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

She Meee eciorld. ETABLISHDD BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except bapgay. by the Prese Publishing Company, Nos, 88 to Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZPR, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 68 Park Ror isntered at the Post-Office at New xork as Second<'l er. Subscription sto The Evening For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries tn the International , » and Canada Postal Union. A One Year. ‘ $3.50 One Year... $9.75) One Month. + .20 One Month. + 86 VOLUME 53... .c cece cece eee cece eeeeessese NO, 18,843 MENACE OF FEMININE PROBLEMS. we have too many already, yet it would be no bad thing if at the coming extra session of Congress there could be | created a permanent Federal Commission to act as a bureau of ref- O' commissions of inquiry and investigation, it may be said erence and decision of all questions pertaining to any kind of a woman problem. At present such questions are piling up faster than the press, | the church, scientific bodies and suffragettes combined can handle them. For every question there are forty answers presented, argued, | urged, advocated, persisted in and eworn to. It has never yet beon proven, for example, that woman is bad; yet half the vocal powers of the nation are employed to explain why she is bad. Moreover, it is impossible to segregate one woman question from another, or from the mass. Immorality, dress, industrialism, fash- ions, wages, votes, marriage, babies, somehow get involved in every phase of the discussion. A clearing commission or steering committee is needed. By no other means can our philosophy be saved from confusion and our politics from bickering. PROPOSALS FROM THE UNDERWORLD. MONG contributions coming from ell directions to the cur- A rent discussion of vice and graft problems are some from the underworld, saying: “The time has arrived when the enlightened City of New York should handle the subject practicably and sensibly and not make an attempt to drive unfortunate girls from homes that give offense to no one, to the streets and gutters, from whence they will never be reclaimed.” This means that the keepers of the “homes that give offense to no one” wish protection from the police. As an inducement to public consent to that protection, they hold gut a promise to aid in sup- pressing the white slave traffic. “We have the evidence that can convict,” say they; “you have not, therefore should you accept our co-operation.” This is the presentation of the problem as seen from the under side. It is quite as valid as some of the views presented from the upper heights of morslity, but will not command much sympathy. It is worth noting, however, in illustration of the complexity of the problem. We are in danger of confusion worse confounded when brothel keepers proffer a willingness to join hands with reformers to do up the police. oo A UNION SQUARE FLOWER MARKET. ITH the plan of the Central Mercantile Association to estab- lish a flower market in Union Square there is a prospect of redeeming the equare from being a resort of idlers and making it a place of beauty and activity. It is, therefore, pleasing to learn that the Park Commissioner approves and that the project will be carried out with the coming of the flower season this spring. According to the plans announced, the flowers will be sold at popular prices. It will not be solely # show place of conservatory blooms and cortly exotics, but a garden of the sweet flowers familiar from of old, the roses and lilies, the pinks and pansies, the geraniums and violets, the daisies and daffodils, whose beauty we know and whose names are in all our love songs. It is stated that already more than fifteen hundred florists have expressed a desire to share in the market oon as opened. That means something like a daily public open-air flower show that will be one of the wonders of the city. There will be nothing of the kind to surpass it in the world. eS ee WHEN IS A BARREL A BARREL? NSIDERING our enormous interstate commerce, it is sur- of weights and measures. Considering further the amount barrels, it is even more éurprising we have no standard size barrel. diverse as divorce laws, and among the States the result is confusion. etatute