The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1915, Page 20

NPOKMAL ennowr offuenis that ' Public Serv foe Greater Sew ) + than comperte et The bremng Word bee oe Thies great pubii letgest metropo ian toe tility and dutrust between Ror neoowary Kumne Cemrmitiod iterif to the primp that ‘With the interests of the public It eerves, that only by genuine oo-op, @retion with the muilons to whom it owes ite privileges and ita pros- | perty can it hope to was stronger Change of atetude on the part of this powerful corporation can- Bet fail to produce # change of sentiment in the public itealf a are neither natural ee and mutual respect Tha New York Telephone Company has taken plenty of time to @envinos itself that profit from public utiitias depends upon publie In the end, however, \t has wupphed an impressive esamp which other public servine corporations are not liknly to overlook thrives upon confide The Evening Werld believes that sound citi: no better guaraviee than @ healthy, home-bred child. That le why i fought for the Mothers’ Pension Mill which has passed both Senate and Assembly. ture is mow needed to make this meas Petered at the Poet Office ot 7 fe Core rom Rarer The ‘ ’ oe ntine World for the Uniied ® ie totorme end Canete Pere One fener ’ , Ore Moni VOLUME ——_— A FAR-REACHING VICTORY. spond) re b tie long ade in the in New Vorsere rporation hese in the world public and corporaty ot] Only the Governor's sigua- law and an es THE ONLY WAY. 411 only way to collect taxes is to go after them and mean businses First Doputy Attorney General Merton E. Lewin be- ¥ Boves the Stete of New York should treat unpaid corporation te on the above principle. His method is simple and direct: Three hundred and fifty corporations have failed to pay taxes, levied upon them by the State for the right to do business and hold | At least $250,000 of such back taxes, extending over five or #ix years, remain unpaid. This State hus the power to annul the charter of a corporation that fails to pay ite taxes. Within the lust fow days the Attorney Generel has started proceedings to annul the charters of twenty-five Hie quiet preparations have worked like a charm. Tax arrears are coming in briakly. Is there no official charged with the tax collecting functions of city who can go after the $11,000,000 of uncollected special fran- chise taxes with a little of the same spirit? Municipal officers are prone to sneer at State finance methods. Here is one whereby the State puta this city in the learners’ clase. their charters. delinquent corporations. | thie / Kuens. ‘That this country doubts, look out, Destruction f It behooves tol thoughtfully Wor even after the pr end to end. But neither that ort to stimulate extravagance, When a neighbor smashes his furniture and throws {t out of the window it may seem to ben ofit you--if you are in the furniture business workers anywhere stop work and begin to wreck thelr houses <ood to men or nations bound together by ¢ this nation Whatever profit comes should be built into bul warks of thrift and stability that will stand against tldal waves <¢-- — AFTER THE STUPENDOUS WASTE..WHAT? Annibilation of wealth overseas proceeds on a scale two colossal for computation, off producing and devote the last ounce of their strength to de- stroying. Millions more at home feverishly turn out munitions and other products destined to destroy and be themselves de- stroyed. Food and clothing in appalling quantities incessantly disappear into the maw of destruction, swing of his most devastating orgy What the economic consequences are to be we can only The cost of living may presently loom for Kurope a more fearful problem than any nation has yet dreamt of. Some thirty million workers leave Man is in the full will have its era of prosperity nobody prosperity nor its causes are of « But when fellow of wealth n yet brought permanent mmon interests, perity soberly and to take pi ent convulsion has subsided commer clal and financial storms will sweep the civilized world from easy 1 8-What-We-shall-do urgh Sun. . , Lots of persons who have fe Know at just ‘a flower beds. see ‘ A Wife's “Partners! (© the Ettitor of The Brening World r upbringing by his iad they made him pay & y when he was at h he would have onild, ia left ‘This prevent + ® haste never have had the time to pent at leisure--Philadelphia fn- ‘ulrer. ‘Why 4008 4 hen cross the road?" to get in a neigh- fly over two fences, dodge six auto- Robiten and walk @ half block to @own-Hearted,” that her husband's prought on ) @4 trait of not giving her enough of the husband; and the husband's! goney to get along on s possibly due ideas are generally derived from his hard to change man 10 ndent’s hus er them with- ed argument, and the alized to live, and when he 1 ‘Would have known two could not longer she puts it off the more dit. cheaply as one, and he would cult {t will be for her, or any one eine, ‘accordingly, A good way for |to reform him and make a more gen- ‘Married man to do ie to make erous man of him, Any married man| wife « full partner, in his income | pa Hits From Sharp Wits. atter to overdo this scratch up a neighbor's lawn?