The evening world. Newspaper, August 4, 1913, Page 10

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monda The Day of Rest #8 «2e=::. SSTARLASHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. 0 te Press Publish: Nos President, 6! Fort Row, Yq By Maurice Ketten AMUSE YOURSELF WITH THe Youcan LL THE Be | Q ~— Pare ti LAWN MOWER , SOHN .| HAVE To HELP GRASS q fa Becretary, ¢3 Park Row, AY WIFE GET THE DINNER. THAT WILL ENTERTAIN You OTP ORee che Ter tasted toe, Continent and AMIU TAM one By Albert Payson Terhune All Countries in the Pos NOT ALL BLACK. . NO, 18,976 cy which Reform lifts its voice must perforce show black upon the record, a page in the annual report of the New York City Police Department for 1912 gives food for thought. In the classified | totals of arrests for various kinds of misdemeanors certain figures | must prove puzzling to iniquity hunters. During the twelve months ending Dec. 31, 1912, among 5,000,000 people, the police arrested only three on the charge of cruelty fo) O such as infer that any phase of crime or immorality against | Famous Novels SF Guyigh, ey ‘The Prem Vabtehing On, (Tho New Zemn Brenne Weslds 56—ELSIE VENNER, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, SHE was a splendid scowling beauty, black browed, with a flasty of white teeth. She was tall and slender, but rounded, with & peculiar undulation of movement. Black, piercing eyes, not large; * © * diamond eyes!” , That is Dr. Holmes’s description of Elsie Venner, one of the strangest heroines in literature. o Elsie’s father was the rich man of Rockland, a little New England vil- lage with a huge mountain behind it. The mountain was alive with rat tlesnakes. One ledge of rock was so infested with these reptiles that no villager dared set foot on it. They often spread terror by creeping down into Rockland itself. A rattlesnake eighteen years earlier had bitten Eiste Venner’s mother. Stimulants and cautery had been employed at once and Mrs. Venner had seemingly recovered from the bite. A few months later Elsie had been . + lati T . RO0G OU born. When the child wawa few weeks old her mother died. Blsie grew to : children and two of the three were acquitted. For besa ba eRe D Las! FT ANORRY, RSELF WITH THE Glorious young womanhood, but from infancy she had stood epart end alone, Child Lebor Law two were arrested, but only one convicted. For ENTERTAINING HOSE . | HAVE SOME HORE She had no friends. The village was full of strange stories about her. abducting there were thirty-nine arrests, of which not one was con- | { H 1 t \ f hae their racket we goes to the wharf| when I wae a young feller, the WiYo| "Can't you get us @ carriage?” asked ) “Td Mike ¢o have 8 Iittle farm, 4 —at the get away—and this wharf when|Gang and the Dead Rabbite always|Mr. Jarr. “We want to drive to the i And leave such scenes as these, they land, and crashes their racket”——| carried an undertaker and some coffins our oleae q Where | could without a care, ‘Bo such riots ate called “crashing a| along. 'y, ain't you gonna stay and hit the of Completel; fea ease. ‘VW the Jarre escaped trom Per-| racket?" asked Mr, Jarr, ae the Chair-| ‘And always there wae a man in a/eats, you and the lady and the kids?” |", ‘ 14 like to ad pi ‘ H fection Point alive Myre Jar asked the Chairman. “Nobody has done victed and only seven cases remained pending. For usury, of which we have heard much, only five persons were arrested, of whom two were acquitted and the cases of the other three were still pending. Gambling as a misdemeanor caused only six arrests and all six were acquitted. For violation of the Fire Law five men were arrested, three acquitted and the cases of two remained pending. For violating the ’ Fire Prevention Law only one arrest was made and the cise went over. Among arrests for felonies the record shows only one for counterfeiting, only one for taking unlawful fees and only five under the much invoked White Slave Law. Inasmuch as there is hardly