The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1915, Page 16

veuls! TEMS ES TT a eS The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, December 14, The Warning Shot! bie ‘eevee tks Men By Helen Rowland Covreight, 1018, te the Pram Putting Os, (The New Yow: Srentng Wert), SCENE: A POPULAR RESTAURANT, The Husband Speaks. REAT SCOTT! Whats mob! (To the Head Waiter, with biting am casm.) Yes, TWO, please! How many of us do you BEET (Botte voce), Solid ivory! Thought I was going to sit under@hs table and bark for my dinner, apparently. (Aloud) No, that's too sear the music. No, that's too near the door, No, we can't wait, Haven't you get@ side table for two? Well, what are you going to do about st? Ob, very wall, (To Wife.) Come along! Well, don't blame ME if we are inten 2 didn't stop to powder my nose and curl my batr, Wheat? iim NOT erem, I'm just hungry. Might as well eat in the trenches as ¢o come ¢o Chis ined after seven. Don't see why you wanted to come here, anyway, ‘Wail, if I suggested tt Pll never suggest tt again. Waiter! Here, waiter? bring ue two Bronx? What? Won't have any? Oh, well, make # ene (lem eR as, By J. H. Cassel WAERGTS Katty Meceps Gunday vy te Freee Pudiishing Company, fon. 68 to ty Rew, New Tork. OPEAE FULETERR, Preston, Park Rew. J. A 8 BHAW, Wy, rer, Park Row, SOSMPH PULITZHR, Jr, Secretary, 64 Park Row. at the Post-Office at Now York a@ Becond-Clans Matter. ome =p to The Evening|For Wngiand and the Continent and . flor the United States All Countries in the International and Canada ‘Unton, eo veeeereee O8.60]Ome Year. cee c ee cmcers mn eeeere OF 40|One Month... ; START RIGHT. P HE Brown Legislative Oommittes which began yesterday to! j I tavestigate the city’s finances got a first view of the eubject | from one of its most critical angles. Mayor Mitchel, the first witness, lost no time in pointing out that in « $133,000,000 city budget for 1915 nearly $50,000,000 had to! 4 h | i i at the millions supplied by taxpayers for specific purposes are not) be epent for salaries and other expenses fixed by mandatory legisla- tion for which the State was responsible. Why should the City of New York have its accounts complicated nfl its liabilities multiplied by unnecessary interference from (Albany? ‘Whatever the Brown committees hopes to accomplish, it will find Swen never get away from that question. It will have to answer it,! merevver, from another point of view than that of up-State legisla-| tows whose best trick is putting extra burdens on taxpayers of this) The Bvening World has shown from convincing evidence and| amhyees how the city can save money by running iteelf like a re-| corporation—outting out waste, eliminating needleas fric- and duplication among ite departments and offices, making sure @eabdled away in aimless preparatory bickerings and false starts. "Zo run itself economically and efficiently the city must have its fmoctrings in its own hands. | Home rule for New York Olty! The legislative investigators | mame face to face with # directly they sat down to work. It will meet! oem ore Don't “shush” me! (Drinks third cocktail.) | cow! This place ta getting hot! Say! Look at that PEACH over @ every By att! toward it the seriousness and there in the pink hat. SOME picture! Huh? Oh, you don't! Well, you Gen hs ribo aoe ttade ; | NEVER do! Anyway, she looks good to me! —— Zightyoont gas Chroughout the Borough of Brooklyn: The Beantng World fought for it, the Public Service Commission withheld ®@. The Hvening World is enjoying its usual health. he P. 6. CO. ayust andergo extensive repairs. 1t's 1000 to 1 on aightyoom gas the world in the cost of erecting structural material used in our tall buildings in the face of higher namely, a ship—and show the eame brilliant results from an economic point of view?” The Standard Shipbuilding Oompany with a capital of $3,000,000 has taken over the old Townsend & Downey shipyards at Mariners must rush through breakfast might| dresses, engagements or shopping some closed chapter, ome mistake, 10)| hind, It should be regarded as a|haps with compliments—passed the| Youthful comrades did talk “some-| appreciate one. Then there fs an at-| lists at 60 cents, In dosk supplies @ year, one every ys the second year, an Somewhere in this great big city in| C&™e of quarrels over eo day in the following year one every thirty days. “Americans,” it believes, “have the opportunity to beoome the shipbuilders of the future and eetablich the grestest all-American merchant marine the world has over seen.” They have. ‘And the quickest way to do it? Stop whining to know what the Government will promise to do for the poor ship- butiders. Cultivate self-reliance. Go after the business as did the shipbuilders of s century