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'. Treasurer, 63 Park Ro Jr., Secretary, 63 Park ‘@t Post-Office a: New Tork a0 Beeond -Ciase Matter, Rai ‘and the Con “Eventing World Dally Magazine? Saturday? Jan ; | Ae to Phases of Feminine Love. WY how: the matter with matrimony any- | defiant attitude by The! ing World's fight for fair telephone York Telephone Company | nascertainable.” repeated efforts at postponement | @t last filed with the Public Commission data which show that its Feturns from business in this city amounted | evasion, it bi year, after all deductions, to $10,635,271. e “Abé precoding year. |. Tee company is reported to be seriously con-| sidering the wisdom of voluntarily bringing down | “all ftw rates to o permanent basis rather than | victims how?" demanded the Bachelor with a shudder, as he flung down his hat and Rloves. “It's enough to frighten a poor bach- clor into a monastery to hear of all this divorcing | and giving of alimony!” inquired the Optimist sympathetically, down her embroidery frame. “Not—er—not to-day,” acknowledged the Bach- ;élor, “It wouldn't have been propitious. got ‘that tired feeling’! “True love,” remarked the Optimist cheerfully, resuming her embroidery and carefully taking a etitch in an impossible pink orchid, “muat run its course! And yours looks as though it had about reached the second phase.” “Really?” mocked the Bachelor. “llow many Net phases--er—how many kinds of lové are there?” Pavenue showed an increase of some $500,000 over | “There is only ONE kind of real love—and fifty- seven varieties of imitations,” returned the Op- timiat calmly, “But there are three piases of every love affair. Tho lov pass through of thease sooner or later whether its married or not. Like any other dis- (@zatinue to resist public demand until the Pub-|°#e, It must take its course.” Me Bervice Commission has appraised its physical Phere are powerful influences that might help ) the company to cee light in this direction. The | eck of the New York Telephone Company is | @@med by the American Telephone and Tele Company. | Perhaps the parent corporation. will see little "eee fn a protracted investigation, likely to reveal thé way in which enormous profits gained from | York patrons have been spent, not to give, > hese patrons cheaper telephone service but to 7 monopolies and schemes of expansion in $ outside of New York. “Mr. Bryan waate to go to the Senate. ‘Wall, it’s the most comfortable club in Amer- ‘fon and members are rarcly suspended for talking out loud, THE MAN OF INFLUENCE. which points to the indictment of James E. Gaffney, “man of great influ- @ace” in Tammany, discloses a pathway of . graft that leads from a firm of Pitts- contractors straight to the door of. the) tion conducted by The World supplied Grand Jurf with a graphic account of the the Catskill Aqueduct system. From the when James W. Patterson conferred with W and found the latter's “expert advice” cost him & per cent. of the coveted con- to the moment when the $41,360, after alip- bank account to bank account, left the of stakeholder James G. Shaw for the of somebody whose name Mr. Shaw is his brains to remember, the Tammany Mes over it all. “make connections” with Tammany Hall, big and small sought Gaffney. To with the inner facts of how Tammany Aqueduct contracts and ‘“divvied"” the swag its “big influences,” the State, too, begins it on James EB. Gaffn wtoere yee rt ‘Miss Civic Pride on top of the Municipal is beginning to wonder if she lit the wrong perch. ay IF WE GET HIM. BNEW YORK gots Col, George W. Goethals iter Police Commissioner it will have at the of its 10,000 guardians a man thoroughly to responsibility, trained to organize MiG Bandle men, 8 man unused to dictation, who iB witerly outgrown the habit of looking to ly for orders. It will have a man free from “Humph!" commented the Bachelor. noticed them. It all seemed sunt one craze—to me. And then camo the finin | “Then you've nover been REALLY in love—yet," explained the Optimist. “That,” and she smiled up at hint sweetly, “is still In store for you. Whe Bachelor groaned softly and lit a cigarette. “Toll me about the three ‘phases',” he pleaded. “I want to know my fate.” “The firat,” announced the Optimist lightly, “is that stage in which the man makes u fool of him- HAT'S easy!" acoffed the Bachelor. “L never ad third”. thoughtfully, bs on!" urged the Bachelor eagerly. j that stage in which one of them makes a fool of the other!” she finished. of them? Which one?" demanded the vhelor suspiciously, “It all depends,” said