that will cover the whole subject. It is not going to win suc- cess easily. There are many interests that prefer confusion. They make profit by it. But backed by the general body of mercantile the desired object will be gained in the end. It would be well if the statute could carry with it a complete reform of our whole scheme of measurements by the adoption of the metric system. Such reform has been long under consideration. The arguments for it are many. The objections, while formidable, are ‘ based solely on the cost of altering existing scales and other measuring instruments. When the purposed Federal statute is under considera- tion this phase of the issue should by no means be overlooked. Letters From the People | Te consider {t a black stain on the Empire ‘To the Editor of The Evening World State’e shield. T am not a moralist On what day of the week did (ct. 5,]1 consider gambling a folly rather than 1875, fall? 8.1L asin, It te a folly I have Merch 25. committed, at racetrack and elsewhere. To the Editor of The Evening World But I consider any return to “legalized On what date did Good Friday off lawlessness” as an insult to the decent 1653 fall? I am anxious to know as Ijelement in New York. And in New 1,8. ‘wus born on that day. ¥ decent element is always in the major- ing World kk H. Ward's “fal-|the fact that a race track ¢ method of prov-jordenly and well dressed, That's the Replying to Fr facy” I think I ha fag 3 = 3, Let X= ¥. Then 2X = 2Y¥,/ foolest bonehead speech I ever heard. and 3X = 3 Y. Subtracting 2 X — 3| Why shouldn't they be orderly and well R~e2Y—3Y, Then? xX —2Y¥ = 3 dressed? They'd X— 12 ¥, factoring (2) (X — Y¥) = 3| Were not and w families of money that #hs ng Q “ yw eed" ‘May I add a word to the symposium ane of he meat neaeny, WON ase on the proposed renewal of horse race| and other crool Renting in New York State? Brietly 1 NO, LETS Gout QuiETLY \ PROMISED To LETHIM SLEEP, Lt BEca Bouan ‘WHO IN THE HOW THe Deuce CAN SLEEP 7 “THAT INFERNAL RINGING | HAAABAAAAAAAAA BAA ALAA SAA AS LS HH sh Mr. Jarr Fares Forth Upon the Glad Quest of More Trouble. BAAAAABAB SAAR RAAB SAMA LS SS HAA HAA A feller, but insults I take from plece,"—Ladien’ Home Journal, You may be a millionaire, but I'm not. Why, what they'd do to three boobs | nobod: like us in a Fifth avenue hat shop would be something prespricarious!" “Let 'em try it;" exclaimed Gus. as I can, #0 we'll take a middle course. good department sto where we'll get just as good aI you'a get in those swell Fifth bonnet shops, and paying @ fair price.’ “Three doliars ts enough,” sald Gus. ‘My allk hat I only pay five dollars for, and women's hats ain't made of silk iike “We won't get any insults,” Rangle, “because I'm not going to pay n| Fifth avenue rents when I buy a hat bet I'l tell ‘em something! Me, Iam a! for my bride. I'm willing to go as far another, till we'll only be} 1 wouldn't know what to do with him! He can't keep in an aquarium, would you!"—Tit-Bits, Conquests of Constance The other two regarded him with a . elped | Build America; Albert Payson By Coppright, 1918, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. 24.—-MARY LYON, “Mother of Women’s Higher Education.” HIS is the story of a quiet little woman who fought all her life for women’s best good and who lost that life, in early middle age, in the service of one of the women she had helped. Amer- fea owes her much. Her own sex owes her a debt that cannot be paid. Her story is not dramatic or exciting. To many it will not even be interesting. It is the simple biography of a simple woman, who burst open the locked gates of Learning to her sisters. She was Mary.Lyon and she was born in Buckland, Mass. in 1797. Like most of America’s other great women she began her career by teach- ing echool.. For this work she received seventy-five cents a week. To the hour of her death her personal income never reached $4 a week. In those days the average woman had less education than has the ten-year-old girl of today. The few women who privately sought to gain a better education were looked upon as freaks. Miss Lyon dreamed of Higher Education for Women. But when she put her dream into words she was laughed at by some men and denounced as a ‘new woman” by others. Quietly eho set to work to make her dream come true, By