The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1914, Page 14

= i a a 3 The Evenin g World | Shusbe 45 sily Magazi a Wed nesday, F ebruary cha. oven aad ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. biiahing Ce ¥, Now, 63 to ANGU! od sontel mR, Sr, Becret Clase ‘World for the United States All Countries {3 the International and Canada Poa! Year.. Month.... VOLUME 54. sebedocecccsccccvcvcececsNO. 19,160 “LIMITED INQUIRY.” ITH six varieties of investigating resolutions before them, not one of which has been adopted, our Legislators at Al- bany assemble daily in mutual distrust and spend their time toward “expediency.” Organization Democrats are in no mood to investigate anything. Organisation Republicans are ready to investigate the Highways De- partment es far back as the Dix edministration, but refuse to pry into Republican bygones. Highway ecandals are already beyond suppressing. But there is a breathless ecramble to alam cupboard doors tight shut in the Canal and Printing Departments. & “Limited inquiry” is the watchword. 4 Lat ’em ask who stole the cream, but for everybody's sake keep _ . ‘the jam pot out of sight! . . ‘The people of the State of New York have abundant proof that dl they have been swindled, buncoed and betrayed. aa What are they to do to put a stop to it? : Rely on their eo-called representatives st Albany sesembled? , —__+t--- | Go the National Democratic Club hes started the shindy! | ae “I'm boss and I'm going to stay boss,” growle Murphy. i, Be that as it may—the cussing has surely begun. _ A FINE GIFT FINELY GIVEN. A ARELY does anybody hand a gift to the city in the spirit of self-effacing generosity and good-will with which William ‘ Henry Riggs deeds his superb collection of armor to the ' Metropolitan Museum. y Two thousand five hundred rare specimens of erme and armor —_. valued at between eight and ten million dollars, pieces that could not | % be duplicated outside of the royal collections of Europe—in short, the i largest and most important private collection of arms and armor in H the world comes to New York without condition or restriction of ) any sort. : What ie mare, the donor even thoughtfully records his desire 4 : Sees watching each other while committees cautiously feel their way | Such Is Life! #4 1084, Pathhieg Tot Drentes CALL MY. SECRETARY They, A eet Seas that hie collection should not bg kept apart but rather mingled with @uch armor as is already in the museum, to the end that the public may view the whole with all possible ease and profit. And he will @eme to New York from his home in Paris personally to supervise the = arrangement of hie gift to the best advantage. g Coming into possession of two magnificent collections like the ‘Aman peintings and the Riggs armor within six months, New York te fortunate among cities. i Mr. Riggs has devoted the best part of a long lifetime to hie _* @ollection. Though he has lived in Paris since 1854, l.e has never given uf his, American citizenship, and, it is said, insists upon calling Bimeelf “a New York man eojourning in Paris.” New York is proud to claim him ase citizen end glad that it has mot only the generous gift but the living man to thank for it. oe Within a year, we are told, photographs may be trans- mitted by cable across the Atlantic. This ought to interest | ¥ Cupid and the Police about equally. ———=+ = WHEN IS THE HOUSE-WARMING? ie ERE at last is somebody ready to move into the new Municipal Building without a grumble! a Fire Commissioner Adamson asks for quarters and is © modestly willing to rub along with a little over one floor. Fire Head- | © quarters in their present locetion are not even fireproof. The Com- missioner thinks the Fire Prevention Bureau might at least be allowed » to practice what it preaches. “a It is yet to be discovered that the Municipal Building is not fire- proof. But pretty much every other kind of fault has been found with it since the city departments began to straggle in. i Dawdling and delay deferred the completion of this great struc- = ture until it fairly got on the city’s nerves. Mast August should have 2 geen the building finished within and without. Then the public was >| essured that every city department would be snugly settled by Jan. 1. = It iy now February, yet