the Optimist mysteriously, “on which of them ‘wakes up' firat. In the begin- ning of a love-affair, you know, nan is all devo- tion and eagerness and a woman is doubt and coyness, Everything she docs seems it to him; everything wears is beautiful ‘ything she says in brilliant, or ‘cute,’ or clever. He can't get enough of her society. He calls too early, and has to be KENT home, and"—-~ \ “In short, he ma @ fool of himself—and she heipa him along,” suggested the Bachelor bitterly. “tut that heavenly condition of things can't last forever," sighed the Optimist. “He in bound to Glucover, sooner or later, that she is not a smined- slas, saint, but justa HUMAN BEING, And this in such a shock to him that, little by little, it turna all bis devotion into criticism. That is the second puase of love.” “What is?” queried the Bachelor. “The stage in which a man stops flattering a woman and begins picking flaws in her,” explained the Optimist; “when he begins to c: ttle late, and go home early; when he sud ly observes that there ARE other women in the world and—oh, you know!" “You, I know!” sighed the Bachelor rcminis- cently, + woman makes a fool of herself. And the 66 ND thet continued the Optimist, “by A some odd quirk in feminine nature the ‘woman suddenly awakens; and for the first time she is actually SURE that she loves the man, she begins weeping or quarrelling or nagging”-—— “Or asking questions!" groaned the Bachelor, ‘DO you love me? ‘DID you love me?’ ‘WIL! you love me forever?" ‘You seem to know a lot about it,” commented the Optimist, stabbing the pink orchid violently through the heart. “Never mind ME!" urged the Bachelor. and live happily forever after?” “Yea,” agreed the Optimist. “They usually DO make it up—and ONE of them lives happily for- over after.” “WHICH one?" persisted the Bachelor desper- The Optimist hesitated and bit a thread ‘The thought of losing him appalls her, and} “Let's| fi wet to the third stage. Do they make it up then,| i with any local political interests, or machine. It will have a man fresh stupendous task, with the authority and that come from tie consciousness of achieve- 3t will have a man of proved character re @ strong man, o modest man—a man fm the country would be proud to count {te public servants. making the man keep bis bands in his end the woman rest hers on her hips, Wp reformers have realized their hearts’ de- we—the Non-Contiguous Tango. ROMANCE IN THE SCHOOLHOUSE, py WONDER why the story writers who make romances about pretty school Qeachers so often take the trouble to ‘thelr readers into the wild West. E@ public wcheo! right here in New York City ® eightycight teachers no less than twenty- pwere elther married or became engaged dur- ately. “That depends,” repeated the Optimist with a cryptic smile, “on whether the woman decides that one kiss of indifference from that particular man ie worth a bundred kisses of devotion from any other man, and resigns herself to her fate—or whether she suddenly concludes that the game ien't worth the candie"—— “and throws him over?’ scoffed the Bachelor. “Oh, no!” protested the Optimist. “And simply embalms her love, puts it away in cold storage and goes right on acting as though nothing had hay . ppened.’ “I gee!” sald the Bachelor, as the light slowly dawned or him. “But how is a fellow to know WHICH"—— “He never does,” sighed the Optimist. “A wom- an’s REAL opinion of a man—that ts the [ternal Question, the Secret of the Sphinx!” tities From Sharp Wits Cp nnnnrrnnnnnnnnnnnnns A Missouri Judge has decided thut the husband echoo! months. fe the boss of the home, but as he is « bachelor ® period of trontytour A bed the poor man didn’t know any betie:.—New Or- lghing annals of this schoolhouse, as et issue grates. jf The Gunday World Magasine tomorro eee : @ testimonial for « flourishing matri-| Dr. Wiley Osrp Siverace Reid pon ana Hones tot are well fed, weeme to overlook t et that merres. Ont of twontrone brides seven the door of divorce is usually the door ce the lob- fied lawyers, six are wives of business met) ster palace—New Orleans States. sfive selected husbands who are themselves ORE ‘Other schoo Americans boast that ¢ @ free people, 205% om with stmtretien, yet tote’ ter are bearing the yolk of the eae x rieans Stat are a pleasant offset to the) 7 cons the Board of Education, which; According to the lingerie advertisements, when @ girl eaye ashe has “nothing to wear" taho her at her Word.