The evening world. Newspaper, January 15, 1915, Page 20

a ABLASHMD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘ ‘ Detly Supsay. by the Frese Publisning Company, Nos, 63 to the Clase Matjer. eo Tie Bente) For tnslant ced the confnent and for the United States All Countries in the International end Canada 101 Union. 9.78 DO csde dee ids tp ivcvsvevcecetevcy cove MO, 19,008 WE AWAIT A HOLOCAUST? published by the Interborough showing the small Mumber of fatal accidents to passengers on its lines during a of five years are interesting and instructive. Nobody the statistics. It is eminently proper for the company to the record, fe the Interberoagh excused thereby from further foresight and Bt weed to be the boast of ferry directors that their antiquated carried millions for years without lose of life. One day « ‘ im the pilot house—dropped dead. This suddenly made ‘the tremendous risk of carrying only one pilot. From that there have always been two. late it has been forcibly demonstrated in the subway that cars of the “composite,” metal-sheathed type will take fire ma. Also that old insulation will not stand sudden access of through conducting wires. fatality percontages have fortanately been lew, does it follow are are cafe and that wire equipment need never be re- ity averages may be most gratifying. But the victim of and suffocation in the subway accident of Wednesday, Jan. 6, é figures from the pact be the sole guarantee of safety for the .. Must we awalt some frightful human sacrifice to startle the Inter- ea cl al teeta fo improvement, fore- en Soe THE DISASTER IN ITALY. civilized world is stunned and bewildered by the ca‘ trophes piled upon it. While the most awful bloodshed in ) Biistory is at 4 stage where no man can see the end, Nature # neutral Italy a blow the appalling effects of which grow darker new b? 7 wage nations feel the horror of it! How terrible would ‘ seem to them were they not heaping the earth with Misery on e more stupendous ecale than all the earthquakes hearts of all thinking people on this side of the Atlantic ly moved. From our peace and security we have aided tho 9 end orphans of trampled Belgium. Now, as we turn to our ly and hungry at home, comes the news of thousands left in Central Italy. ' the measure of our ability, without wronging our own do- f eufferers, we stand ready to help. It shall never be said that i want and wretchedness reached their darkest hour in this country found it: ompathics wrung dry. — pe ALWAYS AGAINST NEW YORKERS. [B legal rete for a local telephone call from a public pay sta- a tion in Manhattan or Brooklyn is five cents. In a hotel, as every New Yorker knows, ten cents is the almost invari- yy? Is the trouble and expense the hotel is put to for a single an extra five conte plus the two or three cents saved on the hotel enjoys as « “wholesale” subscriber? And if big this city claim they must charge an extra nickel on every call because of the expense of exchange, service, etc., how in other cities give telephone service at the regular local wim Boston, for example, at the Hotel Touraine, which has y never been famous for low prices, the charge for « city call is only five cents. up-State Public Service Comthission is interested in the Sof the New York Telephone Company that it cannot contro! city the telephone rates hotel proprietors charge their guests, is the New York Telephone Company does control such rates y, Utica, Rochester, Buffalo and other towne, in the State. Tho between the company and a hotel in Buffalo epecifically pro- “the charges for local and toll messages accepted by the eball be such only as are from time to time established by yy" ‘ ‘ ia discrimination always against telephone usere in this city? the New York Telephone Company alwaye give its best the emall end of the deal? Hits From Sharp Wits that we are ing more|tirades are al: Tecelved compla- that men t their mo-jcently is that his hearers flatter bville Banner. themselves with the belief that he is sathiag ainet others.—Albany Joi 4 e e e Nothing in this country ts suffert: from lack of free ‘advice.—Nortoik ‘Ledger- Dispa . Many & man who marries believing that two cam live as cheaply as one that the two must ie cheap-skately than elther one imag- ined. ulsville Courier-Journal. ee e teb. more Some men don't seem to think much of as other fellow's opinions until the) @ chance to L A es 4 Dass ‘em out as walery . A homely truth will wear than a polished lie.