The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1915, Page 14

, She World ESTABLISHDOD BY JOSEPH PULITZER. he Prose Publishing Company, Nos, Daly Beows Oe eer NY tow. Rew York glen, President, 63 Park Row, Park Row, JOSHPN PULITZER: sre secretary, 6 Park Row, at the Post-Office a! Rates to The Rye: World fcr the United States and Canada, Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Ooperight, 1918, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), FTER @ while a bachelor’s love affairs get to be so Like one another, from the introduction to the last kiss, that even variety becomes monotonous, Bocond-Class Matter. Tor tneland ‘and the Continent and All Countrion tn the International Postal Union, $2.60] One Year. 12010 Ni 8 | VOLUME 56 NO. 19,693 LET’S HAVE A SHOW-DOWN. ISUNDERSTANDING about the call to strike seems to have mzde it hard to produce any strike at all among the muni- tion workers in Bridgeport. Expert Keppler and his aides either bungled their business or misjudged their men. The strike! + leaders admit that they have had to revise their plans. Nevertheless it would be foolish to belittle the agitation now busy @mong workingmen or to pooh pooh its results. Several hundred Workers have walked out of arms facfories in Bridgeport, bullets are already flying at Bayonne, where seven men have been shot and one ©) Killed, efforts are being made to call out the machinists in the Bliss plant, which makes Whitehead torpedoes, and the labor leaders are Proclaiming that they will make 600,000 machinists quit work. : Maybe it will be as well to have a show-down and find out where we siand. If agitation can make good its boasts and seriously inter- fere with the export of arms to Europe the sooner we grasp the © situation and get down to its causes the better. If, on the other hand, "the labor agitators have promised somebody a bigger order than they What a “temperamental” woman needs {s sometimes just @ good old- fashioned African savage for @ husband, who would pull her around by the hair and insist that she be buried alive with him when he died. s ee A Ret ON The modern “vampire” is not the “other woman,” but the wife who drags her husband out to a tiresome dinner party or an expensive cafe after ‘he has been working all day for the price of the eigrette in her hair, It is easter to love a man than to like him, because you can love him blindly, but you've got to like him with your eyes wide open, “Is love @ form of hypnotism?” asks a psychologist. Well, a hyp notist puts you to sleep by holding your hands and, gazing into your eyes, makes you do a lot of silly things, and then wakes you up with a slap in the faco—and so does the average lover. A “near-bohemian” fs a woman who would choke if she tried to emoke 4 cigarette, but who can talk of the different “brands” just like @ tobacco salesman. The kind of people who are constantly going to soothsayers to have their minde read and their futures predicted are mostly those who haven't any. @an deliver it will be a good thing Wissipated oration of Applebaum to A feared Rosenthal, wanted ference at the Circle Theatre twen | would instantly occur to any child » from all with whom he consulted 4 at the timo of his conviction. it position to his prominence in t _ Chances in Merchant Marine. {We the Kéitor of The Brening World: Would experienced readers kindly young man, eighteen years of age, Hits From girl may be all that a would weave into t in fantasy heels | Why doesn’t some vacationist who struck a lemon of a place be for once and “postcard” the bore on his list of acquaint- “Having @ rotten tii wish here instead of m Phil ee ‘The average man, when he admi it two heads are better than one, that it's his own head that VER since our fellow naturalist, Ernest Thompson Seton, intro- % duced him to Nature, Albert Finelle has been having queer ad- | ventures with the subject. Lately uis have been disappearing and closest guard he could keep failed - te tell him how. It now appears that two big black snakes were respon- mble. One was killed by a valiant the other Albert laid out him- ie catching the serpent in the act with its mouth full of chicken, Re- ently Albert imported a new kind of dog into our midst from the dis- it State of Indiana. It ts called a unk dog, Its specialty being not to mind perfumery and to pick a skunk tenderly and bring it home with- mussing the fur, which is now lar with fine ladies to keep them- warm with in the winter and Jook queer in during the summer, not busy with skunks this use- i “ful pup catches rats. We wish there ‘were more like him, Most of our does would rather lie in the road and hunt rats, Speaking once more of the spy which Dr. Bigelow expects soon peeking at the stars in Ar- eadia over at the pleasant hamlet - @alled Sound Beach, it app: * cylinder with gi a If you look rh gd ao things appear and neal os it you through the big end are #n 4 and far away. ie is , to the usual American idea, " but that’s the way the machine works, Dr, Bigelow will call it a telescope, We shall stick to spy-glass as easier and more readily under- by our readers, ‘The new Cos Cob school house is done and will be the finest in town next to Percy Rock: ore