The evening world. Newspaper, January 10, 1913, Page 22

Can You Beat It? @ Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) ‘ESTABLISHBD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. aed Dall Sunday by the Press Publishing C 4» Now, 63 ; yy Bacopt anday by e Press Publishing Company, Nor. 62 10 | Entered at the Post-Office at New Y : SuBscription Rates to The Evening) For World for the United States ‘ork as Second-Cla England and All Countriesein the International Postal Union, $3.56] One Year.. ‘ .0' One Month. | “THE WRONG CAPTAIN.” VE GOT the wrong captain,” shouted Police Captain | Stephen McDermott, the burly, to Counsel Buckner be- fore the Curran Investigating Committee, And the Cap- taim proved it to the complete satisfaction of—himself. Inmates of disorderly ‘houses always behaved like lambs when he was around. If he overlooked anything wrong it must have been 4. put thete while he was at supper. Whoever said he paid for promo- | tion was a degenerate, and anybody who tried to pry into how much money ht might be worth was ridiculous, out of order, and not worth co answering. “It’s no business of the c Itea CY Lippodrome you're making.” burst out the angry witness. ~ committee's counsel he had six brief words, but he pat them int 1 DON'T WANT YOuR DIRTY MONEY. IWANT You To STOP SQUEALING - nittee w 1 own ) JF You Bevieve w THE \ RE PURE Foos LAw, ireeP / POUR, MOUTH CLOSED on ( THE WITNESS STAND. — — £2 Remecee that rattled the windows: “I'm Captain McDermott. You're a ama- D 4, choor!” v As an example of open, straightforward witness willing to help r ‘ investigation McDermott was, as he said, “the wrong captain.” at # a help toward restoring the city’s faith in the department which a has disgraced it, he was again “the wrong captain.” As a sample of the kind of man whom the people of New York would willingly make | a responsible public servant, he was eminently “the wrong captain.” | peodn all things tending to inspire confidence aml trust he was not even | { | (F You DONT WANT AVERY CLose SHAVE, LET YOUR MEMORY FAIL You WHEN You ARE ON THE STAND ~ “THEY ARE CUSTOMERS OF MINE. ' what he called the counsel-—-an amateur. sent the B. R. ‘I. Company a doliar because he found a seat | _ a lie SLAVES OF THE STRAP. Tg in a Putnam avenue trolley car for the first time in twenty | years has twanged a mighty chord of suffering. Vor he voices the | HE BROOKLYN RESIDENT with the sardonic streak who | Don'T SAY ONE MORE WORD ABauT US - NOT ONE MORE You SQuacer | DoYOu HEAR 7 righteous plaint of the patient and upstanding when even the Public | gd Service Commission hat hardened ita heart againat the people. See |! ™ To the opinion of the commission that eight minutes of strap- id “hanging is nothing much, this Brooklyn man retorts: “I hang toa strajp | 2 + + forty minutes each way every day of my life, From Reid avenue to | < the Bridge on the-Putnam line, the one T use, nobody can get a seat. | /Conditions are still worse at night. 1 have seen nothing like it in | | Be ates any other city in the country. , ‘ Assuming that this citizen goes to ‘hia office on an average three | "hundred days in the year, The World figures that he has hing to | a‘B. R. T. strap 8,000 hours in the past twenty, years, which would | wake 333 1-3 days of twenty-four hours each. Supposing his time to be worth $5 a day for an eight-hour day, strap-hanging has got so @Way with 85,000 worth of that precious article. If he were to pay “1 a trip for a seat it would have cost him $12,000 to buy himself out “ft trap bondage. 4 i Y Daring the hush that follows this bold man’s statement of his swrongs, while Brooklyn strap-hangers sit them grimly down at home sal’, to figure out the total annual cost of strap servitude, we recommend mos» the B. 2. I. to pry open an eye and lower its long, thick ear! to «oy the earth, boots Pheeenenesesserese i font NOT MANY OF HIS KIND. HE MAN who beats and ‘kicks a hotel waiter because of a bil I of salad dressing spilled on tris shirt front deserves worse ; than being turned out of the hotel. Even in a big, irce and wet easy town like this, such a cowardly exhibition as that offered by | * “Curly” Brown at the. Waldorf the other night is luckily rare. We | eh We can’t discriminate much. Our waiters @ “have their faults and give us more trouble than we wish they did. fey “But the man who strikes a servant for a trifling slip is a cad, whoever te. he is, and even this not orer-squeamish city will not stand for him, | he fact that the can etay at an expensive hotel and lounge in the ne egrill room iif