managed to wring from the Government more than $900,000 to square hMmeelf with hts creditors and to start in on new dissipations, But he was som deep in debt again. His father refused to pay hie bills unless George would marry Princess Caroline of Brunewick. @he was almost the only woman of his acquaintance who never fell in jove with tim. He disliked her from the first, and consented to marry her only in order to etave off his | | creditors and get more money. The ili<matched couple eoon parted, and the Prince continued his career as a heartbreaker unhindered. He became King of England in 182 and died ten years later, leaving & repu- tatton for every form of wickedness and folly and all-around worthlessness that ~ | Would have shamed a denizen of Matteawan. In epite of which he had been known for years as “the First Gentleman of Burope.” attitude in wae in such almost elt leather covered ohatr, He tate of bewilderment he fas gullty, “I gent for you to come over, Mr.. Jarr,” said the old man ‘wearlly, “may- be you can straighten this thing out,” “Nobody butts in on a case of mine!” @aid the detective roughly, “All I go on {9 the evidence. And your thumb-printy ‘was on the letters!" f course they were!” sald Mr. Jarr, epringing loyally to the defense of his boss. “He opened the envelope and he ‘handled the letters, Why shouldn't his thumb-prints be on them?” well, 1 that's admitted, it puts & different front on the case,” sald the Copyright, 1912, by The Press Jitiatins Co, (foe New York "Wor MR. JARR DIVES INTO A HAUNT OF WEALTH. wealthy business man, and fair young bride, Mrs, Cla Mudridge-Smith—the hyphen was her ‘oukin't ‘believe my solo personal property), resided in tho| husband would send himself threaten. Highcosta Arms on Riverside Drive. |ing letters," sald Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, ‘There waa no apartment edifice in New| turning the battery of her wiles upon York City anore costly, complex or or-| the detective, nate, than the Highcosta, and thet no! “You never can tell, Indy," eeplied the ment rented for less than $10,000! great Stallingbull gallantly. “When un a year made {ts ocoupants proud and/old gent has a peach of a young wife happy, for, be it ever a0 gaudy, there’e|iike you h t to do all sorts of no place like home. . Mrs. Jarr was vistbly tmpressed by the onyx and gilt entrance, the Persian rugs Upon the mosaic hallways, th erted ‘hall man, telephone operator elevator boys, who treated all well dressed visigry as though they were! ‘The innocent child wave the melting almost equals, detective another languishin Dogs were allowed tt they were of the! that worthy capituleted yom and fashionable breeds and were in the “Well,"” he admitted. ‘Some folks is curlous. I know @ millionaire what anta-with children were pe got a wife that te a most peevieh party. aide in the place and gril And Jealous! Oh, my! Well, aim gets and a smemutable regulations kept out the], Binck Hand letter saying if he den't ork, t up Atty thor ‘An alr. of dopressed slegance perme-|Put UP Afty thousand ‘his wite will be inapped, and he wri! back that, ated Mr, and Mrs, Jarr ae they rode up i while the proposition {1 to the Gmith suite of apartmente in the! 117” Gemanded eseme Highcosta Arms, fr. Jarr felt shabby | SVE, jond sahamed that He Gad not donned!” ir iiss sechans the totter reached Jevening attire; and Mra, Jarr \ soverty |Mr- Smith by mistake. There are eo 80 cont of the apparent poverty ' F 3 df of her apparel as upon this occasion, many See in New York, you know, | But the hall men and elevator boys |S An: Jerr had been most gracious and did their ~ wot @ hand leat to make them feel at by | 8aid th detective, “and the: those quiet little Geterenves at mean prea in hitrRgianl mil tbe fe so much to the worthy poor. omen . | Phe Japanese butler admitted the| WA an actress I could understand thes |Jarre to the Smith apartments and | letters es being « press agent gag, You jeonducted them into the smoking room |4in't an actress? You wasn't an ac- |where Mr. and Mrs, Gmith were/in con- | tress? asked of Mra, Smith’ |ference with Lieutenant-Detective Stail-/ “I have great talent, my Mende say,” es was the reply. “I have been thinking " tled out of] of going on the stage, but I knet me saying when| husband would not hear of it.” al But if you| “You can do anything you wish, ne have got the habit of writing Black | dear,” wae the reply of the doting old Hand Ietters to yourself, don’t oall Cen- | man. tral Office into the thing. Hire @ pi “Oh, splendid!” cried Mrs. Jarr. And vate detective. Those boobs will let| before the evening was over the going with a atall of that tind, | from society to the etage of the fair #0 long as you put the oush.” young Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Gmithewas jarr’s employer eat ta a crushed! practically decided upon. Fis . 4 ph Great detective, a gleam of intelligence 2 By Dwig ag: Smiths (Mr. Jabex Smith,|showing in his eye. “Why didn'tens replied the fond husband, “Why, I never cross her in @ thing! Why should I write myself letters of tl sort simply because I have mar- led yonder innocent oh! case can be