The evening world. Newspaper, January 31, 1914, Page 8

‘ ESTABLISHED BY JOsBPIE PULITZER, * ‘Puri! Exe) dey by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. Hamed Dally Macept Busey, WY stow Axew Fork, J. ANGUS AW, abate * sot PULITAER,' J -tlasemechcieretn Anca emntntatahionl ORI Fniered at the Post-Ofti Now York an Second-Clanx Matter, pion Mates xe Tie venting] Por england end the Continent and tu ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International and Canada. Poatal Uniot ! | I | 63 10 | ident, 63 Mar« Tow, Park Tow, 38.50) One Your. Ome Year. One Mon' i TRY THE NEW WAY. VEE New York City police bills introduced in the Legislature F at Albany yesterday aim to provide for more rapid promotion on merit and to put discipline completely into the hands of 3 the Police Uummissioner without review by the courta. Mayor Mitchel and Gov. Glynn both declare themeelves eager {o ) > @teure the passage of these bills, particularly if thereby the force oN aad authority of Col. Goethals can be brought into executive action . im New York. The Mayor believes that with the final power of removal and - Giamissal, a Commissioner like Col. Goethals can put an end once and for all to the so-called “System” in the Police Department. The timorous are fearful of what might*happen if a poor Mayor should appoint a bad Commissioner. Well, which is safer? Because the Police Commissioner may be bad, to hobble brim with checks and restraints that give a “System” the chance to walk around and over him, or ‘ To give him a firm grip on the police and then put it equarely up to the city to say whether any but a first-rate Mayor and a strong . Police Commissioner are to be thought of for their reepectite jobs? We've tried the w vk way. Soe cena SY ‘Why not keep the wireless going in fogs? Vessels always know approxtmately their own positions. Mightn't a periodic flash of name, latitude and longitude be an adjunct to safety? ——————_-¢2—____. IMPORTED WEATHER. W YORK has had regular London weather this week. “""" It wasn’t the fog alone—though thet was one of the thickest ever in these parts, and made night centres like Times and Columbus Circle, with electric signe and cafes flaring Mhrough the murk and street lanfps looming up like midsummer GIR » ‘The temperature, too, has been like that of London winter—not “cold, but with a dreary chill, particularly after sundown. For days ‘sleo the streets and sidewalks of New York were covered with the ‘film of slippery bisck slime so familiar to the Londoner and which, fact, takes the place of snow in the British capital. a ~ It has been ¢ taste of the real English article, and New York is sful thet it rerely gete more than a brief sample of the same. plein of our extremes of heat and cold, our treacherous jumps me rope of the ihermoreter, but at lesst‘we usually know by noon wher the sun is shining or the eky is blue, and we don’t shuffle jound all winter on a glaze of greasy mud. —_——— Fire Commissioner Adameon is going to appoint women | Smavectors in the Fire Prevention Bureau. We wonder bow Boon they'll have the heart to move the pantry off the fire i INSIDE A VOLCANO. FEW WEEKS ago an American newspaper man slid down the a throat of Vesuvius and etuck around until he had taken in v= the scenery and filled up his moving picture machine. Ac- ig to reports, Vesuvius was considerably upeet and hes been rum- eg and threatening to explode ever since. " Mr. Burlingham’s descent (as he describes it himself in ‘The Sun- World Magazine to-morrow) through an inferno of swirling smoke acid fumes, where the slightest shift of wind meant covering nose meuth with thick cloths and lying on the ground until the air its changed, is a more thrillingly intimate picture of the inside volcano than anybody has yet come back to tell about, tally, people euffering from bronchitis will note thet his the sulphurous fumes completely cured the explorer of an of the disease and “brought « healthy pink flush to his ” The crater cure is recommended. —-—-—<+. Gaftuey is @ bard name to remember unless you're not > thinking. i m me wy Pry! tiquity. Even as in his Richepin has ventions, rel u rand ness Paris, @o 11 sald: PA graceful, Jong ago, which the ‘All are the ancient Tango Defended By an Immortal RGENTINE’S most celebrated export, the tango, which has been frowned upon by so many eminent men, has also found friends in high places. One of these is Jean Richepin, one of the forty “Immortals” of the Academie Fran- caiee and famous the world over as poet, novelist and dramatist. Richepin, in an address before the five academies of the institute, eulo- gised the tango in no mild terms and traced its origin to remotest an He declared that it is ti highest form of expression of thi rhythmic movement which all the world calls the dance. Uterary jed all moral, an written with a bold- it has at times shocked even jefending the tango he WE CAN'T OANCE THe work M. the con- ‘Ny dances of ralists would like to seo to-day, all had an lowly ef rials as the tango. All had rustic jigs invented by country bumpkina, even the suave minuct, which was first a the charting ly rhymed ith the click by jig in LdeNegd Bnd nclenag wotte, which original- ‘wooden shoes worn by the peasant of Brittany.” or only adopted on that Ld the majority of 8B. oa.” teat tit than any doll An Egyptologist feria: At what Revolutionary battle aia | Batra. Col. Marshall fight with especial Hestieg en ant WH enpecial dis do the wren 2 M. M. Wants to Be a Detective, To the Kditor of The)Kovening World: I am a young man and think. nD detective ‘work. of ta chances and what preparating "| ie best? W. point she is Nev. 26, de ME EMA Hastagring| +s ten on! Day, 1848, fall MAC. UNCLE OAM's OHaEP, tang ctr Lillian says strong women, and physically, ory more beau- wifo, somebody is getting stout.