The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1913, Page 8

Peer aN tae nama mera mee enone cee. ssc ememeecein 0 re The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, December 24, 1913 . Obe tL) | hd 4 Conran. 1918, Vv WD) ov ne Fer Tint (The New York Krening { BETABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER | (@eBMebes Dally Brcept sunday dy the Press Publishing Company, Noa 68 te, rN stat ott 3 Row, New York. ; RALPH PULITZER, President, 68 Park Row, ANGUS BHAW, Treasurer, 6% Park Row. : JO6GEPH PULITZER, Jr. Sooretary, 63 Park Row. petted Rb Btecheenel LRAT Shoes be ny ‘at the Post-OMce at New York as fecond-Clane Matter. to The Eveving |For Hngieni and the Continemt as@ for All Countries tn the International | Postal Untom DOODDGHDIOOGOOHODHOHHOGHOD By Maurice Ketten Maurice Ketten||| Little Causes Pe PRE OE FEE PEE PEE i Of Big Wars H By Albert Payson Terhune “Copyright, 19 by The Prees Publiching Co, (The New York Erening World). No. 29—A Woman’s Whim That Led to Empire and Revolution. a castle overlooking the Adriatic lived @ pair of wedded jovers They were ideally happy. Theirs had been a love match, and they were well content to live in pleasant seclusion on their country extate, while the world of politics and excitement rolled on without | ehom. ‘The husband was more interested {n his books and his science dab- bling than dn courts, and his wife was more {nterested in him than in any- thing else. It gras a perfect existence for them both. ‘The man was Maximilian, @ younger brother of the present Emperor of | Austria. The woman was Carlotta, sister of Leopold I1., King of the Bel siane. . Nafoleon ITI. was Emperor of France. He was—supposedly at least—@ nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, and he dreamed of duplicating his uncle's feats of conquest, even as a crippled dwarf might dream of copying the ex- ploits of a Saneon. In his hunt for more power he cast his wrinkle-lidded little eyes on Mexico. And he planned “French domination” there. The task looked easy, as the United States just then seemed too busy with tts own civil war to block its projects. Napoleon IIL, with the ald of one or two other Bure+ pean powers, bullied the Mexicans into permitting him to piace an emperor over them—an emperor who, accords ing to the plan, should be a tool of France's, The man whom Napoleon IfL chose for this position of imperial catapaw was Maximilian. . Maxtmillan at once refused the offer, He was more than content where he wi He had no ambition to go thousands of miles away from his beautifal home on the Adriatic and become a figurehead emperor in Mexico. But Carlotta was wild with delight at the suggestion, Ambition awoke in her heart, She wanted to be an empress, It was a mere whim, But it was a whim that (under Napoleon's crafty promptings) soon grew to fill her whole mind, i VOLUME 54......0.ccceecceeeceeseecene ecco s sNO, 19/118 WON!—AN ORDER FOR RELIEF. HE or@er against screeching street car wheels with which the Public Service Commission at Inst issues formal notice to etreet railways throughout tho Greater City that they must eqaip their cars with noiseless brakes and provide proper lubricants, ie qnother victory for The Evening World, which has been the first and @aly newspaper to wage persistent wir on this worst of city noise- muisances Bines last August The Evening World has repeatedly called upon the Public Service Commission to.come to the aid of the publie and put a ctop to the grinding, brain-piercing shrieks caused by defective Wakes and lack of oi] on city railway lines. \ These hideous, metallic acreams that cut the nerves like a buzz-' eaw are the torment of thousands of workers by day and of thousands @f tired people for whom they make sleep impossible at night. i? The Public Service Commiesion’s order gives the railway coin-! ; panies ample time to secure and install the moat efficient noise-elim- fmating devioos available. Meanwhile the companies can show theit| recognition of the public’s rights by at once using oil and grease wherever it will help allay the noises. Experts eesert thet Inbricante and improved brakes will reduce f by eighty per cent. the night noises that disturb upper Manhattan, | alone. The order-applies to the whole of Greater New York. ' The Evening World feels that it has won a victory which will | ' remove one of the most ‘needless noise-horrore that ever tortured the | She used her boundless influences on Maximilian to make him accept the offer, He loved her too well to resist. | To Mexico went the new