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— — 2 EE ee SE ee The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, February 12, Such Is Life! ).xeeen ie By Maurice Ketten ‘Women ESTABIASHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Wenger by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 43 Park Row. York. JOHN, You'tt LOSE RALPH TZDR, President, 68 Pow. YOUR PasiTion iF % +r Don't sont PERERA PEE how, || | Sere meee Heey wonky | wee kee TRIS LC RG RT po a eet We OSM. HE'S PLUMB Map World for ¥ United suaieasd 3 ‘a Courtriee tn — | Am Gone b axe Cee You DIDN'T Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wort) One Year. Wiesvarutvse + $3.60] One Tear. oi “THE MORNING OFF stad PORNING | No. 8.—NANCY HANKS, the Mother of Lircoin. One Month 80| One Mont! — IN old herb hunter, Christopher Graham, found himself in a back+ woods Kentucky region on June 12, 1806. Hearing that a fron‘ie wedding was to occur that day in the neighborhood he decided to attend it, confessedly “in hope of getting one good supper.” He got it. Here is his written description of the marriage feast: “We had bear meat, venison, wild turkeys and ducks, eggs wild and tame—eggs were so common you could buy them at 25 cents a bushel— maple sugar, coffee and whiskey, syrups in big gourds, peach and honey, a sheep varbecued whole over coals of wood, and a race for a whiskey bottle.” At the head of the long, treatled table at this most amazing banquet sat the bride and bridegroom, The bridegroom, Thomas Lincoin, waa a stupld, powerfully built, lazy ne'er<io-well, who preferred to loaf in the forests and |pick up a livelihood asa hunter and a doer of odd Jobs rather than to work at his trade of carpenter. He was totally illiterate, the son of an emigrant from Virginia who had been murdered by Indians. The bride was the sort of woman to challenge attention anywhere. In thi rough company and at the side of her lubberly husband she was as out of place asa lily in @ barnyard. She was tall, thin, graceful, wiih an indefinable air of breeding and of refinement that was perhaps the stray heritage of some patrician ancestor. Her halr was dark, her gray eyes large and melencholy. About her mouth lurked an expression of fun which told of a keen sense 0° humor, VOLUME 53. seeee eNO, 18,803 | MATTERS FOR REFERENDUMS. | HILY, the defeat of insurgent aspirations lust fall checked! many & promising sprout of legislation, there is a good deal | of exuberance left in that form of energy. The year is young, but already much has been started in the way of uplift by| statute. It is proposed in Massachusetts to have a legislative com- mittee appointed to see if all newspapers always tell the truth. In Arkansas there is a plan to compel news agencies to furnish news to all comers. A South Carolina stateeman wishes a restriction limiting private fortunes to @ sum not exceeding $10,000,000, including the ownership of not more than 1,000 acres of land. One at Albany asks the creation of an office of “Commissioner of Social Welfare,” with a secretary, whose business is to be that of getting people together and making them sociable. In Missouri # bill is pending that forbids women to wear dresses that button in the back unless cach button shall be of the size of « silver dollar. There is excellent material in each of these projected reforms for referendums to debating societies. Has Massachusetts any sot) of legislators that can be relied upon to know whether a newspaper tells the truth or not? If @ man had $10,000,000 could he keep house on 1,000 acres of land in South Carolina? If a Missouri women did not wear gowns that button in the back would she have any use for a Missouri husband? If New York had a Commissioner of Social Welfare would he have an entree to society? If these and all similar bills were onacted, what would be the rate of travel to Alaska? WAS NOT MY FautT Bo MY WIFE HAS JOINED THe HIKERS, To WASHINGTON AND I HAD To TAKE CARE OF THE KIDS € SAME EXPERIENCE MYSELF In fact, all her life she seems to have been divided between a brooding dejection over her wretchediy hart | lot and @ keen appreciation of its many humorous aspects. These traits she was one day to transmit to her son, wh» | was also to inherit his lazy father’s uncouth ways and love of story telling. The wilderness bride was Nancy Hanks. She, like her husband, came of a | virginia family that had moved to Kentucky, The Hankses have been described as “illiterate and superstitious, that nomadic class known as ‘poor whites.’ Nancy, in spite of (his, had managed to pick up some slight education, and she | greedily read and studied ail of the few books that oame her way. She was about twenty-three when she married the shiftless Lincoln, who had learned carpentering in her uncle's shop. ‘ And at once the young couple settled down to @ life to which the wife was utterly unfitted. From place to place in the Kentucky wilderness they wandered, not stopping long anywhere, until at last they drifted to Southern Indiana, ‘There Nancy helped her husband clear and cultivate a patch of land in the heart of the forest and to build a log shack. She herself worked wit axe and a We hoe, and, rifle in hand, roamed the woods for bear and deer, whose skins #he +4 SAY, JOHN Don'T Worry! WIFEY, | HAVE To Go To THE OFFICE \( AS MY FRIEND LINCOLN SAID. fashioned into clo a bedding. She helped, too, ie tb) ghey RWIFE Witt LET ICAN Foot THIS EVENING, THE BOSS WANTS HE )/ XOUCAN FOOL Sone Peapte} [turnitare ror the howe: the Mock of axtchewn tree trunk that served for tae AN OVER-AMBITIOUS COMMITTEE. OUT THis fa THE OLD LADY - To MAKE UP CANT FOL ALL ae Peorre Heapeybaddtitt a ad stools, the slab beds whose pronged legs were driven VENING ? | HAVE 0 TicikETS For For a bovine giantess of a woman this sort of existence might have been pleasant enough. For the fragile, sad eyed Virginia girl it was slow torturs There was nothing (o appeal to the finer side of he: ture—no outlook save dally drydgery of boty and starvation of mind and soul, Of the couple's three children one son, Thomas, died in babyhood. The two others, Sarah and Abraham, learned thelr earilest lessons from their mother. She taught Abraham to read, to love education, to look beyond narrow confines of their animai-llke wildérness routine. She tried pnthetioaily hard to educate licr husband too, But all she was able to teach him was the feat o! scrawling his own name. tigation appointed or self-constituted after the fire in the Triangle Shirt Waist factory, there was one known as the Factory Investigating Committee. It was appointed and instructed to study factory conditions with respect to hazards from fire or from panic, and to report means and methods of providing a fuller security for the workers. It had, therefore, one specific, all-impor- tant thing to do. It is now announced that this committee, instead of tticking to the work intrusted to it, has chosen to wander far and wide over the whole field of labor, and will report at thip session of the Legislature nosless than thirty-two bills. Some of them lave been already introduced. Others will soon follow. It will be readily recalled that a few days ago, upon complaint A MONG the many and various committees of inquiry and invos- In 1818, When she was barely thirty-five, Nancy was cked by quick consumption, No doctor was neny: could one be found tn all that wild region, And she died, tended only by ignorant neighbors, Her husband and son made a green lumber cof and buried her in the forest that had so long shut in and choked her every higher aspiration. Months afterward Abraham, who was but nine years old, persuaded a travelling preacher to halt in @ cross country journey and pray over her unmarked Toil wearted, heartbroken, crushed In spirit by @ harsh env: att: ment with as nee which she was too fragile and too sensitive to cope, Nancy ve she _ ps, . . —— reached early middie age. But not before she had gulded the stops of some of the striking employees, there was inspection of several 4 AMAL | | and formed the earliest Ideals of the martyr-hero, who later said of her: ag factories where women’s garments are made, and it was found that doors leading to staircases and exits were either looked or bolted. This is exactly the condition of things that made the horror of the Triangle fire. Although that fire took place nearly two years ago, no remedy, no cure, no improvement, no change has been effected in the factory management. This is the