The evening world. Newspaper, May 22, 1914, Page 26

Sos iti Maka ; pa ET ET ma at eee a Canada, “So NOW, ACTION! UT of « cantankerous Legislature was wrung at least the €100,000 which will permit the up-State Public Service Com- mission to get to work at once on the appraisal of the New Telephone Company's property preparatory to reducing the rates which have so long been # burden upon telephone users this city. The up-State Public Service Commission has no longer the shadow ‘an excuse for delay in securing to New Yorkers the fair telephone for which The Evening World has tirelesgly fought. Chair- Van Santvoord has put himself on record With the assurance thet + gael will be no delay as soon as the Legislature provides the : He even declared that the Commission has been arranging | the investigation in advance. The entire $100,000 in to be made available for the relief of the ie of New York City. Telephone reform in other cities where may be needed can only fit the more from prompt and drastic “ of telephone abuses here. | "The eyes of the public are now on the Public Service Commis- There should be no further let-up until all toll-gates are down’ led « five-cent phone charge finally established throughout Greater York. E ot COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN? : OW Mr. Mellen loves to linger over the great fact! The desti- | H nies of the New Haven were bound up in the brains of Mr. Morgan. | All those responsible to the shareholders of the road were as © eare-free os children in the eecurity of this conviction, Whether 000,000 vanished in the Westchester deal or $20,000,000 were d over to Senator Aldrich and his friends for Rhode Island trol- lays worth only $8,000,000. nobody felt any sense of responsibility Jong os Mr. Morgan wes there to see that everything came out right. Mr, Mellen “valued all purchases according to their prospective ” Their prospective values were what Mr. Morgan might make It was never necessary to enlighten the general public. Mr. yan knew and that was enough. It was Mr. Morgan’s death that | d the crash. Had Mr. Morgan lived dividends would etill be @ame as ever. What have New Haven stockholders to say to this? The prop- }, the savings of thousands of men and women—some of them with other meane—intrusted to supposedly responsible directors and eutives who recklessly balance the whole upon thé brains and | ce of life of one single man! Ss Is this sort of thing on such a scale ever to be possible again? y demanding restitution, New Haven stockholders, through their nt Chairman, éan do more than reclaim their own property. They in administer a big push to the economic progress of the country. 2 ee SPOILING THEIR OWN SPORT. UST motorists be nature-vandals? \ This is the most beautiful month of the year. Along roads and hillsides outside the city the foliage is fresh and pished, fruit trees are in bloom, the air is full of: soft greens bright blooms. The automobile has made it possible for thousands of more for- mate city dwellers to speed into the heart of this spring loveliness th little time and effort. Why do they abuse their privileges? Anybody who hae seen automobiles coming across the ferries a Sunday from the northern sections of New Jersey, each car d with branches of flowering dogwood—enough to fill a room— not be surprised to hear that this pretty tree is vanishing from | Pen sod. country near New York. The. autoists are not content with e AKING Rote success in wuccess as the anticipate for further spoil. bag fg aot holiday will leave it stripped to ite topmost branthes, Dwellers | tho**niaren of ; popular automobile routes are buying dogs dnd maintaining| suards to protect their trees. In the old days, when people went to the woods and fields by train \ brought to ita young man to igent and “make” things But the tonneau of an automobile holds.as much as an express | for him, gon, and the number of automobiles is legion. In five minutes a ple automobile party can strip a young tree of seven years’ growth. | “make" well, or, matically but beautiful country. How long do they expect to find it beautiful Mf they plun®er and pillag> it? record, as there are no two faces alike. Eome beards require longer! on that dollar tor lathert: n othe: tha anaes pees require with | mercial Appeal. beards need only a little water with- out any rubbing. Others require to be rubbed with the soap for from fe five 19 eight minut! and naturally . so gach acl takes just as long to get the bristles off half Income, total expenses to be met,| you are. nt WAY “lean. ee An Army Problem. To the Eéttor of The ing World: y Here ia a problem that has caused r le long ts on exceed such allowance. Hus-| ih, march A courier in the rear mat, t |lops to the front with a message, then goes back ear, reaching there rmy completes one does the courter easy, but try it, RE ‘Tm regard to the discussion as to a Day envelope, I believe a and wife should handle their When « girl at home, she force of habit force of circu News. her for cigars, soda, Béhios of Tie Ereuing World: Feading about the “rec- readers for some Yeo. ve been a b Fo the Kdior of The Evening World: ay, everybody else, of discontent. $ raight From | he Shoulder Success Talks to Young Men. preasion which for some ‘time bas been used to de- ‘There's a deeper signficance hidden in that expression. Frequently young men, whose fund of experience is just being started in the bank of life, look upon of fortunate “happenings.” They are given to the hope that things “will break right" for them. They mequence of fortuitous events that shall “happen” and lift them into coveted places, in other words, n & But they soon realise, after they have watched in vain for the propo- stripped the roadsides. They now climb hills and soour the |/t1ue% peRuener” Sf,iore, ines Calne ade.’ Nor is it only wild trees and shrubs that suffer. apple tree | causes. Atmospheric conditions con- full bloom ie a fair sight. If it grows near the rogd a Sunday or Pee ie determined "by con every event in @ young that CAUSED It, ‘This being established, it Ia up to a came back with an armful of leaves or blossomé, little harm was | Potion must, be emi If he would succeed well he must » Motorists profess to !ove theimsport because it brings them into | must “make good.” Hits From Sharp Wits. It is a whole lot easier to drive some men to drink than {t is to lead them away from it, Many a man’s cordial bandshake is due to the fact that he bas designs ip your pocket,—Com- while some see acllers” and doesn’t do a lick of work is called “literary.” In controlling Danger is never mitigated by view: | ing it with contempt. And if everybody had as much as cial Chill’’ Sure | (HAVE & EAT ANO I HAVE 16 TANGO. HAVEN'T § GOOD” is an ex- “tackling @ job.” entering school. outoome of a series ey hope to “hap- has ite contributing Where it them out cause of tl tributing nd even oceans are | pecause of the ‘a life ta mi by something | doubted! bene cause. realize that his own joyed with LH definite purpose “happen” beneficently » to less gram- more eloquently, he Mustn't he? reads the “six best destinies the | is stronger than the mstances. — Deseret ho has no sense of as funny as his|acquaintance of that would be @ cause MEA “A, Ac! writes: eee ehh, high schools? “Buch general statistics 88 | don: I have been able to gather,” says &/ but writer in the Pictorial Review, “in-| under the watchful dicate that the total number of pupils attending high echool is less than! 1. seven per cent. of the total number ‘The other ninety- three.per cent. leave as soon as they have arrived at working age or earlier, Of the small percentage who start the high school course, few complete | 7 it, The lists of pupils attending bigh schools taken from one district are: “There are on an average four Juates to each of the six bundred schools. Only one-sixth of the pupils entering are on the graduating lst. What it costs the State to turn|ninety-three per cent. help to difficult to compute be- | Ww fluctuations in attend-| and girls chosen beca' ance. oul: “Why ts it eo many pupils drop out? | and fo: ents to finance their has given knowledge ry fo juccessful high school course nor the habits of work and of perie drift slowly aw: study essential to high school success. They cannot study. Therefore they do not care to study and, find the Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers “When in Doubt.” GIRL who abe loves a man, and, in the cl ment Shall | period, finde she is mistal | she make a lifelong mistake ing the letter of her promise and marrying him? Not if she wishes to rescus herself and the man from Iifelong unbappiness. A youas, man hi in for nearly i him by keep- deen Paving, me oF What Is the Matter With the High School? renee com. as Pg te he We ee nt as ee a ce Ge | ing and dull. and girls nything of ¢! ave been fi (Bd lounge comfo! or two, eee th the high ‘igh school become submerged business colleges echools. “Sumi the ‘ere these schools who have never heir own volition fe of @ teacher, whose position depends upon their sucessful promotion, are badly fitted benefit by the freedom of the modern high school course. The high school assumes desire for knowledge and habits of study. The boys and rtably through a @ number of their nd leave because ip. But while, in lementary schools lack of habits of work, they are not responsible for school course itself or rathes for the various high r achool courses; course proper baa in the waters of and = vooa situation presents med @ nice state of affairs for a democracy, We have established free schools for @ small portion of our population— seven per cent.