The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1913, Page 12

Two Can Play at It SSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPR PULITZER. the Presa Publishing Company, Nos, $8 to Row. New York Row. rer, 63 Park Row, Secretary, 63 Park Row. ‘at the Post-Omice at New York ax Second-Cinas Matter. England and the Continent and All Countries In the International Pon Matahed Dany Bxcem Supday by octet to The Evening for the United States Canad! eas $8.80/One Tent, oss cnrcerssscscetee¥ B0]One Month. +s osseeeeeeeeesoecers’ Copyright, 1918, by ‘ine Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work), Blarney Stone Number. F all hard words—pronounced or penned— The hardest are those of a “candid” friend! * VOLUME 54......cccccecececcccecscescsssceees NO, 18,984 WHY ENDURE IT? =O The final test of a gentleman fs his ability to divorce his wife without HY MUST New Yorkers submit to have their nerves shat- hurting ber vanity. tered by day und their sleep destroyed by night because ing ty WwW Never believe a man who tells you in one breath that he loves you and in the néxt admits that he “secs your faults.” A true lover is so daz- sled by your fascinations that he can’t see anything else on earth. the strect railway companies find it easier and cheaper to provide no remedy for grinding brakes and shrieking curves. The Evening World invites the attention of the Hon. Edward E. McCall and his Public Service Commission to one of the worst noise- Some men like their flattery laid on with a shovel, and others with o Gelicate palette knife; but no matter how you apply it, dearie, most of it In Manhattan alone thou- nuisances that has ever afflicted the city. sands of workers are tormented incessantly hour after hour each d by the ear-splitting screeches that come from nearby éurface or ele- is bound to adhere. The greatest women of history have nearly all been spinsters; perhaps Weenuse they had no one who wred to criticise their failings and thus te rob them of their faith in themselves, = vated tracks. In every ecction families who live near trolley cross- ings or curves are driven frantic at night by the same unearthly din. The surface lines are the worst offenders, but elevated and subway trains contribute their share. ‘ Flattery, like medicine, has « primary and secondary effect A Mttb will make a husband adore you; too much will make him wonder why eed @ combination of saint, Solon or Adonis would waste himself on an insigé Is there no way to compel ihese companies to swab grease on their curves and switches and look to the smoothness of their brakes? The amount of energy and vitality wasted by people in this city in resisting euch needless and brutal attacks on their nervous systems nificant little thing like you. The man who treads on your vanity before marriage will tread all ever your heart, your dignity and your self-respect after marriage. is a serious matter. Everybody will agree that the brain-piercing, nerve-racking screech made by a street car rounding an unoiled curve ‘When it comes to a husband, courtesy is much more comforting thea honesty; and @ nice, flattering eafe-blower is a pleasanter household com is the most unnecessary and trying noise from which we suffer to-day. Why endure it merely to save a little money for negligent and indifferent corporations? 4 >—__—__ panion than a grouchy deacon. ‘When two people marry it proves that they admire one another; bet that fs no reason that they should consider it unnecessary ever to mention the fact again. BE FAIR TO THE ABORIGINAL. HEN President Wilson recently appointed a full-blooded The only kisses for which a man ever feels any lasting gratityde are those that a woman bestows on the Blarney Stone. . Choctaw Indian from Oklahoma to an office held under many administrations by colored men he paid a well-de- served compliment to a race that has proved its worth. Why shouldn’t we give the aborigine a chance? He ia showing himself a man of fine mind and high qualities of character. The courage and endurance that made him the only race that ever held off the white man for three hundred years have stood him in good * stead in his push to the front of civilization. Instead of naming lakes and steamboats for him let’s give him the recognition he merits and see that the 300,000 of him in this country get every encourage- ment to show themselves good citizens. ————»42————___ THE NEW CHILDREN’S COURT. LAYING of the cornerstone for the new $250,000 Chil- iren’s Court Building at Lexington avenue and Twenty-third street yesterday afternoon marks a further step in this city’s enlightened treatment of children. It is a curious fact that the Boolety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animale antedates the Boociety for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. And