result of time spent in framing thirty-two bills to “1 owefall that I am or hope to be to my engel mother.” ebnansessoaoooson secoecesocoeeeses eel seeseeee ete! Mr. Jarr Wants That Raise. He May ~ Get It—If He Lives Long Enough remem wren dosevesesessesrevesssosorveveoseoseseeceeceseveeeees| A watt te une tl 1 {22 office at about fifteen minutes before 11 and, fn the course of the conversation, asked him how of | be f “Bully right vow," replied Brownlow, “but in A " he asked at last. fn tr Cage A rag eg reshape the whole domain of labor. Told to clean house, the com- to this finn is not 4s perfervid as {t efficient. I want more money and less oly fonloe aay ca el Peal rhe ilar mittee have taken to the woods to clean a forest. Ts it any wonder make it a personal matter !might be. Ab, Mr. Jarr, that fe @ grave|card index system!” grumbled Mr. Jarr.| “AT bel La lidiad Magaztoe, the i . sald Mr, Jarr, “So far as 1 am jmistake and counts against you, How| "Look out er" “Certataly,” Senet am house remains es it was? concerned it 1s very personal with me.” |can you ever expect to be of value to] Mr, Jarr pointed to the great count-| “Well, have we ever bad auy istore!”" The Sport Dangerous. Sites OL Soe ‘Mr. Jarr," remarked the boss, grave-|the firm and to yourself If you are not|ing room as he spoke, where office boys!” ise SCMLHGRA. LA le ty, “for some time I have noticed with |loyal and eager and eMclent!”* {82d stenographers were going from| [Did teat it oe TLSANORA. SHAS, the) belghfal deep concern pains 'E Goat , or! 4 . ~ | “Of course you did,” ontan, THE CRY FOR SPRING CLEANING. ih tae your sone of loyalty ey want to Ua or eager Seay se Ate ORBE, PEDETS and vouch a el, mas do on thin of at ved atter| Pe prety Fa taal bouse where « “It is a ‘bury scene! exctatmed the| * “Mt i Bs Mise Sears, one cold and brilliant aftern: LANS prepared by the Health Department for a campaign of | cased, 1013, uy Tus Preas Hubtiming Co. APRA RAR OAL ORR ARORA VOM, proudly, “You should be prowd K his Fate. ed on the terrace of the mansion in a mew ion in beh * ‘i (Phe New York Eveuing World), 2 jor being a unit tn auch @ system, And} new . ‘aviation costume, education in behalf of spring cleaning throughout the city wil! Be een eG If Ab raham Linc (s) l n ‘this reminds me, while you are here. | $ BHOWNLOW, who is aoted as a| “How do you ithe my new vist” she asked, os \ ddiing your thne, Mr, carr, the whole L writer and tr vroached a jarty of young men and women who were taking tea in the open air behind « er Li vi mn -D system is Hable to come to @ halt. | he lb. '8 brpeenronest axe wind W e 1 ing (0) ay Papers must be accumulating on your | errr sorte se at eden ale Bales bor e ger : 7. a es desk, sit, In a few minutes the whole! ™ may feel in a eased By Sophie Irene Loeb. of this office will come to a} oor eee | ee of | fe there with that Heautiful! You are always dressed to hi!l, jorning @ friend of Te day, though, rou are dressed to be willed." — one in his Wahing. Minrenpolls Journal, . s " ., v be cordially indorsed. We may have much winter yet in the “A of tnerea way of storms and cold weather, but it cannot last long. Spring will] , Sarr be with us almost before busy people know it. ‘Therofore it is by ety 1 Paine aan Ro means too early to ect about preparations for cieaning etroeta, va- [jn Said Me dar cant lots, yards, cellars, roofs and closets before the warm days bring | for mistakes, loss and breakage, being When you de ry rf ry + : late, bel tek r for y oth ° back dust and dirt and flies and mosquitoes, with thoir thousand dis- ee Tt acca trae tcc Gotten ered, with @ look Taat won't stop the factory, how said Mr. Jarr. ‘“Vortunately o1: 1° Lincoln were alive to-day what fort to PERPETUATE the Lincoln) order department, and our product comforts and their menace of disease. ey Mibateention and aomoicn arelh Wone ge dot spirit, There t# a reason for this, departmen dour shipping depart If he had power to act In the subd-| [t constitutes a universal appeal. nt have not yet been e#ystematized A > ¢ a Measured by the value of ite advantages, New York should be tare thAE ake fone funder W ' way contract prop-| the Human, For the dominating qual-| We sell gooda and keep our factory fhe cleanest