The evening world. Newspaper, October 14, 1915, Page 18

“PREPAREDNESS.” OW that the President hes with earnestness urged Americans t be ready to safeguard everything in America, the sportive Frening Poet chuckles in anticipation uf “the proposals which @Hll struggle for inclusion in ‘prepare i Where's the joke? Has any serious national movement ever gath Ged headway without attracting men and motives that sought to Profit by ite momentum! Wil) more private scheming and selfishness shout Preparedness than hung upon Union, Protection, Trust or any other principle to b citizens of this nation hay rallied ? $, The Evening Post is amused “to observe how everybody with a Pet notion of what the country ought to do is hastening to | or it of it? Pet notions, proposals, disenssion—on what els See public opinion form itself? And public opinion, we suppose, is till behind Government Preparedness at present is a state of mind. It is not yet artion-| The Evening World Daily Ipte or specific. While it is becoming «0, nonsense and extravagance will be uttered in its name. The sooner the chaff is scattered the @oner it can be cleared away. £, Meanwhile the state of mind must spread—none ihe less « and compelling because it loosens the tongues of achemers and foo Se “> ‘The Colonel comes along with flapping sail. Hard work to | Keep up with W. Ww. ee “ ° SING SING AGAIN. CHOICE specimen of the sort of prison investigation for which the people of this State have no use whatever was furnished } by State Prison Commissioner Diedling on his latest visit * (“T’'ve got Warden Osborne where I want him. the hip.” Lf Dr. Diedling thinks this kind of talk carries conviction he is mightily mistaken. State prison officials who go to Sing Sing with the only half concealed purpose of bringing away “hot stuff” to be uted as evidence against the Warden, only ze. solicitude of the prison authorities at Albany regarding Sing covers a disgusting substratum of politics and persecution. © The good Mr. Osborne has done at Sing Sing is questioned by few. His mistakes are on the lighter side of the scale and can be corrected. Tevis unfortunate that his sensitiveness will bear no criticism, even such as might be helpful. But this failing has not destroyed his ness, «+ The public would be glad to know the truth about Sing Sing. It hee right to know it. But it does not expect to get it from the and agents of a cabal whose obvious purpose is to hound the mt Warden out of office. _—_— A PLAIN CASE OF AFFINITY. YORK is something of @ surprise to Dr. Anna Dwyer of Chicago's Morals Commission, who is looking us over “in order > to take back all the good ideas she can get to help Chicago.” g, Our dance halls don’t shock her, she thinks our playgrounds and Feereation piers ¢0 admirable that we ought to have more of them, et heartily approves of our clean and instructive vaudeville shows— igghort we are not the half of what she feared to find us. Dr. Dwyer Wes one of the two women members of Chicago’s vice crusade om- #0 we can be perfectly sure she knows a good city when she it and listen to her kind words with modest elation. “One thing impresses me very strongly in New York,” she de- logos, “and that is the orderliness of your streets, the cleanliness and Met of noise.” By swallowing hard, and recollecting that everything i@pelative, we may manage to feel worthy even of this, Why must De, Dwyer ge back to Chicago? We begin to be sure she is the only weman who ever really understood us, T've got him oa confirm public suspicion Hits From Sharp Wits. who likes to hear himself can make others like to * M ¥ . . . r bent way to learn how to waste q is to make it easy. Memphis tal Appeal. nave never understood why it some people think their trou- ‘are of interest to others. “ee of the littlest men I ever saw, old avout, “stood 6 feet 3.’ ile Banner. One reason some men give a good Jooking girl & seat in a car is to get a better look at her,—Albany Journal, . People call economy a virtue, but usually it is an enforced an voluntary virtue Deseret Ne . Miladi says did you ever notice that good winners are as rare as good los- ¢re?