The evening world. Newspaper, July 21, 1915, Page 14

The ISTION AND COINCIDENCE. (HERE are times when there ie something sinister in co- incidence. Three mysterious fires on the newly launched dread- Oklahoma make the fourth time in two weeks that a United naval vessel has been on fire from some internal cause. July “6 fire started on the Alabama at Philadelphia. July 13, wi ‘New Jersey was in dry dock at Charlestown Navy Yard, flames Bre discovered near one of her magazines within four feet of 9,000 of powder. Some days earlier a fire occurred on « United vessel in the navy yard at San Francisco. “All these fires may have had natural causes. There is something f ' however, in the fact that the origin of most of them is a only surmise, and that they broke out in soveral cases between he bridge and the forward turret. Why should ships of our navy develop fire disease in vital parts within easy reach of the magazines? |. Im the seme way it may have been only natural desire of work- 40 share in extra profits which the war brings their employers | ‘started the strike in ammunition shops at Bridgeport and caused | of men to quit work in « Standard Oil plant which exports quantities of naphtha and gasoline to Kurope. It may be that ‘wages and better hours are the sole end and aim of the strikers, of the trouble at Bridgeport, however, began, not with a ques- of wages, but in some trivial dispute as to whether men who! f in iron and wood should be classed as metal workers or wood And these men were bnilding workshops—which would : provided new jobs for thousands! © ‘Agitators are undoubtedly busy. British representatives at profess to know who pays them and for what purpose. work stops, it is pointed out, the sending of munitions to is somehow directly or indirectly checked. | One thing is certain. Instances of dangerous internal combus- whether on the nation’s battleships or in certain of its indus- are becoming disturbingly frequant. Extra watchfulness is for that our conclusions may be sound and our protective sufficient. — 342 To the East the battle lines bend and break. But in the ‘West it looke an if the irresistible force and the immovable ‘body had met at Jast. 7% LOYAL IRELAND. mm N THE day Great Britain drew sword in the great struggle, John Redmond, Irish leader, with shouts for the fresh-won victory of Home Rule still gladdening his ears, rose in the} of Commons end with simple, unforgettable words pledged to the Pmpire. The pledge has been kept. One hundred and twenty-four thou- Irishmen are now fighting with the allies. Between 6,000 and Trish recruits join the army each week. Drunkenness and in Ireland show marked decre: Emigration last year to was lees than in any twelvemonth since the great famine al | “The feeling between Ireland and England,” the great National- t told The World this week, “has entirely changed since the war Treland’s attitude toward the war hae had an enormous in- on what was up to that time opinion hostile to Home Rule to Ireland.” : “The democracy of Great Britain trusted the democracy “of Ireland, and they have now the surest evidence that the trust was well placed. It las ulways been one of the bases of for Home Rule that Ireland self-governed would _ be an Ireland loyal and contented. The support Ireland has _apentancously given England in this war shows how splendidly that prediction has been fulfilled.” We do not see how England can forget it. The war ought to this much: That there will be no groans in London the day first Irish Parliament meets in Dublin. When peace returns who dig up the Irish question should find it turned into an triumph which the whole United Kingdom will be celebrating. +e Submarines or sea serpents? The Maine coast has sighted doth in its day. Summer folks demand the latest. Hits From Sharp Wits. girl thinks a young)a gun of th her own heart, | ham Age-He: r her dowry. ame calibre.—-Birming- only afte Ne Ban oe e reason two can sometimes live ply as one is that the one used enough to keep two. -. * ee Someti: that a man is above suspicion only because sus- picion does not go high enough, 7a. 8 | Just as soon as neighbors become well acquainted the trouble begins,— Albany Journal. . . Some people get the name of being hard workers because they fidget. Columbia Reoord. Bye) ”® umbrella that be opened on.y by its owner. de! Inqui-er. : "2. are times when a 42-centl- mouth can do more harm than . If you are looking for a bargain, locate the fellow who believes money will do anything.