The evening world. Newspaper, June 11, 1912, Page 18

T sve Ae aaiorio. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. 1 Sunday by the Prese Pub! Company, Nos. Publianed Dally Buoept Sunder by the Frese Fumes RALPH PULT President, Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 1. JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 68 Row., Entered at the Port-Office at New York as tf Subscription Rates to The Pvening| For Engia: World for the United States All Countries in the International and, Canada, Postal Unton. One Year. secee 90.80] One Tear. .ccescscescosrrmemms § One Month, .86| One Month.... seoven st VOLUME 52.....cecceccccccccccccsesccccsecsesNO, 18,557 THE HIGH COST OF COWARDICE. HAT Evening World reader who points to the part the gar- i bage can plays in the high cast of living is on the way to the real truth. “Cost of living as far as ‘eats’ are concerned do not bother me,” he writes. “We can have almost anything occasionally, but we cannot feed the garbage can. There's the rub! If people could have steak and chops three times daily and throw enough into the garbage can {o make an impression on the janitor (who could then tell every- body how affluent the people are), why then there would be fewer kicks.” Half the high cost of living this town groans about comes from sheer wastefulness—some of it showy, some of it shame-faced. Nobody dares to be thrifty for fear of what the neighbors will say. Could anything induce Mrs. Brown to eat fish and boil her beef bones when My. Jones is buying only the choicest cuts and throwing lots away? The methods of « well-to-do French housewife who takes a natu- tal pride in getting the most out of every morsel, whose roast of one day lasts over into a ragout the next, would make a New York woman shiver with the shame of it! People hereabouts only feel prosperous when they are wasting things! Hotels and restaurants show the habit at its worst. What is tho average bill of fare in the better class of New York restaurants? Roasts, steaks, cutlets, whole or half game—at big prices; preten- tious cuts of meat, much of which gocs back to the kitchen. Does one ever find the ragouts, civets, stews or any of the cheap Gishcs wherein the French combine inferior meat with skilful sauce to obtain delicious results? What New Yorker has the courage to order cheap itams from a bill of fare, anyway? No wonder the restaurant keeper cuts out modest dishes! The average New Yorker never feels quite sure that he is living well unless he can see plenty of waste, He’s nervous when he’s not showing the neighbors what he can afford to throw away! , And tradesmen and hotel keepers help, him—trust them! ey Seen MAY IT COME TRUE. “ae country is promised a parcels post before the end of the present session of Congress. A scientific and businesslike plan providing for a parcels service throughout the country on both rural and city carrier routes, consolidating third and fourth class matter, and raising the weight limit of parcels to eleven pounds, is practically certain, according to Postmaster-General Hitchcock, to become law. ‘ The rates for delivery in the city will be five cent® for the first pound or fraction of a pound, and one cent for each additional pound or fraction of a pound. For greater distances rates will be graduated according to six zones, ranging from six cents per pound and two cents for each additional pound in a fifty-mile radial zone from the point of mailing, up to twelve cents a pound for distances beyond two thousand miles. New and distinctive stamps will be issued. The Postmaster-General believes the plan will materially aid in solving the high cost of living problem because it will bring the producer and the consumer into closer proximity. Whether or not it rises to such heights of beneficence, the country will warily welcome it as a heartily wished for convenience and economy which European countries have already long enjoyed. eth THAT TRAIN! HE country can now sit back and get ready to enjoy the great coming drammer at Chicago. It only needed somebody to think of that special-train-waiting-in-the-Grand-Central-Sts- tion-to-take-the-Colonel-to-the-scene-at-the-highest-speed-ever - made- on-any-railroad-on-earth to put the great audience in a state of heavenly expectancy. There have been moments when it looked as if the drammer might have to go on without the best villain the country has ever seen, For one thing, he said so. But that train settles it! Some fine fellow is going to be dragged mighty close to the buzz-saw in the fourth act, and how on