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Pa Wee The E She e6iRy aictid. puis ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. D PERSIE ited States All Countries in the Postal ven "ARE WE RISING TO IT? ina wy M13 Noa. 88 to + International “hes suffered almost es much os if this were o belligerent ts PP re ed den a ate Ye ren 2 ge sation,” the Netional Foreign Trade Council urges eo-opers- tive effort on the part of government and commercial interests to ‘Meet the cituation in a manner worthy of a great nation favored with opportunity. Bho failure of the United States thus far to rive to that opper- fait ia, in the opinion of the Council, due to the fact that the coun- ~ Cay “hes not thought out im advance what should be done in such ‘ here ere ceverel matters fa the face of which the nation hes ‘(been balancing on one foot because it “never thought out in advance _twlhat chouid be dena.” o Weneve eending it cut where the world can ese and use it. certainly never thought out what should be done to rescue thought out the prompt development of « merchant Therefore we find ourselves disputing with our own ship- to whether we are going to kill our chipping by adding d } wy (The wees. | York Brening By Robert Minor aily Magazine, tuesday. August 18, 1914 The Background |: BACHELOR Noe RTE WELEN ROWLAND) Copgright, 1914, by the Prem Pubtishing Co,” (The Now York Brontng Wert.) 7 A WOMAN'S devotion always increas.s a man’s affection—for timself ¥ Nowadays {t is a toss-up whether a girl is luckier to be fas- cinating enough to get a rich husband or to be rich enough to buy a fae Cinating one, It's pertectly wonderful how the methods of love resemble the mothe ods of war. For instance, if a man fails to win « woman by storm or strat egy he immediately proceeds to try to STARVE her out—with indiffereson ‘The “higher love” may be different from all other kinds in the begiae ning, but somehow it always ende in exactly the same spot on a girl's ipa Bhopping ie a Woman's substitute for dissipation. When a :nan ie ua- — happy he goes out and buys a drink. When a woman ie unhappy she goes out and duys half a dozen pairs of silk stockings or s hat she dosse't need and feels awfully soothed and refreshed. Never fudge a man’s love by the ardor with which he kisses you the first time, nor by the tenderness with which he kisses you the second time ‘Dut by the eagerness with which he seeks to kiss you the third time ‘The hardest thing on earth for a woman to discover is whether a man’s grouch is located in his heart, his head, his tooth, his vanity, his digestion, or is just @ chronic condition of his general system. / Mimenican citizens ceaght ine war cyclone on the Continent. It hes talon us weeks even to address proposals on the eubject to the Euro- youn nations. : we mover thought out the question of wer leans. ‘Al- ‘the lows of noutmality expressly sanction impartial leans to from banking interests in neutral nations, the United Government pute @eelf nervously « position where it prao- mally forbids such loans. oa etapa pembysegry! ye Galt to cee how we are to come out of (eemmmerce or addition to our prestige. Surely this nation can preserve Sthe true spirit of neutrality” without gutting its hands behind it end its heed in a corner. % prompt ection it is diffi- brought to light and the that thetr prices, while business is normal and prices ktep at regulated levels, In war-ravaged Belgium the last week at average prices, , © name, shoukl wer famine break -out first in hereabouts hes asked itself that question until its MP WILL BE a disgrace to this great and wealthy city if ite citizens > permit playgrounds and recreation centres to close for lack of . elittle money. » > Mever have the city’s chijdren had better promise of safe play to keep them happy and healthy. The new Delancey street und opened a few weeks ago has been welcomed and crowded apecity. Tens of thousands of east sjde dwellers are petitioning Commissioner Ward to apen the remaining plots in the centre cey street. . Yet the Parks and Playgrowpds Association.announced yester- that it is forced to close fifty-four play centres because it has no funds to run them. Some 250,000 children must go back to the for their only chance to play. ‘This is a shame that New Yorkers should hasten to cast from It is unbelievable that war in Europe can be offered as an for withholding subscriptions and turning children in this iy out of their playgrounds to shift as best they can amid the dirt and perils of the streets. ‘ i] Champagne is going to cost more hereabouts. Is part of the e to come out of the children? —_————<9- Spare a @ought tor Saratoga. e . tters From the People . The Home Girl. Praise for Cartoons, cituation with profit to our “The Seven Sleepers” HE festival of the Séven Sleepers was introduced into the Chris- tian church at @ very early Period. The legend on which it is founded relates that the Emperor Dectus, in the year having set up @ statue in the city of Ephesus, com- manded all the inhabitants to worship it, Seven young men disobeying this mandate and being unambitious of the honor of martyrdom fled to Mount Coellus, where they concealed them- in a cavern, Decius, enraged, caused all the various caverns on the mount to be closed up and noth- an tavestiantion wh was declared be a miracle and in ite commemoration the festival was in- atituted, ‘This legend, which is merely an adaptation of & more ancient one, has found a place in the Koran. Accord- ing to the Mohammedan ae t4 sleepers were accompan! a dog named Kratim. This animal, after i:s reed aleep becoming a great prophi and philosopher, has been admitt into Muss ‘a paradise, where it sits beside the aes of Baldam, The other eight animals that enjoy this high privilege are the ant of Solomon, the whale of Jonab, the ram of the calg of Abraham, Selah, the cuckoo of Belkis, the Moses and the mare of Mohammed. Hits From Sharp Wits. the cam of You never bear a loud talker de- clare he bas nothing to say. oe @ If you never amilé when you feel like it you'll get a reputation for being a grouch.