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na ae nn a ae \ | ve a The Evening World Daily Magazine. Tuesday. July 14. 1914 RECTION Coprright, 1914, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Can You Beat It? Soe JOSHPH PULITZER, Jr., Secret 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Of: Bubscription Rates “to The tren ‘World for the United States and Canada. New York as Second-Class Matter, All Countries In the International Por Union. $3.80/ One Year. . .3010ne Month " VOLUME 55.........cceceeceeceecscesceeeseess NO, 19,320 WHERE WE ARE ARCHAIC. HE petition of the Merchants’ Association to Oomptrolle modern equipment in street cleaning, presents an array ©! up-to-date city. The first charge is that our system of street cleaning is archaic, and oddly enough among a people that boast of their mechanical {a use in Europe. We are still eweeping streets by hand. trying to better such a |— _,than getting a machine eweeper, a larger cart and an improved can. ———_- 4 = _____—_ ENDING AN OLD GRAFT. “been times when the scandals arising from these speculations hi “run beyond the few men who the Commissioner says are “not bot ot city offic Commissioner Bell's programme docs not end with stopping an abuse, but goes forward to the purpose of effecting a general benefit by conferring newsstand privileges upon those that not only deserve them but need them by reason of physical inability to perform most ‘Kinds of industry. In this way we not only get rid of graft, but enable families that might otherwise be dependent upon charity to ‘attain the satisfaction of self-support. That there will be a desperate Spposition to the plan, secret and intriguing, may be counted on as & matter of course, and for that reason there should be « resolute epproval of it, outspoken and cle; a Sees THE MONOTONY OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. HE Interstate Commerce Commission has given out the annual record’ of railway fatalities and casualties. For the year just a closed the figures show 10,150 killed and more than 190,000 wjured. The report goes on to say that during the past twenty-five years more than 210,000 were killed on our railways and more than 2,000,000 injured. These are like the statistics of a mighty battle in a great war. slaughter. __ (Many important wars have in fact been fought out with le: os They are, however, classed always as the results of accidents @ommission says: “There is a dreary monotony in the reported causes of these accidents. Year after year derailments and oetisions due to identical causes are reported.” There are several ways of putting a stop to the monotony. The simplest would be for the railway managers to safeguard their em- ~ ‘ployees and their passengers by exercising as much gare for life as they do for dividends, Another way would be for the Government to enforce the use of safety appliances and better train running regu- Tations, A third way would be for the courts to grant ample damages ix all cases of this kind. * A resolute public opinion steadfastly maintained and unshrink- ‘Angly shown could force the adoption of any one of these means and possibly of all three. + THE BENEFIT OF UNTAXED BEEF. EPORT'S from the that owing toa beef is bound to advance. hibitive to many people. despite the season’s scarcity. turers instead of feeding it to beef stock, ~ beef in the form of prepared cereals. for real beef. Better get it from Argentina than not get it at all. Letters From the People| Postal “Specialists.” ‘To.the Editor of The Brening World: A clerk recently stated that the aver- age postal clerk tsn’t capable of earn- fag $10 per week in any other enter- prise. The public doesn’t expect him ‘yo MW capable of ing this or any other sum on the ‘outside, First, be- cause | Gen ise the service @ clerk be constant }opanges in the different postal clerk's work \s different ery years postal often loses all knowledge of outside These schemes are hand at some other line. Also, thi but a charitable inatitution. CARRIER To the Falitor of The Evening World I would like to hear reader ition of the origin of the phrase blooded” in referring aristocratic linea: defin kind of work, A postal blue wpecialist. After several business, owing to the fact that his must be devoted to his work, conspicuous than is the case the horny-handed sons of toil. doc- Scearriags. subject it be lntereating. . M Published Daily Except Sunday by the Presa Publishing Company, Nos. 53 0 "atk Row, New York. RALPH PULITZOR, President, 63 Pack Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 6% Park Row, to The