The evening world. Newspaper, December 9, 1915, Page 20

tall ee PSTABLIFHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Mxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, 63 Park Row, New York. ¥ fi ans os ee RALPH PULITZER, President, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, Entored at the Post-Omce Budbscription Rates to The By Park Row.” 8 Park Row. at New York a# fecond-Clans Matter. ing | For gland and the Continent All Countries in the International Postal Union. 93,60 One Tear. ns sseesarseermeeerene BO) OMG Monte... ae.e sss me sme rmn sans SILENCE THEM. HE report that in the luggage of Capt. von Rintelen, German agent, the Federal authorities found letters from Americans, ‘World for the United States and Canada, VOLUME 56. men and women, prominent in so-called high society, who were. indiscreet enough to sneer at their own country, is perhaps not @larming. But it suggests something: In the case of foreigners who con- pire against the peace and honor of the United States we have a few laws we can use. We hope to have more. Against Americans of light mind and loose tongue who abuse the right of free speech to scoff at the Government whose protection and aid they loudly demand when they get into trouble in some other part of the world, we invoke no laws. There are fortunately not many euch Americans. fomch as we find we have the weapon of scorn. Shal! w just now to sharpen and use it? — ‘Thre note to Austria concerning the sinking of the Ancona ougft to have been penned with @ precision born of practtoe. To silence not do well AT LAST. O CHECK automobile slaughter begin at the license end. The! Evening World has long urged this as the only competent| method of attacking the problem. A month ago it said: If persons who drive automobiles in this State were li- censed with proper care and scrutiny in the firet place, If they were rigorously required to have their Mcense cards always ready to produce—with photograph and personal description attached—if repeated breaking of the law or proved unfitness meant forfeiture of card and license, whatever other punish: mont might be administered, and if police and magiatrates acted in such cases as methodically as they do in Franée, we should .S00n develop a new sense of responsibility among drivera of ~ motor vehicles. Yesterday Police Commissioner Woods announced that with the] aid of Chief City Magistrate McAdoo and Secretary of State Hugo he is preparing a bill for the ‘stricter regulation of automobile drivers which provides that Every chauffeur, whether owner, employer or member of au owner's family, must be licensed by the Secretary of State after an examination as to his ability and good character. The Secretary of State or the Police Commissioner in a city of the first class shall have the power to revoke Hoenses when they ve abused. The Evening World congratulates the public that the authorities #eom at last to have caught the idea, += ——— While the Colonel did pretty well in terming Pres! * Wilson a “Byzantine Logothete,” there are several other namcs he might have applied with equal eloquence. “Patagonian Petroglyph” has done service; we believe it was Dr. Swift who found that “Isosceles Parallelop!pedon” often expressed his feel- ings: “Sclolistic Scarab” is also a pretty good one; not to speak of shorter terms like “Doodlefunk,” Ninkumdad,” “Bum- | bleblat,” “Pindlewit,” “Poldoodie,” “Bunkumboast™ and “Pud- denhead.” | Why so much restraint, Colonel? ++ —- TO TACKLE DEATH AVENUE. NNOUNCEMENT by Vice President Place of the New York Central Railroad that the company is ready to spend $50,- 000,000 to take its tracks off grade in “Death Avenue” ap- pears to make certain the removal of one of the most deadly and in- excusable anachronisms that has survived on the city’s ground plan. ‘To elevate the tracks on Eleventh Avenue from Thirtieth Street downtown and to carry them through subways and on elevated struc- tures from Thirtieth Street north to Spuyten Dayvil is the plan thus far suggested. But the Board of Estimate's Committee on Port and Perminal Facilities las yet to report on the proposal, Ro timo should beJost in coming to an agreement. The new year should see the protitpt disappearance of the tracks that