— business.) Mecon News, ~ os A man who Is carried away by his married ,; OW" thoughts is usually fixed in one spot eee The politictan hind him frequently fore him,—Deseret : . The surest way gowslp going In to t ‘Why is it that a chicken wil) walk] The only reason of which we can @ll over ground meat, corn, onts,| think why so many persons try to grass and table scraps in order | write poetry is that they want to do something that they can't do.—Albany Journal tween man and wife is stinginess: parents, parents and nd board | they ar A out a determi all frio- a an pagn whe b profits from t hue definitey otermts are wrapped up whose future ts be- hia past be-! “Listen to the man!” erte o get a piece of | Any acetdent, 1 4t in confidence, | tion and leaves both to do what they Please with their own share. Unfair- to your correspondent | 2644 in money and other matters be-| 4 Lat me say to ¥ Pt Kenerally om the part nee with ing over his wife and child and) or children, | giving money to his mother er sister, | es always coming|or any other relation, ought to wite ¢ach be taking taken into the Domestic Relations do with what! Court, I think, and have jud passed im ne tate | TAD Taig PLAY i ( 'TS A KNOCKOUT!) 3 ITS& , FAILURE! my Wau | The Jarr By Roy L. Copyright, 1916. by The Brew Publishing T it getting a little dark for sowing?” anked Mr, Jarr cheer- tly as he came home the other | evening to find Mra, Jarr sitting at | the window in the waning Nght of the | chill apring late afternoon, *“Oom thish oom bush ao sosh| | prickler,” was the Delphic reply, and then Mr. Jarr wae aware she was! speaking as though she had a mouth- ful of mush because she really had a, mouthful of pins, “What say?" inquired Mr. Jarr, Mrs, Jarr took the pins out of her | ;mouth because @he wished to make lciear to him tho matter of her wifely | sacrifices, | “ce "Twas this work was not | particular,” #he maid in piniess tones, | “It's only my old taffeta dress, 1 got some gd to mateh it and tm put ting now sleeves in it so | ean knock # turn or two out of it, [am not ao fortunate as some women, like Clara Mudridge-Smith, for instance, who What was the matter with the old | sleeves?” asked Mr, Jarr, “Did you| tear them ow “1 ripped them out,” replied M Jarr, “and I had the hardest time to get the material to mateh the rest of the gown, it was so long since I got the dress.” Tow did you come to rip out the sleeves? Did you have any acctdent on the street car?” impatiently, “Certainty 1 If 1 did I could get a new dresa from the street car com- |pany, as Mra, Hickett did the time she got off the car backwards and broke her arm, But Mra, Hickett al- ways was lucky." Mr, Jarr could not see Mra. Hick- ett's adventure of the torn dress and the broken arm in the light of luck, [but he did not wish to argue. “I never recognized how radical the |changes tn style were until I went to the theatre the other night and looked @t the dresses in the boxes. If ever woman’ was written on any- body's clothes they were on mine— and on @ good many other women's jclothes at the same theatre, if that's any consolation.” “Woll,” said Mr. Jarr softly, “you | are a working woman and I am al working man. 1 don't see why we] should be snobs and not acknowledge the faot." “Why don't you be @ regular Furo. pean peasant like in a comio opera and wear a working m blouse | lars jother day, leheek to buy a new outtit. Family McCardell Co (The New York Frening Word) to dress Hke a business man and Wear the same kind of hat and clothes most fairly well-to-do men wear.” “Well, cheer up," said Mr. Jarr, “the worst Is yet to come. Wact 1s, old lady, T did a little bit of extra business for the boss to-day that Pleased him highly, and he has prom- tsed me a check for a hundred dol- You can take ft and buy any- thing you want with tt." Won't that be splendid?” arr, brightening up. “FE can get a new spring tailored sult af covert cloth with gaitery to match and the dearest little hat | saw downtown the I patd two dollars on it and asked them to put it away for mo. T think it's real aweet of you to] tell me you are going to give me the id Mra, Goodness knows I needed it, but then that isn't Her Son's Career, NCE upon a time there was a fond mother, She had a son. She had ambitions for the son, She always talked of these ambitions to the son and bis father until they came to realize that the ambitions had to be satisfied wanted her son to become @ great man, All the spare money that could be