The evening world. Newspaper, January 22, 1915, Page 20

|“ erete “whoee profi taben at the public expense hare amovnted to, eles ne ty as Be sont PERE Fes SPOT how. _ Panett hala es 2 Pie Hveniae! For asfand tad te, Senioset ‘Postel Union ate end Canada p..f DISCRIMINATE AGAINST NEW YORKERS? UST why New York City hotels are entitled to charge ten cents! for « local telephone call, the public tate for which is five, is| something thousands of New Yorkers would like to know. Wow that the up-State Publie Service Commissioners have started to| prote this form of telephone extortion they should go to the bottom. | Contracts which the New York Telephone Company makes with | hotels in Albany, Utica, Syracuse and Buffalo specifically provide thet | “the hotel must charge regular public rates to ite patrons. In the corepany’s contracts with hotels in this city such clause is conspicu- samaly absent. Why? ieee Tae ti ner as yd oasten banent | what its hotel subscribere charge the public, or do both hotel and com- any profit by the double toll exected from the private patron? Ler ig] services under the protection of hotels are notoriously | @en. The coat room-hold-up is one of the worst. Taxicab gratt, which | netted the hotale hundreds of thousands of dllare annually for street privileges they had no right to sell, wes thoroughly exposed end finally abelished through the efforte of The Evening World. < It fe time to look into the ten-cent telephone charge in New York hotels, What is the rake-off, and who gets it? g oo A NEW LINE ON THE GUNMEN. UNMEN who have been attending uplift dances given in the public echools chased a young man out of three social gather- ings on es many successive nights this week because he dancod too often with a pretty girl who “made a hit with the gang.” They ended, it is said, by sending eight or ten bullets after him as he flud down the street. It will surprise mest people to learn that gunmen can get into prttlic school dances. ‘There is still more surprise in the fact that police apparently had to be told about it. We thought Commis Woods and his men ticketed the gangsters end compiled s com- _ plete directory of their haunts and habite. If roughs, hoodlums and ‘dbtigs ‘are spending their evenings at dating parties in the echools it makes it » little dangerous for the young people, but what « help tor the police! Sy AN EXAMPLE FOR A NEIGHBOR. JERSEY seems to have unearthed a pretty fair highways seandal for a omall State, Legislative investigators heve . found “combinations of favored contractors who divide things Detween them at their own prices,” also “palpably dishonest conspiracy” between county a1 and certain companies supplying con- | Ri ‘Highway gratt is nothing now to New York. But this State con-| gratulates itself upon being several points shead-of New Jersey in getting rid of it. Already several gentlemen who took good dollars | for fake roads are in jail and others ere on the way there. The High- ways Department is under strict scrutiny, and it is eafe to say taxpayers {iq this State never stood a better chance of getting the value of their » meney in honest rosdbuilding. New Jersey hes New York's expe- rience te show her the way. . —_——— ++ . HILE committees consume luncheons and dianers, and theo- # police captain works out a practical little plan which has | ledges himself to keep their hallways and sidewalks cleap. Each of - the seven sen thus far employed collects a dime every seven days from each of about one hundred employers, The scheme can readily be extended to other parts of the city, the gam can help it mage the Street Cleaning Department will lend it ‘Ahearty co-operation, and merchants and shopkeepers are already - it. oe all, the shortest way with the unemployed is to show somo- how he can-get profitable work out of them. ii’ Hits From Sharp Wits. “Cussing may not improve one's eos, to have Cr vlgha fan 04 ox-Prosidant ‘Tai says, but ‘golf | Columbia a an, architect, pe bs i . e that his troubles are about ‘There are sides to every ques- over it alae, ena ‘@ wrong side inighty tow’ pleam * loolute Banner. ocean area Many a self-made man has spolled| yy, 1" the Job by talking about tt cyutto inal dona' they are demo- the; always ready to persons who imagine the: who asks them up to Ao tee Caren ae |e with them we i uve | & whole lot of self-made men ought! Knoxville Journal ‘and Bink fetes — April 15. |i# the samo in both cane "J