The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 8

(Pettiehed Dally Except Sunday by the Prebe Publishing Company, Now sete pour Row, New RALPH ident, Row, 3ANGUS SHAW. Feasuter 6s Perk Row, JOSEPH PU: MGR, Jr, Becretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clens Matter. Rates to The Hvening |For Mngiand and the Continent ‘World for the United States All Countries end Canada Pema) sane 68.60/One Year. « _ 80 /One -NO. 19,116 WHAT IS “PUBLIC SERVICE”? WILL NEED a hall to hold representatives of more than a l will appear before the up-State Public Service Commission in the Metropolitan Building next Monday morning to support the de- mand voiced by The Evening World for a five-cent telephone rate throughout Greater New York. Scores of petitions and complaints concerning telephone rates have been pouring in upon the Commission during the past few weeks. It is no impulsive, half-informed public that demands reasonable rates and no toll-gates. New Yorkers have been convinced hy facts that their enormous telephone patronage entitles them to rate reduc- tions obtained by other cities long ago. of Chicago, which has less volume of telephone business. New York pays the highest telephone rate of any city in the country. The Public Service Commis: phone Company to reduce its subscribers’ rates to a five-cent basis and abolish toll charges between boroughs. But why doesn’t the New York Telephone Company save itself from fecreasing odjum and condemnation by redacing its rates voluntarily? We are coming to a time when all rates of public service corpora- tions will be fixed (in accordance with numerous decisions of the higher courts) by rules based upon fair valuation of property and volume of business. But such valuation may take years. Every twenty-four hours’ delay secured by the New York Tele- phone Company means an additional $17,000 extorted from York telephone users. Immediate relief is due. It the New York Telephone Company wishes to he considered a real public service corporation, why doesn’t it hasten to show the people of New York that it can perform a real public service? —_——_—t+ —___ New Haven R. R. Loser in Poker.—Headline. Was there any kind of game in which the New Haven didn't take a losing hand? | a ; DON’T BE TOO SURE. HE fig leaf, in its two-fold aspect as plant and article of femi- T nine attire, was discussed at a meeting of the House of Repre- sentatives Committee on Agriculture. After considerable misgiving had found voice as to the diaphanous and delirious directions in which fashion is now urging the apparel of women, Science, speaking through Dr. Taylor, Chief of the Bureau of Plant Indpatry, solemnly assured the committee that the leaf will never displace the skirt. Is he so sure? Science is now and then the worst kind of old fogey when it comes to foreseeing future developments even in its own field. And pray, what influence has Science with Fashion? Why lull the Government to inaction with soothing but falla- clows assurances? On the highest ethical grounds we advise taking ne chances. Let the Department of Agriculture act in time and go F theroughly into the question of fig culture with a special view to inereasing the size and serviceability of the leaf. ————— A committee of the State Board of Charities decides that the George Junior Republic for Boye and Girls should be al- lowed to go on only provided there are no girls, no George, ‘and no republic. eo REAL CHRISTMAS. A LMOST everybody whose heart is in the right place finds him- self wishing about now that he could play Santa Claus to some of the poor youngsters to whom a real dinner, a bag of candy and a pair of skates represent the acme.of Christmas bliss. It’s easy to give the money, but it is better still to see wistful eyes brighten and pinched cheeks glow, and hear cager, slangy tongues teying to tell how good it is to be happy. Only an out and out deputy of Santa Claus gets the real joy in this kind of job. Read about the sort of Christmas Commander Eva Booth-of the Salvation Army expects to have as she describes it in The Sunday World Magazine to-morrow. Giving away 350,000 Christmas dinners throughout the country— 80,000 of them to poor children right here in New York—puta one in a position to know as many interesting secrets about Christmas as Senta himself. oy 5 » Theatre-goers in Paris are laughing and crying and clap- be ping like mad—why? Because Sara Bernhardt, playing a new e Tole in her seventieth year, is still the most wonderful woman