—Tuledo Blade. id Jim already engaged. Come awa: THEY WERE Gooo For Sone THING AFTER Au — b) ©, PIFFLE ANGO Some Historic Word Pictures Examples of Descriptive Power by Great Authors No. 2.—BEFORE THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO. From Thackeray's “ Vanity Fair.” SBORNE meanwhile, wild with elation, went off to a play table and began to bet frantically. He won repeatedly. “Everything seems QO with me to-night,” be sald. But his luck at play even did not cure him of his restlessness, and he started up after a while, | pocketing his winnings, and went off to a buffet, where he drauk off many bumpers of wine. ‘ Here he was rattling away to the people around, laughing loudly and! wild with spirits, Dobbin found him. Dobbin wont up and ‘whiapored | something to bim, at which George, giving a start and a wild hurrah, tossed off his glass, clapped it on the table and walked away speedily on his friend's arm, “The my has paseed the Sambre,” William had said, “and our left Away went George, his nerves quivering with excitement at the news so long looked for, so sudden when it came. What were love and intrigue now? He thought about a thousand things but these in his rapid walk to his quart his past life and future chances; the fate which might be be- fore him; the wife, the child, perhaps from whom unseen he might he about to part. Oh, how he wished that night's work undone and that with u clear conscience at least he might say farewell to the tender and guile- less being by whose love he had set such little store. He had looked into Amelia's bedroom when he entered; she lay quiet and her ¢; weemed closed, and he was glad that she was asleep. On ar- riving at quarters from the ball he had found his regimental servant already making preparations for his departure; the man had understood his signal to be still, and these arrangements were very quickly and silently Hits From Sharp Wits. An Ohio man complains that his wife has left him thirteen times. No details as to the trouble are given, but we suspect that he plays the accordion.—hew Orleans States. ° men- Maybe oe says cures for bald- nese were in use in the days of Cleo- Which is interesting onl; showing how old the fakes Orleans Staten. are,—New une Pkg Pog p ie new uoderexands e only signs of ev io this are in the Republican barty.—New QO leans States, ‘We know a lot of men who always played sure things, who died poor, Nature ls very wise tn all her pro- visions, but it is dificult to see what trying to make when she puts e pair of bowlege, on @ man, Lat those without sin cast the first stone and there will be no windows ‘The only way some men can talk to each other five mnutes without asking each other to have a drink is over the telephone.—New Orleans Picayune. made, @hould he go in and wake Amelia, he thought, leave @ note for her brother to break the news of departure to her? He went in to look at ner once agaif: ’ Bhe had been awake when he first entered the room, but had kept her eyes closed mo that even her wakefulness should not seem to reproach him. But when he had returned—#o soon after herself too—this timid heart had felt more at ease, and turning towards him as he stepped softly out of the room she had fallen into a light sleep. George came in and looked at her again, entering still more softly. By the pale night lamp he could see her sweet pale face; the purple eyelids were fringed and closed, and one round arm, Smooth and white, lay outside the pillow, Good God! how pure shi was, how gentle, how tender, how friendless, and he, how -selfish, brutal, black with crime! Heart stained and shame stricken, he stood at the bed’ foot and looked at the sleeping girl. How dared he! Who was he—to pray for one ao spotiesn? God bless her! God bless her! Ho came to the bedside and looked at the hand, the little soft hand, lying asleep, and he bent over the pillow notselessly towards the gentle pale face. Two fair arms closed tenderly round his neck as he stooped down. “LT am awake, George,” the poor child said with a sob fit to break the little heart that nestled so closely by his own, She was awake, poor soul, and to vgiat? At that moment a bugle from the Place of Arms began sounding clearly and was taken up through the town and, midst the drums of the infantry and the sbrill pipes of the ‘Scotch, the whole city awok All our friends took their share and fought like men in the great field. All day long while the women were praying ten miles away the lines of the dauntiess English infantry were receiving and repelling the furious charge of the French horsemen; guns ih were heard at Brussels were plowing up their ranks, and comrades falling and the resolute survivors closing in. Tewards evening the attack of the French, repeated and resisted so bravely, slackened in ite fury. They had other foes besides the British to engage or were preparing for a final onset, It came at last. The columns of the Imperial Guard marched up the hill of Saint Jean at length and ut once to sweep the English from the height which they had maintained af day, and in apite of unecared by the thunder of the artillery, which hurled death from the English lne, the dark, rolling column pressed on and up the hill, It seemed almost to crest the eminence, when it began to wave und falter. Then it stopped, still facing the shot. Then at last the English whisk H0 enemy had been able to ais- The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, January.31. 