The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1913, Page 18

PeMished Dally Except Sunday by the Prees Publishing Company, Nos. 53 to 63 Park Now, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 6 1 ANGUS SILAW PH PULITZE! ry, 6 Park -Oftice at New York as Second-Clas: Matter eames Rates to The Evening} For England and che Continent and orld for the United Btates All Countries in the International 4 4 and Canada, Portal Union, One Fears. “ + $2.50) One Year ry One Bfonth.. + .80}One Mont! UME BOs vicivvsdsesivdebuveeresvveuversesNO) TSSOL THE NEW YORK ICE HABIT. ONCERNING the menace of a probable short supply of ico for the coming summer, the President of the Knickerbocker Ice | Company has suggested that the best time for economizing | on ice is now. He is quoted as saying: “Only notice how in any hotel | your drinking water in these cold days comes to your table literally stacked with chunks of ice. Order a dish of clams and it will come ; to you covered with a great heap of chipped or broken ice. Ice is wasted in a thousand ways in these cool days when it is not needed, | and in the hot months of summer the city pays the piper.” The wasteful use of ice thus Jamented by the man of business mayt be further lamented as a shameful use of it by the epicure. The | fashion of over-icing nearly all kinds of drinks and many kinds of | foods kills the delicate flavors and savors that are dear to sensitive | palates. No man can enjoy an oyster or a clam when the chill of ice | numbs his sense of taste. Nor can he rightly enjoy white wine ot | even beer as it is ordinarily served, cold as the Antarctic bleste. We have developed among us a race of ice fiends. They wast: it at home and clamor for it when they go abroad. They even demand | it in Parisian cafes, which is worse than asking for a home-made sandwich at a banquet. Who shall eure New York of the ice habit will be a benefactor, but he will probably be crucitied first. ae SPEEDY BUT INACCURATE. CCORDING to what are called “scientific measurements education” applied to large numbers of public school pupils in this and eighteen other cities, some of which are Great Britain, it has been found that New York school children are slightly quicker than those of other cities, but show less accuracy in and “are very poor in reasoning.” ‘As our school children represent nearly all races, and compara- tively few of them are New Yorkers of more than a second generation, it is not likely the differences noted are due to race or to environ. ment. ‘That we should be quicker than Philadelphia and Boston is pleasing, and so appears natural and righ, but that we should be loss accurate than Chicago and poorer reasoners than Kansas City needs explanation. Perhaps the school training is defective, Every childhood defect is blamed on the schools in these days. And perhaps the eagerness of pupil, parent, teacher and taxpayer to get every child through school as quickly as possible has put upon speed a premium other cities do not offer, en THE PROSPECT OF HOME RULE. ITH the prospect that the Wagner Committee of the Legis- lature and the Curran Committee of the Board of Alder- men will agree that what New York needs is not more legislation but less of it, we have a glimmer of dawn through the fogs of local polities. . Gledstone’s oft-quoted statement that the most important re-! forms in Great Britain in his time were caused not by the enactment of new laws but by repealing old ones may be pertinently recalled in this issue. It is a continually recurring evil thai all forms of social develop- | ment are blocked from period to period by masses of legislation enacted in former periods. Acts and statutes that in themselvee would be fairly beneficial become harmful by reason of their ecom- plication with other acis and statutes, Governmental chimney clean. ing becomes necessary every now and agnin, It is, therefore, gratifying io have this prospect of agreement as to the need of such cleaning now with respect to the New York police. Publicity and home rule are worth a trial. ‘Nhe contrary tactics have produced scandals enough. <4 2 ONE EXCUSE FOR MANY