Evening|For England and the Continent and Prendergast, urging an appropriation for experiment with! facts that would startle a foreigner who expected to find New York an skill and progress the chief defect in the system is a neglect to make | tse of mechanical appliances for street cleaning that have long been ” Next it is noted that the method of collecting and removing garbage is offensive and indefensible. The carte used for the work are so small in carrying capacity that there is a loss of time and | ot energy along with an abundance of nuisance and abomination. Un-| scientific, unsanitary, unskilful and unclean, our obsolete system is ‘hardly more than worry and waste, except where the scattering of | the dust of refuse results in dirt and disease. Surely it is worth while | stem, even if the experiment went no further HE announced purpose of License Commissioner Bell to break up what he calle “wholesale speculation in newestands by a few men,” merits wide recognition and support. There have fide newsdealers, but who pose as such,” and have touched the repute attle markets of the West are to the effect arcity of caitle and of forage the price of It is added that if it were not for imports from Argentina the prices to consumers would already ‘have been raised upward of five cents a pound and would soon become This scores one for the Democratic fariff that lifts the tax off food aud gives the consymer a chance An. interesting feature of the report is the statement that the present comparative decline in cattle raising is due largely to the fact that corn growers sell their grain to breakfast food manufac. They find the return er and more profitable. It appears we are getting our domestic Housekeepers handle it more readily in that way, doctors say it is healthier and economists pro- ", pounte it cheaper. Nevertheless, it is pleasing to have an open door earn any more than @ postal clerk or postal official if he were to try his Post Office Department is anything to people of A friend of mine contends that being among the class that neither toll nor spin thelr skin 1s tender and the blue veins are more with My opinion is that it is due to close in- Readers’ views on the 1! |OPHONE EACH WEEK, WHILE SHE I$ Ih TRE COUNTRY. AND The JANITOR SENDS He! BOLD Ont, By PARCEL Post. ME THAT HIMSELF, Te ovo He Wed | Straight From The Shoulder mrt Sits York breaine Werte Thrift. HER?) are more reasons than T one why a young man should practise thrift. There isn't space here to give more tha the bare facts, which are of themselves the ‘reasons why." But let these facts sink In. Bare facts are the strongest of arguments. You are young now. Your powers are waxing—not waning, as they will be later in life. Chief among these powers is your earning power. Bank now against the days of diminisbing income, Teach yourself now habits of economy in living against the days must curtail, To-morrow | ved yet, but when it does come to-day will have become yes- terday and to-morrow will have become to-day. Hotter then to live in sativfact! . than in regret. Better then to have than to be without. Bank now against the day when the p. seston of a Httle . pital may be your «, portunity wain sore, ar. the lack of would be opportunity rr etfully passed by, Bank now against the day when, temporarily out of a job, you will need the wherewithal to pay your billsand keep your good name—and, if you have @ family, to keep them from want, ‘ And tl only way you can sa.s is to apend lees than you earn—obvious? yes, but ure you doing it? The temp- tation to live up to your Income—to live even beyond it—1s strong and ever present. Just learn to gauge your expenses, not by what you want but by what you can afford and atill save This is thrift, Hits From Sharp Wits. The most po’ y-stricken person on earth i# the fellow who bas nv imagination.—Toledo Blade, Life is very much like a cheap res- taurant because the very things you really want do not show up on the bill of tare.—Commercial Appeal. A man who blows his own horn is puffed up with pride and hot air.— Deseret News. | A grouch ts one of the mont use- leas of burdeng.—Albany Journal, Often in the limelight platitude seem to flash like gems of thought. ‘The sweetness of revenge is only o ; | thin coating.—Albany Journal, : | Only the indorser really, knows what {t Is to carry other men's burdena.— Desergt News. eee Neyer lie unless you can say some- thing pleasant. ° . they shall have no fear of the dicto- graph.