The evening world. Newspaper, January 5, 1915, Page 16

‘Reflections of _ a Bachelor Gir By Helen Rowland — Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), a OVE is just a sort of vertigo which makes you see things with Balee me ¢ @round them—until you wake up. bY Making a reliable husband out of an artistic lover is about as prae- tieable as making « storm coat out of « ball gown; but comebow women never will give up the hope that it can be accomplished. ‘ heacde Gn divoaey 00%0 00 coe cey SO, SOs A DIRTY CORNER. & single qualified Coroner among sixty-five who have held @ffice! Only one physician attached to the present Coroners’ ™ . Office who can be called competent! Among 800 inquisition Ms examined “40 per cent. of the cases involved show complete Hef evidence to justify the certified cause of death.” So far as Office in this city is concerned “infanticide and skilful can be carried on almost with impunity.” Packed coro- w jeri have made the administration of justice in the Coroners’ @ ecanda! and a farce. Favoritism, graft, “disgusting alliances favored undertakers” have been common features of a system | Maintenance of which has meant “a sheer waste of public money} © over §172,000 « year.” > Never has New York heard a more ecathing indictment of any of the municipal service than Commissioner Wallstein’s to the Mayor on the conduct of the Coroners’ offices. Here is ‘ Why is ft that every woman seems to fancy that Providence gives her & daughter to be shifted off onto some men’s shoulders; but that it gives her a eon, as it gives her a nose or a toe, to be attached to her through | lite? It's awfully easy for a man to control himself when he knows thet his wife will control him if he doesn't, ve f The only difference between them is this: That p man worrtes as to hew. soon he must die, and a woman as to how soon she must dye” ber A man's method of dealing with a refgactory woman is to execute her first, condemn her next, then try her, and last of all ask her if she has any reason to offer why sentence of the court should not be passed. — ve © “Force of circumstances” may drive a man onto the downward pathy but, judging from the celerity with which he goes, it must be force of will or force of gravity that kegps his there. ‘and dusty corner where politics has outdone itself in accumu- & pernicious clutter of incompetence and graft. The old year light. The new year should hasten to eweep out the rabbish. at ‘The Gary Committee on Employment is busy arranging eub- | qemmittees and choosing advieers. Why not hire a few of the "=> fatter from the ranks of the unemployed ‘and thus make o > Goudie start on the jod in hand? ns ey WHY TAX CLEANLINESS ?- /HE Government’s war tax'on tooth pastes and powders is criticised by « committee of prominent physicians and sur- geons, including the Health Commissioner of New York: A tax on substances used im the maintenance ef mouth A FORLORN HOPE. JB SIGNING the taxicab amendment which prescribes that al! Ie Raxio bearing maters must operate under the city ordinance at | J rates, Mayor Mitchel took pains to tear up the flimsy argu- | ef the taxicab companies which opposed the measure. a The best guarantee that the taxi reforms for The Evening World fought will not be defeated lies in figures Reshow thai nearly three thousand taxicabs are now operating Sessfully under the law. There are few of these cabs that are not equipment and comfort to the “private” cabs which the Company has tried to foist upon the public as worth ‘ ite taxicab business under'the ordinance has increased in and efficiency. No opposition can reverse the facts. —_————_ <4 ALWAYS HASH? average New York housewife is « firet-rate provider so she has « telephone, obliging market and grocery men, @ Mberal attitude toward the garbage can. But it makey « Dovsckeeper's hair stand on end merely to eee what the throws away. The broad, basic principle of ip any mation te iq starve the refuse pall booklet--How to Use Lett-Overe—the Mayor's enthusiastically and exhaustively into ibe concludes that “every soray of fuod left be used in some way” bash be the last word in American table fe good, but hash te monotonous, The French et ber command @ doseu sauces, any ong of which convert humble scraps Into a didb of delighf Why doesn't country invent @ few tbhrifty sauces aod become independ. of hash? it, | / il | ! f i i talon z Hits From Sharp Wits Biot college education for ‘f work; rr) mu awe | atier } finde « tow . . . es en | A jack on 9 shaly will cause we are no’ pomme- | ward moves . ry Opportunity |News eet Sher two bands wilh Temptation me don't mel enough Ville Hew Nash an up Ds weret . ndge Never of & man's k awe oben te a wi an aford iL ° oman belie oe b beging we worry over! ! f thot the ie Heute bile eau , oe ya eg Oued is univaded ui ” id oie Bot to blame tor it. |e failure oa oulisls © eye. | pul” me lemmune! one ove bieneed gs ‘tesa is By Roy L. WISH @ lot of people wouldn't keep on sendin: presents, now the holidays are past,” whimpered Mre. Jarr. “‘Smatter?’ asked Mr. Jarr, who was almost forgiven for bis various now permitted to speak to bi» good lady with @ fair chance of being an- sweored. “Well,” Mra. Jarr explained, “I've Just gotten things I don't want from | people I don't like; but fortunately they about balance.” “What do you mean—balance?” , in- quired friend husband. “Why, almost as many come late from people I didn't want to get any- thing from, out of town, aa come from the same sort of people in town, That is, I've just gotten presents from the Cackleberry girls of Philadelohia and their mother, wbd, you know, is mar- ried for the second time to that well ‘dressed bully, Bernard Modger And 1 got @ present 1 don't want from Mre. Mingle of Camden, N. J.-you know, the mother of little Halloway Bingie?” “Yea, 1 know,” replied Mr Jarr, ‘the little boy with the wonderful red brick arches for legs, And he can aat mo much mol@wes bread I think the erohes are hollow late for holiday gifts! Merry Chrib man (eroans) and Happy New Ty (biases) are over” eaid Mre Jorn “tut late gifts from people you don't lke, i whe dowt ike you, are always deted (on the eard ineide) the 4 before Clrbetin The senders think you will believe they we delayed ta the & ie, owing bo Ue ¥ the male crow a or @lse they astray during the boliday rush What are the belated gifts y balance? asked Mr Jarr ‘Well, there \s @ celluloid shoe horn from Witte Mallow@y 4b bell doren cotton bandh the W cent store mark j bos, from Mre Hinge, and o of cheap, colonne from Mre 1 and two badly halited white So A ‘You, 1 kno! NY yours ambulance interne wil) tell you that It takes « by ticking plaster and wiull to up the lacerations of the fellow whe “never kuows when he ie Keked.” We ary « mes vie arte voxive crimes and misdemeanors and was, Hout ban't tw Little | Wags the W ovld vot CENTE HOUSE. BREST SEAT IN THe HOUSE The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1018, by The Prem PublidiMe Qo, (The New York Kvening World), shawls from the Cackleberry girls. ‘Those are from out of town. In town, R oF The Tare Discovers a ‘Brand New Way to Square the Family Circle EK HRD, atrocious hand painted handkerchief case, and Mrs. Terwiliger eends me a German silver mesh bag with the links coming unfastened. Well, I'll Mrs. Whiffletree sends me a pair of shopworn gloves too large for me, and Mrs. Hickette and her daughter Blanche send me a calendar and an «x CK ’ By Sophie Hi other day 1 sat at & T tures of “Cinderella.” plain woman sat beside me. in a well-known business firm. There | are thousands of women like ber in the sea of life to-day. Her comments went something Like this: | “Cinderella does not need to sit by \the fireside to see her fortunate sisters go off to the ball and wait for some milracle godmother to speed her to a fairy prince while she has youth aod beauty | “Nor does the ugly duckling need tae aid of 4 magic atick to make ber beautiful #0 that she may marry the wondrous man and live happy ever after, But rom the day she held her first pay envelope in her baad |has acquired the wand of wisdom | that poon the open sesame ip the torn of life-activity * my Finglese sister count her rosary of re with ite ever When wilh met The ite sting ois Bot relegated the gay Lochinvar riding by, but she ls out ip the b, wide by wide with him. Bo much that be rubs elbows with her aud finde it (0 bis advantage to do go “the doe pot need to guard sacredly (hat indispensable dowry left her by nome relative, because of a orying need of compensation for her pla sneequent wail of , kingdom for 4 busband!’ As « wocopled (heoriae he mole idew & tan reat OC o he spends @ lot Of perfectly goed ime ou te tomember wheal 1 te hee ion Mate dieagined with bin, tome day, when qe've emageed suiaient wealth to “ley back,” we're aoa every Gey of 7 Are You Willing to Be an Old Maid? ‘Copyright, 1915, by The Prem Publieing On. (The New York Krening World), Penny Lunch performance! witnessed motion pic- | Bho ts one who has given lcag service | send the things I got from the Hick- ettes and the Tewwiligers and Mrs. Whiffletree to Mrs. Bingle and her little boy and Mrs. Blodger and the | Cackleberry girls, and the things I | got from them I'll send to the Hick- | ettes and Terwiligers and Mrs, Whif- fletree. They'll never meet and cbm- pare them. “But won't that be rather late, too?” Mr. Jarr inquired. “Oh, let them thigk the things were delayed or w missent in the mails; etill more—th what I am supposed to believe about THEIR gifts!” Mr. Jarr was now