The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1914, Page 8

MAKE THEM TESTIFY. @m paper have abolished theatre ticket speculation. Bet @ hacn’t covurred to anybody yet to abolish the spee- winter, Mighta’t & be a good idea? From 0 tour of investigation among the principal theatres of the (iy The Brening World yesterday proved conclusively from firet-hard evidence that, despite oll ordinances and alleged managerial regula- ‘tems, the lobbies and doorways of New York’s principal theatres aro infested with “gunners” and touts whose business is to shoulder men ead woenen theatregoere in the direction of the cigar store and cellar “Wdiket Woraries” to which the old-time sidewalk epeculator has retired. It proved aleo that in many cases the man in the box office, after tarming patrons away with the announcement “no seats,” deliberately vefers them to the “gunners” for tickets. And the “librarics” alwnye have banches of the best seats to cell at advanced prices. Before we waste time listening to any further advice about new Jews to etop theatre ticket speculation why not get down to brass tacks and find out why tho laws we already have are either evaded or filly ignored? m Before the Aldermen pettor ever any more ordinances let thom sum- (08 (uhet agents and theatre managers to testify under cath exactly Mow theatre tichote are handled in this city from the time they leave the yointer’s heeds. 5 Lets find out whether, from the prevailing managerial point of , & box office is a place from which to sell tickets or merely a mask speculation in tickets. far we have only scratched the surface of the problem of speculation. | | | | | | | | | have skidded some since the time when people believed thet the birds select their mates on St. Valentine's Day. ‘The day itself has seen changes in its obserrance—tor | i times something more substantial than a frilly creation “al poper or o few suger plums was due the person who chose you for welentine. We find worthy old Sam Pepys entering in his diary 1667: “This morning came up to my wife's bedside (I being little Will Mercer to be her valentine, and brought upon blue paper in gold letters done by himnelf we were both well pleseed wit it. But I am aleo valentine and it will cost me five pounds; but thet oat if we had not been valentines.” couple of days later he adds: “I find that Mrs. Pierce's little my valentine, she having drawn me; which I was not sorry me of eomething more that I must have given to others.” beautiful and celebrated young woman of a Duke of York being once her valentine did give about eight hundred pounds; and my Lord Mande- this year, « ring of abont three hundred pounds,” of a later generation records that hoping to dream of the night before St, Valentine’ day, “to make ib mere sure I boiled an ogg hard, took out the yolk and filled it with went to bed ate it, eheH and all, without speaking or tt’ "|. Formerly St. Valentine's Day was a time only for the exchange - ff cgurtesy and honeyed sentiment. Ridiculous letters or insulting pictures were unknown. Whatever the day has beon or become, nobody is less responsible than St. Valentine himeelf—a humble martyr of the third century who hed his heed cut off by the Emperor Claudius after a hard life “sasha 0 place for hearts or cupide, ‘The fact is, the medieval , fmberited from Rome a lively and not overdecorous pagan fes- > tive Chat weed to occur in the month of February, Without abolish- / ing the celebration, the fathers of the Church borrowed the nume of Mt, Valentine, whose day came about that time, and used it in » worthy effort te render the snnusl affair more respectable. op WHO IS GRATEFUL? Gratitude is lighter than a feather, sighed the philosopier, ‘wat tf yeu give offence in anything people's wrath is as heavy es leat, ‘To gave a man's life would seem the surest way to set his gretituée swelling. Yet how quickly, even eagerly, do some people put from their minds even the greatest of all obii- fi i im this city scores of men and women, old and } are saved from drowning or other peril. later seek out and thank their rescuers, Femember afterward? New York's lifesavers have described for The to-morrow their experiences of grat- have snatched from death, It fy ti at ' Just a Valentine @ .-<:=< @ By Maurice Ketten o Sow Ton Deets Wen Copprtead, 1014, ty Tn Prem Pitinhing Co, (The Now York Bening Wedd), As to Husbande—Before and After Taking.” “Wn fe the ‘ideal husband?’ inquired the Bachelor tentatively “Unually,” remarked the Grass Widow, glancing up from the kettle. “he; catching the vy woman's Sugar she uses in her coffee and wants to cut on talcum powder, she naturally sighs for a spendthrift. Personally ing, however, T should fancy that a dead husban D But,” and the Grass Widow handed the Bachelor his tea with a | glance, “were you thinking of qualifying?” 