The evening world. Newspaper, May 29, 1912, Page 8

Matter. Ted the Continent and St, the PortOmce at How York tee to For Eni AU Countries in the International Postal Unton. fer the United a end Canede, ee mantdiar4 ‘Year. oc ceeceees one Month VOLUME Sevgiitmumaners woeeeses NO, 18,644 OUR VANISHED SHIPS. EPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM SULZER of New York dealt out some plain truths in the House Inst week when he ex- pressed his intention to vote for free tolle for all ships flying the American flag going through the Panama Canal. Mr. Sulzer believes in trying to restore the American mérchant marine by every legitimate and constitutional means. He is not one of those who are willing to gloss over “the deplorable fact that we have less registered tonnage for deep sea carrying trade to-day than we had one hundred years ago!” He faces the facts as he finds! In 1812 the Untted States, with a population of iess than 10,000,000 inhabitants, owned more registered tonnage for ocean earrying trade than the United States in 1912 with a population Of over 29,000,000. The American deep sea tonnage in 1812 was over 1,200,000, and it ts now ivas tian 800,000, and, what ts worse still, it showed an actual decrease of more than 6,000 tone fast year. In 1812 American ships flying the American flag and @anned by American eatlors carried over 90 per cent. of our Geep sea trade and a great part of that of all the countries of Burope. To-day we carry very Uttle of our own trade and Practically none of other countries, notwithstanding the fact that we should be the foremost maritime, power in the world, And the reason for our fall? Mr. Sulzer finds it in the stupid policy of Congress which | (1828, to please foreign interests, suspended those preferential duties | in favor of American built ships which up ‘to that time had 60 successfully fostered American shipping. Any measure that will tend to restore even in small part that preferential eystem under which our trade thrived Mr. Sulzer deems well worth fighting for. He has already pending in Oongress a bill to encourage an ‘American merghant marine by allowing a reduction of 5 per cert. ad valorem of the customs duties on goods imported into this country in United States vessels, and b$ exempting such vessels from the $4 alien tax. . Ship subsidy is highly questionable policy. But preferentin! duties and free tolls are sound, practical steps in building up a na- tional shipping. It might prove necessary to change our commercia! treaties with certain favored nations, giving these nations one year’s notice. But is it not well worth while? Not long ago The Evening Worf noted the experience of one handred business men of the United States who cruised together emong South American ports. So impressed were they with one ob- servation that on their return they embodied it in a printed memorial. Tn the harbors of Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres, Valparaiso, Montevideo all full of foreign shipping—“we have looked in vain for a merchant etoam vessel carrying the flag of the United States!” \ energies, should deliberately, year after year, pay over some $300,- 000,000 to foreign vessels for carrying ite own freight and pas- ness going to see that such a state of things is mighty poor business ? This city is fortunate in having a Representative who stands A MEAN SHAME! "S A CRUEL, hard world where a great telegraph company like short sleeves and array themselves in ehirtwaists “with moderately high adjustable collars and sleeves that extend below the elbows!” as close as anybody can get. An austere representative of the company declared: Awful! Instead of being happy and grateful for this sightly and pleasant state of things these marble-hearted officers spoil it iron-fisted inhumanity can you beat a corporation? ——++-— the Mayor handed out a neat double-ender: To the one side, “What’s the use of being so nast and to the other, “It seems That will be a very bright day indeed wher certain hoys get over the idea that there is something manly and smart about spitting, It becomes more and more astounding that this great country with its wonderful consts and harbors, its limitless resources and sengers! How soon is a nation that prides itself on its commercial shrewd: among the wide-awakes on this subject. ev ] the Western Union can compel the young omen who tick out its messages to forego the cool comfort of low necks aud Relays and relays of reporters have failed ta find out the where- fore of it. “Sanitary and engineering reasons” seems to be abgvt “The girls have been going around this building with their arms bare and with low-necked waists on!” all with starch and collars! For cold-blooded, senile, morciless, graceless, blind-to-all-heauty, NENT the boy who was arrested for spitting in the street and locked up with a cell full of drunkards and toughs, to be impossible to