sent out to mall the fair exchanges. When Mr. Jarr returned, after pass- ing Gus's place (as though It was @ hardware atore, for all he wotted), he found Mra, Jarr bad visitors. They were Mrs. Hickette and daughter Blanche and Mrs, Terwilt-| wer. Mra, Jarr was thanking them e@usively for their beautiful presents, and when she incidentally stated they had only arrived that morning | it would have made Uncle Sam‘scars | burn to hear what the visiting Indios | Ne | sald about the inefficiency of the par- law of |C#l# powt; forethey all declared the| compensagon in all things. «wifte had been malied before Christ- “Even Tt 1 am not a beautiful! mas. | woman, with all the attending joys | ‘ | nd heartaches of sheauty, “I xo! do my Christmas shopping 'y." Mre. Terwiliger testified. Irene Loeb. main thing. “Thus it bas come about that there are thi mai want but little here below and get that little in the average marrage. -day as I think over the past |and look back at some of my sisters who have ‘given up the attention of many for the inattention of one’ | close ‘tightly a longing of yesterday and am at | _."For, while the cry of the race sul- jelde faction prates of ‘the woman thatgisn't married to some man and ought to be,’ the real tragedy of the hour ts the’ woman who {ts married to him and ought not to be. “Had I not been « plain woman my success would not have been so steady, #0 sure. In the office, one by one, I eee the pretty wee girls with the retrouase noses and dimpled chins come in and depart. \ “And am I satisfied? 1 in all truth, that ag fai be satisfied in ¢ OHAPTER OXXVIII. HIRISTMAS was past, and I cauld not help but be fhank- } ful. It had, as on the year Ddefore, brought too many sad memories, too intense a longing for my husband's presence, to have been a happy time for gne, in spite of the kindness of my friends, and all ray lovely gifts. Every one hag remembered me 80; nicely with dainty, useful gifts, bear- ‘ng some association of the giver. Emelie was just buried in toye—pres- ents from Mrs. Flam and Mrs. Car- men, besides those from mother and others. Mrs. Carmen's gift to me had been a check, the size of which made me doubtful about accepting it until I read her letter. “You will take this gift, Sue, which apparently has cost me no thought,” she wrote, “in just the spirit I send it. Use it to furnish some one room in the new home you are planning. matter where I may be you Fun have a dally reminder of me, my yu.” . et ‘Carme in came homo on the sec: ond daypof the year; happy over ¢! ement in his wife's health, get back to his busin ‘that Mr. Carmen had returned my duties in the household naturally took up more of my im . Hay i al wee Neil frequently, ic Ey, ery Sunday, and Reriee ftener. She was now sitting hp but still very weak and frail. She was very slowly recovering her he cr didn't give up soon enough,” Romsey told ‘She was so afraid of worrying me that she kept going until she just toppled o Now the doctor says she will be just eo much longer in getting well.” She was such @ sweet convalescent, so patient, so thoughtful, even of those who were paid to be thoughtful of her! As I sat with her I often thought of the difference in us, my- self and Nell, We were married about the same time, our husbands were nearly the same age, earning about the same salary. I thought of Nell’s economy, her holding Rumsey back when she thought he was working too hard, loving him infinitely more than the things his extra earnings might The freckles do not teadily on, on, knowing that 1 aim | lreaponstble for my newest tailored “And | send the gifts I intend to suit and that there ie no one to wk | peng 00 ” |quastions ae to how much 1 pay tor | send all in good time,” said Mrs. my hate, my shoe my gloves, de | a jand when [ put aside @ certain » “Why, we sent the Cackleberry girls | for vacation there is no on: to say me those koitted shawls a week before hoa 4 moot swith my friends in joll the holidays marked ‘Don't open uli Ce h OUly | " | go0d-fellowehip and they do pot, in| Christmas!” remarked Mise Hlanche this twentieth eentu of things, | Hickette Feel Ot ie Oe tne Nite ane ety Of) "1 did the sane with the cologne yore, ae murre . gg only by Al poop at ber Smt that poor Mra Mlodger,” Mere. |iavenderand-vld-lace drew in Torwiliger saserted, “and a bow of he’ had firet seen bet and soo handkerchiefs ty pour Mie Mingle in bad departed Camden ek of After they had gone Mr. Jarr asked » Mere Jarre if ehe thouwht «he bad got o red oo, a everybody's @ifte beck where they he foreground—on the firing Hihe 1 | ret eume from Mie Jarre anid whe hone of be the back parlor with the dvin't core he wented to out that et needios Mites wisdom In these words! whole crowd, anyway SSS rd Gullen ud Oo oo Pee Heme