The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1912, Page 8

Be CPE RY + SS _ fer defining actions or laying down uniform rules for the cost and | Senanate oes = Whe Evening World Daily Magazi Ste MAR aorid. SSTABLASHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Published Dally Mroept upey Wy EBs] | >. eed Company, Nos. 63 to Pui ees! Rew. "how. Bubscription St ihe Poatorrie ah Nom ow. the, Coutivent and ‘ ona } FSi) THE S. P. U. GS. Tine the may atat the Monette ot tht ‘Any- Christmas interchange, thet may make the joy of giving as bright and unalloyed as the discovery that come friend has remem- —too apt to put even its sentiment into a pigeen-hole marked Duty. The Evening World acknowledges with plessure the following the Prevention of Useless Giving, is trying to free the Christmas of working girls from all inflnences seve the cordial spirit of friendship ‘World for she Waited States ‘All Countries in the International VOLUME 88... cove. thing that may add to the blessedness of that side of the bered us, should be eagerly weloomed ‘by this work-worn world of ours letter from Mies Anne Morgan, who, as Treasurer of the Society for end good will that belongs to it. é Tit i Fe rfl | ej E ‘ izt : z & ; i H i i i i e 2 F i Hi é ‘an army of “Spuge” who, because of have reached the Independence in giv- ANNE MORGAN, That girls who work in the big etores and shops are confrontod at Christmas time with half-compulsory “collections” for their supo- tiors is unhappily but too true. This sort of thing is not a Christmas gift but a Christmas tex. The average girl has not courage to resist it alone. She can find help only in some form of organized protest. Such protest and protection we take to be the excellent aim and end ' of the 8. P. U. G.'s.- That any euch society ¢hould turn into s scheme | : j Hg 3 ! ) nature of presents among « group of givers would be a pity, because it would take ewey the individual delight and initiative that are the chief joys of Christmas planning. That was what was meant by the eomment in this column to which Miss Morgan refers. For a movement, as she aptly defines it, “to abolish enforced collective giving”—to restrict restrictions of the Christmas spirit—we heave only the warmest epproval end support. The girls are fortu- debelp without destroying anybody's freedom. Oh, how greet is the exsity defend fei elites alten ad ‘world, ah iad ju cun- the treacherous plots ‘aa MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO. Assassinated Dec. 7, 43 B. 0. 4 Letters From the People ‘The Sapphire. Te Me Rititor of The Brening Would: eners are necessary to beautify the mats in the d ‘Want is the Beprember Urinetonet city's breathing spots and keep them in with the trend of the times, have out- RW. | proper condition, and they should be grown their usefulness. ‘why? | To the Raitor of The Brening Worlds ‘What nature scientist can answer these interesting questions: Why ts the bark of a tree alwaye green on its north side after @ rain? Why does the tall of & shake move for hours after the snake hes been killed? Ce 8 We Must Ask Until We Get It.” ‘To the Editor of The Bventag Worl You are showing the Board of Alder- men how unjust our taxicab conditions are. We must awk until we get a moder- ate priced up-to-date taxicab ser. | vice. If the Aldermen will make ali the | hotel stands Into public stands it will lower the rates. It has been shown by the I F. 0. A. that @ man can make money with a 9 cent drop of tag. Why not? Tell the aldermen what to do and iuvw to do It E. W. R. & Park Comptat: To the Editor of Tie Evening Warld A new order, dating from Jan. 1, put all gardeners employed by the who are now on the monthly pay on the per diem roll, I fear this will mean we shail lose all rainy days and eandays, bringing our salary below the siandard of laborers who are not re- @ulved to pass & technical civil service examination, which requires much study application, The wardeners and fore- apply themselves assiduously GARDENER, I do not doubt that city people have by now become accustomed to dodging for their lives to avold automobiles. But our condition in the suburbs is pitiful. In