The evening world. Newspaper, February 19, 1913, Page 18

ee see enone mesma EMR Sepa ge The Evening BSTABLABHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except upsay by ir., Becr Fubliening Compeny, Nos, 53 te ‘ork, — Ei 4 at the -Office at New York as 8 4. a iebecriplion, Rater too he Mvening| For inetans Gas the, Caninimt aad ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International - and Canada Postal Union, sees NO. 18,810 AND MARKET. UT of the keen discussions of the increased cost of living there O has come a careful study of the economic waste caused by our system or lack of system of distributing food products. Wherever the subject has been investigated that feature of the problem has been found to be one of the most important. Testi- mony given before the market commission in this city has shown how serious is the evil here. Evidence gathered by the Federal De- partment of Agriculture proves it to be equally notable throughout the country. Statistice collected by the Department furnish data from which careful calculations lead to the conclusion that the total crop of the country for 1912 had @ value on the farm of about $6,000,000,000, but when it reached the consumer it cost about $18,000,000,000. In other words, it cost more to transport the product from farm to city and to market it than it did to produce it. In these days of railways and steamboats and general cheapness of transportation such waste is folly. The great need is increased terminal facilities in the larger cities, and better means of local dis- tribution when the produce arrives. The Department of Agriculture estimates we could save about $2,000,000,000 a year, of which half would go to farmers and half to consumers. An economy of that kind would be a statesmanship to be proud of. ee ANOTHER RESTRICTION ON MARRIAGE. ITH the establishment of a pension system and fund for ita W employees, the Bankers’ Trust Company has assumed a guardianship over those that receive less than $100 a month by the declaration that any employee of that class who marries with@t permission of the company shall be liable to dismissal and forfeiture of all rights in the fund except that of receiving back his contributions. It was atated by an official of the company that the motive for insisting upon euch provision is in no wise due to fear of possible defalcation, but solely to guard young men against the im- pulses of youth and to eave them from themselves. The issue is the more interesting as it has become a part of the established order of big business in these days to enlist their om- ployees in pension fund plans. This custom will probably increase with the years, because it attaches the employee to the company and gives more solidarity to industry. If, therefore, there is to run along with it @ series of rules and regulations with respect to mar- vinge, we are likely to have strange complications to deal with in another generation. At present a candidate for marriage needs no license save that of the State But doctore wish to have a say in the matter, churches insist on being heard, eugenists demand super- n, and now the managers of industry come in. The young man of the future may have so many folks to supervise him he will have no initiative at all. He will marry when he is told, or let it go. pcos daadiomntdie aaa ieee GOOD AND BAD IN PATENT MEDICINES. E more warning ayainst the use of dangerous drugs om- O ployed in making some of the many patent medicines in the market has been issned from high medical authority. This time it comes from a professor of the Harvard Medical School, who charges that so much alcohol or opium is put into such medicines as to induce a craving for drugs that not infrequently wrecks the health of the patient and causes premature death. Statements of this kind are indisputably true, the facts alleged can be proven; but made in this sweeping way they are misleading, as are nearly all general propositions. There are many simple remedies discovered long ago and employed by grandmothers and great-grand- mothers, whose efficacy in minor diseases is as certain as that of any known to medical science. In former times these preparations were made at home, just as candies and hose were made by the women of the household. Now they are prepared and packed more cheaply and more conveniently in large establishments, They should not he condemned in the mass of fake remedies sold in the same way, Charges of condemnation should always be specific. There is