The evening world. Newspaper, July 15, 1912, Page 10

—— ) ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, | | Pamhation Datty Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Now ES user Row New Yor 4 RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row, J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 68 Park Row. / ered. Office at New York as Gecond-Class Matter. Peteanet niin Temas Fivening | For THineland and the Continentvand World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada, Postal f + 88.80] One Yoar.<. s+. 80|One Month. ...es +NO. 18,590 “EASILY BEATEN.” VOLUME 63........ OL. EDWARD CORNELL, Secretary of the National Highways C Protective Society of America, who is now in Europe making a thorough study of European conditions, ordinances, regula- tions and rates as regards taxicabs, told the Berlin correspondent of The World that the Berlin taxicab drivers have the New York chauf- feurs easily benten. After watching the Berlin men at work in heavy traffic the Colonel came to the conclusion that they are the best in the world. Many first-class New York chauffeurs would be utterly tunable to pass the extremely severe tests imposed upon Berlin Grivers, hence Berlin's low casualty list, which ts only one- tenth of the New York annual total. The quintessence of the | whole regulation of traffic and of the cleanliness of the Berlin atreets scene: to me to be obedience to the law. When Col. Cornell comes home he may have more to say about Berlin taxicabs. Berlin taxicabs are solidly built and smooth running. They are of but one or two designs, attractively painted, white or gray, with brass.trimmings, and are kept scrupulously clean. They are orna-| ments to the streets, Berlin taxicabs are comfortably, invitingly upholstered in col-| red leather or corduroy, with interior electric light, convenient mirrors, ash receivers and often a clock and a street directory, Berlin taxicabs are required by law to furnish rugs for passengers in cold weather. Some have foot warmers, 4 Berlin taxicabs are provided with a small circular ehutter in the front window pane behind the driver's head through which the pas- senger can talk to the chauffeur without opening doot or window. Berlin taxicabs carry a printed schedule of rates, distances, ete., conspicuously posted in the interior in front of the passenger’s eye. Misunderstanding as to fare is impossible. : Berlin taxicabs are fitted with reliable, city-inspected meters car- ried where passengers can see them. Berlin taxicabs are to be found at hundreds of public stands in the squares and principal streets. Berlin taxicabs ply up and down by thousands,"! Everybody uses them. They are comforts and conveniences, not luxuries, Berlin taxicab fares are less than twenty-five cents for the first mile and ebout ten cents for each additional mile. This includes a liberal tip to the driver. New York also has taxicabs. ee eed ST. SWITHIN. Bt. Bwithin's day, tf thou dost rain For forty days it wit! remain, Bt. Bwithin's day, if thou be feir For forty days ‘twill rain nae mair, 7 legend of the aggrieved Bishop of Winchester, who put up this little game on posterity because of a plan to remove his bones from the humble grave he had picked out for himself under the ~eaves of the church where his corpse could receive the rain dri opping from the roof, has been oft retold. Just as they were about to trans- port him with great pomp and ceremony inside the cathedral, torrents of rain burst forth and continued for forty days without stopping, until all concerned took the hint and desisted. And ever since the good saint has from time to time got up a revival of this performance, nore on his translation day, July 15, as a warning to let him No doubt the English who served him the trick deserve the pun- ishment. But why should we Americans feel obliged to stagger along under any such borrowed responsibility? We didn’t do anything. Other nations have rain-making saints of their own. In France they have a St. Medard’s day, June 8, which is likewise supposed to govern forty days of rain or sunshine. It appears that this St. Me- dard was once present at a big garden party on a hot summer's day when all of a sudden a tremendous downpour of rain drenched every- “W And that’ [AS JOMN wortt You cone AL CETUS SAU. THE NEW GAVE ME TQUItcrakRerTes SHE'CAN CumB HILLS; AWLRIGHT ily Magazine WWE HER - AN we, MET Nee CIGARETTES 3 Ne weeds CAN You Monday july No, But SHe WON'T GO. Do You Suppase THERE 1m A NGINE GARAGE NEAR PED HERE Fix iT 2 [A | wooer's vows into pledges of respect and deathless friendship. 