The evening world. Newspaper, November 22, 1913, Page 9

The Evening World Daily Magazine, 'M A ToucH Guy! WHAT WOULD You Do IF I'D GIVEYouGuys A SWIFT PUNCH IN THE Yak farms, but the catch up with demand. “After long years of discouraging struggle the farmer has come into hi own and his prosperity will increase with the years, “Population must continue to increase, but large increase in the area of arabie land is @ thing of the past. “Consumption increased in the pi ten years almost three times as acreage and almost iwice as f: production, “No danger which has ever confronted nt of the great New York railroad system. On January Central Grat next he becomes a plain citizen of the State he calls home, From the very Pinnacle of America’s railroad life to the quiet of @ little mid-Western town Where he has @ tara is @ transition like that of Cincinnatus from Rome to the plough. Willian C. Brown, to-day at the age York potorens; of 6, president of the New Central system, becomes *, William Brown, missionary farmers, and starts life ove: merely in occupation but in throws of 3% years in f day he lays down the burdens of the biggest railroad job in the country. From the windows of his workshop office im the Grand Central Terminal you can look out over miles of railroad track and a magnificent system of ratls, ewitches, electrical installation and faltroad equipment, centring in that magnificent structure known as the Grand Central Station, It cost many miliions of dollars. It typifies the apotheosis of railroad genius. 180 YEARS OF AGRICULTURAL WASTE. But President Brown wants to see the rrase and the corn grow. He Jongs for the green fields instead of the bar- fen track yards. So after forty-four years of marvellously successful life in the railway world, attaining the highest honors it has to offer, he has resolved Ao retire, He is going back to the farm, making it the end as well as the be- ginning of his career. President Brown has not definitely mapped out his plan of missionary cam Between now and the frat of the year, he eald, he would arrange that, but he has some very definite (deas about the work to be done for the mation and the general lines along which he intends to operate, which he expressed follows: “We have been for @ century and « ta balf recklessly exploiting the natural Feaources of a continent. “Our agricuiture has been a process ef half farming, until land began to show conditions of exhaustion, and then moving on and taking up new land fur. ther West. Now the land further Weut to be had for the asking is gone. “During the past ten years our farms have produced an average annual yield of less than 14 bushela of wheat per acre, while Germany produces 28 and the United Kingdom 32, “Uni Production can be !mme- diately and powertully stimulated with- In five years consumption of foodstuff in |* this country will have overtaken pro- duction. “In the lght of present high prices for farm products the abandoned impoverished farms to-morrow the at the end of the goes William C. Brown, & nation compares with the danger which comes from an inadequate food supply. “Herein les the farmer's marvellous Opportunity and hig solemn dut; “We are trustees holding this land as cred trust for generations yet un- "I would make our agricultural col- leges and the agricultural departments of all colleges in fact what they are in name by limiting admission to young \ rn of vho want to study and schovl Stat d the half-cultivated farms of |™°" W Hy the West seem utterly incomprehenatble | remselvee in salentific axricult and inexcusable, boemapres haces OF Becoming | hee! FARMER'S OPPORTUNITY AND SOLEMN DUTY. “Consumption ig overtaking produc- with alarming rapidity, and values @ beett rising by leaps and bounds, “Gradually improved methods will in- viti ly inter fession, “I would double our rural population and more than double the product of the nation's farms, “The United 8 ted in that most honorable | | t | State in tl \the a | sta J] WouLd 6o AND TELL Your MA——- . i ‘Land Call’ Draws Brown From Railroad Presidency To Become Missionary to Farmers in His Nativelowa Head of the New York Centrat Sys- tem, at Sixty, Leaves Finance an Will Devote the Rest of His Lile to Arricaltare, crease the yield per acre of the nation's; three great battleships almost every ply will never again|year, which cost, full quipped of nine million dolla: id it costs close to a million a r each to man, supply and maintain them, “What one of these fighting machines Coste the Government would establish and fully equip two splendid exper!