1914 Such Is Life! 2% NEED FATHERS FOR OUR. CHILOREN Tar THe SANE Fables of Everyday Folk. By Sophie irene Corte saa New Yor Wroning World) The Dinner Lady. NCE upon a fime there was a lady who loved dinners—other people's dinners, at knew Holmes, je, git. Le She cepted an invitation of any sort unless | In truth, let some} telephone to her to arrange) it was to dinner, ng her and # made somo suggestion about dinner, A quiet evening at home was un- known to her and a caller call except—to take her to should such @ one unexpectedly come, the comment und himaeelf could he have overh later he would have labelled “chair warmer.” ‘This lady knew every in town—enpecially where were written in another She also knew the that mother never made, which always had three figures. he words of the old song, he Wasn't hungry, but t At least the bi Bad to relate, the doi dinner was FORGOTTEN ing after, Of course some people to others, But rather | than lose an invitation to dinner “any old dude would do, ‘Thus it came to pass thi meen often and with varieties. Those who had her began to realize that not so favored with her society, since she was out so much with others, Gradually it dawned on t ‘One or two tried to invite hi this, that or the other th! of dining, but an excuse was always ready. Soon they understood that it was not thelr society she sought ur wished, but rather the joy of ordering the best from the commercial culsine. |". In a word, they in turn pellod to label the dinner lady “tl One by one their invit: ttons ceased, and she wondered why. For the usual fate of the graftor is wrafter. that he cannot live up to commandment, which ja, much—with other | People. In fact, she rarely had dinner home. table talk, and in the words of Dr. ning’s amusment consisted of “gig- gle, gobble, pecial"” dishes, Copyright, 1016, by The Preas Vublishing Co, (The New York Broning World), As to “Woman's Inftnite Variety.” at ( bay was it sang of ‘Woman's infinite variety?” remarked the B olor with a sad, hurt note in his voice, as he and the Widow watching the scintillating, undulating, pirouetting crowd of hued butterfiles at a merry little “the dansant.”+ "There's no such he added bitterly, “all girls look alike to me!” “Perhaps,” suggested the Widow, “the poet who wrote that was only young man at a summer resort. “Not at a MODERN summer resort!” declared the Bachelor shaki head, “nor anywhere else, in these days. Where are all the nice, don | cuddly Kittle things, we used to love and protect, and wait on? |the ‘giggling schoolgiris,* and the ‘blushing debutantes,’ and the ‘coqu and the ‘flirts,’ and the clean, cris) aisted ‘business girls,’ and dreamy ‘poetic girls’ who used to charm us with soft inusic and dim I and the brilliunt, ambitious ‘college girls’ with their low heels and ideals; and—and ALL the ‘nice girls?” ight here, Mr. Weatherby!” asserted the Widow promptly, “this room, is full of them, ont: pe re All ‘Serflies No: uf 66 NLY you can’t tell ‘em from the ‘other kind’ nowadays,” scoffed’ | 7 O the Bachelor. “Time was when women were divided into ‘typea" | J) and a chap had an infinite variety of choice. But to-day every business girl tries to dress like a debutante; and every debutante like @ show-girl; and every show-girl arrays herself like a society queen; and every society woman like an Oriental hourl or a Beardsley poster. They all look alike and talk alike and act alike; and in the medley they have lost all that fascinating individuality which stamped each dear little as a particular types, “Too bad!” sighed the Widow, patting the Bachelor's hand “Of course it was a lot more fun and excitement for you men whén could talk nonsense to a fluffy little thing on Monday evening, and Nie’ or Schopenhauer to a college girl on Tuesday, and LOVE to a show-girl on Wednesday, and”—— “Of course!” assented the Bachelor, shamelessly. “But now we know WHAT to talk to any of them rbout, so we just tango—and nothing.” “In_ short,’ poses, fate di “Well, 1 taken all remarked the Widow, ses and man—just dozes: heir own faults!” grumbled the Bachelor, ice and variety out of the situation” ur own faults!” protested the Widow, vehemently. “Hea! knows WE should like to build up a few of the old illusions that you We are just as nice and simple and sentimental and fo and variegated as we always were; and if we all attempt to appear and cynical and worldly wise; if we all dress like show-girls or Poiret night mares or Beardsley posters, it's because THAT’S the type you men to