The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1915, Page 18

* @be Eset catorio. BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pettished Daily Except wn 4 fs tor] eed Company, Now. 68 to SALAH SULATSER, President, 63 Park Row. A GUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. sipsared, ot the Post-Om ¥ Becon: to, The “Bvening |For Hngiana and th for the United States All Countri and Canada. $8.60 /One Year. ++ #0/One Month. G6. cess cececccnccccscccecceseccssees NO, 19,831 MAKE IT THOROUGH, GOVERNOR. The Evening World was first to Insist that in the eyes of fhe people of New York any Public Service Commission in the With the Thompeon Legislative Committee, The Evening World etmek to the job of convincing Gov. Whitman that McCall must go. a chance to perform his duty to the State lest He dodged it then. This time he could not escape it. The immediate case was plain. If McCall's “impression” as to what he did with his 387 Kings County Light shares was correct, then by failing to transfer the stock in the manner required by law he com- mitted a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment. If his story was only an eleventh-hour fabrication, then he was from the first disqualified for holding the office he accepted. Either way there was no more question of his unfitness under the law than there has been for months of his gross neglect of duty, be- trayel of public trust and insolent defiance of public opinion. But with the removal of McCall the Governor's task is only be- gun. He now owes it to the State to restore the Public Service Oom- tmissions to the plane of public confidence upon which Gov. Hughes started them eight years ago. He can do this by oo-operating with the Thompson committee in ridding them of the last taint of suspicion. ‘The service the people of New York State will appreciate most and remember longest is the complete rehabilitation of the Public Service Commissions by the appointment of men bound bonds, political or financial, to any Interest save that of characteristic unveracity Col. Roosevelt asserts that , Austria and Mexico” have waged war upon us with results in fatalities than occurred in the war with Spain, without our taking proper vengeance. aee; Were not the dead Mextoans at Vera Crus reck- more than 3007 As the chief exponent of “an eye for @m eye.and « tooth for @ tooth,” the Colonel ought to give fair | $+ ____—_. A THRIFT CAMPAIGN. 0 CELEBRATE the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the first savings bank in the United States, prominent bankers of the country are planning to begin with the New Bankers’ Association, the National Civic Federation and the National Americanization Committee to reach all classes, including industrial workers and immigrants. The latter are now inclined to put their aith chiefly in United States Postal Savings Banke. It is hoped that with the help of lectures and moving pictures confidence in or- Ginary savings banks can be extended among newly arrived workers ‘Who have been accustomed in Europe to trust only their governments. Last year the average savings deposit per capita in the United States was $49.85. In Norway two years earlier it was $62.42, in _ Germany $67.73, in Denmark $67.85 and in Switzerland $86.47. Americans are reasonably enterprising. But obviously they hold no records for thrift. A Savings Bank Centennial is a good occasion to begin a try for one. “Tt is inevitable,” the American Bankers’ Association Journal assures us in ite current issue, “that the time is coming when this country will meet the test of financing practically the whole world.” Ts each of us going to be ready to do his bit? ee The uplift is advertised as about to begin at the new Du Pont Powder City. Ought to be easy. Just touch ‘er off! Hits From Sharp Wits. office that has to seek the man|self #0 much work you can’t get it bas either 4 small salary or none, or | done.—st. Louis Globe-Democrat. else it requires mucs hard n Gee eee Efficiency is telling somebody else Bome men owe their success to| how to do thelr work mpet aed ability to pick out competent No is 9 iat ‘ape lake bordinates.