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Binet aeten F He The Eve « a She World. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Sally Except Sunday dy £ Press Fares Company, Nos. 83 to 14 Aah) yw. New York. RALPH PULITZDR, President, ¢2, Park Row. J ANGUS SHAW, wren, 6% Park Row JOSEPH PU! ER, Jr, Secretary, 6 Park Row. t New York as He. ond-Class Matter, uing| For England and the Continent and All Countties in the International Postal Union. $3.60] One Yoor. . 99. 801One Month POYOLUME 55....... ccc cceecscceeesssssesesesessNO, 19,829 WHAT NEWPORT MAY DO. GH society at Newport is preparing a Chinese dinner and Chinese ball upon a ecale whose magnitude as well as splen- | dor will give it national significance, or at least make it a | eensation. There is here an opportunity for “Society” to | itself socially useful. Rightly directed, the double epectacle | : solve the long perplexing question of summer garb for men at > 90 fanctions. Chinese clothing need have neither starched collare, starched shirts, nor waistcoats, nor trousers tight at the waist, | Unoomfortadle coats. In fact, there will be needed nothing but pei of loose fitting pantaloons and « blouse. » > "As progressive Chinese have adopted the dress of the Occident, M “aad as conservative Chinese never attend cither dinners or balls or “Gances where the sexes mingle, there is no established costume to x the fashion to be set in the new movement. For once, there- | fore, Newport men have full freedom to be original. There is 2 no limitation on their choice. They can wear flowing robes fat the Post-Office tes to The Bi end peacock feathers or short garments without ornament. The |. (golden opportunity of the generation is before them. If they have @iit.end gumption as well as social taste and tact, they can etart » ement that will emancipate man from the tyranny of European antl enable the American to tango in July without getting hot coilar. ———_ +4. A JOKE OF THE B. R. T. CORRESPONDEN'T whose wrath worke with mirth to produce a sort of humorous indignation furnishes an instance of the : eney way in which the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company | “Blisties the Public Service Commission with respect to improvements “While leaving the public to the deep damnation of their present t. F | ~The instance is not only modern, but current, being a part of qmpfinished events of yesterday, to-day and to-morrow. A local jatinittee asked the Public Service Commission to order the B. R. 'T. to up a ched at @ place where its patrons have to change cars as een in inclement weather. The Commission complied. Our int adds: “The B. R. T. put up eight upright posts about a {rot in diameter and reported to the Commission that they had started 4 “work on this shed. This was almost eight monthe ago, and this fe ae as the shed has reached completion, and the B. R. T. always ‘feporta to the Commission, ‘We are working on it’” ©" It will be oonceded thet our correspondent is right enough in of this ae “a joke.” It certainly has some of the elements that make serions things seem funny. However, it is timely now for 2. public to begin working at the problem. There is a way to make re Public Service Commission quit laughing. Let every voter in } pklyn make up his mind that in the coming primaries he will vote no legislative candidate who does not pledge himself to have an r igation of the shameful neglect of duty by the Commission. Mice that investigation is assured, there will be more work and no Joking by the B. R. T. ———4-___ A BUBONIC PLAGUE CURE. Pp EPORT from New Orleans of success attained by the physicians of the United States Health Service working in combination with the State Board of Health in treating patients afflicted bubonic plague, gives hope that we are about to add one more ) 8 the leagthening list of victories achieved by American science in Asaling with Old World pestilences. : |», According to the report, six cases of the plague have been by the new method, and all of them have made such Progress recovery as to almost assure a complete cure. The remedy fa the same as that applied unsuccessfully in India and in Porto ‘The treatment differs only in the method of administering it. We have oucceeded where others have failed by the exercise of onr a teristic ability not only to invent or discover new things, but ts mpply old things in new ways and work marvels thereby, a : NEGLECT OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED. ‘ATISTICAL information to the effect that