no justice in including the innocent with the guilty. Letters From the People Here's a Nt w idea, People! Fo the Editor of The Brening World: not find employment, hour workday Im the and most the elgut- practical I beg to suggest the starting of @ remedy for this state of affairs. The ¢lub to be known as the Hundred Thou- new subways rhould be operated un- em, and when- 6 aystem should to enable all gand Dailar Club. To become eligible der the eight-hour one must pledge not to try ti At te practicadl late more than $100,000, and either to fect ao a cease effort toward further accumu- to be employed a lation after reaching that sum or to their own, = AT devote any excess accumulated over) A Ma that sum to charity or other unselfish | too Paitor of Tue E purposes, Each member should wear wii) your corre & neat little button inscribed “One (who protests ag Hundred Thousand” (no dollar sign or music and demands more of the sweet | dollar mark). And in order to tinake old pallads, &.), tell me where tn this the meaning double, the membership city it 1s possible to hear “a whole should be limited to 100,000 persons. opera company struggle with Debusay One hundred thousand dollara is and Strau ‘There are thousands who enough for a man to be worth, And if would delight In watching the struggle, Sullivan, @c., deserve al) the eafely Invested the interest will very Lalfe, \ nicely support an average familp even praino he gives them, and more, but et present high pr! of living, Let there are many hundreds of composers the man who has accumulated $100,000 whose names could be fittingly placed in business turn that business over to between the extremes he has mentioned. eome relative or friend, or 1f he must Maybe our children may get to know continue active business, let him de- their names If not thelr muste. If, how: | yote the income of the business to ever, David Lb. i really interested and charity or similar purposes, It is wants to hear the music of his favorite high time to try to make some effort composers, why not ask that it be toward @ movement to counteract the played? Also why not find out how “grab it all” spirit which is #o preva- cnany of his friends and acquaintances lent in this country, agree with him? Then, having formed MONROE SUNSHINE, the club, as it w let them consider “At What Timet” if they have not as much right to de- cs ts Bedior af es Becinn Wee: mand their favorite selections as they Headers, at what time between 2 and 3' have to order their favorite dish in a o'clock are the hands of a watch to. Testaurant, Those who pay the piper gether and at what time do they form a, *HOUld be able to call the tu ryht angi D, WALSH. 2 Wr For an Eight-Hour Day, To the Ealitor of The Br ‘To the Editor of The World: Is it correct to spell ‘This city ls full of men om the verge! right" in one word like “alright!” coose 09.75 ooo 86 Your ou HAD To coor TOHN'S DINNER.2 ‘. Pat “p marvies away!" orted Mra, Jare. And (how she did ft with only two pairs of hands Mr. Jarr could never have told you) that fond mother swooped down on Master Jarr, raised ‘Mim to his feet, gathered up all his Marbles, buttoned his jacket, smoothed hiMair, slapped him a few times where It would do the most good, shook him About a bit and ordered ht overcoat and hurry off to the same tin “But I want my marbles, maw. I ‘Was just counting them in the hall. I wasn't playing with them, maw, "Deed T wasn't!" “I won't have them under my feet to trip and fall over!” replied Mra, Jarr, “A dozen times you have promised me y with your marbles tn the And yet you have the plano base and the chatr legs all marked up ro you've been shooting the bles In the parlor, ve got the drain from the ice box stopped from one that ran under the refrigerator and got in the drain, You've broken a window throw- ing @ marble at the cat, and I'M have to sond for Mr, Slavinsky, and that will cost What did I say last time? Yes, 7% cents—tt will cost me 8 cents, Decause every time Mr, Slayinsky vs ho tells me prices rn comes to put in ¢ nave gone keep the mardlest Just for that, Ship Ahoy! en Bie. 4B, HB, Joreey ity, ? ll 5 - OU RANSHITTER AGAINST YouR. ATE, TURN ON THE RECORD FAVONITE MEAL wit ee 1918, Can You Beat It? @ «2222.2, @ By Maurice Ketten REI RE eare BYou. THe OF EATING MS THE Trou! oF ped “Oh, don’t sequester the boy's play things Just bocause the cost of livin has advanced," said Mr. Jarr, ‘Boys ‘oan't help playing marbles. “That's right. Take Willie's part ant get him against me every time I en- eeeeecoccocoeooseceeooeeceecoooeee coesooooooooosoeS Willie Jarr Enacts the Role Of Spring’s Bright Harbinger ¥OESI99SI9SSS 99S 9999098999595 955999959959099988999, “I'll be good, I won't take the sarbles out of my pooket, honest 1 von't, maw!" gniffed the boy. “Gimme ny marbles, please, maw. I wanna go to @chool.” “Do you mean to te me you want deavor to correct him!" cried Mrs, Jarr to play marbles on the cold ground in Domestic —— By Aima Woodward — Dialogues | Copyright, 1018, by Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 6.15 P, M.