The evening world. Newspaper, November 16, 1912, Page 8

The Evening World Daily Magazine, [Why Not? # Sve Mauer World. PSTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Saturd Published Daily Except Bape by woe Ke Ly eames Company, Nos. 53 © ‘York. CARAT yee Th 6 JombPH PULITZDR, dr. Becretary, @ Park’ Row. ered Post-' New Yi 14 -Clas jatter, Subscription Ret Cal tie ivening] Por Rngiant and th ontitint and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Postal Union. One Year... $9.75 Ol One Month. REVISING CHRISTMAS. VOLUME 53. HALL we revise the Christmas tariff downward? Mra. Bol- S mont, for example, says the indiscriminate and extravagant giving of presents at Christmas by working girls, especially wien they take up collections as @ kind of obligatory tribute to heads of departments, is an expense the girls can ill efford. So far she is right, and we hope her “Spugs.” as she calls young women who have courage to stand out against petty and meaningless holiday graft, will hold firm. Everybody knows that a vast deal of Christ- mas giving is prompted from something that is no more “the spirit of kindliness and generosity” than is the muzzle of a gun. Still—when it comes to forming Societies for the Regulation of Christmas Beneficcs, we can’t help sympathizing with the one lone girl who dared to say that such a league isn’t necessary and that “girls with common sense can use their own judgment and give as they see fit.” That Christmas is a burden and an undue tax upon many people and purses is true. Yet about the giving or withholding of gifts * there is something 0 peculiarly personal and intimate that we shonld prefer to put up with many abuses rather than see the whole custom reduced more than over to cut and dried rulos and agreements. The satisfaction, even in the amallest giving, that comes from a sense of | lal HORSES WHY NOT complete personal freedom, judgment and initiative is somehow a long way from clubs and campaigns of restraint and protest. Christmas, with ite plans, its problems and its pleasures, is something concerning which every one should be left at least the illusion of his or her own complete independence and privacy. In various ways, however, Christmas is being brought up to date willy-nilly. Already the bug experts have decided that Christ- mes trees are full of mothe, germe and what not, and this year will see a heavy cmbargo on this good old feature of the holiday season. We note also that the middle South is amazed at the sudden failure of the demand for the beawtiful mountain galax which used to be the favorite green for Christmas wreaths and decorations. Tho Charlotte (N.C.) Observer laments that, whereas last fall Northern florists took from two North Carolina counties 125,000,000 leaves for which they paid the gatherers $50,000, this year “something hes hap- pened. The galax season is well advanced and so fer not « single order hes been received.” It is feared that fickle fashion has mado the magnolia leaf from tho far South the new favorite and “this unlooked for situation hes caused a feeling almost of despair” among the mountain gatherers of galax. Holiday customs must take their chances along with the rest A new florists’ fad may bring a sad Christmas to a whole country- side. Will it make the city folk one jot the happier? THE SAINTS ARE STILL WITH US. Te Heaven, the world can not yet do its work wholly without faith and sentiment. Digging « sewer is surely a prosaic business. Yet to-day the people of a little town in Sicily aré proudly enshrining in their tiny church an $800 statue of St. Joseph—all because a Brooklyn contractor put through a tough job of sewer building in our neigh- boring borough without mishap! The newly completed %3,000,000 sewer system for Richmond Mill, which was dedicated this week, includes an inverted siphon which had to be built under the big ten-foot water conduit which supplics all Brooklyn with drinking water. When the Italian con- tractor reached this part of the job and realizod what a break in the water conduit might mean, chills ran down hia spine, “I prayed to St, Joseph on my knees beside a little construction shack | that I might finish this section of the sewer without acciden he told the Borough President. And when the work had been con- acientiously done he honored the saint in the little home church — the seas, A pleasant story of a good workman and a fine faith, And to show that even a sewer may be opened with sentiment