living. Letters From the People & Steam-Pipe Menace. ‘Bo Ge Baier of The Evening World: ‘Tho State Factory act obliges the of eafety devices by mill own- not observed that men- been made as to the position in close proximity the horizontal steam pipe hangs on two elbows or “bends,” connected to a six- foot perpendicular steam pipe, with no other support from the ceiling. This means that about twenty-six feet of six-inch ateam pipe is perhaps lable to break at either of the two elbows, through Its own dead weight, which must be enormous. Thia ie not the only instance of ite kind that I know of. I need not say any more, Readets can see the sertousness of what I have described, I am sure. t i Hs il il pertenced reader kindly answer the following question? Is it cheaper to run a truck with a team of horses than it ts to run an automobile truck? The answer may interest Rumber ef workers, Hoboken, N. J, ~The Evening World he International | hundred local civic associations who have given notice that they | New York telephone rates are now 25 per cent. higher than those | ion can order the New York Tele-| wit L ME MITCHEL'S | ]LCOMPLIMENTS | A PRESENT FROM Mf MITCHEL on, ts PL Ws RS, JARR and the Miss berry, who were v! Philadelphia, were all busy as bees making what is known aa * ful holiday gift: (They are not at all useful, but that's what they are known ) ‘Oh, dear!” cried Miss Irene Cackle- berry, “why {it the ‘Gifts for Him’ @epartment in the Perfect Lady's Mas- azine prints such cute pictures of handkerchief holders for a young man's » and the directions seem so simple, and yet I don’t believe body in the world can make them “It fan't the cont, it's the sentiment,” spoke up jor Gladys. ‘Something— the work of our hands—for those we love and who love un"— "Oh, piffie!” cried Mi Trene Cackle- exclaimed Mre. Jarr. iris in your day were just the same. as girie in our day!" snapped the youngest Miss Cackleberry. ‘In your day you used to save the hideous plush and celluloid Christmas cards—if there was no year date on them—to send to eal stare maiad Hits From Sharp Wits. The information that @ per cent. of the people of Mexico cannot ad or write gues far to explain things.—Albany Journal. eee Where one worries about the income tax 19,000 worry about the Income.— Deseret Evening ° 2 Only @ man who isn't in the habit of doing hie duty thinks he should be specially praised when he does do it. eee The Queen of Roumania pounds; yet the anti-fat remedies are doubtiess advertised in Roumania, too. eee It cost 39 cents to distribute one dol- Jara worth of food In New York, not counting the tip.—Boston Transcript. . n the longest day in the year fe three and a half monthe, How would you like to have thirty days Ike hat in which to settle the Christmas Nows. ‘Commercial Appeal Dail eat lyn momebody else the following Christmas. There wan an endless chain ef them | lens handling tragedy. full of them—hideous robin’ and salmon stuffy ellk things with silk Nobody Wants It § |: FROM ne MITCHEL ing, and if one got injured in care- in the mall it was a “I know, Maw’'s got a bureau drawer egg blue fringes, and some with mica sprinkled over them to sparkle like snow and kil! the girls who had to breathe the dust in the Christmas card factorieu"-—— ~———— By Sophie The Landlord’s Fault And Its Consequences WITH AR MITCHEL' COMPLIMENTS SIR a op nee y Magazine, Saturday. December 2 0. 1913 THEY THintc IT'S LOADED POPECEREEEESEESEE SECEEEEESESEESESE COEEESEOESESESESS, Mrs. Jarr and a Jury of Experts Name the Ideal Christmas Gift “Well, don’t poke your crochet needle in my eye!" interrupted her slate! tm only sorry that some of the people who make cheap Christm: fits to-day— and people who send them, too—don't choke half to death: “Why, Gladys, {9 that the holiday splrl asked Mra. Jarr in surprise. “It's MY holiday spirit,” said the fair rebel. “Oh, she's just mad because she didn't get @ letter trom Herbert Tynne- Irene Lceb —— Copyright, 1018, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “Iam a father of three chil- @ren and have been forced to live in @ neighbor- hood that I would much prefer to be out of. My wife has been to eral very ni houses; and the frat question asked ie ‘How many in the fam- When we have children, mays three the answer is ‘We don't allow fam- lee with children in this hou! “Now that certainly is not very much encouragement for a young couple to raise a family, I think this apartment house rule is ® great danger to the rising generation. “Ie there no way in which @ land-| lord could be compelled to accept a famlly when they have good records from thelr previous landlord? 