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ESTABLISHED BY Padtiates Daily Except Sunday dy the y Except euge Park Row, New York. WHAT BARGAIN COUNTER LL You'tt HAVE THESE WEEDS ARE CHOKIN , RALPH PULITZOR, President, 62 Park Row. Dib You Ger is Bon HOSE 7 IN Spout Fu THe POWERS PULL THEN UJ! rt Payson Terhune : sek th Be BAD AR renee a Bae how. IT's LEAKING AND 7 Too SHORT © WATERED- IT MUST BE DONE| By Albe y The Eve Lal « JOSEPH PULITZER. Preas Publishing Company, Nos, 53 to he Post: to The Evening -Office at New York as Second-C’ ‘ass Matter, For England and the Continent and All Countries in the International _ aoe $9.78 AB \ ning World Daily Magazine, Monday, June 15, 1914 m4, By Maurice Ketten Rrening World) ITHUST BE DONE | Copyri The Love Stories |. Of Great Americans} \ Aght, 1014, by Tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). NO. 7—AARON BURR AND THEODOSIA PREVOST. YOUTH of twenty fell madly in love with a widow of thirty. ‘This was in 1777, The young lover was Aaron Burr, @ gallant ; officer in the Revolutionary Army. The woman was Theodosia bt: 5 VO, 19,29 Prevost, widow of a British colonel. oe VOLUME St... ccc cece cee c eee eeeceeceeeeverees NO, 19,291 eS ee wecselaw cone a om i if the river and sixteen miles fur- i Mrs. Prevost was living on the other side o: wan , be WHAT'S THE SERVICE WORTH? T and other privileges on i The city shares in the receipts ough sees a way to get the big en feeurprised. The Interborough sel * the contract through as the Inte endeavored to look innocent by “re: “drop. Last Friday it postponed act Satay se the terms upon which it will permit In other words, the Public Sei the Interborongh has dictsted exac' * is entitled to have done for it. Meantime the public may ask bie quicker and cheaper to be held up S . £ % Evening World furnished the cou: it all, ion person? Why interpose an expensive commission with a confusing the anxiety that is so often anguish. It told it first—it told HAT the Interborough Rapid Transit Company is scheming to have the $11,000,000 contract for advertising, newsstand ts enlarged subway and elevated ystems assigned to a favored bidder, has long been plain. | The Interbor- So far nobody dom varies ita spots. from this source. id of the bargain. The public, however, maintains at considerable cost a Public anoments when the public didn’t seem to be looking they tried to sneak | rborough planned. When public! opinion woke up and asked for fair public bidding the Commission | considering” or letting the matter | ion indefinitely. Meanwhile it appears the Interborough has been asked to state the public letting of the contract. | rvice Commission cannot do any-! )) thing for the public in « matter which deeply concerns the city until tly how much it thinks the public | iteelf a question: Mightn’t it be) by a corporation, so to speak, in intry Saturday, saved thousands BUT WorRK | AA, “THAT WAY oR NoT But tl to a spot on woman was morals or In spite death. Mark Prevo Prevost's de: To earn en examination: He and went sharp married nin The last six lead his horse aboard, A Romantic Night Journey. he bad come; arriving at his quarters before any one suspected hi: In his long—and often wicked—life, Burr had many love affairs. Most of them discreditable. He was apparently the type of man whom no from the hour he met her, The widow was not pretty and she was not rich. (of a Shrewsbury, N. J., merchant named Bartow, and was married to Col. “Continue to multiply your letters to me. ther up stream, To Burr—who had met her by chance ata friend's home and who had fallen {n love with her at sight—this distance offered no obstacle. He could not secure permission to leave camp and visit her. There was apparently no means of getting from bis regiment's quarters to her house:;, hese drawbacks could not check him. very night, as soon as bce came on, Burr used to ride secretly the river bank, he kept hidden a huge scow. hrow” the animal onto a heap of buffalo the bottom of the boat, and then laboriously row across the river. On the far side he would moor the boat, lead his horse ashore, mount and ride sixteen miles to ANGTHER St the door of Mrs. Prevost's cottage, There he would a Service Commission to protect its interests on such occasions. Ore “THAT MUST BE DONE _ | be able to remain, perhaps, only for a minute or two; for a word with the : Chairman McCall and his fellow Commissioners have handled the! B Wi CRASS Ie Bo adored