The evening world. Newspaper, January 23, 1915, Page 8

_ Bke EFA world. hag CO ele end Canada Postal Union. gel Ste Ho What Every Woman Thinks By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Oo. (Fhe New York Gvts.ng World’ AS TO “ RADIANCE” —WOMAN’S GREATEST CHARM. " 66 HAT [8 it? inquired the Bachelor, curiously, taking the bit of pink chiffon and lace which the Widow held out to him, and holding it gingerly between his thumb and his forefinger,” “I don't know,” answered the Widow, as she lovingly smoothed the soft ruffles, “But isn't it BEAUTIFUL? 1! ~ can't tell whether it's a sewing bag, a lamp shade or a boudoir cap; but I bought It because it seemed so adorable and useless and mysterious and foolish and expensive and fescinating.” “Just ike a woman!” murmured the Bachelor. ' “Just ike @ MAN, you mean!” retorted the Widow, with a toss of her {| | smal chin. “Well,” agreed the Bachelor, with a chuckle, “we MAY be adorable and fascinating, but we are uscfu “I didn’t mean that,” interrupted the Widow quickly, “I mean that 7” woman may BUY things because they are useless and frivolous and and foolish; but she doesn’t MARRY them, for that reason, as a man dose! Besides,” she went on, without noticing the Bachelor's pretended wines, “tho ‘beautiful’ Is just as useful as the ‘useful,’ In this world; and before I get gray and dull and passec”"— “Before you get—what!” exclaimed the Bachelor in horror. i “Before I get to be useful rather ang{sowers ana explained the Widew, | veseseeeseseseessNO, 19,513 FOIL THE CONSPIRATORS. ‘ANDING the fact that wheat exports for Decem- ber were five times what they were a year ago, the National tion of Retail Grocers is convinced that after the huge erop harvested in 1914 “wheat held at prosent in the United fe of sufficient quantity to make the present high prices un- also “that speculation in wheat is more directly respon- for its high cost than actual supply and demand.” This view ‘thoroughly accorde with the nation’s experience of fall when foodstuffs began to soar under the manipulation of tlemen who saw big money in war prices. Attorney General Greg- | called upon District Attorneys in Chicago and Minneapolis out whether there is any corner or combine operating in the market. The Departments of Commerce and of Agriculture are to produce information relating to wheat and flour exports for past two years. : Exports or no exports, the best hope of safeguarding the cost of broad in this country is to camp on the trail of speculation, Watch out for combinations and conspiracies. The law of supply and de- mand gets knocked endways when speculative greed seta its heart on profits from famine prices. oo First reports concerning the causes of the explosion on the U. & armored cruiser San Diego, which killed four men and fajared nine others, point to grave carelessness on somebody's part. Low water in a botler is an elementary peril which the Dumblest tender of a donkey engine is taught to avoid, t+ = ROUGH NECK LAW. | ey light on the kind of deputy shetiff imported into New i] TORSET wheat PLEASE Take MY SEAT, LADY “I'm going to have all the bunshine an@fowers and frills"—— i “And frivolity and flirtations,” put fh the Bachelor softly. “And music and pictures and perfume and poetry,” Widow, “that I can afford. Yes, and MORE than I can afford!” she added deflantly. “I used to think that all those things were superfiuous and fool- ish; and that money spent for roses and violets and chiffons was wasted, But now I know better; and now, like the poet, I'm going to ‘buy hyacintgs to feed my soull’” i i ‘6 HE ‘poet’ was—er—a poet!" murmured the Bachelor apologetically, “Well, he was right, anyhow,” returned the Widow cheerfully, ‘Those things DO get into the soul, and color it and sweeten it and perfume it and light it up; and lots of people who spend their money o1 champagne and pate-de-fois-gras to feed their bodies would be more fas- * |cinating and lems fat if ‘hey would spend !t on the things that feed the mind. People who lead dull, gray Ii #00n grow to have dull, gray faces HELLO Jana dun-colored personalities. People who give all their time to money- DAUGHTER getting and saving and cooking and eating and studying and ‘improving’ themselves don’t ‘improve’ at all; they just dry up and prove the truth of ; the saying, ‘dust to dust, ashes to ashes.’ But if a woman wants to keep young and beautiful and buoyant she must feed her eyes and her ears and her senses with all things stimulating and beautiful. Just look at Lillian Russell and Maxine Elliott and all the other actresse: I always do,” murmured the Bachelor fneekly, “when I get a chance.” ‘Those women," went on the Widow, ignoring the flippancy, “just SUB- SIST on lights and music and flowers and pretty clothes. They simply radiate these things! And RADIANCE is a woman's greatest charm. It is | what makes some women of sixty more charming than others of sixteen. It |! what makes one turnaround in the street to stare after a pretty woman. [ff] | Yes, and it’s what makes men marry butterflies and chorus giris and yellow- haired manicu: Lhd “What!" corrected tne! A A Square Meal for the Soul. - Jersey to shoot up strikers is found in\The Evening Worlds story from the lips of a leader who recruited twenty-eight of the posse that fired, and fired to kill, upon the un- ' armed crowd at Roosevelt last Tuesday. ' | According to this man, who had the contract, the twenty-eight * were rounded up in three hours from professional “rough necks” in Manhattan, hustled over to New Jersey, told to “think up a nifty New ~ Jersey address,” and sworn in wholesale by a Sheriff who never even ', troubled to ask their names. ‘ After the shooting, while the Prosecuting Attorney was looking » for the deputies who fired the shots, eighteen of the New York guu- © men who might be easily picked out by the strikers as the ones whose bullets went heme, were “combed out of the bunch and smuggled over the water to Staten Island.” ‘That law and authority can be so shamefully travestied in any State of the Union should set every other State to overhauling its police. There can be small doubt that a State constabulary is an Improvement over any system under which silk badges can make @eputy sheriffs out of bruisers and thugs. oo HAWKS. Drawing a handkerchief from her handbag, a Williams- on her way to the bank dropped $260 in bills on a . Ine Sitty a horde of loafers sprang from some- where, pounced upon the scattering greenbacks, fought for with them, until, by the time a policeman ar- 4 be found to return to the weeping owner. worst of it was nothing could be laimed the Bachelor. Onn d ; Cornering the Beauty Market { b ee HEY get so tired of all the oth nds,” explained the Widow, with a sigh—"the ‘noble, high-minded’ kind with a mission; and the ‘dutiful’ kind, who can cook and sew and darn and save the pen- nies; and the ‘intellectual’ kind, who are as dry and dull as the bindings cf the books they live in; and the simple, coloriess kind, who don't know any- thing! And it seems such a pity; because EVERY woman could be ‘radiant’ and fascinating if she would only stop and think and give a little time to it.” i on Lord!" muttered the Bachelor, “I thought they gave ALL their me to it!” “Why should the frivolous ones corral all the beauty?” demanded the ‘Widow, without heeding the interruption. “Why did God put so much beaut Into the world, if it wasn't necessary—flowers and perfume and wong birds and sunsets? They aren't of the slightest to anybody, but Providence seemed to think that they were absolutely necessary. Of course, all good things aren't beautiful, but don’t you think all beautiful things are good?” “I don't know,” mused the Bachelor, critically regarding the Widow's glowing face and perfect elbow through a haze of cigarette smoke, “Are | YOU—for instance?” frill, Mr. Weathers // , Din +e COQDODHOGHOD®IOODPIGHGHHODHHOGDOHHGDDOGODOGOHGHOHHODOODOOGHDOO Mr. Jarr Is Now the Guest of Honor At a Very Exclusive Trouble-Fest' YOO 000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000) heads in approval (and Mrs. Fritz ©® began a calm recital to Fatima as to the other side of the bed in the door- the futility and foolistness of her way to the back of the flat, wrung course, | her hands in exasperation), Mr. Jarr; At her home far across town Mrs. Jarr was receiving a visitor herself. The visitor was no one less than that important personage, Miss Vera Grimm, the militant suffragette and lady reformer, whose specialty was ; the tracking down and capturing of all male persons she suspected of being human vultures—and she sus- pected all male persons of being such. When Miss Grimm heard the reason of Mr, Jarr’s being absent from his home, a steely glitter came i@fo her eye. this man Dinkston Is a human vulture?” she asked. “Ho has won the fond affections of this aimple girl—yes, she may be twenty- seven and welgh four hundred pounds, but she is still a simple girl— and has fled?” “Please, mum,” cried