The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1915, Page 14

Tuesday" Yon Ove Wiorld. Can You Beat It? .x.vieens, By Maurice Ketten ESTABLISHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. iy Yorn How. New York. he ‘ iw. Ene Jee Wocretary, 2 Park Row. x Becond-Cl For 4 and t All Countries in the International Postal Union. «+ $9.50/One Year..... # 201 One Months. NO. 19,509 A CLINCHER FOR THE B. R. T. ESPERATE efforts on the part of the B. R. T. to make the public believe there was an increase of elevated service over the Brooklyn Bridge last year came to naught. Bridge Com- w Kracke’s figures, taken from the B. R. T.’s own monthly “Peport, show that not only was there a decrease of over 7,000 elevated ‘Gar trips on the Brooklyn Bridge in December, 1914, as compared with tame month of the year before, but that on the Williamsburg | Bridge aleo the service was reduced. As the Bridge Commissioner says: * ‘The figures show that it was harder for a Brooklyn-bound passenger to travel by elevated from City Hall, New York, via either the Brooklyn Bridge or the Williamsburg Bridge in De- ember, 1914, than it was in December, 1913. B. BR. T. economy has tried the simple plan of collecting pro- ete, more nickels for retrogressively less service. Brooklynites long known it. The figures prove it. It is useless for the com- | pany to deny it. : The time has come for this public service corporation to change its policies and revise its methods. ——- + -— — — _ JUSTICE FOR THE SMALL TAXPAYER. ETHODS of reducing special franchise assessments out of court, which may have cost the city nobody can say how many millions of dollars, make a strange chapter in munici- FE ‘pal finance. On the basis of “settlements” of this sort, more of which the Mayor is now considering, The Evening World has estimated that dm three years the city lost over $20,000,000 through the custom of 5 Allowing companies to present their own figures to the city Corpora- _ tion Counsei, and then to compromise the final assessments without ‘the intervention of any court to protect the city's interests. That taxes should bocome lower as franchises grow more valuable fs ridiculous. That any corporation finds it possible to value its ‘property at one figure for the tax on real estate and at three or four | times that figure in order to decrease its apparent profits, and there- | fore the apparent value of its special franchise, implies a state of 1 things which smal! but honest taxpayers are entitled to know more of. a IT CAN BE DONE. a ANGS have been driven out of the Bronx and the record of homicides reduced from twenty-seven in 1913 to only seven last year, according to the report of District Attorney Martin. > “Tam sure,” he declares, “the gangs could be cradicated in Manhattan if the police and the District Attorney would get after every gunman, if on conviction the judges would impose heavy sentences.” ‘The gang problom' in Manhattan is more complicated, Dens» tion, variety of race, ignorance and fear make rjch soil for organ- rime and blackmail. Police Commissioner Woods has issued & special appeal to cast side dwellers urging them to fight with the ‘Police against the gangsters. If they would go to the former instead ‘ef the latter for help in strikes, if they would report threats and - Blac ing letters to police headquarters, if the oast side societivs Would aid in breaking up habits of fear and silence, blackmailers and throwers would soon find those industries unprofitable, What has been accomplished in the Bronx, however, should spur » the police to attack with new energy their harder task in Manhattan, HOME-MADE GOODS. E ARE glad to see that the new Woman's National Made in the U. 8. A. League, which aims to encourage the con- sumption of home products and the employment of home » does wot forget to insist upon what is expected of the producer: Members of the league will expect American manufacturers to produce goods of the proper quality to be sold at the proper price, It ts just as important for manufacturers and producers to have goods of quality to offer to women as it is to have ‘women demand “made {n the U. 8. A. goods." The other day a New York woman lamented that imported hair are no longer obtainable. Why imported hair nets anyway? Is $ becanse too often, as compared with the forcign artic ‘just as applied to the American product means only “almost as good” ? ghouldn’t it mean in future “better”? It is up to the American lucer. He never had a bigger chance. Hits From Sharp Wits. A man cannot make progress when, is to cat befo: tries to proceed wholly upon bis) been served, RL AVSETHOY'ele0. hap theories. eee After a map becomes afficted with | AY mpathy he ceanea to ac- Albany Journal, | eee q &: people are actuated by the | paka Capital eee Rome men go through life without ever knowing the comfort of a shirt that fit.