The evening world. Newspaper, May 11, 1912, Page 8

The Evenin “World Dail Magazine, aturday, May 11 RALPR and malaria. for everybody. "sidewalks and car floors. all. three-cent pyece boom really Jey achievenents. coal regio’ ‘ing three men. at home. may involve this cla: well the cost. yers’ Association. ——e Damks of the Hudron., Th Ground and raised and and 1 imagine they doing well? They said, miles) distance (‘bree And we can 4 fhe ald of his family? Pennecticut would 7 ‘ = “the | ROTABLISHED BY JOSNPH:PULITAER. CwMlsbed Daily Except Sunday oy. 7 TFER, Preaitent, 2 Park Rew. JONOPH PULTTEER, 31. Berretary he vont | Por Bnatand “CLEAN UP!” HAT’S a good idea which the State Commissioner of Health pute forward for a State-wide “clean-up week,” when every | good citizen shalt tidy up the yard and cellar, get rid of the | winter's rubbish and refuse and start the season fair and fresh. Commissioner naturally lays special stress on the health value of the scheme, which if carried out would destroy billions of breeding places @f flies and mosquitoes and by so much Jeesen the spread of typhoid The plan has another good point. ® good hebit at exactly the time of year when it is most needed. mean the hebit of ont-of-door tidiness. Lots of people who keep the inside of their houses neat enough eeem to regard all out of doors asa kind of huge waste basket. litter and refuse in our streets and parks so often complained of is Rot all due to people who have no standards of decent living. of it is caused by those who carelessly throw on the sidewslk in public thinge that they would carefully put in the waste basket at home. The careless must he corrected by reason and admonition just as the naturally dirty must he restrained by force if the city is ever to emerge into a state of cleanliness and self-respect. For the next few months we shall squares and streets will become parlors and sitting rooms for thousahds. The neater and sweeter we can keep them the better Let this be the year when New York brushes itself and claims | ite place in the company of well-dressed capitals. the Municipal League have pledged themselves to remonstrate per- | sonally with people who throw away newspapers, wrappers, &e., on | The current criticism of park conditions | should assuredly lead to better police protection. ‘The World again urges that the Boy Scouts could turn their superabundant energies in no direction that would so henefit themselves and everybody else. If the Health Commissioner's advice be followed and everybody falls | te and cleans up for seven days, who knows in how many families that week may start up a habit that will last all summer? hieidlaiecind ileacciempetinisiane _ DECLINED WITH THANKS. , © WE are not likely to have thai absurd half-cent Since the bill for coining three-cent pieces and half-cent pieces passed the House the other day do much opposition and ridicule has developed throughout the country that it is doubted if the bill will, ever be even reported to the Senate. tions as a kind of compliment to Tom L.. Johnson's three-cent trol- Then somebody else, in a burst of doctrinaire zeal to halve the present cost of living, evolved ihe half-cent! | Let’s credit both ideas to the good intentions of our kind and | Wosy law inventors and be thankful that the good sense of the nation is ready to choke off most such, —_——_- +4: {THE DJINNS. T" OLD, familiar signe and forerunners of strike and deso- lation begin to loom up grim and ghastly in the anthracite | of Penneylvania. ready forced the State Troopers to fire on the crowds, fatally wound: | Worse to come is feared, | The disturbances are asx usual mainly due to foreigners. leaders of the United Mine Workers are said to be doing all in their power to calm the excited element and prevent further bloodshed. What terribie responsibility rests upon those who evoke the passion and bloodthiret of these ignorant European workers who have not had time to learn to“he citizens and who are but too ready 10 wreak blind and lawless vengeance upon uniform or arms—signs of thority the like of which they have been uscd to loathe and fear Once roused, it becomes a fearful task to calm and con- tro) them. The better brains of a great strike movement which | saying tna tt Mr, Stryver pushed a bition In the are under grave and heavy obligation to count) wiper nat! Med the moet eeneon that a RE than twelve thousand lawyers are practising in New York | #taa County, according to figures of the New York County Law-! The old proverb has it Lawyers’ houses are built on the heads of fools, How many heads to a house? & reader askx about the chances for in peddling and ralsing veRe- Two qnen, father and pon, lived d everything of that kind. They travelled through the Aaighborhood # distance of three miles ‘They hed a sale for all they could raise, had little when they etarted, Two years ago they bowght a farm in Connecticut (the whole big farm with 4 fine house and out- pelidings they bought for $2,500). “Why do you leave here when you are “We have a fine Mouse, a big farm and are the saine from a # well and dive better,” Why cannot any one do the same with New York or money I wad, be good, 1 ing Company, Nos, 68 te | oak. the Press Row, New tk Row. Park Row. All Coumtrion In the Internation: Postal HERE'S SOMETHING ( CUT OUT OF THE PAPER For“You, Tom Tt might in many cases plant We The Much ive much in the open air. | The women of | in after It appears the ame straight from Cleveland local con-| | Riot and violence have 4)-} Copyrigh’, 1912. by The Press Pablishing Co. The (The New York World) 66 ZVOME Into, the smoking root,” Cc said ME Stryver tn a doleful tone, ‘Phe ladies will be hav- ing tea in the ittle drawing room, 1 sUppore.” So Mr. Jare followed the waddling, dig. wertous man up the wide staircnee | jf his fine home, whie Mra. Jarr tripped off with Mrs, Stryver, both ladies talking about the weather, the children, the opera and the latest scandal al! at once | without Listening to what the other was | were entering was flooded with aub- | dued lght from heavy Moorish lamps [of green bronze and dull red and green ‘The place was hung with Oriental rugs of price, but in the dull tones of |the heavy pendant lights the beautiful rugs went for Mttle. Silken ruge were jon the floor, divans or couches were | wore a saddened nee. t me forty thousand @btiars to alr of unhappy A Sporty Design. than in New York, unless you go a long distance from New Yi ihty A.W. WwW, Wite's Mother. Te the Edi of Vveaing World In reply to H’e" Jetter as to have ing is wife's mother in his home, T} would advise him not to. Have no| third party tn your home or you wilt re | egret it. My home t» an inferno since my | wife's mother came into tt. Before she came I was happy and loved it iow I nate 1. We can't get rid ef her. 5S. M. titer In Correct. | To the Falitor of The Evoning World Which is correct, “between you and I" or “between you and me?" M. B, and F, D, April 1, Te the Kaitor of ‘The Evening World What was the date of Good Friday in town. thovr, jcolorings and markings of the costly |: vr, y : ‘oom, ant vhole, place | around the room, and the whole nee | bana to wait for you a Uttle while. | Wonder where you are, and maybe he'll ~e SAw an AuTo SMASHED Against A PILLAR ony WHAT KIND OF FLOWERS | Do You PREFER, Tom 2 I wie Sava Few 4 3 WORDS AT R_ FUNERAL. “OLD Tort It up this place,” groaned Mr. Stryver, ‘and Tam mot in tt once a month, It's just the same with the billiard room upstains, and that cost me thirty thousand to fit u How 4t wladdens the heart of a man Who ts weaning second hand clothes to there, too, Those cigars cost me & dollar apiece in Havana, The cigarettes are made for me in Cairo and they stand me about twenty dollare a hun- @red before they reach me.” “What'll you have?” asked Mr. Jarr, ae he took one of the fat black cigars remember he knows people who spend] and a@metied at it ae though to say, fifty thousand dollars u year on orchid! | ‘Well, it's not aw good as the kind T “Have a smoke?” asked Mr. Stryver,| usually smoke, but I'll try it. as he indicated a gold bound mahogany| “I had to mive up smoking,” sald Mr. humidor close at hand. “Cigarettes In Stryver. “It was affecting my heart.” | Domestic Dialogues. 4 Sy Alma Woodward < Copyright, 1912, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York World) Characters: Mr, Jones, Mra, Jones and Mrt./ reproach, @o what's there to be jealous reer. Time: Six-thirty P. 3t ott (Mrs, Jones apd Mrs, een are deep in a dae (A key ts heard in the lock and Mr. Jones cussion of the panier vs, dhe crivoline,.’ enters, greets bis wife end Mrs, Geeen end sits ‘ a > | down, “Not That I’m Jealous. Mra. J. (suddenty)—So you really have RS, G. (looking at the clock) to go, dear? H My goodness! is that the right ; Mrs. GQ. (gayly)—Oh. time? I didn't have any '4ea] your advice and a few minutes dt was as late as that! I'l get longer, It won't hurt him to walt! killed when I get home! Most] Mrs. J, (spitefully)—Well, of course, if Ukely my hteband has been home an| you want to—only quite fifteen minutes ago you sald you HAD to go! (Mes. Green and Mr, Jones enter upon an ani. mated discussion, Mng G, develops demure and charming mannerisma, Mr, J. ia plainly fore.) Mrs. @ (after a time)-My! how the minutes fly, talking to you, Mr. Jones! I really have to run now. I'll get mur- I think I'll take (sweetly)—Don't hurry awa: dear, You don't have dinner until seven, anyway, and {t won't hurt your huge He'll t a Mttle jealous, and then he'll be j sweeter to you when you TO get there, | dered! Mra, G. Cevimly)--Not MY husband!| (Bait Mra. Green.) You don't know him, He'l! raise the; Mr. J. (enthuslasticatly)—She's a nice roof, and then call you up afterward to] little woman, tan't she? find ont whether I have really been} Mrs. J. (in cold disgust)—My heavens! here, You're just like’ the rest of 'em—led Mrs, J. (delightedly)—Oh, i# he Jealous] astray by a stiver pump buckle! of you? And doesn't he belteve a word) Mr. J, (blankly)—What's a pump you say? Tan't that fine! { buckle? Mrs. G. (weartly)—It's not fine-tt| Mrs, J.-Oh, you may not know the |technical name for tt, but you get the general effect, all right, all right! Didn't your humband jeatous of you! It's eo!T see her stick her foot ‘way out so’s exciting, and it tones up an othenwise| you could glimpse her ‘slim sllk-clad monotonous existence, Are you jealous; ankles!” She got ‘em for sixty-nine of him? cents a pair, too, ‘cause I was with her Mra. G. (vehemently)—Jealous of him?| the day she bought ‘em at a sale. |f should say not! Why, he wouldn't! Mr. J, (dietreswed)—T never looked at | {ook crass-eyed at Andromeda if he|her ankles! assed her chained to @ lamppost on| Mrs. J. (with cutting sweetness)—Oh, Long Aere Square! no! I noticed that your eyes were fas Mrs, J, (myateniously)--Oh, I don't/tened on the picture molding all. the | Know about thet, Still waters run deep, |time! She wouldn't have etayed a min- you know. ‘Those quiet ones have it all; ute if you hadn't come home, MY makes life just one eternal alibi! Mrs, J.—Oh, I thank t's grand to have the year 1884? JOMN E, a Call for Help. To the Kaltor of The Kventog Wortd What is the significance of the wire think Hand ingConnectiout is cheaper, 1 think, | less signal “8 O 8?" * RL D —_—— | A Bure Test. A BALL PLAYER, “What design are you going to Gistomer—"Do you guarantee thie to| Teacher (in geography class)—John, |Oho0ee for your dining room wall jon tea?” * | vo tel the class what league | p>per?” Halesman—Absolvicly, aad: | te. “@ we have many more epetie of oa every) John (promptly)—Wight baseball ctubs | bed weather 1'll be able to paper the behind the ears, as the Germans say. | friend, too! Mre. G, (scornfutly)—No fear! My| Mr, J.—I don't see what you're’ make husband wears made ties, woollen socka| ing all this fuss about. and ‘lack suspenders! Those are not) Mrs. J, (excitedly)-—Ob, don't ten ME! the makings of @ aport, quiet or other-| Ite just quiet men like you who can wise, Are you jealous of your hue-| give cards and epades to the youns bloods. ‘A FRIEND of A FRIEND OF AINE WAS SERIOUSLY {gureo LAST WEE \ AN AFH HAAAANASALLSAHKAAASABBAA AL BHM Mr. Jarr Prefers to Want and Lack Rather Than to Have and Not Want|* RRP RRP PPP OR Oy ‘The thought ocourred to Mr. Janr that if Mr. Stryver was smoting anything must bo But he had the tact to rey that affected dynamite, frain from expressing ‘himself aloud, hie heart it “Try some of that Scotch,” sald Mr. “I ran across some of that in I found there was only one barrel of it in existence, and that was Stryver. Scotland. | iN 1912 | Who Shook the Throné Being the Confessions of a Mere Transcribed by Helen Rowland Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York ADAM’S THRONE IS TREMBLI A last we trive waked up to thie impending In the clubs, in the street, in the subway, in lobby, in the morning papers, in the home, been but one topic of discussion all thie mad, No wonder it has refined incessantly. You know what it has been, old fellow. It has beeh WOMAN, been asking himself, “Where am T ‘at'? Am I ‘IT’ or only an ‘also It required the tread of ten thousand feminine feet to shake us ow beautiful day dream, and even now we are only half awake. Even now Geoeivihg ourselvos with the beautiful delusion thet the sight of those sand suffragettes merely shocked us, and that our only fear i# thet franchise wili wreck the home and ruin the country. Pehaw! That isn't what frightens us. ‘The home has been 80, afd the Country will teke care of itself. What frightens us is that THRONE 18 