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i] Fifty Dates | You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune ESTABLISHED BY JOSOPH PULITZER. ing Company, Now, 55 ¢ SOHN , You SWoke off SMOKING IW THE HOUSE \T Gives ME HEADACHE cr 63 Park Row. ER, President, whe ew York as For England All Countries in the ne ” oh 5 World). Postal Union. Copywit, 1915, by The Press Publismng Us, (the New York trening World), No. XI.—JULY 14, 1789; Fall of the Bastile THRONG of ragged, bloodstained, shrieking men and womes danced wildly about # battered ruin that had been the dreaded fortress prison on earth, The end of the world come—the end of these joy-crazed rei work. The had fallen! ® For centuries France had been hideously misgoverned. The common =~ people had been crushed into the mud beneath a load of oppressions. Thetr.... taxes were enormous. Their wages were pitifully small; they had se eS rights, no privileges. The nobles treated them worse than negro clave), in this country were ever treated. d ‘The peasants were helpless in the hands of their masters, the ' crats. Unspeakable wrongs were inflicted upon them. Also, they were driven forth like cattle to die in France's many wars and were taxe® afresh to pay for those wars, though they were allowed no voice in me government. ‘To make matters worse, the king and queen and nobles Itved in such cravy extravagance as to wreck the country’s finances. And the public at large hed to pay the bill. The cou:t was gay ead@ filthily corrupt. The King, Louls XVI, was ® ag. dunce. The Queen, Marie Antoinette, was fri: heartless and foolish. She neither knew nor how the people might suffer. Once, for example, ‘e** courtier told her that the poor were dying of hunger in the streets, The** Queen, in amused wonderment, asked why they did not cat if they wensis jfo hungry. Wo | “Because they have no bread, your Majesty,” was the reply. ovale e ked the Queen, in perfect sincerity, “Why don't they eat cake? ‘This anecdote was repeated and it added tenfold to the vengeful the nation felt for its Queen. Louis XIV, grandfather of Louls XVL, realized that the people were beginning to awaken from their apathy’ devpair and that one day they would demand a fearful payment for ther “* \centuriesof torture, He had said to Mme. du Barry: ver aee “It will last out my time. But, oh, I pity my grandson!" om “After us, the deluge!” laughed du Barry; who was to lose ber ows .. \life in that “deluge.” , «8 One of the vilest abuses of the age was the custom of throwing innocent . blic. unanim isi fet | men into prison without trial and keeping them there, shut off from all their fee the Pe Bye ous decision the Appellate Divi-| dear ones, for life. This was done by means of a warrant (known as @ of the Supreme Court in Brooklyn now holds that the Steeple-| “jettres de cachet”) signed by the King, The nobles had little trouble Park Company and certain individual property owners have ‘| obtaining lettres de cachet and imprisoning those whom they disliked. TI |grim prison of the Bastile, in Paris, was the life-tomb for many such Un~+ ight to fence off sections of the beach. The Court rules that! |fortunates. And the nation grew to regard the Bastile as the visible ayy... (seep mi frome eal tee rr rated ~ og be RAs ie ente ne comin Lhe oe eee Coney waterfront vidual proprietors ject rights | public.” Such rights can under no circumstances be bar-| $3.50] One Year + 80'One Month. REMNANTS OF THE SYSTEM. HERE is no smoke without some fire. Despite the haste of the’ police associations to disclaim responsibility for the criticisms of Commissioner Woods advanced by their counsel, William E the public is not likely to be deceived. Nobody suppores that the old system, which tried to dominate politics, died in a minute. In a service of 10,000 men habits of ling and underground methods die hard. ‘he spirit of insub-- [> hangs on in narrowing circles and organizations within the even after most of the men have been welded together in a aristé Hidlly loyal body. "Many of the malcontents must be well known. The importance their