earth the lovely girl is going to cut the cords in time nobody can guess, but everybody is dying to see. For a late spring show this is the best and biggest ever. The cooling apparatus is working nicely just now. Everybody is ready for the curtain to go up, and the great train arrival scene is sure to be some noise. Let’s hope to goodness there /§a train! ——————— A who are free from financial care are vampires,” and that by the labor of men and oftentimes of tired women and children.” If the good doctor has discovered any way of putting value into dollars without labor or pain a grateful world will rise up and call him indeed blessed. Also, how are women to cease being tired with- out becoming “free from financial care” and therefore “vampires”? ns NE of the new side door, stepless cars strayed across the Eas River, where the B. R. T. saw it, guessed what it was, caught it, and put it going on Brooklyn lines, So now anything is possible! ———_—_<¢2—_______ F THE New York Police Department cannot supply enough poline he Evenina CLERGYMAN Sunday declared from his pulpit that “womon “the woman living on dividends must realize that for every cent’s value taken out of a dollar one cent must be put into the dollar Prosit Matter. mate Continent and im t World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, June 1 fi 4 NN A\wunes —— a == 2a wy UNI 1.—Gee! 1 thought 1'4 go, into convulsions or mhatever| I ain't had Miss Goodbunn had a fit or wouesning up hi rushed, I had to Mrs, Henhuri the great suffrightette. Maybe I ain't spelt that right, but it sounds all right-o. Weil, ‘was telling me how she ad- mired independence in women. I told her 1 was a lady and didn’t intend no wom- nm customer was going to call me any- ing else, And as for independence, § told her I would be in the poorhouse if I waited for women to get independent enough to give me more than a ten-cent tip. She sald that would come in time, but I sald so would the rickets and baldness and euch things. “I want to be looking my best,” says she to me, “because 1 have to address some men to-night.”” “Ie that wo ly independencet” 4 asked her, and said I didn’t under- stand, and I sald if there was any mani- cure lady who didn't understand every- thing and then @ couple of somes she couldn't have deen manicuring more than a couple of weeks. June 8—Willie Pishington proposed again to me as I was doing his nails. He proposes to every Saturday, Monday and Thured He don't come In no other days, Say, he looked like hoe was wuffering with ptomaine poisoning when he proposed and he actually turned pale when I accepted him. But he was me He brought back just the peachiest diamond and called mo out and slipped it on my finger, I just managed to wriggle away before he klesed me. And I think he did kiss the northeast end of my left ear at that. ‘He will be in again Monday. 1 told him he coul call to-morrow, Mon- An Early Marriage. Gay when he mentions the engagement T'll call him down. If he asks for the ring back I'll get indignant and tell him I thought he was a gentleman, not @ Piker. Being a piker for fair instead of & gentleman, he'll deny it and I'll have the sparklet, , Gee! it's good for six months board any time I want to take a ticket out om it, had @ couple million #t- ‘a every Gay Sunday, All 1 hi Ooprrignt, 1912, (The New Tork Wenig” T’ve done to-day is to eat them three- dollar-a-pound chocolates old man Bucks sends me in five-pound boxes every Saturday night and read the last instalment of that heavenly love story about tho artist and his model. Ger admire nerve, but when it comes to be- ing @ model, not for mine. Old man Bucks usual to- ride, Ma nearly croaked laughing be- cause we run into Mrs, Smithington's Interviews With Cupid By Earbara Blair, Acthor of “The Journal of a Negiected Balldog.”” Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), No. 24.—Love’s Chief fiona CON ND now," and Cupid loosed sadly at his golden tablets, “I am going to talk to you about my great Enemy.” “An enemy of Cu- iked. “Who he enemy of have many ene- mies; Malice and Envy, Selifishness, Buspicion and Greed, and many more there are in thel > world who fight me, | J wut there is only o' I fear, only one I Cannot overcome, only one before whom 1 am hurt and helpless. The golden wings drooped lower and the grieving mouth quivered. “Who then can #tand against Love?” smiled Mr, Gordon. ‘Tell me this en- emy of yours, Cupid, that I may help you fight him, “Alas! He is seldom fought by those he seeks. His name Is Hate. He ts the, common enemy of ail. Ife smbitters