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i 4 } The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, March oe ESTARLISHPD BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, President, 6% Park Row. 1913 The Day of Rest 34 «22th: 24 By Maurice Ketten GO ano Ake Your BATH THAT Marriage Customs in Many Countries 1.— (Turkish) J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 6% Park Re Among the i P JOSE OTE eats a bark how, WILL WAKE. ‘ ite A By Madiscn C, Peters. en —— Moslems. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second lanr M oh Subscription Rates to The Evening, For England and t c inent and tomrtialit, 01:3, by ‘The Wess Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World), Svorld for the United States All Countries in the International -, ARRIAGE {s highly honored among the Turks. ham and Cana e itd Melos > the cervant of Allah marries he perfects half of his religion One Year avons ++ $3.50 One Year, The bachelor is looked upon as the brother of the devil, A widow ‘One Month MAA ta oct tebtal almost always marries ugain, An old maid ts taboo—she Is con- = coe SRLS mSeRENIITZF sidered as living In perpetual transgression. Hence the Turks marcy VOLUME 53. ....66 ly one excuse for a marriage late In life~a second carly, Among t marriage, According to law, @ inan may have four wives, but tuined in separate quarters, and the matter of expen avoring one wife, ‘Turkish woman is a free agent under the law, ‘The wife has absolute {her property, A man may divorce his wife by uttering in her presenc t of two witnesses a certain form of words three times, And the wife This is a custom which has the force of law, But divorce is in tnere Is © THE POLICE AND THE PROBLEM. F THE police puddle it may be fairly said the more it is etirred | the muddier it gets. We have now got it so foul no one can | see bottom, Some folks in despair wish it drained off and a new order established. One of the despairing ones wishes a military | system. He says: “We have tried civil administration of the police for years and it has utterly broken down.” He adds: “The City of | Now York, with its vast wealth, puts the enforcement of the law, the | command of 12,000 men, in the hands of a civil appointee of the! Mayor, who, emerging from his business or profession, is suddenly called upon to exercise and display the qualities of the commander of an army.” Rightly considered, the Inst of these statements accounts for the first. Police administration breaks down not because it is civil, but becanse it lacks the right qualifications in the directing power. ch wife must be matn- » Koverns the prevailing in th no remedy, unpopular. When the family council concludes that the time has arrived fer the son to marry, the mother, If she has not already done so, chooses a wife for him, She # {nto comarunteation with the old women inatrimonial brokers who are familiar with the families having marriageable daughters, Accompanied b these Ko-betweens and near relatives, the i milies, No matter what may be the privat inion of the mateh-makers, etiquette requires them to exclaim “What @ beauty your daugiter is!’ The chief ealler How tells of the good qualities of the prospective bridegroom and the amount of settlement to be inade, Several houses are so visited, and then the mother goes home to report to her husband and son, The choive determined on, the go-betweens arrange youth may not see the maiden unveiled, Veils tn the much to the Jealousy of the husbands ax to the modesty regard talking freely of women as an evidence of ill- ‘The maiden, however, is generally given & chance to ther visits such the preliminaries. The stare attributed not #0 the women, Turks ceeding. her future husband. . ' ‘ ” The mother cunningly arranges that by taking the daughter out for a walk or The Russians have a proverb: “Every man needs a Czar in his head, Acative ta: aertig AHOUIGEAE BTAsS. Whbie. AHS Wind Bed. KIB But he need pot be a military Czar, nor need the man be subject to | ‘The betrothal gifts are usually toilet requisites, After this the bridegroom's mother visits the bride, taking with her bonbons and veral yards of red silk, military rule. Which it laid on the floor in front of the divan, Standing on this silky the The fruitful source of graft and corruption is the unwise treat | betrothed kisses the hand of her mother-in-law, who gives her bon-bons, with ment of certain vices as crimes when they are no more than nuisances. os pte jt Vike shuee adi ahaa tao dab by the girl, the mother carries back Supporters of these pay the police to get the immunity they a ae few days luter the bridexrvom xends 4 contribution