one of these classes of wrongdoing that somebody has not found to be ‘ave and growing menace to the city’s morals, the question arises: Is it that the wrongdoers are not caught or do reformers who specialize in crime sometimes see their chosen corner darker than it really is? HIMSELF WORK ‘To Do IN THE HOUSE For one thing, @ hideous serpentine birthmark surrounded her neck; a mark ahe always covered with a necklace, Also her black “dia- The mond” eyes had hypnotic, enakelike power. Her motions e n | Were snakelike, too, In winter she was dull and languid, ‘Snake Girl.” | aeidom stirring from the fire. In the hot months of eum-; ——/ mer she seemed infused with weird power and energy. At such times she would vanish from home for days, and would roam alone on the mountains, treading fearlessly upon Rattlesnake Ledge and sleep- ing in its reptile-filled caves. Fotk called her the “Snake Girh” “iste’s cousin, young Dick Venner, used to play with her as a child. ‘Mas once whew he made her angry ashe bit him on the wrist. A doctor was sum- moned in haste. And the wound was treated as though for rattlesnake bite. The boy got well, but the teeth marks were never effaced from hia flesh. Another phase of Eleie's condition was her hysterical dread of white ash leaves, This bore out the local tradition that rattlesnakes will never go near @ white ash tree, A governess was engaged for the wayward girl. Elsie hated the governess and tried to poison her, Then it was decided to send the girl to school. There she proceeded to try her hypnotic power on Helen Darley, one of her teachers, By simply looking at the teacher Elsie could make Helen leave the platform and come down to her desk. {stant principal of the school was a medical student, Bernard Lang.’ @on—good looking, clever, kind of heart. And Elsie fell in love with him. atl ALL THE GRASS he did not notice this, Then he ignored it, for he felt no park of love a THe NTS .THE TREES AND for the uncanny girl. Indeed he was inflicted by the nameless physical repul- Mr. Dooley dedicated one of his valued volumes “To the Hennes- Don'T FORGET THE GARDEN seys of the world who suffer and are silent.” Seems to apply to John A. What? ——- +4 > ONE FOND HOPE REALIZED. NLY partial though it be, the opening to-day of the new sub- Way-bridge loop, which brings passengers straight from Brooklyn across the Williamsburg Bridge and down to City Hall Park without change of cars or extra fare, means a bright mark of hope fulfilled to hundreds of thousands who are awaiting the promised transit facilities which are some time to make life easier for daily toilers in this colossal vineyard. When the Brooklyn Bridge loop is completed, as it is likely to be within the year; when trains are running from East New York over the Williamsburg Bridge downtown by loop and hack to Brooklyn over the Brooklyn Bridge; when the days of confusion, transfer and stair climbing are past, they did thirty years ago over their first great pathway above the div‘ding waters. ; But why must the B. R. T. “experiment” on the new loop with ' uch obsolete, proven nuisances as turnstiles? Of all things ever Gevised to delay, harass, bruise and exesperate a hurrying, bundle- leden crowd, the turnstile is the worst. If it must be used at all it belongs only in little-frequented stations. Why not “experiment” with up-to-date comforts instead of with old verations? - ot Col. Davy Crockett could hardly have been thinking of William By Sulzer seventy-five years ago when he wrote the following lines, and yet how sweetly they apply: could never have told, Bhe has the Chairman. “It eure was @ fine Scrap, ‘Last excolson I got a mouse Over each peeper. But this year Ahat wang of bicks hardly put up « real quarrel. “You see it's this way,” he expiained, “When we have a racket the Gas House gang tries to crash it, and when they Mrs. Jarr Can’t Quite Remember t) If It’s To-Morrow or Yesterday SERIA BAI RADADE RODERRIE. KRIEM CINTA IIOR RI, man gallantly took charge of little silse) dost behind the barge (we generally went up on barges, as it give more an in the dingy at the back of the barge picked up the thrown overboard. But dese daye the young fellers aint got any ginger in 5 a tink it's smokin’ too many cigar- Jarr and gave her an orange. “Sure, an outing is a racket, and wh: one bunch drops in to rough house other bunch’s racket, that's called ‘crashing.’ After all, it'q only a little sport. The boys don’t really do any harm, you know. Why, in the old days, was coming to that. It HAS @ little elbow room), and the su tes. sion with which, in spite of her beauty, she inepired nearly every one. This feeling wae but intensified once when a rattlesnake was about to attack Lang- don during a ramble on the mountain and was driven away by a look from Elsie Venner’s black eyes. Dick Venner came back to Rockland about this time, after a roving career in South America. Dudley Venner, his uncle, Elsie's father, was rich. By marry- ing Elsie the young adventurer would be made comfortable for life. So Dick wooed Hisie, She hated him. He saw she loved Langdon and he made fun of her for her choice, She retaliated by trying to poteon Dick, as she had tried to poison the governess, Dick's suspicions were roused and he avoided the trap. But he saw that matters must come to a climax at once. And he decided to put the schoolmaster out of the way. He attempted one night to strangle Langdon with lariat he had brought from South America, Lenedon frus- trated the attempt and, with the help of a passing villager, captured and bound the would-be murderer. To spare his relatives’ feelings Dick was mot prose cuted, but wae packed off to regions unknown. Meantime, a subtle change had been taking place in Elsie. The family Gec- tor explained it by saying the “rattlesnake” characteristics were dying out, } leaving in her only the better aide of her dual nature. But _ the evil element hed taken so strong a hold upon her eys- tem that she could not survive ite death. She pined away, very gradually; the hard, “diamond” light fn her eyes: being replaced by a softer glow. At length ehe died.‘ At her death they removed the golden necklace she had always worn te conceal _ the serpent on her throat. Her old nuree cried atoud: 2 “The Lord be praised! He has taken away the mark. Shee fit te meet Hie holy angels now!” A Nature. ~~ i nothing to spoil your enjoyment, has bigs Upon ay Wetle éarm, ever discussed the matter in the circle ie || they?” men! cla Be cened ies osncWonene was © ae ; * Ay end cool tn eumaner tie, Wak abe ao charmingly adorns Domestic Dialogues Mr, Jarr said everything bad been| Sur scone oe te i. In winter close end werm.” Ghe vaguely remembers a feartul rivt |] most delightful. In fact @ more enjoy- berth care’ i Oe ‘ae the Gentlemen's Gone of the Fourth —— By Alma Woodward — able outing it had never been the good | For the Big N Followers + “A ee eee \ ‘Ward landed from the dingy and ok cersies of Be family to participate in. HH story fe that of « diminutive| ‘I am scared of these uppers,” he confided to emelli: old steamboat Ructiona. ie ui e t trip had made M: . “The me I PROVIDE THIS MEDICINE’ FOR ALL. [fiers itis ciel) co iis mo re nt tee crate an neon |N, See het Sa Sa ny kicked and bit and clawed an - ith the Best Intentions. erial and it washes. y “Can't the kids stay? asked the | comrades, of walking by sound and not by eignt,| The 101 pounder did jot say @ word at thas ee BATHING SUIT, « beach, a few houre of clean air, salt water | mered with sticks and eam and bot 20 PM, ¢ intentions, ee Mer aates aller 6 bar . vere. on{Chbitman, "We're guing to have | cera scram being ov high thet he wos en. | Moment, but balf an out later, when Joes re- > + tles the rickety old what "9, entering wana Mra, 8.'s shredded and ir. 8. (icily)}—What desi breased hase ’ cons ft. The bend on Saturday after-| turned from the smoking compartment, the small * and sunshine mixed to on and taken as