—Nasbville Banner. Letters From the People | | | | cent atore. Jarr, “I am not going to get a thing for either of you!” the salesiady where the ice picks and and t'right,” girl. act KAISER HAV youR REPLY, By Roy L. “Now, mind you,” cautioned Mrs. Then she asked tumblers were, “Glass 'n hardware counters, rear answered the obliging “Say, maw, git me a ball ‘n bat,” urged Willie Jarr, “ft wanna doll, I wanna ball ‘n jacks, T wanna book, I wanna”—here little Emma w cut short in her speech by her mother, who shook her by the arm, i “You are not going to get a thing,” 1d Mra. Jarr, “You promised mo if! LU let you come along you wouldn't | ask me for a thing!" Hokey!" cried Willle. funny colored baby!” “Anyway, it's got manners and dat's more dan po’ white trash has!” | remarked the indignant colored! mother in reply, and then turning to a salesiady, “How cum dat ‘spectable| customers get insulted by ornery, low down" — | “Willle Jarr, wait until IT get you! home!" cried Mra. Jarr, after drag- ging her offspring to an isle of safety the middie aisle. “I wanna engine and train of ca: erled Willie, “T wanna doll, and a ball and a book and rome amed little Emma, | “There, I'll show you!" cried Mra, Jarr, drawing her hands loose and ad- | ministering smacks. Then | “Look at th ‘n’ jacks candy!” | sundry ) #Falks With My Parents.” EAltor of The Evening World the to be walking with the sallor. Why? If it weren't for our 3 aatlor bo Child” admire them, one and all, and am indignant at the way some persons regard them when in uniform. HELD! ' Wertda 4 anne, Heel | Te te Kaitor of The Rrewing World? poor | Where can 1 fly] a list ofthe thir- POOF |teen original SiAtes in the order in which they came into the Union? Also their capitals? A.C. R w. comes and scolds the hour longer. NEIGHBOR. “Wack Ashore, of The Kvening World: 9 Editor s * "Stop crying and I'll get you w Where would the United States be? stop thia instant!" jshe weakened, as ciel screams ate | tracted general attention, “There, | | now, mamma didn't mean to do it; | but you worry her so!" she sald! 1 won't if you ‘don't Both children suddenly stopped crying. | “TE want the wooden train of cars, said Willie, and you can see the people, | “But the iron trains are ble," said Mrs, Jarr, trains are so flimsy.” you want; but 's got more cars to it pore dura ove wooden | “EL don’t want an tron train! 1 |don't want an tron nt 1 don't | want an iron train!” eried Willie, | dancing up and down and howling. | “Oh, well, you can bave the kind you want,” said Mra. Jarr resignediy , "You'll be throwing them at your ai ‘€or the Gret thing we know, and the For the Third Time! E RECEIVED BU7, must HAVE NSWER. The Jarr Family Why Your Clothes Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, July 21 a Rete aoe, By J. H. Cassel No, the Noise Wasn’t a Menagerie: Only the Ja ‘No, you'll take the wooden train; tron train! I w screamed Willie nt the Jancing McCardell and Mepi “Good gracious! “Where is Emma? ter?” of the store nceloraliees cried Mrs. only Are Not Becoming; tr Children Shopping ron train!” Varr Where's your sis: And she started for the front to encounter little | Ww . 1915 The Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New t Seiad Rrening World), « : . 28.—THE ELIXIR OF LIFE, by Honore de Balzac. ON BARTHOLOMEO BELVIDERO lay dying in his great palace at Ferrara, Rich was he beyond the dreams of avarice, and’old beyond the years of most mortals, and wiser, perhaps, than ny otuer living man. Yet his ninety years of life were at an end. His vast wealth could:not ‘stave off death. And all bis wisdom had not taught him that his only son, Juan--whom he adored and trusted—was a selfish scoundrel’ who yearned to inherit his aged father's money. As he tay dying, old Bartholomeo sent for Juan, deathbed trom a wild debauch. 