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PH BB. cece eee ceeteceeseseceeeveveceees MO, 19,841 ONE ASPECT OF IT. D THOSE who how! because we have no ships and no commerce to go forth and carry supplies to the rampant kingdoms of the Continen: we submit a thought: all commerce were to be taken off the seas, if the raging were deprived of food and gold, might it not the sooner col ) hair blood-tever and bring them back to civilisstion and sense? pockets and empty stomachs have always boen good mediators. Sometimes Providencs, even when it starte a conflagration, pro- also an extinguisher. See “England hes tried consistently te esoure peace,” e ‘at y GET THEM SAFE HOME. DENT WILSON is right. The people of the United Ftates have no cause whatever to get excited. On the con- trary they have every reason to retain a calmness and eelf- | Petsemsion which is bound to put them in « position of advantage ‘where they can be of most help to the rest of the world. \| “Nevertheless, in no way can the Administration do more to sat- “ety the country than by immediately proclaiming ite determination ~ $e insist that Americans now in Europe shall be returned safe and wo to their homes, European nations may be far gone in delirium. “But they will still listen to the imperative demand of this nation that » ships carrying. United States citizens shall be given safe t to these’ shores. * Let the demand be promptly and plainly made. ’ Ps a SE 5 New is the time for this country to start its own fashions. > It te up to American women. ee WAKING UP. ME EVENING WORLD'S fight to obtain relief for, citizens of Brooklyn who suffer from the barbarous methods of the B. R. * 'D, on its surface lines has scored a firet victory. fi Gm the urgent representation of Public Service Commissioner y the only independent member of this notoriously sluggish \ ‘public servants, the Public Service Commission ordered Ssthe D. B. T. to formulate immediately « lard of service for all ite ) @arfece care as nearly as possible up to the maximum service required ahattan lines. Also to increase facilities on' the Franklin ave- je lime of the Coney Island and Brooklyn road, where the present Fatamirg is most intolerable. Anvestigation ef complaints, Mr. Maltbie assured his easy-going Commissioners, shows that on this line between 3 and 8 P. M. d cars pull out one after another from Coney Island, jeving from 150 to 200 persons on the platform. Between 6 and 7 is the evening it takes half an hour at least to get on acar. “I fear,” Commissioner Maltbie, “that when we get at the B, R. T. line they take cars off other lines, and then complaint comes ‘Whose other lines.” ; iasmuch as the records of the Public Service Commission show met Jan. 1, 1910, it has issued only six orders calling for im- t on the surface lines of the B. R. T., the latter has. had opyortunity to work out a policy of bettering one section at the of another, thus taking it out of 1.» public, < oxt “a t © The campaign conducted by The Evening World seems to have|® ‘up the Public Service Commission at last. It is about time gentlemen rcalized to whom their services belong. ey Is hoarding champagne to be a habit hereabouts? HE Health Department seports eighteen fewer deaths in the ~ ulty last week among infants under twelve months than dur- ing the corresponding week of last year. And this through )@ays of exceptionally trying weather changes. So far, in 1914, have been 258 fewer infant deaths than in the same period Can any one doubt that this good record is one of the results of ie Better Babies movement which has been a chief interest of the > ering the past year? When this newspaper started ite Better Contests in co-operation with the Babies’ Welfare Association ‘ {ed that the educative benefit to mothers would rhow a speedy abd gra‘ifying effect upon infant mortality, Such has been the case. he figyzes have gone down, and with more “better baby” campaign- Letters From the People and Sullivan Humor. clared the victorious nation. Thus, at The wi for \ the sovereign will die for the Bervian fanatic bombed en Aus- People lastaed Shi) peop Gring tor - gov en, which w a rel yh gaa Pie Pr a | ing change. How about it, era? land fer Anarehiots. To the Editor of The Brening World: ‘While reading of the “international city” which soon (7) iwill rise on ni tral und and be incorporated the work of all Governments bong common meeting grou: . not need ba, neha s id ae the to a terfere Wiertld Dail; EE RT A RE RRR BE The Road To Promotion 3.