The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1915, Page 8

ig Re rrr pcrg Ma nd and the Conti All Countries in the International o THE WAY IT WORKS. [E President of the Western Union is telling the West that * Government ownership fe @ near probability and that his com- is prepared for it. Maybe the fact that Western Union around 65 end refuses to climb has something to do subject. Let this com- public management that are stuck, trolley up, pedestrians wade through drifts or slush and the ity flounders. Life is made miserable because the proprietor : to his duties. The proprietor te the city. The streets ing to it. Yet it cannot or will not take care of them. 4 Gout is one of the chief concerns of life. Every public and comfort is served by well kept streets. Yet the city ite pavements to telephone, telegraph and lighting te tear to pieces whenever and wherever hit-or-miss policy seme private corporation found {ts immediate interest and fit im owning and maintaining the streets of B=-y York, would they are now? They would not. iy’s etrects look too often Hike nobody's streets. oo, proclamation of a war sene around Great FEO TOGA SOR to’ tale ove. senteality crit Mo PENA TE Ser REE One ony HOW MUCH LONGER? [B more we talk about wheat the faster it soars. The harder f a Ryu se [ove ort aflenage ater diab. body reported yesteriay that “a man of grent * would try to corner May wheat. Half an hour later wheat reat ty de tain wheel aow fa the country to dy every man, woman end child until the next crop is available, f ‘we goon 8,000,000 bushels a week to Kurope. is aeroplaning with wheat, speculation will for the misery of famine prices. The rest of the world wheat to spare. If few men of greater or less wealth could ly buy most of the wheat in this country they would have us heir metey. Even though they only bet up prices to fictitious )they osm bleed us through the millers and the bakers, who fiz it prices by the market. “Ie enough to “watch”? EP —_—_————— of weather, one is reminéed that even if Germany iaveding Bagiand it will not help ber to attain her place in the oun. d —_—_— MERE PROMPT PAY IS MOST NEEDED BIBAT thousands of snow shovellers who worked for the city last + straight a payroll oreated by forty-eight hours of somebody needs lessons in elementary planning and rs blame Commissioner Fetherston for not notifying to instruct their laborers where to come for their money. the snow fighters need their pay at the earliest moment they om ft. Many of them are hungry when they start work. Plenty eet pay stations widely distributed throughout the city, careful instruc. ‘and o prompt supply of cash on hand should make it easy for ary man to collect what ‘is due him. | One thing is certain: The clumsiest sort of mismanagement is ible for the unseemly spectacle of crowds of angry, unpaid rioting and yelling about the Municipal Building yesterday be- use the city was too muddled in its eccounts to give them their fs a city administration which has proposed to arrange mil- oliara’ worth of public work for the unemployed. And when opportunity presents itself it cannot even pay off a few shovellers! Carnegis’s Gitte Total $324,657,399.—Headline. A wee bit reckless, Andy, Scot! From Sharp Wits. their fia-, Those who bave been finding it Ms Mows| hard of late to translate m [bail eave: pe wah Hee Netter oa pone e B eeeel ground thi eee & PRIVATE BuSINESS Jupae. Private BUSINESS | WANT To See t ahve Ae SERVICE Contisgion ON Sori Business PUBLIC The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell 1018, ty ‘The Pree Publishing Wo, (The New Kors Mrenmg Word), pamaee HE game of checkers, one Of rouses all my moral inatincta!l Pi the most brutal ang excit-\'om away,” ing of our indoor rural sports, has long been the source of much controversy and discussion among Investigators of sociological habits and custome in Darkest America. Little did Mr. Jarr deem what ho was to bring about in hie poaceful home when he suggested and “pulled off” the grim contest between Uncle Henry, champion checker player of Hay Corners, and Jared Smunk, heavyweight invincible of the United Mtates Government Printing Oltice from 1874 to 1890. Aa Uncle Henry eald:"That old fel- ler in so soople ho must be double But Uncle Henry feared him in the interest of fair cs nearby as referee, first sisting that Mrs. Jarr absent bh from the scene of the. coming con- fiict. For women and children, thank goodness, should never be permitted to witness the brutal game of check- era! Uncle Henry and Mr. Jared Smunk were given Mrs, Jarr’s sewing table, while Mr, Jarr ensconced himself nearby with a pack of cards, feigning to interest himself in a game of soll. talre on the extension drop leat of Mra, Jarr’s sewing machine, But at the sight of the deck of cards Uncle Henry shuddered, “Put ‘em away! Burn ‘em up!" he shouted. “Them playin’ cards ts the devil's prayer book, and they means destruction to all the moral elements’ T'm a plain American citisen, but gambling with cards is a thing never countenances or tolerates. Liquor|! ain't no more demoralizing than them tools of depravity, I'm from a moral and prohibition community. Bitters for my health I take, and then only when bought from a