- mental farms of 640 acres each in every Union, to be operated by neral Government. ‘They would soon be followed by 10 fi owned and operated by the in every county in our great agri- haps an aver: e h, cultural States, “Such farms, once established, would not only be self-sustaining, but in my opinion would show @ handsome profit. The effect of such a system of practical education upon the product and profit of the nation’s farms would be almost beyond comprehension, “Let the Government invest the price of one battleship in this Important work and follow the investment up intelll- gently and perseveringly for ten years, and the value that will have been added to each year’ farms will buy ship in ali the navies of the world to- a “We must increase production by more intelligent methods or we must face the relentless certain coming of the day when we shall not produce food ites is building two or ;enough to supply our own necessities,” with a crown on my head and a man blowing a trumpet to let folks know I @ been a red-haired spring-hous girl, breaking the steels in her figure stooping over to ladie mineral water out of a hole in the earth, Nevertheless, at 5 o'clock, after every one had gone, when I saw Miss Patty, * muffled in furs, tripping out through 18 the snow, with a tall, thin man beside ; her, walking very straight and taking one step to her four, I felt as though somebody had hit me at the end of my breast bone. They stopped a minute outside before one * they came in, and I had to take myself i Tine. dalle “hy in hand, fetom,” The house 40 “Now look here, Minnie, you idiot," Slore an eccentric. yh I said to myself, “this te America; you're as good as he 14; not a bend of the knee or a stoop of the neck, And if he calls you ‘ny good girl’ hit him,” They came in together, .wughing and talking, and, to be honest, if I hadn't caught the back of a chair, I'd have feulous to make a fuss over a had one foot back of the other and person for what, after all, been making a courtesy in spite of my- was an accident of birth. It was well self. enough for me to easy that it was only ‘We're late, Minnie!” Mis; Patty said, by ebance that I wasn't strutting about “Oskar, this is one of my best friends, CHAPTER XIll, The Prince—Principally. T was all well enough for me to say—as I had to to Tillie many a time—that it was rid- Where There’s a Will * #6 = and you are to be very nice to her.” He had one of those things in his eye and he g: stare throi&kh it. Seen close handsomer than Mr, Plerce, but d older than his picture. ‘Ask her if she won't be nice to me," he said in as good English as mine, and held out his hand. “Any of Mise Patty's friends*— I began, with a lump in my throat, and gavo his hand @ good #q' They roared at that, and Miss Patty had to sit down in @ chair, "You see, she knows, Oskar," she said, “The rest are thinking and per- haps guessing, but Minnie ts the only one that knows, and she never talks, Everybody who comes here tells Minnie his troubles." “But—am I @ trouble?” he din @ low tone I was down In the spring, but I heard it, “So far you have hardly been an un- alloyed Joy," she replied, and from the epring I echoed “Amei “¥es—I'm #0 hung with family si fons, that I clatter when 1 walk,” stant oe Set men, T WoutD Tete NouR MA WE WERE VERY SORRY ~~~} — By Newton ‘Coppright, 1018, by The Prem Puttsh ING to the Panama Canal opening this month? Suppose you make the jour- ney in & memory airsbip by way of Buez and arrive at Port Said, say, Nov. 16, 19697 You will arrive ust in time to doff your bonnet to the Empress Eugente, the handsomest woman in Europe. Poor Eugenie! This ia positively her last appearance on we imperial stage. Within a few months she will be a fugitive from Frat But, meanwhile, this is France's and Eugenie’s day. The Sues Canel, gateway from the West to the Kast, is to be formally opened. Pretty nearly all the roy: of Europe is there, ex- cepting England. Lord Palmerston, the Prime Minister, has advised his Queen that the Sues Canal will surely be a fiivver. There is a difference, he points out, of twenty feet in the level of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, Opening the Suez Canal, The Panama's Forerunner ] WoutD Tew | YouR MA WE SWERE VERY ¢ SORRY THAT WE = * a Macmillan —— tng Ce, (The New York Brening World), thing lke eix thousand of thes 1% end the beha ©f ome of them with the not calculated to impress medan mind with the digaii Of Western civilization. aaa The Khedive has arranged an Ss tion of Arab horsemanship, ey ‘This funotion th attends, riding on @ cami is Leghorn hat and @ ye! vell. oo affords @ rough eeat for ul terner and @ woman. An Italian in crowd shouts roughly at the Em- “Lean back, you, or over you -0, over head! ‘The graceful dignity with Which che smiles and accepts this ad: hearts of all, adler dl- At night the Khedive gives ® Great ball in the new palace. Here again Empress occupies the centre of the ones and what canal can withstand the rush of waters which that will entall? Bo it is France's day and Bugente’s day. French engineers have dug the canal, including M. de Lesseps, the same who came a cropper at Panama eome years later. And Frenchmen have furnished the money. Of the royalties present, two are Cath- olics, one Protestant and one Moham- medan. 