The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1914, Page 18

“Whe Eve SSTABLISHDD BY JOSEPH PULITZER ‘ork Seo Seat: Yh VETO IT PROMPTLY, MR. MAYOR. Te the Béitor of The Evening World: ‘With great pleastite I read your article “Cheese-Paring at Ite Stupidest” in The Hvening World. During recent years the public achool lectures have been for me the oaly chance to educate myself, and | am quite satis- jed with the results. Hager to learn the Kaglish language a tmoroughly, and to enlarge my knowledge wherever | can, | ave Beard lectures in the Washington Irving High School, bak Oooper Union and Public Sohoo! No. 67. 1 very seldom miss one. iw jest now 1 am epending five aights each week on my education. ‘There can be no doubt about the necessity of the public echeel lectures for an overwhelming majority of New York's population. That, oa the other hand, people really look for education is a striking fact. 1 do not see any reason whatso- : ever to handicap the great good work of public school lectures by cutting down the usual appropriation for them. * va If there is ever any question concerning this problem it @aght to be the question whether it would not be wiser to in- orense the number of lectures for the greater benefit of the public. EMIL ELSNER, be New York, Deo. 7, 1914. j - who seeks to improve his mind by means of this instruction. ) themselves. Bap They see no extravagance in letting taxpayers pay for and main- ©)” tain half a million dollars’ worth of automobiles at a cost of $300,000 © the city government may have motor cars at their beck and call. for their private convenience and pleasure. ‘in order that city officials may save carfare? policy toward a great popular means of public instruction. _ Pablie sebool lecture course appropriation o + —with the indignant protest of the whole city. ' a A DOUBLE TRIAL. |) @haagns tor tho benefit of its business eleewher: © (ho gentlemen of the Board should bear in mind that this| uted: But he was wrong. There le Mano inact only the New York Telephone Company that is - trial ho gure whatecever for thle deadilet alert and interested and will presently bring in ite own The Say ‘as publle to whieh it maintains for ite protection, Hits From Sharp Wits. p= a ares oe, winter fadtlwaukes . ‘ ‘ kum!" fan of weakness. ing such infinite patience, that inh Phat {wine table d'hote dinner tables—that we heard a near high dome) Thats the sure-fire no! a ‘ fi : ne ae acer Minas |these near-Chinnti utterances of Risin) ejaculate lastnight. And how joy:|* MY. Gringhem ‘stammered that the ae Pahl ni for. leaving ‘him with’ Mer ‘ust T Apartment House Telephones. | stalled in a great pered Mr. Deen ry to Le commonly are bunk and nothing else.| ously @ lot of us wouldn't read it—| American flag and naval lieutenants | Olnaings and should be able to make another heme Balter of The Srening World: Burope, which pad countries in| does The Passion Flower Dance to] (Nota Penden AiG a man ALWAYS Hite) Cy i ea, would be an anachronism. fected me, he for them, where I could be with them. im. | & wish to thank you for the interest telephone companies prea yey the] soften She, Sets ne werd A oer knows it.) through the o! “wel in, Two “You see, you will have to take me, ~ whieh you ere taking in ridding New about %each,|to save t! aiden Martyr from City from the imposttions of the| 7” 8% much smaller and do not| being thrown to the lions,” bone trust. take up as much room as that of an| A red faced man with @ double “Ham paying three different rates| TaBery hotel extension, and the lo-| chin, who wore a for @ local cal! within the Borough of | “*!,'2!! 18 only two cents, The imposition by the tele " 1 No phone} white sweater over his corpulent ‘Manbattan. 1 own a little twenty-five] company on the Roartment ences hs has resulted in an additional 4 ‘extensions. I have been compelled to|{Mdirect tax to the property owner,| ‘%® darkened theatre. maintain a switch.