—Memphis Commere 1 Appeal, . CUSTOMER—I want a pair of silk stockings. CLERK—Yes, sir, or—something better? ¢ For your wife “ Dipy Prelley to Philadelphia, i Rétitor of The Kvening World: answer to the question as to the route to Philadelphia by trolley, suggest the following, Take ‘Hudson tube to Newark; take car jew Brunswick, which | ‘This car t tme yun ik. Upon ar- take ferry across *the River to Philadelphia, I that the inquirer take Street subway from the Broad Street. This would to Penn Hall, which is Ya City Halil. There are other places of interest in hood, Th: hours 01 fare is about $1.65. he return by seme as Sane y car, bul but lite and the scent ia extremely beauti- ou a pace. 5 mre is another route jelpl passing through Bridesburg and Tacony in Ponnayl- Yania and crossing the Di Trenton, but I think this route re- quires several additional changes. WALTPR B. CASTOR, ios of Tow Kteuing World, With reference to a query as to whether there are snakes in England, 1 have travelled largely through that country for many years, and can state that the only poisonous snake to be found is the adder or viper. This reptile im deadly poisonous, and is found more or less all over the coun- try. I have seen them in different parte, and they usually run twelve to eighteen inches in length. ‘They can be the head. The only other English anal I know of is the cominon, harmless grasa snake, length bein time for sight-|from eighteen to thirty-six inches. fter it leaves New| Kegurding numbers, they a ware ie col fed with | thi ‘gis shea sans ts 3 recognized by a distinct arrow on| So Wags By Clarence L. Cullen. by the Pree Publishing (Co, (The New York Kveniag World Covytaht, 1915, HE mate biped keen to kiss smeared lips, much her mouth Cupid's bow isn't particujarly carmine, salve- no matter how may resemble a It takes a mighty small knob un- der some men's coat-sieevea fo get them to imagining that they're there with @ biceps. No matter how much he may grin over it or pretend to ignore it, no man yer sees his wife taking about three-fifths of her hair off at night without feeling sort o' cheated. If you don't want to get yourself disliked, don’t try to disabuse a wom- an's mind of the firmly-embedded, copper-riveted conviction that her pet dog would win a Blue Ribbon if she'd enter it at the Dog Show. It may be roughneck, but we have a rooted objection to reading about fiction heroes who “look wistf. When a pretty woman becomes fat you can always flatter her by telling her that Rubens would have loved to paint her, ith any seen upon We haven't been on duty ambulance corps yet, but w some appalling wounds inflic magazine writers whose names were printed ‘way down at the bottom of the let of authors on 4 magusine cover, We're going to try prayerfully penis r it this autumn to ascertain why {\\ as Magazine. Thursday. October 14. 1915 i eee the World makes fellows in the partments of sleepers & jund tell us all the way from New York to Chicago about the novelty pocketbook business or the castings \for electrical machinery business or tie difference between American and imported worsteds, when we ourselves are trying to dope out something that'll fetch in @ couple of dollars, woking com- sten on us After twenty-five years of experi- mentation we have concluded that the only way to avoid crushing cigars carried in your vest pocket is not to wear a vest, Everyday Perplexities Telephone Copyright, 1915, by the iress Publishtey VPRYBODY, of course, thinks he E or she knows how to telephone, but it is really surprising how many people do it the wrong way, It would be an excellent idea if a long list of “don'ts” was pasted on the outside cover of the telephone book, After you have given the required number to Central and a voice you do not recognize answers “Hullo,” don't, as nine persons out of ten do, ask, “Who is this?” It is @ most exasper- RE you down in the dumps? Do you stare the future in the face with fear? Have you been out when oppor- tunity knocked, and there- fore have not stored up for old age? Well, then, take heart, This ts an age without an age limit—the first of its kind in history, The people who prate about the “wood old days” should alwo recollect that in those days man had but one method of procedure. He worked hard, stored up enough against old age, and then sat back and watched the youngsiers do the same old thing. Or, if he fell behind and didn't get thing saved up, he became the carry-all for some member of the family in order to get his “board and keep.” public comments so gaily up And woman, bless you, there was every time a deer hunter in the Ad-| but one course for her, She had to {rondacks is mistaken for a deer by his friend and shot, Maybe you've noticed that the wo- marry the man she did or did not love or else be labelled an “old maid” In either event, after forty, whether man who can boast that sh kes} maid, wife or widow, she was gener- every single #titeh that she wears) aiiy found in “the arm chair” mak- always dos boast about it a hull| ‘ig things for the young