The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1913, Page 10

“tow »\ The Mojority of the Men at the Summer Turkey Trots on New York Roots and in the Restaurants and Hotels Are Old Men, and Tho:e Who Are Not Old ” Are Bald-Headed.—Neus item. bs aa ——__ “APhe above news item ts veractous. ‘This little vit ST important information f for all you New Yorkers, including wives, who will reed this page as it Gutters in the particular ocean or moun- Qeln breese that is glad to welcome It. ‘Tt le a statement of austere fact. His Honor the Mayor’s Travelling Library; Yes, He Ca of ~ And Each of the Nine each. of the only one tire on the fromt wheel? you ‘ere quite observant. A teo much curiosity. Jt ‘Wt’ ramounts to impertinence, tyou ask, it may not be amiss to ‘you, #The great Aristophanes once said, / “A solid foundation is the basis of a | Wledem,” and his Egyptian prototye a Ms persecutore to “Be not forward ae you are well balanced.” And % Gage of the Gaengerdund, addrese- id his Gymnasium in the Feyrteenth 4 , said: “The fool rushes “about * + because be has lost his equilibrium; the | i fan makes haste swiftly because | he’ le well’ hecieed.”” seampe meddling with other| business and ragbag newspagers | ) Batping on the Police Department, th ne pleas ‘Worries enough without being with hiy auto, Suppose he @eeuld be whirling out to st. Jam evening and Bing Bang! a tire wo ker-plunk, Wouldn't tui even as kind and docile a man Honor mildly peevish, at least? it fp the way of tires to cut up this iy, Just as it is the way of some incipied rascals to keep doing what Wrong. Caesar often said “Cave via a {" meaning “Watch your step!" B if perchance & mischievous stone jtured one of the Mayor's ties, he has ether one to get home on, thus; haste swiftly because he is jeeper reason beyond Kimpty pated individuals and who yiticisa without sceing i the points*of their noses not Aiscover the most important tor ‘the two rims on each wheel. ou followed the Mayor's career you ‘realise that he is a Breat reader. , Alexander the Great, Na: and 7%. RK. in our own time, Dr ler 198es a moment. Wate he reads. While he walks he course, you knew that, But York at the present , One Teads it is easy to understand it RAVE Something to read ftom. jdesn't read newspapers Re’ And you ce vy Means pers af Fiat! se ger a coud - ‘The average Linde! # trotery of New ike a Ib may te said, mitaate loters-for-the-summer seem suddenly discovered all at once and all tog »ther that the turkey trot is & great rejuvenator, Truth and any one’ old fellowe of this Ahno | observation com- | e and Your Crutch! nd rries It ‘ i \ to mf af oem “THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1913 are having the time of their lives. If Dr. Osler dropped in or up to any of the danceries he would feel ashamed of the iimitations he has placed on the Bray heads, and as for Ponce de Leon— why, the New York bald heads of the summer of 1913 are enjoying what ‘he sought for. Of course one does think of crutches and rheumatism and lumbago and gout and sHppers and easy chairs asthe old Turkey Trot for Bald Heads and Old Men---|‘‘Cabaretting? It’s Dull in Paris Throw Away Your and Berlin Compared to New York,’’ Says Reisenweber FIN PARIS AND BEALIW WOMEN SMOKE CIGARS AWD F108 chaps rest between dances, but when rts up the sentiment*ot So there! SPORTING EVENT. “Got a reluy team at your school, son?” , $ “A fast one, dad.” “So | hear, Fetch it around Saturday and let's see how fast you can relay #ome carpet.” a! _———$<$<$<—— In His Automobile HIS HONOR HAS SUCH FLUFFY READING AS “THE NEW MENTAL CULTURE,” ALWAYS TO HAND. ‘well balanced, His Honor should worry, Tho last expression is a corruption of Epictetus’ saying: ‘One should never worry." » Bo into 4 little space throe feet long and one foot high just in front place His Honor rests his feet are his books, or, as Hill Halliday, the Mayor's chauffeur, brary." Yee, you could have seen the books if yoy had a mind to look for the They we there, They were ted around in a strap, like the Mayor used (0 wrap his 001 bovks, Inqulaitive persons ike. you wouldn't tefied unless you pried into other you want their names, do you? fection to your having them. Maybe It w ween 4 To) eee Bi-Literal Gypber,” by q “Te poe yen Living,” by A Pail: 5 id, “His Honora travelling | . there {9 na ob- | jel improve your mind. Mere they | onopher, “Life in the Roman World of Nero” and "St. Paul,” by Tucker, “The New Democracy,” by Weyl. “The Influence of Wealth on Imperial- istic Rome,” by Davis. Reign of the Stoics,” by Hol- “Hard Times,” by Horace Fletcher. Now you have them; see that you make some use of them, Maybe you