The evening world. Newspaper, April 2, 1912, Page 16

The Evening World Daily Magazine be. pee iorld;, Can You Beat It? 3% ( ) % By Maurice Ketten ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. PeMeded Dally Except Genday by the Proes PubBshing ‘Company, Nos. 63 to 6: rie, 00 You ENJoy AUTO RIDING, MISS Park Row, New NOMINATION , ty 108 ras Pintahloe Oo, (The New Yerk World.) PH PULITZER, Preaident, 63 Park Row. j_ ANGUA SITAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. J08EPH a Park Row, PULITZER, Becretn: . a N " cond-Class Matter. \ no Gyening |For ineland and the continent and ‘All Courstrtes in the International Postal Unton. it the Por Orracription Rates “to The Evening ‘World for the United States and Caneda. NO. 18,487 WAKING UP! N COMMENTING upon the report of the Fifth Avenue Com- mission that it is too late to make the famous street all it should have beep, The Evening World said March 25: IT 18 NOT T00 LATE TO HAVE DECENT PAVEMENTS. OME OF THE DOWNTOWN STREETS AND MOST OF THE OROSS STREETS BHTWEEN FOURTHENTH AND FIP- SY-NINTH BHOW STRETCHES OF PAVEMENT THAT ANY Somme. 8 fe Phe P fini Om MRS. JARR WALKS IN AND CAN’T WALK OUT. the Cause,” at the (aria room at the Hotel St. Vitus, Mrs. Jarr and Mre, Clara Mudridge- ‘Smith arose at their escape. It ot away from jem and when 6 n't often Mrs. Jarr cares in Har- ¢ wasn't going POURTI-OLASS CITY IN GERMANY WOULD DEEM DI8- GRACEFUL. DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF ONE OF THE NEW- B&8T AND MOST FASHIONABLE HOTELS IN FORTY-SIXTH STREET TRAFFIC BUMPS OVER A RAGGED HOLE IN THE ASPHALT. VISITORS TO NEW YORK DBOLARE THEY. WOULD R4THER WALK 70 THEATRES THAN BE JOUNCED AND JOLTED THROUGH THE CROSS @TREBTS 8 AMUSEMENT DISTRIOT. th war ARB STREETS ONLY RECENTLY LAID DOWN 80 BOON IN RIPPLES AND WAVES AND HOLES AGAIN? 18 If POSSIBLE THE CITY, DOES NOT HAVE THE BRST WORK, THE MOST EXPERT ADVICES SHALL WE apuin ONOB AND FOR ALL THAT WE OAN NEVER HAVE STREKTS 48 GMOOTH AND OLKAN AS THOSE OF PARIS OK BERLINE WHAT REASONS SHALL WE GIVE? FOR WHOSE ADVAN- 14GB DO WE PAY HIGH PRICES FOR WORK THAT TURNS our rauLTy? The Committee on Pavements appointed by Mayor Gaynor lest | October has just made its report. Summing up present conditions, | the committee 3 w pad con vistoy OF A OITY'S PAVEMENTS 18 A 1B OF 1T8 CIVILIZATION, AS HAS BEEN MAIN- GH AUTHORITIES, NEW YORK MUST RANK }OALB. THAT ITS LN te ttle EVIDENCE OF PROVINOIA! Sin aa 90 Dovst. THE PAVEMENTS OF THE CITY ARE AND PROBABLY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN VERY INFERIOR £0 THOSE OF THR FIRST-OLASS CITIES OF THD OLD WORLD. HOW UNNEOESSARILY BAD THEY ARE AT THE PRESENT TIME CAN ONLY BU FULLY REALIZED BY ONS WHO HAS CAREFULLY COMPARRD THEM WITH THE CHIEF OITIBS OF EUROPE, 4ND NOTABLY THORB OF BNGLAN IRMANY. eakae th 0 OITY ON BARTH WHICH STANDS IN GREATER NEED OF GOOD PAVEMENTS THAN MANHAT- T4N BOROUGH. The reasons, The committee gives them frankly: Very Uttle knowledge among our engineers of the most ap modern methods of paving ee carricd on in places outside of the United States. Restrictive specifications, tehich have prevented genuine (atorest @ monopoly in the making and repair of mente (a Menhattan. Teo muck license given fs front of new duildings. The dlockading of cum! wate interests. is Lach of DIXON, GeT ME A IM GOING To Take VERY PRETTY ro fia RIDING 1 CAnE ToNviTE MISS NOMINATION To Tare A RIDE i I! eepectally as regards asphalt, competition and given to one Gaphalt pave to dutlders in the use of the street dering of the strects by Other prt fa Bachelor Girl elen Rowland ‘co-operation detween tha city and roliroad com Reflections -O But what is the master reason of all this? What is the reason By 3 that we jolt about in rattle-trap taxicabs at absurd rates while in _ qvery big city in Europe people ride two miles for a quarter in ‘tafe, emooth-running cers that ply through the streets by thousands? What is the reason our markets are pronounced obsolete? What ix the reason that half