The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1915, Page 16

ILUME 55.... TIME TO PROTEST. yw": should the City of New York go on losing millions of seeeeese NO, 19,525 dollars in taxes every yenr because a State Tax Board com- : placently permits public service, corporations holding city franchises to value those franchises on a descending scale? j . Every year these corporations earn more money through privi- logés this city has granted them. Every year they expect their taxes | ‘te be reduced. From 1913 to 1915 tho assessed valuations fixed by = the State Tax Board decreased nearly $59,000,000. . Mayor Mitchel is getting ready to protest to the Governor against the $16,000,000 reduction which, as The Evening World has shown, , the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company managed in two years to secure om ita assessment. seat | » It is high time a municipal administration found courage to pro- test against franchise valuations fixed in Albany which defraud the dity of ite rightful revenues. ' New York may be hard up. But it cuts a eorry figure when it, terns to-levying new tolls on its citizens, all the while letting iteelf ‘be cheated out of millions that are its due. * ee per ee q ‘The Secretary of the Public Service Commission testifies ‘that the commission's method of handling complaints satisfied ‘the commission and satisfied the public. The public swallows herd and waite ite tern. po THE SNOW FOOLED HIM. week's varied atmospheric viciousness having decided to ho a real snowstorm, the city will make the best of it and be glad it means to many a needy man a chance to collect an/| honest $2.40 for every eight hours’ work. : ‘But ‘as to street cleaning methods, the public mind is puzzled. Through the warm, sunny daye last fall, when Commissioner Fether- ston plotted his all-conquering campaign against snow in the city streets, we understood that the snowflakes were to be hustled into sewers or carts the moment they began to fall. Now it appoars that, | 4m the eyes of the Street Cleaning Departmont, snow is not a snowfall > until it attains « depth of ghree inches, »* While snow is piling up three inches a lot of things can happen | te it. An interlude of rain can make it sofden. Cold can turn it into ice, More snow can render it an exceedingly dense and heavy @abatance to handle. All of which befell this time. , ‘The snow removers are wrestling with their task under the disad- “vantage of a belated start and the cru! circumstance that the snow / turns out tobe “the wrong-kind.” Mr. Fetherston should get bac: » te first principles. Tackle the snow the first hour it begins to fall. Don't wait to eco what an inch or two is going to look like. —_———t— o Be eleas ais ells ele’ wis Westdi the “ermne \* @ffiger” blew up. What about that “German thorgughness"? ——2¢2 FOR HE q T THE HONOR OF THE STATE. ‘tending 4 ’ stitutional amendment which, if the Senate concurs, will put before the people at the election next fall the question of ex- the euffrage to women, will be approved by thousands of have little sympathy with suffrage itself. ; thirty-two States have given women the vote, | Rovbelittle the movement is foolidh, to deny it a hearing is vain. By ; action of the New York State Assembly in passing a con- a y et least, won the right to be treated with respec oppertenity to win for itself by constitutional means institutions of the land. final verdict of ite voters, the Empire State should question of ouffrage {girly and willingly to the test anna ann RUanEIRER EEE ° Anyhow, says the Board of Miducation, a teacher who te us she tc married is “guilty of gross mtrconduct.” @f confidence wrings our kindly hearts. ee 4 NO WAY TO STOP A FLOOD? Ps T 10,80 Tuesday night a big water main burst at the corner of Bighth Avenue and Forty-second Street. Not until 4 o’clock the next morning did the Water Department find a way to hut off the torrent. Meanwhile big areas of pavement were under- mized, wurrounding streets became rivers; hundreds of cellars were - flooded and water pouring over tlie doorvills of shops in the neigh- ‘porhood ruined $100,000 worth of goods, : Why five and a half hours’. delay in locating a watergate and atopping the flow? Water Department engineers are said to have ‘hesitated to take steps that would deprive the hotel district of water, fas such an emergency never been considered and plans laid for meeting it’ Fither there is dangerous lack of facilities for cutting off sections ‘water main iv crowded parts of the city or Water Department