The evening world. Newspaper, November 9, 1914, Page 14

Y i 4 fa his blood pressure.” ~ A pereon’s Porras “ e e ‘ em lines operated by the B. R. T. But having discovered by bitter | ‘@orporations. Lippe yh dae BeconéClacs Matter. sland and the Continent asd All Countries in the Intermmional Postal Union 8.80] One Tear. 801One Month. READY FOR THE JUNK HEAP? E WONDER if Public Service Commissioners who pretend to be worth the $16,000 salaries the public pays them are too deep in the slumber of indifference to care what heppens. Rumor has it that the new Republican Administration at Albany to shake up both Commissions, particularly the one in New fork City, even if it takes epecial legislation to do it. Sappose the Republicans do try to abolish the present boards and _ @atablish come new system of supervising public service corporations. Have the energy and zeal of the Public Service Commissions in ‘the interest of the public they were appointed to serve been such that ‘voters in this State—Republicane or Democrate—will-fight to save them? To-day residente from various sections of Brooklyn appear be- fore the Public Service Comsfission of the First District to register Jest complaint against the barbarous traffic conditions that prevail experience how loath is the Public Service Commission to disturb the B. B. T. in ite practices, Brooklyn is prepared thie time to go further. legialctive investigation of B. R. T. methods isdemanded, Nebedy ~ "eraste the Public Service Commission. Telephone users in Greater New York have relied upon the prom- ening Wo i Eech of the two Public Service Commissions has now before it a} “matter of deep interest to the people of this city: ty Renn UTTLE \\ a UNCLE JOHN'S PITTY HAIR | fees of the up-State Public Service Commission to hasten a reduction @f the exorbitant telephone tolls that have long oppressed the city. Tho ‘up-State Commission, however, continues apparently helpless in tt of telephone company lawyers whose tactica are delay, dele ; . Mere again exasperated pubiic opinion is ready to turn ite back wpen the Public Service Commission. Newly clected State Senators and ‘Assemblymen from the Greater City openly favor prompt legislative Betion to force a reduction of telephone rates. Here are two urgent cases in which the New York public seeks ‘welief from unjust treatment at the hands of wealthy public service dees + Bow long do they think the public will let them obirk and dawdle (call oss el = cd aaa i Miele | When the Public Service Commissions were established seven yeare ego, Frank W. Stevens, first Chairman of the up-State Com- mission, declared to the voters of the State: ai “1 have mo hesitation in saying that the ultimate success or failure of the Public Gervice Commissions law depends almost , @xclusively upon the public.” “The public will ultimately have what it wante. If ft has , eet ap machinery which docs not pro‘iuce the results ft desires » that machinery will surely be relegated to the junk heap and | te sccure such relief were our two Pablic Service Commis. created, chee say the present Commissions? Are they ready to be ? po 1 To-day an investigating cummittes begins to dust out the Coroners’ Office. And mighty little but dust they'll find there, po NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. OU can always tell « lier by testing his blood, according to one of the visiting osteopaths who have just concluded their annual convention in this city. “The man fen't born,” declares thie Doctor, “who can lie ‘Without raising his blood pressure. When a man is telling the truth hie dl0od pressure remains constant. When he begins to Ile bis inventive powers are called into action. There ensues @ greater exercise of mentality and a corresponding increase Interesting, but no cause for alarm. It will be a long time before blood testing becomes popular in ordinary converse. Moan- those of us who can lie without turning a hair or batting an will continue to enjoy the usual advantages over our less richly .: d fellowe. Iging may some day become a worthless accom- But we have a comfortable conviction that it will les | @ir time. + An American author returning from Europe reports that “excitabfiity has completely left the French people.” Just wait till they get time to talk to one another again. ‘Hits From Sharp Wit the rare combination of a man who talke a great deal and accomplishes something.—Nesbville " . ‘When some one tries to tell you of @ sure way to mak: that it i hie way, | "one Know A man may be perfect many things may . Bbe man who rests on the reputa- tom of his ancestors is ever apt to bis rest rudely disturbed. News, 10 fan't 80 @ seni, be foeee ies fooled, Py atten o1 0 ven omar to be—Albany, Jour Cae : . Bome persons who seem to be as busy as are only the 4: the human ewarm.