—Albany Journal, ee ‘When an eccentric man hasn't piles of money he is @ dara fool to people who know him. #0 terested in this talk about dread- noughts. ‘They, married some, ‘The hardest work @ man las to do sometimes, according to Jerome, is \ trying to jand a dob. ‘ . Bfficiency is also not making your- Letters From the People Old Letter-Carrters, Po the Editor of The Hrening World: I write in behalf of old letter- carriers, The old fellows in the ser- view (some Civil War veterans, with thirty to forty years to their credit), who through age are no longer able to deliver mail, instead of receiving Pension, as most people think they do, have been reduced, I am told, fromi 1,200 to $1,000 a year, When You compare this Goverument with gome corporations and railroads which pension their old men, it looks ae though it were foolish to give the ‘best part of one's life to such employ. ad proper relation to the tax on real estate, and a tax to compel non- residents to pay their fair share in return for the advantage they gain from doing business in New York City, and a tax op bond and stock trana- actions in the Anancial district of New York City. From these three sources alone real estate will be re- Heved of its taxation burden to the extent of millions of dollars, I have been actively engaged in the real estate business in New York City for over twenty years, during which time I have made itudy of every factor having a bearing on realty values, especially taxation, and tt would seam to me that your pian will solve the Adjusting Taxes. We the Editor of The Evening World, roblem. ERNEST TRI i Permit to congratulate you |? BELAORN, +: editorials on taxes, | 5@ 40 Bast Thtety-Highth Street, 4 to reduce taxas|Te the Editor of The Krening Word ten is most excellent, A tax on} What in the address of the Bide-a- the gross earnings of public utility @orporations to bring them lato é f Wee Home for animals in New York City? ‘ LMB The Evening World Barred! Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 7, 1915 ef Eseated ane — — By Roy L. The Jarr Family McCardell — Copyright, 1018, ty the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Dvening World), T wee Mrs. Rangle oalling; with her was Mrs. Hickett. “We can't stop @ min- ute!" said Mra. Rangle, edies for children's complaints, This was the laying on of hands where it would do the most good. At this the child stopped coughing to demonstrate speaking through her fur] her howling abilities, collar—whioh ts the way of convers-| ing im these days of feminine fur) Rangle gushingly. furore. “Oh, not a minute!” oried Mra. Hickett. ‘We bave so much to do.” ‘Then both ladies came in and sat down. “I have a bot of shopping to do,” remarked Mre, Jarre, “but my maid hae her day out. You know how servants are these days?” ‘Thia waa a subject that roused them all. The three ladies began to tell what they endured at the hands of exacting and incompetent help, none ietening to the others. Little Emma Jerr, noting she was unnoticed, began to call attention to the fact that she waa present by siv- ing them an exhibition of clamorous coughing, the little dear being pro- fiolent in the art. “Dear mel” cried Mra. Rangle, “that sounds awful croupy. Croup la 80 contagious, one cam carry it bome in one’s clothing.” And she Grew away from little Emma. It 19 well known among womankind that the disorder. of other people's children are virulently contagious, With one’s own children tt ts differ- ent, Any disorder they may spread is regarded by their parents some- what in the nature of passing @ per- #onal favor around, “On, it's only @ bad cold,” spoke up Mrs, Jarr, “Emma catches cold at ttle thing.” "riave you tried Balmer’s Bronohial Balm?” asked Mrs, Hickett. “I'm never without it in the house,” “| believe in the old home remedies,” said Mrs, Rangle, “When my little Mary bad such a bad cold I rubbed her chest with camphorated otl, and gave her hot foot baths nd tar and honey, night and day, and in three weeks she was well.” “| was doing the same with Emma,” said Mre. Jarr, “I had her in bed with flannel rag around her neck and she has taken it off You can see she is tn her nightclothes, Go back to bed, Emma, or I'll whip you.” The little girl paid no attention, but insisted on sitting on Mra, Hickett's lap, Mrs, Hickett stirred uneasily— she thought of her children at home, Mrs. Hickett then solved the prob- Jem by rising and declaring she really must go, Whereat little Miss Jarr did a opectalty in coughing Which hee tirst effort but an amateur try-out, son to “Now, don't cry, darling,” said Mrs. “It you cry Banta Claus won't bring you anything for Obristmas,” ‘The little girl stopped bawling and began to sob, There was a skeptical gleam in her eye, That very morning, before he left for school, Master Jarr had in- formed his little sister that nobody believed in Santa Claus except pa- rents, and had intimated tt might be Just as well to humor their elders and keep alive their faith in the holiday eaint, But the child ceased both coughing and orying and made @ pa- thetlo exit, sobbing in order to hold the sympathy of her audience, After her visitors departed Mrs. Jarr complained bitterly to herself at their inconsiderate conduct tn calling on her on Gertrude’s day out, On their downtown visitors No, 6—Haircuts and Whiskers. HERE are two names that stand out lke Woolworth Buildings in the history of haircuts and whiskers; one for a noble act; the other, alas! for a deed of evil consequen The firet is the name of Peter the Great, who put through one of the biggest cleanups of all times, He soaked