The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1915, Page 12

Supsay. by ee Pew Fubsisning * ie Nos. 63 te s+. .NO, 10,698 OUR CUSTOMERS TO THE SOUTH. E ARE weed to being told in a general way that United States manufacturers and producers fail to make the most of big trade opportunities in South America. The reasons ) why have rarely been more clearly and readably eet forth than ino book on “South and Central American Trade Conditions of To- yi” by A. Hyatt Verrill. for instance, is « practical hint to American ¢hippera who Hu amid “the cooling caresses of a few inl “a close, steaming hot warehouse, incrustation of dried salt water,” until « mule them over the mountains through days of in to their final destination. many a South American customer. Moreover, de- Mr. Verrill, United States agents must learn to fraternize— fashion—before they do business, and must be willing to con- form to the long credit system if they hope to win, the confidence am “Yet, despite our inadaptability and other shortcomings, we seem 4 o have captured » surprising amount of Central and South American 4 Mr, Verrill’s tables show that with Nicaragua, for example, in imports and exports the United States does nearly three times ) h business as any European country. In trade with Venesuela We stand an easy first. Guatemala takes from us $5,530,000 worth imports, Germany sends her only $2,000,000. We furnish Ecua- with 22 por cont. of her imports and take 25°por cent. of her To Honduras we send goods velued at five times the prod- of Groat Britain or Germany. ' We may have much to'learn about the best ways of approaching Central and South American merchant. But even before we have wo sell him some pretty good bills. the 4 One thing {8 sure. We shall pay more for bread first _ Winding out why will be left to our leisure. . —_—_———— _TO THANK THE EVENING WORLD. T A MASS MEETING held yesterday in Public School No..4, the east side voiced its appreciation of The Evening World's campsign for penny lunches in the public schools, Superin- of the East Side Protective Association, which ar- he mosting, declared: yt urged that to safeguard the beslth and happiness of the city’s chil- worth every dollar that can be raised for the purpose. The f plan is now thoroughly understood. It is not ‘ eervice where it will accomplish untold good. : Aldermen has approved Alderman Ourran’s resolu- @ 696,500 iesue of revenue bonds to meet the expense f cate the penny lunch to more schools. Action on the part of ie Beard of Estimate this week should be equally prompt! and bik <4 ‘The champion snow remover is still Jupiter Pluvius. No- body's challenging. Hits From Sharp Wits. you ever notice how much air- | through the foolish A Tc ttempnie! etriving that envy ° . @ mean things sald about men en give leas trouble than Y men know of them- Journal and Tri- ee 6 You can't judge a stranger’ ture by his extremely agreeable man: ner, for euch is the confidence m: largest asset. bany Journal. . Anothe y to be of ominent ser- yice to the community is to destroy Abt beore | » sient pat, oft rf nothing ructive in Ite etead.—Indi, lis Star, ih eee If you want business to pick uj & little boosting yourself, — Macon a euraph. and B start from the same point and travel in the san Ginection, around together How many miles will each have travelled and how many times will each have been around the square? 1 submit the following solution: A and B will be the first time al FZe |} the local glasier; The By Roy L. Coprright, 1018, by The |'rem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ular cafe on the corner such representatives he Harlem Busingss Asacciation as were present eyed Mr. Jarr and the poet, Dinkston, askance. Gus not only eyed them askance, but be toyed with the night stick, generally known as “the argument settler,” but there was no argument to eettle, Besides,°Gus had rather vague ideas as to whether a night stick, retired from the ‘police forée by being wrested from its original owner yeare ago, would conduct electricity or not. . Mr. John W. Rangle, Mr. Slavinsky, Mr. Bepler, the butcher; Mr. Muller, the grocer, and the various Tonys, representing the local fruit, barbering, ice and coal and beot polishing trades and professions, stood grouped aloof from Mr. Jarr and Mr. Dinkston at the other end of the bar, while Gus glanced at them askance from & south-southeast posl- tion by the loebox, and Elmer hung Giscrestly still further aloof by the side entrance. “We stand in splendid dsolation!” cried Mr, Dinkston, throwing open the rubber coat he was wearing and slap- ping himeclf smartly on the breast, whereat the sparks flew from his electrically surcharged person in a blinding shower and all present ducked and dodged. My voltage ls high,” remarked Mr, Dinkaton, “but my amperage ts not #0 heavy.” e “Take him out of my liquor store!” cried Gus, excitedly, “Bummer what he isa, be should be at the Ginks’ Hote) mit the other bohobers! Iss my place of business a ten-cent dime mu- him out! Ri mit 4! “For a thousand dollare I would not go near him; no, not for five dollara!” javineky, fervently. the builder, rybody what H time he comes in, | does Rat the bum? No! Do around (what knows Gu indies only the best wins nd cigars, give him a call) ever come and spit out fire? No! But a bummer he doesn’t care what he dots to give a. stand