the early ‘hours of the morning in his evening clothes H MS chanakes no difference. : j#- ‘The proprietor of the hote! where Mr, Brown was staying ordered him never to set foot therein again. Any satisfaction the waiter can | \ Sey “extract from his assailant by lawful means will be heartily approved. | Gre sung the Villow's “Mallad of Fishes veoMr. Brown is said to be one of the prominent racing men in this | when one fried fish and she had appro- We wish him a speedy jaunt over the border, | Briate recitations for sweeping, | bed- sido making, scrubbing and washing. Don't ————-—— + - axem country and Mexico. Menie you remember the book was published ‘ only in subscription editions de luxe and HE ECSTATIC EDITOR of the Los Angeles Times, in a very {#04 for $100 copy? 7 eat ates handsome mid-winter number issued on Jan. 1, predicts that | yore ado galiphetg tet uae viet %0 99* on Angeles will have a population of 2,500,000 in 1938. The in-|me would bring cheer, Iterature al diy habitants of the unprogressive Kast are advised to come early and fevlva gyoid the rush. It appears that there are but 44,000 square miles of j paradise in California, The high cost of living is unknown. Every dignity in the homes of the poor. As Mildred Mowbray, ap she was then, ar bec prospect pleases and not even man is vile! Mest lift movements do the ‘poor! Mildred Mowbray Invited contributions to have competent singers go around the tene- ment districts and sing “The Bed «se ald $4,000 each, render ‘The Serub- vling Bextet.! '* “TL think T remember it,” said Mrs. Jarr, settilng back in the ten-inch up- holstery of the opera motor. “Of course you remember it," said Mrs. Stryver, who was also of the party. ‘I have one of the books and showed it to you, and J, invited you to go with me to the Mildred Mowbray Lycee of Ly- rical Light Housekeeping. The tickets Were ten dollarg each. But they were worth it.” “Think how much good Making Motif’ and “Che Scrubbing Sex- tet. “Oh, yes, I remember now,” said Mrs. Percival Pilking' Parlor Socialist,’ ridge-Smith, ‘He never speaks on be- half of suffering humanity for less than rem Publis sbing Co. ing World) these up- ridge-Smith, Mowbray’ her name was in everybody's mouth!" Mrs, Jarr was on the verge of a faux | Pas, She nearly sald, “Yes, the famous | mutton ples of that name!” But, fortu- nately, she waited a moment | “She wrote the famous book ‘Th + Housekeepers and | the Parcels Post By Sophie irene Loeb. | ‘he Press Publishing Co, (The New York Hrening World) Copyright, 1018 b ND now that Uncle Sam has} competing directly with the retail pro- come into the business of carry-| visioning establishments of the city, Ing our packages, up to eleven] Thousands of families in Ha: ng ree pounds, it is esti-|celve daily their pat of fresh butter mated that this will] from the parcel postman, (In the be # means of{smaller cities the regular postman acts eliminating the mid-|in that capacity.) dieman and allevi-| ‘The farmer visits the city about once ating the bigh cost) a year, finds his custom and retur of livin home feeling that his trade will be Already the mails] served just as regularly as though he. are flooded with all] were living right in the city. Think kinds of produce) what pure food we might get direct direct from the} from the farm right here! It would farmer and bid fair] certainly alleviate the high cost of tiving; for in this case the commission of the middleman would be saved. Would you believe it? One billion dollars’ worth of produce goes to waste yearly in the United States for the want of proper transportation from the A je 3g Mono: fb! used to say: ‘Done with a song, no work (s drudgery!’ “And so all the ballads of housework wore set to music In solo, duet and leven trio, quartet, quintet and sextet ~~ \arrangement, The Skinner Foundation | was so interested that they paid for | grand opera singers to demonstrate from jher works how song lightens labor. It he People at DIRECT cost from the farm. . Uncle Sam ts not in business particu Dut desoee F y, but farms, The great Commoner, William ‘ was wonderful to hear singers, who] larly to make money, but rather to} farms. he grea’ pel \yetan Wali’ ot Toe Dene © stk ysl gle ban Bide el gasl toad serve us. ‘This new innovation, if taken], Gladstone, near the close of his ‘ Sosy te atnanegant ‘weds tn the dally prese.