The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1914, Page 8

mtn al eee mnt as = ' ' vO * r} U 7 Tae a ‘ f wa Ove waco. |The Weaker Sex? ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. oe Published Dally Except Sunday by the Prose Publishing Company, Now. 52 w nant President Sper howe a BASS, Beng ne : JOSEPH PULITEER, Jr Mocretary, @ Park Row. - Rh S nos CHEST ROTECTOR . Sanne te Po ee SL NTE or natant and. ane, Continent and SO LOW | ALWAYS FREEZE &, 1 Countries in the International * % . Morte fer the United States ali res in the Int 4 One Year.. ie :8010ne Month. «+s NO, 19,177 WHAT CAN THEY PROVE? JHE PUBLIC is likely to entertain few illusions as to the nature T of the proposed taxi combine between the Mason-Seaman and the Yellow Taxicab companies which will eeek leave to charge | tere than the legal rates. A combination which, owning nothing but twelve hundred texi- cabs valued at $3,000,000, ects out to pay dividends on a capitalization | @f $10,000,000 naturally hes to scratch around to find means to com- pel the public to come across with profits enough to make a showing off $7,000,000 worth of watered stock. As Assistant Corporation Counsel Farley says: “They are trying | te pay dividends on this water and pay big salaries to their officers and | mandgers.” The same authority who, as the city’s representative, hes charge of the taxi sult appeals, declaring that “with few excep- | tiene the taxicab owners have acceded to the new rates fixed by the | Aléraanic ordinance,” edda: “The Mason-Seaman Company's are the | @@ly books we have been able to examine. These do not ehow that the new rates are unprofitable.” As for the Yellow Taxicab Compeny, that corporation has noto- a ty arta has been doing a garage business from vacant lote with sly on the pert of ite starters to snatch business at the public ‘This $10,000,000 combine is @ lest desperate attempt on the of who hanker for the old privilege of imposing upon fpablie to bring Wall street methods to bear on the situation. ‘What cen their contentions signify? Everyvody knows thet hun- of proprietors are running taxicabs profitably under the new MY SHOULDERS . THEY ARE ALWAYS COAT sir COLO WHEN I SIT Down ies committed to narrow policies and “high finance” Reds would rather go to the walt than do business with the public Gueerting to the lew, whose lookout is it but their own? . —— po Wieck loom taken from the meadows was used to build Tammany State reeds, according to the latest testimony at the Osborne taquiry. ‘Whe knows but maybe come of our State highways have @rowa up to gress and been lost in the landecape? —— A HINT TO THE MOVIES. BOOKS wed to be held responsible for occasional moral dewndalle, New times, new excuses. Now it’s “blame the movies.” 4 young Sunday school teacher amd choir singer, caught red- Ganded in the act of burglary, declares: “The movies drove me to it. hay showed me just how to get into « flat and how to subdue a ‘Wentan, but there waen’t one of them that showed the robber caught.” f Ye E Straight From The Shoulder Sescese Talks t~ Voun4 -Men ‘Wo wonder why the movies have failed in this respect to eatch Pr Bs a eatng Wh * °° | Qo epirit af good old mefodrema, which used to appeal to much the Watchfulness. {E young man who “goes to sleep ' I on the job” lets many things escape him. Hina mind should be a sentry, ever awake, ever peering | into his surroundings, making ee _ ame audiences. There wrongdosre always got what they deserved. _ ‘Tho most alluring and fascinating devices of villainy were invarialily shown to work in the end only their own confusion and ruin. Virtue always come out on top. No one in tho audience, however fragile hie | -meral defenses, could ever go home and say truthfully that wickcd- news had tempted him because it seemed to prosper. We recommend the movie makers to look to the traditions. ———<¢- ‘We begin to suspect that Col. Goethals landed at this pori te take a train. ——— - THE BATTLE OF MURRAY HILL. EOPLE who pass the Public Library at the corner of Forty- eecond street and Fifth avenue to-morrow—Washington’s ) Birthday—may reflect, thanks to the historians and landmark "wunters, that they are on the epot where the Father of His Country ‘fetight o disheartening battle and lived through one of the dark his career. ‘hours of 4 2 “The Battle of Forty-eccond Street,” the events of the morning ef Ganday, Sept. 15, 1776, @ retold in The Sunday World Magazine tpmorrow, give a graphic picture of Washington's encounter in tho » milddle of, Manhattan with cuperior British forces under Sir Henry } Clinton nearly three weeks after the'Battle of Brooklyn Heights. ‘| This Murrey Hill skirmish was « disappointment, and Weeh- ae to have been so angry at the failure of his men to obey that “he dashed bis hat upon the ground.” They redeemed themecives text day at Harlem Heights. ; To try to reproduce