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epee \ The She SES wird. Pt te ee ET Sega, 1 Presiden‘ a Mees eeeeerll™ Postal Union, Rew, "how, Cou: VOLUME 838......... +++ NO. 18,783 THE GOOD SAINT NICHOLAS. 6 HRISTMAS” PRESENTS to-day—Deo. 6—would be the C Tule if we were living in the Middle Ages. To-day is St. Nicholas’ Day, and St. Nicholas ie the real father of the spirit of joyous giving now transferred to Ohristmas. Even “Santa Claus” is only the way we learned to say San Nicolaas from our Dutch forefathers who brought his jolly, kindly person and oustome to America. No eaint is more popular. For centuries he has been the pro- tector of children, scholars, merchants and eailors, while travellers in ‘he olden days used to invoke him againat robbere. Ruesia long ago nade him her patron saint, and four hundred dhurches in Bngland re named for him. His life was of the simple kindly sort that can be told in three vords, or in the record of a thousand good deeds. Born during the | ‘ourth century in Asia Minor, he was for many yeare the worthy | bbot of a monastery. Having distinguished himself by his charity | nd benevolence he was made an Archbishop. Though never an actual | aartyr, he suffered imprisonment for his faith under the Emperor Mocletian. After his death hie bones were preserved with all honor a his native town until the eleventh century, when certain pious nerchante from Italy bore them off to Bari, on the Adrintio const, where they have been revered and cherished to this day, and where ‘he annual festival in honor of St. Nicholas te the town’s obief die iimction and pride. Tt ia related that the good eatrt's early plety wae euch that when an infant in arms he refused to take his natural nourishment n Wednesdays and Fridaye—those being fast days eppointed by the Shurch. St. Nicholas established himself as the guardian of children and travellers by a singular service. A wealthy man of Asia sent his two sons to be educated at Athens, direeting them to visit the holy Arch- bishop Nicholas on the way and receive his blessing. The boys ar- rived in the town late at night, put off their call on the Archbishop 4M the next morning and lodged at an inn. During the night the landlord, tempted by their rich garments, murdered the two as they slept and cut up their bodies into pieces which he salted and throw into « pickling tub clong with some pork. But the good Archbishop, warned by a vision of what was going on, hurried to the inn and charged the landlord with the crime. The man confessed and begged fer mercy. Whereupon the saint not only promised to intercede with heaven in the wretoh’s behalf, but proceeded etraightway to the tab of brine, where, with a eign of the cross‘and a prayer, he made the chopped and mangled limbs to reunite, and the two youths came forth whole and sound to throw themselves at the fect of their beno- factor. The Archbishop gave them his blessing and sent them joy- * fully on their way to Athens. The good man became the beloved saint of all kindly and ™mys- terious giving in this wise: A certain nobleman in the town of Patara had three daughters, but became 60 poor that not only could he give them no marriage portions but was well-nigh reduced to turning them {nto the street. St. Nicholas, who had fallen heir to a large fortune, heard of their plight and resolved to come to the rescue. As ho an- eretly sought the nobleman’s house one night, debating how he might offer aid without being repulsed by the man’s pride, the moon came out from behind a cloud and showed him an open window, through which he threw a purse of gold. ‘This fell at the feet of the unhappy father, who straightway thanked God and portioned his eldest daugh- ter. A second and third visit of the samo mysterious kind provided for the other two. But the grateful father, lying in wait on tho last occasion to discover his benefactor, caught the saint by the skirt and fell at his feet, crying: “O Nicholas! Servant of God! Why eeek to hide thyself?” ‘The saint, however, made him promise to teil +no one of the good deed. -The secret must have leaked out, for after a while it became the | custom for children to leave their shoes and stockings somewhere in plain sight on the Eve of St. Nicholas, eure that in the morning they would be found full of good things put there by their loving patfon In some parts of Europe children still hang their stockings on the |joy,tuss Immortality arts i eve of Dec. 