The evening world. Newspaper, April 15, 1913, Page 18

rondo ESR Fees ene Barered at the Fog-Office @ New x Oeaseription ‘Rater to The hvening, For Bnglana end. the continent World for the United States All Countries in the International Canada, Postal (1 ‘ and One Month.. ow VOLUME : teeeceeeeeeese eNO, 18,865 GOOD WORDS FOR OUR SCHOOLS. S*: so much in the way of adverse criticism has been said or written of our public sdhools it is pleasing to learn that an eminent German educator, Dr. Kerechensteiner of Mu- nich, has, after ful! investigation, pronounced them good. He says he found in this country echool organizations and educational ac- quirements “from which we Germans can learn American once learned from us.” The praise is not indiscriminate. In some cases it is balance by disapproval. ‘I'hus objections are made to some of our methods of teaching drawing and ecience in the elementary schools, while on | the other hand it is stated that in the high echools the drawing meth- ods and the equipment for scientific study surpass “in appropriate- ness, in abundance and in use, anything I have ever secn in the many countries, not excluding Germany, that I have visited. Commendstion is given even to school clubs, so much condemned by many of our own educators. It is said: “Eapecially in the inter- mediate schools of Boston and New York, in which the upper classes are concentrated, did I find that clubs are developing along excellent limes and having a good moral influence on the whole school.” It would appear from this that some of our home criticism is} morbid. . . —__-+—_— EUGENICS AND THE RIGHT OF MARRIAGE. HURCH supervision over the physical health of applicants 7 for marriage, as exercised by the Dean and his colleagues of the Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul at Chicago, has had | effect of increasing the number of applicants for marriage there. | “Tm fact, the Dean reports that the number has more than doubled that of an equal period of time before the now rules went into | i This proves that the so-called “certified marriage” fills need | Naf the time. A Widespread sentiment, whether well founded or not, | unquestionably exist in its favor elec no such abnormal increase | Spplicants for marriage at that particular cathedral would havo} place. The issue, however, has not yet been brought to the test of some ease as that of the Brownings. The story is well known, but Nie worth reconsidering in view of the extent and zeal of the agitation it excluding invalids from the privilege of marriage. »/Flizabeth’ Barrett in early girlhood was afflicted with spinal ction. Tater on her lungs became delicate. When a young she broke a blood vessel. Thereafter she was confined to her fa, seemingly a hopelcas invalid. Her father, who belieyed in en- es, forbade her to marry. She married Browning secretly and i took her go Italy. She bore him a strong, healthy son. She did Mots of good work besides. The world was sorry when she died. it when her father, the cugenic champion, died, nobody shed a tear. are many people living hidden lives with a story like the WONDERS AND MARVELS. NAGERS of the Anglo-American exposition to be held in London next year have decided to make special demonstra- , bridge building, tunnelling, electricity and hydraulics during the ry of peace hetween the two countries. ‘The decision will afford opportunities for the British to show ise wonderful work done not only at home but in the colonies. end mighty are the bridges and tunnels and dame and railroads Dt by Britons since 1814. But we can beat them. If they have wonders, we have done marvels, The bridges and tunnels in erosind this city alone will come ner to holding equality with the empire. But if the exposition be carried out in a way worthy ‘oth nations, it will surely be a thing to make the rest of the i and etere. one or two ey his to think ef Cos Cob pictures being exhibited place, Sandy's pictures are part of the same show 80 much New York not long ago and is being more in that his ere not freaks which the peopte go to look at first and gee nomething nice after the shock wears off. Horseneck indicate that both Jim and R. Jay wintered well, our good Highway Commissioner Leon Peck, he being bought “eelectmen have appointed our old friend Norgustus Nap to sleep on the job when the free and enlightened voters will select some one else. instead of all being dumped into the smothering the muasel beds and embarrassing the Tom-cods in their have, to @ considerable extent, been put on the road from