The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1914, Page 20

“The Eventng World Daily Magazine i Friday, Januat9 %B; 191 ‘Ga oh World . , ie le RSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by thé Proan Publishing rl RALPH on Knee, JOBEPH PULITZER, ee oes The From Puviighing Co, ; By Maurice Ketten ‘Pedlished Daily Kxcept Sunday 63 Pa a9 Becond-Clan® Matier. Bebecription ten a moat ‘World for the United States and Canada. “VOLUME 54........6 RESOLUTIONS. | Y reversing ite altitude of defiauce toward the de-| mands of the Public Service Commission, the New Voth Teleplione Company hassannounced that it will produce by | 15 a statement of ite receipls and expenditures in New York Gity. | The Evening World, which bas been foremost in voicing the | resolve of velepbone users in thie city that 1914 eball bring an early | geduction of rates toa five-cemt basis throughout the greeter city, ‘ faction that the mecessity for seasonable, resolutions begins to impress itself upon New York Telephone Company officials. | © Let us hope that the Company has resolved to abandon « hopeless “pelicy of defiance and obstinacy. Let us hope its President hae resolved to treat the reasonable Gemand of New Yorkers for an equitable readjustment of telephone vates as something more than “a mere bagstelle.” ‘“ Tat us hope that President Vail of the perent American Tele- phone and Telegraph Company has resolved that hie New York Tele- “phone managers shall not be allowed to being odium and reprisal upon a great corporation by enepping their fingere in the face of the public to which it owes its prosperity, 1914 shall seo the speody abolition of telephone tell-gaten and the establishment of a five-cont phene rate thronghout Greater Now York. That is a New Year's resolution which the people of thie city early and mean to keep. Others will find it wiser to resolve accordingly. —————_o¢ ‘The members of Congress who complain of their@iek of eminence should recall that people who do not amount Wpay- thing are usually responsible for their own obscurity. ———-¢-— IS IT CHANCE? HE lowest death rate in the history of this city is recorded by the Health Department to the credit of ihe departed year. For the majority of diseases there ie a marked falling off im fatality—the greatest life saving of all being among infants under one year old, in which class there wore 1,669 fewer deaths than notes with ca But among the half-dozen causes which show dist inthe death rate, heart disease is'a prominent first, wiih an increase ‘of 494 deaths over the previous year. Heart disease is commonly a disease of maiu hhereaboute is peculiarly favorable to its development is ian declared that New Yorkers put a special and constant strain upon their hearts by continnally hurrying up stairways from the qubway or to elevated stations. % it only chance that the increase of deaths last year from heart trouble was 150 per cent. higher than the rate forthe disease showing sthe next highest advance in fatality? SERRE Se an old story. ‘Not long ago a phy 00 . 00 ‘ Strives to Inf a Gingerless Social Affair. tdance of Seven Maledictions came to an) upas tre “Take a glass of punch!” victims of that deadly | F use Ginger a0 to speak, of Harlem s0- punch—gathered lips were laughing. strong effort Mr. Products in the flowing bo nd now you must be fatigued! ; ight, Mrs, Jarr to Mrs, Mudeldge-Smith ee the es were brig! Col. Harvey's criticiems of President Wilson continue to prove the theory of the French philosopher that no man can forgive another whom he has wronged. seentsapeenmenctind ibewtetnc=—hiroeees WITH A SOBER EYE. IE town feels rested to-day aud no longer blinks at the New Year from beneath the folis of a wet towel, That there wae plenty of the old time riot of cowhells in its ears yesterday nobody will deny. @eapite the reports, did the tango reduce the flow of champagne to ® trickle during the night of nights. © ‘Nevertheless: There was more sivging, more cerolling, more ‘ --himing than ever before. ‘Ihe thousands who took part in the Mad- Seon Square celebration arranged by the New Year's Eve Commitiee tic apd far more numeroua than the gane revellers ere yet too late. fatal cups could be quaffed, stranger—to many of them—entered and “The compliments of the ed Dr. Gilbert Gumm, drink all this being an unmarried man, all the 2" asked John W. ladiew constantly greeted his remarks ‘Ien't he the dreadful tin horns echoin with a chorus of rldge-Sinith, was making # diaphanous show of herself