The evening world. Newspaper, October 3, 1914, Page 8

gazine, Ssturday. October 3: PUT ONE Cur’ AROUND eee THEN GET ME JOHN'S, DRESS SurT SILK Pree Publishing Oo, (Tho How Yor: Brenng Wal, AS TO THE NEW “BISECTED KISS.” 6c O you know anything about this new ecientifie way of quired the Widow as dropped two lumps into the tea and leaned back, shielding her eyes from the firelight with her ngled gauze fan. * “Nothing " confessed the Bachelor. “But I know 6 lot about—ar— — all the old wi added hopefully. 4 “Somebody,” pursued the Widow, ignoring the challenge, “ta always 3 covering that a kise—poor thing!—is unsanitary, and inventing new ~ of disinfecting it.” a “Well,” murmured the Bachelor cheerfully, “most married men have to |do that anyway—occasionally. But what is this latest method of germicide”, —clove cocktail, or a peroxide highball, or a denatured” — we “Oh, none of those obsolete devices, Mr. Weatherby!” interrupted the Widow, smiling through her fan. “It’s a tissue-paper buffer.” § . Antiseptic, Denatured Osoulation. Pic THe LONGEST ty FEATHER AND STICK YT RIGHT ON TOP oF THE BEAUTY SPoT —WHAT?” “An antiseptic barricade,” began the Widow. “You place Plece of tissue paper over the beloved lips before—before"—— “ Before taking?” suggested the Bachelor helpfully. Sd “Yes; and that does away with all the germs!” finished the Wid: “And with all the sentiment!” added the Bachelor wryly. . “I said ‘all the GERMS,’ Mr. Weatherby,” repeated the Widow, “includ- “,) ing the love germ. But just fancy a popular young bachel.r going around with his pockets bulging with ‘kies-papers!'” and the Widow gurgied with mirth. “Or running OUT of kiss-papers at the psychological moment!” erie@ the Bachelor, with a shudder. “Oh, that wouldn't happen,” ghe Widow assured him. “He could always use thi @ ‘kiss-papers' over and over again, just as he does the same old vows, and tender nothings, and cunning little nicknames, and sweet old lies, and funny stories, and clever epigrams. But imagine a wife getting up in the middle of the night to count the papers in her hi nd’ pockets” ——— 66 A ND finding that he had—er—misplaced one or two!" added A Bachelor tragically. “But why do you assume that the men have to furnish the ‘kiss-papers? Wouldn't you girls keep @ few nice little perfumed ones on hand—just as you keep cigarettes for u— in case of—er—emergency?” “Mr. Weatherby!” exclaimed the Widow in a shocked tone, with a enap of her glittering fan. “We wouldn't DARE acknowledge that we had suvh | thing about the house!” “You might SAY that you kept them for your women friends,” eug- gested the Bachelor brilliantly. “But no man with a normal amount of vanity would ever believe iti” scoffed the Widow. “And no girl with the normal amount of sanity would ever do it!" rejoined the Bachelor, “Who wants a ‘disinfected kiss,’ anyhow? It woul@'* be worse than a eugenic marriage and just about as thrilling as & some | intoxicating cocktail or a predigested lobster or a chaperoned tete-a-tete, It’s no use for these physicians and theortats to try to reduce love te a scientific basis. Love is ART!” « 3 A Stage Wait in a Love Scene, t | 66 ]TR XACTLY!” cried the Widow, dimpling and clapping her hands. “And | E a kiss {s a matter of inspiration, not of premeditation! Just fancy a man saying, ‘Darling I adore you! Wait until I find my ‘Kies- papers’—and then going through his pockets while she languished on bis | shoulder!” “and discovering that he'd left them in the clothes he wore when he « called on another gir) the night before!” froaned the Bachelor, “And having to ‘explain,’ in perfect fiction, before he pressed her to his manly bosom—and—and kissed her, anyway!” | “That's just where the theorists fall down,” declared the Bachelor. “He'd kiss her anyway! If you told two infatuated people that they would | dle of smallpox or yellow fever within the hour you couldn't stop them at’ the psychologtea) moment.” “Of course not!” agreed the Widow with an enthusiastic little of her fan, “The only way to avoid the dangers of lo to keep out of ft.” “But the dangers,” sighed the Bachelor, “are all the rhe “Love,” mused the Widow, “is a psycholtgical flower, sect it!” “And you can't BISECT a KISS!" vowed the Bachelor firmly. DEMAND THEIR PLEDGES. IE fight for a uniform five-cent telephone rate throughout Greater How York intereate every voter in the elty. Following The Evening