widow. After which, he would return to camp in the same way ‘i Anterborough advertising contract in a singular manner. At various = absence. able to resist. Incredibly handsome and graceful, gifted with brilliancy and almost uncanny magnetism, and wholly without either cruples, he counted his conquests by the scores. of all this, he was wholly and absorbingly devoted to Theodosia And he was faithful to her to the day of her She was the daughter pst at Trinity Chureh, New York City, im 1767, Soon after ath she met Burr. Burr was almost as poor as she, and apparently with no prospects. ough money to marry Theodosia, the youthful lover left the army and, after a single year of night-and-day study, passed all the law is needful to admit him to the bar. He could have married dozen girls of wealth and family who would have advanced most selfish and ambitious of Americans Theodorta were married. For the first year or two they under- privations; for the young attorney had few clients. Then his genius werted itself, and swiftly he rose in fame a” heme onon! Two and fortune, until he waa one of the foremost law- y, ’ EIGH' yers and political leaders tn the country. Te the a h aATRY: By THE Roots ENING Love Let Inst he and his wife remained devoted to each other.” a — IE COUNTRY. T Must BE DONE We COUN’ Their family life was perfect. A letter written to % The complete story of the New York’s mishap, which The NOTHING To Do AT ALL sSolietecstaabdl ue Theodosia by Burr during an absence from home, after they had been ie years, begnn: They are all my solace. are continually within my reach. I read them once a day at ie we me all that I have asked, and @ hundred things which * | have not.” i} In her answer to this letter, she wrote: “Tell me, why do I daily grow GIVE BACK THE BEACHES TO THE PUBLIC. | more tenacious of you. love? Is it because every revolving day proves you more deserving?” Mra. Burr died tn 1794, leavt daughter, hi ke, Theodosti von EOPLE who to Coney Island for a look at the sea and a | From the time of his wife's abate Bore estes, te have) thrown away at 8 go wef ee i Nigh fdeals. Hie life, therenfter, was one of fame, followed by infam ws walk on the open beach will find they are atill expected to pay It wan a life, too, strewn with many loves; but not marked Ne one San dimes and nickels for these privileges at every turn. and ablding affection, The best of him had died with Theodosia. ta. Jetties, palings and barbed wire continue to fence off the people’s Sg Se Sat ‘ ; neve) ; rst ‘*Speaker. % foreshore. Upon various pretexts Pervae owners still he bar. HE first Speaker of the House) successors were Henry Clay, whe Eo yy/tiere slong the sands to kcep out the “undesirable public’—until it | of Representatives of the Speaker of six Congresses; "i U 8 F K. Polk, Robert C. W: © ,, Makes itself desirable by giving up fifteen cents per head. sania ohtie ot Penmeey Avigtirg A. Merovinn ard prnert.¢ io ae * Last year The Evening World made strong and repeated protest born in Trappe, Pa. 50 and ¢ John G. Carlisie, Thomas B. Reed Ate, res ‘8 A nae P in Lancaster, Pa. Muhlen-| David B, Hendersor hG . | is that the beach which belongs by every right of charter to the public | bere was succeeded by’ Jonathan|non and Champ ( ath Only Sees sh Yeast be reclaimed from the hands of private exploiters and money on ., case was promptly appealed. $e the day when it can sweep away all Three polo games are none muests the longer. the dirt piled up in another place. round spot ts whe! defo stand, which is to Boll thé! gas “when the gasman makes some. The “ts, in its outward appearance will "be Uke the big circular building that PR emee stood near the depot in New ‘thé tank is if the tank {s to be full of gas At cannot contain a panorama at the but one could go on the paint @ pageant of our local on the tank in pretty colors, ning with the arrival of the first d and ending with Jim, R. Jay, ” of dollars toheal Women, 16 and 18 Years, and 18 years, saying arose: The Bourbons have | Preval! fashions are doubtless re-| lady who follows this advice.’ land Jobn getting of the m: Maurice Wertheim hae imported | forgotten nothing and they have | sponsible, Marguerite Lindley, expert heart, subs vos Call at THE MVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION} 600 ‘small bullfrog, from Putnam | earned nothing.” Among men, however, there are |?h¥® % an amusing once aflame an Qamed Edward D. Robbini of tho board to examine to see if they are fit to nt the railroad in Connect! which is what is called prac- | law elsewhere. Mr. Robbins 1s chief counsel for the railroad, possessing other qualifica ‘ for the delicate task. He is also Commissioner of Education in of teaching young ideas how oot, but not at his client, is a little, timid man who does @aro to go alone to Washington without taking Homer Cum- The Attorney-General brought suit against the proprietors of Bteeplechase Park to recover a large amount of foreshore which belongs to the State. Leet November the Supreme Court decided s that the beach in question should be restored to the people, but the oa? Is there no way to hasten a final decision which means much millions of people? The city should do all in its power to speed # Scyeande at Coney for the free use of the public. oe ee ooo Who wished {t on Tarrytown? | sienifying spring is here and that he fences, reclaim every inch of the too much and—we have our of our commuters jump every timo the noise goes off, whic nervousnes: or lack of ing out of the car windo see the dirtiest back yards tn ea, which the editor of the Item has not cleaned yet, though spoken to about it a year or a0 ago. indicates jaying that neighborhood desolate because no one got busy and burned # soon enough. The tent fuzzy varmint about lo green stuff that is much longer, The birds do not care for tent caterpillars, they being too woolly to swallow easily, So it is up to man to attend to them, Coun use for bait in catching black bass, which It seems are finicky and require smal! frogs to bite, We » glad to know that fros have been imported for that purpose rather than to use our own, It is very pleas- | ant on the atilly night to hear tho bullfrog lift up his voice in song, is glad of it, It is a much more 4 spiring concert than that given by the crickets and katydids, indie: ting that fall is coming and that we | shall soon have to pay $7.50 a ton for coal, | the prices are moderate and mos. I Some bachelors look almost mention the word “matrimony.” as if to achieve a effect,” and then pay BACHELOR S By HELEN ROWLAND. Copyright, 1014, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co. (The New York Wrening World). HE surest sign of an “all-wool” husband is an all-silk wife. WRT as startled, when a girl happens to she had sald the word “d—n!” So long as there are fool women who will pay a beauty spectalist $20| comforts, trained-nursing and valet service he really expects, @ doctor $20 to cure it, one-half the Trumbull of turned to th Third Congr The Sure Sign of an ‘‘All-Wool” Husband Is an ‘‘All-Silk” Wife| MARANA MARA RAAAAAAA MA HAR AAKAAT AA HM HANK ARAN ARMA why so many of them are disappointed when they don't get a whole harem | for the price of one wedding ring. i A man will insist on pulling the love-knot tight before the wedding and yet strain like mad at the marriage-tie afterward A man’s notion of being true to a woman “in spirit” 1s always to hold | her in mind, even when he {s holding another girl in his arms. Perhaps if a man would spend less time before marriage trying to! persuade a girl that the only thing on earth he wants is her own sweet self she might spend more time after marriage in giving him the home fall of Napoleon, signed with reluc- tant pen the new constitution of the ountry which he claimed to rule by ‘divine right.” The weak and fatu- ous Louls, groat in nothing but a silly vanity, accepted the constitu. tion because he was forced to do so, jf the tremendous events of the revolution and the empire had never happened, Within a short time he had succeeded in alienating even the most devout royalists save the fawn- ing few who were permitted to pick crumbs from under the royal table, It _was at the time when Louis XVIII. was 80 reluctantly granting a constitution to “his people” that the “Hits From Shup Wits. The best way to get happiness ts to give it to some one, * ee Tho best summer fiction is that which advertises a quiet resort wher quitoos are unknown.