The evening world. Newspaper, July 13, 1912, Page 8

| | { eres eres a , . ss a = an aa ee APONTE STU TRODENUREIN Tse Tia TR etapa esa ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, @etfiedes Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing ‘Company, Nos, 68 te 7 Except Outs Park Row, New York. ‘ RALPH PULITZER, President, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasur JOSH PULITZER, Jr, Be Bntered at the Post-OMce at New Tork as Geemiptica Rates to The Evening for the United States and Canada. sees $9.80 30 63. Park Row. : 63 Park Row, tary, 63 Park Row. - — Class Matter, Beco For England and the Continent and All Countries in the International Postal Union, One Year. One Month 4 99.78 ¥ HH WHEREFOR? HE average citizen is staggered when he reads wiiat the en- gineer and expert employed by the Special Committee on School Inquiry has to say about school buildings in New York City. The report is scathing, overwhelming. Apparently the city school houses have hardly an excuse for ex- fwting. The plans are bad, the methods of ventilation altogether un- eatisfactory and unsanitary, the heating systems antiquated and waste- faj, the fire protection eo inadequate that not one of the fifty-six echools inspected by the expert is fireproof and many of them are actual firetraps, inspectors and supervisors are inefficient and too gumerous, and architectural expenses and letting of electrical con- twacts are extravagant and improper. Before such an indictment the average citizen, who cannot de ‘wise in such matters, can only turn from the expert to the benches of authority and demand Why? The thing seems incredible. In the face of euch conditions a request to the Aldermen to authorize the Gpending of $10,000 to test improvements in ventilation and heating sounds like mere trifling. What is the matter with New York’s schools? If even the build- {ings are s0 unspeakably bad, what is the recent exhaustive investiga. tion of the whole system going to reveal? ny | Why Not? # cares) & WE WANT PRESIDEN T DRINKS But Terni | | WE WANT A PRESIDENT THAT Wile A rae ‘N PuBuc - Din Bust iT ! DON’T MIND THE TROUBLE. ANY must have read with approval and indignation the action | M of two women who jumped from their automobile, wrenched | ? a whip from the hand of a driver who was cruelly beating a| team of quivering, heat-worn horses, had him arrested and then will- | ingly took the trouble to appear against him in court. ‘The insolenco | of the man, who swore and puffed cigarette smoke into the women's | faces, made one glad that he couldn’t pay the $10 fine and was there- fore locked up. It is a pity he could not have had a sound thrash-| ing before the police got him. The man who lashes his horses as they struggle over the scorch- {ng pavements of the sunbaked streets is ns contemptible a brute as the city holds. No inconvenience or natural shrinking from publicity should deter any one from turning the offending scoundrel over to tthe police and making sure that he gets all the law can give him. (iine Pec Ea TIMES CHANGE, j HE much heralded Elizabethan 'lriumphal Pageant in London, though « hit with the dukes and duchesses. who paraded therein, seems to have played to empty benches so far as the Public was concerned. The $200,000 advance sale of seats was a little arrangement of the press agent with himself. This is not much like London celebrations of the Great Queen’s memory in earlier days, when we are told that on one occasion “’tis modestly computed that in the whole progress there could not be fewer than two hundred thousand spectators,” and that at the climax of the epectacle the populace put up “such a prodigious shout that "twas believed the echo, by continued roverberations before it ceased, reeched Scotland, France and even Rome itself, damping them all with a dreadful astonishment”(!) Nowadays the famous monarchs of old must needs be content with the homage of society costume parties. ————++- Y 13, 1808, was the famous Hot Wednesday in England, oon- cerning which we are gravely informed that “two thermometers, the one made by Rameden and the other by Cary, were observed et noon and were found to record 90 degrees in the shade. Remem- bering that the average heat winter and summer of the West Tndivs 4s about 82 degrees, it is not surprising that men fainted and horso: and other animals