The evening world. Newspaper, August 25, 1914, Page 12

ihe: ees Pe iti J f . v NAY ‘ Reh oh pit The Evening World Daily Magazine; Tue: Che etiliiy word. (The Reward? % wn na J. ANGUS MAW Treas ‘63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER,’ Jr., Secretary, @ Park CONFESSIONS. ie aah E ee tad BoE atet eas the Contin et or THe ; Month .301One Month. ‘Copyright, 1914, by the l’ress Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World.) M’ Daughter, I charge thee, waste not thy fruitful hours upom te" ‘ps LOST: THE CASUS BELLI. HE news that Austria has abandoned the campaign against | q Servia makes grim mockery of the German “White Book.” Hina “From the very beginning of the conflict,” declares Ger- | ~ . many, “we took the stand that this was an affair of Austria which | the alone would have to bring to a decision with Servia.” variety of partners, and ehe that taught him shall be feft to decorate : : wall as before. iw” sepebareh th Abened bad cart pectdled neal | { | Lo! Amaryilis shall lead him unto a secret nook, and he shal! Fe} Superb effort! Admirable result! And of course the Ozar only | bat potenall I shall bring GLADYS hither!” wanted a little “localized” discussion with Austria! But none of the One maiden shall patiently train him in the art of courtship and ‘hot-bloods ever thought it worth while to wait until they could see teach him HOW to kiss, how the “localized” question would settle itself. * And he shall gladly receive her instruction, thinking privily: i “Behold, I shall spring THIS upon all the ‘Others! ae An appalling instance of the hopelessness and haplessncss of Then, why shalt thou spend thy days in works of charity? > events when dynasties have a hand im the making of them. For, in the love-game, every man {s a REPEATER. |. Nobody is fighting for or against Servia any more or even think- | + “img of her. Any poor little casus belli that ever existed is now Lo! in my youth, I took unto my heart a Rough Diamond, saying: “Behold, I shall polish him for mine own purposes.” 4 ~ equeshed fiat under s colossal pyramiding of imperial ambitions. ‘ a * ha Yet, when I had TAMED him, by subtle means, and instructed him. § ” ‘We gather the German Ambassador inclines to the opinion, concerning the cut of his hair, and the wearing of a dinner coat, lo! He form m sook me for a rich widow with seven children. Giplomatically speaking, that Germany will lick the stuffing out of the bunch. Whereupon I took in hand another youth, saying: ; en “Alas! it is my Mission to educate the Young and Simple, that they STREET PLAYGROUNDS. may be endurable unto the rest’of my Sex.” But, when I had made of THIS one a “finished” article, he came unte me and smote me with his wrath, crying: “Thou Vampire! Why hast thou encouraged me, if thou wert ne f HE plan—first advanced by The Evening World—to keep cer- serious? Lo! thou hast RUINED my life and made of me a woman-Hater.” % tain streets free from traffic during fixed hours in order to eau thereafter he was called “Cynic” and wore a ribbon upon his’ Hf Se HN gated Mie tle Ips lly tl ly, verily, my Daughter, the ways of a Charitable Woman are hard Inspector Henry of Long Island City aske the consent of Mayor ‘nt tate a has aeauae Lage 4 ‘ ont Mitchel and Police Commissioner Woods to a reservation of various For if thou takest one of them as a PASTIME, he thinketh N@ hat® F > streets in his district for this purpose. Last week the Police Com- been “taken in;” yet, if thou takest him SERIOUSLY, he refuseth to ~ Missioner, in accordance with this newspaper’s plan, designated nine- taken at all! teen streets in Manhattan and Brooklyn from which traffic ie to be Selah. excluded during the houre between 2 and 5 in the afternoon. i A single week’s record of two children killed, three maimed for * life and seven run over and injured calls for prompt action. Enclosed playgrounds are the best remedies. But where play- grounds cannot be immediately available there is no reason why Chapters From a Woman’s Li l guarded street areas should not supply at least partial protection for By Dale Drummond the youngsters. Copp right, 1014, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) CHAPTER LXXI1. Heve you begrudge the time you ) STOOD for some time look- | Pecause it takes you from bridg- New Yorkers seem to consider war in Europe an excuse for cut- ting off their contributions to playground maintenance. But war in Europe is no all-round reason why children must be killed wholesale ] Ignort asked, , Ing at the picture before I siqhy don't you try yn u fa the streets of New York: po something turned it around. Then for| more in the market, Jack, If you are some time longer I looked | Setting worried over the expenses?” If the War Department at Washington wants to cover itself with glory, why doesn't it finally send transports to Higher Education of a Youth; for thy reward shall be the of the UMPIRE! 