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Daily Magazine: one cathe W rete fae Such Is Life! ® » ‘ ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH Lag a th te Putiisbed Dally Except Sendey by Pri ishing Company, Nos, ee Sok gees | Gumeerption nates "10 Tie Worla ss the United States Bes Soa THE REAL PROBLEM. WILLIAM M. IVINS, who is a clear and able thinker on municipal problems, favors the appointment of a single Public Service Commission of seven members to take care of @i franchise problems in New York State and city. It seems to be | pamecded that the up-State Commission has been very efficient and Gar hese expensive than the local organisation, whether under Mr. Will- een or Mr. McCall. There has not been, however, the transit devel- . in other portions of the State to compare with thet in New not is the pressure of interests anywhere eo great as here. ts real problem, therefore, is not eo much a question of num- Dems, bat of qualifications, and the chief of these qualifications ts how ‘fan we find o cet of men who will not promptly get under corporation ‘The shifting currents of politics always have underneath and where a franchise is concerned this motive is far RR etn cs Now York an Becond-Ciass Matter. yning |For Fingiand. and the Continent and All Countries fh the International | ‘Pos 7 HE Dog Show as usual has been a euccess. “Bvery dog hee his F Gay,” ie the proverb, and some of them, alse! extend the day too far into the night. But for all of this, nearly everybody Joves the pup. We once knew a men who always kept a yellow dog, es he said, because the animal wae 00 worthless, In fact, the pup! ‘was the acme of worthleseness and never did anything of value. He eould not watch, he not fight, and he was an errant coward Besides. But the pup had one great quality—he was friendly. He 4 came when he wae spoken X ' The Gherif to the letest tusury to be discovered by our éiit ton emt Comminstoner ef Accounts. He gots $12,000 a year and half the fees of his office, The fees since 1906 run impressively thus: Nicholas J, Hayes, 1906-1907, $70,198.91; Thoms F. Foley, 1906-1000, $92,504.84; John &. Shea, 1910-1011, $96,682.91; Ju Mus Harbarger, 1919-1918, $96,769.24; Max S. Grifenhagen, 1914, 8107 04. “ +» The Coroner is the only man whe can arrest o Sheriff, and many want bim eboliched! ——+—-——_——_ THE SHRINKING SHIPS. GS sees emt ent sa. Th tv Amen The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell ‘Ooperight, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). ‘OW you will please explain to N me just what happened!” cried Mre. Jarr, as once more she folded her children to her the tumbrils in the French Revolu- [ly ged Bowls 0 fo0et Sam hotter: tion, ihe eeaanied YO order marry Bim, “Gee!” cried jt je Jarr. e's @ rare husband, too, whe be- i © ashe side ta Hevea it—Macon News. “Tt was great! I never hi ee ene before. I kin ride in one again, ° “Man ” = joan’t L, pop?” Wibowver wate it leds oer . “You will set be many 8. 605, my wore me ie jeat ehare there innocent and abused darling, if you; - —Philadelphia Inquirer. associate with the criminal classes, oman * Jan your father does, if you go eround aging at home thie| the dens frequented by that man men from com- distance to get it— that man Rangie—and trying to blame it on the poor little Slavinsky went slumming in society to investi- | boy,” interjected Mrs. Jarr. “But 60 gate the moral status of the lady | oi ‘Why do you hesitate?” loafer wives and daughters of the) “I wasn’t hesitating, I was waiting rich and well to do who spend thelf/to get a word in edgeways,” replied time tangoing"—— Mr. Jarr. “Well, as I was trying to “You never mind other people's | inform you, we started to throw morals!” Mrs. Jarr interposed. “You/things up at the wires to release the keep away from that man Rangle,}balloon. And somebody”—Mr. Jarr and also do not try to put me off/was afraid to say he was the some- from the question J was asking you!” | poay—"somebody threw up a steel- “I told you that I bought Willie and| handled umbrella that made a short Emma each an old-fashioned toy gas|cirouit. And then came the electrical balloon, and the balloons got away| fireworks, the mob, the police, the from the children—our Willie eays| fire department and we were pinched that Izzy Slavinsky, the boy demon,|—I mean arrested!” . crept up behind him and burst his} “Did the umbrella have an cagic’s balloon and cut the string of his sis-|claw handle holding a metal ball?’ ter’s, Anyway, one of the balloons|asked Mrs. Jarr. “If it did, it was was torpedoed by little Izsy U-9 Sla-|OUR umbrella—and I'll make that vinsky, and the other one floated'man Rangle pay for it, if ite the |way and th of its string caught |last thing I do!” in some electric wires down by the| In the Rangle household at the railroad, near Lanigan's lumber|same time Mrs, Rangle was warning yara"— Mr. Rangle to keep away from bad “And I'll bet it was the doings of company such as that man Jarr, and ones. The channel craft are small. The two American ships | . @ank by mines were minor craft. There will be no great | ** stir unless « submarine