The evening world. Newspaper, March 13, 1912, Page 16

i 4 Ie LAP EOE OR INO: - . coach and four during life only.” “ MOTARLISHED BY JOREPR PULITZER. Paste Deliy Mace Bupser v7 the Fat rolab VELHO Ne teetats he Ben pen ea is Co ae rer awtand ond the cont oe Inte serseecemoae O88 fbb Rhone were VOLUME _ eC TEER 18,467 MAKING DUTY ODIOUS. Jer ct Why shonld it be mado Se Betintnt ec oan ee wen uations harder for the citizen by the inconsiderate and selfish attitude of the court system? Take the case of the Colonel. Whatever else he may be, he {s certainly a busy man. He was ready to accept his duty ee a juryman in the spirit of good citizenship. Yet for six days he has been obliged to appear in court daily, with all the consequent inconvenience, only to be at last challenged and rejected! This happens to be « conspicuous case. But the same thing is constantly befalling many a man who can far less afford the loss of time and money. Jurors are not paid as well as judges and lawyers. Attendance in court is neither their business nor their pleasure. Their work is done only as a public duty. Yet the courte eeem to be run for the convenience of the lawyers. The prospective citizen-juror is expected to be on hand whenever he is called for. Adjournments, postpone- mente and delays are the special prerogatives of the legal gentlemen. Why should the man who is working from motives of public service, with only perfunctory pay, not have at least as much consider- ation as the highly remunerated professionals of the court? It is time the worm turned. i “GIVING AWAY” THE BRIDEGROOM. ARRIAGE PORTIONS are nowadays guessing ground for gossip and surmise, Nothing about a conspicuous mar- riage excites more interest and curiosity than the question of how much the bride brings her husband. It has been so since tho beginning of society. In the eighteenth century, however, public curiosity was satisfied to a far more frank and obliging degree. In 1735, for example, the Gentleman’s Magazine records on March 15th “John Parry, Eeq,, of Carmartbhesiehire, married to a daughter of Walter Lloyd, Eaq., member for that county; a fortune|’ ‘of 8,000 pounds.” Even more explicitly, in 1781: “Married, tho Rev. Mr. Roger Waina of York, about twenty-six years of age, to a Lincolnshire ledy, upward of eighty, with whom he ia to have 8,000 pounds in money, 300 pounds per annum, and a When the bride brought nothing but a pretty face they put it: “The Earl of Antrim of Ireland to Miss Betty Pennefeather, a cele- brated beauty and toast of that Kingdom.” Tven as late as 1800 is noted the marriage of the Bt. Hon. Mr. Canning, Under Secretary of State, to Miss Scott, sister to the Marchioness of Titchfield, ‘with 100,000 pounds fortune.” And we of to-day think we have too much publicity! Os WEATHER WISDOM. FRENCHMAN has invented « wireless recorder which fore- A tells the weather twenty-four hours shead. He claints| the machine can hear a noise like a storm three hun-} dred miles away. Our weatherwise grandfathers would call this a poor sort of invention. From childhood they foretold changes of weather thet far ahead. Fewer and fewer people remember the homely signs of coming storm or sunshine. Yet at one time they wero treasured in memories and almanace, An old English list of weather signs had the solemn sanction of the London Board of Trade half « century ago, A red sky in the morning meant rain or wind. For fair weather look for a red sunset and s gray dawn. Unusual clearness of the air near the horizon, exceptional distinctness of distant hills, what is called “a good hearing day,” are also signs of wet or wind. Dew and fog promise sunshine. Bird and animal movements were regarded as good indications of coming weather. When pigs carried straw to their sties and swallows hung low about the eaves, our graridfathers got ready for rain. The Frenchman’s wireless etorm indicator may do for the young folk, but many an old man will still trust to his corns and his rheumatism. ey eb LD IDBA—Dead Issue—Nothing In It!”—is what the O apple dealers say about Representative William Sulzer’s bill for the full-sised epple and the honest barrel. Why doesn’t somebody interview the apple eater on the subject? Answer: Because he only eats the epple and paye for it. What should he know? Anything he wants is cure to be just eome “old Idea—Dead Issue—Nothing In It!” {Letters From the People| Hints im Spelling, ‘To the Baitor of The Evening World: In response to request of your corre- ‘work tn the city, I have a little cash and I have picked Florida for a good place to run euch a farm, I hope this will interest some experienced read- er who will givo me advice. may also like to learn this fact. “Just One ‘To the Editor of The Evening metrical figures, that 1 read nearly fifty years ago. Its solution ts ono, just one, word, Who can solve it: ‘Three-fourthe of a cross Others | The Evening World Daily Magazine, Can You Beat It? 3% ¢xene- ‘WANT _Riauts | MOTHER MOTHER | 1AM A some for stimulation, and some—just for instance. you are a good swimmer. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York World), MAN may have only one real love, but then he ts pussid to have 80 many casual kissing acquaint- Some men drink for pleasure, some for sociadility, Don't make the mistake of trying to reawaken the flame in the heart of an old lover, Love, like Ughtning, never strikes twice in the same place. Don't embark on the sea of matrimony in these stormy times unless Those awe-inspiring English bulldogs, which look so fierce and show their teeth all the time, yet meekly follow some fluffy little thing around, Schooldays » fii“ And « circle complete. Two eemi-ciraies on a perpendicular meet, An nehoptange that stands on two Wednesday, ) % By Maurice Ketten te witt ee MANNERS, You NAUGHTY ” Boy | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland eat lollipops out of her hand and allow her to pull their ears, remind one 80 of some husbands. breakers, From boyhood Akibiades had three qualities that served him ‘Alcibiades, either fearing the effect upon his own popularity or else honestly To the average womun the problem of the “future life’ is merely the question of what shape winge and halo she will be wearing and of how she will get them fastened onto her soul properly when it goes to heaven. You may find the time, the place and the man all together, but you needn't expect him to propose under such obviously auspicious ciroum- stances. Wait until you are standing in broad daylight on a crowded ferry- boat, or crossing Broadway in a thunderstorm, or right in the midst of cooking @ rarebdit. When two souls have but a eingle thought it is usually because the man is in such deadly fear of what ie about to happen to him that he has lost the power of thought. Pa (“eeter ) & By Dwig a onimy Texten FuRsr Class SND UP & Turin! Do You Know any s7ane ? Py Bouts O10 You meer En | finishes the neck and ch 13, 1912 7 Historic Heartbreakers Mar Copriaht, 1012, ty Tee Prove Publishing Oo, (The New York World), NO. 22—ALCIBIA DES—Handsomest Man of His Day. 6 E was wonderful fair, being in character a combination of child, boy and ae which made him marvellous lovable and be Thus writes Pidtareh, and the prodigy about whom he writes was Alcibiades, the Athenian; handaomest, most brilliant, most unprincipled man of his century and one of the greatest of old-time heart- well in tove—his beauty, his wit and his almost boundless wealth. Women by ecores fell in love with him, and he usually returned the compliment. Wearying of a life of mere amusement, he turned to politics and was well on his way toward the summit of Athenian power when all at once the worthy Greeks were grievously shocked by sight of a portrait he had just caused to be painted. The picture represented Alcibiades sitting with his arm about the waist of Nemea, one of the most beautiful women in Greece, and one of the countless women who adored him. A eecond freak of his led to etill more lasting consequences, He fell in love with Hipparete, daughter of Hipponious, a stately, old Athenian nobleman. Hip- ponicus had an air of lofty dignity that made every one treat him with profound reverence. Alcibiades, noticing the veneration which the o!d nobleman’s man- ner compelled, eaw @ new way of getting himself talked about. He made @ det with some of his friends that he would take down Hipponicus’s pride. Meeting the nobleman on the crowded street one day, Alcibiades publicty boxed his ears, ashamed of having etruck @ weak old man, went to Hipponicus’s house, threw off his own rich outer garments and bade Hipponicus to scourge him to death if ‘he chose. Hipponicus, won by the young man’s charm of manner and apparent penitence, not only pardoned Alcl- biades, but gave him his daughter Hipparete in marriage. The marriage was wretchedly unhappy for the young wite. At Jength, unable to bear her husband's neglect and ill-treatment any longer, she went to the Judges and demanded a divoros, As she was pleading her cause Alcibiades appeared. According to Plutarch he— “Took her by the hand and ted her through the market place to his Souse, and no man durst meddle between them to take her from him. And #0 she con- tinued with him all the days of her life, which was not long, for eoon she died.” Alcibiades tried once again to advertise himself. He bought @ dog for $1,260, then epotied its looks by cutting off its tail, remarking as he did a0: “T would rather have the public blame me for that than say worse things 4 about me.” Through genuine merit as @ warrior and statesman he roused Athens te ent expedition against Sparta and Sicily, and had himself appointed its leader, The \ smashing of some sacred images at the very outset of the campaign was attrib- | uted (rightly or wrongly) to him; and he was banished. He went to Sparta and stirred up that state againet Athens. But Timaea, the Spartan Queen, fell in love with him, and this le@ indirectly to her banishment from Sparta. To, re- venge himself he persuaded the Persians to attack the Spartans. Then he had @ quarrel with the Persians, and having made his peace with Athens, an Athenian fleet to thrash his Persian foes. He then returned to Athens in triumph, but eoon efterward fell into disgiuce again and went back into exile. He started for Persia to continue his career of juggting one nation against another. On his way he stopped at a Phrygian town to eee a woman named Tamandra, who had fallen in fove with him. While he was there (404 B. C.), a band of hired assassins surrounded the house where he and Tamadéra were dining. Some historians say the assassins were in the pay of Sparta, others that they were hired by the brothers of a Greek noble’s daughter whom Alcibiades had jilted. Here is Plutarch’s ac- count of the last ecene in the heart-breaker's strange life: “Those that were sent to kill him durst not enter the house where he was, but set it afire round. about. Alcibiades, casting his cloak about his left arm, took his naked eword in his other hand and ran out of the house. The murderers, #0 e0on as they epied him, drew back and stood asunder and durst not one of them come near him to stand and fight him. 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