get a little sense into the heads of some po- licemen.” and certain policemen cease to believe that their first duty is to jam the etation full. Yes. Be the Editor of The Evening World: If @ man {8 born in this country of foreign parents and hie father becomes @ Mizen of the United States, is the een digitie to be President of the this seems to be a senal the “many men of many minds" of tt Cc. B Walking fer Growth, UWatted States? A. K. | the BAitor of The Evening World Yeo; whether his father tweomes | ditizen or not. “At What Aget” Bo.the Editor of The Evening World Perhaps some medica! readers would | Whoy ike to express their views as to at what | )OUr ee9 & young man stops growing, as I], wow this to be a question greatly in Gispute. For instance, Tam sal! for my age. rie. Brivk walking ts the best may A Word Puzzle, f The Kveoi » figure World the Editor Wi out how “unquestionab owels Eiisiee tar creme tere tachaasonen ne one do better? WILLZAM TAYLOR. has passed his eighteenth year, while other gpinions are entirely different, As e discussion, I think it should be Interesting to hear aide Is walking good to make one grow? general Hy srengthening the peniaps ddd to many can make from the word using only the com contained in the word? I have made over 800, Can any OFFICE Gift EMPLOYED ARE To ex Fables for Ev “The Quest of the Golden Girl.” A FOX had by some means got into joremois of @ theatre, Sud- only he observed a face glaring; down on him and began to be very) frightened. Bu looking more close- | ly, he found tt was! only a mask, such! as actors use to! put over thelr | faces, Ah." sald the! Fox," you look very | fine; tt Is a pity) have t Rot! y brains.’ i And Aesop draws the moral | “Outside show {8 a poor substitute for | inner worth.”* Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to win, She wanted to win admiration and love. On the highways and byways of life she saw many wo- men gayly bedecked, their Ife made up, | with following fashion's decrees, "Ah," sald he, “I will be like these | women, I will bend every effort to look BEAUTIFUL. ‘Fine feathers make fine birds,’ and I shall] be ONE of them. | Now, this girl had much LEISURE, for | e lived at home with her family, pro- ducing NOTHIN: much. Her favorite pastime was spending hours In plating @ prospect! seeking for bars “baby Irish lac plumes ‘Nothing concerned her except a con- tinuous adornment of herself. She had “Going to the ball game Decora- tlon Day?" lent Too slow. Nd tack the fun aking @n excuse for getting away from the office,” ALL OFFICE GIRLS WITH PRETTY By M o) BY ALL OFFICE (RLS OBY THIS, ALL OFFICE GIRLS ARE ‘ REQUIRED To WEAR TRETH THEIR HAIR AS PLAIN REQuiRED AS POSSIBLE HAVE A Few TRACTED. Way Not ? OFFICE GIRLS WITH PRETTY FACES ARE REQUIRED To WEAR MASKS THE ‘Wee tvening World Daily Magarine, W ed nesdaye MsaF. 2 oi Why Not? 8 ¢xese- aurice Ketten ee GIRS ITH LANGUOROUS EYES Ake Required To WEAR BLUE GLASSES UR.To.DATE OFFICE GIRL Copyright, 1912, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York World), no time for anything else. as it was, he was just a friend. But she The girl met a man. She admtred| was looking forward to the time wh him. HE was the next thing she would} she would outshine everything and be win. So she set about to play the at-|the Iifelong “friend wife.” tractive game, calmly figuring out| So one morning she awoke a mwuch every action thereof, surprised and disappointed young wo- She wore an everlasting mask of ‘Am-|man, In her hand she held the an- I-not-beautiful?” At first the man WAS /nouncement of the man's marriage to a @ bit daz#led, It was nice to sit oppo-| girl whose days were filled with work site her in @ lobster palace and see her| downtown, who wore only neat plain shine a bit. | things, and who studied and thought But when he tried to get beneath the! and lived and laughed in her spare mo- mask and talk things EARTHLY, he! ments, found her wofully wanting, for she) She knew the girl and she WON- | developed only her outer self. She did/ DERED at tt. The bride w: ittle, not know anything about men and) unoptrusive thing, and would not shine women and things that make for the|in a ballroom or in a gayly dressed world's work. did not know music| throng in a cafe. i or books or to appreciate the| But she knew something of business laughter of little children, She only dooks and life about her, and had delighted in clothes and more clothes. ! cultivated the attribute of being a good Ghe thought she had the winning! listener. She kne the value of a kame and continued to dazzle, Of course, home, for she was‘a part of one, In a A Girl. Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Worl), ANY a June bride discovers later that ahe might just as well have been married in May, as far as her luck is concerned, A man's illusions about women usually drop out with his front hatr, Thus, the higher the brow, the lower the opinion of the fair sez. A perfectly frank woman is wholesome, So are corned beef and cad- bage, medicine and adversity—but they aren't alluring, A man's love will subsist so much longer on the hope of a Rtse than on gratitude for one, that it behooves the woman who wants to marry him to steer her course skilfully between the Scylla of stony discouragement and the Charybddis of hasty response, Carrying your heart to a summer resort is as foolish as carrying your fur overcoat; you deserve to get moths in its Summer is a time for sentimentality, not for real sentiment; for art, not for heart; for philandering, not for falling in love, A man is 80 paradoxical that he never despairs of finding that {mpos- aible combination; a woman who 18 easily kissable but has never been Kiased, Of course, a husband and wtfe owe each other everything; but it's hav- ing to pay ét in interminable daily instaliments that gives them “that tired feeling.” . { esting. (19 aging truths.” right. pretty.” word, she was interested and inter- She, too, realized the value of mak- ing the best of one’s OUTWARD ap- pearance; but not to the exclusion of all else. The mah also realized it. MORAL: IN THE QUBST OF THE “GOLDEN GIRL" SHE IS NOT AL- WAYS THE ONE THAT GLITTERS. The Papers Say By Fohn L.‘Hobble Copyright, 1912, by The Ps (The New ) ork damn dd vorld), HIO bank + robbed.” Not by the bank officials, how- ever; but by unknown par- ties who had no authority to commit the robbery. “Disbarred lawyer threatens dam- That would not be A lawyer, even though dte- barred, should follow the profeseypnal custom of suppressing the truth, The perpetual candidate tetle us that in counting delegates 2 and 2 equal 28, College men have made a new Hast of the “Seven Wonders of the World” Dud it te believed that the women will atick to the following Ket of wonders: “IT wonder tf he te married.” “I wonder tf he will propose.” “I won- der if he ever said that to another girl.” “I wonder tf we will be hap- py.” “I wonder if he attlt loves mr.” “I wonder if his new stenographer is “I wonder éf he matled those letters.” “Wadters and hotel proprietors can- not agree on settlement.” Why not have the public throw in what money it has left and let the waiters and hotel proprietors divide it to suit themselves? “Million daliars of redeemed paper money burned in Washington.” If it was necessary to destroy this money why didn't they send the committee to New York and have them invest it in Wall atreet? “A Bryan button broke up Indiana family.” Yes, and a Bryan butt-in @ few years ago broke up the Demo- | joratio party, \ 1912 Wome nitleartbhreakers OF TElighkorrss® MERE paren Teme Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), ae | j NO. 3—DOLLY MADISON, “Most Beautiful Woman in America.” ORTH CAROLINIANS were treated dally to an odd eight dur ing some of the elghteenth century's last years; the spectacle! of @ girl walking primly to school, clad In most outlandish. fashion. A huge sunbonnet was sewed to her hair. Long ] gloves covered her arms from finger tips to shoulders, and a white linen mask was tied closely over her entire face. The child was Dolly Payne, a planter’s daughter, whose mother (once a reigning belle who had rejected an offer of marriage from Thomas Jeffers fon) took these queer precautions to preserve her daughter's beauty froma the glare of the sun and from the oyes of passersby. And the beauty was well worth preserving, Its fame was destined to spread over the whole world. The Paynes moved to Philadelphia tn 1786. They had lost thet money and could no longer keep up the plantation. Dolly, who was only fourteen, at once became the toast of the town, Dozens of men proposed to her. When she was nineteen, John Todd, a wealthy lawyer, entered the late for her favor, She did not care for him. But her father was deep in Todd's | debt and on his deathbed bemged Dolly to wipe out the indebtedness by marrys ling the lawyer, Reluctantly, she consented Three years later, Todd was stricken | was upon him, he mounted his horse and ga! the. house where Dolly was spending the summer with yellow fever, Knowing death r out Into the country to more than an, your | woman thus reproyed her: “Dolly, thou must hide thy face, for too many stare at thee!” | One of the men wir stared was Congressman James Madison. | he fell dn love with the girlish widow. He Induced | other of Dolly's countless admirers—to ask permission to Dolly wrote to a friend: i Burr says that ‘Great Tittle Madison’ i Aaron Burr—who was an- oduce him to her, s asked to be broueht to | Madison was twenty years her senior, But he was handsome and brillant and very evidently had @ career before him. George Washington and his wife= oth close friends of hers—warmly urged Dolly to accept the ‘great little” etatesmen. At Inet she did so, She and Madison were married in September, 1794. husband became the fourth President