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Whe Evenin READING THE STARS. HE absence of party cant and band-wagon oratory in the pres- T ent campaign was the subject of recent comments in this column. Careful observers note a marked falling off of old- narrow-minded perty seal and habit, an awakening to realities, the development of a kind of politics that men terme of principles rather than parties. the following day came like s ce that those who think they World D like these spoken by « party otreight of the heads of that party's established machino? the country of iste seen many Presidential candidates who Tetused to state their in terms that could not bear i i 1 e i } TRY PEACEFUL INTERVENTION. IXTY-FIVE YEARS ago today Gen. Scott with an army of United States troops marched into the Oity of Mexico. No eensible man wishes ever to eco « aimiler event. It Mr. Teft cares to make honest campaign cepftsl out of cur neighbor to the south, why dosen't be try a few volleys of diplomacy? ‘Why net, as The Evening World hes already suggested, eend « strong ‘appeal to the Government and ¢o the leaders of the rival revetutions faviting them to come together and talk things over? Let the United @tates arrange the conference, guarantee safe conduct for the con- Parrecs, and do is best to persuade these rampegeous folk thet ft ‘ Ser their own interest to calm down. Even if the attempt faile there etn Seonly honor in beving made it. Why not try? - ——-+ [REVERE = Besson cate on ecerens «change f boar, gin up ite wicked ways and tum ite champegne coolers into milk pail, thie alty can't be 00 awful bed! —— OHRIWTABEL PANKHUEST cries 0 friemily werning from-over the ova that Theodore ie fooling us. Oh, no. Only emmestyy’ as. oo y apologise to the Chemists’ Congress for the news- papers of this city in « “they’d-do-the-came-for-me” spirit? | cmaybecks? I the hat'egood enough; don’t fuss about KI" grumbled Mr. Tt hardly need be eald that Mr. Jarr was peaking about bis own hat He wouldn't dere tell Mra, Jerr her hats Were geod enough, and not to fuss about them. commented Mrs. always put seme- it when it'e em the hat rack want any visitor fat wlone on your il OE t Magazine, Mr. Jarr, Told to Clean His Old Saturday September 14. 191% Why Not? & jeatciter| BY By Maurice Ketten Straw Hat, Makes Another Blunder hh And even as he spoke the door bell ang. any minute,” expostulated My. Jarr./ail upset!" Mrs, Jenkins rattled on. “Oh, don’t mind about that; the place was in auch @ condition that if my! “Well, after dinner, when Mr. Jenkins | friends waited till I wae al! straightened @ete at the plano playing rag time, as| Ut they wouldn't be to see me till cold z g @ hat,” ordered Mre. Jarr, “It hat You rae I know if you don’t do it before iE tt let you go downtown wearing @ bat!” » Jerr gtumly acquiesced, and time the Jerkinses had arrived. jo gtad to see you! My, how well you are looking!” orfed Mrs, Jarr and Mre. Jenkins simultaneously, And, as they Kissed each other, they gave & Glance to see if any more y hairs were visible on the head of the other since last they met. My, Jarr and Mr. Jenkins also warmly greeted each other, although, being of- floemates, they had, been side by side up aeeda i ;|te an hour or so ago. “T feel dreadfully ashamed of myself running in to see you thie way, when | fined,” the Jenkinses ere coming to eee you ere just back from the country and | ladies. HH woman who is “handy in making hats" will be glad to know that fabrio-coverpd hate @re the edict fom fall and al- most any material will be fashionable, while @ combination of two, euch as @ crown of one fabric and a one and ean under brim facing of an- other material, ie atriking the very new- est atyle-note in millinery, Prominent among the fabrics used for early fall wear are maline, eatin, moire, charmeuse and taffeta, usually in com- ‘dination with velvet or plush, Later on Metal effects and ¢ur will be largely used with thd velvet and plush. ‘The newest shapes show « diminution tm head sises which has become impera- tive with the present fashionable mode of hair dressing, The crowns, too, are not the bulky affairs of past seasons, ‘They are of everage height and grace- ful in ghape. front to back, which tp directly contrary a Sigs TRo- Whale art of wor concists im getting at what is om the - other side of the hill. ; WELLINGTON. 