eloquence, by logic, by the gentle force of her own personality she tolled away at the seemingly impregnable wall of public prejudice, All she asked at first was a chance to found an Institution that should “train women to the highest usefulness.” And under the tireless pressure of her appeals the wall began at last to crumble—j a little. The Governor of Massachusetts sanctioned her pi ve Fight. in 1838, The next year Miss Lyon opened Mount Holyo! Seminary, a small, ill-equipped institution. ‘There were few pupils, and these few were not ade- quately housed nor cared for. There was almost no money and there was scant allowance for teachers. The girls for the most part were poor. The qualifica- tions for entering Moumt Holyoke Seminary were higher than what was then considered a “finished education" for an American girl. This fact raised a storm of protest; so wild a storm, in fact, that Mies Lyon 14 not dare for ten years to include such unheard-of studies as Latin and French in the seminary's curriculum, Girls who studied those languages at Mount Holyoke in the early years did so as a side issue and almost by stealth. Each pup& was obliged. to devote hour a day to household work. Not only did this help to pay the seminary’s expenses, but it silenced the clamor that higher education unfitted women for housework, Yet ever Miss Lyon was pressing onward, ually moulding stubborn pub- Me opinion to the creating of colleges for her and to the belief that grown women were fit to be at least as well educated as the average public-school boy. More than three thousand girls in all studied under Miss Lyon and went out into the world to spread their teacher's beliefs, Hundreds of these girls and thelr own pupils, actuated by Miss Lyon'a beliefs, went also into the foreign missionary field, spreading the The Last Gospel to far larids. Batti Mary Lyon lived to see her dream accomplished. She lived to hear laughter turn to applause; to know the seed she had sown was blossoming into a world- wide educational and religious movement. This was her reward. And this alone. For all the pay she would accept was a salary of $20 a year (about half cf which she always fe to’ foreign missions) and a home at the seminary she had founded. One night in the winter of 189 she rose from a sick bed and went out into the bitter cold to act as nurse for one of her pupils who was Ill, The strain and exposure killed her. THE END. The Day’s Good Stories Entertaining the Parson. [° "0,07," “Hit wouldn't be of no use, Judge,” said HEY were entertaining the minister et |the man, “to try to ‘aplane dis ting to you all dinner, and after the dessert had been Ef you was to try it you like as not would get eaten Ittwe Jobany sald: nas yer hide full of ahot an’ git no chickens, auther, Ef you want to engage in any rawality, Judge, ‘The minister laughed, “Well l, yo’ bet stick to de bench, whar yo’ am said, “since you are so polite, I believe 4 will] familiar,""—Chicago Recon!-Herald, have another alice,” - “Good! eaid Johnay. Now, ma, remember your promise, You ould if it was necessary to Valuable Man. cut imto the second pie I could have another ERCHANT (to detective)—Some fellow bas been representing himself es a collector of ours, He's been taking im more mone The Dry Season. than any two of ... men we have and I want him collared as quickly as pomibie. 6 JEARD that you were going to be mar-} Detective—All right, I'll have him in jail in ried to Archie Blucblood, Esther, Ia it | Yess than « week, true!’ asked one young society woman of | Merchant—Great Scott, man! 1 don't want to put him ip jail; 1 want to engage him,—The Boston Transcript. “Be warried to him? 1 should say not! Why, eemeaeeanes ride, play tenn, golf or drive @ motor car!” “Wall, said the friend, “be can wim beaut Future Delivery. “You woulda'’t want « husbend that you had to FIRE insurance agent tells this ove: “We have some funny experiences in onr ‘business, One day s email merchant of tthe hill section came to me and insured hie stock withering scorn. The “Sweet’’ “After this," said Mr. Jarr tensely, “I By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1013, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), whispered Con- slab fur your approval. “He wus the ‘Sweet Boy.’ chiffon scarf, eyes that " violet color, the mouth uv a cooin’ babe an’ hair uv cornailk, ‘dipped in coppery gold! been a ad fer most any kind uv taloum The kind uv kid whose mother always wus COMPLETELY enrly breakfast with father! “He used to teH me my eyes were Nquid radtum, tempered with sunbeams; an’ once when I fergot the belladonna, he said the tired, silver whiteness uv "em bruised his heart. Why, never once, durin’ our whole friendship aid he gst wise that this here facial topography. Copyright. 