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$8.60] One Year. 401 0ne Month. NOT SO EASY. HAT is a living wage for an unskilled laborer? Plenty of economic experts have answers ready. ‘The former President of Harvard is not one of them. When |» the question wee put to him at tho Industrial Relations hearing, Dr. > Blict recalled « little study he once published of the dwellers on Mt. Desert Island, where for years he has spent his summers. / In the book he mentioned $250 as the approximate annual income ef Mt. Desert families that enjoyed a comfortable sufficiency of food, Glotbes and shelter. Families that spent $400 promptly criticised his © glatement. Families that lived on far lees than $250 criticised him equally. 86 he gave up trying to be a rate-of-living authority. We wonder how many reformers eager to set everything and | averybody right would be as willing to admit that there are limits to What their theories and figuros can do. Organize life as wo may for S others in the mass, there cludes us always the individual with his pe- culiar proneness to make his own experiments, work out his own | problems and live or die by his own conclusions, Shouldn’t a free " country thank its stars that it ie built that way? He is a wise man who regulates only as far as he can reach. incecieentemanaactedpeptenemntinsnses eee ce ee killings in wheat. Biz cent bread is inevitable, say the bakers. Nothing to do but wait? es ALLAY FEAR—LET PASSENGERS KNOW yy . NLARGED emergency exits, fans to force smoke through E splicing chambers to the street and lights that can be depended on whatever elec faile obvious subway safeguards agreed upon by the Chief Engineer of the Public Servico Commission and _) the Interborough experts. Equally important is the plan for a distinct and independent telo- G syitem, with frequent telephones between stations, which will 4 “gure communication between employees and train crews inside subway and the proper authorities outside.” + J any subway tie-up, whatover the cause, the worst panic pro- Gucor, next to darkness, is nervousness born of ignorance as to what de wrong. In case of serious delay the first duty, of those in authority the seft of the trouble should be to telephone the facts to every train, instructing guards to reassure passengers and, if need open all doors and point out the nearest exits to the street. Up to the present the subway management has been accountable few greater perils in case of mishap than its eay-nothingshut-all- e-and-wait policy. vit After all the ideal time to celebrate the opening of a canal ie when it Is open. ———__-4¢ 2 ‘ HEAVY TOLL. The Jarr Family By Roy L. Copynens, 1¥is, oy Tbe “THE WAR IS PUTTIN EVERYTHING ON che But | THE PRICE oF EVERY THING HAS CONE UP. You MUST CriVE_MORE MONEY To RUN “THE HOUSE , JOHN McCardell was the only practical man in applied ©QHHODHGHHHHOQOESDI|OSOSOOSND9OOOOOOOQOOS) Mr. Jarr Becomes the Weakest Lin In an Electrified Human Chain. GDOQHHDOOSDGHOHOQHDEDHOGHHGOOGHOOGOHDOOOS Poet were in. What Every : Woman Think By Tielen Rowland Happy, Though a Woman’ |” “Whee-ow!” whistled the Bachelor softly, “the problem of jal! Why, NO woman would be ‘happy’ if she really thought she was, | wae the philosopher who said, that the reason why the average Hoves @ man with a bad reputation is probably because a woman rather have a grievance than an archangel’? “1 don’t know who he was,” answered the Widow, unconcernedly. I do know that everybody has written reams and reams on ‘How to Be Though Married’ and ‘How to Be Happy, Though Single’ and ‘How te | Happy, Though Old, and ‘though poor’ and ‘though sea-sick’ and ‘tl fat’ and ‘though cursed with all the other afflictions of life’; but nobody: ever thought of telling us how to be happy ‘though a woman.’ Yet, greatest handicap a human being can have in this world is to be GIRL! It means betng born for all the duties, responsibilities and ‘of life, and for none of the privileges, perquisites and pleasures.” ? Penalties Versus Perquisites. ae he H, I don't know!” retorted the Bachelor soothingly. “You have the O privilege and pleasure of marrying—ah—one of US. And that, ‘perquisites’ come easy.” iz “Indeed!” breathed the Widow, with icy sweetness, 4% “You get alimony—and we don't!" persisted the bachelor. ‘ “But we have to get a HUSBAND first!" rejoined the Widow, “thavs | what I mean. All the privileges and pleasures and perquisites we get are through some MAN'S magnanimity. If we aren't wheedling a husband, we're bribing a Pullman porter, or coaxing a waiter, or flattering a bellboy or a hotel clerk. If you don’t believe it just travel about a bit and see the jlone women struggling to get a few of the comforts that are wo men by divine right. Why, a man can get more attention by a frown and a complaint than a woman can get with a smile and a silver dollar, But, pshaw! That's not all what I was thinking about,” and the cloud on the | Widow's brow fled before the