The evening world. Newspaper, February 17, 1915, Page 14

A | ‘Re email hours are renponsitie for Lapeer @ tong heat Cotepuia State, you can find ‘NONE TOO EARLY TO BEGIN. |B EVENING WORLD'S plan for « free beach and « new public bathing pavilion on the Dreamland site at Coney Island has won the unanimous approval of the Aldermen. The ‘Board df Estimate will be asked forthwith to agree to the necessary ‘Thé older bath house, built through the efforts of this newspaper ‘at the end of the Concourse, proved so successful that lest summer far too small to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of to bitter ridicule through the innumerable int: im to fill its empty chairs. On the whole, we are quite es wise to hail our “immortals” with- Gesignating or numbering them. ‘The Mayor is right about dancing. It does ease the soul _ ~yparticularly when somebody site by to pay the fiddler. Hits From Sharp Wits. nes eivare eo Promila ung , they are good because they are afral or fulfils the promise-Dese: to be guyriag lee. omphly Cor ret * méycial-Appeal. ne Honest, now, did you ever see any- take the ooree offered ?—- . ‘ A good listener is one who can pre- . nde des tet to be deeply interested when he | & person who is if the worst doesn't hap- Journal. ° A man’s inclination to give advice in strong inverse ratio to his fit- nal, Mow Yous #o that sleigha can bave space to turn. Mba the Batter of Tho Urvning World: Another is an announcement of mad An ap old copy of » New York news: | to-order suits at $6.80. Another a in |vertises champagne at 20 shillings i ay D : You Never. Can Tell say ‘By Maurice Ketten ‘The Jarr Family ‘ By Roy L.: 773 ay ke Jerr i i il i i ght aH go along with Mr. Jarr and kis of- spring, #0 es to keep an eye on the umbrella. -e! said Mre, Rangle, “I'll wager anything, Mrs. Jarr has a whole closet full of umbrellas, I've bought our hildren two school umbrellas ‘this w » and where are they? The other night you went out and lost an umbrella, I wouldn't be surprised if you let it out of your Hand apd. that man Jarr took it,. You are @ regular softy about umbrellas. Nobody “16 honest about umbrellas, and that’s why I always take one whenever I find it. But wait"— : Bhe closed the door on little Willie Jarr and left hi nding in the hall. Buppose thi: n umbrella that be- longa to the Jarra? Then I never will get it back, So many people are #0 inconsiderate about those things. I'd scorn to keep anything, belonging to any one else, even if it was my own, No, I remember, now, this was one Mrs. Terwilltger loaned amo nearly year ago. I put it Im the closet when she called and forgot it afterward. I 7 ia that New York's) at.¢ ked and dirty; bad Sagtin. GV recognize it? Bhe's Mr. Jorn caitry it till you iy’ Mc our kids go to the moving pictures.” At thie Master Willie Jarr and Uttle i itt} “If you'll only step howling, ‘I'll take you anywhere!” cried Mr. Jarr, shaking the darlings. So the walk was headed inthe direction of the Rearest, neighborhood picture house. But at a toy store that baited this trap there was a man in the window with a presbure gas bank inflating Reflections of 3 ‘a Bachelor Girl By Helen’ Rowland * « Oowwright, 1016, bg. The Uae Publishing Co, (The New York Wvening World). “HEARTBREAKER" ts’ not a curse, but a bdlessing.. No girl ever feels that phe has reqily; “lived” until somebody has come along and ** “broken her heart” properly. Nothing bores a mari like the discovery that » girl is still hanging onto ® Jove‘affair after hab tired of it; and nothing shocks and astonishes him Ike the discovery that'he is till hanging onto it after the girl has ‘A map always “knows his:own: mind.” What keeps him forever guegs- ith: its Atty-seven daily variations. The ‘wight of the Handwriting of @ long-forgotten sweetheart sometimes man, but the sight of the handwriting of the girl JUST before the distasteful. to him as the sight of mid-Victorian furniture, It doesn't matter what'a woman does—the only thing that makes it yight or wrong is. whether & man happens to be in love with her or not at ‘ Bvery ‘Airtation must end sooner or later; usually sooner than the girl expected and later than the man intended. “Selah” means “rest,” and It is a good thing to write at the end of a love. affair, for the only thing todo when love is dohe Je to let it rest be-| fone Tore it'ls overdone! " ' ere ig a tide in the affairs of every hachelor which, taken at its flood, ‘to Marriage. It is‘called “the marrying mood.” "There are only two ways of making a nian be good: one is to put him in Jail andthe other ts to tell him he “ought not to” be good. Jeads PPAADAAADDDAAAASAAAIABAPAAAABAAAAS Mr. Jarr-Learns the Trie Philosophy , . Of Umbrella Borrowing and Lending 4 PPABBAABAIBIDIDBIIDI ABABA AIA BBABAIDIS “You can have a balloon each or the movies, but not both,” said M: pk Bd Core he Wabi We In @ Drugstore. IRST. Come in with a worried, preoccupied air, as though you were going to have three or four Prescriptions filled. Push your way to the counter, elbowing away three or four people who have beén waiting fifteen minutes or more. Ask sweetly: “HAVE you got a City Directory? Oh, thank you!” - 2. After ryffling the long-tortured pages of the directory for many minutes, approach one of the clerks in the clinging-vine helplessness that is wo fetch! in an ingenue, 80 face- tious in a dowager. Coo at him: -| “You know thie thing is just like a Chinese pussie to me. I never CAN find anything in it! Will you please diacover the address of Lemuel Tewk for me? Thank you.so much!" 3. When the desired address has been ferreted out and copied for you on the back of an’ envelope, decide that instead of writing, you'll t Phone. 