saved was used for his edu- cation, He went to the best schools and studied diligently, ‘Then bis mother began planning a “career” for him, She thought about it for a long time and decided that she would like him to be a great lawyer, Already she could see him tn 4 crowded court room defending the prisoner at the bar and carried off as a horo. She could see his name tn all the papers—a power in the | Always she talked to the what he “ to shine that way, but she insisted. So he was sent to ‘colle, the law a splendid city tt would make, Al- ready he could see the buildings, and the parks, and the streets, bullt in his mental vision, And when he re- turned he would draw plans of it just for his own amusement, Ah! here and be done with it then?’ asked Mrs, Jerr, “I notice you are careful was real pleasure in work, and work in pleasure! foward the end of hie college of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb tT ee 1 A | $ | Na <1 j Pray By Dick Sure HIT | Mrs. Jarr Annexes a $100 Windfall And Saves It Until It Is All Gone your fault, for when you do give me @ little extra money there is something needed for the house or for the chil- But this time I'll get a dress! and hat for myself." “Sure you must,” sald Mr. Jarr, and Mrs dren, Jarr put away her sewing ma- But when Mr, Jarr came a few days tater, after giving Mra, Jarr the check, he found new china on the table, a new rug in the parlor and Master Willie Jarr and little Emma rejoicing in new olothes, “Where did all this eplendor come from?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Why, the check for a hundred dol- ars you gave me,” was the reply. “Why, I gave you that money to get yourself a new dress and a new hat and the other things you needed" said Mr. Jarr, “On, never mind Jurr. “1 put new sleav taffeta and it looks splendid, Mudridge-Smith thinks it's a * suid Mrs, In my old Clara A NEW PLAY BY BILL . READIT S A GREAT Pray! « Sure | new | 4 THEATRICAL to death to tell her where I got it She wants one just ike It, ahe says Providing it 1s not too expenatv So Wags the World. By Clarence L. Cullen. ome te, Yates ine F the victim ts a member of your ] family, he's @ “drug addict,” with the soft pedal working. Other- wine, he's just a “dope fiend,” fo tissimo and crescendo. | A woman can turn a swift hand-! spring, so to speak, into her apart- | Ment just in time to greet her hus- band upon bis return home from the office, after she has spent a whole| afternoon tango-teaing, and look as composed as if she'd morely been at- tonding @ meeting of her church guild. But Man, the poor hangdog nonentity, could live forever without ever acquir- | ing the knack of tranquilizing him- self even sufficiandy to avert suspt- clon, | dress, and has Just been pestering me Copyright, 1915, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Prening World) prize was for the best plans lo be suggested by the students; for it was to bo a structure the use of which would be generally shared by all the students, Thus, everybody Was interested, The boy went to work. Here was an INCENTIVE in the thing that ap- pealed to him most, And, as yoy ha no doubt guessed, he won thé prize, In great glee he wrote his mother of the happy event, and, seizing tho op- portunity for the hundredth time, boxged to take a course in surveying and in building rather than the work she had mapped out for him, Hut she saw no grandeur in this and the bey became a lawyer. For a jong time he waited for the client that never came, He was his father's attorney, to be sure, and, with the exception of a few relatives, he had no work. One day as he sat in his empty office, at last discouraged at his un- department, Tt seemed tnevitable to him that he MUST study this thing. | As t went on, hated it more and more. Sometimes he would close | his books with a sharp bung and go out into the woods. He would scan the fleld as far his eye could reach and think whe succes4, all the manhood he vould muster came to his rescue; and he went away "to work out his own sal- {vation against the wishes of his mother He began at the bottom of the lad- builder's shop. at the thing to do. He progressed, and after many years caine to the’ very {top. But it was late in life. ‘The | mother was also almost too old toen- joy the “career she had dreamed About, Many times she reflected on the years spent by the boy in the thing he did not like—somewhat lost years-and she now understands this moral: In choosing your child's career, let the career suit the child rather than the child sutt the career. | | Perhaps it is permisaibi women who mourn over “Woman's Subservience to Man” that if men {were to dare to wear straw hats on the streets on lcy days in February ;and March they'd be run in to have |their mental condition investigated at ‘the psychopathic ward, whereas