The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1913, Page 20

el RPE aos SSTABLIAHED BY JOBBPH PULITZER, vocagemprtatamienneetdien 9. 2'4 eo Prone me Company, Nos. 63 to at Row. x Sts Tabak" ho 7, end Caneéa, tal Union One Year.... sees $8.00] One Toor, One Month... ++ 801 One Mon VOLUME 53 VO. 18,838 COMMISSIONS AND TRADE CUSTOMS. OLLOWING the disclosures of The World concerning the moth- F ods by which the hopes of farmers and market gardeners a too often disappointed in selling their goods through com- mission men, there have been various defensen. Among them is the statement: “We do not pretend to return to the shipper whnt we etl his produce for. We return to him the market price, If we get moro than the current market price, we keep it.” The argument is that the commission business could not be sus- tained on the percentage usually charged for selling farm produce og consignment. Instead of meeting that fect fairly and fixing « commiasion that would sustain the trade, it appears to have become @ “trade custom” to make up the needed profit by indirection. The objection to such custom is that it lends itself too casily to fraud when practised by dishonest men. The condition calls for reform. It is to the interest of honest and fair dealing merchante, 28 well a8 to the producers whose goods they handle, that such customs be-either carefully supervised or stopped altogether. A commission should not lapse into graft, —— po THE CAUSE OF ALL IMMORALITY. BILL before the Ohio Legislature provides for the appoint- A ment of @ cominiassion of three persons to “prescribe the fashions to be worn by women” in that State. The argu- ment is that feminine immoderty ie the cause of the great wave of immorality now sweeping over the country. Down in Arkansas the legislators have been demanding censorship of the press and alleging the newspapers to be the cause of immorality. At the Philadelphia conference on mental hygiene a ecientist of note attrilmted not only immorality but insanity to industrialism among women. Chicago reformers, after their deep vice probing, concluded that immorality in due mainly to what may be called the “unfemininity of man,” and they demand a court of morals to regulate his actions. Fortunate is it that the powers of our Federal Government are defined and limited, and that our anmplete sovereignty ie split up among fifty States; otherwise we might have all these censorships— and more—precipitated upon us in a mass. New York City appears the only sane spot on the continent. When we would know the cause of all immorality we get after the police. —$ $< TOO MUCH FOR THE MONEY. ILE it ie to be regretted that the discussion of the vivo | problem should have been eo merged with that of woman's wages as to be almost confounded with it, the confusion has served at least to rouse a keener interest in the wage question than wes ever felt when considered solely from a financial standpoint. It is not proved that girls are forced into vice by reason of inadequate wages, but it is proved that in many cases they are woefully underpaid. A report of the Department of Commerce and Labor, giving results of investigation in 1910, estimated the average earnings of womén in department stores at $6 if they lived at home and $7 if they were “adrift.” The measure of efficiency required of them was stated to be: “Export knowledge of goods in stock, expert knowledge of people in the community in which the store is located, expert ktowledge of styles, fashions and custome, intiinate knowledge of the’ principles and policies of the store, accuracy in filling orders, a eed memory for names and faces, physical health, cleanliness of person and a clear brain.” _ That’ is surely a lerge order for 86 or $7 a week. It would be good economy to give the woman that has it enough pay to enable her to live well, dine well, dress well, recreate herself and keep up to. the top notch of energy. It is losing money to put her in’a hall and feed her on 50 centa a d —_————(e | THE WOES OF MEN IN POWER. | ISTEN to the voice of the janitor and hear him complain. L He. has alleged that he is expected to look after the babies of a tenant on the maid's afternoon off when the lady is out; hevhas to occasionally button the gowns of the lady when the maid | is @ut; he has to look after cats, dogs and canaries when the family | is away from home; he is asked to run errands frequently; he is expected to help move pianos and to take up rugs, and nobody offers pay; he is further looked to as a mender of broken furniture. Finally, | he is called at night to let in belated tenants that have lost their keys. Such is the lot in life of a man generally depicted as « czar and | a tyrant. Jt ie an illustration of the saying of Macaulay that tho | scholar or even the average man “has little reason to envy any of | those who are engaged