2 : Died Sept. 14, 1858, Letters from the People Seught by City of Breckiv=. latter part of eptember, Men ought wee oan Tes rans Wend! [ibe pent ear non ent Nee ee de eres tae |e ere eek median. Wane wear and heve ereat @trawe in Feb: and March when \ (formation and anawere whlch YOU| there te mow on the ground ant nevesy | | KLEASeville give in your “Letters From the People” | ridtoules them. Gept. 8 would be Edi Getoma, A diemasion ances, between | right COMMON SENBE. tor are at ee ee we dectted te Cooper Untons 9 Renee of OS By John L. Hobbie My Gedre ts to know tf Prospect Park We Bile A a Seales Tents pee ‘Brookiyn Dought by the olty| Kindly let me know if there so Coperright, Fee re, weet preocased co| ethnel fer tho waly of tdeameote te TRS: Me Feet Woda nains Ne ‘ sear aeeeg) eee a om ee whey | |r Dk Cy: Abe, Se hems chews Re, HARP says she would rather Yes. courses of wtady et Columbta Univer- M1" ihe ier nzcdy than the Sythe Weer ot Tho Brening Wet: sity, evening sessions, A READER. witew ot semerety den ‘To settle an argument, you Hete'a olem, —- fara okeuee’ Sa Sone guber the tole | Ge fee BAter ef See Weeks Mani: Since silence te golden, some of the Jowing question: Did Or, Hearet run| (an any of your readers decide the | neighbors have been showing « itttle too for Mayor of New York in 1000 agatnat | following bet? Much freedom ‘a throwing away their Judge Gaynor and Mr. Bannard? A manufacturer hes cightesn men, | Veluadies, , P. i, [each man working eix days « week. — Yes) tm Elect Over o Year, ‘The factory t running seven days a| MY. Derks says that when he won't CwRe Biter of The Bening Word: wook, the men alternating for their day |(U*‘rel with Ms wife she accuses him Kindly state & marriage M Jott. In one week 01.78 worth of goods | Deine earecadle just to annoy her, tom oe im the Btate of New| ig manufactured, OR ee whip Bereey, and if #0, please state when this nous utes head on law took effect. D. ©. | gine by aigbtonn, to met the reruns |Fune across the street because she has “That” Straw Hat Question. week's output per end then By | TOP*, conticence im her apeed than in Biter of The Evening World: bescpd hee judgment, "Siti ie’ the coason' a. lot of yape ests| SX, 0 get the average day's output — ‘when it fo time to abandon the straw | Der man. Fi claims thet W118i should be| Prof, Pinned sted to Reve his hat. You usually say Gept. divided by eighteen and then by seven, | wages reduced because every dollar he Gummer degine June Si, fall Gept, m,| Whe wins? B, MAMTS | Grawe js taking just that much trom Free Gevevament Land. elne, 024 20 8 straw hat i © cummer tint, | 1 me matter of Tee Bring World) ene com wear a With all propriety! ‘Will some reader kindly supply the Rev, Fy ot anys thet» lot of watt! Cope, O04 atl of Hoptem | mtermation sa how te obtain "Free! 1. nis ehurch i if. beaete ert They are alt of June and | Government "aad & came ea ‘never oaven a,b me em Gm tn onmentes _. Ad, Mam, ‘Most of the new shapes are jong from The New Hats as the season advances the large hat | ehare of patronage. | The new sailors that are now #0 pop- ular in Paris will no doubt meet with | favor, ee te evidenced by the increasing Dearing in them. For dressy occasions the Louis hats will probably meet with approval. The flat little crown and the undulating brim that tilts up at the back end has the trimming underneath reminds us of the fashion plates of a quarter century ago, but they are vaetly becoming and have been accepted by the Parisionnes, #0 they will no dowbt become fashionable. In trimmings simplicity continues to be the keynote, and the aigrettes lead over everything. The tong plume ts Passe, excepting ae crown bands that terminate in a downward flowing plume, and in ite place are used fancy pieces of unourled ostrich, Quills are used on simple hate and the pheasant promises to win great faver, For earty fall wear wings are very Dopalar, and whether it ip the little wings perched at coquettish an ‘los or ‘the long, backward slanting type, the e@martness of the hat depends upon the Placing of these ornaments, and while it eseme an easy matter to some, the weman grho jooke for perfection in Gress relegate this task to the practised hand of the experienced milli- take « few minutes, You'll | Children, ‘under something on the hall |®@ehbors, and aches and pains, supper can put the hat back under | WS served with the eame sort of con- @ame thing and ft will soon dry.