The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1912, Page 26

eS The Evening ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPit PULITZOR, Pedlished Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, 63 Park Row, New York. 7 President, 63 Park Row. ‘easurer, 63 Park Row Becretary, 68 Park low. RALPH Pt —$—— Matter, ent and fice at New York as Second. ening he Port. a a For England and the Cont Bwdeeription Rates to Th World Why Not? & WIFEY, DEAR, THE NEW WAY 'S To GIVE PRESENTS THAT ONE NEEDS. WHY NOT BUY YouRSELF 4 CHRISTHAS PRESENT For ME TO Gwe INSTEAD World for the United Bti All Countries in the International ‘ OF ME UYING Some FoOoulsH THING ana WG Varco THAT You PROBABLY Won'T NEED . 80]One Month WHY NOT 2 SENSIBLE MR. SULZER. OVERNOR-ELECT WILLIAM SULZER has a fresh deposit | G of common sense to his credit in the bank of public opinion. Asked by a local political association for permission to adopt | hie name the Giovernor-elect writes: All my life 1 have made It a rule not to allow any political, social or civic organization to bear my name. In a government H such as ours I do not thin\ it consistent while the person ts I!ving. i | svocvevesvsNOy 18788 | | | No one can tell what a man may do from day to day, and unt#l he fs dead his reputation Is never safe, I suggest that you name your association after some one who has been dead at Icast a century, and Mf his memory endures it will be en titled to the lionor “No one can tell what a man may do from day to day.” Who can help thinking of the fine old soldier, veteran of the civil war, | who lost Iris leg at Gettysburg and won high rank and dignity in the service of his country—yet is now involved in ead difficulties, deposed from the chairmanship of an honorable commission, called to ecoount for a shortage in funds intrusted to his care? The Gov- ‘efnor-elect could have found a ready instance to point his moral. So far as the blazoning of his name is concerned a strong man Goes well to go softly all the days of his life. The eam day that Mr. Sulzer wrote the above letter he mado a ‘Aittle farewell speech at a dinner given him by Congressional aseo- | relates in Washington. He said, among other things: | I believe the secret of all success Is hard work, loyalty to = friends and fidelity to principle. In a few words, to be unselfish, to | ‘4 be Itberal in your views, to have few prejudices, and those only | against wrongs to be remedied; to be kind, to be ¢rue, to be honest, | to be Just, to be considerate, to be tolerant, to be generous, to be forgiving, to be charitable and to love your neighbor as yourself. While in the capital of New York | shall try to make good as | have endeavored to make good here. My friends will always be | welcome there. The latchstring will be on the outside and will not be so high that one cannot reach It. 1 thank you from the bottom of my heart and say to you in all seriousness that after my work for the people !s done at Albany, and I will struggle as 1 have never struggled before in my life to do | # well, I shall retire to a little farm by the side of the road and be the friend of man. > There is sentiment as well as sense in Mr. Sulzer. ——_—__=+. ¢ WHAT'S THE USE OF HOME? IHE New York hotel of to-day as banker, business agent and : social secretary for its wealthy women guests was the sub- e ject of an interesting article in The Evening World yesterday. Whe cashier of a fashionable hotel explained that a large part of bis work consists in taking care of the financial affairs, shopping ac- counts and varied outside interests of women who live there. ~* The modern hotel not only provides bed and board but pays tips, Yheatre and opera tickets, dressmakers’ accounts, travelling expenser, Brranges for rooms in foreign hotels, recommends tradesmen, pro- tects the woman patron from overcharges and even sces that her bharitable donations go to worthy causes. All the guest needa is a ‘big balance and a semi-occasional dash at her cheque-book. The rost of her time she is free to fill with eociety or any amusement she likes. a No ordering from the butcher and grocer, no fuas with servants, no bother of running a home with the thousand and one details of organization and management in which some foolish women take pride. No thrills over the feat of “making things balance” at the {end of the month. No little household contrivances of taste or economy for the famfly to jeer at—or praise. Not even her own Dills to pay. The up-to-date hotel woman has nothing to think of ibut pleasure, nothing to do but be happy. » We wonder if she is? Letters From the People} Penny-a-Day Problem, To