many of the floors aro bare and empty. Tenants already in complain of their cold and cheerless surroundings. Is it nobody’s business to see that the Municipal Building is Finished and made habitable without further nonsense? Surely it is » time taxpayers had a chance to take final stock of it and decide what they have got for their $15,000,000. — ————_-4=—______ The French inventor of styles, M. Poiret, announces that he has designed a new skirt for next spring which should prove particularly popular in America since, without being ait, “it shows off the leg and figure in a discreet and charm- {og manner.” ‘Will the winter never end? es PETE A mart Yet it is on these home folk t! 3 wreaks punishment by crankiness for ‘wife and mother I have s pro- the bothers put upon him by people ich I think every downtown do not care for him and whom he could not hurt if he tried. He hurts the innocent people im instead of those who ify | Suspicion ts that Murphy's WIFE, | mostly of bank By Elsa NY woman whe has been spoon- maple or granu- lated brand of conversation mince the day of - her marriage simply can't @hderstand it if her hubby quite by accident cuts out the mee and talks plain United States. ‘ives who are brought up to be petate-wetsied and wootsied quire the habit in a little while; and you never can break ‘em of it. They expect it for breakfast and dinner. Even when they are out for the eve- ning they are n: rely satisfied un- leas something in the lovey-dovey vein 1s slipped over in an undertone on the subway or elevated. There are women who would frown and become tachenant if they were merely called wifey, who think that Dear Old Fudge is just too sweet for man starts tn with bia little eetheart talk he ought to atick to It. Samples of new goods are not wanted, A bride the honeymoen as Little Chick doesn't want any novelties in expressions of endearment. Once Little Chick, al- ways Little Chick. It was reported recently that a young wife had gone home to mamma thoroughly sick at heart and just as miserable as she couhl be because her husband had omitted to call her his dear little Crook Neck Squash when she met him at the door on bis return from a caucus, ° Honest, he didn't mean to. Hut Se ee Hits From Sharp Wits. Dr. Anna Shaw says women would make better street sweepers than men. She may be right, but the time ‘wasted would be about the same. | Where a man stops to light his pipe. @ woman would consume ag much | time bothering with her, back hair, ‘The Missouri man who advertised for a wife weighing 300 pounds has married a medium-weight widow. There are sober second thoughts in love, as in everything else.—Toledo Blade. ' ee 8 @ Count Bont says he will never marry an American woman again. Let us bape no American woman will ever be tempted to marry Bon!.—Macon Telegraph. ves wrote tte Many repentant husbands can't fig- ure why wey wedding anniver- tootale- ace I WANT To DICTATE Down WITH MEN | RE NOT WORTH . ey Blow A SMOKES “Th ROUGH THE IQ NOSTRILS The Language Twisters Crosby Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publiching Oo, (The Now York Brening World), fed on the real] shia! thei but when he shows ing everyt! be on ber guard. If @ busband in a affection pute his arms ite, ber watch as plain as day, may jure that he is about to Regotiations for some extra for the evening. on to hie curves, nine times out Uniess she’s fully ten she'lj stand for it and aplit fifty. under 1914, by The Pres A wearing a wrist watch. umbrella for a rainy day. vanity, Uke a spring tonic. sary ien't the one, ee ell, |_ Ie It due te the y kinds of uplift why are streams called “she,” we rise inquire? Don't they some- times 'py—Columbia State, prevalence of so : ee et poole. now ‘oom to be map ia air? News. A perfect lady is known by the politeness with which she divorces her lad: husband. Dear me! Just because you don't care to spend your life with a with him, even to the jandkerchiefa in the ind IONS oF aE “:7\ CHELOR @0tee Oo, (The New York man {s no reason you should be rude to him. Nothing bores s man so much as for a weman to give him all her leve —whea be wanted only a little of it. 1 LON “HED ESS Wie Stine co, Fe By-Maurice Ketten - AM FOR THE ABOLITION OF NEN Mother Monologues By Alma Woodward