The evening world. Newspaper, September 26, 1914, Page 10

GB. ccccccccccecscccccccsccceescse ses NO, 19896 #O PLAN THE FUTURE NEW YORK. SHB Commission on Building Districts and Restrictions, organ- feed lest July, met for the first time this week. After s series @f public hearings it will report to the Basrd of Estimate 6 plan for dividing the city into districts for the p ef regulating the heights of buildings, the areas of courts and and the location of trades and industries. ; Bessstt announces thst his commission, “in order to the present end for the future, will try to obtain « picture the city wil] or should look like in twenty-five or fifty years $8 has two or more times the population that it has at present. rfmvelves the study ef the probable growth and distribution of and the probable development and location of business and ly the Commission begins to suggest specific limitations hear from certain sources the usual outery that private rights ignored, that unless seventy-five story buildings are a poten- of every block the glory of the city will depart forever, business is the best judge of how it shall locate and spread. t we believe that New Yorkers as a whole were never to agree thet random growth under the auspices of private ‘has hed its day, that conscious looking ahead, restraint and iticn are necessary to make New York a permanently attractive ‘worthy to maintain its place among the great and well-planned of the world. : he ‘Wall strest @ tilt patiently trying to find a way. ee ee = THAT ALL MAY SEE. SHE new public cab stand signs put up throughout the city this ' week by the Board of Licenses are permanent reminders of ene of the most significant advances in municipal contro! and onvenience that New York has seen in this generation. The monopoly of the streets by. private taxicab interests that Rupdreds of thousands of dollers yearly to hotels for exclusive privileges was long « shame and 0 disgrace to a progressive city. © two years The Evening World tirelessly fought to abolish the tends, It won ite fight fairly, completely, decisively. Never Lew York senction o retarn to the old system of private stand » The new public cab stand posts are substantial witnesses to that the contro! of the streats has been restored to the public. a oy fp Sree Tow Se aan vine be weet Sone How ” They Gid it, alas, when he ween't looking. How = peete levers divine one another! ooo A BOON TO THE THRIFTY. TANS to teach New York school children how to buy food #-< Gepplies are so far matured that actual instruction will begin °*tm the public schools next week. Eight hundred thousand flare are to be distributed Monday—the first of a series dealing ,, What and When to Buy, and How to Save Waste.” The will be urged to carry home what they learn and explain * te. ws ile, despite grumbling and criticism, the free markets te open the eyes af New Yorkers to the fact that good meat, und vegetables can be bought in this city at low prices if only sad farmer are given a chance to get in touch with each = By providing (1) instruction in marketing in the schools and (2) : where the instruction may be applied the city is making the effort on record to secure to thrifty people of limited . se fair share of the first-class foodstuffs that come into New © STENOGRAPHERS HARD HIT. Me IGHT THOUSAND etenographers in this city, most of them - female, ate said to be out of work as the result of the war. ‘Many importing and exporting houses have practically sus- @ Business. Wall street firms that used to employ big forces ac are hardly doing enough fo keep an office boy busy. m the most expert typists find it slow work getting a job this fall. there is an oversupply of stenographers owing to a rush pared young women, city and country bred, to an oecupa- looks attractive is probably true. Nevertheless thousands typists have lost their jobs this fall and many more are dismissal. : Out of a salary of $12 to $16 per week it is hard much. The great army of quick-fingered, bright-minded, Wrerking women upon whom the modern business world lays so iy of ite routine burdens is peculiarly entitled to interest and etters From the People br in, as a legislative meaaure; in- stitute; am, to initiate a reform; the right to initiate legislation, Noun, ‘China, or one who has been initiated. pry ‘The Bank of France. 2 . , ‘Do the Bititer of The Evening World: Fas Ine with a man he declared that the Bank of France had the most gold of any bank in Burope. Is he right? B.A. 8. He was wrong. © Bank of Russia has 167,181,000 pounds in gold; tho Bank of France 138,700,000 pounds, The Sherman Law. To the Kditoe of The Drening Wastd: I know the Sherman law makes it @ misdemeanor to monopolize inter- @tate trade, but what {i penalty? And d ep} outside interstat: rae Gere The Fine Art of Worrying. By Sophie Irene Loch. "Rett Wad ovctng Weutine o> ‘WOMAN friend told me of the following occurren “The other day, as I was on my way to a crossing Individual ap. Prosched me, saying: ‘Lady, will you just give me one enny? “The same old idea that we are prone to think— that be wanted drink—flashed into my mind, yet hi looked 90 tired and worn and weary that it made no differe.co to me and I just had to give him something that might banish that pathetic look from his face. “I fumbled in my purse and found @ nickel, which I gave to him. As I walked on it occurred to me that per- haps he was hungry ..od Sve cents wouldn't go very far in that direc- tion, that if I had given bim ten cents he could at least have bought a sand- wich. “I began to worry about it and cona- eluded the only thing he could buy would be a drink, and that perhaps 1 was ‘driving bim to drink.’ The pos- sibilities of the whole thing kept turoing in my mind and I was very REMORSEFUL that I had not given him more money. “And would you believe it, by the fine I bad reached the » I could not it out of my and it WoRATE me for the rest of the day, even though it was something I could not change.” And that is a fair sample of thor sands who worry about similar oc- currences that they cannot change. They have worrying down to a fine art, indeed. I know ® little woman who «ctually wore wars at the thought that her little baby a few mon y be in fail. She years IN HER IM. TION, and could visualise that child, a grown man, behind the ‘There ie the man who is always afraid he is going to He not only worries hi whole feraby. sree been same ‘aboo fr’ consra NT Ly that he will lose it, There seems to be no apparent reason whatever for his discontinuing bis work, but the fear is ever pres and the worry . | ives and se’ =The Week's Wash=— By Martin Green Copyright, 1914, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Bvemng World), 66] T.must bean | in expensi operation be a candidate for | nomination to of- fice,” remarked the head polisher. “So many of the candidates now before the people no visible of sup- pol “On the contra- ry," replied the laundry man, “seek- ing a nomination in the primaries is a costly operition, Under the old system the political machines financed the candidates. Under the primary system it appears that almost any- body with a loud voice and a capacity for abuse can run for office and get financial backing. “Candidates who have no responsible political parties behind them and have Bo money of their own must got money somewhere to pay for bead- quarters, stenographe: ating, motor hire, es. The conclusion Is t! be getting the money from persons or interests having private reasons for ing with substantial bankrolls. “We must assume that these pri- te parties or interests are not put- ting up money for fun. They oxpect gome roturn, directly or indirectly. They must be looking for legislation or the of laws. Therefore it would be interesting to ascertain the sources of the financial bucking of free lance candidates. “Candidates are expected to fur- nish a complete report of the money expended in primary campaigns. ‘The trial of William Sulzer showed how much attention is pald to that regula- tion. It ts a good bet that the re- turns of the various candidates who are herking sf each other day and night will the same old returns, Mr. Sulzer is bulwarked this time, however. He exacts from all who band him anything an agreement that the money is a gift to him per- ly. bat vi the primary it is a joke. hear the ambulance dri.- up to the door. ‘Tho truth about most of such wor- ries may be summed up in the words of the man who sald: “I am an old map. I bave known many troubles, but most of them never happened.’ So it is with most trials that we We live several troubles—ONLY in our imagina: ‘Also, as ® usual thing, we pick out the most trifling things and magnify them to the greatest power. It is the to wrinkles and old age and, yes, death. At the Ae oJ as oasy, if you Ui imagine things, Hatin of thought that directs the things. It is so easy to worry. just as easy NOT to worry, if you but cultivate the habit 2, “tnrow it ae to cultivate a| 4 The candidates who have the backing be Soe machines will pbk cots ere 4 well mana; lon, such as Tammany Hall, that organi- sation under the present system is going, to furnish the candidates on Primary day. Hundreds of thousands of voters will go to the polls next Monday and mark and mark and mark and mark until thelr arms are tired and they will be nothing but marks, for the slates ha’ been arranged. Whi “It would be different if all voters took an interest in the primary. Maybe they will, come day. In this primary the vote will ba cast by the men who vote of loyalty to the party o: ization. Probably there never was a one all State officers an: 66] HAVE oa name for the war in Europe,” said the head pol- fisher. “Why not call it ‘The War of Atrocities?’ ” “Atrocities are inseparable from war,” declared the Laundry Man, “and in war times the fakire and liars roam at large unrestricted and un- ashamed. Every ship coming from Europe brings scores of gabby peo- ple who spin the most impossible yarns about atrocities, None of these ple has seen @ battlefield, Few of them have been within hundreds of miles of t! ighting. They are tell! stories they have heard and nearly these stories are started by lara and grow with repetition. The time arrived to lay off the atrocity at there is considerable complaint about the war-time unwillingness of bankers to lend the experience of a vast majority of us,” replied the laundry man, “that attitude of the bankers is chronic.” Hits From Sharp Wits. ‘The young fellow without an: hal so 'y imag: {nation must @ an uninteresting lover—Toledo Blade. | One reason a crouch doesn’t acquire the habit of talking too much is be- cause nobody yay ten to him, Honesty is the best policy, and in the long run the premiums are less, too. ° Every man regards a war tax with suspicion until he finds out that it ls igned to affect him it, and then he beco! one of our very most en- thusiastic patrio! ‘Philadelphia In- quirer, ° A sceptic is merely ° ® person who opinion > you the World By Clarence L. Cullen Cooma, $6 YP tame "yeti PROSPEROUS, pretty decent married man of our acquaint- ance says that the person who bates bim more than gnybody else in the world ts his wife's sister, who married a bum and resents the fact that her sis- ter didn’t do like- wine. “What are you making = year?” the father of @ young friend of ours asked him when the young fellow told th> old man (told bim, not asked bim,) that he was going to marry his daughter. “Two thousand a year,” the young man re- plied, “Well, Edith ought to be able to get enough chocolate candy to keep her alive out of that,” sald the old man, “but I happen to know that she has @ pretty good appetite for pork chops, also.” C46 0bkLe A woman who wishes to create an agreeable impression upon a man will refrain from mentioning to him her visit to her chiropodist. ‘We met a squelched-looking mar- ried man prowling about the roof of bis tall apartment building shortly before twilight. “Up here to enjoy | ™! the sunset, eh?” we said to him. “Sunset be blowed!" he snorted. “I came up here to get a smoke. My wife doesn’t believe in men smoking since she became a@ settlement worker.” A lot of thoughtless folks are de- riving temporary “comfort” from hay fever remedies to-day their cocaine straight this time next year. () n enormous amount of re- for the termination of the fellow who can ouy one of those marked-down-from- ‘straw hats now for 76 cents and put it away for use when the straw bat season begins next year, . People who really realise the appal- ling Bignifcance of war in Europe are not the ones who are talking about it. Does @ man ever aay to any other woman except his own wife: “It's a wonder you wouldn't tie your own shoes #o they'll stay tied before you the bouse Some married men are so experi- enced that they can hold their breaths long enough to away with it when their wi them ete a eatea pS hard-bitted de- | sbout it Copritgin, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Os, (The Now York Breaing World). AS TO MODERN “HORRORS” OF LOVE AND ae AR,” exclaimed the Widow, dropping the newspaper with & “is ‘perfectly awful,’ just, as Gon. Sherman said it was! ‘There is nothing brave or romantic about it any more It’s all cheer cruelty—a mere matter of striking the enemy when he isn't _ “That ien't cruelty,” explained the Bach “That's ‘strategy. “Weill,” sighed the Widow, “like LOVE, it’ is to businesslike to be interesting or exciting. In the old used to cross swords and lovers used to cross wits, there was and submarines and mi: “And bachelor maids beauty doctors and matchmaking mammas and flirts in debutantes’ cloth- ing,"——— broke in the Bachelor. “And tango teas and alashed skirts and confirmed old bachelors and eynical youths and summer widowers"—— added the Widow, “love and war have become commonplace and stupid and unnecessary.” “Ah, well!” sighed the Bachelor, studying a ‘ring’ of blue smoke from hie cigarette, “there's some excuse for the ‘modern improvements’ in WAR. Once upon a time forts weren't so impregnable"—— “Neither were men's hearts!" retorted the Widow, tilting her chin, “And battleships could be ‘takes’ by haad without being blown Up,” pursued the Bachelor. “And bachelors could be turned into husbands without being—chlore- formed!” mocked the Widow, “War was « matter of honor in those days!” “And eo was love!” “But now,” continued the Bachelor imperturbebly, “it’s a matter of gur- rounding the fort or the city and dropping a bomb on it, or of luring the battleship out of its course and springing a mine under It.” “Exactly!” cried the Widow, dramatically, “And any girl who wante to marry has got to lure a man out of his shell with platonic friendship and surround bim with all the comforts of home and cut off hie retreat—anq then spring mine or drop a bomb on him when he least expects it!” “But—but what CAN she spring on him?” asked the Bachelor in alarm. “The fact that he is in love with her,” explained the Widow sweetly. “No man ever knows that he (s in love with a woman until she has ex- plained it to him with a diagram, Mr. Weatherby. Ho wouldn't THINK of walking into @ love affair with hie eyes wide open; love always has te strike him in the dark/or when he Isn't looking. And even then, before you ean ‘take him,’ you've got to walk over the dead bodies of all his past loves and most of his present ones!" sighed the Widow reminiscently. “And break down all his prejudices, and shatter all his fortifications and