will tell sume enemies of the Mayor and these xcamps will endeavor to make | Political capital out of these harmless books. The Mayor like to read of the Stois, the volume being well thumd marked. He hasn't pald much attention to the books about politics in Rome be | cause lately the Mayor has been aban doned by all political parties and he has Joat interem 16, el mR) api as & renom! ew aur |e toot ‘Me can't please every- + ¢ “The New Mental Culture," by Horace | body and he hasn't bent his kfee to j@ny political party or boss or group of politicians, what books say abou Polition doesd't worry the Mayor. Any> how the Mayor knows more about politics than the books do, as you know. OF PEASANTRY. rv House, but you ought to have a little village for the peasantry, as we do in England. It adds to tho landscape.’ “All right,” gald the multi-millionaire, it must be a restricted affair, No | AGE LIMIT FOR Steamships seldon forty years, Of t and 18% there is ni Wfe of ti shorter t consor, last ‘more than ullt between 1815 t that of her wooden prod As for. warships, they at the age of twenty. The New Yorker Has Just Returned from a European “Cafe to Cafe | Canvass,” and An-| nounces That This Town’s Cabaretdom Can Learn Nothing From the Old World—| “Paris and Berlin Get Hold of Our Live Ideas When We Are Ready to Discard Them.” No, siree, the cabarets of Paris and Berlin have nothing on our own New York retu; of midnight merriment. Take it from John Relsenweber, who has just returned from @ note-taking tour of the cabarets of Berlin and Paris. In fact, this well known cabar- eteur says that if things as they are in the cabarets of these two big European | cities were in vogue in this town our cabarets would die @ quicker death O10 WORLD Wie 19 THE BAinw AND way, is the first authoritative intelli- Bence that cabarets are becoming passee. The Turkey Trot and the Tango are both in vogue in the two foreign cities and there are plenty of entertaisers in every one of the big cabarets both in Paris and Berlin. The decorations are aiso very exquisite, but the devotion to the cabaret by the public is not half as intense abroad as here in little Man- “Why, the proprietors of the Berlin cabarets do just one thing that would kill off our patrons here,” said Reisen- “Every person who visiste @ and doesn't drink wine is taxed If of @ mark. Imagine what would happen If we did that in New York! We don't have to imagine it. It really was tried here once in a swell cafe, and I hate to say what happened to the place. “Women are permitted to smoke in the Berlin and Paris cabarets—which, of course, is not such an awful thing. But they~don't smoke cigarettes! You sce them puffing at big fat German cigars and on several occasions I saw pipes in feminine use, While we were In Berlin the Turkey Trot was at {ts fullest bloom and the Tango was coming into style, In the German cabarets they call the Turkey ‘Trot the “Schever tans"~pronounced “al '—oh, no, it has no connection than they are dying now. Which, by the with a sheaf of wheat or the purity éf new-mown hay—far be it from such! New York’s Five Lion Cub The problem of raising the biggest litter of lion cubs ever born in captivity is occasioning a great deal of anxiety In the Central Park Zoo these da; al- though in the week that has elapsed sinde the birth the little visitors have seemingly thrived in every way. As yet the youngsters have not given an i public thoir opinions of New York's sky- scrapers, the American gir! or the tango, but otherwise they are perfectly normal new arrivals, apparently keenly enjoying extetence to the utmost. The mother of New York's new Non family is Helen, one of the b known 8nd most beautiful African queens of the jungle that ever boarded in the Central Park animal colony. Her ltter contained six of the cutest minia- ture Hons Head Keeper Bill Snyder ever 2a “Thr are the ordinary number,” stated the first press notice given the arrivals, “but four are not very unusual, but six had never been (Doubtless the writer rettes at the tle an@ to put the butts somewhere.) Shortly after birth one of the young- aters gave up the ghost and for a time it was thought one or more of the survivors would have to be raised on the bottle, After a day or 0, however, it was seen that Helen was to give her bables all the nowrishment they needed, and since then they have grown sturdy and happy. In their nome, a vig green box Into which the public has not yet had a look because it tm feared by the Mon keepers that attention might so excite the mother that she would harm her little ones, the five cuba, when qe now about the size of un ordinary 1 They dance it just like our best artists do, but not quite as gracefully as some of our expert exponents. In some of the cabarets in London they Yall it the “walrus wobble,” but these Places are mostly patronized by—well— by the good-natured stout Germans. “The artists are given up to eem!