the depot same being high-dry and solid as a ‘ané much cheaper than crushed ston no ral ig tip to the wise and may be of value even to Norgustus whom we mentioned flap thelr wings, ‘bas turned out that our learned Town Counsel, Messrs. Wrong and Wright, iknow as much about levying taxes when they lay them too high on a de- and no questions asked. W. and W. having been Court, maybe otherg will pluck up a little nerve much now as the | | tions of the progress in education, navigation, railroad build: | time they were twenty-six. The reason [The papers say Irving Bacheller has gone down to Bermuda where the angel: | widow as they do when fixing them low for EK, C. Converse and their righ cliente, amounting to one-fifth of the levy which they send over to the | cool and in circulation, Stale, old air, ered by the after the assess- | again, is bound to inflict injury upon The adjacent city of New York has taken nelghbor R, A. C, Smith to be Commissioner. He knows all about docks, having plenty of boats to tle | great fear of cold air. He prefers to he Evening World Daily Migisiae. Pacsdag. THEY ARE GOING B DANCE He TurKEy TRoT, MABEL [Are You Middle Aged—And Why?) .exsianc.. [By Sophie Irene Loch Loch D unaenannngenaennnneannnnaaaasaesaaaasanan sad aaanannaanaannennaanenaanmnannananaamaanaeaaamanntaanaaasaeaneanaananaanaaaaanaanaaanend Wis @o you become middle aged? A lady witness in a fa- ‘mous case tly put the mid- le age period be- tween forty and fifty, Mrs. Ernest Schofeld, an Eng- Ush authority of the feminist move- ment, courageous- ly claims that the term middle age ought to be abol- ished as obsolete. She bases her theory on the fact that women in the early Victorian Gays used to be Fightly reckoned middle aged the of thie was that they were interested in but very few things, such as em- ‘vroMdery and the humdrum round of heusehold duties, with diversions of a very mild nature. But now there has come a great change. There is @ vastly WIDER o1 look, especially for women. Accord! to this authority, has taken the great work of regu- lating the traffic of cities. Pd and modestly he has pursued je etudy of facilitating the economic movement of the travelling public; and| TAM’ went to Indie and 1 sam efor to such @ degree that Paris, under the Great Lépine, has adopted all the Eno| {!s*? ‘Well, McClellan abandoned the rules 7 a cose Bad ay talito ee eo eek: landing. And so my brigade had no opportunity to win anything but slorFe ject €or @ rich man to spend his energies on; Dut he hes done ft. His work has indeed been of far-reaching value. Does he cones Sree middle aged? Not mu In the heyday of th: and he is DOING something. ase you and me. To keep up S SRALTHY STOREST tn things that/ Explanation Demanded. 20, 104 0. vt © ae 04 raninies chance on one mit of pas Pow tert Aaa Cy bedrest ie eae as tat me he ee the Ca Boge hayes d the Gre alive and actually e hand of Father Time in the summing oe YOU ARE AS OLD AS YOU THINK | his raincont woman may defer “aettling down" almost indefinitely ané, by continued activity, keep her mental- ity and physique alike young. Just eo! The y of “settling down” {s over, And the man who gives up ACTIVITY has usually joined “@own-and-out" club. You and I heve learned—as well as the rich man, poor beggar man, chief—that standing means stagnation. the days of yore, when a man made enough money to keep him for the rest of hie life, he fixed up his af- aire, sat down by his fireside in se- called peace and let the “young ¢olks” do the activity thing. Thus the folks” were relegated to the rear and youth was considered all important. Grandfather's hackneyed phrase was “Ia my day.” DOING something: healthy interests of the EVER’ In other words he quits Susiness and He may seek pleasure for a time, But he becomes satiated with it and wants something to do. Sometimes it is termed a “hobby,” such as Mr. Morgan evinced in his Egyptian goes to work. there is Eno, the traffic man parison with the others who could “set- To Add10 Years to Your Life. By J. A. Husik, M. D. Avoid Spring Colds. 