The evening world. Newspaper, February 24, 1913, Page 14

The Evening World Daily Magazine She Meer atiorid. FSTABLIGHDD BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Published Dally Except 8: peey by the Press Li "k Row, New RALPH PULITZMR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Ri sosBPH PULTE: Sree wertiats, a Bate how, Post-Office a to The Evei New ¥. Second-Claen Mat For (Martant he Contin ing and the Publishing Company, Nos, 88 te In- | The Day VOLUME 58... . cc cccceceecceeseecceeseeeceees NO, 18,815 FINDING DEFECTS IN PARCEL POST. x HILE the Post-Office authorities have good cause for gratifi- \ 7 cation in the euccess achieved by the Parcel Post, the public is not without some grounds for complaint. As the service Goes on, it is found the zone system of rates is subject to defects, sone of which can be remedied without altering the system iteelf. stances are cited where the postal rate for a seven-pound shipment is fixed at 30 cents, the point of destination being in the second zone, whereas express charges for the same shipment would be but 18. Similar discrepancies occur throughout the whole system. Eventually it will probably be advisable to get rid of the zones and the system of special stamps. There is, of couree, justification for demanding more for a shipment to Onlifornia than for one to New Jersey, but in ordinary mails it has been convenient to waive the discrimination. The trouble is greater than the profit pays for. Experience has proven it to be better to make one charge for all distances, just as street railways make one price fare for a block or for the length of the route. oe THE CAB ORDINANCE COMMISSION. AYOR GAYNOR’S appointment of a special committee to M draft a cab ordinance for the city finds justification in the pressing need of the work. We have now a general cab ordinance and a special cab ordinance, and, as the Mayor puts it, “This condition has not brought about good service. The rates of the specially favored cabs are high and the other cabmen are driven to extortion of illegal rates i:. order to live.” The subject has been under discussion for a year. A committce of the Board of Aldermen has given ample hearings to all sides and to all phases of the issue. It has brought in a report including a draft of an ordinance that has received a wide measure of approvel. The one thing to be done is to get the new law enacted and put into force. The Mayor’s committee can materially assist in that direction. In that service lies ite usefuleness. As the members are to act “voluntarily,” the force of their energy will show the standard of their good will. Therefore promptness may be expected of them. THE MASTER BUILDER AND HIS TRADE. HE bill introduced into the Legislature requiring master build- T ers to pass an examination before being authorized to prac- tise their trade or business has many good arguments in it: favor, and is reputed to be backed by organizations of established character. Nevertheless, it is one of the innovations whose every feature should be counted, measured and weighed with due con- aideration and even reconsidcration. We haye done very well in this country by leaving men free to exercise and develop their energies and talents untrammelled by gov- ernmental supervision and boards of examiners. Where examinere have been established and certificates of competency demanded of would-be practitioners standards are not much higher than in trades where no such restrictions are placed on industry and ambition. That a builder should know his trade is quite true. But can a board devise better tests of competency than those already requircd—- euceess and popular confidence? Under the present open competition, a builder that is incompetent soon gets out of the business or out of the city. Why give him a certificate to stay? ees THE WORKING GIRL AND HER PRETTY CLOTHES. MONG the human interest stories that have come out of the A strikes of the garmeni-makers there is none with a brighter . red glow in it than that told by one of the girls at the mass meeting at the Berkeley Theatre, how she and her poorly paid com- panions manage to dress neatly and look well on their scant wages. It is o atory of mutual help and of economy practised not only as a virtue but as an art and a sympathy. “The girls in the shirt waist factories,” said she, “help the girls that are doing other things to make their shirt waists and the skirt makers help the shirt waist girls to make their skirts.” The story ran on of long searching among push-cart dealers for bargains in cloths; of shirt waists made at a cost of 15 cents and skirts for @1; of a girl that makes coats and jackets for herself out of the cast-off garments of father