The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1912, Page 22

ek arene et ee RSL ib oe aera The Evening World Daily Mag ESTABLISHHD BY JOBHPH PUBITZER. Periten y Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 52 to pil Pt eves Park Row, New York. | RALPH PI oR, fdent, 62 Park Tow. J, ANG. W, Treasurer, 65 Park Row, JOSEPH PL OR, Jt. Secretary, 6! Park Row, | : — ‘Pntered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter, Subscription Rates to The Kvening) For England and the Continent ena World for ‘the United States All Countries in the International a7 and Canada Postal Union Ti one $2.50] One Year ‘ See Monin. ol One Mont ‘6 VOLUME 55 ee ‘ne NO. 18,743 FIND TREES FOR NEW YORK. A TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR FUND for planting trees in the | city streets is to be disenesed by the Board of Mstimate.+ An issue of revenue bonds would provide the money. The Tree Planting Associntion is doing its best to make the powers that be see the wisdom of more trees in the city thorough fare- Not long ago the Japancse Government gave New York 2,500 cherry trees. The giver would have been surprised to see how pur- | led we were what to do with them. Four hundred Lombardy trees were recently planted in Delancey street, and 3,175 trees were eet out in the streets and parks of Brooklyn during the past two years. Thanks largely to the Tree Planting Associntion, Brooklyn is fee ahead of Manhattan in making shady streets. Ai the enggestton of the same association the Committee on School Buildings of the | Department of Frucation has told its architect to consider treee a | past of all his plans for new school houses and grounds. AD honor to enybody who can interest this big city in trees. | Our bare, hard streets sadly need the softening touch of green leaves. | ‘A walk through the miles of plane trees, chestnuts and lindens in the, heart of Paris or Berlin may some day inspire a New York millionaire or even a city official to dream dreams for this town. The Board of Bstimate should epend its first efforts on careful etaty and preparation. A city must find ont what kind of trees are best for its own peculiar conditions. The elm, long the pride of Wastern cities in the United States, has dropped out of the running, Plane trees and chestnuts flourish in Enropean capitals, but it docs not follow that they will do well here. It is worth time and money te find the right and Iasting foltage that shall transform the hard, | untovely perspective of New York streets. | a | ON TO ALBANY. Yi suffragettes are fairly started on their walk to Albany. We wish them godspeed and emooth going. It is good weather for a walk and they will be the better for it. Walking has always been the sovereign ontiet for enttresinem. ‘The Crusaders found it owt centuries ago, when they tramped—men, women and children—across the mountains and valleys of Europe. Chaucer knew it when he wrote of April deys thet prompt folks to “gon on piigrimages.” He made ft April because of the vile English climate, amd little dreamed what glorious fell weather could be along the Hudson. The Mes of a long welk ‘has always eppenied to people with wrongs on their minds—from the children of Ierael down to Coxey’s army. We congretulete the suffragettes on their walking tip. They will see interesting things along the way. They will brighten their eyes and tone up their appetites. They will sleep soundly nights. ‘All that i= far better than emashing windows and pouring acid into letter boxes. And when they get to Albany they will be welcomed and mate nach of, according to their manners and deserts. Pyen if they do not get everything they ask for the Caune will have to its eredit the most time-honoerd of all human demonstrations—a pil- grhmage. a See THE MEN WHO FIGHT FIRE. OOF GARDENS for firemen will have everybody's hearty epprovel. Of forty-five new fire houses, one-third ere to ‘have roof gardens leading from the upper floor recreation rooms, wfth eliding poles clove by for use when the alarm sounds. ¥f the now feature proves a success all fire houses should be planned @ecor: ugly. ‘Tne average citizen in his tamélram life of safety end regularity tims too much for granted these men who epend their days and nights tm reatiness for ¢ cali that often means a crisis of fierce strain nd perf. Only when eome spectacular fire has brought them into momentary prominence do they become for a day or two, to limitod part of the community, objects of real interest. Of afl pubic servants todey none feces such a