The evening world. Newspaper, August 7, 1915, Page 8

7 + lat he Che —EGig Tiorio Daily Except Bunday by the Press Publishing Company, Noa, 53 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPIL PULITZ! enident, 6% Park Tow. J. ANGUS SHAY F asurer, 68 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZ Secretary, 6% Park aay dr. ow. Entered at the Post-Office at New York an Secon’-Class Matter. tion Hates to The Fvening| For England and the Continent and World for the United States All Countries in the Intornational end Canada, Postal Unton. $2.50| One Tear +8010ne Month IT. ORK on an important section of the Broadway subway may be held up indefinitely and the completion of the new dual system delayed months or even years, thanks to a d after-thought of the Board of I jate’s Bureau of Contract jon. A contract already advertised and awarded permitse—as have all rs of its class—the contractor and the chief engineer of the lic Service Commission to agree upon the payment of a lump sum extra work instead of adding to the actual cost of the extras n P tage for profit. The Board of Estimate now suddenly decides Sto strike out this stipulation. The contractor maintains that the rd of Estimate has no power to fix over a contract which has been “duly advertised and awarded. The Public Service Commission stands by the contractor. So does Acting Mayor McAneny and Alderman nas Acting President of the Board of Aldermen. mR ~—_—_CBy insisting upon the change the Board of Estimate forces the Hg Metter into the courts and effectively ties up subway construction. j mm Merchants, real estate owners and the general public who / @agerly look forward to the day when the subways shall be finished the streets restored to normal condition may well lose all patience with so-called municipal management. The time to put provisions 0 a contract is before it has been assigned. Clumay attempts to it afterward are only going to add to tho loss and confusion h dawdling over subway work inflicts upon all interests public private. Why must the city’s business always be bungled? % Bs WARDEN OSBORNE. TIS ALWAYS hard to see & man of energy, enthusiamn and high principle turned out of his chosen work because of overzeal. Thomas Mott Osborne has done some exceedingly foolish at Sing Sing. The charge that another convict was allowed visit and talk with Becker in the death house is a grave one. we of absence” for convicts is scarcely justifiable. Moving pic- “first nights” and concerts in the death house, though less matters, are open to criticism. The case of the “trusty” who, allowed to wander about with a box of stage carpenter's tools, iy decided to try them on the window bars, is one the late W. 8. bert should have immortalized in a libretto. >. Nevertheless, as a member of the Joint Committee on Prison . who has followed Warden Osborne’s doings, justly observes: No one will undertake to say that he took over a perfect in- featur On the con- * a Eveni ei rld Men Who ag trary, it 1s well known that he took charge of a wretchedly unfit Prison, with the worst possible conditions and with a . Rotoriously shemefu) administration, and that conditions have ‘been vastly improved by his efforts. Why doesn’t Mr. Osborne take counsel with himeelf whether his are not worth the sacrifice of certain extreme experiments and the accompanying talk and discussion to which he has seemed not ? A frank etatement that he enn and will be more cautious, and “statutory” in applying hie theories might go far not only ‘eontinue but to increase his usefulness in his present position. APPLES STAY HOME. LTHOUGH Europe has a few choice apples of its own, it has always had a wholesale appetite for the American article, Tn London and Paris, indeed, American and Canadian apples ised to cost less than some of the native varieties, mainly because of he greater supply. But this year Europe has not been munching apples. Last fall lions of barrels which in ordinary years would have found their ay from American orchards to the docks of Atlantic ports had to be d of at home. And this year, with a bumper apple yield in pect, foreign markets are still leas to be relied on, The International Apple Shippers, now convened at Chicago, are Ing upon apple growers the value of the markets that are no and trying to figure where to place the falf crop. Apples ought io be cheap next winter and “sass” plenty. Hits From Sharp Wits. of compliments ever want Deseret New! eee . yw man » War is never an , Man on the Car, “and the funniest are those afflicted with chronic gol- emnity."—Toledo Blade. oe e A The man who confines his remarks © one subject for an hour h all he knows about it, mas oe ee whale of a liar that . ‘Re te usually the up to blow. ° If honesty Were not the best there would be a good deal ries a4 Nashville Banner, oe . . Ris merety & waste of words when tells his wife that she can do pleases.