prefer! ”- “L beg your pardon!” The Bachelor opened his eyes wide in astonish- ment. ce crickets on the hearth you have just described got terribly bored and tired, sitting alone by the fireside, while you were off amusing yourselves with the firefiles and butterflies. The hand that rocked ¢he™ cradle and worked the chafing dish and poured the pink tea found itesi® forgotten and idle while you were off kissing the hand that wore diamonds and admiring the foot that danced the tango. To-morrow, if you men should weary of Birds of Paradise and pretend to admire nuns you'd find every girl wearing black henrietta and counting her beads. But the world is just as full of nice, gentle, lovely, worhanly-girls as it ever was, even thouzk”—— t “Even though they don't look it?" suggested the Bachelor mociin “Even though they all make up for the role of show-girl,” correct vl ‘Widow. “Down in their heart of hearts nine out of ten of them aré pt nice, intrinate little fireside companions, and if you really want to find where the modern woman's ‘infinite variety’ comes in just MARRY of them!” “WHAT! Never!" cried the Bachelor, horrified. “Just marry one of them,” repeated the Widow, “and you'll find her complex combination of moods and tenses and phases and accomplishment and surprises that will make the old-fashioned girl seem as dull to you @ phonograph with only one record, You'll find her a butterfly on Satt eyening and an anchorite on Sunday morning ana a valet on londay a cook on Tuesday and a soul-mate on Wednesday"-—- \ “And a checkmate on Thurs broke in the Bachelor with a satiri chuckle. i “Yes,” assented the Widow, smilingly. “THAT'S what the poct meant! “WHAT'S what he meant?" demanded the Bachelor. “That a husband is only a husband,” explained the Widow triumphanthy “but a good wife is a whole HAREM!” Me in the modern flirtation “If you ba MEAN,” explained the Widow, “that all the dear little varieties Loeb. The Week’s Wash=—~ By Martin Green She dined She ‘usual the ‘Copyright, 1014, &y The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evoning World), ROM what I can learn,” sald of Commissioner McKay or wpa hs or two 66 else Mayor Mitchel m: 10080 at the head of the rfl fe y ing the next eighteen months y her eve- the head polisher, “the Leg- {slature seems to be dinposed to pass the bills b- ‘Everybody kno’ Cat: rt advocated = DY | Goethals becomes “Pollne © Chimie , Mayor Mitchel, | sioner he will be THE Police Com- varely ace which are de- | missioner and will stand for no ing from the City Hall ywhere clae. He was the czar of the Canal Zone and nobody connected with a United States Government had | signed to make Col, Goethals the he always absolute boss of herve to try to interfere with the Police De- “Admitting that Col. partment.” Sees Se the powers of vhat @ the czars who are to might not SB omet bing | hn apou bes canny. AbeUe ings before he comes? That is question that is worryin, They have been told thet fred be given every opportunity to go fore the Le ture and against the bill depriving them. court review, but they. that would be makin, marks themselves by taking any such ac- Hence the conviction those bills,” de- clared the laun- dry man, “Some | of the men in the Police Department |who can see through @ ladder are beginning to suspect that Mayor Mit- chel is a pretty foxy politician, They Payor Mitchel is about to pat are of the opinion that His Honor is Goet Doe pitt and Wak Ge ut to put one over. ment. such as was not contem| You will recall that Col. Goethals, | by the charter and has never 1s letter, sald he would take the |%ercised heretofore,” Police Comminal hip only under certain condition: | ditions restaurant the menus | NEUES. | tion, the cost of In| he said | 8 is what |} 1 told th i The Whisper, Then the Run, nor of the the morn. | € preferred | 66' from the force by decree of the Com- missjoner. The cops have booked on this right of court review as the bulwark of their jobs, “It was generally Aatead that a man of the keen judgm« of 5 Goethals could be trusted with the absolute right to dismiss policemen, Mayor Mitchel got bis bille ready ana sent them up to Albany. They have been introduced and will soon come up for passage. Now, Col. | a Goethals bas accepted the job of Governor of the Canal Zone and hi promised the President that he wi not leave the service of the United States as long as he is needed therein. “There is no _ possibility that Col. Goethals can come to New to be Police*Commisstoner for months or two years. robability that he won't come ai Piappentngs on the Canal Zone m their money out of one of the solidest savings ba town must feel pretty foolish whep | they find they have lost their intere ,"" suggested the head polisher, "Oh, I don't know,” replied the laun- iI syne, went who draw out thelr money have the satisfaction of. pes session. People who have. ace Teer People who are drawing at she was fifty-seven dined with they were hem. to do ing instead n money when they hear a against were cont 66] SER,” suid the head render his retention there imperative “that a great. many polishes, ears to come, fr due the bills’ giving the Police who should know better ‘are more power than is parving fom broken limbs a1 . ying master t “For the ys 6 eleventh