The evening world. Newspaper, September 23, 1915, Page 16

i a 3 % ; 8 @areleneness that ie criminal. TE a bey thoroughfare. -_—) a. t —x< +.) j socle MEY FoMeaaat BIO hon §N EXPLOSION turned two blocks of the new Seventh Avenue subway into @ horrible crevasse in which « trolley car was en- guifed, via or more persons killed and scores injured. This te the sort of grim catastrophe that every now and then disclose how 7" the city # eerved by expensive boards and engineers paid to eve that public works are executed under conditions that put “safety fret.” Lf it was an unduly heavy bieet of dynamite that wrecked Seventh, Avenue, then biesting operstions are carried on-in the subways with If an ordinary blast could knock down shoring and rend the eur face of the street for a distance of two blocks, then somebody was criminally negligent in permitting euch flimsy underpinning beneath In either case responsibility for the Seventh Avenue secident reste upon the Public Service Commission. It is the duty of the Com- mission to assure iteelf that subway construction ts not « daily metiace a The Evening World Da lamer ’ ' SAFETY LAST — -~-—-——- ily Magazi [ ne. Thu reday. September 23. 1915 Reflections __A Bachelor Girl a heres slluring—eud the oy of en other bell te parsing tor something SUMMER resort (9 & place where « girl spends belt ber Gime te make A ‘ A vartetiot’s heart, tke an overworked feild 4 while thet it will produce nothing & becomes so oteriie, etter wut hey A woman may Bot be « bore lingwiet, but ahe never fatle to andere vend « * "!l love you, bequimay or Volapuk even though be may say it in Chockw, Automobiles are all right for eliminating space; but for eliminating 4)Mdence, boredom and bachelors there hae never been anything to equal * moon and 6 good old-fashioned horse and bugsy. ] “The Quarrels of love are like summer showers”—-but that doesn't ich you will have to weather eftet you any idea of the “storms at sea” marriags. A woman is “old” when she has lost her last tllusion, even though she may never @ lost « tooth Fishir for compliments may not be “against the game laws,” but it ls certainly apt to spoll & woman's game 4 to the lives and limbe of the public, | | There is nothing in this world like the thrill of discovering that you ‘Two million three hundred thousand dollars the city pays in « are in love-—-uniess, perhaps, it is the thrill of discovering that you have -— <retpet nites! * find out? ° s all moves at Sofia. Quite. « , ‘ “ d é S a * fs RCs ° » '. By wt # . rl tional pany ee of gunpowder lacking. ee ao ere rs breadata bu woul it tor You would never dream that {t was same sweet voice if you heard it kitchen.—Philadelphia Tele- ng the your way. Bome their home tow: ° seer tT wil Eee or ‘women | ad the ratio? # fh Answers R, X.’s Problem, ‘Fo dee Biiitor af The Mrening World: R. X. gives an apple problem which r find very Interesting. It aeems boys pick a num of apples and iyy them aside for division next mornive. During the night each one f ow &P sanhesnown to the other e ps himself to one-third of lew he finds—thinki: year to the Commission's engineers and experts. to demand caution and vigilance. Miles of busy streets aro now nothing but planks over dangerous guifs below. Do Commissioner MeCal! and his engineers know how safe these plank pavements are? Or must we hire more experts to Count Bernstortt bas the greatest of all qualifications for a diplomacy, He nevor carries the goods, : T IS HARD to believe that Bulgaria has cast in her lot with Ger- ; many, Austria and Turkey, Whatever the arguments of their 4 political leaders, it ought to be hard for the Bulgarian people t» | #00 themselves even indirectly allied with Constantinople. When, after five centuries of Turkish rule, Bulgaria emerged into . quasi-national dignity in 1878, what bothered her most was that her ~ sovereign had to be atill “endorsed” by the Sublime Porte. For the nest thirty years she squirmed and echemed until under Prince Ferdinand _ , the realised complete independence. Since then fighting Turkey has - \ @ontinued to be « congenial pursuit. 