Pubiaiing Oe » vmming Worl) My Clares o0d i ol ue ie wien | ich we ai of tuiee well My jum for tae fui wood every minule of thet Me evarD IT we con Bet awa a oy - | Our idee of the Alyse of Viemality we heard & wom te to wit minerally vy While & evn ow ier i i | be forty wiett bow © aay recenuiy, | of folks whu've been opera deal of digitia talk about their ce for am hour vt Iwo oF these, ae aie ad si stim otieey / ” Work plenty of wkin food into tb cuticle, but adhere more of the food inte the akin and rub in a felary mot the ewe 1p widows motion tion, and ¢ with 4 quien, word, and fru the necks De wot be eUney about allowing swe lle linew here ¢ the market « 0 pat, emurtly aliobe, ‘ 7 ia on big, vive, apyie Cheehed rustian who, When we few bad enough to fake tv Wed and way there foro gonth, bends ue a wallop on the back | aud velluwe (hat all we heed to tis up ie" 00d brisk ton mile wag 1 fate of ays i ie water va 7 << San ey Ma , ao always wear off before midwinter; gibi Vanity bag: The grave of masculine illusions. | Chapters from a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1915, ‘by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York Evening World), bave procured; of their waiting until they had money enough saved—a little at @ time—to build their simple pretty home that from the first Jack had en- vied them. @ contrast was ful, horrible to me. I urging Jack to the limit of his strength, often beyond it, to sat- isfy my extravagant desires; my run- ning him into debts until he never knew which way to turn, nor how to meet them; my aping people of wealth in my house, my furnishings, automobiles, &c., and then the crash. But wheneyer I put these thoughts into words Nell always stopped me. You have atoned, Sue. Don’t spot your life with constant regrets. We all love you, are so !nordinately” Proud of you!” comforted, Gertie Cummings often met ine at Nell's, and we three would talk uf the time when we first be.ame acquaint- sot aaen at 's coming, an of how fo envy me two things—m; baby and my taste in dress. 7 “I used to look at you wheeling that Precious baby up and down the atreet, yourself looking 11 fashion plate, when I kifew you made ry stitch you had on, and done moft of your housework besides. My, but I Was envious! I thought you were & wonder,” Gertie laughed. “If only I had been content to keep on that way!" I sighed, “I was really happy then, gi “I thought I had forbidden you to talk that way,” Nell admonished. “Do you remember the party gave for J ai seen!" Gertie reminisced. youngest sister of Jack's? Annette, I believe they called ’ “She married soi aa etl but i enough to be ‘ather, almost her grandfather,” told them. “I heard they were liv: in Europe. “I remember her,” Nell quoted. | was attracted to her. the moment met he: “She was a perfect dear!" I replied. enthusiastically. . Then | told them of hér kindness te | me on my first visit to Boston; of her coming to me with offers of help and words of admiration when I was in disgrace with her sister. “I shall always regret that we are no longer friends,” I finished. “ae far as Janet is concerned, I dont care. She was always proud and eol4, but Annette was different.” (To Be Continued.) een, Dower of Beauty By Marie Montaigne » Copyright, 1915, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening Wond), “Feeding the Face.” N fall and winter of the year, as in the early spring, the question of beauty comes up very pertinently in woman's II For the results of tan aad find the cold December winds do not always help the complexion, Pores are apt to be the Good circulation i one of beautya wreatest aids. With this as a founda- tion, the seeker after elusive lovelt- hess must begin 4 provess of cleans. ing and creaming and smoothing off the akin, It requires to be rebuilt in order that it may bloom, flower. like, in order to cream the face, efter cleansing it, remember that the sktm must not be pulled loose trom ite moorings in the underlying nourish. ing Uneue. Therefore, after dipping the Bngere in ekin food, hold the forefiugers Gruly upon each wide of the forehead, and, with the middie Hnger, begin the “feeding” stroke, hub, wontiy, outward from the howe) Upward and outward trom the corners of the eyes; upward and out. ward from the corners Of the mouth; in 48 Upward FOLATY IMQLOR over the cheek to the eure, aud downward from the ebin lo & wentic mo. Vat upwards, under the hia, ‘de the baom of plenty of food Wo the corners of the ‘owe OTA We HOud olin new as food wi snnot be affor ale. ' 4 60 Wo alee (ene in the 41 Hi and want Lo wo bark imok tot | Meme whauuuroun ion, bergeant uf the guatd ee % island would awaken us, ry Yolo, pt th quard, to the miad be eevorted down diemal No. 8 dock Or. : ae PNB al wtih cribs, ‘a id _ oh