The evening world. Newspaper, December 10, 1912, Page 20

| ro nner re eS See OTOL _ note the conditions and organise to deliver boys and girls of this city RETR LT ROO RE TT eS rt Che eae awiorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Wattebed Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to, y Except Bus Fate Row. New Yorn wo RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row. J ANGUS GHAW, Treasurer. 62 Park Row, JOSHPH PULITZER, 'Jr., Secretary, 6 Park Row, 4 at the Port-Office at New York cond Clani Subscription ates to The Evening) For England and the all beara | the International Union, $8.00] One Year. 30{One Month ‘World for the United States end Canada. 0. 18,736 THE MENACE OF THE MOVIES. JOLLOWING The Evening World’s exposures of the c@il in- F fluence of senastional moving pictures upon the children of this city the attention of the authorities and of the public is eomecentrating upon the dangers that lurk in this enticing form of cheap amusement. The Fire Prevention Bureau, awakened to its Rarrower responsibilities in the matter, sent an inspector on a tour @f the “movies” Sunday evening to observe violations of the standing few which block exits and endanger lives in case of fire or panic. Oaly five cases of serions violation were reported. The other theatre ‘managers had been warned by publicity. The Fire Department can enforce measures to safeguard andi- @pees in the moving picture places, but it naturally has no concern with the nature of the pictures shown. The lurid scenes of blood and cruelty, the contempt for order and authority, the fun-making that makes light of drunkenness, gambling and worse, offered in many of these films to the eyes and minds of boys and girls of ten or twelve, this newspaper has described in detail. The law which forbids selling flekets to children under sixteen unaccompanied by parent er guard- fan is easily evaded. Some of these moving picture theatres even employ men and women to stand about the box-office and obiigingty | hand in the nickels of children who come alone. That theee places ere @ prime cause of truancy, unruliness and even crime among the yeuth of the city has been amply proven. Nor do the ils of these theatres stop with the pictures. The heap excitement of the amusement offered brings men and women of | Jew instincts into the audiences. Only two days ago Magistrate! MoQuade, in the Men’s Night Court, holding in $500 bail a man| accused of insulting a six-year-old girl who sat beside him at a| moving picture show, declared: | “The five-cent moving picture houses in this city are a disgrace | end a menace to the community. No female, whether ehe be four! wears old or forty years old, is safe in them. Cases of this sort are @ecurring daily, and it is about time that something was done to prevent them.” Obviously the nature of these shows has much to do with the \\ N kind of older people who frequent them. ‘There is no reason why 8 NN \ moving picture theatre should not offer a good five-cent entertain-| i NYA ment—amusing, interesting, even thrilling—that shall be clean and Hy free from coarse brutality; nor is there any reason why safe, sanitary, ul w decent surroundings should not be enforced. This city has allowed 1h \ ite moving picture shows to sink steadily lowereand lower until they i pander to depraved tastes and furnish lounging places for the soum of the city. It is time for the churches of New York to ally themselves in a campaign against thie evil. Let pulpits and children’s societies \ i \i\ (WRI from a new arfd particularly insidious danger. Publicity can do much. Public sentiment is getting Teady to do battle against harmful “movies.” The churches should fight in the front rank. po ‘That early bird, the Austrian Emperor, who used to rise at 4 o'clock every morning, !s now reported to be turning out regularly at 3.30. Fat worms to the South and Eastward, MAKE IT HEARD. |O-MORROW (Wednesday), at 1 P. M., the Aldermanic commit tee investigating taxicabs will hold a public hearing at City Hall. Shall it be a hearing only for taxicab company lawyors and grafting hotel men eager to preserve private stands and exorbi- tant