dreamy smile that dimpled about her lips, “T | was thinking, since things are as they ARE, what I would wish for, if the good fairies at birth had promised me just ONE gift in all the world. is it that a woman needs to make her perfectly happy?” “But you've got ‘em alll” protested the Bachelor, “beauty, money, 1" declared the Widow, shaking her head solemnly. “ome of the greatest beauties the world has ever known have been py women, from Queen of Scots to Ann Boleyn. iereae never kept a woman from getting fat or old or rheumatic or ropic.” “What is it then? Suffrage, Socialism, optimism? Fame, genius, matey mony, alimony?” hazarded the Bachelor recklessly. The Widow laughed a rippling laugh and shook her head emphatically. “It's the one thing that would make any and all of those things worth she declared with sudden solemnity. “The one thing that keep the beauty’s head from being turned with vanity; that would feminine genius from becoming a freak, a frump, or a blu would save a frivolous woman from thinking herself a ‘ma: feminist from becoming a ‘man-hater’; that from 4 ‘Without it the world profit a woman nothing; and with it she can attain anything on earth she wants, from money to matrimony! it, it’s the one thing tm ali the world that women seem to have least of’—— ; The One Unattainable Gift. . } arene 9 “ SENSE of humor! Hear, hear!” cried the Bachelor triumphantly, ~ A “No,” returned the Widow, with a long drawn sigh, “just COMMON SENSE! The most unccmmon thing in this - Weatherby! The thing that keeps us ‘level’ and delivers us from a tremes, fads, follies, mistakes, eccentricities, pessimism, poses, pettiness ad vanity! * “Amen,” said the Bachelor, with a shrug. “But I think I'4 HATE @ woman who didn’t have any of those things. Fancy a girl without @ fa4, @ folly, a pose, or a bit of vanity—ugh!”" and he shuddered visibly. “There you go!” declared the Widow accusingly. “The eternal meseg= Mne forever sighing for the ‘infernal’ feminine! Always appealing ‘to sar weaker side, and never Crew rd =e Btn higher aspirations! An; r i know that my theory ts right. e happiest woman is the one who is one part spirit, one part flesh and ninety-eight pasts IN “But there isn't any such ani—any such Bachelor, laconically. “No,” acquiesced the Widow, sadly, “so what's the use of a woman trys ing to be happy, anyhow?” woman!” om HE American mania for walking on railroad tracks cost over 50,000 lives in the'ten years from 1900 to 1910; 33,000 killed or injured were under twenty-one years of age—enough, says bulletin of the Railway Business Association, “to make a mile- for every mile around the world.” Pointing to the fact that accidents of this sort for the same in England amounted to only 11.5 per cent. of the total in the States, the Railway Aesociation seeks to lay the blame tp the and unenforced trespase laws in this country, Trespassers. in d are fined $10 for each offense. Trespassing on r: aye in is punishable by fines up to $579 and by jail up to @ month, and imprisonment for two months, Germany the fine can te $25. Canada provides fines as high a» The bulletin forgets to state that in most European countries lway lines provide far better protection against trespassing than the United States. In England tracks are strongly feaced for and where fences end stout hedges take their place. Trains European cities underground or on elevated structures or stop at inals in the suburbs. ‘Train yards are well-nigh impenetrable. 3 Nevertheless it is true that these countries make strict rules and ‘Fegulations to keep the public from taking risks on railroad property, here thirty-five States have no la king on railroad right of way. This nation’s death toll for a dec- is too huge not to provoke comparisons, om ete The State Civil Service Commission that goes out of office to-day must feel a certain nervous apprehension im the region of Its coat-tails. doesn’t try to sing.—Toledo Blade, eee e at think Telegraph. Ju are which specifically prohibit ho rpm erat see cee ous 46 Uv, (hve Nee 4.0 stems Word) Man opens a pocketbook about the size of a hi thie takes ‘out a hundred dollars. "Womne opens a about the sise a pteamer trunk and takes pon ac, conta. my The way some pologise whole Tot easier "ham ‘. ing on ot the other man's feet.- om e e e The Atnese of things was observed when the 1-i- Le — mes © was put in “polite.” e's Ss Letters From the People See xy ae re | ‘ 4 ¥ 8 the taxicab sped away, . leaving Mr. Jarr and Mr. Dinkston plastered against the lamppost by magnetic attraction, Gus (roused by the cries of little Isidore Slavinaky and Master Gussie Bep! urchins of the neighborhood, who were always on hand to furnish extra people for a mob ecene in Harlem), came ing from the side door of his popular cafe, After him came Mr. Blavineky, the local glazier; Mr. Johs W. Rangle, Rafferty, the contractor; Tony, the bootblack; Tony, the ice and coal-man; Tony, the barber; Schmidt, the delicatessen dealer; Bep- ler, the butcher; Muller, the grocer, nd qther representative Harlem bus- inesa men, who had, it seemed, just stepped into Gus's place to see what time it was. ' To see Michael Angelo Dinkston clinging to @ lampport did not con- corn Gua greatly, but to see Mr. Edward Jarr, one of his moat re- spected friends, clinging to the lamp- post with the vagabond poet, shocked Gus “By Golltes!