—“The Oyster.” iE President of a big corpora- tion needed a new confiden- tial secretary. Many important business secrets would be his to keep, and be must be @ man through whom Rone of them would “leak,” no matter what the provocation or temptation or circumstances. It was the policy of the corporation to prumote to positions of trust men whom they had developed. They fg ured they had a more complete “line” on auch men, in addition to their being trained in the ways of the con- cern, *Way down in the list of under sec- fetaries was a young man whom his| office mates, in good-natured ralllery,' bad nicknamed “the oy: In| idle inter-department ip fre. juently indulged in by underlings is voice was always silent. His work, unimportant it was, was do! without comment. If he had a ques tion to ask concerning it it was asked enly of his eu; r, He mind Dual: perio: led his ep: he probing finger of the Presi- » searching, searching always for he” ig department heads lesser department officials yielded up the pedigrees of the sec- retaries under them. One day ‘the oyater’s” chief stopped at his desk id sald President wants to see you “Young man,” the President said, | “why do they call you ‘the oyster'?” the young man stam-/ mered, “I reckon it’s because I don’t the Presi- thi “Tal le ‘the oyster's’ new job began.! Hits From Sharp Wits. The dictograph is another of those! things that makes up in reputation’ what they lack in character.—Pbila: deiphia Inquirer, | ‘There are a good many fellows who are willing to help the office to find a man. ; eee Quite frequently a man may be seen who imagines be i# oratorical, when in fact he ts only rvindy.—Knoxville Journal and Tribune, eee There's a flaw in « man’s honesty when he thinks it {s something of which to boast, eee ‘When you have been talking a long time and your listener looks at his watch, the time may not interest him at all.—Albany Journal, eee A lot of chaps who have to go away every summer “for thelr health” wou make a bigger hit with themselves if they would take better care of them- selves durii the winter.—Philadel- phia Inquirer, | . A model farm is one where some- body else does the work for you. ee e ‘ono phrase for it: are two classes of optimists— peenarkes™ & an, Think!” (2e@ttha) So Wags the World Bits of Common Sense Philovophy With a “Punch.” By Clarence L. Cullen. Copyright, 1914, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Drening World.) i HE average married man can get some fine Mr. Grundy remarks out of em In criticiam of an abbreviated bathing dress, if his wife A good way for a foolhardy male to get in bad is to aver to a company of women that marriage is the primary and ultimate object in life of women. Married women in particular dislike to hear that. she has been bearing herself with unusual hat she finds that her placket has been unclosed all the time—or, worse, that there's a hole in her A woman can feel mighty mortified when, after ughtiness, ‘Whenever we come upon one of these adamantinely. conservative men who atill rely adhere to bifled shirt with detachable cuffs, we Mave a better understanding of the difficulty encountered by pioneers in the paths of knowledge in getting their theories accepted. It used to be perfectly safe for girls to say, not believing any such thing, that they would “never marry.” But not now. The young fellows are too willing to pretend that they believe ‘em and let it go at that! One of the myriad of things which we don't understand is why so many spinsters are the organizers and runners-in-chief of mothers’ meetings. Just about now there are a lot of acraps between husband and wife returning from the vacation, as to which of them it was that left the light burning or the water running in the bathroom before they went away, You may not have noticed—and then again maybe you have—that a woman regards a husband who, whether he's been right or wrong, always is the first to jake up" after a domestic scrap as a—well, there's only “as & soft slob.” When we hear a man say, a little too fortissimo, that he'd rather take his wife out for a good time than anybody else because he can have more fun in her company than with anybody else, it somehow doesn’t ring true; the fellow doth protest too much; and “cherchez la femme,” with a differ- ent from the usual twfst, pops into our head. Everyday Perplexities ——A Simple Manual of Etiquette Conyright, 1914, by the D'res Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World + The Puzzling Visiting Card. dance or some other functions, and T scems strange that such! !