The evening world. Newspaper, June 19, 1915, Page 10

Gre eFiNey Wiorld. e ; How 60 You Do GLAD To THANE 1 HAVE W hi cEPANEE eee Pesharcy ) | SSgaAReRN ) [WORE RARER 2) gS re PR creme qt : : COMMITTEE ARBITRATION —— } (10 PREVENT WAR en setwcrStnn atas "is The “Wetlas| or ostand and the, Covoment and CONNITTOS ONE OF HY OWN y owlan cehigetyy ~~ All Countries in the Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brenig World). fi STOOP. . os caer ceweses $8.60] One Tear. 18 Menthe ee eescoees 8010ne Month. ‘ a6 WOLUME 58.....c0ecsceececevereeseesesseveee+NO, 19,660 MORE BARGAINS. HY this city must offer special inducements to get people to W buy its bonds is one of those things that have to be ex- plained without much hope that any one will be convinced. Last fall the city renewed $100,000,000 of short term notes ut the Attractive interest rate of ax per cent.—because, so ihe authorities de- dared, money was low-spirited-over the war. The 71,000,000 issue of varporate stodk to be sold June 29 will all bear Taterest as high as dvar and one-half per ceat. What is the matter? Ian’t the city’s rating Al, or is it that @uarybody deems it natural and necessary to get more out of « munici- pal corporation than he could hope for from « private one? a ACTIONS SPEAK. ; NB good piece of diplomacy the German Ambassador at Wash- O ington has to his credit. He achieves it by saying nothing end pointing to « fact: -@erman submarine attecks upon American ships or upon paseen- carrying Americans through the war zone have consed. It is quite true. Since this nation’s protests, following the eink- ing of the Lusitania, became specific end determined, American trav- ellers on the cea have not been molested by any German instrument ot war. The Evening World Daily Magazine. Saturday ? thos . vaults all the bursti WAIT LET ME IND_ENOUGH AT S WHY “Why ehowld you?” demanded the Widow, jolly. “ ‘They’ tell towe with fund te ntl ut of glo eburaning, end xy Pieter § [> Jeera RMR (| [ote cee eae ene enw i J 3 . mount of cash is available for investment. MINE FI DARN (T weds “Eet Pe omer ore = (19, 1918 What Every A Man's First Duty Ie to Be Beautiful. ; IEE-EW!" exclaimed the Bachelor softly, as a star-eyed vision tj &@ shepherdess hat and pastel chitfon fluttered down tae alalé, Sle lowed by @ red and rotund mamma puffing and panting in her wake, “whet a beaut—what a dangerous person!” “If I were as pretty as that,” sighed tae Widow enviously “I woulda’ even TRY to be clever or amusing. I'd just sit still and let people LOOK at mel” “You!” protested the Bachelor chivalrously, “YOU have nothing to tp envious about. When that girl ie YOUR—is—er—twenty-five, she will bee | perfect replica of her mother. That's the awful chance a man takes tp | marrying any woman!” — | “What is the ‘awful chance?” asked the Widow innocently. 2 a» “Why, the chance that she will grow fat and red and puffy and unthtee- eating before she is thirty,” explained the Bachelor. “You never can toll. ow they will tura out!” ‘ ; “If I should marry you to-morrow,” pursued the Widow, gazing dréaniliy at the ceiling, “how do I know that you wouldn't lose your boyish figure, and your hair, and your savoir faire, and your taste for fancy waistcoats, an@ your personal vanity, and"”—— i The Test No Man Can Meet. i \ 66 UT r’—— protested the Bachelor, weakly. “Would you keep right on swinging Indian clubs, and playing tennis, and refusing beer—for the sake of your waistline? per- sisted the Widow. “Certainly, but"—— ™ “Would you promise me never to appear at breakfast without a shave and a becoming cravat, and violet talcum powder on your ohin?” “Of course, but”—— “Would you never, never go sailing in the sun and get your noge red?” demanded the Widow, mercilessly. “Would you always be sweet and fresh and smiling when you came home in the evening? Would you cdntinue to be fussy about your neckties, and to have your shirts monogrammed, and to keep your cuff links and your cigarette case shining, and your boots In shape, and to take scalp treatment for that imaginary bald spot"-—— ie “No! By heavens, I wouldn't!” broke in the Bachelor, desperately. “A. We await, it is true, Germany’s official promise that American DON'T _TALK To ME SHUT UP THEN FIGHTING WE GOT INTO A ian Dares oor CEEOREIT LIKE THAT, AND DISAGRE EME! EACH . : r : RTI er aoa ts cies pertdhing On ose tus Gacmayed STOP PONTING AND INEEP Your ASGGNG A ( (cron “Hie marion continued the Bachelor, ignoring the aippancy. in orcee ll * while the fact that she is no longer permitting the acts that destroyed Your, FINGER pay Way PEACE PLAN DISTURBING to be able to eat and drink what he wants without caring whether or not ft 1 ‘2 or imperilled them