there are in this Btate upward of 30,000 feeble-minded persons, of whom only ig about 4,000 are under supervision and care in public institu- od, is not likely to impress optimists. Some will cheerfully declare iy iis better 60; that freedom is more conducive than confinement to “‘eeble-minded happiness. Others may indulge pleasing delusions the problem doesn’t concern the city, und that all fecble-minded | | people probably live in the country. i | When, however, the s icians add that socicty finds use for | mentally defective women as ehambermaids and cooks in boarding ©) houses and hotels, the cheerfullest optimist must give at least a second > tYonght to his own welfare in the matter. Tt was deemed something ofa joke when an inmate escaped from a feoble-minded home was nd serving on a jury in Kansas City, but the possibility of such a on cooking or serving food has a suggestion that isn’t funny. © There are amnultitnde of good reasons why full provision should te made for the proper care of those too fecble of mind to care for “emeclves. They are easily made the victims of the unscrupulous, ud for the wrong done to them society itself has to pay, and pay * Charity in this case is both justice and economy, (Letters From the People Blectrical Engineering. mechanical drawing and ts ambitious é (Beiter of The Evening World: but cannot take a longer course than Das interested in electrical engi-|four or five years? As I have no leering and if I find it worth while I father to advise me concerning these ptemé to make it my profession, Will| Matters, I would be very grateful if readers answer the fol- | Wise readers would answer me. bay may As Ege Within on Eas. ‘To the Editor of The Rvening World: ning World Da BILL Witt BE BACK m VACATION. Bitc's BACK u Copyright, 1916, Publishing Oo. "Ens ‘Mew’ Yor “restng’ Worl)” 66 'D like to know what Mrs, Jarr and Clara Mudridge-Smith are 20 thick about!” said Mra, Stryver, with a alg! for whe really did wish to know. “Maybe it's some business deal, suggested Mr. Stryver, for to his mind there was no other reason in the world why two human beings could be friendly with each other ‘unless it was because they expected to make money by It, “Do you think they are going to open a tea shop tango establish- ment?” asked Mra. Stryver, “You know, when women go into business these days that is generally the busl- neas they go into.” ‘Maybe sv," replied Mr. Stryver, “maybe #0, But I've looked into that tea shop business and 1 can’t see where there is any money in the “Perhaps th re going to start a dancing cia: suggested Mra, Btryver, “Well, it wouldn't be a bad idea,” eaid Mr. Stryver, “The other day I had a client on from Cincinnati I could have sold a big allotment of bonds to, but young Dabney Light- foot apots them at the dance roof 1 took them to, and he hones in on an Hits From Sharp Wits. Many a potential Inventor squanders his talent in explaining to bis wif The price of silence isn't-paid as often as the price of 592 mucb talk. oo. Usually the man who brage about his good deeds does them by accident. Some persons’ minds are like sponges—they give forth only what has been soaked Into them, oe @ You can't be sure you're right sim- ply becauso you believe you are.— dances her dizzy, husband out the ne! cel my order and not to print tl ret mortgage bonds of the West Vi! ginta Coal going to organize after I class, hone in on it.” go! ing classes never are. Atl RATE Ol See ae July ee ily Magazi ne, thursday Copyright, i614, by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 'N the mathematics of a bachelor one kiss makes a flirtation, two kissea make a conquest, three kisses make a love affair and four kisses make one tired. : : There are “chain smokers" who light one cigarette from the dying* end of another--and there are also “chain lovers” who light one flames from the dying embers of another. bed 2 * Too much practice in the love game makes a man as mechanical and unconvincing as too much rehearsal sometimes makes an actor. The “long. long thoughts of youth” are airy nothings beside the longyg? long thoughts of husband and wife, as they gaze meditatively into one > anothers’ eyes for the first time after the summer separation. 