such @ heavy tax on beards that he made the Russians cut ‘em off, It was 4 cruel blow, and, they say, & moan went up that would have drowned the notse of forty Niagaras, ‘The snip of scissors cutting through the Spanisb moss festoons, and razors touring through the dry, bard stubble was like the crackle of a thousand wireless instruments. Peter began the job by chopping off bis alfaifas and then amputating, with bis own band, the whiskers of his courtiers, The other name ts that of the late Mr. Van Dyck—a sad example of the harm that can be done with a few brushes and a ean of paint. Van Dyck didn't mean it that way, of course; but he advertised thi wrul pattern known ever since as Dyck beards.” At first glance, “ome of the very old styles in haircuts and whiskers sesm plain foolish, but they really appear to have had reasons for existing. Our own Indians get first prize for real sportiness In the tonsorial way. They shaved thelr heads, except for Mrs, Jurr immediately applied one of the very best of the old family rem- the sr ke wo that, if dleked ana heh could the inore easily carey uw litte souvenir of the happy occasion, The Chaldeans wore rows and rows of curls, and nice, epude-shaped beards. The Moham- The Gift —— By Sophie You Give Irene Loeb —— i Copyright, 1016, by the Prem Publisiing Co, (The New York Wrening Word), STERDAY I was in a de- partment store. Every counter was crowded with eitt buyers, These are trying times for the sales people, and I marvel at their patience, There was the stout woman who “just didn't know” what she wanted and Was #0 good-natured about it, She smiled at the clerk behind the counter of miscellaneous Christmas gifts and asked what would be the most ft present to give a moth law. After two or three suggestions and the handling of many articles the shopper agreed to choose between an inkstand and an opera bag that might grace the arm of a debutante. After weighing the articles carefully in her hand, she finally confided in the clerk that the mother-in-law was such a hard-to-please individual she would just_go_right home and_make were agreed that jail was too good for any woman who permitted her children to spread contagion, In fact, as none of the Rangle or Hickett chil- n had any indication of croup, the te visitors agreed that children who had the croup came under the head of the physically deficient for whom it re a mercy if they did not survive. How Men’s Clothes Began | Covyright, 1015, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New Yark Brening World), medans wore @ little lock of bair by which to be lifted to Paradise, and considered it a disgrace to have their hiskers cut off, But the old Per- n Kings were the real class; they platted threads of gold into their chinners, The ancient Saxons must have been a beautiful sight on a windy , With their whiskers part- ed in the middie and trimmed to two points. For some unknown the reason Normans used to shave the backs of thetr heads. Suoh things as this made the history of haircuts fairly lively up to the middle of the seven- teenth century, when the real Mat~- teawan styles broke loose. This was when the wig craze swept Europe, and lasted for # hundred and fifty years, It wasn't long before a dude would show up wearing @ powdered periwig, with curls reaching to the walst. Anything went—wigs with a pigtail tied up in @ silk vag or with @ huge bow of ribbon at the back, until the climax came. This was what the “Macaronis” (the| real Broadway boys of the end of the eighteenth century) wore: [t was a bunch of hatr and wig piled up into @ huge toupee tn front, bix rows of curls on the sides, and at the back a heavy, clubbed knot. Perched aloft was 4 little, peanut bat. When you met a lady you'd reach up your cane, spear off the bat and bow sweetly, But this was going just a little too far. A cry of indignation went up, and the statesman Pitt finished the business by slamming @ heavy tax on der. & wonderful thin put was discov The happened: again and » have been the 1 the race was saved, rel ou, but they can pever drag us to thoue old time wtyles, disclose what she would really like to have as a Christmas gift, so the daughter-in-law “come-backs.” Then there were the people who came to look, remained to take the time of the saleswoman, and returned —not to buy. I could not help re- flecting at the amount of wasted en- ergy that goes on every minute in the process of gift-buying, to tax the strength of both the clerk and the customer. Indecision is one of these nerve-racking elements, While !t may be difficult to decide over an array of tempting articles, yet each customer would save salespeople much trial if only a httle forethought were exercised as to the gifts required and the persons for whom they are intended. Here are @ few guides in the gift-buying game: Don't buy a working girl @ lounging robe when she never