often as circum-| "0 3 [Ne Tey Ot cing gangmen ada eat tioning soul fice Tose ee Te LRTI eee ie eee ea | cet rete wrest eve Seaman ton | OR. os fat aoe in the sop bari, 1 eta as wood! i = ‘ ‘ ti hi ‘on the curt : stances permit, is about best tonic that has ever been sryke in Genseer sh Ca vith, the Aren't you dreated set? Why. ite hait | Mr 8: (breathing quickty)—Well, 1|em wit’ me, and J'll see they get back [etme 47 te Weeder thought he would omm pinned re ig | — prescribed for worn-out New Yorkers in hot weather. To support The Evening World’s crusade for a bigger Municipal Bath House at Oeney, @ project which city officials favor and which the Board of Betimete has now referred to the Budget Committee for action this menth, every Sundey at the city’s favorite beach piles up solid such as could still run or stagger, pur- suing them, Mrs, Jarr also dimly remembers that William and hie papa rather enjoyed the dreadful as they leaned over the top bulwarke of the steamer and cheered the combatants on. But the tting careless! moist forehead, until you hear what I've been doing, Then you'll be sorry you eald what you just did, Mr, 8. (doffing his coat)—You look as if you've been dropped into a pond by design in it. But, my goodness! Aren't bly Joud patterns in way? These shirts are cream color and they e, oh, @ very delicate sprig of lilacs every once in a while, But I think (t’ll wash out in one to town all right, and 1'll take ‘em up|'* home myself.” Thanking the affable committeeman, who, as Sir. Jare told him, was not only & true Gentleman's son, but was a bona-fide gentleman himself, Mr, Jarr, “Take the lower, 1 hate to sleep in them,""— ‘The drummer, unaware of thie movement, sept! Judge, The May Manton Fashions. VENING bodices are the prettiest or two washings. a Lp alk yd himself and Ife good lady, See A, tings n . 5 istal - w dec! argument, Agein yesterday the patient, waiting lines of would-be | little dare girl clung to her mother'e| mistake, What you been doing? Wash-) 44, g, (indignantiy)—Well, if you! Maury “i'm w yentlomen, Cas sare thelr Tater “dovelop- er ; our me Y bathers at:the Municipal Pavilion canght the eye of all visitors, |“"Thon'the butte ene over, Mr. Jar | MP% @—No. My naire damp because ing “a ‘china covered. rocker youre |ser/u/(myins Duneh i 8 geutlemas,” eri gmgetsl 94,5 A i] "ve been working @o hard. jervous e Cl man, gravely, “As nm 7 Another summer should eee @ big encouragement of this healthy | ot his charges safely off ee eet one dont vow ome on limit to all things. hebdit. Alderman James J. Smith will introduce in the board a roso- lation recommending the city to add at once to the present pavilion wings large enough to accommodate 3,000 additional bathers daily. Acting President Kline of the Board of Aldermen, who is now a member of the Budget Committee, has repeatedly declared his warm approval of The Evening World’s proposal. The city should plan the improvements with a view to generous extensions in the future. Sea bathing at Coney can never be made too easy or too attractive to the thousands from all parts of the city tor whom it will always be both recreation and medicine. at ll | Letters From the People vide the highest number, 100, by 2, which makes 6, and then muitiply it by num- ber 101, The prodi States citizen, A fri Tam not an American. Am I an Am- @ican? w. @. ‘The Latter te Correct. Po che KAitor of The Evening World: ‘What (s the correct way to pronounce > the word “ignoramus?” Is ft pro- as it ts in “fa. of mine claims Readers, would not good citizens put themselves in the position of compound. ers of felony or make thepselves sary to law-breaking by usi cabs and hotel ranks that rdinance? Never, I matter so entirely in the hands of the Public, A fine opportunity seems offered and up the wharf, The Chairman of the Committee of Arrangements had returned for them, ‘He was holding a piece of ice to his left eye, which was bumped blue and ‘was fast closing. “{ got a peach