3 Love {s a beautiful work of the {magination—marriage merely a dull historical fact. e It is unnecessary to carry a husband or a dog on a Icash; merely feed him well, pet him occastonally and let him run free—and he'll always come back when you whistle. | A woman nover really knows she {s old unti! somebody tells her she» “must have been beautiful;" a man, until somebody tells him he “ought to have married.” Give every man thine eyes—but few thy lips. Chapters From ‘a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond ping Co. (The New York Evening Word) But | bad shown them that I could sriehit, 1914, by the Pres Urbis CHAPTER LVUL make a good appesrance and, now HE next day I was sitting in] thot I knew how Janet felt toward AT the library waiting for An-| me, T was in a hurry to be away. 18 t “1 taipeee | WOUld be embarrassing to meet her, ; knowing her sentiments. So 1 urges LAsT! MY HOW notte to come downs!al tut er: INEVER SAw/ THE Tim wo wero going ‘out—when | Annette to remain out until nearly TW LIE I heard my name spoken.| dinner time, thinking that I might (9 SUCH LON! ! 4 WEEKS, ANOTHER DAY The door tending into the hall was] be able to avoit being alove wit 'S GONE ajar, as was also the door Into the | TT seq @ very uncomfortable® idining-room, where Janet and her}evening. Mrs Coolidge looked sadly mother were, so 1 easily heard the} at me ond I imagined 1 saw a sneer ooaversation on Janet's when, in a spirit of “Phe little simpleton!” T heard | apese AT worn Ue ‘oming here dressed Like | were gu res wife’ Ja must be a fool to allow it! People are bound to talk, knowing bis position, She told ime, after acknowledging that her street suit cost a hundred dollars, that er futher left her some money. Does ‘ma tool as well as Jack? r, may T say something to it giving offense?” she asked, “Certainty,” [replied without look ing up. “When you come again, dear, don't. . bring so many fine clothes, even If you buy them with your own money. Janet—every one knows," she stam- mered, “that Jack cannot afford And tt occasions talk that I | do not Ike to hear, and which Tam | stire is unjust. You don’t mind my telling you, ¢ anxiously. », Indeed!" £ kissed her, and she soon loft me. One thought obtruded an T finished my packing, and prepared for bed. If those people of Jack's,—who were all and Jack either docsn't know what ner| Very Worldly people—thought me | clothes cost or vise he In crazy, Why, Silly and extravagant, what would ys WWhYs| my own mother think? But, exercl that dress she had on at the theatre! ing aii my will, L banished unpleasant | thoughts and planned the furnish! lof the new houxe,--planned tl {after the style of Janet's turnishin, until I fell asle The next morning we left. itu. rally I was busy getting myself and the children ready, so had no time save for brief goodbys before T left for the station nnette drove over in the car with me, and seemed t feel sorry to have me go. I had, acting upon Jack's advice, said noth- ing about our building, simply telling them we were soon to move to Hig! land Terrace. So now Annette laughingly suld as she bade me good- ve, Poor Jack! ly has my sympathy, or if he deserved it, which e@ her, Perhaps she has spent the money her father left her to make a good uppearance when she visited you"—coming near the truth, “Jack adores her, and she vainly did very nicely wheu Annette and I vis-j ited them.” “That was a long time ago, mother, FAFA ALALASABAASASAALLABAALALAAAAA S| The Jarrs Are About to Receive “Hospitality for Revenue Only” AAAALASAAAAAASAAAAAA ASA LAR RAG ASA MS MS each woman haa a different teacher,) “Maybo it’s a new dressmaker | the dancing class is never gotten/they’ve found; maybe they wet: ting ready to go to the country and hem! It sounds reasonable,” said} are getting their dresses made, And Mr. Stryver. “But y be Mrs.jI've been so curious to know what Jarr and Mrs, Smith are going shop- | they were up to that I haven't gotten ping. That means somebody is mak-ja thing to wear when I go awa: ing money and that the psychological |sald Mrs. Stryver. | business depression is over, #0 far at ite them to dinner and find | least as the husband of one of them! out,” ndvised Mr. Stryver, “But be is concerned. We'd better take them / sure to include their husbands, I'm out to dinner and have a pleasant, | as hospitable as any other New York. sociable evening together, talking er, but if Raed 4 dinner I expect to think I can run over to well som Clara Mudridge- a tl the other night never cost less than a hundred dollars, and, if a fashionable dressmaker made it, more than jhat. Then her underwear is lovely, and that negligee is exquisi With = all Georgy’s money I haven't a more ex- pensive one in my wardrobe. Why, ne would think Jack WAS I" & ‘ympany instead of only a clerk! It's ening,” she finished. Don't