The evening world. Newspaper, April 14, 1914, Page 16

FSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ane H day by the P: Publishing Company, Nos, Pudlishea Daily Except upg ay, by ot Fett Park Row, a Park Row. Ls 4 at the Post-Ofts. t New York as Second-Clans Matter. on. ita 10 The Evening For England and the Continent and ‘United States All Countries in the International nada, $3.50] One Year. -301One Mont “A DISMAL FAILURE.” aa The Evening Worl ns SP RTT *% acterization of the big lawn in Central Park north of Ninety-sixth street. Acres of so-called turf at the south- ern end of the Park are little better. Both these arcas have been feuced in for more than a year. There is ecant prospect that the public will be allowed to set foot on either of them during the coming eeason. Ninety thousand dollars have been muddled away during the past, two years in attempts to lay a carpet of green grass in Central Park. ‘Three years ago Park officials drew up a programme of grass culti- vation calling for an expenditure of $150,000. Nearly two-thirds of that sum has been spent. Yet there is no grass worthy of the name te show for it. | * “T cannot say yet what caused it,” says Commissioner Ward, “whether the methods were not right or whether the work was not) earried out right. But of this I am certain, it is a dismal failure.” In the past as often as one landecape architect has declared that the Park must be resoiled, another has come forward to protest that resciling is inadvisable. Park officials have listened to every- body's counsel, hesitated, and produced no lawns. _ Before another dollar is spent on grass in Central Park a com- mission of the best soil experts obtainable should be engaged to atndy | the conditions and prescribe. And let us have a thorough job. The Dest lawns are not in this country. Why not engage foreign gar- deners and combine their experience with our own? New York can afford to epend millions to secure good lawns. It cannot afford to go on dribbling away thousands every year on timid experiments that lead to nothing. Commissioner Ward takes the only sensible stand in refusing to request further appropriations for a echeme that has proved worthless. Why throw good money efter bad? The next $50,000 spent on the lawns in Central Park should be + -@pent in learning what to do before trying to do it. What is needed is not grass that must be coddled and railed in year after year, but grass that will take root and make strong turf— gras that will invite tired people to walk and rest on‘it. en 6 A DISMAL FAILURE” is Park Commissioner Ward's char- Time tangos but Spring hesitates. es NOW LET'S HAVE ACTION. ELEPHONE ueers in this city—which means everybody—will T hote with satisfaction that Mayor Mitchel and President Mc- Aneny of the Board of Aldermen have joined in the fight begun by The Evening World to reduce telephone rates and break Gown toll gates between boroughs in Greater New York. Following a conference arranged by the Mayor and Mr. McAneny, to which Chairman Van Santvoord and Commissioner Martin S. Deck- @ of the up-State Public Service Commission were invited, the oo- operation of the city government in demanding a revision of telephone vates is assured. That all telephone bills died a ewift death in the lobbies of the late Legislature was no surprise to New Yorkers who know the ways ef the New York Telephone Company and its agente. From the first the public looked for help and continues to look for help to the power which it created to“be a eafeguard and protection in such matters— the Public Service Commission. The up-State Public Service Commission, which has jurisdiction over telephone companies, has so far dodged its duty. With the mem- bership of the Commission in order the last vestige of excuse for further delay disappears. The highest city officials may well join in the demand for prompt ection. Every twenty-four hours that the present tolls continue means an additional $17,000 unjustly exacted from New York tele- phone eubscribers. The telephone rates paid by the people of thie city are the high- ext in the United States. Calculated on the basis of the enormous * vetume of bueiness furnished, they should be the lowest. ‘ peice boot | Brisk bidding for the $65,000,000 issue of 4% per cent. City Corporate Stock bonds to be offered for sale Wednesday | ‘ {fu looked for by Controller Prendergast. Laat year at an inter: est rate onefourth of one per cent. higher city bonds sold at | + the lowest average in recent years. But last year the country | was worried over the tariff. Other cities that tried to sell bonds met with far