in a solo dan ‘8 party to the two Mises Cackle- Whe concerted attack decoction had put quite a dent in it, when a great stir was caused by the val of Jack Silver, the Jarr family’s star bachelor for many years. * murmured all the on the spiked Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ater thy inetroctions of a Married Woman, and attend, lerstandin, * a Drips I bave known upward of ninety-and-nine; and in the days of my youth my vogue was great in the Land and the youths of Babylon were as bracelets upon mine arms and garlands upon my doorstep. thee, if thou wouldet win in the Love Game, seek not to vai quieb a man at any other game; whether it be at politics, or at golf, or at art, or at repartee. For a man honoreth the MAN who had been J think no partici. Pant in this affair is to go Unpunished,”’ replied Mr. Jerr, chance to dip Mr. Pinkfin Overshoes in the Aowing bow! (I can eee them stuck under the sof with @ bunch of were far more enthusi eelebrators of last year. Moreover, this year's celebration saw fur ihe first time a positive effort on the part of ihe police to check the sale of horns, ratiles and ticklers. Considering the fact that the movement for a sane New Y: Eve only got under way a year ago, the progrere shown Wednesday might is gratifying. After all, the Fourth of July didn’t quiet down tuto safety and ‘sanity all at orze or without the patient and persistent effort of workers determined to make it what it has become. _— +--+24. WHY NOT? Emancipated woman {s learning to face warital difficultier with calmness and an eye to business. A Boston wife, whose husband is weary of home, coolly proposes to sell him for $1,000 to “the other woman. “He is a workingman,” she writes, “tired of supporting a family on small psy, and we don't agree at all on anything You can have him for $1,000 cash.” ‘Why not a genera) valuation of husbands to the end that their wives may deiermine whether they are getting a fair return or whether it would be more profitable to sell out? Or, ff she knew her husband's capitalized value, many a woman might be glad, if worse came to worst, to lease or loan him on good security at reasonable rates. Terwiliger, who was looking out of the window. Ui tell you what: who worsteth him in battle, but he despiseth the woman who worsteth him in anything—most of all, in an Jet ue spike the punch’ ‘The bottle of the Old Stuf!’ mur- mbred Mr. Jarr as one comprehending. And while the others were futently Clara ‘Mudridge-Smvp dispiay how she had burned up a lot of good money taking fancy dancing leamons the two miscreants crept oui to the kitchen and returned with the bottle of the Old Stuff and alipped contents . amor of the promoters who have survived the recent atringencies and exposures| worst of it. It Is somehow a is always a hundred-and-twe: The promoter also ily brings along & boosting jackal ho nudges you in the ribs and says, ‘Pipe my friend's car! That's the one that won the Silver Skull awarded by the Coffin ‘Trimmers’ the fastest timemon a circular that car has ‘killed thirty Be wot like unto a popular novel, which is easy to pick up Grop; but rather like unto a good reputation, but easy to lose. For the bird that flyeth high and the deer that is fleet are ever me delight of the HUNTER; but a aticking-plaster is an abomination, and a clinging vine choketh out sentiment, Let not a man find thee “at hom . he beBome puffed up in his conceit, and say in his heart: “Lo, she BXPHCTETH me! For in the Love Game an ounce of uncertainty is worth # pound of which is difficult to attain # all right, 1 tell you. Don't you Worry about him!’ “Why, I have known him for fifteen years and he's always had « Japanese A Japanese Government college T tell Jack, but he doesn't seem to care,” added Mr, Jarr. Then turning to the newcomer and crying aloud that all might hear, afr. Jarr exclaimed: No, Jack, old chap! r HYPNOTIZED.” Hits F tom Sharp It has been our observation that a Pretty girl is much mor mots.—Cohimbia msn maketh foolish vows, cryin: “Beloved, I love thee fon thyself ALONE! MIND and the glory of thy SOUL do I adore thee, and NOT for the shape of thy foot nor the dimple within thy chia!” Kiss him upon both cheeks, and rumple his forelock tenderly, but let not thine heart be troubled. For no maa kaoweth WHY he lovet! a woman. And @ brilitant complexion is more to be desired than a brilliant wit; one dimple exceedeth a higher education. Rich thy frills as thy purse wil) buy; for though a man knoweth not allaiik from near-sllk, nor lest year's hobble from this y he knoweth the “imported” look from the “home-made,” and “good LINES” shall not escape him. He rejotceth to be seen in the company of a sartorial MASTERPIECE, but » soulful frump is his ehominetion. 