-Aibany: Journal memory—one that enables a oe Tere 0 Sie Semen ead Not every booster pute his shoulder to the wheel. A z wail . When a man pats you on the bai and tel you how wise you are, fe may be only baiting his hook for a other oucker,—Cinclonatt Enquirer, stil, an idle rumor never tar- waysid ‘Albany Journal. WORRYIN, THe COrtod See TH PrTTy pipe! WHAT'S THE MATTER MAN 2 ARO! cRoP? WATCH UNCLE JOHN'S FUNNY FINGER | By Roy L. Copyright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Oo, 1T must have been Mr. Ber- Nard Blodger who initiated Mri Jarr into the use of a tal delivery stamp. The ladies, bi ty dollars will go the financial limit In wearing apparel and then economize on luncheons that they have to pay for themselves and on postuge stamps. if the fair sex got a letter through ¢! ost-office for two cents that should fon't weigh: twenty cents on @ luncheon, they im agine they have performed prodigies of economies that entitle them to a @ixty-dollar set of furs, when they know forty dollars ts all they had to spare for the skin coverings of de- coased animals that they wear to the Humane Society meetings. jas wakened up & special de- fying preliminary endearments, re- quested bim to have Mrs. Rangle select certain articles of apparel from Mre. Jarr’e wardrobe—it took her a page to describe the various places abe might have hidden the key—and to send it by express, to be called for, at Atlantio City, “Be eure it'e Mra, Rangle picks what I want for just a day or so at Atlantic City,” Mrs. Jarr cautioned. have me give her some of my old things, but now she's got clothes as fine, compared to mine, as my clothes may seem to Mrs. Rangle. So let ra, Ri pick for you, She'll know 0 send me, being a woman, and she'll think my poor little duds are quite fine.” Mre. Jarr {\ ther explained how anxious she was to get home, but Blodger and the Cackleberry girls that rhe would go to Atlantic City with them. While he wae atill up and awake Mr, Jarr determined to gain time by looking for the key of Mra. J wardrobe, Mr, Jarr had two Sh lock Holm: it mathematical readéra wil) a key to a clothes closet is never hid. wolve this time problem—When it is Oct. 9, at rtd time Greenwich meridian, date ie it 8 thinks she hid it, In len in any of the pi The Jarr Family deductions to go by—the firet was that a woman never hides a | key outside of the room the key ts native to; and the second deduction | previous experience dictated was that @ woman McCardell (The New York Evening World), bolts—-a mystery unfathomable to women—before he thought of looking for the key being in a stocking full of combings in the bottom chiffonier drawer, Mra, hurried came over at an early hour, on sum- mons, accompanied by little Johnny and little Mary Rangle and the Rangle baby and old Mra, Dusenberry as chaperones. “Mrs, Jarrell want her short walk. ing skirt and her common sense ties and her best silk stockings for the boardwalk,” said Mrs. Rangle. “And she'll want—Mre, Dusenberry, the baby ta swallowing a pin—Johnny don't lean so far out the front win- dow—Mary you mustn't spill Mra, Jarra powdér—something to wear fur the evening at the hotel—her black ot 1f ehe's with card play- Ri “Platonic friendebip” ts the brid the palace of love—the portcullis from It. | coat lapel. | Funny that any man should try to fool a woman, considering that the | that she had promised Mr. and Mrs. | art of “fooling” fe the one in which every woman ts carefully and skilfully | trained from babyhood, | | ‘The man who strays for love of a woman may sometimes be reformed and redomesticated, but the man who etrays for love of amusement will never “stay put” for any wife. marriage. ae CATCH THE Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World). OTHING shocks a man more than to discover that he is receiving de- Yotion from @ woman when he only asked for diversion. The average man chooses @ wife as he would a buttonhole bouquet— Just because she looks pretty, smells eweet and nestles gracefully on his In these topsy-turvy days it sometimes takes two divorces to make a A man recuperates so much more quickly from his remorse than a woman does from her indignation that by the time ehe Bas forgiven him he {s tired of being good and ready to sin again, ‘When a woman says “I am fond of you” she means “I adore you!” ‘When a man eays “I adore you!” he means “I am fond of you—e little.” Golitatre—The marriod women’s gama, ‘iif? | ee Asal I Sn Mam eS) ata MEER a RS ine, Monday: Nove HEAR UNCLE JOHN'S WATCH Ticts | RINGS | THOPE Your. MOTHER. WILL COME For You GOHHHDHDHHDHHDHHHDDHHDHHHGHHHHODDDIDOGSGQOHGHSHSGEGSHOGS Mr Jarr Is Going Wife Hunting! . op | J ‘aterloo, Englan for victory; at Trafalgar, existence.” But