have caused so many unnecessary deaths in this crowded city. Also it is high time for work to begin upon improvements that shall enable the port of New York properly to handle the enormous inerease of freight traffic that nation-wide prosperity is sure to set moving in this direction, Must New York in the future turn away| trade because it fuiled to get ready to handle it? The Board of Esti- mate would do well to ask its Committee an Port and Terminal Fa- cilities a few pointed questions on the subject. natal — —— |troaats of turkeys dldy’t ime) cing | One of thewe scraps of paper each will : > ‘ }to suicide when have, Go forth Into the World and Hits From Sharp Wits. sarang "the. oationat bird! 8) rer fo! mw in cn venta the eal feddled at 15 cents a pound, alent of the paper. Some men make hay while the sun} Speaking of gun-shy dogs, It ts n er oe ‘The elder sopwas given first chotce @hines and then neglect to house it) well to judge them too hastily, Bom When it comes to Macchiavellia® He chose the’check, and the younge i Properly. times it is the wonder of the gun- | machinations — to dodge rf reo an | DAd to be content with. what re- o- |ner’s uniform that makes the kigodle | women described to us In advice TF) mained, Thorac who are always suspicious | yelpfully beat it.—Philadelphia Tele. |“mastertul,” or ‘“scintllategs” Oe) phe elder son, having heard much know themnelves ax they would not| graph, Hdauntless, or ‘compelling, | bout making“ money with money, like to be known,—All Journal, | se hereby claim the champlonsbIP OF) cashod his check and went to the big oe 8 Just be » a man and «a woman] Northern New Jersey. city, Wonder what a writer means when | sit besi: n other the theatre — Now this young man had often he says “the custom Is well nigh uni-| and n say a word, don't jump the gruesome, hag-ridden| heard about the city’s lures and its jump at} In sonclusion that the Yereal in this country at least'~-| the | They may be man a . Philadelphia Inquirer, ee | e strangers, d wife, Once upon a time ther an who could sharpen a —Columbia State, was a Wom | ad pencil, | | ried. —Tol ull about women before getting mar- Blade, Praline for Ei criticism is directed at them, whether Wo the Editor of The Prening W the eriticiam is of & constructive or! Your recent editorial regarding the] destructive Thank you sine arrests of butchers for selling short| cerely for thi ‘weight on Thankagiving Eve is appre-) |, IGAN, ciated by the undersigned, The moral] and Meas effect of such editorials upon the sell- ing public as well as upon the pur- ehasing public brings direct benefits| Toth: } ew to the people. Public officiais who are} Will some trying to perform their duty are en-Jinform m Ped light couraged by the character of such «Ql-] seen fro at distance at torials of @ praiseworthy nature and] night and | two colors, are quick to impréve the service of ut a din- tee office which they occupy when tance? NAS Pie . | The Evening World Daily Magazine, Mt | HE Babylonian myth to the con-| physical attractions will come into trary notwithstanding, tt lan't]!20ir | own axain—whereupon the z ie Lipeloss, angular emaciates will half so hard to teach an Ol | once more subside into wall-flowers, dog new tricks as It is to club any sense into a pup—always providing the old dog wants to learn ‘em — 4 lot of pretty middling decent bus- bands would feel surprised and ag- they wives habitually horrible examples in their chirps with women friends, grieved Copyright, 1015, by the Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) it So Wags the World By Clarence .. Cullen — band a low-brow because he doesn't be if he DID their [DUE up as knew held that them quite the same amo! The woman who considers her hus- burne doesn’t pause to reflect upon what a wholly unlivable son-of Nothing else in her life affords her and a stone-head understand Swin- in understand Swin- unt of satisfaction Th — By Roy L. Copyright, R, JARR had stepped into ; | Gus's popular cafe on the corner to see what time it was, and was pained to ob- serve his friend John W. Rangle seated at a table in the cor- ner in & despondent attitude. “‘stmatier, old man?” asked Mr. “Didn't Henry Ford invite you junket? Are you wor- use you won't pe