The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1914, Page 16

CIVIL SERVICE STANDARDS. @zamination. ae EW YORK’S Civil Service Law permits persons with “peculiar and exceptional qualifications of « scientific, technical and) educational character” to be appointed to positions without Among thirty-six cases in which examinetion requirements were waived during the year 1913, occurred euch highly scientific and tech- nical appointments as that of a court messenger at $1,800, « sten- ographer in the executive department, a billing-machine operator, « building inspector, an estimate clerk and an assistant financial clerk. This is only one of the charges of laxity and departure from the Jaw which the Civil Service Reform Association makes against the Civil Service Commission in a letter to Gov. Glynn. important matters of classification, are other complaints. ittee holds opinions contrary to those of the Commission.” 1 Py i ee : That relatives and close personal friends of the Civil Service Commissioners were given places in the State service without exami- nstion, that the Commission has exempted an abnormal number of " positions from the competitive class, particularly in the State hospital ' service, and that it has been guilty of unpardonable delay in acting on "All these criticisms were first referred by letter to the Civil Ser- “referring to matters conéerning which your Oom- > ‘The Civil Service was established to protect State employees from shifting play of politics and parties and thus to secure as far as ode to the taxpayers of the State efficient, honest and continuous ork from all whore salaries they pay. The Civil Service Commis- @loners have no discretion apart from the interests of their taxpayer ©) qmployers, who pay them each $5,000's year to guard those ‘specific charges brought by the Reform Association. — the subway during rush houre, Everybody feels felonious. eed STILL GOING AROUND IT. Since the Commissioners admit that under the statute “the ) Commission reports to the Governor and through the Governor to Sie Legislature and the people of the State,” Gov. Glynn would seem to have no choice but to demand answers to each and all of the \A policeman arrested two respectable business men in the subway because one looked Hke a pickpocket and the other ike a confederate. No man should be judged by his looks in HE experts have done a few moro laps around Architect Low- ell’s ciroular court house plan and are now said to believe that with modifications to improve light and ventilation it will do. So the Justices who balked at the much discussed “Roundhouse Sef Justice” which the Court House Board approved, now get back | gubstantially the seme old plan from their own corps of specially - eppointed critics. warta Din Such Is Life! _~ y rs i Mente! ‘we " ditizen who tries to set things straight without a policeman. | be would be fewer. - Aeoording to President McAneny the cost of the building need Ret go above the $10,000,000 limit stipulated by the Board of Esti- ‘mante. Even so, the Mayor says “I am not in favor of committing @areelves to any plan which calls for euch a large expenditure until ean see our way clearly. It sppeara to me to be unlikely that the can commit iteelf to euch an expenditure this year.” So there may be a chance to circle around the new plan for quite S opel yet before contracts are let. If “watchful waiting” will secure 6 first-class court house with greatest economy and fowest regrets, taxpayers need not complain. —— ‘The Calllawx case becomes lem flamboyant but more feminine. . ee ' “NO ONE INTERFERED.” of a masher on 8 crowded subway train all the way to One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, where she dragged him out tad took him to a police station, has the sympathy and approval of the ‘public. Apperently that is all she got from the passengers on the train. By ar young woman who suffered from the annoying importunities F ‘Although the man is said to have made repeated attempts to hug and Keies her, no one interfered. New Yorkers may well pride themselves on their ability to mind their own business. With the exception of mashers, “oon” experts, ‘and like “professionals,” people in this town look at theit follow ‘beings in public with cold and glassy eyes that see not. In many ways it is wise policy for the man in the street not to be officjous or interfering. Serious trouble often descends upon the But maybe if bystanders were a little less cautious in showing what they think of the ordinary masher who annoys a woman in a public place, Now that the I. W. W. leaders and the professional An- erchiste have started « thunder contest they may be relied upon the means to which I. W. their efforts to make capital out of ity, the sooner they give themselves and become easy for the police to SON TS OFA Fess MACHELOR Gowtee HELEN ROWLAND Copgright, 1914, ty Zhe Pres Publishing Os, (The New York Wrening World), N’ matter how much @ woman is opposed to gambling, she will always take @ chance on matrimony—the “longest shot” in the world! A man never quite grows up. All hie life long he loves eoft, eweet things; and to his dying day, the tinkle of a bangle or the rustle of a silk petticoat fascinates him, just as the jingle of a rattle fascinates a baby. No man minds the “I promise” part of the wedding ceremony; It’s the “ "thldeath-usdopart” phage of it that unnerves and diecourages him so. A woman can always tel) when a man is beginning to fall in love with ! the genus homo isn’t one of them. Some Historic Word Pictures { No, 18.—MR. WOPSLE PLAYS HAMLET. From Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. ie IN our arrival in Denmark, we found the King and Queen of that ited in two armchairs on a kitchen table, holding a Court. The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; con- sisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face, who seemed to have risen from the people Inte in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in tts hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting, on the whole, a feminine appearance. My gifted fellow townsman stood gloomily apart, with folded arms, and 1 could have wished that his curls and forehead had been more probable, Several curious little clroumstances transpired oa the action proceeded, ‘The late king of the country not only appeared to have been troubled with a cough at the time of his decoase, but to have taken it with him to the tomb, and to have brought it back, The royal phantom, also, carried a ghostly manuscript round its truncheon, to which it had the appearance of occasion- ally referring, and that too, with an air of anxtety and a tendency to lose the place of reference which were suggestive of a state of mortality. It was this, I conceive, which led to the Shade's being advined by the gal- lery to “turn over!” a commendation whioh it took extremely ill, Upon my unfortunate townsman all these in .aente accumulated with playful effect. Whenever that undecided Prince had to ask a question or state a doubt, the public helped him out with it. As for example: On the question whether ‘twas nobler in the mind to suffer, some roared Yes, and some No, and some, inclining to both opinions, said: “Toss up for it,” and ite # Debating Society arove. When he asked what should such fellows Hits From Sharp Wits But the good rule that works both) until she has something to be un- waye must work in the same manner | happy about,—Boston Transcript. in both directions. eee 3 © Nobody ever seems to envy the The world will be better when the; man who has a lot of common gense, etraight path is no longer eo narrow, |——Toledo Blade. see ee A man who imagines that he was| Who practices what Geatined to net the world on fire soon | Preach needn't preach. finds himaelf under a wet blanket.— sf Albany Journal, | The corollary of one's right to his ; Jopinion Iw the right of others to A chance gamo is not necessarily |e" An a game of chance, ‘The fire into which too many trons ee jare put out—Albany candid speaker rarely uses | Journal, be would foon gorR A honeyed words.-Descret News. 8 6 Magazin t FF kee) . they M wg “ Wedtes Just one DARN THING AFTER Avatuer | 4 HHA HALKASAABABALAANAAAAAALAARAAA AM Many Things a Widow May Not Understand; ‘ But the Genus Hono Is Not One of Them SFAAALAAAASSALAKLAAAKAALARAARAARAAALR Now Bngland was scourged Little Causes Of Big Wars By Albert Payson Terhune Cupyright, 1916, by The Prem Puctishing Oo. (The Now Tort Brening Workd). No. 64—An Attack of Fever That Led to “King Philip’s War.” NN Indian fell sick with fever and died. As @ far-reaching result, all by a war that threatened to turn he whole thriving region into a desolate waste. ‘The Indian was Nam-sut-to, sachem of the great Pokanoket “nation.” He and his younger brother, Meta-co-met, were sons of Maseae soit, the friendly old chief who welcomed the Pilgrim Fathers in 1620 end who eaved their Httle colony from starvation. Massasolt even went so far a8 to have his eons, Nameut-to and Meta-comet, christened “Alexander” an@ “Philip.” When the old chief died Alexander succeeded him. The whito men by this time felt themselves strong enough in the New World to begin to rob the friendly Indians of