is iteplf eloquent reply. AT He Ron MY FACE “THE PEACE makes him fat, or puts him to sleep after dinner. He marries in order to be teow mi restc comet The Jarr Family || The Week's Wash |/=2=cr——" "Se ctacuers a —_—+-——— f Count von Bernstorff is to be congratulated upon his timely glance in the direction of what actually is and is not happening on ees. — THE VANISHED WAR BABIES. READ of war babies on the doorstep no longer adds to the worries of John Bull. According to the final official conclu- sions this partiouler and pressing problem never even existed. Special inquiries conducted by the Archbishop of York’s commit- tee in sixty-two towns and districts have found no evidence to war- tant the sensational statements that have been made. “Wo evidence available,” declares the Archbishop’s report, “jus- ‘tifies the belief that the conditions of war have resulted in any ex- ceptional increase in illegitimacy.” Perhaps es time goes on England will give less heed to those at home who prate sbout her ailments and more to those abroad who COMFORT FOR SMOKERS. w~, ESPITH the efforts of Doo Pease, it will still be possible to enjoy a smoke on some of the new-style street cars. — By Roy L. McCardell — Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), JR. JARR was dressing, pre-| to put on, Mr. Jarr invested himself paratory to the day and ite toll, Mrs. Jarr stood wateh- in his socks regalia. Finally, ar- rayed in high hat, his frock coat —— By Marti n Green —— Copyright, 1916, by ‘The Prede Publishing Oo, (The New York Koning World). 66 O you think the New York City chaps in the Constitu- way wn here in the city the only| nd curling, and chasing the elusive beauty-cream, as long as ahe will.” © Republicans can get to the able to laugh when his hair begins falling out, and to be able to grow! when his digestion annoys him, and to be able to skip a shave occasionally, and to wear nice, roomy old shoes, and smoke @ pipe, and”—— “And be just as prehistorically savage as the Lord made him!” broke in the Widow, “And yet so many men wonder why their wives become reckless and distrait, and affiicted with matrimonial unrest, after forty. They at- tribute it to a thousand different causes, and write books about it, and marvel fat it. But it never seems to occur to any one of them that a triple chin and a double waistline and a baid spot are not exactly the youthful ‘ideal’ ina woman's heart, and that {t is just barely possible"—— “Nonsense!” interrupted the Bachelor. “That's precisely the sort of hus- band whose wife always clings to him! It’s the slim, well-preserved, waxed and polished kind who usually figure in the divorce courts.” 66 ELL,” admitted the Widow, “a fat, bald, good-natured husbasd, covered with smiles and diamonds, and entirely surrounded by money, 18 certainly to be preferred to a well-preserved olf dandy, who has kept his figure and hie profile in order to fascinate OTHER women. But I still contend that it is every man’s first duty to be beautiful—ns beautiful as—es he can be.” “Then why,” demanded the Bachelor, “does every married woman 4o ghoulish comfort in knowing that, though she may find it painful to look at him, at least she will have no fear of other women looking at him.” “But a man never feels like that,” protested the Bachelor. “He is always generous enough to encourage his wife to keep right on banting, and dressing, “Because,” sighed the Widow, “he never dreams that any other man wilt look at her.” 1) z The Public Service Commission yesterday issued an order which permits smoking on the two rear eeats and on the circular tional Convention will be] municipal trough js through a fusion able to put over a provision by which| arrangement with anti-organization the city will have a legislative repre- | Democrats, Experience has shown the ing him patiently. Finally she spoke: “What!” cried the Bachelor, “Why?” “I don't know why,” sald the Widow, shaking her head, “but, somehow, and his patent leather » Mr. Jarr crept gulltily into the office, to i ‘ insist that he ts always in seats of the low, oentre-door type of car operated by the New York . Four rear seats on the B, R. T. convertible cars will Company. be reserved for smokers. This fs only fair. Most of those who smoke have no wish to be offensive to others. They are perfectly willing to keep to places to them. Nobody believes there has been any general desire to all smoking on street care, Two or three individuals bent on P other people’s habits can often produce a noise that sounds like @ whole community. If the despised emoker could canvass the city he would be surprised to find how few persone of either sex really Joathe him. Cos Cob Nature Notes. | , i i lj i 5 Fg