mutterings need not be exaggerated. But it is well that im- ce and threats should thus come into the open in order that responsible may be promptly deal with. Only as the remnante System disclose their whereabouts can they be cast out. ay CRE IES RESTORED TO THE PUBLIC. INCING OFF the beach at Coney Island and charging the public an admission fee for the privilege of enjoying the sands and: the surf has for several eeasons past been a practice of proprie- | For two years The Evening World has fought to reclaim the Centuries of Torture. Gl UP Tae CHIMNEY | “in 1789 a famine scourged France. Country folk thronged to Parté, * Kiots broke out. The people all at once awoke to a murderous rage. yet did they feel strong enough to attack the King and the royalty, ‘Phat was to follow. But they wreaked their hate on that symbol of royal.oppreatsit sion, the Bastile. On July 14 @ huge mob marched against the fortreaa: prison and ordered its governor, De Launey, to surrender. When their demand, was refused they attacked the prison. te 2 For hours the fight raged. At last a body of the” ” newly-organized National Guard came to the help of®* the mob, And cannon were trained against the fortress.”* ‘Then De Launey surrendered. The mob, rushing in, | killed him, set free the captives (some of whom had. | been driven insane by their ill treatment) and then tore down the detested, prison, . During the bloodthirsty orgy they found a cell on whose wall some luckless prisoner had scribbled this odd prophecy: mae. “The Bastile shall be destroyed and on its site the people of Paris shall” | dance.” ns wa away. | |. Since the decision of the Appellate Court in this test case is ne it is unlikely that the defendants will carry it to the Court Next summer should see an end of “privste beaches” at | AS You LIKE . The shore will again be, as it always should have been, open : ind free“to the public. Blow for Liberty. Me meee | FEWER VICTIMS OF THE AUTO. HE record of fatal accidents in New York for December, as compiled, by the National Highways Protective Association, | shows « hecrense of ten es compared with the same month| ‘During last moath thirty people were killed in the streets, eight- em by automobiles, eix by wagons and siz by trolleys. December, 1 showed forty deaths, twenty-five by automobiles, nine by wagons pd cix by trolleys. | It is noticeable that seven-tenths of the decrease in street fatali- p is due to a falling off in fatal automobile accidents. The safety s should make this s strong argument for bling efforts | have already made substantial gains in saving itizens from the | What Your Fingers Mean OMETIMES the hand proper and att ir the fingers are of equal length. | their “ what t jay. They are thoro Here we haye one of the best | Metnodical, these persons with ughly types that can be found the world|ly balanced hands. This applies over. People with such hands are een aay pea se their pidues among our best citizens, for they love nm & Mos, Fa authority and order, and are never 00| Way, garnets serra nets tase 'teaee ee happy as when conform s taken according to the rules of** to all|“Mrs. Grundy,” for propriety is previous habits and customs of their own. them their guiding light and they<* Respecting authority, they heooms seldom stray away. oo thoroughly law-abiding, * means no; Ukewise’ means nothing else thag The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell From the “Sign Here!” Habit In music they like nothing at 3 HE effects of polygamous instinct in real life have been revealed to New Yorkers in the case of s man who seems to have kept the Jove of three women even after a tragic turn of events! one of the three to despair and suicide. At the same time have had e chance to eve the dire effects of polygamy as the are alleged to enforce it upon young husbands and wives. been ouggested that the man for whom one would-be-wife herself and her children is a secret proselyte of Mormonism. he is or not, the consequences of his actions furnish poignant of the eufflering that the practice of polygamy can bring in y where it hae neither moral nor legal sanction. ——— 9 EVIDENCE. Hits From Sharp Wits Ben 0 woman bevo 0 sveryt: Covrright, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Kreniag World), HE piano has come,” said Mre.