The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1914, Page 18

we SSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. eh Frestdent, $3 Park Row, G urer, 63 Park Row, ER, Jr. Becretary, 63 Park Row. at New ¥ an Second-Cl rend Bantams and @ All Countries in the International Postal Union. , at the (THE WORST RAID ON THE TREASURY. CCORDING to figures in Gov. Glynn’s message, the highest expenditure for the people of the State on actual current improvements and maintenance during 1913 was the fifty- five cents per capita spent on highways. If there is one thing of which taxpayers have been convinced by the investigations of the past few months, it is the shameless way in which the State Treasury has been raided for the benefit of graft- ‘ing concrete importers and road contractors. Reyelations of the plan by which Tammany hoped to filch from the pockets of the public a succeesion of $50,000,000 handfuls for al muddled scheme of loose-end, blind-alley highway construction, de- to eupply fat jobs for the favored, are still fresh in every- memory. . es Moreover the trial which convicted a ‘Tammany leader and a con- tracting company of conspiring to steal $15,000 from the State on the Tuxedo turnpike contract, together with the abundant evidence @fleted by up-State farmers to Commissioner Osborne, has opened taxpayers’ eyes to the sort of roads they actually got for their money. » Rotten sandstone filling dumped on top of stumps and brush; half-broken stone mixed with boulders; three-quarter inch veneer of concrefe varnished over wornout roads; surfaces full of humps and rachbollows, with ends of brush sticking through—this is the kind of road ,,,on which the State has been made to lavish its money. ' Inno department have taxpayers been so shamefully gouged. No tment needs closer scrutiny. ns Assemblyman Sulzer jsembling mostly by bimself, — 3 ¢ THE HIGH PRICE PER PLATE. WAS about time for somebody to register a protest agalnat the rising cost of public dining in this town. When Dudley Field Malone, Collector of the Port, declines & proposed dinner to himself, giving as a reason “the strain on private >» of vcitisens due to innumerable banquets,” he shows excced- ipg good sense. ‘The price per plate of public dinners hereabouts has come to be ous consideration for thousands of men who feel themselves, from or duty, bound to attend. ‘Time was when two dollars was thought an’ample fee for one these’ public gatherings. Three dollars meant an extra swell ir. Nowadays it’s a rare invitation card that docsn’t brazenly call five dollare, and there are sure to be extras for wine, and a collec- | taken up for the waiters. ... If it ia becoming a fixed notion that the only way to get together iid do honor to-a public official is to put the affair in the hands of hotel man for his personal advertisement and profit, then some Ought to set an example in the other direction by hiring chairs in miall hall and serving a counter lunch, —— a od Seven wills and no estate. Wouldn't a lawyer weep! ———-42——__—__—_— ALAS, POOR HIRAM! REVOLUTION has been going on in this country, we hear—a revolution bloodless but grave. The hired man no longer eats with the family! “"" yrs, J, Borden Harriman, of the Industrial Relations Commis- en, claims that class feeling has so altered the status of the ten a a million farm laborers in the land that the faithful Hiram no longer eenfidently pushes his plate for a third helping of beans across the family board, but ignominiously takes his victuals in the woodshed. If true, this is a calamity. The honest hired man who shared they tunes of the farmer and became, for better or worse, a member of /* the family circle was long one of the good old standbys of American life. Story tellers made much of him. He was a real “type”—a na- asset. What has happened to him? Are the farmer's wife and daugh- ; more stuck up than they used to be? Or has Hiram developed & locse-footed, roving disposition and forgotten his old habits of +: Want to talk te the New York Telephone Company? The “ia Ue fo net vo busy as it was. he Day’s Good Stories Not in the Orders. 1M'A boss seat him up on the roof to paint it, ‘That mas early iv the morning, ‘toward nightfall the bose clambered up the ladder (o whether his workmen had flowm away or deen the birds, ‘There was Jim sitting ou the e house singing, Jany piece, what you bee doing!” Nuttin’, ‘Didn't | end you wp here to paint the rot?" “Whee else did you dot” “1 weut to aleep,” “Why didn't you come down if you had finiebedt” "Deed, bow, rou fe’ maid paint de root eid nuffin’ "bout comin’ down,” SUPFRAGE mesiing was drawing to 0 E f E i and the meeting was throws open to quo fone by the audience, Wald the presiding vfficer; "Now, is there aus onan here who would like to ask » question? i Er i i t all about any phase of the whm- tt if 7 moments there was ollevce, Then & and ashed: “May I ask any ques | to ask?’ *- aid the woman, “I'd lke to bow get thet emooth effect over sour bipe,'= if ishing Company, Noa. 53 te Matter, Continent and a The Evening World Daily I'VE BEEN STABBED WITH ABOo NEEDLE. WIFEY ‘VE BEEN BMBseo WITH A RGAIN NEEDLE _ 1 DIDN'T IRN I WAS DOING, JOHN % agatine. “Thur ze 1 COULDN'T. WAKE UP, BOSS, I'VE BEEN e Be N STABBED SNOOZING NEEDLE WHY 01D You MARRY Tris WQnaN s SHE 1S OLD ENOUGH BE Your, OW WHAT x iy Gi SY day (‘VE BEEN STABBED WITHA GET_RICH -QUICR NEEDLE SHE STABBED NE WITH A Consriat, 1014, by. The Proms Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘ sight on earth {s that of your dear old husband's face HE saddes: | when he discovers that he has got to let his belt out asother noteh, / Flirtation is an imaginary line between the first mecting and the @ret kiss; love, between the first kise and the first gas bill. Philanthropist: A rich old man who marries @ pretty young girl for other inen to flirt with. Nowad # many a man remains single because he can't be a rich gir’ darling, and he won't be a poor gtri cash register. . Y You can't judge of a man's taste in women by the kind he marries, because the moment he marries one kind he immediately develops @ violent taste for the other kind. A man doesn’t really lose all his sentiment as he grows older; it “THE CHICKEN Must HAVE BEEN STABBED WITH A NEEDLE IN THE COLD STORAGE Box — sir a | ve BEEN STABBED WITH A PockeT NEEDLE. AND ALL PocKETS ebecesseooooooons cesonccoooooooese cosceoeoooooo+ses merely gets smothered under a weight of care, money, egotism or embon- point, Nowadays a man offers a girl n kiss after dinner as he offers her a cigarette, merely out of courtesy and because he thinks she expects {t j It is {mportant for an engaged couple to discover all one another's faults and weaknesses before marrying—but not half so important as it is that they should forget them afterward. A flirt is so busy overworking his heart that his brain is apt to run dry and his conscience to become paralyzed for want of exercise. Romances of Models, & 4 =©6By Famous Artists Copyitaht, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), C. D. WILLIAMS and the Psyche Girl. rfect Grecian beauty,” began Mr. C. D. Willy, artist, in relating the romance of one of hil nd because she always wore her glorious golden ‘eat Psyche knot, low at the back of her head, called her ‘Miss Pishnot.’ {Miss Pishnot was a most active and ambitious youag person, During the five-minute rests between posing sha practised stenography on a dummy typewriter drawn on paper. And sometim tudied from books + Which she carried wit be! ed in utilising odd moments, which most of us te in dreaming. ‘Miss Pishnot was not satisfied with her earnings from posing, #0 she in- vented a way in which to augment them. She became an agent for several artists who were too busy to hawk theif work about to editors and publishers, and for every drawing she disposed of she received a commission of 20 per cent. “One day TU intrusted Miss Pishnot with a valuable past size to carry under her arm, and wai that the drawing should not be blurred “she set forth determined to leave it with a buyer. And all went well until she reached Twenty-third street and Broadway, While she was waiting for a crosstown car 9 sudden gale blew around the Flatiron Building and fairly took which was of loosely wrapped ia chase, The spcechen liad all been male) A hesitate to ask amy quesiion you'd like, tor . yuestion wo Copyright, 1914, by The Press Mublishing Co. (The New fork Brveuing World), 66 ¥ ne Clancy and I'm M pleused to meet youse,” sald the detective, genially regard- {ng all prewent at Mra, Jarr's tango party to the Missen Cacklebarry of Philadelphia. aii I gotta say Is that whil am if any rough-ne r gorilla or tough hick butts In, be he he may or what he may,” and the a tive waved his cigar oratorically, “I'll push him in the mush!" “How heroic! How superb!" mur- mured Mra, Stryver as Mra, Jarr passed @round the last of the spiked punch, He laa Dreamer who would Dare, For T could leave the Doll's Ho ‘Oh, Oh, You Great Big Beautiful Doll: chanted young Mr. Herbert Tynnefoyle. Mrs, Stryver reached over and cracked him sharply with her fan. “T may be beautiful, but I am not big!" he declared, “Don't hurt the little feller, lady," Hits Pian Sharp Wits. Burglary insurance rates_raised in New York, People soon will be in a quandar, whether to Insure or permit the burglara to do their worst, Chit hiner “there are 9,000 feeble-minded per- sons in New York,” an exchange | of that We supect that some one @ired of his job be- count,—Philadelphia Inquirer. eee The Dinner brother of ihe anaant is ‘ango Tes, eee A wife who laughs at all her hus- band's stale jokes is more to be de sired than one who laughs at