80, for the first time in his- tory, the Cross and the Crescent throw their mingled shadows on the worship- pers as they Join in @ common prayer. Bugente mi & somewhat theatrical appearance, leaning on the arm of the Emperor Franz Josef. Ghe wears pale Etey silk, with deep white Brusesle lace, arranged in panniers and flounces, Her hat and veil are black and she wears a black velvet ribbon around her beautiful neck, The foremost ships of the procession have reached Ismailia, where the Khe dive, Ismail Pasha, has built « palace to entertain his guests. There are eome- daughter! Bright Suitor—No need, sir, Yo explained, pretending I hadn't heard, and brought them both glasses of “It's got to be a habit with some peo; to save their sciatica and thelr hus- bands’ dispositions and their torpid Uvers and their unpaid bills and bring ‘em here to me." He eniffed at the glass and put it down, “Herr Gott!" he said, “what a wat It 4a—the whole thing is I can understand the re: bad or Wiestaden—tIt ts gay. Ono one's friends; it is—soeial. But her He got up and, lifting a window cur- tain, peered out into the snow, “Here,” he repeated, “shut in by for- hills, a thousand miles ¢rom Ufe"'"——He shrugged his shoulders and came back to the table, “It is wall enough for the father,” he went on to Miss Patty, “but for yout Why—it is depressing, gray. The only bit of color in it all is—here, in what you call the #pring-house.” 1 thought he meant Mise Patty's cheeks or her lovely violet eyes, but he was looking at my hair, I had caught his eye on it before, but this thme he made no secret about it, and he sighed, for ail the world as if it ri minded him of something, He went over to the slot machine and stood in front Angry Father—You young rascal, I'll teach you to make love to my he Funniest Story o America’s Greatest Woman Humorist OOO SS Heals A Rome oo mm in @ wonderful toilet. It te im; overrate the gracious tnluence et. gh presence. As an engineering feat the Sues ap- pears like small potatoes in comparison with the Panama. Its first cost was ‘Onty $60,000,000, about @ sixth of what Uncle Sam has spent on the Central American enterprise. Bulk to eecom- modate vessels of twenty-five feet draught, it has been deepened and wid- ened several times aince at ar expense exceeding the frst cost. But there is no Culebra cut and ne Gatun lock—nothing to make @ pletur- esque setting worthy of the beautiful woman who graced the opening cere monies with her lovely presence. Poor Bugenie! This was her last jeok- fn at the great work. Bince then, eave for an occasional glimpee of her chiid- less widowhood in the ttle Engtlsh town where she hae lived in seclusion, the busy world in which once took eo great a part has passed her by. She 1s close to ninety and te epending thie winter on the Riviera, In Silhouetteville. 9 heela | ur daughter has taught me herself. of it, humming and trying the differeat combinations, I aust say he had @ nica back, Misa Patty came over and aipped her hand In mine, “Well?” abe whispered, looking at me with her pretty eyebrows raised. “He looks all right," I had to confess, “Perhaps you can coax him to shave” She laughed. “Oskar! she called, “you have passed, but you are conditioned. Minnie objects to the mustache,” He turned and looked at me “It ls my greatest attraction,’ clared, “but it ts also @ great can Mins Minnie dem to her tn a—4n audacious way, “But you must promise to care for it Many women have loved au" “I believe that!” I answered, and stared back at him without blinking. “I guess £ wouldn't want the responsl- bility." But T had as fdoa that he meant what he sald about the many women, and that Miss Patty knew it as well as I did, She Sushed @ little, and they went very soon after that, stood and Watched them until they disappeared in the snow, and I felt lonelier than ever and sad, although certainly was ‘Detter than I had expected to Gnd bin, . Spring, Minnie,” he announced, Saturday, November 22, y C. M. Payne ERM ARN REARS RMR BOO am Ss — wee THAT We HAD To THROW You DOWN AND Give You A ) GOOD LICKIN Cee B RMA ce Social Life of an Actress, in England or in America, Depends on Actress, Says Lady Forbes-Robertson Women meet on equal footing—mot ealy as regards opportunities for expleiting car nts tet ftom © Renmatal mentpeis “Home Life Advances Social Lile— Englend Ie Noted for Its Hi Life—In the Hastle of America the Home Often Dwindles.” By Gertrude Elliott. ( Forbes-Robertson). 