| “That's Sam Slanger, the big the- has to furnish al atrical manager.” explained the pr lot of bookkeeping, — With all pres ; {wo trunk lines and the extension in-| there ta a conunuces rrivuty all ttle] agent. “Now that Horace Grindhem’s ta, Bince we cannot possibly |{M€ landlord and tenant because. of | €Te4t historical play has gotten fnan- eee the aumber of messages which the differences as to telephone calls| cial backing, Slanger has taken foot apartment house with thirteen He ts obliged to board operator and ‘puerantee a large number of messages “and I pay extra for the switchboard, charged. 4} each, and it is plain that the tenanta| Vo teariment how "SP" wilh not pay more than five cents to|ment house dwe P|. me because the telephone trust ta! support the dead © mgood care to advertise the fact At has actually happened in this very| tion thereto ctw Shouse that @ tenant has complained | *!ble for the safekeeping of the tn which the Interb: ¥ - ‘Bbove, twenty cents. In another apurt- Bees being obliged to p an attend-| Public Serv the ca _ gost me nine cents each. Let and in some offices I pay only ‘gente for practically an unlimited lot machines were ia- ca oleae superior serv! ¥) ‘y OR Ses ning 1 Pentatics Datiy Baceet Supgay by she Prone Fubilaing Company, Now 68 to By Helen Rowland i at the Port. New Y as fecondCless Matter, eg OD et oe SUNDAY Senkimcreretieenneed i a jon Brentag World), VOLUME 88.....csceeseeeeveessssesereese eves NO, 19,467 me The above letter voices the feeling of one of the million and e ) qrarter people who attended last year the public school lectures which ©. Were inaugurated originally through the efforts of The Evening World. > , ... These lectures bave cost the city ten cents a year for each person pe attending them. By cutting tho usual appropriation in half the Board ! , of Aldermen permits but five vents to be expended upon a citizen f | The Aldermen sce extravagance in helping people to better © per year, in order that officials and underlings in every department of ~ The Evening World has exposed the scandalous waste in garage charges, chauffeurs’ wages and idle cars involved in the city’s main- taining scores of machines for city officials to use—in many instances Why should not municipal business be served and expedited by |) 88 economical, municipal taxi service which would supply cara to city = departments whenover needed at a rate of #2 or less per hour? Why ‘must taxpayers furnish four thousand dollar touring cars by the dozen Lat New Yorkers ponder the facts. Tet them ask themselves that sort of “reformed” Aldermen are these who pass over the city’s /Peckleas extravagance in automobiles to adopt a carping, cheese-paring We The Mayor's prompt voto should send the Aldermen's cut of the ight back to the Board O-MORROW the up-State Public Service Commission will make another effort to try the case of the Poople of Now York ity against the New York Telephone Company, which milks|A @¥r2e the rehearsal of “The telephone users to the tune of $17,000 daily in excess repre 4d on iob at Besetofore the telephone company lawyers with figures and fair}, 7° Mr. Jarr’s way of thinking, being have each time lulled the ubcusenas tan pends Sint OS 6 sebearte):wowld: be the Nest €0 to the value of “public eervice” as conceived by the costly |febearsed. But, back of the golden- re Lae is a Re ‘rhand tei owt i Wee ree poe sie ia| = to work, . siencined » jLetters From the People we bad to contract for, the messages| The New York Evening World Suarge: at ihe? » wpeeene Dee actually used cost me twenty cents| Would render an enormous service to| (28° halt of it, bes home” (she al- apartment by thinking of the poor| have heal S fesigned, But to see him i yj devils standing. up to. thelr armpite| for around powder rage or wings, leading little Halloway Bingle, | 8 22"%,c22'"ierrinig iron bars, to| Save,tnoee of Jack's “eoming Rowe) in the European trenches, but some-| puffs wherewith