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Wiorid. a Est. BY JOSEPH PULITZER. | Peitioted Desly Became Suptay, vy the Prose Publishing Company, Nos, 68 te “ President, $9 Row. soohes REAR Tokers "how. ow ie fe i ease Se ah. at thsi at ye Postal Union. tes ‘ ‘orld for the Un! and Caneda. Covariatt, 1916, by The Press Pubtishing Co. (The New York Evening World), sessesss $840] One Fas sseevessens OSE As to the Problems That Bloom in the Spring, Tra Lat : “ Y¥ 1s it," inquired the Widow, as sho and the Bachelor etrélled e WOLUME 55.0... 05sec eeceeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees eNO, 19,689 | down the avenue past the violet venders, pretty gine, ehim- mering motor cars and dazzling shop windows, “that every. thing seems to happen in the apring—everything nice, eovery- thing disagreeable, everything exciting and everything important oF Ja: er AS IT LOOKS TO THIS STATE. HEN Judge Gary told the members of the American Iron and Steel Institute that if the business methods of Govern- ‘ ment, National and State, were as careful and economical 4s those of the corporations represented in his audience, millions © would be saved annually to the people of the country, New York * @aald well lead the applause. ; Legislative recklesaness and muddled financo at Albany have put - Phe State in a bad hole. A Governor pledged to economy hes left us & $19,500,000 tax assessment to think about while he journeys gayly, te San Francisco on a junket for which we also pay. To many a hard- headed business man these things seem scandalous. Business can’t | © satvance by such methods, Why should they appear natural in the _- paiministration of State affairs? * The average citizen echoes Judge Gary's query whether it is too gmch to ask that hereafter there be elected as legislators and officials of power fp this country none except those who possess, with othér * | . qualifications, business ability. | Always remembering, however, that the handling of public funds has @ curious effect upon all men—even business men. Spending taxpayers’ money is not like spending stockholders’ money and never will be. Accountability is too remote, too impersonal. Excuses for extravagance are furnished daily, hourly, by adepts in the art of aking private interest look like public need. “Business sense, integrity, broad-mindedness, responsibility are the great qualities to be sought in public servants. But the greatest teresting?” “I don't know,” replied the Bachelor, sniffing the warm, fragrant ‘with keen relish, “unless it's because everybody feels bored and desperate and Irresponaible and reckless, But what has happened besides the ov | Moving and housecleaning and the war tragedies?” ve “Well,” explained the Widow, “two of my friends have announcsd ‘their engagements and their Prospective marriages and two are getting \ divorces" —— : ‘Whati" The Widow noddea ~ “Oh, yea,” she rejoined cheerfully. “Spring seems to be the open omm- eon for divorces as well as for fiirtations and love affairs and Marriages. Haven't you observed that? In the spring a husband's fancy lightly turne— and turne—and turne! If it doesn’t turn to love 4 turns to baseball er Golf or fox-trotting or joy-riding or poker parties; just as a email boy's turns to robbing orchards or overturning apple carte or breaking windows or stealing signs or ‘playing Indian.’ There is a certain amount of pent: fortn with leash recklessness or original sin in every man, which seems to burst the blossoms in the spring. If a woman can keep her husband in during April and May and June she can pretty safely trust him to along like @ good doggie from July to March.” The Three-Month Wi PY ; 66PQUT why keep him in leash?” protesied the Bachelor. “Why shouldn't there be pring matrimonial vacation, when husbands and wives can get away from one another? Then the man could get the olf bug or the sentimentalism out of his system, while the wife recovered from her shopping mania and got the housecleaning off and the moving germ satisfied. Great Scott! Nine months’ devotion out of twelve ought to be enough for any woman.” “Yea,” sighed the Widow, “I suppose the love of a good husband for nine months in the year is better than the lukewarm indifference of an all-year-round life mate. But, unfortunately, the law and the feminine | ' 't recognize ‘intermittent’ marriages, They are supposed to be ¥ mind 4 bs an all-the-year-'round-'til-death-us-do-part affair.” ‘of all is responsibility. “Ugh!” murmured the Bachelor with a shudder. “That's why moat ————————— us shy a the thought of matrimony. A chap just can’t be in love all of A m the time, any more than he can be hungry or thirety or sleepy all of tap”, time, The heart needs a rest or a vacation or a change every now and