1 think that a fine Imposed upon such landlords would soon stop euch treatment and would make for the betterment of fam. Ales, While a prohibits the align not allowed here," there humanitarian principle involved, which/ any landlord or proprietor might well conalder, If, as the writer of the foregoing let- ter suggests, @ good record may be) shown from previous landlords~a rec-| ord stating that this family has care- fully avolded infringing on the privacy and rights df their neighbors; that it has so guarded and disciplined its wee ‘ones as not to give any offense to any ‘one outside that family; and has care-| fully looked to ft that ite children wera “geen but not heard too often’’-then Indeed is the landlord whe discriminates against such @ family not only unkind, Dut actually deficient in the humane! | yet there i@ no law that) | epirit that should dominate every citi- zen who is given @ deed to property. For, cs inly that deed and that Property cannot with him after death, Therefore, he should eo live aa to make the best use of Property holdings and to be oltisen-like in the ‘ery short time in which he ts “mon- rch of all he surveys.’ I wonder if that landlord who ex- cludes ilttle children from his prem- that, by his attle ring & means of making ind cold and cynical and to the thes that bind unresponsl: humanity. 1 wonder if he knows how the aizht of a wee tot with golden curt fully romping {n the sunshine, may Penetrate and make better the withered old heart of some recluse who has been for fear of being “a good for uny one to {dren at times, I wonder if this self-aame autocrat of @ aky-scrapt rtment house can appreciate that putting a pre- mium on posterity being reared in un- For there the fore- desirable parte of the city, ‘# many a worthy family, joing exam means, would hood detrimental to the bringing up of the future cigisen, And this formidable and almost cruel sign, “Children and dogs not allowed here,” may drive num- bers of people to less healthful, less cleanly districts. The man who ts #0 selfish in the matter of money-making that he for- gets his own childhood days and does “human equation” after all, he can sleep only i one bed at @ time, ent only 60 much food, use only one yacht at a time; and in short, he can re- epont to only so many creature com: forts, and must die when his time comes, Yet, he who hearkens and answers the ory of the children, he, indeed, “leaves footprints om the sande of time.” ‘ : 9SOSSSSOSHS9STISS 999SST999S95 9999S 99S999I9SIIIGIIGO ' morning," foyie this scoffed sister Irene. ‘ow, come, giris,”* sald Mra. Jarr, saw Gladys rising to match up le, “Don't pick on each , it gets on my nerves. in the joyous Christmas sea- it ‘Not to be opened anked the younger sis- ng up her hand-made ter, who was ¢: gift to send it by parcel post to the prospective victim. Why, of course, stupid!" retorted the elder, “What excuse will you have for sending It before Christmas If you don't? “Of course, :t's for my aunt who ha lots of money. She never forgave our mamma for marrying Mr. Blodger. “On, always send your wel'-to-|o friends some trifle; and send it In good ‘Don't open til) Christmas,’ and that will make them open it right away. It will remind the rectplent that the send- er jp tit! alive. And the cheaper the little gift is the more eloquent it Is of the poverty of the giver. And this in turn {s a comforting reminder of how well off the receiver of the gift le. And them wend you something ch relations who send you they make themaelves,” cried Irene Cackleberry, "I think It Is a tacky thing to do.” “And yet they are the very peopl who do It-wemithy friends and rela Jarr. “That's because your peor filends have so much work todo, They haven't time to knit or make you ‘useful gifts,’ " added Miss Gladys Cackleberry, ‘But your wealthy relativea’—- “Don't mention wealthy relatives or 1 will scream!” interrupted tha other, “Look what a fuss Aunt Margaret of Newark, ©., made when I forgot it was she who worked mo the handyix as a gift the Christmas bafore and I sent it to hee Christmas xift the next Ohriatmas! "Yes, she wrote very cuttingly that reciated tho pift, ste'ng tha: she KNEW {t wan wel! made and of good materials.” aald the olter slater. “Well,” ald Mra, Jarr, holding up a shawl on which ahe was working be- tween her and the light to see how the stitches ran, “well, it tw disheartening to