4. The phone number is you Rummage in your purse for a nickel. There is naught but four coppers and @ five dollar bill, wrapped in your powder rag. Assail the cashier. “Would you. be kind as to let me have a few nicl ? I want to tele- phone,” Push the five dollar bill un- cer the grating—and look the other rs ». Drop your nickel in the slot; then proceed to deposit your purse, your if and your bundles on the little before you take down the re-| ° Central doubts that you've e tarjff on account of your » Then, because the it has nothing whatever to do you summpn him ‘to the put my nickel in the slot says I didn't, dea! I mat anybody! The idea! Not Well, you OUGHT to do something— he booth is in your store, isn’t it? t The idea!” had it out with her number, go etand in ed perfume case. ‘3 hopes to a four or Let himr-rhapeodise rer xq e odors and the stoppers of all the bottles under your . Then observe gently: thinking of purchasing a bottle for ray cousin Aga‘ha’s birthday—but it doesn’t come till next May. ‘1. Aw he closes thi But DO. ye little pepperminte that come in tin- = packages ur 4. ‘ainda of the shop with your m= that you can alip into it femem! 4 denly. ber something 8 ed t me . RIL 12, 1861—Firet Shot in the .C N the black hour just Sefore dewa,.on April 12, §. C., lay ike « city of the dead. At @ casnal { lying town seemed sound ableep amid {ts ' barrens. In the “narrowest part, on © misshapen and very usiy little new built fort. ‘ slumbering city thousands of eyes were stealthily watching’ the. Ughts of this fort—Fort Sumter—ang-every available canhen wes on ft. Pr | ‘Then—at 4.30 A. M—a single gut's report split the . the instant, the sound was caught ap by all the harter end ‘| The darknéss was illumined by myriad glares of red screamed across the black water, whistling around that’s! i The Civil Wer was The Confederate Governmient had , on a United Sates fort—on the United States flag. “ For years the war had been inevitable. The e Northern people at large had refused to believe the South, w saw the’ war they made ready for it. 1,On' muster grounds, greens, even in echool yards, mén and: boys ever drilling. Arms and ammunition were collected; at first openty. ‘ ‘Then, one by oné,'the Southern States seceded. And ‘each Promptly seized such United States forte, arsenals, warships; &c., as within its boundaries. es) . South Carolina had long clamored for. secession. She was lave the Union. It seemed child's play to capture such illdefended bein property as lay in and sround Charleston... And, bat for one ind gallant Union officer, the selturee could have been made without, ing a blow. ‘ Major Robert Anderson, U. 8. A., was in command of Fort Moulitte; oe the water-edge near Charleston. He had a garrison of seventy-five sien, Fort Moultrie was weak, from the landward side, With his handful ‘o@ diers Anderson could not possibly hope to defend it. . So he destraged te Guns, did all the damage he could te such stores and munitions as he: not carry away, and he moved his garrison and. provisions over to Fort ter. Sunitér was the only stronghold of all those in and around the that he had a chance to save for the Union. And he concentrated hig force there. Before the Confederates knew what he was up to he the badly damaged Fort Moul Sumter, and had notified the Gor ‘A steamship, carrying reinforcements, ammunition and food, was to him from Washington. The Confederates drove it away. A» squadron of three ships was fitted out, but it came to grief outside the Wah, bor bar. Anderson, cut off from ald, was left to handle the situation as: he could, : . He He was short of men, of food, of ammunition. The Confederates calli on him to surrender the fort. He refused, but at last agreed to givé Op, relief did not reach him by April 16, 1861,¢ This answer didnot suit, & Confederates. And early on April 12 ¢! opened fire on Sumter. - .( For thirty-six hours the bombardment raged, every gun ‘in the hasher being brought to bear on thé doomed little fort. Some of the Sumter were hit and put out of commission, Wide gaps were hammered tn the The favorite target of the Confederate gunneéra seemed’ td Be tHe A: flag that floated above the beleaguered isjand. For the’flagsteff was ght times. AE last ta wind. wae Solin eee peak. Sergt. Peter Hart cli Mp, under a. wind of shot, and nailed Old Glory .to. what: was Jett of the pole. t+ eal The walls were sieves, the buildings y The ammunition was gone. And, after a day and a half, Anderson. eur- rendered. But he refused to give up the flag. He kept. it, and, four yeprs afterward, raised it with his own hands above the recaptured fort. Later the same flag was used as his burial sheet. - A Sumter’s fall ended all talk of compromise or of conciliation. The first shot at Old Glory had been the first shot in a four-year war. Little Talks lh Wednesday. homo, aule rie oo v rum revel af j SH WEDNESDAY, to-day— that dust thou, art en of Lent, is &| gust shalt thou return”). zane id day of the strictest fast to pornieitige aiaier oe ‘to ‘when this Churchmen and almost ranks| Custom was begun. It was lemnity with Good Fri- | {yyy oauced by Grewory the Great Wednesday tho palm oné te “tae of E§ Good Friday. the Hew Old Glery Wae Saved. TRAN branches, blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous year, are burned to ashes and these ashes are placed in & vessel on the altar before the begin- ning of mass, The priest, wearing & violet cope (the color of mourning), ashes prays that God will gend his heads of peniten P to hallow the ashes, that they may! themselves before the bishop become a salut remedy to all peni- | da; % tents. Then followa the’ symbolical meaning of the use of ashes still more clearly. The ashes are then thrice sprinkled with holy water and censed, after which the celebrant kneels and | contri some of them upon his own ead. ‘The congregation thi proach the altar and kneel, ign of the cross is made upon t! foreheads with the blessed ashes; each cne are said the words ——————_ The May Manton Fashions. in the Protestant Dpiscopal ” Ach Wednesday” ‘the i hit BF K) i \ we