palace, which of course wi pot for educational purposes, * Tae te when coe owner not trials was none of this so-called evidence produced ? the first held these facts in his mind, how could any number of lawyers ‘ ‘keep him from going on the stand and telling them. Tt is inconceivable that Becker withheld the story he now tells . If his advisers knew the whole or any part of it, why did they not hasten to get it before a jury. The meas of the etory is its most obvious weakness. ~ does not recognize as “new” evidence that was known to the defendant Yet mo know if it Is practical for a| to see them exposed. The atmosphere is full of sinister whispers and disquieting Tt would be a relief to have some of them either realized or Se BECKER’S STATEMENT. FTER reading the statement of Becker and the partial corrob- the effect that “Big Tim” Sullivan to be rid of him and called a con- ty-four hours before the murder to “make arrangements for bribing the gambler to leave the city, it to ask: Why in the course of two If Becker from Moreover, the law The lawyer-like warning to Gov. Whitman that he owes his pres- he Becker case and risks his politi- il future by permitting Becker’s execution is too desperate an “argu- “ment to the man” to be either convincing or seemly. Not even with the public can Becker’s statement in any way help him. with a small income, to study for a commission in the United States mer- chant marin Also please let me know what q fications are required for admission and what the chances are N.D, Sharp Wits. us that we should learn from experi- ence.-Albany Journal, . . Two old-fashioned mon who are still on the job: The guy who say! Don't tell him I said so, but— and the guy who gets blisters on h ved running to tell him,.—Columbia ate, eee It's useless to be good unless you're good for something. o 8 8 When a man becomes thoroughly contented he has outlived his useful- ness.—Omaha World-Herald, ee The chances are about ten to one that you will never have any use for anything that you pit away in a pigeonhole. ‘oledo Bla Cos Cob Nature Notes. proud of our school house, dominates the landscape and cess architecturally, it stan elite where Henry Ward Beecher sister-in-law once kept a school for young ladies whose mothers would not bother with them at home, right where the big puddle exists which Gus Knapp has left for four years at the junction of Orchard Street and the Post Road, it being impossible for the State Highwayman and our highwayman to get their two kinds of roads to join properly, Education has changed @ good deal since we first began to consider it, Then we all went to school in a dirty little house with a stove in it, for which there never was wood enough split or it was too long to fit and the door had to be left open, while the teacher, if @ male gentleman, had to lick the biggest boy and spark the big girls if he expected to succeed, If a young y taught the reverse was the rule. xcept that she had to wipe the noses rlothes of little children whieh were many, all sorted out. A town nurse wipes the noses and Now the sch Nobody gots licked. fixes the clothes and looks at the children’s teeth to see if they can chew their food properly and inspects their eyes to know if they can see to study, &c. Times change and w said to change with them, but gue that because of all’ this '@ too hi We have often mentioned the way .| Nature takes hold and fixes things when humans muss them up, Some years ago the trolley company filled in one end of our pond to gain more track room, replacing the natural mud with a slanting stone wall that Was not very pretty, Nature prompt- ly got busy. Elm seed fell in the crevices. and now numerous young trees have sprung up in the ston> slope, while great clumps of Sweet William and catnip, with other plants, | Mellen's marke of what was then considered are rapidly covering Mr, Progress, & word used usually to de- mothers, of whom there| vacations yet?” asked Mr. Jarr. olars are! By Roy L. ‘cc ‘O one in our family seems to realize the value of money. Why, do you know, I'm the only one in our family who tries to} gave a cont,” said Mr. Jarr, with an! “1'm-a-good-man-but-I'm-not-appre- | ciated” air, | “Do you save any?" asked Jenkins, | the bookkeeper. H “No,” said Mr. Jarr, “but I try." “There's nothing to it,” remarked Mr. Jenkins, cocking his feet up on his desk and lighting another cigar- ette. “Look how we work, while the boss has it easy out at his Ane coun- try place, riding around in his auto- mobile! Look how we work for sal- aries that are mere pittances, and yet the rich preach to us in newspaper interviews ‘Save! Save! Be thrifty!’ I'd lke to see them save and be thrifty on our ealaries! Did you check up those invoices?" “Ah, bother the old involces!" said Mr, Jarr. “The boss won't be he: to-day and I'm going to take it easy and Mr. Jarr tilted his chair against the wall and yawned. “As IT was sayin, jenkins went on, “there's nothing to this thing of a poor man trying to save. There's an Italian who jobs around keeping in order in Bast Malaria and he of- fered to attend to mine for two dol- lars a week. ‘No,’ thinks I, ‘I'll eave that two dollars a week.’ So I goes out this morning to mow the lawn, gets myself all overworked, my hands blistered and my bead aching and bumps the lawn mower into @ rock and busta It, If the Italian had bust- ed it I could have charged it against him.” “Heard the boss say anything about “Not @ word except what I told you two weeks ago, that business was #0 bad that he didn’t think that he could take one himself,” replied Jenkins. “He's taking one to-day,” growled Mr, Jarr, “Anyway, he should have saved his money when business was good, I haven't any sympathy for a man that lets his chances slip to put by some money. “He has a very expensive family,” | said Mr. Jenkins. “Wife is a society bug and regular chiffonier—you know, fo tall dr “Yet, we're expected to save,” said Mr. Jarr, as if the supposition was a further injustice, “and our wives are | not trying to be tall dressers and bust into society!" “It's a queer world,” said Jenkins, “some people have it easy and don't seribe something that some one a) old man, I want dim to ol that The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1015, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), window over there, Papers off my desk.” s “Get up and pusb the button your- If,” suid Mr, Jarr ungraciously, ‘Who was your servant last year? “Let ‘em blow!" replied Jenkins. “If that’s the way you feel, the boy can come in and pick them up later, and just now the breeze keeps the darned old office cool.” “I'd like to go to the ball game,” spoke up Mr. Jarr, “But if I did I suppose some of the spies around here would tell the boss. Well, just for that I'm not going to do a stroke more than I can help.” “Neither am I,” assented Jenkins, “What thanks do you get for it? You were saying that you were the only one in your family that tried to eave anything. “So Tam," said Mr, Jarr, “If I were to give my wife a thousand dollars,I ghink she'd spend it all,” “Did you ever try her with @ thou- sand?” asked Jenkina, “No, I never had the thousand,” re- plied Mr, Jarr, “But it makes me tired the way women talk about sav- ing, It's the last thing they think of, It's blowing the ‘Poor Mr. Jarr Can’t Save Any Money; But Luckily He Can Still Spend It Their idea of saving ie to buy some- thing they don't need because they think they are getting it at a bar- gain.” \ “I used to have a little spare money before 1 was married,” said Jenkins, gloomily, “But now it’s nothing but work from week-end to week-end, and getting older and poorer at it all the time, But it’s the grind I get so sick of, coming here day after day and working like a dog and never getting a cent ahead, I'll match you to see who pays for a good luncheon.” “Who was it that said that two can | live cheaper than one?" asked Mr. Jarr, producing a half dollar to match Mr. Jenkins. “The arch enemy of mankind,” re- torted Jenkins. They matched and Jenkins lost. “I think the saying is that ‘Two can live AS cheaply as one,’” said Mr. Jarr, as he got his coat and hat. “That's one of the baits of the man- trap. But it’s true enough. One lives on all the money one makes and, as a man never gets a raise when he gets married, two have to live on it, too!” And sighing over their hard lot in life the two victimes of unjust social and financial conditions went out to luncheon and after that shook dice Dumb Animals Irene Loeb Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Eveniog World). HE other day I was visiting a Hot Days and By Sophie we heard the wail of a cat somewhere about. It was not definite from where the sound came and we looked everywhere without success, Finally we callei the superin- tendent of the building, and although he had heard the noise he had con- cluded it must be from an adjoining apartment house, The cries grew more pitiful and we were Ill at ease. next door we found the cat wi apartment whose occupants had go to the country. The overseer had no key and was compelled to pry @ win- dow open in order to liber the or starved and almost mad animal, 16 people had left a couple of days previous and had evidently forgotten and locked up this living thing. How it must have suffered! It ate ravenously, The caretaker told us that times without number he had had expertences of this kind, where tenants leave their pets behind, some- times on the street, absolutely care- less as to what will become of them, Many a faithful dog and cat who had served the family well lett to shift for itself when the family had no more need for it, Nothing could be more cruel, There appreciate it, Ring for the office boy, should certainly be a penalty against such abando pment, For it is not only act, 80 | cls cruelty to the animal but a menace to mankind. There is the possibility of the animal becoming creased and wreaking havoc in ite path. The dan- gor is greater during the hot weather. Hundreds of families leave the city, jand poor dumb creatures wander through the streets hungry, miserable eased. It is far them a painless and sometimes more merciful to death rather than le mercies of the stree' jmo chance to procure food. And for those who do not wish to do away with the animal the matter . Ag Street (Murray Hill 6626), and chari- table people will call for the animal and painlessly end its life. It is far more