go to @ lot of trouble to make somo- thing nice for somebody and yet know | just as well a4 though you stood by and heard that the person you send it to will say, ‘What did she send me that thing for? “And the men don't thank you, either,” said the younger Miss Cackle- berry.” “But at least a man will let a clerk advise him, And the clerk generally advises something of value for the eake of tho sal But, thank goodness, there is alwaya one gift in good taste’—— "Cash!" said Mrs, Jarre and the other Mies Cacklebersy io unison, ’ ping World), Copsright, 1913, by The res Publishing Co. (The New York Bi H, see tho lady in the Poiret gown! Where tx she goin! O She joing to speak at a woman's club, my child, Sho will address | them on the subject of “Woman's Wrongs, or the Debasing Eftect of | Mere Man's Tyranny.” But she must hurry. Why must she hurry? Because ahe must get back home fn thine to powder her no: ile herself with bouquet d'amour, run baby ribbons into a few t slip Into a fascinating tea-gown and rush downstairs with a glad, sweet sinile, to arest | the particular “tyrant” who pald for the Poiret gown And what will all the other women do when they h heard her speak? They will do likewise, my child. They are all “oppressed” by cruel tyrants who expect them to be home tn time for dinner. Otherwise they would not have the time and the clothes {n which to go about to woman's clubs, Alas, alas! the tyrant, Man? It will, my child; but at present every mortal one of us ts too busy catere ing to some particular man to bother about a Mttle thing like that. Will ft not te a glorious day when woman has overthrown TODAY'S LESSON 1 ATURAL HISTORY. Essay on Men. H HO t# the Indy carrying the shopping bes full of parcels? W She is a suburhenite, my child She has Juat mowed into the country to escape the excitement and unrest of the elty She yearns for the simple life. {But will the lady not find te country very dull? | Oh, ne, my child, In the city the lady went to a ¢ month and called on her friends twice a season, But baret ehow wall the netg' will drop tn at the Jady's house on Sunday and remain until midnight, playing bridge and eating Welsh rarebite, with aporopriste Hauid accompaniments. } On Monday the lady will rise at 6 o'clock to get her husband off for town, and then prepare to entertain the tocal woman's club. On Tuerday there will be the bridge club, the aewing circle and the “current toptes” club. On Wednesdawher hushand will give a poker party, followed by a little turk trotting and tango-tripping, On Thursday there will be the dog show, more bridge, more tango-dancing and—but why continue? Can you not see that ti | jady will never be dull? How lovely! And will the lady always be content to lead thin simple Ife? always, my child, If sha does not die of nervous prostratton before | next season she will move back into the city—for a rest, M ‘They have two feet, two hands ani, sometimes, two wiver; but | never more than one collar button or one idea at a time. | Like Turkih clgarettes, men are all made of the same material: | only difference being that some are a little better dingulsed than others, Generally speaking, they may be divided into three classes; busvandm | bachelors and widowers. Bachelors are a commodity; husbands a necessity, bi ‘ EN are what women marry. the and widowers a luxury—espectally when making love. i Bachelors come tn two varietien—eligible and fneligitt An eligi | bachelor Is @ body of vanity completely surrounded by wom. n Ineligible bachelor {s @ mass of obstinacy entirely surrounded by suspicion, Husbands are of three varieties: prizes, surprises and consolation prizes. Making a husband out of a man Is one of the highest plastic arte known to civilization. It requires science, sculpture, common sense, falth, hope ard charity—especially charity. | In these days of feminism a husband is of no Importance whatever—unt® you have tried living your whole life without one. Then you may find yourself wistfully wondering if even a dead or a divorced and isu't better than none at all. It has long been @ matter of scientific wonder that a fluffy, soft, tender, violet-ncented Ittle thing, like a woman, should enjoy kissing a big. awkward, stubbly-chinned, tobacco-and-bay-rum-scented thing ke a man. Met that ts only thing she HAS to k TO-DAY'S WRITING LESSON. (Cony ina Neat Hand.) She who “stcals” thy husband's heart stcals trash! + =The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copsright, 1914, by The Preea Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), G6TPOHERE appears to be quite a come the change, and if It can't we | T division of opinion over this! Wil have to keep right on taking onr j Currency bil! that Congress! advice on how to get rich from Jon President Wile. 1, Ro er, Andrew Carnegie and re going to put | the Uncle Sam's stocking for Christ * remarked ‘i, dence schools." epee { With the Reverse English. 