# unable to call afterwards in’ per- | % son. an Innocent looking bit of/ An unmarried woman ieavea the pastenoard as a visiting| same number of cards when out'call- card should cuuse so much | ing as does a marricd woman, with annoyance. Yet every man| the exception, of course, of the hus- and most women who are too busy| band’s card—that is, she leaves a to go much into society must con-| Card for each lady’ of the family fess that they are often irritated and} Whom sho wishes to honor with @ pugsled wbout just what to do with) visit. A man lecves a card for the tha peaky thing mistross of the house, one ror her When taaking calls, never hund a| husband and one for the daughters, visiting card to anyone but @ ser- | collectively, when making 4 cereino-! vant, If, as sometimes when the maid Is out or servant Is happens Hious call after being entertained. hen no) if he is simpi; calling upon ung: kept, the master or mis-| lady of the family it is necessary tress of the house opens the door a) only to send up @ card for her; al- visiting card {s entirely unnecessary; | though, even in this case, it is con- although in this case, when tho call) sidered more courteous to send up a aa formal one, It can be dropped in card for her mother also, the card receiver when cne leaves.! In calling upon people who live in A married woman should always! hotels or apartment houses where give the maid who answers tte door| there is uw telephone, n @ card of her own for the tilstress should be given to the boy or girl at of the houge and, if there are grown | the switchboard; and then If the daught or women ,guests with! friend ts at home cards can be left whom is acquainted, she senda|in the apartment at the conclusion up a card for each one of them, also.) of the visit if the acquaintanceship If the call ts the first ono of the| {is formal. But they ahauld, in any season, she should send up with her| case, be left with the switchboard own two of her husband's cards. At subsequent calls It is unnecessary to| this case, chances of their ever joown See husband's card, reaching t! they are in- entertained a' tended for ieee boy if the friend is out; though, in bi By Robert Minor Two Varieties Of Vacations. Comets Ht eta WR “lim for? he asked severely. One women, who was em- ployed at sewing in a large establish- ment, had been looking forward to this vacation all the year. Every morning she would down to the beach, enjoy the bath and the sun. bere hey! were stopping. sit 12 the w oy were a . shade of the porch wad flaten to the birds in the trees, and then go in the afternoon for @ sail, and re- tire early, to begin the next day with similar recreation and c How she revelled in it all eo different fro: It was that came on the lawn, and ers—the old-fashioned ones which she loved. She enjoyed the sunsets with their riot of color, for she never had @ chance to see any sunsets bebind of things ft. \ Her friend, the other woman, a buyer in a store, had @ different sort of vacation, She returned home with a trunkful of trinkets, Her veonien wi bu: thing ight or might not use me ' Once she stopped to have her for- tune told in a little, hot hoom where the mosquitos wel working over- time. A few times dipped In the ocean because friends were going. / In the main, bh al busy buying that ehe did NOT watch the bir trees or the flowers or the sunsets. in her little room at the we ing t hat she ures.’ over her day's shopping and regret not having bought a certain bargain that she had seen. When it came time to go home thts tired to di bought everyt! her m allow- ance would permit, She did not re- ving, a was really GLAD to home. me to her her work only in hard. looked forward Was so HAVE| or the th. She had} Capyuight, 1014, ty the From Pubttching Oo, (The New York Brening Wei) little Mirtations great heartaches grow—from little Mbetions Great headaches grow. A summer man’s devotion ie not half so often an indication of his desire to make love to a girl as of his desire to see if he can. A man learns three things during his wife’s summer vacation: That half the fun of @ poker game consists in having to. steal away to it; that every little highball has a headache of its own, and that an old ~—_ an old shoe, ie a lot more comfortable than « new one. Before marriage @ man cant fo cmake tk without ming love; after marrtage he can't seem to make it without making A “healthy coat of tan” may be very fascinating in novels, bet ta real life there is nothing particularly appealing about a peeling nose, It’s @ poor sort of a wife who isnt generous enough to go away every summer and give her husband a few weeks’ vacation—but alas, there are. eo few husbands that seem to know when the summer vacation is over add the recess bell has rung. j A fool can't tell anything about the facility with which » girl can be Missed--and a gentleman won't, Funny, but the subjects on which a husband and wife can. quarrel con- tinuously are so much more numerous and interesting than the subjects on which they can agres. Wars and How Long They Have Lasted. ty—the duration of the important eight years; months; Mexican war, two years and eleven H duels between two nations, eral European war was the timean, when England, France, Tur-. continued for about two years and re- sulted tn @ sound thrashing for Rus- Before that the Napoleontc