4 “I shall be born again,” whispered the dying man. “I have discovered the elixir of life, It is in the table drawer, there. In that little crystal |flask. As soon 1 am dead, rub me all over with that elixir and I shel) | come back to lif | ‘With the last whispered word he died. A Juan Belvidero stood gazing down in troubled wonder at the wasted | form on the bed, In those olden days folk atill believed in magic. It seamed to Juan quite possible that his wise father might have discovered an Elixir A @ of TAfe, and that the eltxir might be in thts eryetas rer bottle In the drawer. He resolved to find out. trange i Lifting the flask, he noted that it was more than Temptation half empty. Barely enough liquid remained In it to rub ann upon a single emaciated body, Juan poured a tiny drop | of the elixir upon one of his father's sunken old eyes. Instantly the eye flew open, blazing with the fire and freshness of youth. ; Juan was convinced, Hastily he closed the iNving eye and suthmoned the embalmers. Yet he did not rest comfortably until the body of Don Bartholomeo Relvidero was safely under ground, with an enormous white marble statue holding it down. Juan was gole heir to his father’s wehes, He was one of the wealthiest men in Europe. Also he still treasured the flask that held the precious | liquid. He planned to use this to redouble the length of his own life: and he made all his arrangements with crafty skill | Deciding that he would rather have a good time in his second life than iin his first, be hoarded his wealth and added to it, so that he might be in- creaibiy rich when he should be “born again.” In his old age he married a Spanish girl of wonderful meekness apd goodness, He had their only son, Don Philip, brought up far differently than he himself bad been. The lad was taught from babyhood that his father must be reverenced and obeyed above all the ward. t ninety Don Juan Belvidero jay dying. H® sent for hig dutiful son and gave him the elixir flask, making him swear a solemn oath to wash Juan'a body in !t the moment life should depart. Remembering his own actions. of many years before, he did not tell Philip why he wished this dome. Than, placidly sure that his command would be obeyed, old Juqn died. Don Philip, weeping, picked up the flask and prepared to obey his dead ( who hurried to the father’s wishes. Carefully he anointed Juan's head aud $ 1 face and neck with the liquid, then began to anoint | The Final one of the thin old arms. Suddenly, to his amazement, Punishment, he found the arm was young and muscular. He gianced ” at the withered face, It was youthful | eyed, crowned with curly black hair. ark horror at this phenomenon, the young man staggered back. The Mask fell from his nerveless hand and shattered upon the stone floor, the | priceless elixir sinking Into the cracks of tho stones. “ Don Juan Belvidero lay helpless on the bed, neither a living man nor a corpse, but with a dead body and a living head and arm—with a brain that 4 understand and be tortured by the failure of the experiment of whith I staked his soul, Making a Hit By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1¥15, by The Press Vuvlislung Ua. (The New York Brening Woris), | On an Excursion Boat. except C—knit your bruwa cdlorature pas ohn ad post Mbly and say they don’t remind yuu follow these » bit of nights on the Venetian canals, And when |, ruddy and bright- he hi Just quer peau, 1 504 ve eral IRST. Get near the front of the: Gro 0 when theboat comes in and thé! ry all shines.) kate is opened shove those ahead of | 5. When the children on board make S feat, at the same time! themselves felt, wonder aloud why jot= that's the one, you wanted,” said Mrs.|ing the emotlons—Anver, Rage, De- You off SBIST , , or ver, Rage people INSIST ‘upon taking chtldre: Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), Jarr. Spair, driving the tip of your umbrella or! yy ee seashore, Took pe te the . TARR, holdin, 1a by | wooder t “Low: 1" “Ob, well,” Mra Jare with «| cane into the ear of the man beuind} woman who urges hor offspring. to RS. J. hy laing Willie by | wooden train ts so much lgbter than a3 Want the tron train:” cried Wille | 5 . Lr arr with Rite bie step on a few brand! find amusement in your At PA one hand and Emma by the| the fron one. But you will be hitting your little; 8h, “wrap It up for hiay you possrbie Brep hp jwhen all else has failed to bri iy other, was taking them} “I'l take the tron train,” sald Wil-| sister with 1,” argued Mrs, Jarr. | “I don’t want it wrapped up," said new white buckskin shoes—and if|t, his unhappy little eyes. Wits shopping tn the five and ten | lle, its utility as a missile dawning on} “I want tho iron train! [ want the| Willie. “Gimme 4 piece of string white buckskin is lacking, Use 49 @8-| joie strenuously against the pawing sortment of pet corns as u substitute. | infant who has had his shoee freshly When your ucket has been taken ! whitened and is eating marshmallows d you are on the boai, dash UPiut the same time. (A neutral ‘te he siairs and attack the pile ofcamp!» much safer bet than a ‘toss