3 i OOOO OLLI ALD Speaking without 8 for George MoAneny,” shame and in att) mented the head candor,” replied the doesn't seem to laundry oman, "I: @ boost In sa! must confess that [} "Maybe Mr. Me suggested the haven't any more} laundry man, “Is in the etate of mind a than a rabbit}ot a gi many other citizens who About what the new | think that public officenollers In this Currency bil is. ft) city should have their sularies reduced wouldn't know it if It came up and hit| Instead of advanced. Polltic'ans cultl- men poke in the eve. And I have la-|Vate the Lgpression that to hold @ orioualy and with great mental an-|pubilc office—a comnilsslonership, for \guish read many of the principal eeches made on the subject at that. From what I can gather out of these oratorical efforta we are all going to be eating in nou houses before April Fool's | Day or else we are all going to have more money than we know what to do with, We are going to have the mos: dinnstrous panic the world ever saw or else we are going to have the bigest boom In history, “Therefore, we should worry—I mean you and I and all of us who do not un- derstand the Currency bill should worry. Our statesmen have either framed us up or they haven't, We can't do any- thing about It. If we are booked on the soup house circult we might ag well met our tin buckts ready and prepare to hit the trail, And If we are billed to \travel to prosperity we might as we'l start to examine the catalogues of tne) 66 automobile manufacturers and take lee sons in the new dance step ‘The way thinge stand now—and I think history furnishes an unbroken tina | | of confirmation—those who_know how to | get the money get it, and those who don't know how don't. If a Currency ‘bin cam change this condition we The Day’s Good Stories {inatance—one must be a person of the Tarest attainments. ‘Phere tan't a Job in the city service, from the Mayoralty down, that calls for men of more than ordinary abiljty {and the proof of the assertion is that they have seldom been filled by men. of more than ordinary ability, Count off the brilliant clty officeholders tn your recollection, Common honesty— the commonest of virtues—and commos senme—not quite so common—are the lef requisites, Running the average city department is no more of a compll- cated task than running a subway loca! And motor engineers get $8 @ pannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn }Odd Case of “1 Don't Carel” $ cernonnnnedomacnnnnnacananay SEE id the head polsher, “that few brokerage houses ip Wall street are giving their em-° ployees an extra year's salary fer Christmas.” “No, sald the laundry man, “the lemployees are thinking about returning? If of what they earned duting the year to their boss Caught ina Sinecure Wiat Wy roe business?’ ald the prospereme . Ming. party. I CAUGHT the prisourr iv a sinegure,”” vo . professtona! tobogann! | trate, | Deeply Interested. {GA ainecure, your srurediy,"" blandly ewe she Tt wnaeriage of Miss Ines Mubolland sy ls’, Phi via ouffragist of am you mimo mul de met com, ay te imagistra¢, fair young propae The wives cakled anqiienens fy he was etill unconvinced, from the tox he wa beater officer, “Poor old Manchester Guardian, sd was speaking,” she said, “to 2 east side, She spoke om fee aie suttrage, and he looked, as usdal, very warcaing in one of those lowe and careless, yeh) clinging-—doosely clinging--gowre of the new heart to chap's gettin’ ———— hae No Job for Him. “AL the end she said . AE pring bad broveht out the wsusl crop] "And no there any questions? of Meatless wanderers, relates Harper's oP@ Who lias any questions to arkt J shell be Weekly, {very much leased to answer any questions te Waat hel, do yout sald the progperous| tie best of m ity," | looking party who had polied to for Km |elstamce by one of thew, “You're # husky look. begeer 1 must say, Why don't you werk?" ing Voxgy bealnem ala ony good at ‘dle season,” oman ne in the back of the be 1" gmiled Mise Milbollaad, ‘ "Would you plese tell me, miss,’ said the ‘Woman eagerly, “where you get your corseis!' ae Pittabegs Chiesice Telegmgiy |