SINS. RESIDENT WILSON is reputed to be giving smail consideration P to the wealth of candidates for foreign inissions, whether Consulates or Ambagsadorships. ‘This will probably precipi- tate a new agitation for higher enlar for such offices, It seems unavoidable in the present mood of the public mind. Those that investigate wayward girls aitribute the evil to the small wages paid, and eome of the investigators of the police scandals reached a con- clusion that grafting is due to the inability of policemen to live on their pay. May it not be urged also that legislators boodle only heeause of inadequate salaries, and that the reason certain high inanciers are holding up the city on the subway deal is a lack of income sufficient to maintain their families accerding to conventional standards? The theories have the advantage of simplicity and of affording justification for almost any kind of sin in almost any rank of society or office. Neither any man nor any woman ever had quite enough to live on, That so many remain moral in spite of such handicap may be taken, according to the current dogma, as evidence of a kindly providence, It is a motley company that preaches it. They come from palaces and from purlieus; some are courtiers, some are courtesans, some are princes, some are policemen; but all agree with Beeky Sharp: “I could be good on five thousand a year.” The Day’s Good Stories fererrens Barbu roiow T Nona RY. U OU’ Ri ERS THis PLAY 9 BARBER IS ne, — BARBER oF THE NAN WHO WROTE THIS PLAY SHE IS GOING To COME Back AND KILL Him WITH 4 HATCHET Etc Etc - - ———— No THe Gun Wi HISS AND SHE Wi HE DIDN'T KIONAP THE MOTHERAN-LAW “THAT'S ONLY A FAKE TRUNKIK ETCETC-ETC. Wednesday, ESCAPE DOWN THe DUMBWAITER... - Mare WLLs as | | CHILD BACK AT THE END oF THIS “THEATRE SILENCE = — ESTEE t long visit, I'm going to do everything 1 | know to cut that visit short! “Oh, dear! That is one of the draw- ‘ om ot backs of living in a@ flat, having no ‘spare room to entertain compan | sighed Mrs. Jarr. “But your Unete ry and your Aunt Hetty, from Paw West Virgini; don't mind how ack in on on know Uncle Henry and basatl fitateg Wenahint © Wo sald Mr. Jarr, ‘I'm going out to bring in * Michael Angelo Dinkst oy m hia wife in the SUBWAY DEPORTMENT. least Invite the hust UWAVS havea vard or ize oh subs | Hi ning reem “Where he'll sideboard!’ rep! ever, 1 shall lock all t Way tlekets in the most inaccessl- ‘A ° ble pocket of your clothing, #9 itow- | that instead of keeping the lady whom | you're escorting waiting in Ine, while home=n Mr Javr Mauors at “There aren't remarked Mr. | vou purchase twe tickets, you and she Sarr, sadly. |may be individual obstructions, to be “And a good thing!" was the reply.) buffeted and tossed by the flood of flee- Stitt, would prefer you wouldn't! ing humanity vatle you keep saying, in bring that man Dinkston into thls) pitecus accents house. 11 the first place, he ts a loafe:,| "1 KNOW I have a whole lot of them | and in the second pla while his wife) SOMMwhere! I bought a dollar's worth is here, although she has resumed her| tite morning.” widow name, and it doesnt’ look! she will admire the wisdom that makes proper."* | you lay in a stock in advance—!t saves | “I care not for the conventions; all Ti.) much time—and shows, besides, that ark iy comfort" sald Mr, Jorn, “It 49} yo Kenerally the wife that drives the band from his house, but in this « rich enough to invest in future hue-| trensportation even though you may not se it live to enfoy ft. will be the husband who drives the wife] Aw the expresses with thelr com- from my house. If Mex, Gratch, OF | pressed and writhing contents shriek Mrs. Dinkston, or whatever she calls! herself, comes down upon us to rest her! poor, tired feet after her suffragette| hike to Washington, and then an- nounces she Intends to honor us with a/ | place!" You say this If you're in good humo Tf you're In bad humor you grind ou “Do you know, they wonldn't stand for this in other city of the world? tt fe in order to say Ien't It wonderful? matter how men w subways, surface lines bridge: + we build, they're all o New York is a wonderful You may say opeans