The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1912, Page 16

ESTABLISHED ay JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Bxcept th ony 1 Row. New New Yorle RALPH J. 8 SHAW, rer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Beoret Oe, the s Pegt-Oftige ae ese oi eee 8 beta tor oP ihe United atates and Canada ARVs THE PRICE. that the loss should come from the latest, most carefully ” ee fellow beings upon whom to cast the blame? Let blame fall stern and merefiess in due time where blame is de- if Served. While we wait, however, for the full facts of the catastrophs Wah we ask ourselves certain questions. i a With our craze for epeed, with our ineatiable demand for luxury. | 1B «with our continual clutching ot immediate comfort and gratification, | @0 we not snap our fingers « thousand times a day in the face of Meture and her laws? Who is ft that defigtte in these gorgeous five-day rushes across fhe Atlantic in palaces where the one cry is for more lnzury end fore epeed? Who isit that insirts upon traveliing seventy miles an hour on| Who is it thet demands thet he be daily shot up end dewn in G@ovetore and rushed beneath streets end rivers in the pursuit of his! : amd; who fumes and fusses when trains ere late? | | yee end happiness? | Bach and every one-of us! And by mfllions and tens of miifions i every day end every year we get away with it! But in thie med rush can we wonder that when we do trip o2/ ene of Neture’s rocky rules the fall is « terrible one? We are vastly clever {% avoiding and escaping, but with all we can do we must mest now and then heavy reckoning. _ hougts he go ve on « desert island in a hut, with « goatakin ecross {is shoulders, yet may the lightning still find him out! pO Ec eR THE ODDS. OME IDEA of the fearfti ods against the Titanic may be had ) from authentic records of great icebergs. As every one lows, these monsters of menece are formed from huge pieces i} token from the glaciers of the north which the Arctic currents ’ eouthward until they melt away in the warmer waters of tho The terrible procession begins in February, end not @eason supposed to be over in the Year brings its reguler reports of thrilling efghts and and losses in the ice fields from the Incoming steamers epring and summer months. Certain years stand out es unusually bed ice years, but the generel story is much the same. The year 1: @f the Adriatic, the same who became commander of the ill-fated ‘et one hundred and eeventy fest and its length at more than one thowand feet. He described it as looking like “a mountain of glass.” In the space of the next fow weeke of 1909 four hundred end fifty Le | bargs had been seen, including some three hundred feet high and an L @ighth of a mile long. In The World of May 17 the captain of an in- _ soming vessel reported sighting one hundred and forty-three betes | " Ane single day off Cape Race. One of the largest icebergs on record towered eight hundred and ji, thirty feet above the surface of the sea. As hardly more than one- E tenth of the berg is out of water, this would mean a mags of ice seven ) @eonssnd fect (one and one-third miles) from top to bottom. Its velume was calculated to be about 580,000,000 cubic fest and its D weight tome 16,000,000 tone! 1 Icebergs need not be extraordinarily high to be stupendous. Lieut. Peary reported a berg 12,500 feet long (over two and onehelf ‘qiles), 11,600 feet wide and 186 feet high. Tt was estimated to weigh ) 1,292,398,000 tons. Another measured further north contained |» 27,000,000,000 oubic feet of ‘ive and weighed no less than 2,000,000,- F000 tons! a Tce in bulk is about as yielding as granite. Will any ship that man can ever build dash itself against such a continental mass and : “steam on “unsinkable”? —-+ BLACK MONDAY. JHE TITANIC met her fate the night of April 14, going down in T the cold and dark of an carly Monday morning. “It te to be noted that the 14th Day of April, and the morrow after (1860), King Edward (I1I.) with hts host lay defore the Clty of Paris; which day was full dark of met and hail, ond 00 bitter cold that many men died on their Roreedacks with the cold; wherefore unio this day it hath been called the Black Monday.” ae ~Stow's Chronicles, was accepted by Congrem without re- | Kard to the four-year term, or whether Wemetitution of she United States, four years wae inwisted upon and no “James Madison elected | second oath administered because of | for a second term, (There|belng a possbie violation ef the Con- ot. Be record on the journals of Con-|*itution to udminisier the eame twice? of bis having taken the oath.)