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The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, Janu ore GES aaiorio. SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER eae eneeot Deeg 17 See, Specs Peeetine Company, Wes, 62 vo Feamuren 08 Fark Row : . Jt, Bearetary, 08 Park Row, A-Class Matter, maincet ant BUT CONCESSION IS NOT ALL. an immediate reduction of ten per cent. in subscribers’ QU in wis eee caving of from $2,000,000 to §8,600,- 000 a year to 925,000 telephone users in the Greater City, Blew Yerk Telephone Company yields to public demand as veloed ho Brening Weeld. ‘Tho company frankly concedes that fis Now York patrons fm the city area, conducted by the State Commission, can now précsed to establish o final edhedale beste. Public Service Commission fs right in refusing the offer of to defray the expenses of this investigation. . Zo insure tmpartiality and fairness these who carry on the responsible first and last te the public and to ‘ep-Btate Public Service Commission has held the New York Company to ite plain duty toward the patrons who have up its prosperity. {he local civic organisations te the number of nearly three han- ‘Week whe have given not only thetr cordial epproval but their ective * GB enthusiastic co-operation to The Evening World’s fight can now Ps themselves upon having carried the campeign to a victory Gal the final terms of which remain to be ovttled. » She rate voluntarily conceded by the company fs a soven- eeut rate, The five-cont rate fe coming. ’ MUNICIPAL MATCH-MAKING. I discovery by « Harlem rector of 150,000 single young men If happy marriages depend mainly on the right Jack meeting } Jill, then what nobler function eould the City Fathers per- ‘than to help the world by giving their official aid to the emall | iy ged who is alleged to make it go round? ‘The rector thinks the city eught to take eteps to bring young together. The churehes do whet they oan to provide social bat, a0 he endly odmits, “thousands who need it most never go the churches.” Tdfeleng ctady of couses thet lead to love and marriage can usu- eum ep ie findings in the brief conclusion: Propinquity does it. ly complaining that thetr chikiren have to eit up until je fn the over lessons and probleme that weedy for the . end recrestion centres ere admirable institutions. fethers end mothers hereabout would feel happier if the daily v gave the youngsters mere time to benefit from them. ef Norfolk says it's foreign to English Mabuve and ideale; another English eociety woman says it's “so Jol Gtpia. ‘Bititor of Brening World: Who was “John Gilpin?” gentleman horseback rider o1 THE NEW FREEDOM MOVEMENT ; tango party paid the least attention. punch This shows you whet @ daret Droperly prepared with real things to Grins tn \t—even though surreptitious!y Inducted by JohA W. Rangle, dend in human form—wtll 60, Par of the party were tnalsting that Mra. Clara Mudriige-mith repeat her “Dance of the Seven Matedictions,” but Mr. Pimkfinger @ediared he couldn't lay the music property without a bass drum. Herbert Tynnefoyie of Phiadel- Phia, Pa, wae declaring publicly that he was Mrs, Stryver’s eoul mate, “The charme of her ripened meturity appeal to mel” he declared. Wven Mrs. Jarr and Mrs, Rangte were feeling amiabdly Gieposed toward these strange mantfestations of the effect of Joy unconfined and spiked claret punch on the w m4 Mr. Jarr at Last Has Discovered Who Put Tang in the Tango block around found that the tang of tango wes apt insomnia's artful aid. So it was that, while afl heard th hammering on the door and the ringing cf the Goorvell, no one thougit it of th shtest consequence except Jack who roused just in time to gave is bachelorhoed and hantened to the door, Tt was learned later that Gertrude, the light cunning domestic, Bad drunk two glasses of the spiked punch in lcompany with Claude, her fireman fiance, and that the latter had insisted she return to Engine Co. B with him eaid Mre, Jarr. “It's only those people |é downstairs or upstairs who have tried ‘to apoll our party ever ince half past Bryan has been getting. There, too, the law of supply and demand makes iteeit felt® Albany Journal, eee ‘The choice ef @ police commissioner io naturally @ very vital thing to New York, which Is more “police ruled” any other adity in the United States. Philadelphia Inquirer, eee Canon Hannay, the Irish author, re- turns to London and announces that Americans are active only at the work based his verdict on observ: ited by the geographical outline of Man- hattan Island.—Cleveland Phain Dealer. eee ‘What has become of the oli-fash- toned girl" aske Luke McLuke in the Cincinnati Enquirer, “who used to ‘pout coal oll on the fire in the kitchen stove?’ Luke ought to know that they never come back from the place where she went. eee Maybe it 1» possible tq catch a cold by kissing, but nothing of that kind ever happened in the old days, eee If we accomplish al we expect te do im 1914 there won't be much left te do in 1916.