terrible enemy or gives cach desperate and courageous bettle as does the man who fights fire. The soldier often serves for a lifetime in peace. Tho saflor wresties with forces thet he can harness for his own ends. The vas ued pen nee gpa cor Mare git The fireman mmy be upon ten times in a single day to conquer a foe whose very ‘touch fs horrible death. | There are over four thousand firemen in New York. Not ono of the five million people whose lives ami property they defend will not ‘be gtad to hear that « simple thing has been done for thoir comfort. Letters From the People way Loca Yet this rule ts often violated b; ele- "To the Editor of The Evening World vator operators who ‘ ¥ 0 are obligt In reply to Stenographers letter CoM- enough to do this favor. If Sauniba plaining of the crowded and too few i but a minute or two to catch @ train and this rule was violated by the op- erator who obligingly came back for you we feel sure that you would ap- subway locals, I would Ike to know why stenographers that know what the subway is in the rush hour do not take the eurface cars or elevated home. Then they would not have to walt to let four or five cars pass by before getting aboard, What are the #ub- way employees going to do? When! the train gets as far as Thirty-third mas time. This is but one Instance of many that dally occur, and goes to show one of the many ways in which elevator operators can do favors. Our Wages are small. We get tips in hotels, atreet it is always crowded and the ¢m-! put the tips do not ‘age over $3 Ployees cannot hold the train there @ll) or $4 @ week for twelve hours @ day, night to crowd more passengers In seven days @ week. In most apart- A COR. ment houses the elevator man also acts a# telephone switchboard operato: kets no meals and very few tips. I Was enabled to get married and bring The Elevator Man's Chr’ diseu garding the up a family of three through the mention js very often made of| money that was generously given me elevator operators 4s examples of Use) by the tenants for three successive less giving. people object to giv-| years at Christmas, 1a ing them 4 ing at Christmas be- ‘ re One ent: (as they claim) they do no fa | qo the Editor of The Evening World and ar 1 decent living wages.! In answer to the "Penny-a-Day Prod- Ag an elevato ator I disagree with | jem," I would say that if a man were to both statements and beg leave to prove | save a penny to-day and to double !t that both are wrong, All large build-| to-morrow and so on for thirty days ings have « rule forbidding clevator] the total would amout to $10,787,418.23, preciate it and remember 18 at Christ- | in STOGING: Correia Now York alo Wodaiee 66 H, good day, Mr. Jerr, good A day—ahem!" It was Mr. Jarr’s boss who made the highly original eemark quoted edove. But, ah! the way he sald it wag as good as a substantial money present. At least, Mr. Jarr's einployer intended tt in Neu of the latter. Olany bosses scatter a few kind words edout this time of year. They would say it wae “the Christmas spirit!" The spirit of good will and good cheer, But, as Mr, Jarr said to Jenkins, the Dookkeeper, he wished the boas would epread a little lens salve and extend a Uttle spore of the maruma to make the ‘Christmas cheerful. However, the areeting encouraged Mr, Jarr, and he followed the dons into his Private office and coughed deforentially. He did this with the hope that the boss would cough splendoriferously. “Excuse me, Mr, Smith,” ¢altered Mr. Jerr, “but I thought I'a drop in and remind you about that little raise of thet while he had been cheered he had Not deen inebriated)—“thet made me late at the office and you had the increase taken off—and, well, my expenses are increasing and my salary stays the same." “You are @ very fortunate man that your salary te not decreasing while your expenses are increasing,” said the boss. “Our expenees are increasing. And when overhead charges, wear and tear, depre- dlation and money énvested and énterest for the eame are considered the firm's business $s not euch as to warrant any Increases whatseever. “You ére @ fortunate man, Mr. Jerr, to have a good position end an em- Ployer interested in your welfare. Be- aide, Mr. Jarr, do not forget thet every employes receives a turkey at Chrietmas time.” “That's yout %,” ventured Mr. Jare, other @alary we discussed some months ago.” “You recetved the raise of ary in question, I betiev replied the head of | the firm. “I started the week with tt coming due to me the folowing Saturday, and, in celebrating my good