folks. heap. To-day young and old alike are all in the seething centre of things. Somehow we never can dissociate that term "A good loser” from a frosty, fictitious smile. When a pugilist No one is ever too old to start any~ thing. Nerve, energy, willingness to do, are all that you need to prove it. In other words, there is no such thing as age by the calendar, fight says to the If you don't believe it, look at Edi- man wint’ you can safely | gon, who, having lived two or three iion to nothing that he! iiteiimes according to his work, is doesn't mean the other dub, The Passing of the Age Limit By Sophie Irene Loeb. Conyeiaht, 1915, by the Pree Poblishing Co. (The New York Evening World), now entering on a new field of direct- ing the Gavernment forces for pre. paredness, Look at Dr. Anna How- ard Shaw. of grandmother's age, travelling all over the country, di- recting forces for woman's new sphere. Look at our grandfather President, beginning a new epoch in his life with a new partner. Look at the minister, Hillis, who, in the prima, of life, made a mistake, acknowledged it, and begins all over again, And everywhere you go you will find men and women who, after having reared families, find a new fleld of Frutttul- ness by which their energies go on, as against the old idea that they had done their share and should quit, T know a little mother of the east side who has educated her thr children so that they are self, porting, and {s now continuing he motherly instinct by taking care of other people's children, She did not fold her hands and say, “I have done the work and am entitled to stop.” With her, rest means to rust, I know a man who was a king in Wall Stgeet and lost $9,000,000 after seventech years of effort. To-day he ls working for a moderate salary and beginning ALL OVER AGAIN. His age matters not to him, His motto is, “Whatever has happened can hap- pen again,’ ‘Thus success is not measured time, and Father Time should have no terrors for us. The healthy man or woman who says “I am too old” ia not living up to the last minute activity of the age we are living in and has only him or her self to blame for failure Age to-day is not reckoned by gray hair and spectacles, but by warm hearts and young spirits, Forty-nine Cabinets, bewildering rapidity, When M Viviani was called upon by dent Poincare to form a new Cab- inet in June of last year, few ox- pected that he would be successful where such political veterans as Ri- bot and Doumergue had failed, Not only did Viviant bring order out of the chace which threatened to en- Rene Presi- Tsitiitte the tout we cout Raunt Nine Presidents and ‘ » the ORTY-FOUR years ago Louls we saw—exhibited in a I Parti ‘ ahaa Sranis of silk stockings Adotphe Thiers b The woman who dent of France, which nation ré them won't get any|ihus formally entered upon its more fun out of ‘em Ang) eons ware third experiment with a republican fe ca alli eer : tied sine form of government, Since then be you've noticed that the| France has had nine Prosidents and Who saw on that antique! no jess than forty-nine Ministries— wheeze, “The way to a man's heart " oe Is through his stomach,” are them-|¢¥en more if unsuccessful attempts selves Kenerally able to make a pretty| to form Cabinets are to be counted. sizable mess of shoulder and greens| French politica haa been in a con- take a joke, Some day we're going to ank a eloger Sram Si stant state of turmoil and has been @ubject to kaleidoscopic changes; n what there tp about us gaat! Mipietrien fining ond falling Wis ” gulf the Poincare regime, but when the war began he brought into his government the leadera of all the warring parties, Threatened by @ foreign foe, the political turmoil in France, upon which. the Germans ‘had counted go much, was suddenly stilled, and France was led to present “ 4 @ United front te the enemy, to ‘*Don’ts.’’ 1 Co, (The New York Evening World ating habit as well as rather rude one to call a person from some engro! ie occupation or social relaxation to asic jhim who he is, Ninety-nine chances Jout of a hundred, even if he was so obliging as to give you his naine you wouldn't know anyway. Very likely Central has given you the wrong num- ber. Naturally the only sensible way to begin such a conversation is to re- Peat the number you want and then when you have been assured that the correct connection has been made to j Say, “Can I speak to Mr. Smith.” Tu that way you get at the heart of the ; Matter at once and Mr. Smith is either | Sent for or you are told why he cannot |come without wasting any further time. When next you take up the receiver and without preliminaries an un- known voice demands to know who you are, don't meekly tell your name. ‘This only encourages the voice to an- swer: “To whom am I speaking?” or “Who do you want?’ Eveh the ordinary opening to a con- versation over the phone has been cut from the vocabulary of many busi- ness and hotel offices, When a@ call comes the operator at the switch. board does not say “Hello!” but gives at once the telephone number or the name of the place. I ur instance, the employees at the telegraph office re- spond to @ call’with “Western Union” and you can at once state your busl- ness with no further delay, Don't call up @ business man during working hours unless the message is important, But if something insist- ent bas arieen that must be settled at once conclude your conversation as quickly as possible, Don't, when you have been con- nected with the wrong number, act as if it was all the fault of the person who answered and as if he had in- sulted you by daring to respond to by| the ringing of his own phone, Really courteous people Dy wrong number!” as if they itted the mistake, though of course tral is the only one to blame. Don't walt until your friend is at dinner and call him or her to the Phone to Haten to a long-winded chat while the soup is cooling and the rest of the family is eating up all the best parts of the chicken. To preface your remarks with “T know you'll forgt inc for calling you up at dinner then and f didn't want to waste my call,” does not excuse the offense in the least. Don't talk of personal affairs over the phone unle@s you are tn a sound- proof telephone booth and are certain anybody may accidentally and overhear your remarks. Don't run into a friend's house dusiness office to telephone becar you happen to be in the neighbor~ hood. There are pay stations in nearly every corner drug store, and your friend does not get his telephone there is no switch or party wire where “out in fe Vote for Woman Saffrage Reason 3.—BECAUSE THE BALLOT IS AN EDUCATION. By Alice Duer Miller. M N upderst litical questions —ehen tary do understan® them—aot berause they are men, Wut beowuse they are | voters, Women fail to understand political questions—wheg they do fail to understand them—wot beosus they are women, but | ve | time, ) came 9 but fF thought you would be at home because they are not voters The ballot is an thought, the devis of voting, but in « m edurat ade on, net only indirectly, owing to the reepomeibility thet more direct se ae well, The od the voter te mere phrase, but « p * thal must be continually carried on in a demoor A distinguished A on whe, shor wlore the war, weg travelling in one of the South Hu an countries from which we to receive @ large immigration, te thie story, He saye that ‘sal went along the roads he took th: men, and he made the diseovery that in almost every case the foreman of a gang could speak Englix He asked a friend of his—a« Goverme ment official—for an explanation, The answer was that the mea chosen as foremen were always men who had lived in America, “What do you do to our men in America?’ asked the offiela!, “that fits them for the more r nsible positions The American was not at a loss for a reply. “We give than @ share in our Government,” he said This education, which America gives so every one of her foreign-born male citizens, » oppertanity f talking to the werkg ladty and so proudly ta © must not deny to hee ‘women. ‘ Vote for the Woman Suffrage amendment Nov, 2. Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1915, ty the Pre Publisiing Oo, (The New York Brening World), OW shalt thou know the signs of love, My Daughter? H . Por they are as changeable as the fashions and more variable ', than @ man's heart or @ woman's disposition. Lo, once a man thought it nothing that he should gallop twenty mileq a day to lay his eyes upon his Beloved. But now he accounteth himself “Impetuous” if he telephoneth ber every OTHER 4 Once a i's heart vibrated at the sound of her Beloved’s footstep. But now it requireth the chug of an 18-cylinder motor car to arouse ber from her lassitude. Once a man stood beneath his Beloved’s window and offered up sweet serenades upon the mandolin to express his devotion, But now he sitteth comfortably in his automobile and calleth her ta him by tooting his horn, Once a damsel read her Beloved’s heart in the flowers which he brought her and the burnt offerings which he laid at her feet. But now she measureth his devotion by the price of the dinner which he Quyeth her; and, while violets may mean love, she knoweth that nothing but orchids