It Is Only for His Own Wife "=" e—eeErr—eerr ] The May Manton Fashions [2 ing people, and her blue charmeuso| will help Gertrude" evening dress if it's @ dancing crowd) sulkily regarding Mr: —better take both. Privileged interloper) “She's only wearing an auto bon-/ children I'll take the net, and she'll have to have her smail|lantic City to Mrs. Jarr!" toque to travel back in, and she'll} “Goodness gracious! Ain't the men want one of the chic French hats|all alike?” cried Mrs. Rangle. “They she's just retrimmed for the board-|don't trust their wives out of their walk. And she'll have to have one of | sight!” her best hats; they may go out inj But Mr. the evening. How can we send them all by express? Johnny, leave Mr. Jarr’s silk hat alone! Take it off. It will make your ears grow crooke!l! Mary, don’t touch the cold cream, and leave the perfume alone or I will whip you! And we mustn't for- get her long black gloves and her long white gloves and her short tan gloves for the boardwalk, and short black gloves to wear back in the train, How shall we ever get her hats to her by express?” “We won't send them by express,” waid Mr. Jarr. “If Mra. Dusenberry pok after the ings to At- Jarr was determined he he had to be a milliner’s delivery boy to bring her back. Pop’s Mutual Motor By Alma Woodward rere eatin York iventog Wenig) OU like pumpkin ple, don't you?” “Like it? I'd sell my a Y Pop e\xtravagantly, “Not the’ new-fangled brand, with lemon peel and brandy and all that j mushy kind, with ginger in some of ‘em and cinnamon in the rest.” “Well, here's your chance,” Ma told @he said if we'd take her in our car uncle—and he's just overrun with pumpkins! Mrs, Foster saya Dr, Inglis will bring a party along in his car, too, And we'll both carry away as many as the machines will hold." “Are you sure you know the way?” Pop inquired of Mrs. Foster the fol- lowing Saturday, as the two cars started out, “Why, of COURSE I do,” was the ant retort. of times! It's a# simple as rolling off a log. You just COULDN'T ban hes “Don't go too fast, Miltos \- tioned Ma, “because Mollie Ingle doesn’t like the doctor to speed, and re to Keep, up with us.” "Turn to the left,” commanded Mrs, the) Foster. “Keep looking back once a while, a0 we'll be ‘cure they're Matt behind,” mentioned Pop. “Turn to the right here,” directed the pilot. Fifteen minutes later a steep, rug- ged mountain blocked our way, We had come to the end—that's all, “Oh, dear, I just KNEW I'd make that mistake!" lamented Mre. Foster, “That last time we should have turned to the left. ‘Rear to the left all the way’ were his instructions,” ‘We wont back and bore to the left. Pop decided to hit it @ bit to make up for loat time, and the ladies were eo busy bolding on their hats that geme was “follow. over which a woman hopes to reach er which @ man expects to escape rigdiuh (Gertrude was Rangle as @ was going to have Mrs. Jarr home if soul for it!" exclaimed | | foreign substance in it, but the real! him. “Mrs. Foster called to-day and she'd show us a farm that belongs! to @ cousin of her brother-in-law'’s they forgot the all ¥ Diag ROSIE Ms SMT ROR ey - frag 9; 1914 Greatest Battles in War History By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). 28.—TRAFALGAR; That Made England Ruler of the Seas. | (RAIAPOLEON planned to conquer England. His fleet, after an effort N to break into the English Channel, salled to Cadiz Harbor and | anchored there with the allied Spanish fleet, preparing for the next move. Admiral Nelson, in command of England’s Mediterranean squadroa,” learned of the enemy’s presence at Cadiz and sailed thither. The allied French and Spanish fleete—under Admirals Villeneuve and Gravina came out to meet him, driven forth from their snug anchorage by an im erative order of Napoleon. the northwest entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. Nelson—a one-eyed, », his coffin made ready before leaving home, saying he should “soon bé ... ready for it” Now, as his flagship, the Victory, prepared to go into of himself, he replied, pointing to his decorations: “In honor I won them. In honor I will die with them.” ree} only a few general instructions as to the coming battle, ‘ adding: Leica f “Something must always be left to chance, No ! es captain can go very far wrong if he places his ship alongside of the enemy’s.” Thon from the Victory he flew the famous signal: “England Ezpects Every Man to Do Hie Duty!” (He gave the message as “England confides in every man to do his duty,” but the word “confides” was not in the code book.) | ‘The signal was received with a roar of cheers, and the English swept | down on the French and Spanish foes. Nelson had 27 ships of the line and | 4 frigates. The allies had 7 frigates and 38 ships