large city in the world. It is built upon higher ground} “Ah, you see, Mr. Jarr, we have a| osition how would] ity of 1 In waa hit great love of| working. But here in this offtce we ru: - ! he adjust it? humanity, And thie must mak su card ind crons- great system, a great ayetem, here!” : ape ust Make all the} an endless belt of card indexes, and has coneequently better drainage than any other. It has ay said the boss, rubbing his hands. “Wei {f If ie could settle | world akin, His mission and existence] r.rerences, meinoranda, and references ampler supply of water. It has a good climate, with much sunshin: | had an efficiency engineer devise our the strikes that are | scemed to be distinctly human, and that ou reallze that we are so buay— by i agitating the coun- | is why thetr strength GROWS with thio a - and few fogs. Most of its buildings are comparatively now, Its | ‘stem of fines and demotion. | tn Ave, with th ‘papers, making our reports, for Copyright, 1913, by The Pres Mablishing Co, (The New York Evening World), E-PIECE or sem! - princess dresses, both for young aii women, continue to . A minutes after a certain card index ia try today how | years, w lorsed, referring hold their own. The thoroughfares are wide and in the main are straight and easily swopt, | called for the man whose name ts on} would he gettlg| Many aplondid deeds are remembered can't indorse model shown here in “Tit can ‘be discharged, demoted or be them? and honored for various reasons, But Pea It could, therefore, be made clean and kept 80 much more readil; ] anea or reprimanded or have his # and at a cheaper cost than any other city approaching it in size and | ary decreased, It matters not wh population. he be in thts offce or in Oklahom: Yet on the approach of spring we need a campatgn of education undertaken by the Health Department to get ourselves interested in the work, although in our homes and in our persons we are among | utes and the matter would the cleanest people in the world. "Ab, Ynen (he. seasisiey. ceedingly smart one and also exceed- ingly simple, It con- sists of @ three-piece skirt with panel at tho front and @ simple dlouse with @ vest that meets the panel of the skirt and gives a eon- tinuous — effect, Tho sleeves, may ‘he ex- tended to the wrist or cut off at the cinows, The little tabs that ox. % tend across the vest and panel of the skirt are smart and tinetive, but if for av pe they If he could fight} @ “human” element in the fe of a for cheaper fares| leader of men carries its mission end- for the messes to} lessly. It has been wisely sald, “Ob- go to Coney Isiand | Ject# of patriotic regard and their in-+ or euable those of | #P/Ting association ke more for love 2 Moderate means to | Of country history of the ride tn taxteabs AC tty which they werr “how would he manage 1:? a trey “Ah, that fs where the efficacy of the How would he make trusty policemen? | Thus while the actual acts of Lin- | not be efficient : hown,”’ said the boss proud- coln, the various duties he performed, | *¥stem 1 | How would he make the moving ple: | 5 : ly. “Ruppose, for Instance, we reached | ver, you must remember there {s noth- ‘ . may have been of paramount issue and |'** - fer ER Lab in this matter, It fs Tite eeaarer tia etant | better for the) conspicuous at the time, the great | Conclusions on any matter we are now | you _ =| wi power of endurance ts not eo muah in|Considering, That would be getting | MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS. |qveotto Pr eiscst made against the resolution offered in the Board of “sald the boas. That Is co-operative and co-ordination | « snd systematic efficiency.” It's bunkum,” sald Mr. Darr. ‘Noth- ng is ever done; Don't you see that? Nothing {9 ever done!” j@ would he take on all these | the act as the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY | through wit! it, wouldn't 1t?7 | tainly,” said Mr, Jarr. which prompted the act. Ir : i From all that we have ever known,| The great winner in the scheme of; “Very well, then. We get through with | from every scrap of his written word, | things is he who never loses sight of| tie work. Then there is nothing for your | his actions, his life, from those very | this living element in his EVERYDAY | department to do. There is nothing for close to him and those who knew him | action. Mr. Jenkfns's departmen: to do. There bert, the one element that hus created For riches may come and go, an|is nothing for Mr. Johnson's department | the Lincoln spirit through ALL time | Men may come and go, but HUMAN. |to do, These departments doing noth- | {has been the great, throbbing HUMAN | ‘TY on fore As George ¥.