7 Behold, what a man learneth from one woman he PRACTISETH 29a be another, ‘ged | One damsel shall teach him the ways of love, but Another shall reap” * , the fruits of her labors. s | One maiden shall teach him to dance; yet, when he hath mastered te one-step and learned to “hesitate” WITHOUT counting, he shall seek @) - ' .|. “It looks as though I would at tho painted image of MY-| 11 11) ask Cosgrove to-morrow if self, wondering all the time how Jack | hasn't something on.” could be so cruel. paca, delighted. Jock Dad never hen Jack|before volunteersd to any Sl tae ca pet mia vay to bed |t sive him any information, He. COPED ts GRE We “Tee y "|had invariably waited until i 4 He answered my questions anent his| proffered. Perhaps now he evening pleasantly, but volunteered|make more mo y no information. quickly. And, as usual, discounting had L. ttle: , od Burope to bring home the trunks? SANSAIASIAAISSAAIIANAAASALAAR AA AAA | By this thme T hod become pretty | Sinner more elaborate than 1 had Ot mig well acquainted in Highland Terrace] frst intended. APPLES A-PLENTY. A SIZABLE apple crop of 210,000,000 bushels the Department he told me he had some informat had joined not only one but sev- that was bound to put us on e When the Serpent Entered Eden) icin sieves nriage neariy every | irae se ate ol Rie SILANAAAAPAAABAIISAASARAADSAAAA AAA A | UY for hore, and for money. Not] seit since the Aiteir Of the pote for small sums, but for large one: a hands—end ‘ooking closely ps And instead of playing, as I used to, Aa filled the place| for. the pleuaure I had’ in the game, |Rim I aeked:. “Have you been with the people that lived the best. I home to dress for our dinner party ena our sillsz Mr. Jarr Learns What Occurred and with the best people. That is,| The following day when Jack came Ss of Agriculture forecasts for this fall. Not so big as the crop of™1912 by 25,000,000 bushels, but still 65,000,000 bushels ahead of last year. did you bring that awful, awful rep-| As her foot cautiously reached the The engines filled the stree jtile in this house?” floor it struck something + ft and smoke, the firemen Yar oO “The snake will bite Emma, too, | yielding that emitted a whistling hiss with cries of “Hey! Throw us that|I played for the money. I w: fast . Apples are an important market item in the daily budget of the Then she comes upstairs. ‘Then we'll and then bounded at her und struck spanner!” Give her prossure, Miko!" | becoming pint, useless creature—a mye: Gel RY Ge . : Li a je. immediately het J jose ladders, Al!” And fro: BRIDGE END. © . American consumer Along with the record grain crop the promise dancing in the darkness on the plano| shrieks of terror roused the nelghbor-| Motor Truck No. #9 « blazing search. Wan fortunate, usually. ‘The other |%7cWell-so exhilarat Py, - ; top in horrified joy at the thought, | hood, light was directed J le AM ei ‘Oh, I got a little excited taliiag “of « big apple yield is « happy omen for this country at a time when Why don't you kil the dreadful| Gertrude, the Jarre’ light running | of the Jarr domiclic; went ctl ieee | one te ca a, etudy doierminag| with the old man, He 1s surely 5 sit needs to produce as much as ever it can of everything to satisfy LN Uttle creature?” ahricked Mrs, Jarr| domestic, keeping a pre-movie tryst! ing to her fireman lover, Gertrude, |to win, and so have @ little money of] ‘uses hope it will turn out just 44 ‘ “OM to her barefooted beleagured husband| with Claude, her gallant fireman) the erstwhile light running domestic, | which Jack knew nothing. So the! ne thinks it will and thet you Mt e ite own needs. by, the Re oe aly the! overs, c8 the atatra, had but one cause) was saved some sixteen times during| time I should have devoted to other) make a lot of money. I'm 90 th ® " je or the} of ". 