in imagination the days when Lexington gvanve was the Boston Post Road, Broadway a country highway, - Forty-second street a lane, and the present site of the Grand Union | Motel « corntield, is well worth an afternoon’s stroll in the neigh: Wahood of this busy and crowded crossroads of to-day. that all te well. Opportunities for advancement come when they're least expected. ‘The simplest little detail of your work, mastered because you were ether, So with big jobs. They are many tts things atte things whioh many le ings wi tl grasped because they were awake aud saw them. There are so many things to watch that you cannot afford to let your at- tention wander. The things that have to do with your work are but a com- pany in the army. There is you to watch—your Rabits, your ‘eaden your ite of cles, your weaknesses, contact with your fellows, watch for the weeds that spring wu: in the parden of your mind. as wall as for those that sprout in the gar- * of your body. re you, erything that is geing on around, your watchful eye must be upon them all. Remember, what you put back into life is determined by what you draw out f life. you are red by what you put Into Ufe, it behooves you to watch for much to draw therefrom. Hits From Sharp Wit. Many a man has diMculty in wtand ing on hia feet because he ie 20 ¢1 grossed In standing on bis dignity. Before you “go u THE DOG ON THE QUAY, By Landseer. At the National Gallery, London. Corre, is Yaak treslna Word). § By Evelyn Hamilton Eden. 18 is the greatest dog picture ever painted by the greatest ‘ painter of dogs and animals that ever lived. There are those who affect a half-sneering toleration for him and his work and many who will Betty Vince Presents From Young Men. N° nice girl ever accepts jewelry or other valuable presents from @ young man unless she ie engaged to him. That, is one of the unwritten so- clal laws, and, in the air” ove Some people are polite when you step on their corns, but when you their bride—wateh your step! sound arbitrary to some of you, there ie really a good reason back of {t.| ‘The acceptance of| an expensive gift) should rightly carry with it a certain sense of Yet that Yory feeling is) Crowded streets of the town and dis- claim all responsibility. A few of them run down and injure people aud then clap on speed and hurry away without even the inquiry any docent human being would stop to make. And if they are detected and brought into court they too often contrive to get the case postponed till public indigna- tion wearies and an unimaginative Judge lets them off with a fue. They have put an end to the pleasure of A little Brooklyn boy when told “you can't "have your cake and eat it ‘Well, w! have it iT don't?” Think it over, Food for reflection. 4 Tut, tut! Hari have cooked a twenty-fiv said “It can’ e obligation, id roast ‘in| complication tn the relations between ent hubby | young men and women. CHARLES LEIDY. .. bee asters. ling to the country gentlemen he might have been painting ma-| li donnas or scenes of battle or pas- eantry. fi thi Advice to Lovers thougii it may)? Ce ALWAYS FI the great | ith truck- tee of the | le is pol 6 proc of England when . ‘This attitude of the critics inde its answer in the crowds that the Landseer room at the Ni lery. Whether or not he could paint is a Sree settled by a close study of the mooring ring in this picture. “Those limp and pa- tient pa’ the grand humility of that face!” exclaimed Lord Tennyson when he first saw this painting. nt’s firmly return any costly offering h< may make her. ¥." writes have been paying | attention to a girl who went out with another man before I knew hi She told me that she no longer cared for him, but recently, when 1 an engagement to meet her, a broke it and went to a party with him, We were angry for two weeks, ut now she asks me to come back. What shall I do?” If you feel that you can trust the young lady, go back to her, Other- wise, keep away. “L. U." writes: am a waitress and in love with a well-to-do young man who patrohizes the restaurant where I work. I think that ho cares for me, but I know that he would not I dot” Put the young man out of your thoughts at once; there is no other safety for you, “J. HL" writes A girl ought not to feel that she ything except ordinary cour- tesy to a casual man acquaintance. Bho ought not give the world the im- presen, that abe ts under obligations to is gal were ; joined in them with wiiat I considered to be unnecessary abandon, though I rebuked her for It. Do you think I 4 By Maurice Ketten Fo TAR MIRON ROER AND MT ROIS © A DRAUGHT THERE, AT THE THEATRE RASTUS, GIVE NE MY Strut cAP, MY Done EELS COLD unhappy and you , What—where many & man is s0 busy condescend to marry me. What shall pl .. | barnyard sun, the sharp crack of ii Coppight, 1014, ty The Prew P@iishing Co, (The New York Evening World). Concerning Man's Greatest Weakness. | 667 & must be sad to be a man!” remarked the Widow as the Bachelor ea I her gently but firmly to. an inviting little cozy corner behind the palms and just out of sight of the dancers. “It must be simply | awful to be so fatally fascinating that you live in the constant terror of | ‘ensnaring some trusting little heart! It must be dreadful never to dare to look at yourvelf in the mirror without shuddering at the sight of your © ‘cursed beauty.’ "—— “Tt et” hastily interrupted the Bachelor. “But how did you KNOW? Look!” and she poisted with her filmy fan at the glittering galaxy of Pierettes and Carmens and shepherdesses and Yama-yamas that graced the merry little “costume ball.” “There are fifty women all gotten up like electric signs and powdered and curled within an inch of their lives to charm the masculine eye! And there are just SIX men modest enough to don fancy dress. The other forty-four, in claw hammer coi nd pikatered | hair, apparently felt that it would be ‘painting the lily’ or. ‘gilding refine? | gold’ to do anything to make themselves more fascinating than they naturs ally are! Why, oh WHY can one never induce the men to wear fancy costumes at a masked ball any more?. Once they used to think it quite a» lark to deck themselves out as cavaliers and Romeos, but now they feet that they have made a terrible concession to feminine whims and fancies | if they put on a false face and pin a rose to their coats!” i | “Well, from an ertiatic standpoint, they have,” agreed the Bachelor, -’ “Of all the grotesque and ridiculous things in creation a modern man. in satin breeches and a ecurty wig is the most laughable. Men are shy creatures; you know, and they just naturally dread making spectacles of themselves before women"-— } Why Men Crystallize. | j r rT} ES," interrupted the Widow tartly, ‘the average man’s harrowing fear of being laughed at has kept many a one of them from doing + A man uld rather be dead than ‘different,” il the original things that ever were EFERANT anything original. and that’s why women have done done since the world began.” “I beg your pardon,” murmured the Bachelor humbly. “In their clothes, as in their sins and in their ways of making love,” | declared the Widow firmly, “all men are exactly alike! Thank Heaven, ;the only fear that women have in their hearts is the fear of God—and not is | the fear of the joke makers, and that they can SOMETIMES branch owt. § and do something that hasn't been donc before and hallowed by custom!" | “Yes,” acquiesced the Bachelor, lighting a cigarette and thonenteey blowing rings, “a woman's one ambition in life appears to be to get hi up so that she will look different from other women. I never saw such efforts at freakishness"— “But a man's ambition,” broke in the Widow, fanning herself vigers is to sit back in a corncr and hide his light under a bushel of and conventions so that nobody will pick him out for ‘the joker.’ and she waved her fan dramatically, “if women had felt that way we should never have had Joan of Arc, the original suffragette, nor Queen Elfzabeth, the original bachelor girl, nor Cleopatra, the original love pirate, nor Lucrezia Borgia, nor Helen of Troy, nor”. “Oh, well, we've .ad a few of those original characters, vo!" protested the Bachelor, good-naturedly. “Nero, the original sport; Blucbeard, the original ‘marrying man,’ and Henry VIII., the original Reno graduate. You haven't got ALL the celebrities on your side.” “And every day,” continued the Widow, ignoring the insinuation, “the women are becoming more original and daring, and the men shyer end more self-conscious. If you should ask a modern man to choose ‘between death and appearing on Fifth avenue in a red satin waistcoat and a Charles IL. hat, he would welcome death with a glad, sweet cry. And it isn't because the poor things haven't souls for beauty and color, either!” she added sadly, “Of course not,” exclaimed the Bachelor heartily. “Hear! Hear!” eee, H Uniforme and Gold Lace. i UST let a crowd of them agree to march in a Knights of Pythias parade with gold shoulder straps and purple gashes and every.mer- tal one of them will welcome the opportunity. There is nobody > average civilian envies so much as & naval officer in full regalia, Every now and then you see a poor thing whose soul has expanded into lavender socks and ties and little dabs of color around the edges, but it shrinks back into its shell again at the first hint that he is attracting attention. Why, it's a man’s fear of being laugved at that has retarded the progresa of the world and caused most of the misery in life. He's actually afraid to acknowledge that he loves a girl until she explains to him with « signed affidavit that he will be accepted ‘on sight. He's so frightened at his own wedding that he turns it from # sacrament into a farce. He's afraid to acknowledge afterward that he thinks