—Omaha World-Herald. “ . ; ee may do nothing wrong and » tl a citizen of no particular —~albany Journal. knowledge of self leaves room for conceit.—Albany Jour- . The person who figures his Job as the shortest possible line between starting and quitting time will even- tually work into pn © quitting than starting. Macon Telegraph, 1we The man who knows it all ts the last Person you Want to Ko to for g004 advice. —Philadelphi . Picea phia Tele. f are funny, rked the Letters From the People For a Tramo Court, on Probation, but jess handler of a invtor vehisle ne continue on his way. What Raye sty on justice! Again, readers, are not the tragedy liste of manehter iy Streets through motor car accidonte sufticient argument for the establisn ment of a Traffic Court? Biter of The Breving World: recent editorial Crime,” op “High in which w stated criminal carelessness in hon- of motor vehiwies has become of the commonest crimes in tie calendar,” gives certainly the forcible and conclusive reasons JIM 4 criminally care. | “I wish I kn By Roy L. HATCHA reading with euch | deep interest?” asked Mr. Jarr. “It's a very good story and a very true one,” sald Mrs. Jarr, looking up from the engrossing volume, Mr, Jarr crossed over and gave a peok, ‘The Memoirs of Mildred Mil- dew; the Diary of a Neglected Wife,’ hey?" he remarked, “I wish you wouldn't shout in my ear!" cried Mrs, Jarr, ‘Now, you've made me lose my place.” “My, it must be grand when you're sv interested!" scoffed Mr. Jarr. “Yes, it is grand, and I am inter- ested,” replied Mra, Jarr, “I could write sucb a book, only I haven't time.” “How did Mildred Mildew get the time?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Because she was neglected.” “Then, if you haven't the time you're not neglected, so that's settled,” said Mr. Jarr, chucklin, “No, it isn't settled,” replied Mrs. Jarr quickly, “I'm neglected all right, but I have this house to look after and I have my children to look after. At least, Mildred Mildew, even if she was neglected, didn't have to worry about bills, She had plenty of money and servants and a fine home and automobiles and no children—and she didn’t have to make one dollar do the work of three!" “Just so, just so! murmured Mr. Jarr. “Mildred's story Mstens very sad indeed. And Milady Mildew was a neglected wife? Say, why doesn't the Mildew party give a few sympa- thetic moans about neglected bus- bande. “Nonsense!” said Mrs, Jarr. “There | are no neglected Dbusbands, “You men bave tt good In this world, You don't have the care of children, the meeting of bill collectors, the sneers of other women who are better dressed than you are. If # man dres in good taste most men think h a dandy and have a contempt for him the establishment of a Tram 7 As autoists seem under the ion that the public streets are speedways it seems to me wo be Leaves for Votson he Rveoing World I reau recently in your paper about fire weed as a cure for polson ivy of such jurisdiction, as all vio. | There are seve: is of Weeds that of the traffic ordinance would | #row Wild in} rsey which wiil d in a court where records |cure ivy poivonit The best cur of such offenses and | Which iny ex leads me to be 8 would become known, lieve in is Gather a big order, The papers record a| handful of chestnut ves. Dry them of @ young woman arrested « and put the in A quart of cold pd time for speeding and she was | water Let them simmer for four or Vital necessity in this city for p & Sef Se iy fined $100, The fourth time | five hours. 7 strain off the water : arrested and tried in an-|and let it cool, Then bathe affected 2 ough she may be discharged. ! parte and iet the solution dry on ‘3 a ty is Bathe very frequently, Ba. Bit, But if a woman doesn't dress well her friends are ashamed of her and | she cap see them sneering at her. And that sort of thing burts.” “AW, put up that book |Jarr, “If you don't I'll sit right down and start a HNterary backfire that | will cause @ social upheaval, a revolt of the long suffering, I' begin on {my great work for the common good jand the uplift of ‘the downtrodden, |"Phe Story of Neglected Husbands,’ Mrs. Jarr just shrugged her | said Mr. The Jarr Family Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). | she has refused to rise with him and Ws, ur 65 ug n eryie “?):191 5 — Fail ew some one eGVOVCC TEE! it, 1018, tha eho who could get me a good job.” McCardell “Ob, you don’t think we are neglect- | ea?