ia bad Rk ts te Jarr Family McCardell But Mr, Jarr, having the elvctrified Dinkston on his hands, did not know where to take him. Having gone #0 far with Dinkston he felt somewhat responsible for the human electrical display. The only place he knew to go, with Dinkgton was home, and he was afraid the spark-emitting poet might frighten the children, Meanwhile an idea crossed the Doet’s mind that caused him to lean over and whisper into Mr. Jarr’s ear, But before he could lean far a long blue spark shot across the space be- tween his lips and the ft his pro- tector and snapped like a whip lash. ‘Then Dinkston made signs, sparking Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Covrright, 101, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Kvening World), OVE is the wine that makes ‘the world go round, marriage the By M aurice Ketten Ci You Sey ? UTHINEE Phas DISGUSTING Mr. Jarr Is Forced to Stand Sponsor for a Human Electrical Exhibition. ©OOOQHDHHDOHOODDHHHOOHOODOHOOSS: merrily all the while, and the signs were to the effect that Mr. Jarr should purchase liquid refreshment and then they would go. Gus, keeping at a safe distance, at- tended to them at arm's length. Then as he pulled oyt the drawer of thé cash register to make change Dink- ston threw open his rubber coat and pushed himself flat against the bar rail, Immediately a shower of coins flew out of the open cash register and, spattering Mr. Pinkston from waist to brow, stuck with magnetic attrac- tion hard and fast. But, alas! Dinkston had forgotten that silver cannot be magnetized and cannot be electrically attracted, Hows ever, he was freckled with $1.97 in “water wagon” on which we swear “Never again!” The difference between courtship and matrimony is just four dollars and ninety cents, or the difference between the price of a taxi and the price of a street car—on theatre nights, ‘The girl who feeds a man with chafing dish mixtures may keep him calling, but the girl who feeds bis tmagination with a mixture of sweet- ness and indifference will keep him chasing. The three greatest dangers of a man’s Hfe arise from his tendency to istake curiosity for “love, weet disposition.” perfume for “personality” and stupidity for a t No matter how intense a “feminist” girl may be she simply can't help patting her back hair and moisteming her lips when a mam enters the room. They are going to make some new laws in Los Angeles “to prevent gs." Just like a woman, to go around flirting all by her- Somehow, just at the psychological ‘ it, when a man fancies he is going to die for love, another girl always comes along and interrupts him, — i A woman is never passée until the fatal day when she ceases to regard @ man's glance of appraisal as impertinence and begins to regard it as flattery, to tive Only thme will tell why every married woman spends from five days I rf © “den” in which no married man was ever bate ®OOQOBDODGODDODOOOGOOSHHDGIOOS) copper pennies that Gus had just taken out of the slot machine! And something is better than nothing, errr Mollie of the Movies By Alma Woodward, Corts Raha Walmer OUTHERN CALIFORNIA! It's fierce to have to travel three thousand miles to take a picture But when the scenario calls for a sweep of verdant lawn, bordered by blooming hydrangeas, and all you can find in the neighborhood is a frozen duck pond and a couple of icicles, what are you going to do about it? That's why all the movio people go to California—for the foliage, But gee, I'm homesick! last few days I've It's getting on my ywhere I turn there are roses und lilies and orange trees and palms and sheets of bright green grass, There's lots of sunshine and baby blue sky, all quilted with white cotton tufts of clouds and a mild, caressing breeze that fans your temples and be: thousand sweet perfumes to your nostrils, And all the time I'd give a week's salary—and then some—to back on Broadway for one rain day, when the autos splash you full of mud and the street cars smell damp and the fellow on the corner tries to sell you @ caved-in umbrella for fifty cents. T periences out here, so m anything but sooth- instance, only yesterday we were doing “Pepito and the Padre.” In Reel One I one-balf of a pair of fore® lovers. Wild, you know—a ‘as i bona oy ind all t e director & couple of spasms over the beautiful petting e found ‘here were giant vines, with the strength of thick ropes, hanging from the tops of tall trees. In one part the other forest lover and I were supposed to cling to these and swing out over a gushing brook and back again. You know—playing lik —all natural and uw The director said the fect was beautiful—like an idyll— whatever that is. Well, in the first place the darned vine had sharp things all over it, but 1 could ‘a’ stood that if it wasn't for who played the other nut. n't steer his vine for a cent! time he passed me in the give me the blamedest bump according to the scenario supposed to look fay and laugh! I was for playing the dippy stuff on dry land, ere~I could manage my feet, but the director in- sisted on us hanging on—he said people like to see unusual things like \t Well, when that guy had colored ‘on one aide ho Then I lost aes ea bis , eeweee Wow a POELEPY CPR OT Fifty Dates | Ai You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1918, ty The Pram Pubtidhing Oo. (The New York } No. 23.