The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1913, Page 20

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tu The World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSHUPH PULITZER. @Puriished Dally Except Sunday vd: ‘d a oe y tow, New ¥ be 3 NOUS SHAW, cron Park Rome A '. a A Hh PULITZNR, Jr, Secretary, 68 Park Row, New York ae Second-Clase Matter. iovening |For Dngiana and the Continent an@ All Countries tn the International Worla ey) United States Union reat. secceccccess 88.60/One Year. lpearinie staves ut rsa sau 60 -80/One Month... o.eee- aor cerecsecs VOLUME 54, sees «NO, 19,110 PRAY, WHY NOT “FOR PLEASURE”? T= Americans “go te cencerts for pleasure rather than for | etady” is no reason why Josef Hoffman, the pienist, should . become politely ead about us or worry about the stagnation / of our musical taste. Our love of music for the pleasure there is in it does not cause | tts the least disquiet. We hope to ace it increase rather than diminish. Tncidentally, if we took te studying concerts insted of enjoying fhem wo wonder what would become ef the procession ef talented performers who have been turning their backs en Burope and pleying te ten thousand dollar audiences of “mere American mmsio-lovere” ever since we first beheld this came gifted Mr. Hoffman a little @tmpled boy perched en s piano steol in Brooklyn. We admtt we Ifke to enjoy our music. We admit we like programmes that give us the tmnrortal fresh- fees and life of music, rather than its dry bones and erudition. We admit also that we do not like to have even a Padereweki af- fevtedly keep us waiting fer an hour before he begins « concert. What we Ifke in music is net pose, eocentrictty or parade ef learn- ing, but frankly—pleesure. And when we find it our response fe more quick, more genuine, more generous than that of any people on earth. —— The joint report ef the several New England State Pub joo Commissions on the financial troubles ef the 4 Maime asserts that on the present showing the IN be $8,000,000 short of its fired charges in 1914 Inci- jentaily the read fe carrying $37,000,000 of chert term notes Dearing 71-8 por cont. interest, $20,000,000 of which was epent tor stecks in ether things “not now valuable” The interest @m $27,000,000 at 71-3 per cent. fs $3,026,000 per annum! es AN ITEM TO GRACE THE RECORDS. NEW forty-five dollar fire-alarm box, eighty dollare cheaper and in evety way better and more economical than the ebd- style box, becomes the property of the city. The two experts of the Fire-Alarm Telegraph Bureau whe have worked two years to perfect the invention, now turn it ever te New York without royalty, im erder that no private company may ever get possession of it and so increase its cost. On the 18,000 new boxes which must be installed in the next five| (4, years the saving to the city will emount to $1,200,000, It is a fine thing te get held ef « simpiified alerm boz which will @o away with an immense emourt of costly wiring and reprir. It is finer still to know that there are clever men in the olty departments who are willing to give their best brain and effort to the service with no thought of holding the city up fer the valuable results of their labors. New York will be prowd ef ite new fire alurm box and even prouder to owe it to the skill and loyalty ef ite own experts instead ef having to buy it from euteidess. et One William Sulzer, New York's former Governor once Temeved, whe is sald to have been beeked for « hunjred leo cures at $1,000 per, has met small audiences and scant en- thusiam and is now headed for home. A martyr ought to stick ereuné until hie wrongs are etreng enough te travel, ht THE MARCH OF CIVILIZATION. WF GTREET PAVING is o fair measure of civilization, the people ef Queens have a chance to shew how enlightened they are. fee the improvement ef streets, property owners in Queens can say whet kind of pevement they want. Mecedam is ruled cut, but sheet asphalt or asphalt blocks on o celkd concete foundation may be stip- wsted, Formerly resttents of Queens were forced into parfedio fights | (eesting them thousands of dollars because every new end then some favored contractor would stert to put down @ pavement that every- dedy could sce wee worthless. ‘ Thanks to Borough President MoAneny, Marhsttan hee learned @ good deal about paving material and centvectors in the lect four years, and is in a position to give even the State points on getting asphalt that fs nefther bought with graft, mized with graft, mer laid on a foundetion of graft. T¢ Queens fs not too preud ft will take @ tip or twe from over the river. SS Seventy-eight years ago to-day a fire broke out in this cfty which swept tho lower east side, wiped out the stocks of sts pundred merchants and destroyed twenty million doflers’ worth of property. we lesenesa, They come from the curb in| would be es gted es the public to el waye-sideways, backward, reading |elminate them. Why net start at the newspapers, tying shoe laces and from | source, vis., the License Bureau? Why behind wagcns and ¢rolleye without rea- | give to any and every hoodium who eon or regulation, They get half wayjcan write hie name or drive @ car four) play Reetieasly in the middie ef | Would It not be a geod plan to make the etreeta, We