touches off « big liner with » passenger list. (No one cares much for the cargo boats, but, ae Mr. Kipling sang: Hits From Sharp Wits. ove rer i Ot endless Peitwieaus attachment, The Dower of Beauty By Marie Montaigne Copyright, 1915, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Bening World), Building Up the Throat Muscles. HE building up of throat muscles so as to preserve or acquire @ cor- es du Te TE ts cal I &s great importance as the care of the skin. dren two toy balloons, and we were In order to keep its contour round and well developed, bend the neck raMknoon taking them—the children—for a walk | every morning in regular exercises. Begin by bending the head three times racks, and near toward the right and then three times paaan “4 i oy Lisle ol toward the left shoulder, keeping the a 4 rf 1 knew itl” inter shoulders well down od exercising ted Mrs, Jarr, “Our ‘Committee the neck only. Then bend the head rup' . . back as far as it will go three times, to Investigate Local Housing Condi- and then forward the same number tions Among the Moral Poor’ have - saya by gg od me rey i well. exchange dis- ‘a paid investigator report to us rs y number of times may Se Game one nai ies aeinae unsanitary conditions be increased to ten, alternating every One Hundred ts in that very locality! three or four movements, and, as the 1 of tenement neck grows more supple the bending may alternate every time, first to wARER iS iene! one aide, then to the other, and the game with the forward and backward movement. With increased suppleness it 1s aleo well to use the rotary movement, turning the neck around several times. Do not attempt these move- mente too frequently at first, as one 1s apt to become dissy, and do not try too many at one time. The effect in filling out the throat and develop- Hitt "e ROAT MUSCLES neck la quite wonderful, and if the ekin treatment is carried out at the same time one will soon possves a By Maurice Ketten You ARE A NICE FRIEND! You MAKE ME Sick | rect and graceful shape of this prominent feature in women ts of/ hi ing @ graceful poise in both head and | { Friday! February 26: Mr. Jarr Escapes the Law’s Clutches Only to Meet Justice in His Home RII IRIE RIT RIAA MRI RH RT TER IPR RIE REI IE ITED LTTE, that Mr. Rangie’s this of the electrocuted umbrella. {Eow to Make a Hit! By Alma Woodward mre Va Want At the Dentist’s. (RST—If there is a patient in start to pull magazines from on the frits. Second—When the victim, who Just left the torture chair, comes ange grep tege tee been on @ curtain stretcher, the doctor adjusts head rest and envelops you snowy towels, looking over hammers the while, tell bim that Broadway, who doesn’t ONE BIT. burt instrument in about to start out on a tour of ploration, give him the high take it out gotten to tell jo does, remind him that you your teeth looked over onl; one tiny little cavity. steel pick been roughly. doctor, you hurt me AWFULI" all, there's one tooth that ment. Shoot back at him: “Oh, I thought #0, All you dentists alike. You treat @ tooth for m ‘the operation was successful but patient died’!” after much calculation beautiful throat. ‘There are also certain massage movements, used in feeding the ekin, oF appointed | wnich help to round the throat, This mmssage must be gentle, never of a to ace how we lived, and Bow | kind to pull the skin into flabbiness, Holding the hands at the back of the meok use the thumb to oweg « ? in ® rotary motion, ekin food into the| who as, well, as low as two hundred bas vawned to receive be proud te call t 4 chair and you are requested to be eeated in the ante-room, table until you have succeeded in putting all the neatly stacked piles to put on her hat, adjust her veil, &c., make her know by your expressive Bam ill and that her mouth must have array of nut picks, nut crackers and tack heard, only yesterday, about a new, young dentist, dowa in a building on Fourth—Just as he places the first your mouth and because you've for- bim something, When @ year ago (or was it two?) and that there can’t possibly be anything to do on them except clean them and perhaps Fifth—At first touch of the little jump up as though you’ ebot and push bis arm away he looks at you in mild surprise wail indignantly: “Ob, Bixth—He will suggest that, first of needs trea: months and then at the end of that time it has to be taken out anyway ‘because it don’t respond to treat- ent’—-just # dental paraphrase of Seventh—When he's finished his in- vestigation and shows you your chart, indicating three fillings on the upper right hand ‘jaw, two on the lower righthand, one on the upper left AND a gold cap, and four on the lower left, with @ possible extraction, when 4% yards guesses he can do it in maybe twenty visits aud that the estimate is as low remember that a cell door many ® crook Raigad) 1915 OGRE: , i DOCG! ° Fifty Dates You Should Remember | _No. 36—FEB. 22, 1797, Last Armed Invasion of England. | T was a pitiful failure as an invasion. Yet it was an invasion, 1 England. Another item that makes ft interesting just now Was the invaders’ use of » flag that was not thelr own in France