fortune—with my wife"(Mr, Jarr put this in to intimate Old Wheeze Exposed. | “Marriage ts a lottery.” operators from going back for any per- B. R, HARNES, 0B Once the elevator bas left the floor, Greenpdiat, l. L “The deuce it Is! | weret you can draw ie a blank.” In a lottery the tion arises: apirtt to-day? Seemingly wintan-Itke, with and trfbulations, rows. but change.” Teckoned not eo much in money megs. ure, but rather the SPIRIT PORWARD., embro! azine On to Albany z! spirit? What with the entrance of the 8 P. U. G. Boclety and preventions for promiscuous siving the ques- ‘What fe the Chriswmag Dar- it has evolved to its pres-| as t ent state as each year ‘has brought ft its trials ite joys and sor- As @ great phil- osopher has said, “Nothing s permanent And @ change for the Detter ts of permanent worth. There- fore the new idea, which tends so to ow to ave later burdens, and #0 to Tecelve that the joy thereof shal be that prompts the donor, te indeed a MOVE Go that the wee waman who endlessly ‘8 @ shirtwaist, often working fnto the small hours of the morning, taking her energy from other things, Qo send the offering to some friend as a Christmas @tft (and whose friend may not appreciate the sacrifice it has teken in {ta process of making)--this little woman might much better epend her time for her own needs and send some- POECEEEEEESELESD SESFEOEESEEF SEEDS HEESESE DCEO SEE SES Mr. Jarr’s Boss Dispenses Yuletide. Gifts in the Form of Kind Words) 98SIIIISTISIIIITS SSSISIFIIIFSIFISS HFFTIFHFTIIITIEGID “my Uncle Henry sends me a turkey every Christmas, too. And, if it ts ail the eame to you, sir, I would rather have the equivalent tn cash.” ‘The boss shook hie head in « grieved manner. "It 1s detrimental to the routine,” he ald. @rm we deal with supplies the turkeys according the ist I have sent them. Merely as a question of bookkeeping, to give xou the wholesale price of the turkey that te to be ten- dered you would be more expensive than the turkey. Beeides, how could I tell how much the turkey you are going to get 's going to weigh? There, you see!" ‘My, Jarr sighed. The children ex- peste Christmes gifts, his wife hoped to get a few things his heart was sot ‘upon buying for her, and his only pros- Pective asenta were two turkeys—when What Should the Christmas Spirit Mean to Each of Us? By Sophie Irene Loeb. Coprright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Os, (The New York Brening World), H*= you got !t—the Christmas ‘Tine Goes not necessarily mean a self- ishnese of spirit, Dut rather a saving in the end. For many times, what may have been intended as a great TRIB- UTE of friendship may prove to have been merely a. TAX of etrength> At any rate, the worth. ile friend 19 he who does not embeflish it with a doMar-mark or give it at the expense of onersy. The new Christmas spirit 1s as olf ‘Three Wise Men, and was to mark @ particular season of remem- brance, whether it be in the happily expressed words of “Merry Christmas” .|or the exchange of something tangible. Tt {9 the note of good cheer that all such messages ring into being. ‘The note of cheer@never goes to protest, whether !t be in the palace of the peer or the hovel of the pauper. If you have not much money to spend in the process of giving at Yuletide you are wrenging yourself and your friends in taxing your meagre earnings - | by doing it in a MISTAKEN Kea of s0- called Christmas epirit. The friend who will not understand 1f you do not buy him a present és not WORTHY of the name, And if he is looking FORWARD to Christmas for the value of your present you had bet- ter cut him off your list, ‘There ere many ways and means of showing appreciation and kindness and many other occasions to perform acts of triendghtp and love besides indulging the notion that Christmas epelis GTVING. Q@PT THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT. BUT thing at less sacrifice which would equally fulfl the mission {t was in-|THER® ARE THREP HUNDRED tended for—a REMPMBRANCE, a AND @IXTY-FOUR OTHER DAYS IN token of ge7. WHICH TO SEOW 27, Tuesday, December 17 in tt. terrupt him. ‘The masouline heort {s like @ good | pened, leased to him—until she te released, heart after @ good supper. merry one, § Couto HOBBLE TO FRISCO For THe CAUSE | Avoid Late Hours | © winter brings with tt a host lof diseases that afflict mankind. Some of these diseases the world is learning rapidly to evercome in many ways. Some are checked by preventive meas- ures and are not permitted to appear in ctviltzed communities. Others are fought with