| crvmioy tip ond caeet the wena! | = ]advantaxe of, and it studied in the | life, sald: E Tod emanating from the Housewives’ League’ neneen, the loss by weate, and any The Only Solution. direction of ICONOMY by the house-| “The post office savings bank and Penses, the loss by waste, and pleasing the housewife (who Invariably will not accept anything but the beat, the spec- kled apple or the bruised one she will not have at any price) and these re- formers would have @ different story to tell from that of saying the grocer ts making 300 per cent. on a barrel of ap- ples. CHARLES THORPE, Secretary New York tate Re! Grocers’ wife, will be a source of saving that at present 1s unrealized, I had occasion to see some of the system in Europe this summer. Joy? Why parcels post are the most {mportant inatitutions which have been created in the last fifty years for the welfare of the people, I consider the act which called the institution into existence ts the most useful and fruitful of my long career.” During the summer, as you travel in the rural districts, thousands of apples own about on the ground Think of the cost of apples in the city of New York and what a box of these apples would mean EVPRY WEEK:coming by post to & family of children on the east’ side! It would ‘behoove every housekeeper that the retait grocers of this city bought | ‘“epples at $2.7%5 a barrel and changed cents @ quart, slong with the @atement that a barre) of apples Spin Wielded % quarts, ts not true, and is i 9 t@eing the retail grocers a gitat ‘injus- the inference made that the bless you, the folk on the other side of the Atlantic could not get along at all without parcels pos They have it down to such @ m that they oan even send live jes through the mall, Yes, one was sent from London and was promptly delivered to its destination. Several kinds of live animals, including bees, are sent If “properly packed.” ‘The big retail stores in London avail! therselves of the parcels post for ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World to @ writer who wanis to know how the overcrowding of the sub- way will be relieved when the Lexington avenue subway i completed and that always that), giving three pounds to jue a@art. But he gets only fifteen cents per ebout + Be : delivery. of goods, ‘The rates are as| to become’ acquainted with the parcels tH ete overcrowded, 1 wiah to say that | Vqaall as they will he here later on.| post In this direction, And, in the hare is @ whole tine of avenues yet in| In Germany, where the rates are even | growin if she finds a farm which they can dig subways, When the Lexington avenue subway gets so crowded that one is afraid to take t! chance of losing a scalp, they'll uve to} have her box of berries and her bunch of string beans for dinner in the evening picked that very morn- ing, which Ia hardly possible with city cheaper, the college boys send thelr | solied linen home to be washed and ‘t} is returned to then tn the same way, Over there It Is daily assuming more as in the thus leaving him $1.00 to pay the expense of run- ( ws @® By Maurice Ketten Your Stop FYIN INVESTIGATION WANTS You ALA Mrs. Jarr Flatly Refuses * To Set Housework to Music PFSIHSSISSSSIIFSTSSIIGOSSSODSIV SFP VITIVISVEVENIOVSS ‘00. vote themay Who do a ot of good in the world! Mrs. Str; us, Mre Smith, am sure. permit your hou meatic dutles would be pleasures and not tasks. For one who has young chil- dren as well as cooking and housework ‘The woman of the house was glad to have her to ’o Mildred Mowbray Pilkington ad- | retura, vises strings and woodwind, cussion instruments might wake the | mad ead: bables.”" | exasperation. 1F You DON'T WaNT HAVE Block wo KRNOCIKED OFF You'ut BE A WITH witvouS i've Aenea NOTION TS GIVE You SONETHING ELSE, ingen CAN You Beat IT? “Ah, there a lot of people who de- es to causes like these sald “That's why we are taking you with Jar,” gushed Mrs. Mudridge- “I can speak openly to you, I We have often noticed you | old cares to dist jour savoir faire, Inspired with these | ‘Harmonies of Housework,’ your do-| o accompaniment of muted, Brass or per- | “Oh, piffie!” erled Mrs. Jarr with some “You have got a lot of money and no children! Mrs. Siryver has a lot of money and no children! | And this woman, the mutton pie per- | son—Mowbray, of Pilkington, or whut-| ever her name is—she makes a lot of | money talking and printing such stuff | to a lot of well-to-do geese. And for| what? To benefit the poor, to uplitt | overworked mothers and housekeepers? { 11 bet she hasn't a chick or child | either! I'll wager she knows nothing , about housework, but lives in a estudio | and eats out at restaurants or at home from truck from the delicatessen stores! How in the name of goodness could I afford to have @ string 4! et follow me @round from