The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1912, Page 18

— Ger ah ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ten, 08 80 1 to ally siden’ Ro Seal i ANate aK areas . Sper Row. me Secretary, Row. mitered at the a we ond.Clane Matter ae aug ten 1 Countries in the International ten be Uae et “is Postal Union. SOMETHING UP TO SOMEBODY! HE Bureau of Municipal Research is said to be egsin in- vestigating the administration of Charles B. Stover as Commissioner of ‘Parke for Manhattan and Richmond, and for Mayot Gaynor « report on the condition of Oen- Funny things, investigations! Somebody with an open eye walks Central Park and notes dishevelled shrubbery, patchy lawne fences; or he gases sorrowfully upon the bare wreck of Park. He comes beck and tells his friends “something “ to be done!” All his friends agree: “Bomething ought to be @lona!” Presently they cay it publicly and in writing, The newspa- ‘ cay it. The whole town repeats to itself: “The parke are in eondition! Who is responsible? Something ought to be lore tong the authoritics announce: “Something ought to be Gome municipal bureau gets into ponderous motion and “in- the administration of the responsible official. In due turns fn a report to the Mayor or eomebody indeed. Something surely ought to a TY. 54 down with a pleasant sense of duty ac- ) the responeible official draws his breath and his pay with the parks go on getting more and more trodden smbet Yéot and ot the heel until presently, after a long interval SCIa cae are c teas ais aod s techs tongue visits he park, cece that “something ought to be done,” touches the spring “end the same old wheels grind out the eame old tune. + OVERZEAL. ; PIECES and half-cent pieces are the latest of- of a loving and indulgent legislature to please a ‘ few people at the expense of the patience and conveniencs ‘et of the bill which hae passed the House we de” e ‘Bvenin world a wie : pieces, one-cent pieces and half-cent pieces ll wile henceforth of the same composition of copper and nickel «Nakane five-cent piece, We ¢hall, therefore, have nickels, ‘Caree-cent pieces, one-cent pieces and half-cent pieces all of the same Li gelor, distinguishable one trom the other onty by size, scalloped edges ve Se mite accemattien whake'peloet bt vallos cotinieditied are on 4 theee- yeent esis, euch as three-cent railway fares in Toledo and Cleveland, luncheons and thred-cent amusements are supposed to Soo ete sgn Sr or ‘Mow large'a part of the population of the United States du icin cdmmunities represent? Would not tickets or punch cards serve the three-cent street railway or restaurant patrons? fe'are told that the pound of mest or the yard of ribbon whore pe is 121-8 cents con hereafter with the eid of the new coins be for 121-2 instead of 18 cente. When that heppy moment have an idea that dealers will find it “convenient” not to yee that way. The chief end of the 121-2 cent mark is ound cheap and tempt the buyer to take two pounds or yards. n cents @ yard, two for a quarter,” will serve the shopman’e just as well. Phe new coin will fill people's pockets with a lot of confusing, i “chicken feed” coin, whose inconvenience and un- neds will far outweigh ite benefits. That it will have any appre- ip affect on prices is highly improbable ears ago we gave up two-cent pieces iand three-cent aces be- they were found inconvenient and useless, The new coins simply circulate for'a time until a wearied public declines to ‘anything more to do with them, Collectors will be their only HRS ‘many times have hasty, impulsive efforts to simplify the it Workings of spelling, coinage, law’ or life in peers) only in greater mixup and vexation of spirit? SS ata a THE HEIR. bY THE $100,000,000 left by the late Col. John Jacoh Astor all but $8,000,000 goes directly to the eldest son, Even in ‘this democratic .land the old idea of primogeniture stil) wails when the property