former times it was a ple: Ure to Jog along country roads on Su; days in a buggy or to go for a long walk. Now we do ao in fear of our noMonger a Joy, 29 automobiles cut up our roads, fill our nostrils and houses with dust, pollute the sweet air with the reek of gasoline, deafen and scare us with thelr horn blasts that shatter the rural quiet, and also murder our pet dogs and other ‘Innocent live stock, To make it Worse, most of these automobilists do not live in the districts they injure and defile, They are strangers passing through and wrecking the roads whose repair must come out of our tax Is there no redress, reade.«? I am juat will eity, Mat by an automobile running me down. SUBURBAN VICTIM, What Weight? To the Balitor of The Erening World; What athletic expert Peaders can tell weight of cs have been on the monthly pay roll for years and have enjoyed an occasion- @1 Bunday or holiday to recuperate. Foremen, especially, sometimes have on among the exact size and Javelin used in the recovering from a broken arm caused | Why Not? i week it muito in having leaders who know how to lead without dictating, how |este 4 woman lise my wife to ereasy domeaticity! @ woman like my wife to retire to a Ufe of pots and kettles just because she Conyright, ey The Prose Publishing Oo. ‘The Mew York Brening World) a \ t oie View case “Wat's Too ; Tose Don't Matcn it \ Gq Buisn> ETHING RPLE AKO Gr D mM IT. ne, Saturday, December M IE LANCHE BATES married Geor Creel. Blanche Bates is an actress. Goorge Cree! is an editor and re- former on the “Independence of Woman." The question arose as to wheth- er Mrs. Creel would quit th Blanche done—yet If a woman has begun @ good work which is wholesome and happy to her, to ha stop and CHANGE that work for something less congenial to her tendencies g certainly at variance with nature. Thus it comes to pass that there is many a (iseatisfied wife who (having acted on the preconceived old-fashioned idea that after she leaves the altar she must change all her former attitude to- ward her own development in favor of exclusive domesticity) soon finds that stage? Why should T retire simply be- cause I married? How ridioulou George Creel said: “How Domestic By Alma imperti- Why should any man ask does him the honor to marry him? How Inconslatent it would be for me to ask &@ woman to give up her freedom and Independence—how selfishly male! tain this {deal in any marriage ts for the man and woman to have INDIVID- UAL the wife to be economically independent of the husband, not only preaches, but he PRACTISES | what he preaches. labor with no extra compensation, Gar-| women, who have become domestic door- compensated accordingly if they are to) While pots and kettles are NECES- id with BARY adjuncta In the network of extat- Interest to thelr work: To have wage® | ence, and not only have their place, but, lowered during the present high cost in truth, carry a DIGNITY with them of living seems to me unfair and unjust, /in the matter of necessary work music days twelve or fourteen hours of | Olymyla games? joes I it my life to be a living stream, not a water. And the only way to ob want to eat efter the show? Mrs. 8. (digging bis ribs with her opera-glasses)—Sh-h-! Mr, 6, (resentfully)—Well, you gotta make up your mind beforehand. I ain't going to stand on the corner for an hour while you deckle—4t's blowing Ike the dickens. Why don't you make up your mind when you're in a warm, comfortable place? Mra 8, (mortitied)—Gee? Didn't I tell you to keep quiet? Mr. 8. (forcibly)—Yeh? Well, I paid my two dollars. I ain't beholden to any one fpr MY seat. And t¢ I want to breathe, I guess I'm going to! Airs, 8. (nervously)—Oh, Charlie, don't! (The curtain desonucte, in his feat. Examines hi Mr. 8. (in disgust)—Oh! ge other act. Mrs. 8.