to powder their noses, the child with the arched legs. know that for months and months be} pear—now—to be left out.’ how it doesn’t work out. They're not| Yet a sbiny nose on a women Is al “There's the very ki Let it be|muat continue to look out through) “way i¢ ‘you could be!” I paying rent for the trenches. horrent, more or less, to every nor-| 0.4 44 the lions first as tizer!” | barred spaces, while I was free, free] t6, in my eyes. “Why, I zounrecs, eating: 9 hoy “y mal man-—and women know thie in. |i Ot lly to enjoy the sunlight, the air whlch| nave lived had it mot been for post owners in New| # Week for office direction and 6 per! Women of fifty or ao like to recall stinctively! roared the theatric:.1 magnate, seemed to be filled with an unwonted | tow could I have di vent ly to the apart- a mpnenemmnne aunane srs if it wi ited slot machir gervice, raat the the sunli like refusing to breathe! nappened, the best possible was being Past owner of an ae? sent pb MRT him the other day—the,clety demands this, that and the, demand that they do the thing 1 hey might well say | the eweet, fresh air; like never leav-| gone for them?’ bs over the city that they only charge! guarantee a tale Mia based on the i nelleat erntyrgetet other thing, When they do come to| encouraged them to do when I was ow that you've 0: | ing my room to walk the streets until) “1 am afraid you overr: {the landlords three cents a message.| cont of the slot v Ones and in addle : to be respon: rhaps you think he 45) short season, for opera or something weariness of a woman's life when| What I should have in the machines the telephone ¢ or # struggling day laborer, | again to a warm climate. have been busy accumulating money | the small end of. the opera separated from the man she loves, to B ra done. wil et e think: nm imposition IN| pany should be obliged to instal the in a hall bedroom without kith or) He ts a man of big busin nd| while they have been satiated with/and thus focused thelr whom she has given herself? Then/ think. Knowing that my precious barging bim five cents for five min- T have heard the principal oe (ei. Not at all must piey 10, Ruand th MENEZ 0.0 | (Maen perple seo fo think that| the susan tae ther were tiind to the | Mees, tee rah: the gupulon ia ines an Tresnia over Kees tes ° \ hich the telephone coi ap . great care. you do 17 fills @ pain, an T cou! it cone al Aloo hae vo Which reminds uve % thee | Me isa very rich man, He lives \B ask this man, money is the O: HING to be ie- ective right around th id ever hope to x ough Rupld| the tinest hotel in this elty. | New 0 pou for Jack, my tears flowing fest | wine would have been i q te > | 1 ? 2 RK i hey hrough the loss of cutis|make in opposing ‘the hequutted to) Wy ive he in sick to death of the ‘envy the man who has ® home, where |they are MISTAKEN, Tell them that jand now like myself theirs is a routine 8 Impossible, ment house, through pposing rder of the| Because h ¢ t ame, wh AEN, Tal thee | ommission providing | life that he leads, “to is Bek tp Gonth | there 4 fore aireaaie. f ere is a/there are hundreds o! Got on the switchboard, the mesuuges| {@F Sdditional doors in the centre of |of his clubs, of his automobiling, ee 9 asaure you that telephone| has. beautiful wife and a charming|! 7On the slot machines in the drug] service all over the world has now| daughter, They are at present trav~ the Bet far to live ao avery y " ith twenty trunks, | th toh di ft treas 1 eye of achievement, and’ they |cause they bave lost the capacity for | millions have got him. day's gain brings with it a gto York SOETEr OR Mery uuen ane Mow, aene Ps ey nd the Hike, = “at cannot complain, ‘ Becnusn re re ave flo moamure ‘of values. ‘They aa ets will i “itt cat ail in en analysis ‘it ts what you ineag; and should 1] | claim! ‘They spend very me wi mi my wi . My fam! have euperiative this Ute “ P .; MalIDG SUPeTint ET, MANX, Iblm since, “for deughlerre eaky” eo- ia'e rendit of ity and T cannon Sew ef'avtling whel thay easised, een ia ei eto i he Buse eas | ie Sean Bo La wy bres. World ‘Sayings of = 73) Mrs. Solomon Y Daughter, be not cast down because thou hast not the face ef 6 magasine-oover girl and the figure of a cloak model. For lo, a man's judgment concerning women fe not ALWAYS that of Paris; and many a peach bangeth upon the family tree whedes the runes have long been gathered. 