chauffeurs are biamed | the present motorcycle police patrol the bor to due to our system ef etreet | streets or stand in the street te pre- Gaqwlation (er me ceguiation, except for | vent acoldente instead of lurking or a Geengh wele to much move congertet, Ce wo nesemt ac Decemb the Preas Publishing Company, Nea 66 to| one. \ ov eececocooooooeooeceoooooooseeo+seS Mrs. Jarr Makes Vast Preparations Tc “take Two of Her Enemies Hap P9SIIS FOSSISOSSSIOSSSID SSSSSSSSSOSOSSSED | rrcat part been in accord. the general aspect of the heavens at this time der: - re here in New York,/ ‘One has te help peor gtrig these| But the gocee-bone man and the rhew| This Sarat PUES) seats daze. I have my goctal obligations just | matiem barometer and oldest nhabttant| “We should, according te “What €o you bother about them|as you have yours, Don't you heveto| and « tet of the prophete—some evlen- me te the ware: contribute to dinnere and loving cups! time, some frankly 1 “The girls aren't getting any young-| for people you don't Hike and all that reread are neye (a rhe sls “They are up-to-date girle and notisay, whil Gowdies, if that’s what you man,” in-| wf] they ever thank me?” terposed Mrs. Jarr. And then she edd- ed: “Good gracious! Do you think I| fort” asked Mr, Jarr. ut them here? If they gat @ hus- band or if they get husbands, I shouldler, are they Y Mra Jarr answered. | sort of thing? Moulties “Besides, 1f you hear those poor gtris| WM@ter solstice, by the way, up north | tinued dl wie foreign of talk of how worthless the young men trout! ’ in thelr town are! Why, they ten ms|the equator. January te about the led and severe winter, (the girls do) tf a young man in Phil-| hottest month down there; 414 you adelphia seco @ girl on @ street car hangs on the deck platform til] sh pala her fare and then 18—DON BALTHAZAR CARLOS, by Velasquez. Rodrigues Ge @ilva Velasques, Mpenish. 1680-1600.) At the Prado Museum, Madrid, OW that the Cackieberry girls are visiting us you should et eeme ef your vwnmarried Borough President Connolly has directed that in petitioning friende to cnme ep tw the boven” ald PH, ? 33 z 2 ALE ile bp Hie a gong prospects for the Cackleberry gtvte,” grumbled Mr. Jarr. “I think, too, they might have wafted Hits From Sharp Wits. Bome genius might confer « diese ing upon mankind dy inventing for Christmas uses a rudadudless drum— Spuge and Prrooge sound well to- f.—Balttmore American, ee Sometimes @ man with a great fu- ture never moves fast enough to catch up with t—Albany Evening Journal. Wight buckwheat cakes le @ g00d score fer Monday morning.—Toledo Ty te estimated that in Pittsburgh there i» five and one-half times as) much drunkenness as there te in any| other city in the country, but there are extenuating circumstances to account for it, In all probatility one has to for get at times that he js in Pitteburgh.— Philadelphia Inquirer, ‘The lees @ man knows adout a woman, argues Jerome, the more wis dom he hes.—Memphis Commercial- “When some ef the leading wealthy |people of New York have discovered |they have thirteen to dinner then they |put on an eatra chair and ‘phone for the eon of Kins| 1, Gumm. That's how eome of our young cotifion leaders firet get inte “| eoctety and may marry well if they play their cards as they should—— But that Michael Angele Dinkston, I'm du- ious about ttm for a Now Years Eve ‘Would he come !f we HAD to nother young man?” By Randolph Colclough Wilson, HE really great pictures of ¢hild- hood e@re very few indeed, and of seventeen. Not very far from this famous equestrian portrait of him ther: alle of the Prado a poi Mariana of Austria, young princess. she like othera-Baby Stuart, by Van Dy \'Age of Innocene by Reynolds, and Don Balthasar Carlos, by Velasques;| very cross Diaphanous gowns are to be more so ew Year's Eve on account of the er 16, 191° Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brentng Wott), which she chanteth tn the hour of her discontent and the seasons of her temptation. Oh, angels and mintetere of grace, 1 beseech thee, deliver me from them Howes my Daughters, unto the Christmas Litany of SPUG, | that would persecute and destroy me! From mine own folly set me free. From the buying of JUNK and the ecattering of my ehekels, oh, stay me; from the lure of the SHOPS protect me! For I am weak and they are TOO much for me! Let got mine eyes look wpon the advertisaments, for I cannot withstand them. Lo, I Rave all those things which I want. but J am a Woman—and I want MORE! From my friends and mine enemies, from my relatives and my relatives w-LAW, from all maidcervants and meneervants and waiters and head waiters and janitors and butchers and bakers and bootbiacks and bellboys, oh, set me free! For to, they smile upon me NOW with grafty smiles! From the holly wherewith mine house shall be littered and the Christ: mas tree that sheddeth, from the foolish kiss beneath the mistletes and the headache of the morning after, ob, spare me! From over EATING upon the Day of Days, I beseech thee, stay me; from the refilling of my wineglass protect me! For the indigestion of January is act as the revelry of December, yet {tfotloweth as the night the day; as the quarrel folioweth the honeymooa ft cometh on apace, From the UNEXPECTED gift, which covereth