on hand to 1x the boys out of the trenches Jarre, help which a woman can derive from her t is politic just to pretend that they're whipped into capitulation by women's tears, It takes an experienced ear to de- tect the hollow, phony note in the greeting of some of the Helle Bill conviction, even if it be all wron fore Christmas * th ih * y 1 ” ° A. lok of fellows find itian easy amit | cee one Nee married. Denes 1 hie Ali CW Jt aut, id Mr, Rangle — == By Sophie Coca. 1918, ty pe Prom Publisting Co. (The New York Brouing World), Two Se raps of Paper. Fables of Everyday Folks non. You know the fellow who, five or wix years after the fact has become obvious to everybody else, pins you to f@ stanchion and tells you why he “Prohibition thinks come.” When poultry dealers tell us that the reason why turkey is 40 cents a pound is that the still with their heads up and permit themselves to be their secret sorrow storms drowned wonder on why NCE upon is bound to] glad to give them young ‘uns statd in rain- | jy hand are two The one is a money and the othe ation as to honesty will secure a pe we sort 0° in the didn’t impel them feet, So he called them to him one and spoke something like this: “My sons, I am getting old, but be- fore I die 1 want to be satisfied tha you are real sons of your father, eck for a ition. a time there was a father who had two sons He wanted each to make had ty his way in the world and | trious and honest, and wishing to re- being a good father he was | the propor start day | Ine, scraps of pape sum ¢ is a recommend- and industry that Choose which | lowned the factory de@ded to sell out, No man should wait until he knows |} Does ble Tohes of the night, it i# pleasural lie awake and speculate upon the yrobable temperature of the pit that provaerved for folks who WILL, tall to you when you're trying to My Our Idea of the Dins: gold bricks, so that he was not unpre- pared for all kinds of offers. One of tho friends was a young man who spoke in large figures and was always studying stock quotations, Often this irene Loeb though it was of a very menial kind, When he began his work he reflected on his brother, who had the check, and could not help wishing his own lot en different, But, being indus- turn to his father the equivalent of the paper, he put his shoulder to the wheel, It was hard work, but he succeeded, He was promoted—a little step at a me, After he had become trusted employee :the man who “[ believe in you and want to se before he left he sald: i} you go forw H ° Take this paper to 1 Y know he needs you.” The young man found himself in a new and better position, with more; responsibility. To make a long fable short, he later became a partner In the firm, and, although he did not have ax much money as his brother, ws worth more than that rybody pointed to him his name amount as “welf-m When 8 were up the 'o father, as was n him and the other the rnings. id the father, “should you these securities, they a r you as your legac! » sons returned to thelr enter- By a strange turn of fate the man who trusted his money to lick Jost it and came back for his legacy In the check gi half of hia e: chap would come home with a roll of Unconyincingness sugles ‘amused when a sma y lin the eye with a snowball, to y Summit of} pills and tell how he took a little 1s the feeble.) “Ayer” in this, that and the other Mp. of a member of the | thing, It looked good to the young ia Club and of the Elks ant/man from back home, and, not yet ook oh-so-merry-and-| having found what to do with hi HW boy soaks tim] money, he fnally begged for one of ‘tips’ He got it, As usi Las tho novice wins, His frat “A ‘Phe jokestniths of another day used | brought results, The § yi jot of fun with the robust,| It looked like “easy money.” He tried again and for a second time have Ani play: ome veer the girls in about jenough bips and walst lines and other voll padded girls Who figured in the ‘zon marches” of the spectacular ut when it comes to a choice those he iated, s in the sho’ then Backward, turn t n this era ackward, O flime was successful for a considerable to say, he of funds. rty, buxom girls picked-reed-bird sof that He did did } in thy ght! He simply had a mee played the game. y the vane of fashion