—Toledo Blade, casera aateslinstai nO N eer By Clarence when you're licked sounds good, but it denotes a somewhat empty brain’ pan. As long as tl or somebody's got to be licked, and thi fellow who doe: t know when it bap- pens to him plain- ly suffers from ossification of the minaret. (Note.— As a matter of all fact, however, of us know perfectly well when licked; only we're too vain or mule- beaded to admit it.) We don't like a salesman to tell us that such-and-such an article that we want to buy ts suitable “for ® man of our age.” It's bad enough to be gotting to look that way, without having our attentton called to It every time we go shopping for a hat or something. Recently, in a foolish sort of a book, we came upon this phrase; “That great mystery, a woman's heart.” A woman's he irt is no more mysterious than a man’s, and, taking the general run of hearts, there really isn’t much mystery In any of them. Back in the dim aces of the world, beliefs and (Copyright, 1914, by the Press Publish !ng Co, (New York Evening Worid,) 4 Parcet Post FoR MRS TOHN 1AR ONLY BLUFFING WATT Tie. WE ARE Ver xp er niga i$ FLAT A\ 1 CAN'T TALI IN TH \e wah roy oe has Ben ause's CS — AAAS WAM AWN THETANITOR, HOWED ME HOW STOP IT, WHEN, WANTED TO pennnnnnnnnnnnrorerrmnrroonronnnnnntannnnnnneneeenoororcoccerent|s So Wags the World Bits of Common Sense Philosophy With a “Punch.” L. Cullen, canned thought go right on believing nd quoting them. ® man on his deathbed to exact of a young and handsome wife the prom- ise that she wil! not remarry is as colossal as it is sly. adays you'll often hear women say this: “Why, girls of fourteen know as much these days amthe girls of my day did when they were twenty!" that young girls should not know. H It may be ao, for ‘tis an inquir- ing era for the nex. Still, we seem to remember that there was @ good deal of inquisitiveness among the young, back yonder in the eighties, too. Maybe the women who are “getting on” are mistaken or—forgetful. When you tell the youngsters that there are no ballads these days to equal those of twenty-five and odd years ago they consider you un old foxy. But there any ballads being sung t y that come up to “White Wings,” “Sweet “When the Leaves Begin to Turn,” “In Old Madrid,” “Only a Pansy Bios- som," Rooney," “Paddy Duffy's Letter That ney Lee," “Light- when Fritz Emmet and Billy were alive and singing? Fifty is a mighty fnteresting age for a woman, for at fifty « woman can say what she thinks, and the candid, unhampered revelation of what sayings like this one got thelr start; and folks whose mental pabulum is “Fair Play.” T {» most un- fair to con- demn e friend unheard, If a girl and young man are on @ footing of friendship, even though they not be lovers, neither one should believe gossip about the other without kiving him or her @ chance to ex- plain, That is what the good, old-fush- joned virtue of loyalty means. !t In- when he ord, Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers woman of fifty thinks Is mighty well worth listening to—and it's spicy, too. Even the naturally suspicious person ought to be able to trust his friends, Getting Married. “M. BP." writes: “Lam twenty-three and £ am in no such hurry to get married us other young men of my age. Do you think Lt shall never | marry? Or will my present ideas on the subject Gndergo a change?” Wait and see. If you marry with- out really desiring to do so you will probably regret it, WwW." writes: young man | pays me attention and f like tin very much because our lastes agree and because ho does not seem to admire forward, fast girls, Lut he doesn't gee me as often as L wish he would, | How can T win more of his atten | There is nott hing you can do eacept Blessed are the pure in heart, for | volves trust enough to seek afriend’s be nice to the man when you do se@| pis roof as soon as possible, The kind of egotism which prompts | Meaning, of course, things Grouchy Landlords and the Children By Sophie Irene Loeb. Copyright, 19 (Die A reas Wubliahing Oo, og Worid), MAN signing himself ‘Harlem’ writes; “To settle a lot of unneces- | sary trouble be- | tween landlords ond tenanta In reference to wo- | men in this hot weather keeping their little child- ren in the shade to catch a breath of fresh air: Do landlords own the sidewalks? Should they have the right to chase children off them?” In answer to this, be it known to “Harlem” and all others the land- lords do not own the sidewalks, This was established by the recent de- cision of the Court of Appeals tn Albany as to the use of public streets. Granted to the landlgrd the neces- sary uses of Ipht, air and access, the streets belong to the city and are ulated accordingly. Landlords have no right to