The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1915, Page 20

The Evening World Daily Ma RETABLISHED BY JORMPH PULITZER. Pubiiehes Dally Bxcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Co: ny, Now. 68 or Pare Row, Now York, * sige teoed nd RALPH PULITZER, President, ¢3 Park Row. J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row, JOSEPH PULITZDR, Je, Secretary, 68 Park Row, at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Class Matter, tes to The Evening ‘World for the United States and Caneda. England and the Continent and ‘All Countries in the International Postal Union M One Year, arssacsaeserrmererere O9.76 ON MOMtR..smsssermerarsmeraee sl —_————————eeeeSFSeeeee LET IT BE THOROUGH. ESTIMONY brought out by the Thompson committee in ite in- vestigation of the official conduct of Public Service Commia- sioner Robert C. Wood affords the people of New York fur ther chanoe to see how their trusted Public Service Commissions have been esteemed by corporation officials and managers accustomed te dealing with these protectors of the public interest. According to the President of the Union Switch and Signal Coin- peny, a former president and general manager of the conceru wero anzious to use $5,000 to buy Commissioner Wood's vote in favor of a» sabeny contract which their company sought. The Public Service Commission stood two to two on the question. The directors of the company, however, dectined to eanotion the bribe and Wood's vote was subeequently given for a competing concern. Officers of the signal company, be it noted, regarded it as 4 ~~ anne porerds wes ¥] {Labor Lost! eet, By J. H. Cassel pe natural thing to try to purchase favors from a Public Service Com- missioner whom they had previously paid for services rendered their corporation before he took office. Here is further measure of the extent to which the functions of the commission have been perverted and discredited owing to the kind of men who have exercised them. Overhauling must the more he thorough. Not until the Public Service Commissions are cleared of the last suspiciod of entanglement with special interoste, not until there ceases to be the slightest ground for any corporation whatever to expect from any commissioner aught beyond justice, can rehabilita- tien be complete. Gov. Whitman's part of the Job has barely begu: Sp Senne Retreat of Allies Effected With Skill.—Headliue. ‘Too wall done it might become a habit. EE oo | Pe conten GEASS Pern 2 Man Bt ens SEL ES CALKS FOR ALL HORSES. HESE are hard days for horses. Since the storm one can hardly walk a block without seeing some poor animal flat on the icy pavement. Others that do not fall, slip and strain im the effort to move heavy loads. Apparently iiundreds of owners and drivers in this city do not think it worth while to fit their horses’ feet in winter with one of the many available appliances that afford a foothold on ice, Long lines ~ of trolley cars are held up every hour in various thoroughfares because improperly shod horses cannot drag heavy trucks over ice and snow. If neither mercy nor the saving of their own time have aay weight with inconsiderate owners, then the public interest must in- tervens. The Evening World suggests the time has come to pass an ordi- wanco requiring that all work horses in the city shall be calk shod be- tween Nov. 1 and March 1. Winter traffic in New York would greatly benefit by such a rule —we well as the unfortunate beasts, which suffer most from this form of meglect a ae Rs eae In a jeweller’s window on Fifth Avenue is « smooth, shiny eylindrical object of nickel or ailver curving to a point at the top. The thing it looks to be is wrecking churches and tearing buman bodies asunder in Burope. This is a oocktal! shaker. Up to.date, is it not? Little boys may play with something livelier than lead @eidiers this Christmas. A new and cunning toy is a warship which floats bravely in the bathtub until a darling submarine fdte it at a critical spot with @ torpedo and sends it to the bottom. A regular little Lusitania. After all, what cute ideas war furnishes! See THE DETROIT THEORY. | T™ Police Commissioner of New York maintains that most) sutomobile accidents in the city are due to the carelessness of pedestrians, The Police Commiasioner of Detroit holds that the frequency of wach accidents varies inversely with the amount of oare exercised by motorists. Ta Detroit the head of the police works on this theory: “Don't blame the poor pedestrian. He has been walkiny aately across etrest