will] Now, the young so that women with aure- | friend of hii Thus he father's who had a tory where be secured emplo; continued time and, strange added largely to his store not now seek any other investment for his money, nor go Into any business enterprise, good time and— er RON went to a yal t, | short time, Misfortune Also pvertook the other son. A forelan war came along, and as his business was mainly with the warring countries he found himself in bad shape indeed, He | too returned for his legacy, He imme. diately began to build another business e he had learned how, and was soon on the fair road to gaining back what he had lost. ‘Yet, alas, the brother used his re- maining money in the same way as he had begun, and he found himself pen- niless and without friends, as usual. He did not know what to do, because now he was not so young, and it was hard to begin. He returned to his father, complaining bitterly, Where. u he father gave him this moral: A good name i# a check that can never be canceled, but a bank check once canceled can again wood. t s&ursdayvy, December 9, 1915 . by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Dvening World), H ters my Daughter, unto the Holiday Hints of thy Mother, that thou mayest not be led astray by falee signs in this, thine hour of temptation and folly. For a little Christmas Shopping {s a dangerous thing. Put not thy trust In bargain tables, neither in the words of flatterers shekels, And she that harkeneth unto them shall, peradventure, go forth in | search of @ book of poems and return with a silver cocktail shaker for her beloved, while HE that heedeth them shall enter in search of a gold vanity case and emerge with a vacuum cleaner in its stead. When thine husband saith, “Bo still, be still; 1 desire NOTHING for | myself; nay, verily, I shall be SORE if thou givest me aught,” remember that he shall be SORER if thou believest hi and, however much he may ;writhe beneath the pale blue cigars or the cubist dressing gown wherewith | thou persecutest him, he would writhe far more acutely if they were NOT | forthcoming on Christmas morning. | Consider not thine Indigent friend that she yearneth for something “USEFUL,” for she will gladly wear mended gloves that she may carty a ‘silver mesh bi and though her shoes be many times patched yet doth | she hanker after embroidered silk hosiery and an“ankle watch, | Be not flattered by the smiles of newsboys and waiters and men servants and maid servants and nieces and nephews and janitors, nor of \any that are within thy house. | For every smile is worth another shekel, and there 1s nothing so EX- _PENSIVE in all the world as “loving service” and “family devotion.” Go to! It hath come to pass that even Little Children are “wise” in ‘their generation; yea, they are “wise” to YOU. | Judge not a gift by the wrapping thereof, neither by the ribbons | wherewith it is fastened; for, ae the Christmas book in the handsomest \binding !s always the dullest inside, so, peradventure, the value of the PRESENT is in inverse ratio to the size and beauty of the Box. Neither judge the income of the giver according to the size of his gift. For the thirty-dollar clerk shall send thee burnt offerings of sterling {silver, though he put himself in Hock for life; but the Capitalist can AFFORD to let himself off with a five-pound box of chocolates, spendeth ON thee, but by the time he spendeth WITH thee upon Christ- mas Day. For where a man spendeth this Day of Days there his HEART fs. Yea, verily, more significant a nosegay of violets, brought in person and fastened on with tenderness and sweet nothings beneath the mistletoe, | than a box of orchids, delivered by the Florist, with a calling card Inside. And a bracelet of diamonds sent by messenger meancth less than @ locket of plain gold with HIS picture therein delivered with a kiss, For, behold, upon three hundred and sixty-four de,’s of the year a man ~acteth upon his reason, but on Christmas Day he acti!) upon ‘PULSE. And by these signs shalt thou know His Number. Selah. First Aid to Christusas Shoppers - | Copyright, 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Eraning Wortd), and of salesladies, for while their mouths drip honey thy purse drippeth Measure not