—-Macon Telegraph, oe There is an old and very human Bpanish proverb that contends (hat both a guest and a fish aie odorous after three dayer-Macon Telegraph Tt to @ goed rule to believe only half of what you hear, but it takes a emart man to know wile) half fo the right ener~Tepeka Journal, Dor't it up againgt President Wilson that has him warmly, Mr. Wil- fon couldn't help H~Tenehe Journal, Ld fo cheaper than it has been in fifteen XAT “Has somebody been proposing to you-—again?" Jaying I've bet! Nor ELEVATORS FOR. OFFICES 2 “Tho second ia that stage in which the | WHYNOT USE STAIRS q My OFF On END OccuPi DES eiSon space SS ; STEP of TH : Fenty FIFTH ' STAIRWAY i CG i NEW CIVIL. SERVICE RULe When December Marries May ‘By Sophie Irene Lo:b. Coustid t, 14, by The Ura Publishing Co, O80 i Now Korn Wrenlng World) By HME other way a young woman appealed to the courts for a separation from her husband. The marriage had marked an- other union of May and Decem- ber. There was a wide difference in age that could not be breached, Their tastes were ut- terly different, As usual the tale the ‘fa- millar one—youth bartered beauty for old age at the behest of mammon id the penalty was paid. Th woman told how ton though surrdunded with money could bu She claimed t when she wanted to go anywiore she had to go with women frienus, Mer youthful energy found little o* no response, for she was in the heyday of living, while her husband was in life's ning. They did not like the same books, , the same kind of food, the same jcompanions. And so the usual whole wad story was laid bare—the ske! ton in the family closet, ‘This woman had thought money ent expensive could heal all ills, She had believed * replied the nho could buy overything. Yet she] Woman of Thirty, keeping on with loarned that affection, love, true com- pantonship are the things that make life worth while. | It was so since the world began. ;Ono cane of the sort in very, very ‘many will end bappily. jcentage is so small that th ; taken ia indoed AGAINST each party. My dear young woman, {f you are | pontapiating any such thing, look long before you leap. You may ar- | gue Tis betiey to be an old man’ | darling than a young man's slave. | But that Is only in books, ‘The old |man has his fancies and foibles and is naturally not living in the same strata of existence with you. His way of looking must naturally be at yours, While life may seem rosy the beginning anu y nacrifice some thini di test comes it usually happens that 1 ‘carle: ntal thore are the very things that you do lentific name my {not want to sacrifice. 66 IGHT If inquire,” asked the M Average Girl, “why you are rubbing your teeth with a slice of orange?” “To make them white, give them a and you'll have to wear false teeth before you know It,” “Not a bit of it. You are hoplessly behind the times. That is an e: ploded fallacy. The chemists in o of the greatest universitt in ¢ |country, who have been working ‘on the wes of decay of the teeth for come to the con- clusion that the usual methods of cleansing the teeth are not very eMcacious at best and sometimes really harmful. And they are now recommending food acid to preserve and beautify the teeth.” “But | always underatood, led the Girl, “that it was the acid in te that caused the teeth to the scl- dentist used for a jcavity in a tooth when he explained , And thin, assume their |the subject to me, is produced by an utine the test doos come. jacid product formed by fermentation 1s of the old bard who un- lof starches and sugars. acid- derstood » as age: yielding substance adheres the “Crobled Age and Youth enamel of the teeth and is exceed- | Cannot tive togeth | y difficult to dislod inary Youth is full of pleasance; powder only slicks over it. But Age is full of care, weak fruit acid such as orange like summer morn, juice or diluted cider vinegar mover * winter weather; tees Beauty Doctor. Andre Dupont. Copyright, 1914,,by The Press Publiding Co, (The New York Brening World), A BEAUTY FALLACY EXPLODED, And such fruit acids be- aline after they Ww moments in tuo jit at once. come strongly |have been but a mouth. “Dr. Gles of the Department of Chemistry at Columbia recommends using a, solution of one part cider vinegar ‘and two parts water on the teeth twice daily. But you must be careful that this vinegar is made d not adulterated with ly I prefer orange juice, better and it can be used undiluted, The easiest way is to squeeze an orange on the tooth brush and rub this over the teeth two or three times und then rinse the mouth with water. Try it and see if your teeth ever felt cleaner or looked whiter, Raw apples are also a fine preservative for the enamel. It is said that