* cried Gus, aghast, “ir my best enemy was to have told me he saw it in the detectigraff, or hol! it from William Chay Boins tf the white slave fillums at the motion pio. tures, never would I have believed ier “ah, cut out the reproaches ang pull us away from this lamppost!” cried Mr, Jarr. “By Gollies!” moaneé Gus. “They think they can’t let go. Never ia my life do I see a thing like this, That'e what comes of going around to cheap boose joints mit a loafer and dilusing them wood alcohol cock- tails!” “Pull us loose fret and discuss the matter afterward,” Mr. Jarr pleaded. “Get a hold of them, boys!” cried Mr. Rafferty, “We've got to pull Are You Looking for a Husband? PRERILY, blessed is she who has a pay envelope, for she may inherit the king*om of \ } them loose!" For of all the crowd Mr, Rafferty, bullder and contractor, The Wee By Mart Coppright, 1916, ty The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World). 66 UNG Mr. Rockeféller,” re- marked the head polisher, ‘appears to be in training for & eerles of speeches at Cooper Union mass meetings.” “Bay not so," said the loundryman, | “No great change has come %ver, young Mr. Rockefeller. But a con-| siderable change has come over bis methods of dealing with the puolic. “Not that Mr. Rockefeller has ever wiifully repelled the good opinion ot | the public. On the contrary, he has} sought to cultivate it ever since he was old enough to appear in front of a crowd. His first effort to show the pee-pul that ho was a human be- ing Was associated with the Rocke- Bible class, ‘This Bible class got together every Sunday or oftener and held a banquet once a year—at which great quantities of water were consumed and the doctrine that honesty is vest peliey aad the theory that uth starting in life with nothing ut determination and a Sunday suit fs. sure to succeed if he tells the truth and saves his money were ex- pounded all over the place. Consid- erable newspaper space was wasted in reciting the doings of the Rocke- felier Bible class, but as far as gat- ting yoons ur Foohetelier anyy ere noise like a e feather bed A the Rockefeller bankroll he attention of Mr. Ivy Lee, who used to be a very good re- porter but quit that business for financial reasons as soon as he began mechanics, And even he did not sus- pect the real cause of the predica- ment Mr. Jarr and the magnetizod k’s’ Wash in Green ” { i : “After all, the job in itself was simple enough. The hard part of it must have been in rersuading young John D, to emerge from his shel! and mingle. Events of tho week just closing show that under the proper stage management young Mr. Kocke- feller te a mingler who could make imself at home at a convention of volunteer firemen, even if he doesn't smoke or drink. Certain members of the Commission on Industrial Re- lations had planned to make Mr. Rockefeller the goat of plutocracy. Bees recueteller went throurh the lon like a goat th fa eiogaa ih Roi rough a tin “Young Mr. Rockefeller has learned his lesson. It ts that so long as an agitator Is kept at a distance he isa vocal menace to a piutocrat, but when he is nhysteally patted on the back too eat out of the plutocrat’s ! tt Has Its Days, ernment, AT do you know about the Shipping Bill? asked tho head polisher. “I don’t know anything about replied the laundry man. “For t! reason I am 4s well qualified to talk about It as most of tue people who are talking about it. ‘herefore I should say that the Shipping Bill is a good thing for the people of this country on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and a bad thing for the peo- ple on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat- urdays. In view of the hostilities in Europe let us call Sundays neutral.” Bee eee SEE," said tne head polisher, ire Commissioner Adam- son has issued a statement tell- Rete New Yor’ Evening to enough money at it to make hind feel that journaliem wns an at- tractive trade, Mr. Lee understands human nature, and he tackled a big when ba aout putting the imily on friendly terms with the peopte. 