corners for 1,900 years. Now thet a new pestilence that stalketh at moondey upan public thoroughfares bes bean discovered, he is expected to reviee his mode of living ever night to save himself from destruction. It isn't fair.” “Men and women come first. The eutomodile is Httle more @an « decade old. Let the eutotst adjust himeslf to old time customs. Let him exerciee conaideration and common sence.” This Detroit theory may be all wrong. But nobody wifl deny that Detroit knows something about automobiles. It has 40,000 of them licensed to run in its etreets. And the way its Police Commis- sioner’s theory has worked out is that there has not been a eingle fatul _ automobile accident in Detroit’s business sections this year. _ When it comes to results, what does the Police Commissioner of New York think they prove? Hits From Sharp Wits One of the easiest things that the| It is perfectly useloss to toll an- average individual does in these days | other that he je going to make a mis- ia te suggest ways and means of re-'take even when you rtain. Le will believe onl) are absolutely | thi a ie ee nging | Covyetght, 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Kvening World), WOMAN came to me the|momentary sympathy, Nobody cares; other day bewailing the bea 1 peta folk lay themselves opan fact that she had to move}{? ridicule rather than gaining re- reas by confiding their cares to from the neighborhood in others, which she lived. Her story| Settle your own affairs. Do it was the story of many a couple who pals pet You wi gee more re- indulge in domestic mud-slinging than t m your ne! ors every time y making them during heated anger, bd a part of your ‘This husband and wife are devoted secret sorrows. Hundreds of couples are ashamed of to each other, but occasionally have had Httle differences. They usually the things they have gad about each ae during such meaningless wottiod these and all became lovely | tty "entimation of’ orton tne again. But very recently, on one oc- | friends whom they can never regain, casion, they seemed unable to fx up| Nobody could be concerned about thelr dispute and agreed to separate forever--the same old story. ‘Whereupon the wife, seeking the family differences except the family itself. When couples keep their griev- sympathy of her neighbors, went among them and told how much ances to themselves thoy have no after explanations to make or regrets to overcome. abused she was and what @ terrible “prute” her husband was. She pa raded all his bad habits and faults to the populace for the punpose of | getting its pity. In fact, she went! further than the actual facta war- ranted end made mountains out of molehiile, From her talk, you would bave thought that her husband was the Evil One personified. In order to defend Mmeecit % Ooomight, 1915, by the Pres the | E He etayed away from home, and! she proceeded to a lawyer to find waye and means of leaving him for ever, &c,, &c, As matters turned out this woman happened to choose a good lawyer—a man who knew the human game and wanted to be a me diator rather than a money-mak Somehow he knew that the woman 414 not want a divorce as much as she wanted good gound advice, He told her to searoh her own heart and | be honest with tt. Then he went to the husband urged him to take |igsue with himself and find out if ‘thie breaking-up process was really what he wanted, The lawyer's diagnosis prdved cor- and divorce was the farthest | ing from the real desires of the forming everything under the sun.— ce when he|people, who fad temporarily dis- Pittaburen sun. sd finds that he has made Albany |agreed, Thus tie couple came to- | we: 9 J i gether again, and now are yery | ‘& mam is a fool there is no such ee happy in @ reconciliation that they | ‘as keeping him quiet—-Houston claim will last “until death do them ome people go to the moving plc- ture theatres to listen to the of those sitting near them, while others go to ee the pictures.—-Macon “8 e One absolutely guarantecd too1- | part.” In a word, they adjusted their grievances and all is going well with) nua them—all but the neighbors, Now, FICHU eof, safety-first “don't” for hunters: | News, the couple are ashamed of what they Don’ go hunting. , oa 6 tals vahone: eat ether. te athens | Cohue arte Whenever a fellow atrikes you for a| Everywhere they go, among the When some folks say they want 4) Joan, hit him friends, they realize that, although ek, only harder, ee chance they mean they want an ad- vantage. * 8 Mefentists say it is the will that) it is the hardest.