me with humiMation and confusion, now deliver me. From the writing of notes of “thanks” and the “gushing” over offerings which are an abomination of mine eyes, oh, spare me! For the harmless, necessary LIE eticketh in my throat, and I ave never taken a diploma in @ echool of acting. Yet must I go about giving away things which I WANT in exchange for things which I do NOT want and appear to be covered with astonieh- meat and gratitude, From the buying of gifts for a MAN, oh, set me free! For every man hath made graven images of those things which he liketh, and he alone kaoweth WHAT these are. And I am NOT a mind reader! From pumpkin pie, from cold-storage turkey, from obfete d'art, from cheap handkerchiefs, from gaudy pillow covers, from passe-partouts, ¢rom hafrrecelvera, from tidies, from lamp-mats, from Dutch postcards, from “{netructive” books, from Henry Van Dyke mottoes, trom begelippers, from books of wit and humor, from copies of the Rubatyat and from carol sing ers now defend me! For, behold, I would make of Christmas e SACRAMENT, aod why shall I offer myself up es a SACRIFICE? a apt Urge leorend ntaeedl Sonsad neath But, as for MB, I shall hate em Dereecute me and revile them that love me TOO MUCH Obristmas Day. Selah! a ce ee ese tote Sve be Real Winter Hasn't. Yet Begun; But Here Are Its Prophecies OCOORDING te the calendar, winter eon in the eastern part oon wen't begin until next week | tinent.” Se According te the calendar, we| fe consiters that ft “presages « on have Geen mm autumn ever since the vere and stormy winter, much more se eptember equinox. And for once the|‘#n for many years, with considerable calendar and the weather have for the| *tendant Mi-heaith ané euffering, since {ngs of the older astrologers, teek fo tmpatred publie health, fimancial aime been busy with winter forecasts, (The| Wties, many losses and fadlures, cen- here, ta the eummer eoletice, south of | M*#hbering powers, and a generally know that?) But to get back te the of weather the sharps are premis- for early theories om the actiors HL Sampson, an astrotoger, Greys that “‘at the vermal equinoz|cenviction thet the winter season will Gaturn, always held to) de bitter. Many who have studied che influenve, was exactly set-/ Ways of the furry and feathered crea- Dayton, Ohio, and that his post-|tares of the wild declare that the ani- the gure for this ingress at| male and birds have an instinctive fere- similarly powerful. We| knowledge of the ing of & severe know what followed at these| winter, and that the “signe” afforded by He adds: “At the winter | these four-footed and winged prophets this planet eet at the East, and|point conclusively to cxoeptionalép en interpreted mocording to the| severe weather during the months te tal down by the ancients, the| come. comewhat threatening in re-| Ge, look out for weather ef come sort or other, everybody. det FH : int Boys Will Be Boys. _| tw ws wm tum ezoert thle better ENATOR CULLOM of Itincte gute 0 good the people S laugh out of the story he tells abet an old the evvedalar come to me otemne’” bial aad Indy vio, aitnowgh sho to © resident of bis] ‘A fallow from the other ead of the tine jaxp State, tes « oon in Montana, nid 0 funny thing,’ he remareed, ‘He hed jue One day the Senator met che ol lady, emd,| mien hie train and there wam't emother for (mowing that the qa was the apgte of ber e7s,| twe hows, He came to my otal te buy come ot to cay ber very beart bones, be toyuired 9] reading matter to while amy the time, ie te bow the bey was doing. He wee ouvrized to| ested for © fete book and 1 Gide's have acy mo thet the women dimctved into « storm of! Tien he peted around for 6 While end oid)” “Wray, weat'e the mattert” ested str, Onttom, | ote," Judes am © Mime lle tm oont te the Legislature, 1 dont teow for what or fer tow eg, but I pam ces} SUSpicions 5 they bo easy on bim."'—The Popular Magusine, Ls LAURA wes oo quiet cut ts ——_—— Mitoben thet her mother oumpeoted the / Willie’s Reason. oe ee eee saa eh to wonatty there| “WA FO Feu Going, deartot"” the mentor with © ready rman ms demonstrated the | W'S ma.» tear anuwered other day by & story told by Congremmen| ne yy mat te doing Joma B, Walker of Idaho, ve Toate nee taming,” ‘The femly were guthered tm the den oto] uae wer aaow7 Wile deme tn an Mester tome, Patter way cer, gate’ amma eigen oak omteren oa WIAs mum | SARS TL are fo cme with te hattrath POCWia* suddendy eilaimal mann, foting | yA! momentlo cme the litle ene te , Lad T'm fmt dwivin’ tatepine inte the soap wit i 5 i t z Z i a 4 5F ee grat fey tn the street, What Spider Indicated, BEN Mert fe hie Tonia, early daye, wos : | I d h ita ! i i : PTT] 3] af Af ye i ; about che slownem of tweina, empe.| paper here tm y you, evttied 46] ORES olely lente than ever after Christmas. This 1s and to the last named more frequently | was betrothed to Don Carlos, but mar- obvious cacophony, he says.” Londen streets, al-|hiding in hallwaye waiting for acci- another penalty of an open winter.: me than to the others is given the supreme| med the father instead of the son, be coming the escond wite of Faliy IK, Mra Jara "And the obvious Cackleberrys,” said ve Rew ond) eo that he can go {0 that store and lead «life of undisturbed peace ever afterward,"’- Pittebuge