i i | 2 fF i g i i ; 3 | ats 3 £ Ss 5 E H BS = Cate are not so plentiful as \- erly, While birds for the same recon are more numerous, For thie we oan thank some good sharps! the efforts of the Greenwich Bird Bo- ciety, under the leadership of Mr. 4 ie Merrow rans pair) wouldn't rather be sung to by a goldfinch t ae e gol h than Dr. Edward F. Bigelow, over at Sound Beach, is trying to buy a tele- scope for adia, 80 we can all look up Into the sky and see what ts going on #o far away. While there is a deni of room up in the sky for ne small spyglass to look at we By Eg rf 2 HI i ae Bit tl fs doing help Mr, El-|hope the Doctor gets his observ: the depot grounds, saying |It is nice to know a lot if he ee in long ago,| acquire knowledge by m you fellows have just got/at it instead of reading it, which is #0, we having which is hard on the ——— Hits From Sharp Wits The man who tells nothing he | worry.—Philadelphia inquirer, they want to catch big fish-—Phila- Only a man who is mostly in the | deiphia Telegraph, ° A man who is “all lit up” ts not a ters example.—Memphis Commer- me crescent rs ot Abe's, be Men will gamb! n thoi th Y han y°} nd ther Siu gers hat f being stru ry ¥ ck, Some men oth to 6 is much to be Wop gti) over one who tells he knowe—| Too many people seem to forget f ‘ile Banger, | he that they have got to use big bait if) n= | “Mrs. Stryver expedte us to her Thureday afternoon to-day.” “Did you say US?" asked Mr. Jarr. “Kea, I said US,” replied Mrs. Jarr. “U-6, us, we, you and L” “Well, you can count ime out, and you can convey to the lady my un- availing regrets!" said Mr. Jarr, “Not me for the pink tea fight and the lady-finger and macaroon mix-up.” “That's the way you always talk!" cried Mrs. Jarr impatiently. “You think it smart to jeer at all the re- fining influences of life, Your idea of enjoyment is the associations of the corner saloon!" “Well, if you make it that or tea and tattle and the high handshake, yea,” remarked Mr. Jarr composedly, “I'm sure I've been patient and never tried to interfere with your en- joymenta, even when they were of that sort!" eaid Mrs, Jarr, “But our children are growing up, and we must begin to make nice associations for their sake. When Willie is older I am sure you will not care to have Dim associating with the Slavinsky jul. | boys or those children of Muller’s and Bepler’s, Gus, your favorite friend and companion, who keeps the saloon on the corner, has no children—for- tunately!" “Oh, Willie might do worse,” said Mr. Jarr coolly, “Slavinsky’s boy |s a bright little fellow and will make his mark in the world. Young Henry Muller has extraordinary talent for drawing; his father 1» going to send him to an art school, and everybody predicts a great future as an artist for him, Bepler’s second boy has won @ scholarship at high school—I hope our Willie will never associate with worse people.” “And it will be grand for little Emma when she grows up to go with the same set!" remarked Mra Jarr. Like all American fathers, Mr. Jarr had tnclinations toward social prog- gress, in the matter of daughters. Then a saving thought struck him, “I don’t see how my going to 4 stupid tea and meeting people who are stupid is going to advance the social interests of our child," he said. “It bas its effects,” replied Mra. Jarr. “Mrs. Stryver’s sister, who lives on Riverside Drive, has a little boy about Emma's age; and ehe is going to give a children's party for him, Uniess we go to Mrs. Stryver’s and talk about the children she may not think to ask them.” | @o, grumbling at everything be bad | of be received with hoots of derision. All these he bore as becomes the s0- olal martyr, At half past three a call came for him on the telephone. It was Mrs. Stryver. The office gleaned from his replies that she was repeating her in- vitation. So she was. “Well, really, I don’t think I can come,” said Mr. Jarr. “You see we are eo very busy here at the office!” Whereat the office cackled sardoni- cally. On the way uptown Mr. Jarr bought @ gardenia and pinned it in his buttonhole. Men at times are just as big hypocrites in such things as women. And, what do you think? The ladies made a big fuss over him at the tea fight, and he enjoyed him- self immensely! sentation proportionate to popula-| Republican bosses that while they tion?” asked the Head Polisher. “If all the New York City Repubil- can delegates were more for New are site Popular in the fusion camp on Election Day, no rousing cheers greet them after the viotory is won. “Consequently their main hy of York City and less for the RepubH-| patronage comes from Republican can State organization we might remedy a condition by which a ma- Jority of the people of the State have @ minority representation in the @uccess in the State; and from the standpoint of practical politics they can't be blamed for what amounts to treason to their own city. as they remain on good terms with ielature,” replied the Laundry Man.