—-At Home. B, (struggling with @ sanguine ‘iM ry biade)—See? There I've gone and cut myself and it'll get ail over my collar and shirt front and I'll 8 sweet sight for the show, won't I? . B. (calmly)—Well, why do you hurry #0? Mr. B. (brandishing the weapon)— Hurryt What else can I do when we're to meet them at haif past 6 and It's quarter past now and I haven't even fot my studs and buttons tn my shirt? Mra, B, (refusing to become explosive) —You should have left downtown ear- Her, James, You knew about this a week ago, Mr. B. (growing reckless with talcum) j—Just what I expected! JUST WHAT \r EXPECTED! Does It ever atrike you, |madam, that my business is slightly [more important than all this frivolous |amusoment? Do you ever realize that the rent, the gas and the food are paid for by the results of my working; not |by my going out to dinners and thea- jtres? Do you ever— Mrs. B. (#lightly tmpattent)—On, for Roodness’ sake, tell it to me in the sub- Way—tt's growing later every minute, Mr. B, (making the final declaration) —Well, I can't get out of it to-night. But just let me tell you this—to-night ends ft, To-night ts the omega. It's the last time I'm goin like a fool and carve self! THE LAST TIME! |6.40 P. M.—On the Subway. R. B, (uncomfortadly)—Gee! This M coat draws something ferce um der the arms! ' Mra, B. (suggesting helpfully) —Relux. You know, just alt imp, Of course when you strain the muscles of your ack it feels tight. Mr, B. (whimpering)—The pants are awful tight too, Mrs, B. (indifferently)—Are they? Qtr. (plaintively)—S Augusta, Gon't you think I could have a gusset put in them? hear about a gusset? Mr. B. (timtdly)—My mother used to | way {t. Don't f mean make ‘o. ? Mrs. B. (coldly)-Men don't 1 sets in thelr trousers, They buy trousers. 1 as, 3, Growing indigneny—Fea, nd this bitter February weather?” orled Mrs. Jerr. “The idea! This i# the wrong time of year to play maqbies. Tn put them away for you until June or July, when the ground is warm!" “Ahuck! Huck! Huck!" watled Master Jarr, dry-sodbing in his great grief. ‘Marble time is now, maw. ‘@ won't Playin’ marbles tn summe! nd why won't you be playing marbles in summer? Summer !s tho Dest time, So you'll either play in sum- mer or you won't at all! I'm go tng to lock these marbles up, That | with keep you from ecratohing up the maybe I'd be able to buy new trousers floors and breaking everything in the too If there wasn’t 60 much of this din- | house with them. And it will also keep Mra, B. (in Gisgust)—Where 44 you hn ner and theatre and supper business! Mre. B. (in despair)—Oh, dear! I've set you off again! Mr. B, (trailing 1t)—Saying “Oh, dear!” ain't going to do any good, Here to- dhote where I'll get Indigestion again and have to take those charcoal tablets. And then we'll elt through one of those problem plays, with a cheerful suicide at the end, that costs us $2 a head. And to finish off we our weary bones to & smoky cabaret and have a lot of per- fume-douved soubrettes stand on top of our necks and begrudge us every piece of Jobster we put in our mouths, We get home fagged to a frazzle and about ten almoleons Mghter. Now you can't Put up a single argument in denial that'll | hold water, Can you? Mrs, B, (wearily)-Oh, no, of Course not. Anyway, here's our station, M.—On the Subway. R, B. (etretching comfortabty)— Well, there's nothing like get- ting out once in @ while for Uttle recreation among the lighter | things of life, Mra, B.—Huh! Mr. B.