of what we pay for food that comes into the to middlemen who play games basta hyd and Fype ? What is the reason our finest avenue is ad- ae tee cacitat What is the reason that we have only fast begun to sce that cramped streets and squalid bridge approachce fare neither necessary nor creditable? The Evening World has already stated the reason: It lies in the stupid habit of dully and resignedly putting up with discom- forts and inconveniences that turn money into somebody's pocket — | fm the narrow-minded, self-satisfied notion that nothing NEED be > ‘@one—that this wonderful city cannot be improved. Without « great awakening and enlightening of public opinion, without « stirring demand that public comforts be regulated by public supervision, nothing CAN be done. A The Coprright, 1012, Ly The Prees Publishing Co, (The New York World), O @ woman, nowadays, marriage is getting to de jugt an incident; to o man, just an accident. 4 LNKEYO UBHop Aas jinuiy UiscULETeEs that the Holy bonds of matri- mony are something for which a special fitness should be required, And now, ifthe State will only require acertificate of mental, moral and Anancial fltnese from those about to found the Great American family, We shall begin to think that we are living in an enlightened age, Perhaps the reason that @ man always speaks of hie motor car as “she,” ts because, if there's any combination of aurprises, Comfort, delight, luzury, amusement, usefulnese, exasperation, copriciousncss and mystery that equale @ woman, it ts @ motor car, It may be alt right for a college gir! to know something about As tronomy and Mythology; but for reat success in life, what she needs ts merely @ thorough working knowledge of gastronomy and dermatology. It ts @ husband's gradual change from the attitude of “The Queen can do no wrong,” to that of “The Queen can do no right,” which pute out the lovelight.in a wife's heart. No, Dearie, the wife of the future will have no bundle of faded, old love letters to dream over; instead, she will epend her sentimental mo- ments tenderly musing over a collection of post cords, telegrams ond wirelcas messages. Oh, well, even a clever girl # sometimes silly enough to be kiesadle, Schooldays # Rito ti sia (“Gtr ) & By Dwig of the Fifth Avenue Commission and the Pavement nd try to be a REAJ, city. RAND CHIEF STONE of the Brotherhood of American Locomotive Engineers would like to see General Managor Hedley of the Interborough fix up a nice union deal with "the Brotherhood to insure everybody's brotherly and constitutional Stop a bit. If Hedley closes up with Stone and makes the ‘a closed shop, lot of people's constitutional rights re | knows, who knows Ethelinda, thi to spend her as it were, at * buffragette mee As for Mra. Ciara Mudridge-Smith, that opulent and Joyous young matron was always out for @ good time—and she had sensed in- stantly that thie was neltuer the place nor these Dersone tor such vccamous as abe cared for, But Mra, Gratch fized the wouhl-be deserters with her bard, cold eye, and in # grating voice oried: “We are in ex- SCULLVe seamuc, no Le Must wave toe -vomt”? With @ petulant flourish Mra, Jarr ang Airs, Mudriage-Smith settied themselves im their chase agen and aire Uratou vesau ner report, pisiers sn Suurey " ahe began. “We anow uly Luu wen Ory vs oUF De wayal at Aivany viewory Was WiLL OUF grasp. The Assemuiy passou + DML BUOMuug Lue Questiun Uf Vuiee sor Women auendment to tne Coneucu- won of tue Blawe os New Yore to # pupu- sac Vole M6 Lue uext eiecuun.” ‘dhere were oud cneere and glove -seyping Ot lois Srom toe “Sooners,” as we qual brancowe call toe womeu who come lO suuragetio vul Knowing waoy tuey -saPDlbg Buyiaug walle they are there, Airs. Uraica queued tae untimely ay- vieuse Wi & belelul gare aud se- sumed: . But,” she said, “BUT! When the oullragetio delegation rushed out of the Assembly covenng to get tea and ou sundaes @nd to telegrapn all over the sand that the Cause nad Wou—what dia -ae@ wretches of men dot’ “What won't they do?” piped the fat wady near Mrs, Jarr. “Ob, if I bad only veen there to scratch ‘em!" “They reconsidered that vote aad de- teated it!" intoned Mra Gratch in slow, hollow voice, Instantly all the ladies present or. * Intervi Aathor of “The Journal No. 10—Bthelinda as ‘‘Every- body” Sees Her. HE root of we the next house was on level with my apartment and only « few feet away. Ae glance showed us it was empty. Nor was there any sero- plane in sight. It was possible that the faint buss of machinery Ferg of planes we had heard m! have been from an aeroplane flying above our owh roof, ‘That the aeroplane might be actually on this roof now never even occurred to us in that curious and inexplicable way in which a person's suddenly ar- rested attention is 90 often directed to the OPPOSITE direction from which a danger or pleasure comes. Yo return then to Ethelinda,” Mr. Gordon, as we drew the shades and turned up the lights, “You were eup- posing me to be in love with Ethelinda over whose imperfections Cupid menda- clously throws his rosy glamour.” a “Not mendaciously, but kindly,” I laughed. “If he compel (and when he will, he CAN compel) us to love, | WHERE and WHEN and WHOM he | will, is St not kind of him to make the adored one as lovely in our eyes as tt is possible for mortal to be? When you,” 1 repeat, “love Ethelinda, you see in her the impossibly Cupid you, lovely creature Now shows rr at she la @ slight, @mewhat awkward young woman, with very ordinary eyes of ia i 4 SS 1 Oe r\\\’ LYON ito an A? aa ‘ere apt to be violated pretty badly in the long run. Is the whole | subway system to lie sympatheticaly idle some fine day because of | engineers’ strike in Oregon? , Where does the public get off on this proposition? —-1-—_—_— : ND now Lawyer Howard S. Gans sails into District-Attor- | A ney Whitman, accuses him of flagrant abuse of power, says his course all through the Brandt case has been op- and flatly declares that the District-Attorney knew Brats story was false all along. "Wit somebody please tell us where Mr. Howard 8, Gans got this discussion? We thought he was a private practitioner without @ficial connection with the District-Attorney’s office | % Ms, Jerome's day. What is Mr. Gans’s present oo Why these strictures and denunciations of the District-Attorney? m did it cease to be the duty of that officer to prosecute crim- guilty of criminal offenses? a so widespread after all? A French statistician has calculated that out of a thousand persons chosen at random from contemporary humanity, hardly more than fifty have evor jen in @ railway train, perhaps three have received a telegram, have ridden in an automobile and only two in ten thousend Her Some Pretty has now become quite s meneral custom to exchange small gifts at ; and @#o the shops are T uring Easter gifts, Sometimes one finds tables filled with inexpensive novelties suitable for this purpose. One table bearing a placard, 2% cents, shows book markers, brooches, bar-ping, hat pins, strings of ‘Deads and 40 on. ‘Another one displaying 50 cent articles |nolds an assortment of jewelry and Also a nice line of sil- ssware, an appropriate Easter Stationery gift, and @ apecial line of white, silv | edged paper, tied with lavender ribbons and packed in boxes ornamented with Raster | is $1. Gold initial corres- pondence cards are only 19 cents @ bo: the pretty cloisonne jewelry th n assortment of pins, buckles, dc, pin is % cents, shirtwalet cents, and a pendant in th ape che Jap FFamall ews With Cupid by Barbara blair. { vue ee \4 ot their mutual ant:nosities and hissed like @ den of lady snakes. “It London Equal Suffrage has also met with a temporary check,” oes tinued Mrs, Gratoh, “But, oh, my Ble Glorious work ts being done We lemonstrating that man does aot by brute strength, for, and i f must drag personalities into this mat- ter, I ha.s been married five times and I never had a husbarg! out of the five 1 couldn't whip, or one,” here she sank her voice to @ confidential whis- * per, “that 1 didn’t whip every tme & fet Mke it, and I felt like Jt very, very ofteni” At these words the assembiage arose, Gratehites and anti-Gratcnite, and cheered to the echo, “2 have to report,” Mra, Gratch went on, When the entousiaem subsided, “that # woman in Lima, Unio, was sent to jail for pulling the nose of w judge.” (oud appiause) “A woman in Dum fries, Scouand, took a gua irom @ sen: try and broke it over nin (Louder applause.) ‘“Shese are vut a few of many instances J could quote tat show af physical prowess is # queuuestioa for We iranudise tae wonlan of to-day possesses it also! é “But many of you, I fear, do met sully comprenend the real reason why. Wwe amilitent women of London, to the number of several thousands, devoted 4 ‘| vay to smasaing Woe winaows of tae big London siures, Ihe suupscepers of Lea- @0n bad veen ratuer in sympatoy wis the Cause; suffragettes sumire sae clothes as why should they smaeo Winuows where gowns Were displayed? Airs, Jars, you were in London, perhaps you can tell us why those shop windows of Hegent and Oxford streets were smashed by the bewt women of London,” Mrs, Jarr arose and said coldly, “It you had seen the stodsy, ugly British styles in those windows, gowns with ao distinction, cloaks with no clas, hate of hideous shapes and colors, you would have smashed the windows, tov, omy ; like it whea I looked in.” | of a Neglected Baildog.”” i color, rangi: bl Indefinite arer ten Mottled blue. It is true she das an abundance of halr, but that is only the more unfortunate aince this makes its dull brown tones the more noticeabdle. It Bthelinda did not have eo MUCH ugly brown hair of her OWN ghe might delight our eyes with a LITTLE delicately waved and exquisitely curled golden hair of somebody BLSE's which would make Hthelinda, if not &@ beauty, certalfily more attractive than she now is. Everybody also kno that Dthel- inda's lips, though red, are much too thin, and though her cheeks ere pink, her brow is too broad, her chim too ie ee neck too long’ — bi: eve,” and Mr. Gordon looked, bh intently, “you are describing pedis “Well,” I gasped, “you jadnly - NOT in love with Ethelinga. we His face flushed, “Oh, I say, you know. I didn’t mean— er—I only meant to say’— “Har! Hari’ Mr, Gordon ana I jumped and looked at each other, It was undentadly a chuck! fat chuckle, a mocking, Seoring, rolllck, ing chuckle, and it sounded directly lover our heads, { “Re ts Cupid, I tell your oriea afr, {Gordon excitedly, after we had listened in vain for & repetition of the chuckle. “It was his aeroplane we ‘heard a few mome! He come himself,” ‘upid,” laughed, “there is no use trying to hurry him. He will not come until he is ready, It is as dit- ficult to make him COME, you know, agit 1s to HOLD hia when he wants to 0, oF to force him away when he is determined to STAY.” (To Be Continued.) Copyright, 1912, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Wosid), some nondescript where from an {i Easter Gifts. Nepkin rings in a new another Easter offering. Pray rl +} Pierced silver and mounted on polished ya stands. They are 9 cents aad One of the dainty Dresden elk hand- dags at $1.15 would make a nice gift, The platinum finish ir ornaments ‘Gre light in weight and something quite new, The fancy hairpins are $1 and the Darrettes are $5, Book rack ends for the boudoir or: drawing-room table are of dainty moire. trimmed with metal braid. They Practical gifts that can be had at 76, All sorts of candy boxes in the form of e868 are being displayed, but those of gold cloth with gold braid design on the top are substantial and practical, since they make nice trinket receptacles for the dressing table. They range ia price trom # cents to $1, according size, * Ohtldren often rebel against using 9 hot water bag. They would not ob Ject to one of the cute rabbits that so effectually conceal the actual fudber bag. They are $1.50, and wo standing Panag with eal elet':30 on to om, ell ag their weaker sisters; -