—Toledo Bade” etters From the People 2009 Was Het a Leap Year, | hope your readers may enjoy solving: A and B start trom the eame point and travel in the same direction ' bade .oe8 A Ve By Te UNDERTAKERS, BAN ( N. TRUST Ta THE TOMB Stone Scu AM GOING To A QUET GCrVEN YY THE HUMOROUS WRITERS To THe HUMOROUS The Jarr By Roy L. Copreight, 1015, by The Pres Wublishing Uo, (‘ue New York Krenime World), HO'S sugared your cak sked one Gent m nother ‘he Shooting Gallery. Mr, Strap McGee (and fined young assansin never dro murder car or “bumped off a gink with @ gat” at union rates), pressed his band to his college boy head of hair, “It's dat bunch of down-and- out dime museum freaks dancing up- staire dat'’s making the plaster sift down op me bean,” be replied. advised Mr, McGee, “The Mouthful- of-Plates Gang is coming in to crimp our racket, and if you are aching to blow down anybody don't go un- loading your smoke wagon at a lot ef poor armless wondere and ossified men, Wait till Skates Monahan and his bunch of enow peddlers come a- ramping in!” “Do you really expect them?” asked the other, ' “Didn't we crimp THEIR racket | mont’ ago right in this very snare?” | asked Mr. MoGee, “Why, there was, almost as many ambulances took ‘em away as there was taxicabs brough And again Mr, McGee stroked his| college boy locks with prid For it must not be thought that New York gangsters look or dress like ruffians. Indeed, no, The genuine, or refined, | type of New York gunmen are as dapper a set of young murderers as one would want to eee, It is only their pallor of skin and aMiftiness of | eye that differentiates the sin-ac- Phisticated gangater from the alert) M} around. Mr. Jarr felt it in his bones, at the Ball of the Human ‘Uniques, upstaira, But everybody else, including the jealous and belligerent Uttle old Mr, Malachi Hogan, was having the time of bis life, Mr. Hogan was bowled over ever and anon by the swish of Fatima's plump elbow—for never laid a hand or an eye upon him-—every time he got | near enough to her to be knocked down, It was so recurrent that po one remarked it; but all present LPTORS, Shea SAD AFFAIR, DREAD | LHAVe To Go Busine: REASONE? (IT'S Going To BE NIEST THING Fifty Dates You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1018, by The Pres Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening World), No. 16.—AUG. 16, 1858; Atlantic Cable’s Birthday. JEW YORK CITY was ablaze with lights. It was ablaze in oth: senses, too. For t reworks, torches and bonfires start’ More than one conflagration. Notably at the City Hall, who’ cupola was eaten away by fire, the rest of the building baré.’ missing destruction. The streets were jammed. The air was vibrant with cheers. Flags bunting drapery festooned every highway and alley. “here were torchli¢/ Processions. And there was a mammoth “Volunteer Firemen’s Parad’ which naturally was punctuated by several free fights. A salute + | hundred guns was fired in City Hall Park. The whole city was crat : joy. Many an old New Yorker who reads this will remember the!) Celebration in August, 1858. 1 And not only in New York, but all over America and in Great B., Gs well, the tumult of excitement surged. For, after years of discourag... ¢ failure, the United States and Great Britain were at last linked together by the Atlantic Cable. It was one of the century’s most vital dates. The battlo of Waterloo had been fought in mid-June, 1815.. News of tt 41d not reach America until August. Even in the middle uf the ninetessth century dg gl is ane wits: ‘Seas rile, in this country nearly two we Homophones f Peter Cooper and others dreamed of a plas eked by Wire. 2 keeping the world’s two hemispheres in instant and constant touch with each other by telegraphy. The Atlantic cable was the result of that dream, and the dreamers’ toll ané money and genius expended in making it came true. The cable was .0 bring America into the heart of the world. instead of letting it remain two ‘weeks away from the rest of civilization. 64, Field and Cooper and their colleagues formed the “New York, Newfoundiand and London Telegraph Company,” and this was followed by the “Atlantic Telegraph Company.” The object was to stretch a submarine THE FUN | EVER SAW. THINKS OF iT A BANQUET BUBBUNG WITH WIT, Toy AND LAUGHTER: ARTISTS ; GQOQODOSEOQOOQIOIDOGS) Family McCardell LO 000 and in the meliers—but many a time a poor working man is dying in the snow of starvation in front of the Grand Opera, and a swell guy wear- ing a Carlo and real ice, Mke Doc Diamond Jack, comes out of the opera talking to Caruso, and hands kind heart beats under a swell|the poor freezing, starving slob & front!" that maybe the well- “Sure,” eald the Pin Headed tady.| dressed guy is carrying home to his ou @ee it differont in the movies| own family.’ or the High Diver's old mother. “Doe Diamond Jack did both,” said Madam Kosa, the Bearded Lady, “I wantoha to understand Doc Diamond Jack is all right—there is many a The Dower of Beauty By Marie Montaigne ‘Copyright, 1015, by The Press Publishing Uo, (The New York Krentng World), How to Take Care of Your Hands. UR most tell-tale members are our hands, and so it behooves us to keep them in aa attractive a condition as possible, and this can be done by giving one hour a week and ten minutes’ daily care to them, Skin grows in @ day over the moon of the nail. The more this flesh is clipped the more it will increase, Daily care to pre- vents ite formation is essential, The daily care means cleansing the handa,| ing pushing back the skin from the nail with an orange stick and filing the nails, as their growth requires it, in an almond shape. Every alternate night ealve of some sort ehould be rubbed into the corners of the natis, and if they have a tendency to harden rapidly this should be done every night, The weekly care been filed) in glycer- ine and distilled water, warm milk or warm oll oll, When the nails are quite soft—and- the whole hand will be improved by the soaking—trim away da of symetrically, smooth the almond of the nail with emery | board and thi ceed to poll ed of a pink color Pp is rubbed over them, and the pol done with a Is re- ire polishing Brier in order to ive thom @ proper lustre, and some are so dull that a bril- lant liquid polish is rubbed over them. A artidcial, and the . natural lustre tm- \h BIUING THE NAR Be. amet = parted by @ reason- able amount of rubbing with the chamois buffer is more attractive, high a polish on @ nail is as unlovely a# too liptle lustre. danced on and over Mr, Hogan and never said “excuse me!" The Circassian Princess sat down beside Mr, Jarr, and was asking Dia- mond Jack if he had sent flowers to the funeral of Diavola, the High Stains can removed from both hands and naila by means of @ lemon or pumice stone, while paint stains are best removed by means of turpen- tine and dirt by liquid vaseline or olive oil, In any case, wash the hands afterward in warm water and castile soap, So many women occupy themselves in tasks that get dust into the hands that it becomes necessary in order to preserve the emooth softness of |wished on me. ‘This is too evidently | Too | *! kin which lovely hands should possess to treat them to « ecaking in warm Ei ot Oitv9 ott an. besen 18 Soe week Be wae be peeaiale 0nd f9 weep Beane ‘ tenet ll GODOGODOODODHOOGD®PDGHODQHHGDHHOGOOHWODIHDSHHWSO Mr, Jarr Improves His Education As He Edges Closer to Trouble FOO OOOO QO 000000 000000000000 0000000000) “Yes, and maybe the starving guy truns it back into the rich boob's map, because the starving guy is atanch union man, and h> sees the Plum pudding has no union label on it, and he falls back into the snow to die,” said Diamond Jack. “You n in tel Qeeereensenennennnnniponncnens Mollie of the Movies ‘ By Alma W oodward, oma HAs, Wat Wate WONDER whether people ever i think bow doggone unsatisfactory it is to be @ movie actress? You get the money. You have steady work, Your face is known all over the map. But you don’t get band! At least if you do you don't know it, You work for great eff hearsals; and when it comes to tak: and you hear clicking whirr of the camera, you're acting yourself blue in the face—and not a sound, Only the director ing the end of wie fountege pen because some Uttle poin way he intended it. The public don't know how much sweeter than honey and roses is the pair of dollar glov: Why, those bows are the greatest tonic ever. They can cure heartache and headache. They can make the leading lady | ingenue—for the moment, And in think of thi life. then. But in the movies it's just like sending a present tha’ knowledged. If there w ‘And then, besides, they keep on handing me all the’ parts that the ‘at brought in. Anything that looks like a Casualty List other day the director called mi and said he was going to reward my great display of unusual talent by giving me a very dificult one that he thought no one the company could do, ‘Well, say, by the way it listened | 4 tell that there was going to be re they'd have to have eroxide and adhesive plaster to say nothing of a couple of rt ise in ints and maybe @ crutch or two, And then he whispered it: A Pro- tean Bketoh, When | looked careless and unconcerned he told hat that meant acting lots of parts with the same face, as going to be hon- ored by being allowed to show my versatility, Huh In the firat reel I'm the stepchild of a biceptic washwoman, who shows intense, if unnatural, love for me ta re ek telegraphic cable from a point in Newfoundland to the Irish coast. le wax made up of seven copper wires encased in gutta percha, 4 in waxed hemp, and this covered by an outer sheath of 136 braided wires. $1,256,250. It was 2,600 miles long, weighed a ton to the mile, and cost Then came the problem of stretching it across the ocean. Every known device was tried. Brains were racked in vain to solve the