the ator of The Brening World: t Mathematical readers, if I wore to wave one penny to-day and double tt to- ‘morrow and do so daily for thirty days, Wheat would it amount to? = C. W. E. “A Tree and Vibrant Note.” Podhe Biter of The Breving World: + All honor to the man who struck the true note of sanity in his letter on Christmas giving! Hoe rays he must pend so much on tins to office and fapartment house help, &., not enou ‘tor his 1 with the © "We've all Kot good schemes, replied Mr, Malist with “Well,” t waited for collar and the operat! fe an awfu’ fly all put to; one's few dei her? Why not mal and the Why from ten cents to would suMce? This ts not ut manity, It ts justice. arity. More power to auch EZRA H. at Rush Hoare, To the Flor of Phe Rrenive World: {haven't tim At Thirty-third street last night I} shonping took a uptown subway local—or tried, “Mu to. I had to let two trains go past | “Judging b; before I could get aboard. And then I{a lot of pec ot @ tenuous standing room, Jammed | shoplifting 86 against the Rute, only because a husky man in front fought his way jato the car and I was able to follow ia his wake, Other women were stil) Waiting on the platform when I got board I heard one of them «: hed waited while four trains t by 1 mention this for what tt ts worth te|cent stores | readers, STENOGRAPHER, apd as the: Why, some as w that he has left to buy suitable gifts ed ones or to give money tmas charity, And he strikes ind vibrant note. I know it will @ how! from grafters and pan- “handlers, and even from a few sincere ‘but mistaken people. But most honest ‘men will say “Amen! I believe in ‘ps. But tn small ones. Why should & Janitor receive tips aggregating $80 ywhen perhaps no tenant of his house has $80 to spend on Christmas chari- ties and Christmas gifts to his fam- shopet” “Why, no. LACKS SENTIMENT, Bit eporting barber, as Mr. Jarr took dia place in the chair, "I got ®! thelr motter; .|the cush, as you say elally now that all the sanitary bug and has put In tiled floors. white duok pants and white voll a8 @ white Jacket, But In't what bo! does bot arly? | hear, speaking about shoplifting, that the dips work the five and ten cent stores in preference to the swell big “Well, H's straight goods, The dips aey that the dames shopping in the ten- —— Saree : VR aa0 t, as the five and ten ent stores d thinga home C. O. D., they are always opening and shutting their pocketbooks, and their arms So it's a fest for the dips.” bundles. “A what?’ the lather, “A te: Fred. Press Publishing Oe, eine Works) said Fred, the e if 1 only had some guy sh to back me.” them | that's v red," Jarr, “but we lack the cap- ) o.PiFrLe Wim) SENTIMENT | WE ARE LIVING (IN A PRACTICAL AGE Daily Magazine, Thursday, December 12, oly full of asked Mr. Jarr through cinch, a pudding,” repeated “I know some dips that run for a handbook when things !s dull tn thetr graft; but they are all busy now, ané they tell me that there 1s more money in the five and ten cent stores than there ts in the big department shops, “Quick dips and small profite’ is and, mind you, some of 8 19 good to their mothers, And y Tsay, ‘LAve and let itve.’ when I see a atall playing kiggy and | Fred, So Conrriatt by The Prose 1 (The New Yort Even «09, id By M No, 1AM NoT Sicts, BILL, = (Pas IKNow WHAT To WIFEY, DEAR WHY NoT Buy Yo ACHRISTHAS PRESeR VYjAG; Lp aurice Ketten PRESENT FoR ME To Give You. ETC-eTC — LET Your wi Buy IT weneete LF 2 WHY PHLARARANARLAABAIBAISALBASSSBABSAS Mr. Jarr Learns the Heart Secrets Of Harlem's One Sporting Barber. KK CK KCK KCK KK KCK LN KCK LEK KEK KK KEK ee the dip push his newspaper up under my chin to pinch my spark In the crowd- ed street cars or eubway I don't yell for a bull— Jest gives ‘the hoick: “Give ‘the hock?" Mr. Jarr replied. “Sure!” replied Fred. “That wises the fleet that you ain't a aimp. Next time you wise a dip operating around you Just say ‘Holck! TI the office that you're Jerry, or that you pipe a flatty— see a detective—and the dips will pass you up, thinkin’ you're one of the mob.” “But you were saying something about & great scheme you had,” remagked Mr. Jarr, “Was it to publish the fact thet you lead a double life and are not really a swell crook but are only an ordinary barber?” “I ain't an ordinary barber," replied | | “T gotta stroke that the head | the capltal—the guy with he barber went on, as he Mr. Jarr to tate off his tle hefore procerding with ion, “well, being a barber J strain on your feet, espe shops !s got this of the places, @ barber hae) masters. hers me." er you, then? You do your @heristmas these’—— ne to amtie, ata tho sporting ®@arber y what I see tn tho papers ople tn doing thelr Christmas early, too, Did you ever with thie: . ‘That's news to mo!