The evening world. Newspaper, December 12, 1913, Page 30

St EN a II * ot Maxine Elliott's ‘bamptions talk about refusing to seat their patrons after the first act Cte SF Bord. SSTABLISHED SY JOSEPH PULITZER. PeamaMred Datty Macept Suntay v7 the Prove Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to} 8 Park Row. ay Fegy-Otee ot 5 re tw The "ad Conese = TetP oorssececcscecencrcesss 68.99/On0 Year... MER. ccccccwseccocsescce 80 /One oe VOLUME 54.......creccccccewescceecsseesesse+NO. 19,106 | THE GAME TO BEAT TAMMANY’S. Myton soe tienen te arte 7 fection causes reformete to shake their heads, But why? The recent Mayoralty campaign, to be sure, brought forth « rich | variety of political ambitions, all content for the time being to be merged in the anti-Tammany epecies. Now each variety, perhaps, lengs to bear political fruit of its own. Wiser than any of them fs Mr. Mitchel in planning efmply to be Mayor. If he does this he plays the best possible game of politics to beat Tammany’s. Ta a decisive anti-Tammany campaign nothing will destroy Tam- many 60 completely as a well-managed city. | Tammany thrives only on mismanagement. Tammany depends | for its very life upon an {ll-kept city, city full of inside dents and @rooked combinations. It flourishes amid factional clashos and the, conflicting enthusiasms of ambitious reformers. The Mayor does not have to become a factionist to carry on fight against Tammany. | Let him only make the city government a clean, open, capable ad- ministration of the people’s business, and we shall see Tammany) wither like e weed plucked at the root. EE Murghy at a Direct Primartes Convention might be mis | ‘"nderstood. But Murphy guffawing at somebody's suggestion @at the head of Tammany Hall have a salary of $10,000 a year—well, nobody’) axteunderstand that! ot | A WORD TO OUR THEATRE MANAGERS | N°‘ YORK theatre audiences are the most patient and polite oth thee in the world. When the curtain fafls to go up on time or the wait be- §ween acts becomes intolerable theatregoers here do not, like the Parisians, stamp their feet and pound their canes on the floor. Wo de not boo and hiss, as does a Lendon audience, when bored with the piece. Nor do we habitually laugh and talk while the curtain is up es is the too frequent eustom in Italy. In at least one direction theatregoers in New York have every right to«expect more eonsiderstion then they now get from the managers: ‘They have a right to knew the eobual hour at which the play Seldom if ever Goes o theatre thket in New York give any {nformation es te when ene eught to reach the theatre. Furthermore, between the edvertised hour of beginning and the Vie the curtain setually rises there is wide discrepancy and license. For example: Newspaper advertisements of a play now running ‘tre announced (as late as yesterday) that the piece would begin at 8.18. At the doors of the theatre itself the hour is plainly eet forth in gflded letters as 8.30. On one night at least this week the curtain actually rose at 8.40. This means that people who reckoned with trains and trolleys and hurried their evening meal ¢o arrive at the advertised time were forced te wait nearly half an hour—through no fault of their own. In Berlin not onty the exact hour each theatrical performance begins but aleo the time {t may be expanted to end is clearly indicated @@ advertising pillars thronghout the city streets. An ordinance moreover requires the manager to raise his curtain promptly at the ame he advertises, under penalty of fine. New York theatre managers should be too alert to their own Interests, too well sware how much they owe the public, to require ecercion. But untfl they are themselves more uniformly scrupulous and ‘ezect in fixing a curtain hour upon which the public can depend, hes begun by no means becomes them. ——_—4+ = —_—___ ‘Mr, Bryan figures thet Jefferson and Linco were worth $1,000,000,000 to the mation. Mr. Bryan is fond of computing cash values—and, where feasible, of collecting the same, ee THE PRICE OF NEGLECT. ANY are moved to condole with the 23,000 New Haven etock- M holders who find themselves without their holiday dividends, Tt is a sad thing that anybody ehould be done out of any part of his income at Christmas time. But it is sadder still to think that 23,000 intelligent shareholders of this great corporation should have ant by year after year while their President and his Wall street eponsore played fast and loose with honest assets and reduced a prosperous rafiroad to a pitiful wreck. | ‘The 23,000 ha their warnings. Yet though their own property | was at stake they let the ruinous game go on under their very noses and never lifted a finger to stop it. ' Their reckoning is » sorry one. But they are only paying the price of their own neglect. ———————E ‘The President of the United States went ont without his overcoat. Result: His cold got worse and they hed to out him to bed. Gee, boys, mother knows best. against Christmas atvin: fashion etitl] wearing the daringly slit ekirt, ap- pear with no hose on, Milwaukee Gentine), that is called deb! ° pors like a got themsely: M'ITCHEL Niahing Oo, Wortd). Youn ferent HB President's daughter has be- come the head of the Gociety for the Prevention of Useless Giving. ‘This ts just as it should be. ‘The example of the uselessness of avish giving ie well worth com! from the firet hom: of the country. Horetofore, before the “spuge Into existence, to the individual of moderate means Christmas was more of @ problem than @ pleasure; to-day many a one, wi te, might aay: We all have met with the DISCOM- Now Paris has again ect the pace in ‘This time it is that women, What next?