chase the children of the sidewalks, When children materially interfere with en- trance or exit to the house, the land- lord ma peal to an officer for necessary relief. Of course there are those hardened old landlords whose hearts are shriveled up and who forget. they were childken once themselves-these should be dealt with according to the law When they assume rights they do not possess, such as taking wee ve ones by the arm and putting them off the walks. It is only when they | can prove an actual harm done that their rights have been infringed upon | Hesides, little children do small damage by keeping In the shade or mnerely playing on the sidewalk, even if they prove a isy at times, hey should b ed with some sense of lenient ery landlord or occupant m where the! with all sense of justice take Into ion that in the metropolis fs play space in proportion | e population than ip any other | n the world. The Evening World ta bending every energy to procure plots where little | ohite may play; in Harlem and } all over the elty ndreds of land- ljords are lending their lots, and the landlord may well pattern | nm the wise Jandlord, who comfort of his tenants at heart end whose interest is not all money, might well look toward pro- | viding places for them to play, such axon the roof of his building |. Here the children could be sate and with plenty of fresh air, The wise Jawner will of his own accord equip before | take that word aguinst the accuser’s, any aggressive tactics would disgust, ' pela bim to do so, z Ooprright, MAN can sit in the moonlight girl and at the same time look right into her eyes with all the old, A old ones, “Chumship" between two women, at a summer resort, is merely th® interval between the introduotion and the arrival of the firet interesting man. When a man avoids you, take heart o' cheer. A confirmed bachelor is 80 eure of his perfect safety that he is willing to amuse every pretty girl he meets by handing her o rope and letting her try to catch him. Bohemia is an oasis in the desert of life where only the rich-in-dreams may go and only the poor-in-purse may stay. ‘When @ married man is known as a filrt {t is either because of hig excessive vanity or because of his exceesive good nature. may have been only a tender-hearted man who couldn't refuse a woman anything. There {s something about salt alr and moonlight on the gets into @ girl's eyes and makes anything ip a white flannel yachting suit look just like a soulmate, What @ man calls hie “conscience” {s merely the mental action thas follows @ sentimental reaction after too much wine or love fluency of Ananias, Flirtations come in many varieties, with and without frills, simple and complex, full length and abbreviated—but they are all cut out of the same old unsubstantial cloth. By HELEN ROWLAND. 1014, by’ The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ‘When & woman aits in the moonlight with her own husband she can’t help wishing he had just a little of the imagination and conversational d talk “New Thought” to a pretty, Even Bluebear@ er: thas Little Stories by Big Men. (Copsright by Amnabel Lee.) By HENRY A, BARNHART (United States Representative from T occasion to Indiana). HERE ts an old farmer up tn my country who is a rampant Re- publican and he always takes “rub in" Democratic de- feats on mo, Not long ago this farm- er fell heir to quite a sum of money from the estate of an uncle in Ken- tucky, and when he received the first draft for several hundred dollars he invested it at my suggestion In a farm. Later he received a second instalment of his fortune and again invested it In real estate. Shortly after this he made me a call, and im the course of our conversa T of fered him some advice, “Now,” T said, “you've come inte all of this mo and have put it away where you will not be tempted to buy any gold bricks, and there is just one other thing you ought to do—you ought to change your polltios, You didn't get that money from Re- publican prosperity; you got It from a good old Kentucky Democrat, your uncle, and you ought to decide to vote the pemcereye ent te oe piel “Barnhart,” replied the farm “when T got that money I promised my Wife T wasn’t going to let it make, a fool of me, and I'm going to keep my promise. Coprright CHAPTER LY. LY a twenty-five dollar raise! I was disgusted! and was at no pains to disguise my feelings. “He's a stingy thing! Here you are almost thirty years old, been working for Flam and Company ever since you left college, and Mr, Flam raises you twenty-five dollars! You are makin: only two hundred and tw five a month at