died under the pressure of a temperature 60 un- usual in England as eight degrees above this amount.” And after a dissertation on the difficulty of getting reliable ther: mometer readings, we are warned that “old newspaper statements on such matters must be received with caution, though there is no reason to doubt that the Hot Wednesday of 1808 was really a very formid- able day.” All thet fuss over 90 degrees! eee A W's the Third Party was born last Thursday afternoon on the twenty-fourth floor of the Metropolitan Building we hope the nurses remembered the old superstition that the new child, when it first leaves the room where it was born, must go upstairs before it goes downstairs, otherwise it will never rise in the world. When the child was born ia the garret the nurse used to step up in a chair with the infant in her arms before she left the room What a fine omen to have carried those swaddled resolutions clean to ‘the top of the Metropolitan tower! Chances in Engineering! Do the Editor of The Evening World some reader who knows kindly aGvise @ young man {f mining engineer- ing te & good trade to learn and if so what ts the course of study and what are the rewards and chances? This may (nterest many. 8, Meaning of “1, E.” {Pe Ge Bilitor of The Preving World: Kindly explain the meaning of let- ters “i. ©." K. DONOVAN. They stand for the Latin phrase “44 eat,” meaning “that is.* Pockets. Fo the Kditor of The Evening Worl @ read, some time ago, an editorial of yours about wives and their hus- bands’ pockets. I offer the following as an ill tion of how going Works in Scotland) on drowing his pay repaired to a public house and spent much of his money with boon compan- fons in getting drunk, after which he Would stagger home, His good wife would put him to bed, and go through his pockets, take out all the gold and put back loose silver, When he awoke in the morning he was ashamed to offer her the emall amount he had left for expe: ‘This went on for several years, One day he came home and told his good wif he had lost his job. “I thiak we can stand {t for @ while," “What do you mean?" sald he. “Well, T have $1,700 in the bank of your own money.” She then explained all to him, ‘They invested the amount in building WE WANT 4 PResiveNT THAT WE WANT & PRESIDENT THAT Woxr Witt PRrosecy’ SHOOT CRAPS OK Tie S AND FEED on Cage ear Trust WHITe House Me dey) “a AND LETH ‘$] YONDER where would be a nici Place to go on our ation,’ said Mrs, Jarr, “The Stryvers going to Maine. ine (# delightful in summe ‘Not for me if the Stryvers are there,’ sald Mr. Jarr, “Maine is a big State,” ventured Mrs, Jarr, "It isn’t big enough to hold me and the Stryvers,” replied M Ja “Oh, don't blame the Stry erled “Yes, that Is one great drawback,” admitted Mr, Jarr, ‘There ts too much hard drinking In a Prohibition State, I prefer to stay in the temperate son as It wore,” “The Thousand Islands are delight- ful,” ventured Mrs, Jarr, “Everybody who has been there raves over them,” “They are not my rave, then,” said Mr, Jarr, “If I'm to rave about islands I'M rave about two—Glen and Coney. You can rave about the thousand other ones,” “Oh, I might know you'd object to A Costly Error, “Why are you so glum?" “A friend of mine said to me ‘Hot through hubby's pockets has proved ‘advantageous to both parties, I can ‘Veueh for its truth. A man (by occu- pattem @ hammerman pt 6 large iron- two brick dwelling houses, After that he had sense enough to give her hig earnings after starting to work again, and became well-to-da, *O enough for—?' and | left him without \letening to the rest of the old Wheeze. And now | find he sald ‘Hot enough for a drink? I'll biow you.’” Mrs, Jarr, “It has just occurred to me} why you object to going to Matno~| Maine is a Prohibition State!" | But Cruel Mr. 0000000000000002000 Any place I'd select’ sald Mrs. Jarr.. “Oh, that was only for a trip. She ‘Clara Mudridge-Smith is going to the |doesn't count that as going anywhere,” White Mountains or the Sulphur Springs | was the reply. or the Rockics—she hasn't just decided ‘Buffalo Bill invited me to come out “I thought she'd gone to Atlantie to his place in Wyomtng,” mused Mr. City," sald Mr, Jarr. |Jarr. “But T think I'M walt till winter; The Conquests Of Constance (SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR AT THE HOTEL RIO4.) pe i By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1912 by The Press Pu 9.