'T is @ matter of common belief among I the people that to catch cold in the spring is a serious matter. A spring cold Insts so long, is so hard to cure and diMoult to get rid of. It is further believed that in the spring one needs a Special spring tonic to guard on myeterious spring sioknesses. sa yr of fact, howe those Who live according to nature's laws in the winter find themselves in perfect health when spring comes around. They need no spring tontes to maintain health, jand when they do happen to catch @ ‘elty of Hartford, up-Btate, to look out for the str: ete, The Tempor- | cold they throw it off with equal ease and readiness in the spring as at any other time of the yea: On the other hand, the persons who suffer much from spring of healthful living. Phyalologists have established the fact |that the best kind of air for a human being to breathe Is cool alr frequently | changed, Even the amount of carbon dioxide, or exhaled air, contained in a whole kept warm and breathed over and over those who inhale it. ‘The average person js usually in jerJoy the comfort of warmth in the papers picture Kbe: ¢ John Hill weeping over the Income Tax, some | present to the promise of good health he will have’to pay himself. He depicts the hard-earned savings of for 230 yeara as about to be grabbed off to run the Government “nt ‘ariff which enabied them to,eave more, His sobs in the future, Andsthus ie that the fear of cold The Plaint of Have You a Figure Like the Venus Erin’s Own Son Of Milo? Try These Measurements 8 your figure like the Venus of Milo'e—except for the arms? You'll remember, that the Venus of Milo is a famous statue that has lost toe, 1s shy on drapery for the northern half of her anatomy and has wavy hair parted in the mid- Comms HS Ye ea Weta COORTED Kate Retlly an’ though: French acientist, Get out your measur- ing tape and see how nearly you eon- form to Dr. Jacques's specifications: The proportions of a perfect figureare absolutely mathematical, he says, and he further contends that should be six times the length of Whether the form is slender or plump this rule holds good. The Greeks made their statues ac- cording to this standard: That the face, from the highest point of the forehead ranging downward from the line of the hair to the end of the chin, must be one-tenth the length of the whole stat- ince the light o' eparkling blue eyes. On Sundays we shon me life was her| "ana why it the Celtic Park “Becaune, eames the ‘Where the Irish colleens kindle Cupid's | m8 thew."—ladie’ Home Journal, Pied 120 & perfect model for ‘Me thrade "was « diver—wnen 1 tod! The Turkey Was Tame. figure and people ut her measurements now- And women are wondering how |near they come to living up to those measurements, Here, anys the Chicago Tribune, ‘6 !the way to find out how nearly you ‘resemble the Venus de Milo, supplied by Dr. Jacques, 9 She turned up her nose an’ then started, from old Uncle Dphraim asked him in j “Och, there's no man on earth of the | turkey. “Rat, laste use to me | z | Who can't keep his fool head above| “o*. , ore Fou oure it's a tame | din The hand must measu: wrist to the end of the mi me—one-tenth of the whole. From the top of the chest point of the forehead is a sev- and If we divide the length of the from the hair line to the chin Into three equal parts in the perfect figure it will be seen that the firet di- vision determines the point between the and the second where the nostrils ‘The next time I visited Cupid's domain Was wien I was enraptured wid Mary | He consequmtly bought the turkey, and a day | saying, we never ha SSS tance 1» Infection with germs. nas spring arrives and win- ’e opened and cloth- changed, the slightest cold draught @trikes those whose vitality has been lowered during the long months of con- finement; and the germs of disease find wood soll In the body whose state of revistance {a below par. ‘Thus the odnoxious spring cold comes Often it is merely @ matter of convenience for some weeks Occasionally, however, it 1¢ @erlous results. Here and there an in- dividual is carried off by pneumonia or Ddecomes a victim of tuberculosis, the whole trouble beginning wih a mild T'd a good steady job, an’ me fortune | ——— — . “ate - For I was quite a hit in the steeplajack Some Ways of Preventing Accidents. ing some fundamental physiological | dowe and doors @ure, I mentioned the But she flared up an’ sald, “Yer too! try some Stat high-toned for me, For the matther of husbands, they're! their accident rate. Among such States| ‘tt Is the 1! ° day ‘ ihe, asus is the little accidents day by @ay But the man that I want must live! dustries and Commerce is constantly in-|ca's c nearer the ground,” t from the feet to the top of the head is the same dis- ce as |e the stretch of the arms fully These are the measurements of the perfect human body, which women the world over and through the centuries have vied with each other to obtain and ef which poets and bardgyfrom time invmemorial have sung. ‘Though whether the path of the