then, just as the mind does, Why can't wives be reasonable, anyhow, and let their husbands go off every spring and bury themselves in golf or yachting or some other innocent hobby during the foolish season? Then they would be only too glad to come back to the wifely arms and home co1 y in the autumn.” “They always ARB!" returned the Widow with a shrug and a smile, “After the summer or the fun or the fiirtation is over, the average husband, who was chafing to shatter the traces and escape in the spring, may a always be found hanging around the front door in the suns and begging example of cans,” contains sound reasoning. to be let in out of the cold. That's the trouble with a won't stay which PUT, and no matter what he has in the spring he always imagines he ie 1 am one of the many whe have tired of it and that he wants something else. If he's married, he sighs for . freedom; if he's single, he longs to get married; if he's in the country, he been given “opportunity, , yearns for the excitement of the city; if he’s in town, he 1s filled with a Citizenship” ty theese great United passion to get owt in the woods"—— are very, very tolerant and States, America and Italy cosupy an } Spring Fever Vereus a Febrile Twelvemonth. : Germany's reply to the American note {s of @ preliminary ‘ and temporizing character.—Hague despatch. A Taube before the Zeppelin, as tt were. | ——— TWO VIEWS. of The Bvening World: ‘Te the Editor of The Evening World: “To Italian-Ameri!- Your editorial, “To ItellanAmert- 66 ELL,” broke in the Bachelor desperately, “it's exactly the came with a woman, If she's a blonde she wishes she were a brunette and if she's a brunette she rushes for the peroxide and the peat! Oe ain on . ’ Jada hury ate longe to be peung and kites" tuemuetromtent!! The Jarr Family The Week’s Wash shut Ghee that way ALL of the time, Mr. Weatherby” interrupted tie Widow hastily, “while a man is only restiess and discomented under the spell the spring fever. That's why his sudden deflections always come toa as a surprise, Just aa bho ta beginning to feel eure that she has found a paragon she discovers that she haa married a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and that Dr, Jekyll has gone Letty iege oe! besa vacation.” on ow “Well, it ts good points,” protest ¢ Bachelor comfortingly. Why not go further? If we arels weren't for the spring madness that drives him to recklessness the aver- going to depend on the rest of the| ays man would never marry at all, Asking a girl to marry him is about the by the peace-at-any~- world to let us alone because we are | moat reckless thing a man can do, and nine out of ten weddings are the price folk that we should helpless why not make our case| result of the romances that bloom in the spring, tra la!” “It was such @ nice day that I| Newport again thie summer?” give our army the bum/a" rush, stronger? It could easily be done, ‘And so are nine out of ten of the divorces!" laughed the Widew. sell our navy to the junkman, turn| “We could enlist an army, for in- | “It’s @ poor rule that won't work both ways, I suppose, But life, for a compelled to go around with push our fortifications into public parks stance, of all female children under | WOMAN, seems to be just one spring after another—with a fresh eurprige thought I'd run im to see you and| This was another esting. The Stry- ” e carte—are perhaps the people mostly and face the armed world with a twelve years of ago and teach them |‘? eaeh of them. “ bring the children before you went/wers had endeavored to “get in” at away for the summer,” sald bagpenyh aid Newport, but had been serenely ig- aaiaas i “Wille! ‘Take your feet down nered. childiike emile of confidence?” to drill with white flags and give the * a to provocation, I fear that] oi, “Ld just as leave think of going| “It is nearly funny,” sald the laun- Chautauqua salute, In case we should Italy's entrance into the war will be My Wife's H usband eee ee By Dale Drummond when now and then I read that some sAlilink Susdaai te Mcatibille oud 486: —By Roy L. McCardeli—— Jent reaction.” Cugeright, 1915, by ‘The Frew Publishing Co, (The New Yor Erening World), 662 O glad to ese you, my dear! So| him a slap for himself that stopped Tet us keep this fact in mt Y sweet of you to come! And|the pantomime and started him . how perfectly lovely of you |ecreaming with his sister. ever: That the Italians in America— to bring the dear children!” gushed| “Well, we must go now,” said Mrs. and especially those who, to take @| Mrs. Stryver. Jare. “I suppose you will be going to Plece of bread to their little ones, are By Martin Green—— Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Moning World). HAT do you think,” asked child in his arms, “They are such darlings!" eaid Mrs.