consists of great family holdings of land. te instinct of the great land owner has beech from the earliest time gag for holding the family acres together, -for passing them on d into the f the first born son. Integrity was felt the surest strength’ domain. Whenever the monarch divided ble realms among his children or relatives, division, bickering, wane suresto fellow. ae though Manhattan is a long way from titles and landed igfes, yet Une of its greatest land holdings passes unbroken— to the habit of mediaeval man—to the first born male it. Sisters and younger brothers have not yet risen to Be np tocs ‘of the eldest son. “g Ps Publishing Co. the Now York Were Coprrign:, M": RS. DINKSTON came lUmping into the Jarr domicile without jaying anything in reply to ‘Mrs, Jarr'a greeting eave to sigh and nk into a chair, “What's the matter?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Mill tired from the 6yffragette pa- rad » my dear,” eald Mrs, Dinkston; “@aturday night sixteen thousand weary At the last minute my husband got commission to execute, and ecuted ft. 1¢ hae nearly executed “T'll get you @ cup of tea and you can tell us all about it,” eald Mrs, Jarr in her most cheerful and consoling tone. he got che tea and Mra, Dinkston atarted to toll. “One of the gentlemen my dedicated hi Dinkston. “Why book book to"~— began Mrs. Mas your husband written a interrupted Mrs. J was the rept: know? The book ts called ‘The Cup Bearer to Bacchus: The Psychology of the Goume.’ It is not quite ready for the prese yet, and Mr. Dinkston has written nothing but the dedication. He Didn't you Poverty Faces Him. husband e ‘Dail Magaszi takes @ title page of it to prominent men with the name of the prominent man printed on it, and sells the prom!- when tssued, to give he fri Then Mr. Dinkston has another page with the ded! other prominent mi nai HIM a dozen coptes or mor “Isn't Uterature interesting!” Mra, Jarr. “And you were saying one of the book to”— and pid country for hima a hi nent man a dozen copies of the book, jends. title tion printed In an- sells erled that entiomen he dedicated his “Was anxious to get a bungalow in family, ably @ place near or on the water. Conyright, 1912, Pe Sat balare ng out the ‘cobox ler room), five) fy laying fa M washirg powder, Delia. Delta—Well, Mrs. Smith, ma’ clanes fine! but I'M hav use it, then, quotine totes tant Willey Sree Sino Sah dashes inte the foom) to go out the you do’ Winte? ‘Where are you hurt, jeft without jader asks if he should ‘# love, t00 young to look out Bf his wife's family tive at his ‘No, a hundred times, NO! I¢ the her family bas a right in bring your own family there, Wife fas an olf witowed ‘MO ane a; home to support then? Just what we would expect her to da. She should take them home with her and {f her husband cannot make enough to support them she should put her shoulder to the wheel and help T think the wife haa a right! aiong, But to take any members of her to her husband's home. If/ family tnto her home whe could look fs old and feeble and has 0! out for themselves, NO! Aire. M. K. out for him, I think the to Mm alse, Rut as long a 1. fem won or daugiier who ix] TV the Biiior of Vi Revi Rover go to livel When is the, “official” beginning of : on Ocow bet amnsont a, keeps up.” “Who? The etraw hat seller?” aside for a rainy day.” ool"s ‘oouphe et Teocr eget shetee Mrs, 8, (frantic)—Deltal Deital hig hand! He ‘Won't have a hemorrhas him over here—keep holdi —high (to operator) Smith's ofc you can, I death! His number? Oh, 1i's Give shure the c! eal! id's wigstt He don't want hip arm held 8. (almoat your hand near HIS hand, Della | odor of it makes me posltively ii! ie hadn't time to look them up him- self, 20 he offered to pay Mr, Pinkston Domestic Dialogues. By Alma Woodward THE WOUND. de? Get the peroxid Pal ples tven of ot poriag n clon? Me ty tte | bel nn, Cy Hag ne ‘Suita'ef ese Yong otto tne white