objections an@ annihilate his family”—— “And then FINISH him—with a dumdum bullet!” cried the Bachelor, “Wh—what?" The Widow looked disconcerted. “MARRY him!" declared the Bachelor laconically. “Oh, yes, of course!" agreed the Widow, dimpling with pleaseure. “And then you can walk right in and ‘occupy’ his premises and dictate terms!” “Humph!” grunted the Bachelor. “And destroy all his illusions and make him give up all his clubs and hand over his salary and pay an in- demnity for the rest of his natural life! Well, 1 SURRENDER!” “Nobody asked you to, Mr. Weatherby!” returned the Widow sweetly, “but if you men weren't so ready to take the defensive and would assume the OFFENSIVE once in a while you'd be much more apt to win In the love war; anyway, you'd get a lot more excitement and honor and glory omt of it, It must be terrible to live in the constant fear of mines and breach of promise suits and bombs and proposals and”—— “It IS!" scoffed the Bachelor. “Simply awful!” “Then why don't you get married?” demanded the Widow suddenly. “Ouch!” cried the Bachelor tragically. “A bomb!" “A married man,” pursued the Widow relentlessly, “like @ conquered nation, has nothing to fear. He doesn't live in the constant dread that every abat bogie a ey may have designs upon him!” jot” groaned the Bachelor. “He knows that hap- sane nothing WORSE can “He just sits calmly back on his little paplex mache threne,” went the Widow, “and thinks he's a king”—— " bs “When he's only @ deuce!” put in the Bachelor, “And—and—WHAT are you doing, Mr. Weatherby?” . Rist your advice!” cried the Bachelor, catching the Widow tn his arms with @ precipitate sally. “Taking the of Teking enemy ee aie cs ensive! the “Stop! Stop! How dare you!” exclaimed the Widow 4 lesperately. “To the victor,” exclaimed the Bachelor determined!: \- treating, “belongs the kiss!” ye eee wht le mot iikt: Panes, t shes Set, nea oe ot asl how we lived. ae 32 Dany, - i r. Flam turned, staring Diankiy ae Sue, you're crazy! plants ae I = not enoug! ive like this ye unless Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1914, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Dreuing World), OHAPTER LXXXVI. and to what she bad sal ACK’S mother ,and Janet|*Coordingly indignant, “Why cas we J Jack from dong ae Toned, ij} was delighted to show ery Janet how well I lived, and| mother, then his, to say adits took pains to let her see cordialie aera, Mr. Flam, w fust how extravagant I was, I bad] “Hurry sheeted oa weg never quite forgiven her for patron- hearing if had ever izing me—as I thought—when I arat | M me on the later visit. I gave a bridge and a dinner for them, and really quite outdid myself at both affairs, “You have become quite @ society woman, Sue,” Janet said rather sa:- castically, I thought. carelessly returned. “You ‘know bow to entertain hand- gomely) abe told me, puffing me up withae thie sister of Jack, the one had looked down on his country be tertained handsomely pleased me im- eely. They remained only three days, but expressed themselves as delighted with the house, the children, my motor, my friends. Just before they made usa short visit. 1] Jack sotactt® 008 pred. "ta and Intended hi ma to, visited and for finding fault with “Ob, we go out quite a little,” I Tree, should acknowledge that | en- left 1 overheard Jack's mother say to 5 o i leal of money—; ~ much I never knew. He yd ing very secretive. At frst been disgruntied when he wor me nothing of what he market, but as he gave me whenever I asked for it and grow! and grumble at my bille gradually come to accept the that I was not to know what he did your mother mean when| to supply the means to gratify she sald Lt Rk eee Ber te wee a with your father?" im the uentiv Gay after they left, Not seriously, but Jack was temteney “Nothing much. and I none too patient, gambling In the stock market, and in| started to disc and couldn't seem to stop until he sit his money, His for. tune was very large, too. Don't tal hat becam: tient—"I er die oft” lack answered, wi | be Even knowing this, which was, of course, a shock to me, made no dif. tere: in my actions. One day soon after they returned to Boston, Jack, for the first time in many onths. said to me: “I don't know whether to go into a deal with Haywood or not.” bh: of course!” I promptly answere: must have some new furniture for the reception hall, and I saw a set of dishos to-day that I there are great many other things we must hi T should think you would be sax to make all the money you can for your fam-| forced never occurred to me. ily, instead of hesitating: working too hard by day ‘and “ery. wel hi t ll, Bue; you have decided| too hard by ht. That he the “ : int m0; “Be careful, Jack; you know how it was with your father. Don’t specu- te, my boy. io % worry about me, mother, I can take care of myself,” he replied, ee i Eee te I have said that fussed over my billa, “eae i never knew the extent of my edness, fact ut Be hate to think of 1 ‘What did your ‘He shot himsel: shortly, turning dared ree Md not t Woula ‘not have been very much Bee ne We went out a da Jack was always the caveat of the a That his spirits were, or might