The evening world. Newspaper, April 23, 1915, Page 22

PPTanLiewmD we Prbeaes tate Be.) Oupteg, by RAN Pelarewm f Ole Aw Tr PCLITERR Jr the Poet Oemetice hs: ee te 7 Toor Ford for the Trtiet Swine om te. ot erete VOLUME : O muddied figures « imeu'lt th The p gated + orm ta comir Otte Vee TH E POWER TO TAX. * the ‘ aker hu govern or Nineteen ml! amount of d the admire Amembly and Ser These legisiat ' a now agreed + ! ndereta ader vm it f who jaunt the taxpayers #24,000,000 nerded wowwhat # ards do they apy news? Wouldt eur privat for the State? Would the HH inize Would they treat + Tf a commission of t Feaponsible for the financial condition of t to present the hodgepodge of figures, the « Feckless proposals that ure the best that voters can get out of thet elected representatives? v aur y State an ¢ ey advocat ae carelessly rt four exper business men wer e State, w The Evening Wo ° ° ! they dare Xtravagant estimates, the r The present Legislature seema bent on proving to the people of New York that the powe F to tax is a plaything ey Ol - FIFTY-FIFTY. rection Katharine B. Davis Persuade prisoners to work by offering them outside wages and | letting them use part of the money to buy comforts, advises W Osborne of Siny Sing Somewhere hetween these two plans State and city might find | middle ground where the profit conld be equally divided between the} Prisoner and the public treasury. Heaven knowe both need the) money. +-——— AN IMPATIENT COMMISSIONER. I MAY BE that Publi be that he is anxious to make an impression at the start. Whatever happens, New Yorkers can alway: i¢ Service Commissioner Hayward is at pres- ent a new broom with the qualities appertaining thereto, It may ORCE prisoners to work on city improvements and get some return for the cost of their keep, urges Commiseioner of Cor-| ‘arden | commend the jump | with which he lands on the Third Avenue Railway for letting its cars; pound for months over a broken rail on upper Broadway. The Com- missioner's letter to General Manager Maher is as refrest flowers of spring. A portion of it runs thus: T shall appreciate it if in this instance you find it un- necessary to use any of the time-honored excus¢s for evading or delaying repairs, such as “pew parts have been ordered for these repairs and will be installed as soon as received," or “as foon as the frost is out of the ground we will undertake to make the repairs,” or “track repairers are now working within & few blocks of this point and will undoubtedly be able to make these repairs in a few weeks.” hing as the That the archives of the Public Service Commission furnished the pPhreses of which Commissioner Hayward makes ironic and pointed We, nobody doubis, Voluminous correspondence followed by double and triple inspections has always attended past efforts of the Com- mission to move a corporation to remedy an abuse, The new Commissioner seems to have no patience. The defect should serve him well in an office which has seen too much of that virtue en SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND. This royal throne of kings, th eptred isle, ‘This earth of majesty, this seat of Mare This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as @ moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happler Iands,— ‘This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England William Shakespeare Died April 23, 1616 Hits From Sharp Wits ‘The gol! and comings of people! are siways interesting to their frien 4s. | to @o are shortcomings. do so for those who wait. oe Searching for enomics is a waste uf ‘ume. Let alone and they'll make t the bac! r the ixnown, Toledo Blade ae ¢ back numbers that a ° Ing.-Albany Journal, eee Would soon be unknown If Eeagek A only dispose of their ex- perience at oat. - fs When a man does have greatness thrust upon him he thinks he achieved it.—-Baltimore Star. wise if he thinks he 1s. Ledger Dispateh, . . ul to conactence lest at sna Peel—Milwaukee Sentinel Phoebe Snow's N. ¥., 5. & W. Riv. To the Editor of The Evening World Jobanna commuted on the "Susque- danna.” | She was w Ive siow, Dut she was obliged to go | !