that. Why, Mildred told me the other day that Ned w Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond 1914, by ‘The Pres Publishing a rich man by the time he was thirty. | and He started with much less than you did, only seventy-tive dollars a month, to say nothing of your being a Harvard man, and he not # college graduate!" “L told you once, Sue, that a man got only what he was worth to his business world,” If his college edu- cation doesn't make him more valu- able, no one cares a whoop for that education, Get that into your mind, and perhaps you will be more thank- ful for a raise, And, another thing, 1 haven't been worth much to Flam & Company lately," he spoke bitterly, “although L have done my best. But my thoughts have been on other things. The house; our own account; tne fear that Mr, m would tind me oul, Why, Sue, 1 never was so surprised in my life 1 When he told ine 1 was to y "Ob, you are too me t told nye the subject I re- a house. “1 deal more her prayers!” he protested ps if L were as unserupulous Somers ( rught bave been as N rich too! oN has done anything ML asked. “People seem to like him! “Oh, Somers is a good sort of a fellow! And if you mean by ‘any. thing wrong’ something criminal 1 guess he hus kept within the law All right. But he's done some. pretty raw things. Things I'd hato to do although 1 botter not talk, the way I've act “What do you mean?" I fvolisbly in- quired “Mean? Why, the way I've betrayed Mr. Flam's confidence, of course, But do stop talking about it! Some day Vil do something desperate, the thing gets so On My Nerves,” he replied ‘Thad @ letter from Janet to-day She ts anxious for us to visi i told him, changing the subject ell" he iL we Re “on, L don't w, Sue! Perhaps wo better. [couldn't step, but you and the kiddies might make a Httle visit,’ Not untess | had © clothes," { answered dechi et them if ye anywh @ you enoujrh left of the two hundred [ sent you to get iwed, and to him, Ho Is evidently the sort whom | the law, which is under way, come] what you want" he faked, not know- ing I had sent it all to Tue New York Evening World), 14 all want at least twe T answered, thinking would give it fo me it would be of a sop to tame Loraine, and Alac ler what | wanted, sible if we are going in the market, The five I must give those plumb es us only about two with, Ti bring you , and you'll have to It’ isn’t as though you strangers,” be it | should not hundredth part ee rs as 1 did tor bie When | had an ume { nearly three hundred, buy a lot more! How ack was, 1 thought, t unui this last’ ye e nna large sum to and inte stingy on m maki had ¢ the cloth I, would in But the clothes TV it I visited his sister I said nothing more about money, Neither did he. But Iam sure neither forgot it, und we passed uncomfortable evening, The next day Jack sent me $50, I waa just gf ut when the came with it it, with a feeling of disgust that it as not more, I hure ried away to keep my appointment with Mr. Howells Mrs. Somers was already there, and chided me for being late, “If tt were known that I had here alone, peorle would gossip!” ahe laurl nevertheless [ thought she acted as though she were nervous, ‘The sitting did not progress very favorably, In the first place my mind was on other things, and Mr. Howella complained of my expression, which he said was “strained, or entirely blank.”, 1 tried to do better, but with sucht slight success that be soon laid down his brushe ‘hat will do for to-day, Mrs, i You haven't gotten back 4 the spirit of the thing. Come day after to-morrow, and we will hetter, Tam sure." Mildred took me directly to Madame aine's, Who expressed her pleasure at my return before her best things were gone, and also thanked me for the remittance T had sent. Neither she nor I mentioned the amount. Ag always when the subject of my pape ing money came up, Mrs. Somers ‘a queer look that embarrassed me, MI turn that two hundred dole lars Towed her, Jack must give {¢ to me, and T would have to devise somo re son for making him do it, If ever he found out T had owed her tho money all this time he would never have any business relationa with her husband, And T must nog kill the goose that was willing to vir golden exe. : Me spent the remainder of the: morning selecting gowns, and arrange ing for fittings. T bought two di one hovse gown, and a taflor sult, @ dressy one. Now, with the inctdentale id get, I should look very well two or three days T intended with Janet. T had mi je up to romain only no ie: ae my min my wardrobe wan suMctent—not my needs, but to Janet’ living. 8 © mode a (To Be Continued |... ay