and brother: of another girl that makes over her own clothes for her little sister, and dyes them to give a glow of freshness to the cloth. This is the plain story of the neat clothes of girls that work for wages of about $5. week. Worldly-wise folks have not infrequently mistaken the pretty waists and feat skirts as evidences of immorality We now see how abashed euch wisdom looks when confronted by a simple tale of truth. Letters From the People Fewer Ft tried to put the pole on the wire, but To the Editor of The Evening Word his eyesight must have been bad and I have been living in @ certain uptown he could not do ft. In the mean time istrict for the past four years and have | the headlight of a train was seen up often heard the fire engines going past | t track and the people in the Bince the alleged 1 men then got off the car and tried een found out there has seemed to be to put back the pole. Fortunately & very marked absence of fires anound some one managed to get the trolley on the neighborhood, Can any reader ex-| the wire and a panic was averted. 1 Plain the sudden stoppage of fires since| think that some action should be taken @hat time? AJL, | to prevent a A Suberban Trolley Meaace. To the Lditor of The Krening World © ‘Te ‘While I was standing at the railroad crossing at Richmond L weeks ago something happen: Think might have resulted in g@ecident with loss of life, It te the eustom of the trolley car conductor to gt off the car at this crossing and go a letter on a echoolboy’s punishment, I wish to re- mark that such practice ie nething but foolishness. The present system in New York schools apperentiy allows this, Historic Hymns By Frederic Reddall eatt Lecturer N.Y, Beard of Bduestion, Copyrialt, 1913, by ‘The Prem Publ (The New York Eventog World) “RISE, MY BOUL. HE development of Methodism and ther tury ke 4 pert Verse—some of it too even commonplace to survive, but in the Main dignified, devout and denoting the spiritual awakening of the whole na- ton, ‘This postic impulse was felt throughout the three kingdoms, Eng- land, Wales and Scotland. And when such men as the W Watts, Dod- arid began to write th 11 time. Among the lesser lighis was Robert Seagrave, a clergyman of the Estab- lished Church, who, early in his minia- try, was repelled by the scandalously low; standards then prevailing, “He was born at Twyford, Leicester- shire, 1693, where his father was vicar. He received hiv education at Came bridge, and In 1715 he took orders in the Church of England, but very soon showed his distaste for the moral con- dition of the clergy. This opened his Mfework, He published between 1781 and 1738 several pamphlets with reform- ation in view, but it was Iike a voice crying in the desert. He therefore with- drew entirely from the Church of Eng- land and imitated the course of White- field," Joining the Calviniatic Method- ists, and preaching independently. Sea- grave died about 17%; he wrote at least fifty original hymn: use to-day, notably: “Rise, my aoul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace.” ‘This, with its splendid musical accom- paniment (the tune known as “Amater- dam,” by Dr. Nares), forms one of our finest examples of what a congrega- tional hymn should It has few superiors, and not many equals: “Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings, Thy better portion trace; Rise from transitory things Toward heaven, thy dwelling place. Sun and moon and stare decay, Time shall soon this earth remove; Rise, my soul, and haste away eats prepared above!” Teaching Her to Swim. GMALL boy went up to anether in the A street and said: “Can you tell @ feller how to leam « girl to swim?" “Ob!” said the other kiddie, “you goes up ber gentle like, leads her gently down to the water, pute yer arm gentle round her waist’ ‘Ob, go cn!" tnterrupted the boy; “what's the matter with yer? She's my sister! cross the tracks before the car pull @ switch or something. On ¢ @ight I speak of the conductor gave the @ignal to come ahead. The car started, the motorman did not allow for the coming off the wire, and the car stuck in the middle of the Long Railroad tracks, A passenger other readers ir who made @ student write the following two hundred times for throw- ing @ paper aeroplane out of a window: “At f@ & good thing to fool a teacher, but ft ts bad when you get caught.” Bak i ee Didn’t Need the Water. N the days of the old Volunteer Fire De partment there was more quenching o thimt than quenching of couflagratious,’ me of them inj) oo Coprrieta, 1918, of Rest #% | BROUGHT THis, To CHEER UP THe DEAR OLD Sout THIS AFTERNOON Guidebook to Gallantry. By Alma Woocwa-d. Coprrigtt, 1018, by The I'ree Publishing Oo, (The New York Eventeg