land—a gentle practice that has been kept up ever since. Oath Alexander, seeing miles of his people's bere 4 agreed jd Soman protested. tte was id to aD geance. | was Nocused of plotting against-the Colonists. By No . Then he threatened. So he way of scaring him into submission, they him when next he came to visit Before he could be released, | few days he died. em and had him thrown into prison. Jexander fell tll, A fever seized him. Ta @ And some of his tribesmen at once started a rumor that the white mem had poisoned him, The rumor spread, finding bellef in every Indian heart As a matter of fact, there was not the slightest truth in the report. The lage thing the Colonists had desired was for Alexander to die on their hands. But avenge the sup} murder. younger brother and successor, Stealthily as Philip ready to declare war, his Hie firat ‘was on the sett! 1676. The w the town, kil and burning. By solemn Indian custom it was the duty of Alexan And tho Philip, known the @ renegade Indian. And, ton: was nce it gained. next-of-kin t next-of-kin was the dead mane to history as “King Philip.” secret of his war preparations wag ‘were at church, Philip's warriors A force of militia. met Philip's men in battle at Bloody Brook and severe the New ' ‘y-titnenee, through, the Connectigut’ valley, the aged, Brookfield, ro! ut vi ir raged, Springfield and Northfield being destroyed by the indians, and the inhable tants of scores of villages and Graduad: rms slaughtered. ly the better discipline and superior weapons of the Colonists began to prevail. Inch by inch, fighting desperately at every step, Treachery Ende the War. taken @ similar oath against Philip. sieged in a native stronghold among the swamps near Montauk. Even then, Philip could not be captured. But treachery came to the settle 5 | °———e———® @ Years earlier an Indian had of Philip's dead father. Philip had sworn the “next-of-! against the man and later had killed him. The slain mai [i his braves were driven back until they were bee id. ited the " vengeance brother had thes Now the avenger crept to the stronghold in the swamps and shot Philip dead, His followers were killed, scattered or sold as si Lady Boards Car. Northeast corner of Thirty-fifth atreet and Broadway. Discovered lady, in latest garb, waiting for atreet car. Arms full of emall bundles, Other paraphernalia: purse, muff, obatreperous bunch of violets, &c. Lady sure first car will stop. SCREEN: “It won't take me a minete to get there.” Car approaches. ut to: Scene 3. Middle of street. Lady signals Delsartianly to motorman. Gathers draperies in preparation. Registers elf - satisfaction. Car Woean’t even hesitate. Lady registers Laden SCREEN: “Oh, dear!” Cut Scene 3. Same as scene 1, Lady attend#approach of second car. Shifts bundles. Pins on violets for twenty: enth time. Registers slight weariness, Second car approaches. Movies ala Mode By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1014, by The Press lublishing to, (The New York Evening Worlt), s in the West Indies, thumb over right shoulder, indi southeast corner. SCREEN: “We Lady, clutching parcels in death grity trots south. Cut to: Scene 6. Southeast corner of Thtre ty-sixth street and Broadway. Dise covered same lady. Registers ee! satisfaction at having accomplis! something. Car approaches. advances with same Mona Lisa e! In lady's glance, directed at motore man, te easence of sirenic appeal welle nigh irresistible. However, mot: irreaists. Points grimy forefinger NORTHeast corner and floats Lady registers irretrievably lost per. Indignantly maxixes to up) corner. SCREEN: “It's an ou Tl have some one disc! crete Made oh Cut to: ene 7. way in flight. covered Indy at bay tm middie street. Two taxicabs at her ooal wagon at left, mail truck in furniture van in front and couple her; but, if she is sensible, she will keep the news to herself, until it begins to dawn on him. e All capricious women are not fascinating, but all fasctnating women are capricious; because to keep a man charmed a girl has to be like a vaudeville show, with a change of bill every half hour. When a men is jn love with bimeself, it doesn’t particularly matter whether a gin fs in love with him or not, because the general balance is 90 satisfactory that he doesn’t even notice it. Men ARE brave! If they weren't, not a single blessed one of them would ever get married after he had announced his intentions to his bachelor friends and they had finished with him! ‘There are @ great many thing that a widow may not understand—but criptive Power, by Great Authore Examples of D an he do ogawiing between earth and