be too hard on th (again Mrs. Coolidge’s voice), ‘1 likes to look us well as she cai You should talk to her mother,’ sumed Janet, paying no attention, | will be talked about. No woman, | wife of a man in Jack's position, ci dress as she does and not excite un- favorable comment.” I crept quietly out of the library, Up the stairs to my room, So Jane! now despised me for doing the very thing I supposed would please her, and which [ imagined when 1| visited her before, sho patronized me because 1 didn’t do, and which I then deter- mined to do to win her favor, Well, it was all Jack's fault. If he had let Ned Somers carry that thousand shares for him he could then let bis people know we had something be- aides his salary. If he did lose his position with Flam & Co, why, it wouldn’t then make any differe: Indeed, I often wished introduction to two nights and husband bonds in a pro- r, ight and power com- town not yet built, my printer to can- 4 Land Company I was child,’ wold the So that's why I say, if your are getting up a dancing | “But dancing classes are never tten " remarked Mrs, Stryve “That is, ‘our own little crowd’ danc- ‘Il see you at the Highland Ter- ace when I come back from my wed- ding trip I wondered {f it were a joke, or If sho really were going to be married soon, If she were and asked us,—as she naturally would—I determined to be ill, Anything to prevent going azain to Janet Amesbury's house! Jack met us at the train, and usual, was perfectly delighted to ha us back, He asked innumerabd! questions about his mother and sla: ters, taking it for granted that I a good time, I had no intention letting him know of my dislike f Janet, nor of the conversation I had, Algebra and Souls. By Sophie Irene Loeb. ve been cutting me two weekn? Still, I'm dying to find out why.’ “athe only way to sell anybody any- thing je to give a dinner,” said Mr, Stryve “You'd better arrange for it” they?" the Indy, “each he ch has id the her er for nothing him the rest of As “Why | aren't “Well,” explained woman interested in ¢ her favorite teacher, promises to instruct provid he geta the class at his regular rates. So Wags the World bite 0f Common Sense Philosophy With a “Punch.” By Clarence L, Cullen. Copyright, 1914, by the (The New’ York SUPERINTENDENT of schools In Los Angeles lately denounced the educational s: tems in general and algebra In particular by the | y 1 vehement state- | he would, feeling sure that once away | Overheard. No, indeed! Jack was ment: from Mr. Flam influence 1 would be| very unsuspicious, but T had a fell i Copyright, 1914, by the I'rem Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World.) “Bless the girt|#ble to persuade him to do more as I|that were he to know what Janet notice that {*. getting to be the thiny for clean-minded men to wanted and fully intended he should,|#aid he might become inquisitive and who refuses to|Anyway, Janet had to acknowlsdge| ask questions I would not care td walk away when some uncouth member of a party starts in to study algebra, #| that my clothes were pretty, and that) answer, telling off-color stories—and the walkers-away are not goody- study which! looked well in them, I thought with | LT house ie Practically finished,” woody men, either. But it's pretty hard to snub a causes many |PFido, although my eyes were full of be es ir jessly. @ can move in angry tears. “IT have decided to go home in the girls to lose their I wondered fellow who considers that he's making a hit when he 9 attitude, but souls!” morning,” I said to Annette, who just] asked no questions, sensing something Mepsilai ehady: Yernty It is a fiue|then came to my room. unpleasant. a Ti Up in the country the other day we met a well-to-do thing to improve don't go 80 soon (To Be Continued.) cominually our 1young fellow who hasn't yet fallen for the motor-car, He nays that driving a motor-car requires’ both hands and too much concentration, Says he Wkes to have one loose hand. He takes ‘em out riding in a neat-looking buggy, drawn by a sensible old horse that knows his business, wheels of industry move. There are about 8,000,000 women in the workaday world to-day whose well being in the form of the pay en- velope is of prime consideration. There is too strong evidence of mental inability to cope with the everyday needs of the ryday woman, - Also, there are too many. girls now ing soul solace (whatever that is), Maping poetry to the Evening Star, depending on hard-working par- ents, while waiting to be married to some man who will assume