The evening world. Newspaper, July 1, 1915, Page 3

FOR THE PUBLIC WENT INTO EFFECT TO-DAY! Reduction in Telephone Rates Saving New York | $5,000,000 Annually—a-General Five Cent Rate. THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1915. eeeeeccccoooonece ceesonoenoonceese coeeeensononcese THREE VICTORIES WON BY THE EVENING WORLD POPSSS IOSD I9SD SISOO SOTO SOIT TOT POSITS IIS TIO SI ID IOI TIFT OTS SOTO SS DUTT STI IOI OTIS IF B99 TI IIIIIOIFNS: WHAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD KNOW! FIVE-CENT TELEPHONE RATE WON BY THE EVENING WORLD ~—FORNEW YORK ISIN EFFECT People, in Aggregate, Will Save $5,000,000 Annually on Their Calls. TOLL GATES ARE RAZED. Great Barriers to Business and Conyenience Disappear | Forever. [lew York City starts to realize to- day on its $5,000,000 annual saving in telephone charges brought about by The Evening World's two-year fight in behalf of the public. The new rates went into effect this morning, affecting every telephone user in the city, whether subscriber or patron of & public pay station. * These two popular demands, long sought, at last hi yecome @ reality for all populous parts of the Groater City: A five-cent message rate. Abolition of toll gat between boroughs, Both residential subscribers and the largest business users of telephone service benefit by reductions on their bills, The whole rate schedule of the company is shifted to a lower basis. The old maximum retail charge of t cents per message, or #48 per ar for 600 calls, has been reduced to five cents per message, or $40 per year for 800 calls. From this new starting point, all other rates have been cut to correspond in proportion. But the largest single cut of all) comes through abolition of the old toll barriers that had been maintained between all boroughs of the Greater Cley. Most of these have been swept away entirely and extra tolls are im- posed only for communication be- tween far outlying sections of the city. Manhattan and Brooklyn will bene- fit most by this opening of channels of communication. The two boroughs have suffered for years from a bur- den of telephone taxation laid upon them that exacted first a toll of 10 cents and later a levy of an extra five cents on every message passing across the East River. Now a telephone subscriber may communicate throughout both bor- oughs without additional tax, while the patron of a public pay station will be charged only five cents for his call anywhere from Harlem to Coney Island, The New York Telephone Company has made preparations for a large in- crease in traflic because of the new rates, Already there has been a steady growth in number of sub- scribers, The greatest increaso in telephone business, however, “is de- veloping in the public pay’ station and suburban toll business. Addi- tional trunk lines nave been installed to connect Manhattan witf its tribu- tary populations across the river, The number of calls across Eas River that were subject to extra to charges and now will be relieved of that tax amounted last year to the following enormous total: From Manhattan and Bronx to Brooklyn, 20,500,000, From Brooklyn to Manhattan and Bronx, 18,70 000. Only in caso vf calls between Bronx , and Brooklyn, which are relatively few in number, will any additional tolls be levied. Manhattan and Brooklyn are classed together in one local area, toll free. Niagara Falls And Return bod CITY VOTES FUNDS. FOR PENNY LUNCH ROMS SCHOOLS Will Issue $26,500 Bonds to} Provide Daily Meals for 120,000 Pupils. EVENING WORLD'S PLAN. Kitchens Will Be Established at Once in 100 Public Schools. The Board of Estimate adopted to- day, by unanimous vote, a resolu- tion providing for the issuance of rev- enue bonds for $26,500 for the equip- ment and maintenance of penny lunch plants in 100 public schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. The penny lunch movement, inaugu rated by The Evening World and con- ducted last winter on a partial scale by a co-operative committee work- ing with Miss Sophie Irene Loeb of T... Evening World staff, is now a | definite city policy. | The money appropriated to-day will provide during the next school year nutritious lunches for mare than 120,000 school children every day at a cost so small as to be amazing to those not familiar with the system. | With one hundred public schools equipped with lunch plants and) 120,000 or more children building up strength and energy through good, well cooked food, New York will rank next to