—Tolede Blade. eee Uncle Sam is advertising for a woman assemblage. “After at," ag Mes. Jarr gai, ‘there'’s|11 by hammering on the steam pipes no harm done.” or pounding the floore and cetlings of And there hadn't been except that|their flat. That’ one gets for the ceilings and gas fixtures of the residing among the lower flate were damaged more or less, But Jack Silver wot HEN a lover becomes a husband he apparently recovers his com- W mon sense—and loses al) the other five senses, The girl a man marries is never the one he ought to marry or intended to marry, but juet some “innocent bystander” who happened to be in the way at the psychological moment, In some cases the only tangible reason that a woman can think of for wanting to divorce a man is that she is married to him. Resiliency: That marvellous quality which enables a man’s ‘heart to spring right back into shape again after it has been “crushed.” How can the sezes ever hope to understand each other so long as to @ man love continues to be an occasional luxury, while to @ woman it remains a daily necessity? One whiff of a woman's sachet sometimes makes a man think of moon- light, Venice, poetry, old love—and another girl—all in the same moment. ‘The difference between a Northern flirt and a Gouthern firt is merely that the former makes leve te a woman just for o pastime, and the latter just for “politences.” “How many women can a man jove in a lifetime!” My dear, how ~ ried. For the whole party was in thet atate of desperate enthusiasm which As Jack Silver opened the deer a large foot, bul on the architectural lines ef « Virginia ham, wee threst in against the lower part of it and a heavy set man with dull red dewlaps nd with a cigar thrust in the corner lef Ms mouth followed in hie foot Little ary v, 1914) Causes Of Big Wars By Albert Payson Terhune Cungright, 1814, by The Prem Pubtidhing On, (iho Sow Yah Brening Watt, No. 86.—A Sercant’s Lie That Led to a Cioll Wan had euch « crafty and bewltehing fashion as wes Mho @ Gind of fasctaation or enchantment to these that cow him ev fend | to half of Burope. “This joint is pinched!” said the heavy Ls man, , “Why. there's Sukkotash!, Jack #il- vers Japanese vaist, with him] What this mean?” asked Mre, Jerr, selling and converting goode in the ous- tody of the Sheriff!" “And 1 pull youse all for dieorderly conduct!" growled the big man. “I'm & Getective.” ‘But Sukkotacht’— began Mr, Jarr. “Oh, can the Sukkotash!!" snarled the alleged Jap. ‘T aint @ Chink, 7 ain't. Tm @ plain American citizen, and a Deputy Sheff, and I been in charge of this guy's things, acting for tis cret- tors, for months, and I'm outside watch- ing the car, which is bought on instal- ments, then mortgaged and the mort- gage money and instalments not due, when thie gink”—and he indicated Mr, Jarr—‘comes down and puts his pal and & ekirt into the machine, gits me te go to the drum on the corner for a head- ache powder, and the next thing I kknowe they has swiped the car.” “And you're ail pinched!” added the detective. ‘Won't you have @ glass of punch, ol top?” asked Mr, Michael Angele Dinkston, coming forward, “Yea, do!” orted all, “Poteonally, you drink the punch!” re- peated Mr, Dinkston. sald the detective, and he rank two glasses, “Of course,” he remarked as he held ‘hie glass out for a third, “T aint got no right to pindh none of youse. I ain't got no warrant. I'm only butting fn.” “But I'M lose me job,” whimpered the nearJapanese valet. “I'll lose me job as Deputy Sheriff.” “Aw, fergit it and hit the boose! eald you're chewing with your dack teeth, precious, not your front ones, Does it hurt, dear? It does? How much does {t hurt, love? Very much? Are you sure it'e very much, Wille, darling, or just a Nttle? Very much? Well, sweet- heart, if you were eating a chocolate marshmallow @o you think ft would hurt you? (Te tather,) Oh, George, just look at thu He Goesn't even want @ chocolate mallow! Oh, you can see how a! ls, George. Do you think we ought have another doctor besides Dr, Brown? Do you think we ought to have @ con- gultation, George, Oh, yes, that’s right! t's “ONLY the mumps.” How do you know what they may result in? Didn’t Deserve It. OWABD te quite « qender, Heary VIL. was Ring of England. He had won his crown by and killing King Richard LIL at the dattle of Bosworth. Richard years eeriter, imprisoned and supposedly put’ te death his Mother Monologues By Alma Woodward you tai Tin trying te make things attractive the child? Vanilla soda water gests something pleasant to him, lie: i deren get a: 1011 de you good her heart, It hurts mother ao More than ft hurts Wille (To father.) Go answer the phone, Georga Micely it’s the doctor. I know he’s very janzious about the child, even though he won't let on to me, Tell him I'm wer look after Wile? It isn't like if he were really fl, This is ¢o stight, yeu see, You don't mind, do you, George? AN right, Gear; tell her I'll go with Pleasure. (To Wine.) Ané mamme'n bring hone all the pretty prizea to Willie, And pape’s be 80 sweet to my precious, Mother and Willte know what an awfully geod papa Willie's papa is, don't they? Yeu And, while mother {s dress pi rend to Willie, Yes, thate ing, papa'll read to Wilile. Yes, that’ ft! ‘The speaker wan Mayor Portland. He resumed: