The evening world. Newspaper, February 3, 1915, Page 12

a Wedne he Evening World Daily Magazine. World. {hae hk how. y 321918 You Should Remember By Albert Payson Terhune els “ ar Matter. ‘and the Continent and tries in the International seeeeeesssNO, 19,594 ) Marquis of Conyngham—haggard and worn out from an A SHAMEFUL ADMISSION. Geath-bed vigil—were ushered into a reception room of ton Palace. der and almost unde, (| long will citizens stand by « municipal administration As they stood there in solemn expectancy, « slen o ee age Bowl hp aren cin. cain Nernp i em, Be Oe — of dollars of taxes verve, She wes clald only in « sighigown and in « wrapper she hel ‘ owing on over it when she had been awakened to ive itartes, i Mayor Mitchel’s Tax Commission casts about tq find new ‘The girl was Alexandrina Vietoria, only child of Edward, Duke of Kets: of levying on the incomes of New Yorkers, The Evening World Se ee ee ee ee Kk. Oe ‘shown that $93,000,000 of uncollected taxes are recorded in the | She was s mere child, both im years and in experience. As the news | books, Uncollected franchise taxes amount to 611,- . wae broken to her that her uncle, William IV., had just died, = that as Unpaid taxes on personal property total $48,000,000. his successor to the throne she was her country’s monarch, rf each year of the city’s growth franchises of public service fenponsibitity ot her new exalted Dos ee een tant i. bide Bn : ‘using the public streets become more and more valuable. rye sovercian, ene out in ey, to the tidings: ‘ tax revenue which the city should receive from these fran- Premios ner vests ressive wan ihe keynote of her wholb increase accordingly? aixty-three-year reign. ee ‘On the contrary: In 1913 the B. R. T. paid a franchise tax on George III. wes a lunatic. His son and successor, LAMP ) yn of 646,000,000. In 1914 the same company was assessed P7PR « valuation of $33,000,000. And now the valuation for 1915 is dots coe athe oy , George scoundrel. As George IV. died without legitimate heirs, his brother down to $30,000,000. the throne, as William IV. William, too, died childless. His yo' brother, the Duke of Kent, was also dead, but had left a daughter, and that daughter thus became Queen of Engiand, solo ruler, at eighteen, of the world's strongest nation. vs Year after year the city makes its humiliating compromise with nin be, anche, Cacea ss corporations. Year after year it loses from 40 to 50 per cont. ner Alexander 1 the franchise taxes which are its due. / lexandrine.” And Alexandrina it was, George What would become of a private concern that cancelled its ria that iy EE “Victoria,” in honor of her, mg : ‘Kise di po for New York van pla ve Now began what is known aa the “Victorian Era,” one of the ‘most = that, since it is too weak to collect taxes from powerful incor- Glorious periods in Engiand’s history. Under George IV. court morals 4 lapsed into something resembling rottennese, and the bad example of interests and elusive millionsires, it must call upon humbler to make good. and King had been more or lees reflected in the people at large. Queen: te Victoria changed all this. Her court became a model in morality for all, / Europe. And by her own life and precepts she was a mighty personal im-. J. P. Morgan says ten dollars is enough, if you can get it. Tt fe—if you can keep it. fluence for good. ——_-++- Great Britain, under her wise sway, made longer strides in progress, iny THE RIGHT WAY. conquest and in every art than for centuries before. Invention, Iteratit education and national prestige took a newer and stronger lease of life. Aid back of it all, directly or indirectly, the placid little woman who ruled the realm. She held her royal rank as a sacred trust. Such mistakes as she made were thone of the head, not of eart: And, like Elizabeth and Anne case of a train stalled at Seventy-fifth Street by one of! 