6, but the saint has been very good-natured about letting his name be changed taSanta Claus, and his visiting round for most of the world re-scheduled for Christmas. To the eame incident of the eaint’s kindness to the three daugh- ters the world may trace, curiously enough, another familiar custom--- of less pure descent. Owing to this act of threefold munificence St Nicholas was often represented in story and picture as bearing three purses or three gold balls. ‘These three gilded balls were later adopt- ed as the sign of the famous Medici family in Florence, who owed their high position to a long and prosperous career of trafficking and monev-lending. The Lombard merchants who went to England in the Middle Ages, and who were the first to open establishments for lending money, brought with them the same device—three golden halls. Even a humble pawnbroker’s sign, therefore, traces its origin, a little windincly perhaps, back to a kindly deed in the life of the good St. Nicholas, —_— Letters From the People Monday. ent ahe can lay her handa on. A wom t as this, relegated to the limbo of oblivion. We | have just discussed mortaltt: ‘Copyright, 1912, by The Preas Publishing Oo, (Phe New York Evening World), that w 6 ow settled what we 'N Was just talking about," sald Bepler, the butcher, “I want 1 gents something about the t meat, wholesa’ “Oh, don't let us tal shop!" remarked Mr. Dinkston, “In an assemblage such let commercial questions de yt rature, "Ye I poultry, too," sald Bepler, ulkily, “Poultry, wholesale, 4s so high hat I lose money on every turkey and hicken I gel, And, at that, nobody seems to want to buy poultry,” more money you make. Heights. To the Editor of The Bvening Worlds On what dey did the 16th of Apri! fall in 18887 A.M. B, Crimson and Cream, To tim TAitor of The Frening World: Wil! you please tell me what the Okla- homa University cotors are? RD. A Wife's Allowance. Fo the Editor of The Evening World: In reply to the query whether one- third of @ husband's pay, after all ex- Penses are deducted, ts enough for a wil Nowance, all depends on the dis. Position of husband and wife. Some husbands are very selfish tn regard to Money matters, and imagine a wife can along on @ few dollars, while the husband probably spende more than “| @n of that disposition te never natiafied with her share of the money, and a con- tinued wrangle ts the result. ‘The ques tion, “Is one-thint enough?" can prod- ably be settled by proper reasoning and by the affection that each should hold for the other, THERESA PAINE Albany, N: ¥, The “Din it Sertes, ‘To the Editor of The Evening World In answer to the discount query to Teduce @ discount series to an equiva- lent single discount, eubtract each rate of discount from one and multiply the remainders together, Subtract the prod- uct from one and the remainder will be the ingle discoum; ¢. «., what single discount on the gross 1 to @ discount eerte: Solution: 96 an afford with the good-fellow sort of men, and sometimes bluffs it to the limit and goes home “vroke,” not only to Docket but in spirit like Then | ewer, there ls the selfish wite-who graba everg| New Brupswick, N, J. ‘ “Then you should be glad,” ventured jus. ‘The less you sell of poultry the I know how it s with family pints, the same way, I ton't make no money‘on pints,"” “That vullder; nent minds me," sald Rafferty, the ‘m putting up a swell apart- house Way up on Washington Up that way the neighborhood 8 80 select that you never see a growler the residents of the swell apartments ip there ‘take the tube home,’ as they call tt."" All were Interosted except Bepler, who sloomed tn silence over the high cost of cling nieats and provistons The Answer. Booth toured the country, Everywhere he was received with the utmost en- thuslasm, And in Chicago when he cam forth as Romeo with Mary Me- Vicker (whom he afterward qarried) as | Jullet, the tr nph was so great that efforts were made to induce the great tr jan to remain in Chicago the en- Ure season | But Booth's great ambition was about “What Is the pleasantest part of a to bo gratified. Lis profits from the two | public banquet?” seauons “on the road” were large by The Press Pablishing Oo, (The New York Ereaiog World) Ooprrigst, 1912. o! DEAR, CAN AFFORD Tobe Very NEROU:! Toned FOP e IE HAN DECIDED b Que KISSES For PRESENTS LIVE UGS" AND J Rat ill “What ts that tube you take home! asked Gus, Rafferty proceeded to explain. “Tt 1s a round pasteboard box,” he sald, “It is waxed inside, and every cafe uptown has a stock of them, A customer drops into @ cafe and has a shell of beer. For there are no fish- slobe schooners served in the select residential districts, “And then the customer says: take the tube home.’ ‘tAnd the bartender gets out one of the round pasteboard boxes—they are jabout ten inches high and four inches | Wide—takes off the tight fitting cap, Tu Sbecccceooocoosoncooooooooocooooss cocceososeeseeelt Mr. Jarr Gets the First News of A Real Novelty: Gila the tude with light or dark, puts on the cap and the customer puts it In his overcoat pocket and takes it home. Or he can carry {t openly in his hand or rolled in @ newspaper, because milk and icecream soda and shucked oysters are also carried home in these tubes. They always look respectable.” “There you go!" cried Gus. “Why te it respectable to carry ice cream sod and milk and oysters in them thingi and not beer? Why do you have tu Pretend it is them things instead of beer? ‘What {s the matter with a retail quor store anyway? Lock at mine! Ain't tt run of EDWIN BOOTH Copyright, 1012, by The JHE expression, “Shakespeare spells ruin,” was to be heard forty years ago as frequently Yet at no time up to twenty years ago were there less than a half dozen trea- almost works, entirely on’ the great public response with Shakespeare's plays, “Hamlet” with Booth as the Dane drew all New York to the Winter Garden (now the site of the Broadway Central Hotel), where on Tuesday evening, No- vember 2th, 184, he began the famous one hundred night run, On the previous evening the three brothers Booth ap- peared at the Winter Garden tn “Jullus Caesar," Junius Brutus was the Caastus, Ndwin the Brutus and John Wilkes the Maro Antony. “Hamlet” was revived at the Winter Garden on January 84, 1868, And, al- hough the run was not as prolonged as fore, Booth recetved an ovation. ‘The following month a magnificent re- val of “Richelieu” was offered, and a® anuary 28, 1897, Edwin Booth appeared » Shylock in ‘The Merchant of Venice.’ iLs engagement at the Winter Garden continued ygnt!l March 22, On the morning of March 2% the famous play house was destroyed by fire. Booth lo: a fortune in scenery and persona! effect; The following two aeasons (1867-8-9) Jenough to provide al of the $200,000 re: Memories of Players Other Days gedians of the first grade on tour relying) poet's! Edwin Booth never failed of a great! By Robert Grau ‘ema Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). quired for the erection of Booth’s Thea- tre in this city, which was dedicated on Monday evening, February 3, 1869, with Booth and Miss MecVicker in ‘Romeo and Juliet.” For neanty thre months the vast auditorium was filled to ita capacity, No change of programme was neces- sary unt! April 19 when “Othello” was presented sumptuously *for six weeks. Booth played alternately Othello and Tago throughout his career, but his Tago was generally regi |) next to his Hamlet, as his greatest role, “Hamlet” with Booth as the Dane had another long run when, in his own playhouse, fromyJanuary 5, 187, the tragedian did not face a single empty seat for seventy consecutive nights. | P ssstinctly recall that it was necessary to apply for seats three weeks in ad- vance—a most unusual practice at that period. On Christmas Day, 1871, the memo- rable production of “Julius Caesar" was reviv Booth alternated in all three of the great roles. It was in this pro- duction that Lawrence Barrett (who ufterward became Booth's manager and director) created a furore as Casatus. Despite the enormous audiences which Booth drew to his own playhouse, the productions were so costly and the actas's prodigal expenditure in other directions had so involved him that he was forced into insolvency tn 1874. But there was nothing to Indicate lack of interest on the part of the pub: Me, Booth despised business tran: tlons, and w he placed his affairs in Mr, Barrett’s hands he soon aceum- ulated another fortune—even after he had met all of the many obligations in- curred at Booth's Theatre, His last app on the stage was at the Krooklyn Academy of Mustle April 4, 189, as "Hamlet. He al the Players’ Club (which he founded) June & 1% A Wagon Cabaret Sevsseseseseesess T @ reapectable feller? Then why ain't my place respectable?’ “The place gets a bad name from its customers—not from its proprietor,”” suggested Rangle. ‘That don't help me any!" snorted Gus. ‘Suppose I put out all my ous tomers and make my place respectable, then how can I keep open when I don't do no business? If I throw you fellers out, then my place is respectable. But T don't do no business and have to pan- handle like Dinketon, Will that make ™e respectable? Is that feller Dinkston respectable?” ‘I hope not!" cried Mr. Michael An- gelo Dinkston in some alarm, “Re- spectability 1s Philistinism, and Heaven defend me from that!" “You should throw him out,” ad\Psed | the gloomy Bepler. ‘What good 1g he to the business man ef this community? Mebbe you get something out of him, Gus, because he gets treated in your place, but nobody ever brings him in my shop and buys him a sirloin eteak. He ain't no good to any of the mer- chants around here. He ain't got no home; he ain't got no credit; he don't buy nothing. And when he does eat {t 1s tm one of them lunch wagons, For T seen him." reminds me that the lunch & basic economic neces- remarked Mr. Dinkston, taking no heed of the criticisms being levelled jat him. “In conversation with a young man who conducts one, I was surprised jto learn’ that they are bought on the instalment plan, and are on wheels that they may not stand in law as a per- manent building attached to the land— say, ® vacant lot. | “Hence, {f the young man conducting the lunch wagon gets In arrears in his Payments, the lunch wagon can be eas- fly replevined and hauled away by the | builder, who holds a chattel mortgage Jon it. Another surprising thing about |@ lunch wagon, also proving thelr eco- nomic feasibility, 1s that there ts ab- solutely no waste. Fiverything left over goes in the corn beef hash, | “The profits, I further learned, are large. Hamburger steak sandwiches {are their staple. The lunch wagon men buy Hamburger steak at eight cents a pound. There ts only an ounce of It that goes with a ndwich,"* “H 14 Gus, "now I seo what to do! 1 will open a retail Iquor store in an owl Junoh wagon, and hire a rag- time colored feller for a bartender and make jt @ wagon cabaret! What?” patppecenrnne Francesca. HAT need I tell of cheeks, and The locks thi |, and bosom's balmy ri Beauty's whole soul !s hers, though shadow'd still With anxious thought, and doubtful maiden will; A lip for endless love, should all prove fust; An eye that can withdraw into as deep distrust. Haigh Hunt, Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, December 6, 1912 Can You Beat It? 3& Million Ww lore < BY - . y 3, 30—NEW YORK. on sUNE Motto: LBE T 5S. eRH “Excelsior.” | PX Prt mar Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). N English King gave a province (which was not his to give) as a proof of affection to @ brother he did not love. The King was Charles Il. The brother was the Duke of York. The province was the Dutch New Netherlands, which, in com- pliment to its ducal owner, became New “York.” England sent over a little squadron of sbips that anchored off our Battery one day in 1664, and whose commander ordered the Dutch gar- rison of New Amsterdam to surrender, which | the Dutch promptly did, in spite of the raving protests and insane fury of | their one-legged Governor, old Petrus Stuyvesant. | So Dutch New Amsterdam and the whole Dutch New Netherlands bn came the English colony of “New York,” {n much the same fashion as a fat | banker's watch becomes the property of the holdup man who grabs it at pistol point. | An Italfan and a Portuguese had at different times touched at Manhatten Island tn the eixteenth century, but had made no use of their find. jaland and explored the Hudson Rtver in 1609, blundering upon them while 0 was secking a strait that he thought must somewhere connect the Atlantic land the Pacific. But as he wan in charge of @ Dutch expedition at the time | Holland claimed the new territory. | In a few years a cluster of houses sprang up neer the Battery and @ handful of Dutch villages came into The Seizing of a Rrovineey on elther wlde of the river, ‘The Dutch id ittle for New York besides colonizing !t. They were not pro- gressive. They quarrelled among themselves and with the Indians, They they lost it to England. Then began @ new era. During the next century New York hed forged ahead until doth oity and colony led the future nation. New York City waa our country’s trade centre (From 1678 to 1694 the number of the buildings increased from $84 to 988. By 1700 the population had ewelled to 6,000.) New York colony wae the richest of the thirteen. Already tts comigg