acsi WS. 6. (howling into the kitehen)— I wish you wouldn't use, that The Ors. 6. (lanuldly)—Oh, very ‘well, @ you ‘oom, Mrs. 8. (esresming)~Wille, what did Tell mamma what you dtd! Teil mamma where you are hurt, my baby! band and lets It's hurt his hand terribiy! Ob, what shall I do? What shail I do? CO EE ‘Mra, 8. (in staccato)—Hold hie arm ‘way up high tn the air, Delia, eo he And bring M up, Detia thing—Greeley or Gramercy or Green- " Uke a ekinned up! Deside herself)—1t oesn't matter whether he wants tt 8 of man due telnoid up or not—tt the only way to go broke If the recent wet weather! save him—he'll b "4 Y y ed to death if you| don't! (Sbhrieking) Oh, ob! DON'T put That “No. The chap who laid something scap powder ‘li get into it and give Gim poleoning-On, of ona LONG Mrs. Jarr Learns How Reuben Is Avenged it would look up @ lst an agent had given. Mr. Dinkston took the list and the money and sent me out to look at the bungalo; s, rade for the Cause after all. But Mr. Dinkston did, He carried @ Danner in- serkbed ‘If the Snioon Loater Has a Vote, Why Not the Wife and Mother?” “Why not the wife ‘and mother what?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Why not a vote, I suppose,” replied Mrg. Dinkston. ‘Well, I went away out on Long Island to see One place ‘Cozykrib Bungalow. Water right My dear, it was an oid corn crib cov- ered with tar paper and the only water near it was a rain barrel.” “Still, a lot of people like to rough it ‘by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). (under her breath)-Ye little divi, ye! Kape yer feet to yerself! |Gettin’ the fine white suit thot I put on yer clane this mornin’ all covered wid blood, too! Yer @ musey chitd, ye are! Mrs. 8. (over wire)—Oh, is thet you, Win? Little Willie's done something awtul-I can't tell you all the detatis, tut he'e given himeclf a terre cut tnd he's covered with blood from head to foot and he's weak and specchiess! Tok Son Wille ort 6 Gow high-lem rt Mrs. 8." (over phone)—~What's that you may? Doesn't sound apeechless: ‘WILL, how can you Jest at @ ime kik: thie? Do you realize that your child la beside me, maybe bleeding to death, ‘et this moment? Tell me what to do. Oh, Will, PLUBABE tell me what to do! Pause.) Make a whet? (Pause.) Spell ft, I don't know what you mean. (Pause) Oh, yee, one of thore things that policemen make when people get their legs cut off on the sirret! Delia (suddenly) —Mrs. Mrs. Smith, ma'am. Mrs, 8, (impatiently)—Hush, Delia! Can't you see I'm talking to Mr. Smith? (ver wire) Yes, but how do you malts one, Will? (Pause) Take @ clothes { Say, pin and @ rag and— erled Piteously when I left hin wich or— Della Gnsistently)—Sey, Maten, Mre.| there!” aniffed Mrs, Dinkston, ‘Yes, I'll Delia (in distreas)—Mre, Smith, ma‘am,|@mith, ‘This ta the funny blood! It’s all| take another cup of tea!” Gry an’ there ain't no more comin’ out! wala ie, ies etventege Se ide St St iabet se trate: so fe ‘ei "Mrs. 8. (in a @ramatts whi (Mra, 8, and Delia elmuttansony Give ti quent, ‘The {fia So I didn't get to pa-| ‘ "Stick Around” to Be Let for the Sea-\ son.'? It was the happy conceit of a watching It and cheering my husband over miles of scrub oak land looking at briek and the green goods swindles!" | ‘The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane. {door had fallen in, and @ email porch | stripe down thelr backs, The country ty creatures," “and after I recovered consciousness the country boy sald the omy thing to be done was to bury Mr. Dinkston up to @rat husband you hi | { Sete a; CORNER REEN NOT AIRMAN IIR BART on ‘the City Chap In summer, you know,” sald Mrs. Jarr. “They would have roughed it there, 1 right!" snapped Mrs. Dinkston. Then," she resumed, “I had to tramp trough a swamp for five miles to in- ct a place described as ‘Why Not aj useboat? The Beautiful Housebost | farmer, living ten miles from nowhere. | Wt 1lM who had placed a