The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1912, Page 14

t | } } t a a inne ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. day by the Press Publishing Company, Now 68 to Petished Daily Except Gunday by the Prese Publishing A | SSR TUTRES Focttet Shh or A AW, Treasurer, A JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. Secretary, Park R fice at Ne ond-Class Matter. Oumeneplion nates te he \evenina | For nviand” ‘ana the Continent and . for the United States ‘All Countetes in the International Caneda. Postal Union. = ¢. sees 68.80] One Year .80/ Ona Month. VOLUME 58......ccscseeeeeeeceeeessseeseeeessNO, 18,620 ARE WE IN RUSSIA? Orr private letters that contain matter interesting or! prejudicial to its heads is no new habit of the Post-Office Department of the United States. Senator La Follette, who has been conducting an inquiry into conditions in the department, declares: My mail was subjected to an eapionege almost Russian in character, I have here a bundle of Ictters showing that my mail was opened in violation of the law and rifled by sone one hostile to the purposes I had in making the investigation. The charge will surprise no one who has had experience of being under the displeasure of high officials or departments of this, Government. When The World was undergoing the Panama Persecution at the hands of Mr. Roosevelt, then President, the private mail of this Newspaper was regularly opened by some person or persons in the Post-Office service. Again, several years ago, when the Periodical Publishers’ Asso- elation sent a committee to Washington to argue the question of postal rates on second-class matter, the mail of the committee was| systematically tampered with. : The Senator from Wisconsin claims to have discovered that tho! Post-Office Department has been removing men from service “for no other reason than that they joined organizations designed to improve | labor conditions in the service.” This newspaper is not in favor of secret societies or combinations among employees in government services. But it is strongly in| favor of finding out how far United States Post-Office offici lieve themselves empowered to detain or open private communica- tidhs passing through the mails. Does the United States Post-Office consider itself a department of a free government or does it model itself upon the Czar’s Im- perial Police? oO —— RUMINANTS. [ CHEWING GUM a sign of melancholy? If :> this city is in an alarming state of gloom. To the eye of the casual observer in subway trains, theatres, parks and like public places 70 per cent. of the people in New York now chew gum. The habit has been suggested as either a cause or effect of low spirits. Ruminating animals are notoriously the contemplative, eyed sort. What is more sorrowful than the gaze of acow? Is any creature less given to gayety? The very word ruminate has come | to mean brooding. Why shouldn’t the slow, silent mastication of @ wad of gum be mixed with some mysterious animal instinct of melancholy and morosencss? Your real gum chewer will go for Rours without saying a word. A lady friend of Dr. Johnson professed to have known a gen-] ine ruminating man who, as she describes it, “actually chews the sad like an ox. He is apparently much like any other tall, stout aan, but has many extraordinary properties. He can recover his Seals from his stomach at pleasure; and did absolutely in the course @ two hours go through, to oblige me, the whole operation of eating, Daasticating, swallowing and returning by the mouth a large piece af bread and a peach.” She adds: “He is a low-spirited, nervous man.” Here, then, is the missing link between the silent gum chewer and the sullen ox. Let’s admit it’s a glum habit. —_——-4+-—____. HE PROCEEDS of gambling in various casinos in France during the last five years have amounted to nearly 50,000,000 francs 810,000,000). Under the law, 15 per cent. is levied for charitabie purposes and public works. The proceeds of gambling in various resorts in the United States uring the last five years have amounted to nobody knows how much! Regardless of the law, any old per cent. is grafted for, beaven knows whom! Which is the better system? i aa T MIGHT be better if Mrs. Wilson Woodrow, writer, distributor | of wit and smoker of cigarettes, were to take a holiddy in Europe until the middle of next November. Much as we admire her, her mame is confusing, her tastes are not those of her namesake-the- | other-way-round, and she'll give folks the fidgets if she hangs about this campaign. ——-+ = -______ hgh er and extravagances have a way of getting together. So when a New York man says he is driven to Europe because he can’t get good food in this city we are not surprised to hear the manager of one of our largest hotels loudly proclaim that “the service and cuisine in New York cannot be equalled anywhere!” More foolishly still, this manager tries to clinch his statement by asserting that “New Yorkers have proved it by