his efforts to please her, eee Californian in New York w robbed a second tine while chasing the jman who had stolen his watch, No the bigxer SS rill % cud the detect! Wood alcohol and let bygones be by- 38088 “Blot up the pink ;gones, As for this-tittle lady,” and the detective patted the cheek of that fair “Safety First!” And What That Sign Should Mean. By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), N all slides in the congested sec- regulations that should be observed by O tone is the ory fon signe of | ALL pedestrians, “gafety Firat Many of us go along every day busy with our thoughts, and allow safety of self to become a SECONDARY consid- eration, In fact, we do not think of r and exercise only a subcon- supervision of our ste; So that we ere often surprised when even a slow-moving vehicle ta almost upon us, The following are the Eno traffic rules for pedestrians that have Statietioe for the past year show that nearly five hundred: deaths oc- curred and @ much larger num- ber of persons were injured and maimed by hurry- ing vehicles on the “Pedestrians ence with traffl {ted pereone are hould avoid interfer- advocating = muni- cipal bureaus, &c. Mr. Mitchell May, Secretary of State, is endeavoring to adjust the State laws to meet the con- ditions, Mra, Willlam Grant Brown of the Federation of Women's Clubs heads a noble set of women whose aim is in the direction of saving the children. Yet, while all these forces mak- ing for future proper speed | a against reckl driving, &e., it is up to you and me to take heed of a few Great Masterpieces of Ar 22—ATALANTA’S RACE.—By Poynter. (Owned by Lord Wharncliffe, England.) (Sir Kdward J, Poynter, Hnalisb, 1836,) Preferably at a regular crossing at the end of a block, and where a traffic po- liceman is stationed wait for his sign: “Stand on the sidewalk or close to the track when waiting for a ci, “Face the front of a car when alight- ing from it and observe the traffic on the right before movi to the sid walk, and !f crossing behind It observe the traffic in both directions." jwonder the women were allowed to vote out there.«Macon Telegravh, oe Now that Princess Loulse of Belgium has been sued for @ corset bill she is ready to go on the American vaudeville qiage.— Stil waukeo Wentinel, ‘Becretary Houston ts able to do as much for the potato growers of this ‘country by ® quarantine as the Repud- Mcgns were by .tariff.—Fiorida Union rolled a golden apple, @he stopped] Hall, to pick it up, caught her rival age. and ae she overtook him, behold, anothe apple tempted her, Again she was lef behind, buf rapidly drew up on her wil; suitor, when @ third golden treasur: made her pause and lose the race. ‘The picture is one of @ series of fou chosen from poetical subjects, and wi: painted as a decoration for the biliiar ft Lord Wharncliffe at Wortley England. Coprnuht, 114, by iblis Co, By Randolph Colclough Wilson. TALANTA declared that he who A woukl win her must beat her in ® footrace Hippomenes meade the venture. He provided himself with three golden apples, An Atalsinta drew ahead out ind to this end should, . .A Gallant of the Green Lights Enlivens the Jarrs’ Humble Home SPOSSOOS SSO DOSIITISSSIOSISTODVIIOD matron, Clara Mudridge-Smith, “she is some cutey, believe me. ‘Of course you know," hi the fourth @lass of punch b to ex- ercise its insidious influence, “I'm only butting in here. Youse could trun me out and I couldn't peep. Why, if I was to blackjack one of youse gente youse could go before the Comish and T’d get the bawling out of me ilfe and Maybe fined thirty days’ pay. That's what a police officer bas to put up with in tl discharge of his duty, And you're expected to live on your pay, with a little pickings here and there from for- tune-teHer or sid viol , OF YOU get slipped an oc note by a movie show manager, “But the police business ts a piker's @ to what it used to be. And that's why I tell you plainly, friends, youre could trun me out and [ ain't got a comeback, Policemen? Why, we ain't Policemen any more. carriage vent on, ae ‘burst into andon of grief tried Idge-Smith and chok. ingly remarked, “Be good to me, folk “I don't want to stir up no trouble, said John W. Rangle, “but I'll be one of a committee of three to throw out that bull in plain clothes—and at that I'll bet he ain't @ real detectite!” man means it all And, then, my wife | tion. In fi And I'm rather, proud of her be'n, untversaily admire" jut if anybody here ‘a going to pet the good-loo!:ing dames present, let It be those of our own set, In matters of admiration { think ‘OM Lang Syne is sature's first law,’ so to speak: said Sir John W. Rangle. “Now, don't create a scene!” inter- posed Mra, Rangl m pure th tleman means to be most respectful!’ “Of course he does!” chimed !n all the tadies, “But where do 1 the deputy sheriff, 1 “Who took the boa should worry!" remarked Mr. Jack iver, @ayly. "I've had the use of It, sot @ mortgage on it, and it's Insured ipalnst thet ‘ome on! We're losing 1 lot of valuable time here when we night be — Mr. Pinkfin rance at the p! \hiff of ammonia 19 left off playing “You You When I Didn't Want to Do It, I Mdn't Want to Do Tt,” and all began > dance again, when a perfect bedi ! cetting-pounting and steampipe ham- 1ering arose from all over the neigh- oring flats, ‘Hey, youse!"? cried the guest-detec- ‘eup the dumbwaiter to the protestors, my Tom Geoghegan, fiattie in this wreoinet, and (f youse don't quit that noise etuff I'U pinch youse all for dis- orderly conduct!" jt off? inquired whining tones, ho had fallen in a Mies Pishnot off her feet. cars, pedestrians and th “A young man who was destroyed, we must all count upon and advised and I suspected that in those days pay-off her obligation, court her in true romantic fashion. sight. “When their engi lowed her flance to both was a void debt. many miles around.” and returned it to the bewildered Miss Pishnot. “In the meantime the young gallant (member of one of the 1 mobile concerns in America) who had come to her ua her predicament she had confided her name and address began to visit her and “Some time ago I had dinner with the ha oh the Hudeon, where, by means of her hi energetic girl 1s bringing sweetness and light into the homes of the poor for At the same moment sho lost her grip on-my pastel. In vain she tried to rescue her packare from collision with lamp-posts, trolley n automoblie pursued the runaway picture But, alas! its pristine beauty It was torn and blurred and altogether worthless, “In terrified tones over the telephone Miss Pishnot told me of the mishap, crying and saying that she was afraid to come to the studio and imploring me to let her pay off the value of my picture by posing. “I assured her that the accident was like any item of profit and loss which her to come to the studio as usual, How- ever, she seemed to be worrying herself sick as to how she could make good; she was denying herself food in order to gent auto- stance and to whom in For his had been a case of love at first ment was announced, not long after, Miss Pishnot lal- for the lost picture, which I tr to persuade them y pair at their magnificent estate band’s wealth, the beautiful and Copyright, 1914, The “ Lady Killer.” DDIE MAGBE, better known E “Red” Magee, posed to be self-inflicted. Orleans with Thatcher, Primrose had a little argument as to the merit Magee's “killing” qualities, i attitude, and Magee ee) Was the real Brummel That bouquet with a |i and arranged to hi him over the footligh: Barney Fagan of the compa: wise” to the arrangement end the leader of the orchestra. forward and, with a sraceful ripped off the original card and er member of the com t, The flowers were to the leader, who in turn them over the footlights, wher Magee was not one of the eix. which Magee replied: who was a well- known song and dance man with . | minstrel shows sot It was during an engagement in New West's Minstrels in the late eighties that Magee and Tom Haley, both now dead, When the flowers were produced Fagan stepped bow, acknowledged the gift and handed them to a waiting stage hand, who quickly re- it with one having the namo of hi that night six different minstrels re- ceived that same bunch of flowers. But wt Anecdotes of the Old-Time Actors By Edw. Le Roy Rice. Author of “Monarchs of Minsirelsy, from Daddy Rice to Date," ele. by The Press V'ublishing Co, (The New York Evening Wi ! ll, that settles 1t between me and ag(that dame. Fifty bouquets for Fagan and the others, und not even a bud for me. I'm through,” And poor “Red” never knew that he was the victim of » hoax. Jerry Cohan Wrote This. T'S pretty clone to forty y | George M. Cohan's wrots this aong for Harper and Stanafil, the famous one lane song and dance team, poth wince deceaned. It was ( of | Girl That ‘Took My Hye,” Pate tent, but Haley assumed a “show - forthwith ments to prove to Haley Beau As I was walking down the street the other afternoon, Lit my cigar, put on my kids Ip trent of @ saloon, A vision floated past my sight: which d the dust to fly. ” the prettiest girl I e je girl that took my e: CHORUS. 8he 5.22, fair coreaw, T do@eclare (break), queer whenever T am near ¥ little girl that took my eye, IT watched her as she crossed the etrest; my heart was all aflame. She quickly waved her handkerchief; of F course I aie the szme, in & moment ‘as at her aide, pardon, mis' id I, oa “If Tam bold, pray you tools my . Chorus, T asked her if she would be mi: stood by the door Wy Ghe sald she'd no nite, chi me #0; but thes After the performance the entire com- pany started “Joshing” him about his| \,, being neglected by hie lady friend, to aiff do Tn { eiuee! introduce t¢ girl that took my eve, ° Cae