2 youth of Babylon came unto me, saying: T am in the MARRYING MOOD! , | would find me @ soul-mate; yet where shall I discover that Paragon of youth and loveliness which shall encompass all the graces of @ Circe and all the charms of Aphrodite? ’ "For lo, 1 have wandered far and wide, and have searched the high- ind by-ways; and every damsel was but another disappointment! i "Go to! The damsels of Boston were as lemon-juice in mine eyes; for they smiled not, neither did they grin; their goggles and their bags were an abomination unto me! { “Their clothes did NOT fit! be “The damsels of Chicago were pleasant of countenance, but their were too much for me. ' “Alas! their figures were too, too solid, and their mouths were full | of ‘R' H “The damsels of California were all bones and muscle, the damsels of ' Philadelphia all frumps and prudes and the damsels of Gotham all FREAKS! 90.76 ao SACRE D VAUDEVILLE CABARET SHOW] = BURLESQUE ® A CARLOAD of BEAUTIES Livin PicTURES MISS TANGO ] 0 0 9 0 oO they covered themselves with paint and with powder and with | false locks of gilded hair—but with little else. &: | “Their shoulders and their ankles smote upon my sight! | “Behold, she whom I shall marry must be fairer than the morning rose, more perfect than the lily, more discreet than the violet. ’ “Her smile must dazzle as a tooth-powder advertisement and her hair | be all her OWN.” | And I comforted him, saying: | “Go, my Son, and be of good cheer. “Thou shalt find thy Paragon at the psychological moment. “For they ALL dof” | And lo, within a year, he returned, leading a damsel by the hand, and | presented her before me, saying: | “Behold, behold, my Mother, how wisely thou didst speak! | “For I have found HER, mine Ideal and my Paragon. ' “Look' upon her!" And I LOOKED. But, my sleeve was filled with laughter; for that which I saw was a | dameel of thirty, with hair of dun and the figure of a blotting pad. Ypon | |her head was a THING which some women call a bat, and upon her feet ‘ | were number eights. | Yet, when she opened her mouth to speak, I UNDERSTOOD. | For her voice was as a chime of silver bella and her words were aweeter than treacle and honey. Then I said in my heart, “Lo, he hath chosen wisely! “All the days of his life shall he see her through his visions and illu- sions and shal! never know that she is NOT beautiful. ‘For he hath picked her out by EAR rather than by EYE!” Selah! ‘ IT's \ AGAINST y ) a Things You Should Know About Yourself 3-—Why Should We Breathe Opeply? | cavity from the abdomen) and ex- W" have all watched the deep, | tend in ita action into the abdomen regular heaving sides of &/ ‘jt is by extending the chest.cavity sleeping cat ‘or do; Itias @ perfect breath dose that the aencccccccoscccoecoccccoogocoscosscccososoccccooees| lentes maturally and there bs nee ee the email uppes lobe ot doubt that is.the way we all should! fréely into the small upper lobe of Mr. Jarr Sees a Made-to-Order.Drama _| |treatne. | Bartlapi points or: beesdings eroame When primiti | . Strengthened by a Bow-Legged Boy bck coentaTe" bur Probably waacied | otaimoastcats Salaipertiouiar pastas The: Jarr Family &s he should; but his habits changed ; almost er reached by the ordinary By Roy L. McCardell ° Pevesevepsoeesooronesessvesseseee® |a5 be became more civilized, and, by [incomplete breath. That good and self in knots, all eyes turned in that the great mai living largely indoors and doing work| wise man, Sir William Osler, declares 4 ' all eget oon hi) ,, |that was done without