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Look at this) shirt. There isn't a button on it, Look | at tho trousers I'm wearing. There's | fringe on the bottom of them. That) should be fixed. They are not pressed. I syppose I should send them out to a tailor, when five minutes and a hot iron and the loving care of a wife should have them neat and nice. My case is the case of half the men tn | H in a suit of separation from @ busband who had so long taunted her with the criticism that she was “old-fashioned” that she ap- pealed to the courts. And now the Judge must determine just how up-to-date a wife must be in order to be treated with affection by her busband, or how otherwise sho may secure proper protection under the circumstances. The husband in this case is well-to-do, Perhaps this is the indirect cause of bis criticism of her, It is the prerogative of every woman to live up to the times and not lag behind in the progressive ways of tae world, Many a husband bas been dis- couraged and lost love for his wife because when he bas accumulated money and wanted to enjby bis earn- ings the wife has INSISTED on the old economical way and KEFUSED to rise to proper conditions with him, Such a wife wakes up to the realiza- tion that there is always some OTHER woman ready to spend her husband's money, apd she usually finds herself before her hearthstons weeping at ber lonely lot. Very often such @ Wife bas only herself to blame because she bas not put forth tha energy to please her life partner, pr ferring to remain in the background, which she usually does, In a word, By Sophie JE sald I was old-fashioned and out of date," a wife told Justice Ford the other day has remained where she was years ago. This is an age of life, activity; and a woman can have an interest in | modish things about her, to the Joy of her husband, and in the end con- tinue her own happiness. But there is something to be sald in defense of the old-fashioned wife who has beea willing to start with very litte and worked side by side with the husband, eboulders, Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The 110 18 this, my Daughter, that cometh out of Brooklyn, saying: hold, I seek a PERFECT HUSBAND! Lo, he must be both a friend and a lover. W York Evening World) “A teetotaler and a boon companion. “A successful business man and of an artistic temperament “A fireside companion and a Sir Walter Raleigh. “Good—and yet INTERESTING!" Which ie to say that he must be both blond and brunette Wise and foolish, Quiet and gay, Young and old, Red and blue. Verily, verily, I say unto thee, there is no much ANIMAL in the heavens above, nor in the earth beneath, nor in the tunnels that lead to Brooklyn UNDER the earth! And the only Perfect Husbands are they that dwell in the graveyard and in the feminine imagination. Go to! As the motor cars in a great garage eo are the Eligible Men. Lo, a touring car is NOT a runabout, nor t racing machine a limousine. Neither is husband that shineth beneath the lamplight and the moon- light a thing of beauty and a joy before breakfa: And be that moweth the lawn and painteth the front plazza with his own hands will peradventure refuse to wear a dinner coat; he that bringeth home many shekels hath no time for babbling sweet nothing: he that is a teetotaler is not always compantonable, and he that {s artistic soldom proveth a provider of provender and a digger after dollars. ‘Thercfore I say unto thee, Let the Widow of Brooklyn, who seeketh the Impossible, gather a bale of straw and make her an Husband fn the Image of a MAN. Let her set him in her drawing-room and cover him with garlands and illusions and {magination. For only thus shall she attain her IDEAL. But as for thee, my Daughter, I charge thee be content to get thee a REGULAR man, and to remove the blemishes and put on the modern im- provements and the fintehing touches afterward. For the Lord maketh a man, but the WIFE maketh a husband, And a GOOD HUSBAND 1s the noblest work of woman! But a PERFECT Husband—who shall find one ready made? Law for the Laity By Henry G. Wenzel Jr. Copsetght, 1918, ty The Prees Wublidhing Co. (The New York Evening World), 2—The Check. HE check is without doubt the T greatest medium of exchange, and most people are familiar with its use. It is, briefly, an order on a bank or depository to pay at once to a certain person or his order or to bearer a stated amount of mon- ey from a fund deposited with it by the drawer. It is further @ condition- al contract to pay the said sum in Mr. Jarr Threatens to Write a Book: “The Story of a this town. around the street and shops. They won't even do their own work at home; they want to belong to clubs and gabble over "things they do not understand; they want to be sight- seeing in the streets and stores; run- ning to matinees; they spend the money their husbands give them on clothes to ape the rich; they”’—— But Mrs. Jarr had rjsen to her feet. “Do you mean to say 1 do those things?” she asked. “Certainly not,” said Mr. Jarr, run- ning to cover, “And are you @ ne- “Old-Fashioned Wives” Irene Loeb Ooprright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “making” him. She has been a part- ner in bis pay envelope and is en- titled