1913, by Prees . the Now York Eveaing World). © IVISION street, down by the the place to get “For why? Should a lady woman's hat cost more as @ keg of beer?” asked ceived sentence, when the Judge askeat him how St was he managed to lift those chickens right | premium etand and deduct it when the store stance golemnly, “I'm in dan- under the window of the owner's house when burns down,’ ’—Exchange, Ger uv bein’ forcibly extracted frum my job-I and Mr. Jarr and Mr. Rangle started ( : i i out to surprise thelr respective wives prising that unto this day we have not a Federal standard | by buying them spring headgear. “Listen to him!" . ‘cage “Didn't I always say he was as thick as of produce of one kind or another that is shipped and marketed in| the Chicago River!" “The Chioago River ain't thick," re- “It you are talking about State standards are good enough at home, but they are about as/| thick rivers talk about the Hudson; it is so thick they can't build a bridge 4 No, the Hudson River ts that An effort is now making to procure the enactment of a Federal | thick that it takes twenty minutes in the ferry to crosi “Let him = rav “But look here, Gus, if you want to queer yourself with your wife just you buy her a hat in Diviston establishments and supported as it will doubtless be by public opinion, | street. Get mer “Come on and step four-flushin: And they detrained tn the centre of the shopping district. At the store they selected a horde of ‘women swept in and out. Some carried bundles, others dragged clamoring off- spring after them, but all ruthlessly walked over and shoved aside all male feel so tropical!” “Yeh. This here mildly heated last few days has did things to me. ‘Why the very buzs uy the wire comes to my ears like the eighin’ uv the wind “I tell you what," said Gus, as he regarded the scene askance. ers go in and pick my Lena a hat. Me, my heart ain't good. Her “Your heart se better than { marked Mr, Jarr. uy ming wus & one night stand affair, “You were talking about a three-<dollar hat and now you are coughing up twenty buck: “Me, I would give fifty dollars not to go in that place. Fighting with women, except my Lene, I ain't used to, and I'm continuous engagement! ‘Well, I tell yun it's great sometimes to look down frum a pedcstal, an’ see someone kow-towin’ to yuhmfrum the region uv the dust—an’ I drank in that Breen, young worship uv his, Nke I wus a vacuvfm apparntus. ‘come the rude awakenin’. ‘He took me to one of them near- swell joints, where they're tryin’ to ree-vive the chop suey habit. Two tables away, wus a dame in gray (SOME outer layer, ft wus) and a» feller, An’ the lady had aboard the roundest, smoothest, joktest, little cargo yuh ever; She had fust got to the stage | hen cack! where the head waiter called her down | wome: ebirred the central is like the angry sizsing uv wakes me frum my siumbera, I feel I'ke I ought to be ree- clinin’ on a mossy bank, under a lal Paloosa tree, clothed tn si Mosquito nettin’ tunic. Oh gee, what’ the use uv workin’ when the hook- " replied Gus, "T got onion Hill what is mar- ir her customers ‘Then, one night, “I gather from Gus's disjointed re- thinks we look too much ike @ forlorn hope or resolutions or something of that sort,” faltered Mr. Rangie, him. We'n do much better if just in and picks all three Sarr, you are always eager You know wha’ You go in and buy three hats, and Gus and I will go see the moving pictures or bow! a frame at the first joint, twenty dollars too.” “One for all, all for one! said Mr, “T am not expert on fem- inine frippery any more than you two skates are. So you'll trall with me.’ Mr. Rangle tapped his head siw#-| cantly to Gus, behind Mr, Jarr’s back, sporting proposition of ‘We'll match coint 44 man goes to the front for the bon- ‘My wife is going to ha’ the latest Imported ‘TU get you a glass of ico water— that bring you up north quickly,” TI Rangle.