The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1913, Page 8

—— The Even : * @he World ° SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Aare nema ce na ey Nene ae ing World Dail The Line Pedtiened Dally Macept Gunter vy che ae Tepening Company, Nos. 68 to wr, a Jr. Georetary, 03 Park Row. ecvensccass 08.86 /One Year... St |One Month.. Sn Pr OMgrcalag |For mnslant and the, Cominent oor ati oes ntermmtional All Countries ia the Pesta U: WHY MUST THIS CITY BE MILKED? HE EVENING WORLD hes put before New Yorkers oon- vineing proof that the New York Telephone Company is sys equeezing big dividends out of ite enormous busi- mess in this city im order to find the wherewithal to extend its policy ef monopoly in pleces outside New York. In 1918 the New York Telephone Company paid the parent (American Telephone and Telegraph Company $10,000,000 in dividends end $1,900,000 rental. Ine previous year New York City contributed 06 por cent. of the entire net earnings for all telephone operation wovering New York State and the northern half of New Jersey. Tact year telephone users in this city piled up more than $16,000,000 Quetite fer the company. And what have New Yorkers received in vetarn fcr their enor- tapes potronage? Hes the New York Telephone Company used the huge profit it rts from this city to abolish the toll-gate system? Has the Telephone Company taken advantage ef its constantly in- fmcome from New York business to lower rates to the five- eat basis enjoyed by other cities with far iess patronage? With half the volume of New York’s telephone business Chicago fase telephone rates 25 per cont. cheaper than those of New York and (ee toll-gate exact-ens. ‘A policy of gradging concession and crafty concealment on the part of the New York Telephone Company will no longer satisfy the Qudlic in this city. New Yorkers mean to find out why the colossal patronage they give te the telephone does not result, as by every law ef business it chould result, in reduced rates and uniform charges. Why srest the millions who use the telephone in New York City ge on month after month paying for such schemes of monopoly and pansion as the telephone interests see fit to project in other parts ef the country? ———-4-____. ‘Steady with the net. Bagmen ere running hewier. ——————— WORK THE SCHOOLHOUSES. HE tango and the turkey trot do not thrive at recreation centres and vacation schools. The fifteenth annual report of the Superintendent of Schools informs the Board of Education that in the mixed dances held under the auspices of the educational authorities the two-step, waltz and Nantucket are the favorite dances, while animal prances and wiggles have been reduced to e minimum. Better yet, the report declares that “in many neighborhoods the yeung men of the dancing classes are reaching higher standards of cenventional refinement. The night of the dances finds them well groomed and the ordinary usages of polite society are being gradually ineulcated.” Tf such be the admirable effect of letting people have a good time in places where the associations and surroundings are not thore of cheap dance halls, why not extend the good work to the utmost? Why not use the schools as socisi centres to the fullest stretch of their capacity? Planning snd using echool buildings to teach the young by day and to chow them how to enjey themselves in seemly and well-man- nered ways during the evening would be first rate municipal economy. By all means expand the socia) centre idea and work the school- Reuses to the Hmit. _S—PF———— aiter ad me a sufficiency of advertising Mr. Stover will be found ———____-¢=2—_____. HOW TO DEAL WITH THE MASHER. OES the New York “masher” grow bolder and more numerous? Despite the frequent cases of this sort that come into the courts and the increasing severity with which offenders are treated by the magistrate, every woman who goes about the streets of Mew York knows that for one instance of insult that is punished there ave hundreds of others that are never even heard of. Mrs. Winifred Harper Cooley has interviewed prominent New York women on the @upject of the “masher” nuisance, and their views a presented in The Sunday World Magazine to-morrow show how eerionsly this evil is regarded by those in a position to know the facts. A sixteen-year-old Japanese girl, who is an expert in jiu-jiteu, has thirty neat and effective ways of putting the masher at her mercy. But all women have not the advantage of jiu-jitsu. The President of the City Federation of Women’s Clubs thinks the remedy for the mashing evil lies