much bodily ef-|that if one generation would learn Cuprright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing On (The New York Evening World). lirection. Please, sir, thosé are thé lions,” | fort, he lost the habit of breathing!to breathe correctly, lung troubles IN the semi-darkness of the theatre : 4 * Mr. r{ explained. the playwright. natural, Man: ople seem to! Would be a curiosity, if not entirely pga al edu tt tachanry Ai gatas radii opie aibiersded printers ude ale ely below the throat |uaknown. Just. think what that pi at one of the theatres +¢{fur coat the-moths had: dr correct natural| would mean in the great fight agninst he controls. He'll take charge of the|*mall time vaudeville bill! We ain't prane It seems as though in rehearsals.” putting in any contortion turns! of @ pawnshop!” bellowed the man- le matter as this that Having commanded allence by ham-| “If you please, Mr. Slanger,” said | #80". turning to give Mr. Dogstory @ mering bis cane on the footlight rail] Horace Grindhem, the author, coming | D*leful glance. sil ypesehcly in and swearing at everybody raucously, | forward on the stage and abeding his|* Bennee-oning bean he Mg din the great manager's voice dropped to| eyes from the bunchlight, “it’s only Talt'as pathetio cum iader Bot &@ tone of honeyed sweetness. the dancer limbering up. We are| AIB't 80: PAERGHO BER RI 9] Gucted into the mysteries of the drama for the first time. ¢ means of curing the stage aspirations of the rankest amateur who ever elo- _ Chapters from a Woman’s Life {How Gla, Paviova get’ in’ this) walting for you { rebearao the lion ree 8 Grom see etna Cee By Dale Drummond : show’ @ asked. cage scene.” th 1d {1 be good for any- As be was pointing his heavy cane ho threw those fur ruge in that Hovland ror a pele HT ached paid : Oopsright. 1916, by ‘The Presi Hubiubing Co. (‘be New York Krening World). ‘The great lion den scohe was being | &t the unfortunate woman tying her- cage? They're all moth eaten!” roared tender stuff in it. Who's this Zero? CHAPTER CXVI. Boe sure be woud be allowed to re- Is that the name of the lion?” O I.worked and studied. Once} Colve ut 1 determined to send it milaithareainton te Ait Ghote on the chance that he might. Mrs. barred cage @rop . . plained. «I went to see Jack. He W88/ iam had again A represent stone walls, loitered queer So W ags the World By Clarence L. Culler. “y,- gotta get some sympathy. The ao cbravas’'e0 ‘obbertul, ool trip ticket “Reue tae her onlbeees @aostly groups of sallow men and Copyright, 1014, by The Prem Publishing Co; (The New York Evening World), {dame that's fed to them old New- | His sure of our ultimate happi-| sift, and Mr, Flam a check for fitty haggard women. Many of the fe- dollars. He told me to take two T'S all but gruesome, the amount] that their husbands proposed to them | foundiands has got to have a child. nege that I could not help} \eout' st en, of sublimated rot a man with four x their knees. But few of them} A good. kid bit or the American flag | us sn, his enthusiasms, But It) activ ie market had been very whiskies under hie surcingle can| tak chances by reminding the Old’ ig needed to knock the audience off males wore shabby bloomers and one 4 nd we were unusually busy was dreadful to see him behind the|in the office. So I o: talk and, whilst eo drivelling, consider| > odes — theif seats. I looked over this bunch | pare, He was very thin and white. ora t vy balleey Fig atk skipped around in solemn ailence of line stuff brilliant. When we hear a man brag that hej of junk!" Here the manager pro-| tre nad always been fastidious about |" On4 Gay during Pog nt Jegk re the soft soles of dilapidated old dano- “can scent a touch coming” we re-| duced a fray 4 aoiled manuscript | nis food, and he looked badly neur-| was particularly overbearing and in- ing slippers. Any emart woman these days knowa| “ect, that he knows altogether too ‘ gaals t lay, “And I don't see a naval ir