worse luck. ‘This year, despite the Mexican tangle and the gloom of the railroads, financial circles can find little to worry about. Plenty of money is seeking investment. In any case It fs to be hoped that the result of Wednesday's sale of munict- $pal bonds which offer only a moderate return will prove sig nificant as showing the increased confidence of the public in the open and honest conduct of the city's finances which Mayor Gaynor’s administration inaugurated and which the Fuston regime in deeply pledged to develop. ———————-+-—__- _—___ | | | Forty-nine years ego to-night President Lincoln was | assassinated, Hits From Sharp Wits ‘The fellow who tmagines he knows is minding his own business is that it all ought to be ashamed to meet an so many want to help him.—Albany encyclopedia face to face.—Toledo| Journal. Blade | ee | The man who boasts that he is his | ‘Trains of logical thought carry fow | own master is rarely master of his passengers. passions and his appetite: oe 8 8 e oe To xome the pursuit of ideals In a ~ good enough excune for failure to ac- complinh anything, Before people jump out of the fry- ing pan into the fire they are unually | in a stew or in the soup.—Deseret | News. ° ° | Getting on t nny ai of the vernal equinox enables the average | human being to absorb a little ad- ‘ ditional iiletoten coxtoone News. “There would be more friends it there were fewer neighbors.—Albany | Chic = d Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Agril 14, 1914 tty 140 onal On 1914, ead 22 | ats ean ene a SSE PLEASE Take A SEAT MR AAN, SHE WILL BE HER SHORTLY Romances Of Models By Famous Artiste Copyright, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) W. L. JACOBS and the “‘Hard-Up" Girl, STEPMOTHER drove little Emily from her home when she was a mere child of thirteen,” began Mr. Willlam L. Jaccbs, the ar- tat, “and in order to support herself she became a model. The artists looked upon Emily aa a Ward and arranged to give her enough posing to pay for her living. “We often wondered how Emily managed to exist before we found out how poor she was and how much every hour of work she could get counted; for she was proud and would not accept one nickel more than she honestly earned, “Emily had inherited trom her own mother a Saratoga trunk, which was the storehouse of her treasures and #0 enormous that she could not place it in the hall bedroom which ahe! called home, For several yeara I al- lowed her to keep the trunk in my studio, When she wanted any of her belongings she would come in and greet me in a most businesslike man ner and hardly exchange a word of conversation while she rummaged among her conglomeration of odds and ends, “At elghteen Emily aucceeded in getting an engagement with a road company of a musical comedy pro- duction, During the busy weeks of rehearsal her amall savings went very fast, Almost pennileas she was forced to borrow a quarter now and then; till she owed me about $1.25, “Before the company left town Fimily told me she would be unable to pay her small debt until she reached Buffalo, 1 asked her if she was going to take her trunk and ahe said she would leave it am security for the $1.25. I begged her not to be absurd, but without avail, And ac- cording to her promise she sent me the amount of her debt from Buffalo, “A whort time later I received in- structions to express the trunk to go, Emily enclosed $8 to defray the coat of shipping. “The young press agent for the com- pany had used hia influence to have the trunk sent to Emily at the theat- rical manager's expense, Hoe had fallen in lo mily at sight; had propose, Chicago, had been accep in San Franeise had married her in Seattle, “On t return to New York the newly wed couple came to see me and invited me.to share their first dinner n the cozy little apartment which had a storeroom large enough to hold the Baratoga trunk that Emily de- clared she would never give up. | {So me Historic Word Pictures Ezamples of Descriptise Power by Great Authors NO. 26—AN EPISODE UNDER “THE TERROR,” by Balzac. ENBATH those rafters and disjointed lathe four Christian souls were interceding for Ki of France and making his burial without a coMn, It was the purest of all devotions, an act of wonderful loyalty accomplished without one thought of self. Doubtless in the eyes of God it waa the cup of cold water that weighed in the balance against many virtues. The ole of monarchy was there in the prayers of the Abbe and the two poor women! But also it may have been that the Revolution was present likewise in the person of the strange being whose face betrayed the remorse that led him