The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1913, Page 8

The Evening World Daily Magaz WOLUME 64........scccccecevscesescscecscees+NO, 19,008 ONE THAT DOESN’T BUDGE. HE ONE fixed mooring that anybody can tie up to in the 1 ewirl ef politics hereabouts seems to be the steadfast consist- i] ency of John Purrey Mitohel. The minds of other Fusion Gundidstes are “open” and drifting. He is anchored. , | Distelet-Attorney Whitman eccepts a Tammany designation and nebedy need expect any further exertions from him. Mr. Mo ‘and Mr. Prendergast give no sign that they will refuse any that comes their way or that they believe Mr. Mitchel’s y to them im any way binds them to be loyal to him. These two vem already to have forgotten what they fused for. They obligingly ready to divide themselves and their strength among many tickets as will have them. ; Only Mr. Mitchel keeps before him the end and aim upon which has asked voters to support him: An unfaltering, uncompromising against Murphy and Tammany Hall which, as he says, “mus every consideration of apparent personal advantage.” Whatever the Fusion tangle has done to the cause of Fusion, it Safe in the Lion’s Den chown the city « candidate who can think in straight lines, set |: a task.and stick to it. \ op Canada seems to have made up its mind that Thaw {s « good enough asset to keop indefinitely on deposit. fe —— io KEEP UP WITH THE WORLD. OW THAT « domestic parcel post has proved itself » blessing of blessings the Postal Progress League is determined to do something to infuse « little sense into our foreign rates. The fect is our rate on parcels sent from this country to Europe 80 per cent. higher than the rate charged by European nations for parcels to the United States. Compared with that of other our mail export business is a puny affair. Last year we by mail less than 800,000 parcels of merchandise. In a year Germany used the international mails to export over The postal rates Germany to South and the West Indies vary from fifty cents to ninety cents é pareele. Here we have « common rate of $1.33 on of that weight. ,, cod aged L, Cowles, of the League, wants everybody to ; for a moment on Labor Day and drop a twenty-word postal } to Postmaster-General Burleson, at Washington, to the effect preset tax of twelve cents s pound of our produce exported post has become en intolerable, needless burden and “should be } down to not over eight cents » pound.” a After all, if we are going to have a parce! post at all, why not reasonable rates over seas for the benefit of our own exporters the same time put ourselves on a civilized postal footing with nations? ‘ — oo THE BALEFUL STARS. YOU take it from the astrologists the United States is in for * @ lot of crooked star work this fall. Mars the Violent and Gaturn the Malignant are now tarrying in Geminii (which sign jan of this country), and when they reach a cer point no end of trouble is due. st. Im the first week of October, according to Frank Theodore Allen, 8 the Astrological Research Society, who cxplains it all in The Sun- Weg World Magesine for to-morrow, certain “malefic influences” will after President Wileon and put him to the severest possible tests. . ron he will have to handle “a most baffling mess of turbulent ad problems” and “be assailed in a most fiercely vicious per because he will not yield to the clamor of an inflamed public.” of War Garrison and Secretary of the Navy Dani for some rattling “vibrations,” internal labor troubles will harass of Labor and Attorney-General McReynolds will have @.dard tussle with Uranus until spring. Theodore Roosevelt will either rise to startling ts or meet with sudden and tragic acci- Wat or perhaps both. sad persed is full of creeps and thrills for those that read your friend Schonte tn my cverost pocket, Tou tar tabe it to him.” im co he woulda't invite ma,"—Netional Peed Megasina, {x Beany and the Gan Ei tavtettha| Wi By ?.L. Crosby «| WF ME SEZ AnvTHING TO PAE AN® 1 GET PAAD (> GO’ TO COUNT Ten AND W IGLT vERy ed] 1 Gow TO CounT I t : eu Ss The Week’s Wash @ @ jxvitaitha! © By Martin Green es 66 1 help!” ' ejaculated the head polisher. “What do you think of Charles 8. Whitman accepting the nom- ination for Distriot- Attorney from Tammany Hall?” “It only goes to show,” declared the laundry man, “that any man can be landed if you offer bim a to do ts cash im, be having heen nom- inated practically by acclamation. “Wire-tappers, touts, sure-thing men. mining promoters and others engaged in substracti ‘kers from their Money -are aware the psychological advantage of setting forth that their ropositions can't lose. If you.can get to belleve that I have ell the odds my side you can persuade me to