— ‘To those who merely wait, all things come that nobody elae wants,—Albany Journal, oe e Bad luck gets much of the blame that belongs to bad management.—Albacy Journal, eee Household hint: An egw on the side- board gives the dining room the ap- pearance of cozy prosperity, More than one, however, might be oiticised as a vulgar display of wealth.—Toledo Blade, oe Rasy credit is the batt to the trap Too many m The man who put thirty-one days in December was no friend of the human| | raca,—Toledo Blade. | eo. A new constable 1s the most conspicu- Letters From the People ‘Wanted: A irm Votee, tm which Col. Marghan side come out the ? 106 Men to Every 100 Women. ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: ‘Which ts the lar, The number o: fought aid his PM. A Population Query. ‘To the Eititer of The Word What Brening i t is the population of Toronto Mosirvel to-day? v. B. isa ad asa fool, he always ki tertained.—Toledo Blade. ° Even Rockefeller cannot go forth and buy the wag of a dog's tatl—Toledo Blade. eee ‘There ta this co: ting thing about t Egaplants— Storage warehouses.—Co- lunbla State. Bor those who are looking for aome- thing novel in the wuy of Christmas sifts we mention the fact that the naval department ts offering three tor- jo boat deatroyers for sale.—Chicago jewa, - es : JOHN PURROY came, ve tem- belleve they ha "| OKAPher could close her eyes at, say, himself well en- + ba orn neomaaia The Spug and the Spendthrift o% T whioh we had not reciprocated in equal Measure, and the many little disap- ointments and heartaches marred a time that should have been the MOST PLEASANT of the year. Now that even those with large aums| popular procedure in the direction of presents, gach may FOLLOW this tni-; lative without feeling that he “stingy” about it. Of course tie really ingy Scrooge ie ALWAYS with wu 0 who has much to give and yet hoards it up; he who might contrit-ite to the happiness of some needy one and yet and not feel INT 6, i York Evening Word | ¥ Copyngat, by The I'rrae Pudi (The New York ki Wort), WITHHOLDS because of his penurious Propensity. faation that all makes Jack o ving and no spending very LONELY man, especially during Yuletide, Then there of money at their disposal have led the| is the other extreme: he who kills the; fatted f at Christmas time and spends ALI, and perchance for a part is|of the year to follow must keep on pay- ing for Ch presents, ‘This is folly, to say the least, t to strike the happy medium, to give and not USELBSSLY, to receive ‘TED—on the whole, Make the Best By Liane (Anna Held's achieves more results than any other and yet it coats nothing. It in aleep. Why are women no loath to make use of thia simple prescription? To be gure, it has to be taken regularly, and it f@ more valuable as a prevent! than as @ cure, perhaps. ut it seems to me that American women neglect it shamefully, You may remember my telling you that ll through my childhood 1 slept ten hours every night of my life, Even now that allowance !s reduced by only one hour, I rarely retire later than midnight, ant 9 o'clock te my regular time for getting up. Of course, many women are unable to Ue @heA ao Inte, On the other hand, they de not have to work In the eve- ning as I do. If 1 retired immediately after I lett the theatre I should be too exolted to go to sleep, just am no eten- \T son fa one beauty recipe which six-thirty in the evening. But I belleve that overy young woman should have at least ning hours of sleep nightly. If she geta up at 6, let her retire at ® P. M., with perhaps an occasional exception. If her rising hour t# 7 in the morning, should #0 to Ded by 10 o’clook in the evening There ie no use in telling me that Napoleon could get along on five hours of sleep. Napoleon was a man, not a woman desiring to be beautiful, You have In' English the expression “beauty ale and it Is a true word. When a wo aleops, invisible fal: ftly repair all the damages whic weather and worry and fatigue have done to her loveliness during the day that {» past. Those fairies do their work @o well 1f they are not hurried over it. But five or six or seven hours of Your Looks Carrera Daughter.) . Coorright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Hits From Sharp Wits. | !