in the education of men. , While they are being educated, however, try the workhous Nib storshy ‘y orkhouse and —_———-+-____ Nov, 29, 1814, for the first t'me a newspaper (the London Times) ‘was printed by steam Instead of by the old aand method, Letters From the People ‘ Battle of Austertits, ‘Boe Ritez f Tee roving Works: 4d me who won the battle of ‘aughty stable without the tittle the brutes do get out of life, their poor tre heavy load, which at all Umes ta too big, must bear the extra lash of perhen> an C-ertired driver ‘ory often one who has been drinking, and naturally te not Man enourh to give hie blows where re- taliation can be revorted to.) We ull snow that when walking on slippery P ita or icy walks, even without a load, our limbs are hi and almost re- fuse to act, Whe. hore sink in utter weariness and need sympathy, they are often goaded on by the lash, There tx _ Meventy thousand French under Na- Bosaparte won the battle of i certainly no charity demanding more helpers or more worthy » sar ‘han the poor unimal that has not been gifted with the vver of wee. to tell when the buckle grinds or the harness is wubbing an open wount, &. GV. OC, IN TH Cnorrignt, 1913. by The New York 66 HAT are you sore at Mra. W Pishferd De Grey fort” | asked Mr. Jerr, “’Cause ghe knew people you knew, but yet; Rever invited you to her affaira when Publishing Oe, she did invite THEM?" This WAS the very reason, but not} for worlds would Mra, Jarr, now a biter in Harlem (thanks to her intimacy with the Presidentess of Conta Rica), admit the fact even to her own conscience, As for a husband! Ha, the last to know what atirs the yy soul strings! ‘Therefore Mrs, Jarr looked Mr. Jarr enlinly in the eyes and laughed a care-| lena little titter ' “Me? THAT woman? What noa-' arnse!” she sald, “Well, juat the same,” Mr. Jarr blun- Hits From Sharp Wits. A female archaeologist (2 Pittsbunch hag discovered that in the days of an- cient Rome women wore allt skirts and hobblex, Yes, but what Eve wore le no argument.—Milwaukee Sentipel. eee Wonder how nounce the bany Journal, thon naine O' Mexicans pro- jaughoessy,—Al- ee While sitting in an oMco chair a man May feel Just as young as he used to be, but after running a block te catch & street car he changes his mind— Toledo Liade. oe 8 It 18 a rellef to learn that Huerta gota intoxicated on champagne, There had deen some fear that it was kerosene oil, Chicago N . heen found for Als: posing of husbands, A Janesville woman had her husband sent to Jat! Under the new/law the Sher! has wo hire fs prisohera out, The woman hired her husband and will boss him eround for the time of his sentence, The wages she pays to the sheriff will then be paid back to her, Incidentally thia da not the only law passed by the last Legislature which ranks with Vaudeville,ALIWaukeo Sentinel, eee ‘A health officer says that colds may be caught from kissing, but we can't figure out in What way tat fact adds \ WANT To FIND OUT WHY | HAVE TO PAY $ 6,000 000 EXCESS CHARGES A WEAR FOR TELEPHONE SERVICE y Mae¢az Is Busy 3 |. (S TOWN SS dered on, “yuu used to send Gertrude downstairs when you heard the post- man whistle every morning the whole week before she gave any of her special Literary Afternoons, And when any advertisements from fur or jewelry came in fine square envelopes ine a Coprrient. 1918, by The Preas Publis’ ‘0. (Tow New York Evening World), tla turday: N -—-——— ove | #é By Maurice Ketten! —$ $$$ PROSESEREEE EES SERAESSASESE SESS SOA SOAS OSEDESEREESES Mrs. Jarr Revives Sweet Memories of a Purely Mythical ‘Presidentess.’ 999SISIIOSSTIGS TS 099SSIT ID ISIISS SS VETTTSITITSIITSGY | you'd tear them open with @ hairpin, quick, and then say you'd never deal with stores that sent out advertise mente under false pretenses.” “Oh, you're VERY observing!" said Mrs, Jarr, interrupting him, ‘And yet you do not observe that I'm wear- The Telle ——— By Sophie Copyright, 1918, by The Pree Publish OY on young man will drink and be unfaithful and your married life will be unhappy: ‘These, the words of a fortune teller, burned into the brain of @ young woman in a West- em city, And he brooding —_ nally brought about her death, This young woman w: soon to be mar- ried and this s0- called forewarning caused @ tragedy which _ concerned ral Mv a How long are we going to “fall” for the follies of fortune telling? How long are wo going to take for gospel the humdrum ramblings and imaginings of it seems to ‘put two and two together and make @ hundred” out of thelr forecasts! Ot course there ls always hatred woman in the