and feeling, Borough President Connolly had an ine christened the system by pouring a quart of champagne the manholes! Tet no one call us a heartless people! piration and e into one of Letters From the People! HOBRLE Hur Le? Copsrigh!. (The New York #: by The Pres Pubitehing Co, 1912, ening World), ay. em et Moke I VERYBODY applauded when it was unced that the intellectual would begin by (as ans mounced) “an execution of Chopin by Mr. Percy Pinkfinger,” that petted, but Unpald planist of Modern Mot nd other women's clubs to which Mra. Jarr and her frienas belonged, That ts, they all applauded but Mra. Jarr’s Uncle Henry, who was bewildered ‘and amazed that so many people could be sitting Pressed It, “Sunday clothes,” on a bright day In the middle of the week, when there was so much work to be done. | “It inakes me fairly narvous!" eald Uncle Heury, ‘To see a lot of grown people alttin’ around Hive this, a-gassin’ and a-gassin', when stubble Is to be plowed and bresh burned and cows milked and pigs fed and etuy wood cut. | They talk about the high cost of livin | | \ Why shouldn't It be high when half the Peeck Cont or Cutaway. ‘Fe the Baitor of The Bvening World ‘What would be the correct coat for a Broom and his attendants at an afters noon wedding (4 o'clock) and would a Tuxedo be permissible? , Kllmadeth, N. J, ralaing honey heea? How can they obtained and at what coat? Are they much bother? What time |, moat suit: able to begin rearing them, &c.? I feel sure this will interest quite a few mutera, Fr. kK, com: No, To the Rditor of The Rvening World Can a couple residing In New York Clty be married in New Jorsey without having a license? Algo, can they be Married in New York State but outside the city mits without @ loense? A, K, No. To the Bditor of The Kvesing World: Te there any distinction made in ree gard to the creed of the United $: Premident? A Wonderful 15-Y. ar Record. © you know what solentific dis ternal orga’ coveries have done for your SAFRAN AESTHE heath and life during phe past fifteen yeers* Our of dozens of such @tevcoveries made in that decade ani a half, here are @ few of the mom im- porman:: RADIUM—Used In healing many skin Aiveases. hould never be worn before 6. M. City Hall, Manhattan, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World; ‘What ts the address of the Commis. stoner’s office of the Bureau of Weights and Measures? aN, it Beest World: ‘Will some experienced reader give me some definite information in regard to unheard of, TRANSPLANTATION -- By SOIL BACTERIA to tum barren soi! into fertile, MALARIA GERMB—Firet atop to | yiug, ward @nding a cure for maiarte. OAKS ite intelligence ASEPTIC SURGERY—Inuring the _ healing of wounds by first intention. NAUGHTY, TYPHOID SERUM—Giving immunity from typhold fever, MBNINGITIS BHR TM—Reduces the mortality of thig formerly fatal dire.se. BACILLUS BULGARICUS—Comoate iscovered crying tn the hall “Somefing awful’s happened, mother," “Well, what Is It, sweetheart?” the poisonous germs tha: produce old “My d'doli-baby get away ope. and broked a y')te in the pantry.'--Lip. X-RAYG—Ie the exploration 0: the In- pincott’s. 5) ed organs are replaced by abiing farmers BUGENICS—Influence of heredity frat “What Is the matter, dearest?” asked the mother of a smal! gir! who had been people In the United States of America | 1m sitting around in fine clothes putting lf | on airs and not doin’ @ tap of work? | “If 1 could have that feller at the plano box for a day or two, grabbin' up scrub oak in the new clearin’, or cleanin’ | around the barn and spreadin’ fertiizer Extra Session, “How did you get a chance to pro- ithe front steps.” ound in thelr, as he ex-|. pose after her father forbade you gon in the four from me the house?” “Oh, we called an extra session on minds us of a period when there And Uncle Henry slapped his knee im enjoyment of the mental picture of s- clety’a pet pianist in blue or brown denim overalls and coarse muddy boots, pitching logs in and out of a farm wagon. “Go on! ‘That's a dear!” “Yes, don't be cruel!” “Imn't he meant” These and other feminine protesta tions around Mr. Pinkfinger and the piano aroused Uncle Henry from his reverie. It would seem that Mr. Pink. finger was pouting. “I have been ignored! 