Coprright, Protiehing Brening World). BRIDE never actually realises that she is married until she finds her husband helping bimself to two-thirds of the stcx", ‘hresquar- ters of the wine and aH of her talcum powder. Men are so used to being called “sinners” that if one of them happens to be caught being good he is almost as ashamed as if he had been caught If you find that your husband fen't the eun, moon and stars of your extatence, as your fancy painted—ah, well! you can at least use him as an In order to break a man's apirit you may have to break his heart or his Pocketbook, but in order to break a woman's spirit you've got to break her A change of air and a change of diet are an occasional luxury, but a change of companionship and a new heart-interest are an annual necessity, Love is the most expensive game in all the world; it costs a man his sleep, his appetite, his common sense, his freedom, his pride, his {)lusions— and sometimes his consclence—and it profits him only—e kiss! 26 TANKS, - take your tonic very Bevery you may have one-half of a chocolat IB Here {s the story: |younger, was a bright child of five. dered—supposedly by Boris’s orders. |selzed the Russian cvents, there was Girl Pavea Way to Empire. Poland. and she returned his love. into the venture. with Dmitri at ite head, invaded Rus: of other malcontents joined Dmitri, contested battle of Novgorod. resistance to the invader. an imperial crown. @ royal marriage. into tho Kremlin and murdered Dmitri. jul Czar n-npostor? this word wis an open, roofless for nothing an assistant or partner, of either sex, Your janitor Is as much your help- meet, in a sense, as is your wife, 7 | A ship ts taken into a @ock for repairs, Prisoners on trial weed to stand in « kind of pen that was a dock. But to refer to a wharf or plier as a “dock” is absurd. To say @ man jumped off a dock is as incor- rect as to say he jumped off a cavity. speaks of “gratuitous” .; giving “gratuitous” tl! “unwarranted” o1 Whereas, “gratuitous” means merely “without payment.” A generous law- yer may offer you “gratuitous” legal advice by refusing to accept payment for such advice. But to say he offered fered an insult for which he refused to accept money. HELP.—"Help” means ald or as- sistance. To say “I can't help it" is as senseless as to say “I can't assist “Help” in this phrase has come by common usage to be used for “avoid.” Causes Of Big Wars By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), No. 47—Love at First Sight That Overthrew a Russian Dynasty ECAUSBE a Man of Mystery fell in love at first sight with the daugh+ ter of a Polish magnate, all Russia was swept by a war that knocked one dynasty from the throne and raised up a new Czar, rone. For years Bish alee as Czar. It was he who devised the “serf system” and who first sent prisoners to Siberia. ‘Then, in 1603, appeared in Poland a youth who declared himself tle supposedly murdered Dmitri, eon of Ivan the Terribie, and rightful Csar of Russia. For a time no one seems to have taken him very seriously. At all But at length he chanced to meet a gloriously beautiful Polish girl, Marina Mniczech, daughter of the ay of Sandomir, one of the most powerful nobles. Dmitri entered Moscow in triumph on Jan. 20, 1606. son, Theodore, out of the way, and was crowned Czar of Russia. Thus far his case of “love at first sight” had brought him victory in war and Soon it was to bring him death. Having won the throne, he was expected to strengthen his position by Instead, he sent to Poland for Marina. To Moscow she Marina, oddly enough, was spared—to make more trouble. For a second “Dmitri” appeared, escaped the assassination plot. Marina helped on his pretensions by publicly “recognizing” him as her pre- sumably dead husband. Another war, and the seizure of the crown; and then this second Dmitri, too, was murdered. After him came a third, who met the same fate, To this day historians do not agree as to whether the Orst Dmitri was @ brilliant impostor or really the son of Ivan the Terrible. Words You Use Incorrectly gin.” It m @ man is initiated into ridiculous as to say he society. @ gratuitous insult is to say he of- | dow \ | Ivan the Terrible, Emperor of all the Russias (and first man to use the | Utle of Czar), died in 1686 after a lifetime