ago, who made the nation’s merchant marine the admiration of the world. Grasp a great chance with courage and enterprise. Then if there comes « time when Government aid is needed the industry will have the better right to it. _———_ 4 WHAT IS “AMERICA?” — By Sophie Coorright, 1918, ty the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), OUR wife's past or your hus- band’s past—how do you treat tt? Have you heaped Y ftinkindnesses on your life partner as @ result of a past that had the heart of a man there ts a brood- ing sorrow—a sorrow that reaches out to @ newly made grave, the grave that holds the one human being he loved better than all else. And it all comes from a “past” that could not be forgotten. They found the wom- an’s mangied form in front of the building from which she had leaped. Her past ls now behind her indeed. She herself is « thing of the past. Yet there is something to be gained by others over thie loss—something that should make its impression on every husband and wife who holds that he or she has a similar grievance, The man who thinks he bas « right to nag at and keep alive the dead is- sues of yesterday ts the most despica- His Wife’s Past Irene Loeb —— \ — By Roy L. and suffering and bitter words—and many times bad deeds. The man worthy of the name Is he Who insists that the past be buried, no matter what it 1s, In fact, he has no business in the past of his wife, if Mt is @ dead thing and lo! ITH @hining morning face, neatly brushed clothes and hair, and otherwise show- ing every evidence of hav- ing successfully—and per- W Willie Jarr wended his way to school. Neither did his wild career neces- sitate his little sister to shriek “Walt for me! Watt for me!" His career Wag not wild; it was mild. It had been so for almost a week. His little sister's hand was In his; and sho, like her brother, was in the sane state of ante-holiday good-as-can-be- ness. which neither had a part, I know of a woman who loat one of the best husbands in the world by bringing to his mind the name of a| girl whom he had been in love with in his #chool days. She bad a jealous feolli ‘at he STILL loved the other girl, although the girl was thousands of miles away and the wife of an- other, I also know of @ husband who al- most drove his wife into nervous prostration by everlastingly bringing up a bit of folly that had been hers when she was sixteen, He sought to subjugate and humillate her by Ii- MINDING her that she might do it again. Ob, the wrong of it! ‘The foolish- ness and madness of such pernicious practice! ‘The partner who brings up tho past of the other only to hurt and belittle is about the fittest subject for criminal action that comes before us Mrs. Jarr, although It was a cold winter day, looked from the window after her offspring with true mater- nal pride. Bless her trusting heart, she believed the state of goodness her little ones had fallen into was chronic, not acute! At the corner of the street a group of other dear little children, also Just as good as they The Jarr Family Copyright, 1915, ty the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Hvening World), McCardell \ | sister, “Me and Johnnie Rangle an’ Tezy Blavinsky is goin’ to talk some- pin‘ The two little girls fell back as bidden, and Master Jarr and his tender ears of little girls, It waa holl- day heresy, “Whatcha gonna get for Christ- mus?" began Master Jarr ‘This was the way the questioning and conversation was opened every morning by the young nobility of the locality adjacent, Then did Master Rangle and Master Slavinsky Me fearsomely, What they were going to get for Christmas, according to their own account, would have bank- rupted Carnegie to buy. Master Jarr listened in silence. Then he spoke as one aweary of les too often told. “Are you fellers goin’ to be taken to the stores to see Santa Claus?” he asked. “Aw, I didn’t go last year, when I —one Martini, dry. No, I didn't my « Bronx; I eaid @ Martini—and mate | Martint, please, | in bestowing? it strong. I'm famished! Great Jehoshaphat! Don't “shush” me! I'm stifiing! | coat? Here, let me help you. (Drinks cocktail.) Ahi order. Here, waiter! Bring me another ing? GREAT, ten't it? weren't married! with me! Just a teeny-weeny ttsy-bi I gueas I can hold my own wife's Great Scott! I am NOT staring can't help it. 'S'my fatal fascination. What's eating you, anyway? Here, waiter! any more than water. Honestly. jen't a funeral, What? Wanta go home? sport! What a joy killer! GOOD NIGHT! Tired Curt ‘First Aid to Christmas . 