and England were at war. (They had been at war off and for 600 years.) And England, then as now, was supposed to be in to land. So coast guards were posted everywhere and militia were kept on duty night and day. flying the English flag was seen off the Pembrokeshire coast, nearby harbor. A Poncaer sailor, who had been studying the Ot village to village. Messengers were sent galloping in —try dfrestion @ rouse the whole region. People loaded their belongings into carts and started, By Albert Payson Terhune Pron Pvtiins Oo (Tie New Tork Draning Wert), was also the Inst time that an armed foreign force eet foot i evade the war fleet guarding the Channel. dread of invasion. No one knew at just what spot the French On the morning of Feb, 22, 1797, a little line of warships and & glass, shouted that the ships were Fren » The ti4+ygs spread from inland for safety. As the atory spread it grew in size untt! reached London that a French fleet which and pitohforks. And, several thousand strong, massed to resist the enemy. A British fleet, too, was rushed to the reseus, Meantime, the French force landed. It was barely 1,400 strong, of 600 regulars and of 800 convicts who had received their 1! dition they should join the expedition. It was @ raid rather than in the truest sense of the word. To this day it ia not absolutel: whether the 1,400 were the vanguard of a much larger force or if sent to feel out the chances of a successful landing. In any case, they had barely gotten ashore when the English nt Le ¢ i In the early church the laws forbade criminal processes ing Lent, reconciled penitents at altars and imposed public penalties expiation of their guilt, the Em released prisoners, masters their slaves and enemies friends. The ladies wore friars’ dles at this season. The Puritans fied both law and custom in the ter of Lenten fare and go! in order to show their contempt Lenten days, | The May Manton Fashions | IDDY blousss fi know just what to do. Some of them—groups of the convicte—deserted amé.- tried to hide themselves. It is said twelve of these convicts were rounded wp > with no weapon but a pitchfork scared them eo badly that they let her them to the nearest guard house. Leré Cawdor, with a handful of militiamen and civilians, around their shoulders (to look, at a distance, like military coats) were in Bis Tanks. Setting his puny force in battle array, Cawdor sent the French @ §/ ummons to surrender. They replied that they would gladly yield {f he would Cawdor replied that the only terms he would were unconditional surrender, and that unless Pong hed French should accept these terms by 2 P. M. on Feb, and destroy them. This bluff worked as ew as if Cawdor had actually commanded 10,000 regulars inetead of comic opera detachment of militia and peasants and red petticoated meekly laid down their arms. Not until too late did they find they had a fighting chance for better terms. GPR AREAL ALPE DRS DPE L PAL BE AL | } Little Talks About Lent. [ MONG the odd Lenten customs] .¢™¢ Lenten season in Rome ment an ni atill observed, some of the most | Ciaily to the spectators whe are’ mo! ancient are to be seen in Spain Dearek Wena pond church braid ae brations is the representing of Lent| theatres are u there is me as an old woman. This figure is car-| hails areosoen Goon eoneet ried about the streets by children who| are held everywhere. Even the Nttie churches which are closed drums, shake rattles and cry “Saw pans 4 down the old woman; saw down the| strewn with boxwood and sand; cape old woman!” At midnight the com- Oi eke Peete ere the ts, beating at with kneeling worshippers. Goor and shouting the whrds just| ore tiie teat ian) DOrenenne quoted. The ceremony is concluded Farrar, in “The Golden Bough,” in- forms us that in former days on t firat Sunday in Lent many German wheel celebrations, which have now been transferred to St. John’s Eve. In the Eifel Mountains of Rhenish Prus- by three horses to the top of a hill. Thither the village boys marched at night, set fire to the wheel and captured by one large determined woman—Jemina Ni against the luckless invaders. Many wo! with red petticoats wrapped Promise them a safe return to France. he would hurl bis army of 10,000 regulars upon On the morning of Feb. 26 the surrender was signed and the Lenten Customs. and sent {t rolling down the orthodox in church views. at this time. Among other droll cele- halls are open and evening receptions: are fantastically dressed and who beat riages stand before their doors monalty, taking up the cry, marches to the little sanctuaries, by sawing in two the lay figure. rural districts held their burning- sia a great wheel was made of straw and di the the bas out you you is ox- had ‘and arate blouse & trimming trasting material, each finish is @ one. For im: Wear the Pretty made any light wei, material, a wore over a Piald. For th mer ‘frock there ane linens, piques Poplins, and the Pattern No. 8586—Girl's Dress, 10 to 14 Years, For tl 2 Patte Call at THE EVENING WORLD MAY MANT: -ARHION BUREAU, Donaid Buliding, 100 West Thirty-second pbs! 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