—FBB. 1, 1877, Firet Public Exhibition of the: Telephone. RUGGED forty-year-old Scotchman roused the good folk of Mass, to a mild state of curiosity and amusement on Feb, by giving in their town the first public exhibition of an ment he had invented. The man was Alexander Graham Invention was the telephone. He had already shown it at the Centennial and elsewhere, but 80 had seen enough in roject or bad enough faith in its fatare to ff dollar in it. Hence exhibition at Salem—to interest capital. {tal still refused to be interested. And the public at large was dea } {ts opinion as to whether this man who,claimed to send spoken words a wire was a lunatic or a clever ventriloquist. Other exhibitions fol the one at Salem; Bell at one end of the wire and Thomas A. Wateomy & assistant, at the other. But there was no movement toward investing. the telephone a new and mighty force was set loose upon the earth. Butam one except Bell and his friends knew it. | Bell had come from Scotland in 1870 to teach deaf mutes. 1 ‘before he had begun working on the problem of conveying + late sound by electric currents, with an idea of using it in hie teaching, after nine years he had solved the pussie by Golden Chances } ing the first telephone. The next step waa to | rm, 4 Thrown Away. company to exploit the invention and put ft into peal tical use. Bell had no money of his own.’ He went to a powerful United Senator and offered him « if interest in return for his influence, to his clerle that ‘Bell ccording to Kullman: “Gi o1 fool talking machine be thrown out’ if he should attempt to gain ‘an: view." F ' Next Bell carried his invention to a man prominent in political an@ rola cifeles. He offered this capitalist $10,000, Here he met with more court with the Senator.” He was told, “The telephone is lacking in oo vereial Possibilities, and $10,000 is far too large a sum to risk on marketing am Img etrument that at best can never be more than a source of Thus did a supposedly shrewd financies neglect a chance to turn $10,000 IGS many millions. a The Western Union's presideng was then asked to buy the Bell for $100,000. But the reply cameg “What use.could this company fn electrical toy?” Wise folk one after another continued to chase fortune away from their doors. The London Times denounced the thing as “the latest American humbug,” and nearly every electrician. poohed it, The inventor was pelted from all aides with derision and | A big new York lawyer angrily refused to take fifty shares of telephone in payment for a $600 debt. | At Inst a few Boston men, impressed by Bell's lectures and exhi —notably the first demonstration at Salem—put up money for a thi telephone line between Boston and Somerville, And then, little by Iti | world began to awake to what it had ignored. The man who had been ¥ ly entreating people to bec: millionaires by taking stock in his o was overwhelmed by the a inche of investors. ua In about eighteen months the stock jumped from $10 a share to $6008, ‘The lawyer who had refused to ta’ ifty shares in payment for a $500‘ had thus missed a chance to win $200,000. During the first eight the company’s existence $4,000,000 was paid in dividends to at . . The enrly instruments were crude; the “exchanges” were cruder; ¢ ~ nes ters were hundreds of obstacles to perfect service. The first “telephone was no book at all but a pasteboard ‘4, In fact, the New York Directory for 1879 was such a card; not @ large card at that. The oy scribers numbered only 252. . : On Jan. 26/of this present year Prof. Bell in a New York office throug telephone transmitter. The man with whom he talked wes, same Thomas A, Watson who had been at the other end of the wire at. first Salem experiment thirty-eight years ago. But now Watson was in Francisco, And he and Prof. Bell were conversing across 3,400 rannnnnnnnnnnones Wires. Instead of a grinning crowd of village Freie A ie &@ reverent and admiring group of business 3,400 Miles. surrounded the two talkers, minds of both Tommmannroooonrn> erg strayed back just then to the day of that dlanstrems firat public exhibition, in February, 1877. For the listening group heard 4 Bell say laughingly in response to a question from his colleague @ cont DODDDOOOWDODODDIHDIDDHHHODHOODDDDHOGDHHHGHDDOGOHGODGODOOOHSH® | width away: “Oh, yes, I remember very well the time we talked over two miles @8” wire and thought it was a very wonderful thing!” a ey a ener $$ JUNGLE TALES FOR CHILDREN—sy FARMER smiTa °°” a & good thing to have every- | laughing, a body to like you,” began Mister | \, at are you laughing att” omg Elephant ohe day, rere his good wife. “I went through Jungletown to-day and everybody smiled at me and some of them even' laughed, too.” “[ shouldn't think you would want people to laugh ” answered Mrs. Elephant, the dishes. As Elephant turne: went into the other rogm. His good wife burst out talking to y “What are you laughing at?” Th irs, Elephant went where Mister Elephant was and a little sign off of his back some one had tied + “PLEASE When Mister Elephant saw said: “I'll bet Jim: Monkey that.” rad * ern No, 8558—Dainty Breakfast Jacket. make, For the medium aise will be required 1% yards of material 87 1 yard 36, % yard 44, with 3% yards flouncing 14 inches wida, lace 3 H age) wi tern Ca at THE EVENING WORLD BUREAU, Donald Butiding, 100 wed tlon—and lost my hold! ey to say tbat cock te =)