Gertrude, the maid, from her sentry post at the window, “There goes Mr. Dinkston Into Gus's place at the corner now. The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Coppright, 1918, by The trem Wublishing Ov, (The New York Evening World). HEN Mr. Jarr, in what was took @ chair beside the bed, and while practically the custody of; *rits and Mr, Hogan nodded their Frits, arrived at the tene- ment where Frits, the ship- ping glerk, resided he found @ little group of neighbors assembled on the stoop discussing the low moans and wails that could be heard insu- ing from the ground floor flat on the right, whero Frits had his domicile, innumerable children shrieked and disported in the street and on the sidewalk, their childish play being in the nature of riot and assault with sticks and stones. A hush fell upon the group of adults as the worried Fritz and the even more worried Mr. Jarr approached, And Fritz and Mr,! Jarr passed within in silence. “It's @ doctor he's got witb bim,” said a stout woman. “Well, everybody has their tiffs,” replied a sallow wenan with a pall under her shawl, “And it ain't every xentleman goos and fetches a doctor | whon he betts up his wife, Still, Kite “Am I #ha—? Now, what are you doing with that by?" for the Bachelor had picked up the bit of lace and chiffon. “I was just thinking,” he said dreamily, “how exactly like a womatf, Foolish, mysterious, useleas, enigmatic, frivolous*—— ~ “MR, Weatherby!" “But absolutely NECESSARY! Yes," he concluded with a sigh, “women, poetry, love and flirtation—they are just the ‘frills’ a Ufe-- but we can't do without ‘em!” Senaoe eee is! The Week’s Wash By Martin Green Copyright, 1918, by The Frew Publishing Oo, (The Now York Krening World). a Ps tell me,” sald the: reached by sympathetic and kindly head polisher, “if I am peels ey know that un ating conditions the fact of right in assuming that Creamined charity. for assistance there Is such & thing ®8 places them at once In the position of ‘social vision’? the defendant in a criminal action. “Apparently there is," replied the The organized charity folk remind laundry man, “When Ida Tarbell fin- ished her testimony before the Com- mission on Industrial Reluuons the our day, one of the auuaience (a woman who ts engaged in uplift ragged garment. ‘Hen in this big anybody who drops a quarter has of having it handed back to him. In the case of Williamsburg girl, between snatching the money from her ft as it fell at her feet, where was the moral To see it was to take it. Birds of prey are every- swoop down on anything of valuo that gots owner. Yet there are people who complain (hat city dwellers button tight and look frigid! oo FORT LEE FERRY FARES. OWER fares on the Fort Lee Ferry are in sight. Tho fight Chapters from a Woman's Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 118, by The t'rew Hubushing Oo, (The New York Krenug World), CHAPTER OXXXV. ily came on from High Falls, I had HAD spent about two hun- 12MM ago told her of my desire to Neve dred dollars, exclusive of until a Meee pele for & day oF two the first month's reat, The cleaning woman, small pur- ; chases at the five-and-ten-cent store and the curtains had swelled it to about $215, The gas company had| put in a nice stove at a rental of $8; @ year, T was nearly finished with { until @ little of his strangeness ant Any embarrassment he might feel had * worn off, She had th rol; Dathized with'and approved the aoa, knew it was in her © asked me to leave Emelie, Sunday Mrs. Carmen sent me over, her car, and Waiter, the chauffeur, was to call for me at 6 o'clock, | one of the old-time detective. When you reported to the police that your; house had been robbed and the old- time detective came around to seo you about it, he Immediately sought to establish that you had not been work) was heard to say that Miss robbed at all. Tarbell was entirely without ‘social; “Organized charity carries an over- vision.’ ‘head charge of about 75 per cent. for ‘Social vision’ ts a development of | distribution of the funda It collects. organized charity, It ts the organized | This money goes for office rent, sup- charity way of looking at thihgs—t Piles, postage and salaries, My ‘social statistical, cafd-index way of staing | vision’ ig blurred. but tt ae ine taking that any ot ee > a led by The Evening World, with the aid of the “sixteen fight ing Mayors” and the Improvement Association of Eastern Bergen County, has won point after point. ‘ When the Bergen County Freeholders, upheld by a decision of ‘the United States Supreme Court, passed a revolution last June di- recting « reduction of ferry fares, the ferry owners obtained an in- Junction restraining the Freeholders from carrying out the order, Recent conferences between the Freeholders and the Public Service Corpor: (which runs pretty much everything in New Jersey, in- Guding the Fort Lee Ferry) have been leading to a compromise, Me under the shawt, was perfeckly sober and mebbe his! wife called him out of his name, That's one thing @ gentioman won't stand for sober—being called out of his “But it ain't his wife's Voice, and, anyway, he's afeered of his wi marked the stout woman it's his sister. “I think |should co She's the fat lady vive iting them, and very refined.” hysterics, that's what it ta, I think,” sald the lady with the pall “Maybe she wants up the condition of the poor, By a! krowing system of investigation and | report, organisa vharity has come to the stage w the professional charity worker assumes that every Person who becomes dependent ts pri- tuartly at fault. “This development hi made a jchange in charity, ‘The ge un- ‘couth citizen thinks that charity jst in finding people who ole and pulling them out, vision’ of the professionals m that only a percentage a hty small one—of those in a | uld be pulled out. The rest should be pushed further in, of the capt penses would oO be baal ar seems to be some senti- ment in favor of bringing Billy Sunday, the evangelist, here for a series of performances,” re- marked the head polisher, “Well,” replied the laundry man, “what's the objection? If Sunday is really a factor for good New York % Grimm opened the smail black 7 she always carried and took out a pair of shining handcuffs. dear girl,” sho sald to Gertrude, sweetly, “you run down and bring him here. Tell him Mr, Jarr wants him—he won’ Mrs, Jarr hesitated to assent to these militant measures, But Miss Grimm reminded her that while Fatima might weigh four hundred pounds she was still their sister, And Gertrude, eager to aid, hurried on her way to lure Dinkston to his doom. “My | buying and the house looked very{ homelike and nice. The only extravagance I had al- lowed myself were some ferns for! mother’s room and a pretty centre- |; ce for the dining room table. But, they were #o pretty and ga the rooms such an air of comfort that I really rejoiced over my extravagance, knowing that I woyld economize on Then I always brought magazines to mako it next day 1 took several late maga- zines that I had only partly finished |Atter working around until 1 tele dt I gut down and tried to finish a siory 4 had commenced In one of the magazines, but it way imposible to keep elther eyes or thoughts on what L was reading, They constantly wandered—my 8 around the pretty, homelike room, m:; to Jack and the rest of my family, ould Jack be pleased eurprise 1 had planned forshue? Would the home | had taken sagh pleasure in preparing be to uking? Would mother be with us? Were some of the tons 1 asked myself, : Finally | rose and, drawing to go to the war in Germany anu! Nurse the wounded soldiers and they | Y 0 A * |really deserving, With all thoir in- won’ . take her because sho is a fat vestigating and reporting the eelf- lady. | constituted disbursers of public ebar- Meanwhile Mr. Jarr and Fritz had! ity have falled to find a way to Teach ithe great mass of unfortunates who Haag snetiget to the front room BY ar, too proud to submit to the | Mr. as logan, the boarder, For, anatysis of the professional charity | Fritz'’s wife could get only as far as h "On this account organized charity reaches only scattered cases of the will treat him kindly. If he ts, as some claim, a fakir, New York wir get his number, just as it got the number of old Dr, Dowie and laughed him out of town, “That Sunday's slang and profanity and gymnastics are parts of a pose is shown by the speech he made to the society people of Philadelphia, In talking to them he was quiet, norma: reading over to the house and acat-|cloak closely around me, [ tered them around in the rooms. It tour of the houso, first fixing the \ seemed to make all the difference in | furnace for the night. I the world. That such little things Soe, position of @ chair in one could mean so much was only one ofja table In another, unt! the things I had learned. came to OUR room—., ke ‘Mrs Carmen, who had returned,|mine, I lighted only the deak ent ny fecling about having which cast a soft glow ove knowing my had