Te We Bales of The Breton Wert: | Aoceleration is the same, mane oe On wat date did Kester, Wunday | Must be the same. Hoth | fall tm 10067 Not Yet, but Soon = .x2=bzh. The Jarr Family By Roy L., McCardell Copyright, 1918, ty The Prose Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), mustn't be sore at me,| which was pencilled: Mr. Jarr,” mumbled Frits, the shipping clerk, as followed that gentleman out into the street from his domicile, while Mrs. ’ Jarr and Gertrude, the light running RIGHT TO THE POINT. domestic, watched them from the A front windows. ‘on me. tize about the unemployed over the cof because me wife made m " rire bs kage “And I'm going along with you be- cause my wife makes me," growled “What have I got to do bah att hi With tue bees and honey. They smooth life's shocks, they mend But how they spend our money. “My Leno threw it in my face, be- cause she thought I told Dinkston had the hives and wouldn't nvend my I gave her money for a new dress,” added Gus, ruefully. il, I've done my best to find him,” said Mr. Jarr. “But, Mr. Jarr," pleaded, Frits, “tf you only knew bow things was wt ‘There's me sister in the folding bed in the back parlor beller- ing about that guy Dinkston, and, the bed being down, we can't get ‘trom the front of the flat to the back without hopping across the foot of the bed. And my wife and Fatima they don’t get along well, anyhow. And 1 only get panned by all hands. You know how it is with families and your relations? Your wife never likes So Wags the World By Clarence L, Cullen Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Krening World), HEN a man has the habit of saying pretty often: “Oh, my wife runs all that part of it,” you may justly deduce that she rune also—and all the rest of the ‘already given seven men jobs at $10 per week, aus dare ‘The captain hes perwueded business men and property o1 with other people's love affairs? Why Pm precinct to pay ten cents each and ever: ae t HOTS ito ould 1 be out on the trall of trouble ad ¥ ‘0 # man who just because Fatima, your fat sister, hes @ morbid affection for Dinkston, the poet, and has taken to her un- folded folding bed and won't get up till she bears news of him? knows Dinkston te a bum, don’t she?” “Bure,” replied Frits. old Malach! Hogan, who has boarded with us for ten years. He's got a good job as night watchman at the brewery near our house, has got money in the savings bank, owns lote—he's crasy about her, romance and otherwise Fatima might die of unrequited affegtion for the recreant Dinkston, called down: you.” dulldi e and this Dinkman oh, very well—is soul mates and that @ woman's love can reform bi that's the way with paulrer women, | come nearly getting thrown oe akbee 4 i he croupise cee fhe conclusion |Sown by my Sadie, because I was & forward to| steady guy. Only I started to bit the res.—Nashville|poose (when she trun me down for Gargan, the truck driver, because he was a rummy), ebe would have never ‘are | married m ‘They went into Gus's place on the ogner by the side door, and Gus re- Bome to be superior would be {i Blade. they were asked to giv their belief.—Albany Py (fh ieineiae many be bay Pky Without | with acorn, ‘#9 @ trade I don't cater to,” In my liquor store comes only # firet class trade of bual- That fellow Dinkston swung mo for nearly four dollars when I first knew him because I thought he was a poultry dealer, which is a regular business, And thén 1 find out he is a gedichter. know what @ gedichter iw 1m feller who comes in and writes pe would have a lot of fun not buying gerne Manufactured by those rns, get herself described in the newa- papers “beautiful” merely by com- Mmitting sensational divorce, The man who permits his wife to select his neckties, and wears them, someness is to sit around a table, achieves our idea of the Height of yourself drinking mineral water while all the rest of the bunch are dredg- ing into highballs, and be compelled to listen to the woozy-woozy chatter thelr inquiries for Dinkston that they get out of thelr A good many of us go to smash on the rock of self-analysis; for by that ‘voces we find we amount to so lit- tle that we not only keep up the old hot pace, but accelerate it, was there 4 woman who, instead o| looking grouchy, was actually plea: when her husband brought home, without warning, a man friend for dinner, But, o' oy es she was too good to last. finally ran away with onp of those dinner guests that