- sentimental songs, but occasionally an American ragtime singer forces himself through the hordes of native enter- tainérs and sete cabaretdom wild with one of our own speedy compositions. Every idea that has made a hit abroad was copped from us. They have the Winter Garden in Berlin, great but It is so filled with gendarmes it Is hard to nudge your way to a “In Paris the only doing the Apache dance, and that, as every bunny hu, rand turkey trot- ter knows, is a si from the Texas Tommy and the Turkey Trot. “They haven't got our genteel way of introducing little bits of risque dance and song in either Paris or Ber- Mn, They want to overdo things in and thelr idea of it to send out wearing little more than birthday clothes, Reully, Flo Zilegfeld's ideas of modesty are modest compared to the Paris or Berlin {dea. “More wine is drunk in the Berlin caba-eta than any place eise in the world. Paris comes next, In this con- Rection I fearsed something of interest New York women, “When a visitor from abroad comes to our shores and sees our women it is no wonder that he exclaims ‘What beau- tiful women you have, Far better than ours.’ There is a perfectly good reason for this, for our women have given up wine drinking—that Is, the great ma- Jority of cabaret enthusiasts have, whilg in the old world nothing but wine is consumed and the women's faces show the effect. They look twide as aged as they really are and théff faces are puffed and drawn and pallid, “Thank goodness, our New York wove en know how to preserve their youthfule ness -by shunning the bubbies!: Why, even the chorus ladies are not half ag strong fof wine as they used to be. Pere haps the sorry condition of Wall street may have something to do with it, but whatever reason it {s our women are reaping the benefit of the wine fast. “But why worry more about cabaret? I think the public is tiring of them. And the fact that Berlin has adapted qur methods of light eentertainment is em indication to me that the fad of having music and dance with one's meals Is go- ing out, The old world always gets hon when we are ready to discard them.” “What form of entertainment will suce ceed cabaretting?’ Mr, Relsenweber was asked. Choking with grief ne replied: “ it I only knew what there New Yorkers would ilke next I could make Andrew Carnogie's fortune look like: eanceiled postage stamp.” ously from morn to night, constantly ‘watched by their wondering, happy look- ing mother. A hopetul photographer went to the Zoo yesterday to get pictures of the new family, but Helen refused to to pose, She considered the ‘her young ones an entirely private fair, in which the public had no rij to be Interested. At least that's what she said about it when the matter was broached. The next event in the lives of the cubs | Washington Was HE first step toward the founding T of Washington as the capital elty of the United States was taken 123 years ago, when Congress constituted the District of Columbia as the seat of government. In:the follow- iew year President Washington ap- pointed Thomas Johnson, Daniel Car- Toll and David Stuart commissioners to su. ey the Federal district. The city les, France, was chosen as a} a “Federal City,” but soon} changed to “City of Washington,” Major ! Charles L’Enfant, 8 Frenchman, ‘vev up the plan for the city, and, al- 8 Doing Nicely, Thank You will be their naming. Three of tem are males and the others have no proe Rounced opinions on suffrage—as yet, Giving names to the youngsters is — municipal affair, the responsibility ree posing in the offce of Park Commise sioner Stover, Mr, Stover has-npt yeb determined the names most civichlly appropriate’ and suggestions wo |doubtless (7) be welcome, Mr. Btov address is the Arsenal, ‘The names Eusta already been rejec Central Park. e and Clifford haye “Federal City.’ ° | though he was dismissed, his scheme Was carried out by Andrew Kjitcatt, There was much rivalry among ¥arloug cities for the honor of bagoming the capital of the republic, Kingston, N, ¥.j Annapolis, Md., and a poimt below phe falls of the Delaware, in New Jersey Were sugested as desirable sites, The choice of the District of Columbia was of the nature of a compromise, ade, ollowed the example of, the United tates In establishing the oapitel at Bytown, now Ottawa, Instead ina city, and Auntratia ly nop. ing now city at Canberra, N. 8, W, the capital of the commonwealth,