1 will not play!" crled Mr. Pinkfinger petulantly. And he drew a pair of yellow gloves out of the tall pocket of his braid bound, dainty The Jarrs’s Uncle Poor Piano Henry Sees a Brutally Pounded B99IOTISSISSOSTSS SF9OS9S 9095999595 899TSTITITIITIOSS frock coat and slapped the plano right In the face. It was apparent that Mr. Pinkfinger was on the verge of tears. Tho yellow gloves indicated that he was dressing for the street. ‘Whereupon the whole assemblage of women coaxed and pleaded with the petulant plenist, They assured him they would grieve unapeakably if he did not charm them with Chopin. “Chopin {s too robust for me, to-day, even his nocturnes!" moaned Mr. Pink- finger. “But I will endeavor to com- pose my own emotions by playing berceuse of my own—Thistledown Athwart the Moon?” “How sweet of him! How lovely!" wushed all the ladies. Inthe Ho or Toctors Say :he HAT the home can no longer compete with the hospital in the care of the nick Is evi+ dent from the = Increasing demand throughout the coun- try for hospitals of every type. In 1900 there were approximately 5,70 public and private hospitals in the United States, In 1910 the number of | these inatitutions had increased ta 000, Therefore, while the fear ng the hospital for any serious purpose is still rest, these figures show that the prejudice against hospitals is Aiininishing rapidly, It may be In- teresting to compare the statue of the hospital and the home In the preanti- septic period and to-day, the Journal of the American Medical Asso- elation, Nothing better tMlustrates the great economic importance of the hospital than the occurrence of typhold in the home, Without the hospital It may be estimated that an attack of typhoid of ordinary severity would cont the work- Ing man not less than $00, Added to | this are the dimculties encountered in eMctent nursing and the exerc of necessary precautions to limit the dis- ease to a single member of the family, enpectally if the home is crawded or nitary. TLikewlee with y other Alweases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, meningitis, et pelas and pneumonta; most of these are communicabdle, all are preventable, and the early removal of the Infected person from thy home to the hospital ts eamential ts protect the community, The black th, which visited Lon: teenth century, 1s now ‘merely of historic Inte ost; yer it rex spital at Home? tormer is better, plague-stricken could be neparated from the healthy, no acientific phy- sicians, no trained nurses; in short, no effective means whatever for combating &@ scourge which terrified a people for ix years, and according to the chron- \cler Heckler, paralyzed morals, religion and education, and resulted in @ col- lapse of civilization which continued 10 of black death and cholera emphasises, if nothing more, the great inaurance value of hospitals, New conditions and new habits are capable of producing new diseas and the great influx of a forelgn element, eapectally in our large, manufacturing centres, should stimulate every effort toward adequate equipment in hospital protection, The environment of the home is rarely conducive to the mental quietude of the wick, There ts an intimate aseo- clation bebween the home and a man's bunt) affair for a woman the home is her place of business, Surrounded by affectionate, sympa- thetic and indulgent members of his family, the sufferer often finds rest only when thoroughly fatigued or drugged, The old that a patient should mi a be fight from ihe start against his afMfiiction I» too often encouraged in the home by the phy- alclan and the family. The Inyman's attitude of a mental resistance to his disease ts to him a moat potent factor in favor of recovery. Is the reverse not usually true? Trani fer @ patient ¢o the hospital, or pli him under the care of @ trained nurs Almost to the exclusion of his family, and what happen: Nearly alwaye an re ne hospitals, ne buildings in whieh t! Improvement, He pasees from @ state of mente! activity te one of repose, And there was another patter of ap- Plause, while Mr. Pinkfinger, drawing a dainty handkerchief from his sleeve. dabbed at his eyes, then lightly flecked the keyboard with nis mouchoir, re- Placed it In his sleeve, hitched the piano ool Nearer and began to play. Tho minute his first notes sounded y woman present turned her back upon the player of “‘Thistledown Athwart the Moon" and began gabbling to her vis-a- via at the top of her voice until the ber- ceuse was drowned in the babble—as is always the cage where people beg for a plano to be played at soctal gatherings. “Don't you think it @ very represen- tative gathering?” But mixed, Oh, very mixed! Where is the old aristocracy?’ asked Mra. Giblett of Unole Henry. “The old aristocracy is out hustling for grub to feed all these drones,” snorted Uncle Henry, who was obseased of @ proper contempt of an assemblage that wes typical of all the parasitic class of a great city: Those who tolled not, those who had ease without effort. “Yes, yea!" gushed Mra. Giblett, “mine 1a one of the old patrician Southern fain- ilies! Ah, those dear ald Colonial man- sions! How they speak of refinement, of family, of leisure, ef blood! Don't you love those grand old white Southern mansions with their great colonnader “T've seen ‘em fn the movin’ pictures, said Uncle Henry. ‘An’ I hear as how they a: the style now in these newly bullt up suburban towns around New Yort."* “But IT mean the real, old, genuine, Colonial mansions of the sunny South!" said Mrs. Giblett. “Wal, I never seen any of ‘em, and I fit all over the South durin’ the Civil War,” said Uncle Henry, “ 'Cou might be buildin them dow: for, as T sald, they're all the “and the Hor ow! Have you been to the Horse Show?" gabbled Mra, Gib- lett, changing the subject In an en- deavor to strike a topic to interest wealthy coal Jand owner, as she unde: stood Une! ry to be. “Don't wer me! she continued, “I can see you haven't been! Ah, dont blame you! Parvenues! Newly rich tradesmen's wives! Now in De- tron———"* “I thought you sald you was from the South?” sald Uncle Henry. “But, hush! Now that feller’s stopped practicin’ at that plano box. Maybe they're going to hand around refresh- Bh, what? aid Mre. Giblett with a hungry nigh, “we serve nothing et our clubs but food for thought.” —_—_——————— KEEPING IT SECRET, “Why In it,” asked the curtous guest, ‘that poor men usually give tips than rich men?” Ww. fn," s well, “looks to! me like de po’ man don't want nobody to find out he's po’ and de rich man don't want nobody te find out he's rick."—Youth's 2 Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). HE most brilliant “after-dinner stories” are those ingenious and plausible ones that a married man invents on the way home. T Marriage is the miracle that sometimes changes a kiss from a pleasure into a duty, and a lie from a luzury into a necessity. | Love is like appendicitis. A man may suffer froin it for months, with- ‘out knowing what is the matter with him, until somebody explains it to [Rim with a chart. i There are lots of new fads in religions; but the same old follies are @s popular as ever, and the styles in sin never change. When a man aske his wife's pardon for having shattered one of her cherished illusions, he acts as though he had merely broken a tea cup, and expected her to say: “Don't mention it! Have another cup of tea.” A woman seldom thinks what she is saying; a man seldom says what he is thinking; but a fool never thinks anything without saying it. When a woman has lost her grasp on love, she embraces religion or @ “cause ;” @ man embraces a fad or an affinity. It ia merely the inadility to afford silk hosiery that makcs many a girl abnormally modest in crossing a gutter, Nowadays, according to the popular conception, the “Fount of Joy” ts | flied with either champagne or gasoline. + Copyright, 1012, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), COOKS as though those fellows der necessary restrictions. We ect who ai trying to seize our/aside la areas of our parka for parks have made a good start vers, golf players, football in the direction ers, polo plas and baseball of building a sta-|players. The bridle paths are given dium in Centratlover exclusively to those who have Park," remarked |money enough to afford riding horses; the head polisher. !and the roads have been seized bodily. “Loud cries have, by the automobilists, A considerable arisen,” gald the! space in Central Park 1s monopolised by undry man,/a restaurant In which the prices ere ‘over the propo-|such that a poor man couldn't afford to sition of James EB. Sullivan and others that a great take off and calm.” js hat. Let us be sensible white marble i on | sadium for ath- The Stuff Diggers. letic meets and HE Aldermanic Investigating ee I Committee seems to be digging up a lot of police stuff,” sald head polisher. uf’ is a good word, repied the public gatherings be erected on @ part of the north end of Central Park. At the risk of being called an assassin of the rights of the people to fresh air and green grass and sunlight I want to go on record as saying the: the stadium plan is @ good thing. “The {dea