15. 1912 WomenKeartbreahars BY OF TElisbOrs/uLBeRTPANSON TERHUNE. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). 23.—MME. RECAMIER; Heartbreaker for a Half Century. FIFTEPN-YEAR-OLD French girl—startlingly beautiful and of an indescribable charm—was married 1a 1793 to Jacques Recamter, « rich banker, three times as old as herself. The girl was Jeanne Francoise Julie Adelaide Bernard. Her marriage was arranged by her family and she had no voice in ft. She never loved her elderly husband, nor did she pretend to. She regarded him rather as an indulgent and venerated father, and he seems to have been well sation fled with such an arrangement. From the first moment of her entrance es \to Paris society young Mme, |Recamter took the world of fashion and of wit by storm, Men of rank flocked to her receptions, Her beauty and nameless charm drew all hearts to her, Among her'adorers were the foremost statesmen in Europe—Ben- jamin Constant, Montmorency, Lucien Bonaparte (brother of Napoleon), ‘and many others, But her high-souled purity and innate goodness changed each ardent Hearts by the score she broke. But it was through no fault of her own. She encouraged none of her admirers. Nor could any of them boast that she smiled more kindly om him than on another. Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, was at the height of his glory. Women of rank vied eagerly for a word or a look from him, He fell in love with Mme, Recamier. She amazed the conceited Emperor by refusing to Heten to him, He thought he must be mistaken tn thinking any woman could fall tobe dazzled by him; and he honored her by an invitation to become one of the Em- Peror's ladies-In-waiting. Mme. Recamter curtly refused this coveted position and let the Emperor understand even more clearly that she did not desire bis acquaintance. In @ burst of babytsh fury Napoleon revenged himself by wrecking the Re- camer Bank and then by bantshing Mme. Recamter from Paris, An exile and deprived of fortune, Mme. Recamter left France with her friend, Mme. de Stael. During her travels she-met Prince Augustus of Prussia. Ie fell in love with her and begged her to divorce old Recamter and marry him. The Prince was handsome, rich and attractive, The rank of Princess meant more in those days than now. Mme, Recamier's husband was willing for her sake to consent to the divorce, But she refused the glittering offer and continued NO, MOTHER Won'T LET ME IT SPows My” HANDS FoR THE MANDOLIN SAY, MRTOHN, 1F You | WANT To TAKE A LITTLE | \SAIC on YouR NEXT DAY of REST /'LL BE | | VERY GLAD To TAKE You AGAIN by The New York World), N¥ do you smoke that old pipe’ ked Mrs, Jarr in @ frightful tone, “Because I can't afford good cigars. no Ite!" replied Mr, Jarr. e up all my lace eur—— Jarr, but stopped short, as Copyright, 1912, he &@ glance at the windows reminded her | that the curtains tn question had been taken down at the beginning of the body except the saint himself, “round whose head an engle kept con-| “tts no sald Mr, Jerr tinually fluttering, and by sheltering him with his wings till his return | musingly, “I just have GOT to make home accomplished effectually the purposes of an umbrella.” Anyway, all summer rain isn’t made at Winchester. Patriotism calls to us to shake off the eway of St. Swithin. —_—_——+-_____. “THE BOX.” FTER making a great fuss over “the box” the fickle French are already tiring of it. The past season brought the sport to the climax of its popularity, the language took “left- handers” and “swings” and “uppercuts” to its bosom, and the French public equandered many a &20 for places at the “ringside.” But now one of the shrewdest observers of French life, M. Clem- ent Vautel of the Paris Matin, points out that the same people who are f allowing these fist artists from watering place to watering place, only & few years ago ran after the wrestlers with equal zest, And where’ is wrestling among French sports to-day? I¢ will be the same, he thinks, with “the box.” There will always be men ready to punch each other, but there will not always be an audiehce willing to pay $20 a seat to see them do it. The truth is that these Anglo-Saxon sports are not “neat” enough to appeal for long to French taste. The mixups about rules, the disputes, the unsatisfactory endings and decisions, the police in-| terfergnce that attend the sport of boxing are already beginning to bore