—Toledo Blade, eee hink twice before you mpel many men to ida Times-Union, eee Home people never learn that the least thing opportunity di jenet. | y does is to The Jecimiet al erent piter the mn fellow has! “Laughter,” some one has sald, “is & winile wet to munic.” That depends legraph. eee on who is laughin, ’ ‘The small boy's notion of safety Arat! ner, MIDE RENT Ie: AR een neene ste Satan OF ge Sely Great ne The rule, vo} BPEAK.” Would many professions of love! theuk’ would. that they nearly all vote.—To- eee lways seen the o according to the Now Testament, we havo tio right to do. ‘The Bible say 4s we all know: ‘Thou shalt not kiil, bel hat means only one thing. instead of making laws to sult man (regardless of the laws of God), con- corning capital punishment, why not sentence the guilty to solitary con- finement for five or ten years, or even Mfe? I believe we have no right to take life, something we cannot give back if we wanted to, I sincerel: hope that Gov, Whitman will do ail in his power to help any bill it to him to In regard to the forming of a ty to atop capital punishment, I It one of the best efforts that Of people ever started. As your paper, the memberr ity tm, , sla Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to Matter. he Continent and 75 “WAITER | LD You MIND SERVING NEM’ Seiad 2 ” I CAN'T WAIT HERE ALL NIGHT INTERMISSION IS MINUTES By Roy L. MIE fall of the chandelier into the “Shooting Gallery,” where the ball of the Gentlemen's Sons was being held also started some- thing. Lt started a fire, ‘The flames burst from the culling of “The Shoot- ing Gallery" and ate through the floor of Aroma Hall above, It was the heat before the flames came through that made Fatima arise from where she was acreaming and “aquashing” little old Malachi Hogan, the sitting down on whom had caused all the trouble, And Mra, Jarre Gertrude, the Ja Nght running domestic and faithful family retainer, wero now shrieking “Murder!” Just as when the gunmen had started shooting at the freaks they had screamed “Fire!” ‘That holding a burning feather under in bringing a swooning person to con- sciousness Mr. Jarr can no longer deny, Vor the Circassian Princess lay in a faint with her head on his shoulder until the emu feather girdle of Bongo the Wild Man caught on fire nearby, At smoke from the burning feathera the Circassian Princess opened her eyes and asked faintly, “Where am 1?" Mra, Jarre gave her @ glare that made that of the flames coming through the floor pale in comparl- son, and then Mr, Jarr seized bis wife and Gertrude by the arms and hur- ried them to safety, As they were half way down the crowded stairs a hoarse voice over- head was heard to cry, “Gungway! Low bridge!" and instinctively the fleeing freaks»—joined now with the lady friends of the Gentlemen's Sons (for the Gentlemen's Sons had all previously fled)—paused and ducked Again rose the cry overhead, “Gangway! Low bridge!” aa the dense mas of freaks and lady friends of the Gentlemen's Sons and Mr, Jarr and Mrs, Jarr and Gertrude struggled down the stairway to escape the flames above. All crouched again and Mr, Jarr discerned a large round masa hurtling overhead, With a shriek the Armless Lady Who Knit- ted Socks for Soldiers With Her Feet and the Granada Giantess and the [Skeleton Dude, just in front of Mr, Jarr and his group, spread ap: leaving a cleared space on the se ond landing. Here in this cloared space the circular hurtling object struck and rebounded smartly some The Jarr Family Copyright, 10, by The i'r Mublebing Co, (The New York Kveuing World), the nose of the patient is efficacious; the first gust of! © McCardell ADDDODODOOOODODOOHE Earned Her Own Pin Money,” “How to fe Refined Though Rich,” “How whimpered the Pin-Headed Lady.