of shrewd statecraft and atrocious crime. He left two sons. Feodor, the elder, was half witted. Dmitri, the Boris Godunov, an ambitious boyar (noble), made himself master of the empire and riled it in half-witted — ‘Feodor's name. The little Dmitri, according to general belicf, was mut- Soon Feodor died, too, and Boris 4 i no popular uprising in his behalf. he Dmitri at once fell blindly in love with Whether she wheedied her father inte an Qlliance with Dmitri or whether the «rince of Sandomir was ambitious to make his daughter the Czarina of Russia, the old nobleman espoused Dmitri’s cause and used his great influcnce to bring other Polish nobles The King of Poland would give no aid, but the Prince of Sandomir was strong enough to raise an expedition without royal help. A Polish army, . There a horde of Cossacks and a they advanced against Moscow, Deating the imperial troops sent to oppose them, notably at the fiercely While the war was at its height Borin died—by poison, it was rumored, eelf-inflicted through remorse—and his death broke the backbone of the He put Borts’s came, accompanied by a throng of Polish courtiers. And there she was | married to Dmitri and became Czarina. | Under Prince Shuiski (whom Dmitri had foolishly pardoned for @ former conspiracy) the boyars rose against their new Czat and his Polish wife. On May 17, 1606, an anti-Polish riot broke loose in Moscow. Under cover of the general scrimmage a band of conspirators led by Shuiski burst claiming to be the first and to have synonym for “wife” and else. “Helpmeet” ts a old-fashioned term that means INITIATE.—This word means “be-- ne nothing else. To say clety is as “begun” into FEMALE.—Female is the feminine form of male, It defines the female of evel han to cats, dogs or owls, LIE and LAY—These terms are too taken ae each other. You transitive verb and some object. Thus, you an ord as incorrectly given t. famous writers have mai der of misusing sod (Byron, in grand fighter. Yes,! “irELPMEET.—Custom has made! “There let him 4 pla: SS os a eee sé! Favorite Recipes of Famous Women the Jones that’s the i the way | We pity too. in a small is ina isn't what nh, it anyway, Ni . got that shaving from and; shake clear of coupons and he’s very | water, lay in deep vessel, cover with ready. closely and Eb, huh? } iy soo ee Tee ine ferme noc | untit ail i dissolved and then bottle, that Mre. James Taylor Ellyson (Wife of the Lioutenant-Governer of Virginis.) Mint Cordial. BE the tender sprouts of mint, wash them carefully to free good whisky or brandy; cover down let remain twenty-four strain cloth, and to ev add one pint of wi through @ coarse quart of the liquor eugar. well ‘ling. No, you wouldn't. you may go out and ring the elevator bell for mother. Oh, no, just walt a en SS ent to tell Delia something. to Delia! I'm ready now and I want you to take care of Reggie. Make him eat his lunch, but don't for any on hbitm, Delia, heat his milk a little bit and him for bis tonic. him spi! 8 for dinner, and don't let And don't let it om the table cloth, be- cause it makes a stain that won't come out. And we'll have just drawn butter on the and don't put as much vinegar in the sal- ad dressing as you did last night. And, eat the plates. Mr. up on the phone downtown and I'll be eo lumpy. sweetheart. don't short with him, won't have that at ail. Wel, T guess that's ll. say I've gone home to din- ner, and don't put quite so much in the blanc mange. It And be sure, Reggie doesn’t go anywhere near the you mind Delia, be cross or Delia. Remember, I Now I'm what I said about EMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and alwaye epectty MRS. LINCOLN DIXON, (Wife of the Congressman.) Pudding Sauce. O™ half cup of butter, one cup.” of sugar, one scant tablespoon flour dissolved in cold water, « one pint boiling water, beaten ite of an egg, pinch of salt, heer ‘vanilla, B, Flavor with Hopton the collar stands away from thi bands, 15-8 tops 4 inches ‘Call at THE BVENING WORLD MAY MANTON PAaETION GURRAU, Donald Building, 9 West Thirty-sccond street (oppe- $ (ite Giaveel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, 4 New York, er sent by mail on Fecetpt of ten cents in coin oF . : Pasreres. {ume wanted. A464 two conte for letter postage if tn @ hurry.