of the United States. As ‘first lady of the land,” Dolly scored a veritable triumph. Her beauty, her tact and her gracious charm won every heart. Her pratt vere sung not only here but in Europe, | When, in 18H, the British sacked and partly burned Washington, it was Dolly Madison's quick wit that rescued some of the chief treasures of the Gov ernment from their clutches, Among other precious things she carried away in her flight was the Declaration of Independence. We owe that document's preservation entirely to her; as {t must inevitably have been burned when th? British set fire to the national capital's archives and public bulldings. It was necessary for Dolly to @sguise horrelf during her fight from tht, city. For Admiral Cockburn, leader of the British raid on Washington, hart loudly boasted his intention to “capture America’s most beautiful woman anit exhitt her in England.” During twenty years after Madison’ of office ended the ex-President and his wife lived in almost Kinsly . elr great country place, ‘Then Madison died and Dolly came hack to Was mt lve. She died in It}, poor, lonely, well-nigh heartbroken, her happiness and her fortune both having been lost through her only son's wild extravagance. Color Combinations for the Well Groomed Woman LUE and green are an attractive |or for theatre use a rather vivid blue B combination of colors, especially! covered by black net or lace !s hana- {f they shade more or less into|some, So many shades of blue ave each other and are not too shanply hard and bring out the lines in a wom contrasted. A blue and green indistinct /an's face which she is particalav!y anx- plaid makes a stylish street suit, with|/ious to soften—that ts, 1 shades besides the pale ones, that < used in the evening. So, black ts apt to Soften the blue without detracting from @ green silk petticoat and either the dlue or green predominating | in the hat. he exclaimed as friends sought to hold him back, in a lit | after he reached his wife he was dead Dolly was now a rich widow of twenty-two, with a couple of children and @ big Philadelphia mansion. And once more she counted her suitors by the dozen. Men would etand on street corners for hours on the chance of seeing her pass by on her way to church, A chronicler relater tiat one old Quaker | ‘ And at sight A tow years later she was the queen of Washington eoolety and, in 1809, her . It te better, just why ft is hard to say, to have the green the accessory color, appearing on the hat or on the) waist, leaving the blue for the back- ground, Black shoes and white gloves look exceedingly well with this costume; | but tan shoes and groves would be stylish, also. Blue and green combine well for little | serge dresses, especially if ecru lace 1s | used ag the trimming. | ‘Then there are stunning jade ear- @rops that could be worn with a cos tume of this nature, to give that fine lehed touch which is so essential to the ‘well groomed woman. Blue and black fe attractive when | placed together, if the blue 1s not too | vivid, A black silk dress for etther afternoon or summer street wear, when combined with dull blue, {8 charming. If worn upon the street, white gloves, ‘lack pumps and sheer black silk stock- ings with a hat of black and white would be by far the most effective, A miack hat, trimmed with blue, carries| the idea of combining a little too far, | and so 18 apt to appear countrified, If blue {a the wearer's most be: ~!ng color and she wishes to give mo asis to it for that reason she may have the | whole hat of dull blue, | Blue {s certainly # blue-eyed perso! | ¢ i as it deepens the shade of eyes as well as heightening the red in the chi For s more sadorete afternoon its becomingness and many use !t, fini- ing that besides {ts other qualities it has a very rich and handsome effect Black gloves look sombre with this costume, so white should be worn, bit @ large black picture hat would be ex- ceedingly stylish and nothing could be | more suitable than it would be, with its Sraceful lines and drooping plumes. This combination can be worn by al- most any one to whom either black or Dlue is becoming, tho it would be more effective if the wearer had brown hair, and would be lovely for a blue- eyed and yellow-haired woman, as the blue would deepen the color of the eyes and heighten the red in the cheeks, whie the black would make more vivid the gold of the hair and the whiteness of the skin, ——<—____ 7,000 CABS. According to a German contemporary, there are at present about seven thou- sand cabs in E n, of which about two thousand or 28 1-2 per cent, mechan- call Of these about M per cent, are operated electrically, Se A QUARTER-TON FISH, A jewtlsh weighing 6% pounds was captured by the crew of the launch Leone, This is the largest fish captired in California waters as far as known. In length the fish measured five fees Kt wae caught three miles offshore, $ driven, i ional