are not pro- gressive, bat let me tell you that no jeity In Ruvope'd stand for this for a minute—we're a lot of bo ‘rhis International know ‘will Impress hi 1 also, timid fe inh New Light on Socrate The Know-Nothing. } slender BB mmodertanding of word frequents | QQHCHETARY WILSON. praled the’ 1 When Mors strange auswers, A elikd who has S noieutifie method of fan vat has given to show how much you think of he een taught that Acerates had a wile w eo fwater an ‘ ayer plauus, tele tempt ter with your arms, a wap unpleasant 10 him, and that the great pial! and talbiug twa } space in Ww in move freely and Cropher drank hemlock, whem washed the cause Then tanorawon a bo protected from the proximate passon OF bale death, replied | Rowerers th Se roe spied gers ‘This will yesult in some une —Birand Magee ae | te - . of Harri | RS re You will receive osteopath'c treatment, | ganday violent doses, fron) people all around She Could’t Believe It. >..." e-hearing waves of atmosphere will BNATOR Vert iT Ming in the West, | of viet be wafted to you w t with cand once met ay old oman who regarded hig door » remained cl and unflattering opin s of yourself. curiously | "The ne mm the door, No re |Your ten-cent “extra shine will “hud so you're Sevator Vest, the great Sen | sponse, jo Stl BY feponse, \leave your © of attached ator?” she asked, | Me knocked ver 4 long, Bite ‘acids of & Cbubla at fosen ih tie genster Vest,” he replied, bowing. ‘Phen the farmer stuck his face, ortmeom with “Why did they put a buffalo and an) My sn And ts ny rt © a “Well, weil,” ie excleimed cintewptuously, | eur, out of the window, Indian on the new money?” your feet will rise vagu AeA Re “In token of the two things that “aftes ah lve ba seh Be 5 ame 0 pateh, Hing (he teu, inet Ht Bittern Mins a nioog? ye brn conmmn gol beagle’. Weehington alli ceitititieenetce on ee ee eo + ‘Don't | Pt, American money has mi |the study of physics and the prot le extinct,’ Guidebook to Gallantry. 7 By Alma Woodward. t| Copyright, 1013, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Cre rr PO Or oe OE Mr. Jarr, as the Cupid of Harlem, | Reunites Two ROP rrr for ror rrr roe re rrr ror re Aunt Hetty are not from Paw Paw.” sald Mr. Jarr. I know that,” said Mrs, Jarr; ‘put {t's all the same. What I was going to say was that If we lived in a private house or even one of those nine-! room apartments on the Drive, ike the | one Clara Mudridge-Smith tives in, paying a fortune in itself for rent, why, then we wouldn't feel so crowded and| the square inch will certain matertals | a? ‘ All this time chat your being ts being | | pried apart you must maintain a pink tex cast of countenance and pour forth Jan unending stream of usaful informa- |ucr, padded with sweet nothings. | When a sudden and severe sinash in | the region of the dorsal vertebrae comes to you, together with the words: “Say, you fathead, 4f you don't move up we'll make*headcheese of you by natural compression’ When she gets a seat stand fust be- fore her and bend solicltous!y over her, | saying things in such @ subdued, Intl-| ate tone of voice that the person next | to her (whose ear is growing out, vis- !bly, from head, in her endeavor to catch things) won't be able to hear a syllable. It'll get on her nerves and | she'll elther change her seat or get out {at the next station. |" Never yawn, even though there's an | irresistible force drawing the corners of | your mouth back toward’ your ears, It’ humitMating for her to have people see ;how much you've pald the dentist tn ‘your ifetime, And if the man acros: | the cur looks too long and too adm! | ingly at your girl let your oritical gaze travel slowly from his feet to his face and back aga!n, making your muzzled | expression say: “Can those feet delong to that face and vice versa? ‘Then call her attentiof to them. When you're getting nesr her station say in disgust: f 1 had knbwn for one min ihe subway was going to be as! crowded as we'd have taken a tax, [tell you | If sie's stuck on you she'll say: “Od, | George, you have such extravagant]. j ideas, You spoil me terribly!" If she's [NOT stuck shell say: “LN come up jwith you by taxl to-morrow night, kid!”