drug atore, but * rds ILE New York and other cities are orgabising bu- reaus and committees to ald the unemployed, thera is one harbinger of hope that concerns those without work as well as all of us. The hope is founded on these words of President Wilson: The Wee By Martin G Copyright, 1918, ty The Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ee HAT’S this talk I hear about W the city establishing @ par’ on the old Dreamland site at Coney Island?” asked the head polisher, “Some professional beautifiers wat to dress up the beach,” said the la dry man. “They want to carpet the sand from @urf Avenue to high water mark with grass and flower beds and plant @ lot of trees for the gales of the Atlantic Ocean to play with, “Here we have a site that can be cleared and made ready for and season, If the original intention to give the people a stretch of beach ie carried out, But if the city com- mite itself to the establishment of a park it may be years before the prop- erty is turned over to the public, “The authorities are giving the financial condition of New York the once-over these days with strained and anxious eyes, There is more money ing out than is coming in, Yet in the face of this it is seriously proposed to spend large sums of money on @ park in a location where it would be practically isolated seven bi he year. A park at Coney in the winter time would be SC bens ap meeeh be? 0 © Beir 6 skates in the Panama Canal le Fepose on grass in of trees there are plenty of available, Moore's plan to open to pevnre without delay and confine it the opp athing ho! proprietors, and they may be behind that our land should yield more ber acre than it does now, “It im necessary that there ehould not be @ plough or a idie in this country if the i to be fed; und the methods of our farmers must ‘Upon the scten- tifle tasers to be derived Kericultare nd Agri and from that Toot of all, the United States PJ partment of Agriculture.” Here is « solution for a centage of the De rn / ——— 7 = La ES SSS <a, PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 't You SEE IT'S YSICAL IM Poss BILITY A FOR HE DO NORE WORK PBABBDBABARABBBABABABALABABAABA RASS Mr. Jarr Beholds a Fearful Battle Between Two Checker Heavyweights SK CK KEKE K KEKE KEKE KKK KEE KEE KEK eee Se Beeing how shocked und affronted ing objects away. ors were and how the very] “Burn ‘em, kd,” ekja Unele Henry, ght of a deck of cards roused their | “burn ‘em, and put their temptation idignation, Mr. Jarr put the offend- | out of your sight forever, What do you want? The white or the biack k’s Wash | } men?” ‘This last was addressed to Mr. Smunk. “It don't matter so long as I got a reen good cushion on the chair to stand on my head," replied the retired Govern- ind office money lender. the project to spend a let of money and waste a lot of time on ¥ "ke If ao, they are pursuing @ policy. “tiney fought the establishment of @ free bathhouse on the ground that it would hurt their business. The free bathhouse was established and not o ¢Coney Island bathing house keeper lost a dollar on that account. They have been able to maintain their old ‘achedule of pricee—anything they can get—and the first year the free baths were open was the most prosperous the beach front bathing house owners have ever known. “Coney Island business men may fear that @ big open beach on the Dreamian dae Surf Avenue and who prefer Surf Avenue and the Bow- ery to the open beach and fresh air will 9 Burt Avenue and the Bow- spective of other attractions. has come for routing the side shows and Not dog stands off the Dreamland property and tufning it over to the people of the city of New York.” Gene iF the Toot Worked Baclovard. “Than Uteracy test immigr.* np bill came near passing over the President's veto,” re- marked the head polisher. “Have game.” “It’s fer five cents @ corner, hey?” asked Mr. Smunk. “I'm agin gam- bling, but if Mr. Jarr wants to bet on the game let him do it.” “You move fust,” said Uncle Henry. “Til bet a quarter on you, Uncle Henry,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “Blood is thicker than water.” “So is mud,” muttered Unole Henry, and then followed a game of the most surprising cheating, wran- ing and quafrelling, but it ended in defeat for Uncle Henry and the loss of a quarter by Mr, Jarr and five cents by his avuncular relative by marriage, The next game Mr. Jarr bet his quarter on Mr. Smunk, but after a session of #0 much wrangling, stamping and vituperation that the neighbors upstairs rapped on the steam pipes for quiet, Mr. Smunk lost and Mr. Jarr passed over an- other quarter. —— it, for immigrants is eure to become sine in the next Administration.” aad | “that William J. Bryan te try. ing to commit the Democratic Party to probibition and woman suf. frage.” At It Againt BEE,” said the bead polisher, Our Southern Congressm: most solidly for the bill on the ground that an illiterate foreigner would be a bad citizen, but many of same statesmen would forbid ne; learn to read and write. Ho’ lthe percentage of concrete domes’ in the House keeps on snore f, as it has in the past ten years the Iiteracy in 1896," mused the laundry man, ‘Mr. Bryan committed the Democratic party to free allver.” to the