The evening world. Newspaper, April 29, 1912, Page 14

A ‘ ” + i gs b ‘ é ‘ the Reesin World Daily Magazine, Monday. April te Be saorio, (~Steieae) 3X By Maurice Ketten | J 1912 } 29. y ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except an by the Frese Fubtebing Company, Nos. 68 to PULITERN, President, ¢9 Park Row. PEARL, RS BILL LEFT HER BABY IN MY Cane Tony Youu Have BRAWGUE BAW. treneuren,€ a B34 gen was dust Teue 78 Tice Cah OF Bu! ERO Bl is US i i Webeari lie Rated ts The Weenies | Pot Bantand and tne Continent, and and ‘World for the United States ‘All Countries in the International and Caneda, Postal Copgeight, 1912, by The Pres Publishing Os, (The New York World), NO. 42.—JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU. diplomat, philosopher. These are a few of the vocations followed by Jean Jacques Rousseau, one of the strangest characters in his- 18,514 breaker that in his famous “Confessions” he relates with joy the story of many of his romances. Hie father was a Geneva watchmaker who in 1722, when Jean was ten yeare old, got into trouble with the law and decamped, leaving his son to jemite for Risssett. Jean was apprenticed to a notary, and at sixteen ran | away to begin @ career of dassiing vagabondage. Soon after this he had his ¢| firet love affair. “Ite heroine was an Italian girl, whom he describes as “an ‘extremely piquant brunette,” and with whom he declared he enjoyed “the | eweetest and purest happiness.” But he was kicked out of her home and | started once more on his wanderings. [Seater bt ‘Yet so proud was he of his prowess as a heath WHAT EVERY NEW YORKER FEELS. ee O YOU ever take « taxi?” D “Can’t afford it.” “Ever think how pleasant {t might be to take your wife; to the theatre and bring her home in s taxi—especially rainy nights?” “Of course. But it costs too much.” “Ever think how much time and how many steps you might bave on s busy day by taking a taxi for an hour to meet your en- | He secured « place as servant in the household of a wealthy woman, the gagements ?” | fam ws the post of sseretary. "But vofore be ood glean twuch prett ween Ger “Neturally. But do you know what it costs?” | favor she died. And Rousseau took advantage of the a “Ber late for an appointment on « hot dey, afl tired out, when en ae eet ota cae & @ taxi would just euit you?” } ell edt dy tyingly casting the blame ea Marion, @ tellew- cf “Hundreds of times, Bat"—— | 2m tte “Confemnioas” he'wrote that me crime haunted tim for yeare ond Gest e \ “Brer wish you could show some friend the little extra attention |{n tie dreams he eochl exe the Girt» agonteed dace 7 of « tazi to or from the station?” | uo Sting tie raion (a not uncommon practice with Sim), Rouesen wus east a “The expense”—— 4 more of tis new creed. Mm de Warens M1 in ve with tum. For “Ever felt a couple of hours in e taxi on e bright Sunday after- tnd ehe lived on terme of closest affection. “@he also Gia ensch towerd tla exp. noon would rest you and cheer you up?” Deals we hws ee eee was dving in poverty, he would oot epee iy nor e memory of i “Good Lord, yes! But” — eon. to Me Cinanerens aticted hin with « eal remorse) ‘Mes. i “Wait. If you could take your wife to the theatre in a taxi ‘There was a chert firtation with a p:clherlhiny Amey Monn Rewmesn : at the rate of 6.30 for two miles, going and coming, would you do it | lett her, and always afterward he regretted he had not married her end eettiod ‘ now end then?” | Sava ee 6 Sareser, In fact, woh of his life was made up of sins or indisafe- i } ‘ tions and of eubscquent regrets that in no way Garred tim ¢rom repestiog, te “Certainly “Tf you or she could do « round of calls or shopping in s taxicab at $.60 an hour would you do it now and then” > “Sure!” “If $.25 would get you to your eppointment twenty blocks eway on « hot afternoon in a comforteble taxi, would you take one now and then?” “Always!” “Tf you could take your friend and hie luggage to and from the raflway station at the rate of $.20 for the first mile, $.11 for each additional mile and $.05 per parcel of luggage, would you do it now and then?” “Every time!” Tf $1.00 would buy you « two-hours’ ramble in a taxi-on a Sun- day afternoon, would you do it now and then?” maée him famous. By this time, too, hin vanity and his abominable temper estranged him from almost every one who had tried to befriend iim. And theories on religion, &c., hed more than once got him into hot water with eort. A chambermaid, Therese