peo; who eat di it ‘afiably hi ‘A good for the teeth?” ‘Don't run away with that idea. My dentist says that the distinction be- tween mineral acids and fruit ack must thoroughly understood, Hy- drochloric acid, which forms the basis of a tooth wash called spirits of salt, | 9, sometimes put up by druggists, will quickly eat away the ewamel of the teeth and cause them to crumble away and decay, Nitric. sulphuric or phos- iow about lemons? to hand the teeth a lemon?” “All fruit acide are helpful. Lemon juice should be diluted with about two-thirds of water, as it is rather strong to use pure, Youth like summer brave, Axe Ite winter bare. Youth ta full of sport; Age's Ife breat COW6 WITH EARRINGS. | Cows in Belgium wei | law requires that wh | 4 2 . [tained the age of three monthe it eha!l hee have in its ear @ ring to which ts at- WIRELESS BOATS NOW. For war purposes both the German wi boats and the British Government jone the movements of which are gov- @ound waves seat through ds ‘de will not be happy if a! Is it proper R 8h Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers A Foolish Pose. I F any girl wants to make herself the subject of ridicule let her openly lan- guish for the at- tentions of a man) who shows that he does not care) for her. The world has created for itself of womanly dignity "an ideal 4 self-respect. A woman falls short of that ideal when she openly assumes the role of the hunter, And that is the role of the girl who makes public the fact that she is more de- voted to a certain young man than he is to her, “J. L." writes: "I have been pay- ing attention to a girl of another race tl We love each other my own, rly, but her parents say that she mai out. 'e are willing to wait for a while, but do you not belle nm pec! turn out happily. “A. 8." writes: “A young man has been calling on me for a year, but though he is perfectly able to do so he has almost never invited me to a dance or to the th young man’ worth cultivating. vine?” him away at once, don't misjudge him, But be A Paragon. By Eugene Geary. HE treads in society's maz With ¢t willowy gra queen; On the links she evo All the rest of the bel conversant with all the names re hallmarks in classica} lore— | Bocrat ‘The stagirite grim—and some more, She paints with precision and skill; Her brush lights the virginal poy She has also been known To ait still on her throne, As a queen on the amateur stage, hid oh, ‘tis ie -mauslo divine For this more thas uncommon % may be happy together iy juch @ marriage as you propose has ment of risk, but it may 's acquaintance ts not What do you ad- If you really feel that the young man is of a stingy disposition, and it you wish to stop knowing him, send eure you In putting the ball o'er the green. ovrttaht, 114. by ‘The, Prem Publishing Or, ‘ s Wine New York Evening } = 667PTAKE It from me,” remarked the head pol- T her, “that all my ambitions t into the contracting business and mal of money have been smothered by the revent Grand Jury revelations.” “It begins to look,” said the laundry man, “as though the end of the old system of contract let- ting is in sight. Doubtless before the Grand Jury gets through it will be established that the con- tractors on the Catskill water Ba Canal and the Ftate ron other big meunicipal and State jobs hav following the custom of contractors in vogue ever since the remarkable development of the country opened the way to immense expenditures for public works, That custom was to look over the ground before submitting a bid, with the object of locat- ing the party with the proper pull. “This has been as necessary as the employ- ment of engineers to make the preliminary sur- veys or the assembling of a plant to complete the job. Contractors thought no more of paying | for ‘influence’ than they thought of paying for ; equipment or labor. It was considered a part of wisdom to-scout around in advance, find out about [how much it was going to cost to land the job | and add the prospective expense to the bid. When | it was possi to do this the contractor, of course, worked on velvet, the public paying the influence money. “The system applied not only on public works but on contracts for great corporations, Always there was somebody with his hand out. Almost rested the contractor who came across got the job. “Did the other contractors know it? Cer- tainly, but they wouldn't squeal. The game was | Played according to certain rules, and it was one of the rules for every man to do the best he could | for himeelf. Sometimes—often, in fact—contract- ors (who put in low