—It goes a man good, It's the demnition grind, the unalleviated plod- |ding that puts men in their graves be- fore thetr time. Mra. B. (mildly)—The @inner was very oor, wasn't it? Mr. B, (strentously)—Now, how can you say thet, Augusta? That was what 1 calla bully dinner, And only a dollar! It'd be cheap at a dollar and a half. Mre. B. (yawning)—I'm getting sick of provlomn plays, aren't you? j Mr B. I suppose you'd ‘rather sit through some worthless mu- Problem plays give you something to think about—tleli—er-er— ‘humanity! Mrs. B, (leading him on)—And weren't those creatures of the cabaret dis- tressing? Mr. B, (reminiscently)—Not et alt. Come to think of tt, that Ifttie trick Ip most | y ‘. She pinched | | your cheek, dtdn't she? | Mr, B, (delightedty)=Yes, she did— © little devil! Wo muat ake a night of {t goon aun. Jt's re- [gag you know, Blamed reficwhing! ajo B (riumphantiyy—aa) ds (Chuckles night we're going to a rotten table) you from kneeling on the cold pave- ments in this bitter weather, Why, you came home last night with your knees out of your stockings, and your hands were all grimed and raw and bleeding from the cold. No, walt till sensible weather before you play marbles!" The boy burst into @ bitter wail of grief, and Mr. Jarr came to the rescue | “Mother,” he paid softly, “you may |as well try to set back the course of [the tdes, the rising of the sun or the stirring of the sap, the running of water or the growing of the grass—all In their due and appointed times—as to endeavor to make marble time come be- fore or after February; kite time be- ‘fore or after late March or early April; ‘Caddy’ in April and May, and, each in thelr appointed season, playing ball or going barefoot. “It le the law and observance of boy- hood since before time was measured, that the antediluvian kid crept trom the stone age caves, as the sun grew stronger and stayed longer in mid-Feb- ruary, and rolied round pebbles and Knuckle bones upon the ground with ls shrieking, savage primordial play- mates"— “I don't know what you're talking about," sald Mrs, Jarr, “but do you mean to tell me that boys MUST play marbles in February?" “They must,” replied Mr. Jerr. “No one kuows Why. No whisper is heard of it, But in mid-February marbles ap- Pear and boys play with them, rain, hail, snow, thaw or rm spell matters not. It is the LAW “What law?" asked Mrs, Jarr, “The primordial law,” eald Mr, Jarr, “Oh, bother you and your nonsense!” replied Mra, Jarr. “You mean {t's the fashion with boy Here, Willig, take your marbles!" Sana Odd Facts (From The World Atmasss,) Spanish fleet at Dewey destroyed t Manila on May 18 eclipses t ear, two of the noon. ° three of the aun PR urface oontains about x equare miles, or nearly cour times the are ef Bora snot World Daily Magazine, Wednesday. February 19, 19198 66 | pile of grain sacks among horses and freight; because she could not afford « {its height. | Speal Build America By Albert Payson Terhune Uepyragat, 1015, 07 Tee Yrem Vubiuning Uo, (fae Sow Lee Muming World), No. 11. LUCY STONE; Champion of Women’s Betterment. AM asked,” announced the pastor of a Malden, Masa, chereh, to give notice that a hen will attempt to erew like a resster in the town hall at five o'clock this afterncon, These whe like such music will of course attend.” The “hen,” thus chivalrously described, wae Lacy Stone; @ women who achieved tremendous benefits for other women and. indirectly, for aft America as well. She was born in 1818, the daughter of a hard-headed old Massachusetts farmer; and was brought up in a time and a section that looked on women as men’s utter inferiors. From babyhood Lacy fought against thie idea. A® @ child, she happened upon the Bible text “Thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule over thee.” Fancying that woman's subjection to man was thus endowed by Holy Writ, she wanted to leave so unjust a world; and exclaimed to her mother: 'Is there no way to make an end of me?” Then she decided the Bible must Le wrongly trani nd that she would learn Hebrew and Greek in orde: to read the Book in the original and if whe could not find more hope for women therein. This she did; with the Fesult that she declared the Bibie properly transiated favors equa! suffrage Such talk ae this did not win special favor with any one. But, apart from her rabid suffragist views, Lucy had a rare charm that softened public opinion toward her, She was little, slender, very pretty, and with @ voice whose rare Sweetness won al! hearts, She wanted to go to college. Her father Inughed at go crazy an ides. Bo aia it of Harvard to whom she applied. He said te presence of women te at Harvard would be a disgrace. Whercat she vowed that she would rest unt!l she had opened the doors of colleges to women. So well did she keep this resolution that ghe Hved to see 40,000 women in American colleges. At that time only one college admitted women students. This was Obertin, in Ohio, and thither Lucy resolved to go. She peddled