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eat at ee sled AES — ++eeeNO. 19,660 WHOSE ALLY IS THE CITY? LDERMAN WILLIAM D. BRUSH agrees with The Evening World that the City of New York cannot afford to weigh its percentage on the revenues of the Fort Lee Ferry golid advantages to wage-earners, business men and prop- ‘owners that will result from a three-cent ferry fare at this point. In the face of overwhelming public demand for a three-cent rate Public Service Corporation of New Jersey hopes to drive a better pgain by aligning this great municipality against the interests of ite ettisens. The city should promptly decline to be thus used. ‘Alderman Brush will introduce ‘a resolution in the Board next calling upon the Corporation Counsel to explain the city’s atti- No explanstion that unites New York and the Public Service 7: scross the river in an effort to keep up ferry rates at expense of the public can be satisfactory. ‘If fight there must be, this city should fight on the side of the who live in it and pay its taxes. More Turkish datteries aflenced from day to day along the | | Dardanciles. Anything like progressive movement {s doubly inepiring in thie grubbing, grinding war. . AN ECCENTRIC CONCERN. expenses, ; ¢ anybody of average intelligence whether it needed $18,000,000 ‘ghteen cents to get through another year? Yet this is where the State of New York stands—a corporation 2,000 dentists in New York City that agents of the State Dental had Oounty. The Allied Dental Council of New York to have gathered evidence fora sharp arraignment of the ‘Btate Dental Society. . Bows between medical or allied professional organisations too mean little and accomplish less. But dentists who hold licenses the State have a right to protect their standing. The Legisla- 2 hardly refuse to sift the charges. ( ~ Dootore and schoo! authorities warn us that the teeth of this and ‘the rising generation show moré and more evidence of neglect. The More reason to maintain, for the sake of the public health, standards 'Gentistry in which this country already leads the world. Hits From Sharp Wits. P 56 Se & fact that a lot of men who|to wash dishes for-six months, Not Ses thels. wey through by picking | would We Merce to'a girl in ner teens. ry be . | Toledo Blade. = , 3 r eee Loon @matches a woman's| A friend in need keep ‘J oe freedom for carfare broke—-Columb gute “3 ay 4a powder rag.—Memphis Com- ‘Appeal, Bae oti, Soe woke hing, that can be never heard of an influence that a aha cd - about as popu! ap 0 neutral. sROUr day at i—Phile- mes @ man impresses Cd citizen ‘when’ he te und when he overtakes jw far has the hare ‘raweliea?® R. E. IR. Compound Iutercot. ‘To the Biter of The Bvening World: and i 8 F . Pei erss 3 Evev: is WAITING The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1915, ty The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), 8 is @ good scheme, isn’t it?" eald Jenkins, the book- keeper, holding up @ eome- what dingy envelope tliat had @ printed addresd with inked lines through it and ao written ad- dreas above that. “What ts it?” asked Mr. Jarr, com- ing over beside Jenkins. “Why, you know all these book pub- Mehers, investment brokers and other people after your money who send you stamped and addressed envelopes for reply—generally one of those atamped envelopes the Government sells that you can’t soak the stamp off because it's part of the envelope?” » yea,” ald Mr. Jarr. “I got ‘em, I just run @ thick ink line through the printed address and wri the address of somebody I am corres: ponding with over it, and so get the use of the stamp. Pretty cute, eh?” “Anything eo ugly done for two cents is petty cute, not pretty cute,” said Mr, Jarr disdainfully, ‘“What'll your correspondent think of such @ sloppy affair?” “Oh, that doesn’t mat 1 order.” “Your wife!" said Mr. Jarr in eur- prise. “Bure!” sald Jenkins, “She won't mind, It has @ money order in it, and thas 11 she cares for.’ “Look here, Jenkins,” said Mr. Jarr. “Far be it from me to pry into your private affairs, but isnt your wife away with her folks because there is —er-—er @ little difference of opinion between you?” “Well, it'e all her fault!” snapped Jenkins. “Jarr, you got a wife among @ thousand. She never finds fault with é@very little thing you do. If you bad a crank to put up with like 1 have! Every little thing I do ghe”— car after you've caught it?” asked Jenkins, doggedly. ’ ‘And what's the use of not getting off and help give a push when the car stops on a crossing where the electric Connection has a gap in it?” replied Mr. Jarr. “Oh, if you had a wife like mine!” mumbled Jenkins. “T've got @ wife just like yours, and so has every other man,” said Mr. Jarr. “You don’t know how they ap- Preciate a little gift or a little atten- tion or a little courtesy. Suppose you got in some terri trouble and dis- grace? Suppose you were arrested for robbing the firm, spending the money on another woman, maybe? ‘Who would be here on the first train, ASLMAABAAAAAPAIAAAAABAAAABABAAARAAS Mr. Jarr Plays Good Samaritan, But It Will Not Happen Again eerererer errr rrr rere rr errr eK ee eee crying at your cell door and swearing it was all a conspiracy? And would stick to you and not bell a word throughout it all “Why, Betsy woul She's @ trump!” eaid Jenkins enthusiastically. “But the little things"—— “Aw, get out! You're the little man in the little things,” said Mr. Jarr. “You tear up that dirty old envelope and write her a nice letter.” “I @on't do anytiving of the kind!” said Jenkins, “I'm going to wire her a hundred and say, ‘Please come back firat train!’ and that I love her. You mind your own business!” ‘When Mr. Jarr arrived home, glow- ing with the consciousness of a good deed, he remarked how pretty some plants looked in a window across the way, and Mra. Jarr sighed and said: “Yes, some husbands remember The Silent Partner One Phase of the Marriage Contract By Sophie Irene Loeb Coperight, 1910, by The Prem WPublishung Oo, (The New York Evening Werld), 1B controversy of the Rev. Dr. Grant and other minis- teres waxes warm as to the marriage questi Dr. Grant is quoted as saying: “If mar- riage is founded on the affection of two persons for each other, as mar- contract be broken, if broken?” For the child t# usually the worst suf- riage in America ts supposed to be, | lost with the disappearance of such sentl- ment disappears the only ground for | brood of the marriage.” Dr. Houghton says: “I can see little difference between the way in which American divorce is tending and the way of free love.” their wives once in @ while, and with the men it’s the little things that ponds bs So Wags the World. By Clarence L. Cullen. Corrie ot Fook veaina Weahes ONE of those lounging, try- ing - to - look - world-weary N Diades who at this season are snapshotted at Palm Beach reminds us in the least of a Chambers or Oppenheim “hero.” (Which, when you come to think of it, 1s one reason they possess for eelf- eratulation, after all.) After a good many years of some- what privileged prowling around in artists’ studios and more or Jess casual inspection of feminine models during their posing hours, we hereby pro- claim that when Rodin the sculptor says there is one woman mode! in the world who has attractive-looking feet he must bave been using a little can- nabis indica, which the same be has- heesh. Just how old must & woman before she finally abandons the be- lef that the subway cars are fairly stuffed with impudent young scoun- drels who try with all their might and main to Sirt with her? We are acquainted with at least fiv or six persons who won't experie: the least sense of loss if they never hear of the Argonne Forest again as long as they live and breathe. The Belgians starve, and America anewers their call, The Poles are an- | hungered, and New York chips in food a And in this line other ministers, pro and con, have been giving their views. In all this symposium of opinions the one big fact that has seem: been lost in the maelstrom is re’ in the or phe who contract without “Would you have eent her a letter! is the bi like that, looking like that, to save ‘wo cents, before you were married?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I might have," said Jenkins, dog- godly. “I was never one of those guya that put on style for anybody." "Oh, I know all about it,” eald Mr, Jarr. “These things mean a great deal toa woman. Is there part: continue the contract for or other reasons, that is also a for aim! decision, He child enters into the releti sp, this whole checkerboard of cl matter But when a jit- with the rest of this iand to them, T deserted her and four hungry chil- dren,) wheels a bey. carriage around oe ta of New York tor tw a ithout Tood for herself or dren, before the good: Manly, and seldom if and feed La faye Copyright, 1918, by The Press Puttishteg Oo, (Tee Rew York Brentng Wet), | ¥ Daughter, be not deceived by falee signs, for the man who ieadeti thee to the altar is NOT the man who leadeth thee away there from, and the lover whom thou iinderstandest to-day shall bee TOTAL STRANGER unto thee upon the day after the wedding, y Now, there dwelt two youths in Babylon, and one of them was called “Slow” and the other was called “Gayboy.” oe And in all the days of his life Slow had done no single thing Whid he could not tell his mother, for he was SUCH « “steady and ‘worty young man.” between the Battery and Harlem, and the Town was crimson with Mis painting. Behold, it came to pass that at an early age Slow fell in love With ¢ “Nice Girl,” and was quickly corralled, for he said in his heart: “Now I shall marry and really begin to LIVE.” But, when the wedding presents had all been exchanged and Glow hal sat beside the fire with his wife for seventy times eeven evenings he begam to grow exceeding weary and to wonder what he had “missed.” 