1 charge thee fling away Yea, for the beauties of thy ia religion or friends. The com of liv epers could do to prevent !t.-Homtun thy bachelor friend k him out loud first Some class, what? The two Misses Cackleberry turned Very tow pelt-inade men ha about his Jap vi tonishing fish stories to rela’ young bachelor as the sunflowers turn Both held out to him the after it has been spiked as these had, adds like an adder and vipes like @ viper, A murmur of appreciation ari ween that the wealthy bachelor could and did drink pring fashions will be a revela- crimaon cup that, Tom the for by shat ein fell the spineters! For what profiteth it a woman theugh she converse in stz la: suages Wo, yet cannot use her BYES in one? man aball call thee “Quees,” “Kitten,” ané another shal! eal! thee “OMUM,” qmite he seeketh none of vy. ‘Wertly, verily, unto pensions for wide prevoke the bachelera to marry the revenge.—Bullimore “You muet alt drink with m the dashing Jack Silver, And once again the polson cup was quetted, ‘ van Ge hoe Purge but every- another shall call thee ‘when 0 man seoketh a mon—end thet one” a et Tt bepins to look ae though @ bed moTeRR., ico ¢amen) oll mes are as emp Little Causes. é : Ot Big Wars: By Albert Payson Terhune? x oe Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening wm No. 33— A Banquet That Led to a Revolution. ° T Versailles, France, one day in 1789, a gorgeous banquet was gt by King Louts XVI. In honor of the foreign officera and sold! his service, And thereby the King added just the one quash sary to engulf himself and his monarchy under an revolution and of war, Pi France's affairs for centuries had been rum for the benefit of theeout and the nobles, ‘The peasantry were wretchedly poor and they pares |More at thé hands of their aristocrat masters than ever did the beret Jess plantation slaves of the South, Justice was a joke. A man with @ power could have an enemy thrown into the Bastile prison without tra} ead left there to rot. ‘Taxes were unbelievably heavy. The peaple at no rights. 2 3 This sort of thing hal once gone on wits no especial compla: every year the inevitable day of reckoning drew nearer and nearef.- XIV. had nearly wrecked both nation and treasury by his wars and @fs sonal extravagances, Youle XV, had attit ‘an ¢ in the same way and had eald jokingly: “It will last out my time, but I pity) my Hin grandron (and suoc A Tottering ith his pretty best to demotish. ‘| was left of royal po in France. By act of folly after another the 3! and Queen shook the already tottering monarchy. Tt is @ miracle that the revolution was so long delayed. For; leoktig at story through modern eyes, it does not seem possible that any nation could dat continued to endire sud gross misrule. But the French were cowed by ODI sion and dazzled by the glitter of the nobility: and of France's vaunted prestig ‘They grumbled but remained in le: In July, 178, a mob destroyed Bai which the people regarded aa symbol of ny. Then they: waited. the hush before the storm, taste of blood had noe been suMcient to make them craay for more ight yet have saved the monarchy. But states-| tact were two qualffles utterly lacking in the monarchs and in ¢het chonen advisers, The court continued to equander fortunes in dissipation, while the poor hungry, Then, at the very moment when most the King needed the loyalty of native soldiers, came the costly Versailles banquet to the foreign troops, ‘Th wae the Inst straw. That their King should feast foreigners while his o' beople starved awoke the nation to fury. On Oct. 6, 1789, the national guard, aecompanted by an army of screaming 4 from Paris to Versallies, seized the palace and forced their chHdren to return to the capital with them. There! al famlly were \ept virtually prisoners, while the country; went mad. regiments were mustered. Everywhere armed bands of peasants burned and looted castles and murdered every noble they could lay. hands on. The score for long years of tyranny was paid in blood. Ke A proclama (somewhat lke our own Declaration of Independence inspired by it) was drawn up, déclaring all men equal and abolishing the nob! The King and Queen tried to escape from Fran: They) were caught and di back, and later were beheaded. Foreign powers Durst in upon