|A"lowing from Washington to Ven Gerry took the oath, but| Durem the elght-yeur tem eseme to wry . ave been the order of exercise on @ four-year clause, and then four years only for a jong time, Does it not ap- | pear to readers that tt wae a matter of custom to have four years only after 414 not, This wan Gerry's term, with Madison's second term. Monroe, second term, aid the oath. Di aie ‘Tomp! Jacason'n term expired? ABRAM A. @ath. After Jackson, in, | Whyt President was clected for four | To the RAitor of The Prening Wertd: ” Can any one inform me wheth-| Why {@ ft that the ebdreviatton of; urYear term was marely an ex-'John ip “Jao.T’ This should interest, aluepiainenienettediets it cbaak bn shamestaeniied Prose Publishing Company, Son, 88 66 'T IS NATURAL to feel horror and revolt ata terrible dissster that has cost fourteen hundred lives. It is doubly sppalling fanned and lavishly constructed device of human progress end {n-| qanreity. |. But ie it juet, is it wise, to cast about tov soon, too hysterically, | Soa rest enh W oric “Dail Magazine eee AY HAND Ae man complicates his life he multiplies its dangers. And| 909 was the most recent to be noteworthy for icc. | Met since 1863 had eo many icebergs been seen in the steamship, Janes. On March 27 of that year we find Oapt. E. J. Smith, then | {MMtanic, reporting the largest iceberg seen near the North Atlantic | steamship course eo far that year. Capt. Smith reckoned its height; the dean of the white goode trade were #0 pleased at the presence Of & famous Swies sither virtuoso, Herr Dinkston, that Mr. Jarr received the felloitations of all present for bringing his charming friend. For a moment Mr. Jarr had wavered, Could he tell the notabiities of the qT! tn charge of the banquet to | white goods trade that the star of the evening wae only an educated hobo ar- | rayed dm the atreet clothes, ae: the | exirt, of a militant suffragette priser} that the sither he wae to play, which undoubtedly he could tai tonged to Elmer, Gue's bartender? ‘Mr. Jarr cast a despairing glanc: et Mre. Jarr, who wae sitti wp in ‘ne | arried into the white go rade, but Mra, Jarr, used to ignoring @oclal oon- tretemps, emiled blandly down upon him and Mr, Dinkston, Mr, Dinkston waved at her the Fedora hat of “the former Mra, Gretch, the awfal Fedora hat with the little red feather in it. ‘What could Mr, Jarr do? What could anybody do but hola on and hope for the beet? “In Gwitserland you have many oc- | eastone like thie?’ asked Mr, Serr'e Ruling Instinct. |from th eahionel Guerd?” finatity of the dottie of sauterne before | flectyto the hat of Gessler, him and he simply nodded assent. It|Hence, all free born Swiss burgh: was the firat time Mr. Jace hed ever |dine in their festival hea known Michael Angelo Dinkston to have| Then he turned to Mr. @ mouth too full for utterance, ony with the other ta who had! “Why you fire that beltboy | naar Sacaay ably bose, who was the dean of the white, “invariably,” goode trade to whom the dinner wes|sulping Gown the last of tho sauterne, | else order it, but you'll pay for tt your- being given. “It fe in honor of William Tell, Hej self. Mfind that!" tradition records, genu- . Mr. Dinkston wes negotiating the | Would not Yeft and whispered: “Amd you wear your hats fragetie hat with the little red feather. and Intimate Chats WITH WOMEN By Mme, Legrande. Copyright, 1012, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York World). |e +) vellously worked out theortes go to nae | AY, WOUEE TOU; MOT. Eee ee ou te ee ‘was prepared for say @Ml| force working within you compels you Genoy. Tt was her pride that she ley ao, acientitically calculated eolu- always carefully mapped out In| tong ase overshadowed by the reat advance each 20 | numan emotions, able move in each possible contin: ‘her own home ¢ had laid down a yourself doing. And this is true of all j = r blg—chat oc- course of ection| (Mnwe--the Little and the ble—chat cur In our datly lives teat oat REVO |e your child {8 aertously ill, you prom: you will forsake ali leaser pleasures and " a So eae Brat plane evote your life to him, Qoor of the room in which the confla-| Tf you have querrelied gration was G&scovered, Then, sending | YOUT tusband and there ; her mala to turn in an alarm et the |‘rtable, bloak atmosphere | dre box, he herwelt would carry | YOU decide you'll never transgress again baby eorees te the next-door netgnbor | Only peace fe restored, = TOP Chinking about what you WIT, the most precious valuables in the ae-do eraeeuine WOW! | Waties in one downateire ouphoard so ‘The beet motto that waa ever i Passe partont-ed and hung ine Hanem | tar the house caught fire, | Tt euw the amoke curling out| “DO i'r NOW! of a window and turned ine alarm, In| Don't wait for your ohild to fall tll ten minutes the Mremen had kliled the| te lavish upon him al your affeotien | ‘tiny Dlaze, . and care, ‘Where was the calm, farsecing, wise-| Don't promise yourself that SOME Every the Ceptain said! gE gh ed rg or ea sacs i i i E i Hf E tee working condition again. BAAALAAAAALAABALAASABARAAADABBARAAR Mr. Jarr Beholds an Unloved Old Friend in Strange Surroundings. SAASAAAAAAAAHAMASBANASALAAIAIASAIAS replied Mr, Dinkston,, card is@ la carte, If you want “Pay?” whispered back the imperturb- able Dinskston. ‘ Base te the slave that Besidve, I am here as a guest to (entertain the assemblage with the Bar- on his | tle Hymn of the Swiss Republic,’ with jzither accompaniment. our seats up there by that adipose per- | son?” He pointed to « stout gentleman Mr, Jarr gave him a murderous look | a dozen chairs away who wes ordering pied in @ low tone. “Tie wine | champagne from the watter for ehe iittle S| pays!" Can't we move ‘a there to be no more liquid retresh- | in @wttseriand?" asked Mr. menta?’’