1915, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Prening World) 66] HAVE figured out that I cannot give any presents this year. You can’t get anything worth eiving under one dollar, and I couldn't begin to spend anywhere near that amount on a gift. So I am just going to forget Christmas; of course I woukin’t accept a gift it T cannot return ft, so [ am sending notice to all my friends.” ‘Thus spoke a disappointed business girl. And this dear girl is making her Christmas erable for no reason at al. Why ould she refuse a gift thet another probably finds pleasure It t# this bartering tn Lieb meatal that kills the Christmas spirit. ‘Tho gtri ts aleo mistaken tn her idea that nothing worth while can be pur- ehased under one dollar. At 65 cents she can get 4 elender silver spoon that will make it possible to deftly remove the pits in eating grapefruit. The business man or woman who needles, or it can be used as a desk accessory for preserving leads, This ia 60 cents, and at the same price there are many acceptable articles. ‘Thero ts a silver rule, a neat bon bon tmsket or @ puff case. Thon there are pretty fans. A email alarm clock with the num- erals in color to matoh the sleeping room tones is a useful gift, and these are only 60 cents. In jewelry there Dollars and Sense 66] N one of the large cities of this country,” said an expert ac- countant recently, “is an or- ganization which operates a chain of furnishing goods stores, Last year it turned its entire capital fifteen times, And yet there are stores whose turn- Why don't they let some fresh air into thie pines? What are you trying to do? Take of your Just like a woman! everything's settied—and then start something! Don't “SHUSH” mel NOT grouohy, I tell you, Never felt better natured in my life! Now, let's seo. What are we going to have? Oysters? Clams? They say the broiled guinea hen's not so bad, here Fact ia, all their cooking’s good. Doesn't make much difference whet you What, dearie? All right, we'll make it cherry stones, cream of and guinea hen. That sounds BULLY! No, honestly, Little Girl, I don’t feel that one a bit! I was all faswed out, Honey. Working l!ke a slave all day. Geo whiz, but those clams ARE good! thing tasty and edible. Music's good, too. What's (Hume) Ta-ta-ta, ta-ta-tal Say, Dollie Girl, you're looking kissable enough, to—to kiss! Where’é you get that stunning hat? Oh, HAVE I sean it before? And what a PEACH of a color you've got! |Us two to go out and have a good old tim To-ta-ta, ta-ta-ta! NOW, Darling! You know I don't even FEEL ‘em! Come on, have one Hans Andersen Bring another—— What? Aw, come now, Girlie, be a sport. Don’t be a killjoy! Oh, well, if you’: Nf to ta heart Pl cut tt out. But, for theiove of Mike, Regen Rial 2 "S'nioe ttle dinner party! Come along, then—a wt Always wait ust Great little place, eh? Wi rtint. (Drinks second cocktail.) Bully little place, this! Every that thing they're play« Don't remember tt, I'll tell you, Old Girl, it takes ie together, just as thouch we Waiter! Here, waiter! Another tay one! I don't care WHO'S looking! hand if I want to! Prettiest little at her. Don't Wel! if she winked at me I “SHU H” met imagination! Walter! I don't feel ‘em— don't be a crapehanger! Thie ALREADY? Ye gods! No fun! No ad DON'T “SHUSH” MB! ‘tain, Shoppers _ are real pretty pins at 50 cents, the butterfly design being particularly ate tractive. A small, silver capped bottle of smelling salts cc at 59 cents. eee Pencil sets consisting of fou fiat lead pencils and n milter heaee would ba apprecia by a man, A #terling magazine pencil with a cluteh | makes a nice gift and is 79 cents, Telephone pads are serviceable and 60 cents will buy a neat one. A novelty in blotters is a wet of three held to- gether at one end by a stive: bearing the ini The blotters tee in tho fashionable Ibrary colors, brown and green, and ara detachable, This gift 19 only 29 cents and ts en ornamental desk accessory. Metal combinations of magazine cutter ald bookmark tn rich colorings of brown or green are another, offering that a reader might be glad to receive. ‘Theso are 59 cents. ‘Then there are books In attractive leathers for ad- spective college colors and bearing the name of « prominent college in gold letters. These contain lead pen- cils and penholder and have a small pocket for pens and rubber. This is @ good gift and only 39 cents. ‘Then there are the pocket editions of poems and essays in pliable bindings at 35 cents, A Swias apron, together with & matching boudoir cap, trimmed with lace can be had at 60 cents, y H. J. Barrett got to Aeure rent for the space It ee- cuples, cost of frequent handling, & terioration, &c. “In England ts a chain of 1,602 stores which has figured the possible rate of turnover down to a fine point, Some of Its stores turn their capital pe times in a year, “Where do people get the capttal , bout one-half an-| required to establish thens ble creature in the world, No man|{,SUCh people should be ostracized|could be, awaited Master and little | was a little feller, even!" declared pe figures at abou! gyatems?’ is the quecs of chain eure Canada politely questions the President's use of the term lives who 1# #0 eaintly himself that he | from the society of Chale sellows men r, Master Rangle truculently. Me ha tar better to buy tajeman| oer ss “America.” “We have no objection to the United States using TAY FOCAL S06 SOLE DE OE OR Hone ection: PREY! Sie SiORY las Emma, you gwan and walk| "I always go," continued Master | quantities and turn your capital often | ..,¢.' fei, punaae, lan the answer “the national term ‘America’ exclusively,” a member of the Cana- Py has promised to cherish and love} “Lat him who is without sin cast|hehind with Mary Rangle now!") Jarr with fino candor, “Amd I am goin to buy in larger quantities and \ new store Man Minietry is said to have remarked, “only it ought not to ‘be @o loosely interchangeable—one which may be on occasion “Ul death do them part.” No woman who hopes for happiness the first stone,” Master Jarr commanded his little | to go tll I wear long pants, Then of course, I can't.” risk the certain acoumulation of dead stock, carries #0 small a stock, often replen- ished daily, that by the time the billa = oc are due for the original investment can ever expect it or get it If sho] $ > ie se 1. he iat een lit Pvt ie seen whose ranseie sr the money ts paid from receipts over SET y Rene RAE fo feslvse xt country aa one ot Americe he bad in bis tide vatare the St R \] M t i y Jubt" cried Master Slavineky, | cam derive the combined advantage of | anciscis on th teres ete e c cried Master Slavinsky. ely on the jobber's capit partners on the Continent of North America, The present sania tied 46, There 1 ms hundeeae of eame fe] er a rimon This waa a dics thiwat ne they | both methods, wie buy o con | "'4t sounds incredible that ey would be a good time to delimit the title exactly.” such foolish Women tn our very midat Py + «. ; J tract, agreeing to take a certain quan-) gtores in this country which are car- BRUCE ca cid Gtteuny, Berens kan dons ea tach ca to-day, At the least provocation they — By Nixola Greeley-Smith were all prominent young club men. |tity dally, weekly or monthly, a8 the] tying goods’ purchased forty veara : e bring out the dead ashes of things | awww £ | ‘Their parents did not know tt, thetr | case may be, and thus recetve the dis-| ago, It Is true, nevertheless, Say they \ ‘United States to confuse the meaning of “America.” Euro- gone by and thus choke up tho possi- Copyrtght, 1915, tw the Prem Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World) © [little sisters did not know it; the po- | count accruing to a Deere Buyers at th of such stocie peans have long applied the word with equal carelessness to PAS OF PRSMORt <a CuVuDS Haye BROOKLYN husband confided to the Supreme Court the other | Iceman on the beat suspected it, The|the ame timo paying for the Mit. coee ie te pee this nation or to both continents, North and South. It would This husband’ of whom I have just day that he had “been unable to regenerate his wife, make her|club was nameless; its ritual was| words, he does business on the job- orty years and poe s take an international conference to give any sort of precision to written had long ayo forgiven” his more progressive or inculeate a more social disposition in her.” | awesome and blood-curdling, ber's capital. Ea PI wget off, the term. trything ‘in. his affection. for. her ve, Whatever, the shortcomings of the woman in this cise may | Master Jarr was not dlamayed at] come ae ie retailers with whom | enovgh scale will’ make any man's More inconvenient etil) is the lack of a single word to des- Somehow he had not succeeded. Yet! wno gotg in the way of the steain-roller of matrimonial refurm,. It. is 4 | ‘He *Htimation of expulsion. He could | Ry qeals overbuy eer taena | Mllonaire. T know of 4 haberdaaher | “ ” how many are there who Knaw at old : < o {mpro’ nes explain all. “Interest and overhead against dead| who averages a thousand sales dail ignate citizens of the United States. “Americans,” though con- wounds and make them bleed afresh, | Tre man Who dos i not bes in to impr ve te writ mannere, and moras e yy Pigiamanin vee eontineacl an ‘ceeerent one Nock Cochtarbalance | & store forty feet eauare: tite ie LORS: 0800 mouse al wor doe d “ eller > olter’ is 8 q phrase is cumbersome lon “ : reservation to “change all the little things in him I don’t lik b'leev in them things, let ‘em brleey in| och eotene a one, belles Gant cones acta oon be There aro few peoples who cannot express their nationality The WarandtheWoman, | _, An 1k i tie natural human remsiance to this eteam-roliering process| oO ', Tor aitnough they were very | sonitees cost of doing business, What's. the Se which makes the ys eve 3 observation a Q tines, v9 14 ezactiy tn one or at most two words, To be accurate we have By Cora M. W. Greenleaf. “marriage 1# like life in thie—4t is a fleld of battle and not a bed of roses.” | trying at times, Master Jarr was al-| “Against a surplus stock you've” answer? Rate of turnover, to use three and to be euphonious, five. Couldn't we invent HAT shall I do * the war|Men In general seem to prefer the factory-built woman to the rare hand- | ways patient with his parents, for C ‘ 4 single term that would be handy, correct and exclusive with- aaaiea hare wrought creature of whom there may be but one 1p a eneration, They| ‘The two other young gentlemen Jungle Tales for Children, ant their evening clothes and their wives just exactly alike. Sait | the(THokh® Gf Sia axeumen® at Se Sree out ignoring the neighbors? And calls for you, my dear, | ¥"t : aot & de more | S&Usht the point of his argument a HE Caterpillar was sitting on a fellow on the vine a - my dear? Ae peda Gp coat ee ae greens He ee ate ances ely | ones. wild grape vino one afternoon} ‘T get tired of flying and 1 guess Hi F Sh W s t How can I live here day by day, “misunderstand"—fatal word—the free, frank spirit who ceased to have| “Yep, my pop takes my mechanical when along came The Butter-| you would, too, Just get on my back its rom arp its Bhould you join the ranks and march} any right to be free or frank the moment @he became Mrs. Brown, Mrs. | builder and makes things out of it all| ny, who sald: and I will take you for a ride,” sald 5 ft but, parties fulfilled away? Brown cannot see why she should model her own original and artistic na-| the time," said Master Rangle, | “How do you do, friend Caterpil-| The Butterfly, So Dia Moog pact Mee on frit Darton fulfilled an, engagement | How could I sleep night after night | ture on the Mrs. Greens Who are turned out by the gross. Nevertholess, her| “My Uncle San, whot Is rich and| tar? Why don't you move along| ‘You be my alrship?” bachelors are not remind » minute? | That follows the long day's cruel] jtcam-rolier husband gets out his deadly mechanism of precept and pro- | iyeq in Brownsville, gives fer a penny | faster?” “That's it! ‘That's it! sald the fele arr nt, D1 ty , . ” : 8 8 When you ask a man if he drinks) Knowing not whether you made your | Mibitions, hypeod-ow a ene Res eee ae PR gerade ty yet eyelid “4 a chumping jack to my ttle brother| “Because I haven't wings," replied] low with the beautiful wings as he Boctety ban got to be auch an expen first tel) him whether you are inquir- bed graces and eccentricities until she The Caterpillar settled down on the vine. are Snare % peeaxe & fellow 10 play | {ne oF PED emaeOn ews aa tsar woraeoto my tortured ‘The woman reformer ts even worse. She snares a Hon’ and expects | comes to our house to dinner on his| “I will lend you my wings,” an-| Soon they were flying over the shy let Yr Yanga h tareeacad le veniee mex ofl my tortured) im to catch mice. She puts Pegasus to the plough and complains because | birthday, an’ my fadder playa mit de! swered ‘The Butterfly garth, Highor and higher they went No one 18 90 easily pleaged an the| hypocrisy. [ir you 1ay with the wounded, left|ne docs not win blue ribbona in the Horse Show any more, Delilah cuts | chumping Jack till he breaks ft" sald! “T don't understand you." sald the) Hild calerman shouted in ‘The man who Is satisfied with himsclf. ye 9 behind, Samson's hair to make him “look like other men,” and then wonders why | aster Shivinsky, confessing to pa- = Al ’ fo mpmaies than their pockets, ow ¢ 4 o bidet] quite so well as she, once her Samson's locks are shorn and # as 80) Juotantiy, it aust be admitted “| know whet wr said: "Ll neve , Quite often a thing that “goes for ed ownt to grinding @ Mving for her. bus reneten hy, again—crawiing in good onoush te gong” isn't worth more than the| As the rain falls upon the just and If the war should oad, with ite voloe rinding @ living for her. no reeret. He looks upon his handi-| “So.” sald Master Willie Jerr, “it| ‘They all knew why. At this time of | A401! rq eng —Poiladeipiia g eee tne earns, ellie, ao the seen ang viotim of domestic “trightfulness,” and he finds that umbrella sheds ‘work, the poor, meek of ~ pase Among the living or with the dead; eo nie of the fas I pray that our Wether may call we ‘Wao there ever a time when both’ and the unjust News, ‘oret. Kansus prairie, ft to good. Sam whot is numed fer him when he you should ece me goin’ with my pop | year children should be considerate end my mews end ary kid sister to \ and bumor their eidere in everything. The Butterfly flew away | rh 2 qi y laughing