—Macon Ty graph, eee Some things seem desirable only be- cause they are hard to get, oe MONG those who seek the ad- vice and services of the phy- sical trainer the types most frequently met are fat people who want to get thin and thin people who | flesh. people who wish to reduce a: en. unless it reaches a stage where the surplus flesh involves great personal discomfort and becomes a serious! menace to health. In these days very few obese women are content to re- main eo, @ condition for which the far more seekers for ways and means to put “meat on their bones” than there are fat men thin. Owing to the rush and worry incident to modern business and pro- fessional life, faulty nutrition and consequent more and more prevalent. Plump women, in thelr quest for M adopted many! sienderness, have methods, most of which are futile, and some of which are positively harmful and dangerous, says a physl- cal culture expert. “Ono of the absurd practices adopt- ed by fleshy women Is to stand twenty Men are more tolerant of fat, striving to get thinness are becoming tion eal ia highly desirable, | But standing after meals, unless it | be continued for a long period, ta not i Mkely to initiate such serious diges- tive disturbances as to reduce the Copyright, 1914, by ‘The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Byening Workd), 66T\O right and fear no man; don't write and fear no es waenae woman,” is « timely slogan Apropos of this, the courts lately | feem to have| been working overtime in the perusal of love letters, on which hinge decistons | violent exercise directly after eating, | choosing only the most indigestible foods and bolting them with the as- sistance of copious draughts of ice water. This can be generally de- pended upon to start @ train of ill-| nesses that will reduce the flesh, as) well as wreck the health, and a much | smaller quantity of material will be needed in making a shroud for the ( Pattern No. account of the origin of this stand. | twenty-minutes-after-eating fad, She also to usher in new leases on life in the form of divorces. When, oh when! will we learn that written words, like bullets, CANNOT be recalled? ‘There they are in black and white; or blue and pale pink, Many @ perfumed note (penned after @ walk under the lady moon in her most mellow mood, afterward to be brought out and sniffed over by law- yera on ghe opposite side), has made the heart flutter with a different sort of’ reason. number of years ago a woman at an afternoon tea wore a stunnlig black velvet suit which she did not wish to crust Upon being urged to : ‘No, I always ure to standing twenty mi eating; and people here ha’ ractising it more or less ever since. ihe woman in the velv: ered that she had a right to mit or stand, as she pleased, without giving any excuse to any one, and the ‘atand- Constancy longer a a sorry to say tractions in the average only one girl ied” that he really is “just so busy e hasn't time to call.” of all is he ready to say, Connecticut, but was re- 6 Speake: ‘eas. Amo! Speaker of the House—James K. Polk ~—has ever reached the White House, defeating Henry Clay, an ex-Speaker, chair in the his famous HE coat that mpples below the waist Hino is the newest and, smartest and this one sives the prettiest, most graceful lines possible It 1s empel- lent for small women some similar matertal world needn't worry about how the other half gets its automobiles, At this time of the year it fe not a bad idea to go away for a few to be just @ useful Cos Cob Nature Notes. H weeks and leave your huzband alone with his conscience, so that they may Uttle slip-on coat or “A man should find all women in his wife,” sey Balzac. Perhaps, that’s| become slightly acquainted. it can be made ef SRHE Italian Signor with the Petiped poss iH. i setae bigger and = — moire silk and the wheelbarrow, who is bulld- xpecting an indictment, A Charter’s Centenary like to be @ Httle . more dressy tn effect. the ship Yards bas got the|tve'Znpnsae ue” at Galetet | TUsT « comcury ago cle mona. } And Now Science Destroys Love Letters ince tiv cut in the ’ ‘? 1 “$ oe uis 3 .. the Bourbon mon- e japanese le, ea, place people at first thought | Bang!!! on entering Port Chester, © : By Sophie I Loeb y r the pl arch who had been restored to - y Sop! rene Loe! jeeves making ene pas a circus ring all smoothed off] Aithough it happena every day some | the throne of France after the down. A Few Anti-Fat Theories however, two sections, the lower being full to sive the ripple effect an’ wet fa rmined ru and the belt covers want to get fat. | ‘di letermined to ruin fro wi the seam, vay her digestion, she could better ac-| m @ wise pen, ork called a coliseum, in which pan-| Farmer Cobb from up Weston way | Dut in every way possible he immedi-| ‘The great majority of the Obes) compiisn the purpose by indulging in of battles were shown. Of| reports that the tent caterpillars are | “tly proceeded to ignore it. He acted ps4 wd ei For the 16 year ize the coat will require 4% yds. of matertal 27, 8% yds, 36, 2% yds. 44 In, wide, with in. wide fcr 8308—Kimono Coat for Misses and Small BUREAU, Donald Building, 9 West Thirty-second street (oppo- ste Ginrbel Bres.