~ eyeing with great inter: “Sesh! said My Jere. ‘That's the | buyer for one of the biggest department stores in the city.” ‘He's the only buyer I cheerve at this | so-called*banquet," remarked Mr, Dinale- “Here I am dying of arid tonalle, my wife incommunicade, decause bereft of her apparel, at the dotel left her, Fittingly, indeed, affair of dry goode ment" “Wihlte goods!" hissed Mr, Jann, “Shut “1 am the viotim of my own opti: " rejoined Dinskton in an under . “There was a hope in my breast that this would be @ motet and joyous How oan I play the sither uffering feom acute thirs r play the sither anyway. | Your bluff will be called @oon Soe | D's easy to dectde on the spot what} you would do should the exigent arse. pogeel Fire wae But i's quite a different thing to do !t ler bugbear, And! With terre: or excitement upon you you tn preparation f0F \ wij) do thingy that you think you! Mr. and Ui get blamed for tt!" ir, Jare, “But I'M have your*— Mr, | @ possible blaze 10 | wouldn't do; things you can't IMAGINE 14 ‘your wife's clothes for this Dinakton did net appear at all Hia only reply wae to eat if lee yourself that if .he le spared you sa pm We avery cape ip 0 = foods trade Seeieionece, will never speak harshly to hitn again: |didn't it happen they had pockets in thelr evening attire? A prosy olf gentleman whe wes speaking now asked for three rousing cheers for the dean of the white goods «rade, and, these being given with great acclaim for the first oheer but petering out lamentably fer the last two, the Prony o!4 gentieman praposed thet these banquets in the white goods trade be “The old dodos wiM all have exptred of sonile debility ere another year has | whimpered ‘Dinketan, | “while we younger men will have dted | ‘Mr, Jaye nudged pim te keop quiet, but Mr, Dinskten oni if any of the com: persens him were afraid of impaising thelr mer canthe agency ratings ty ad&ing for regs on the wine ilat, t | Hush!" eaid Mr, Jae, ort, ‘) he called on, Bie of up with asked anziously Dinsktan sndled @ eqperter eile and reached for Elmers efthen, HOW TO BE PROMINENT, vWhy eren't you @ suftpagettet” m the gate] oT thing 1 oan se} spore publicity by tn pemt face and jangh at you frem the |egpasing the Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland "uptight, 1618, by The Prove Pubtisiing Co, :The New York Well Lovers’ Number 1H modern bachelor ts so ufraid of falling tate matrimony that he eprinkies the path of levee @QNLAND WHA ashes Ietead of with roses. The eweetest memory in a womawe Wie te that of the first kiee of her fret love; mn a man's, the first kies of hte last love, 4 bachelor poet resents the idea of deing “taxed becouse some other ‘| fettow got he girt;” dut, after the first pange have worn off, moet dockelere would conetder it worth the money. A man has not really fotien in love until he has ceased to regord come parttowlar girl's lissds as a twrury, ond has discovered that they ere @ necesstty, Funny how @ man who ts telling a girl the samc old fairy tales whttt | which he has regated forty or fifty others always believes in his chitetthe credulity that the look and the blush with which she receives them are brand new. When @ man's coat lapel begine to acquire that grayish look tohtem | Comes from the constant contact with face-powder it is a sign that he @ otther engaged or just dack from a ewmmer resort. Love te the ewn that Gepele the mist of all a man's theories and Gime the Hoht of Me philosophy. Never fear that you have broken a mtin's heart; at the worst tt can only be dented, and @ few weeks of this spring weather will put it in per- Love used to whteper to @ man's heart; but nowadays he hee to usec megaphone if he wante to be heard. How to Add Ten Years to Your Life Ey F. A. Hasth, M. D. Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York World). “dl Gestion takes place in the stomash, 2.