humane than going the knowledge that you have possibly left behind a starving creature which cannot k for iteelf, The milk of human kindness should not stop with the care of the children of men, A little of it may well be skimmed in the direction of the brute that looks to you for its very exist- ence. And should you, who pass by on the street, see a stray cat or dog, won't you stop for a moment and rtain that its condition is not and, if it is, secure a merci- or the animal? Tt but a few minutes to tele- phone. Your day will be brighter for knowing that you have done a kind _~ for a quarter a side, with varying re- sults, for two hours. So Wags the World By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1015, Prete New York vesiog NIGMAS of Existence: The apartment “superintendent” who empties the garbage, Also bar- bershop “tonic.” Diishing C Wreeiapins Oo Feminine Fatuities: “The way to hold him is to keep him guessing.” The Domestic Amenities: She (bit- terly)—There are times when 1 be- eve I could learn positively to hate you! He (eagerly)—Gosh, how long d'ya think it ‘ud take? Echoes of the Eons: “After I've devoted twelve of the best years of my lite to you! Euripides never sensed a more tragic moment than that at which a coquettish woman first begins to feel her fat. Sometimes we feel that we'd enjoy the movies more if the homely woman sitting next to us didn’t sit tensely rigid and expectant, as if 5! Just knew we were doing our da mi dest to get acquainted with Matronly Myths: That all hus- bands are “perfect babi when they're sick,” and that the only thing that keeps ‘em alive at all is that they're permitted to hold their wives’ When they're of heavy ribbed silk, a girl in a hammock can look mighty unconscious that the wind's blowing. ‘There are said to be three*barttones in the world who can sing, but they're not the ones who attend’ our motor- boat Parties, As a further evidence of our innate and incurable wrongness, we always feel an irresistible desire to kick the hero who rolls his pencilled lamps langulshingly when he's telling the girl how much he's suffered on her account. Our Notion of the Non-Existent ts the Helluva Time we were Going to Have after the Spouse went away on her Summer Trip, The good-looking, sportily-inclined young feller, wearing a rusty-looking $7.60 suit and pushing a baby-car- riage, can look mighty savage and ‘hang-do) bunch of the dolled-up, leering, pretty girls that he used to be so chummy with, Last week we happened to be in a ttle Pennsylvania city where we were the only individual to carry a cane, Noticing the hostility and ‘contempt which the cane evoked in the bosoms of the proletariat, we thereafter, for the jer of our stay, carried two, when he comes upon a admiration of one duchess. the wrong door. , ! HEN history insists upon re- Peating itself, we have only to hope for the best. ‘The threatened return of the crinoline, prophesied by alarmists of fashion, leaves us all wondering. We find that the crinoline was first worn in the sixteenth century by a Spanish prin- cess who used it to conceal her love letter from a forbidden admirer. According to pictures of Queen Elizabeth, she was the first to wear it in England. Perhaps she wore it for the same reason. She had need ot pockets to hide such, provided’ ali her admirers wrote to her. Among her earlier portraits we find that her dress resembled that of Queen Mary, her aister. The skirts of these were simply widened at the bottom, Hooped petticoats at that time were called Vardingalos or Farthingales, ‘Thes are to be seen in the portraits of Queen Elizabeth, when she was a much older woman, These Vardin- gales were skirts that were widened at the top and spread out from the hips for several feet, making it an impossiblity for a person thus dressed to walk within a small space, It was said that it took eight serving women two hours to dress one woman fash- jonably. During the reign of Charles I, the hoop petticoat was worn only by wives of the lower gentry and by the wives of the oitizens. In the latter part of the reign of Queen Anne it rose again; this time in another form—that of an enormous hoop, ‘This grew to such immense proportions that during the time of George I. and IL, eight yards was considered the proper width. ‘These hoops had outstanding steel or whalebone foundations at the bot- tom of the skirt. In Elizabeth's time this whalebone had been used at the for several feet. Addison expresse himself about the subject as follo through his Sir Roger de Coverley: “My great-great-grandmother has on a new fashioned petticoat, except that hers is gathered at the waist. My grandmother appears as if she The Story of the Crinoline top, near the waist, enlarging the hips | A man #0 much prefers quantity to quality in his sentimental conquests that he 1s more flattered by the admiration of two housematds than by the A snob fs merely a pathette person who ts trying to get into society by | Stood in a large drum, whe: ay walk as if they were ina When the hoopskirt appeared |ctimax' (1740 to 1745) they ware one companied by the tiniest hats, somes | times. to aman 3 to be hidden, In 740 the hoop spreas in oblbae elt ad out at the base and it