the number of dollars they are willing to spend to dine at our best hotels.” We have seen plenty of food and service hereabouts too good to drive anybody to Europe, but we have never seen food or service so bad that some New Yorkers couldn’t be fooled into paying absurd prices for it under that “best hotel” delusion! Letters from the People years old (going on forty-three’ my age is thirteen (going on four- teen), 8. B “For Thirty-One lass.” To the Editor of The Evening World: One of your readers asks how rauch ved one vent . tWo oonts the second day, doubling each day for thirty-one days. The Age Problem Again. To the Editor of The Evening World In reference to the letter signed by D. Hannifin, regarding a mathematical problem, 1 wish to announce my idea of the matter, Now, if my age eight years ago was one-eighth of my fathers, and if eight years hence I will W's age, the difference between 1-2 ts 3-8, which i» equivalent oJ GARICY AT ey pre nce g VY; Mh } . 9 —_ VALLI NY\ LANA UN F (6 We NY a’ Vm ‘SF as = 8 +; | ar wl | pill iN SS] won " iy \ as a nee ae The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, August 14, 1912 The Trapper 2 t-amatect #4 By M. de Zayas||Womenleartbraahkers Vv y | we 3 be baw P be, 66] ID you bring home the evening papers, Paw?" asked Mr. Jarr's little boy the other eve- ning. "Y two of them," sald the fond| ‘a “Want to see the funny plc) tures?" “Is this al ed the boy In @ dle} appointed tone, he took the papers in Question, “Won't you bring ‘em ALL home, Paw?" “Div ‘em to ME, Don't div ‘em to Willie,” interposed the lttle Jarr girl. “Girls can't use ‘em," said Master Jarr. “H qt But ute Jarr had held tight to the papers and tuxged till she tore them, And Mr, Jarr had to use force to quiet the altercation. “There now!" bawled the boy. “Look whatcha done! They ain't no good now!" “I don't tar “I got more'n 3 Janitor's little girl, dits @ lot for me out of the ash barrels.” “Naw she don't, Little Oscar Sw tnt ‘em for me!” cried Master J “Great Scott! What's the tr now? What are you children quarre! ~ A Case of *Pull.”* * declared the little girl, uu, Olga Swanson, the | swing door.” teen years, If 8-8 equals 16, 1 equal 5 1-8 and 8-8 will equal 43 3-3; oalienlieeta. I find that he would have $21.474,830.47. ‘How about those figures, readers? | “Yor have been wi sie eae | most as many that she’ Go Copyright, 1912 by ‘The Press Pubishing Co, (The New York World). HY is st that when a wife particularly sets her heart on going any- where her husband always trumps it with his club? | “I took for m:" motto the word) ‘Pushi’ on one side of the office's nguces a beautiful woman's lovelincas, e taken advantage of the motto on ite it the newspapers for? asked Mr. Jae, But in the child world there are cer- tain secrets that tt Is deemed not fitting for grown-ups to know. Master Jarr only mumbled that he wanted to see the Pictures, and Miss Jarr said there were doll patterns in some papers. “They have my heart broke with the way they fight over all the old news- papers!” whimpered Mrs. Jarr, who heard the squabble an@ who came in at this juncture, “Willie has his bureau drawer full of them, and a big stack under his bed, and little Emma has al- had me lock up for her in my closet. “I don't think they he ‘Daclne t W No matter how high-browed a girl may be, somehow she will always | turn from the man who insists on praising the beauties of her intellect to| ments further down and demand old listen to the impertinent youth who murmurs, “Oh, you beautiful dol!” in| newspapers, in the name of the Junior her ear. he isn't filled with ulterior motives. aiong with it, Stifutes “medggtu’ in the matter. of jhould read the OOCCCEESEEE SORES E BESSERESOESEDE SEE OE SEEESOSSESSEESE Mr. Jarr Plays Sherlock Holmes And Unravels 09999909990900980 09699999999999999:99990000000000009 | newspapers so much,” said Mr, Jarr. “Why don't they read their books? There's that ‘Library of Canned Educa- tion’ I got them, And that reminds me I'm three months behind in the pay- ments, and you should see the tone of follow-up form letter No. 16 T just got to-day. If I sent one of those to Beck- er in the Tombs he'd break down and sob." “You neean't worry yourself. The chil- Gren are not reading the papers. They only hoard them. As for the ‘Library of Canned Education for Children,’ as soon as I tent them how useful those) books were and how much good {t would do them to read them, they won't look at them.” It docsn't take a temperamental woman long to marry “the wrong man” | or to put him in the wrong, no matter what kind of man she marries, in the small viev. | rise in value, either with or with. After dinner and the rain were over out the yoke, while A wife may catch her husband red-handed in a ngirder, a theft, Or @| (upper js calied dinner in upper-middle the skirt te attactiew firtation, and stil belicve him innocent; but, let her catch him sprinkling) class Harlem) the children, parental to a band. himself with her violet