's subway fires the conductor promptly ordered all opened and went through the cars calling: “Small fire on ahead. All wishing to walk back to Seventy-ninth Street cam leave by the end car.” : alt: Most of she was blessed with a host of geniuses to make her reign glorious. Such statesmen as Disraeli, Melbourne, Peel, Gladstone, Russell an@ the passengers sat still until the smell of smoke when a few made way back through the add the tracks to Seventy-nthith Street. No panic. No es ANNs Palmerston guided the kingdom's destinies; an endless list of writers, headed by men like Thackeray, Dickens, Meredith, Swinburne and Tennyson, made Victoria! ture immortal. England’ ‘mies shoo! earth with: the tread of millions of armed men and won for thelz Tis ana er country a territory so vast as to justify the toast thaf a 4 “the sun never sets on British possessions.” ‘ an Ere. In January, 1901, the Queen died, having reigaed longer than any other British sovereign ee when England was a wilderness peopled by barbarians, ® ten y ways the aged ruler had made good the pledge of the newly-awakened girl: : “I WILL try to be good!” human beings? When anything goes wrong in the , 1915, by The Prem Publishing Oo. (The “Oh, any doubt about the wisdom of treating passenge a Pop’s Mutual Motor . By Alma Woodward ‘ al m of treating passengers : i : in crowded trains are speedily told what is the a clear way to get out, there is small danger of a| ‘ taken the Interborough a long time to discover ‘Phos den 't-tell-’om-and-shut-’ is perilous policy. | # ” At lepat one of yesterday's short-circuit blazes was due to mols- re scoping ‘a signal box from the street above, Are auby 6 well protected as they were? Or hae the fime come, 8 well as in other directions, for the Interborough to realizy | @ price of safety must include renewal? —— +4 ‘Why worry about the price of bread? There's always cake, | ld Marte Antolnette. ( ; ——- <4 2 NOTHING TO EXCITE US. g%q ERMAN (officer or no German officer, the man who went up “qq Gnd leaned over the edge of Maine to blow up the Canadiaa Pacific Raisroad Bridge across the ‘St. Croix River should Wave flags or get behind governments or cause any ‘ acm oe ith, gitre-ptyserine le an offense’ readily ; tional polities need not be called in to define it. be ¢ the United Statcs Government will make no the in to 960 that proper forms of extradition are in turning over the: bridge destroyer to the Ca- » | to think to what new limits the sport might develop. + ny It’s never the right kind of snow. “Hits From Sharp Wits. to, Resses, but his at Se peice fhe shaik lie or be regulated toast The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copsright, 1018, by The U're Oo. (The New York Brening World), MY, Uncle Henry!" exclaimed; tomers from their taverns. Fer I Mrs. Jerr as she opened | know if we had a free hotel at Smith- the door and admitted her} ville, nobuddy yould paternize the rural relative | Eagle House!” the bell tmpatiently.| “But you baven't told me about that wae the very remark Mr./ Aunt Hetty, said Mrs. Jarr. Jarr made when he came home that| “I tell you she lacks ambition; jest evening, only he acventuated it dif-| groaning by thé stove so I can't «et Mr, Jarr, groaning, eal: | forty winks when I'm trying to sit by “Why Uncle Henry?” i rere Rd we before I taller le Hi etarted to ex- im, in! what a blessing paibo boo dare oo he entered ané|'t to-for farmers that so many peupie began unwinding bis long knitted |!e starving that wheat’s gone up to muffler. “1 jeat can't atand it down | ® dollar and a halt!" Clara.” he began. “Your| “How long do you think you'll te get the rheumatiz eo| stay?” asked Mrs. Jarr, but aot again it breaks my heart to) warmly. hear her eit complaining by the| “Well, that all depends. This ts a A woman's place ie in the Wicked city, full of corrupt »oliticians, home! I'm agin wimmen’s rights and | And it makes my blood bile to think all them im notions, but | of all the graft here and people get- Jarr at Last Di DODOODOHOQOODOOO’ ting rich on it; while if upright tarm- ers, who are the salt of the nation, take $2 to vote for the dear old ticket ® med...ing Grand Jury wants to in- dict them! Think of that! “I am a free American citisen. I come from the plain, solid stock what ig the backbone of the country. I have ever voted against my convictions except twice when I noeded some new farming machinery—and) yet | am Griven out of a honest, upright com- munity, leaving a wife eo sick I know she won't have ambition to half tend to things, jest because I always voted for the party of the old flag when | was pald for it! “Think of that! Driven to a wicked city where there i. corrupt politics ‘and repeaters and ward heelers, from an upright rural community what a!