berries and chestnuts tn order to buy books and taught schoo! to raise funds for her education. Whén she began to teach she received a salary of one dollar a week. Later she was raised to & month; whereas men teachers were paid $30 or more, And these facts led her to begin a life-long battie for better wages for women. At length, when she was twenty-five, Lucy had saved enough money to ge to Oberlin, She went by boat from Buffalo to Cleveland, sleeping on deck upon stateroom, At Oberlin she worked her way through college by tutoring, by doing housework at three cents an hour, and by other odd jobs. Her food cost her less than fifty cents a week and she had but one new dress during her whole four year college cours Back to New England she came, just as the a avery agitation was at Her speeches in favor of abolition scored a mighty success. But she could not keep “Woman Suffrage” out of these addresses; and sho !ronically claimed “equal rights for negroes and women.” Then sho toured the country, preaching the equal suffrage doctrine. And a merry reception she mot. ‘At one hall, in Connecticut, on # bitter winter day, the Window behind the platform was broken in as sho was speaking and @ hose was turned upon hi from the street outside, drenching her to the akin. She wrapped a shaw! around her and went on with her speech. Again an open alr suffrage meeting on Capo Cod was broken up by a mob, But the mob leader personally protected Mins Stone from his followers, who gleefully proceeded to “roughhouse” all the other ‘kers, In 185 she married Henry B, Blackwell, a Cincinnati hardware man, who consented to let her keep her maiden name, her property, and her independence of will. They had to send thirty miles for a minister (it was Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the historian) who would consent to perform a marriage ceremony with the word “obey” cut out of it. Thon the bride turned her attention to the tax laws She declared women were not represented in Congress, &c.; that “taxation without representation” was iniquitous, and that she, therefore, would pay no taxes. The assess: this argument by selling her goods in default of tax payment. «nd her ¢ proudly hatled her as a martyr. Lucy Stone died at Dorchester, Mass. tn 18%. The presg of the whole country united In extolling hor genius and her grand efforts for the betterment of condition. Even those who had laughed most heartily at her politi Lellefs were unanimous tn praise of her work toward higher pay and higher education for women. “1 think you are making @ grave mistake,” the Mrs. Langtry’s Story. , author aif, “This book of mine te eensstiona!, ISCUSSING Gress designing, Mre. Langtry recently remarked that {t wae mot esay, though M fe true thet come smondente Gresmaiers regerd {1 as the colovel reganie batr eutting, “A regiment was @ barber short, ‘The celonst caked if there was a gardener among bis troops, It appeared that there was, and « ganiecer Gxty Prevented himeelf at headquarter, "1 appoint you,’ the colomel eaid, ‘as regi. mental barber,” ‘1But, colonel’ —tho man orotate. ‘ ‘phe colonel, however, interrupted him flercely, iS “**Nonaenee—-ao buts! be roamed, ‘It you can | UMS Agena! 7 bead nee out gram, you can cut hair,’ "—Londen Opinion, | “yea” tue appeared sery oor.” aaa seal “ah, indeed, Aad weet Cid the copes pc Going Too Far. cha sald sha wna 0 fal uct to ecatnd ITCHELL KENNERLEY, the publister,| “Good, And what elee G14 che aay?’ bad just rejected @ novel, "Bho aid she didn't believe she could match ‘The mortified author called to ese Mz. plate again if che hunted the tows through,” Kennertey at his office about it, —Phote Bits, USSIAN blouses are exceodi feebionadle this spring and they are al ways pretty. Here ts a very attractive model that is very eim easy <0 make. The big coMar is @ pretty feature, but pe ge, ty. Th Q Aerahoesi nat etek 3 preferred, better itreey ade “eae? RS f and ire many materiale tt can be sraee, ir the bands shown {i pang in the i Pattern’ Ne. Pattern No. 7766-—Russtan Blouse Waist, $4 to 40 Bust, 3, “Wy ©, Measure, Cal at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Butlding, 109 West Thirty-second street (oppo. site Giinbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second str New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents in coin er mps tor each n ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your address plainiy and always apectty Gize wanted. AGG two conte Cor letter postage if in @ hurvy, —e {