5 However, hating Serbia and hating Greece have also come to be Bulgarian habits, and at the present moment a desperate resolve tu equeese ultimate profit out of « dubious situation is at the bottom of _ ‘In the event of Teutonic success, what Bulgaria could, as a Teu- tonic ally, expect from Berlin would seem to be mainly a heavy load of imperial “protection.” If, after all her past experience, Bulgaria sees nothing better ahead than that, her analysis 4 must be gloomy indeed. “It seems quite likely we shall meet again soon,” the Ger- man Military Attache, von Papen, wrote to his wife in Germany. HORTLY after 1 o'clock next Saturday afternoon a formidable foe is expected to threaten the southern edge of Van Cortlandt * Park. Luckily the enemy's plans are known in part, and the largest body of mobilized troops seen in this city since the Civil War! _ will march from the north to meet the invader. When Major-Gen. Ryan, commanding the main body of the coun- ‘try’e defenders, site down to mess on Saturday his scouts will be in Donstant touch with him by wireless, and at the first word that the hes been sighted he will put down his knife and fork and tuke field. Thirteen regiments, at least 12,000 men of the Na- Guard, will be thrown into the conflict. with « field hospital will take care of the wounfed. Signal battalions will string telephone wires from headquarters to the various « divisions and batteries. The Governor of the State means to be on » THE BATTLE OF VAN CORTLANDT PARK. 4 hand to watch the course of the battle and urge on the defeiders, It promises to be the nearest thing to war that armed infan‘ry, cavalry, artillery, engineers’ corps, can produce. Only shrapnel, bullets and hate will bo Hits From Sharp Wits. i 1a Bob Sd hey could people can bluff then ask the It's & poor rule that won't work fellows can see no big men in Everybody at home fe small as they.—Toledo Perhaps you bave noticed that some you.—Albany J. 4OA Sntee Ber 100 Femalas. Po the BAitor of The Prening World: please inform me through imns whether there are more It pays enough! ——+-—___—_. BULGARIA IN? Vy b) of the whole situation / ——+-—____ By Roy L. Copyright, 1915, by the Press Publishing (0, (The New York Evening World), —— REALLY think we are going to have good time after the war 1s ov! re marked Mr, Jarr as he put down the evening paper. “What good will that do us?” asked Mrs. Jarr dolefully. “If times are bad wo get along and if times are good we get along, so what's the difference “Well, don't you think we get along fairly well in the hard times because other people got along better in the good times?” asked Mr, Jarr, the op- timiat. Mrs, Jarr only murmured that sho id not see what good it did the Jarr family, and Mr. Jarr continued: “The country itself is quite prosperous, busi- Rese is wood in most lines, the mines ‘and steel companies are working full Ume, concerns that make war supplies are working overtime, the farmer is getting good prices for his grain”"—— “But what good does that do us?” asked Mra, Jarr, “We are not work- ing in the war factories or the mines, and we are not farmers, and 1 was talking to Mr, Panner, who ts in the importing business, and he told mo that timos are getting worse every dey, or every day is getting worse all the time—I forget which—only 1 know Mr, Panner was very much discouraged.” “Mr, Panner ts only pessimistic be- Oause business ts bad with him," re- mae Ms. Jarr, “If you talk with peop! o are making money the; weoticime . ine will tell you the outlook ts var ss promising indeed,” Seg a8 . Mita slad you think 60,” replied mily trees should be kept in prie|Mra. Jarr. “But if you would vate garden: The world does Bot Mr, Panner talk you would be bes care who your andestors were; it 8) ried, I am y {terested only in what you are, fare _ One yeh ca a 8 would @ee the way Mrs, Panner ° bring you tales about | 4resses you would think times were ea ournal, An ambulance com- motorcycle detachments and plenty their way al by praying for, whole lot easier than Prved oan pat Lord to spread|up the car fare—Philadelphia Tele. . ; ° oft when “The ooperel man,” oa) Deseret News. . ‘Those who ie othere will carry to others about Very prosperous with them. But she told me if It hadn't been that her hus- band made a lot of money before tho | war in Europe broke out she would | not have been able to get a new thing |to wear this season,” “Then I don't see why her husband #0,” ventured Mr, Jarr. “The , War can't last forever and he'll be making more money than ever be. to pick from, ‘inal, Hence United Btates 2 HV. a , each} claimed Mrs, Jarr, “I said to Mra, Me ore-|Panner, if your husband made so | much money that he could pay for the clothes you are buying now—when he wn't making money—vou should be a , happy woman, for those are better aE were clothes than I oan afford and my hus- Te-| band te making just as much money Jarr Family | McCardell “Shoe said it was small consolation to her to be told that other women's husbands were making as mucb money as previously when her hus- band wasn't. I thought the remark was an extremely selfish one.” “Well, if Mra, Panner isn’t worry- ing because your husband is no bet- ter off than he used to be, although he is no worse off than he