chairs, If you seo one with a back | serge, on excursions.) in some one else's hands, just grab it.) 6. Call the Emma_ bei : ae ndsome waiter whese mma Being led back to the doll | gniie an apology and make for the} whole list of fancy beverages ts “ By Andre D t counter and made to replace four dolls | choi part of the deck. Ask the| Ask ‘him’ to bring peat upon of varying sizes, a set of doll furni- | people who are already planted there] Delight,” a “Jerry Julep,” a« Copyright, 1919, by The Prout Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ture, a rubber ball and sundry other If they’d mind moving @ bit so thaty Frog,” ‘and when he gete Suitable and Unsuitable Bathing Suits. jarticles. you can get out of the sun ; and wants to know whether 3. When you and your wife are all) ordering a drink or a BATHING sult, as its name Implies, is primarily a costume to. wear! “Yes lett have erything or 1, go back and get several other, compromise on beer. It's worth the when bathing in the open air. It ts not a tollette for the promenade {!'!! be made a show of!” said Mrs, 1s. Use one for your newspapers, | price to see him open it with Ms or something designed to show the very latest frills and furbelows of | Jarr in exasperation one for your hat, one for your wife's | teeth. Dame Fashion. Of course it should be up to date, but its slavery to the| “Ooooh! Oh! Ouch!" screamed | POCKetbook and two for your respec | 7. When everything’s quiet -start-a changing mode should not be 80 absolute as t . z . ’ tye fest, Then, when the boat be-| war conversation with Our ‘Wap ‘o unfit it for the purpose for | little Emma, “Willie hit me with his | comes very jammed and people wan- ursions are anything but. aet- which it was intended, jiron train! Yow, yow!" der around looking for chairs with a| tral and some pastimes (euch ae ex~ It would be a good scheme if some! “Pm glad of it! Wait till f get you | Wistful, hungry Jook in their eyes, ert pugilistic slaughter) thet are of the women at the fashionable |poih home!” cried Mrs. Jarrs jzlve them the glace anned on dry land go uneensored beaches this summer had two bathing suits as certain old-fashioned people used to carry two handkerchiefs, one for use and one for show, Krom all appearances many of the suits worn this season for the latter purpose only, for one cannot imagine them getting really wet without being ut- terly spoiled. The chief requisite of a becoming |When Napoleon I 4 prisoner to Kagland sible that he would it is pe be gree’ with curses, and that he would need a body rected more ay w hero than as ‘than a thousand boats, including ev available craft in the vicinity, flow around the Belierophon, than ten thousand pairs of fixed upon the vessel in th sult shown in our illustration has a sweater top with attached trunks of | .mavy blue wool, The sweater is} Jauntily trimmed with ines of white! and has @ smart blue and white! catching a si striped collar, It has a-V neck be-| When tae deposed monarch of Bur tween the pointa of the collar In the’ appeared on deck the officers and front and fastens with white buttons, | “en, without orders and moved b fhe okt 4a oR tae fand-white | comin ny Wepulne uncovered — tli checked mohair with a band of blue! the starboard gangwar at the top of the hem. Dark blue silk) spectacle before him, stockings are worn and black bath- ent up, and in the junderous ing shoe A red eatin.cap completes | clamation there was not @ sin the costume. jof hatred or anger. Practically al For the expert woman swimmor,! ‘he spectators uncovered and whom « skirt hampers ‘terribly ir to view i at. For di ore any long awim or dive through rough , DB MeHt. Kor diss thereafter breakers, there ave suis with sweater | gathered from all over tops that are most ingeniously ar BECOMING ‘S$Urr” ranged, On one side of the front the! | > 1 © wweater has a large patch pocket, The | day | ckirt, whieh in this case is Invarlably of #tlk on account of the light weight, | r the celebrated ‘apoleon was very cheerful | for he believed the popul was a good omen fe & MODEST ANS iv Went to Engiand * Emperor William could be taken hoots and maiedictions, | ‘ and more 8 were hope nL of the imperial guest, leon advanced to 4 great cheer | le note ned so as long as Napoleon way __. | become Interested in the horizon, | 4, When the inevitable string trio comes on the scene—the two violins on, the high seas. %. As you leave the boat giance pout you and remark significaatly whose