London in this foi n of con- | servation of a city’s youth. | THOUSANDS OF PUPILS HALF FAMISHED DAILY. | Investigations conducted by The| Evening World last November in} schools in the crowded tenement dis- | tricts showed that 37,776 school chil-| dren attended those schools every day in a half-famished condition. The Evening World took up the task of remedying this state of affairs, espo- amily with ace to necessitous | children who would be unable to buy cheap lunches even if such were pro- | vided. Miss Loeb had the valuable help of Miss Mabel Hyde Kittredge, who introduced lunches in the ; Mrs. William Grant Brown, ‘lorence Guernsey, Mrs, Robert Cartwrijsht, Miss Clare Kiesser and Mrs. Walter Lewisohn. The Associa- m for Improving the Condition of the Poor also co-operated and loyal and helpful support was given by hundreds of echoel teachers and principals, The Kvening World raised funds nd carried on the work alone until help arrived from other sources, The Board of Education unanimously in- dorsed the plan of providing school children with penny lunches and finally, several months ago the mat- ier was put up to the Board of Esti- | mate. | SOME OPPOSED PLAN TO HELP THE PUPILS. Opposition on the part of some city officials to “social welfare” work held {up the modest appropriation which |The Evening World had found would |be necessary for the proper conduct | of the plan, At to-day’s meeting—the last of the |summer—all opposition was with- drawn and the money was given without a murmur, In connection with the plants oper- jated by the city The Evening World will keep up a fund which will be used to feed children who cannot af- ford to buy lunches. These little ones are so helped that-none of their play- | mates know anything about it and all |semblance of pauperization by inju- | dictous charity is eliminated, —_——— STEAL WOMAN’S EARRINGS. Bind and Gaw Hi As Mrs. Anna Sussman, sixty-two, No, 109 West One Hundred and Four- teenth Street, walked into the hallway of the five-story tenement building at No. 6 P st On i morning, she w: attacked by two me ‘They rushed her back of the stairway, ry her with a handkerchief, | d backward over a’ radi- , diamond ear . Mothers’ Pension Law Which Keeps Poor Fa n'lies Together | Through Aid of Pensions Without Increasing Cost tothe City. | How to Keep Well, Keep Strong and Keep a Perfect Figure, Told in a Series of Illustrated Lessons o—__ ____8 ARM TWISTING a PAULINE FURLONG to eeaieiamaaaaanad ¢ ce é ‘ay ett EE | SauaTTING WITH pump GELS” | ee / Six Weeks’ Course of Exercise and Diet jor Women Readers ot The Bvening World, Arranged by Pauline Furlong, Author of ‘Beauty Culture at Home.”” Dumbbelt |ToeDay’s Illustrated Lesson Presents Exercises tor educing Hips and Strengthening and Shap- ing Flabby Muscied Arms. Because of her perfect physical proportions, Pauline Furlong has deen named the “American Venus.” She is the author of “Beauty Oul- ture at Home,” and is an authority on all questions of woman's physical well-being. She will give a course of lessons to the women readers of The Evening World this summer on “How to Make Yourself Well and Strong and Preserve Your Figure.” LESSON IV. By Pauline Furlong. To corset or not to corset is the question that must be faced by every woman who Is trying to improve her health and figure, Certain authorities have always condemned the corset, although I think radically modified and reformed. their numbers have decreased in recent years, when the corset has been We all read, with the horror we accord to old-time instruments of torture, of the corset in the days of our great- grandmothers, when the lacings were passed around the bedpost in order to gain sufficient leverage for “the long pull and the strong pull and the pull altogether” which encased in @ steel vise the yigding flesh of the fair wearer, No wonder women had the habit of fainting in those good old days—or that the first aid to the injured always consisted in cutting the stay-laces! CORSETS HARMFUL ONLY WHEN IMPROPERLY WORN. A famous modern expert in physical welfare, Lieut. J. P. Muller of the Royal Danish Engineers, says: “The corset is absolutely objectionable, on moral, on hygienic and on aesthetic grounds.” But Lieut, Muller Is a man as well as a health expert, and what does he know of the how and why of a woman's costume? My own conviction about the cor- set is that it works absolutely no harm if it is properly chosen and worn, That being the case, why not do as the Romans