it was a * long time after the establishment of the latter that Mrs. Josephine Shaw Lowell led her canvpaign to protect delinquent children from the brutalising influences and associations of the regular criminal "courts. ‘Nobody needs to be convinced nowadays that our first duty to youthful wrongdoers is to keep them clear of every suggestion that might harden their minds or confirm their bad habits. This will be the first time the Children’s Court has ever had a own, The new building will rise as a monument to Ncw York’s increasing watchfulness over the well- The Easiest, Best Paid Job Is That of Dethroned King OR ages lasy mankind has bee! hunting the elusive “cinch job. Tt has been found. A job where there ‘# enormous salary and absolutely But, untuckdly, it ts open to only a dertain number of people. [f you adver- tlee for it you must firet qualify as « dethroned monarch. ‘There are to-day many kings without luxury, sans crown, sans throne, Many of these kings are living in Parts. Gubjugating the savage tribes in their African and Asiatic possessions has kept France busy fot many years. During these subjugations it was sometimes found that France had on her hands & few kings teft by the fortunes of war. These kings, once supreme rulers, had to HKSAAAKSAAAAAASALABAAAAAAAAAAAABAD Mrs. Jarr’s Voice Is the Only Part of Her That Isn’t Tired to Death HLH HHHAASSHAHAAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAD all the work. But maybe it ts just ae well I haven't one, setting the table now. table this evening.” “Shall T go out and supper now or shal I eet the table?” be put on pemsicna, so that they would be out of mischief. Behanzin, King af Dahomey, was one of the first of the deposed kings with whom France had to deal. prived of hie throne over tweaty years His son ‘s now in Paris, a king He ts living on @ pen- “But 1)fill it from the cold water tap, and let the water run fresh awhile, saying, they have it easy, and little do they realize it!" “Anything else?” asked Mr. Jarr, I'd have to be Well, YOU can can also gay that 1 shall never close my eyes without shuddering over our dreadful experiences there. nd a telegram to Gertrude that I was dying and to com Sho's having a good time killing herself with work at her sister's railroad board- ing house, and here I haven't a soul to do @ hand's turn for me. drink of water, please! “When I think of ‘without power. sion from France. The nephew and successor of King Behazin, Prince King of Dahomey, was Alaposscaned of the throne in 1900. The thing that pained Prince King most was not the loss of bis throne but the lose of @ huge diamond ¢ing. been a gift from Franc which later confiecated it, You speak as though “Anything else’ you thought I were expecting to be|h Oh! I may have had such ideas when I was firet married, but I'm beginning to realize how ailly I was—will you see if there Is any tea? ing of ite youngest sigh and shook her Se THE GAME THAT NEVER GROWS OLD. wouldn't have asked you to do a single thing only it ts your vacation and I thought you might be glad to do that Clara Mudridge- ; Smith and Mrs, Stryver with servants OW don't ask me to wet 4Plig wait on them hand and foot—why the very Gov- oi, Ya Not the black tea, That'c Gertrude’s ‘The former King of Annam, Ham Nxi. is now living peacefully in Algiers, He has no crown or throne, but Is satis: Sed without either. Ham Nehi is on a pension of $1,000 a year, says the Chi- cago Tribune. There is another Indo-Chinese ruter who is @ pensioner af France, ‘This ts ‘Than Tyal. He receives an annual pen- sion of $6,000 and lives quietly at St Jaques. h A Queen without @ throne ia another Picturesque figure in the list of un- crowned royalty, Her name is Rana- valona and she was once the Queen of Madagascar. At first Queen Ranavoina drew a pension of only %,000 each year Now France gives her $2,000 annually. ‘There are many other lesser royalties; royalties without thrones or honors, Who are on the pension list of France. One of these in Said All. Gald Atl was formerly the Sultan of La Grand Comore. His pension has been raised to $3,400 a year. The civil list of royal pensioners of France includes Prince Said Bakari, who receives $100 a year: Sittina, who receives 9 cents nd two Princesses, Adidja and who receive $3.00 a year each. royal people without thrones are happier now, to all appearances, than when they were the rulers of their people. They are well clothed and well fed, with no affairs of state te worry them. and do anything for you for at least a minute!” sald Mra, Jarr as she threw herself down into her favorite chair, an armloss rocker long endeared to her from its assocla- tion with sewing and gossip, are the children?” Mr. Jarr put down the plenic baskets and atarted