| Mr. Jarr took Mr. Rangle out last Jarr, looking in upon Mr. | night and drugged him Mr. Jarr may- ened | be has six thousand dollare to pay that | for it!” i» @ concomitant of hiatusea—-the| Mr. Jarr groaned. He now remem- morning after, “Wasn't it sweet of | bered the pernicious activities of their your employer to make us @ present | new found acquaintance, Mr. Bertram of a piano? But we'll bave to take| 8. Bogus, the agent for everything, down the baék parlor partition, *the | 4nd bia deadly fountain pen and dead- man says, and maybe cut a hole| tier order book with ite fatal “sign through the roof to get it In, for it's a] here” dotted lines, concert grand!” “That's some more of Rangle’s do- “Whot What?’ asked Mr. Jarr in| !ngs, wied Mr. Jarr. “You .aw surprise. “a egy wees I brought him home “Why, rand piano has|!*#t 9 a rves me right! I should Bl MO cots eae ce un The (let bim drink ice cream sodas till he whole neighborhood has turned out! |Mets plomaine polson~that's why | Of course, it Is 90 large that if I give | [Or — the stu! any parties this winter the company sige ra suppressed a tear, how. will have to alt down the ball in camp ver, whon her bright dream of having chairs, Let me see—one chair beLind ® Concert grand piano in a parior two | sults of the loaded fountain pen that sizes too email for it faded. bad been pointed at the fvll quartet Mrs. Jarr was thinking no worse of|in the hiatus by Mr. Bogus of Brook- Mr. Rangle than Mrs. Rangle was|iyn. . thinking of Mr. Jarr when Gertrude, ‘epee rs herald of dreadful tidings, turned up| ¢ werner, With another message of wee, Pop’s Mutual Motor i ” " ghe said, after anewering a ring at the door, “there's By Alma Woodward nd an old clothes gentioman outside that Coneviefes, 2016, Wy The Ureae § Go, says be has a push cart at the door Sis York ves Wer“ with a lot of books on it, He sayn| 66 AVE you come to yet?" Ma Mr. Jarr gave bim bie card with this dug an exploratory finger address of it last night—and be wants into Pop's face. | Mr. Jarr to take the books.” “Aw, leave me alone!” growled the | But Mr. Jarr eeised bis hat and| object of concern. “When I wanted rushed out, bowling over the old| ‘to explain you wouldn't let me. Now clothes man. There at the door on| You can wait until I'm good and the street stood a push cart with 25| Teady.” volumes of The Classics and Master-| “The reason I was so put out about pleces of Literature, Bound in Hait|'t Milton,” she suid, “was because It! Morocco, 67 Ibs. Net. More 4e:.ily re-| W@# the first New Year's Eve that we haven't sat up together until 12 and 7" asks our ae Bless: may come diaguiss, Bu Trouble never Sothers nsont put. Ung on any makeup.—Cincinnali Ka- quirer, ° e e Birive to favorable, for the: . for ¥ are the ones that Oret impressions | another—I could seat fifteen or twen- ty people down the private ball. If don't invite Mra, Stryver or any other fat people two persons may ait abreast in the ball. But, of course, I couldn't serve any refreshments to Reflections of then had a gtase of port and a piece Of fruit cake—the first in nineteen yeare\". “I told you that the thing was stag | and that it'd benefit me in a Pusinase | way to take these fellows out to the | flighty or visionary or drearally tm: aginative. They care not for probs lems that are not of earthly making. « By nature they are true fi 4 stanch and sincere, always honesty 2) straightforward in business, therebyew making few enemies, but never ac«nye quiring much wealth. These fre not at all adaptable and net like meeting strangers, pi to satay among their own, and nevep, changing, if it can be i friends, occupation, home or never among the so-called “kick as to the way the city or country uld be run. These persons are absolute slaves conventionality. They seldom quaintances. oppose them or their views in any way, without sufficient reason on your side, they will fight