—Toledo Blade, eee Too much will power is overdevel- opment on the ne, ide, ° From him that promises leas: most formance may be expected.—Al- y Journal, i Men in public office are a constant worry to the men who want in.—Tole- insaanae eee * Just because you fatled to make good don't be envious of your friend who does, because jealousy breeds! . contempt.—-Memphis Commercial Ap- Instead of imagining trouble, wh not imagine Joy, hips oh ncaa i 2 So Wags the World By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1914, by the Pram Publishing Co, (The New York Yrentng Woutd,) UR son is not going to profit by your experience. Even as he listens te your sage recital and your warnings he is saying to himself: | ¢¢ HB woman with the dollar in “That's all very fine, governor. What you are saying to me shows that YOU had YOUR crack at the game. Well, you might as well save your breath, then—for I'M going to have MY crack at it likewine!” Anatole France poses that the modern woman ts permitting her. ‘s “mystery” to slip away from! pj] her. How these Frenchmen, who were the first to plump that diaphanous “mystery,” so-called—how they do love to keep up the fiction that they still believe in it! Heaven never intended that a knock-knee@d woman should appear publicly in.a bathing suit, Summer firtations are all right when both that too many thereto understand the rules of the game, The troutte is players get eo tangled up as to the rules that the arbitrament of y is necessary to open thelr eyes—and THEN they're 7 When a woman goes around telling her buddies that her husband doesn't un jtand her “higher nature” it's a sign that her man snores, that he has a roll of fat on his neck, that he likes pigs’ knuckles at going-to-beyi- time and that in general he doesn't jibe with her Robert Chambers idea of life as it never was and—praised be Allah!—never can be! * We can't imagine how @ woman who competes in a could ever be conceited over her looks after sesing tournament a of herself, taken in jhe act of making a shot, printed in a newspaper. Sys th, Be 6nd na rerel Oiee Br -0 mange bameed children, Still, we don't ege why & man meet casuafty pines should show us a group picture disappointed because we don’t rhapsodise smoking compartment of a young ones and then look and prou@of his in the of his their supernatural beauty and intelligence, « A friend of ours who has been married five times corroborates the erally accepted dictum that they all sit down on the floor to put on stockings. BRR REPRE EEE EE EERE EEE EE EEE EE EEE EEE EEE EHH rat ¢ What You Didn’t Know About Divorce i EEE RRR EER PPP PrP PP Pr rrr rrr reife. ried life most divorces occur? Do you know in what year | separations” are granted? D you know in what year of mar- more women applyfor divorces? Which is oftenest the “gugity party” when suit*for divorce is brought on grounds of unfaitbfulness? The man or the wife? Not one person in, fifty can answer the foregoing questions correctly, Some of the answers will come as a surprise to almost ‘ybody, at ire the “figures from tha United States Govern! “Spec! voroe,” 1906, The jent's ‘Report on Marriage and Di- vering @ period from 1887 to ni of divorces jumber end of + fourth are cee piied 945,625 War Prices and the Housekeeper By Sophie Irene Loeb. OmreARS HAP Pee her pocket” comes to the front again, according to Mra. Juiian Heath, President “There are a number of unecrupu- who want to take bbe condition Europe to raise cost of food. should be ‘boycotted’ by deal with them. I; whatever, for of the dealers, they would caviar, im) ome semblance of for the short “There are very few such imported delicacies for which the housekeeper cannot find good AMERICAN substi- tutes. It is t least for the present, #0 as not to give the dealer a chance to-use the ‘war exouse’ for advanced ‘The greatest number of tegal sep. | *! rations, prior to divorce, take place during or immediately after the FIRST year of married life, Table of years married prior separation: ; year or less and fecreesing Miivonee kre ‘granted to tieally ivorces are grant twice as pane wives as husbands, TABLE OF DIVORCES GRANTED. Total. fo Seepeace ‘To wives. the ‘ulneas, Emsentially three wi far tre yee, Ore Gs ult in this to few, cents added to a pound or @ peck or @ dozen soon adds up. Besides, @ fact that a woman will order thi with less discrim ination over @ Yelephome than if sh la in the market with her cagh to phy. “A very good way for a wothan to know. whether she is discrim- ted against a to sont 18 to bot buy at the first place she enters, if she has reason to believe that the figure of ¢ are Co ikke. need for canned stui iy wate, may be the first, of the fe i Ghee lied, preparing in invite the Getting married makes a young man fee! ten years older and an ol@ man feel ten years younger. ’ Patti never gave more “farewell performances” than the man who had sikae up his mind to reform after “just one more.” The Story of the Franco-Pruss WwW No. 8—The Empire’s Fall. OWS that Napoleon III. was &@ prisoner, that France's greatest army had surren- dered at Sedan and that the marohing on the French capita! itself, eet Paris crasy. The Empire was at -once over- thrown, the Empress Eugenie wi forced to flee for her life (it was a American dentist, Dr. Evans, by the way, who arranged for her covers) y . 