extract and nothing on earth will persuade her that | eyes not being upon them, disappeared For the sixt-en vec Blue Beard was a gentleman, amd “we can prove it,” too; for at least, | it was “of with the old love's head,” before it was “on with the new.” Certainly, Clarice, a woman should be more attractive to men as her soul grows and expands provided her figure doesn't happen to expand: * Alas, it is usually the husband who puts the “rage” in marriage, and | the wife who caste the “die” in divorce! Mystery is a chiffon veil that covers a homely woman's defects and en- How a few pounds of plumpness DO broaden a girl's ideas of what COM: | people ti Aecotteted, § ‘OS Telia asenr Parson TERRE. Coprright, 1912. by The Prees Publishing Co. (The New York World). No. 38—ELIZABETH PATTERSON; the Baltimore Girl Who Wanted to Be Queen. HE race course at Baltimore was thronged one autumn day !n 1803 with curiosity seekers who had not come thither to see the races. They had come to stare at a slender, bronzed boy of ninctect handsome but weak of fece, who wore the uniform cf @ French army captain. The youth was Jerome Bonaparte, younger brother of that Bonaparte who, as First Consul of France, w: Iready the moet man on earth and who, it was rumored, was laying plans to be proc Emperor of the French. Jerome, Napoleon's youthful brother, was <« of a French ship that had been sent on a mission to the West Indies and had been chased into New York Harbor by an English cruiser. The lad decided, since he was here, to make a tour of the United States. Ile was presented to President Jefferson and other dignitaries, was everywhere lav- ishly entertained, and in due time found himself in Baltimore. ‘The news that Jerome was to be at the races was brought somewhat belatedly to the house of William Patterson, the Baltimore banker, one of the few very rich in America at that time Patterson's daughter, Elisabeth, a girl of | seventeen, heard the tidings of Jerome Bonapa: nce. Curious to see the brother of so renowned @ man, she sprang upon one of her father’s horses and Balloped off to the track, There her presence created almost as much stir as had that of the French youth. For, young as she was, “Betsy” Patterson was the reigning belle of Baltimore, and ehe numbered her ardent,suitors by tens and twenties. Hitherto no man had made any lasting-impression on her heart. tt {9 doubtful {f ever in her long life ehe was deeply in love.) The Bonapartist striping and the Baltimore belle met. Betsy was dazzled by the Napoleonic splendor. It was well known that Napoleon Bonaparte was making himself master of all Continental Europe. Might he not one day be in @ position to offer his brother a throne? And in that case, would mot the brother's wite be © queen? There never yet had been an American queen. But that was no reason why there should not be. And Betsy Patterson, tuming her back on all other eAmirers, made herself wondrously charming and attractive to the French boy. Jerome's susceptible heart was at once captured. Within @ very short time he proposed to Miss Patterson and was accepted. The French Consul, tearing Napoleon's anger, aid what he could to break off the match. So, for very different tceasons, did Mr. Patterson. But all in vain. Betsy was completely lost in dreams | of regal splendor and she declared to her father: | “1 would rather be Jerome Bonaparte’s wife for one hour than the wife o¢ | any other man for life.” ; All objections failing, the young couple were married in Baltimore on Christ- mas Eve, 1803. It was e gorgeous wedding. The bride wore en embroidered mus- | Mn dress with “hobble” skirt and with but one garment beneath it Gaid « guest afterward: “All she wore might have been put into my pocket.” And now came the task of reconciling Napoleon to the match. Betsy counted | upon her beauty to soften his heart. Jerome wrote him letters of eager appeal. | But all in vain, Napoleon spoke scathingly of “the young person to whom Citizen Jergme Bonaparte has connected himself,” and forbade her to set foot in France. So she went to England. Jerome hurried on to the Continent to make @ persona! plea in her behalf. Napoleon, who, meantime, had become Emperor, refused to Msten to him. And he bulldozed the weak youth into consenting meekly to Atvorce. In England, Elizabeth's only son—named for his father—was born. Napoleon arranged @ state marriage between Jerome and a German princess. In reward a for his brother’s cowardly obedience he made Jerome an admiral, a prince and, later, King of Westphalta, Jerome offered Elizabeth » pension, She indignantly By oN refused it, but accepted an allowance of $12,000 a year from Napoleon, giving as ’, her reason for rejecting the first offer and accepting the second: neg | _ *T preter to be sheltered by the wing of an eagle to hanging fron: the bill of « goose!” For her recreant husband she now had no feeling except a furious contempt. Her sorrows had changed her from a spoiled but lovabie girl