the re- sponsibility for the parasite exist- ence. There is a crying need for more ficiency, more arithmetic, t employer more from girls’ inability to count or to reason educational systems by the process uf elimination, And by this procedure wo have done away with mucb tn the form of dead languages, &c. While progress Is the keynote of the twentieth century and each of us has his particular thégy as to what should or should not be done in the interests of mind and body, yet when it comes to mixing up souls and arithmetic there is something to be said about the wisdom of our forefathers, There ig something to be sald be. fore we throw out of our school sys: tems the very things that made po gible the brains of to-day. I coi sulted with several prominent busi- ness women, saleswomen, stenogra- account, and is totally rant of Present commercial methods of which she Is a part. Too often does ane, * to peonle we of hi ‘ it 19 one of the ing fac- the reaso1 ulties to a remarkable degree an which enters ungoneciously into the It's funny to hear the matrons sitting on the sum- mer hotel porches trying to convince each other that, ob, dear, yes, their husbands always dress for dinner in town, no matter how tired they may be when they come home from the office, Last veek we put in a couple of days picking raspberries in the moun- tains—"for fun," as we tried to make believe, From the way our back ached and our hands were thorn-scratched when we got through, we figured that if we had to pick raspberries for the market we'd charge » minimum price of $9.45 per box for them, mental make-up; and just as uneon- sclously makes {it possible for a C4 to cope with problema in the everyday, where reasoning must come Into plav, It is a matter of record college girl, she who bas gone into the higher mathematics and act . is the very one who by nature x such training not only is able to com-; mand the best places in the ‘eo work but actually makes the best housekeeper, beca “If 1 had my life to live over again,” is an observation composed in equal parts of vacuousness and fatuity, The chances are that if we had it to In other words, she goes into a Albany Journal. A It is surprising what @ lot of work a loafer will dv in order to dodge work. ni 5 L:alf the world’s trouble comes’ of too much wild talk and too little eane action.-7A vepy Journal. While opening en yesterday, I discovered besides ta Te contents witha shall ot things out for themselves than from anything else. Tt is an easy thing to get an au- tomaton, a machine that will do a certain work in a certain way when told to do so, The woman who can reason and take responsibility as a result of such reasoning is she who commands the better pay and thus life easter for herself. being assured | echo live over ngain we'd make just about the same hash of it, if that's what we've done, At that, it's just as well that few or none of us are satisfied with our lives, for when we're satisfied we're stationary, Boers, ae, jong whom was Mrs, Saroline Marshall, with eighteen years’ experience at the head of a amall army of business women in one of the most prominent companies in New York City, The general consen- sua of opinion was summed up as fol- lows: “All ‘goul’ and no sense will make Jia very dull girl indeed.” thing with reason and attacks | do, being guided by that which she knows ) nat, which she does net now, not guesswor! der, but brain sense. hiss: The man who's the mouthiest about “Playing the gai often is the least willing to play it. He employs the phrase to ecreen the fact that he habitually ducks the rules of the game. after you have the very act ot worl M Why ts it that, when you borrow a dime from your wife in the street enerae | ut and Seetcine th Ber hing: A New J court has decided|car to pay the fares, all hands glare at you with as much loathing as if] , Thie ls an arithmetic . But the|of a decent living @ result of her gut ane ‘getting the answer” lay@ brat r, may tl up these finer] foundation for your working out that husbands cannot iewfully place |you really were lending & non-plous ite? day of brawn is practics lanes “te quemtions of “acu” and all the propa | getting the anewer to the life Gecision but mildly important. ‘When « woman ry i Everything ts Yow says of another women tliat “she isn't pretty, but she ‘common devieor and and the rest if Y cnl® | nas such @ eweet face,” she means that the other woman is as ugty as Nth power, Koonomy and Pitteburgh pagtiey @ mud fence, 5 ency are the lubricants by which the \ =