case” and a enemy trying to do you who can't thir or whe Is itkely And who is there who ls NOT ing @ letter?” And some “wonderful thing” 1# to happen in five weeks, five months or Ave years juat because you happened to cut the five spot of apades! In truth it ls YOU who are “apoited” The Folly of Following rs of Fortunes Irene Loeb——— iG Oo, (Fhe New York Evening World), by the Freakish Philosopher to whom you pay your good money. Ha’ celved warning of these COMMON OC CURRENCES, for which you immedi- ately find w place in your mind, then some more important prophecy 1s made and you insist on giving it credence. All these forecasts that the clever seer draws up to your willing 1 tion answer the descriptions of people nd things you know, And there you In other words, you form @ PART- NERSHIP with these peddlers of the past, present and future and take to heart a foolish fantasy, a mere jumole of guesswork, And, as in the case of th young woman, you worry miseruny over the idea of COMING calamity. You cross bridges before they are in existence, And why? é an be his own fortune teile Pondering over PROBALLE propo! tlona never brought any of us an: thing but tears and sleepless nigits and wrinkles and “blue devil spivits, This ls the greatest age the world has ¢ known, REALITY with wil its kbone of strength is at your door. Why look forward to tragedies when {t 48 Just as easy to think of tiumpli Just reason with old Unur, Way kuew He said: mL my #oul through tie inv! Fr life to spell, nu by My yous wer Mf ain Heaven and LHell’* Be your own fortune teller. above rr bie, “Firat Raise" contest ts Joseph Pon- teas, No, 1601 Siaty-ainth street, Brook- ya. Thousands of contributions were the Firat Halse." an excellence that a the judge to reach @ Anal decision, Mr, Pontessa's winning story follows: to allurement of one of the most popular of indoor aports,—Philadelphia inquires, 1 landed a job through a pull with the foreman. 1 had always thought that having a pull with a boss in any concera would be @ great help w ad: celved in competition for the $% cash prize offered vy The Bveniias World for best account of “How 1 Got My} Many of thege were of| de it diMeult for “First Raise’’ Prize Awarded. The winner in The Evening World's Vancement, whether 1 did iny work right or noi, 1 was greatly inis- taken, This pull did not do me any Sood, Dut gave me w "sWelied uvad and made me think that 1 was ter than ali the other bo: Time passed and 1 never got a raise, Su 1 dnally came to my right sensce and made up my mind that from that duy on 1 would work the very best 1 huew how, Su 1 did better aud the superintendent and the fore> man noticed it; for I would be the first one there in the morning and the last to go home at n: week later 4 was raised o Hh yourned and ing a made-over dress or that I need @ new hat. Taix of women being Kos sipy! We men are twice as and four tines as foolish! Yes, I used to watch the mails to see if that Pish- ford De Grey woman would have the nerve to invite m “But as for having any interest in auch persons—you know yourself she has sent Mrs, Stryver and Clara Mud- \ridge-Smith both to me to beg me if I would come to her so calied ‘Literary Sundays’ and read a paper on ‘The Presidentess of Costa Rica at Home. I tnughed at them. The dente: of Costa Rica shouldn't be mentioned in the name breath with such peopie as the Pishford De Greys!” “Hy the way,” queried Mr. Jarr, “who \" the Presidentess of Costa Rica?” “If you did not meet the First Lady Land in Costa Rica it was he- you were out at the Hippodrome— |which Ix nothing but a race track—with ‘that young man from Newark, whom you spent so much time with that I would have been a stranger in @ strange land BUT for the Prealdentess of Costa Rica!” And Mra, Jar in the eye. uleo believed in the President in all her glory, woke! Mr. Jarr atratent 8 of Cos- Mr. Jarr “atl T remember | were very narrow; it rained every day | 6 carried umbrellas; it was ngalust the law NOT to buy lot tery tickets, ‘The greatest excitement T saw while we wore there was the crowd that collected in front of a drug st to guess how many quinine pills tn a jar in the windo' a that was what you rode off in the carringe for with that fat lawyer and ‘the young man from Newark?" | “Why, I don't deny It,” sald Mr. Ja “The President's private secretary qi me an official letter that admitted me every Jail In Conta Rica and permitted |me to stay In them as long as the war- jdens wanted me to stay. “Well, then, if T say nothing deroga- tory of your friend, the President of Costa Rica, please do not speak dis- respectfully of my friend, the Pre | dentess of Costa Rica.” “Ton glad your recollections of San | Jone, the beautiful and thriving capital of Costa Rica, are #o pleamant," mur- |mured Mr. Jarr, “but will you ever wad ‘den them with the haunting memory of | mig hote!? Do you remember the chea that ate up and entirely di | its te r | troved our alligator skin bag all in ono afternoon? Weil, you'll admit the Presidentess war charming, ntan Mr. Jarr admitted it, So [no South American question will ever enuse wa: between the Jara, eS a ens mber 29! 