the | Woman nowadays who doesn't replace | jtous height by her sister women | who've got ‘em on, We know a lot of men who are so) everlastingly smooth and plausible \that nobody takes enough stock in them to enable them to make a living. Thirty or forty years ago it etill was the custom for male beings to propose to women on their knees. Pondering whic! one wonders one's own dad ever could have been such a hopelessly inv: brate mol- luse as to have done Bnything so \stupendously imbecile, Our idea of the Summit of Silliness is the spectacle presented by a Time- ravaged woman of 'fty or ‘xty trying to live up to the girly-girly sugges- tiveness of one of those barkii baok-to-befo'-de-wah — dinky aldewise-perched straw hats long streamers at the back. ing: little wit! “The fellow who actually “diazes a path” to anything worth while doesn't leave a litter of bottles behind him on the tral. He had his eyes glued to an alluring atent garter-clasp advertisement, he looked over his shoulder and saw What he was looking at, "Lt declare, {i's a sin_and @ shame, the scandalous pictures they print nowadays tn these | advertisementa!” she broke out quer- | ulously. Looking again at the speaker of these words—his wife, of course— we noticed that she was quite un- ‘usually thin and of little or no figure— Wheresa the patent garter-clasp, ad- vertisement picture grrevezes quite plump individual. e men sight sadly, and turned the page MANAGER, 'F M \@, 1 om weary of bechierhoot Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland | (mgr 1018 ty Tro Pom Pitiating (> Tee Mow Tort Spiny Bans Y Deugbter, how strange te the reasoning of man; for the Berpent Dimeeif could not argue more sstonishing!y Hehol4, there came unto me charming Youth. seyivg and wick of Mirtation, end ! years ‘or (he Pert home life end the simple joys of domesticity “Yea, | would BHTTLA DOWN! the bloom of youth, whe shall heap I prey thee who ber own hatr and al! Meelis and @ men Vora to be endured fitting wife, oh Woman of Wisdom, even 6 demer 19 me in the siraight an@ marrow path hath et!!! al) her Miustone end al! her her giriieh color and eo!) her fetth tn yotoa! Soman te an abomination, aod # sopbieticaied wife le not “Abe knoweth too much for her husbands peace of mind “And, above ali things, | desire An4é | enewered bim, sey! Verily, verily, thou spoakest w what (hou hast done to deserve thie And he replied: “Why, nothing! ‘Trenquiliity'” ely, my Bon; yet, toll me, | prey thew boon-on Idea! Wife” For | om @ MAN, end | have sceon Mtoe as 6 aaa. “Yea, 1 have been « breaker of bi rts and « fletterer of women, @ weller in bachelor flate end « cut-up among cut-upe. “and in my youth I have painted the Town t= many cotore. “But, now, | am TIRED of it all 1 would be BSTBADY!” ené would rest end reform. And I addressed him sorrowfully, saying “Alas, alas, my Bon’ I would t “But, marriage te NOT a Keat © the wedding ceremony te not a ia! formeth @ rounder into @ fir husband de luxe Moreover, for evary damsel whose tilueions thou haet for every one whom thou bi hath enlightened another damsel an into @ cynic; #o that, in all Babylon, hath ALL firet glance and know thee for Thy K: “Therefore, | say unto thee, be t thy Pipe Dream mii ure, nether te It a Reformatory; en@ ht-of-hand performance, whieh trams ide companion and @ heart-breaker ime em 4 transformed another sentimentaltet 1 could not find thee ONE. woman that her fllustons, neither one that would not see through thee at the ind tiafied to eat of the outs of thine own sowing end to marry a woman Who UNDERSTANDETH theo and {8 not toe simple. ‘For an Angel ts no mate for the 6; and life with such an one would be but @ continuous bluff and an Hternal Punishment! “But a Woman of Understanding would not force thee to pose upon @ pedestal, neither pin wings upon thee, but would close her eyes to thy Mittle failings and love thee for thy faults “Yea, she would make thee COMFORTABLE; any man Selah. OR years and years comp: ly Httle was known rogarding the cause of seasickness, The fault was laid upon the poor stomach, and severe indeed was the dlactpline inflleted upon that long suffering member. We know now that the trouble ts not caused by any germ—nor by any- thing we have done or left undon and we learn too that little or noth- ing can be done for its relief. It ts not a matter of the stomach or food at all, The seat of the trouble is in brain in general and the balanc- ing centres of mechanism therein in particular, At the base of the skull near the ear is a very curious erocp of tiny canals, three in number, called, from thelr shape, the semi- circular canali Any disturbance affecting these Iit- tle canals produces a loss of balanc- ing power on the part of the individ- ual, The semicircular canal re CHAPTER XXII. O hurry and get ready for dinner, Geo Jane greeted me as T came in covered with mud from my long 66 country ride “Whats your hurry? 