girl with @ perfect figure !s always made as pleasant for her as tha‘ from Donegal town, When I heard her reply, I perspired in| No: 3 some of which are worth quota- To avoid this drop the fear of cold Ventliate your rooms the whole Learn to brea Bhe'd say "yes"? If I'd firat get a job) thought: to say that from winter long freely, There wor others came afther, during muny to long months of winter leads id ielles, Privately we think js weeping because Jerry Dono- seat in Congress doing what Woodrow Wilson says the p themselves shut in, doors whose face is perfect fs cool, frequently changed air, This havit/ ter and sometimes might be open to will prevent many ailments, will! q and windows tightly locked, with the|ée away with the need of spring tonicr! the girl with perfect physique ‘s com- result that they lower their vitality te and will help to maintain sound health| panionable and lively and full of tun, @ mastied Gegree and lose thelr power ané prolong life. tion, Generally speaking, however, de & & wondher—I thried every tor ehe Is ideally healthy. Tm tivia’ eo life of « Cacheter mant> ME LIRR F ~— ormCivil WAR BY MRS.GEN. PICKETT. Copyright, 1913, by The Prem Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World), 38.—GEN. J. B. MAGRUDER, Hero of Malvern Hill. ERE'S @ letter from dear olf ‘Prince Jobe Mite “LH aruder, He aske if he may join our egricultamad army for a few days—frat, to see us and quate the acquaintance of our magnificent boys, and, to go over hin old battlefleld, Maivern Hill, which he Eaowe joins our backyard,” said my Soldier, handing me om Magruder’e letter. Fotlowing our old-fashioned custom, we all rode Oar on the appointed day to meet the steamer and welesme our coming guest. Knowing how short was the run ore Richmond to Pickett's Whart, we were surprised Get even the fascinating “Prince John" could «0 entirely Gere won the the homage of all on board the ship. Hetéimg out his hand to the Captain, who had come down trom he - to see him off, he gallantly said: “Bon voyage, my kind Captain, to you and your charming passengers. They and the beauties of your historic James with its old legends and new canal are 40 adsorbingly interesting that If it were not for my host, this great hero here, who eo honors me with his confidence that ing to trust me im Gs, sheepfold, wolf as I am, I should go with you all the way. Lifting fe hat in adieu to the tadies and taking my Soldier's arm he came forward to greet me. Kissing our {lttle boys, and patting them on the head, Be mamed one Commander-in-Chief of the Army and the other Lieutenant-General Commanding. ‘Ae we Grove home I listened to enatches of stories of West Point, Mentos, Forts Adame and Leavenworth, of the beautiful women of Newport and of @e fate of poor Carlotta and Maximilian. For he, with other leaders of our Gear Lost Cause, had gone forth to offer ald to those unfortunate victimes of @e Napoleente embition. “That's we-alle’ house, General Prince John Garuder.” cried out my Mette Georges, “and we'te going ¢o have something you don’t know nothing about Ger breakfast!" “Yes, Mog, that's our cottage,” ena the General. “Ana thie—this pile of bricks ead tar, Pickett!—by all that's holy,” @e wala tragic voice, “Ye that all that’s left of your magnificent old home?” “No, Meg, no; took just beyond the third chimney and ace that glerteus rosebash with ite magnificent bloom. By seme great miracle its -oots were net Milled and {t diossoms in the eweetest and most beautiful roses you ever Baw. My wite’s curls twine about a fresh one from June till frost. The negroes eall it ‘Det He'nted Rosebush, wid dem aperit roses,’ and you couldn't eet one of them on any account to pace it after dark.” F “With your permission, Madame, we'll go out now and fight again the battle of Malvern Hull.” is “Madame gives her permission,” I rep!!: wand begs to enlist as « recruit’ “T ehall be charmed to have you if Pickett will promise, when we get exalted ‘as I tell how {t happened and whose fault it was, not to forget himself and Use any of those bombshet ewear words of which £ have’ tried so hard to break him.” “You are thinking of eome one else. My Soldier never swears. I never hear him say a bad word but once. One rainy, sleety night we were nearing o estina- tion when a telegram was hended to him. On reading it he sald, ‘Here'e the Gevil to pay! No wood and no provisions and my poor men will reach there hungry and cold and Mare Robert's orders inst burning fence rails are atrict.” The what to pay? I asked. Severs! of etaft claimed that they, thinking I was asleep, had used the expression. jank you,’ I said, ‘wet I know my Soldier's voice.’” “What was the matter?’ asked “Prince John. "ve never found the @4@ gentleman so hard to pay. He's always glad to take all I owe him. But here we are, Pickett. This is the very @..t where I gave Mahone his onlers—a brave Uttle rat, wasnt he? You remember ‘he story ee eine titer ae brepiscn, band was bedly wounded was weeping erly and some put ontesti 4 wh wouns. She eried out, Then tt pound of flesh on his whole Seay. pluck,’ eaia my Soldier. “Here—here is where @ained nothing but glory, cause our ol4 Virginia hasn't en @ geod thing to go around. orfered to march down Quaker and I obeyed my orders, following the guide, who claimed te haow the having lived here all his Ilfe. Alas, @las! there were two Quaker Road: And the gu! led me down the wrong one. Did I ever tel you about Lord Edward St. Maur of the Ducal House of Gomerset; an awfully handsome chap, just twenty-one and a great prig, who Everyday 19 MEY ay. For no man need|tle down.” But for fourteen years he| 8d come over to help us out. He sald ‘de looking backward. And age counts it. ‘The red corpuscles of activ- ot recognise age or age limit. And if you but want it so you are just as ol4 as you make yourself. The for- mer “middle aged” man is rather the prime product. In this era even the individual who fas reckoned the nee@ of activity for the the sake of money does’ not stop and live on the laurels of its acquirement He rather realises the great need of keeping alive with he coulin't stand our ‘slaughtering pens. One day's experience was su ctent for him, so we sent him to Me- Cielian with « flag of truce. He after- en up by & hill at aight and, under cover of this cruise: went to Harrison's nothing but glory.” twouble with bio wifet” tame turkey, but 1 found some shot in 1 when ‘No. been out of town for the “He cent twp to the house for| Uncle Eplwaim's reiterated rejoin: week and she found | fac’ te, boss, I’e gwine to tel! yer in confidences, @ memorandum in the pocket reading ‘Ribbon | dst dem ‘ere shot was intond:d for for tapewriter, Hicl te beving @ devil of «| Atlante Journal. lense. ABN James B, Reynoits was Awistamt Ges. Goltderation, seemed wtary of the Treasury Senuor Rest emt tunable ‘to agree ‘im a perfectly clear case, for Mr, Reynolds one day to discuss with ‘The Judge, thoroughly exespersted at the ‘him some matters concerning a trade confermmes 4 fo Paste which Mr, Reyoolls bad teu ocleeted sald Mr, Root, “you epee’ responded Mr, Reynolds, ‘ tamow I have no trouble to make the not apcunced the Juror, pointing to the defense, "I was bired by that | em ia the conference!—Julge, rman ne SR An Occasional Visitor. NOTABLE 'y pear rongd of the past @umere GENTLEMAN who was buying « turkey | tlon, annoy making the purchase tf ft was,e tame had an: fated the ttmee | Ob, yas, air; t's a tame turkes, atl right! | visitor, thot Tne 8 few te the | "0b, t yale, sit; dere's no so't 0 doubt ‘bout | ware of the It's 0 tame tu’key, afl right," | They witt come or wo later when eating i came across several Companion, —— to prevent the unnecessary sac | ‘Machines and mechanical oneratens W HILE every effort is being made, s@bject carefu) thought. rifice of life and limb {n indus-| must be foo! proof, You cannot asawme are taking rapid strides| that the man who will operate them toward securing an {mprovement of| will use any common rense,”” \{e Minnesota, Its Bureau of Labor, In-|that make the fearful total of Ameri- alites, It is not the catastnoe nd publishing the results of | phes that you read about in the papere vestigating udies And most of these little accidents ts, says the Medical Ry preventable.” ba! I didn't object to her dein’ a ‘There i “In 1909 few competent authostiie Pin their Accident Bulletin| dared to assert that more than 6 per jtion for the purpose of stimulating} preventabie. To-day we do not hesitate per cent, to 0 par “It 1s better to cause a delay than to) cent, are preventable,” : aich |cause an accident." “Manual training, trade schools aie@ “The amount of sorrow and suffering / technical schools of every description ¥ An’ the dtvil a wan of ‘om's wed to|that will be ellminated when safety| should make safety instruction » past ‘work is taken up earnestly by our man-|jof their curriculum, and work only with utecturers 19 beyond the comprehen-|the safest possible machinery, agyl> mstheda” eh . @en ef these whe have net given the ames and ~ cent. of the indubtrial accidents were