le Vasseur, fél! in love with him. He marrieé her. And her worthless family settled down upon him like files, almost eating him out of house and home, stealing his money and even his clothes and running up debts tn his name, Vor years Rousseau endured the infiiction. Thea te rebelled and forbade them to come near him. Therese was pretty and amusing. Rousseau tried to efucate her. He could not. She tearned to read and ‘write @ few simple words, but ehe could never leam to een ees petgpecoeg cog Rea Fig oo Nets cong Re “When you know thet millions of people in other cities ere do- Lg j , : : Gave up the idea of teaching her enything. ing those very things at thove very prices, and doing them in good, 7 > Fe 2 te STI oe eee roe me cen tOn Race bre ted taxis only less freely than they ride in subway and . ‘ ‘The couple hed five children, Rousseau, despite Therese’s tearful protests, surface cars, doesn’t it strike you es shameful thet New York should| | ; ; ‘ccm : _ 5 | | oxnt,sit of the five to @ toundling eeytum as soon se they were torn and gave have only a handful of battered, bedly built, carelessty-driven public , . + care run by companies whose sole purpose is to meter money out 'of ie ack cree pire so the people’s pockets into their own? When s body of level-headed dee it F rae dependence and cemi-insanity, died in 177% wumened. at fhe time that he hilied himeeif because Therese seemed to ing ta: Weve with someone else - further thoug' , mazins, charge of their say that $1.00 0 mile ie « fair taxicab rate tn New York, when tho be eat tate for. the same distance in London is sixteen cents, and the oper- ‘Goore were closed and the express went * Picked Up From Here and There. Ph ihe igh eenart Euac to ‘be atte to produce 10,000,000 heme- tad ti @ man's hand Dower nine months in every year. Ribs rediete from a centre disk of/ The southern tip of Fiortda te the only metal in @ kite frame patented by a/ portion of the United States whick never ‘Wisconsin hee experienced freesing weather. A metal Sox tm which an incandescent “You eré ready to take taxis, then—to get the ‘taxi habit’—the| moment you can ride in them for s ressonsble fare, the fare the rest| ot the civilised world pays?” ‘ = TAB “te ii me at him! imnesked ow ané agiy woman. bandle H*: PAP oteel had, det ao Jare household her emecpt by not sens got off wens. ‘Ne, Ite e honor ef shaking his hand. id ragged ané Gus, whe kept the saloon : iH 5 ! i ii li | Reflections of a bed e S pe (wicaed oe ene * ‘Bachelor Girl}|+ 2m. 2. ~"° aa By Helen Rowland Ant ee on Sp eee “un Geo ‘ i ! | ig aM pram ( Copzeigh:, 1018, ty The Freee Publistaung Co, (The Mow Zork World). TN ‘seve soon e "vetor man’ he hae aries i H ? 3 Reve deen @ “Detter man” tf he hed married HT; t i j bas —WHITTIER. Gme that $ t Gam + or There 19 « Mensing to the and{ becoming . The Ponts. 8 ‘Which scoms « sense of aeins ho ee ' eft f if t ( | at being cumbersome, | man Aas gotten weed to the brond . i Tt to easlly adjusted, her frocks wp the back, i ! I 4t te amar end nest ~~ in effect ana tt fulinis Man will let the Suffragiet go right on telhing ené perading i every | requirement. Clection day, then he'll emile indulgently and say “There, there: Mr, Jenkins ‘turned around and seked Doser ite Hittle head about the naughty politics eny more, Ite & question thet stung even more than| Wl vote for é, 00 Re with!” the rankling thorns, He asked Mr. Jare — it they hurt him. As Jenkine turned] put never ming! Once o worm or 6 women Ande out she con turn she code pot rt ny twigs nae he wate “4 4 hy na aide | Heually turne so for that man never can get her back into “her place” again. Gentleman and razed the superstructure yards of material %, on ® Harlem lady's hat. ihuat was wee Yoo eubwor exposes The kind of husband who can be “lured” into @ flirtation with Ate ste -|train came into the Fourteenth etreet gation with ite ; @ stenographer. fe why nine special policemen drew Mr. | isn't going to be thwarted by a Kittle thing Khe the lack of tempéstion. Jarr out from under the heels of a @ouen chivalrous gentlemen who hed Changing husdande te adout as satisfactory ae changing 6 Bundle from one hand to another: it gives you only temporary rewef, © Tf you don't deleve that two com live more cheaply than one, just ob serve how much more é¢ costs © mon to ave Parte or Monte Carte etone then: sash aia hd -adicammi . tory. Mis life was thickly strewn with love affairs, few of whith ~ etn