* At the top of the steps offer to buy strawberries, a bunch of, bananas, come celery, street Mowers or anything else your eye may Nght on, | ‘Then suddenly discover you have noth- | ing smalier than a twenty-dollar bill! Gratch-Dinkston, the suffragette hiker- Unloving Hearts. {inconvenienced when we had company visiting us.” “T would fee! just as crowded If Mre. ette, was our visitor, if we resided in Madison Square Garden or had @ cozy} little nest of three hundred rooms with baths at the Waldorf,” said Mr. Jarr. “And » if you won't go tn the front room and wake up the visitor and tell her to get off my davenport and give me a chance to rest my tired bones, I'll husband whom she fears.’ “She doesn't exactly fear him," ex- plained Mrs. Jarr. ‘But she saya when he looks at her with those pathetic eyes of his, as he reads the ‘Female Help Wanted’ advertisements to her, | the reproach in his glance cute her to| the quick.” “If she promised to support him in the style he expected she should have made good," sald Mr, Jarr. “He tells me doesn't even pay him his all- mony regularly. “Well, I'm sure {t ts all very con- fusing to me,” remarked Mra, Jarr. “They had an Ethical marriage, I be- Heve they called it. And everything was topay-turvy. She proposed to htm, and he explained he was @ philosopher and poet and must never have sordid themes obtruded upon him, as they| shattered his inspiration and impaired his fdea! “A vig strong woman be ashamed of herself! with mook indignation, ‘Do you know what I believe? I beHeve Mrs. Gratch has taken her widow name because she hi jerted the trusting Mr. Dinkston, That's why sho {s hiding here. 6he| should be out hustling ¢or work to sup- port her husband. It is # good thing he ‘haa no chikiren."* sald poor Mi. Jarr, "m ure I don't} know whether you are making fun or not, but all T do know fa that the qu est people fasten themrelves upon us, “So you are eatiafed tf the suffragette lady cuts her visits short?” asked Mr, Jarr. | “Well, said Mra, Jarr, “it may sound inhospitadle, but I do wish we had our howe to ourselves, Even if she ts a suffragette he should be with her hus- | band, Still, if Thad @ larger place and \ few spare bedvoomns it would be nice have some congenial company or} even a nice boarder "Say no more!” U Mr, Jarr. | hing tells me Mr. Dinkston is at 188. vring him right in, a | then they'll both make a getaway when | they see each other | Strange enouxh, Dr. Dinkston Was at Gus's, Jarr brought fim right | ju, At sight of him Mrs. Gratoh gave a shriek, “Angelol” she cried, | “Zenobla, my — daritn exclaimed | Mr. Dinkaton, Am@ they flow to each, | In parting from ber at her door give | her hand a meaningful pressure and sigh: Goesn*t really matter as long as we're to other's arma, When they were calmer ¢hey told Mr. Jarr that, to show him how the: preciated this efforts ¢o Bring about a) reconciliation, they would stay , right | there for a good long viet! i | ° | to wipe away the unjust stiema that used to cling to the women of her pro- h 12 Women Who ‘Helped : Build America Terhune Copyright, 1913, by The Wrens Publisuing Co. \The ew York 7 No. 19—CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN, Who Made Genius Honored in Europe. YOUNG American actress landed in England in 18: she was unknown, also she was almost penniless. Europeans in those days looked sneeringly upon art, music, drama and literature that came from America. Emerson and @ very few other writers had roused some sort of reepect for our literature, but that an American could be a great stage artist seemed unbelievi ‘ble-to the British. . ‘The woman who had crossed the ocean to prove to them their mis: take and to make American genius honored throughout the world was Charlotte Saunders Cushman, offspring of the oldest New England Puritan stock. When her father, a Boston merchant, lost his money and dted, she scandalized her Puritan neighbors by refusing to settle down as a school teacher—the only “genteel” profession at that time open to women of geod family. Charlotte declared she was going to make her living as @ grand opera singer. This