wars in- termittently ht every nation in Burope to the battlefield. These wars continued, with breaks of long oF short duration, for more than twenty and ended at Waterloo, ihe English, the Prussians, the bod other allies overthrew Napoleon. ussia and England, by the way, were ye stanchest friends, then, Nearly two centuries before that a: read until it in- , most every jon on, earth and is Bawa to bi as the’ far.’ shorter is apt to be, Perms f when onty Central Bu: - > is invol For example (in actual Ly Aust! Wer otwer'ot Ime also comparatively briet. weeks; “Prussian War In our own history here 1s—rough- a month; the present war——? ED m a Woman’s Lif Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Capyright, 1914, by the Prem Pubtishing Oo, (The Now York Brening World.) OHAPTER LXIII. wit’ stop, Lim ro enaee eee make yourself sick!” re f ACK took the bills from the| Til, Si whore he was, fostalment house and com-| “1 don’t care if I dol” I sobbed. menced to figure, Midway| Then, seeing that he was in no way through checking the ttems | softened by my tears, I only oried the he etl in adr; | barder. : pat Leary “There, Bue, do stop! How can we then frowning, continued down the/ talk and straighten ¢ nee out if you Jong list until he yeached the bottom. | cry like that?” he ask “What percentage is required as| “But you blame me when I was payments on these things?" he asked | on!7, 7 7sne t0 please you, calmly, eo sternly that without know- reason I began to be afraid. perhaps I am to T cent.,”” I replied. he conceded, at which I orfed on per " 3 @ little less noisily. “Have you kept aceens? ee “Oh, mol it was all my faulti® I tdea what you have me | countered, breaking out again. igglesf kd “There, dear, Yack begged, com- ing over and putting bis arms around me. ‘There, don't cry any more. We are both to and we will begin all over again. Your little head never intended to bother with mathematics, and in the future I'll attend to the financial part of this establishment. So dry eyes and we will say no more about it, But, Bue, I want the bill for those dresses, Get it to-morrow. And I want your solemn promise that you will never Lyd another bill without my permis- sion. “You treat mo like a child!” I re- turned indignantly. ‘That I was to run no bills, have nothing to do with the handling of the money, did not suit me at all, But in his present mood I did not dare gay too much, 80 contented my- eelf by asking, as women always ask when things go wron juppose you are sorry you mar- ried me, if I'am not to be trusted?” “Don't talk that way, Sue! je, ont 708 ag sees and I love you dearly. it IT cunt keep still and see you ruin us both. You have no idea of the value of money, or of what ls appropriate in our position account of the the am was eo emall I didn't “ 8 4 dive pieces of furniture, with- Dothering about the cost?” knew the instalment would eee, arenes and tat “You can bet your life that the instalment house kept account! I! wasn't too much bother for them: And if they don't receive their pay when it is due they will attach my salary. Nice little thing you have let me into! I t suppose you have thought of « way out?’ he asked in a tone I did not bert hare oo house ou know parried or just how it in a cr’ “some one ought to talk tedly, “I wi ics "your yor had Heit @ thed my eyes, zones must a a that what my red nose, and putting on more than 4} coming hat, & disguising, bet not ne you had half the things | flatterine veil, was soon ready thin Dill claims to have sold you!” Jack was very quiet. I could eee “I can run my own house, without/ that his mind was still on the bille I returned,|I had shown him, and the question nd you ought not to say such} of how to pay them. things to me when I was only trying} To my delight we met Nell and to make the house attractive for| Rumsey. I insisted upon their com. oul” ing home with us to our New! Years dinner, which I had taken gre pains preparing, but which Y now dreaded, They had planned to his mother’s for dinner, but Nell had wakened with one her ter- rible headaches, so they had tele phoned they would remain at home. “I am so glad we met you,” I sald for the second th And I was really delighted. Now, least, Jack “Attractive for me! Why, you make , that ne’ you you ha t played fair wi and be bowed bis head on his hands. Fis, penne don't!” I urged, and T commen cry. I bad very seldom allowed Jack to I don't look very pretty when my eyes and nose are red and swollen, but once I let go I couldn't help myssif, and I cried and sobbed until he was frightened. —— @id at home, She had not relaxed a eingie t except when she wae for the rest of the day at could, fOr, poting more about those (To Be Continued.) These are two kinds of vacations that taken by many, many peopl ‘Which ‘kind le 'yours? ed