to make this solemn offering of a vast repentance. The Office of the Dead was recited; the Domine Salve Fac Regem, sung in low tones, touched the hearts of these faithful Royaliste as they thought of the infant King, now captive in the hands of his enemies, for whom this prayer was offered. The workman shuddered; perhaps he feared an impend- ing crime in which he would be called to take an unwilling part. Then he said: i “I should blush to offer you any fee whatever in acknowledgment of the funeral service you Iave just celebrated for the repose of the King's soul and for the discharge of my conscience. We can only pay for inestimable things by offerings which are Hkewise beyond all price. Deign to accept, Monsieur, the gift which I now make to you of a holy relic. The day may come when you will know its value." As he said these words he gave the eccleslastic a little box of light weight? The priest took it, it were, involun: » for the solemn tone in which the words were uttered and the awe with which the stranger held the box atruck him with fresh amazement. Bowing to the silent occupants of the ret, the stranger cast a look upon the signs of their poverty and disappeared. Mile. de Langlais opened the box and extreme fineness, stained with sweat. As stains, “That ts blood xclaimed the priest. “It is marked with the royal crown,” cried the other man. let fall the precious relic with gestures of horror. eee ee © @ 8 k from it a handkerchief of e unfolded it they saw dark The sisters . After the 9th Thermidor the nuns and the Abbé de Marolles were able to go about Paris without incurrin, y danger, The Abbé, dressed as the times required, was leaving the doorstep of a shop situated between the Church of Saint Roch and the Rue des Fondeurs when a great crowd com- ing down the Rue St. Honore hindered him from advanoing. “What ie it?” he asked. “Oh, nothing,” answered the woman of the shop. the executioner going to the Place Louis XV. Ah! we saw enough of that last year! But now, four days after the anniversary of the 21st of January, we can look at the horrid procession without distress. “Why 80?" asked the Abbé. “What you say is not Christian.” “But this im the execution of the accomplices of Robespierre. They have fought it off as long as they could; but now they are going in their turn where they have sent so many innocent people. The crowd which filled the Rue St. Honore passed on like a wave. Above the sea of heads the Abbé de Marolles, yielding to an impulse, saw, htanding erect in the cart, the stranger who had sted in the Masn of Commemoration, Who is that?” he ‘That is the executione "Ife must have given me," maid the old priest softly, “the handker- chief with which the King wiped hia brow as he went to his martyrdom, Pqor man! that ateel knife had a heart when all France had none,” Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers. HE peraon|the right sdft of lo’ who etarts|trust. And, at the very least malictoug| ™plies a willingness to hi aldes of the case. It in incom: and untrue gos-/|with rash prejudgment. If you are sip is despicable, |Kood friends with a person, if you But the person| hear some apparently well founded atory which belittles or beamirches who believes auch | him, you should never belleve it with- gossip about aout asking your friend if it ts true. close friend with- out even giving! “A. I." writes: “It is the cart and “the one standing?” “Kindly settle the the friend a| following dispute: A save when 6 gentleman is walking with two ladies chance to defend| he should walk on the outside, B himeelf ts almost | says he should walk between the ¢: equally at fault. ladies. Which is correct?" right sort of friendship, like <A is eorregt. Hi wo a | Hubbies | And Hobbies By Sophie [rene Loeb Press Pubsishis eo. ening World.) ‘ORK, play, study, laugh; flavor all with love, and have a job and a hobby; and you have the key to the sltua- tion,” ia the pre- scription for ha pineas given by a present-day phil- owopher, And at leant a} new element to) the oft propound- ed recipe is that of the “hobby. It la a wise addi- tion, since, in this twentieth cen- tury, a man without a hobby ie like an individual without Individuality, Rarely do we find one with soul so dead who hasn't a hobby or isn’t in the process of getting one. Too many hobbies spoil the business broth, Yet, again, there are good hobbies and bad hobbies, and hobbies that tear down rather than build up. Therefore a hobby je something to be reckoned with in the pregent! acheme, where there are so many to choose from. For, be has broken Up the hearthatone and later strongly figured