The evening world. Newspaper, April 27, 1914, Page 14

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. tama Dae Sak RA te funn comma 1 Park how, Bevered, the at New York Class Matter. 4 Cy Taehaaf na the Continent and aerreria tor re States an Countries in the International end Canada, Postal Ui 68.00] One Tear. -801One Month.. soccccseseeeeNO, 19,242 This country is now in conflict with a man in Mexico who hates the United States, who pretends to speak for the people of Mexioo—upon whom he is able to impose his will, and who helds it in his power to precipitate a grave war. In the epring of 1846 this country was involved in serious struggle | ‘by « Mexican demagogue and blatherskite who hed shortly before _peised the government by revolution end whose public documents and \ ” \pddreases “all breathed the deadliest animosity to our nation.” | If Gen. Paredes hed not come between the people of Mexico and! ‘the people of the United States while they were seeking to agree over’ © the annexation of Texas, both nations might have escaped the Mexi- ‘ean War. _Herrera, the Mexican President whom Paredes drove out, ‘hed gladly agreed to receive John Slidell, Envoy Extraordinary and ‘Wnister tiary, “commissioned with full powers to settle ‘the dispute in a peaceful, reasonable and honorable manner.” F “There is scarcely a doubt,” writes a historian in 1850, “that ‘Herrera ami his ministers were sincere in their desire to settle the " dmternational difficulty.” But just at this moment Paredes, popular ‘with the army and a part of the people, saw his chance, turned Herrera out of the executive chair and straightway began to insult the United ee States, “invoking the god of battles and calling upon the world to : (witness the valor of Mexican arms.” Slidell was forced to return with his mission unaccomplished. Paredes went on with his military demonstrations, assumed the airs of a dictator, encouraged suspicion and animosity in the Mexican people toward this country and “prohibited free discussion through the press.” Until our government was ready to welcome anything which might destroy the ambitious aad unpatriotic projects of Paredes, promote the cause of peace = * ° %* and result in the downfall and total destruction of the greatest enemy we possessed on the soil of our sister republic. | The parallel is perfect. President Wilson might have applied: the identical words to Huerta. Less than eix weeks after Slidell left Mexico, Gen. Taylor was) <a Rio Grande and the first blood had been spilled. Four months : Paredes tried to fly the country, was captured and allowed to} retire to Europe. The war which he precipitated went on. . Feb. 2, 1848, found the United States signing one of the most, ‘Mberal treaties ever agreed to by a conquering nation. We paid: | Mexico $15,000,000 for s shift of boundaries. We paid $3,250,000 ito aettle any claims our own citizens might have against her, “so as to discharge Mexico forever from all responsibility.” *. Is farther conquest to mean further philanthropy ? ° $4 > —____ Hs repeats itself with extraordinary precision. Ne fo Fire Chief Kenlon has a snow removal sch;me which calls for four new. sewer manholes sround every existing one. Why, Rot make the whole street a lid and take it off when it snows? ep ‘THE METROPOLITAN, OPERA SEASON. oi 30 MANY New Yorkers the knowledge that the great golden oy. T curtains of the Metropolitan Opera House have fallen together . for the last time this season, after twenty-four weeks of glo- “‘rhous sound and spectacle, brings a senso of loss. And those who will miss the opera most are not the resplendent box-holders who come et 10 and call for their limousines at 10.30. The musical experts can tell us whether orchestral and vocal » standards might have been still higher, whether the choice of new +; works might have been still better. These facts remain: __., The Metropolitan Opera Company has given New York in twenty- > — fear weeks 154 performances of 36 different operas, of which 18 were + Italian, 18 German, 4 French, 1 Russian and 1 American. It has epent $1,750,000 to make these performances acceptable to a critical If the approximate profits for the Metropolitan season must be pat down es 60.00, Director Gatti-Casazza and Comptroller John “Brown are atill to be congratulated that the deficit is not likely to go far above the seme figure. New York opera lovers do not forget certain things. Opera here- @douts counts on no king or emperor to help out with imperial aub- » , eidies from an imperial strong box. No grand duke runs our opera _ J for his personal prestige. No taxes are levied to support the Metro- *_politan or any other American temple of music. : In Europe opera has all these helps. In Europe there are opera Houses which architecturally and in limited artistic fields can claim , . to be the best of their kind. Nevertheless it remains true that no- 4 where in Europe could one have heard so long a season of opera 80 sumptuously staged, eo carefully produced, with