to the end to prove their point and continue to hold to their own opinion, The May Manton Fashions club in the car. And then when | come in you get hysterical apd ecreain that you smell sachet powder on me one. that 1 also reek of whiskey | ‘Well, no wond :, indignantly. juarter a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland . ty The Prem | uldiahing Co, (The Now York Breming World), @ 1y “knock at the door” of a woman's beart, but when he weats | them if they 4i4, But I'l) manage it some way. It's a genuine concert grand, too!” q mene | “What are you talking about?” then to Trecaive bur waned, "2, 8¥8 | aaued Mr. Jar, who was wondering Willing for the other fellow to be | if it would arouse any suspicion if he - Heston Trane jasked for » gallon of lee water to fellow | brush his teeth with te een ntially fale crusty af.) 'sitaven't 1 been telling you? A| SEENEER we | COnCArt grand plano has come,” re- | peated Mra Jar. “Now 1 can ox: ehange our old piano for 4 cabinet phonograph with fifty dance records —but where can we dance with « concert grand plano tn the partor | thie fett™ ‘Thin was another unanswerable jenigma to Mr, dart, but he oly groaued 4nd reached for bie shoes Don’t judge what he says love,—Albany Fy 9! interrupted Ma, You 'iveled in bere si ven in the morning othes £1 = roe i, your eye rong pe attering an: "Fale ta not going’ < to enter @ man’s he has to use a dark lantern and o jimmy. wl, if Mare Antony had been @ modern bachelor there might bave been some real glory in Cleopatra's feat of catching and holding bit it the | ig: conquest of married man on bis summer vacation ip Egypt—Pouf! fact the ~but bere it Letters From the People above the wheel base wheels), onde to keep on inal direction ‘Everything was O. K on the w up. The run is only eight miles and | for the d 1 |e one had & jag. All during the eve. | for dea wm to got Anishing the edgenel the; for the body Don't “set your heart” op « man—set your MIND on bi oncentrated mental suggestion, and something nest to hypnot! any man to fall in love with you ip these times. ibottom of | it wasn't well for ‘The greatest objection to the new very short skirte is not thet they pone ful ot ; “Please, mum, the automobile hae|are apt (o show so many fascinating and alluring ankles-~but thet they come,” said Oertrude, the light rum | show so many that are got fascinating or alluring o ot pale! {| Bing domestic, outer he door, —_ terribly spite a overturn the ear Any toy “What automobile?” asked Mr and ‘The trowbvle with most marriages is net so much that fools “rush is,” bad either « quart of _ wi wp itn Wheels | Mre Jarr \omether but that they always insist on rocking the boat after they get in bettie oF Ges ” font 4 thie “Viewme, main, tee wreat big one ne completely over om valeide | tiek they a susonned © see we " A map can always forgive another man for falling in love with the ih | we & wenoline body ere bad aud the ’ ; : lee 9 or the 16-year Hinde of Wrivers. mG. 2h ones Whe MOrrY’®| sroug kind of woman, but not for staying in love with ber long enough ose grt ft Seat 4 ve take | os 9% 5a ig | 12 “Make # fool of himsclt by marrying ber le you think your employer ending you « eoncer! «rend aulome “a concert grand pianoT” Any Soman can sou) @ man for bie impertinence, vul it Lakes an artist as she returned from) in tbe of firtation to manipulate the cards so skilfully that che ‘iow af the frowt window from an imapection | mever will have to ie Mayo « uf the seound tary gift jt of Aldermen. 4 never heard he war suffering When o man m | from an eulargement of the heart” | nis inck of willpower un, H's from Mie, Kam. | the nd 18 years. without slag il be needed 3 ‘’ o of material 27, 8 y poe ust we ra oe Bee the drapery, * nd wool “ THE KVENING WORLD MKAU, Donald Wuliding, 100 Wee -aecond ste Giwbet Bros) corner by New York, of sent by mail hampe or cack patiorn ordered IMVOUTANT—Write e46rece ee wanted Add Levy 5 i tune of 4 oar | ty hormes by as to wave the body! thet bier in the bottom of tie wheels ded ‘reek: days it te Bot s proof of bis love, but just of