a man’s devotion by the amount of money which he’ e Jarr 1015, by the Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) 66] MUST limit my Christmas gifts to $1 each this year and Um wondering if I can get any- |thing worth while giving, Can you help me out?" queries a busy woman Indeed, there are innumerable ex- cellent gifts to be had at $1. Some shops are making these limit selec- tions an easy matter for shoppers by having tables filled with articles of the same price, There is a table bearing the placard $1, Still another shows a 50-cent price mark and #0 on, and shoppers are finding this 4 great convenience. pon the $1 table of leather goods e is a handy article for the trav- eller—a small leather case contaln- Family McCardell — wruftly, th “But I'm for peace, at that T have all the war I want. | when searching in dark They come in neat designs and @ practical gift. a ‘Then there are warm angora scarfa that can be had in all colors and are just the thing for skating, A oap can be had at the same price, Mra. Newlywed might appreciate one of thow recipe cabinets that contain 400 cooling recipes and 200 blank cards for mounting or copying others. In practical gifts there are pretty dress patterns or waist materials, neatly packed in boxes, to be had at $1. Nightdresses tied into boxes is Another good offering and beaxtifut leamisoles of lace or embroidery can also be had, Then there are pretty lerepe nightgowns that would pleas I wish U most girls, A very nice Hngerie wajet had stayed a bachelor!" Ane ou nance. Sten ilean be had at $1 and if daintily, "That's a fine way to talk when al pins, There are writing ed in a box will make a git man has a nice wife and a nice home gers in leather leather corners, ing clothes desk blotters with worth having, r ihe man there are nice leather tke your's,” 4 Mr. J t ioraner mi SERUM IRE P08 tHe paper cutters in leather shields, li- neckties, scarf holders, e ‘1 brary sets of scissors and knife in » collar bags, an ash tra: “Tell it to the allies!” cried Mm|jeather case and photo books to/ cikar lighter that requires only the Rangle. “You think I'd be sitting in| mount, the snap shots. pressing of (a lever ta produce tbe Gus’ a At $1.12 there is a combination elga ers, pocket 4 us's mantrap here if I could .et 131 aes blotter with leathorette cor-| A subscription to some paper or my own home? I'll tell you, I'm being | ners which, when lifted, discloses | magazine makes a worth while gift, driven to drink.” tight ‘compartments for ‘stationery, | and there are some excellent ones that &c,, and three for “Nobody needs to drive you,” | letters, ye 4 you,” ro) stamps, which if a handy desk ac- postage | $) will cover. A pretty picture, a ‘book or a box of stattonery can be marked Mr, J Jarr, and stroll to it.” “Well, there's no place else to go,” Ranele, ruefully. a man's place is in the home, but how can he get in hia home when his wife | of colored said Mr. fs housecleaning? =I much about the ways of women—I'vo | “You live nearby | don't know know | pins only been married about twelve years but you can't tell mo that it isn't the closed season for housecleaning. In the spring, yes. In the summer, all right. In the fall, and I can stand tt. But here in Decembdr, to start house- cleaning—Jarr, I know It fan't nat- ural. It isn't done for any purpose except to punish me.” “Punish you? What for? Mr. Jarr. “Why to punish me!" replied Mr. Rangle. “A man's wife doesn't pun- ish him because he deserves it. That's ins very time she is the nicest, But my wife is sore at the world, and she's taking it out on home and husband, She's cleaned up the house, and lve asked cessory id can also be used as a lap pad in writin Upon the $1 silver counter there are beautiful vanity cases, sliver | coin purses, smelling salts bottles, bar pins and brooches with settings stones, neckbeads, hit | nad for $1, and then there are gloves, [theatre bags, fans, vells, halr orna- | monts and fancy conars, In toilet articles there are trays, combs, powder boxes, balr receivers and other pieces that §1 will cover, on Including the monogram, White d novelty rings, Then there, boudoir clocks in a variety of attrac {san electric candle, just the thing) tlve shapes can also be had at this