7 And thereupon he took his hat and coat and departed, saying: 9) * “I will go unto the corner for a cigar.” i And he wandered unto many corners and returned by « ses bette with the coming of the milkman, Ps | And thereafter the tango places claimed him for their own, end | sirens of Broadway cast their spell over him and taught him how toepend his money. Yea, all his days were merry and all his nights were dances. - And his wife wept salt tears and tore her hair in sorrow and disag- pointment. ‘ But Gayboy dodged the matchmakers for many seasons, and not ent @ Fluffy Thing had blindfolded him and dragged him to the altar against his will was he conquered. And upon the wedding dey six ushers were required to get him to church and HOLD him there, . Yot, when the ceremeny was over Gayboy smiled happily aad Dressed hie delight at being “settled.” : And thereupon he went forth and bought « briar pipe and = pair of carpet slippers and returned unto the hearthstone satisfied. And when six months had passed his friends knew him not when they passed him on the Highway, for his clothes were no longer pressed an@ shining and he wore low collare aad neckties of a sober pattern and hose* of lisle thread and of cotton. e Lo, when they invited him unto the tavern for mirth and refreshment he waved them eside, saying: “Nay, nay? I have CUT that out, for I am a Married Mant” And HIS wife, likewise, wept and tore her hair. For she had married for RHST, but for amusement and diversion and a Ganoing partner and « continuous round of tango teas. 7 But Gayboy sat always at home and went to sleep over his aews paper. rs Verily, verily, marriage is the alohemy which turneth a Black @heqp into Mary’e Little Lamb, a Fireside Companton into a Rounder, a Fool inte @ Wise Man, a Grub into a Butterfly and « Slave into « Gultan. Selah. | Little Talks About Lent. | But of the Wild Oats which Gayboy had sown there were many Solas 4 The Golden Rose. HE historic ceremony of blessing the Golden Rose by the Pope dates back at least to 1049, un- der the pontificate of Leo IX., and takes place annually on the fourth Sunday in Lent. The ornament is usually afterward sent as a mark of special favor to some Catholic sov- ereign, male or female, or to some tholic personage distinguished either as a aig morener of in the ity. © prayer oO} bad contains 6 mystio allusion to the lower of the field and valleys.” Rose wes sng r of wrought go! \ tor tts petals were adorned with gems and still later was adopted the form of branch bearing leaves, bu hor the top, all of pure gold. It le put & pot bearing the arms and name the Pope who blesses and bestows tha t. itt. eos the day it ie blessed the ni tenth eek So actiakial st cense, fiusk and then left upon the altar um \ til the conelusion of the Mass. ‘There is an old superstition that the Golden Rose brings il! luck to ae Sopanoe BE ! Pye ; » Was dethroned ani stranatody : ing’ Bomba’s wife, the Queen ie Empress .My Wife’s Husband == By Dale Drummond == Coperight,, 1915, ty The Prese Publishing Op. (The New York Evening World), OHAPTER XVI. 7B day upon my return from a round of visite I was greeted by Jane, a Jane with a very anxious face. “Gomething is wrong with John,” she said tersely as I came into the living room, where she sat, the boy on her lap. “why—wha: “Never mind asking questions, Do something for him,” she interrupted. “He has been fretful and cross all day, but since 8 o'clock he has been 60 quiet and feverish. I tried to find you, but of course you had time for every |! one except your own family,” with unusual sarcasm, which I did not no- tice, laying it to her anxiety over the boy. 2 HH Jane had said, the little chap was feveriah, and | at once became al- most as alarmed as was Jane. He had been so thoraughly healthy that his sickness came as a surprise. After giving him some simple rem- @dies 1 tried to induce Jane (whom I could see was terribly unstrung and anxious) to go to bed and leave the baby in my care. ss te oil or ° ing only shook her head.’ Final! U prevailed upon her to leave him long enough to put on a loose gown and so make herself more comfortable, ‘As she pjaced him in my arms she eal he dies, I shall die too,” and t me with wide, frightened left the room before I could th fond end proud of the little chap. ‘was very ever cried, no hurt a4 inet her breast, eat to disturb hi This was the beginning of a it lasted for aome weeks, which Jane never left Her meals even 4 eaten in the room where he lay, bi nothing I could say would Induce . to leave him for a yy She 'y ing im, and she hollow-eyed from exercise. But on the day when t her he was out of danger, that he would soon be well again, £ her in my arms just aa have fallen in a long taint that ened me. ‘ “If the baby had died, should have died, too,” she in; and looking back at time, lieve she wot if. eu x ly realized during bat Jane possessed a 4 ind tenderness of had not dreamed her capapie, & 7 @ loyalty and devotion that could be bought, that never repaid. And I—as well as our boye= bad ie lore Se eee How terribly our selfish rise up and smite us, how ts Et ca bt t er st 4 4