made Emperor and Empress, The populace rev | ceived them coldly, even acowlingly. The Mextcans—like Maximilian—had been quite content as they: were, They had not the slightest desire to be ruled by fore eigners, The tmperial palace In Mextco City was dirty and shabby compared te | the palaces of Europe. The whole miserable pretense of mock rulership swiftly Jogt ite jor, even fer Carfotta. Having no children of their own, she and | Maximilian sought local popularity by adopting a son of the executed Emperes Iturbide. Soon trouble set in, Mexico indulged in one of its periodic revolutions, clamep \orlng for tle expulsion of the Emperor who had been thrust upon it. Thet | United States, too, took a hand in the affair, The civil war was overf jand a body of United States troops under Gen. Sheridan was marched to the? | Mexican frontier to uphold the Monroe Doctrin L | Napoleon IIT. could not just then afford the costly luxury of a war with our jcountry. So he withdrew from Mexico the French troops he had sent there to | enforce Maxtmilian'’s authority. In other words, he acrambled out of the danger b eke fast as he could, leaving Maximilian to face alone any penalty there might be. Carlotta hurried off to France to plead in vain with Napoleon III. to stand by nerves of long-suffering New Yorkers. | tt = + ‘The Money BMl ts passed. Now let's roll up a wad, ++ __—_-_- HOW TO SEE CHRISTMAS. his solemn promises. Her husband refvised to take flight, and stayed to ; BRE it ie—no longer a month off, or a week off, but—to- the death the throne he had never wanted, ; H ns 1 | With a pitifully small army: he marched against the revolutionists, He fought It takes a lot of preparing for these days. To many it brings weariness, worry, burdené of effort and expense. We have invented societies to prevent uscless giving and socicties to promote woeful giving, and et{ll many man will tell you that the whole gift business is either a ghastly farce or a heartless hold-up. », But even thongh it pinches a little, even though it finds you i= @ mood to ecoff, jast remember that, aftey all, it’s Christmas. And if you can’t see it any other way, find some little boy or and look at it through his or her eyes. » For when all ie edid and done, that is the only way by which ‘anybody ever gets a eure-enongh glimpse. OE — with skill and courage in the brief war that followed. His force was outnum- |Dered and outgeneralled, The sentiment of the people was atl against him. | Soon Maximilian's ittle army was crushed and Maximilian himeelf was @ prisoner in the hands of the revolutionary chiefs—at the mercy of the ment. less, A court martial gave the captured Emperor some semblance of @ trial end condemned htm to death. Sx days later—Juno 19, 1867-- he was shot, together with two of his generals. His two fellow victims were blindfolded. But MaximiHan waved agide the dandage that a soldier was about to fasten across his eyes, and calmly facing his executioners be met death open-eyed. . j Carlotta did not know of her husband's death. At the age of seventy-threa, { she does not yet know of ft. She atill telle callers that “the Emperor (s not at |home, but that he will return in a few minutes." | For the shock of Napoleon's refusal to help the {mperilled Maximilian wrecked her mind. Even before her husband dfed she was hopclessty insane. She stil! Ives in Belgium, mindless, childitke, ever expecting to eee her beloved husband ee again “in a few minutes." Ordinarfty we might be excited over so many Dukes and a rA FAAAAAAAAHABAAAAALAABIABIAIABSIABS | . Duchesses arriving in our Midst. But Christmas takes the @ ' evobbishness out of us ONta lI There’s Going to Be a Big Party |jAre You a~‘Personage.”’ Rar ye At the Jarrs’. Look Out for Trouble! or Only a ‘‘Person’”? CPLKC KCK CK LC LK KEL ACC KK LOK KEK LEK DISGRACEFUL. By Sophie Lene Loeb. EOPLE out for an evening’s fun in New York should be made ev though to say “Don't interrupt when sh) aon't want him," sniffed the (iatinerals,” Interrupted the elder oa i {I'm countl n my fingers, Then | two es Cackleberry. sister. Copyright, 1918, ty The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Tirening World), to understand once and for all that the night courts are no fi lanslaeticer | “'ite tangoes beauti‘ully, though," sala | "Shut up?” replied the other, lovingly: | ¢ ¢ 4 son a day parses over the earth hardahips and dally plodding that wom place in which to seek hilarious entertainment. Je \"vercy “Pinkfnger to play the | Mra Jarry elentings Mtn uae rat caro: saul ht N but_men and women ot nol