—Macon News, some people alive. The pros- . 9 9 heir eays 60 too,—Washville . self-made re) ‘28 8 ‘There is always an even chance that |, Wea bs put off will not be done at all. new industry. Deseret Getting cure for a cold ia the easiest thing in the world, but curing There are more shelf-made men than men. With the hobo any industry is a News they have forgotten thelr own differ ences, thelr friends haven't, and stil look upon them with questioning manner, if not amusement, \ ‘The wife feels badly about it. How- | t ever, if she has to move out of an/| entirely of white. environment that sho used to like, it | effective with a touch of color is her own fault. ‘Telling one's famity | blue, yellow or lavender satin trials to outsiders, in a eentimental | color is usually way, never got apybody anything but ihe waist perh: nd t gazine The Jarr Family —By Roy L. McCardell — Cosright, 1015, by the Poem Publishing Co, The New York Hvening World) darling, tell]confidence, the mature Master Issy whot you}Slavinsky, aged twelve, and the 6c ND now, my want,” But at last in the presence of the} aged eleven, “I knowed the store patron Saint of Christmastide (‘at| Santa “laus was Limpy John when his uptown headquarters,” as the 1 seen his kidney feet.” neighboring store announced in large | When a new boy moved into the placards outside), little Miss Jarr hid | neighborhood and had run the gaunt- her face in the folds of her mother's|let and had been appraised at his skirt and shrieked from their muf-| proper worth as a first-class fighting filng depth: man, and then had been duly tntro- “I wanna go home!" | ducea to all friends and enemies (in- “Now, don’t be afraid,” aatd Mrs. | cluding A oné-armed night watchman Why Your Clothes Are Not Becoming By Andre Dupont. A TOUCH OF WHITE. VERY frock, almost without exception, must have a touch of white at the throat to soften the features. A color worn close about the neck, and especially any dark or vivid shade, brings out all the | so " oner or later out he would char; Mines and shadows in the face in a way that is not at all flattering. . Bven @ frock that turns away at the neck, and forms the throat in the way that women have found eo comfortable and ns of satin or lace or net, velvet or chiffon, &c, ught In again at the sides of thé fichu and at the bow at Jarr, soothingly, “look at your! at the lumber yards as a friend, and brother Willie! He tsn't afraid.” Limpy John as an enemy), the new It can safely be wagered that Mas-| boy would be given an exposition of ter Jarr was not afraid, He after-! tie baiting of the latter. ward told the tale to those in his| ‘This harrying of the hostile entailed | Yery little trouble and always pro- duced the most satisfactory results. The procedure consisted of going to the delivery entrance of the store, on a side street, and selecting the first empty packing case on the sidewalk and beating upon it lustily with clubs until the whole ne!ghborhood was deafened with the reverberations. This deafening tattoo would last for long or short periods, according to the distance the challenged porter might be from the sound centre, But Co. (The New York Wrening World), upon his enemies. Whereupon the demontac youths of the neighborhood would promptly becoming for the last year, is always | throw their sticks at the legs of the very much prettier and vastly more) charging porter, which never failed becoming if a touch of white softens|to trip him full in his mad career, it, This may take the form of @! Whereupon the young savages would long, narrow turnover collar, or the | rush away, yelling In joyous derision: very newest fashion dea, the flit! "Ya! Kidney feet, kidney fee fichu joined to the high collar, A} So Master Jarr gazed upon the charming example of this style 44! protuberant pedal extremities of the shown in the {lustration, The blouse | enemy of his clan and sneered. ie of black chiffon over white net.! wie, thus being between the good with bands of black lace insertion set| gaint and Mrs, Jarr, and the Httle in on each side of the front near the| gir) sti) hiding her eyes against sleoves, _|her mother’s dress, gave Mrs. Jarr The flohu collar is one of the ver¥| opportunity to regard the Uptown latest noe ip whit Naptlitgy: rs | Santa Claus with a basilisk glance, net and insertion. The sa rornas z 4 i the high collar and yoke-shaped piece | EY the stains on the good Saint's and deep turnover at the back, This | Whiskers, Mrs, Jarr could seo he had is trimmed at the top of