such excellence of py singing and such comfort and convenience to the public as has just ‘been furnished to democratic New York, a Gen. U. 6 Grant was born ninety-two years ago to-day, Ag More About “Bad 7, To the Bdkor of The Evening World: How heppily in your recent edi- torial concerning the "Bad Taste Ex- position” have you expressed thoughts that I couldn't phrase ao well and yet which struggled for ut- terance. I didn't attend the exhibit, yet when I saw notice of the affair and realized that its only motto “Ridicule" I was fairly disgusted. atyle and fashion quickly change, Jand what the would-be humorists of the exhibit now Peosmammand may very fe ly be co! “Wa ort ie he ash barre! ‘& few years, And how reprehe: a eee to Bene at tl an good in their musical composition and tender in their sen- Yiment! You very safely suggested the originators of the exhibit prise for “worst mi How is “Huerta” pronounced and hae it any meaning as a Spanish word r as well as being a man's name? TAR ' “Huerta” {8 pronounced oo-er-tab r the modern dances some men are light on their feet—and others light often as the “stag party” and the “hen party.” is high up the feet above natives give it the name of Bolo. Its flower was first found in Sumatra and | Introductory to Florence Hull Wintet TAKE M DowN-You Greaser! OR FUL KNOCK Brock oFF Me SEE You "You Are AGAIN JARRING Nuc, hare rian Aust Fight NAM IWONT Do IT. Kites uxteet as USUAL 1 vr coor trio’ You Witt LEAVE JOUR TEAM To Go “To THE FEDERALS| You witt x | & OFA Sy HELEN ROWLAND. Copyright, 1914, by, The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Breming World), on their partners’ feet. It {8 not the “third party” who separates husband and wife half so Work Your pri rat Lou 1 WAN By Maurice Ketten Tone soar Baxi FIACHINE . THAT Don't Rest . |} First War With Mexic To IMPUDENT GIRL . IF WILL PORT You & NOT To THROW Your Audoy, DIRTY, SHOES ON THE SOFA = When a man calls himself “a brute” after a love spat don't be foolish |many drinks that he will get into DIS-grace with her. enough to agree with him or he may start in to prove it. There's a sweet silver lining in the thought that if women had the jeyes at him! The Largest Flower. 'T 1s believed that the island of Mindanao produces the largest flower in the world. Its habitat Mountain, 2,500 f the sea, The JOMAN'S craze for “some- thing new" is a plague against which Jean Worth, the Paris dressmaker, de- clares himself in a chapter full-blown blossom, five-petaled, is more than three feet in diameter and weighs twenty-two pounds. Tho fur, W was called Rafflesia Schadenburgta, | (478 in honor of its discoverer. ‘Principles of Correct Dress” 's), a small blue and gold vol- | ume to which Paul Poiret furnishes ——-———. | the finale, The founder of the house of Worth fought this craze. All the traditional courage of the house is needed to keep Hits From Sharp Wits. r ae it within limits to-day. ‘ 2 Do women care whether a fashion In twenty generations every Per-|o, a color is intrinsically beautiful son has had 131,076 ancestors.” Enough ly? ¢N to blame for all our shortcominga—|{y new, ‘all im well, A Indy came to Toledo Blade. me one day and said, with eager weariness: ‘M. Worth, I have seen all the flowers there are, you not fashion a new one for me Model your conduct after the man who does things and stop listening to the fellow who tells you how a thing should be done.—Macon Telegraph. Are sign, It wi in Lyons fi “Women,” M, Worth deplores, “are wont to change the color of ‘their hair and the tint of their complexion --not at all to their advantage, lor, after all, Nature does know best. “Meadames, it is a disease, this mania for change; though, indeed, 1 ought not to preach against it, ¢ mercially speaking, for it ta fi cially splendid for us dreasma! 5 But personally | must raise my volce as an artist, for that {s my element, the one I have most at heart. ee “L marvel that women fuss so greatly about their clothes, They fuss far too much. Not only must the modes be changed for them weekly, dally—almoat hourly; not only muat | new colora, eometimes very ugly ones, | tion. handle. Even in the days when America waa atill all Indian there were doubt- lesa big chiefs who had more wam- pum than some of the warriors thought they could ha’ acquired honestly, to-day ide.” Cynicism is about 99 per cent. af- fectation, | Fine diplomacy is required to main- friendly relations among rela- Albany Journ: eee A man cannot always be judged by the age of his joke eee The uglier the baby the more it is sald to look like its father, eee If you want results, advertise your goods and not yourself. Self-adver- tiv pretty colora are old—but the women of to-day must pomsess fan elaborate tollettes, gowns th complete melee of materials, M. Worth pleads for simplicity. He} i dialikes and detests the tendency of the age toward “mere glitter and show! a mode. and novelty for the mere sake of! selves, iad, Sia oat oa H But “those e invent —for all the|fectly gowned one Beste