rate of population. will be accentuated as the war pro- @resses, since the men of warring countries are fighting instead of farming. ‘There is opportunity right the unemployed, Instead of con‘ ‘wong attuation tn tha elt, pade in the country. ing te ima demand the laborers now for tine j hinting that he loves her. He can leave his image indelibly p beatitudes, and to What Every 18 Woman Thinks By Helen Rowland Cop right, 1913, by The Urem Pubiishing Go, (Tie Sew York Lemans Wotld). : $ AS TO THE NEW BRAND OF “HEART-BREAKER.” “ : indicating with a nod a perfectly, specimen of masculinity at a flower decked table across the aii ing room, “sits the most dangerous man in town!” ' hought he was irreproachabi: xcl.imed ine Bachelor, a ‘Widow, delicately stirring her ciam cocktail. “Thaly Not crude eno rons trost hit a man pin thelr Oath © him serious! much as clasping her finger-tips. He can break her heart without evens raphed on her soul tn n half hour's frivolous conversation. He is « girl charmer of h—handsome!" repeated the Widow scornfully. regular featured, so-called ‘handsome’ man who knew anything about wom- en? Besides, the mod @irl doesn’t fall for the Apollo type, mother did. Of course,” and the Widow regarded the Bachelo approving! good pair of shoulders und a well set up HANDICAP, but extreme beauty either goes to a man’s backbone and “Did you ever see # him weak and flabby, or it settles in his vanity and makes him careles@ Ey 3 lax in hi devotion.” rrr { Syrup-and-Muffine Adoration. $ IOI OD, UT,” protested the Bachelor, who pours flattery and devotion all over her a yrup over & muffin. Your sentimental poseur ety,” agreed the Widow. “Artificial ardor, by the bu! y girl worth while, The old fashioned ‘woman killer’ Who sae “a woman doesn’t like the sort,of man: ‘ ck mustache and casting fiery glances at the object of his adoration’ wouldn't stir a flutter in the heart of #. sixteen-: we daya. That's why that Jack Allison is so is ag subtle as the serpent and method ‘all hie own, all his own ‘He works them by contraries, Mr. Weatherby!” 'By—what?” 4 fever makes love te two different types of women in the same way,” © explained the w. “He never even calls them the same nicknames, nor sayn the same things to them. And he takes every woman by surprise, Fer instance, if a girl happens to be a big, strong, noble creature of 6 feet 11, with ideals to match, he babies her; takes her by the nape of the neck, Uke & kitten, figuratively peaking. | shuddered, “You don't mean to say he atound her on chilly “But, if she's pet! appeals to her ‘highei a she is, without knowing it, and what an ‘infi has over him, aad her highbrow books and poetry and things, until she begins to thiak he’s the only man on earth who ever ‘understood’ her.” _ ? ee MI!" grunted the Bachelor scornfully. “And what dows he do if the girl ra to be @ raving beauty and a heart-breaker on her wa accouat “IGNORES her, Mr. Weatherby! Treats her with frigid Indifferenoa aah THAT Is ao ni that she soon begins iying awake nights, 3 to a kneeling position. You know, there are ” ‘with sugar, and some whe have to be com :7 uld only study the different types, hew— #4 greated the Bachelor. “Should think {t would keep your: girl-tamer busy nigh day trying to remember his different attitudes an@. his data straight.” +: yay !Oh, no,” returned-the Widow cheerfully, helping herself to am olive, it’s all’ second-nature to him sow. He oan play on & ootrtrenemnan with his eyes shut and one hand tied behi: im, like « trick musicia®.” “It's a shame!” exclaimed the Bac! ‘. “Ite NOT a shame!” retorted the ow. “It's a delight Itea fort. It's a charity! He ought to receive a Carnegie medal for he’s broken, and for every girl he’s saved from innocuous desuet - ought to be stuffed and preserved in alcohol, as the only specitsen of kind, like the dynosaurus. To know him is a liberal education.” . “If you kpow him—er—so well,” broke in the Bachelor, “why woa't BW. speak to you?” . ‘4 know him,” she confessed, with an enigmatic shrug of her white eboulders, “by heart! That's why he won't speak to me.” “Oh,” aaid the Bachelor, “by whose heart?” bus “MR. Weatherby!" exclaimed the Widow, smiling reministently, “yer thirst for knowledge ta insatiable!” My Wife’s Husband —==By Dale Drummond== Copriight, 1008, bg The Prem Pubtishing Oo, (Tho New York Erming World), CHAPTER Il, Mame the day, I had taken @ -* OMETIMES wo would tet] cottage in & mid-Weatern | owt a the little maid, who, bad] hag doubt as ie my wuccese f= ft eont§ Spa thew o @ larger cit; * ed Ss 8 4 ttle cottage was eo much more intimete! bit) ‘were—I am cure H 2 J =! where atTue lite traite we found out about each other in this delicious fH intimacy; dings, 66; ba 8 table Watt wees Rer-| sideboard and glass ¢ “It abe when Tim’ the doctor's preesing herself. “I know,” I told her, a doctor with no patients,” opie were, UL but wens : peol bul wi v emaR|rheumatic old man or ween some one with a lame back, op Would send for a week had pao it a r my services, » “Don't set impatient, takes time for a doctor to himself,” I t her eneo yet with « ainking heart as of bow my little bank wo a ‘month that I could vote to 1 wickly, But I, tempted. to get a reputation a oe Fy