|to Tame a Savage Canary” and “How Meanwhile what of Gertrude's de-|to Build a Bungalow for a Blonde voted admirer, Claude, the gallant | Bride.” fireman, left home in charge—lt be- Suddenly Claude saw the sky light ing his night off—and to protect|up with a red glare. Duty called him, Master Willle Jarr and little Emma| He must go. Jarr sleeping in their little bed? “I'll fireproof the kiddos before I Claude was on the job, He sat by| go!" cried Claude, the gallant fire- the sleeping children and near the; man, and, seizing the large white window of their bedroom reading! pitcher of water from the washstand, with great interest in The Perfect|he doused the children and fled to Lady's Magazine some articles en-| fight the flames! titled “How @ Millionaire's Wife’ When Mr. and Mra, Jarr and Ger- « > The Dower of Beauty By Marie Montaigne wih y ‘Ibe Pree Vublisning Us, (The New Tort Kreniog World), How to Make Up Properly. O general has the habit of mal.ng up become that even the most prudish S woman sometimes acquiesces in a touch of rouge and, maybe, a few touches of other things, Generally speaking, dry rouge injures the skin, just as powder does, but noot powder, if washed off thoroughly at night, does no lasting damage, since the ingredients are pure, A pure li- quid rouge is be and this should applied with a piece of dampened cham- ols skin saturated in Loven Color should never be dabbed on the face, and it cannot be applied in a nat- ural looking manner unless a foundation has been prepared for It. Both color and foundation whould be rubbed {i to the cheeks in a downward direction, pores and prevents | the Introduction of foreign matter, Said @ great expert on beauty: "The stage proves to us that color at tracts, No pale per- won succeeds in life, Color indicates vig- or, Mfe and energy, besides being an traction in itself,’ The capillaries are distorted in most ekin wi this ren- ders a smooth foun- dation all the more Necessary, To achieve this, cleanse and smooth the face with cold cream, overran STUOVING EF ten feet up in the air, and, describ~ ing an arc down the stairs and over the heads of the flecing throng, was rubbed in gently, then use flesh-colored grease paint, which makes the ekin fectly smooth and ca’ ; then apply rouge, rubbing in a deep color in the cheek since this closes the | *! a> ‘Your DINNER. HAS BEEN SERVED, SIR 00.00.00000C0000000000000000000000000000Q00000000000) Mr. Jarr Jams a Century of Action Into Five Brief Minutes of Time O00 0000000000000 0000000000 0000000) trude got home mamma's darlings, wringing wet, were dancing in ter- ror on their drenched bed in their soaking night clothes. And how they did howl! ° the World By Clarence L. Cullen ‘The Preas Py Committe Now York Evesioe ’e know a worian whose favor- W ite authors are Robert Cham- bers and Marie Corelli. Bofore she began to consu this kind of mental pabulum she really cared for her husband, But now she has dis- covered that he has a totally disqual- ifying roll of fat on his neck and that he is “unable to plumb the depths of her nature and soar with her to the heights"-—whatever that or those mean. blishing Co, orld}, Our idea of a Two-Legged Bull ina China Shop is the man who permits himself to get gay and epigrammatic with regard to Christian Science or the suffragette movement in a mixed company of persons with whose 1d on these subjects ho is not familier, Overheard in an Eighth Avenue street car: “I could die listenin’ ¢’ them two pieces—"Tb’ Rosary’ ung th’ nextet from ‘Loosha’" The young woman who said It wore bulgy, run- | over shoes, she was chewing gum and she was toting a dog-eared copy of Ouida’s “Moths” around with her, We know when she w skin on her face isn’t a fit any more and she Is no longer pretty at all, at their enlargement by | gji, —te When you examine carefully the countenances of a merry ing group of chorus girls in a group icture you understand exactly just ow they happened to become chorus girls, The trouble about the self-made man is that he's too everlastingly and tiresomely willing to talk about. his personally-conducted process of manufacture,” lot of atrain on your vocal chords by learning how to say “[ don't know” occasionally. Look into it carefully and you'll often find that the man who says he hasn't taken a vacation In forty-seven years has been holdin, soft snap during all Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland ' Coprrignt, 1018, by The Hrem Pubishing Oo. (The New Yérk Krenung World), 'Y Daughter, hast thou observed the MODESTY of