¥-—Sleeping and Bathing. | Ite life-giving ngth, without essence or ta And clergy proclaim that It ne'er leads to slaughter; But, oh, to imbibe it I'll never make haste! In epite of the logic of savants and sages, For the water of earth I'aé not give a thraneen; Day and night I reach bilas thro’ the rosiest stages, manasa The nectar that thrallg me—my glass DIANE CARREIRA SF ppineeh, human beings to sleep, But nothing makes & woman show her age 80 quickly ag insuMelent hours of sleep. The bath is another harmless and expensive beautifier, ‘There are ever #0 many more beautiful and attractive women than there used to be, and T believe that one reason |# the increase in convenient bathing facilities, Every day I take two baths, In the morning my bath ts almost cold, and 1 mix bran In it. a ‘an taught to take stone cold baths, but I think a "tub" with the chill taken off in equally effective and lesa of a shock, ‘There are many women to whom an tee cold bath would be artuatly dangerous, Of course, one should always enjoy « good rubbing le, too ghort @ time for them. Tt to better to get your sleep at night than ¢o lie down in the daytime. Naps ere Cor of ladies, not for young ones who ean slesg 06 the Aatura) time for ee after @ near-cold bath, When I retire I take @ hot bath, be- cause I have discovered that it helps fection— me to go to sleep immediately. So it 18] The pride of O14 Erin—my glese of 600d ja iteelf and in ite resulta, potheen, ms The Evening Worlé Daily Magazine, Priday, December GF By Maurice Ketten CUR CER CUE CURE 19193 Little C Of Big Wars Ibert Payson Terhune Capyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing No: 24—An Epileptic Fit That Led to a War for Empire. N Dongola, in the Soudan, some sixty-five years ago was born a sickly child who was handicapped with the jaw-tiring name or Mohammed Ahmed ibn Seyyid Abdullah. He began life as a car ponter, Finding carpenter work two fatiguing to sult nim, he early chose the pleasanter career of professional beggar. One of lils eyes was dark brown; the other blue (one of the traditional marks of a prophet); and he was the victim of epileptic fits, One of these fits led to a mighty war and to the changing of the world’s map. | In the Orfent’s less civilized parte such allments as violent insanity and epilepsy are looked on as heavenly visitations, A man thus afflicted {s more or less sacred. If he be clever enough he can turn his affiiction to rich account Mohammed Ahmed, etc., was clever enough. | His namesake and reputed ancestor, Mohammed the prophet, had won vast renown by declaring that his own epileptic fits were trances wherein he received personal messages from the Almighty. Mohammed Ahmed re nolved to do the same thing, Accordingly, once when he recovered from an | unusually Jong fit he announced that he had had a prophetic vision during which an angel had given him certain Inatrictions concerning the Faithful, Oddly enough these instructions chanced to be along lines most popular with reamer'’s neighbors, The “angel” had bidden Mohammed Ahmed incite Soudanese to rebel against their Egyptian rilers, whom they hated, and against Keypt's English masters, whom A Beggar's Rise they hated etill worse, to Power. Aé@ Mohammed Ahmed preached what people wanted nan} “Most to believe, and advised them along the tine of their own inclinations, his fame spread fast through the Own Soudan. He performed a few neat hand-made miracles, had severnt more prophetic eptleptic trances and at last proclaimed himself “El Mahdi" (the Redeemer), for whose comin# the Moslem world had long waited. From village to village, from Glstrict to district wandered the new Maha, everywhere preaching rebellion, everywhere gaining new followers, unt soon the whole Soudan was buzzing as busily and as wrathfully as a kicked hornet's nest. Egypt was under Turkish rule. Since 1806 tt had been governed by a Khedive (or Viceroy) who was a vassal to the Sultan, England and France had eet up a sort of governmental and financial supervision there, Then, in the early 90a, England crowded out France and assumed chief control in Exypt. Englishmen reorganized the government and the stricken country’s finances, and English- men drilled the down-at-heel Egyptian eoldiers into something like military \eMctency. Under the English Gen, Gordon, too, Many local abuses and wrongs | were crushed and a spirit of uplift imparted. ‘When the Mahdist power in the Soudan (to the south of the more settled die tricts of Egypt) grew menacing two or three emall expeditions were seng against Mohammed Ahmed. His fanatical dervishes easily defeated the Egyptian troops, Then, in June, 1882, @ force of 6,000 Egyptian soldiers under Yusef Pasha marched to bring him to order, The Egyptian army was not only beaten, but cut to ‘pleces, The next year an army 10,000 stro y officered by Englishmen jand under the command of Gen. Hicks, met the Mahdiats at Kashgill. Hicks force was destroyed. A tew months later Gen, Baker, with 2.00 mon, also s%- fered utter defeat. By this thme nearly all the Soudan was in the Mahdt's hands, and the Egyptian | Government for the time gave up hope of recapturing it. Gen. Gordyn was sent \to Khartoum to withdraw the native garrison there. The Mahdi besieced and jeantured Khartoum, killing Gorton and making himself master of the entire Soudan, | Back to barbariem the Mahdi dragged the mighty empire he had seized, | wrecking every relic of the new-formed elvilization and progress. His followers’ |fanatical faith in his divine authority had made them Aght like