| volunteered gensrously. “Now don't get joky, little one,” she I have forgot that that commodity fs still on the warket fer anything except It ain't that I need. I want to run into & experience that'll make my heart call ry drop uy blood in my body home 1 want my teeth to do a chatterin' act, in Texas Tommy tempo, frum nervous suspense. & real doggone thrill, that'll m: ferget to remember if my spinal c {s runnin’ vertical or on the bias “My goodness!" I gasped. ‘one been introducing you to the soft and soothing pill, that you have these con- vulstons of the (magination”’ You're going to the other extre the tenor cabaret sinker chop suey frum the end uv her gold when all uv @ sudden, Moth- with muh, lamps her—en’ his soul goer out in pity fer her misfor metimes tune (which same misfortune must the guy with her fasten {t on to her) an’ he ses ‘Poor POOR LITTLE THING! dame's neck had ‘how to live to be a hundred years old’ in every pleat uv It. she was harnessed ae tight as @ frankfurter! So I ses, ‘How old do yuh kK, as everywhere else on earth, the ity, Correspondents hold up with pride wd is guess it's spring in my veins. funny? Spring ought to mean all that's soothin’ an’ I'll-be-good-mother, acts altogether diff'runt on me. As soon ae spring shoves winter into the down- ant-out lodge, the hankerin' to kill a Chinaman creeps on me.” “1 don't Mke your mood to-day," I ; |lectured sternly, terget it,"" she disrespected, “I 4 how many |can't atand no Parkhurstin’ to-day, my trees are left in his father’s orchard? angelic disposition is in 9 tango tangle. ‘ANTI-HYPOORITD, wil) be printed toumossema 2) oven allen mo to pall cut the gamt bis Mr. Jarr was zam recked the head tappi signal. Rangle and Gus saw they held thelr coins heads up. Mr. Jarr's was aot her? Sex he: ‘Not more'n twenty- Isn't it a shame? Sufferin’ legal Hits! When yuh couldn't ‘1 expression with a axe! Then suddenly, with a start, an’ realized that ail this ‘rum the hetghts’ chopped down five peach trees, ple trees, four pear trees and one cherry which altogether made on kicked out if they d lose thelr chance (X— ¥). Dividing by X — ¥, 2 — g,| 1! €ambling away money mont of them ak lle 1H BRACH., | San't afford to lone and of apbing thelr home. Dr. Crippen, the murderey, was ‘The second trial Mr. Jarr held tails. ‘He was the victim. “L'll know where to find you two,” he “There's one on the corner has pool tables in the back!" And, with « fool's valor, he phinged inside the ladies’ paradise, where male| $ Petterns § aise wanted. Add two cents for letter ig in ¥ ie at ir postage © burey, becn handin' me, he had seen through you doing, George?” a ain't doing nothing, ell a ie or not eaid, cheerfully. the same pair uy emoked g! 998. down feelin’ I launched him cold. Yuh see, I dreaded the time when he'd out his eye-testh a! bimderey* So are most forwers a The Colored Man’s Advice.) "i." oot ior 50, fle was eine | out with the policy when I reminded COLORED man was brought before « Suman: eee police Judge charged with atealing ‘How much ts it!" inquired my customer, chickens, Ho pleaded guilty end re. , just @ Uttle matter of $24," ‘Well,’ eaid be, ‘suppose you just let the The May Manton Fashions down the front this season, as well as their elders, and this one ts both pretty and Practical. There te a Plait over each should which provides deco: ing fulness. The sleeves ed to the arm- and waist and Portions are in one and the belt holds the fulness at the walet- line. In one view the dress is shown with the tunic cut out to form a slight V and finished with a ailk collar, In another it ts cut high and the edges scalloped. These two treatments are equally desirable and each shows a good effect. Such a frock as this one can be utilized for all the sim; ty washable and also for su as serge, challis and the lke. For the twelve-vear ~ size will be needed 43-4 yards of material 27 Inches wide, 33-4 y 34, or 3 yards 4, yard 18 inc the trimming, 18 wide for Pattern No, 7802 ts cut in sizes for girls 8, 10, 12 and 14 years of age. Cali at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo- site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents in coin or stamps for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and always apecity