in the divorce courts, Hobbies become habits, Many | a wife has had to put up with her) hubby's hobbies in order to keep him, . ‘Therefore in double , & few general hinta, harness, at lea: 11 considered, might avert unneces- sary breakdowns on the mari roads, Some of thése timely oneg are: Don't hope to keep a hobby in which you get all the pleasure and your wife has to do all the hard work. If your) hobby {s cameras, don't let the extent of your work be taking the snapshots and let your wife do the ine.” Bon'y spend a}l your money on your carpenter shop which happens to be YOUR hobby and have none for your wife's flower-garden, if that happens to ba HER hobby. Don't say “a married woman must nettle down,” If your wife wants to take lessons in singing or dancing in| her spare moments, She prove | a better companion than the stay-at- home wife. Don't practice on the cornet for endless hours. Your wife may be fond of REAL music, Take your hard practising to a remote part of the house. Don't assert your authority if your develop- | wife wants to join a suffrage club or |! an anti-suffrage society, She has a right to her opinion and perhaps is not asked when you want to join your lod, Don't hi @ collection of canes, and then make fun of your wife's weaknesa for new veils, Don't inalat on taking your wife to musical comedies, which are your perticular pleasure, and refuse to take her toan ccasional problem play ground that you need some- forever being tortured with suspicion. nown, many a hobby |” | Mrs, Cummings this afternoon? And | “She was lovel ticular offense?" find it out? I hope you didn't aby | “You know George Landon?" 1 bls wife?” he eafd anxiously, 4 asked, should say ni I returned. “Yes, What has Landon done? lie “She was speaking of how much always struck me nt Landon did, and what a nice:mald a Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Uo. (The New York Evening World), - i RRIAGE {s neither all tragedy nor all comedy, but just a mixture of both, with a dash of farce, a soupcon of mélodrama, and & seasoning of continuous vaudeville. M’ ‘ A man always looks at a woman through elther the right or the wrong end of a telescope, and thus always sees her as a divinity or a devil-~ never as a human being. i It fe a terrible shock to a bride to see the man who vowed he loved “her only,” in all the world, show a healthy, vital interest in a broiled etea¥ and baked potatoes, when he might be looking into her eyes. There never was a man so small an & two-hundred-pound woman “Little On insignificant that he couldn't eal ‘ with a perfectly etraight face. It Je better for a woman to believe everything her husband says aué 0 on forever being deceived than to believe fothing he says and go es So confident {s a man of his own brilliancy that he will not hesitate to marry a fool, and then expect his son to be a genius. A woman loves all men in general and adores one man in particular; ® man loves no woman in particular, but adores all women in general.’ é Possession is nine points of the love-game—and the tenth ts cane. Business Girl's Motto: Better marry and be @ poor man's slave than stay single and be a rich man's stenographer. Ballade of New York. By Eugene Geary. Conyetght, 1914, by The Pree Publivhing Co, (The OME woo the muse at Brickbat,| A ma: Ky., And others at Sedalia, Mo, (And there's @ fount that ne‘er runs dry In Pompton Lakes, N. J., we know.) Nowhere the Nine glide to and fro So gracefully and fill with hope ‘The poet’s heart as on Park Row— New York's the true Parnassian slope. Now spring is here and bird! ngs fy Around the park when zephyrs ; The City Hall poit All gilded in the w ‘e song hath nc! ork’s the true Parn: L'ENVOI. here classic grasses Across the plaz Big towering high, skyscrapers their shadows thro “Sinkers,” “beef and” delight the eye ir in the cellar’s depths below— Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), CHAPTER XVII. ; derstand, and so Jandon got on to it. D you know that Mr. Somers} he peegplaa ts) bale the money { ve her for household expenses made all hia money in the for other things, And she had bits atock market? And that he/all over the place. He squared them was a poor clerk until just all and, T heard, forbade her ever to 8 few yeate ago?” I auked TUN in debt, sgain. Evidently she 1as disobeyed him, and that accounta Jack that night after dinner, {for the newspaper notice you are eo I had been thinking about them exercised over.” and the way they lived ever since), “But you don't think he ta right? Gorile had tlaitie about them, ; That it is decent for a man to put i, {his wife in suc position, "No," Jack replied indifferently, “I! Why the pase thine wit cee we knew he kept an account at Robina/ able to hold up her head again!” .E & Shields, but he has teen a rich!? ithe Bail * man ever since I met him." ‘ow emphatic you are, Sue, + v8 told you If thought that Landon. ‘How long have you known them,!q pretty aquare sort of chap. ithe Jack?” | asked. | has advertised in that way he “I have known Mildred Somers | strong reasons for doing so. 1 still about four years, I think. 