was in 1835, when she was but nineteen. And now came the first of the countless setbacks and misfortunes that were to darken all her strange life. Seareely had he made her debut tn opera at New Orleans when her singing voice gave out. She lost all power to sing. Instead of going back home dis- couraged she turned to the dramatic stage, and a few weeks later she was Blay- ing Lady Macbeth. She scored an Instant hit. ‘Then followed a series of parts ranging from high ly to low comedy, until the girl decided that eho was best fitted by nature to ve a tragedionne., She was not beautiful, She was not even pretty. Her figure and her ey e her only beauties, But her vot a deep contralto-was wonderful and e@he had a nameless magnetic power by which at will she could stir an audience to hysterics or to breathless horror After @ fow months in New Orleans #h misfortune. Scarce had she signed contract to star at & focal theatre when she fell {}1. Before ehe could r healt the theatre burned down, destroying the theatrical wardrobe for which she had spent all her earn- ings. AS soon as sho Was well enough to act again she took position in a stock company, and there played aninor parts until the flues of the star gave her an eleventh-hour chance at a leading role, Almost at once she found herself the most famous actress in Amer! ‘Thent it was that she set out to conquer Europe London managers sne “at her t tine would not give her ‘on a diet of one chop a day Her first performance carried Lond boundless renown were hers. All Europe went mad o ment the standard of American art was raised toward {ts nt pinnacle, Not content with the range of stellar parts open to women, Miss Cushman electrified the world by appearing as Hamlet, Romeo, Claude Metnotte and other masculine roles, Her Romeo was the sensation of the London season, her younger sister playing Juliet. ‘This same sister's unfortunate marriage and other family troubles followed to mar the joys of hard-won victory, ‘Mise Cushman was an ardent patriot. When the civil war was at its height she came back to America and travelled from city to city giving benefits to thronged houses for the sick and wounded Unton goldiers. She contributed mearly $9,000 ¢o the Sanitary Commission alone. A few years later her overwrought strength began to fail. She announced her farewell performances, (It was Charlotte Cushman, by way, who started continuous “farewell performance” he had no less than seven such “farewells” in leas than even years.) At her New York “farewell* the theatre was packed to the roof, and 25,00) people gathered in the etreet outside, clamoring vainly for admittance. Tiring of acting, Miss Cushman gave dramatic reading popular as her regular stage work had been, She gave the last of these read- ings In 1875, dying in Boston in 1876, in her sixtieth year, Apart from lifting the art of acting to a higher » respect American artists, Miss Cushn ventng World), American Over-there New York—and to further It was a Herculean task, Ameri nd for a long nwhile, she lived in a garret a manager to engage her. and adulation and m that mo- which were as ne and making Burops n by her blameless private life did much feasion. A Handful of Interesting Facts (From The World Atmanse.) Fifty-two persons were lynched—three , ican countries, hus a 4 . population of 20. of whom were women—in fhe United | 615,00 an 3, Gtates during the past year? m: SPER Sie SF SHDN eee It {s estimated that in 1911, when the last figures were obtainable, $141,296,200 was spent in the United States for the building of roade. A the Johnson-Jeftries championship fight at Reno, Nev., July 4, 1, the gate receipts amounted to § t ever taken jn at a p ‘There were 12 legal Jan. 1 to Nov. States, During there were 104, executions from 16, 1912, in the United the preceding year of a Cabinet member vernment {s $12,000, majors in the United The ralary of the Federal There a States Army, The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States recetves 4 sclecy of $15,000 9 year, and the Apso- clate Justices $14,600 eaoh, of Commons, England. 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