World’s long campaign, the up-State Service Commission this week required the New York Tele- Company to show why it should not give ite New York sub- rates enjoyed in other cities of the country—rates which enormous should have secured to them long since. _ The New York Telephone Company has hoodwinked the Public Commission in the past. It is doing ite best to keep up the ting process now. The company will never give in to a com- ‘which has shown that it can be deceived by hypocritical pro- bons of co-operation and accord. “If we must look to the next Legislature at Albany to lift the : of unjust telephone charges that oppresses New York, then helty has a new and special interest in the men who are to sit in Legislature. the electors of Greater New York demand from cach legislative & definite declaration as te where he stands on the question of telephone rates for New Yerk City. present rates continue means $17,000 more taken of New York telephone users in excessive toll DINING ROOM Ie SCARF aie poy preted dled eco Adri gle fire pller gp all SIGNS OF CHANGE. . FTEE centring for weeks on war, war, war, to the neglect of pretty much everything else, there are indications that public interest hereabouts is turning back to its own affairs. : For the past two days local news has been breaking into the columns al! along the line. New York grows more interested in Plate elections. Candidates begin to look real. Their records platforms are discussed as if they meant something. Boss Mur- Quinounces a retreat of Tammany to its fortified base in Man- fan. ‘The Appellate Division of the Suprethe Court in Brooklyn ot note: te be’ rear confirmed the conviction of Cassidy, Willett and Walker, the Queens County boss and his henchmen, who were found guilty ting in Supreme Court nomination and sentenced to Sing The Department of Licenses aims a blow at tough night resorts the 1 o'clock closing law for public dance halls. The You can't ats." = The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Stenographers Without a Job By Sophie Irene Loeb. OT g Newt York teveatng ‘Wortd). IGHT thousand typists are out of employment, according to the It was passed by praot! anes y practical politicians, One of the principal reasons given not by reformers. And the practical Politicians ought to get the credit.” | ‘°F this deplorable ningiheceetaa stenogr a phers turned out of schools in the last few years, and an. other is the influx To Promotion Chapters From a Woman’s Life: By Dale Drummond Copritdht, 1014, by the Pree Publishing Os. (The New Tort Bruning World.) 7HAFTER LXXXIX. |he was piaing cards and bad become, GAVE up the trip to Burope, 80 engrossed that had not noticed the time. Perhaps he but only temporarily. Coppeight, 1844, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worbd), 66] HEAR a lot of yammering from | Party man has a right to know what voters about the trouble they | °@udidates his party indorses. ba “Considering the knockdown and voting under t! drag-out struggle in Albany which ary la Led birth to our Direct Primary law, it 1s an excellent piece of legisiation. “It was « little bard for voters who have been in the habit of mak- ing one mark on the ballot and letting it go at was winnie Thejand would divide with me as he had steamer coat Loraine had|Promised. If he were I would give him for not telephoning, made. me would do nicely |cided, a», the ten tninuten we ‘wary for motoring, and the othef announced dinner. things I had ordered would be useful,| It was midnight when I weat to to I felt I had wasted nothing in my|bed without hearing from Jack. He be not + Kin A 66 |AT is the reason why the Congress is timid about} aad had, as he often did, decided to re- free markets get more and more attention. All this news fcreasing space and better position in the public prints. Even street speaks up with’s hope that somebody will listen. = There's a change. People in this country begin to turn from breed to ask what is doing at home. By the time cold weather At will be poor policy in these parts not to be busy. pr —rallcabiaic Scr rane ab Fr pneeball this year? eA —_—-+-—_—___. BOON TO BROOKLYN, | ‘Now it's almost over, who'll tell us what's happened to BROOKLYN is a lucky borough. ‘The Post-Office Department ~ has included Brooklyn atnong the cities where the special parcel post food service will put consumer and farmer in ‘odmmunication, thereby saving tolls exacted by the middleman. Pfibe plan hes already been tried out in ten cities with such . that it is now extended to fifteen more. Postmasters in the ing districts around Brooklyn will be asked to supply lists of ts who wish to sell their products direct to city buyers by post. Nats will be printed and distributed by letter carriers to re: of Brooklyn. Requirements as to packing and mailing are clear. Every plan to reduce the cost of living requires a will to help d soa ‘the part of those to be benefited. Among extravagant, conven- ing New Yorkers there is willingness to have expenses cut B by some outside agency. There is far less readiness to make |cr's wt to find out where, when and how one may buy economically. Sam offers Brooklyn householders a chance to save mone’ they will do their part. <4 -—_______ After his defeat of last winter, Street Cleaning Commis Stoner Fetherston not unnaturally thinks the strategy for this ‘fewn to worry about is snow strategy. Lae 3 eikeh=z H ir tl that,” agreed the laundry man, “but, take it from me, the direct primary law is here to stay and the voters will grow to like it. A voter who hasn't intelligence enough to vote under the direct primary system has me place tn a polling booth. “The vote in Monday's primary shows that the voters of both the old parties liked the tickets submitted to them by the leadere of their organisa- tions. In my opinion better tickets, as fa ERt |e whole, would have been put in nom- know the capal “lof hundreds of candidates imation by State conventions, but the direct primary serves to put the lead. ing candidates on the ticket to the fore with the voters; and the minor candidates are more or leas over- looked. Under the ‘short ballot sy: tem,’ which will be adopted before a @ great while, this element of weak- ness will be wiped out and the heads of the tfeket will have to be men of the highest standing. Glynn and Ger- ard and Whitman and Wadsworth carried their mates on the two tickets, and four candidates of better quall- fications have not been submitted to the voters of thie State in many years. “There has been criticism of the action of political leaders who sent to enrolled voters sample ballots on which the party candidates were irked. This was a legitimate and ble piece of work. great voter cannot bilities pames appear on the ballot. Any Home Rule. Gopyright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Breaing World), Clare, And all the birds were singing, ‘There was radiance in the evening alr ‘Whenyall the chimes were ringing. I met a maid tn the evening's glow, Bure the air was mighty cool, ’ she said to me: know, ‘We're goin’ to have Home Rule.” It was forty years since I came from ee M* path lay down thro’ the County ver, wi, putting a heavy special! war tax on whiskey?” asked the hi polisher, “The reason is the distilling inter- este,” replied the laundry man, “The Prohibitionista are also fighting nt heavy whiskey tax and thus inad- vertently aiding the distillers. need of earning a livelihood, come into “Statesmen in Washington are ad-| town and work during the winter vocating @ light tax or no tax on| montis, giving up their jobs in June whiskey and a heavy tax on native| to spend a delightful summer at the wines and beer. Legislation of that| mountain or seashore. nature would be foolish. Wines and| The claim is that they are “flerce beer are not harmful drinks, in the| competitors” of their less fortunate Judgment of all but temperance folk. 3, who have been seeking posal- Tho war in Europe has given us ons in vain all summer, One of tho chance to build up our native wine| heads of a typewriter company stated: and brewing interests and supplant; “I know there are many hundreds whiskey with wines and beers. It|of them who are on the verge of would be @ shortsighted policy /to put | desperation. They Iive in furnished & tax handicap on the light drinks| rooms and have saved a little, But from the country, It ts said that thousands of young women who live with their people, and who are not actually to and favor whiskey. In this conn tion, I make a mild suggestion that if all persons holding arguments about the European war were com how can a girl subsist long on the mite she has put away? Many of the girls who come here are silent, un- whose | the “D'ye want to tin’, Tillage we call New pay the Government a tax of