|Vereation continued. You never will, and I positively | Mr. Jenkins, who was quite cute at th by bars of “The Ragtime Soldier Ma: will egain come in for its usual popular | |Rumber of smartly dr women ap-| | brim of another, or an upper brim of! Weed atwaye does, you excuse yourself and | Weather!" replied Mrs. Jarr. Then, after mutual inquiries as to vacations, styles, weather, After dinner Mrs. Jarr suggested that | Plano, give a taste of his music: ities, and when he had struck jh gave Mr. Jarr a glance that said “Blip off and clean that hat!” Mr. Jarr etole away and got the hat! from under .9 scarf on the haf rack,! found the bleach in the medicine closet and cleaned it in a Jiffy, marveling at the sudden and beneficial Improvement in the hat. Then he brought it back | and hid ft to dry where he had found It, After Mr. Jarr got back to the parlor Joy was even still more unconfined, Mrs. Jarr permitting him to take bucket In 2 vaitse and bring back beer from Gus’s, “A valise looks 90 respectable and re- being the comment of doth On the way home to Hast Malaria, ‘Mr. Jenkins cried euddenly, “I never was 40 insulted in my Iffe!”’ “What's the matter?” asked hie wife “Look at my straw hat!’ replied Jen- (tine, “Tt looked so bad that T hid it under something on the hat rack when we called at the Jarre. They must have bee: toned friends would see me wear it away from their house. Look at {t-- they sent it out and had it cleaned!” THE ENVIRONS | OF NEW YORK FIFTY YEARS AGO charming ruraf resorts in the eummer time, across the Hudson River, on the New Jersey shore, There were delightful waike for miles along the margin of the river, on high ground overlooking the bay and the city, and all the country around, in shady | OBOKEN and Weehawken were 'H ; Py} e7tt | | i penson, ‘Rockaway fashionable afraid some of thelr high-! . ater, The curtain that used to veil Coprigs, 1018, by The Prem Pubtidhing On, (ihe Now Youk World), NOWEST thou a man, my Daughter, who hath not said, “I shall not marry?” Hearken meekly when he speaketh—bdut be not dismayed, For, as well might a witd bird say, “I shall not be shot!” Behold, when he thinketh himself safest, when he chirpeth triumphantly from the topmost branohes, in Me vanity, the Hunter bringeth him low. And the woods are full of tinkling laughter. Knowest thou a man, my Daughter, who fordeareth to trifle with Me LUoK? . For, dehold, the wisest among them will riek the tooman who te all thinga unto him, that he may pMiander for an hour with the woman who te nothing unto him, Yea, even os @ dade, Phat droppeth an armful of toys to grasp at a soap Dubdie, he placeth Me Happiness in a Lottery, for the sake of an dle Hirtation. . Knowest thou a man, my Daughter, who hath not wasted the radium of love wpon the Wrong Woman? For, verily, vertly, o man oan de loyal until death unto a woman that 4s too INDIFFERENT to demand anything of him. Lo, the fact that she loveth him NOT ts as fuel to the flame of hie de- votion, which dburneth as @ prairie fire and will not be quenched. Yet, she hath bus to turn toward him; to emile upon Me passion; to respond to his kisses; to sigh at Ms departure; to cover him with cordial- | ity and sentiment, and love notes, and questions and telephone calle—end behold, he ig CURED, Yea, indifference ie as cold winds whch fan the fire of Me ardor, dud devotion is as a dlanket which extinguisheth it without effort. For to, a man is wise in Politics. Also, he is wise in Business, bargaining and buying and selling with Proft, never overdrawing Me bank account, signing a check always at the | RIGHT end, and making the correct change without effort, which thy Mother hath never learned to do. But in LOVE, he te a FOOL, to-day, yesterday, and forever! For, alas, he ployeth always against his own Happiness; chooseth ab ways the woman who will make him most miserable; and sigheth always for the IMPOSSIBLE. ‘ Verily, verily, may the Lord have mercy on him! For he hath no meroy on HIMSELF! Beloh! reeererernnnnnnnnnnnnnls The Week’s Wash By Ma-tin Green, Copreight 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). 