bedroom and kitchen, | playing muted symphonies while I swept and scrubbed and cooked and made beds?” “Ah!” gaid Clara Mudeidge-Smith with | a superior smile, “that bears Mme. Mowbray Pfikington out !n what she | says—that it is the very ones we week | to uplift who are so impatient of our good offices! Besides, the Pilkingtona | are endeavoring to collect funds to sell phonographs at cost with records to play their ‘Melodies de Menage’ to the poor and middle classes, “But wait till you hear her speak. | She'll convince you. And she advises | simple Grecian costumes of pure white iinen with a classic colffure to do house- work in, ‘This tends to attune one's | mind to higher plan: ‘The first thing | she'll advise you to do Is to cease fret ting—to belleve that work is Service, and Service Is Love. leontinuea to “play a tone tar hood. pendence” on its own account, Ethan Allen an through the nort! Allen and his volunt | securing its s | wreat From first to last, in the wor for independence | State admitted to the U | Warriors and } Plone | that of almost any | along Kuclid avenue sestenlay afternoon | the Cleveland Plain Dealer, A very handsome | | and polite young man entered at East Thirtieth | ateeet, The only possible place to wit down was let the side af a broad lady who was trying to | occupy a whole eectio properly filled out as to names of parents, ad dremes, date and place of birth, @oming Katle Barges arrived, the te fog down her cliechs, “Ob,” sobbed the litle aint, “T fongut my ex |. by The Press Publishing Co. (kno' July On the gaze & panorama miration: “Voila les mountains!") And vices toward the future State of Vermont, cluding It as part of New France (Canada). ‘he territory remained practically a wilderness until 1744, when « few families of frontier folk moved to the present site of Brattleboro. Later French Canadians from the north and Englishmen from the south settle) various parts of Vermont, When the French lost Canada they lost Mountains became a part of Massachusetts. | Hampshire and by New Yor blood And after Vermont ed, separate State, petition nd;" Joyal to the und ‘It organized as an indepemient State Two years earlier the Vermonter wild band of * n Me ender— “In the name of the ¢ Amt it was the Green M battle of Bennington, Jehovah and aln boy which t whie sh And atter the revolution maintained thelr aloof they found ti ndependence un jon under th country In every war of ovr ent nearly muy Civil war, And in allied in proportion volunte jont's popul other State, Yet its pion lo help settle every other part of Amertea 948,000 as against 314,10 In 1850; an average increase of leas than 700 inhabitants @ year. ’ He Was a Gentleman. band 1D HEIGHTS car—one of thow aor | gud rible ones where you have to sit with | (fy. your feet in the aisle—was lumber beg your pantoa,’ "is this seat occupied!" antwered the wide lady, with @ am keeping it for a gentlemen,” janed the young man, sliding iow did you know what 1 smiled the young man; | i track was, Goon mom take 7 Ener Forgot. HE children bad beeu tominded that they must pot appear at school he following week without their application blanks ‘On Monday ream: What is the trouble?" seeking to comfort. her, that the “a Mims Green inquirel, ouse for being borp."The Delineato:, pelbvesathite vd ene Light Amid Darkness. OLLIE, # light mulatto bousemaid who has been in the employ of @ South Side family for a number of years, recently give up her position to get martied, A few days ago she retumed and asked to have her old place beck waa nurprised that she came ao soon after being married, and questioned her as to her reason for wanting to return, In reply the “My of mo be: light “It was Mildred Mowbray Pilkington who first conceived the idea of washing | dighes to an arrangement of Mendela- ‘Spring Song,’ and dusting to Nevin's Narcissus." Nothing Wagneria: too many dishes and vase: my girl, Gertrude, ts Inspired sniffed Mra. here we are at the Stickel- Pattern 7721—Semi-Princess Dress for Small Women, CAUGHT. “John! John! Wake up, there is a man in the house!” we A Righed Pa cee | mane; ene uncer TWhied avenue, Next | They now lave an agricul-| produce, And she may even get things mi Seeenrin | Cord teens) then First @venue; then} reel pont, too. Flower growern| at a lower cost to the resulting pleasure Seer 6550 and which | Dranue | ik pa i ed can send full lenath orchids aad long! and health of her family, It is a new WO conte (H) and 10) Neyo eveniually there'll Wee ang] “What's become of January's! sienmod rose by parcels noni Jinnovation in