inte your scheme Charles F. Murphy annexed this long-standing | Principle years ago he sed Grout and Fornes to the great perso! advantage of his organization. His duction of the coy Mr. Whitman Is smoothest piece of political work in ¢ history of ti! of the Fusion movement goes to shew that when it boa) to pl eat jarked deck when he eits in with ama- teurs, Mr. Murphy's sleeve must he; | Carver 0 almost entirely worn out from the laught he has been pouring into and for William Jay Gaynor, all has to Go ts to go into the ruins of the Fusion structure and help himself. Pretty eoft, this thing of being of = Bhs the sacred few compete to run the affairs of New York City. Take a peek at all of them. Mr. Prendergast ts in Europe. When Mr. Afitchel and M: McAneny want to make up their minds on great public q the Adirondacks. yor Gaynor re- tires to St. James, L. 1; ‘Judge MoCall latens to the sad sea waves moan on the beach down at Southampton when- ever he has to deliherat ® cris! District-Attorney Whitman gets inspir tion from the mountain air up at Bre! ton Woods, N. H. Charles ¥. Murphy rests his tired brain on the golf links at Good Ground. The free and en- Ughtenea voter ticks right to The Folks That Write Our Books} Cagyright, 2018, by Tho Fous Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ITORS to the Dorcas Lawh Party at Quillcote, Kate Douglas ‘Wiggin's summer home at Hollis, | ... Me.,, had an unusual privilege this y« ly as they are when there; to saunter I personal belo: chair by the desk where she has writ- P t watch chal Mary E. Wall of "Lym in thi uth: ¥. The Wood ‘of the prime tablishing of the first , hospital on the island of Nantucket, of ‘which she is now an all-the-year-round resident. hen he te not writing a new book jons they go to! .| censorshif in London, was known at | Wiggin during her happy summers at town, and the disruption! Quilicote, or ait in the author's own -| sented by Bernard Shaw as one of the 6 by winning two) nis—a gold medal and ¢@/| When this play was written Me. Cannan| | By Robert Minor j by The Bross poniaty Co, (tbe Rew York Breoirg Word, ~~ sultry Mttle old New York, working ager of a public service corporation,” every day at the occupation fate has said the laundry man. “Here we have wished onto him, and is lucky if he cam the leading taxicab companies setting yet down to Coney Island for g Sunday up the claim that the more perfect thelr afternoon and pay #1 for the privilege organization the more widespree’ ‘heir of putting on a bathing sult and ming-j facilities for serving the pubile, the Ming with the Atlantic Ocean.” more money they thould be allowed to Charge for such @ service, “The New York Teldbhone Company Used to set up the same claim. The « Management solemnly insisted that the G6TDUT the courts have handed an B awful jolt to the taxicab peo ple,” said the head polisher. “Tt takes many @ jolt to hammer common sense into the average man- control one Theodore Vall, a man of ideas, and he blew the old motheaten contention higher than the Woolworth Tower, Recently the New York Tele- Phone Company has not only complied with laws reducing rates,’ but has re- duced some on its own account. And the Western Union Telegraph Company, long the moat hide-bound of corpora- tions, has found that it pays to keep ite organization busy all the time by making reductions on certain classes of messages. It took the pressure of public opinion, exercised through Pub- lc Service Boards, to start the reform. In time the taxicab people will respond re and go to work on the or tripping lands Rowland Thomas, to far Paine has gone to Europe, accompanied by hjs motor ¢ar. Gilbert Cannan, whose “Round the : . that there !s more money in Corner" has triumphed over literary} serving many people at reasonable rates than In serving @ few at pro-| large until recently as the translator of| nibitive rates.” Romaine Rolland's “Jean Christophe." It ls now announced that he is the original of the character Guan, pre- A Gilt-Edged Tonic, four crities in “Fanny's First Play.” . John Purroy Mitchel ain displayed his superb cour- Gefying the Independence was critic of the London Star. His} novel deals with the family as the ao-! clal unit. Gerald “Growds,” Stanley Lee, author of) ‘ remarked th for individuality and “the assurance of a co-operation, is the aon of a minister month from the Unit laundry man, ine, Seturday. Augost ita. ‘ $0; 19 ‘Pree Publishing Oo, (Tho ‘Dreving West). You Give to Be Twenty Again? to be twenty again? comfortable waistline ang the tiny bare spot showing head—would you give up your cigars, or your Glass of beer, or your clud, er your little cottage in the Jawa around it? the tiny “worry wrinkles’ showing at the corners of your Gray over each ear—would you give up that nice, common: cosy home bon all its burdens and trials, or that long- asing one edother madly around the geranium beds? « or tea, or meat, or sweets, or your afternoon nap, of His iii @issy, and all the world are so highly strung ecstatio heights and the tiniest grief Glisappointment: to the deptlis of misery? & good fairy should step out of the mist to-night and offer you 1d you take it? Would you go over it all again—those aya folly, and mistakes? Would you go back to those H Hi i it i our nervousness; that perfectly: be brilliant; the time we tripped over the door Dereon in the world we wanted to impress; the night we let to the wrong mrt And, if we had @ chance to go over ft af would we not qiatakes or worse? This time, gerhaps, that red-headed @iderly widow with the five children might succeed in landing you, heheh Seed Kewl ®0 ane from that scrape you got into at college, r us or across an 7 marae the parental knee Would ye take a Youth lemweet ana exhilarating, but it te too uncertain, . ang nerve wrecking. And to have it over a: on along with the wine, and eartachee along with the Masex’ Faust gave up his immortal eoul to be twenty @eemed to me a sample of supreme folly and tdtocy, res would-be Fausts to-day; of men and women who fancy: 8 thls med paroalt of the Ticsion nr eee ance eee, of the lon of youth are so foolish ae ae Joy tn the quiet pea 72 ili | ment, and fear, and worry, and strug) ache, and heart-break. SS ERS REPS The fleros, bright sun of youth is drilliant, etaring and dazsling; but the mild "age must be pleasant, and ceful erat tree and @ cool drink, hard Helis sla vote a » and heart. er across the plains. down gladly to “middle. * books and hopes ani before in my life, And ingolence and ‘Well, thank goodness, Fertionnnses, le-age" dresses, and erlasgete and contentment, and jen I see the Jaughing girls go tripping by {i of youth, I shall smile blissfully and may NeW, thant When Talk Is but Brass And Silence Is Golden By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Ni old philosopher Apollonius says: “Talkativencss produces many Gisasters; but in allence there ts safety.” Apropos, 1 hap- pened to spend a| few days with some friends who were having @ house-party. Int! assemblage was young woman o' attainments. She had been ed- cated by well- meaning parents so that she had developed consid- erable talent along, various lines, and seemed » HAPPY addition to the gathering. Bhe delighted her hearers with her beautiful voice, And therein was not her ONLY talent. For she had profited by travel, in tha course of which she few York Evening World), ue of ATTRACTION to the other: un And she was Inatinctivesy labelled “delightful.” But aftie cee Ued companionship the young woman Gisplayed a habit. at Itisa common habit. i . yet ing People, This habit was one. of 4s young woman tried to am. dal over ina pitying (eine lng Lt ever, was not lost on those about 1, For example, she would in poor, dear, sorry for her.’ Then would follow flecting upon the “pos eget? When she talked of other thinge one would always think of her UNKIND.’ NESS toward folk; and her i not carry the weight that mi, wine have come to them, and occupied! a Congregational pulpit ment for four years to come ts some himself for several yearn, my boy, some tonic, indeed.” 'SPOSE YOUSE TINK YER KIN LICK ME, DONT CHER? YER f LITTLE PicnLe- had met with many worth-while people. One evening she r So that immediately she seemed the slates overstepppd the bounds of mi in that tt almost tore to shreds the! character of © woman friend, and tre’ spirit of REVENGE ¥ in Sts mission, Sictiadllaciabics.” Then the young woman k deed.) For now she wi elled “dangers at which was quit from “delighttul,” So it happened when she was about” the others were very careful of what, they } for fear of it bein, ‘ terpreted into scandal by this yo Woman with the bad habit, Since they argued; “r¢ about others, who are not es will she say about us wi not there?" oe : And so it continued until, though 5 she was one of the party, ghe prac tically “out of it.” bia! T gould not but reflect what 5 was. Here was a young 2 kg ots manifold talents, whose usefulness and’ pleasure-giving propensities would Bave’ forever made her a WELCOME visitor’ but for the deplorable defect that she everlaatingly displayed, ad In the present-day social ech; wee may forgive many shortoomings. in the! face of other worth-while attributes;? Dut the slanderer is not easily forgiven! There ls & broad, prevalent epirtt that! brooks of fulrness, Theretqee, goselpare’” ike eavesdroppers, wever bear aay geod’! spemeeva ® tale that, BIG BAYTLE \i) NEXT