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mal) om receipt of tem cents la coin or ‘stampe for each pattern ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and alsa: me wanted. Add two cents for letter postage if tn @ hurry. you just wonder how COULD you have written such “silly etuff.” That is because you do not take it SERI- OUSLY as you did then It is the glamour that the littlé.god throws over you i an endeavor to prove whether he hus sent the RIGHT arrow. His revenge at his own blun- in the love realm ts no tationary condition, I'm There are 80 many at~ the world that not unti) man haa gone the gamut “There 1 in this world for me,” me ders tw to leave you cold and to Alght ss 7 ee or thirty minutes after each meal. And IF that girl be you--But you} it out yourself, Noe ee ee nn mse ,fEeM | This iw not only useless but Harmful, (PE, ene? into her head ae random | MY dear trl, oF woman, when will] can't toll, Hven Cupid isn't sure any| How much Detter tt is to do your Rtacttant of unimportant thitgac:| Bd the only result it may have is | Mie ciation of excesaive fat|¥ou learn that an endearing word on| more; with easy marriages, easy di-| fxhting BEFORE than APTER take Albany Journal. “| to hinder the processes of dixestion. |4. usually a process continued over . i rth two by word of mouth, | vorces and dollar-mark hearta, It all|ing your medicine—the potion that i. Why should a sane human being take ADEE 18 WO y many ye and to get rid of it, with- starts out go interestingly. may kill or cure—and to recognize th ‘osts infinitely more s rRUE nize the food into the stomach and then seek and many a time c Yet when Cupid sends off his dart,| TRUE love from the transient. - Bnd thin, A doctor announces that he has ‘ K/out seriously affecting the general frerini mimundars Bnd thins acd Beyer becomes dlacouy walshed a human soul and it ti . to prevent Its digestion and assimila- | pean, may require ry long time, |!" Pain and suffering and inder-| 4+ is natural for you to make a fool cuse to off beam at just three-quarters of an Of course, It is natural to want to pour out your thoughts on paper ir answer to @ similar letter receive: But you'd better refrain and avers latér regret. The man or woman who writes love letters intended only to, four eyes forgets that he or she has for remaining seated, and allowing women to stand. that & woman falled to thank | siows lack of some of the finer qui Offering her a seat in @ car: ities which go to make a man, who a “never again!” I wish | ink @ man who abandons . circumstances tion? Relaxation in @ reclining post- standing, and sometimes worse, Nothing 1s permanent but change. And, contrary to the general belief, I want to whisper that @ man changes his mind quite as often as do mem- uplimited determination, and the pa- tlence of a Job. The woman who goes about ft recklessly im likely to reeret her course of reduction, Some people are born with a predisposition to fatness, which no amount of train- of yourself. You forget the future and the consequences and the courts, You just can't make your pen behave, It'a got to tell your heart's destro, And how many are there in the world, aside from those who reach ounce, which at that is better than some men can show In the way of heart.—Philadelpbia Inqulrer, eee Never unchain your temper in the welf- | face of danger. That's the time for It t shows lack of respect for worren; lack of moral courage. Difficulty makes welf-wacrifice more noble; and feels,” says a philosopher; ‘tell him a funny story." But is any story funny to a sick man?-—Toledo Blade, of Tn _contemplatin it i that just wish they had/ made a RECORD on which after h ; what we do for|ing or dieting can overcome; but most] pers of Eve's sex. He may “pour out | {he courts, Pg Ol nd ae i ¢ 7 rora bie ) is lone ons’ soough | which ie 2 an ipdioation of strength wits, not ange! 3 jentinel, ethene $0 mm any of us entirely, forget people ie fornpen Yuroueh indul- hie soul” in love phrases; end ina ‘those depen bac! a re wade ‘ an at x ray may be used. oh ‘through thick | it teh maaan uecees, i “Do not ask a sick man how he mercial Appeal. end ows Ladiud > om » ) p