to CONSIDERATION when the struggle of money-making 1s over. Many @ man under such conditions uses the excuse of her being “old- fashioned” to justify his unkiadly at- titude toward her and seeking other partners with whom to share the Spoils that belong to her, He thinks he is right in this, since bis wife has failed to bé like the fluffy woman that he sees buzzing around, accomplish- ing but one thing—being “up-to-date, There are qualities in the wife of « man like that which are worth all the fashion-plate creatures, who are ony asites at best. Just because she does not crimp her hair or dress sev- eral times a day, Jike her neighbor, Mrs. Butterfly, it Is no reason why she should be labelled “old-fashioned” and relegated to the rear in his affec- tions, He probably could nut tlve hap pily with Mrs. Butterfly a week. If only he knew it, the stability of character, the fine purpose, the eco- nomical ways—these things may be the very elemonts that he NEEDS in his Nfe to keep him in the way he should go. Such a husband must not mistake the qualities that ENDURE and ac- tually make for his happ!ness and term them “old-fashioned.” It 1s un- just, to say the least. Many a man who nags at a wife and lets her think that what he wants for a wife {s an up-to-minute lady of leisure usually lives to wish that he had acted dit- ferently. And certainly one of the everyday tragedies 1s the family of very modest means, where the spend- thrift husband has urged his econom- jeal wife to be fashionable at the ex- pense of the future ra | Ho deserves all the reproach that must be his when the rainy day comes, Such wives, for the fear of losing thelr husbands, meet such hus- bands’ wishes, against their own bet. judgment, to the detriment of both Retter @ bit of old-fashioned econ- omy, Mr. Husband, than later re- ret. Re sure before you call yor wife “old-fashioned” that you have weighed everything in the balance and ecrimping and saving and actually mn) actually found her wanting. Tho women are running; Neglected Husband.” glected wife? Don't I spend my time at home? Do I waste my money?” said Mrs, Jarr, “we havent enough to waste; we haven't even enough to spend. “Then let me take that book and ive it to the janitor,” sald Mr. Jarr. “He's the only person of means around here," To this Mrs. Jarr agreed. Later ths Janitor’s wife sent up word that tt was a grand book, and would Mrs, Jarr lend her $2, as she was a neglect- ed wife so far as spending-money was concerned, So Wags the World By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1915, ‘ithe! New Y ‘The fork Evening World), NIGMAS of Existence: Monkey Prose Publishing Oo, E department of any zoo, Marble cake, “Tired business man” Joke. Brisk walks before breakfast. Communiques. Blackberry wine. Phonographic “chimes” records, Home-made chop suey. The prodigality with which we blow in the $5 note that somebody Pays back to us must mean that we Berar expected to clap a lamp on that velve We've got an idea that the woman who wears soiled white shoes never sweeps behind the doors or under the beds, ‘There is said to be a conductor on the, Penns r ontortionist- vania Rall- ad who has learned how to take a irink of water out of one of those paraffine “drinking” envelopes without danger of drowning. eer ° A lot of comicalists had to grow old and grizzled before they found ut that “the Erle” never minded those jokes, One of the saddest cases that has come to our notice recently is that of an amiable young Woman whose dad tried to stop smoking and whose mother tried to reduce her fat hy dieting at the same time, Enigmas of Existence: butter, What she cal ‘a picked-up dinner." Clothes in hot weather. The starvation regime of summer dietitians. Cold baths to “cool off." Moujik hatr-cuts for little girls, Country We wonder how many folk wor really consider certain movie “com dians” side splittingly fuuny if they hadn't been told #0. Whenever we see a bathing gin wearing one of those rubber ca with a draw string we Wonder why she wouldn't prefer to get ber hair soaking, sozzling wet. When a woman doesn't know how to cook, her don’t-know is bigger and balefuller when she tackles a bolled huckleberry dumpling than anything else we know of, the event of the payor refusing to do so. However, the drawes must use reasonable diligence in presenting the check for payment, for in the event of his neglect to do so, and the fail- ure of the bank, he will lose and will not be able to force the maker to m good his do: yment on a check may be stopped any time before payment except where it has been certified by the payor. Certification is a guarantee that the payor has sufficient funds out of whigh to pay the check and that it wil) be paid when presented for that purpose. A verbal acceptance and statement as above ts not suffi- cient, the certification must be stamped