—Of course there's another act, well as common inte: for George Creel in @ sensible man. He ‘There are too many women, capable we of old dogmas that, well The Comeback. there's an- they fniah play without working out the story? Mr. 8. (blankly)—Story? TI don't see any story People just come in and mand lookin’ at some one else and sigh and kick the leg of a chair and then go out and slam the door, I'll bet there ain't been a hundred words spoken. Mrs. 8, (gently)—Well, you see, that's the art of it. You've got to gather from thelr little gestures and actions what they're thinking. Mr, 8 (with deliberate and audible emphasis) —Well, U'd gather that they're a lot of etiffs, with acute anaemia! Mra. §. (shocked)—Oh! Charlie, you MUSTN'T say those things, even if you \ think them, You just don’t understand, that's all, Mr, 8 (gruffly)—Well, where do you want to eat after the show? Mrs. B.-Oh! lets go to a quiet place, “Independent” Girl 3 nothing else is EXPECTED of her. And ahe becomes the domestic doormat. Certainly we m ha domestio women. We must have women who put up jellies. But let those whose interests and propensities lean in that direction do those things. They can do th® furthest away from ¢hese lines, There are many women who HNJOY the domestic sphere and would shrink from earning money apart from what cet itive,, Be By Sophie Irene Loeb thetr dart in the world’s work. Yet there are many wives who can do an enjoyable work, and could, with such earnings, pay some one to care for the domestic hearthstone. Were it not much more economically than the wom-| wrong to relegate them to the rear of | an whose tastes and actione have been| the kitchen and sa, belong, since you have married?” oul from brooding over to the mature and tendency of ‘woman in the case. 1s given them by their husbands. Which | {9 all very well, and they are doing “Here you must | Married or single, a useful work keeps | thé mind of a woman ACTIVE and he amagined wrongs and close confinement of the! home precinct. It all resolves itself as the Co, (Tee New York Evening World). HE Bong of the Christmas Shopper, which is Mrs. Solomon's: j T Feed me with bondone and stay me with hot chocolate, for I a sick at heart! Verity, nov i the hour of my Sacrifice and the Day of my Distraction! For lo, I must hasten forth and purchase Burnt Offeringe for my Beloved. 4 Yet, HOW shall T please my Beloved? For what profit hath a woman in all the things which she dbuyeth for a MAN? Alas, whataoever she may offer him, he shall privily despise tt. Whateoever she shall bring unto him, 4t shall be mocked at and reviled in secret. For, every man hath made graven images of those things which are good in his ‘sight. And nothing ELSE shall satisfy him. Go to! I have SEEN the toil of @ married woman at Christmastide, and I know whercof I speak. The gold banded cigars which she offereth her Beloved shali be be- stowed upon his enemies. The silver mounted meerschaum shall rust within the pipe rack. The scarf of many colora which she chooseth for him shall adorn the office boy. Yet, the ancient briar, for which he, himself, hath paid HALF a shekel, shall continue to be cherished as his life. And the violent cravat of his OWN choosing shall fill him with vanity. How, then, shail I find that which shall rejoice the heart of my Beloved: Behold, I shall search mine OWN heart, and that thing which 1 desir: above all else in the world, whether it be a Persian kitten or a new vhafny dish, a pianola or a bangle of gold, I shall BUY it and lay it at his feet, For a man hath more joy in a pair of pearl earrings, which he ia te quired neither to WEAR nor te SMOKE, than in a pair of pink pajamas, which he loatheth, or in a cigar that will not draw, it Lo, I purchased mine husband a jewelled hatpin and a patent curlity iron, and he was pleased thereat. 4 I purchased him a lace boudoir cap, and his thanks were exceeding great, But when I offered him a hand-painted cravat and embroidered socks of all silk Re groaned aloud and would not be comforted. Then, I charge thee, thou RIB, think not to please thy Lord with burnt offerings from the haberdashery, neither to charm him with men's furnish: , inge and smoking sets; neither to delight him with sweet surprises, But whatsoever thou hast long desired but could not afford—thu vacuum cleaner for which thou yearnest, the tea set for which thou longest— bring it to him on Christmas morning and label it “For Papa,” and he sheli | be overjoyed. For @ woman reveleth in all the junk which she collecteth at Chri: mas. But unto a MAN a little Christmas gift is a superfluous thing. Selah! The Week’s Was h By Martin Green. Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publirhing Co, (The New York Zvening World). HBY'VE got me all iwisted,”)arrest and imprisonment for volath complained the head polisher. |the rulen of society. “Every paper 1 pick up carries! “I'm In favor of restricting freedom speeches made by |of meech to this extent: Make every: people oas ting! body desirous of speaking in pubte take other people or jout a Hcense and put said licenseholder speeches by people | unde: the supervision of the pollo. Then who have been|lock all of them in a hall or a cave end roasted roasting | let them talk each other to death.” the original roast-| 4 4 ers. With Christ- . oon mas lees than three) j Probing Ivory Brains. $ weeks away, the| knockers appear to| 66 be working over- time."" “We're suffering,” explained the laun- @ryman, “from en overflow of conv aation, We are going through an o of gabble. The season of dinners and y, “T Ne eG OW 1s the Aldermanic tnvesti- gation getting along?’ asked the head polisher, “The Aldermanic committee,” reptied | the laundryman, ‘is doing one mighty good service: It is showing up a cen- siderable number of cops whose beans, ¥ lif struck by a hammer, would give forth IN GREEN Coprright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), The story dun't ended, is it? How could, Dialogues Woodward What's good for the goose is not AL- WAYS good for the gander. What kills one SAVES another. So it is with the domestic idea. There is no reason in the world why a woman cannot be a worthy wife even though she does not | Mke to bake ples or sweep carpets. | had to wear your rubbers and that old! WOMAN'S SPHERE IS THAT PLACE | sult with the worn-out lining. If you| WHERE SHE 16 MOST USEFUL AND had your rags on you woulin't mind the| HAPPY. waa raining when we came out and you | vaudeville votces, would you? Mra, @ in despatr)—Oh! I'll go wher- ever you wam to go. Anywhere! Mr. 8. (relenting)—Now, say, I don't Celtic Philosophy. want to be mean, Tile, But I gotta wet the taste of this thing out of my By Eugene Geary. | mouth; {t's got on my nerves. I may be IM'ME a rope, for it seems there's a lowbrow, but, by gosh! I e'n sell goods no hope, and make a decent living for my family. | An’ all that I want is a rope et T @on't have to lve on eoda crackers! the Ind of tt { and tomato ketchup lke most of these OF sim'me a gun, for me coorse 1s now | here pen-pushers! : run— Mrs, 8. (sotto voce)—Charile, dear,| Jl! be dead ere the neighbors have don't holler #0. Strangers may not un- tine 9 wet pind of k, derstand your disposition—they might— eae ee Mr. 8. (cheerily)—Oh! tet ‘em think! Jn me cowld churchyard bed what ihe pig yl aly i epi an to think, afther all me cajolln’ an’ dollar to any man. We balanced up th gar ON 9a sheets to-lay and I've had the best v married go soon month ever—broke the record—got alo, ,7o that clumay bosthoon~ congratulatory telegram from Philadel. |O°™ the SUN oe the crows on ye, phia. I'll blow you to a bottle, old girl. ‘onsy latthery! Mra. 8, (nervously)—That'll be lovely. Er-er— How I suffer at night till the welcome daylight, h lays as a prelude to the last yid imps from the !nfarna! | (be orchrara, lary, a4 8 preute to the Wid tmps trom the Infarnal remions Mr. 6. (enthtslastically)—An’ say, THe He, y'know steak and ontons ain't very | recherchy, 4a It? But #’ll taste mighty good after a rotten show lke this. Gee, I'm hungry! Mra, 8. (timidly)—Well, it'll @oon be over, dear, There isn't much more of {it. Just be a lttle patient, | Mr. 8, (after at least two seconds’ al- |lence)—Say, ‘Till, I know where we'll jo. You know that little Joint, Just off | Broadway, where they got that fine rinderbrust? Maybe that won't go fine | with some German fried potatoes nnd a-seld! of Munchner! (smacks his lips | notstly.) (Phere descends upon him a series of hisses, clicking of tongues and a few titers.) Mra, 8. (rising hastily)—We'l go now, | dear, I guess I don't want to any | more of It. An’ the divils so sthrange, wantin’ a change, : Wid their torturin’ whips fall