rates? Or shall the demand of the New York public for a new order of safe, cheap, accessible taxicabs, with equal rights and equal etendards, be heard—and prevail? With the Ten Taxicab Tests aa a declaration of rights, let the man who believes the taxicab should be a popular convenience and not s luxury and a collector of graft, go before the Aldermen and make this a real hearing, « final hearing thet shall put a stop to vacillation and delay. are ot Prof. Moore says “the New York City Board of Education ts composed of forty-six well meaning Christian men—but It is un. wieldy.” Good-Intention paving material, $0 to speak, Knit four, overcast, fatio words. way?" eho snapped. Jerr, Magazine. A Batten Grievance. ‘To the Kitttor of The Krening World: 1 would Uke to protest againet the ‘way buttons are so often put on clothes ‘we buy from the stores or tailors. No matter how much is paid for a garment the buttons often have to be resewed or else they'll fall off, Can't the tailors take time to sew the buttons on so they will stay? The purchaser hasn't always the time. Home law ought to be put in effect about it. What de other readers way? ale As te “Christmas Sanity.” To the Editor of The Kveuing World; Ta answer to “A Plea for Christmas|mate.’ Ah, In regard to your corre e the recipients has ever com- Pelled any one to give Up money at Christmas or at any other time Thelit ja simply vorrespondent accuses the public at | ane sono large of being cowardly rather than “ne Generous th giving tips. Ido not agres|torted Mra. Jarr. with him. [am an employer who has alwaye given Christmas tips and have never regarded {t as “aowardiy.” KT. (Mr, Jarr, calmly. | 3c) SE @ Swat the Fly! % @ FLYS IS DIRTY SWAT TH" FLY! SWAT TH! FLY! GEE? THEM HUMANS }MAKA ME’SICK! omens, a8 Moda ees 66 48. STRYVER wante me to be M ‘eure and come over this after- noon,” said Mra, Jarr at the breakfast table, “she and Ci Mdge-Smith are forming a Spu: “Knit two, drop three, overcast, purl, knit four, biecp the edges, drop three, drop two, @ight— Sounds Ike football, Geesa't Mre. Jarr gave Mr, Jarr a fixed and neering stare as he uttered these cabal- “What ARB you talking about, any- “"Bout forming @ Gpug," said Mr. Fy “It'e eomething in the knitted Letters From th P 1 |goods line, isn't it? Oh, I read the e CO PLe™ | kmeting cotumn in The Pertect Lady's And I read the chess col- umns tn the Sunday Dodo, ‘White to win in elght moves, to black's stale- what a fund of useful in- formation one can gain by a general criticlam on Christmas tips|echeme of comprehensive reading!" “Sometimes 1 think you are not men- tally competens, and sometimes 1 think n outbreak of Married Animal Magnetism,” re- “Again T ask you, what ARE you talking about?” “Now, don't be rude, my dear," eald “When I do net com: @rehend your remarks I just sort ef QEP Famil wally around to try te find out what you mean.” “You dally around enough in your ac- tone without doing # in your conver- eation,” Mrs. Jerr remarked. ‘I was speakiag about forming a Spug. You know what I mean. Mrs. Belmont orig- inated it—Mrs. August Belmont. It ts Mrs. Oliver Belmont who says the chil- dren should be cared for by experts, as their mothers, especially young mothers, @re not competent to take care of their own children.” “What do you think? asked Mr. Jarr. “I mean what do you think of prof onal mothers, mothering around at dollar a day for other people's ch! Gren? Two dollars a day for twins?’ Seen diia .....auttionee HE Fs ee eee Bi om LEFT IT HERE To HIDE PROMS HER HUSBAND The X-MAS seecescesoosooooe eeeeessooosoooore. Mrs. Jarr’s Going to Become a Spug! ESESESELEROSOSSES -_ rep The Evening ‘World Daily Magazine, errs December 10, You Know About Spugs, Don’t You? 90890099 99999999S 89099999999 999999: P9OVSSSSISIIIGII® are to @ mother that makes a mother love them! But Mrs. Striver and Clare Mudridge-Smith are very enthusiastic, met enly tn the Spug, but in eugenics and eolentific mental and physical de- velopment of children.” “Yeu,” ventured Mrs. Jarr, “but THEY haven't any children, have they?” “But Mrs, Oliver Belmont has!" re- plied Mre. Jarr quickly. ‘Then she lowered her tone: ‘She's @ grandmother. Gucks they'll never be dukes!” But, @ren, And THEY were raised by com- petent nursery governesses and frau- jeins, and they'll be dukes and duch- ses some day!” shoulfin’t waeer at society people. the world, Mrs. Stryver says. “Ty “My gracious!’ gaia Mrs. Jarr. “It's the very care and bother that children organised in Milwaukee Hi news that will bring the (A eampany has beeu whole country good cheer, olty re- And it comes from a nowned for its beer, ‘The horee, out of date, is quite pur- poseless now, And a movement's on foot to abolish the cow. That gentlest of beasts in the future must do For leather and eke rpisaitudinous gus Her reign ie completed and passed !e her day— They ere now making milk in Milwau- kee from hay. ‘The lacteal juice that Bostonians af- fect Ie alded by pumps cut extremely low- necked, Chicago, her five-o'clook tea to par- tal Depends pretty much for her milk on the Lake, & “There you see! Our children might] «1, be the same!” said Mr. Jarr.. “But, alas, they were not reared by hired help in the Stately Homes of England. We; Drought them up ourselves in a Harlem | flat. And while they are cute little “Well, you can make fun all you like, mat as Mre. Stryver says, it's @ ealthy sign wh tf unques- tloned roctal etanding take up the ard: |high waist an’ it's got s suspicion uv & ous task of ethnolo; lift, And I 7 BS ale ges alee hg | matter uv imagination, in the back; an She aid look grand, lending her dtvision Grandmother |!n the Suffragette parade! Resides, she's ‘s chil-|0ing all this just for her desire for the| plant in that drape! to the Duchess of Marlborough’ betterment of social conditions, You A Jot of them are doing useful work fa Ma didn't have no more sewin’ silk to "a grand!” sald Mr. Jarr heart-|tn' jus’ elght inches or so frum the ‘Who knows but the day fs at bottom an’ she wus real distressed an’ hand when if Gertrude again threatens she wus goin’ to throw my raincoat Copyright, 1912, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ‘AIL Christmas! For now approaches the season of peace after tohich we shall all go to pieces. Any man prefers a sweet lie to the bitter truth from the lips of a woman, It 18 easier to find a pet moth in a fur shop than a man twoho starte inte @ love affair with matrimonial intentions; but then no man takes hie fret glass of wine with the intention of becoming intoricated The lovemaking of an artistic flirt affects a girl like a cocktall; tt map de a little hard to swallow at first, but it soon makes her head whirl detigh® fully and pute her into a condition to belleve almost anything. 4 man never will understand thy a wontin alights from a street ear backward, degine a novel at the last chapter, telle a story from the wrong end and signe @ chech upside down—but somehow he hasn't much wee fer her if she never does any ef these things. Fear of publictcty and not the wedding certificate is the tie that DinGe many @ husdand and wife together. Never marry @ widower fancying you con make him heppier then he wae defore, because nO man will ever acknowledge that the woman he chesg, for hia firet wife was anything less than an angel and a Venus combined. A man’s heart 12 ke the weather. And tt te no wee flattering yourest, decause it te toarm and sumny thie evening, that it won't de freesing tomer row morning. To marry a widower one mist be @ philosopher; to marry @ cynical baci lor one must de a stote, THE FLORIST '} (SWITCHBOARD OPERATOR AT THE HOTBL RICH) By Alma Woodward Ooprriciit, 1932, by The Press Publishing Ov, (The Mow York Brening Wos@). HAD the exclaimc friend's brother gave e stag eupper an’ later en, aeck this Jolmt, too, Some ewell skirt up to get a number. An’ the minute dental on purpose, I éropped in to eee her an’ #& wasn't stag no mere! Geol i ot dealed if ir it she chewed the ¢ip of ber pen- ite a little early to say definite He's goin’ to call Friday. Am’ I got OME wrappin's to spring on him!” “Where did you get them?” I inquired aternly, “you never sald @ word to me about them." “Oh, they're not your kind. You'd Rid | the. life out uv me if you seen ‘em, but they're the stuff to make « hit in the bunch I travel with. This one le a real I 5 ’ il bright color, Ameriean Beauty ven) sith 3 an’ it's eu 18 Ghee ef. cenney ser thin’ he had on the counter an’ senée top part in the front, but it’s entirely & ie boy shootin’ through the door with “An’ then he come up an’ almost hugs it myself, I must a0- ren it 5-99. 