° ' To and fro to earn the dough, | 1 believe the safe p busy street in New ¥. ce to cross rk is at Broad Time walts for none, but {t seems| enough that you should be seen com- Though the hairs of our hei fountain, but to chase the swan in said to be numbered, we Renee are this manner—fie! Percy, fie!” misa- It is diMcult to get a word to the, uiddicted to ice cream sodas against Norfolk | your will, but one won't hurt you." an ded moment it guides you to 4, landlady charged in and, seizing upon —————— | hat, the remains of former grandeur, ry und bieary, finally, gallivanting in evening dross you've “leary” riding on the Erie, got money enough to pay me the * eight dotiars you owe ime for your Time was when “Johanna of the| Way and Forty-second Street, and Susquehanna” that is one of the busiest crossings in Was young and sweet, and pretty) New York, especially in the evening. and neat, 1 saw & policeman there, the other But the sagging seats and the velvet} evening du one thing that I never wo obsolete were her defeat. | saw a traffic policeman do anywhere in New York before; and that was to One day last year she was filled) establish @ safely zone for pedes- with fear, trians, and | think from the way The car windows were bright. eaw the light and fled in fright,| pedestrians that if his Out Into the night. | handling trattic was adopted neral routine throughout the ett accidents would be fewer, Z Ra . She| he had of handiing both vehicles an ni a thod of a y | iM By Roy L. Copytight, 3010, by ‘he fem Mublishing Uo, it, JACK SILVER, erstwhile friend of Mr. Jarr, and also eratwhile a rich young bachelor, stood at the mir- ror wondering if he could raise the money to et out his laun- dry, This is why Mr, Silver is re- ferred to as an erstwhile rich young bachelor, He ts still a bachelor, and he is still young, being under thirty. Kut, alas! riches do have wings! And Mr. Silver hasn't heard a rustle from the wings of his money aince it all flew away ina Wall Street failure. A tap sounded at the door of his shabby boarding house allroom Young Mr, Silver @aid “Come in!" It is not these explanations that ts delaying the entrance of the person who has tapped at Mr, Silver's cham- ber door, The tapper was a fellow inmate of Us abode of misery, being none other than Mr, Percy Pinkflnger, Hor- tem's society's favorite unpaid piano- player upon all elite occasiona, Finding whoever was tapping so lightly at his chamber door was not entering, though invited, Mr, Silver turned the knob and admitted thd visitor with two foaming tankards of ice cream soda. “Reform cre it is yet Perey," advised Mr, Silver, too late, “It ts bad the soda ing staggering out from But Mr. Pinkfinger only amiled and said: “I do not wish you to hecome But before the roisterers could |drain the foaming tankards the Irate Mr, Silver's swallowtall coat and silk retreated with her plunder to the door and upon the threshold delivered her barsh ultimatum. “If you got money enough .o go out |room rent for two weeks!" she ex- \elaimed, “So I just hold these things till 1 get my money And as for you"—and she turnedon the shrink- ing Mr. Pinkfinger—"“you owe me one week yourself, and you'd better pay me instead of guzzling nut sundaes and bringing In ice cream sodxa from the corner drugstore. I won't have lee cream sodas drunk in ‘ny rooms, Jee cream sodas drunk in the rooms, in your case, especially, Mr, Pink- fin Syracuse The Jarr Family Dai ly Magazine J ( if \ \ McCardell (Phe New York heening Worl), the rooms of this establishment!” And she slammed the door on the]! was rich and didn't appre: soda water fiend and Mr. Jack Sliver. Mr. Jarr, at a Cost of “Ten Fish,” Gets a Sad Friend Out of Pawn “I've got to go out to-night, and I've got to have my glad rac grumbled Mr. Silver. “Marooned for) eight dollars! 1 used to tip a waiter more than that in the old days when rae Then Mr. Silver's face lightened up HEY haven't yet brought the accusation of sanctimonious- ess against Billy Sunday. Neither has anybody ever tried to tn- dict a Lave Wire for being Devoid of the Juice, When the fighting person called Sharkey was at his somewhat cloud- ed apogee, the blithe boys of the sporting departments infallibly re- ferred to him as “the marine,” where- navy he was t with ms’ “crow"—two very different matters. Now that the Wil- lard individual with the dental grin apex of pugdom, they ‘cowboy,” whi eo never pr in his life, but addressed bim- if exclusively to the exhilarating job of trying to paste it on the other fel- jow in horse tra The first comical pome on the sub- ject of belated spring, with the sneeze refrain, wae