offi-| are so ignorant of their own system that they have to sit down study out what to do at the very moment when prompt action is one thing needful. In either case the menace to property. is serious, Hite From Sharp Wits. n achieve greatness and men are accidents, One far ag the other. And still ‘eis a such thing as a oi a ' Aa Pair ies d Tt in a whole lot better to how! be- fore you are hurt than to howl ina hospital,—Philudeiphia ‘Telegraph, ‘There id be more hermits if huts | could be fitted up with all modera conveniences: * As a rule a nice fellow hasn't mu | Of @ pull at the bank. Atchison Globe, i yr if Ne Batter way is ah “pon Ry “A woman thinks all men are alike.” remarked the Man on the Car, “until he marries one of ther eo. bad Th nan tens to all the stories the neighbo ring in without | them ts a heraine.-Toledo ma fl 3 ROUBLES never come sin-]Jarr, “Where's Uncle Henry? Mrs. ing full tilt into the apartment bath| or two over the wire. “I am 8O glad... y." sighed Mra, Jarr. Uncle Henry entered, a Mr. Jarr | tub, You ought not to go out, you know, “My nose itches; and _ en —_—— —-—-— opened the door for him, bht he was| “I've got your footbath all ready,”| and I think this is really @ bi is” that’s a sign—let me see not ina pleasant mood. said Mr Fide iy Sunearing = bio in. Fa uric le Miec wae ah ie, z ? — OY me) —— Hello, nevvy Ed!" he growled,| oor. “And here's a glas h Q . 8, crosshyy what IS it a sign of? —==M W f H b a=. , lemonade to sip while you're soaking (co hiated. sell alattiaed ae eece When your hand itches it's a #igu y 1res usband — “This is a town of swindlers. I've to recognise , been standing in that bread line for the temperatencss of its methods, womaneuffrago | asked M yt, AMY money you'll have to give me ten dollars, because you borrowed two 4& ceremony. “ opping and swaying from jollara from me. But I don't sup- i cs pai a dane | RANG, £0 Feapect a man to'do that; but : Ad ats : te are not objects of | iia, “but I know they are going 2 sldg to alde, | as pose you will get any money, so I should have see — * pe. take some moving pictures . Gorilla and Mise can't get any money from y my hand didn’t itch—ulthough they say, if your ears burn, somebody's tailing about you. And a knife fell, wi to the bouse, and sure enough Uncle never come dear,” remarkod Mr, Jarr comforting, ‘oh, deal bit superstitious, and you know i Mrs, Jarr declared, and omons are happening and t come true, why, i Mark my words! never know what's going to happen.” here every day remarked Mr, Jarr. en Aad zines 1 ate Rae beeen, hur By Maurice Ketten Ty, Such Is Life! ‘ST bs .Mrs. Solomon” ‘By Helen Rowland Lt i Copyright, 1U10, by ‘The K'ree Pu .shing Oo, (The New Yorn sreume Word, ARKEN, my Daughter, unto the Love Song of a Son of Babylon, H which he chanteth withpa joyful heart: 2te How fair is my Beloved, and how perfect above all womeal: x Behold, she is more graceful than a coryphee, more shapely thea" S*<° cloak model, and more glowing than the rose of morning. od When I take her forth im company I am filled with pride in the preme'* ence of mine enemies; yea) I am exceedingly swelled up. For maidens say of her “How cute!” ‘and at sight of her men ory" a peach!” «vag an For her sake am I invited unto the houses of the Dinner-givers; "she! 13 more POPULAR, among the buds'and the matrons, than a New “ee In mine hours of joy she is more diverting than a cabaret chorus; a mine hours of sorrow and depression she is more comforting than a trained nurse in a becoming cap. For lo, she observeth NOT my grouches, neither seeth my shortcom- MAY 1 INTE! INOuR FAC CHIN Sr a KINOS oF CHEEK — STRAPS \ SEE Sins OF A DOUBLE CHIN THE MUSCLES aF Your CHIN ARE FLABBY. ‘THE OUTER SKIN IS FETUNG LOOSE Te . ETC - { NO, au rwant 1S A FACE MASSAGE, AND 4 SHAMPOO ings. She is exceeding WISk. ‘ Though I gaze upon blondes and flirt with Titians, she is not Jealous, Though I smoke in her presence she doth not inurmur. * My OLDEST pipe offendeth her not. She hath never sought to clead’ When I go forth in the evening without her she asketh no question:s when I return in the morning she glanceth not at the clock. neither dothed:> she NAG me. ‘ In all the days of her life she hath never given me a JOLT! Not once hath she said, “Why didst thou marry me?” When I speak she fs silent; she doth NOT answer back. She hath no “opinions.” Whatsoever I desire her to do that she docth, and wheresoever 1 de sire her to go she goeth without murmuring. She is never weary of my company. 