—THE ishing Co, (The New York World), me to death to go fer a ride, ‘So one night he goes up to a garage} where he got friends and he cops a eight thousand dollar car what bo-, longs to a man who has went to Chi- | HE lobby was filled with a busy and ever increasing throng of Southern and Western buyers, on their annual New York joy-fest Constance eyed) cago for two days, an’ we go whinzing the unpressel-|out over Long Island in the moonlight trousered = mult!-| Gee! It was immen: An’ coming | tude and wearlly|back we stops an’ has a glass o' beer, | too, ‘tAn' after. couple more rides I begin to think it wouldn't take such,a much | turned to me. “The first layer on ‘em ain't much to look at,” shelof a car to make me leave my happy volunteered. “I| home! Then, one night, I says to hin, ‘Say, Archibald, I guess I'll put on mean they ain't Fors delights |some bitous clothes an’ we'll ‘op at one thay don't|of thom REAM ent-Joints we pa: b'lieve in wasting the gas to heat trons, | the time qut on the Island, Let's be In| ut they got good hearts, Y'know if|the pudding once instead of bein’ the you could just peel the varnish off one | sauce.’ An’ he says, ‘I got ye, Myrtle.’ of our New York Johnnies an’ graft it] “So I polished up my wardrobe an’ onto one of them boobs you'd have a|we made the start. We turned In at tae grand man!" swellest place on the map, an’ as we “Would you?" rolled up under that thing what astloks “Yeu, but It can't be did, can it? | out over the road, an’ a guy In red an’ “Hanily," I granted. brass buttins rushed down to the car, Constance released a plug and hailel|T felt that Lillian Russell had nothin’ a boy who was lstlessly paging @ man} Whatever on me! whose name defied analysis, ven, all on a sudden, the Mawk- “Go out an’ tell one of the chauf-|Shaw in red takes a squint at Archibald, fours that Room 28, pein’ a lady with 4n' just as if th’ ‘lectric Nghts ain't th’ inflammatory rheumaties, wants to S004 enough he trains a pocket flash go for a ride with a couple o' blankets, on him (right tn the nose too—so tm- | “Blanket I echoed, Increasing tho Vite) an’ pulls a card out o' his Jeans | speed of my palmleat fan, an on the card it says ‘Chauffeurs’ “Ye-en, Can you distance It? Aw ners served downstairs, Price, ono (but she's eighty, poor old girl! Gee lar.’ An’ he says, ‘Just ‘round the ‘The exclamation was so fervid and | curve you'll find bh’ entrance to the so sudden IT looked up quickly tn alarm, | cellar,” Approaching the switchboard was a| “Y'see, them guys has all the chaut- chauffeur tn livery, He glanced once | fours what was ever hatched on tholr at the Phone Maid, then wheeled about | Visitin’ lst an’ you can't fool ‘em. 80 suddenly and disappeared. T says very cool, "We will go back to “Coward!” breathed Constance, curl |New York, Archibald,’ I says, an’ he ing the corners of her mouth, felt fierce about it, ‘cause I certainly “Who ts het” aid look the fancy ‘family all right, but “The ninth lemon!” she answered con. |he turned around an’ wo beat it back, cisely, ‘I was dead gone on him for| “An’ the next day I says to him, ‘Your six days, then the end come sudden an’ | joy rides ts all to the merry, Archibald, unexpected, like a letter from abroad! but when you can't take a perfect lady “Yos. I ain't seen him fer three to dizzy places ‘cause they got your months, They put him on another finger prints, it's pretty bad. I ain't stand then, but I guess he must be back | never et in a cellar yet, an’ I don't ex- on th’ Job here now, When I first mot| pect to. So tle your number to another him I fell for his make-up, Y'know, |skirt, sonny, J guess I'll atick to the RUN THE GOVERNMENT Mrs. Jarr Makes Nice Vacation Plans, | Jarr Unmakes (3 WIFE SUFFRAGETTE PARTY CONVENTION | Them so I could hunt tia’ eons, sms “And so I couldn't go along, or the children!” snapped Mrs. Jarr. ‘Men are Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). NV the matter of women, as in the matter of food, most men prefer soft, I sweet things, with a lot of fancy dressing, to plain solids. White shoes wnder a hobddie skirt are almost as obvious and perishable ae the average summer love affair. Happiness in marriage consists not in getting the man you want, but in getting the one who wants you. If you don't believe