of a shiner!” grinned pos ~ For Once. what I was working at? Mr. 8. (impatiently)—Aw, It's too hot for riddles. , Well, Mrs, Bones, what HAVE you been doing? Mre. 8. (trlumphantly)—Making shirts for you! Mr. 8. (with shrill emphasis)—Wha-at! Me? Shirts? Mrs. 8. (siggling)—Yes air, I made you four allk shirts, I just thought I'd do something to surprise you, James. You know you n felt as though you could afford slik shirts. ‘Cause most good ones cost six or seven dollare aplece. Mr. 8, (sourly)\—How much did you Pay @ yard for the silk? Mra. 8. (mysteriously)—Now that's the so silly, James. You know cousin Clara from New Orleans always sends me a silk dress | immas. And she's #0 old never gotten over the idea that if a silk dress hasn't twenty yards in it it's very com- Well, of course, according to the styles nowadays you don't need more'n five, And I didn't know what else to do with the other fifteen, So I thought I'd surprise you, James, with four ele- She—Suppose the canoe should up-| sant silk shirts! eet whi! e're out in it? =| formule for finding the sum of numbers ranging trom 1-100, inclusive, or any ee to pro’ uine, good eitimenship. CG PexTs Mr. 8. (shrieking)~Make shirts for He—Well, then, for once we'll be me out of dress goods! in the owim, Mre. 8 (offended)—It'e Oeautiful me- (calmly)—Now what are you getting angry about? People'll think you paid at least six or eight dollars for them. Go take off your collar and shirt and try ‘em on. Mr. 8. (peevishly)—I'm too hot to be tried on, I want a bath. Mrs. 8. (coaxing)—Now, Jamie, don't be obstinate. It'll juet take a minute and I bet they'll look ewell on you, I'll untie your tie for you, you poor ex- Mrs, 8, (fussing about him)—And I wanted tt to be a complete surprise. And those ready made patterns never fit right. So I did @ very clever thing, there throats and complain: beat of it, I didn't pay a cent for the| Sach ieee Sas 808 OO silk! Yeo. rls of numbers, is this: Take lowest Mr. 8, (in & hissing whisper)—What! | sitite tube? aS” ceteete: esi isaath. "ns | PIS ents ‘To the itor of The Evening World: | as. 1, and add to ft largest number, Not shoplifting? 1 WhIeDer— Wheel | teen ‘re taeesored eur Eb, eotaal tym. By trolley, past eraveyards and Exes bora tn | Ga eeenty zi 100, of which the total {s 101; then di- Mra. 8. (complacently)—Oh, don't de | Hing trom "bis wil's handiwork) market gardens, and over the Pitty. ! Mr. 8 (tightly)—-What—what—the— |} Mra, 8. (dolefully)—Well, I'm sure I don't know what's the matter, Because I took one of your own shirts and cut it up for a pattern. Mr. 8, (explosively)—You cut up one of my shirtal Mrs. (disdaintully)—Oh, just thet one you'd never wear, that green one, you know. Mr. 8. (roaring raucous!y)}-THAT one? That's @ etray youth's garment (about eighteen, I should say.) It wandered home from the laundry once by mis take! as I seen you was mice people I said to the boys, ‘Nix, on the rough stuff, See?’ And, you seen yourself, the lady and the kids was just as safe as if they was in jal, Won't you stay for the big eats” Mr, Jarr again offered the excuse for himself and his family. And the affable but regretful Chairman secured a car- riage, and the Gentlemen's Gons in g: eral expressed the wish that Mr. Jarr and hie family might be with them on subsequent cocasions of the kind. As the Jarra drove away the Gen- tlemen's Sona gave them @ rousing cheer and then returned to their wonted Pastimes of playing poker and craps on the tables in the grove, flying at ninth street bridge, and then oy trol- ley again to thelr peaceful Harlem home came the Jarrs. After she had @ oup of tea Mra. Jarr said she felt somewhat better. She looked at the clock, It was just half -ast three in the afternoon, “1 it to-morrow or yesterday?” asked Mrs. Jarr plaintively. —_ CORAL MASCOTS, Italians, who are naturally superet!- tious, wear as a mascot a plece of pink coral, this belng supposed to ward off the evil ove, \ one of the n ama ae seened