1 have say ‘poor fellow!'" this time rather only known him’ since just befo 1 thonght, they were married, about two yea | ou don't suppose she will stay lack answered. {with him after he has done a thing Well, if he was only a clerk, and! like that?” 1 inquired. he could make money enou, vo! “Yes, I rather imagine she will, It as they do, I don’t see why you can't! ; will make her apgry for a time, but It's all nonsense, Jack! If Flam &| George Landon is a good fellow, and Co, won't let you do as you want to,/I rather think they will kiss’ and o wo with some one else,” I advised, _|make up," Jack answered carelessly. ay don't understand, Sue, 1) “Well, tT wouldn't if | was in her afford 10 @ firm like! place. Neither would any woman if *o. with no excuse but that t' she 1 exploded, want to speculate. Do you suppose’ “Well, her place, any decent firm would give me a job|dear, and I hope you never will Be,’ under those conditions? No, girlie,|Jack said laughingly. “Come, now, you must be satisfied with things haven't we gossiped enough? Or have they are until I get another raise. It}you something else on your min@? won't be long. Mr. Flam said some-|If so, out with it before | commence thing to-day that let me know he/to read!" wan conaldering {t,” he finished with| “No, that & pleased expression. tan't eith ell, 1 only hope he will hurry|think Clitton I replied ungraciously, , have always wi “Did you have a nice visit with all. I think. Oh» ne, It pw much do you ummings makes? . I they yi" T sald with the accustomed envious twinge, “L haven't the alighteat idea, Sue,” Juck returned in rather a bored man- was baby good?" changing the subject. We juat fixed hi he asked, ‘on a@ pile of ws and she nev Er about the same ap I do, I pesper uni) fo come home: Bi “Indeed he doesn't. He ten't bale inable thing, smart as you are and not nearly the newspapers, too ntl ue indie: | 8 well educated, but he makes = & month more!” ‘I grumbled, “I didn't think he made quite much, but he's a fine fellow ana dee Serves to succeed, But how did you ‘J at many things YOU might! call minuble” have to be pun- lished, dear. But what was this par Gwing some in- she kept. And then made the re- mark that they only had §200 a m at that time to live on, the same she had now.” “Poor Lando | peated. ana, | read aloud to me until EB “Jack, would ANYT ever e you put a thing Ike that in the 1 asked after [ had y, he has advertised in tho apers that he won't pay his wife's pills! ‘That's what Gertie says it means, Did you ever hear of any- thing so insulting?" | asked notly, “So it has come to that, his it? Jove, I'm sorry! There must ha been some truth in the gossip about extravagance, after Jack added. Poor fellow! All the ti “Why in the world do you say ‘poor had been listening to a single word, “What makes you ask auch foolish me he had been reading thinking, wondering, fellow? 1 should think It was ‘poor ng, Bot wife’ to be so insulted by her own husband! [ never heard enything like in my life! Gertie said she was —such # good housekeeper, ant, always looked #0 nico, I should think @ man would be proud of such a wire instead of trying to humiliate her * questions, dear?” Then soberly, look- ing lovingly at me, he continued: “Yes, Sue. 1 betieve | would be, ou think, cruel enough to dovas andon has done, if you gave me the sufficient cause, N, me No man, no I stopped for breath. young man who has his own way to “Don't get excited, dear. Every) make in the world can ever got aloni Sf story haa two sides, and I rather, against such odds," he finished imagine this one has, There was a! thoughtfully. good deal of gossip about it two "Hut [don't believe she EN. yearn ago. I believe she got in debt. TENDED to do wrong,” L countered. to the shopkeepers @round here and! “Perhaps not, but the feelin ae it. And above all, ride your hobby and don't let ‘your hebby ride you. then to escape them persuaded Lan- | the same, So, littl» wife, 5 don to move. Which he did, know-| want me to advert.ve that wut et wl nos ing nothing about the bills, Some! pay your debt: ¢. eauat' ro jung them, uss (fo Be Continues @rocer or butcher fo!