World), RESTAURANT CONDUCT, 110m the table and you look around to LWAYS give the lady her|find that he’s vanished from the face cholce of restaurants; so |0! the earth, don't get peeved. Call one | that, in a moment of pique, | °F the other waiters and tell him about after she's given you the|!t and when he tells you that he'll send xrand razoo, she won't be|* Dus to look for your waiter, don’t ask ablo to say: him why he can't get it for you him- ‘He tried to train me to the bean and) **:; 4@ long as it's right on the next utter cakes brigade, but it was no go!" | table. He Just can't! Would you have When the handsome hatboy severs the |"!m incur the scorn of the union by tle that conects you to your coat and|tlly breach of waiterial etiquette? Md, quell your desire for bloodthirsty! 411 after you've eaten all your meat \battle and bestow upon him a Mona|@n'l all your vegetables and you've | Lisa smirk, at the same time accepting | *!Ved @ fraction of a po: to put your &raciously the slice of pasteboard that §2!t on when you DO get it, don’t ex- \\s more binding than a first mortgage.|¢laim that you're going to have him Leaving the hatboy, dispel all thought FIRED, by gosh! Give him the bene- of him, lest your appetite becomes |fit of the doubt. He may be in the {much impaired and extend a brotheily | throes of pinochle down in the kitchen, |hand to the headwaiter, who will look |for all you know, and the lady'll say ‘in distress over a sea of empty |You're @ horrid brute to treat a man jtables trying to find just one that js | that way just because he's a waiter! Mot reserved (7). And just as he is, After you have finished your meal and about to give up hope of housing you | yuu Say to the presiding genius: uncover a green certificate to make his| ‘‘Let me have a good, medium cigar." leyeaight come back to him, The sudden-| And he saya: nese with whieh he'll lamp that unre- something about three for jserved table will make a hit with the.a do ir?" lady, who will immediately surmise that| Re a sport. Don't beat him down and |you're a rounder, an habitue, &c, to/don't have heart failure when you ap- et suoh elegant service! ply the flaming match to the stylish When she says: weed, Be an actor—and get away | “Ob, you order! I never know what | with tt, |to eat | The time has now come for you to | Bew She fa the kind that knows |demand the check. At first glance at the bill of fare upside down, and the|the sum total there will be a cold wine list ‘9 more familiar to her than ‘clutch near your lungs and you'll think, |thy year of her birth, If you like her!Ah, how addition has changed since I fairly well and wish to be pleasing to!was a Ind!" Don't rack your braine her, order a sensible meal with maybe it that puzzling Httle Item of twenty Jone unusual dish and a quart of some- It's bread and butter for two. thing red and pretty rank. But if you for it even though you chide your- want to win her undying adoration | sl? for having eaten bread and butter throw In the clutch, take off the speed-| all these years with such lavish reck- ometer, let ‘er rip and rely upon the lessness and an utter lack of apprecia- \night-and-day bank for immediate ref- | tion! jerence! In closing, let me say that when you If the waiter has any little, solicitous have given half your income to the tions to make, such as celery at! waiter asa tip, and he hasn't even mut- venty-five a throw, or an Astrachan tered a benediction, don't be downcast caviar canape, a mere bagatelle at $1.60 Go out and alip the hilarious hathoy | per head, be grateful and LOOK grace- what remains of your sinking fund, and | ful—and acquiesce Immediately, the only thing that's up to you now ts | When he has served you the meat to steer your girl due north before she and you find some unimportant besrs the plteous appeal of the taxicab bandit! ie fo ee, Be By Maurice Ketten A RE TN en { CoA Is Your Child Doing Well At School? By W. D. Pu.ve:macher. en Ss Hed iG Wt ARITHMETIO (11). FTBR the conscientious parent, A who 18 desirous that his boy be not deficient in arithmetic, has thoroughly drilled the child in the four fundamental operations, then the time has come to proceed to more Involved, more complicated problems. After you have explained the method by which a certain kind of problem can be done, be certain that before the lad/ does a stroke of work on paper he estl- mates what the result should be. If he oan give you the approximate answer, then you can be certain that he under- stands the method. In addition, it te) your duty to develop the habit of esti-! mating, valuable mental training and a| check upon the boy, that will prevent) him from “diving into” a problem be- fore he fully realizes what ts before) him, Be