powerful curative agents and de- atroyed as soon as they appear. ‘Thus it was not 0 many, years ago when the germ of typhoid fever was al- lowed to breed at will in our drinking waters and kil! hundreds and even thou- wands during the fal] and winter of each year. Ye now know how to keep our @ources of drinking water pure and wholesome and #0 prevent what we cannot cure. Diphtheria brought every winter its train of disease and death. To-lay by Proper methods of sanitation in the home and the schoolroom thts dread foo of child life has been largely prevented, and as soon as ft makes its sporadio ap- pearance {s promptly arrested by the powerful serum cure and by rational ygiene and prophylaxis, on, however, are largely soolal in their nature, and by wise, con- its own ruins—would last him a week. | certed, social effort have been fought “The trouble ts," said the bors as he! end eliminated. But there are others &rose and buttoned Ms costly fur over-| of an individual character, depcnding coat around him, “the trouble is that| wholly on the mode of life of the indi- the average man wants everything that | yidual. more fortunate people have. There 1*no| These society cannot ght and the in- such thing as content among the masses | giyidual must endeavor to prevent them any more, Look at me, er. Iam con-| in order to safeguard his own health tent; I do not complain.” and well being. one turkey, counting all its progres- from hot to cold, fron Copright, 1912, by The Press Pubtidting Oo, (The New York Brenteg Weld, MAN'S love is like an elevator—ehoays going up or going dow — ; Somehow, when a modern man holde a gus hand he help giving her @ creepy impression that Re ts looking for When a man apologizes to his wtfe it 1s not because he regrets has done, dut because he regrets that she won't stop talking about Of. There are many times in @ man's Hie when he would commét wuto love ¢f another girl dhdn't ehoays happen along just at that moment Nght on running, and no matter how hard it has deen thrown Ghoays de wound up and set in motion again by a new girl, ‘A man falls in love ae suddenly and unintentionally ae he fatie bed, and always awakens with @ shock, wondering how on earth 48) The dey when a man oroned Me wife ts long passed; she is now Sometimes a proposal of marriage {s merciy the overfow of a A husdand'’e tdea of being awfully original at Christmas me 4e) find out eeoretly ali the things his wife wants, and then go and buy something ELSE that she never thought of wanting. Every normal girt should be fond of sports—bdut not fond enough How to Add 10 Years to Your Lif —— By J. A. Husik, M. D. — ee fees a oak ddd ww a watch, after the worst shoche: and Late Suppers. quire the bad habtte of keeping hours and of late eating. Both and women are guflty of the: offense. ; Night after night some find it n sary to keep on undermining health and shortening thetr lives > priving themselves of much need and sleep. They stay up till very: @t night or quite early the next ing, busfly engaged in one form of cial activity or another. Whether it be the thestre, the! the banquet or the card table, one all of these keep their devotees stuffy, 1M ventilated places of oo ment gapping their energies tality. Not content with depriving tt of much needed reet and sleep stuff thetr systems with an excess food, The food 1s made highly palateste, stimulate a jaded appetite and a eating possible w the digestive aesimilatiy pparatus of the on naturally require rest from thele functions. : The result fe a violation of the Je of right living and right th bringing én the end nothing but and disease, wreck and ruin to happiness and life. . To be well and to live tong, your social needs as well as aff human needs in moderation, a to natural law and in conformity common 6¢nse. ‘ Then, seeing that Mr. Jarr’e counten-| To this catagory of disease belong ance fell, the boss added kindly: | neurasthenta, many dtgei isorders “Well, cheer up! What you need 19 8! gout and a host of oth nay @ood—ahem—talking to! Now you come| prougne about chiefly by an tmproper ride uptown with me in my automobile] mode of life. and I'll ahow you how much better off} 1p our large aocta! centres many ac- Ways of Cu “See that car?’ and the bom pointed out of the window to his costly imou- sine. re is a car, sir, that costs me in tires alone more than your fam- fly costs you, ‘Those tires cost $120 each, | and one acems to last but a week or #0, My chauffeur is @ most capable| 3, Investigating — Commtsston man, but he threatens to leave