the race for his boy. iano” — sand as you, he - | aie 2 ; 5 Sen ‘ ity Magistrate Murphy is wholly to be commended for ejecting eetAw, let us have regular fellera who, | ing. You have Dink if you want tol want any interesting people at any note do great deeds, speak) He saw tho possibilities of the youtk, 4 vem the Women’s Night Court at Jefferson Market well-dressed men eat words and ‘cards watches and handkerchiefs, | have a good time at your party, Get|party where we are at—uniess it's all SStrer coble sor-| *"¢ though he had not had advantages, - ¢ in a place for everything and rted and~he just holds |married people.” end women who come to snigger over testimony offered in the cases (Rov 7 a vies| et even in his lowly way he realteed beueve ia place for everything: and ed an “Gee whist cred Ofr. dar‘ as ovis Ce} the benefit of having them. He sp: ot tes a quents arrested in the streets. place for a handkerchief and a watch » don't want him, then,” eald|thought this was to be an entertain ‘And in these dayal DOtning In hia boy's behalf, No dinner wafort ” . « are the pockets appertaining there- | Miss Gladys Cackleberry. many Walk i (he headn nuns fee of cionarn etree 10) culocies tern composed dine? “Incredible as it may seem,” declares the Magistrate, “I have Ooprright, 1908, ty The Prem futehng CO. | gays “Certainly not!” sald Irene, the|husband, wny have the other fellows potitical heroes, "2Y culogles been composed about htm. known crowde to come here after tho theatre hour, the women in eve- pita ; Mra, Jarr gave him another look. | younger, ""T_ remember being at an| you spoke about. there ie something! To him the sending of a boy to college to be aid about| With his limited means as a Janitor wae the everyday ind!-|®% herolc, herculean task. Yet he aid hig vidual who {a| 4UtY. quite as a matter of course. There neither a ‘guest of| "88 success in full meagure, honor” nor even! Then there are many widews with “gmong those prea-| *¢Veral little children that hive come ris four'—— affair at Germantown and there were| ‘Jack Silver won't have anything to el Angelo Dink-| three or four Penn ‘Varsity boys there |do with a girl unless he sees somebody ning dress, os if they had been at the opora, and these persons have ‘ “T wer Ard oe eee my PY Jaaghed, grinned and chuckled over what they heard.” Herbert Tynne(pyle !e In town | sion—nay, he's always interesting’——|-fathers had lots of money, and they /else wants her ea sins Jarr. oe ; . | from Philadelphia—that's two. And! \olunteered Mr, Jar. Were regular boobles one could have!if Herbert ‘Tynnofoyle is here paying + We hope all Magistrates stand equally ready to throw snickering | Jace eilver te three”— couilted Mre.| “viz int interesting. He hasn't aldone anything with If one had them |attention to Gladys, that will leave eensation seekers out of their conrt rooms with plain-spoken repri- | /4' cent and he's married!” snapped Mra. | alone, and a Western man dropped in| Ralph ‘Terwilliger for Irene, He'e only ‘mand and a epecial warning to so-called “nides” who are in the habit | i: we Qummt auggested Mr. Jarr, for! Sarr, “T wish you wouldn't inter-|and got to telling about hunting mineral a clerk, but he dresses in exquisite 16 SLOEB® grew before the yy nt. ie Commission on Reltef it was the Waye and Means Commit- water in Death Vatley"— ation Fil keep talking, to sacs Sy {A lette: comes to The Evening World,| Widowed Mothers, ‘These womex a erin; con i tee of the iittle affair Mra, Jarr was| ver and ne'll get mad, hin lie of offering the night courts as places of amusement for sightecers, | ier, Of the ON ting Misses Cackleber-| he 1s a desirable party he's able to try ET tic eccth eas acuneen| ol the pay that thelr hasbende ‘ (Ss Cs ‘ + Sat reais GaneOe, matter ae eee ron a win In nie eax | Tundrede of others atrive as hard and|!iles, but tortor them as well ‘The deat Christmas Eve ontertainment ts at homo. OPE SANE ERTS AE TAFE B STOR #8) S Oe a te a teen ier eo show oft | eave nothing. Are we not placing too| Many a mother has worked all Gay to a = cor Meatore they come back, maybe [HSH a premium on success? Why must/earn the livelihood and returned at’ a 7" ‘ , tee ioe capes ‘ucceantul effort meet with uch great) night to do the housework and care for | Hits From Sharp Wits. wll be engaged 't dle happy untti| Honor and reward while sincere uneuc-|the wee ones—all, all to keep the net- | you get that poor old bachelor married cessful effort reaps nothing?’ work of her little home together. These hard and fast?” said Mr, Jarr. In the #.mming up of all things, suc-| mothers go through the daily grind of ‘You never hear of a face powder f ita time he was married,” replied |°o*# 1# largely relative. To the “get-|trial and trouble just to avold parting Mrs, Jarr. “And he thinks he's so cute, | "ich-quick" type, success ites in con-|from the arma that are part of them, 4 he does, Well, I will say if either of | Vincing the other fellow that you are| Sometimes they win out nobly, This te you gete him he'll regret the way he's | Success, To the opposite type it Is success, wtood aloof while dozena of girls, who| looking deep into your consclence and A mother lke this has perhaps put Would have mado him good wives, went |Tecornizing real achlevemant in spite of forth Just as much energy and striven forced to shut down on e-| N\ A “Gentleman.” wine, why do some of the atrle powder | 7 Pee torent in a ho Ramer of The Brening World: thetr nowma no that the nowes look Ike ove @ better from @ young man Who biods of white? Ie tt because the girla| it woukd be more or leas interesting Wetusce ¢o give wp bis gent 1 8 oar De | have to dress in half dark hall roome|ts know who darns the stockings in qnuse women don't thank tim. My dear |and can't see how ludicrously thick the the Pankhurat family. young man, you evem to be very narrow | powder is piled on? Aleo—but that's ee silly over him to no purpose!’ meh” ae Fae ee ateatal a all as hard toward that which eke your tess whet 0 gentioman |M™oush for read anew Copyright, 1913, by The Prue Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World), A grim look came upon the faces of now of @ janitor of a buflding on| calla success as has the finder of for- j mire Reem ere pall csi yee i sa “SUBURDANTTN, sree ee een oe itoeita eee UST now every woman {es tortured by the thought of what she shall |both the Misses Cackleberry and a steely She Sant eee: Be ee ie sf cae Dien ° follower af tame, i] 4 J ‘ glint Inte thelr eyes, Mr. Jarr shud- | of the y often, in truth, the daily deeds pou the kind of can whe thinks becatee| ‘The “Plot of land” Problem, | "°F !mprobable than ever. ive © man for Christmas—and every man by the thought of what| lint Inte thelr yen Air. Jerr shee. | oT Tee repeat eee man among |of euch dutien, auccecatully. performed @ young lady chows her lack of good | Te the Rttitor of The Brening World: he may get. rooting that you anust be the eame?| 1” reference to the plot of land prob- his whilom riend, Jack Stiver, in ease | men, Nobody but this Janitor (who has} leave ax firm “footprints on the sands Any wan whe dite when a lady (youns lem, one correspondent solves the prob- rd e the Misses Cackleberry, elther one, |never been “among those present,” ex-| of time" an do the “guest of honor” and + extort an engagement ring | cept to be called tn time of trouble by any one of thone who are always men- : And eee how bald he je now, ‘After awhile a man’s wife becomes just a “habit.” No matter how | should stan dhowe that true courtesy) ery snore, Flot of land 1Wixtiem reeds x t the encrifices and tio . 10,745 square feet. 197+8=282—564.| The only way to get two-thirds of the| often his heart may change, he ts perfectly contented to go on further, | {rom this philanderer who had ao long |A tenant» knows of the med aa “among those present.’ escaped the marital snares set for him. to @ lady he does ‘This being the length of four sides.” people to move forward would be to/ letting the eame woman clean his safety razor and keep his dinner hot. ae Ew Se ineoes Shave pega He then maye, “Divide aren 16.745 by 864 | eee Saetet car backward. _ buh me Guat other Coe | A CHRISTMAS DREAM _ By Engene Geary “/ Gives 2.6897+, and this will ¢ive the D Copyright, 1918, ty The Pres Pattishing Co, (The New York Evening World), A| width of sidewalk approximately.” This 5g Zroedo Blas: | No man over really loved a woman, What he loves ts always an tmag:|etting a good practice around here” | 4 wag Chrigtmas Hive, and I be-| "Two dosen on the halferheit would esatienen on ses he snows Bis would make a very elmple way of er-| A yermg man in New Jereey has not| {nary being, completely surrounded by his {llusions—a graven {mage,| oor vas concerned. Tf elther or both | moaned the scarcity of. tone up th's mortal frame: site, ont Be aoe on oe fom not| riving at the reeult. Hut allow me to|misned @unday-achool once in the last) made in his wife's likeness. of the young Indy visitors from Philadel- AouRN.” ted filing-how, 1 7Bth {f You pass the soup with that oo ll me ar | eFene® ig | *87 that the correspondent 4d not com.