|the up-State freebooters they are “Under existing conditions, how- | Prive ever, the chances of relief are remote. to plunge their arms up to bows in the aw: . e “These up-State politicians are “Our New York City leaders are,/wise to the situation. They know with few exceptions, Republican or- ganization men first and residents of New York City second. This is be- city is and promises to be for a long time to come # minority party; while up-State it ie and promises to be, as; metropolitan they have the city Republican leaders the throat; and whenever the time arrives they put on the pressure, It is absolutely essential for the success cause the Republican party in the| of the Republican State machine that the lative resentation of Ni York City shall be @ minority repre. sentation, and some of the valiant long as the State Treasury holds out,| who are now fighting Senator Brack- @ majority party. In H By Sophie PROMINENT housekeeper of New York, a mother of five children, complains of women who insist on old- fasnioned housekeeping, saying: “Women have no idea of how much time and labor they could save them- selves if they would just be willing to give up old methods of housekeep- ing and take up the new ones, Many of them persist in the ‘good old wa: and make themselves no end of work.|able in those “good old day: when) This is also the case with many ser- | “man's work waa from sun to sun, but vants. They have an aversion to] woman's work was never don trying new things. For instance, I purchased a modern vacuum cleaner, one of simple construction and easy to handle. “When I explained tt to a new matd, and showed her how labor- evn it would be, she seemed to take little interest in it. A few days after, arising early one morning, I found her hard at it with a broom, and w I asked her why she did not use the apparatus she said: “‘L just can't see the dust and it doesn't seem a clean way to do.’ “Another time [ purchased an elec- tric washing machine. At the same time I was in search of a laundress. When I told several of the applicants I had an electrical washing machine they positively refused to work with one. They said they had always used the waehboi and it was THEIR way ct dot and they didn’t WANT to try any! ‘s new. confident this must be the attitude many housekeopers do As to Labor- RA AA AAA AAAAAAARAARARARAAAAAAAAN) | Coprright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ¢ Saving ousekeeping Irene Loeb . have servants, There are hundreds of new kitchen utensils, each of which is manufactured the sole Purpose of saving labor; yet many women persist in tollsome methods instead. They do not realize how much time they could have for other things besides continual work.” Just so! To-day a woman, unless ) is poor indeed, and has many, many children, cannot afford to sacrifice all else for housekeeping: only; though It used to be very laud- What with compact kitchens, where everything is built handily and things arranged almost automatically, the twentieth century housekeeper’ may ve time to think and study and get Sethiog out of life besides the old- time drudgery that seemed to be ni essary for the comfort and happiness of the home. It is up to EVERY WOMAN to have such spare time, by being alert and adopting the new things as they come along—these first aids to the house- ev department store has con- stant demonstrations of all sorts of housekeeping devices, many of them very inexpensive indeed in comparison to the endless toll they save. It be- hooves the homekeeper and all paid houseworkers to WELCOME such contrivances, so that life may not be an everlasting round of work. ett’s campaign to continue existing conditions will be found on the Brackett @ide in the final roundup. Look at Gov, Whitman as a si sentative of New York City! "Took at Comptroller Prendergast! When the organization called they respond- ed ltke a fireman answering an alarm.’ 