- ways went for the old ticket, no mat ter what it cost the patriots wha Reflections of ue fa Ete i HH a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Coperight, 1008, by The trem dublishing \, (The New York Kvming World), ies ia {rieadship-~in bicom. Nowadays « man’s love-making is almost as “sketchy” and “im- When & man becomes engaged, chow, he always seems to feel scovers Why Married Men Leave Ho me Copyright, OP was threading his way, on first speed, among the precipices of lower Broadway. His pas- sengers were marvelling at the sub- terranean passages exposed to the light of day—and the overhead gas mains, “Yes, Milton and I always tell our friends,” Ma was saying, “that it is a New Yorker's own fault if he doesn't enjoy his surroundings. Where on earth can you find another city from which you can make #0 many enjoyable, little trips?” “Just as we're doing to-day,” con- tributed Pop, dodging a picket fence that bordered an excavation twenty feet deep. “Everybody goes to that ttle place on Staten Island in the . Why not in winter just as air is fine and bracing. And as lgng as you have a car”— “Besides,” interrupted Ma, eagerly, “when you go out for dinner on Sun- day like this you can give your cook an extra holiday and get fresh air in ‘@ | your lungs and, anyway, if I were at home Bay yeaa rent stg Bowl = three dollars, and this le d’hote is Jerome K. Jerome. | oniy a dollar a head, THREE din- LOVE the flerce strife of the ners for what my roast alone would World. 1 lke to watob it. 1|°%Kna it's a crackerjack dinner, too," lke to hear of people get- | addended = “Wailt'll you taste the ting on jn it—battling their he apaghet’, Bill. Garlic! M'm. A way bravely and fairly; that is, not |the chicken. Fresh killed, Got ‘em slipping through by luck or trickery. | "Ent Op the PMOL. any worth o 1 stirs one's old Saxon fighting| dollar and a half,” Ma declared. blood like the tales of “Knights who fought against fearful odds,” that thrilled us in our schoolboy daya. And fighting the battle of life is fighting against fearful odds, too. What would this world of ours do without ambitious people. Ambitivus people are the leaven which raises it into wholesome bread, Without am- bition the world would never get up. Wrong to be ambitious, forsooth? The men wrong who, with bent back and sweat! row, cut the smooth road over which Humanity marches sears from generation to genera- t Of course they are seeking their re- ward; man is not given that God-iike unselfishness which thinks only of others’ Alexander and Caesar fought for ir own ends, but in do- ing 90 thy tw belt of civilization half rount earth, Stephenson, to fortune, invented the steain and Shakespeare wrote his pod in order to keep a comfo: ie for Mrs, Shakespeare and je Shakespeares. Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form ry beat, useful und for, paid for honest votes with their good money!” - And Uncle Henry was so choked by indignation that it ‘.ok a good big dose trom his bottle of bitters to soothe him. Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy - “GETTING ON.” the street crowds goes gaping at those who are working. Ty ‘tendant ia The Be clashed in tead of behind it. “I wonder wi ” it their business olay ving the ferry house on the Staten Island side, Pop started to apologize. ‘The roads leading to this joint aren't anything extra. We could go@ roundabput way, but what’s the use of prolonging the agony? Every tims go over a bump or igto a rut you thinking of the future f ‘Ah! Now we're nearing it!" gurgied Ma. “See that little, f white place with the green roof? » ¥ that Tan't it cute? I'm going have a Martini. What're you going Ella?" one threw off the rugs in joys ous Barteipn tion, Foe brought ll, w ign. y PEN MAY 1, 1915, TO E A oUR us five ice cream sand- will yuh?” moaned Pop. The May Manton Fashions HE yoke coat & sspk pone availability ani treme smartness ine oe ie cult to ‘Small Women, 16 to 18 Years. $i Datel 2 % yds. 36, 2% 1 ds. 64 with 1 fu F or 1% ¥ % yda. fur banding to trim as illustrated; % yd, to mn" col trimmt 1 arm No. 6663 in cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years. 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