me un- makes some valuable sugges- less I raise his wag And I'll have to! jf tions along economic Mnes for lowering do it * qf “Phe car isn't equipped with electric | | the coat of foods, It has been demon- etrated that forty-five per cent. of t Nghts and a self-starter and the man grumblea, Says other chauffeurs he Prices of foods is due to the actual oo of handling and transporting the com- iT report of the Committee on Markets, Prices and Costs of the New York State Food associates with tel him he's working for ‘a cheap 6 That hurts my pride, Mr. Jarr, I MUST get a new car—an up-to-date car, I cannot have my chauffeur being ashamed of me! “Last week fur robes valued at #900 boi cele Se ee 90 et OT |g per cent, of the retatl price of his | produce. It 1s estimated that 12 per Denses, the responsibilities I have. | cent. of the present retail prige of food- ind Yet you come at such a time a] sure can be maved UMTOvEn the merB- ing of wholesale and retail business ep le tera een ma through larger retail units, department you hurt my feelings by inttmating T underpay my employees. “Mr. Jarr, you wrong me. My valet was formerly in the employ of a noted banker, Yet I pay tim more, My chauffeur gets fifty a week and wants sixty, Come, ride with me and let me joal Review of Reviews, If this reduction could be effected a higher standard of food could be pur chased for the same expenditure of {money required at present or the same | standard of food could be secured at a -. lessened outlay, leaving the balance for om ere. Any- Laie ity fl "| the securing of better clothing or {m- t eet's| Droved shelter. At the present time rene ee re eave ine to vor | MboUt 40 per cent. £0 60 per cent. of the make @ day of ft. You take club and T'll take you to Gus’ “Gusta? Who's that?,, Where's that?” wked the boss, ; witpe patient” replied Mr, Jarr, “1'N Honeys Saws Bek jure an iinprove- show you how the other half enjoy |™¢1' in home dietary themselves.” \ eee EXCUSED! | One of John Quincy Adams's cllente, | Whose case was to be tried on a certain morning, found that he could not get his counsel to leave his fiating boat ex- cept long enough to write a note to the| fudge, which read: “Dear jude, for the | ine sake of old Imaak Walton, please con.) Every girl 1# a potential homo-mnaker, pony ti ip eh aeeliig pe we antl | nut her education {a carefully arranged Judge, having read the note, announced| on the basis of her becoming a to the court; "Mr, Adams is detajned| professional woman. ‘The elementary om imgortant e echools in aiming so prepare chiidren | der $2,000 ts expended for food. ‘The mere fact of lowering the cost of food, “Undoubdtedly both nourishing and appetizing at a far leas cost !f the housekeeper were familiar with the cost and uses of the cheaper cuts of meat, the less expen- sive cereals and vegetables and tho best + High Cost of Living modities from the producer to the con- | eumer, The producer gets practically | |etores or chain stores, says the Med!-| money of families with an imeome un- | the diet of a given family could be kept | way of preparing the same fo as to! | make them both divestible and appettz- | But by all means avold the high and strenuous mode of life comes from depriving yourself of: and eleep and from stuMng the with excessive quantities of food hours of the night. 2 tting the for thetr Mfe work on a Aisctpiin cultural or vocational basis are) adjusted to the needs of the m |of girls, who are to spend the Part of thetr lives as the spend all or moderate tncomes. he cost of ving becomes abno: high when Jetgment, ‘ounded on edge, does not supervise the pui and preparation of foods. The o content of a course on foods and ery makes {t a valuable subject f elgnentary sch ‘urriculum, eng {a child, as Dr tin De “To s¢ within his daily w fa in of large and hu How Long? i By Cora M. W, Greenleat, is more than 1 | Since Christ To ary the vin-dar! | tears | And comfort ai! who mourn, |To bring us “peace He cam | He taught good will to men, Methinks the woild would blush wit shame We He me ba \w hile woe-begone unfort nates Employment vainly ek dare left unproy tor, | The strong devour the weak, While Uttle children that He Dlesmed Must up lite preath In mit dd mill, de |, distrensed | Unt!l relieved by deatih And while the weak thet v4 | Ane. wh Se vem tm To strengthen mone S power, Starving for < 4, ‘dear YL Heaven! tama | Is Thy religion ours? | » B00d wil to m We claim we do no wrong. wiitd And We prate of Merry © are a y Christm, How long, O Lord, now longt 6) /