his wife his own equal and believes Be ought to have the vote, He shivers at the thought of confessing . that he likes his mother-in-law, and he would die before he would ac- knowledge that he was moral. Talk about women being slaves to style! Men are absolutely abject in the face of custom and conventions! I don't believe any man ever did anything original in hie life unless some womax stood behind him with a whip and bullied him into it!” “No'm!" meekly acknowledged the Bachelor, “I don't suppose one @” ‘em ever did—except perhaps Adm.” “Adam,” remarked the Widow, smiling triumphantly, “was called ‘origina man’—becaune he was the ONLY original man that e livedi" =The Week's Wash=” By Martin Green Copwright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co..(The New York Evening World), ° 66] 1 had the money,” declared the! the uptown sidewalks are becoming .. head polisher, “Ta start. «| clogged with cans of ashes and gare” Broadway gondola line and) with’ a prapeaneneentus compete with the street cars.” “ Presumably,” eaid the laundry man, “you are making a sarcas- tio reference to the condition of our thoroughfares an a result of the snowstorm. Your remark carries the inference that the Department of Street Cleaning ought to clea) jaway the snow, Does your memor, carry you back to the time wher the said department ever cleared away the snow? “The fact is that it can't be don There are not horses and carts enoug! comparison that we may ‘as to what SHOULD make us in Now York to haul away the snow, rable or happy. In the words of |; the late Mayor Gaynor in summing up the meaning of happiness and mis- had seen much of both misery in this world rable people think. > 66 Miserable? By Sochie Lene Loeb. ONDON:—If you on the east side or the west side or any othor side imagine yournelf to be very can only see life through the small lons, then you should see some- thing of the real misery in the largest city in the world — London— where there is a Great distinction of class and where who's who = : matters much 12 1 LOEB® more than what's making ends meet and wages aro #0 low that old-age pensions from the Government are a great netessity, for the average working man saves but ttle in @ lifetime. Of course there are those who rise, but the opportunities, once you are im @ groove, are much less than in dear old Uncle Sam's domains. For example, let a man have a bril- ant idea as to an invention or be he in an office and have a new system vised, sometimes the VERY CHANCE to get to the man higher up is lacking and his opportunity ts bas been tried. “City ficiency suggests that BR ayee gow frowine is to subways for trucks. I have: better scheme than that. hee put an awning over the city.” i lig excise guthorities fngily Got Tom Sharkey,” sald the head polisher, if “Well,” replied the laundry imxn, “it was coming to him. Sharkey was too conservative. training and a mossback by inetinet, “Instead of atick: Chamberlain Brue: . e tified before Not 80 our country--where the man at tne top is willing and glad to listen to the man at the bottom if he has something to give toward betterment. Bo if you are down in the dumps, you must just reflect on tion you would be in if you ry ai number of horses in New York decreasing all the time becauac of adoption of motor trucks for co: place “Tom Sharkey’ moved uptown to the bright ‘flush belt, for snow removal bh needed for private be happiness to some | , peop! happen to be without gome mental worry or inisery they think they are sick. Every one te happy in somo way, iy ‘ing for the problem of getting ihe snow the city streets. W using the same 8; twenty yeare ago, except that we have cut down the price paid to truckinen for hauling the snow ever. “Posaibly the solution fies in ma- chines to melt the snow—somothing ‘on the order of the portablo blow fur- naces that molt/asphalt paveinents, Anyhow, the solution jan't at hand, ‘and the best thing the people of Now York can do ie to make the best of the situation. “We at least make a bluff at remov- In other they and Yet the ing th yrew. eo street snow roreain lew York ean't keep a supply of snow intact long make ut id Dansant’ or something of and inaugurated afternoon “Gast geances and the very best would have flocked to his place brought fim larve quantities © KE," eald the head polisher, hat the fad of wearing green, blue, pink and salmon-ealored wir has already seized London ge- clety foM~and wit! soon invade News York," e, in speaking of the simple things that can m: for hap- he ther stated: “Where I winter had hardly gone at _ ad ie Deas e singing of the hens, themselves and another bureting trees in the woods and other signs told us that win ‘S arriving. Tt te the same with c! justified in ber up?" ‘won’ ears aah for | sentence he is bea oy ly the pola’ le, only it mand in the ow te it.” An last at has truly told the gamut