* although he apet that te about fi fm all flurried and excited, hes to pay cash for wh. “My uncle bought @ motorcar, to the country, and & broke down tn going up © NM, My uncle tried to make {t go, but couldn't, The Day’s Good Stories A Modern Miracle. OBERT HENRI, the artist, was talking at R the annual exhibition of the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arte sbout certain old “Take, for instance," he eaid, “Moretand, The MMustrious and indefatigable Moreland painted, in the course of forty years, 4,000 pictures, And of | have 9” Mr, Henri’ smiled his quiet and intelJigent | 7OUr pe atetpia Ledger, ——-—-——_— Her 250 Words. ITE girls of the fifth form were agked to w right hope of the form duly weighed tn | He wes riding & now sult by erring, I reckon i tw Swat the Fly! % MR SIMP IS SO FOND OF LL MAKE HIM SOME — AND- SREVEN lt OOH! SHE’S KILLT MY LIL, JOOLIET! we i THEN be BUNS {MIGHT PROPOSE yee GES!| a wonts, The other 210 words | | ey are not fit to write down,”’~-Phila- | rd, —— Terrible! 166] WANT you and your wife to come end ba dinner with us seid Mrs, Wam “Thank yon, friew vat"? te meet you ex pest etx, And pi us a'e going to,""—Chicagy | Mevata i saiiaaaebiine | “A Vital Query. HE professor was delivering the final lecture ie term phasis on the fact what each student should devote al] the intervening time preparing fer the inal examinations, 1 “The examination papets are now tn the hands Are there any questions to be} Suddenly a voice from the "a the priotert""—Everybody's, barber at the Blackstone in Chi told me he'd give good money to get the knack of. All a barber has ts his stroke and jis Ine of chin goods to get a boob to fall for being jobbed—y’know, hair ainge, massage, hair tonic, scalp treatmen. And when @ barber gets old in the busl: ness and his poor feet ache he loses his stroke and he's done for, “A young barber can cut @ customer tll his face looks Uke a hamburger steak and get away with it by saying he's been on the stuf and his hands ts shak- ing, but let an old barber nick lop and the whisper goes down the chairs that old Dick ig losing his stroke. And the first thing you kn®w the boss t! the can to him and he goes to Hari and becomes a conn doctor. I seen it @ hundred times. “Take it from me, Mr. Jarr, @ barber's Mfe Js a short but merry one. That'e why barbers Is all sports. You might 4&3 Well have a good time and get some action. out of yo! mney, a4 any min: ute, after you're forty, you may love your stroke," “You're as bad as @ certain lady 1 know," remarked Mr. Jarr. ‘You start on @ tople with great enthusiasm and then drop the topic to take me on @ travelogue around the world, You t the beginning this operation, by saying you had @ eat echeme to make money {f you had a backer, end aince then you have talked about five and ten cent stores, Chicago, pockets, barber's paralysis—what's scheme?” rents, haven't you?” aeked the sporting barber, Mr, Jarr nodded, He dwelt with much em-! “Well,” said Fred, “what with guys city for Pittsburgh. maelves and every young gink using @ safety razor the barber busine: ‘on the Fritz ast! ow run. I've been thinking of openin; ragtime or cabaret barber shop and only heve mantcure girls that can sing ragtime and dance the turkey-trot.” shaving ¢ ‘ou've been to them cabaret restan- | Cops right 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New Yori The Raving. (Before Caristmas—and After Poe.) Evoulog World), | Reprinted by Moquest.) | NCE upon a midday dreary, while 1 wandered, weak and weary. O Through the quaint and curious mazes of a great departmens store; While in doubt I hesitated, hopelessly T contemplated | All the siliy trash and baubles I had seen go oft before— ! Seen and bought—and wished I hadn't—many, many times before Silly trash--and ! j “What” I muttered, | To the clerk I turned then speaking, nothing more! ighing, “What, oh, WHAT shall Tbe buyingm Buying for that MAN for Christmas? Teri m etl “Must Fever thus go 1 implore!" coeking = Seeking vainly something novel for the man that L adore, Something natty, neat and novel for the man I most adore? Quoth the salesgt “Would you like some silk suspenders?” fend us! rl, “Evermore!” “Nay!" I cried, “Oh, Lord, €e Can I find no THING that senders have not sent him o'er and o'er | “How about a ceilarette, or chafing dish, or tabourette, or— | Surely there is nothing better.” “Never, never those!" I swore— | Yet, whatever I may get, it shall be something I'll deplore— Something I shall much deplore!” | | Deep into the