for use in the sleeping room at nigiit | price. > Horse Sense } Copyright, 1015, by the Prem Publishing ©o, (The Now York Bvening World), 66]'VE saved n lot of money,” said diplomatic, It isn't wise to tell a cor- | Mra, Fidgets. poration you can't afford a thing, "You couldn't do anything | ™kea them rude to you, Bo I y couldn't send It away or even that would please me better,” satd |} workman come up to the hou: ther husband, who was feeling a good|We expected company right away. deal injured over the price of her| ut I him if there was any- new winter hat, thing 1 could do to it at home and he “You know how much damage the told me, and I did it. Just come over w nice it look workmen did when this flat was dec- \d you do?” asked Mr. Pia- orated. They broke everything they vr he had duly admired the could tay their hands on, and the rest | they smeared with paint.” said Mra. plano case, 1 washed the case carefull lukewarm water and dried cael In cleaned out.” Mr. to his imagin: “[en't there ation, anything Jone?” he asked, Mr. Rangle shook his head in grim despair, pull the hor a kind and whimpered M Mr. patient r, Rangle. Jarr faltered at this awful pie- ture of woe and desolation presented that “Pl leave tt to you if it's elubby to ‘8 of housecleaning on husband as the merry Yuletide draws near, is {t?"| antes, Jarr had to admit it was not, can be| koratched the case, and on one cor- Fidgets, "I had the piano carefully covered up with an old comforter, #0 L thought they couldn't possibly ge wrt thoroughly by rubbing tt again nd in with a soft ¢cloth, The sald that this method was at that. But this morning when I!as safe as it was slmpi took the covers off I found that the polish bright and Lethon) Heft we plaster had sifted through and|for the scratches and bruises I wet 1 cloth in warm water a them and held over thin'a ens ian but not near enough to scorch or char the wood, After I had heated the iron twice and used ft in this way, the bruises and scratches disape peared, ‘Then as the place looked a little dull I rubbed {t over with a mixture of equal parts of turpentine and linseed oi! and polished it with a rag. The manager also told me that ! could keep the piano keys white by ner was quite a bad bruise on the wood, I put my hat right on and went down to the store where bought it to ask them what would do about it.” “Why did you do that?” inquired Mr, Fidgets. “They gave us a two-years’ guar- replied his wife, “but they were inean enough to say that it} didn't cover scratches and bruises, | 1 sent for the manager”—— we they rubbing them ‘And look!" continued the victim of unseasonable housecleaning, “I'm a pretty good guy at that, ain't 1?" nd he sighed for sheer pity and sym- hy for himself, "Don't I treat her right?” Mr, Rangle went on. “Don't “Rut I don't see what good that would do,” interrupted Mr. Fidgets, “If you'd listen you would, I ex- plained the whole situation to the manager, and he was most polite, but, of course, at first he tried to make me run up a bill, But 1 was firm and oveasionally cloth wet with alcohol or colognes * ‘You can use some of that awful perfumery you got on your birthdn ae Mr. Fidgets, “I guess not,” sald hi run out of alcohol Til ‘use ‘w Metia of your Scotch whiskey." f I give her every cent I make?” And as he said this he handed Elmer, the bartender who was serving them, a $2 bill and told him to take tt all out and sorrow.” “Well, I'll tell you what we'll do,” said Mr, Jarr. “You come over to of that | my house and have a nice dinner in ‘An idea occurred to Mr, Jarr, “I| comfort. Your wife won't miss you don’t suppose you've had any sup-/ if she's housecleaning.” ‘ked. “You've saved my life!" cried Mr. Rangle, and departed with one good friend. ‘I've brought per?’ he reme “{ don't wan’ Mr. Rangle, “The; y supper,” moaned isn’t any suvper Rangle home for ee dinner,” explained Mr. Jarr whes arrived at the door of his Patron Boe “Well, I'm very sorry, Mr. Rangte,” replied “Mra, Jarr, ‘speaking to the fucst and ignoring Mr. Jarr, “but we have only a picked up meal, as I cleaning the house y the clanian i a Tittle before the But Mr. Rangle was | grag, to ora down thn stares ‘Stree ae ead wae tied up in a dust There's nothing but soap tT steam Pa yo