do? The average woman who | off her corset when. she is wearing an everyday street costume makes hy If conspicious; no dress re- former can deny it. Is it worth jeopardizing your chance of being en seriously, of doing really hygienically uni to the suscepti persons. In the first place, of course, you should put and keep your body in such a condition that you do not have to lean against your corset, to use tas a support, a substitute for backbone. In the second place, you should al jes of most ways wear a corset which fite you! instead of fitting yourself to It, Not that it is necessary to go to the expense of having a cormet made to order, All that you need do i te gv We the shop whree you buy Yours and say “My waint measure is eo Many Aches hyow when the two-inch lacing is in tt, will simply enclose your body, constricting it in no degree. You will not be tmmedfately con- scious of your skirt bindings, as you would if you wore nothing between them and your body. You will look trim and neat, and yet neither your health nor your normal movements will be impeded in the slightest de- gree PROPER EXERCISING DEMANDS NO HAMPERING COSTUME. Of course, it would be different it your life demanded that you con stantly perform the various more or less strenuous movements which I am recommending for ten or fifteen minutes of exercise every day For these you must strip as 4 mate athlete strips for his race or bis ing. If you work with a class im a gymnasium, wear bloomers asd & blouse, the latter opened well at the throat and with elbow No corseta, At home—weil oa KOU wear the better, A very good WO perform the exercises Ie ya in the morning, detore breakfasting. lf the room te cok pub low slippers, You with be sunprined aah Ro dows, Ww Bokive your your sloevow the we soit resale of floor of QUE a mh Wie ath Reh Heavenly Wh, hom WOKE lnEKon WN, moalta Sie ave bow BOO, MEO Vary gekd beam Aad GOH ihe skaAple ONG ain OF XO A DAE XG PAAR ORAM Ah GANA io ww JOHME 4, Cay " WR, OME Of gal 1 want a corset which will MoeAaure )yoy WANS SORIA YHA SAINI just the same when | am wearing ih" whi | WA, that what seems like arduous work in the beginning promptly becomes a fascinating habit. | have reached the point, person- ally, where | should be acutely uncomfortable if | tried to do without my exercises. It will be so with you. What appears ledious labor when you start will make such a vast difference in your appearance and health that you wil, continue the course to see just how good Nature really meant to be to all of us. DUMBBELL EXERCISES TO MAK ARMB ROUND AND SHAPELY. For a change, to-da: t you some simple exere! bells, which me add, T lustrate arm Yake the which L have severe it OVA | \t It ;> the arms 90 sunall circus the paly crete Deine reverse action. The Board of Estimate Appropriates Sufficient Money tend Penny Lunches to 100 Schools in New York City. & oe toEx- LAW TO PENSION WDMED. MOTHERS GES TOE for More children until sixteen Benefits From Statute Which Evening World Fought to Come Shortly. ALBANY, July 1.—New York's Widowed Mothers’ Pension Law, for which The Evening World made a vigorous campaign, went into effect to-day, but it will be several weeks before the pensioners will derive any benefit from it. Under the statute the various appointing powers have sixty days in which to name the Child Welfare Board which will pass on applications for aid and make other arrangements for the operation of the law. In Mow Ydrk the Mayor wili ap- point this board within sizty days. In outside counties boards will be named by county Judges. —- breathe deeply, but do not try te re balms of the hands are turned down- | 82ce Ward, and the direction of the circles is spanees. they being di ir to front first half of the circie @ downward motion, an with an upward motion. With experimenting you can readily cap- ture the knack of turning your arms | into human compasses that will work either way. Of course, your arms get stronger you will make more circles and make them quicker. weeks you should be ready to do one time, sixteen in| either direction, In this experiment | presented with B. Altman & Gin An Additional Offertmg: of Men’s Pongee Silk. Staite: natures -owr at the extraordinary i owpmemot BIW has Deen arrange Of (Qesamemee Seidag Ae cet Ape / gin, cme: "Re Re t| the State for their age will be entitled to recetve sappert amount it would cost to maintats child or children in @ publie tion. Investigators must certify the mother is of proper | %