TREMBLING! We are being thrust into the bad | Wonder the heavens wept for nearly seven days and nights! But why this sudden agitation? Adem’s throne has been trembling | thirty years, It has been trembling ever since the first woman was [into the world to carn her own living. It hee Geen trembling eince man eat etill while & woman etood in @ street car. It has been t since the invention of the typewriter and stenography, It has been trembling ever since Women earned HDR FIRST Do ‘The Franchise? Fiddiestioks! Do you fancy ® will make the least 4if whether we give woman @ vote or not @o long as she holds the puree ‘Hetty Green has no vote, Yet, which one of us million Mttle voters o ‘with the laws as thie woman could if she cared to? ‘The eign of power to-dey te the DOLLAR SIGN, and don’t you éorget It isn't the hand ¢hat rocks the cradle, but THD HAND THAT C1 THE “ROCKS” that rules the world. It fen't the hand that holds ¢he the hand that writes the CHEOKS that rules the family. It isn't the the batance of political power, but the one with the biggest balance in ¢ that runs the home. And every time @ woman earns @ dollar she gains lar’s worth of independence, and man loses @ dollar's worth of suprem eelf-respect. Then, WHO SHOOK THE THRONE? That 4s the question, The women who have been ellowed to rush into business and the pro for the last thirty years? Again, allow me to remark, Fiddlesticks! No woman ever “rushed” eight-hour job in a dingy office until ehe was THRUST tnto it. No wa ‘worked in a store, or a taundry, or an office because she was “allo | but because she HAD to. The business world is filled with dear, Gufty | things whose arms ache for ohidren and whose hearts ache tor a home, But every time a woman te forced to use her brain or her musoles in |to olothe or feed or protect herself, they grow etronger—and etron STRONGER! e Then, WHO shook the throne? Who put the golden sceptre in | band? Gee that blithesome bachelor who “Can't afford to marry,” elth epends his time «peeding ‘round town in his motor car? HE shook the th Cast your eye on that gay Lotharlo who leaves his wife at home to | herself and THINK, while he goes off to amuse himself and DRINK. HE the throne! Regard that fellow who josties women in # crowd and lets them thelr own bundles and hang onto a strap. HE «hook the throne! Wonderful training these for brain and muscle. Bram and mrusch woman. Ugh! But never mind, of4 chap, let the old throne to the agh-heag! You I know a trick or two. WH don’t Gare. We 't give a Continental woman votes her Iittie head off. fe know how to keep ‘om’ in their bless them! The man who pays the bilis and writes the checks fen’t There is only one throne, and one opinion, and one brand of cigarettes fs house. The man who givée a woman @ home, and ghildren, and devotion, tenderness—all the things in which she takes a natural interest—need bother about her taking an unnatural interest in economios, or New or suffrage, and all the things which he hates, If you want anything in this world, whether {t's love, or power, or n or glory, you've ‘got to PARN it. And if you eam tt, you'll get ft, And ‘man who handles the family exchequer will have a nice, cute, little throne of his own, and a nice, cute, ittle “slave” to «it at the foot bof murmur, “How wonderful you are!” But there! I am beginning to feel eorny again for all the women merry. Let them have the vote if they want it, and the throne too, they ever attain elther of them it will mot be because they have fought for or coaxed for them, or paraded for them, but because they have BOU them—EARNED them, by the labor of thelr own little hands, Poor little hands that were made for things so much finer and sweeter tenderer than the struggle for bread! Poor little, bruised handel The Week’s Wash By Martin Green, Copyright, 1912, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). 