7 Knock Wood, All! attractions, or the fear of pov- he reason for marriage uch cases the marriage of a| “Vas is los?” asked the German- American portion of the crowd in unison, “Why, Dinkston has on a rubber coat, possibly it is damp, and in lean- ing against the poet he had created an atmospheric pressure and a suc- tion that holds them against it,” Mr. Rafferty explained hurriedly. “Didn't you ever seo boys lift bricks with a disk of wet leather fastened to a string? It's the same prigciple. Now, all take hold and pull! Yo, heave, hot” ‘They all took hold and pulled; but with the surprising results that the whole Iine became magnetized and then were all stuck In a human chain to the lamppost, “Never again, so long as I live, will 1 speak to Edwart Charr, except to insult him. Never, so long as I live, will I do a favor to any hooman person what I know, except to be a pallbearer for him!" cried Gus tn futile rage. ‘There ain't a feller in this bunch I wouldn't be @ pallbearer for mit a gladness in my heart!” “Shut up!" yelled the practical Rafferty. “Now, boys, all together, heave!" They, heaved altogether with a right will and broke the cAst iron lamp post (cracked In some for- mer collision with an ash cart) and it snapped off short. But as the contact parted, a series of long blue sparks spurted from the magnetized Dink- ston; and the escaping gas leaped twenty feet high in a geyser of flame, And while it roared Gus and all hi regular customers were ‘safe in thi cafe, regarding Mr. Jarr—aot Dink- ston, the real cause—with looks of reproof and disdain!” ing how efficient the Fire Department is under his management.” “If history runs true to form,” said ihe laundryman, “we are now due to ave a large, hectic conflagration.” By Sophie Irene Loeb j FRAG D RODS EDODEODODREEETAO SS riage has put upon him. But the woman with an EARNING CAPACITY does not have to take the first man who comes along, unless he te just the man ~ wants. She docs Chapters from a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1015, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Krening World), CHAPTER OXXXVIII, T this time my life inextricably linked with that of Mrs. Carmen, she ‘was so much the friend and benefactor, that I feel I must speak of how pleased sho was with Mrs. Turner, the companton I had sent her. . I felt so grateful that I had been able to find so exactly the type of woman I had had in mind, and it did not need her enthusiastic appre- ciation to assure me I had made no istake. Mrs. Turner will come to me in the mornin Mrs. Carmen said to me after their interview was ovi I thought it might make things eas fer for her if she came before you left, 1d give her an idea of her y os regards the ser- ts you need all your time now for your irs, Mra. Starner came the next morning and I spent an hour with her before going down town. Sho proved very quick, and seemed to unders! what would be required of her almost without my telling. When I showed surprise at her familiarity with all the finer parte of housekeeping, she ied and told me: ba, ow jookea om rad own Mrs. Coolidge, ant was a pee beautiful one. Her lip trembled he said it. ‘Th @ companion for a Settications where it belong: PI spent the time with your smiled when I read that, think’ I had spent the time), “and that will join you there. I'am sen to Mr. Flam, thinking he will lene where to forward it. I am ing a m wandering and we are wn, You know we have almost continually for the yoers, 10 i If you recelve this ‘ard 38 then she added in Lig | though she thought it m! fort me, “your sister." —_ to the wife of the di I remembered how pressed his opinion of my and con- ut the blame for Jack's ed—on me. the same I was delighted to hear from Annette. And instead of out for luncheon I cent the office for a sandwich, and spent the hour writing her. I told her, without dwelling on the disagreeable side of things, just how I hi been living since Jack went away: of how well I of the new friends I hi cluded he had Carmen settled, all ny respor- |i, rf matter of Mi sibility in the house ended. But now that I was free, my thoughts constantly reverted to Jack. Was he Greading hin re-entry into business? Would his natural fear as to how he would be received dwarf his pleasure in his home coming? These were some of tl I kept asking: mysel in as far as Mr, Flam could arrange matters he would be received on the ‘old footing, but as to any of the others 1 was totally in the dark. I only hoped that Jack would have stren: enough not to allow any coldness, any slights, any refusal of old acquaint- ances to meet him, to affect his work, That and his home must be his sal- vation. ‘When I reached the office I found a note from Annette. I was never more surprised. It had been two nce I had heard from her. She| to do ao. years al wrote that her husband | children, how, they had mother until lately, and that Jack was still with her; of Mr. and Carmen, ena their love for Bi all that I thought would please and interest her. Li After I had finished writing her wrote mother a short letter e1 Mother had ved ‘at nette’s nice friendl; i th would let please he: ’, ‘i . wll ie afternoon it was im my oughts that per! fter al while—both of Jack's sisters” eyed keow me being dit fot the reckless, selfish hs tried herately to Ry wen outdo them, when it travagance and wickedness (To Be Concluded.) in the world when it is it; when] her livelihood, but as to the t man meets the eye eget ene it woman