to the bride's father allowed by public sentiment. A foolish law can never be wisely en- | Goward the expenses of the wedding festivities, t days after the engage- is inade the knot Is tled, @ civil contract The ceremony takes place in the bride's he upon the bridegroom proclaiins thr reupon the pri fed by the e she and her friends are waiting, and, after stating the financial agreement © willingness to marry this man, If she answers affirmatively nd the priest return to the men’s apartment, and wh is signed, sealed and delivered the contracting ps ly Rut before the young coup! have the vocial sanctic The wedding dress whieh the bridegroc linen, beds and utensiis for housed ents, To provide t honor and pride to md makes obligutory, upon wid by two witnesses, When the settlement has been » times his desire to wed the daughter; to the * apartments, forced. Even military rule cannot do it. +: THE HONOR OF THE POST-OFFICE. MONG the methods suggested by the congressional committee for dealing with the ‘so-called “Money Trust” is a refusal | of the use of the mails to stock exchanges “unless they incor- pora:+ under State laws and submit to Federal regulation.” Incorporation is good and Federal regulation is good, and there are doubtless many good ways of imposing them upon stock exchanges t. accom ex are | nother this 1 sanction must Nay pass before this can take place. % festivities has to be made first, and oth ‘orien, 1 ius to furnish vest of her trowseau, her household ping must be provided by the bride's par- money sometines requires months, It is a point both of je, Which immemorial custom NEXT TIME TURN THE WATER OFF WHEN You GO To SLEEP- DAY oF REST WAKING If HI. months JOHN! WHAT ARE You DOING 2 iy leaf Alon, But it most assuredly should not be done by depriv- THESE FLOORS - ! Wedding festivities last a wee nday the bride's trousseau and plen- : You ishings are carried ty her new home, Tuesday the bride is taken to the public ing them of the use of the mails. baths, On this occasion the bridexr f the mail ; paths pecastor bridegroom pays for the baths for the party, So Censorship of mails in this country has already been carried too Important ix the bath among Turks that it forms an item In every marriage far. Yet year by year, here a little and there a little, it is being extended upon one pretense or another. Sometimes the extension is contract, The husband money. If it be withhe! Sages ty allow his wife bath mor ine hus only to go bef y as we allow pin- the Cadi and turn her slipper D upside down, and if t complalit ts not redressed it is a ground for divorce, by law, cometimes it is by order of the Postmaster-General 3; sometimes On Wednesday comes the visit of the brileaiosmw. mother and the dyeing by sumption of local postmasters, bride's fuser and toe naliz, On ‘Thursday the ride aid her relatives by presumption of local postmasters. In a body, with great ceremony, to the home of the bridegroom. After serv id clgarettes 4 around the bride enters, still wearing the borrowed Karments she put on after the bath on Tuesday, and, sup- ported on either side by a matron who has been only once married, makes a tour of the room, Heginning with her mother-In-law, she kisses the hands of all, Then she is seated alongside of her mother-tu ‘The latter transfers a sugar stick from her mouth to that of her daughter-in-law, a survival of the old marriage rite of food sharing. The small coins showered on the bride are scrambled for by the beggars and hangers-on, always on hand during the progress of a wedding festivity. The bridegroom is pounded severely by his friends and an avundant supply of old shoes is thrown at him with no gentle hand. He is glad to make his escape to the room where the bride now recetves him in her wedding gown and kisses his hand, while her veil is spread on the floor, on which he kneels to pray, PRARESEREREFERADE SAAFESEESEDEOEONE SOOSESEREEDESE SED For the two succeeding days the newly wedded pair, in thelr best clothes, Poor Mr. Jarr’s Brain Fever Is "for the life, but I am not in favor of shedding one drop of American Temporarily Checked by $20 = oe SE ae = a ult lead Be aL blood to protect an American dollar.” SdsdVS SSS OTTO VES SddSdESETSSHSNSSS SESss900NNs00008 ° Yhis is a platform with which it would be easy to find fault. It ' Heer eit eu ratiersd a alsn Jer’ a i PDIKInGA AMPA: TET’ wa aro) OTN COTA Nd Aatartanallilecriontanica anne A Handtul o f I nte resting Facts wik not stand continuous strain like the older saying, “Millions for employer. important newcomer The hand of such as Marmion clasp! bend fodiens sis rr i A “But, my dear,” said Mrs, Jarr, “1] “And how are