in a pursuit from which at most they can only expect that by relinquishing liberal studies and social pleasures, by passing nights without sleep and summers without one glimpse of the beauties of nature, they may attain that laborious, that in- vidious, that closely watched slavery which is mocked with the name of powor.” Letters From the People that way. I have always observed that the class of people that attend the Faces are well dreseed, respectable and Well behaved. I would like to see an infinitesimal minority of 4,000 p any other Sublic meeting that @e ordcriy as those that a races at Belmont Park on I Day in 1907, It's @ good policy before condemning @ thing to look at tt from 1d pick out Ite good qualities 8B “alright” @ry corrections. RH. “Alright” is ineorrect. The two words, “all right,” ghould be used. yeare was | sporting barbs The Evening World Daily Magazin e,. Wedn Under the Cens6rs <3: San iare were. INSTEAD CORSETS WILL BE AGAINST qe UAW, WEAR GOWNS THAT OQUTUNE THe FEMALE Figure BYCE EVENING GowN DESIGNED | INCHES OF THE NEOs NSORS NOT MORE THAN Two BELOW THe CHIN SHau. BE UNCOVERED CENSORS WILL DESIGN WOMEN'S CLOTHING — Coprright, 1919, by The Presa Puptishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ie BATHING Ga Ws The Pres Pablishing Co, York Evening World), tel 0 ‘an cut their own hair at hom ked Fred, the Jarr climbed up Into the chair. “When them fixtures {8 on the market (o put another nail in the coffin of tlre tonsorial artist I #up- Powe I won't never see yout" “Cheer up, Fred!" sald Mr. Jarr, “I'd drop in to get the Glades of it sharp- ened, wouldn't 1?" “I don't know,” replied the possimis- tle barber, “When they © selling onl for two bite and w’ nelf-stropping razor strops, and now a cut-your-hatr-et-home machine, T Guess the boss will close th the chairs to dentists and let a bunch of good union barbers go out copping doormats with the word ‘Welcome’ on them “Again T bid thee said Mr. Jarr, they make 4 ‘barber shops.” Voll, I tel! you what," said the bar- “L read in the paper, after I'm conse repining,” “AM the safety razors n't seem to Close the ber. == The Definition. Also the names of the principal gon- erals commanding the Americans? Mra, M. ‘To the Editor of The Brening Wor On what date was the election of November, 190i, held? 3B. BLAU. “What le meant by ‘an embarraes- mem of rich ae we've had thie year.” through with the sporting page, that jKuys is advising honest working men to break machinery and steal from the "explained Mr. Jarr. the name; well we've been doing that—putting a turmed edge on razors private parties what shave themselves leave with us to get honed or ground, And now here come these cting, cut-your-own-hair machines, ‘ou every boob and rube By Alma | Soda Fountain Conduct. F you should happen to meet @ lady of your acquaintance on the street about 4.30 in the ask her, have ' afternoon, Breetings changed, whether al She may say (there after Thank you 80 much, but really"— &e, But you just keep on insisting, and ; When she has nally capitulated i jesting things that are the bar and a Palm room. Also @ idea of tee by implying th: of course you suppose she's in a (such a busy tadyt) and tea tak long, don't you kag Now that you'y the cheapest treat gurgle mischievously: “What do you nay to an exciting a thing as a glass of ice cream goda?” Couched in these terms, she thinks you really imagine it's a lark, and she enters into it with seat, And let me toil you, in these days of hush money it's not often that you'll get any one to enter with seat into anything that has a ten-cent horizon, Lest she discover before you get her to the fuse dispensary what a piker game you're handing her, employ the time in being extremely juvenile and ex- uLerant, and ask her in your best baby lingo: “What flavor is ‘oo goin’ him?" Shoo her merrily through the Aoor- way of the shop and, reating your hand carelessly upon a huge sign which reads; “PURCHASE YOUR SODA CHHCKS AT THE DESK," stand in the middle af the floor and shout to one of the clerks: inated all save ‘age, sola water, to have, “Say, where do yuh buy yer soda checks, huh?” Tell the cashier “Two, please.” and smile, Then she'll to you tn frigid e ples How @o you know list of non-intoxica You try to tel! her so in a G. B. Shaw manner, and ebe'll come back at you with acon “Five, ton, fifteen or twenty, You're not a price Guidebook to Gallantry. Copyright, 1913, vy The Press Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World), PORDEOERORRDEO DSR BEEHERAEEA OSES ROSAS SHORE ONS ESSENSE | Mr. Jarr and His Barber Take a | INSTEAD oF NayTFitT * GLOVES AND Steeves® esda 1 1913. FoR, NAKED FACE Women Who Helped Build America By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1013, by ‘The Press Publishing Oo, (The New You Evening World). NO. 22-SARAH BACHE, Unrewarded Heroine of the