France with armies of invasion. War, civil foreign, devant the land. The ving. crushed the monarehy, turned on France was one vast elaughi ‘——) house. While her armées were @rying to repel those —— An Orgy her ngigibors her sons were Setchering one anottier of Slaughter the thousand. In site of these fearful drawbacks the new Pfen armies thrashed their allied enemies, saving France (1 dismemberment by the foes who had sought to take advantage of her Reign Terror, And at last out of the swelier of blood and graft @nd anarchy arose the Mat of Destiny who was to restore order an@greatness and world-power ¢o Sai He was ipoleon Bonaparte, The Mother-in-Law of To-Day- Is Not a Joke Nor a Menace By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 114, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Jom CHARLES H. LONG of)Especially has this proved true of ty Springfield, whose decisions in di-| mother-iniaw. And she tas grow voree cases have attracted wide at-| WISER accordingly. tention, gives this] So tt gow comes to pass that’ oft advic she takes sides with her son-indew o1 “If a mother-ins | hi ‘in-law rather than her ewn law offends ask] offspring. her to leave you} A little woman of tne east side eald If she won't &0/to me the other day I eat in her put her out. But/one room, the atmoaphere of which was | be gentle in 80] neat and quiet and peaceful: doing, “I could change this and live with Yet in advocat-|eon and his wife. They want mag ing such drastic|come, but I know it would be'a measures he also|take. He is the only boy I have states that in all/it would be quite natural for me his neventeen) lean toward him under any and ell experience} cumstances, I would perhaps Ibe o1 In the divorce court only one case haa| sid my judgment, ¢ come to his attention where a mother- opens, oe a ee in-law has been at the bottom of the trouble of a marital couple. Contrary to the cynle, the world IS getting bet- ter, Yesterday the slogan “Look for the mother-in cane But the twentieth century mother-in- law in different, For she han profited froin the experience of her predecessor, She haw learned that any two people living together must solve THEIR OWN problems, and that peacemakers e in the form of motherged " hear any good of them- fal has the niceat wife In the wertd| ie has her moods and caprices th same an have others, and et auch time, he would bear with her, where §¢ Was present a different view might b taken, and I might really be the atun bling block in the way that should b smooth. x “Bo T sacrifice the Joy of being wil them for their own sake. Young m tled people tion, and w in the p in without bein T am a bit lonely, bi then I go out and bring tn ome or tw. The truth is that the peacemaker, even] of the neigibors’ children for @ bit though well meaning, usually ge cheer, and soon my loneliness {s gone, “It Is so much better to live alone 1 human nature for folk to forgive those] one room without strife than dn man who settle thelr troubles. They may|roams with possible conflict. But Seem grateful at the time, But as| woman must needs live with bh rn: time goes on they don't dike to feel that |laws she must profit by the old adage: somebody ele is responsible for the] "The mother-in-law remembe t working out of thelr own problems.’ that she was a daughter. The Day’s Good Stories The Baby and the Boss, | it! ' ™4 etteupiet-to pisy on on COUPLE who lad several children, the 1 oe A d cfgars,” qald-the wae ClicUmstaQoND,. {ad therm company, smoked the 15 Abe ground that they youngest of whom was five, hud/been paid @ visit by friends who admired children, especially the yonngest, who, like all the youngest children in families, was a spoiled, petted young. ater, “Yea,” reulied the fond mother, who liked to ‘voast of ber youngest’s determination, “He is the baby and the dos; be getd everything he red the first, ‘the imsiaresce ‘ om & charge of arson,” Phila, their ecrvant, was in the habit of taking days off without askiog, so on one ovea. ion her mistress told her if she valued her posi tion she bad better ask the bom whes she wanted a holiday, The ; When she returned at night her mistrem asked her jem vice where she got the permission to m,"" replied Meidgnt, “anre yo told sciiaiiens It Didn’t Pan Out. HM couversation in the lebby of @ Wasblog- fon tatel turned te grection! fobing the, othen. might when Congememen Jche M, Paleon of North Corcline mid be wes reminded of 0 ater, had! , meventty two wen wore epeching of O nt shen. soe. en 8 ot