4 rity Behold, I have Covered her with costly furs, and adorned her wittnw¢ | Precious metals; I have burnt my money before her. Yan Verily, verily, though she is more EXPENSIVE than an whole hareni;”’= yea, though I mortgage mine house, and pawn my watch to satisfy her, yet shall I cleave unto her. Niles foe For what WOMAN would delight me and glorify me and obey me and... comfort me and rejoice my soul like unto This—my MQTOR CAR! My joltless, shockless, whimless, speechless, six-cylinder, sixty-horme-*v« power LOVE! ee Selah. I NOTICE A WRINKLE ON YouR FOREHEAD Your SIRIN 1S DRYING UP THE BLOOD 1s NOT CIRCULATING FReeLy R CHEERS wees 39 Orr ihe Contour NESS LOSING ITS FiRN MUSCLES Ai RE AGGIN G ETc « THE SKIN of YouR NECK Is WEAK You ARE GETTING A Bune oF FA ETC ETc “Horse Sense” Easy Solutions of Sman TrouDdles. Coprlieht, 1018, by ‘The Prom Publishing Co, (The New fork Evening World)... & Y OU'VE taken @ bad cold,”| “I want my dinner, not a foot bath”. « Fi v- “You're not going to have anythi nse re, Wideetey eMOr Fi a crust of ary bebaase FUR sheet and put a dry blanket ingly, as Mr. Fidgets joe cating an maga. article ina a sneezed for the third zine about a wonderful ‘water cure’. 4 time, . for colds, They give you a hot bach. x “T didn’t know thre was any gther|@nd then they wrap you in a wet kind to take,” said Mr. Fidgets,! that and leave you to steam: and ail'=? testily, “but if there is, I have it.”|you have to swallow is a glass 3 water. Don't you want to try th: No, Mr. Fidgets didn’t. He wan his dinner and he wanted it Mrs. Fi bethought herself the old maxim, “Feed a cold apie starve a fever,” which comforted her...’ so much that al led the way to the dining room, whi Mr. Fidgets aid full justice to the ancient precept. © After the meal he felt.so0 much better + that he proposed a visit to the movies. “Maybe {t won't hurt you if yout * promise to take some quinine ‘before | * you go to bed,” compromised Mrs. Fidgets. it then the telephone bell rang, , “Aunt Susan and Unclo Silas are coming’ to Spend the evening,” sald she after she had talked for a minute: And he sneezed again. “Now, don’t you begin to tell me what to take for it,” he continued,as soon as he could speak, “for I've stood all I can. Every mafi in tho office has remommended an infallible cold cure, and I've four different kinds of tablets in my pocket this minute, besides a bottle of cough syrup I left in the hall.” “Don’t take them,” said ‘his wife. “If you had any of that ‘horse sense’ you are always talking of you would know that itis very dangerous to take medicines you don't know any- thing about.” “Well, you see,” began Mr. Fidgets in extenuation, but his wife ‘had van- ished and from afar he heard the swishing sound caused by water rush- Pro tt tt dd ed a kkk od od ok If Mrs. Jarr Were Superstitious, She Could Say Now: «I Told You So.” FLAS BABALAALAL SAAN AAS LAAARAAS AAA the bell announced the advent of; the vestibule, he always goes in b¥ Uncle Henry. “There he is ‘now,”| the janitor’s entrance in the basement Jarr remarked wearily. ‘“He|and comes right upstairs.’ Just then the impatient ringing of! never will ring the letter box bell in The Jarr Family . By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1015, by The Brow Publishing Oo, (Te Now York Krening World), ‘ou are going to et money”~ “Me get money?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Well, how cquid I get money?" ira, Jarr. “And if, you do get A Married-Life Serial of Iniense Human Interest. By Dale Drummond four hours, and it made me so hun- gry I et the bread when I got it. Bo you needn't give me any hard logks, I didn’t bring any home.” “Who wanted you to?” asked Mr. JUNGLE TALES FOR CHILDREN—sy ‘FARMER smiTH SOW ine golng on to-day at lei e the. movies?” asked Miss| "“Ebby Ape was taking a : ict Hyena of Mrs, Gorilla. picture of me and he told me to, : “1 don't know,” answered Mrs. Gor- bet ’ > ‘Copyright, 1046, by The Vrem Publishing Co, (The New York Eroaing World), CHAPTER I. Of course, you would doing this,” answered M phant, still hi “Well, it'e all a trick*to lure the plain and honest people who are the backbone of the land to come to the Perils of a great and, wicked city!” snarled Uncle Henry, “And, furthermore, it's a big swin- dling Me about them Rockefeller foundations costing millions, I was down to see them. They are jest ordinary foundations, I've had stun work done on the foundations of my barn, and them foundations never cost rio sech money, Them Rocke- fellers is only bragging, like al! New Yorkers!" it “Where did you think