Man? 4 M For, it covereth him as lightly as the garments of a New York debutante, and is as easily seen through as the flattery of a Fifth Avenue milliner, ' Now, in Babylon, there dwelt an Eligible Youth, who called upon & Certain Dameel many times and oft, and stayed exceeding late, Yet he did NOT kiss he ‘ And this was very strange; for it wold have been NO trouble, And after many months he spake unto her, saying: “Verily, verily, I am distraught with a great problem. For, thou art of @ fascinating variety; and when I look upon thee I am strangely affected, Yet, I know not whether or not I love thee!” exp 13 |me n And the damsel smiled sweetly, him, saying: depart. For, it had not once entered all hb! cord therewith. e “Or count the buttons on thy wa: lem for thee! “Or seek out a fortune teller, ani the cards, or upon the new moon. me, then I am ‘IT!’ “Go to, thou Simple One! Thou seven weeks for thy confession. “Verily, verily, every man believ: in a damsel's heart and it shall go on if he preferreth something ELSE. And thereupon the Youth propose Selah. Telephone Etiquette. THOUGHT the telephone was a most informal in- strument," objecteda friend when I spoke of telephone etiquette. “IT knew, of course, that there were cer- tain rules and regulations regarding listening over party wires and scold- ing the operator too emphatically, but I imagined that was about all.” “Etiquette,” said I, “is simply cour- ‘tesy, and naturally one can be as) courteous over the telephone as any- where else, but bow many of us a It certainly is exasperating to be given a wrong number; but to speak in a sharp, angry tone to the person who answers the phone under such circumstances is as unjust as it | polite. You have no grievance agi that person,for the mistake puts him or; her to as much inconvenience as it did you. Instead of rudely requesting him to “Ring of you should say, “I beg your pardon” as if you really meant it, Many people have an exasperating way of asking, “Who is this?” when some one answers their call whose voice they do not recognize. Now, it is really none of their business who it and if it is a stranger the reply not enlighten them much, Under such circumstances, ask for the per- OHAPTED: OXXXIII. © once more I was to have & home. It was almost too good to believe. “At so low a rental per- S haps we can manage to pay off a little of the mortgage each year,” I mused, “And so do me out of my invet ment,” Mr. Flam returned, smiling. “You must not forget that all over the interest is applied on tl purchase price, so that If you pay the stipulated rent you will pay about $125 a year on the mortgage.” I wrote mother, telling her just what I had done, and when I should t them, She replied by telling ot to buy linen, as the people to whom she would rent her house fur- nished their own, so ehe would have enough for @ beginning at least, I had heard that one could buy advertised furniture very cheapl; so 1 copied sever vertisemen from an afternoon paper and looked them up. 4 bought a bedroom suit. It was of oak, and not just what I should have selected, but it was uch good condition, with good springs and mat- tress, that I did not hesitate, Sunday I found several advertise- ments of furniture to be sold, and made a note of those that seemed most promising, and in a good lo- cality, Mr. Carmen had gone South, to re~ main for some time, In fact, I should be gone when he returned, was rather glad to see him go, would lessen my responsibilities, | give me more time to devote to get- | ting my home ready. ‘Nell stopped at the office for me, and we took the subway uptown. "The first place we went was a pri- vate house in Eight urth Street, The furniture was all that bad been said of it and more. “[ wonder what trouble or sorrow those people have experienced to compel them to part with thelr beau- tiful things?” Nell said as we gained the street. “It makes me so sad to see such @ home broken up.” I too had been thinking the same thing and thinking of my own beau- tiful home at the Terrace and how ruthlessly it had been dismantled. But I said nothing, and we were soon so interested in looking through an 1 it di 1k back to For an Eligible Thing hath NO Humility. 