The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1913, Page 8

The Evening World Daily Magazine, a Che Fe saiorio. Why Not? # STOCKING EXCHANGE ' RSTABLIFHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Uwe threanurer, és bark Now cat roBngiand and the Continent u 80/One Month... ., «NO. 19,121 of New York perilous for belated pedestrians is no news. Saturday. December 27, Ba By Maurice Ketten 1913. Copyright, 1019 by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening Wort), Noa. 68 to | LK STOCKINGS « FANCY STOCKINGS EXCHANGE A PAIR OF HT | For ANGA VOLUME 54. Copyright, 1914, by ‘The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), She Chats on That “After Christmas” Feeling. 6 Wrens sighed the Rib, crossing her Jeweled, pink satin slippers on (he ey Daly Bucept Sunde: ate the Prose Publishing Company, rele hey G3 Park. Row, ir, Secretary, 63 Park seocnt-Clane Baten a All Countries in the Intermational | Postal Untoa, G0]One Year. .ssscccrecssscceceeees 90.98 MOTOR CAR MURDER BY NIGHT. | T*« auto speeding by night makes the streets even in the heart tale fender and studying them sadly, 1 over!" “Thank Heaven!" agreed the Mere Man fervently, as he leaned | pack in @ Morrin chair and blew a cloud of smok Darkness, absence of heavy traffic and relaxed police vigi-, Uatice give reckless and roistering auto partics a chance to indulge in peed bursts of speed up and down the main avenues and around ‘tatively, with her dimpled chin in her hands, “and to throw out the mi {and sweep out the holly and forget all the disappolfitments"— “Ana the kisses,” interpolated the Mere Man, “And the headaches, and the thrills, and the indigestion of the mad and merry Yuletide,” finished the Rib, “You,” agreed the Mere Man cheerfully. “And to make the punch, and | Warm over the plum pudding, and cut the cake, and think up a few resolutions, \end a few fascinating new sins to commit on New Year's Day.” “Who was it said that ‘Life in just one d—— disagreeable thing after an- inquired the Rib. | lato, ned the Mere Man promptly. ‘Gxmagreeadle'?” he queried. a as New Yorkers who have found themselves crossing the atreet | { ta the lete hours of the night have not at one time or another shud- | _ Geted and gasped with anger as some huge motor car whizzed by like ? 8 lecomotive, leaving a trail of derisive shouts and laughter from hile- | Pleas eccupante. A stormy night with wind, rain and a slippery pavement tare the luckless pedestrian with raised umbrella small chance to escape ' théve Hying inetraments of death. ‘The fate that befell a married couple crossing Broadway at Sixty-! “Or was it Aristotle? But why 6é F course things themselves are not disagreeable,” explained the Rit. | “But eomehow we always seem to be settling the bill for chem, clear- ing up the debris, or curing the headache, or mending the breaks and Gisth ‘street during the storm of Christmas night, when a speeding | gute threw the two in front of an oncoming taxicab, killing the wife! end injuring the husband, probably beyond recovery, is one that might | overtake any New Yorker almost any night. Why not establish for a time, at least, a special night trattic * patrol inthe main thoroughfares of the city to discourage these early | ing joy riders who, with criminal recklessness, heightened by and champagne, make specdways of the city strects. et Note on Government Ownership: In Japan, that favored ebvuatry which owns pretty much everything, Including rail- Teads, telegraphs and telephones, the Government !s so hard Wp that it cam install no more telephone instruments. So Japanese citisens sell telephones to one another and telephone Wwokers flourish on government incompetence. .... AT /OUR OWN DOORS. BEB hospital treatment for the poor of New York becomes ever & more pressing necessity as congestion of population makes | tome care more difficult and more dangerous to family and! "The Hospital Saturday and Sunday Association, which works tire- Seely ‘0, raise funds to distribute among hospitals thet do free work » Teports that lest year 105,669 men, women and children Were reetored to health, friends and work by the aid of the forty-seven } composing the association. hospitals gave 1,291,442 free days to 64,408 patiente—an bngreate of 184,978 free days over the record for the year before. marks the climax of the Association’s campaign to 000 needed to extend thie good work to the utmost capacity {tal beds and service. £ Bor every $15 contributed a man, woman or child