her hWeband, overplaying a good thing, brought hon declared, “Bo sure you're right and then go " is another of the foolish for in nine cases out of ten you can't find out whether you're right until after you've gone ahead, fess One of the most miserable iis: tlons we know of is to easily-befooled mother God MY daughter doesn’ that, and to know that the mother % utterly wrong in that respect. The Siberian lead mines, wi tere agreeable; Juat about ae lief work in ‘mera an to be one 0 of f chaps who Po another for alienation of he “wite's affections. i ouy one could Ane Ay} Here is @ man who won't refuse ‘To make or mond your boots or shoes. His work is good, his prices just, But times ts hard, he cannot trust. “I never knowed it was poetry and id if that ‘They had arrived at the doorstep of Mr. Jarr’s flat at this point and Frits, making ‘a megaphone of his hands, bellowed up to Mrs. Jarr at the front window: “Can't Mr. Jarr come to my house and coax me sister to get up before she commits suicide?” And Mrs. Jarr, because it was a “Certainly Mr, Jarr will go with And once more Mr. Jarr crossed The homieliest woman on earth can “Our idea of the Height of Grue- Just once tn the world’s history We never could understand why we or anybody else, after digging up $3.85 or some such matter for a round of drinks « hotel bar, should ful when the free lunch waiter fan is us @ plate of lunch that sets oe jouse back maybe a cent and « “eo etre ss een come f } By Maurice Keiten | | HOOK-NOSED little man in a huge wig and high heels ones ‘ A at the royal palace of Versailles a wonderful “Hall of ‘at last fulfilled. {Sorat Pledge { ated in its delivery by the rumble of slege gune—the NEREREONENEPRENENEONONONE SOOO, Mr. Jarr Journeys to the Far Land of “In-Bad-on-Account-of-Others. PIRI RR RRA RD RR RIOD IAM RIOR DRI OMI IR IRM EARN RAAT your people unless tuey've got money, and when they've got money they don't like your wife. And so my wife, Badie, says to me I was to bring you back if I couldn't find this Dinkman— Dinkston—and if you wouldn't come I w to tell you I'd tell your wife somepin about how you behaved at the ball of the Human Uniques to get you in bad at home, didn’t do any good Sadie, my wife, {s going to pour kerosene over me alster aye set a match”— he RubiconJo the land of “In-Bad-on- Account-of Others.” COR nnn Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward, ‘Come 8 WE es, ane AY, all you've got to do to get the idea that you're a million-dollar beauty painlessly extracted from your thought storuge, is to go see yourself on the film and listen to what the folks around have got to say. You kaow movie audiences are getting real spoiled. They'd like all the actresses to have a Lillian Russell facade on a Venus de Milo founda- tion; the auperabundant thatching of 4 Seven Sutherland Sister and the finesse of a young Bernhardt! And unless the leading men have | got flaming pools for eyes, ivory/ arches for brows, twin passion flowers for Ups and giant oaks they say the picture's punk. All for I was going to say ant the Mm, oiee day, when | was shop into a movie theatre 3 see yee a two reeler we had completed days before, Why, when dressed for the part, in the mito even the doorkeeper, who's blind one eye and says the other's nue mittent, assured me I was a vision. And when I saw myself on the Riarks of the lady sitting directly be- in't ‘it mar ber companion asked some actin’ abillt; mald aunt in Baltimore—you know the one who used to al maple syrup on ber ‘That's what you calla blow! Whi But the unkindest cut of all the low trick they put over on me a All due to jealousy, was a great iy Sala brsapty nee insertion, eng 5 yds. of edging to make as jilustrated ds, Adelie aS Raab ili Fifty Dates You Should Remembe By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1915, by The Pree Pubtisuing Co, (The New York Ereaing World). No, 19—JAN. 18, 1671—Present German Bmpire He was Louis XIV., King of France, and he erected Mirrors in honor of France’s triumphe—obiefly over @ Two hundred years later « throng of German kings, princes and. Gathered in that same Hall of Mirrors at Vereailles to celebrate @ triumph over France. It was @ strange scene and one of the most impressive in all upreme Ortal foes was in, itself startling. Also, the S were there made were ha'¢ drowned in the raucous thunder of slege For German batteries were at thet moment buey hammering the city of Paris into