66 battleship Arizona with water,” said the Head Polisher. “No danger,” said the Laundry Man. “The good ladies and the abstemious males who think that traditional bottle of champagne {» broken over the bow of a vessel at launching the ceremony approxi & bacchanalian orgy and amounts to @ compact with the Demon Rum are utterly ignorant of the feelings and interest of the brawny, ant, clear-eyed men who build the ships. Even though Secretary Josephus Daniels or the Governor of Arizona should decree that the sponsor of the ship shall not smash a bottle of wine against her steel prow the ship will not go into the water without the usual alcoholic baptism. In fact if any attempt is made to interfere with oan, {Good Old Demon Rum} 4 apaaaaaaaaaaeets HOPE they won't christen the | tradition the workmen and sailors will see that the Arizona is the most thoroughly rum, wine and beer-sham- vessel of war that ever alid down the ways. "Il be a couple of days taking the broken bottles out of the navy yard.” i oe “that with the new subways nearing completion the author- Volunteer Carriers. ities haven't decided on a method of 3 * ® SEE,” sald the Head Polisher, x ting rid of the foul uewey. e Tam] It not only saves time, but r.| “They'll probably atick to ren- and consequent well-being Ths ent bogie sald the Laun ‘tas ‘et’ other members of the family. “end let the passengers carry it out.’ Republican patriots the fact that she married HIM always seeins to convince a man that @ woman couldn't possibly attract any other man.” “And the fact that he married HER,” groaned the Bachelor, “always seems to convince a woman that a man is anxious to attract every other woman! ‘Man's first duty’ may be to be beautiful'—but if he ever gauge ceeded, it would be his last day of domestic peace!" My Wife’s Husband By Dale Drummond Copyright, 1015, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), on tho afternoon of a day we were to have dined there. “Very well,” Jane replied. “she will not be surprised.” “I really expected to go, but I Gnd it ie impossible,” I rejoined. “Don't apologize to me,” Jane ré- plied, “It's not necessary! And Mr, Hemming will bring me home, #0 re lieving you of all responsibility.” ja Hemming to be there?” ‘Of course! Why shouldn't he be his brother's dinner?” "I thought Mrs, Homming got her divorce only yesterday.” “eh jut what has that to éo CHAPTER LVII. STRAINED situation existed between us, resultant on Jane's remarks and actions anent Mise Reese. I felt not only hurt but in nant, and took no pains to conceal the fact. At my earnest solicitation Miss Reese consented to take a short va- cation, She was really worn out with nursing John, who had at times proven a most capricious patient. After she had been gone about a week she wrote me concerning a matter having to do with her office work which she had overlooked. The letter was purely a Business one, and had Jane not taken it from the postman and noted Miss Reese's writing—with which familiar—nothing “I should think Hemming would feel a little delicate about meeting-— I was going to say ‘you,’ but subeti- tuted ‘people'—so .soon.”” “I don't quite see your viewpoint, but doubtless it satisfies you,” Jane responded blandly. “I don’t want you running arousé with a divorced man!" I blustered, “Don't you?" Jane queried, * don’t! and bk | more ¥ ‘Then I judge you have changed your mind, and are going to take me to the dinner.” Jane opined, raising her eyebrows In @ peculiarly exaspera- ting manner, “No, I told you it was impossible for me to go.” “Then I shall choose my o cort, and you have no right to Inters fere. If a woman's husband refuses her the attendance to which she ia entitled, he has no right to object if she provides herself with an escort.” “I do not think as you do,” I res plied, “and I insist that. you have nothing more to do with Lucius ming! It was bad enough when wife wax with you, but now that she han divorced him I won't have iti": I read the letter, then, as there wae nothing particular in it, tore it up. Hearing an exclamation from Jane, I glanced at her in surprise. She was white to the ips and her eyes fairly blazed. “It is too bad the postman left the letter in your absence!" was all she said, but the irony of her remark was unmistakable. “See here, Jane, d tried to conciliat ter was entirel, ters. u or any one we understand, Joally’ ak what you please!" I stormed, angered beyond measure by her tone “You will excuse me if I don't tions. ‘a “iT ‘shall, And, George,” sho satd,| vith Your’ Jane replied In a inline with unnatural quietness, “when Miss “But I won't excuse you!" T an. swered indignantly, “I don’t often in- terfere, or | wish, but ¢! my wishes respe: “And I positively decline to them so long as you refuse to go out with me. And so tong as you keep Miss Reese in the house, you have no right to complain about anything I may do,” Jane retorted. ~ (To Ba ad e returns I think John and I will Pe mother for a Tt will do him good and also leave you entirely ‘ammeled.” "hat do you mean?" I asked, ust what I say. You have no objections, I suppose?” “No, euit yourself!" I returned, and left her, puasied, angry at her attitude, “T will ask you to take my excuses ¢o Mra, Prentice to-nighty" J told Jane