heaven, he was encouraged with loud cries of “Héar, hear!” y When he appeared with his stocking disordered (its disorder expressed, according to usage, by one very neat fold in the top, which I suppose to be always got up with a fiat iron), a conversation took place in the gallery respecting the paleness of his log, and whether it was occasioned by the turn the ghost had given him, On his taking the recorders—very like a ttle black flute that had just been played in the orchestra and handed out at the door—he was called upon unanimously for Rule Britannia. When he recommended the player not to saw the air thus, the sulky man said: “And don't you do ft, neither; you're a deal wusser nor him!” And TI leve to add that peals of laughter greeted Mr. Wopsle on every one of these occasions, ‘ But his greatest trials were in the churchyard; which had the appear- ance of a primeval forest, with a kind of small ecclesiastical washhouse on one side, and turnpike gate on the other. Mr. Wop? in a comprehensive black cloak, being deseried entering at the turnpike, the Grave-digger was admonished in a friendly way, “Look out! liere’s the undertaker a-coming to see how you're a-gotting on with your work!" I believe it is well known tn @ conatitutior country that Mr. Wopsle could not possibly have returned the skull, after moralizing over it, without dusting his fingers on a white napkin taken from his breast; but even that innocent and indispen- sable action did not pass without the comment, “Wal-ter!” ‘The arrival of the body for interment (in an empty black box with the Nd tumbling open) was the signal for a general joy, which was much en- hanced by the discovery, among the bearers, of an individual obnoxious to \dentification. The joy attended Mr. Wopasle through his struggle with Laertes on the brink of the orchestra and the grave, and slackened no more until he had tumbled the king off the kitchen table, and died by inches from the ankles upward. | Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers ON'T be tgo; ed her because, detained for, some feculy legitimate reason, has on tardy im keeping an appoint- ment. ‘R. EB.” writes: “Ie tt proper for & fifteen-year-old girl to allow her schoolboy sweetheart to hold her hand at moving picture theatres or other places of amusement?” Such public demonstration is alt the unhappiness i} is not imaginary, | ] facts on which it " ; proper for a lo hened are not ‘a young lady for facta at, all. on her? Or should young mani she extend the invitation?” The ane Bome people have an abundance of average woman never opinions Rope orehenda beg cagasiiz Sw tapniness'all of own—Maeee, Rot seen that not take thinks that a girl) The man may ask permission, or bas cut blo when she has honestly |the girl's mother may invite him to be wes near. ‘The girl heseelf should be bes pErpesdla Lady signi Regi sligh ters peevishn my goodness!” Cut t Scene 4. Same as s ered lady twittering angrily to self, Gases ra at each . Dy, thereby ‘setting muoh wrouch out of Lady meditates. system. deep tho Sere ieee fom. SCREEN: plomacy! tlating, captiv: gesture, she expect motorman to atop, but also to get off and help her on. registers regret and Pattern No. 8220—Semi- Pri with touch of hauteur. fire engines coming, sip! fermination. Car stuttera mage tore Lady registers ’. faces Mise pedaeiony eon bum le. , Registers gratitude r safotm, Car approaches. Cut to: Scene 8 Same as acene 3. oR wit ontarebe. Saas ona ime ol modically. Cut to: Registers| Scene 9. Interior of oar. jcal bo conductor to cea, Cut to: (a Thirty, ni tne street 6 ‘ A Broad r~nint an Lady | Lady registers complacent eg but doesn't stop. Lady regis- CREEN: “Well, 1, Discov- supplicating, ingra-|mind. (N. B.—Lady has lost te: ‘ing, also juettish |eeven times, one bundle worth Conveya that not only does | cents, wasted twenty-two minutes braved sudden death to ride foum blocks! Answer: La (PangED BY lotorman Points stubby dy-Logic.) OF CENSORSHIP) * HE collar thag stands out ewag from the neck is one of the very latest, most fashions able fancies. Here ts @ dress that can br Aalshed a that or with a little the neck anne e.ceptionally emar whichever is choses In the picture, tt b made of taffeta, taffeta not alone ie the height of but also best materials frills and ruffles; ue nevertheless, the frock -can be made from almost fashionable mat: and treated in two three such ways as to give Gime tinetly different pulte," Ta one LA ace uncing Jace all-over are Triton: ae frills req! 8 FOMe COR: sideration to he dress will cease Drees for Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 Veare.