plgpen, condemned by the Board of Health, on an old mud- scow. The acow was rightly named: It was fant in the mud and was sure to stick around until tt ¢ell apart—which wouldn't be long. woman I know was enjoying herself ‘Well, wh every marching in the Suffragette parade or I was walking through marshes and placed ike these, 1 tell you, country | people are getting revenge for the “T don’t sympathize with you one be!" remarked Mrs, Jarr sharply. If your husband—and you WOULD marry @ clean tramp and an educated loafer—woutldn't go hihi would have made him co “I did on Sunday, wearlly, “We went out to the wilds of New Jersey, in the Orange Mounta! to look at a bungalow advertised It wan a good name, seeing tt was bulit | of old packing boxes and was high up on a hilltop covered with stunted pines and two miles from a road of any kind. We had to pay a country boy a quarter to guide us there, but we found the; place occupied.” “How interesting! asked Mrs. Jarr, | Mrs. Dinkston shook her head. i “The place had no windows and..the A hermit family?" , in front had fallen down, It led by a family of beautiful little mals, coal black with a broad white boy said they were very tame, and their He said they werd) “Well?” eaid Mrs. Jerr. '' “Mr, Dinkston grabbed one of the pret- eobbed Mrs. Dinkston, his neck for a day or two—which was ell,” replied Mra, Jarr, e bi “Ht lan't the jea!"" “The first live one, thoug! And he ee EASY TO SUPPORT. “Yes, my daughter ts going to marry ter ma May 8, | interest in him, besides dozens of lesser damsels. , Was a cadet. | and was an officer in that soldier-King’s bodyguard; the foremost regiment | that had been expecially built for him. | fled to supposed safety; but was almost at once rearrested. jhe went to Aix-la-Chapelle. | Incidentally he wooed, won and wed one of.the richest girls of that city, the f | Trenck.” He was the hero of the hour and he revelled {n his fame. | fram the effects of an Illness 1912 Coprright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). No. 46.—BARON TRENCK, Winner of Royal Hearts. HIS ts the story of the original Trouble Hunt And what be hunted he found. He was Frederick, Baron venturer, -heart breaker and arrant lar. No fewer’ than gree women of royal rank are eald to have taken more than ordinary Trenck was the son of a Prussian General. He was precocious, At thirteen he was in college. At fourteen he had fought a duel in which he wounded and then disarmed # famous local swordsman. At fifteen he - At sixteen he had caught the fancy of Frederick the Great in Europe. Two years later, at a court ‘pall, Trenck met the King’s alster, the Princess Amalia. She fell desperately in love with the dashing youth. And he reciprocated her ardor. A love affair between a royal Princess and a mere officer was little short of treason. The King sent Frederick to prisén. Amalia raised a large sum of money and hed it smuggled to his cet! With it Trenck bribed this jallers and escaped. He fied to Russia, There he won the notice of no less exalted a personage An Empress’s Favor. than the Russian Czarina, Elizabeth, She showered favors upon the young hoart- breaker, tdin @ commission in her army and presented him with a Jewelled sword. But Elizabeth was not the only woman at this time who wa aptivated by Trenck’s fascinations. Russian Princess fell in lové with him. And, dying soon Afterward, she left him her fortune. Trenck was for once enjoying a pertod of luxury and good fo:tune. yy he was not oontent. He returned secretiy to Prussia to visit his fasuily, Ther he was seized by Frederick the Great and thrown Into an underground @un-) Keon at Magdeburg, He promptly set about devising means of escape. And ingenious were his devices that more than once he all but succecded in get-* y from the supporedly tmpregnable prison. By the charm that 8 his he cajoted two of his guards, uge after the other, to help him Both guards