the time to look “ike a donkey care rying panniers.” A half-dozen men could stand in the space that was necessary for one woman, + Many methods for ente: 4 rlages were thought out, the cle suggestion being “that should have a movable with pulleys to drop from the top in order to arranging their hoops.” Hoopskirts disappeared about Score oe the time of out 1850 the crinoline Pears. There had been hints ot te coming, in the bell skirts that were Worn by the fashionable about 1835, These had been preceded by the small, tight ones. Comic wi of that time made much of thet declared that the “crinoline” was the best friend of the shoplifter, They proved their assertions by quoting from police records of that tima, The following incident was published (whether we believe it or not ta an- other matter) to show what people could expect from the ridiculous fash- jon of that day. It was sold to have been a true statement of fact: “Concealed beneath the skirt of @ fashionably dressed female the fol- lowing articles were found: ty~ three shawls, 11 dozen handkerchiefs, 16 pairs of boots, 30 pairs of stays, 26 chemises, 19 muslin collars, 44 crochet ones, a dressing case, 5 hair brushes, a pair of curling irons, 8 bonnets, 100 rolls of ribbons, 10 dozen pairs of gloves, 20 cotton pairs, 40 balls of eot- ton, 29 balls of silk, 8 packets of ham sandwiches, 10 boxes of bonbons, 14 lever watches, half a leg of mutton, 1 box of plums, a warming pan and 5 bracelets, After such disclosures, who can deny that crinoline 1s comparable to charity, Insomuch as it covers a multitude of sins?" Would any one dare to wear th crinoline now when shopping or in H subway crush? * a the ladies in ty avoid dis- t Things You Dust Fighting, ERSONS using a vacuum cleaner for the first time can scarcely believe their eyes when they be- hold the result. Every time we enter a house we bring in dust on our feet and gai ments, and open windows and doors are constantly contributing. The difference between indoor dust and outdoor dust {ts that, indoors, the germ-laden dust settles to floors and furniture, and is, about once in so often, disturbed by dusting and by our moving about the rooms; whereas out of door dust and germs are being continually driven from one place to another by the air currents. Sweeping with brooms simply dis- turbs the dust, and this, followed by most kinds of dustings, only sends the dust from one place to another, trom floor and furniture to walls and hang- ings. Much of it 1s not destroyed or expelled, only redistributed, Health demands bare floors and rugs. These are more easily kept clean, and rugs have the advantage of being taken out of doors, thus remov- ing for good and all much dust that might otherwise remain within, Talks With My P: Y object in writing these talks is to put them in a book eo that parents may eee just how & child feels about the things I discuss, One of the first stories I want to use is about “knocking.” I hate slang, and yet that ts so ex- pressive! By knocking I mean not standing up for @ person. It is pretty hard to believe that a woman would knock her own husband, but it ie true, for 1 heard mother knocking father to Miss Esterbrook the other afternoon, Miss Esterbrook is what father calls “a trouble maker.” He alwaye says to mother, “You know women never MBEAN to make trouble,” Well, Iwas Should Fnow Carpet sweepers are an a | mont® upon’ ‘brooms, and “thely cose tonts should be burned. ‘The vacu- jum cleaner ts better still, and ite contents should be burned or bu: Dampened dust cloths and, best all, @ damp chamois skin ‘hold dust after collecting it, dust cloth does, which no b= ry ones aim; waft the dust from one place to ped other—as feather dusters do, Damp- ened sawdust or bits of paper scattered over carpets help in @ measure, as both hold the dust after getting it. Theatres and places of amusement are almost never suffi- ciently cleaned or ventilated, and hav- ing carpets and upholstered goats \only makes the matter more compli- cated. Ventilation is becoming reo- ognized as important for healt! but the removal and destruction of dust Is not given sufficient atten |tion. Public conveyances and sleep- jing cars are subject to the same crit. icism. Tho oiling of public streets is a splendid stride in the right di- rection, as it confines the dust. As ft is absolutely certain that tubercu.- losis comes to us through the dust of \the air, tubercular persons should, at least, guard their mouths, when coughing, with the handkerchief, This counsel of decency is worthy of commendation, arents. By a Child on the sofa in the sitting room and I guess mother had forgotten I was there. She and Miss Esterbrook were a-jabbering away as fast ag could be when I heard mother say, “My hus- band gives mo very little ependi money.” ‘Then a voice said, “Yes, always heard your husband was very stingy in matters like that.” “What do you mean?" fairly shouts ed mother, I thought there was going to be @ fight, so I fell off the sofa and when mother saw me 6he looked awful cheap. ni had a bad Gream,® 3 said, hat seeined to break up the meete ing and Miss Esterbrook left, 1 believe in boosting your relatives, especially if you are married te them,