ever was, why should you worry that Mr, Pan- ner jen't as well off as he used to be when his wife ts better off than you'll ever be?” asked Mr. Jarr, This question puzzled Mrs, Jarr, which was perbapa Mr, Jarr’s inten- tion, Mr, Jarr’s Optimism Survives Even His Wife’s Bold “Visit and Search.” lot of people get along a great deal better than they deserve to and that when It's hard times for a lot of pev- ple it's good times for other people but it's always just about the same with us, #o I don’t see what good good times will do us, for how will we know they are good times if we don't have any more money than we usually have?" “How much do we usually have?” asked Mr, Jarr. “I don't know,” was the reply, “but whatever it is or whatever it was or whatever it's going to be, It wasn't, it dsn’t and won't be enough!” “Cheer up, Mttle one!” cried Mr. Jarr, “our case is not unusual, No matter what any one has, It is never enough. You hear of large salaries “I don’t quite understand you,” gaid Mrs, Jarr, “but I only know that 4 —== By Sophie NCE upon a time there w a young man, He was a clerk in a store and earned j $15 @ woek. | He had ambitions, He wanted to advance {n his work and thus make | more money, #0 he applied himself jdiligently and soon was made buyer | of his department, It was @ very small department, but & good beginning, and gave him $6 more per week. In this new position, | therefore, he met many drummers {who had goods to sell him, And, in | order to win his favor, they pata him \all kinds of compliments and pat- | roniged him aa drummers usually do. Many times they tnvited him to din- nen At these dinners everything was served from soup to nuts, and the drummer usually magnanimously | waved the walter aside with all the! loose change. (Of course this was all ,“eharged up to the firm” us far as ihe) {drummer was concerned.) | Now, this loose change, as the clerk often noticed, way nearly enough to pay for his me & week—but the . To him it was “good fellow,” and ways won him to the drummer, ow, it came to pass that thie clerk met a nice girl who worked in an office, He began paying her at- Then be paid her some ttention; then some compli ments; then he invited her to dinnet Having gone out with the dru: and wanting to show how A Fables of Everyday Folks picture stars, and yet the more that is paid them the more they ask for. Irene Loeb Copyright, 1015, by the Prese Publishing Co. (The Now York Brenlug World), The Small Income and the Big Tip. | off with a what-do-l-care-for-money Manner, Now this happened many time: and in order to keep up this p the young man had to borrow aga. next week's salary. @ bit” with the girl, dollar straw hat over week by cloak room tps, paper money, the winning Kamo, Now the yuri, being and @ wage of her own accord, youn, trenchmen phe liked to dine, he still hi and although he d_ place. he gir) reall wlip through his fingers. waw the future of his course, would fashioned” end “not up ty the the other appellations tha an who tries to ho has @ sardine n CUSTOMED he was to the embossed it cif og Set: a be used to make, up its “What di gbe say to that?” asked Ma, Jar, ete os menu card he would onler a dinner of dishes thet tho girl never heard of, When he caine to pay the bill he, too, Would biandly weve the walter tomfoo! on tipping. He lost out. Moral: In entertaining a prospeo- tive wife spend wisely but not too wall, - paid raliroad presidents and moving st Because of the handsome Ups he gave the waiters he | had to go without many @ lunch and work @ whole day with real pangs of | hunger, but he suffered all this in the! beautiful belief that ho was “making On all occasions he aimed to thrust his "good fellowship” upon her notice, ‘Chua it happened that he puid for his again every As he would go out the door of a restaurant ho had learned from the drummers to slip the walter a little In fact he had tho tipping craze, whish to him was the BiG BIGN in sensible one ner, began to figure the man, 60 she tried to urge re- uKgested going to more modest ith d that he was He had the habit, and as Jong 48 be had the money ‘It would Bho clearly the spendthritt b lary with @ craving for cavier, and is a No matter how much money a person has It is never enough, after one gets used to tt. Don’t you remember, when we were first married, fe used to think if I ever got a certain salary we would be perfectly satisfied, and time passed and I got the certain salary and still it wasn’t as much as we thought we needed to live nicely on? So, cheer up! If I were receiving a salary ten times larger than what 1 do, we would still be talking of the hard times, perhaps. We may be just as well off having