we feeling to-day defence, but not a cent for tribute.” There are times when we must chai teil’ Mii Bent rou. ate: toe 1) to | eked Mt “s employer unctuously, ‘All of it is wrong. ‘The privacy of the mails should be guarded us sacredly as the freedom of the press, the habeas corpus act, or trial by jury When a citizen’s letters oan be opened, or the use of the mails denied him by executive caprice, we have a censorship that is none the less despotic because petty and puritanic ——_<¢2-—___—— GIVING BLOOD FOR MONEY. AYS Vice-President Marshall: “I am in favor of spending every dollar of American money to protect every American “He raves!” said Mr, Rangle, as he hip Wyoming, which with) Island Sound i way « + : ts ad previ 1, ‘k fn he heard| the Arkansas is the gr -fevil oy K cost about 0, fight for our money, But for all its weakness in general it is a ps hee anyone. In fact, 1 told nti Just now] #3 he advanced with outstretched | yy BUOY ert epiatsity jen he heard vought in the United Stat Mercia (vue apenee Se Game ine ce gee ; ts j i 0 , that there was a consultation being | han: i . . . atin nit the world’s battleshimespeed record. sterling good platform to stand on and to build on in these days when hats over. you by the doctors." Sehersati Myi-garcarome: tram. the pean at snd ons, Goctor aia the - 4a ovate tron aa0onss (ea tGNSTAA@e high finance, cosmopolitan finance at that, is trying to force us to send “Show him in. Let him see how|pinochle table, and, folding his arms] wii) and pe lt gy pie i More fatalition occurred in 1908 fre word tend te ble message from 4 4 . Y “ " ‘ y old dress: | “ourth of July ac nts than in New York to Brazil Wax sauth toi Alexion 0/10 Central America to draw chestuuts out of RR overworking and underpaying the] across the front of his dingy old dress SAE Ce TNREEAMERT Tey, Gals | Se rl eee eee ate ‘ brightest mind In the wholesale woollen] ing gown, and thrusting forward the}, trade has caused the greatest expert] right foot, sneeringly replied, agues,” were killed and 3, ‘The Vrew Publishing Co, were] There are 6 ' 4. A aid Mr. Rangle affably, “Dr. | a0 the fire for clever financiers. said Mr. Rangle affably. “Dr. | sons Rartarcy che snoted ila APROtTOnan! ed, In the. following Associations In British experience teaches some lessons in this respect that are SLOT de clea tue (esa My caaties are my king’ atone, |r, slavinsky, ane pears German | Persons were xilled, In 1018 ¢ tale|/@ tota) memberait worth our study. Many a home in the three kingdoms was robbed RS, JARR cue into the font | grehead significantly From turret to foundation stone. ° vectatist, and 1 am old Dr. Ranglo,| it RAMEN amy, A ag RR TRUAL MNES : ) room, where her SuUsbands ta ee LS humor him, you know,t'| But the hand of Doulas is his own ; Atenist, whose authoritative work, ‘Nute| (6 in ears TT aes dents, Eeakoh of tho blood of its best and dearest to protect the gold gamblers of sturdiest valetudinarian In Hare a Brain Food,’ you may have doubtless sean Mbacahatlobainlotaliloe the cUnitel the Rand. We can well afford to keep out of that kind of dollar a 00 esi LIB hamachi heard of."* The Harlem River Ship Canal con-] States Life Saving Service amounts to Mr, Jarr's boss bowed as though this| necting the Hudson River and Long about $2 diploinacy. There is no cause at present for cementing cosmopolitan | fever, was playing auction pinochle with | i i 7 0 Mr, Rafferty and Mr. Rangle. Mr, Slav business structures with American blood. Lortliage sve iat though still sticking around, +: Mrs, Jarr hurried over to the table SOUVENIR SEEKING AT WASHINGTON. and. began to gather up the chips and cards, “Stop playing carda! Play the T ire i y ic arg | Plano, or something!” she cried huskily, HAT a satire is pressed upon American morals and manners cuir caida in the action of the manager of the Senate restaurant at] ‘Tne boss?" asked Mr. Jarr. Coryright, 1913, by The Prew Publishing Co, (Phe New York & famous work was always on his reading | ~— When folk Meet Under tank “What do you make of this case?” An Unfavorable Star) ities: ste ence x “Technically, L would say he hi By Sophie Irene Loeb acute attack of zizzing in the head,” replied Mr. Rangle gravely. “It 1s com- ning World) monly Known as ‘Police Captains’ Dis- out of the gam RY variation « v is fashionable. ‘This shows a draped “" | 7 ” with straight ines Rea teeny fe ei re ‘Ol Ol" cried Mr. Slavinaky, ‘T tell| (YTEVENSON says, “Many lovable} his cheerless hearthstone he wishes he | ease. Bieasladels cu the Capitol in Washington in preparing cheap knives and}. \yiat, kick out a winder! I got my people miss each other in the]had taken the plunge in the “early| “And this is brought on'’— fohietonumat world or meet under some unfav- | day oradle star, There | thing forke and table service generally in preparation for the coming of | pocket rule mit me and I'll be measur- If he were to look back over} “BY exposure,” said Mr. Rangle isitor the i yuri onies. ing for a pane of glass for It, and Raf- visitors to the inaugural ceremonies, he would find that, as Stevenson | solemnly, “All we can do ts to humor combination being on of the newest and + lgerty and Rangle they can be neighbors is tho nice and)claims, perhaps he has missed his mate | is every wish," he added, “And such, smartest. ‘The i ike souvenirs. ‘They have no objection to taking | who has to come in to hold him when critical moment of }or met her under “an unfavorable star’ | 1 beteve ts your diagnosis, prognosls t the back are pressed Americans lik 4 8 hie brains ts feverish—Mr. Charr's declaration to be}and now learns in life's twilight the|and recommendation, Dr, Slavinsk flat that they pre- spoons or napkins, ‘hey have been known to cut pieces out of cur-| yyainy 1 mean tains or gold cords and to break bits from statuary. They will carry | “Nix!” repited Mr. Jarr sternly, | “T T invalid, I must be humored, I off cups and vases, They have taken charred embers from the ghastly TO eM a. On with Us Gaile got over. From serve the slender ou:- line, yet they allow freedom in walking, The litte — trimming of “nothing ventured, nothing yAnd you, too, Dr. Rafferty?" timidity or lack of This is @ growing proposition, | Both those venerable physicians bowed opportunity a goud ‘Because we live in such a HUR- | assent. half of possible | REND existence, Gimme the twenty dollars you owe 2 strap all effective Jieaps where lynch law has burned a victim. 1 would have won last hand anyway, love cases never! We do not take time to make ac-| me!” cried Mr. Jarr, glaring glassily at use of contrasting ma- P i ‘ . y/o here's two. dollars worth of chips get so far, and at|quaintances or learn to UNDERSTAND | his ‘oss. terial, Here it is made So the patriotic crowds that throng the beautiful Capitol will | Main tor each of you! Show him in‘ least another quar- and APPRECIATE each other, Gen-| ‘Four weeks at five dollars more a ter do there cease |erally we meet like “ships that pass in| week makes twenty dollars! Gimme and determine. Aja night and speak to each other in pass- | the twenty dollars!” cried the patlent, Very adroit person, | ing.”* His glassy gaze was directed at his to be sure, man-| The telephone has taken the place of! boss, who faltered and looked around ages to prepare the | the messenger on his steed. And verily at the clintc of eminent alients of broadcloth while the skirt is of diagonal serge, It is narrow and Straight at its edges, howeyer, and soft fin- ished linen would be have just ardor enough to yearn to carry something away when they| ‘The Fomarke, about Yon. high cott, of a “Wy i *4 : inochle checks were i ”. They cannot take the dome, So the new tin spoons will be Lenny And Mr. Rafferty, The command eleome, and we may be sure they will not be left on the hands of ye far-seeing and well-providing manager. handsome ‘way and out with /a telephone is an instrument by which | ‘We must humor him," said old Dr. way with ve Hess 7" _ hie declaration in the knick of time. one may break an engagement with Rangle. embroidery for the “And then there isa fine, solid sort of }ease (perchance for a momentarily) “Sure, nothing but a cold applicatian trimming, or one of the man who goes on from snub to snub, | prettier face or a more stylish gown). | of money wil! do him any good," ad- new voiles would be pretty with lace, and all “suiting materials are appropriate. ‘The finish can be made at either the high or the natural waist line, For the medium aize, the skirt will require 4% yards of material M, 4% yards 36 or 3% yards 4 Inches wid with % yard 4% Inches Letters From the People ate An Agent's Pay. to work, etc, It in a curse to wites and {To the baitor of ‘The Evening World mothens, @ temptation to poor young men n any reader Who has been a house-|and @ trap to those who are easily o-house axent for some household arti-| tempted to steal. It 1s also a black le tell me if @ better living can be] smudge across the fair fame of the ade that way than can be earned by|Hmpire State, In it too late for the morking steadily for $18 a week, ten ! decent element of the community to pre- hours a day, six days in the week? |vent such a disgrace? How about this, and if he had to declare forty Umes| ‘The opportunity is LOST and the vised the noted Dublin spectalis will continue imperturbably declaring |“might have beens" have passed un-, Rafferty, amid the astonished consideration of |known, unrecoanized, untoved. Cupid's ‘The feller what has Police Captains’ men and angela until he has @ favora- |arrows are dendened in their fight. | Complaints sees green, You got to hand blo answer, I dare say {f one were a! While many a bachelor looks at mar- it to him," remarked that able medico, woman one would like to marry & man | rlage much as a battle, In the aggregate old Dr. Slavinsky. who was capable of doing thts, but not }there ARE happy marriages. For, in| Mr, Jarr’s boss sighed and opened his quite one who had done so, the vernacular of the popular song, | wallet. “Ht 4s Just a Uttle bit abject and! "For every girl who's lonely there's a! “But somehow Just a little bit gross, and | boy who's lonely too.” ‘The thing ts for | busine: he said, with a touch of true caution, “this humoring him [marriages in which one of the partice | BACH to find the OTH may only afford temporary relief." A ‘Also any suggestions ax to such an oce | Peaders? HONESTY, ‘has ‘been thus battered into consent] Many a man has not m 6 Right So," said the head of Mr, Jarr's wide Ore Eieaning cupation? BW. The Gi Prop’ scarcely form agreeable subjects for yand versa, because meeting | medical staff, that noted specialist In| the skirt at the lower Lam Reta To the Editor of The Evening World j meditation, And yet, when all has been | PNDED in a meeting. ‘Times without | mental and money troubles, Dr. William | edge is 2 yarda or 1% To the Editor of The Brening World As to the grazing cow and barn said, the man who should hold back /number a supenficial something ts recog: | J. Rangle, “IT can say without fear of} yards when the plaits So racing 1s to be restored in New j problem it is necessary to know size ‘ from marriage Is in the ame case with ni York State? I am aorry, for it is & land shape of barn, If the barn is 100 land given preference to the qhal | successful contvadiction that as long are laid him who runs away from battle. To | itt Pattern No. TTR” of STRENGTH that underlie whiten !aa the proent treatment in kept up oes ; In no ohay Stati at America | feet or more in length and breadth and virtues ts a|have not beon tried and tested and un-|-iarked Improvement, followed by com je UFR, shee roan 33 10 as such 4 mwWeeping reform, once |is muare the area would be three- worse degree of failure than to push | derstood lete recovery, will ensue. Paar hs achieved, ever been repealed. The other |quarters of @ circle with a radius of a gorward gluckily and make a fall.” Anni Ka nooe na fine mks he Oks P ‘ | PATTERN 7780 FOUR-PIECE DRAPED SKIRT, 22 TO 30 WAIST. Btates that were decent enough to adol- | 100 feet or a diameter of 200 feet and Apropos, a buchelor said the otter |AURILITIES of a wider acquaintance | | ish racetrack gambling have never been | 18 ascertained as follows: 200x200x Gay, “I have not married because ‘land a till happier RESUL aren SNOBS AND SNOBS. Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION taribed or trinked of bultied into restoring | THH*2+4=23,66 equare fect, If barn ie AS TA HaR nae} and applet . Andi ites Qnebesli dont’ aea any wallark BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppe- [is less than 100 feet on eith di haven't met Miss Hight wt the |nany @ lonely bachelor rushing through ite Gimbel Bi ‘Sixth 4 Thir {t, No one objects to racing, but decent ||} 0M ThA tlt Meet at east bel we truth 1s that many times though he life on his own power might Indeed (it! WhY don't they wear uniforms? You Rie Sane! Rigs GOKaer TAI BNSRND 064 TAP Te BERR people object to licensed gambling. |known, If the barn ts nak nate at is he atill in ja may have met Afiss Right, yet with nis | he would instead, like the en “stop, | came tell who are gentlemen ard who New rk, Or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents im coln er ‘This restoration of racetrack gambling jing corners a very different queation| “The stillest man ally: privileges ts & boon to crocks, strong-arm jis involved. HIRAM B, BLY, |yere told him to k mem, loaters, men who are 100 tricky | % His law: % 1 0 " . are not, can you? stamps for each pattern ordered, hi ah eaeneleriike prepensition he hae Mot) look snd listen") Gnd & power that! | guoesion Walter (saroasticnliyin We \ IMPORTANT—Write your addr: j@ mouth! met her even half I would help him along les@ lenely tracks | waiters find no di culty, sli Rutherford, NJ. jenuts cette eee eces oui itatns _ 00 ib.g00s On until one day sitting at.and happier tem |, | Qpkalem plainly and always specity ‘London | @ize wanted. Add two cents for letter postage if in @ hurry.