'BV—not this year,” said the Bachelor hastily. “That i fying means living up to the standard of half mat, which that ‘Chicago Bachelor Girls’ i even remember what they are; and never to kick at your wife's and to ‘get up and make the fire and carry out the ashes,’ and ‘to all your evenings at home!’ Ugh!” “Married life would be robbed of a lot of its excitement and o! the Grass Widow soothingly. “And besides, you've left out it on the list. Think of ANY man being cowpelled to ‘is political and social equal!’ Here and there, one might id agree to treating her as his political equal, but when to his cfub, for instance. and sharing his cigarettes ber, her opinions just as though she had real judgment and laying out her evening clothes, and running to feteh and sewing buttons on her clot! as she does for him—WHA’ could stand the humiliation?” ie = : ie HT ferigeat sell her club membership and her the Bachelor, hopefully. “Bhe'll probably ask the man te Straight From a | ee The Shoulder PADAS TAILS at ca ere with him, she won't notice whether he keeps his promises o. No. 7—“PULL BAKER, PULL DBVIL.” is just one little thing which those Chicago girls have failed Go, account, and that is that even the modern woman with all By Thomas De Quincey. Covet lee York reaina Wend)" ~ | ologien and theories uas a HEART—and that the heart to HE murderer was at this time in the little parlor and the door!» ONDON—“To spend an hour or|Over which we have no control. If « man has a straight nose stood ajar, He was walking rapidly backward and forward in the two in an infirmary ward is|!" his chin and @ curling forelock and a persuasive way parlor, applying keys tentatively to a cupboard, a closet and a better than reading a volume of will stop to find owt whether he goes to church or not.” seritoire. Three friends out of four whom the young journey- “But the heart isn’t a circumstance,” corrected the Bachelor, with forty minutes ago are now extinguished. ‘organ.’ | “Yeo,” amiled the Grass Widow, showing a perfect row of testh dimple, “an ergaw on which Cupid will continue to play the same ol tunes with the same olé distracting effect until the end of the werld!” aE Mite af ul i if i ; i i nt F the appalling duliness of the life of the bed- D ridden old men rT} ELL,” remarked the head polisher, “now that Chief Murphy and John Mc- Cooey have joined] bound, the uplift move-|county in the State, out ment I suppose Taanahtp of the Btate Comat it's time for Pee fa TO) Cay Caborn everybody to get! nae tt er aboard.” The Poor, ria Gea ” Poor Truste! atdy sort of beat “D ee pi Gs : HH A HE : i ; fi s AL al if 2Fi i HE them to it,” re- minded the la dry man, “You! remember what , Joo sald in his yleasures he speech after the Judge asked him if he wanted to usher in the sentence e the proment the pam | with @ few remarks? Joe came right scheme, and building activities, &c.|out and said he bad been an uplifter jus, and if any creature ie still living in this necessity, 0 teinke they are very weer i bie institution joel th he suspects and very soon means to know, with that i On Thus if '7oU| cause he keope the people from doing|8,14ncoin Day better) foolish things and ting the wrong men to office. after day even when it i) eons im ie uote we ri, ma u . pull devil! Upon two floors, the cellar floor and the | Working day efter day oven ten tt) used large bills in Dit Opt ugh jurderer has already accounted for the population, In the words of Still, you can't uplift with Imowe that the poor child's fate is on the edge of « —— Sut money. It takes cola to’ move any | Y20® ballyhoo for ti alarm being raised before the murderer reaches surgeon: kind of @ political machine, centre pole is and the moment when desperate agitation is nearly| “The capacity @ man has for work- the sense oon the bare almost the sullen, stealthy step of the murderer |ing when work becomes distasteful is ri ns @ banners will the darkness. Sesential quality for success in| into post Imelodionsiyy® hesen heard, « third, and then the child's doom seems fixed.|!l(@." | suerey thus expended "eho [make his grand eat i! is ready. The window is wide open, the rope ‘ in ears. McCoocey the journeyman has launched himself. The rope proved f fs than he had calculated, The night was not dark, the occasion of the Marr murders, to west was covered with a deep pall of universal . that for twenty or thirty seconds the young man t Ls stage ‘was not observed. His white shirt at length attracted i an ale workaday classes 1 or four peeple ran up and received him in their arms, all “a the Atlantic | als- | ROOP=I8 ete ‘dreadful anounctation, To what house did he belong? » ‘Tammany Hallare |" Perkins 1s the courter ‘was not instantly apparent, but he pointed with his finger to The ‘Wiltlameon's door and said in a half choking whisper: Se They Know, at Lact, *Mert’e murdarer.(a now at work!” MENT, ‘the ing. of \it ‘atte: SEE,” sat 6s " gaid the heaq A $300,000 Valentine. Wrether word 9 toll mat | teen I te “that students of oaok as the favor. Jewels, | cating y ® tL, from th against the other, Pull journeyman, pull mur- instead of droning—to keep on