1 thought T would rest # while before dinner,” “Oh, you won't have time! I have © remind some tickets for that new play we, were talking about the other day, You said you would like to see it, you know.” “Very well, Put the dinner on, I be down in five minutes,” 1 returned aa l hurried up the stairs, a 4 her velvet headplece for a straw one! We hurried through our dinner, course there was great stir ax to @|while the bligzurd season still is on| talking very little, tien rushed to prospective new Mullding site that is looked down upon from @ precipt- | dress. Jane was always a slow was to be 0 the school. dresser because she was 60 particular. But to-night she seemed more 60 than usual, Nothing looked quite right, id I almost lost patience before si! came down stairs. But she looked 60 lovely, Was so different from any of the other women that in iny pride I forget my impatience, The curtain was just going up as we gained our seats and 1 could not avoid noticing the glances of admiration directed f|toward my beautiful wife, and boing flattered; yet 1 had not told her she looked lovely, either at home or on the way to the theatre, In the middle of the third and last act Jane gave a little gasp and turned anxiously to moe. “What is it?” I asked. “Ob, never mind. I'll tell you when the play's over. It's too late now, anyway,” I beard her mutter as she turned her attention again to the stage. I thought nothing more of the oc- ourrence until we were nearly home, “What was it you were going to tell me, Jane? Was somethinj h, yes! I nearly forgot again, ‘Webb called you up about half an You remember you said Dr, hour before you came !n and asked you to call him as soon as you came home, You were so late and T was fo anxious to Ket to the theatre that 1 forgot all about it." “You took the message yourself?” I asked severely "Yes, I told you that I did chance for you to scold Martha.” Oooastonally Martha had been care- less about repeating my messages and I hi und fault with her, wi Jane's remark. by er) you, @ doctor's wife, took @ No My Wife’s Husband —=By Dale Drummon§ Copsright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co (The New York Hrening World) which Is enough for filed with fuld and» nnd their purpose spirit level for t » tubes that the of balance ts us at the v Knowing understand the water, know Just what that means and it fs like nothing ets@ on earth, Every one of these three eins, for the time being, is set in a eon stant state of commotion, and tt te the constant and various losses of balance and disturb, of eauilibrls nay be, selves to the confi and we are relieved. young children rarely aeasiokness, terribly from but some aniinals da, | uiessage from « surgeon ef Webb's standing, and forgot 1," sald Just as we reached the house. “Yes, T just told you 1 dia! For heaven's sake don't be cross about {t and spoil the only evening we hav + #one anywhere together tn monthe,” | made no reply, but went immedt- y to the telephone and called Da D Where in the world have you bei Butterworth?” he asked. "L have {one of the most wonderful operation 1 ever had in this hospital, Success. }ful, too! Gad, man, you doen't know (what you mixsed } “{L sust got in,” 1 told him, Well, it's a pity; you won't get another such & chance.” ‘Then, aft } asking me to come over to th tal in the morning, he rang off. I turned to Jane, too angry to speak. I thought her pretending to forget had been part of a plan to compel me to go with her, and without walting t find out, I at once gave full vent to my feelings, accusing her of purposely not telling me, so that I would go to the theatre, telling her many hi that I would not have droames aying had J not been angry, stood very quietly until — stopped, really for want of breath, |imore than because T had finished, mn: ‘If you have finished your ungentl, manly tirade, Mr, Butterworth T with be excused, "and going tnto the get rooin Jane closed and locked the for the first time since our marriegs spending the night away from me, I made no effort to have her come to our room but went to bed to tose and tumble all night long, angry at Jane, annoyed at myself for giving Way quite go badly, but more than disturbed that I had not been able to assist In the operation. There were other young doctors who of course ‘were only too glad to take my place; Jand the thought that Doctor Web might find one he liked as well, trusted as implicitly as he aa me, Was not conducive to sleep, When L went down in the morning Jane was in her usual place at the Dreakfast As was her habit, she said no! bout the of the night ime good mo house, \ Webb that £ Id messag well as yon do, she said, in her he may believe m proudest manner (To Be Continued.) rt