oattia are ole oan th \Selves, there is real distinction; ti {a a woman supremely well dressed! M. Worth appeals to what he calls | mak “tact in dress,” which is a recogni-|conserver of self-respect. tion of one's own individual require- |cheapens Its possessor. ments rather than blind following of With tact and good taate It Worth Abjures Woman’s Craze for “Something New” in Clothes To thie artist, conflicting types of Jace on one wasit are abhorrent. And ‘to me it is sacrilege to mate lace with two exquisite media in proper place.” “Old-fashioned” is a fearsome phrase to the unthinking, but “believe me, it would be vastly better for the beauty of the world if women would revert to the spirit of sweet reasonableness that inspired their grandmothers and great-grandmothers, “Fifty years ago their the well-dressed woman thought herself fully equipped if in her wardrobe half a dozen new gowns found a place each season, or each year, according to the -require- ments of her position or her husband's, These she wore steadily, with slight alterations, rejoicing rather in beauty of fabric than in extravagance of de then that the silk trade urished so well and pro- duced materials 1t was a delight to “No false pride prevented these women from: wearing their toilettes time after time, even at the same houses where they visited; whereas gown once seen wearer's ‘set’ 1s worthy only to be in its at aside. M. Worth tells his readers that “one of the best-dressed women in all Paris buys only three tollettes a But those three are perfect in taste, in fit, in materials.” the type of woman at whom every one | in the street will stare.” her aim and desire to attract atten- It is not need make no difference that the Using pays the least dividends.—Ma- Let him assure his readers| purse ia limited. con Telegraph. at ‘the effect that is really impos-| ‘Be not fashion’ ‘Take that ia eases * ms yeah ie must be. enna by other eenne leseaa in Beart, Li 7%. Drop heal than by piling alien materials, all|back in the erace, y some PM frame of mind.—Columbia beautifully” apart, radox you will Gnd you are ALAAAAAAAALAKAARAALAAAAAABAAABAABAS Some Men Are Light on Their Feet; Sore Light on Their Partners’ Feet. FF 8 8 08 08 8 08 8 8 8 0 8 8 28 8 08 8 8 8 08 08 8 8 28 0 8 8 franchise NOW the men probably would blame the war on us, just as they blame us for starting all the quarrels ‘round the house. When a man pursues you flee and he will follow; when he flees from you don’t follow and he will turn around, sooner or later, and come back to see what is the matter.’ A woman may pay more for a hat in the beginning than a man does, but by the time he has finished checking his at a few restaurants and dan- sants the cost of the two averages about evenly. When the average man gets in bad grace with his wife the only way which he can think of for relieving the situation is to go out and take so Let me make my husband's COFFEE—and I care not who may make Straight From The Shoulder Success Talks to Young Men, Se’t-Control. OST of the foolish things we do M —the things we are sorry for afterward—happen at moments when we are not in full control of ourselv Many a young man has seen fleet- opportunity elude his grasp be- cause at the moment the self-control necessary to intelligent reaching was not his. Self-control means precisely what it reads—the full command of your- self, the captaincy over your mind and body under military discipline, It means to be able to hold your- self in check when natural inclina- tion would overstep the bounds of It means quite as well to be wble to speed yourself up inwiely It is both brake and throttle common. sense. when natural lags. under your hand. It is more. inclin: fon blidhing Co, orld.) It in steering wheel too, It 1s the mental poise which enables you to ecan guideposts and turns in the road without too much prejudice or predilection, but rather with an open- mindedness that invites and recognizes ar! | reason. Self-control keeps you from fighti: Self-control-—control It's not easy. It's hard. This one is “not| When peace is of greater moment, a from peace when fighting is needed. It keeps you from doing the unwise |thing when emotion or lack of patience who see the per-|or momentary weakness or outside to them. | pressure would lead you into indlecre- tlons of temper, or speech or action. Self-control wins many victories, but ew enemies. And it is a great It of self. never It's harder than controlling some one else. to commanding enly a matter o! can control you: etrong! ent. you are It you're in @ position to command, the others must obey. But when it comes ourself—ol The Story of Our oO By Albert Payson Terhune ‘ Copyright, 1914, by Ibe Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), NO. 3—THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA. N a soapbox, in front of his tent, on the morning of Washi Birthday, 1847, sat Zachasy Taylor. He in his shi his clothes were mud-spattered; three days’ growth of beard was on his chin; he was