written in 1819 by a man living in Schoharie, N. Y. But they're etil) trying to beat that il) model. Our idea of the Abyss of Anguish is to be compel to listen to the lachrymose liltings of the man who has six highballs under his surcingle about what @ grand little woman his wife is. (The only feasible method of smothering him ts to horn tn with louder observations as to wi a So Wags the World By Clarence Cullen Copyright, 1915, by The Press Tublighing Co, (The New York Pvening World), \ The aims and purposes of the Antl- Treating Association are excellent, yes, yes. Still, you may have observed that many of the Antl-Treaters are fellows who, even befvre they became sewed up with that famous organiza- tion, had @ firmly fixed idlosyncrasy for keeping their jitneys so deeply Pouched that practically nobody ever saw the color of them. | The normal man experiences a cer- tain amount of natural embarrassment when the hour arrives for him to ask the girl to marry him. But, com- pared with the horrors of the job of asking the average cashier for a little advance on his salary, we believe that the average man would regard the pping-the-question thing as fust ight exercise We are glad or surry or something that 85,000 bables have been born in Belgium since the war began, But a considerably larger number bave been ushered in right here within the same period, and we happen to know that a large percentage of them al- ready have found it no snap to gather in sufficient lacteal fluid from day to day to keep them up to their highest serenading standard, Even the happy-go-lucky man who doesn't take “kidding” to heart learns something new about the gentle art of joshing (or being joshed) when he goes to a department store to pur- chase a couple of nightgowns for bis {il wife and furtively watches thy ex- hat gravder little woman YOUR wife ts.) pressions on the faces of the sales- women behind the lingerie counter, HOULD a girl marry against the wishes of her parents? It seems to me that after a girl is twenty-one years old she should not allow any one to decide for her @ matter so important as the choice of a husband, After all, it is she who will presumably spend her life with him—not her family, Of course, it 1s nice to have the approval of her parents, and if, out of their love for her, they make certain objections to “the man" she ought to hear what they have to say But it is always dificult for age to understand the Viewpoint of youth, and a fond father and mother are li to think that no one is Kood enough to marry thelr daughter, ‘finger, comes under the head of light housekeeping, and it's against my rules to permit light housekeeping is 1t is she, neverth allowed the final ion. It is bet for her to make her own mistake than to suffer for the mistake of another, ss, Who mu be Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers. “RF. E." writes: “Is it proper for a , bride to give the bridegroom a pres- ent?” | She ts giving him herself, but If she cares to make some other gift I | know of no reason why ehe should not do so | Indcpendent.” MH." writes: “Shall I be inde- pendent or not? I am eighteen and have many friends, but rarely receive special attention from men, Some of my friends advise independence and others the revel Which do you think is the wiser course?” If by being independent you mei having a mind of your own, 1 advise it by all means. It won't ‘repel the . Friday / - A A \ Hoe? But a E28 Lone 7 > < vg Don'T WRITE ) CHARLIE — \ | You NEVER CAN TELL cain, “Are we downhearted? No! This is better than being in the trenches. I'll put on my other coat (I have another coat, thank good- ness!) and slip over to Ed Jart’s and borrow a ten spot. Ed Jarr lives in the next street, and he is always a good friend, whether a fellow is broke | or flush, And that's more than I can say of a lot of people that I know and who used to know me.” "Go ahead, Jacl said Mr. Pink- finger, “I will stay here and defend the citadel from that brutal woman. But drink your ice cream soda before it gets flat. It will cheer you up.” So saying, Mr, Jack Silver made his exit and proceeded to the domicile of our mutual friend, Mr. Edward Jarr, Don't let anybody now, for we have promised to keep Mr. Pink- finger's secret. But Jack Silver was hardly gone before the visiting soda water fiend drew a dainty handker- ehief from his coat