or written across the inatru- ment in order to be binding. Tho practice of signing blank checks, by no means an uncommon one, 19 dangerous and should be avoided. Should the payee insert an amount greatly in ex: ot what has been agreed and the check come into the hands of an innocent third party the maker would have no defense to a suit for its payment, Remember that an indorsee of a negotiable tn- strument takes it free of any equities between drawer and drawee, Care should be taken in accepting a check toward payment of a disputed amount. If the words “in full of all accounts” appear on the check no further amount can be recovered, The cneck ts deemed accepted in final set- tlement, The mere addition, however, of these words where there has been no controversy will not prejudice # payee's rights. Waiting. “K. 8." writes: ‘1 am in love with @ young man of twenty-two, who by ai? his ‘actions seems to care for me. But a year has passed and he has not said anything. Shall I wait any longer?” What else can you do if you care for him? Besides, a year is not a long tine to be acquainted. Besides, ageis, the young man is very young and Is perhaps watting till he can afford to take on new responsibilities. Length of Engagement “B. E.” writes: “I bave known @ young man for four or five years and we shall announce our engagement shortly, We are very much in love with each other, but he wants to be earning more money before we marry. Do you think @ year would be too long an engagement?” I think it is a very sultable length for an engagement. “EB, L." writes ‘For some months I have been walking down to the train every morning with a young man of my acquaintance. Up to a few days ago he was extremely pleas- ant, but for the last few mornings he has acted in a rather peculiar fash- fon. Can you tell me what to do? I did not know that I had offended hira in any way.” Probably you haven't and he Vaccination, N view of the met that in small- [ pox epjdemjcs death occurs in about one out of every five, and that those who may survive are dis- figured for life, some truths about vaccination should be known, Why should we be vaccinated? Because vaccination, it has been proved, is the only safe and effective protection against smallpox, child should be vaccinated before it is two years old and again when it is twelve; an adult should be vac- cinated whenever an outbreak of smallpox occurs, How should we be vaccinated? Be- fore vaccination a bath should be taken and clean underwear put on. "The place selected—arm or leg— should be thoroughly cleaned. This ie absolutely necessary, and todo this wash it with alcohol or with hot water and soap, The skin in vac- cination is scratched alightly by the doctor with a sterilized needle, and Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) . Things You Should Fnow When should we be vaccinated? A} worried about his work or some per- sonal affair, Walt and see if it doesn't wear off, “D. J." writes: “Six months ago I quartelied witha young man who ‘had paid me a good deal of attention and had given me his tie pin to wear, | haven't yet returned the pin, Shall I do so? ‘It was all his fault that we quarrelled.”" Nevertheless, there is no reason you should ke@p an article of ry belonging to him. Return tt at once, 5. K." writes: “I am very much. in love with a young man, but he is extremely homely, and my best friend tells me I shail not be happy with him on account of bis looks, Please advise me.” It Handsome is as handsome does. you love the young min, and he js a good sort, never mind his inability to take @ beauty prize, “G, 7." write lady of good family tion, and come in contact with quite a few young men. Although they are cordial they never ask to call again "lam a young and good educa- or to take me out. How can | win their favor?" Be pleasant and natural, Avoid self-consciousness and egotism, Ioan give no other rules, the vaccine, which is kept in pure condition, 18 then rubbed’ in and is allowed to dry, What to do after The local effect of reaches its height about the te On the eleventh day the sorenocs ae: creases and the contents of the core begins to dry. At the ond of ‘two weeks a dry ‘scab forms, and three weeks the scab fails off leaviog a clean, round si No ointments ¢ ever be appl and it should the entire vaccination? vaccination ‘asy things should 1 to the vaccination, covered throughout tod with st lean hahdkerc all o be pinned to the un- © to Keep it from: slips ping, and these coverings should bo changed daily Only clean boiled water should the wound, and above all things dee should be kept out. Any unfavorable result always follows from scratching with dirty Angers, which introduce ine fection from outside rather than from the vaccination itself. If the wound 1s accidentally injured or hecomes dirty the doctor should be rol consulted, iid A