1 social life of an actress in England or in America depends upon the actress—and upon the but the 18 60 deep the horses cannot prided woman, who are not Identical, despite Ei bile opinion, In the m: taow Jority of cases the actress and we Woman are two seperaje and dating | Dereons, and though there are players who play solely themselves upon the Stage, the real actress is generally the’ Woman who assumes for stage pur- poses only @ character and a personal- ity quite apart trom her re eelf, 1 Go not mean by this sonality 's something to be put on and taken off, but I mean that almost in- a o He was @ man, and not @ little oub body hardly big enough to carry th Weaknesses. But he and 4 warm mouth, and ‘that sort of man is generally « social @uccess and @ matrimonial failure. It wasn't until toward night that I remembered I'd been talking to @ real prince and I hadn't once said “ Highness or “your Excellency” whatever I should have said. ead “You!” 1 had hardly closed the door after em when it opened again and Mr. ‘lerce came in. He shut the door and, woing over to one of the tables, put o or I bad ¢ backage down on It, “Here's the atu? you wanted for the “I sup- pose I can't do anything more than register a protest against It?" “You needn't bother doing that,” 1 anewered, “unless it makes you feel bet- ter, Your authority ends at that door. Inside the spring-house I'm in con- trol.” (Ive hard to believe, with things ae they are, that I once really believed But T did, It was three full Gays later that 1 earned that I'd been mistaken!) Well, he sat there and looked at nothing while I heated water in my Alasolved Drase kettle over the fire a the things against Thoburn' the next day, and be didn’t say any- FORBES: ROBERTSON: somethin} @ character live and have describable make a definite life. ‘They say that whatever one wishes @ Get out of life, one gets if one goee after it; and 1 suppose this would apply to social life. If a woman likes eociety she will find that the stage offers plenty of outlet for social pleasures, and it seems to me that this ts increasing each cry from the twentieth days of Nell Gwynn and tresses of those times held century to to the rank what @ gulf lies between the two periods in the development of the actress's social position both in England and in Amer- fea. One could scarce imagine two Greater extremes. In those days @& woman who sought to find expression for her art In the theatre was an out- cast. In these days the woman finds the theatre offering her the finest sort of an outlet to her ability, In fact, the theatre is the one place where men and eee o By Mary Roberts Rinehart "SEVEN DAYS” Author of had @ gift for keeping quiet, aid, it got on my nerves doing better,” I Fe ng up iny mixture, he said, without moving. y're happier now they no-I don't know, He's not Much of @ doctor, you know—and there don't seem to be any medical books @round.” ‘There's one on the care and feeding of infants in the circulating library,” I @aid, “and he can have my Anatomy,” You're generous!” he remarked, with one of his quick smiles, “It'a a book,” I snapped, and fell to atirring again. But he was moping once More, with feet out and his hands behind his ‘aring at the ceiling, Tsay, Minnie*—= “Your? “Miss—Misa Jennings snd the-von In- wali were here just now, weren't they? 1 passed then on the bridge.” Lo “What-how do you ike him? ‘Hetter than I expected and not so well as I might," I said. “If you ere going to the house soon you might take Miss Patty her handkerchief, It's there under that table," 1 took my mixture tnto the Pantry and Jett it to cool. But as I started hack I stopped. and \~$ standing tm trot of the Sra SMATTER PoP b fn which goes toy He had got the handkerchief the i fi ! | j ty iy : i HY | Esk i ff ii I 5 piv We i atk i i! rye bi i Hil | H iL | E i j I : i g ' ii E f ; Hil Hl H ote a HH e : itt bee i i : & ts a re Ey i ; i iEHTPTERSH | | ably only A i i : il Sagat iH i i iF s i 5 g 3 : he ‘ell,” T said, “Aid you get itr? jet what?’ Yes, Here pulled it out of tt ia” hie pocket end held remind you of Miss Patty, and the aceat may be like Miss Patty, but she doesn’t use perfume on her handkerchief, ‘This has E. C, on it, which means Bites » rather but to save my lite I eoulda’t ‘bi that scrap i that that red. te fore, and fret attack, he hadn't old to