6 excitement. things was spent in studying all the “ ” Last year, during the four months of September, October and} covmmgn:. 1914, ei rege Prpttatine Os. .| “Fire! Fire Thus, a rubber doll baby by the| intricacies of the game. vagk, ot belng economia November, the average price of apples was 85.5 cents per bushel. them, Claude! sofa and a tiny garter snake under} Of course Jack knew I played, andj yoy have acted as though you ’ ‘ H, my snake! ‘With the emotional Gert! the piano, Mr. Jarr in bare feet and|that I won occasionally. But when know the meaning of” the There is every reason to beliqve that by the time the crop is picked es an in my bare feet? ing to bis neck, Claude, the fireman,| Mrs. Jarr in hysterics and Master|™my Winnings were large I never told a snake!” wailed Mast mbering this is the Age of|dragged her down the stairs to the| Willle in boyish glee, “ave the| him, but saved them unti I had|Ze% more soberly: °I only Boge + this year there will be no food pirates to hoard them away for a war Wille Jarr. “It got oUt) Woman, Mra. Sarr summoned all her| fire siarm box, neighborhood something to talk of ber| enough to ‘open a checking account| commtove is ight. 1 would tke flee. The trees have done well, if not their best. There need be no of vn oe eT conragertt was cnly 6 snake, a wey, | in one sBrlet minute, which Bra.| sides the war for one evening at least. i Now York. | Mildrea—who bed | then perhaps you would stop & i e ” 1 ped | Jarr st with shrie! = joined one of the Terrace clu = fA famine quotations on American apples. Mr, Jarre, “It' off the sofa, intending to run the|trude with cries of “Save me!” the vising me as to which bank would be| *°,decelve me. . “It's gotten so dark I Just I was about to be can't see th sky tht * gauntlet in tho dark for safety, light| engines were on the scene from the) ‘ the best for me. angry reply Norab called me * Se =e hah pares if sel Aireue re and assistance, fire house on the block below. “Tele p hone After s time T again rr careers until my guests came did I Food jobbers jorway il as to the is I ran. For a time 4 Job! in Ne started a war price raid. They his tango-awollen bare feet on @ cush- ° e e Telefools” 3} ns been most punctilious, but as Ha paar “ne "hoped to de P*. pleked pockets for just two days. Then the Government col- fon; and if there was one thing he bad Wit Wisdom and Philoso h ee Jack persisted in a sort of a coldness | well with, as jared them and made them give back the loot to their victims. the most acute nervous dread of it ’ y By Sophie Irene Loeb. een eeeainiatoge bat fat ‘Tait aud t. \ontpessime on ited overt _—~€_<—<—_rwrrmmrmmmmmmmmnss 4 4 4 ame Oxo! - ‘What's a government for? Tee Basen ys when he had his ON BEING HARD UP. By Jerome K. Jerome. —I grew reckless. He had told me| idea. ‘This time I was sure—by Jacki tag Wane ©o, jonly once of anything he had heard| manner—that he had ce ht, 1014, by the CAN speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. Thave| “(ine New Yor been a provincial actor at fifteen shillings a week. I have lived a week on ten, owing the other five, and I have lived for a fortnight “Oh, I'm afraid to move! I'm stand- ing on the sofa and there's @ nail in was i under the new laws against the use : ere have been @ good many funny things eald and written about T only question of time, 1d ha id nee t Jarr, too frightened at first to| hardupishness, but the reality ds not funny for all that, It is not funny to of drugs, when the city wou! ve to provide some means of | scream. have to haggle over pennies, It tan't funny to be thought mean and stingy. caring for drug victims outside the city hospitals. “I can hear it, pop! I con hear It, | It ssa funny to be shabby and to be ashamed of your address. No, there is Aa mamma! It's right in the front of| nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a >... Acting Mayor McAneny, the Police Commissioner and the Com-|ing pianner!” exclaimed Master Jarr,| sensitive man. And many ® brave gentleman who would have faced the © © missioners of Charities and Correction are to ask the Board of Esti-| wia with all the childish delight of|!abors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries. ©» mate for money to convert a portion of the city’s Home for Inebri-| being intensely frightened. “Isay It 