careful to have real sympathy for | the boy if he does not grasp an idea at} once; but not the wenk-kneed kind of sympathy that does not demand con- centrated attention. Do not boy to acquire the habit of his mind to wander off to other realms, | Insist that the child write all numbers | Plainly, that they be rightly placed under the proper figures and that the whole work be well arranged, Be certain that, when you explain this or that method, you advance by ‘clearly defined steps and that you do Rot ta! @ second step before the first has been thoroughly mastered by the child. When giving problems, be certain that your concrete examples are those taken from the boy's life or from things deal+| ing with that with which the boy Is familiar, It would be a mistake to Bive | him a problem in brokerage, after hav- ‘ing taught him simple percentase. | True, the work and method is t!.e same; | but the boy ts not familiar with the ning of commission, par values,’ 4 corporations and so on, and a) mistake of that character will only! +) deaden the child's interest in i A Stories the firemen arrived with engine aud hose the vuildings were pretty well ilestroyed “The farmer met them at the gate He said | bitterly “No ime yer comin’ in, te ‘Tere hatn't a! of water within two mile of was the word they epelled, mot ‘Star,"* “But the firemen, mindful of the usual merry. London Ay er making that accompanied every fire, yushed right fa ae on with the apperaten *10h, that's all right." tlie sai heartily Vengeance. ‘We don't mind drinking it straigh' Boston man, was running to Herald, ay, when his friend Py peere | Halloa, Bilwo! In @ Accidental Response, SCHOOL concert of all things! Pour tittle 1 his breath for other purpoms, Bilson but he determ About 1 ofcloct re drvaset 1 and each had rev rible revenge, 14 Fire Chief Kenlon of New York, ‘Tee volunteer firemen, I'm afraid, were oad et of cogsterers, There's © story they tel! about @ five beck in 1600, "Us was @ Gre ot an outlying farm, ond when wort pinned on to her snoss wu + ag) called Jones up on the telephone, After a deal | Netter began the verse of a ti cong, OF ringing a sleepy voice at the other end of the “Nor my dears, said the a om Wire told him Joves was there, yourselves in position, anal wait until the curtain “Nhat you, Jones?’ querial Bison, ” “Wee do you went!" cahed Jones, the subject, ves | e Day. iu bed these two houre,"* | * went on the other, ‘Remem. running this morning, eh? Yes le going somewhere, and 1 wae in a | hurry, Good-night, | 7 on hung up the recet tuto bed @ happy man ta, pata Her Rake- Off. ROUD and pompous, the doctor down the street, when he wae spoken to b ver and got back | | remarked the tater “Good morning, madam," replied the medico “T expect you are making @ goo! tying out of | Attending to that rich Smith boy?" said the lady, | "Oh, Yoo, @ fairly good fee,” replied the docto., somewhat angrily, “Well, whiepered the lady, “I bone you won't fofwet that it was my Willie who threw (le brick | (hes hit bim,""—-London Aaowens, | . a lene Pe Sa Sea ADEE AC 6 RO open oltivg |‘ Helped Build America By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1013, by The Uress Publishing Co (The New York Evening World). No. 13-HARRIET BEECHEK STOWE; the “Woman Whe Brought on the War.” J3RAHAM LINCOLN, during the dark days of the civil war, looked down from his great height upon a fragile, strong-faced woinan who had called at the White House at his request. With his rare smile that ever carried with it the suggestion of tears, he said, half-quizzically, half-mournfully: ‘So you are the little woman who brought on this great war!” The “little woman” was Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe, who was at that moment the most popular writer on earth, and whose first book was read just then by more persons than was any other volume except the Bible. Mrs. Stowe was one of the thirteen children of Lyman Beecher, a New England clergyman, and w: iter of Henry Ward Beecher. She began life as a school teacher, moving in early womanhood to Cincinnati with her father, and in 1836, at th of twenty-five, marrying Prof. Calvin Stowe. Cincinnati, being just across the border from Kentucky, was the goal of many a runaway slave. Pro-slavery and anti-slavery feeling ran hign in the Ohio city, and at the head of the anti-slavery faction were Mrs, Stowe and her husband. They hid fugitive negroes in thetr how @mugele them North toward the safety of Canada. Mra. St hand the horrors of the man-hunt and she learned to lo: javery. Already she had had to eke out the very scanty family fortunes by writ- ing. Soon after she moved back to the East, ehe re- solved to use her pen as a weapon against