you saw the and the right number of us 1] Rockefeller Foundation?” asked yr pl AB gg A Ee qin : “Why, downtown" at that Rocke- Gre hg rhe nbdt oF oe feller building, the Standa' ou whe io up Ce se ae a. aed Building, at No. 26 preecyey i vie 5 oe 80 I) the reply. “Is supper ready? I ain’ was told, It was all rather hagy and| 04 voting to eat except some soup and coffee and bread, Think of a disquieting to me. ‘Then just the right number of old shoes and the right amount of rice| town whére I don’t see a store what will sell you five cents’ worth of sody crackers and cheese!” were thrown at us, and we went to the station with white ribbons on the But then the doorbell rang again, and Mre, Jarr gave a shriek when whip of the coach and on the handles of our trunks, much to the delight of those who weren't getting married, she opened the door, There was Mr. Jared Smunk, the retired Govern- ment printer, He waa standing on but much to my embarrai his head, for he had print myopia know We almost missed the train get- ting them untied, for they had been and could only sec when he looked at upside down, am glad you explained!" I took her in my arm: ust for that speech, just for telling me I am REALLY loved, I would be married inthe public square if you wished it, wit brass band and all. the trim- ing to do you hono: So Jane had her way and married in church. Jane's step- her to me, and her mother pele r sisters—she didn’t have any Looking Glass C; ets “That's great!” exclaimed Miss Hy- £00. ioe going to scamper down ere right away.” ‘When they reached the side of the creek no one was there except Mister Elephant. He was hopping first o: one foot and then on the other an ‘swaying his trunk all the time. “Next time I'll stop before 1 “What in the world are you I don't want to be a movie asked Mrs. Gorilla in great amase- actor anyway.” «Keeping Tabs on Domestic Sleuths Play « Losing 5 By Sophie Irene Loeb Y poay from an old-fashioned garden. I am writing my own story, 1 George Butterworth, am Jane's hus: band. Ng Nineteen winters and eighteen sum- mers had passed since Jane gladdefied | the world by appearing in it. We were married in May. Jane would be nineteen in October. I wondered if I could tell you what Jane looked Ii hi wencecrs day 2 peat Rp to know,” ig fellow.. “You told me to do thia.* “But you should have atopped.” “Ie that a0?” asked Mister’ Ble. t the table, this morning, and that oa a sign that a man was coming Jonry came; and, as I sald, troubles ingly. Oh, dear!” be superstitious, “Oh, don't my im You see, { sald ‘my dear,’ and not rt as you said, not superstitious, the family plate or something. Well, Jane bad the usual quota of bridesmaids. Every one of of her, I am sure, » of course, Grant Ra} T'm not a so long a8 will try. 1 am a tall man, six feet one in my stockings, (I can hear some o! “| thought this was about Jan it is, Jano was just as high my heart.) She was slender, not thin, and graceful as a young doe. Her hair golden in some “But when signs Copyright, 1045, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ACT, tolerance and tenacity are| Though the husband be at: Ty elements that make for honey ging ever in the home-hive. ‘This some-| {7% what expresses the view of Magistrate Freschi of the Court of Domestic Re- Jations. He further sums up the whole question, sayin; “Let her think of her busban happiness rather than of what t neighbors say. No man reetrains him- self or conquers Homepsasion: Waveney wife, but through love 0! ny Se can catch more files—and husbands—with sugar than with vinegar. Ifa Women ge ber ae tt ‘neblesme oblige’ will force ‘im to it is no wonder Lt y, ‘If 1 was superstitiovs I could be- jeve in such things!” But IT am not one bit superstitious, yet when I let my fork fall this morning I sald to, Jertrude, “The a man coming. And Uncle Henry so that's why I say we i i if flection that he was there not of own will and desire, Ta most cases thi t it did come, y in color, the waquid say when she was happy flecks of light that danced im back of the long lashes in them; ‘but when she was moved they darkened, and when she was Angry-—oh, yes, Jane could be angry—they were black, and little points of flame seemed to dart from them. tolerates and forgives. woman who understands that no mas« can have all the virtues and no views, It is she who gives him a little and creates in him a feeling that che is not an everlasting stop-watch ja his life race. * In truth, the woman who persists te “But thg children drop thelr kntvew and forks continually, and