can now be} Pee hospital care, which is often cure enough to send them | their family and work. ‘The headquarters of the Association are at the United Charities| No. 108 East Twenty-second street. Those who believe in the poor, the sick and the suffering close at hand can Gil so'detter destination for their holiday offerings. reece} epaeeemeneeems aoe Brooklyn organ-grinder who delivered to residents ‘Who heé been kind to him Christmas cards, thanking them pest, pennies and hoping God would reward them with a yy caiitnes and @ prosperous New Year, deserves to with the gentle troubadours of old who furnished music ey, to earls and chatelaines in their castles, With @ chivalrous delicacy worthy of the best models the * @rean-grinder touches upon the fact that he has to provide ate THE SWAPPING Coven IRN: Yat brtons Wena R, JARR came home from the M office on one of those depressing Gaya after Christmas perfectly WAP. NIGHT AP, HAND - EMBROIDERED (T's NOT WORTH More Tuan 0.75 WITHOUT THE Shier ood > ATi! Is Cackleberry, Plano stool. the Celebrated Alphonse and turning around. on the “The Notable Gaston and HAAS AALALAAAAA BAN To the Virule ASL SASAAAAAAA BAAD ve ail the multimilHonaires and Van- rbilts in thelr dancing classes and are Jenny | teaching them the tango for a hundred |the office and coming home in the sub- Slowyer, Who danced for a thousand/dollars an hour, fifty pupile at « dollars a night at the Jardin de Danse, | time"—— the head polisher, =The Week’s Wash} By Martin Green Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Dvening World). OWYon what's the matter out in Denver," remarked mobiles, but It doesn’t seem to me to be quite just to the kids. In the formation Period of a child's understanding It Mr. Jarr Falls, a Shrieking Victim, tears. And we no sooner get through paying the bill for one pleasure or one hooped than Fate, the waiter, brings on the next—and there we are in debt in.” “But that's a that makes life worth living!” declared the Mere Man with persistent optimism. “ “The Next’ always overshadows the ‘one before.’ Life is Just like a Christmas etooking:; most of the joy of it consists in wondering ome next.” MAN—perhaps,” agreed the Rib. ‘ ink over the past joy before beginning tp think of the coming ome Bhe hasn't a man's faculty for embracing the present, while she shoves the Past back of her with one hand and reaches out toward the future with the other. She's not an OCTOPUS, Mr. Cutting.” “No,” agreed the Mere Man with @ shudder. “She's a professional mournan She just dotes on funerals and revels in autopsies. No doubt it's more fun te her to strip a Ohrietmas tree than it is to trim one up. That's when ehe can sentimentalize over every broken toy and each burned-out candle, whereas eho might be playing with @ new toy or lighting a new flame—er—candle.” “But @ man,” rejoined the Rib, “just flings shovelfuls of earth over the past and forgets it while he pursues the future. That's why hie heart weare out so mruch sooner than a woma:! ‘is emotions get all frayed at the edges before he is forty. He filngs hie sentiment around Ifke water before aur of course, his wife has to supply most of the sentiment after ‘The Mere Man grasped his hat and gloves. “If you are going to condwet a funeral service right bere and now,” he remarked, “I'm going. I came for a birthday party, not for an eutopey. “Very well,” acquiesced the Rib with a sigh. “Little Robby must be amused, I suppose. As usual the Rid will have to take down the tree and clear out the rubbish dll by hereéif. On with the dance then! What are you geting to sive up this New Year's Day, Mr. Cutting?’ { A Job Let of Resolutions. } 66 ARRYING, for one thing, the Mere Men, putting down his hat Gad Sereblig is) legs Gerd tas te NECA & folie pore a8 eames fort, “and proposing to TOU fer another.” “Axé falling in love?” suggested i SAAASAAAAABLAABAD nt Tango Epidemic ; SHIIDSAAAAAA ABABA ios the tush at evening to emile at me in the old way—then I shall know “@top where you are!” tn’ tea arr, | Sat it's time for me to marry and settle down.” Jarr, “I have heard that story down ac, "UGH!" said the Mere Man firmly. “Now I AM going, Ghosts infeed! Tt | has ceased to be a funeral and has become a seance. A woman seems te meas- ure all her joys by her heartaches.” way, and right in this neighborhood | at’ Mr, Jarr almost said ‘Gus's,” “And a men,” rejoined the Rib, “measi but caught himself in time and added | the PRICE we have to pay for them; and “at the dairy and butter and egg store| happy after all is just to enjoy life's feast while it lasts and then eettle the when I stopped in to get a glass of) om with a good grace—and cheerfully fling your last dollar to Fate, the wait- milk just now. Believe me nobody is/er! But—what are you waiting for, Bobby?’ . Paying fifty dollare a minute to team “I'm waiting to help you take down that Christmas tree,” sald the Mere to dance ing, and’—— Man, reaching over and clasping her fingers gently. 'VE got tt, too!” But a perfect babel of feminine pro-| “Got—what?” test arose, the two girls and Mrs. Jarr ‘That ‘AFTER-CHRISTMAS' feeling!” exclaimed the Mere Man, “That all declaring loudly and at once that | cross between a prayer-meeting hush and a Sunday morning headache that al- they knew people who knew people! ways comes over one between Christmas and New Year's. who knew for a fact that the exponents | his dy his headaches. That's uppese that ¢he only way to be aD willing to pick a fight with anybody the mothers of the| isn't fair to graft upon the child the lof the new dances were making millions fre mother and sister, and concludes: “Have patience with that sald a word to him, when he city nave found #t| disposition of a prig or a enob. Thesclevery minute teaching gymnastics td | tiie tor a little longer playing the same old tunes, for I hope heard the plano being played. necessary to get|children, spinning in thelr cars past | music. wy _ Anecdotes of the Old-Time Act H altar the holidays to be able to get's new cylinder and new Wondering who was comamattting muale together and| hundreds of other school children who! “Why,” added! Mra, Jarr triamphant- | ors es tenes regan.” before mipper, Mr. Jarr glanced in from formulate rulea|are trooping elong the sidewalks i|ly, “Clara Mudridge-8mith {s paying | ij paler the hatrack in the hail to behold Miss about modest{happy groups, are being mubjected by | five dollars a lesson to the Cetebrated | e By Edw. Le Roy Rice. oe It the rich Least al ptiddethed ta diated igi Giadys Cackleberry at the plano, For ftyles in clothing | their doting parents to a cruel handt- {Cl (pemerous measure mu: tho, they are no true knights. | elves why New York makes so poor a showing among designs | platis for future development offered by the greatest and admit-| celts most beautiful cities of the world. ‘With its wealth, energy and unrivalled situation this city could} Shave rade itself in every respect superb. Instead, it has only suc-! beginnings must be made somewhere. And such begin-| Bog my to ete wy tnios imagination. The plan for beautifying Union Square set forth by seat! ‘Koester, engineer and city planning expert, in The Sunday World 84 for to-morrow, should interest every New Yorker as a| of how the good work can be started. 4 Mew York has grown hit or miss, as individual interest or taste eo Orgenized planning, educated intelligence and imagina- oth the visiting young ladies had taken piano lessons for ten years and could almost play the piano fairly well. Jarr, “We've got the rugs up and we are practising for the party.” “The very best people are just craty | about the tango and the horse trot and the hesitation waltz! exclaimed Miss It cost the Bull Moose party in Mas- sachueetts over $90,000 to elect a Demo- j cratic Governor.—PNiladelphia Inquirer. eee Of the people who 4o the mest, to make the world better, few get théir Rames into the newspapers. eee One of these days some ingenious per- @on will hit upon the idea of eelling hard-boiled eggs by the alice. eee York echool girls dress like soubrettes that you can’t decide whether they are on their way to schoo) or on thelr way to a Longacre Square agency to get an engagement with @ burlesque show. bulking bodi Much feather decorations Itke with a make-up box. are apparently from homes for school giris.” “It wouldn't be “Paint, powder and penciled eyebrows are in evidence. Many of the girls wear for Valeska Surratt. elry in displayed. Nearly all ‘wear Mippity-floppity hats with semaphore arms. Take it from me {t's some sight— those maidens tripping along to the claas room in their high heeled shoes, “Certainly the mothers of these girls must know they get ready for school They live in an| expensive apartment house district and in which | cap.’ polisner. “Gov, Glynn,” replied the laundry man, “appears to be skeptical about the \ioan shark's sacrifice, The ways of a | loan shark are no devious that his ex- pressed Intention to burn up $500,000 worth of evidences of