what we have and wanting what we vant than having more and wanting more, I'm going to be satisfied with what I havel” “May be you haven't as much as you think you have, Mr, Optimist,” sald Mrs. Jarr, “but since you feel so | satisfied you won't be annoyed when I tell you I took some money out of your pocket this mornin Mr, Jarr clutched at himgelf in | wild alarm, Butt he was afraid to |say a word, He had « one-dollar bill | {n his fob and a five-dollar bill in his hip pocket, under a handkerchief, Had Mra, Jarr found the one-dollar | bill or the five? He ascertained later she had found them both, Still he |comforted himself with the thought he would have to yield them to her sooner or later. Once an optimist, al- ways @ good thing! = a Your Voice | Heard, OUR voice I heard, Soft as the evening call of some sweet singing bird. Its accents, borne to my tense listen- ing ear, Gave me the first swift sense that you were near. In vain I tried, pride, ‘To shut out that clear sound Of flowing words, The very air around Was vibrant with your tones, Had e’en the stones From the high walls about us, in one great smash, Fallen outward, not that crash Of doom, so now it seems, Had more disturbed the fabric of my dreams ‘Than that you spoke. Your first word broke The spell of musio and of visions bright ‘That was my dear delight. You brought me back With a dire jolt from off the atry t track >| Of fancy, where my soul Had found o summer moment's good, Why, with that voice Which sometimes might have made my heart rejoice, Did you insist, that way, On talking right out loud hare at toe pley? aw.a With all my hot resentment and my | gotten over it, | No, dearie, Love doesn't lose its wings after marriage; they merely {moult from lack of exercise. By H. J. Oop retats, |4 Guaranteed Umbrella Finds a Ready Sale. , mine is @ pretty shady business,” sald Busbooll, who fancied himself as a wag. “And like the undertaker, the umbrella maker siniles when others weep, Fine weather cuts my profits; rainy days mean money to mo, | “Fut te get back to this scheme of yours, I haven't much faith in It. No one has ever advertised umbrellas before. When a shower comes up, people buy umbrellas at the nearest store, They'd never bother to ask for @ certain brand. I'll gamble a thousand dollars, however, and we'll add $1,500 to that if conditions war- rant it. That guarantee idea is good, ‘Rigidly guaranteed for one year; that ought to inspire confidence. “All right,” replied Dixon, t man. “I'll prepare a then we'll look them over. about a name: how does the in Rbsister’ strike you?” ot bad, though a bit involved. 1 use it if you can't devise a r one.” ‘One mol point,” added Dixon. “We'll leave @ standing order witn the newspapers to watch the weather predictions. When rain is predicts they're to run our copy.” “Fine!” exclaimed Bushnell. “That will make it timely; which ts half the battle.” A few weeks later the campaign opened. As dealer distribution had been secured long previous, the ad- vertising urged the reader to awk his dealer for the “Rain Resister; Rig- And ‘k VERY one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men or parties as if he were free and had none of his own. ‘This being objected to on one aide, it is agreed that it is a fault and a hin- drance to knowledge, What, now the cure? No other but this—tha' every man would let alone oth prejudiges and examine bis own. No- body is convinced of his prejudices by the accusation of another; he recrim- inates by the same rule and ia clear. The only way to remove this great cause of ignorance and error out of the world is for every one impartially to examine himself. If others will not deal fairly with their own minds, does that make my errors truths or} ought it to make me in love with them and willing to impose on my~- elf? *“lovery one declares against blind- ness and yet who almost Is not fond | of that wylch dima his sight: and | koeps the clear light out of his mind which should run into truth and knowledge? False and doubtful posi- tions relied on as unquestionable maxims keep these in the dark and away from truth who built on them, Buch, for example, are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party reverence, fashion, interes ‘This is the mote which every one sees in his brother's eye, but never regards , the beam in his own. For who in) there almost that is ever brought \tairly to examine his own principles and see whether they are such as will r the truth, oy those who are willing to get rid of this great hindrance of knowledge, D cepting apologies. A quarrel ts an unhappy thing between two persons who are lovers or even close friends., Both will be uncomfortable