helplessness. At Versailles, near suburb of the French capital, « sewly prociatiie? . France had been beaten in practically every battle. Napoleon III., had been captured, her strongest armies had \her strongest fortresses had fallen. And now the Germans were Paris. The city was holding out gallantly, but ite doom was Wily Bismarck chose the “psyc! |p to put his life ambition trl effect. King Beooomes he had dreamed of a United Germany, with an Emperor. beloved master, William I. at its head. And the was ripe. The German States were, for the close-knit together fy a mutual interest and by: victories. They had fought and conquered for Prussia and for Presta’ King. William was their hero. . empire and to make the Federation's President an Emperor. 1870, the Reichstag voted favorably on the latter motion. And on Jan. 18, 1871, William I, King of Prussia, was proclaimed ‘Su- peror of United Germany. ‘William had his military headquarters at Versailles. And there, ffi Hall of Mirrors, the “restoration of the Imperial dynasty” was announced. William, formerly King of Pruesia and President of the German Federation, found himself Emperor of a nation made up of te » five separate States. These included four kingdoms, eighteen grand duchies and three “free cities." They ranged from Prussia, with 34,000,000 inhad- tants, down to Schaumburg-Lippe, with 45,000. Bismarck’s ambition wis ] In his speech during the proclamation ceremodies! f on Jan, 18—a speech written by Bismarck and punctu- ef “Peace.” new-made Emperor pledged himself and his nation: iT eamanaamaanatl “To aid at all times the Empire's growth; not: by the conquests of the sward, but by the good gifte of peace in national Prosperity, Freedom and Cujture!” Thus, “culture,” as a German slogan, did not originate with the present Kaiser, but with his grandfather, the white-bearded warrior-monarch who reared a mighty empire out of the ashes of France's fall. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers HE girl who “marries a man to teen and have gone to the theatre and reform him” ie attempting an |‘? boys. almost impossible task. There is no rule so true that it has not exceptions and perhaps occasion- ally a bridegroom is “reformed” by these liberties and a _ oe 99) bis bride. But the chance is too long) number of my friends. Am I right to take with safety. In the first place,| or not?” & man whose moral fibre is so weak| ' Most assuredly you are right, and that he asks a woman to do for him| the maintenance of your Son ‘bee he cannot do for himself is hard-| never lose you any frien ‘orth marrying. In the second | having. Bia » there is much truth in the sage i old maxim that “you don’t run after) “J, M.” writes am twenty-Hine @ street car when you've caught it"—| and engaged to a woman eleven years my junior, Is the difference in .| 80 great that it will prevent ue fi marriage being happy after we marry?” "* compltsh more than “reformation”| Not necessarily. It is alwaye after, added risk, but there are many a he one’ you contemplate turned out happily. ERE ls a” new made ip ceas style tucked..te - form its own oo The skirt’ feareg*e- comingly and fully, and the accentuate It Includes the long sleeves, and result ‘he Mala one. tucks always lingerie fal the lawns, At five psc omy | cotton ry known way; thie gown also be pretty for thé thin atlke treated in style. In tion flowered trimmed with sertion and ‘ heth 2 simple one ee very dainty charming in For the medi will be needed 7; ‘ yds. of material’ a Pattern No. 8548, Princess Gown, 34 to 42 bust. = W1d® 6 1-8 Th of 1 yds. 44, with 9 js cut in sizes from 34 to 47 in, bust measure. tunic arried rh haudied ‘re: & pea volver to do the heavy work, Mr. Czar was to be the bull's-eye. Gee, the bysinene wee id all of a Faudden with terror and pols to the punch/§ Thee font! I'd be a Not long ge ‘we heard an “openin’ wine” man his wife severely tor Staking e driver of the coal ‘wagon to two bits for putting in the ton of coal. ee Call at ‘THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANTON FAS “ BUREAU, Donald Bullding, 100 West Thirty-second street (oppor site Gimbel Bros.) corner Sixth avenue and Thirty-second ys New York, or sent by mall on receipt of ten conte tm opie stamps for each patiorn ordered. bow! to ease my y parched tarest, and | } Patterns, LMPORTANT—Write your address plainly and always sine wanted. 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