bids and found themselves | left out in the cold by a contractor with a much higher bid who had represented to the right per- | son) emitted mighty roars and by threats and by | other methods succeeded in declaring themselves {in on the ultimate profits. |. “The syatem pyramided on itself until it got | topheavy, Then it was a question of who should | ive the first push. Now all the contractors who | have given up are consulting their lawyers, and their lawyers are advising them to hold conver= (sation with one Charles 8. Whitman, District At- torney. Not a day gocs by that doesn't bring to light a contract scandal somewhere in the United States, It is New York's turn now, and the dying | Squawks of the goose that laid the golden eggs jcome faintly to the listening ear.” | } Girls Combi } 66 HAT do you think about the girl stenog- raphers, bookkeepers and accountants who are starting a union?” asked the head polisher, | “I think it's the wisest thing they ever dtd," | Feplied the laundry man, “If they can overcome | the snobbishness than attends clerical work, the false pride that animates a poorly paid desk toller who thinks himself better than the grimy mechanie getting twice or thrice his pay, they ought to give themselves a great boost. | “Many attcmpts have been made to organise jfiale office Workers, and they have all fallen | through because of snobbishness. Now that the girls are such an important factor in business life, | perhaps they can make a go of a union, | “The girls undoubtedly know that they have ; been largely responsible for bringing about the low wages of which they complain. They will work for smaller pay than men can afford to take, | It will be well for the organizers of the union to think about this and to discourage incompetents and promote skill and efficiency among their own | members, With thousands of unemployed clerke | and bookkeepers willing to go to work for $50 a month the legion of office workers has a big prob- lem to overcome and the problem has two sides.” 3 The Gaff in Gaffney. i ey this John M, Murphy who is figuring #9 prominently these days in Grand Jury ch any relation of Charles I°.?" asked the head polisher, “None whatever,” replied the laundry man. “He's the guy that's putting the gaff in Gaffney.” A “Go-to-Church Sunday.” HE call issued by Chicago religious bodies T for a general observance of a, “go-to- Church Sunday” has brought favorable re- sponses from clergymen of every creed all over the United Stetes and Canada, Every city and town between the Atlantic and the Pacific and Hudson's Bay and Mexico has been asked through the prese to join in the movement, and, while the observ- ance is likely to be far from general, it is probable tbat many people will go to church on that day who have not attended in months, or years—pro- vided the weather is favorable, If all the people of the United States should accept the invitation to attend these religious ser- vices the churches would be utterly inadequate, The total seating capacity of churches and syna-* gogues in the United States, according to the latest available statistics, is 68,536,830, which leaves about two-fifths of the population unpre- vided for, Letters From the People Chances in West or South? 1 the Blitor of Tho Bening Wand ‘We would lik ask the advice of experl- enced readers about the chances for two young men, twenty and twenty-one, respectively, leav- ing New York City to emigrate to some Western or Southern State. We have plenty of ambition‘in us, and would go through any kind of hardships to make good, We would also like to know what State would be best to start in, Others may be interested in thi T To the Raitor of The Evening World Which is correct—"“It is I who ‘give’ you money” or “It is I who ‘gives’ you money.” L, A ggestion. “ ‘To the Rall or of The Exening World f In a recent editorial you egy: “Five Thousand ‘Trainmen—practically every employee of the Del. aware and Hudson Railroad—were called out on Ak lere Is my suggestion to remedy this condi tion: Compel all employees of public utilities hold on the ‘same terms as soldiers, sailors, policemen and firemen, ED, To the Baitor of The Evening World : IT am eighteen and intend to enter the field of art for my future. As I have never associated with practical artists, I do not know whether. it ia @ paying profession. I have hardly received a@ny encouragement, people saying that artiste atarve, eto. but I have talent and I Jike art very much. Before I become 1 would lke to hear the truth from practical Posten emeng your neater, “ a