4 France—for the third ty years—was declared a A repubilo it has remained ever since. Napoleon Bonaparte had made France an Empire. He had thrashed Germany and all the rest of Contl- nental Bufope. And in turn he had been overwhelmed, after ing France through a sea of blood. Na- his ae nephaw, bi intr, ie" sreneatrytie. spantachlar® Boner The victorious Germans were|'™! Chapters, . : Paria. was gone, the Repub- lo proclaimed; tl vanctng on Paris. of this Promptly began themselves, solidly united front to is foe. Political wrangles, factional btrite, Jealoustes, incompetence raged unat- tacked. Even when, on Sept. 19, the Germans besieged the city, quarrels continued to hamper the new “Provisional Government” that Rad been set up. Gen. Trochu was chosen as mili- tary head of the Gambetta, Thiers, am dis Coin tes. ‘The malcontents did all in power to ham Trochu's every > move for defending the city and for restoring order to the snarl of tional affairs. “Twice durin: siege, large bodies of the Pai sol- jiera had to be called back from the of defendi..g the city from the sim order to quell anti-gov- ernment riots in the streets and aquarss. ‘Thus b@hn the historic siege of (To Be Continued.) From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Goprright, 1914, by the Fes Pubtishing Co, (The New York Dreutng World.) pOHARTER LXIX. N- thinking of my promise to Mildred Somers I gave no slightest thought to the broken promise I had made Jack. “Jack, I have a surprise for youl” Lsaid to him one iter, when he seemed in particularly trying to act mysteriously. “and I am to wait until it comes before I am to know what it is?” be joned. ? And, Jack, Spek 2 Pet say 1 was extravagant or it with me, or it will break my heart,’ the way. y, what can !t be?™ he asked arly. “I do hope you haven't a Soins anything foolish to please uel" “Well, I have, so be prepared! But it 1s so lovely t you won't think of my foolish let alone chiding me,” I declared. “and I must wait two days to know what this wonderful surprise is? How shall I ever endure it?" he joked. | 11 tell youswhat I'll do, Jack, I'll Eberhardta over to dinner and bridge, and we will have un"—— I started to say “un but stopped jst in tims N right. ie hile you are I can't bave them Nell there when the home. I didn’t care to tion me. The picture cai 4 o'clock, and Jack came home soon afterward. ‘Yor surprise laughed. hurried hom “Tale about @ woman's curiosity!” I retorted, T took his hand, and like two chil- Bue, the ddsire to see my a too much for me,” he dropped everything and dren we went into the living room where it hung. Mr, Howells had sent @ man to hang It so as to be eure the lght was good. “gue!’ Jack breathed, “Do you like it?” I asked as calmly as I coult. “Like it? Why, it’s adorable!" Then, “But I always knew I had a pretty wife!” “Don't you dare say it flatters me! T gurgled. “No, it does not flatter you particu-| id, examining the picture it Is you at your best! | again, “why, id, else he wouldn't I replied gayly to hi egies Lerma i gions! he a io paint ine, and setnet talked to him. Then he did very much less than his usuaj f Of course I let him show it.” "You did! Before I had seen it? ‘Wh: T didn’t suppose you ‘Every epee ‘hee ye ip one knows tha! le can't afford to pay. £7 ive ‘Oh, bother peoplel;’ I bay | ave Then, sorry nas om ything unpleasant: “I don’t eupe ook cay one that ever heard ef us “I hope not!” Jack eald gravely. “Now tell me the cost of my eure “It was $500. Now, don't esold!” T hurried to say as I aa gath- . a dollars! “ie ul lo! 1” he - bs aoe when, may I ask, Fy gs “Oh, months and months reluded, “Right after his st yan jut, you know, father died, and thet interrupted the sittings, Then I went to Boston, and with the m be to finish it until about San in debt 100 1] 8 ge artist whom I had aevermeh Siteae conmalsing me, did you?” he Fecognized tt. “And at a time whee at explain t pay, $25 a month unttl 1¢ ave hought, ly Jack was undred dollars!” Jack mat- _ “and I borrowed money to vend. | am only to ¥ paid for, ren’t you pleased? ‘weekly, 7 No, curse ft! I'm anys jenaed! WW y should I u a yourself, so imbued with a Tien that you muat do and have every. thing Mildred Somers did and had that you cared nothing for anyth: else. And now to square your: me. Yor Five hundred dollars!’ BS “One would think {t had cost » million to hear you talk!" T sto; thankful T had not been obi woul ‘J Ned fraid! Ie Ica! paid for the picture, Pleasant, instead of an Saalases surprise, as it appears to complained, “T never want to see the thi; LT