—for which the other use of their lar fitress for echolastic educat! factor determines t majority of bigh tho ability of their them thi use who remain, the bill.” two years. If you feel that two years, do tt. ocratic, the expense of turnin, » mounts; f the par-|{t leads, these institutions might be fh} stitutions might joling? Un-| be termed demi re oe a few drop out for this ut the great majority, as any bigh school teacher will testify, leave because they cannot keep un studies demanded, irae But just one he presence of the school students— parents to support ugh corfortably-prolon, schobling. ‘Badiy euuipped ty the tee methods of u Fading ttle in the hi by the in- elementary ract them, the from tt while out the few and we foot He says he will consent ito that. What do you advise?” rou'd better wait eantime, you can announce your engrgement, “M. Z." writes: “I am deeply in love with a girl to whom I have pald attention for a number of years. cently we had a Re- slight misunder- Th twice and since then seen her In the company of other How can I regain her love?” Write ber a note apologisin, man. your share in the obances are she'll meet you half way. “R. R." writes: but he te m has never asked for quarrel, and the “T love @ you jerely friendly. and me out, Another sometimes a girl honestly believes young man wants to pay me atten- joer tion. What shall I do?” | man ! anoth really enjoy the hen your met @ young man le has now a few days ago You must decide whether you can attentions of one heart ts given to Should She Reply? “A, 8." writes: “I am sixteen years ola and still in high school. I recently who was visiting returned home, but, ‘ahouid 1 newer. it too to begin Y whom Fortune Tellers By Sophie Irene Loeb. Corrie Ws; York Erecing Wendl ND now some more fortune tellers are brought before the courts. One of these, arrested by Commissioner Woods's detec- tives, claime to be the “descen- dant of two Presi- dents;” and on this prestige has fortune telling, Her rooms were crowded when the arrest was made. Bhe claims that “to have predicted the death of a king to a day should be matter of pride in one’s powers.” attended by bove Bordi evidence, moral an If predicting death be a matter of pride, then indeed our police are ac- freg erred notable work in putting the handcuffs oi yn these Beers of the id. ‘What barm these forecasters of the future have worked cannot be esti- mated. At the same time, in speaking of delving into the future with willing one ba ng mind. we, ge t of ndon, student of psychology, says: “We hear nothing at al ‘about th phyaical, of the permanent undermining of health and character and well being which re- sult. and of the terrible disclosures emanating from this source in the social and family life Oftentimes a few giggling girls go to a fortune teller “just for fun.” The woman fortune teller can “size hen rom her knowledge of human nature the VERY THINGS that will “impress” ahe is a keen student—thia She takes one up” in an instant, and kno‘ them. For nd dwells on ce. tain pointe that rl, be STARTLING. How easy it ts to At these partiou- lara into things ¢! have ha} or into prospective what an ordinary matter it is to know a “dark-haired woman” and a “light- haired man"—and that “you will get @ letter and cross water’—and it is stealing your lover,” ith all the attending rub- that brings thrills and ills in its our enem: &e., Bo. wake. ‘When aball we realize that no one can tell ovr fortunes as we can our- must of that fortune tell! Al tI then, behold,, we believe their other tert as gospel. How many disa: ters have been chronicled in the 1! of the devotee of the fortune-teller? When you stop to think if it a8 Gree—a gentleman observes beggar on the street—h ig becoming a gentleman. I cannot help forming some opinion of a man’s sense and good char acter from his dress; and [ believe most people do as well as myself. Any! affectation whatsoever in dress implies in my mind a flaw in the emder-; standing. A man of sense carefully his dress. He is accurately clean for his own sake and all the rest i Sor, He dresses as well and in the same manner as the people of sense and fashion in the place where he is. If he better, as he thinks, he is @ fop; if he dresses worse he ie un) negligent, but of the two I would rather have a young fellow than too little drenned, ‘The excuse on that side will wear o age and reflection, but if he is negligent at twenty, be will the sake of other people. forty and worse at fifty. Dress yourself finely where others are fine and plainly where are plain, but take care always that your clothes are well made and for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. you dressed for the day think no more of it afterward, and without ness or fear of discomposing your dress let all your’ movements be and natural as if you had no clothes on at all A friend of yours and mine has justly defined good breeding result of good sense and a little self-denial for the sake of of with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them. Taking granted, it is astonishing to me that anybody who had good sense and nature (and I believe, my son, you have both) breeding; as to the modes of It, indeed they may plans and ciroumstances and are only to be acquired by 4 experience, but thé substance of it is everywhere; good manners ase ¢ particular societies what good morals And as laws are enacted to enforce 9 04 morals, or at least te prewe the Ill effects of bad ones, so there are certain cules of civility, antversal oe to oe food manners and punish bad ones. And indeed the seems to me