supremacy had begun to make itself felt. thére were 2,000 negro slaves on Manhatten Island alone, in « total population of less than 12,000, Fear of negro insurrections as well as the lessening need for slave labor gradually caused the decline of slavery throughout the whele | “servile uprising” in colonial days many negroes wore burned at the stake fn | New York City. Others were shot or hanged. The Mayor of New York City, by the way, was appointed, first by the Governor and afterward by the Common 1834, New York eagerly joined its sister colonies in the revolution and was the scene of many a battle and Iniian massacre, Yet New York City ttaeif ; has never known a battle. There were battles tn Brooklyn, Harlem, &c., but ‘hattan Island throughout almost the entire revolution. At its close, one New Yorker wrote: “The town is ruined by the war, but itn future greatness is unquestioned.” State. The Brie Canal speedily made New York the gateway to half @ continent's commerce. And raflroad systems dtd the rest. No other State flourished es | tles or could boast such national tenportance, The nickname ‘‘Hmplre @tate” wae.richly deserved. More than half a million New York State men fought in the efvil war, Confederacy that Mayor Fernando Wood actually suggested that New York City, with Staten Island and Long Island, should secede from the Union end form a “free city.” The plan met with elmost as little encouragement es it An Englishman, Henry Hodgson by name, had landed et Manhattan | (the Dutch having also twisted his Bnglish name to “Hendrik Hudson”), life along the Hudson's course and in the fertile lands had not the strength to hold the wondrous province they had settled. And | @nd chtef port. It was aleo the heart of America’s wealth, fashion and gayety. Slavery was as common in oki New York as in Virginia. As late as 1746 jcolony, Rut it was not legally ebolished until 1817, After more than one | Council. The people at large were not allowed to choose him by vote until at that time these sections were not part of the city. The British held Man- He wae right. And his prophecy was true of the whole { A greatly. None other combined so m: natural Deaa- though such strong commercial interests on Manhattan Island favored the dos: Since the war the State has continued to lead the Union in the matter of population, wer and general prosperity. The “consolidation,” which went Into effect in 1! made Now York City the second largest on earth. JEU ASCO ERC The Man on the Road By H, T. Battin, ‘Copyright, 1012, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evedag Wald), THE MEAN BUYER. “That's your look’ ut he replied, VERY salesman meets a certain| 1 Made out the order and passed it $6 PA number of mean and even | CV@F for dim to sign. Fis eyes gilstened | with selfish joy, When I got back to Srooued Piyere making) He! te hotel.t counai@ wire choca ihe mpaee rounds,” eid the button salesman. : e cutting the price on that line « half cent. So, getting my nerve up, I went back to him and asked him to give me @ Httle general busin in order to make the order ‘look better.’ This he did after a iittle blustering, The house had never becn able to sell to this man before, and when they got my order | they were very much pleased. The next trip I modified the trick a Dit, and it worked again. It is 60 natural for tim to grab at a chance to ‘do’ a salesman that all I have to do is to work on this weakness of his to sell to him.” “Every time I meet one of this class I work @ little game that came to me in a deal with @ buyer out in Fort Wayne. I made a mistake once in quoting him prices, and when I hastily corrected my- If he took me up. "You quoted me cents on that towelln: {f you don’t give me three cases at that price I'll never buy @ dollar's worth of goods from you or your house.’ “"I@ Ido thie,’ I told him, “it will cost me my job.’ IRLS DRESSES made with skirts either accordion or flat plaited by ma- ehii @ very fashion- it and H h sign, vo! charmin, ris’ and the deaien fact, be dreases design will, in found a one for any pretty, t Material with the ‘col- Jar and cuffs of lace, satin, velvet or treat in any manner that may be adapted to tho special material. The ry 1 feature is exceeding! smart. A” prety” eftet is obtained by making the frock of crepe de chine and lining the blouse but leaving thes sleeves without “fining to give a semi-trange parent effect. 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