men come generally with bills," “Bo T can't see why you should think dropping your fork could be a portent of the dis- put on to stay. But as Jane declared she wouldn't budge an inch until they were removed, why, was up to me. 2 thin ft ‘noblesre the opposite way of dealli aster of a visitation from Uncle] Are you infatuated with a mouth] It wasn’t until we were really| Midn't | say ‘Troubles never come | © , op’ y lea Henry.” like Cupid's bow? Then you wouldn't | started that I felt married at all, Then,| singly?" cried Mre, Jarr. sees is nothing that makes the fueiene, pocompa Ls petty, “It isn't! Uncle Henry I mind a [care for J Full, large and| when Jane and I were at la spirit of man more rebellious th + Geunle hon in tee. 1 i Fae th a dl 1] Ruraixnt, with ripe, red tipe: the moat eer me with a rush. clally #0, 80 we built great log fres| being put through the third by | wean dose mot wet the rigte perosean, said $0 you when you free . | eithal matching the Gem’ cbin bes inthe “broad "replace "aind popped | the diatrustful wite, ‘There le Rothing | tive. of her hustand.” She tt ereaes 1 wasn't | neath; roun oval chéeks, with ‘belonginy corn, for all oe ars) ike = fort oo a to prove that he has © Bat OWN particular propersy, tas? d for Uncle Henry, but now | faint fush under the delloate sikin an artist, who loaned it to) ren. A ity Jane eighteen, and | lied. : ; tion, for which she demande datip-tae at 4 y mind, that complet u > | us. - k hen, will wives realize “ that he Is here Tean put up with him. | ture. 1 wonder If you know now how {It we, but tho ocean came right up|{ twenty-three. What did wo know serneas gk ao and” no. Liberty terest. And when he cannot pay #0 ¢ of life, its cares, it» responsibilities? I can close my eyes now and see the expression on Jano’s face. I can see her flushed shheln, bea shining look! up at me through caress- ine, eet as she shook the big square popper over the coals, and then, when !t was full to bi ‘ing, turning the etill crackling kerndls into the a ile T rei the honestly, he substitutes the Ji And T regret to say thi cases he is not all to Ata mane foe maHeh. She should just a ‘ake another angle of reasom—- nd respect some of his int é when not by she occasionally sacrifices her wishes in the matter, 5] She usually finds that if he be kind of a worth-while: husband will do likewise for her. The mi arises rom the selfish desire to de n No woman can conti hold the heart of her husband tt everlastingly deman: detectivest reporte of al) Hut mind what I say: come singly." You don’t expoct Aunt Hetty, too, do you”" asked Mr. Jarr. “No, Uncle Henry says Aunt Hetty isn't feeling well and so he came up to the city so she could get out into the fresh air looking after the stock, es- pecially as the hired man has left to come up to the city to be unemployed, Unele Henry says.” “Yen, I hear there is a lack of em. ployment among farmhands in the erent cities these days,” aad Mr. uubles never | Jane looked? We had a large wedding. didn't want it; would far rather have gono quietly to the church or to the par- sonage, and bad it over, But Jane didn't have that chin for nothing. “& girl doesn't get married but once, and she always wants a wedding!” she declared with a pout. “Doosn't get ried but once,” I said to tease her. don’t mean to way that your mot! isn't married to Mr. Werrick Herrick was q D: r" to our front door, and the splash, aplash of the water on the sand as the tides rolled In and out soothed and rested me, t was afrafd at firat that Jane might be lonely, with no one but and the sea to keep her company. But my fear was groundicss, She was happy as the day was long, Ws rode, we read, Sounds prosaic, 4 tween times other, and while I acc ad ordered makes Jack a dull husband? When, oh when, will woman quit de- luding herself with the theory thi she should fill his entire life to thi clusion of the lodgo meeting, and she sick friend, and the business down- town, and the customers’ dinner? It can't be done, A man and bis wife are much easier parted than a man and his liberty, The woman who would seek the a' amount of happineas must needs cultivate the | average amount of reason, | The man who must be for tied | to bie wif pron soon loses the Reartatringe that aim. y ree: ahe would pour 3 geterous quantity of salted butter over the still a Nor et geear justine Jane liked all events ed her on the plano | buttered, just as : f life buttered to make them palat- sent te. toe. anions I. Site end easy for her to swallow. uh’ Cie. Be Comuaund.)