crowd then plunging, in my desperation lunging | Right and left with foot and elbow, like a lunatic I tore. | Picked up this thing and then that one, dodged a thin man and a fat ona, Tried to keep muti feathered hat on, maddened to the very core! Tried to keep from being sat on, maddened, saddened to the core— ° Maddened, saddened, sick and SORE! ‘Til at last a clerk beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, See these lovely purple sor—I'l put them in a pretty bor—I'll | | | On the counter something piling, said “I've JUST what you'll adore! Wrap them up—there's really nothing that a caf wih would treaeure more! i 1 “Give me those!" I cried then weakly, “Give me those—and nothing more. Simply those—and NOTHING MORE!" Out again and quickly flitting in the eubway (never sitting!) | Olutching wildly at a strap, those awfui things I homeward bore. Got them home, the bor unbroken, But the only word there spoken At the sight of that strange token was, “Great Scott! What are they FOR? | Not to WEAR TI hope!" I nodded. And distinctly then he swore— Softly, but distinctly SWORE! , ‘Yet my heart within me aching and my soul within me quaking Teils me next year I'll ve breaking all my records as of yore Though he never may put THESE on, though I've ah e st lost my reason, Yet I know again nert season I will do it all once more— Do it over EVERY Christmas, just as J have done before Do it thus for EVERMORE! ] | LAWRENCE BARRETT. t Of Memories of Players Ey Robert Grau. | Other Days. Copsright, 1912, by The Press Pubiianing Co, (The New York Evening World). OMMENCING his unexampled career as a eall boy In a De- tro!t theatre at the age of four-| te Lawrence Barrett, 4 gh he had little school- ing, became unquestionably the great- est scholar of the American stage. He was not as great an actor as Edwin Booth, nor was he perhaps rated as the equal of John McCullough, but hit vatility was remarkable, while hi {ty ag @ producer was eo marked as to detract from his value as @ star. ‘This 1s so true that Lawrence Barretty had the singular compliment paid to/ | i { him by both Booth and McCullough of being invited to direct thelr artistic! fairs, For a period he also directed the tours of Mme, ModJeska, appearing /in conjunction with the Polish actress a part the time. For many years Mr. Barrett conduct- {ea tho business and artistic policy of | the Varieties Theatre in New Orleans, J and, Hke his Musirious colleague, Ed- win Booth, his ambition to have his \ own playhouse (or “workshop,” as he | called it) involved him so greatly that be became insolvent. But eliminating his manageria! trou-| bles, the career of Lawrenco Rarrett| forms « vital part of the history of the Amertean stage. Born in Paterson, N. T,, In 1838, he played what aro call | Bits” in Detroit for two years, being! | eixteen years of age when he left that, ' Here hoe appeared | @ “stock” for an entire season, gaining) | ‘truch experience. Barrett's debut on the New York) | atage took place et Burton's Theatre Gy the winter of 197, The same year he! appeared at the Winter Garden. Fol-, ‘lowing this engagement he proceeded Covyrieht_ 1912, by The Presa Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), ee ene | dal “to Boston, where, at the famous Bos- ton Museum, he played a wide renge of characters, and achieved great popu: larity, which would have resulted in his becoming a star but that the eivil broke out and Barrett served with stinction in the army for seventeen months. On his return, after two seasons i New Orleans, where he first playe@ @he great Shakesperian parts, Barrett de came @ star, opening In October, 10h at Pike's Opera House in Cincinnet! ef Ellot Gray in Lester Wallack's “Rese Tn 188 Tom Maguire introduced Bare rett at his famous playhouse in @an Francisco as Hamlet, and for mere than four months he attracted the pube le. This engagement had placed Bar rett at the very top of the laddew ef fame. But it 19 worth stating here the: John McOullough, who was Barrette opponent at the California Theatre, Worked like a Trojan ty add glamour te his own engagement. And the two Se came great friends as well as partners, Cassius, in “Julius Caesar,” was @en- erally rded as Barrett's greatert portrayal, but he w y superb in @ dozen other rele » De Mauprat In “Richei » in Pen: drago, ted King Ar- thur; 10 Marble Heart,” Benedick in ‘ Ado About Noth: ing," Shylock, Yortck, in '¥ortok’s Love,” and Claude Melnotte in “The Lady of Lyons."’ Barrett was only fifty-tiree when, on March 2, 1891, he died of pneumonta to New York, and he died In harness, too, breaking down in the middlo of @ per- formance of * |