it, try being mar ried to somedody who is not in love with you. Don't try using your “gentle influence” in order to make your husbom® vote for your “candidate” in the coming campaign; try the “gentle threat” that you will become a militant sufragette-tf he doesn't, > When a man takes time to propose toa girl artistically, nowadaya, she ; feels almost as though she ought to pay him at the magazine rate of.flee cents a word, out of pure gratitude, Now te the time of the year when a bachelor envies a married man hie aditity to talk to o pretty girl without suffering from the deadly fear that ehe may have matrimonial designe wpon him, Onty @ weak man boasts of “resisting temptation.” A strong man wouldnt even recognize a temptation if he happened to sce one, A man never doubts that a broken promise can be glued together win, Bieses or that a woman's shattored faith can be mended with soft soap, “HowI Write a Play” Famous Dramatists Tell for the First Time The Methods by Which They Have Won Success Copyrigtt, 1012, by The Press Pubtishing Oo, (The New ron Work, as... 7.—By William C. de Mille. Author of “The Woman,” &c. ‘The eentipede was berpy ‘TM the frog one day, for fun aid, ‘Pray, which leg comes after whichT™ ‘Which wrought hie mind to euch @ pitch Ge lay distracted in the diten Considering how to run. HE mental condition of the historic centipede is closely akin Co Chet of the Ali dramatist who Gries to answer the question ‘(How do you write a playt” It 4s like asking a man ‘How do you get to ¢he Fiet Iron Butiding?® @r it all depends where he starts from; and each of the eight or ten plays fer I am more or leas responsible had a different starting point, ‘the method of work has been different in eachs fn one the start was empty a cheres- third, the climactic slt- tion of the play; the fourth, working back from the end of Act ITI. to and the story which produced this climax. In stil another play, T began with a situation which was published ag a ‘8 item in a daily paper. This sit- So selfish! All they think of is going somewhere that it would be impossible for their wives to accompany them." “Well, if a man ts going for recrea- tion and change he wouldn't care to drag a tender woman along over rouch | mountain wails where her life would be in danger of bears and mountaim Hons, | /y@u know,” Mr, Jarr explained. “You'd make a fine hunter of bear: and mountain lon oried Mrs. Jarr, scorntully, “Why, you can’t bit @ cat with a boot at twenty yards!’ “I could, but I'm too kind-hearted. I shoo the cat away, but don't try to hit him to boot,” said Mr. Jarr, “Joke,” Mrs. Jarr only scoffed “It's no joke the way cats how! and make the night hideous in this part of town, when one can't get to sleep for them and the baking heat!" “We must be careful not to molest any tame creatures, The S. P. C. A. will get after us {f we do!” cautioned Mr. Jarr. “Look how they arrested an exhibitor of trained fleas at Asbury Park for un- kindness to insects. And that reminds me, I saw Gertrude scattering roach powder in the kitchen. Better goin and sweep it up. If a reach dies we may be arrested, too!" “Oh, don't talk such foolishness when I'm trying to find a place for us to go | for a couple of weeks!" said Mra, Jarr, “Can't you suggest a place?” “Anywhere will sult me except New- Port. Newport ts full of parvenus.” “Do be serious! We must get away SOMEWHERE. The Rangles are go- ing to the Catskills. So that puta the Catskilla out of the question, "Why?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Do you think I want to go any place the Rangles go to?” replied Mra. Jarr, ‘I wonder how It would be to go gut to the Rockies?" “Tt would be fine,” said Mr. Jarr, “I got two weeks vacation, It takes a week to go out to the Rockies and a week to get back, That would give us five minutes to say ‘Howdydo Pike's Peak. I'm busted!’ * ‘4 don’t see why we can't get away for a month or two lke other le, whimpered Mrs, Jarr, “The Stryvers go to a different place every year and stay as long as they like.” “They can stay as long as they like 60 far as I am concerned,” remarked Mr. Jarr, “and the further away they £0 and the longer they stay the better I'll lke it." ‘Mrs. Hickett told me she went to Newfoundland one year and it was grand,” said Mra, Jerr, “What would you suggest? Come, be practical!” west you give me ten cents to get down town, and I'll try to figure out how to make enough money to tale the famity next week. After all, New York's the them black leather leggings give him B. R. 7! & swell shape, I must say, even now! “That's the rerson he run just now when I've shook him! He made a play when he sen me-his feelln's wuz for me that wus immense, Bothered Suri!" ' be | they ‘where, say when to go any- + oney enou sighed Mra. Jars, “All right," sald Mr, Jarr, “I'll sugy}to him. for a 004 long trolley ride some night |W! uation was again tho last s of the third act and the two preceding sete with thelr necessary characters had to be found more or less by deduction. Bach play from its inception must de treated differently, because its problems of construction are always different from the dramatist's previous work, and demand new solutions. (As @ general cule, however, I work anywhere from six to eighteen months on the “scenario” or detailed outline of the play. This of course includes charaeter- ization, although there has not been a word of dialogue written. Once the construction is complete, and I can find no more “holes” in the ) chain of cause and effect which makes the plot, when each character 1s logically accounted for and his actions the inevitable result of his nature working in ¢he particular situation in which he finds himself, when no act he Is called on to perform contradicts his character as shown by his previous acts, then the play is practically finished, and the dialogue may be written ina few weeks, In fact the play doesn’t really live until the characters have taken it out ef the dramatist's hands and begin to write it themselves; and the dramatist feels that he ts amply taking dictation. Then when the manuscript ts finally completed I am read the play. ‘Phe actual building of the play 1s done on the stage of the theatre and as soon as the play begins to appear in the concrete I begin to see some of its weak points and try to strengthen them. For if I have learned anything, so far, it ts that the play is the thing the audience sees. It 1s not a manuscript, but a physical, tangible thing which the @udtence can only recotve through its senses and not through a mental process, Therefore, once in the theatre, I begin all over again to build a play, of which the manuscript is only the, blueprint. Sometimes great changes are re- quired, eometimes only minor changes—but tn every case, the actual work of building the play, in which the collaboration of the actors vital necessity, ts answer to that question oan only be a rather confused recollection of @ very OHNNY and bla mother were dining with @ J friend, chicks fiwtes watched Johnny as te sat quietly gazing | whether he got food or starved to denth @te ‘don't care for it, pleas, ma’a Calling & waitress who passed he tality, he put the windpipes to,’ ‘Angelina’s young man, Many « time to begin to tulld ‘humor to contrast with the tragedy roles he paged. 41 the theatres, One morning he wen siekem soup."* ut ahe don't ‘three weeks," ‘Wve teen nen,” said Kahn, “you're not the ene who took my‘onter, ‘That ‘on left before you ogame." —Vopular Magasine, His here the real work of the dramatist. intricate process which varies with each piece of work. If the question be put 9 G . The Day’s Good Stories ways Judge, The first course wes into hda pl. Finally asked, “Why don't you| kept tim waiting a long time, and be “But your mamma said you liked Tight Fittings. I fear I have not answered the question as to how I write a play, butan to me point blank, I suppose the only really truthful answer !s “I don't know.” Not Like Mother Made. | to ‘soup with macaroni in it, utterly indifferent ae to ‘eat your soup, Johnny?" thrce gr Hh) he had to give veut, “1 do like mamma's chicken soup, Sheena ‘mother had never quite cottoned to —_>——- Fully Explained. OOTY Michie atthe hase answered the waiter girl jut why is it called Boston rofteo? is wut in fi w do y put the ¢ br had meant to have it out with him, end at Jest an opportunity arose, Kins,” she be ‘The you but quickly ‘S¥ea, that 48 90, "Well," be replied, defiantly, “end eo 1 em, Mp ie Sasi i eat ore Lo os the laughter gg etn ae Wl A Good Amendment. ‘WO little girls, says the Boston Globe, were Mg to school in Parsons, Kam, fear. fi leat they woukl ‘not arrive there Er the last bell bad rung (or the moming ges