tonsorial-establishment chords! that you'll try AN IG once! tle knots in your spinal column, and) Then get over the gangplank before the harp strung with red shoe laces|the White Hope standing near asks that has a grudge against all k hat the ——-~ you mean!” How to Keep Baby Well | 04 ted | a bathing dress is suitability, It should | to protect him. When the van be suitable for getting really wet In| Napoleon r Ye ied bagiand, howeres, (Copyright, 1918: Marlon T, D, Barton.) a more or le rough sea and it} J a century ago, the imperial cap- | y should be also sultoble to the shapej tive had no reason to fear the ven- | By Merion Barton of the wearer, geance of the mob, Instead he was|+ . One of the most attractive as wel) > a Prevention of Iliness. while waiting for the do i ‘an mont sensible styles ia the new! "Wien the Englis! f man _ baby in three gallons of water at 106 bathing costume with knitted sweat- hallmoniar PF ia 5 A ry a yal Cader d ‘a SANDB of children die vary degrees with one tabi nful of er top. ‘This ts a modest and becom-| most novel and impressive scene; summer from diseases prevent- | powdered mustard dissolved in it, ing costume that is suited to nearly{@reeted the eyes of the Corsi- ble or because their mothers | keeping « cold cloth on his head and all types of figures. The bathing} can prisoner, On his arrival more, “think” they are not sick enough to, fresh alr around his crib. A healthy, well cared for baby is happy and he oats like a little pig... I¢ he is cross and fretful he is not well. Peevishness should always be investi- gated, Baby has fever if his skin hot and dry, Loss of appetite ery ery “have a doctor, Mothers by thousands «4 don't know when their bables are sick, don't see symptoms or, seeing, don’t read them right, In this twentieth of | century they still practice superstl-| > ad feeding, teething or _ Obe | tions and prejudices—a roasted onion|tuion’ ae coueh wiay meen peo a! for an earache that means brain ab-|monia and should nel’ sass, a soiled stocking with diphthe- | doc’ Unless be feeding, nausea. m ria bugs in it, wound round a sore throat, sliced lemon bound on @ head- ache ushering contagion, and a gold ring rubbed on aore lids that mean “pink eye.” ‘Adults cling to symptoms for the ¢ of sympathy. But children re- t to health the Instant we remove the cause of disease. Too young to toll their trou oluntarily by signs and gest give us the clue to thelr sickness. Interpretation jof cries l@ worth learning, Collo cry the trying to rid his ace le sick he needs more food to st: him, thousands of mothers still gorge Lot their sick infants with milk, the very poison prostrating them, Any baby live twenty-four hours on surgjus energy, durin, time poisons For all {i testinal troubles stop milk, clear the Intestinal tract and call doctor, Prevent illness by clean basements | as f or cellars, sound plumbing, cross cur- is fasioned to the costume with convenient anapp In getting out Into | Nope: Ror iy teiged iO the Hpaety Hi, loud, long and tearful, subsiding to} rent ventilation, light = | water watat deep all the awimmer baa to do's to unanap the ekirt, fold It up| wouid permit him to remain in Hing: |!Ons fobs a pain intermits, | teas) shine if possible or root e and put it in the pocket and enjoy her swim unhampered, Before coming |jand, under some strict but not op- | draw td A i Were a oy eslage and play. Keop ba oom out of the water the skirt 1s resumed and so al! conventions are complied | pressly: Burvellianss, The demon | may beret ene Pe eee Ly sme | clean, aired, free from soites | with, | strations had just the opposite effect, Rash LT atin “on * . th ‘a So''| mand a doctor, Rashes may mean | This year the most elaborate bathing suite are of satin trimmed with | however, for, | hey proved that Na-\contagion and 4 isolation until contrasting pipings of white or bright colors and finished with gay sashes, | Pole | Some of these are made in Empire style and others In the ne slip-over over. modes, and others again in more conventional model Pretty and serviceable suits are also made of mohair, w' service and is attractive in the water, “ Sot: wives waht jen hae a Dae gee etrong: an Bppeal Be troubles. iela! England was alarmed | ; with elrcular skirta,!by these popular manifestations of apt | od will and sent Bonaparte into | tion, diMcult teething or extreme ne! eaile on Bt. Helena rock, |vousness. in of those of stomach atiated fro Convulsions are caused by indiges-