has time to lounge. Don't buy your husband a centrepiece just because you want it yourself. Don't buy two-year-old child toys for ten- year-old children. Don't give a young cousin an eve- ning dress when she hasn't a warm coat to wear, Don't give anybody something that you have put away that you don't like yourself. Don't give your wife a Christmas check with the intention of asking her to account for it later on. Don't borrow money to purchase Christmas presents that will take you until epring to pay for. Don't spend your last cent on « showy present for your best girl just to “make a hit.” Don't start on a shopping tour and make it a fishing expedition, Don't deprive your mother of a of shoes In order to buy your beau a Christmas gift. Don't forget your old parents for the sole reason that you have taken a young wife. Don't plunge Into needless giving, because Christmas should he a season of gladness rather than gifts. Have a complete list made before you start and save the time and trouble for all concerned, And, above all, remember it’s a poor gift that’s given with a return string tled to It. ———___——_ The Wind. By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. TD you hear the wind blowing last D night— Did it tear at your windows and rattle | And roar like a giant In angutsh, Till morning came, frightened and eray? Did you see the clouds scud in af- fright, Like soldiers retreating from battle, Leaving their wounded to languish And die on the fleld of affray? Did you hear the wind orying tn pain, Could you understand what it was saying Its message repeating, repeating, | Repeating till coming of day. | Lake » awakened in vain, | Too | ‘i nting or praying-— Did you hear how its wild wings were beating | Like giant waves dashing to epray?| | gin more bold effort to make her might have no air eat THE FIRST GRAY HAIR. By Nixola Greeley=Smith. FRIEND came to me the other day in the throes of tragedy A because she had found her first gray hair. She brought with her also the dismal epigram that a woman is as old as she looks, but a man as old as he feels. So I told her that a woman is only as old as her heart, and for that reason we all know charming ingenues of eighty and wise old crones of eighteen, A woman’s age is what she makes of it. In this country we have an unfortunate cult of the broiler, which some day some brave man will destroy by telling the cold trath—that broilers are not very good to eat. Neither are BOILERS, of course. 1 can see no excuse for the kittenish granny who does not realize that her place is by the fireside counting her hoard of memories. The important thing is to have memories to count. There comes a time in all our lives—generally between thirty and forty—when we realize that we must put memories in the bank. We have come to know that most of life is neutral in color; that it has to be neutral to furnish the mght background for our great moments, These may be of love; they may have the sacrificial glow of duty valorously done, or shine with the rare white light of intel- lectual creation. Whatever their nature, they are the jewels hidden in the quartz of time, the rare red rubies of life. wishes to w It is a very foolish woman who ar her rubies every day. It takes half of life to learn how to live. My friend with the first gray hair has garnered this lesson. She is a woman who likes men, and she had some horrible moments when she found them out—that is, when she discovered that in morals and emotions they are unlike women. To-day she has come to like them all over again, for what they are, not for what she thinks they ought to be. Surely, her one gray hair is a small price to pay for wisdom which has brought with it ripeness and charm and peace. _Refiections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Couyrigat, 1918, by the Prem Publishing Co (The New York Brening Ward) ON'T waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it In a brand new place. What a man calls “consctence” ts elther a pain in his vanity when he knows that he has done something particularly foolish, the moral ache that comes and goes with a headache, or the mental action that follows entl- mental reaction. Alas! it is SO hard for a girl to find a man who dresses like those on the magazine covers, makes love like a moving-picture hero, and yet has time to earn a living! A bachelor likes your flattery delicately disguised and slightly ditnted —but a married man can swallow it “straight” without a quiver. Of course, a girl's first duty fs to be kissable; but what encouragement is there to suffer at the dentist's, chew violet drops, resist potato salads and keep continually biting your Nps, just in order to be kissed by @ eross between the aroma of a cocktail and the flavor of a stale cigarette, beneath @ whisk-broom rampant? Pessimism is merely the natural reaction after too much of