1s not the actual discomforts themselves that are hard to bear, Who }. , ates, known es Warwick Farm, into a eanatorium for treating drug Blavinsky sald if the snake got 10086) merer trife, at the office, and I at once told Mil-| worth while. Then I thought A WOMAN writes as follows; |e: It had not amounted to much. | promise to Mildred. I mustn't re That is, !t hadn't for us, for the to ask Jack the name of the stock, I want to know if I can|vance was slight, and we had very|that I could call her up inne get legal redress or in any way | little to invest. I imagine it meant | ing, stop @ nuisance! more to Ned Somers, hough I could| ‘The dinner went off without & pao ©) neo that Mildred was a trifle disap-| Acting on Mrs, Eberhardt’s edvies, ch 1s causing | pointed. had one of the waiters from the me consideraile| “Aren't you going ‘t pretty fast,|come over and serve. Noral amd trouble. I am on| SU Jack asked one day when I | cooked everything and the dinner a panes i told him I was going to give a dinner | delictous, Ino of &l party, the second that week. I won nearly fifty dollars at telephone, not be-| “No faster than those we go with,” | although we played for comp ing able to af-|I replied; “we have to keep our end| small stakes. My luck was with ford a privute| UP; don't we?” a and no matter whom I played on ena “1 suppose so! Who's coming?’ scored, Jack made quite a joke 5 ind} “Oh, Harry and Fanny Eberhardt,|the hostess winning from her Ay great difficulty and Mr, and Mrs,/ but after they left hoe said: in getting a prop- Just enough to! “You're a great bridge on lune of miy tales wo tables at bridge aftey| but if I were you when I was a in my own house I would let some Phone. ave a simpl: dinner, Sue. I] else win.” “There is a why you think it necessary! Jack certainly has old-fasht woman on the same line and she is eo your Wttle stair o saeas would mind roughing tt a bit if that were all it meant? Being poor is a to grab it by the tall and anap it like It 18 being known to be poor that is the sting. It is not cold te. & whip and you could snap ite head that makes a man without an overcoat hurry along ao quickly. It {s not all 2 shame at telling les, which he knows will not be believed, that makes him a The Boylan law requires that anybody with drugs in his posses-| of: Se ne RAS burn so red when he tells you that he considers overcoats unhealthful and ‘ i 4 ‘ “WwW -E-E!" oi never carries an umbrella on principle, It 1s easy enough to say that poverty | ion shall be arrested and taken before a Police Magistrate: If he| mother. “You dreadful boy! Why|ts no orime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It te a blunder = is found to be a drug victim he must be sent to one of the city’s though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the world over; 7 © hospitals for treatment. Inasmuch as there have been nearly 1,000| Hits From Sharp Wits, | deepited. ae much by a Christian as by a lord, as much by a demogoxue as by gach patients since July 1, including many users of drugs who have — - @ footman, and not all the copybook maxims ever set for ink-stained youth (To Be Continued.) wil wean Ain pened everlastingty at the telephone, It FAUCBIT Ses rUTBleG. Caers TT bee . ‘, ‘When bad news travels it always Appearances are everything, #o far as human opinion goes; and the man| seems almost every time call a 5 . i voluntarily gone before the Magistrates and begged for a chance to} wrows on the high-speed lever. who will walk down Piccadilly arm in arm with the moet notorious scamp| number she js using the line, I can- whieh. waen BEY ny oe lenaaonst, | pelng, pureued Oe ee pe de cured, it is obviously unjust to regular hospital patients to crowd Ray cen hee od at the|!® London (provided he ts a well dressed one) will slink up a back street to| not help hearing scraps of conversa-'or their hands. Their constant theory| Consideration is the watchword these institutions with “dope fiends.” door of the poorhouse because he|%” ® couple of words to a seedy looking gentleman. tion in trying to get Central, and|is “Whom ghall I call next?” all sides. jet One becomes used to being hard up, as one becomes used to everything low o! And then they wonder what is the| ‘The telephone to-day ts a most he 7 8 uBe Ing hard up, there is a constant flow of the most a The Boylan law has already disclosed a disquieting number of | tied t© be § good fellow.