4 ffexclusive ui concealing her wrath, and answered “I pray thee, decide quickly! For, when thou hast made up THE mind, all shall be settled. Yea, what MORE is there to be considered?” And the Youth was confounded, and knew not whether to propose or to 1s thoughts that when he should know his OWN sentiments concerning a woman HER sentiments should not sce Then the damsel! offered him a flower, saying: “Pluck the petals therefrom, saying ‘I love her! Deradventure, thou shalt be astonished at the answer. T love her not!’ and, istcoat, and they. may solve thy prob jd she may read thy heart's secret in “Or blindfold thyself and turn about three times, and if thou catchest hast kept me waiting for seven times “But, peradventure, I have changed My Mind while*I waited!! eth that he hath but to light the fire flaming while he looketh about to see “But I say unto thee, even @ grand passion may grow cold and stale and crumble away if it is left TOO long in the refrigerator!” d—and was NOT rejected! ‘ Everyday Perplexities Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Evening World), son you want to speak to, and It ts better also to mention who wants | her. Say, “Please tell Mrs, Jones Mrs. .. . Smith wants to speak to her a mo- ment.” In most large business houses the switch board operator never. answers a call by saying, “Hello,” but repeats the number of her phone to show that no mistake has been ma in the connection. And this litt bit of business efficiency is a ve good rule to follow in private life, as it often saves much time and confusion. In talking to business people be brief as possible, for their time is valuable. Girls who have the telephone habit should be made to realize that it is most embarrassing for employees t be called to the phone during bual: ness hours unless the message very important, and that an em- ployer is not pleased, to say the least, when he sees his clerks wasting his time talking social matters over | the telephone. Don't {mpose upon your friend's good nature by telephoning from house or office without offering to pay for the call. Above all else, when you phone “cut it short.” Per- sonally, I never could see the pleas- ure of gossiping into a hole in the wall, but I_ know it Is a temptation to many. Say what you have to ay and get through with it. Don’t keep the wire occupied with aimless chat- ter whén, perhaps, it is urgently needed for an important message. Chapters from a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), apartment in One Hundred and Third Strect that we forgot to be sad. I bought a brass bed, spring and mattress for $15 and a very good rug for my dining-room for $8. I also took the entire furnityre of her ser- vant's room, almost new, I had yet to find some things for mother’s room, and we succeeded in finding nearly all 1 needed for my sleeping rooms be- fore dinner time. I had bought a good many yards of netting at a bargain, and Nell pro- posed that I measure the windows and come over to her on Saturday to make the curtains, “I will have Gertie over, and the parse of us can accomplish a good eal.” “It makes me feel like a prospective bride,” I laughed, “I do feel like one, too, Nell. That lovely home at the Terrace, my beautiful furniture, my cars, and extravagant clothes seem to have belonged to some one else, I feel as though I were just the girl tha¢ Jack brought to New York from the country, when his of $135 a month looked like untold wealth, and our little cheap apartment the acme ‘Be thankful you feel that way,” Nell sweetly replied. When I went over to the house I found everything all right, but it was 80 cold I did not remain long. I wish I could convey one little bit of what this second preparation for housekeeping meant to me, of the peculiar fqeling that would come over me as I bought eome simple inex- ~ pensive article for the home I wi trying to make. I had saved about $500, but I must not spend it all, We might have sickness, or un ited ye aa which I must be able to meet. Mother wrote that she had rented her house for $20 a month. This I jetermined she should keep for her I knew she would want to turn it into the general fund, but that added to her small income would make her feel entirely inde- pendent, and wo happy. During the week icked up a few more things by watching the papers. Some chairs and tables, din: table and a si buffet. T also foun & woman to clean the house and, keep the fire going until I should ©c9, move over. As fast he cleaned and m; au chases would allow, I put cach room, to rights. (To Be Continued.) as 7 Men ied é