1913 And from that day forth he| 0 | 6 gry HERE aro in the United states 17,000,- T 000 unmarried aduite, Out of every 1U0 American men 30 are unmarried, How | to explain these dreadful figures"? ‘Thus spoke, with a» gesture of despair, @ cer i —_—_—_———— | Mystery Cieared Up. sf yet ae Coprright, 1093, hy THe Pre Puoknug Cy, (ie Now York Bveuing World). | H, see the young gentleman! Why ts he holding the lady's hand? O He in telling the lady that she ts the only girl he ever loved. Is he speaking the truth? No, my child: but that does not matter so long as ie says tt convinclag! Besides, she 18 the only girl he line loved for a Whole wee Does the young gentioman tell every girl that she is t loved?” Yes, my child; he $a an “Old Master” In the act of Mrtution ‘What is an “Old Master?" A man, my child, who 1s so expert at love-making that he can convince eved HIMSELF that he means all he says—while he is ny At But do you not feel sorry for the young Indy? Do not pity her, my child. It is very refreshing to a girl to nade love t> by an expert after a long and harrowing ¢ fence with the average amat nly one he eve* | HH, aee the little Optimist! Where is he going? O He ts going down to the corner cafe for a slight Nquld retreshmen* while his wife makes the beds, washes the distor, gets the children ready for school, figures out how to pay the butcher and the grocer and bluffs the Yandlora off for another month. But how can the Optimist be ao happy under such trying circumstances? That te simple, my child. Optimism ts the comforting faith that everybody the “Let-George-do-it" theory, which enables us to bear other people's sorrow and toothaches with perfect equanimity. | But if Optimi»m ts so comforting why are thore so many pessimists? Because, my child, whenever an Optimist is born in a family it turns all ty fest of them into Pessimiets, TO-DAY'S OLASS IN USEFUL KNOWLEDGE. HAT in the matter with the funny man In the pleture? i He 1s going on a Voyage of Discovery, my child. He has just be married, and in the picture you see him carrying two grips, a bundle 4 umbrellas, a fur coat and a girl on one arm, while with the other he is mad) | endeavoring to reach the rice in the back of his collar and to ward off an vu} shoe. How joyful ts & wedding! But what will the man discover when he has sct sail on the Sea of Mat: mony? He will discover that the price of one bottle of champagne will nearly for a ton of coal; i} ‘That he has acquired the right to hay to his own opinions. ‘That a latch-key in the pocket ts worth two in your wife's bureau dra’ That by woaring an overcoat for three seasons one may soon be able to for the drawing-room; That the money squandered on a box of perfectos would have bought Potted palm and a rubber plan’ That GOOD chairs are not meant to be sat on and that the mantelpiece ty NO place for a man’s feet; ‘That all a woman's hair ts not attached to her head and that her clothes do not GROW on her, but come in flowered boxes with bills attached. And by that time he will suddenly have discovered that he is MARRIED. his socks darned but lost the rig! TO-DAY'S WRITING LESSON. (Copy in a neat band.) When a girl marries she usually has to choose whether she will st a! the foot of a throne or stand on a doormat. =The Week's Wash By Martin Green odd they raised for the Cc. A. and ¥. W. CG. A. the “1 4 word and his record as an hones re-!inan, tus uo more chance. of getttn head {that needed modest a:m than be ba jof getting Andrew Carnegie’s incom~ A charitable organization with a cap! */tal of @ few hundred thousand dollu:~ Aagreed the laundry: |to engage in the business of loantn2 tAman, “but why the|funds to deserving persons on @ bes! Acirens methods at-;of mutual confidence would do as muc~ Arcnting the collec-|R00d ax the $4,000,00 ao clamorousl: tant The bulk of Pile? up for the two Caristian associa: id the money was giv- | Wl08 . G in great contri- Piicions, ave as less Pedectrian: that of John De} eoneheh Rocketettor, Mins