—Memphia| 1.1 "se help of that wonderful old homeopathic doctor, Time. You can| unimportant, silly, UNNECESSARY | matter hen te “high telephone bill | essary institution for all” socked |) @rag cases, which lsys upon the city a new and grave responsibility. a tell at a glance the difference between the old hand and the novice; between | tai, between this woman and her|vcrience with friends who, will. talk, Hi vs A a a lapse from righteousness 1s al-|the case hardened man who has been used to shift and struggle for years| /_, wr ‘there is nothing to talk about bi Tt certainly should 2 ‘The hospitals should not bear the whole burden. ways 2 lieved to be permanent: &| and the poor devil of a beginner atriving to hide hie misery and in a constant friends. I do not want to appear as| they MAKE talk, I know a woman of lace of the back fence ‘ wrongdoer's rmation is always| agony of fear lest he should be found out. Nothing shows this more clearly| 4 grouch or constant compiusaer anu | teisure who persists in calling up | sip and was not intended for cor 5 nlAWA than the way in which each will pawn his watch. As the poet says some-|] wish to be reasonable. Mut others | business woman with the greeting: “{| Ing pink teas or for the dra fF Everybody gives advice that he| Where, “True ease in pawning comes from art—not chance.” The one goes| must suffer from similar trials and @| just thought I'd say hello.” And then | chatterbox. pe rom t e eo Dp e doesn’t himself follow. — Albany|!nto ¢he pawmbroker's office with as much composure as would into his| solution may be suggested.” follows @ lot of cheap talk. In fact,| It isn't FAIR to continue a thy Journal. tailor’s, very likely with more, Yet what a man makes of| The point is well taken, and the! she might be said to be inoculated | stream of talk apropos of no! a 6 Min Aisi Dhaniee Tcotaaetnat Alice conelna tis ret au every-minute use of ce ‘teephone | with the disease of telephonitis. The) especially on a party line, , Ave Downtown Clerke Uncivilt ‘Tin Reefs and Thunderstorms. A Kansas man has wisely observed! itself compared with him. {Bo the Editor of The Brening World: Te the Batter of The Krening World) that when a book “‘ls very suitable as ‘Dear old ladies and gentlemen who know nothing about being hard up—| 2.) odress, she can appeal to the|truder as soon as possible. And she |And makes end work for “C have read somewhere that there ® Sift’ it le rarely worth reading—/ang may they never, bless thelr gray heads!—look upon the pawnshop as Koi pany, which, will probably locate | loses considerable time as a result of | tral.” record of @ tin-roofed house 3. 6 “% * the last stage of degradation, But those who know it better (and my read-| the offender and at least draw hor INTRUSION. | Resides, many a proto , ightning. Doos ‘When it comes to going to extremes| ers have no doubt noticed this themselves) are often surprised, like the! attention to the condition of affairs. ré ure those foolish girls | has resulted in disaster, For it te ai you have to hand it to the doctor who | little boy who dreamed he went to heaven, at meeting so many people there ize a telephone, o will call UB men, at ueinees Aact URAL Daonle i) anak ays wearing tight shoes causes bald-| that they never expected to see, For my part, I think it a much more inde- Une, to the de- the day about inan fal boule ot ta Mt ts| would REFRAIN f i pess.—Memphis Commercial Appeal. | pendent course than borrowing from friends; and I always try to impress hoald not there is <tnything, that disgusts rom 8a has indeed developea “TELEFOOLS."| business woman dislikes being impo-| others may be waiting for the serv! While this woman may nut have le- \iite, yet she gets rid of her Ro | to which they ‘@ justly enti ft t | face to fi b One reason why man ts superior to|‘ti# Upon those of my acquaintance who Incline toward “wanting « couple Should be made to take out @ private A Oe wy aon Why max lor to! of pounds till the day after to-morrow. Bow ¢ fee BUSINESS, ae are doqrece in being bare up, We ary all bard way. mane. of Seetl For tom, sorry te, any tnet, there ‘Th most of us more, bard @ thousand pounds, some are those bay filing. Just at this moment Tom bard for Sve pounts, = theory thet a party line is a devieo by pect ; P a