into @ bitterly cynical woman, She hated America, A Queen Only declaring that {ts men could talk of nothing but money- ‘ of Hearts. making and its women could think of nothing but their housekeeping and their children. So, as soon as eee poleon had been driven into exile, she went to Europe to live. There she was surrounded by throngs of admirers—Byron, Canova, Prinvs Demtdoff, Chateaubriand, the great Gortschakoff and a score of others did homaga‘ to her wit and beauty. To all offers of love she turned a deaf ear. She had had quite enough of that folly. Said clever old Baron Bonsietten in speaking of het possible rights to her title of Queen of Westphalia: “St elle n'est pas reine de Westphalle, elle est au moins reine des coeurs" (“Tt she is not Queen of Westphalia, she is at least Queen of Hearts.") Eltsadeth lived on until April 4, 1879, dying in her ninety-ffth year. a Harlem Mystery all that time did she see Jerome again. That was in 1821. While strolling | through @ Florence picture gallery she ca ft to face with him. 8! him without speaking. And as she did so she heard him whisper in const: to the German Princess he had married: “There goes my American wife!’ Napolcot taikod of imed ain The Belle and the Bonapartist. Only once “Oh, well, it's some harmless collec: | tion fad of the children’s, Don't let's bother about it," sald ‘fr, Jarr. Just then the doorbell rang. And Mrs, Jarr opening the door, Master Slav- insky was discovered on the threshold, Master Slayinsky was attired in @ some- what battered boy scout costume, les: sings, hat and all. He stood at atten lon and gave the scouts’ te. cradle,” he jan. U'm coPporal of the Boys’ Auxiliary “Cut it out,” interrupted his pal. “This Sanitary Squad of District No. 23 of ise fashionable audience and there ain't Harlem," announced Master Siavinsky,!q mother in the house.’—Chicago “and Tam looking out to keep the! Journal. streets clean. I will take away rubbish | | mit neatness and despatch,” “Well, there's a lot of old bandboxe and rubber overshoes and some oth trash I Just cleaned out of the c to-day. You can take thore awa Mrs, Jarr. Master Slavinsky’s face fell. “Ain't you got no old newspapers that makes an awful trash in the streets?" asked Master Slavinsky, “They fall off the garbage carts and blow out of the rubbish cans when you sends them dowa to the Janttor.”* “There's a pile of them under Willie's bed,” began Mrs. Jarr, “Izzy Slavinsky, you can't have my _——_——— POOR LINE OF TALK. EXPERIENCED, . ‘Women at last had the ballot and an} “Think I'll go to the ball game to-day.” ofly politician was after the euffragette/ ‘All right. Is there @ telephone at |v the grounds?” “There's one near there. Why?” “If the home team loses I want you to telephone me, se that I can take the children and go over to mother’s until you get your temper back,"=Houstoa Post, e hand that rocks the I appeal to f The May Manton Fashions newspapers!" cried Master Jarr in alarm, “Anyway, it ain't going to rain!" “It IS going to rain!" replied Master Slavinsky stoutly, ‘And newspapers is now worth a cigarette picture “What is going on? What my: 1s here?” asked Mr, Jarr. But all the children were mute as clams. And Master Slavinsky, giving the scout salute again, turned on hip heel and departed. They could hear him stop at the apart- ry but linen and poplin ere worn at all see. sone, On the figure, the blouse is made with full length opening at the front and jotned to the six gored skirt, but a great many girls, like the blouse) made separately and It cua be finished es shown Auxillary Sanitary Squad, A little later it began to rain and the Jarr children, united again, gath- eved by thelr treasures of old newspap- ers and discoursed in whispers of their mysteriously in the dusk, and with their hoards of old papers, 1 Mr. Jarr, being a regular Sherlock ‘ Holmes in private life, noted the disap-| yard aT inches wits pearance of the children and the papers, for the collar and and, following this clue, set out to solve cuffs, ‘The width of the Adventure of the Old Newspapers oe care a ower | He encountered Master Slavinsky e Mn oP taguering under a great pack of yes-| day's news sheets. Mr, Jarr got right 7345 is in siz f n to business, Pattern 7545 Middy Costume for Mi and Small misses of . I'll give you @ nickel If you tell me Women, 14, 16 and 18 years, Tiere ** ond what the children are collecting the old! * newspapers for,” he said. “Sure,” replied Master Slavinsky, take ing the money, ‘When it rains in the day then the benches is wet at the open. alr so Wo get in for nothing if we bring papers to give to A nnnnnnnnnnncey, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHI BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo- te site Gimbel Bros.), corner Bixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents in coin or eiamps for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your address pleiniy and wpectty two centy cor lever cy movies show always @ hurry.