66 HERE does the Women's;cans and the time saved alone W Municipal League get @ H-|/pay for the installation of. the cense to butt in and put/ method. For mine, I move three ch across a sugmes-| for the Women’s Municipal League tion that the city|no more loose garbage and ashes,” Bs, in the possession of the Duke of Put- adopt a new meth- ‘tock-Haggis, Wafuppitthalooney House, od of collecting Tine Gentle Art, Magil'cuddy’s Reeks, and I bought it garbage and from His Grace. Hp made me pay ashes?” asked the! ¢¢ CCORDING to the papers,” about @ hundred dotlars a gallon for ft, head polisher. the head polieher, ‘a though. “Oh,” rémarked crop of millionaire boobs: “ r character, the Duke of Put: the laundry man,|been stung by crooked aolia : x “you' t} stock ina magazine.” took-Hlgeis! Very eccentric. Why, PETE. O10 Of GH ¢ when guests—paying guests, of ‘see ‘those wise guys. When it comes to extending visit hie castle, Fafuppitthalooney You want to be}pathy to satd rich boobs,” eal House, he runs out and Kicks away the beggars who are caring the luggage and carnes it tn ‘himself and insists on He makes ui] his servants turn over their Ups to him, ‘and he never pays them—but the loyalty @nd devotion of thane old family re- deing pald the Ixpenoe, talners abroad is very touching.” put next to every thing. You take it for granted that because an organization of women puts forward a suggestion for improvement in collecting refuse there, must be some- thing foolish about ft—something in t line of gilding garbage cans and decor- laundry man, “T am absent and no ing. ‘There is only one explani |a wich ‘business man falling for \ “It is indeed. I wish we had some of| ating them with ribvons. : -—> that sort in said My,| “Also, you're probably under the im- Jarr, “WIN you have a litth pression that the suggestion has some Becoteh?" 2, ee graft behind it, because the Women's i) ‘No thank you," eaid Mr. stryver| Muntetpal League favors abolishing the | sohemen rn wane madly, ‘I'm not permitted to touch a] Pen garbage cans and ash cans An’) themselves ax ha influence drop of anything, But I was going to| “inky two-wheeled horse drawn C4Its/ newspapers or magazines or es tell you how eccentric the ct. Pattock-Haggis is: He walks in 1 Duke of his Sleep and takes everything of value ne can find in the clothes of his paying and substituting sealed cans to be cart- ed to the dumps, emptied them, washed and returned to their owners, You by shane Ses oun es one of those Solomons that want to phone in conneotio: ena vif. know who Is @cing to mat the contract] duper ofice a rich man so epone authorized to collect funds for Hef of sick reporters or disabled guests and keeps what he finds as p ‘i souvenirs, Ah, what this eountry neody | fF furnishing the new cans. ould satiety bineelt. ches the: Is a hereditary nobilty of the okiq “Take it from me, the Women's Muni: tis @ faker, Rut many rich mem blood !"* pal League is working along the MWht| over with coin because they thi “Fine manners? ‘The real Chester. | Wnes_If the orcanization can bend INl¥| action will, perhaps, at some feldian?” suggested Mr. Jarr. “Well, a8 I said, the Duke 1s ecoen- “He threw a bow! of porridge at his wife because the Porridge was too salty, Said salt was He ‘kes Amentcans though, the Duke does, | Another of his eccentricities is to asid These he keeps till he has ail that the tourtets| reform across the plate much justifioa- /achemes for easy may have bro wht with them. ‘Then hej tion will accrue to the claim that wom. sells them back to the tourists at double! en are qualified to take a hand in muni- price, at the Inn in Puttock-Humets, a] cipal affairs, fine old inn called “Tha Squeezed Baw-| that our method of collecting gdrbage bee,' which is, I belle¥e, the coat-of-| and ashes is barbarous and idiotic. arms of the Puttook-Haggie family, Shall I ring for the man to bring you a/time that toads of garbage shall bi tric," repiied Mr. Strvver. too dear to be wasted that way, Americans for cigars, constantly. sandwich ?"’ “Why, I don't care for any, @ enack.” Tm dieting,” eaid Mr. Stryver, Glass of warm water and a whole wheat | ness. ald Mr.|qnd dumped Jers, who was much interested tn the| ugnt tw account of the Scotch patrictan's eccen- trictties. ‘That is, unlere you feel tke | to do all garbage and ashes dumping at “Me? Oh, dear, T can't eat @ thing!|{o recommend !t that tt may be smoth | mouenc me reporter or | newspaper or magazine in thetr & | “Phere is the explanation, ‘These men who contribute to fake funde, jthey gre buying something, ‘Th ‘banking on future benefit for |selves. They furnish a good living a swarm of slimy grafters who use |names of honest men to push j No Smoking! } 67 SEX head 6 3 the Methodist Bp Conference, in session, Great enthusiasm over a resolu which was adopted, prohibiting Jelection as an officer of the | any one who uses tobacco, "Oh, yes," replied the laundry 4 It takes women to realize “Because some male decreed some backed up to the side or end of a pier we have the ridiculous heeled cart, “The Women's Municipal League Wea the dumps has #0 much common sense ‘Al ered to death by Its§own reasonable- ‘There is something worth while