a-lashin’ an’ batin’ me. An‘ me heart ta plerced through By the falsehood of you, As tho’ undher the foorce of batthery, I solemnly vow ‘Phat I'll finish it now— | An’ It's all on account of ye, Pessy O'slatthery! as tho! | But ‘twould make ye too proud when | I'm cowld tn the shroud, Buch a fine-lookin’ specther beside ye to li sure; "Tis not that ye'd care; no, the divil a hair— But the beautiful girls I let slip thro’ me fingers, sure, After a play lke this 1 don't feel! Mr, 8, (tn the lobby)—I know you're a Tho’ ‘twould set ye at alse like having a lot of cracked vaudeville | sensible girl at heart. Don't you care if I'l) not dle, if ye pli “What did you say when he advised volves in iny cars, So don’t let's go to) hig Pith sevens to rave Cad Biel Tho’ yer father {s rich an’ owns half @ cabaret {ke that, You please me and the res you te do your Christmas shopping |* 10's. cerimiy)— Don't, eh? Bry, none! of the world c'n go to— early? of that, now! None of that; I'm on’ Mra, 8. (eadly)—Yes, yes, dear, I know, I must be “Told him If he'd pay me the money | to you, little on You don't waht to Mr. 8. (pulling in his belt)—<Gee, I'm| So the top of the mornin’, Mies Peggy he owed me, | might be able.” 60 to one of those big places ‘cause it hungry! ’ @’alathers. | smothy Public meetings is on, and everybody able to ease his way onto a programme is arising and jabbering and yammor- Tt used to be considered that wom- en were mainly hysterical and men caim and deliberate. But recent happenings indicate that the males are copping the prizes in the hysteria stakes “Nowadays the highways and byways are flooded with people who want to @ statement about something or Our public oMceholders, who are other. pald to act and not to talk, spend much of their time writing letters and making speeches—largely of a denunciatory char- acter, The dominant note is one of criti- cism and reproach. “Because of the propenalty to talk and talk and talk many movements of a} nature beneficial to the people are) ed in language or asphyxiated hi explanations and reports. The man who has something to say, who says tt briefly and retires is overshadowed by those who aothing to say and keep crowding to the front and saying It over and over again, “The way to get into the public eye is to utter loud cries. If said loud cries can be disseminated through a mega- phone all the better, ‘The favorite greet- ing between man and man is ‘ou're a Mar!’ After a while it will be consta- ered the highest form of compliment to} calla mana lar, And anybody suspect. ed of telling the truth will be Hable to the same sort of a sound as proceeds from a dornick similarly assailed, ‘Nobody expects a police officef, etart. ing in at $800 a year and working bis to expect from thelr police officers, whe are In command of men, at least a shade of common sense. When the verbatim | testimony of many of such cops app yar- ing before the Alde:mante committee is printed the community ts dated for an eye-onener, However, it 1s Impossible to fire a cop for being a bonehead,” Rr, $ 8.P.U.G. Forever! § Sr anne “ce SEE," said the head polisher, I “that the Society for the Preven- quite a campaign.” tion of Useless Gifts t@ making “People,” declared the laundry man, Any pressure to keep them from squan- dering their coin on Christmas pres- enta,”” Picked Up From UTOMOBILE fire eng'ne will A soon be in service in Bangkok, | Slam. According to the last census there oral 147,000 foreigners in Egypt. A Bombay philanthropist has given $75,000 to start war on tuberculosis, ‘The dairy industry of D&nmaric ts quite extensive, and the g! er part of the butter te sent to England. | Cus pound of good eon) releases suti- Here and There. cent energy to raise an average man to @ point fourteen miles high, Japan has maintained tntact through all of the country’s many changes museum of decorative art established in the year 766, Cleveland's municipal ¢ance hail has Proved a money maker for the city, for already this year it has netted a profit of $8,0, That goes to show, say the city oMcials, 1 t & place: where young folk |can dance under proper supervision is erage Amerioan ‘wen what the av