sleeve. ut this lon't all, Mr, Pinkfinger had some- thing up his sleeve besides his dainty handkerchief. It was a little rubber ball and some four 97 five six-pointed little fron objects, In the summer, when on his vacation, Mr. ?inkfinger Played croquet with young girls and) mature married ladles for hours at time, Also, when no one was around to see, Mr. Pinkfinger played "jacks, but, as has been requested, you mustn't tell anybody! He played them on the bureau and enjoyed him- self hugely. For Mr. Pinkfinger, with the exception of croquet, was ap in- door athlete. Meanwhile, over at Mr, Jarrs house Mrs. Jarr had been telling her guests, the Misses Irene and Gladys Cackleberry of Philadelphia, the sym- Pathetic story, go far as she was con- cerned, of Mr. Jack Silver's wrecked fortunes, when that very young man was announced by Gertrude, the Jarrs’ Ngbt-running domestic. Had he been a married man the Misses Cackleberry could not have received him with etronger indications of a hard frost. They excused themselves frigitly when Mr, Silver asked if Mr. Jarr was in, and 80 when Mr, Jarr came from the dining room, where he had been reading the news events of the day concerning baseball hopes, Mr. Silver could ask Mr. Jarr for the !oan of ten fish, as the expression now is, with- out being embarrassed by the pree- ence of others, for Mrs.) Jarr had tactfully withdrawn also, April 25, 1915 By Marie | ney We indionle © eng ifs, be une Ike preperiions are eer oe We ineere goed beste Very indies @euereliy hove Gueiy propor liveed bedine wok admired ie the porte » vee Jobed ahd graceful Wom—r tien women whe are bol propery deve ped often gv into ort of eyeem Of enercine and diet whereby (hey Gay biain beauty of form and gracetu arringe There in a tater ta iow, and te bot to du aayebi sirenuousy should Wade io the (and , and every morning suould stand before an open Win 4 a loose Garment suited t of aud ber we ie, 40d enercine for len or Afteen minuies 1 elop the « ute of the up. 1 be body, stand erect the paitus ve the head, u d eWay the body tures times t nt and then ping the bar the to the Jef tomether wing forward backward the If this task proves very dificult, do not attempt nuously. The grad ual increw uppieness will come WItboUL Ho Revere 4 strain. After (hose movement to ten th etching the arm: 6 shoulders and bri together above the head arms should be thrown out from the shoulders and brougbt with tae hands clenc Swing: i fr around toward back, on @ level with the shoul- will considerably increase the cheat measurement. Pop’s Mutual Motor Coprright, 1015, ty Tho Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Breaing World), ee OU haven't anything else to do with the car this afternoon,” eaid Ma gently. “I think you might do me this little favor, Mil- ton.” “Little favor!" howled Pop. “Do you call it a little favor to go around town with a "Situation Wanted” list pinned to your hat and interview fair kitchen specialists who are pining for no washing and ironing, six nights out, priv. thirty-five dollars a month? Nothing doing! “Tt isn't as if it were just at ran- dom,” coaxed Ma. “I've picked out nine that sound promising.” “Yeh. That's what they do. Prom- and n show up. Gosh! Haven't you had everything from a flapjack filpper to a marvellous mangle manipulator promise to com at 8 A. M. Monday, only to receiv a wireless from off Sandy Hook 8.80 telling you they've decided to take a jaunt to the other side for thelr health before going k te work? They couldn't put a promise over on me, I tell you.” “Won't you plase go, Milton?” Ma was becoming pathetic. 1 you have to do ts look them over, ask them if they're good pastry cooks, first class waitresses, know how to polish silver without scratching it, make up bedi as they do in hospitals, how to tak The Dower of Beauty hd dati ndae Corre ie Te Fem Pemune Oe (Phe Rew Tat Brenig Weel BUILDING A BEAUTIFUL bobY. Aun cus formed booy te bath and foyer ball and} ii Montaigne BUILDING & BraumPuL Boby. we By Alma Woodward care of aries and whether they're fond of children and Sunday morning breakfasts. You surely can't &, astray with explicit directions like na . . . . . e Four hours later Pop threw the car into neutral and kicked off the spark. The elevator boy who was sunning himself at the entrance to the house gasped as he saw a tonneau full of shuffled nationalities, each