of the line. The allies’ formation was, roughly, a five-mile curve, from north to eoyth; their. vessels were gathered in groups of two and three. The British fleet (in its two detachments, one commanded by Nelson and the other by Admiral Collingwood) wasted no time in manoeuvring, but struck straight for the centre of the allies’ line. The supremacy of the seas and the safety of England were at stake. case of close-quarters fighting, for the most part, muskets and / even pistols being employed as actively as were the big guns. In those © days of short-range artillery there was no question of “three-mile marks- | manship” warfare, | At the onslaught of the Britieh, the allles’ battle line was snapped in. two, Collingswoo detachment engaged the rear half of the broken line, ,, while Nelson assailed the other ection. ¥. One ship after another of the Franco-Spantsh fleet was captured or caught fire or sank, There were women aboard some of these, and most of | these were rescued by the British. As hour after hour went by it became apparent that the allies were hopelessly beaten. The British flagship was engaged at clo: musket ball pierced Nelson's | “They've done for me at | subordinate. “My backbone | quartera, when a French ine. it!” he called to Capt. Hardy, his immediate shot through.” of the battle. He lived long enough to know that he had won the crowning victory of his bright career. Then, just before his death, he lapsed into semi-consctousness, muttering: “Thank God, I have done my | the sea!—Take care of poor Lady Hamilton!” fe.) Eighteen of the Franco-Spanish ships were cap- \™ wrecked his home wenn? tured. The rest were sunk or ecattered in mad fight. baa ‘A storm destroyed othera before they could get to port, and of all that proud fleet only eleven batterd ships won their way back to Cadiz. The allies’ kess in men ts estimated at about 6,000; that of the English was 1,690. Great Britain went into mourning for Nelson, In honor of his memory | Onno nated the present custom of wearing black ribbons on naval uniforms. By ;the battle of Trafalgar England was saved from further dnnger at Napo- * |1eon'’s hands. Says Allison: ' VERYTHING that gives the E redingote sug gestion is fashionable. He gown which in the picture ts made of gabardine and char- meuse satin, but which could be copied in al- seasonad| art one for wool, but broadcloth could be used over a velvet skirt or velvet could be used for the sash m redingote or or be made The colar that is high at the back the front fsa very | feature. The | fash- fon, red: a seit ty made on slteple de straight lines and re- quires no fit, For the medium size will require of mat a? Yet wew BUREAU, Donald Bullding, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppe-: to site Gimbel Bros.), corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second street, Odtamm 3 New York, or sent by mail on receipt of ten cents tn cotm or: ‘These {stamps for each pattern ordered. ' Patterns. IMPORTANT—Write and apectty size wanted. Add two cents for letter postage {tf in a hurry, they?” inquired Pop, after a while, fe turned to look. The road was| th deserted. We waited, We waited been to the farm,” they an- * five minutes and more. “and we got every “They've hed a blowout,” observed Kaus you Et We pare Wo go Deck Ane ‘There was (oo! emn."* 5 Two miles,| From out the fulness of his heart halt, Pop spoke, And we went back. tees ia fe Sipe ed Po: never knew who “This 1s fool nonaei mi P|" & woman “You can't tell ma we lost ‘em as far} had a bump of locality! i, i back as this, heard of a woman who could follow where. zeerve got lost.” tion! There was never “We should worry as BB ® woman born who do't get lest fet the pompkingl’ carolled 5 in her own back: it there was - for, biithely, “Let's proceed to the! way of doing it Never tell Te that tit farm.” ‘ @ woman"-—~ “dee! Th empl, amied Pop | One sin, Dasner, One elon A te mous gone way an that of their way! ‘That's one on the Doo} in-law’a uncle's cousin wer Mémea_they rele _stongstts| for of afi at a coal rete Ree The rival fleets came to grips on Oot. 21, 1806, off Cape Trafalgar, at 3 action, he put on his gaudy dress uniform, and etrung his chest with »« medals and other decorations. To a protest against making such a target He massed his ships in two squadrons, but gave _ oI ~~ ia The battle began at noon and raged furiously for more than five hours. | — Carried below, the dying man attill gave orders directing the progress ; * duty!—Don’t let them cast my body into,” y | (In this latter plea he referred to an adventures he loved and who had « “ ” “ the English sailors wore black ribbons on their blouses, and thus origt- one-armed little man, who was England's adorod naval hero—had ordered ‘ 4 iN Wy