so long as it lasts. The chances are that the blane rests equally on both Therefore, ne: her should hesitate to apologize for sa. least a share in the Betty Vincent's O not be slow in giving or ac- Gissension, Ana the person who is not generous enouxh to make the first apology should at least be fair enough to accept it with ease and speed, anid to follow it with his or her excuses. ‘Then there will be fair weather, Barrett. by the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World). ily Guaranteed for One Year.” he can't supply you, call on us,” wae adde ¥ epace was fSilustrated with comedy figures in silhouette, The “Tain Resister” was depicted as sue. censfully ering heavy winds aad rains; the common or garden vari of umbrella was pathetically plotui as & mangled wrock, the clty interior and windo electros for newspaper “ads.” charge was made for this service. Within a couple of months an creased demand began Several dealers who had never care ried Bushnell's product applied for representation, Then came a couple of weeks of ateady rain, gon to pour tn, The cumul: fect of the previous advert becoming evident, At the end ofsix months Bushned requested his béokkeeper for a state. cards, also wi ment covering his gross volume of business by months for the past five years. There had been a steady ine vf the business ‘graphs.” A dotted what the normal growth w been for the past six months; a solid line Indicated the actual increase It was far in excess of normal, The profit in excess of normal was easily ascertained; {t amounted to $5,000, Subtracting the $2,500 expended ig advertising left $2,600 additional net profit attributable to nothing but the advertising, “And T'll be profiting penditure for many y Bushnell, “for U'll receive many ree peat orders from satisfied customers, I guess Dixon knew what he was talke ing about, after a he charted have Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy PREJUDICES---By John Locke. for to such only I write, to those whe would shake off this great and dane gerous impostor prejudice, w' dresses up falsehood in the liken of truth and so dexterously hood- winks men's minds as to keep thems in the dark with a belief that they are more in the Neht than any do not see with their eyes, I al offer this onc mark whereby preju- dice may be known, He that is strongly of any opinion must suppose that his persuasion is truth upon good grounds and that his assent is no greater than what the evidence of the truth he holds forces him to, and that they are arguments and not inclinations of fancy that maki him so confident in his tenets. Now, after all his profession he cannot bear any opposition, if he cannot so much as give @ patient hearing, much lees examine and weigh the arguments oa the other side, does he not plainly oon- fegs it is prejudice governs him? An@ it Is not the evidence of trutha but me lazy anticipation, some beloved presumption that he desires to rest une disturbed in, For it what he holds be as he gives out well fenced with evie dence and he sees it to be true, what need he fear to put it to the proof? If his opinion be settled upoff @ firm foundation, Jf the arguments that supe port it and have obtained his assent be clear, good and convincing, should he be shy to have It or § whether they be proof or not? He whose ussent goes beyond his evidence 8 of his adherence onl nd does, in effect, fuses to hear what laring that it Is not evidence he monet the quiet enjoyment of the opinion is fond of, with a forward conde: tion of ali that may stand in opposl. ton to it unheard and unexamined, Advice to Lovers & certain young man and most anx- fous to hear froin. him. whit from hor cat » next winter, How oan T Induce him to suggest corresponding with me without being forward or une maldenty’?" t 4 him to broach the eubje Doe uk tee spondence, Accept an Apology. “BE. T." writes: “I am in ee Dollars and Sense “1 Dealers outside were supplied with striking in! to be felt, crease from year to year, The growth by line ladigates. . | lov, 4 young mun, but recently we beostes estranged because he tried to put his arm around me and kiss me. q have refused to a though T know ho cares for me, Bhe "D. BA" writes: “Te it a young lady, when going wilh a/ gentleman for an outing or a bout ride, to supply luncheon for the two?’ | Not unless there has been some special arrangement to that effect, "0, Le" writes: "I am very fond of the place of | 1 forgive bin? { ailvine you te do so at onge, ve I been wr paying tes: “A young may attention to @ nee lady for over a year, Would birthday Xe, Gome simple thing, te ept his apology, aly | meat & fies appropriate for ar to give him @