puzzle. More than once, part way across the Atlantic, the cable broke. at last, two warships started from opposite sides of the Atlantic, each reeling about, one-half of the cable as it went. ends were spliced. Tho great task was accomplished. At a total cost of $1,! hemispheres were connected by wire. They met in midoceap end the twe 00, two All that remained was to test the valve of the new invention. All the world breathlessly awaited the test. On Aux. 16, 1858, the first messages were sent over the Atlantic cable. long telegram to President Buchanan of t) Victoria sent and he sent a congratulatory answer. e united by tel ood will toward men!” Highest; on earth peac ‘Then broke loose the celebration, Queen United States, The first words by were: ‘aphy. Glory to God In the People did not stop to remember that the electric current was pitifully weak and that it had taken an hour and seven minutes to transmit Buchanan's ninety-word message. All they Ore Failure and the it 4 Howl of “Fake!” $ Dot, work. IB DLA Aone HN { selves honrse. For seven years the invention wi other and better cable was laid (2,31 across to Europe it bro! lost. HE first Government geological urvey in America was cca+ ducted by Elisha Mftchell, who was born in Washington, Conn,, about 121 years ago. He was a graduate of Yale and became professor of mathematics in the University vf j North Carolina, Afterward he be- came professor of chemistry, «1d in 1821 he was ordained a Presbyterian Caro! io an extensive ge logical survey and he was tho first to ascertain that the mountains of North Curolina are the highs: cust Pattern No, 8541—D: inM and Small Women, 16 wew & (Odtein Thess Patterns. 1 scorch or drown firat. In the second reel I'm a coal heav- er’s bride who asks for his pay en- velope the first Saturday night. I guess I don't need to go into details, Suffice it to say she gets everything |but said envelope! In the third reel I'm Mile. Lope- ini and 18 minister, As State Surveyor of North | ® knew or cared was that the two countries were in telegraphic touch, More messages were sent, with growing difficulty, during the next few weeks. Then the cable quietly went out of busi- ness, It became a mass of “dead” wire and would Not one signal could be transmitted across the seas, At once arose a howl of disgust from the very people who had lately cheered them- They declared the whole thing was a fake, and that the telegraphic messages supposed to have been exchanged between Amertoa un? England had been hoaxes from first to last. allowed to lapse. Then, in 1865, an- les long, and weighing 4,000 tons); the steamship Great Eastern having been built for the purpose, Half way One end sank in water two miles deep and was Nex: year it was picked up and spliced to the rest. And this time the Atlantic cable proved a permanent success, The First Geological Survey in America of the Rockies. He was a to science, for to settle some eisputed point about the altitude these mountaina he 1857, lost his w: . The Geo- logical Survey of the United States, which has carried out on a large scale the work commenced by Mitchell, was created for the purpose of preparing a map of the United States, classifying the public lands, ining the geological structure, mineral resour: and the products of the Republic, and investigating the extent to which the arid and \- id lands may be redeemed by irrt- gation. The May Manton Fashions ERE fe @ Gress that gives two important features of the latest styles, the plaited skirt and the high collar, for these two features mark the season, and make @ most important de- Derture from the fashions’ that have been, Here the ma- terial is blue serge and the trimming black braid with but- tons that give a mill. tary suggestion, and everything that savors of the mil- itary is to be fashion- able throughout the epring; but, as @ matter of course, the trimming can be varied to suit nae vidual tastes. pie aa oe perfec r can be ly and joined one to the other. The frock is closed invisibly be- neath the left edge of the box-plait. The plaited portion of the skirt is cut in four For the 16-year aize will be needed 6 yds. of material 27 in, wide, 5% yds. 36, 4% yds, 44, with 8 yds, of braid. vali Pattern No. 8641 is cut in sizes for 16 Years. and 18 years, Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FASHION BUREAU, Donald Building, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppe- site Gimbe! Bros.), corner Stath avenue and Thirty-second street, New York, or sent by mail om receipt of tem cents im cotm or’ stamps for each pattern ordered. IMPORTANT—Write your address plainly ané size wanted. Add two cents for letter aig because the villain removes the net. * e fourth I'm a woman epy jot at sunrise! led th eee ee ey eles wat