Ambition; he potsons Success; ne strangles Pity and he kills Love, Man: ralse barriers at my approach, fly in| terror at the first signal of my coming. Yet h that I cannot win, and some- # that I have won, Isten to n voice of Hate, | en, purify and make beautiful, so he, Hate, ravages, devastates and destroys. Tho voice I have softened to tend minor strains of beauty, HE makes harsh and cold. Eyes I have made lumin- “When he enters the heart I have warmed to love, I dare not stay. I am Powerless against hir@ in his strength. It he slumber, then 1 stcal back, oh, #0 softly, lest I wake him, and with these I wound and drive him off.” And his fingers closed on his quiver of arrows, “Bo often, quietly and unseen, I have into hearts hardened by Hate. bit of arid ground, sunless and uncared for, I have found them. And I, Love, have planted the seeds of kind- ) of sacrifice, and of unselfishness, ‘Rosemary for remembmance;’ tall ilies for purity; and red, red roses for love; all these I have planted in the once arid bit of ground, I have watered them with my tears; I have sunned them with my love; 1 warmed them with my breath, “Day by day, with tender care, I, Love, have watched my garden grow in beauty and fragrance. Then perhaps the bitter weeds which Doubt and Sus- Ploion plant have grown up among my fair flowers. They grow fast, these bit- ter weeds, so fast that the tender flow-| ere I have planted are crushed and killed by their growth. Then Hate ei ters. Under the scorching heat of his bitter breath, all the flowers in Love's Barden droop and die, ‘The rich soll once more hardens into Dlasted aridity. You have known him, I think,” and he looked at ui arching- ly, “Tl lew of my people he does not try from me." Under his gazo cur eyes fell, ‘ell me, ind his blue arched our fac ily, “when Ha! dwelt with you instead of Love, did you find him helpful? Was he an inspira- tion, @ comfort, @ pleasant, cheering, to keep the Sunday afternoon concerts in Central Park from letng spoiled by hoodlums who shout and scuffle and push each other {nto fountains, then the concerts should be given up and tho public ous and beautifil he turns to glassy,| COMPANIONABLE sort of a fellow? narrow orbs of bitterness, Where 1| Did he send you out into the world with told why. ee 2s Lase Meson Heonéeéruch dir sagen , cy Wea wnevscprechich (gt, arly?” order to catch the & o'clock boat to curve I!ps to laughter, he paints sour, dour mouths of scorn, Where I tease young cheeks to rosy shame ‘or dimpled mirth, he makes them white and tense a SMILE on your lips and a SONG in year heart? Did he bring you PEACE? Did he bring you HAPPI..£88? Did he bring you HEALTH and HOPE and with hard and bitter lines."*’ “Then Cupid, be thou the world’s At 4A. M IM! guide and teacher, that red-bannored, hareh-vieaged Hi May hot come toe \ peas.’ sore" We shuddered, but wer- silent. “And yet,” he smiled sadly as he rose and elesed hie golden tablets, “you are (etvaié.og cx. ge By James Alden | machine and bust it into breakfast food. Ma does Mrs, Smithingto and jhe just glared at Ma, but } | Sport in spite of the fact that a] all the time, She didn’t get mad nor cut Mrs, Smithington, she Just says, haughty like, ‘Step into my car and I'll give you a lift home.” Then she turns to old man Bucks, who was all |diagutsed in his goggles, “Ask this lady her address, James, and take her there."* Ma 1s all to the bonbon: and TI dared him to ask her, He didn't, but he sulked all the rest of the trip. Oh, very well. I wish I had the next number of that story of the model and ‘tist. Me for the feathers and some rest. Monday 4# a hard day; jevery shine wants @ shine on their nalls. June 10.~Monday ts a poor day. Only '$3 in tips, It's bargain day, and all the |hens are out. I suppose the roosters are | busy scratching gravel. That jreal cute. I think T'll send it to the ence Magazine. They like them’ Jokes, Waldron MacFlushe wanted me to go to the show to-night. But, gee! I'd rather sit in tho gallery with a wax dummy than sit in @ box-with that fat- ‘headed, olly freak. Hope to-morrow will be better, Oh, I nearly forgot. Wille Pishington was in and squeezed my hand and looked as though he Was suffering with the colic and asked mo when he could |announce our engagement, looked surprised, lowed an oyster fork or something, and I sald “Why, Mister Pishington, 1 thought you KNEW that I was just persifieging!” He started to cut up, but I mentioned the plker business and he swallowed hard and laughed. But I bet that laugh strained him from the end of his toed-in toes to the top