complaining tragedies. And there is apiece per argument we wouldn’ 2, atenographeg who has grown gray in harness. An agency claims that, out of three hundred girls tested, only THREE were competent to earn fifteen dollars a week, According to this, there are fht well be con- te present un- up” again in the way that the demand for 66] SEE.” said the head polisher, “that President Wilson says the emergency currency was not intended to adorn the vaulte of “Evidently,” replied the laundry man, “many of the bankers agree with using the money for their own adornment.” ship to any one, and who come tn only durt the winter for a@ little extra spending money—while this is commendable in times of pi rity, when such work is easy , if ich a girl would but stop and think, can lend HER ‘orte ing this condition, remaining at home at this par- 4 not peeking @ posi- By Eugene Geary. Sure they're scrappin' all over Burope's land, ticular time An’ thetr work is simply crool. tion sho 1 Biving bread and aotual But, what matther how of Europe . to uw 8 erap! ir ateno; aiand. to fall bac! Bince Ireland's got Home Rule, me oar Ser sys Ser When Beer! charming maid in the sun- A little auch sac may mean life ‘taelf to some other girl, As for Told me her lovely story, ‘ Bure ‘twas then I thought of tho the ine Micient girl (of whom fights we fought For Ireland's lasting glory. The day was done an’ the fight was won, . An’ the was sweet an’ cool. fide, I'll never forget that eweet taald OSS sat preparations, Not that I needed an- other coat, or was in want of the things. But a new motor coat was always acceptable, especially @ stun- ning one like the one Loraine had sent home, and it was the same with my other purchases. I should have been contented and happy. No marriage should have be&n more ideal than mine. I had a beautiful home; I had my clubs; my diversions; I was young, beautiful; friends flattered and spoilpd me; and, best of all, had I but realized it, I had a husband who was kind and considerate, who only spoke unkindly |}, when I irritated him, and who never criticised me por my expenditures, He secmed to find his greatest com- fort—when at home—in playing with the ohildren. Emelie was doing nicely in achool and she delighted to show her father the progress she was mak- ing, She was @ quiet, dutiful child, seldom giving any trouble. Jack jr, as ever his father’s favorite, was a turbulent lad, always in trouble, and always finding excuses for the He was most sweet and lov- able, but 1 saw that we should ha: our hands full as he grew older. We were already talking of sending him to the kindergarten from which Em- elie had graduated into a higher grade. But on account of the added expense—the school was very select —we had decided to wait awhile, Our household had for some time consisted of three servants, the chil- dren and ourselves. Seven in the family, with the high cost of living and the added expense of our—or rather my—entertaining, made the household bills very large, Oocoa- gionally I would try to ourtall them, but the result was #o unsatisfactory Jack not telephoned me? He was owing careless of my feel- ies T thought fretfully. Probably _—— with the members of your family, There is siware same one to Hat yee writer for toe, i. use @ type’ 1 ed * And, Mr, Employer, you must know how difficult it le at such times for girls to get employment. Perhaps ‘a little sacrifice on your pert in some OTHER way It possible main in town over night, I thought, and had forgotten, or thought it too late to telephone. I eo step on the stairs, I switched on the light, and was shocked to hi pale, almoi bloodshot, and he reel drunken mi although I tect no smell of liquor. how his hand shook as he his hat and dropped it upo: Then without a word, or my direction he sank into juried his face in his tremb! '“Jack, wh mat SAE Oe, too frightened im. led at's the matter with you Are you sick?” ma This time I went to him and sata” my hand on his shoulder, He sheet me_ of impatientty, im : “The - nak oye fore nratesred “Bus veg oat so bad as you think.’ “I don't see how well be any woree!” “Well, come to bed! pathetically, Ten clean Psa ara Bint Fe ‘am to pai bouse will have to go," re “Will you come to bed the mortgage, the interest an: I. thing else until! morning? I \< patient! “All right,” s 3 ort be bask ine talents. ‘ pour himself a tumbler halt tal eae t 4 aerate \