were pit to death, and Trenck was removed to @ ell I 2 wet out. There he was chained to @ wall with fifty-six-pound fetters, And every | fifteen minutes, day and night, he was forced to answer when a guard outside | the door called him name, He got so that he dvuld answer in his sleep. Mean- (+ while Amalia had been ceaseles: imploring her brother to set free the man she loved. Marla Theresa of Austria, too, 1s sald t) have begged for Trenck’s release. At last, under pressure, Frederick the Great granted him Mberty. Treneke On his next releace ‘There he set yp in busines as a wine merchant. 4 — | burgomaster's daughter. He soon found himself bankrupt. Turning to Iitera- ture, he wrote his delightful, He-embellished “Memoirs.” ‘These memoirs brought him at once into the limelight, They were translated where he became a popular Iked-about man alive, Seven plays ventures were prtxduced in Fr wore hats, dresses and rings Even when of the statements in his memoirs were proven false his lustre scarcely hero—the most dealing with his romen went crazy over him. Th man . | dimmed, Yet when, after @ short absence, he returned to France in 179 for a vislt during the Revolution he was arrested (rightly or wrongly) as a spy and be- headed. ‘Trenck had few outward marks of the heartbreaker. He was stout and thickset. He was sivenly dn dress and his face was hideously scarred =» Not in the Cabinct. Bre sary ie, a pecsonal appearance of Mr. Taft, | while mean ved States Presi will save any Visitor fuch an experience as fell to the lot of @ certain Gew, Brown of Missouri, who once went to the White House to a newly elected Hrosident come pointers about his Cabinet, While he was waiting in the ante-toom he accosted « man who was glancog over @ paper. rappore you are here on the same errand as he remarked, t know,” reolied the ‘What errand are you ont “Fm going to tell that old chump in there how to fis hin Cobian” fay I am om that errand,” you ain't a politician!” returned the etranger, politely. as not im the new Cabinet, take it out bag, and at last the golfer reached ont, io hd ond oata: vara For answer the exddte handed him the desk, “Took here." eid the player, “I said, tesasle, didn't 1 > “You did that,” sald the caddie, ‘but ge're num tae tak yer cleek, I've got haw 1 ‘on this match, pollen 9 Another Colonel. “anid Simeon Fos@, are for our titles, ted. to think that the finest “Vm chump." s by marriage,, having wedded che wklow, Harrison Pike of Pink Creek, “Bat I came acrots the other day @ etill bet- ter coloael than this, He wae rior “ody and, 4 coiled sisiting hed ot Cal, er, ‘There are dozens of sto Narities of the caddie who takes ployer and spoon feels, 60 to sneak, Dut 1 he read anything 1 mseelt heart at oveasion, Toward the close of a Che viayer walked out to play hia eecoud otro edingly fash- jonable Just now, ‘This one is straight and simple and tt cat made from bord material, from fi Ing or from plain ene terial, ax Mked, be treated in sey different ways ~ can be left oy as shown in one or cut with lower ed re! rted to @ very, varlety of rials, Flouneings bordered mate: Is are liked wi straight bands gt- > tached under theo? lower edges, and. d cau be made of = bi i oF con ing material c Often it ie meae either of colore in or velvet fi which can be remeved when the skirt Fe-, quires Tau nde rin Sepa’ Ry Me ferred by many an: of can be trimmed ip aay preferred manner, Pee ee required 2 Yardy of bordered al “38 inghes ra of plain 36 inches the band; to wide f make with founda will nee LH} yard 23 or 30 insh we Pattern No, 7431—Straight Tunic Skirt with Two Piece Foundation, 22 to 30 Waist. rds 27, 2% yards 86 or 44 inches wide for the ti yards 36 or 44 for the foundation, with 71% vants 36 Pattern No. T4331 in cut in alzes for a 2 measure. we, N FASHION street (oppor revond street, ‘ents in coin eg. 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