ese difference both between the crime punts ments than at first one would imagine. psn Mutual complatsances, attentions and sacrifices of little conventen are as natural an implied compact between civilized people as protect and obedience are between kings and subjects; whoever in either @ violates that compact justly forfeits all advantages arising from it. For my own part, I really think that next to the consciousness of & & good action that of doing a kind one is the most pleasing, and the epi which I should covet the most, next to that of Aristides, would be the “well bred.” Summer Furnishings HE fortunate woman who has a home in the country le now planning her cottage furnish- ings, and she who must remain in the city ts looking around for the Nght draperies to take the place of those ehe will soon pack in camphor. The heavy couch cover will be re- placed by one of those pretty wash- able covers, and the handsome pil- lows by serviceable linen covered | Oth cushions. The couch covers come in soft cream grounds profusely rinkled with pretty posites and | there are neat conventional designs. ‘These covers are inexpensive, & very handsome one being only $4, while many oan be bad at $2.50. To take the place of the velour and Gamask portiere there are the cotton armures in neat figures, the service- able monk's cloth and the cotton reps in all the prevailing shades, and they can be es low as 65 cents a yard. Jasper cloth makes a rich portiere a highly glistening surface and comes in the changeable effects. An excel- ot quality can ge had at $1.10 a yard. The cream lin makes pretty Wit, Wisdom**} and Philosophy | By Famous Authors x speaks to neither in a brusyue ai but corrects the one coolly, and repulses the other with humanity, There ts no one occasion in the world in which a brusque ~ In short, “les bienseances” is another 7 | tor manners and extends to every part of life, The Graces enahie us pleasingly that which requires to be done at all. ;quisite curtains in dainty color ef- at a nominal cost. This fabric has; summer draperies. A border of cre- tonne in a floral pattern can be ap- banding to asible for these prophets of the Rrown really to have the powers th proclaim, would th ‘asp this sorry scheme of things @ ire? Would not they shatter it to id it nearer to the| they not even for themselves fix the vr bite, and then remol heart's deal: Tn other words, would they be tall- aoe not indeed, in the words of old Omar, “Conspiro to Patterns. future “nearer to the! sense The May Manton Fashions Pattern 8285—Qiri's Shirred Dreag, 6 to 10 years. skirt, which can be finished with or without the flounc the 8 year size, the dress will require 2% ydi ds. 44 for the plain foundation, with 1% yd: of lace 7 in. wide for the flounces, to 3 yds. 86, 2% yde. 44 In. wide, with Y yde. Pattern No, #8°5 in cut In aizen for 6, 8 and 10 years. Cali at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Building, 00 West irty-eecond street (eppo- ite Gimbel Bros), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail on ‘receipt of ten cents im dla or stamps for each pattern ordered, IMPORTANT—Write your addrevs plainly and aleraye epectty wise wanted. Add two cents for letter postage if in a hurry. NO. 15—MANNERS, DRESS AND GOOD BREEDIN By Lord Chesterfield. T HERE te a “bienseance” with regard to people of the lowest It with his footman, even with te avoids any particular character in x l a < be When 28 e fh ie a ceserau been | according te presen observatie® em are to society in general. i Diied in applique fashion. The pretty dotted swiuses and ¢ Ideal coveriew “for the sea cover! ir usually have a deep. fut diamond oF square shaped outlined by an insertion of often seen. Sometimes there ts banded border and perhaps an o } line square of swiss in floral White linen bed covers have s bord and centre in fancy drawn work ers are merely bematitched and those in natural linen, embrotéered in pink, blue or white are very pretty and a delicate method of carrying out the color oe the room. Curtains to match are dainty. The scrime and madrasee simply beautiful this : My a Oe lace fects can be had in madras at $3.96 &@ pair. Madras curtains in delicate color effects that are both sunfast and waterproof are being shown in @ large assortment of colorings and de signs at prices ranging from 40 cents up. The acrims make pretty as well as serviceable hangings, and ¢his wenson’s stocks show an unusual variety in designe and colorings, Those with the floral or striped borders are especially pretty, and many of them are only 25 cents a yard, @re certain lawn Dartion“ta and euch inte: embrot-' dery. Asa mat fact, the t aanh | are designed for trely different casions, but it worthy of ment that the one serves for Again, the edges of the portion are af and, if I!ked, border- ed material or flounc- ing can be used for the entire dress, and every woman knows that flouncing mak. ing ite own finish reduces the labor of making. Whatever material te the full body portion ig sed = over f material 37, 1% in, wide for 7a. ot 2 make as shown in the back