00), HY me an’ eays I saved his lite. an’ it* knowledge that I look SOME hothouse “Oh, I forgot to tell ywh that it’s eplit up @ Mttle on the left front seam, vacant spot in {t an’ nothin’ to fil it with, So he nabbed my decoration! My flowera fer a—fer THAT! “Why, say, I could’a’ choked him, 1 was that wrought up! An’ when he come whinin’ ‘bout it, an’ wantin’ te match it; ran out on the machine etitch- 5 to leave us, we can sive her the laumh over her wrapper an' beat it ‘round the|#hove a lot uv old red carnations om and say ‘Go your way, girl! A noted corner fer some more, when I jus’ come society leader, interested in the ethical jn, an’ I told her it wus the latest style; me Inetead, I jus’ give him the graad rasool”’ ana domestic betterment of the mifMfe an’ eo I took a beautiful spangled but- Ee lasses, atands ready to step in and 40 terfly.what used to be on a swell hat our general housework for us, free of someone willed me, an’ 1 taatenea it} A Handful of Odd Facts. payee milk from hay,—Daily paper.) charge.” right above the opening. An’ say, when WOMAN has been arrested m utacture dn quaint Philadelphia, where swiftness is rare, The Schuylkin contributes a generous share. ‘These barbarous methods will soon pass All hall to Milwaukee! From sidewalk | Mr. ‘Jarr. to dome She springs, Aphrodite-like, up from ‘the foam. It beer made her famous—a burg of renown— Milk will add an additional gem to her right. a Spug,a member of crown, RT The fluid that, too, human kindness the Prevention of Us denotes 1 A rth be for orators, dreamers | MViné: re} ! ‘The jutce of the cocoahut’s also passé— They are now making milk in Milwau- ‘kee from hay, every day?” asked Mr. Jarr, about ft when I come home.” —— Copyright. 1012. by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). MORE HELLUP! SCHNELL ! VITE! CHOP—CHOP! eee Seen ene he eer ere te 's when you talk like that I get 0 little tootsies begin to play hide- angry!" cried Mrs. Jarr. “Why shoula MY, tte tole ‘ if you sneer at society people when they OM hit with that feller!” €o try to be of benefit to the masses? | °°,maxe & bon #4 Would you have them do nothing | They pe yw making milk in Milw; ote re now makiny aus | py 4 ey ‘hey can be as useful as they Ifke, so far as I am concerned,” answered “In fact, I'm for that. think Frederick Townsend Martin, soci- ety and cotillon leader, 1s ail right, al He says he does a good deed every day. I'm going to drop in on him Prince--He had such a MERRY WIDOW and borrow $20 as Christmas money.” sive It to you,” replied M: I “How then can he do a good deed |1 got #0 used to ‘em, that I'd let people 7) wuz a floriat. Denver for smoking a cigarette and-seek with that butterfly, it's goin’ in &@ public thoroughfare, “My! You're sure of yourself!” I re- proved her, “Will you please lead your mind back a few months and give me the pedigree of the next victim?" “Oh, sure! Anythin’ to ‘commodate,’ she granted with unusual celerity, “He T used to think in the beginning maybe he wus a exiled Greek | Compared with 1862 the Great Hasterm railway runs ten times the number uf trains to-day. A total of $4,000,000 in prizes was awarded at various horse shows in the United States and Canada last year, But two-hundredths of an inch of |mustache an’ adorable eyes—Heayenly, | rain was measured at Greenwich @b- they wus! Weill, say, when I first got|servatory in England in April, making onto him I had flowers to wear like I/ it the dryest month recorded in a com wus related to a millionaire, Orchids | tury, jan’ vi'lets an’ Lilles uv the valley! Why, ‘The Dank note washing machine whist “Well, squash right against ‘em in the sub-|has been in operation at Washington go on to your Spug meeting and tell me | way ‘thout raisin’ a row. for a short time has a capacity of 9,00 “I made a flerce hit with ‘em down In to 35,000 ploces in an elght-hour day,