|to Coney Island,” said Mrs. Stryver,|dry man. “With all of Europe fight- | receive word that @ foreign nation the cause of other provocations. Stryver, but nervously eyeing the lit-/ Thig was @ hit at the Jarra. They | ing Germany (which is cheerfully tak- |"4d decided to invade us with artil- I hope that there will be nothing | ‘!@ #!f!. who wae reaching fer & mar-| DID go to Coney Island. ing on all comers and licking some l¢ry and troops wo could, after they ble statuette on a table nearby. “Well, goodby, dear!” eald Mras,|of them) the disarmament idea ap- | 4d refused to listen to our plea that that will lead to any resentment, and| “Don't touch that, Emma!” wi and proaches the boundaries of humor, |!t !#n’t fair to Mok @ nation that that al! nationalities in America will| her mother, seeing the appealing look “It reminds me of the old gag wee Aight, play our trump card, pens look upon one another as being coun- |", Mre. Stryver m sprung, 1 think, by Barry and Fay. | jnnyeanig te Mond out our army of Coprriaist, 1915, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Kreuing World), trymon—the United States, the moth-| netic git . In the course of thetr play or sketch dicrs, We could say to oy ie, 22) CHAPTER XLVIIL. | not tell you of the car was my wish to surprise you. And now you dis- F.D.IABRAVICO. erlang. J, RBCOA, “It Ien't @ dolly, pet; it'e an orna- @ fight impended. One of them elders: ‘Now, dears, go outand meet i, what a pretty car!” ” the rough dh tort my motive, grabbed a property baby, clasped it eh soldier muna, and when| ¢ ‘Jane exelaimea, when I| “f1ow many wives do you au) Ps ; hem coming give the Chau- 7 ete ment,” said Mre, Jarr, with « mental to his bosom and inquired if his ad- fauque sritte ee 4 had attended to the| would enjoy such a surprise? Bor the pretty 1 i the you and another woman Irish reservation that pude figures were not versary would strike a man with a flag# and sing to them and ask trunks, “Whore is itt| three months yo ligt inhania per ton, _Durtenety Ivishmeu are proper things in the home, expecially [if they won't ploane 0 back and tet One of your patient? | BAe Pree tte Mies of wees 9 Rod moking hay » And hay © eonential, where children could see them, pnnnnnonnnonnmmnnnnnnnnmnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnen, NF papas and brothers wone,’ Bure-| “No, it's mine!” { replied, enjoying|a woman!” ” . ” ” ' di ° . vty ” ry _————-2e—— ge es Mage Bgl OT, Much M n ’ ” y no Jnvading army could withstand! |. surprise wal Come jane,” 1 urged, “try to be | g 2 “It jen't the way a nation feels that| “Youre! How long have you onnee t 5 am bean EASY TO FEED. lto know?” ‘This implied that objects 00 (e) ey ° decides what ia to happen to nation. |1t?" she asked, | alt eaptae ‘Mnnisie ae” meee (of art were an unknown quantity in By Sophie Irene Loeb it in the way other nations feel, We! v4, bought it in Jun then, ‘I'm | wives would be? Now that I under- #0 wind you like it, Jane, J thought oa eet coin ey me to you would.” her question, MAN with courage enough to refuse to eat or pay for an order! bumble hoane of the Jarre © of poor food in & restaurant is 60 rare in New York that! We a” Puritans, | must conten a | Cogyright, 1910, by The Prose Publishing Oo, (Phe New York Wreiog World) ' void Mie Jare blandly, “The old Maj 5 “You bought it in June, right after ne loft I wot for some ps we are not surprised if he gets into trouble, flower inotinot is otil! strong with us ane Moy ago | Prey gee rl od he MA aathlen et car |2 won ower? Whe diaes you (al) tle witte Gale tulaiian the mialtes Sat, An uptown restaurant keeper caused the arrest uf two guvste, It ¥## whimpered that Mrs, Mlryver's | provi ogy) tonto ioe| MAM Der Interest at heart? And it is Wanted, Another nu |about st when you were up at the| HVing (0 see} a aaa we and wife, because they declined to aceept chicken which seomed VArent® Wad come over—mot im the | voke the Jaw egainet her / Hone found necessary they appropri- | jake?” complaint. 1 oni? thought it Shem wat r Mayfhower, but is # modern steamabip . F ; Aled whatever territory they desired. Ht wanted io eurprime yuu." | Sree ling Jane carta ae to eat, A police lieutenant refused to entertain a com-|—in tho steerage. Mra, Miryver in-| as Ne | RA TOOT | Tee ear ans bad ne one Tetatee elehee tect cet tee | “On, 3 Well, you've surprised | Mine Keun’ part in welecting (he gar, f 7 nin de peude had nu eure t * » ver pl Plaint sgainst the wife and » magistrate discharged the husband Jatinetively Coit thie was en indirect |i eue that ihe young| Tomedy be rea Ap soon ue | me al right.” ‘Then Jane began to| , |. Wonder now, lone aflerwand, wae But don’t be hard on the restaurant proprietor, Hundreds of em’ \” te fe |woman lie epent $10,00 in