devils, Nothing had been able to withstand ther frenzied onsiaughts, | Now that the final victory won, the Mahd! gave himeelf up to the grousest Aiasipation, letting others bear the brant of such rough government as atill remained in the Soudan wile he revelled in a lazy, dissolute life, Having, at the age ~~_——oooeeem ngce,. wig By Sophie Irene Loeb THE SAKE OF GIVING. |My Glass of Potheen. “|My cure for each sorrow, my bl'ss dally |I grieve for | | to feel that no burden must be borne— thore {s the really seasonable spirit for Like his namesake, he wakes to a real-/ the Sth. A few “spug” suggestions are: Make your list come well within your means. | Don't spend yourself in the process of | spending. If an unexpected present comes, don't feel you have to rush out and buy some-| thing In return, Don't spend miserable nights embrotd- ering things that may or may not be} appreciated, Remember the useful thing {es always welcome, : Don't feel impelled to remember the butcher, the baker, the candlestick- maker. If you have paid for services rendered ail the year round, don’t g! you feel you're expected to do so. The little present is just as mu token of remembrance as the big one, ‘and he who does not regard it so !s un- worthy of even that. Christmas is largely for the children, and if you have little to give, rather give that little to the dependent child around the corner. ABOVE ALL, DON’T GIVE FOR (CTranatated trom the Gaslte,) By Eugene Geary." YT badbdlers prate on the virtues of I water, My fire, my desire, and my light brightly glowing; My health and my wealth, tho’ my pocket’s pluck'd clean; growing— ‘The balm of exietence-my glass of potheen. the Frenchman, alim-looking potion Of wine only makes hig complexion more pain; ‘To Inger the German yields all his de- whose Let them ai} have thelr ple: no objection; Their drinks in my modiet shall never ‘De seen. One nectar for me is the pink of per- ure—T holt He had Mahdism, w of Vengeance. Lee eee ee aaaata The Sword } won, declared were dumped into the Nile. (The Day’s Good Stories % One Good Thing to Get. HIE tock broker was busy and nervous, caller was plained his aility to Wroker decisively, xine, ‘There fe one moment's thougl nsistent portant and confide ‘pivere's noth: ip ing you can do for we," raid the cconting wo the Popular saga. ing," eatd the broker aft ‘which you can get me, en it will be of great use to me,” ‘The visitor brightened up, What can 1 get for yout” aid the broker, ee gas Wonderful Woodcraft. URING some army manoeuvres two officers of the Royal Artillery were disputing about the clamificetion of a tree. One said tt wee @ birch treo amd the other an oak tree, ‘They could not who was elttiny agree, so they called @ gunner 8 nearby and asked him if be that he was heaven-born and could never die. | prophecy failed to work out. | dted—polsoned, according to one report, by @ jealous w Eleven years later England’s slow vengeance awoke, Kitchener swept the Soudan, of thirty-six, risen from beggary to absolute rulership of & vast country, he proceeded to throw away) all he had But the A year after the capture of Khartoum the Mahdl man. Like a scourge, Lord stamping out for all time the last remnants of ning back the whole region and placing !t under British protection, l'The Mahdi's “holy tomb waa demolished, his body was burned and his ashes ‘confd tell them what kind of tree tt wae, ‘The gunner locket up and down the trea, walied al! arcind i, drew hie sword and be gan cutting ft, Inpecting the gash he had made, with the air of @ sage the gunner at length delivered his long-expected verdict: a “It's © worden one, sirm,"—Pittsburgh Chirsan fele:Tolegraph, ec eres Modesty Explained. HE teacher waa entertaining the school commiasloners one afternoon, ‘That to one of my brightest pupfie, the aif, indicating @ boy who was seated at one of the deske, intent upon writing, ‘He fs elware bay stndying while hie companions are wasting their time out at play, Morris,” she aid to the boy, ‘let me eee what you are writing, please."* Morrie reluctantly banded her the paper, end he read: “Please exuces Morrie from school today, es he te needed at home,"—Harper'e Magazine, HERE te alwaye morning Jacke ‘This one ts most at- tractive. It le made with = deep peplum that is smart and with rolling collar, while it 16 always pos- sible to add a simple little chemisette 1 the open neck is not becoming. Flowered challis is the material from which this one was made, but there aro so many pretty and appropriate ones offered that Its almost impos! to fo astra medium the jack require 3% y material 36,2 with 5-8 yards inches wide for the winmming. Pattorn Ne, 810%, fs cut in wizes from % to 4 Inches bust measure. Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION JUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppo- ‘ite Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents in coin or stampe for each pattern ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and alwaye apecity timo wanted, Ad4 two cents for letter postage i tn saonsceceneren tin ccnsllttittacnensia canst tnatatiaceaanineni tate eth NE CNL CEA LEAL ALA EEA LOAN: @ hurry,