nent of his tribe accompanied by a bundle or telescope bag of mammoth out- ine. 4 “Refugees! thought he, , “De gemman must keep a boa'dtp, house,” remarked a To} to @ wan lily from all dis help, Pop opened the door to bis domicil With a few ourt military orders iF | marched his assorted evidences of vi: tory into the living room, “Take your pick!” d Ma, who came up for the third an last time as the seventh Abigail walked into her presence. “Why, Milton! W-what—b-how’'-~ “What's a car for, anywa: de- manded Pop, “if you can't make it do what you can't do without it? I GOT ‘em! No promises this time. They think they're all engaged! Ha! he- venge is sweet! This time it's OUR party!” And two minutes later the sergeant of our particular precinct had a hurry call for reserves. Science Foresees a CIENTISTS are forecasting a new S disease—or at least the revival of an old one—as a direct result of the European War. War means infection, and infection travels far. ‘The recent statement made by @ French surgeon that some of his pa- tlents have shown symptoms akin to the “Sudor Anglicus” of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries ineans noth- ing to the average reader, for this dread disease has not afflicted the world for more than three and a half centuries. It was 364 years ago, In 1551, that England was last startled by the ter- rible tidings that the Sudor Angiicus had broken out afresh in Shrewsbury. Of all the malignant diseases which have cursed humanity, this “Swetynge esse," as It was called by old rs, Was the most sudden, ter- wri rible and deadly, It was a rheumatic fever of extraordinary virulence WOMEN AS By Sophie | HEN will women learn to Regardless of the ra V : of business, women have too much trusting. New War-Disease. which attacked its victims witbout warning, and usually i them within an hour or two. The conditions which produced it have been to no small extent duplicated ip the ores- ent-day theatre of war. The “sweating sickness” made ita first appearance among the E soldiers shortly after the Bosworth Field in 1485, and desol a large part of England. Dr. Kaye, famous physician, later wrote of + sweating sicknes! “Some in opening their windows, some in playing with their ohildren at their street doors, some in one hour, many in two, it destroyed; and, at the longest, to them that merrily dined it gave a sorrowful supper. As it found them, go it took them, some in sleep, some in wake, some in mirth, some in care, some fasting and some full, some busy and some idle, and in one house, sometimes three, some times four, or seven or eight, some times all.’ a he Editorials by Women INVESTORS. rene Loeb. avoid the gold brick? pid strides made in the foreground yet to reckon with their trait of Another poignant example is furnished in the defunct Monaton Realty Investment Corporation, where the heaviest losers were women, many of whom invested their “life savings” in the company. They answered the glowing advertis ements that read “You can pay in $518 and draw out $1,000 and some besides.” The woman of small wage above all others must needs be wary of the get-rich-quick advertisement, While there are laws that deal with organizations of this kind, after the investor lms lost her money, yet, like the horse and the atable, it doesn’t bring the money back. With the everlasting “beware” that, in this twentieth century, is ever present, woman has largely herself to blame for such casastro- phes, She takes too much for granted. The odds are against her, Only people of easy means can afford to take the chance, Money made by the sweat of women who are now sufferers, shoul Mr. Jarr gladly lent the ten dol- | lars, and Jack Silver hurried away, | with the warm invitation to come again if he needed“more, Out in the sort of man, But if your notion independen is an utter ip. tolerance of Bihar peep ® id and Seolings, 1 suggest that you give it up. dining room the Misses Cackleberry | were asking Mrs, Jarr if Mr, Jarr did not know any nice young men—with money! tion is the key-note of investment. the brow, aa in the case of these ld be guarded carefully. Investiga- If woman WILL invest or speculate on her own judgment, let her learn t foothold. 0 look thoroughly into the concern and choose one with a firm Only the wealthy woman may pioneer with a sense of safety and possible profit, he commanue! » +