of his vacant dome. ‘This diary business ts a great stunt to keep @ talkative girl from telling all she knows, and there ain't no other ‘Kind of @ girl #0 far as I've been able | to learn, —_—____ Appendicitis Causes, HE question has again been raised Al in medical journs as to whether the increase in the frequency of appendicitis in recent years may not be due to minute particles of iron. The old millstones that ground so slowly a: ground small enough in the old 4 have passed away, and ft ts suspected that these particles of iron come from the rollers now used in grinding wheat, says the Indianapolis News, Some medical a prities swuggost that these particles thelr way into the ap. pendix where they form the nucleus of @ concretion, Cases are cited where bullets and shot have been met with, having come as a kind of a surgical Gesser: to the eating of game; also unches of bristles from too vigore Lows use ef the soothbrush , 33. YT CLIOT Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), FLIRT'S conscience becomes so deaf, at this time of the year, that he has to go about in rubber hects im order to hear the atill, emall Voice, It ts easy enough for a man to get attached to a girl under the influence | of @ summer moon, at a seaside resort; but getting detached in the autuma requires real skill and finesse, | | This is the time of the year when half the world sits on the hotel piassa and moralizes about how scandalously the other half lives, The summer widower who has just put his wife on the train feels like |@ emall boy who has heard the dell clang for recess. He doeen't know ez actly what he is going to do, but he knowe it will be something against the | rules, and hence very interesting, ‘A These are the days of the eurvival of the fittest; hence the euffragette, the farmerette, the waiterette, the kitchenette, the husbandette—and the | marrlagette. There is small choice in the marriage market, nowadays; a young man ts a lottery, a widower a hand-me-down, and an old bachelor a damaged remnant. But with a little taking in, or letting out, polishing up, or trim ming down, almost any of them can be made over into a fairly acceptable husband, after all, Merely because you have promised in an idie moment, at a summer re tort, to love a man until death, is no reason why he should foolishly expect you to treat him as an old acquaintance when you meet him again in the city. It ig the easiest thing in the world for a man to learn to run a type writer—unless he happens to marry her first. How to Provide For Old Age.} By Miles M. Dawson. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), NO. 5.—Provision for Old Age by Voluntary Purchase of Annuities.—Part II. ROM an early day—L e@., about 179%—stock and mutual companies, usually also engaged in the life insurance business, have also offered life annuities, In precisely those countries in which the largest num- ber of such annuities have been sold by the Government the annuity ‘business of these private compantes has also been largest. In. the Fr United States up to about twenty-five years ago there were few such ennuities in force; now many millions of dollars are paid out each year to annuitants. All the } , responsible life insurance companies have hundreds of them. The com- panies reporting to the New York department alone paid annuities in 1910 of no less than $7,066,346.13 in the aggregate. This amount !s increasing every year. In Great Britain @ much larger proportion of the business of life insurance companies {s in annuities. Although the premiums for Government annuities rep- | resent a conside loss to the Government as compared with the interest yielded by “congols,” British compantes compete successfully and secure a large share of the business, This is in part accounted for by their greater freedom of Inveatment—t. ¢., in securities which yield higher rates than “consols.” Despite | the special bargains in annuities offered by the Government in France, the French life insurance companies do a very large business in life annuities, Indeed, in a!l European countries where Government annuities are in great demand the life insurance companies also have a big annuity business. The encouragement given by the Government increases not only the popularity of Ities but also the demand for life annuities generally, all proportion of the old make this provision for them; ‘annuitants are almost entirely confined to people whe nt; though sometimes annuities for persons who are depend: Only a small ; and an ex- Moreover, t re not poor and would not !n any ca: are purchased to provide support during old ent upon the one who pays the premium to securo th part of these annuities are purchased by persons recelving si tremely small part by wage-carners. Insurance companies have at times sought to popularize deferred annulties— {. e, annuities paid for during the working years of life, but to commence at age sixty-five or seventy, These have not proved attractive to wage-earners and arcely more so to salaried employees. When sold by industrial life insur- ance companies for weekly premiums, the premiums are so loaded for expenses rner could not purchase a substantial annuity. When sold for these annuities are quite beyond the reach of wage-earners. Moreover, as has been said, saving for this purpose ALONE makes appeal to most persons in youth or the Prime of life. The appea' {instead of stronger, when fallure to pay premiums Involves forfeiture or, even though a small paid-up annuity be granted, the savings themselves cannot be commanded at will. In some European countries much has been done to provide old age annuities for salaried employees and wage-earners, as well as the self-employed, through friendly or fraternal societies. These, usually in connection with sickness insur- ance and burial benefits and sometimes in connection with life insurance for substantial amounts, make provision for @ certain income during disability due oO e Siar ha ady been made to societies of this class in France, where they are of two classes—viz.: one turning th the !mmediate purchase of deferred annuities and one accumulating the money in the hands of the Government for the purchase of old age annuities when a certain age is attained. Both are strongly encouraged by the Government's paying a higher rate of interest than It needs to pay in order to ell ite bonds at par, These societies are popular ‘and have done much to encourage accumu- lation for old age. Yet thelr members are chiefly salaried employees and the f-employed; few wage-earne: found among their members, In Belgium such sooleties are fostered by the Government savings bank and annuity department, which offers its members special advantages and con- ceasions, and in some other European countries by direct or indirect subvention. - In Great Britain there has been an enormous development of friendly societies making provision for their members when disabled by age. They do not purchase annulties from the Government or from insur companies but provide the benefits directly. In most cases these societies are not solvent. They are required to value their obligations every five years and the facts concerning their condition are made public in the Registrar General's reports. Some of them have readjusted thelr rates of contribution or benefits and brought themseives to a condition approaching financial solvency; a vory few are now entirely solvent, Dues are usually collected every four weeks, The largest of these societies are organized in lod) ach managing its own funds and respons}! fits promised by it. society in London, the “Hi zed;"’ and there a mailer “centralised” soo! ; but some societies | rt @t large expense. With these have undert exceptions the societies are conducted very economically, Notwithstanding the great development of friendly socteties in Great Britaly | among salaried employees, wage-earners and the self-employed, the number of [ the aged poor became so great that after many experiments the Government was compelled to enact the present Old Age Pension law, giving every person, upon reaching age seventy, if not already supplied with an income or property suficient for his support, a pension of five shillings per week or such part thereot together with his income or property, assure his support. 0 80, where old age annulties have been yet more popular, similar , with the resylt that the Government has enacted two 1 {ding for an old age pension on similar terms to t n r requiring wi rners to contribute Pensions for t! he purpose of the latter being to render the former unnecessary In the course of @ generation or so. Other instances could be cited; but as the same will be much more fully dis- cussed later in these art! they will not be mentioned further here, It may be taken, however, ablished that voluntary purchase of annulttes, whether from the state, from private companies or from mutual societies, has been thore oughly tried eut and bas not proved « solutivm of the problem of makiag Brovision fer lage one prov but for a smaller amount, and the ot! to funds to be applied to purchase old a PRESB sien wl Sm,