Gallic onlookers, After all, the play of a foil is prettier to watch Its touches and points are easier to count. Its rather finicky niceties make it more national, pace velttag Letters From the People Yes. * Ye Bo dbo Kastor of The Erening World: a To the Fditor of The Evening World: Te an American born man eligible to] Ie a lady at l!berty (legally) to re- “Secome the President of the Unitea| marry if she has not seen nor heard eee sitbougs his parents arejof her husband for over twenty-one iz MB, RB, years? Ww. W. a< @ iittle extra cush!" kal M-o-n-e-y—scad. e children hear you and then use them, ‘Why, our Willie asked me to-day for ‘a Sitney to wee the movi a nickel to # aid Mra. Jarr. ecte “A Mttle extra what?” asked the lady. “Cush, megs, simoleons, {ron men, -by any name it's § he explained, “You know I don't like those slang xpressions,” eaid Mre. Jarr. “The “Whatever could he have meant?” asked Mr. Jarr in mock innocence. “You know what he meant. He meant the moving pictures,” La J out every week thinking I'l! je money ahead, But Friday 7 Real Gouranet “it js a lot of courage to do ness on credit.” “It takes a lot more to give the credit.” D00GO000C000C000> somes and I haven't a bean,” Mr, Jarr paper for men? {en are as silly as continued reftectively. “You know,” he women, Bny da: added, “it isn't the big expenses Kke| “And then said Mrs. Jarr. automobiles or swell feeds or jewelry] “I'll do It!’ Jarr went on, not that eat up ow income. It's the little} needing her remark, “Let's see, I'll expel the many, many—countless—| have stories—"How My Wife Went/ Uttle expenses, Five cents here, ten| Away With a Handsomer Man,’ and 8 there and so on.” hat's because we haven't enough money for anything but the Ittle ex- ‘Why My Wife Quit Working,’ Confessions of @ Long-Suffering Mar- ried Man,’ ‘How a Young Man Should | 6 If His Intended Father-in-Law !s| ent,’ and go on. Then I could have | issions such as ‘Should Husbands | ean Allowance?” and “Is @ Man's Pin Money His Own?" “It would be very interesting read- ing!” sneered Mrs, Jarr, “Will you eried Mr, Jarr, up excitedly and clapping his hands to- gether, ‘The big idea! If all those gushamush papers for women can make millions, why couldn't a gushamush Copyright, 1012, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). EVER judge a husband by what he says or docs; because he 18 seldom half aa nice as he can be, or half as disagreeable as he'd like to be, IN A wife's pleasure, when her husband brings her an unexpected present, +| d8 always tempered by her curiosity to know what he has been doing to make tt necessary, A man can never understand why his wife will forget the important thing he told her before breakfast and, at the same time, remember all the 100} things he told her before marriage, There is as much difference between the appearance of a pretty girl in @ motor bonnet and of a wife with her head tied up ina dust-rag as between the honeymoon smile of a husband and his coal-bill grouch, To the average man the deadliest thing about married life is the thought of going home every night because he HAS to, instead of because he WANTS to, “Going on a tear" is to a man what hysterics are to a woman; but neither one of them will ever be able to understand what pleasure the other gets out of such perfectly obvious folly, ‘A “perfectly honorable man" is one who never lies to anybody except a woman, never cheats in anything eacept the love-game and never deceive. anybody except hie wife, . In his conversation with his wife a moa eeldom uses more than one set of brain cope, 300000000600000000000000 All Mr. Jarr Needs to Make Him a Wealthy Man Is a Mere $500,000) $00000000000000000000000000600500900000000000090000 1SDOCOOCO have portraits of hands mer men on the cov “L haven't just Mr, Jar ows by runnin Best Man Should of the Groom's Last Bachelor Dinner.’ | Then I'll get up ‘Little Income Club | for young men showing them how thoy can make money going around gett! me young sum- | red that out,” said ng subseriptions for my ‘Perfect Gentle- man's Magazine’ I'll have souventr four-leat clover stick pins for them to wear. It's a “Do you th to be Interest: Mrs, Jarr. “I think they will be," was the reply. “I'll have ‘Men's Fashions’ anda sece tion of the paper catled ‘Hatt Room| Hints.’ This last will be devoted to in- structions for bachelors—but this will be the hypocritical part of the schema ~showing how they can sew on their own buttons, darn thefr own socks, pateh their own clothes and 80 on.” “Why 1s that the hypocritical part?” asked Mra, Jarr, “Because bachelors don't need to know how to do those things," said Mr, Jarr, “Every woman they mest is scan- ning them to see if a button dangtes, ‘Oh, let me fix that!’ they cry. It's |married men whose clothes are neg- lected," “Are yours neglected?” Jarr heatedly. “Come now!" gata Mr. Sarr, “‘T'm not speaking personally, I'm discussing a business proposition. Think of a heart- to-heart story: ‘My Early Married Day by Henry Peck.’ It will begin like this: ‘As Imogene led me up the aisle with a | firm hand, I was dimly conscious of the eyes of Marcla Van Basilisk upon me. enough asked, An such things’ asked Mrs. What was Marea doing here? I reeled and would have fallen, but Imogene whispered: ‘Courage, my darling!" | And before my swimming eyes was ever ent, the figure of her sturdy kindly Mortimer Van Boob, sweet the thought!to be MY {My future was safe, He would place me in a snug position in his gum drop foundry, Tut ar Marcta gazed at me again I could feel my reason totter’ ” “T can feel MY reason totter listening |to such mush!” snapped Mrs. Jarr, “Well, just the same, if I had five hundred thousand dollars to finance the Proposition I'd start a man's paper, just like that!" said Mr. Jarr, “If wo had that much money we'd start for Europe,” said Mrs, Jarr, “LE never thought of that," « Still, it's a bully idea. Yes? No? —————-_—_—- Plea to a Haughty Dame. LADY of the Limousine— Fair Daughter of the Rich, 1) ween— Litt not your petalled nose so high At me, the humble passer-by, Some day, perhaps, though purse be lean, 1, too, shal! ride a Limousine! pa Jarr. think #0? her Irresistible fascinations. to devote herself to the aged and bankrupt man whose wife she was, Returning to Paris after N downfall, she 6nce more made her draw ing rooms the centre of French society, The Duke of Wellington, fresh from his victory at Waterloo, came to see her. Like all other men, he was attracted by But she was a patriot before she was a hostess, and when Wellington spoke lightly of her country she ordered him out of her house. It was no light matter to treat the hero of the hour in this fashion, and her, action caused much excitement. But it strengthened her wonderful popularity, For a full half century Mme, Recamfer was the undisputed queen of Franc: social world, and the object of countiess men’s adoration, Chateaubriand—brag- art, crank, genins and Iady-killer—came into her life. She gently moulded his wayward character, stripping away much of {ts dross and bringing out its nobler qualitte He loved her better than any one else—except himself—and after her husband's death he begged her to marry him, Deeply as she seems to have cared for Chateaubriand, sh, fused the « . ¥ Old age came on, Mme. Recamler was still beautiful. In her seventieth year ehe received—and rejected proposal of marriage. At last she grew blind, Chateaubriand died tn 1843, and she mourned him bitterly, Within a year she followed him to the grave, A POCKET VYCELOPEDIA. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). 211.—Why are dreams usually illogical and absurd? 212.—What is the origin of the expression “Honeymoon?” 213.—Why tcill a piece sf dark cloth, laid on snow, melt the snow more quickly than will a white cloth? 214.—Why does doiling water bubble? 215.—Why does a coating of grease prevent iron from rusting? HESE quertes will be answered Wednesday. Friday's questions: 20.—(Why is a sea breeze more fresh and healthful than a land breeze?) It passes over the water and 1s not laden with unhealth- ful odors, gases, etc., from the land. 207.—(Why do clouds float in the air instead of sinking to earth?) They ere made of millions of tiny globules which are lighter than the surrounding air. 208.—(Why Is a red sunset a sign of clear weather and a yellow one a eign of rain?) .The red rays are visible only when the light comes through the air's uncondensed vapor, Yellow is seen when this vapor has been condensed into Here are answers to | clouds, 20.—(How are raindrops formed?) The particles of vapor In the afr attract other vapor particles until enough are collected to form a drop. 210.—(Why are not all clouds the same color?) ‘Thetr size, and density and thetr position toward the sun are constantly changing; so that sometimes one color is reflected and eometimes another. Duels at $20 Per. UELS tn France are often more | boulevartier Journallst, once suffered. 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