— DIGESTION. Here tt 1s 20 tonger controtied by te Tetain one's health and Oro- | will, except indirectly. The indireet Jong one’s Itfe the simple| contro! consists in the chermoter er fants concerning the very !m-| quality of nutriment chosen and the portant function of digestion | quantity of food taken, Uneultadle Seed must be understood, and thelor excessive quantities of it remein simple rules rewarding the hygiene [Bae undigested, thus irritating the the digestive organs must be observed. jdeticate glands and mucous membranes The frat fact to be considered in the! of the stomach, disturbing ite sateral Process of digestion is the appetite. AD- | easy working and leading to excenive ture’s call for food. Phystolosiets have! self but also of the heart and ines. shown that when the appetite is strong | These irritations, disturbances emt the digestive processes are active, and overburdenings, continued for a lag that in the absence of appetite Iittle or | period of time, undermine the aystem no digestion takes place. Therefore, to/and shorten Iife. health and to prolong Ife, food shouk |tich takes place in the intestines, 08 & be taken only when appetite is present ‘really here that the main part ef @he and the sensation of hunger felt. Process t carried on and not im te ‘The ret active step in the process of |stomach &s !s popularity suppessé. Gigestion % mastication, or chewing. |Here digestion Is accomplished by @he This te the only part of the process ald of two agents, the digestive juices controllable by the will, While tho|flowing from the pancreas inte the in- food ts being ground up by the large, |testines and the secretions frem the flat molar teeth the saliva, or secre- | xlands of the intestines themselves. As tion from the salivary glands, poure jin the stomach, the process here te tm- into the mouth, This georetion softens | voluntary and controtled only !ndtrest- the food and acts upon the starchy |ly. Improper food or excess in eating substances, such as bread, potatoes, |!eads here not only to the injurtes Just &c., and converts them into simpler |mentioned but there fs the added danger and more soluble materials, Nature | of the growth of hosts of microbes h cause decomposition and putre- this putre- never does superfuous work, The very | presence of grinding teeth and of ealtv! ary glands ts nature's lesson that mas- polson the entir theation is a very important Proves |according to one famous 12: and must be carried out thoroughly. | terlologist, bring on premature old age Thorough chewing, practised for and deat! while, soon becomes an unconsctous act| ‘To add ten years to your life, there- and need not be carried to absurd ex-/fore, tho f g rules in regard te tromes, It te stated by high authort- | digest! served: tles everywhere that the bolting of | Virst-Mat only when your appetite food ts the cause of more than halt of demands ft, the digestive troubles of the Amertoan | &econd—Masticate your food well, ion, The products health and te prelong life, proper mas- | the quantity so that the organism wll dloation ef food must be practised, take care of it without disomfort er ‘The second step in the process of <i- pain. + Tabloid Tales OF OLD NEW YORK Copyright, 1912, by ‘The Freq Publishing Co, (The New York Wortt, VIll.—The City Declines a eehtead |r} House w stood at Wall @m@ of Tea, ¢ was much shake VERYBODY knows about the |'ns of Boston Tea Party, whioh was | uch de ‘among the preliminaries to the | *!! American Revolution, What happened in New York corre- aponding to that patriotic function at| the Hub? ‘Thie is the answer; i On April 18, 1714, the good ship Nancy, | com: Liberty, At @he Capt, Lockyer, arrived at the Hook. street g pilot fhe should have come along about the|¢d him at Murray" WW same time with the arrivals at Boston, |PUt aboart—to the o but had been driven out of her course | ple, the playing of bands and the baggy dy heavy winds, She brought tea from |ing of guns. Next morning he pug ge the East Indian Company, And ahe|sea, carrying all his tea, was expected, The Bons of Liberty were | Less discreet than t goed at looking out, the Nancy was Capt. Pilots had beon warned not to bring | London, He triea the Nanoy up the bay, Merchants had | chests of t ‘been advised urgently net to accept the |too vigiian: came out of the Gate ten, It was permitted Capt. Lockyer, hie oargo and drove hi hewever, te come te the city for sup-|He walled away with (us the Nancy, On the evening of April 80 the bells let New York were tolled solemnly. A mass of citizens gathered at the old York's festi \ The Day’s Good Stories | A Superior Waiter, | shew en nat pa 0 alae R Le al DAVIE st 9 dinner —y Breaking the Monotony, os feel acta in thas Twae fuel ia Central Indi Ld aah emote, Eta cute te ‘Forman ond gation, Wal village | ghat would make p follecior's mouth |life, he w bay To0m Wing's “Azan Ua train wid lee yoom, ent ai "bral tt - a ide stag doen crew ‘wild sea, Pro N Aramid the ay . ‘Feltqr bere pat in" 1o wit on, Dut. Siar eg RS petite or the sensation of hunger is ma-|burdening not only of the stomach #.: 4 live in accordance with the rules of} Tho third step in the digestive Sane | People. Therefore, to remain tn good| Third—Select your food and regutete under the escort of ! x r