6c OOKB as though Charles F., ceeding is quite likely to engage the at- L Murphy ang William Barnes tention of the populace of these parts 4. are going to hand us out| before the frost glistens in the rays Our candidates on| of the rising sun. the Gtate ticket! “However,” said the head pollehen for the two old, “that has nothing to do with the emt. parties,” remarked "ent dentist who advises young mea the head polis, |e pick out young women with pink “Funny thing,” {teeth when choosing fhelpmests for seid the teundry | “fe.” man, “how the|, Th Papers are full of teeth these concrete covering | “87% what with Roosevelt campaign: over the brain of {"S @n4 dentists holding conventions,” the average po- Ittical boss never | obips off or wears through, but be- comes harder and more impervious to ideas the longer it ls in use, Theodore Roosevelt is a bows, | Dut he saw long ago that the days of traditional machine politics were over and he lost no time in Jumping into the saia the isundr: ‘ new order of things with big splash. are getting alovg to the phage Bacchi “But many of the men who taught ‘they are putting all the ils of manking Roosevelt the business end of politics! up to defective teeth. md others who have alded in steering | “It is a curious fect that thie coum Democratic party of the nation into|try has more dentists than all the reat sertes of magnificent of the world combined, and aleo mor able to understand what false teeth and defective teeth. Gio Colonel get out and howl for the rights; vani, the bootblack; Tony, the fru eetler, and Piotro, the barber, have shining ivortes when they land from {Sunny Italy, where @ toothbrush is ae scarce as @ dollar dil, But soon Glo- vani and Pietro and Tony are Clutches of the dentist, and it ts with thelr teeth. Once the er Deging to exercise his your chewing equipment that you ere going to know the Inge of @ dentist's chair by heart can tell all the dentist's tools by firet names. “The colored man end magnificent teeth so long as the loose teeth himaelf rest alone, With the edvance dentist in the South the teeth colored man and brother their whiteness end the emile of of the pee-pul and mill around hunting popular sentiment with the energy and enthusiaam of @ bird dog starting on a quail hunt. Thi men still stick to the theory that the great masses of the people are unable to govern themselves and that the business of government should be taken care of by men who have made a study of it “This line ,of thought was ell right while the people stood for it. Of late years there has been an awakening. ‘The newepapers and megasines have been stowly but surely educating their at slitele f j that dentiste pey putting teeth tnto ehape for treatment than to keeping them sound.” the movement of the political bosses has been raised by the press. “The bosses don’t know the curtain fe up. They are stumbling around on the political stage, setting up the eame \ol4 props in the same 1d grooves, en- tirely unaware that from the other side of the footlights, which are fed by the public prints, the people are in the position of an audience looking clear through to the back wall. “The old-time boss is @ glutton for punishment. To keep him from coming back for more it ie necessary to throw him down and beat him into a state of absolute hetplessness. Such a pro- @ delegate to the Congress of Applied Chemistry claims he has extracted ni- trate from the afr.” “@ince the anti-soft coal law has been passed by in New York,” replied the laundry man, “IT have no doubt that @ acientist can get anything he wants out of the air én this vicinity.” ————— UNEXPECTED. “I wee eo disappacinted tn Aim.” “Why? Did he eeem when he tnviteg you out to dinner to be sting»? ‘No; but one doesn't expect a man who weare tortolee-shell glaa::s ito say ‘them kind.’ Chicago Reoord-Herald, Owned by Ni . M2 COUNTY, Hu aia to have @ larger area of land held Dy negroes than any otheg County in the South. In 1M0 negroes owned 61,689 acres in Macon, In Liberty County, Ge., the next largest in negro land hoMings, the area wes 05,08, while fm Louisa County, Va,, the third county fa this reapect, the colored population Owned 1,9 acres, In Macon County there ig no race problem—the negra Depulation, through the industrial edue cation of Tuskegee, has become selfe ellant. The county hae fAfty-seven ele @e Mant!" coed matin eee, . ~ The Modern Version. | RVILLE WRIGHT, at « tea in Dayton, was condemning the perilous monoplane that is built only for apeed, says the Philadelphia Ledger, . “Contemplating these frati 200-horse power mongplanes,” he said, “one un- Geratends an angodote that is ciroulat- ing in aerial circles, “"¥eu are putting the cart before |