| ten years. Athil, anybody bigs gaia ve — phia was to go home with an engage- | * Sta) eek peste RB rDOw: Impoastbie French name lack courtesy. sentleman pute the four corners in his example,|in New Jersey hes unusual ni a fi ip 9 .| ment scalp, Mr, Jarr wanted {it to be ; My spirit will grow luminous and Ghwaye © gmtioman, mo mation where) i. computed eimply the total tength | Msious consolation.—Topeka State Jour. “There is no pocket in a shroud;” and perhaps that's why most hus: Dr, Gilbert Gumm's, Mr. Jarr had it in| And all my thoughts were one long SonFKio tu'o fina Ge cay om Of wides of plot. Try again, PC, (MM gg, ‘ands wish they were shrouded at this time of the year. for him, streak of dark and diamal woe, 5 " vert the conversa: | . ate'a| “Two drumsticks of a ‘tork’ wil et The Latter Is Correct. Loyalty te a Ane thing, but when the I have tried to dl 34-1: aia not want to whimper under fate'e ” mot sive "send ‘Bo the Better ef The Broning Wards man with the dollar watch backs {t When @ business girl marries she soon discovers that the task of|tion from your frien, re tear | __ alede-hammar knocks, one visiona of the stare oe ftern Which te correct: “Betwoon you ant) against the post-office clock he fe taking 1 home out of @ house and a husband out of a man is a life job] enti*t” sald Mra Jerr, coldly, “He 1 ) sq, ater metaphorically hanging up| With ‘fixings’ too, to place Inside my ~~ se ee I" of “betwoon you and met RR. |g. tong chance —Charleston Newa-| making & hom ee tees ehild'e’ olay no person for those aweet, innocent girls | "| Aiter : ee aa ; Beuat a ieee | beside which working for a living” is mere child's play, re Ee uhilen axed Mr. Jarr in eur- |! Went to bed and dreamed sf ploamant And 1 know your Hberal feeling as to 4 errents. ns ' a “Ww ? ‘ ‘3 te of “rocks.” feo and olgara, } ; tte a8 Mynere cts TArl a iio erith epecthoa-| OUF idee of an antiGpug ls on er | To a man women are like his pipes; thefe ts always one which | pri Soo: ener ‘el ‘ \ t wanticn thon, &0., of the largest hattlo-nspe in thusiast who would send Separer | peally appeals to him; but, nevertheless, he Hkes to have a lot of others] ” ie only a young man, unmarried | O14 Santa Claus came to me in hi ‘Now, anent material comfort: let ws ste the world? W. Ta | Ham Lowe ® safety rasor for a Christ- if i and with no excuse for it—not for being | mult of corduroy; say five thousand shares - \ peamenaders . mas present.—Boston Tranportyt. hanging around—just—oh, just “in case,’ married, but for going to Gus’a place, | Min whisker wagaed with merriment,|Of Amalgamated Copper—twould ée- ; ereet A House Problem, — Ho's a regular habitue ther oles eves told tales of Joy, crease my earthly cares, ten com ‘To the RAitor of The Prening World: ‘The girl of to-day conceals her ears." ¢ “ ” yw , « just as lief the girls " our gifts at once,” says| Ro i luck in the future might Gesead, Will @ome of your mathematical watch, in view of what !s tfkely to be Man may be a “sturdy oak,” but that is no reason why woman should Lapiay io with fe quan aimeett, He oh ene te A voy, yes ees mm h WR promenade! renders help me in thie: “How many ga'd in her presence, 9 a wise precau-| be a clinging vine, choking the life out of him. Why”oan't ehe be a rose- looka ike @ regular demon, with Ils ! wee om one Sree Od STNG: | fat HF sition. 6 Inehen Wie WH RS eer | Gem ean bush or a willow tree, perfectly able to stand beside the oak, but not fm] yoivet hat and Mephistopholian Van-| ‘7 want” I meld umtinehingly, with), Nowport house, a mrotercar, @ a mest beautiful quired to cover the four atdes of a) 4 everything in alght, steam yaoht—f think that's America, \o nearly deserted? The Drive! house 40 feat long, 2% foot wide and! A Tos Angeles man called in a doc-| the least Mke it? dyke beard, No, he js no company for ryth e | y these dear girls,’ “A quart of cocktails frat, with whieh | gu¢iciont to tnatell me im the fine ef locks away, yet 1s not | 20 feot high if thoy be laid é inches to tor to treat him for perve troub'c, see Gane ae all that? on,| to atart this business right, platocrats,"” hed Why? Also, |the weather, and 160 square feet be and before he departed borrowed & The modern man’s love letters are usually about the size of a pure ae ei ee cried both the poung| And then the other ttems will come| But pants Claus Grew neaver end por Sere 9 Senet twice se Many deducted for doors, windows and cor- dollar from Kod Quick cure, that.-- food ‘and al as carefully worded, eamuratty, quite ‘ _ Udy whinpered, "Bata i. | ‘ > e : i i "ry hs tf ° . ‘ =