slave-holding. Accordingly, she wrote a serial story for the National Era, an abolition paper, published in Washington, called “Uncle Tom's Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly.” Bor thin serial ahe received $300, A publisher asked leave to bring it out a6 book, paying her 10 per cent. royalty. On March 20, 1852, “Uncle Tom's Cabin" appeared in book form. Within four months Mra, Stowe's royalties amounted to $10,000. The book was translated into twenty-three langui id ran through more than fifty editions, It was not great from a@ literary standpoint, nor was its story ex- ceedingly well told, But {t wae supremely timely. It swept the civilized world Mke wildfire. It painted slavery tn colors that called forth a cry of amase- ment and horror from every quarter of the earth. The South vehemently de- nied the truth of the book. So Mrs. Stowe published in “A Key to Unole Tom's Cabin" a eet of. documents and aMdavits proving her statementa, Later she followed this with another slave story, “Dred; # Tale of the Dis- mal Swamp.” Like most attempts to duplicate a success, the second novel fell more or less flat. Though she afterward wrote dozens of altocether de- Mghtful books and many beautiful poems, Mrs. Stowe !s generally known only as ‘Uncle Tom's" author. The flame of indignation that ehe had atirred into life grew hotter and stronger until 1t was quenched at last tn the life-blood of a nation. Such sym- pathy as the Union cause received from Europe in those trying times was duo chieflygto the Impression made by “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” When Mra, Stowe went to England the anti-slavery element there gave a banquet in her honor and ehe was seated beneath a United States flag from which the “stripes” had been cut. She came tn for a storm of criticism for consenting to the multila- tion of O14 Glory, albett the “mutilation” was merely tntended to represent the freeing of the negro from the stripes of the slave owners whip. Mrs, Stowe incurred far harsher criticism as the result of something elso that happened while she was in England, There she met Lady Byron, widow of the poet, and heard from the Englishwoman a version of the quarrel which had parted the Byrons. Mrs, Stowe, aflame with sympathy over the widow's ren or fancied wrongs at the hands of her poet and husband, wrote for a magazine in America “The True Story of Lady Byron's Life.” This “True Story" contained language that even the most vulgarly outspoken magazine of to-day would probably hesitate to print. At once an avalanche of condemnation from all quarters overwhelmed Mrs. Stowe, nearly breaking her heart and temporarily stripping her of much of hes great popularity, She never fully recovered from the blow. The “little woman who broyght on this great war’ lived, widowed and old in her Hartford"(Conn.) home until her death in 1896, In her last years her mind failed. She played with little children, and wandered about the flelds, weaving daisy chains, crooning old hymna and telling people of wonderful dreams she had had. One of America’s mightiest intellects had crumbled slowly into a beautiful decay. A Handtul of Interesting Facts (From ‘The World Almanac.) > Knights of Pythias have @ member- ship of 710,687; the Elks have a mem- bership let of 384,742, and the Kalghi» of Columbus, 382,566, ‘The World's Young Wamen's Christian Association wae formed in 184. The main headquarters ts in London, Eng- land, Eighteen national associations are now afMllated. ‘Cherrapongee, in Southwestern As- sam, is known as the wettest place in the world, 905 inches of rain having fallen there in 1861, It fe estimated that 30,000,000,000 letters have passed through the post-offices of the world during the past year and thi nearly 15,000,000,000 newspapers were de- livered by the various mal! carriers. The greatest altitude in New York State ts at Mount Marcy, in the Adiron- dacks, where the peak rises to @ height of 6,54 feet, The new dock at Liverpool, England, will be completed the early part of the coming summer, The dock ts 1,000 feet long (nearly 140 feet longer than the steamer Olympic) and has an entrance of 120 feet wide, Because of the lunar surface gravity on the moon a body which weighs twenty-pounds here would weigh enly three pounds there, LL tunto and ever exirt effects are 1 fashionable this @prins and this model ia one of the most attractive that has been brought out, It consists of @ two-piece skirt with the tuntv portions arranged over the aides and the two are stitched together a few in above the lower e& of the tunte Portion; thus, in real- ‘ty, the two are tn one, though the effect of a separate tunic te given. 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