anything —love, food, Christmas, wine, flirtation or marriage. Of course, every woman likes to be called an “angel,” but it's awfully fatiguing trying to keep your halo on straight with the constantly chang- ing styles in morals and hairdressing. Most of ‘woman's subtle mystery” 1s a combination of sachet, rice powder and masculine imagination, Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett. Copyright, 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World HE retaller complains of the job- 4 I ber’s {11 gotten gains and the consumer doubts the value of the retaller’s efforts. Here 1s the jobber's defense, and it sounds very convincing: “No singlo manufacturer could at- ford to work my territory as inten- sively as I do, I carry the lines of many manufacturers. My salesmen represent all those lines. The retailer bases his claim for con- sideration on the ground that “he has what we want when we want it, “You don't see me growing very rich,” be challenges, “Figures prove that not 2 per cent. of the retail grocers of this country have enough surplus capital to avai) themselves of the cash discount offered by the job- ber. Nor have you noticed the sporadic experiments made here and there In Where is the weak spot In this de- fense? The mail order man will as. sail it as follows: “Iam @ manutac- turer and at the same time a jobber, but don't compare me to that par: alte, the ordinary jobber. T have de- veloped the one ‘best method of distribution” one Seep ‘The mail order man makes out a strong case, but he doesn’t tell the whole story, He pays a héhvier de- livery charge than the local retailer, This, of course, comes out of the consumer, cerns carrying a general line of mer- chandise, the grocery department leads in volume of sales, And yet of the total sale of food products in the United States only 1.1 per cent. can be credited to mail order houses, The fact that few people will antici- pate their needs to the extent neces- sary in ordering by catalogue is an- other factor which militates against In most mail order con- , this country in co-operative con- sumer retailing scoring @ startling success. I simply maintain a local warehouse for the storage of the ar- ticles you require. And I add to this sales and delivery service. My profit is merely a salary you pay me for all this.” First Aid to Christmas Shoppers URS will be @ popular Christmas) round shape—and gift this year and in most cases R OW ons The display of muffs, {t Is the men who are the pur- be ne aiMoutty te sentient chasers. Many of them leave the! suitable type for the intended recipe selection to the prospective recipient, | fent. If she is stout do not select a but these pre-holiday gifts usually|/@ee flat muff, This would effect- ually destroy the silhouette, A. me- mean a more or less disappointed | dium sized round muff. on the oth Christmas day. Others take a femi-| hand, will ac uate these deeisabte nine friend into their confidence, thus ines, and do considerable to create ensuing a wise selection. 4 pleasing figure. Muffs this season If the gift 1s to be a coat there ls nothing more serviceable than seal, are in skunk, beaver, raccoo: mink, besides all the varieties ie fox. which now has the greatest demand, The collars and cuffs may be of The demand for animal Or effeot both mutts and neckpleces ‘is unpre, cedented and these are especially beaver, fox, mink, skunk, raccoon or ecaracul, Probably the 40 to 48-Inch length would be the most practical, suitable for youthful wome: ties and close-fitting bands are wate lonable, and before thu end of the Fare ethene round how will be a but If the woman {s quite young and| cidedly’" fashions. then neck, 18 ae slender the fashionable short coat! red fox takes the leet (tact. The will be very chic, Lf she is Inclined ad in favor and to stoutness the semi-fitted models, with modified flare skirts should be selected or one of the modified ripple effects, The full flare In most suit- then comes the black foll« white and. ¢rost fox. ga aed et able for the miss or slender woman, The popularity of the fur ovat lynx ts again seeking fashion’ dn If tn doubt tet the color of the vere eliminates the necessity of a neck- piece and so separate mufis are fea- the mail order houses, Factors of service, convenience, speed of delivery—all these must de considered in comparing methods of distribution, Consequently it is quite probable that every channel covered in thix article will continue ts fanc- tion for a great many years to come, there are many or dress decide the selects 8 jo gots, With the fashionable nave coy are mostly muredium in| s nt by the f rk greens, black fox, lyn. on and fisher will” ee many smart models, but there still| and cros® fox, Howe wooma to bo preference for the! can bo worn with wny of ‘ae ag tenable twbricy, browny and Belgian blues are on shaped mul—that le @ semi nail