Grace Dodge ant Me cere atne reid | Cleveland H, Dodge handed over : 4 |o00, John D, Rockefeller Jr, and Ne | wife came down handsomely, . of Aldermen." Payne ll Tale oma Ac ” ee anata encarta giver was | ment ae Gellvary! eontrantora said ‘ yn ihe boo..ere: and ceme| 0 Mundryman, will find that wht!'s solicited by the hoo-. \the streets of New York are postroads mason mith Bsn have to be bad » aot race cours But eves ened alone oy, Igual. cram ead Bute | cre tee IAS DANE By thei Beare ar Helty ‘The $4,000,000 could have been |: moing to. stop) Sh Melty: The $4,000,000 coe Jertakon a siauahter of pedestrians on the streets Iittie more time to conduct the cam pied pM ovine chauffeurs ars \ wo) of plas under eover, but (t wouldn't, ba In this connection something ougtt a 5 to be done about punishing reckles: Ww .M hid 2 With all duo respect to the T. M | oegestrians. A great many accidenta— ©. A. and the Y. W. C. A. these organi- ; Probably @ majority of them—are oor | zations do not reach the very Di maused by the Gal we of people te | They are what might be called cute) on ie thoroughfares, ere catering: top “Automobiles KI! more people im New fo pay but not able to pay much, The self respecting poor | York in a month than they kin in Lon ree ite daily paper how a (40 In ® year. Automobiles run faster in ipeuatna yelunlosres headed by the|the stroets of London than they do ‘x energetic George W. Perkins of the, New York. The principal streets the:s Harvest Machinery Trust, can go out/8re jammed with lumbering, clumsy and. get $4,000,000 for these quasi-| auto buses wich do not stop to adm'. charitable institutions in ffi passengers or let them off—onty slow time gete un idea—mietaken or not--|down. On the other hand,~the London that there 1 a great deal of misapplied | pedestrian 1s careful, He watches for energy devoted to relief work in Now| his chance to cross the etreet, and hv York, croases only where the regulations pro- “There isn't a community in the| vide that he shall crows. An awful roar world kinder to the unfortunate than | would go 1p here if we attempted to fine New York City, But the ry millions | pedestrians violating trafic rules, But we ought to have euch a lew. of dollars expended in charity go largely to those who are looking for charity. A considerable proportion of SDE," onid the head polisher. that the Milwaukee Press Clu> Willan jdidn't succeed in bluMng the Bear! what they The deserving needy, ¢ poor who would rather go hungry it goes to persons who don't deserve than ask for alins, are absolutely >ver- refused «te = receive “Maybe you sre goin to aay that you|jooked. There should be a way of | Sulzer.” did not meet tho President of Costa|;reaching these people. “Often,” explained the leunérymaa, Zca™” remarked Mrs, Jarr, “You will! “A householder who could help a| “observers at a distance get @ clearer admit you met the President of Costalsick family get out of debt and put| idea of a proceeding them ethers im re 2, Pica, If you didn’t, why did you tell/nimself on a basis of self respect wita werved seats.” The Day’s Good Stories, An Explanation. omined t. “Your Mtle git was te thaw pusterday for balf a pound of chews pound soap, That's the cheese,” Llama) ad “The cheese!" exclaimed ==, “The (hat. scoomsts for the otter tha “Why, 1 lay awake the whole might wondering what made welsh rabbit icer."—Pitswurgh Chast Rages, ae Queer,’ - i Absent-Minded, , WO men met during © gmtle chomer ot vu! northwest commer of and Wasi fusion etzvets, One hed bie umbealla in the other carried his tm he hand, evidentiy oblir: ous cf the fact that he bad an y “Hello,” said the oblivious ‘what you doing with that umbrella ba “Your umbrellet'’ no doubt about it, 1 kmow tt by the e's Rot another Like it fm town,’* Looky BA the accused one, emit “What'e that your hand! ae 8 pleasure; 4 “kt Why, that's my umbral “That ain's eoay, ma'am,’ foterrupted the) livious cn @pvcer, 00 ko took (bo oulaience Lp bead and 0s indiensgeiio tw tcpants im thie dialogue were @ bachelor and @ spuuster, be about thirty-fite, she about thirty, ‘Men? sald the epluster, ‘used to macy | younger than they do mow, didn't they? “'¥ea,' the cachelor anawered, ‘but didn't women umd to be more willing to wash dishes thent’ "Washington Star, | QQHe walked to avd barged @ hunk nuit "Hs ie mo toap that t substance on the couniar, nounced waensit’ itaelf, 1014 theo “i—teforgot that 1 had "a0 on eommiceted else will get along all right—without any worry or effort on your part. 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