mean BUSINESS. Once a damsel harkened for the postman’s ring with beating heart and her Beloved’s letters were treasured in a secret nook. But now she passeth his postcards around to the family for their delee- tation, and ordereth her maid to harken for the tinkle of his ring at thé telephone, Once a man yearned to prove his devotion to a woman by the brave deeds and the crossing of swords for her sake. But how he accounteth himself a HERO if he weareth the neckties which she bestoweth upon him at Christmas and parteth his hair a difffor- ent way in order to please her, Once a man read the secret of a maiden's heart by the blush upon hee cheek, But now he must divine her emotions without the aid of nature, for her blush is “the blush that won't come off!” Verily, verily, moonlight is futile and the arrows of Cupid are passes, for the modern heart hath been Insulated and the modern emotions ere wrapped in cotton batting. And it requireth an X-ray, a Zeppelin and a bomb to set them throbbing# Selah! The Sorrows of Poland HOPIN, in his music, portrayed Poland was at the height of hee perfectly the broken hearts that greatest prosperity in 1878; at thie surrounded him, from his youth time she was one of the great powers up. Even from his childhood he was of Kurope. aware of the sorrows of his people,|, The greatest length of the though none of these griefs and hearts | [remy nonth And south wae 118 aches came to him, embraced an area of about 382,000 He felt all the sadness of his be-| English square miles. Thirty yeare loved country, Poland, and therefore | 26° {his area ha Population of in his music he tried to show these] On the east she was dor ty same crushed hearts that their cour- Russla. gn the west by what fe now in the face of insurmountable|the Austrian Empire, and the Prin~ clpalities, now known as Roumanta. In the north she extended to the Baltic, on the south she touched the Black Sea, but toward the southeast she was shut out by the Crim Tar. tary. ~ In the City of Posen (Posnan) man’ of the Kings of Poland are buried. During the reign of Sigtsmund IIL, Warsaw, called Warszawa, was the first capital of th@ country. Cracow was the capital until that tme. In the Cathedral in Cracow Polish Kings were crowned, and the ‘back oppression would eventually bring the light of peace that was only hid- ing #0 long behind the clouds of dark- These sorrows and griefs of Poland have been for many years embedded within the music that has come from the pens and soule of their musiéal geniueca. This same music has thrilled us to ; who have never known Fa arin eee the endless sorrow | Wondrous splendor of this dates J oO 5 that has never left, from father tol “The last King of Potand “a son. . baries bg but a great MAS? of the If it were possible at this late day] others, the last Stanislaus Pontiatow~ to lift some of this burden from the *k!, lies in the Roman Catholic churo shoulders of those who have borne it| "Embers “ie eituated im fo patiently for centuries, and give to @ plase known as Ruska, or little Ruesta. ft the present generation freedom from Was known by the name of _. and its position was a very impor M forever, it would be @ noble act— thing” at one time, for It portant one worth remembering in historical greatest centre ef Poland's trade with the east. reminiscences. for Children get busy making your Mill the leopard, — aie eyes are very cold and oruel and I do not want oyu togo ew here with that look in your syenet wish Zo", would satie and make me see you in & pleasant mood," ° tinued Mra, ‘Ant. on “I want to scare people and look pleasant,” said Mr, bail Jungle Tale RS, ANT was just coming out of her home (which people call a hill) when Mister Leopard Jong and she said to him: “1 do wish you would not look so cross.” “Look here, Mrs, Ant,” began Mis= ter Leopard. “I look cross because “How is ir lt ¥ thet te the way a leopard looks. You|are Ant “Ur “tle boy?” asked look busy because tat is the way an one ie very, wall But ata u know a a0) leak T have spots and you have omer” asked Be Inn hoe} at bd “Never mind,” replied Mrs, Ant, “T eee what you mean,” said Mrs,|“But when I spoke of the baby I Ant, “but I do not see why you can't smile if you want to, You would not hurt your beautiful spots if you aw a soft light in your finileg" You" are 'not half aa ad’ or as cold and cruel as oso you think you free. He may not resent the small| gig smile.” And when Mr. Leopard went away cost , but it is only human he could not help thi vat being inade e convenience ef! “Fou are losing time and ghowld|the ant had eaid” “UMMINE Of what