America, but certainly tat $4.99 for an outlay | neanle wanting to ride at the aume tine | zero spell?” In Germany the farners ship to the! has proved a most economical First Prove that the thar | think a lot will bave to hoof it Postponed on account of the cities thelm butter and emes, vexetailes| Ald to the Tousekeepera in othe: ite of the uigh JADIAN, | weather,” and flowers, to actual consuaiers, thus, countries “Nonsense, Susan! Nothing of the sort"-—— 4 "Humph! f guess you are right, 1 was refersing to you!” — Harper Weekly, | $ Mew $pUREAU, Donald Bullding, 10 West Thirty-second atres! te ate mane Bres.), corner @ixth avenue and Bienes Ovtam New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents i] stamps for each zattern ordered. > cn @ ‘These IMPORTANT—Write your addon plainly and al Patterns. $ nize wanted. Add two cents for nt, RASS speeity NTO thevblue waters of Lake Cl & band of French soldiers of fortune. tains. To his companions he cried in ad- “Monts verts,” region was called, of the nanie’s origin, but this is perhaps the most generally accepted. The French leader—first white man to view Vermont—was Samuel de Champlain. He was leading @ raid against hostile Indians and confined his Vermont hated the tdea of belonging to N and applied far admission to the Union in was rv had spruns seizing Britis) forts, attacking rs swooped down upon Fort Te couse Tm so @ spot 4 our family, ‘That,’ replied her mother, “is a staive of The tittle Why He almost swallowing his Adam's apple, “Whaxzec maze! “Tsay, are you rich? “What's that, sir? = Richt What do sou mean by waking me up in the middie of the “1 want to know: 1 hope your curiosity is satisfied and you will let me go to sleep.” “Very rich?” “Well, thers why in torment don The May . Manton Fash 6 and 18 Yeags. Cal et THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION (The New York Krening World), thamplain wn then as Iroquois Lake) on 4, 1609, swept @ canoe bearing ot the expedition’s leader burst of wondrously beautiful moun- monts verte!” (“See the green or “Vermont” the There are other versions, to admiring its mouutains and in- Vermont with it and the Green Then they were elaimed by New a legal squabble that resulted in became a York possession York asa ler the name Connecticut efused and Vermar United States, which denied State N Congress of Ww And issued a declaration of inde to national fame when of yuntain Boys" swept like a scourge nd harrying Br forces jeroga, demanding ant | t Cont vtal Congress:” off inueh of tie glory In the a Burgoyne’: plans of invasion the Vermonters did gallant work, tate #UN unrecognized. So they g” when } Const Ver tL hecame the fre made a splendid showing, Pe copa to tie ence ba th tits contttet were other State’ to pypulation 1 1" eens hi Tie 1 towly than thousands 1910 was under t colored, You know, my hus 4s very dark and all his folks ia dark, too was mad because be married me, Why, one sisters told ae, ‘You's so bright you make "Tacoma ‘Tribune, placa A creel , Not Very. SMALL girl of fire was walking recentiy with her mother through the Public Garden in Borton. The Washington Monument at- ted her attention, and she foquired what it ge Wasuingtou, dy regarded Mt critically for sone ents, and then she said: “Washington db ‘very good statue, did he, mother!" OMY tag ——_ Wanted to Know HE mau in the upper berth leancd over the edge and, jamming luis frowit firmly down on bis brow, called in a hoarse, coarse voice was audible above the rattle aud rumble of engine: Hi there, down there! Are you rich!”* 51" ejactilated the man in the lower berth, t (0 @sk me such a question ae thass’* that's why," ‘ail, then, confound you, I am rich, Now confound you! , shut up, you charter ole train » your suoring int ions ERE is @ charm. ing ttle frock that dnotudes many of the Season's smartest ¢ \ e oa tures and yot ig x. sim to : The sleeves are g with the bio Put’ there are shourd, UPon which nly £®o pieces, side is dr; and te tft side ta plain and és lapped Woon the right. at we lower edge the skirt can be er with elther curved tng straight edges. In the iMustration charmeuse ie trimmed with lac but all the soft, pret amaterials of the kind are appropriate, Crepe de chine, crepe meteor, messaline or the pretty mulls and tissues would be lovely made in this. vay, For the 16 year size the dress will require 5 yards of material 7, 94 yards 9% or 3 yards 4 inches wide, with 94 yards of lace 6% inches wide for the Bertha, Pattern No, 7721 {5 Andout in sizes for girls of 16 and 18 years, Mis: street, letter postage tf in a hurry.