was nt on having his own . way. a9 the Slag. < Ane 5.00 ished. Hie hair 1- | Mother took the little fellow on her ith bi 'Heutenant coming in with a squad of | that, ooupied wi u rangeness that liap and talked to him, oh! so gently, sailors to wave the American fiag and |lor, gave him a siiieiitiia de-|yet so firmly, telling ‘him wher pees) the lions, and save the child. bro ent me ser going to show 00 /right to do, making it so simple, she One scrawny bloomered woman with very ebort vari-colored hair was solemnly tying herself in knots on a atrip of dirty old carpet at the side. perfectly well that the would-be sub-| Much sbout the toucher’s preliminary tly sentimental but really stodgily saccharine things that a man says to| “If Tolstol were alive, what an epic her across one of those cochineal-red-| he would write about this awful aga’ , don't you, Susan?” mother asked, whom the word \ should not too, q n it I did. asthe little head drooped o1 Lary y= ay dy crafter I lett 2 pennant oe # pundred breaat and the baby fell ed who succeeds in drawing have a kid in it. Couldn’t the Martyr | things I wanted—and pily cuddled in her arms, hich I had en- . dame have a child by Mr. Martyr, her fo say to atten. in fact, that first yes! And won't Jack be w, leased to have you? He thinks so re holding up until the| merits of the Slav, Teutonic, Anglo-| first husband? visit to my husband in prison was so] Foch oe eT ovctatmed, anding of the dancing|Saxon and Gallic civilization—and! wwe thought of a little brother for | terrible that 1 forgot gvarything save + ae tea h Sereuming 4 jon. cL ie eee (eUneernesr? wa ammered Mr. Grindhem, whe | 17, ftorward ret ey at our am remembering “enly It sounds good, this thing of try- ged had thought of no such thing. Ta eriea was a disjointed reitera- admiration of my era of the! At this instant Mre. Dora Bingle of|tion of love and sympathy on my j ke a ridiguie Pipon wacie | Camden, New Jersey, came from the| part, and a cheerful trying to. mal ' We know a lot of perfectly sane,| We hereby off regular folks who, when one of those; sawed-off doubl “modern dancing” couples come on at deville show for turn, leave shop and go out to see how ting cap of knitted blue yarn and a dirty long disputation as now came down the aisle of ing shiveringly to console yourself} Probably aince t for an abominably Boorix-neaten | By heee Kings of “I hope a0, dear, f f ar for I expect just aroma; free to walk the streets un-| complished anything, The Loneliest Man in New York | mmeteartintitiges, | oe By Sophie Irene Loeb | motestea) 2 Ttttiike snatting out | £05 Your care, of te Stee (the New York Evening I could bear. 1 fe New York they are with him but a in the pro of making my fortune;it, what are you going to do with te coud enjoy all with m in? and my present life. Cet ey “We have grown apart, because 1 I ‘wonder ate’ what I have tried to do,” mother lise the| ner usual modesty. veplied-wieh ey in the bread-line, @ pauper, }of the sort, and then they are off looking at life or train them, had made it poss! mas was nearing. I had packed| me to accomplish much that others } p om. 1 am the loneliest man inj sired, and that it brings you every- other words, THEY OVBER- ‘4 k,” he admitte "Vi thing. Tell your readers for me that LOOKED THE ART OF LIVING, T laid each article in place. I was (To Be Continued.) ing forward to the day of all’ Fret Say. of ecoomplishenate etter by sr at is certainly anything 5 ich luxury, have lost the capacity of| I ld not but reflect on this lonely | do with it.” That is exactly the ki1 never feel. teines anything out of life. man's words. There must be many | of thing this man said when he start- for me, I have to forever be ‘They have spent themselves in the | others who get little out of life, ba.jed in to get bis millions. Now bis me lof ii tep ot] who, though they live in the lap of! but his horses, of his amusements, He|OVERCOMING that atrugs! s Y q ec ae %