insist-| thing, and sat by the window te 3 room look more livable. “| Counsel for the Publit Service Corporation is now said to admit that Fegular patrons of the ferry are entitled to lower rates. ferriage at this point means much to Harlem merchants. ' Jt means much to Eastern New Jersey in further opening up the ) attractive country across the river. Next spring should find both ghores in full enjoyment of the benefits assured. bahar Me |the. doorway to the back parlor; housands and thousands of de, jana garnest snd used glean, straight managers trade ball players for bird ° . § itive men and women are | language. @ question, though, , Hits From Sharp Wits. |Fetima tay sobbing ia the bea | erst at ive meen bied dogs" declared the | xeling along in misery who could; he could attract 50,000 or 60,000 people | Fotima lay sobbing lo the bed Yo puLon thelr feet and made happy 'a say if be abandoned his comedy laundry man, “that 1 ‘wouldn't trade really great are) the world, but it requires hard work : for a whole nine a! uh 1d Coo to get them—Toledo Blade. oe Mr and contented tf could be stuff and flip flops. If Sunday comes think of |, Seme men are knowh by the thingy man can always Whe ; B Nise ty Toe Breas Pad Pliage tna oxbere Beat a er le ey ae at n Some One Else Wants It west sooner hav she donned this (han Aire, og har gan Mar Tae hispered to her saleswoman that oop pea taksprs ahrg she"would take that garment, and of which two women shop". course there was nothing else to do figured. The incident showed | but to give it to her, After Mrs. A. @ womaniah ‘trait, the avoid- young woman who ted ance of which merits cultivation, Gar non @ to Mra. B. apologeti- Mra, A, was looking at a dressing pay a gown, and had tried on ton or twalve & common, everyday occurrence. garments, which were how thrown As 800N as some woman sees that {ete achair, Mrs, 4, stood by, wait: |! another is interested in a thing it for a salesludy to show her he Fy tytn ry re here New York will give him the once over and pronounce a fair s A 66] SEE,” said the hoad polisher, “that in the baseball suit out in inset | ing for Walter, allows hi ‘ n I ex- , allowing my thot Chicago it was charged that ‘ing the care | to go wandering into the past, oo much for her,!_ As I motored back tou Manhattan she told me: |I thought that not many people shall be very happy with her, afflicted as was Mrs. Carmen would Susan, I will play dolls and pretend!take so much thought for the she is my very own,” showing how she Pleasures and troubles of others, She longed for children. Then ‘ou are; had been #0 godd to me. The won- hatiey, aren't you, Susan?” | dertul way in which she had “It I talked all night I couldn't tell! me to be patient and taught me py!” I declared, ambe grateful for my blessings. I ecarcely realized I had anyt! be grateful for until I knew net acy The next day before | left for the! sweet patience, her absolute su a long talk ancnt house- | of God's goodness, her chee! keeping affairs, and then I turned helping me to be brave, just ver the keys to her, promising to find most needed to bear my bus her a companion and helper before I smilingly, I should always have lott tow om ag a model, although d I prom! to leave Emelie with her ever being like hei until the remainder of my little fam- €To Be Continued.) we we By Sophie irene Loeb so happy sume of Lae remaining dressing gowns “I know, Which were left in stock, There waa @ particular one which Mrs. B. had admire while Mrs, A, was trying it on, and she asked ber saleswomah if ae might try on thus one, 48 it Was hanging over the cbmir, As soon as Mrs, A. gaw that Mra, i, wanted to try on this particular gar. ment, she insisted thi be left J prnere it was, as she was “consider- 1, waited pati Tae ited patiently for her to Eats ota ee gee: aor People who hunt trouble sever kil) it; they cateb it alive and domesti- cate it, ous Wauieu IL more than any viner,” | Why is it that Unis womanly trait cannot be eliminated? It seems the perversity of human nature to want that which others admire. This in- cident is & common one, and there are many examples every minute of the day. Such women are only fol- They have no self. nee or A. thing appears worth cee tell untrutha becauso imoral courage to refuse to juestions which should not be asked. ‘Albany vouraal. Whea a feels like kicking him- ealt be doesn’t want anybody else to Some they lac! answer ip certainly a narr ‘ow principle|s. many things to choose eu ecas ia faces