nine pething | Chine hate chatter, and nothing more waw weld | doue with Hemining exactly ea “Your children are look weil,” o| , ‘ . (unul just before we reached bome,| with Ming Howse, Vet iy ‘thourznds of people in this city, year in and year out, order, eat and eld the bosteo, thinking Mee buat to | manthe, and that it te imposatble tx | eae Ee de hota he dea erin 4 Aeto the Fadeoway, when dane sakes only thoumhe her willy and te few oan Withstand thie preseu ehiidieb on * 1 “How did you come to select a biue for what is set before thei in restaurants, Whether they are well | change the subject, “Inn't it wonder. ned Jane tw"! Fn nme nme ° " ‘The next morning | or not doeen't them. Food that the majorit | ful how well they keep im New York | the youthful, Mesperionced mental g 69 WONT,” waid the head pole cart You showed good taste; it be ride down Ww the Loos with ae . worry jority eat and pay procenes ever, “ie the Kugenia Kelly) 4 vewutitul aiade he retuned, saying { alee know of & girl whowe mother for is g008 enough. Mo wonder the restaurant keoper lovee patience) in tenement hovese ining uowed O much to thie mother, who Ie rob, ae do the tort that inden. | Worked very lard to give her the oe guing ¢ we up the tango Mine Moone polo ied \ue culur by a say with cranks. “Oh, weil,” oad Mra dest, “lyme Foy wngolny ibe aaa education weconanry for he yar 1 wouldn't hiak of taking Mise Keses'e soa bortene that the Plein bresd—to go ne further—served in a ayer eer gp gent ned “Only & mother can undermand fnah a Greee iy mother aun wn opr gg! Stor vee A uid plense | see see ie ae hg 4 ot Y yi the tan Ps vide, Mbe ould thin car would pl ue work ty do ei Geme of the high-priced restenrante in this town would seem third rate but they are light and airy ana very |That | cuttered from nemalaas rd | Sag Hy " S oe sae riya you beser than evme others I tled,|the office Megiden, she wont toe Kerlin errand boy-—but that is beside the point euul, oil things considered, ful, then, gamely peg “eae Vo & irl lonty of respestaide dancing gi wore grace in the ear no often, now that , | chtom lett home at 2 or tin the Mere: | young women reached the position aw oF wintule exiale whigh forces pen Sears) vey heme. When it comes to victuals, Now Yorkers are the easiest going | ¥* 4 * terrible rent, Wo; and if one! ing, vasaly tr: {0 \ocate her ih where she hed & eubsiantinl walary, youne and thousht of thuse “1 wouldn't hove yeu 4! vour * « hee the bw oa ah Ann ” 4 ‘ eithnens in the world. aay of vnibdreo—Wiil®,| ine downtown cater, oud then had the grew wore weiteh and Birle ewe | CD Mise Messe wae moked 10 paiect | plane tor the World, And oo (het Oe 0p Kiehing Wat aote rene met A607 ner eompinceniiy return home shot | Me. tue hed hes , e are the parents of sadoment | the Meanen vou eaves me tr 3 A cm * other eomturta” i tomed W having 4 , 7 oo r 4 weloek, wtterly indifferent to my! peg stonographers | vier, while 1 your wits, didn’t even Mamie. Why te the lady's fose 09) serve racking ansioty ond my fe-|'Phus, even with the girl « “morning wear, | kauw you hed @ car uMlli it wae het's the matter, Jone? ase you ar 6 1007” & sed the Mite win, “and } : P . 04 ©0Y| sonaibility for her, The one thing | oF nved sik drones, patent loath. three monte ald evens she y40| jealous’ | blurted out Cay - Whet in the world woula — o_o weer that made i eney tor ber w evade \! a pomes, roam oe mee eee Pe ee rp ald » 4 1 tek 1 om ira. Janie vewly wae» resounding, char ‘ 4 hens vo hele lips you M4! » bony the 7 J aoe wrested ang Pr ae wy pariediotion end flewnt my ay: | wa “4 dar bow thelr sau relatives over oglh, ee ON eee ee ae i eee aateot eee “1 mover aaw auch a0 ebearvent| ener F, here 4 ty rule the sal, you and she have hewn rising | 7 Perry ; . wether muer on - galfier peighbare ont care otper out] | 11 takes » 001 ure ag Mg im an asite 10 the |e girl to ber spunen mo vue coy we fie thet "ue Bid pot tell mse ie 1 ITY 7 vy kind i | > eine Mirrver “OF couree| The simon of the young woman wee you Wanted to Ourpriag ime n eee ree Oe che 10 nut waed 10 seeing rouge, you spehe likewlan ebuut the wurle af- Burpriee me With 4 far you have rat. bnew” 00 tor we been usieg fur three monthe~using | a om wot Semen mer #9] Oecasiomaily you And » bap w “Mae the litle hey ony nervous af-|. Whe: st, When, sill gira reatioe | Mune mean te. one ; Sith saber women t | y >. eflertive meawiien tor ” ure y one OF | chat in all the wide, Wide world (here | nother to save be said the hemd poliaher, were tw tell the truth ‘5 . . bewutiful wy Gestion?” asked Ure Miryver, Witing ip po une aiue to “| pd nr rx + that you bought M fur her be rt d J ae * absence ” "Konseuse, June! Dy be reason: i eA ie going (Cont the Mate ghiet” mm ria aah a a he ne ete — MP PE