Indebtedness is| ernor and virtually sought to buy pardon. been equalled since Robin, the bank-| Sulzer along the same lines, Accom- panying Tolman's application for # par- don was a statement purporting to have hoen prepared hy him, In which it is de- paupers on Hart's Island, and al The cold gall of this has not) wrecker, iald hia plans to use William | claved that he has deen digging graves at this punishment to a man of his) Well, Til lay two to one that if she paying a dollar an Author of “Monarchs of Miastrocy, from Daddy Rice lo Dele,” ote i | Oh, there's Mr. J ried both a dad idea for the F The Loanahark’s Wall ier Lonberid oxeer Copyright, 1913, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wosid), te ewsse tuings in ualeon, ont Str. bs are UG “Don't mind him, iris,” said Mrs. | What Decker Did. man, who was pacing the eldewalk, UNION SQUARE AS AN OPPORTUNITY. |::; noticed that Mra. Jarr was up in Y UITE a sacrifice that loanjJarr. “He's a cross old dodo, It's a} INSTRELSY has had many fa-|™@Je his e@ppearance and seeking the i 4 F the contre of the floor in the firat posi- pie ee ss shark Tolman is willing to|pity he wouldn't try to dance instead | mous managers; some good, some] Manager auickly flashed @ stage con- d JUGHTFUL New Yorkers who visited the City Planting Ex-| tion in one of the new dances, SO Ae an, Take in return for @ pardon|of making fun of people who are Inter- bad and others great. But in the tat si . hetae and myeteriously eald: ~“Bibition recently held at the Public Library are asking them-| ‘You're just in time, Gear,” said Mre "Bo many New| from the Governor," ented the head|eated in this innocent amusement which | ‘Nanagerial hall of fame none are more nt to make any unneces- is at the same time good exercise, Why. orthy of a niche than ‘Jim’ Decker. Mrs. Stryver had tried osteopathy and | No one was ever more resourceful. higher thought and mud baths ani| On one tour the performances were static electricity and eminent specialists | iven under canvas, and on either side for her rheumatism and {t did her no! of the inclosure were the long circus good. She has been dancing every after- | Seats, one side being for the whites and noon and it has left her entirely. Clara | the other for the colored folks, The or trouble, but those nine ing that I have been after @o I'l get them out quietly the back way, and mo one will be any the wiser.” The manager was profuse in his thanks and stuffed a handful of cigars . . 5 into the “officer's ready mit, Th you'd | *hOugh to give any man of discretion a | Mudridge-Smith finds the new dances a latter paid % cents for thelr admiasion a ly mit. ry Hits From Sharp Wits, |sowne cut so tow in front that you'd | (NONsll to give ay rene puapicton, {better way to rediwe than anything she | for the firat few days, ‘Then Mr, |Party filed out Into the ateest, where cveded in being superlative in spots. think they must patronize the drean- | !r5e, n « P | pare AIO “Tolman's counsel went to the Gov-| has ever tried. And if Mr. Jarr cared , Decker had an inspiri Acro! je property man quickly dug up a * ¥'Mew York is ever to become a really beautiful and imposing | maker who economises on cloth in anything for the happiness of those those same %-cent seats, about a di around him he would dance instead of | tance of half their length, he stretched snee |@ rope, and announced in loud tone: not sneerii Mr, Jarr hurried | ‘Colored Reserves! Colored Reserves! to say. “I'd dance ff only I had some | 60 cents each.” ‘one to teach me. IT can see those Garkeys yet, falling “Ti teach yout" cried Mra. Jarr| over one another to get the precious eagerly, “IT know some of the steps of pasteboards for themaeives and ladies, the tango!” ‘and looking down superciliously on the ‘And before Mr. Jarr realiged what he “trash who only paid “two bits,” and was doing he was lost. He was stand-| whose elbows they touched. Ing claxping Mrs. Jarr while Miss Irene beanery and never stopped eating until the @ cents had been squandered. How Curtis Learned the Ropes. T° ent announcement that M. heed the star of “Sam'l " had located in a small California town as @ theatre cienate recalls the time when Curtis and a few others took a cruise on Lake Ontario in @ sloop yacht, leaving Toronto with Rochester, as the objective point. atanding {a ‘barbarous.’ Should the Gov-| vie Wee the cook fer she company. / but hie efforts as chef never caused Marion Harland or Mrs. Rorer to lose ep for fear of mislaying ned Iaur Ae @ sailor he was even worse. He never could learn the difference be- tween the fo'c's'le and the anchor, His companions were naturally surprised One afternoon to find him earnestly en- gaged in tying playing cards to every Nine Hungry Theepians. PERTY men, eo called in theat- rical companies because they are of investigating) Cackleberry, who knew the Argentine of Tolman's, he| Tango music better than her alster w loan shark has not! (for her sister's musical education oon- been digging , that he has been! aleted of part of “Too Much Mustard” ‘supposed to get in each town vie- working in @ sort of clerical capacity was playing her hesitating notes, whi! | itea whatever proporties required for in the storehouse ever -eince he was| Mra, Jarr led her unhappy victlin the evening's performance, are neces- sentenced, and that his health has been through the agony of his firat lesson. ily a resourceful lot. In addition to greatly {mproved by his stay on Hart's! “Watch me,” sald Mra. Ja heir regular duties they not infre- | make eight steps forward, like this"—|quentiy play small parte. and she illustrated it with action—‘and | = | arn and make four back, OA the inside|, This particular property man T have Even the man who industriously saws wood ts likely to begin to talk when he otrikes @ knot.—Albany Joumal eee The olé-fasbioned fifth-reader inapira- | tons for growing boys receives a new | Boost, A poor lad starts life as Gov- qmnor of Pennsylvania and in a few refinement and common sense should have @ place. Perhaps they are beyond the influence of thelr parents, In that event it might be well for the Board of EMucation to pass eome rules to prevent schoo! girls from togging themselves out after the manner of members of @ pony ballet, “Speaking of schools, T note on my way to the subway every morning the take a hand if the city is ever to make the most of itself tn mind wae the ex-chattel of @ de-|rope available, explaini that 4 number of little girls and boys who | foot you aip'— , ing that it way According to Chauncey Depew, will-|are taken to a big fashionable private "That isn't @ dlp; it's « timp," gaaped |{UbCt OM repertolre: eee OE ete cae! venent, Pula | tem Gulser wae @ 004 Governor, And, | achool in my nelghborhood In luxuriant the head polisher,| Mr, Jarr. 4g 4 zou Wait & 1p Sheep loosen nat pew do you aand on the tant, ar, | according to Joe Miller, Chauncey was automobiles, One must keep one's eyes open crossing Broadway from One Hun- Gred and Twentieth street @outh be- and 8@ o'clock in the morn- old being run down by speed- ing care carrying biase children and ago with very little joone change and leven fewer prospects Besides, the ac- ‘tore were hungry, and with just 4 |eente as their total bank roll It didn't fas If they were destined to get \Rine man’s alzed meals for that much he on, i “that all the newspapers agree| “Then,” sald Mrs. Jarr, not heeding, | on the truth of the story about! “thie is the real tango step.” the up-State lawyer, who hid hin af-| And she did a series of grapevine finity behind a partition in his office for twists with an agility that made Mr. yeare.” Jarre gasp. id, “eall at the little casino, and so @ g00d after-dinner epeaker, and there but for the love of Mike don’t teil you have everything on unimpeachable | evidence.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, eee ed bac Fete tir, m'em, Alwere cope to ore: Corvl wtetten, yeu know, ite wa. "But you faver tree oupert”” me to tle a bowline in the Sib halyards, bowsprit sides——~ and the cockpit; | | & Poughkeepele woman offers 625 re- ‘Which probably accounts,” replied) husband, ‘And Gertrude, the light running do- ward tor the return of her riven by grouchy chauffeurs, the laundry mat. “for the visite eo| mastic, told Eimer, the bartender, Ang |money. But they aid. And this js how:| Jus: then the wind blew Mr. Curtle ‘dead br ‘alive, Probably it is modesty | ‘Or course the parents of these little| very many lawyers have been receiving| tn Gus's place that might they talked | Eight of them filed into @ restaurant overheard and as they fished him out ee se See Prevents her trem onea are able to stand the ex: ot soup tolhe said: thelr oMces f their wives thie tenes of “what © fellow and erdered everything from et ir ee m7 wives in lew a @ ale prey nding them to ccheel ia big | © given aigtas the anegee ote ae baw “and 3 ° ~ ~ " _— pncstresitetetinibit anata a oa Ne a SNE p ee Seve NOMOENEN ew. WoT Wen STErEn US Ns \ermt unt coe ones