smoking @ corncob pipe. i weeping down in torrents. In front of Taylor, and haranguing ole ly, Was a gorgeous dapper Mexican staff officer, ian * The Mexican, who had just arrived in the little American, camp at the Buena Vista mountain farm, was telling Gen. Taylor that the latter’s §¥@ » thousand raw recruits could not possibly hope to hold their own for @” single hour against the twenty-one thousand veterans whom Santa Asa, dictator of Mexico, Was leading against them. i The speaker ended his oration by saying that Santa Ana was prepare® ito it honorable terms of surrender to the helplees enemy. Taylor's reply was a grunt of negation. : |. “But, argued the Mexican, ; Wholly in ¢ | “All right,” without taking pl | from between his teeth. “Tell him to come along and take m No sooner did the envoy repeat this message to Santa Ane than Mexican army was set in motion and bore down upon the supposedly doomed Americans, It nad not gone before Sante ASS 5 | ‘Against the first of several es in hie plasma, ‘ i Fearful © nnn Pp a spot among the hills where the Mexican cavalry and would be well-nigh useless on account of the steep and slippery grounds. In the afternoon the battle beran and waged flercely until darkness put a temporary stop to it. By that time the bulk of the Mexican forces wae massed along a ridge; the Americans on lain at its base. Taylors men slept on the bare ground in the rain, without fire or tents. At dawn next day, Feb. 2%, the fighting began again. columna the Mexican army hurled Itself againat the Am der the impact of the rush the American left wing crumbled and was beaten backward. But the right wing and the centre gallantly withstood the shoots and not only held their id but drove back the enemy. Then the Mexican cavalry—lancers for the most part—born riders an@ mounted on some of the finest army horses in the world—bore down upem the American lines, Into the Yankee ranks they crashed, And out of the Yankee ranks they receded again, shattered in formation and routed. ‘Twice Santa Ana’s cavalry charged. And twice it was repulsed, Taylew concentrated his artillery fire on the Mexican infantry to the right and hammered it from the field. All day the battle continued, with varying fortunes; the American army all but smothered and ground to atoms beneath the overwhelming weight of opposing numbers, yet standing firm and repelling every charge with feare ful loss. “Gen. Taylor has been beaten three times already to-day,” said oné steal officer to another. . “Yea,” replied the other; “but he doesn’t know it!” That was the secret. Taylor did not care a rap for military tradi or precedents. He was there to fight—not to surrender. And he fought. ‘Toward the end of the day, having failed to sweep the hated Yi off their feet, Santa Ana sent forward an aide waving a flag of truce, tired Americans ceased firing and rested gratefully on their muskets. Gude. denly—almost too late—Taylor saw that the flag of truce was a treacherous ruse to hide a new attack upon the American centre by the whole Mextoam arm; quei em to understand. You y. And the battle began again—all the hotter for the brief lull and for the Yankees’ anger at the dastardly trick played on them, Treachery ‘Taylor alone ‘was cool. Seeing the charging Mexican j and—Victory! tre waver: he turned to an artillery commander an@ “Give ‘em a leetle more grape, Cap'n Braggi” ‘The command was obeyed. The Mexicans broke and fied in confusies, The battle was over. Taylor's 5,000 had thrashed a force more than foup times on large as their own. Under cover of night the enemy crept away from Buena Vista, leaving the victors in undisputed possession of the hard-won field. The Americans had lost 746, a son of Henry Clay being among the Slain. The Mexican loss was about 2,000, : Polk's plan to check Taylor's career ag a popular hero had failed. Aftes Buena Vista the old warrior returned home, the people's idol, and the memg year was elected President of the United States. | Irish Memories. Copyright, 1914, by The Press Pi GREEN mist hung o'er the wa! Js eg hake ; ley shone in its ecata- By Eugene Geary. a Co, (The New York Evening World), Years ago—arid I sometimes wonder If ehadown are atill remembere@® there? April sunny, with smiles and tears, Like poor Ireland—it chills aa@ The honeyed scent of the weving ie honeyed scent o: clover Is wafted over across the years, Bowed in grief ie the Dear Dard ead, With ‘April blossoms around” her he waits for the bright, awaking When dawn is breaking and bi has fled. i The ales Of April—month of the star-bright blossoms— Dear Island Mother, I cling to these! The hawthorn, snow-white, the wood- bine sweet, The wild blue-beil in its lone retreat, No wonder memory fondly trace: Olden places with golden feet, Overmy heart was that soft-sweet air: Childhoo ia April everywhere— IRLS who ave looking simple to wear during mornin, hours the summer for nis or general door use will this modal an ceptionally one. 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