atealthily to unlace his’ Uttle dit for me. I ne cations, But you needn't be sarcastic. “But you are having a vacation now,” suggested Mr. Jarr, ‘and I'm not sar- didn't you put some ice in it? Well, it doesn’t taste, like it—Servants to walt hy, they'll call a maid from Another part of the house to pick up @ handkerchief for them—please take It away and put some more {ce in {t—wash | board. the lce--and here I am, a slave to my husband and children —1 wish you'd light the gas stove and put on the tea- Kettle—be sure to empty the stale water out of the kettle and, when you dy fill It ‘bIack tea I never could drink. the emaller canister, my te: cracked pitcher that hai stamps and the fireles: tisement on the second shelf in the cup- | castic.”” “A vacation? Do you call this a vaca- ‘With Gertrude away and you sitting around grumbling and not -will- ing to give me any help whatever? Oh, T'm used to it, and as the poet or the Bible or Shakespeare or I forget who it wae says, ‘The back ts fitted to HE WORST FEA'IURE of the baseball pool swindle which The Evening World has exposed is the ease with which vic- , ‘tims are deluded into believing that they are not victim The prospect of winning $1,000 prize for the small atake of a looks so good to those who have scen real money handed over to a “winner” that if they are dupes they would rather not know it. ‘That the lottery is not “perfect,” that ¢ tesquely slender, that all numbers have not an equal show, and that big blocks of choice combinations are safe in the operator's pocket— @ll these things may be true. Yet, with the occasional bait of a cash payment, the old, cld game of “come on” can be worked week after week to drain the pockets of thousands who find confidence In this willingness of the victims to be The Day’s Good Stories meant to convey & fou must forgive pour af f “And that reminds me that if I had a fireless cooker we could have put @ hot dinner on to cobk when we went out this morning and it would have all been ready by now. “What are you doini Jarr with sudden acerbity. “They're new shoes,” “L juat put them on when we started out this morning.” “Well, keep them on, please. you to go out and get something for Get something at the delica- teassen store, please. After what I have been through with this day, I certainly am not going to cook over a hot gas It does away with “chance” they take is gr. “But all I've got to say is that my back is very tired of the burden and I wish it were fitted—my back I mean— “Common Carrier” And the Good Citizen By Sophie Irene Lceb. Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), REACH of the everyday individuat. In truth, so long has it been regard- fit you at all fe all the style, although 1 don't see why I should worry, as I won’ have any new dresses for some time! Mr. Jarr made no reply to all this. He knew Mrs. Jarr was tired and, any-| might more exciting than caution. deceived lies their chief claim to protection. “TL gave them money to get some tce “Just as long as the questioner remained in he sensed there was something on her mind besides tea and fashiona, ed as a LUXURY that almost any of us who ride in a taxicab cannot AF- But the cab compan! 40 SATISFIPD with the limited clt- They think they've had a good! Readers, would not good citl- over In Jersey. *m glad they think #0, and perhaps the expected channel the sailing was enay, but (nally ope man got bevond the bearings, please, oir,’ sald the ean, rising from “Well, I think I'll slip out now and wet things for supper,” he said. Cos Cob Nature Notes selves in the posl- tion of compound ‘How far off can you hear thunder!" Say," he said to his literary manager, “who t last chunk of dope 1 Sed te yous ine Hank,” roptied the editor, ‘What's the “T wish I wasn't too tired to go out ontele they have bullt up of people who CAN afford it that thelr efforts to give the general public a LOW RATE SBR- T eeeme hard to get things straight, no matter how strenuously we try, myself,” sald Mre. Jarr, Riverside Yacht Club ts not going to play “Little Red Riding Hood,” as get out of thie chair if I were given ‘but I couldn't accessory to 1aW- "Ob, no kick at all," replied the athlete, ‘1 was only thinking that tm many ways it wae we said, with Lish Kelley as the Wolf. & Bar Room,” with Lish as Little Mary trying to persuade father, to come home with me now.” Febearsal for some time. ‘One more error: ‘The big urns set up beside the track by kind Mr. Mellen are mot to supply hot coffee to the commuters when the train is stalled, as some peta and we printed. On the contrary, the voltage at the power hous he histed from 11,000 to 23,000, and what we took to be coffee-urns are part 2f the necessary fixings. t On top of the abov: Mr. Mellen’s power hous: began to rain and has done it industriously ever since. A commuter writes to eay that coming out on @ train that was thirty minutes late, with people standing up in it because there were no seats left ft being crowded, his sufferings were relieved by) sweet music from a Hoboken ‘aart on tw Wavels. Perhaps it was a happy thought on the part of the new | Pmmacement co comiole the standeag into forgetting their legs. ‘The blackberries are going and the peac Jets of apples, Potatoes are few and small, The play is to be *” a million dollars!’ VICE are at about zero. ‘The companies want to keep the rates and have gone to extremes, peti- tioning the courts to do so. they go to our Bureau of Licenses and obtain @ license to operate as PUBLIC SHRVITORS, whtch license is granted In view of actual service to Dreaking by using those taxicabs and rushing in, “Guess The Bar Room part has been in active little baby ttle at Mi end to defy the ordinance? Never, Japan Holds the Divorce Record to wholesale di- "il get the things for supper and I'll drop in at Terwilliger's and find out how the baby ts And she was up and away with eager matter so entirely in the hands of the ‘We lead the rest | United State: orld in fracturing the marriage | Japan .. tle. But Japan beats us almost thre: compared with Japa 30 voiced the local sentiment that maybe hey cater but to a small per- the wetness away upon which it promptly ey centage of ua ts self-evident. up to the publicespirited citi- zen to take,a hand In secing that he to be the SUF- After three years’ and a final ordinance carrying a vote of 65 to 1 these conmpanies, instead of trying to adjust themselves to this or- dinance, drawn by fair-minded tawyers and business men, fighting It, to the delay of the pirbitc rights, Instead of abiding by the law the Ses Loneliest Spot on Earth. English historian has finally de cided on the loneliest epot on the Tristan a Acuma it is called, and it is an island hundreds and hundreds of miles away from ite near- est neighbors, A tiny oasis in a bound- less ocean, no matter which way you It l@ rocky, with a solitary moun- offered to prove genulne good cltizen- table shows the number of divorces granted yearly for each 100- 000 population in the countries named: + Less than one The points are well taken. der to arrive at any benefit for the gen- the aid of the Individual ts element toward bringing about the speedy adjustment of any public mi hould be a common cars axle of conveyance to be used 1d me and all of us, at a low come within the income There will be The rains came in time to save Mr. Mellen, who does not forsake us until Sept. 1, Is having neat little Pamphiets left in the car seate telling how nice railway men are @aid they were not pleasant cusses, we want to know? herd communtty lives thi All of our conductors cattle raisers, &c. the best story 1 bare ever written,”—dollie: « ‘Weekly, German Empire Bavaria .... Switzerland Sleep. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. HEN night dews buthe the feet And smooth her fierce unrest, When night's soft, calm, coo! finger tips On day's hot eyes are pressed, On swift, widt spreading pinlons Sleep fies trem east to west; And al who foe! her shadow, pass To realms of silence blest. and so are the brakemen, when there are any ieland are fertile fields where potatoes We always have plenty want the law to abide with them, and and saleswoman m4, for the rate “Of confuctors su av to be sure to get all the fares, But brakemen are rare are grown, and the food of the people consists of beef, fowls and fish. thus hold back the possibility of a pop- ula: public conveyance condition, How often ride In tax’ in not prohibitive to even their Umited ep, thou blessed angel sleep, hot beds of pain, ‘Thy passing shadow has brought back, The flock of Canadian wild geese firat introduced by our fellow natura! long they can afford td continue in this| island formerly produced many fruite But in New York, as well as r Amertean cities, by the moe of taxi companies men who lease the public streets for moet gain to these companies, the result has been auch that rates are BEYOND Tamm ' inf ter” “Did the drouth injure your gar lan in this summer?” “If ‘Drouth’ is the pet name of my and vegetables, but they can no longer be grown there, for the island ts over- re magnificent, Blad to have them light in the pond or visit our ghicken yard for a the left over corn and a few blades of grass. P. 8.—Since writing ‘Benest Thompson Seton, han grown to fifteen. The birda policy of, ignoring the needa of ,the eral pubic remaina to be seen. GAMER crervgrmorveees. sraveeenenees: Pus weemien aosetne & ve been shot by “aportemen.” ‘This te pretty low- @ deré time against the murder Reluctant health again. And when et lest, this life out-wern, 1 2 3 4 ‘ 8 oa | 10 10 n un n a u u