that @ park should be all landscape belongs to the Silurian age of civic progress, A playground or breath- ing spot 1s not necessarily a plot cov- ered by grass and trees, There {s plenty of grass in Central Park, but only in cer are < citizens rest thelr pavement- |jaundry man, “When you come to Con- weary feet by walking on It Park {s full of trees, but boy: to climb them are arrested. to protect the grass and flowers are good rules, cause people Central | sider that the investigators have power who trY\to go back as far as they please and he rules/that their investigation deals with a trees and | body of 10,00 men, many of whom were however, be-jrecently held up as grafters and wors who frequent our | {t isn't much of @ reflection on the police jdepartment that tho only paths foi- lowed have been opened by sorehead former officials, sorehead cops, convicts jand professional knockers. All such in- | vestigations are conducted solely for the [purpose of putting the worst aspect en jthe subject Investigated. Only one side |! exposed—the bad side, Most of the ‘charges and insinuations brought out jare subject to satisfactory explanation, parks are only half civilised, and If left | nut the investigation will go on as long unremrained would soon transform Cen-|as the appropriation helds out." tral Park into a resemblance to the Desert of Sahara. “At the end of the Summer season the northeastern end of Central Park !s a total wreck, Unless closely watched, the dear people would pull up the loenches and take them home. The parks are for the people. Aad conslder- ing the predstory and destructive in- incta of the frequentera of the park: the people here get a lot more than i coming to them. “As for the proposed g:adlum, the plot required would take but a small slice off the north end of the park~a section now in a wild state and little frequented, The stadium could be used for big free shows; and @ nection of it could be set aside as always free to che people un- SEE, sald “that Prof, Patton of the Un!- versity of Pennsylvania adviees bi | the head polisher, us to spend all we mak mai Thin ts th Friends,” avy one know! “The urching on the grass regarded one en. her doubtfully; then a little chap piped im a 1 Book, It is called “Our Feathered 0 Are our feathered frends, dose In the Nick of Time. OMAN (excitedly @ you filed my ap plication for a divorce yet? Lawyer—No, ma'am; but I am at work on the papers now, Woman—hank fortune! 1 am not too late, Deetzoy all papers and evidence at once, please, Lawyer—A reconciliation has been brought about bewween you and your husbamt, I infert"* ‘Woman—racious, no! He was run over and - : =_--———- The Odor He Missed. A i | GOOD illustration of the wit of Bishop A Welldon, the poplar dean of Manchester 4s afforded by the following atory. once at a tuncheon given by the Lond Mayor of Mase chester the dean nai next to Sit Herbert ‘Tree “Well, . ‘Tree, what have you been doi day!” he asked, ee “I went for a long motor ride at a bet," replied the famous actor, Indeed,” said the dean, “An the bet wns!’ ise. 1 made a bet that we wos different odors, killed hy @ goods train this morning, and 1 want to retain you In my sult against the company for damages. —-Pitteburgh Chronicle-Telt graph, nanos ob <oneind His Retort. YOUNG man got in a row in a fase wi this moroiug fouable Buenos Ayres club and roughly eected, Rising from the he rushed back into the club and slinuted ex cottedy + “Do yo know why they call me Jameson here fm Buenos Ayres?" ‘The club members looked at ope another in! puxzled fashion, and the young man continued: | “Because it's my name!" And with « taunting laugh he was gone.— Philadephia North American, ae Our Feathered Friends. nd pase througls » and wo only eucogntered “An,” replied Disiop Welldon, promptiy, * missed the odor of sant ce pa i He Had the Last Word. LECTURER was annoyed by Sudtence who inelated on ris on ing queatio: “ait down, you apa!’ SE PASTOR PHELPS-ATOKES told at | said a second man, jimping up. sit R’ ity society « ‘country-week’’ story, too," crled a thin mau, Lig] ° "You are both "There seems to be plenty of ames abnut ta. ight,” put in the lecturer calm) 's sake let us hear one at a time, ell, 300 9 on then,” ead the first ‘Vm going to read to you, sesuming his sent,—Boston Trenecsipt, ' Yeder an old apple tree,” she said, “I gathered 0 half dozen litle country-weekory about me one August afternoon, and, balding wo 0 books | Re, attra, mee,