Revolution. E French Marquis de Obastellux, studying the American Revote tion at close quarters during ite dark days, wrote back to Francesa long and glowing letter to the effect that he bad found one woman who might stand as model of ideal patriotism for all the world, a woman who was doing more for the colonies than almost any man in all America. " ‘The woman was Sarah Bache, old Benjamin Franklin's only daughter. (One of her descendants, by the way, is said to have been barred from mem- | bership in an exclusive patriotic society a few years ago on the astounding excuse that “Benjamin Franklin was not @ gentleman.”) Franklin, in his autobiography, tells of his own romance with Sarah's mother, He first saw her—Deborah Read—when, as a penniless boy, he tramped the streets of Philadelphia munching a crust of bread and looking for work, Later he courted Deborah, but for some reason or other he left her. Coming back to Philadetphia long afterward, he found she had been Married and that her husband had also deserted her. Whereupon Franklin Qe gs renewed the old devotion, and he and Deborah were married. They had two children—a eon, who died in babyhood, and a daughter, Sarat From early youth Sarah was her father's chum, nnnnnnnnnnnnrrnni and she was his fellow-traveller on his diplomatic #o- Journ in Europe. She inherited the wonderful old philosopher's wit an@ keen common sense. These qualities and her strikingly handsome face made her a belle, both in Paris and fondon. A court artist, Hoppner, painted her portrait, which now hangs in the Catherine Wolf collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Azt. In 1767, when she was twenty-three, Sarah married Richard Bache, who English born) was an ardent patriot and succeeded Franklin tn ster-General, years afterward came Sarah's chance to serve her stricken country ‘The revolution was at its height. Against the well-fed, well-clothed troops of England we had but a handful of militia, who were, for a large part. in rags, half starved, barefoot and devoid of proper hospital care. Sarah Bache went to work with all the skill of a general. She organized & band of nearly 2,600 patriotic women and set them to sewing clothes, ing shoes, preparing hospital oandages, &c., for the unfortunate soldiers, She went in person to nearly every man of means in the colonies, and by the force of 8 raised large sums of money to buy materials with which to keep wing women busy. Comfortable clothing good rations have more to do with an army's Success in the fleld than most outsiders realize, And from 178 (the time when Sarah began her wholesale toll in behalf of the troops), the fortunes of the A Philosopher's Love Story. | | patriot cause began to improve. Not content with this work, she reorganized the wretched army hospital | fervice; coaxing money from people whom no one else could induce to con- (ribute. With these funds she bought medicines and delicacies for the sick or BY ORDER OF CENSORS WHY 9! | | Fall Out of Living’s High Cost. POISISISISSSSSOTS SEITSSE DISS FSI9SS GISSVSVGTIITSITS: v in the land will buy one-if they're cheap enough.” “f would have thought you would ‘been tn good humor,” “I said to m; t a hair cut me up this fine di like @ human pickle. Why, I might as well have bought one of these hair-cut- ting machines and trimmed my hair while going home in the subway “That ain't no joke, Mr. Jarr, Woodward. ling uplift of bro’ on't get flip! e? What's yer goin’ to drink?" You decide to retire and consult with tae lady, who has meantime wandered over to the counter where the imported perfumes at four, five and eight dollars Per ounce of fragrance are enticin| displayed, Noting her proximity to this botiisd wealth, you decide to take a chatice without referring to her. So you @sain approach the caged lady and Murmur “Two tens, please.” With the pasteboards in your hand you beckon gracefully to the treat On, wise you! If you'd gone over th she'd have roped you gure. As it {s, she hear't got brass enough to CALL you del'berately over to be trimmed! Somewhere, in full view, you wil! find two long Mate of 10 cent things, with,are blue, the sun Is ehining and the cryptic and alluring monakers, Elo- quently you suggest each one to the lady and she will say no to all of them, | beam at you and whisper: YOU going to take?” To end the agony, you mention eome- thing you've been brought up on, for instance, coffee ive cream soda. ‘This speed inapires the lady to ac- tion. She wit! ha’ malted milk, eold, with ce cream, chocolate flavoring and you are about to ask her wouldn't Hike a dash of talcum powder and a hoarhound drop to finteh it off, the clerk intones, sourly: “Ten cents more, please!” By thie time ail the foam on your coffee soda has gone down and It looks (ike @ bum deal for you, so you ask the clerk to fill it up, Finally you taste it. You drink about half, then you shudder and eay to the mixe! It's Just a trifle too sweet, Would you mind putting @ little more soda in it?’ He does mind, but he does tt. You sip again. Bah! It's acid sour! You laugh apologetically at the dispenser, who is gazing @t you with massacre in hie eye, and murmur, “Just a trifle too too, old man, I think ach of up would help tt: dash!" ‘Then, as you heave the store, don't look ack, even though you've forgotten something. Because glass projected with power from a distance is apt to be diatiguriog! Fred, glumly. “You'll see ginks doing that before long; the barber business is fetting on the blink, worse and worse every business,” replied Mr. J I notice we all have three meal: it of clothes to we: issors against the narrow black comb, and ding off a, few feet took a squint along the top of; ‘Mr. Jarr's head, which he was defor-| estering. “I'll bet one of them new Indian and buffalo jitney pieces you've| got a raise of salary,” he sald,/ after some reflection. “Last time you was in here getting a trim you give me an ear full of raves, the Emma Goldman stuff, ‘the rich gettin’ richer and the poor get- \ tin’ poorer, and now you're talking like a guy that's got his after being a bull in harness thirty years and getting out with the cush six years axo in the shadder of the statute of limitations. “You're spilling chatter like as If you | was going to pull next that how much | |money @ gink gets ain't got nothing to| jdo with hin honesty, It's a righto, too, | | for you can jook down Into the shoes of some jobbies thet makes all sorts of | money—red, white and blue—and yot| can see they're crooked from the ground up”? “Fine, cheerful in this pl Mr. Jarr. \ fe of mind you are ant day of spring,” sald n't you know the sklex little birdies sing ‘Tweet! Tweet?” The Giants are heading north from Texas, the Highlanders have shown fine form in Bermuda, Belmont Park will be open during the last of May—ouch!" | “Well, 1f you don’t sit still I can't help| cutting your ear; but It's all right, I onty | nicked It a i If a Jobble !s doing the tango in a » Vm “‘@matter with you, anyway, Fred asked Mr. Jarr in a grieved tone. don't wanted was inspiration, uplift and| cheer, and here you are sore at the! world and try to maim me for life oy sclasoring at my ear.” “I'm sorry,’ said the barber, “but I've! deen trying to forget the races, and! here you go reminding me of it. Since Aug, 1, 1910, T ain't seen a race. Now, if) you was to ask what's become of Olam- bala, who won the Subunban that year, | or where is Novelty, that come home| with the kale tn the Futurity, 1 couldn't teil you; but T only know the! high cost of Iving !s go!ng to “1 need a hatrcut—what T revolution, Look what the nec; | of life cost!" | “What's that got to do with renewins races in York?” asked Mr, Jar. “Why, ain't you heard?” replied the sporting barber. “It's sald they've cut) ou: the Field—dollar admissions—and you can't get on the track unless cough up a five spot? T te Jarr, Bobody loves @ poor Tan! nurse. Truly, the Marquis de Chastellux's praise was little exaggera wounded, And she worked personally, night and day, as a military hospital 1 Of Sarah's eight children, the eldest, Benjamin Franklin Bache, rose to the greatest fame, He started “ The “General § tne Gotieral Advertiser in 170, In this Influential paper he flercely assailed George Washington, bia San ee? Krandfather's former friend and admirer. When Wash- ington retired from the Presi Bache turned the force of his attack agatinet Washington's successor, John Ad: Under Thomas J on's leade: i he next helped to found what was generally called the “Democratic-Republican” party, with Jefferson as its first nt. Sarah Bache died in 1808, in her s#ixty-fifth of the Needle.” @ Wonderfil Thanksgiving Day game between two | great varsitics, } “This game was played almost faultleadly, interest was maintained to the very end, sweet, did be? The dear fellow! What Star was itt play mucceeded star play with the precision of Marle—I don’t think I should tell you, clockwork, But—— Maud—Ob, do, 1 insist! @ man wan disabled, Now They Don’t Speak. | AUD—So Jack compared me with something The Marie—Well, he referred to you as “the hu- You ly had laid the 4 single doctor was called out, fot a bos was token, not a tooth loosened, od dyed the & a at the this pheno. heads and sighed, It Pays. they mld, int wn T the urgent request of the adv partment we seprint this bit of fan unknow source “When a duck tere aa cag she just waddies | off ag if nothing & noise “Te hen alrertises, Hence the demand for heos’ ges insicad of ducks’ eggs," —Clevelani , Plain Dealer, —— No Carnage atch boy whet y developed, king lunch for Bim Suddenly looking : quality of astu No Fun. | he bos's grandimother to take to «hool one morn! 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