|ing, there is nothing for my departmen: | attitude that he took in all things. 'MeCloskey has writt to do, Chaos would follow. Mr dar | Bo that t¢ he were alive to-day, judg. | “Wherever youth r. set the name “Aston would follow, I think,” was Education, “that the teaching of music during the first six years be confined to singing work exclusively,” should be cor- dially supported. The task of learning to read music from notes is ~ not difficult for a child of ordinary intelligence, and the benefits of the knowledge are great. It may be questioned whether any study, i i ‘ an Sala Inde | 9 . ke ® hammer overhead 5 except those of reading, writing and arithmotic, is more uscful to 128 Shee MLSS Banh balaTss 1G, ele | a laa a ee eG Le te working for this company : :. St z . jing any question tn he balance the, ” " society or to the individual than that which opens to the mind the human side would be HIS chosen poste | | ees seen growing Teale? (ae om Pig Aas Pog Moreover, to most children it is a joyous study; one that inter \tery einoe the proclamat ent torch | Ther orem thelr hearts, ther Hf and |of any great Honeee ie ae She iH } etuRy Y 0 |te ! forth| "proud. to claim things, and the first thing we Know it | collar, vest and ests and recreates, rather than dulle and fatigues, It brings relief Shat all must Re free, ‘tm auch @ memory thetr part unsald-—{ will do things WRONG, Ten follow panel, The width wr ftom the strain of other studies in their nature too abstract for the Men have died in battle for a great ¢ tiving inspiration to the dend! bad business and bankruptcy, | the skirt at the tower " . a 7 Pca . jeause, Martyrs have given their Ives) pe. nhood, our beet knowledge, No, Ms. Jart, so long as the factory | edge is two yards, child mind to delight in. In truth, music is the sport of childhood, jin the Interest of a tremendous crus ile Mee Nin eke . is turning out goods automatically, al- Rettern No. T561 in the inspiration of youth, the delight of manhood, the consolation of | Brave mon hays Sought for rule and go may they breathe his spirit! Quick-| most, and the F inating department sends | ae ies {or calesen rae : |movernment in the hope of better things. preatht the goods out, and the public buys, and ‘ oi i . and oi ms . . | * ening brea Patterr No, 7761—Semi-Pr incess Dress for Missesis adapted old age. It helps the discipline of the school, the happiness of the Yet no name in the history of men| a nation trusted him the long years|the executive departments Keep bus dod peal Gama. 46 bad to Coane, Maret te tall th vouchers and slips and memos., the # Will make money and keep us Cail at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BURBAU, Donaid Buliding, 09 Wemt Thirty-second street (oppo. money. Losing | G@izth evenue home, the pleasure of society and the meditations of solitude, He that hath it as a gift never lacks for welcome nor wants for com- panionship. He that acquires it by etudy has enriched his mind and |e as UNIVERSALLY revered through {man Lincoln. Recently Congre: As its own genius and took heart appropriated $1,775,000 in the construc again. tion of a memortal to itm in P c 4 ™ v0 iy with aw. “Why did he leave the organiza-|),,, Washington. in Potomac; The doubting world was stil! w! awe “But you are LOSING assured himse! i of death tt by all this red tape and inaction himself a resource sgainst many troubles, Th schools| tion? Has he lost hie interest In) Aiso it iw wisely advocated that a!{ And kuew him for himaeit-eubtimety |ctled Mr. should teach it as they feach reading, for is it not itself a reading of | Politics” least one school butlding in every town true, The boi “No, But politics has lost ite imjand city bear the name “Lincotn.’| American, ‘he whole world’s man : terest In him.” Gomehow no one ever disputes any of-| | men.” - md \