the tichu | been indulging in thet filthy weed, on each side with a row of tiny | ¢¢ read black end white buttons that run (opecce. Santa Claus ne bere right up the stock to the turnover, |!" of the glance. Other fon he flohu portion is of eatin and flet | mothers had gazed with the same dis- net, with @ deep band of filet inser- | pj and a tion got in'on cach side of the front, | Poawure all that day ear It ends under a smart bow formed | fore: of two pointed ends with a satin) ‘Youse Kids twist in the centre, ter," A fichu collar effect of this sort | \ofog can be worn over any blouse or f it needs softening, and it ¢ V that beat ft to de toy coun- r Ape [NOU Rit what 3 made of wutost any desired material, | buys fer youse,” continued Santa |own and the other mothers, ‘This look] Outside the store Santa Claus fold mich as net, lace, embroidery, chiffon, | Claus, “and it youse 18 tough buys, | from his youtlful enemy was ow re-| prone, and upon the amured ears of jeorgette crepe, satin or velvet, It bes | d e harassed patron of holl-]all there smote noc! ery ia. particularly "pretty In combina: |!!K@ some of de young fellers around | turned by the Perea ot Mth mote a mocking ery in th Rnd ee need rot bene |here ts, upsetting packing boxes an’|day cheer with such a murderous! distance from Master Jarr: Over black or white lace blouses it is very smart and glance that little Miss Jarr gave Ya! Kidney feet, kidney feet!" vps the yoke portion and stock of pink, he turnover of white, In this case the nutting, see! Master Jarr . Thursday, December 16, worldly-wise Master Johnnie Rangle, | id good Saint Nick in a husky | so “If youse has been good kids ‘our fadder and tnodder |tempt and derision, unnoticed to his hollerin’ at people, youse don't get sumed an angetic ex-| away. ‘pression of mingled falth, hope amd attention of the other mothers, who 1918 | Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland ‘Copyright, 1016, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), OW, my Daughter, a certain Grass Widow of Gotham met the wife of her formor Husband at a violet tea. And the Happy Wife said unto the Bereaved One: "Come, let us forget old scores; for bebold, this is the Season of Love and Good Will, and WHY shall two Modern Women quarrel over a Mere Man? Come thou, then, and dine with US upon Christmas Day. For whal fs Yuletide without a HUSBAND?” But the Grass Widow shook her head and answered sorrowfully, saying: ‘ | “Sister, thou art indeed of a sweet and generous spirit, that, thow wouldst share thy joys and ‘our husband’ with me! Yea, verily, verily, I know that Christmas shall seem exceeding strange and empty unto me, “For 1 shall have NOBODY to tie up parcels and cut his fingers with the string, and to letter the addresses and cover himself with ink; and to Utter the floor with excelsior! “] shall have nobody to put up the Christmas tree—and pull it dow! on top of himself at the last moment; and nobody to wind up the children’ toys, and amuse himself therewith all afternoon. And nobody to come tm at 2G. M. on Christmas Eve, with his hat on one side, and tell me aow ‘perfly WONDERFUL’ I am! “And nobody's sisters and cousins and aunts and nieces and nephews for whom to buy toys and presents and work baskets and door stops and bookmarks and hatpin holders and JUNK! “And nobody to carve the turkey and cover the table with wings and gravy and curses, And nobody to put to bed, AFTER dinner, and to dose | with pepsin and hot water and ginger and sympathy. And nobody to set | nimeeit on fire whon he lighteth the Christmas candles, | And nobody to hang the holly--and revile me, when he steppeth with Ais bare feet upon a fallen leaf. And nobody to gaze wonderingly at the gift upon which I have spent weeks of loving thought and labor for big | sake and say: ‘Yes, Darling, but what Is this “Thing” FOR!’ “Verily, verily, it is These-Little-Things that make home seem HOME ILIKE! Yet, for once, shall I forego them, that I may know the meaning of ‘PEACE on earth!'" But the Wife arose and admonished her, saying: “Go to, thon Foolish One! Be content with thy Solitude and ‘Per But as for ME, I prefer an Husband, and ‘Good Will tow eo reer | | on earth!’ MEN!” Selah! 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World! Why Many Men Break Down, Copyright ITH knowledge absolutely un- nt kind than taken at thinys side ‘Two meals daily are better than © fo erations, W known to former gene i and make for a clearer head, we ought, as a people, to ve} ‘The body needs more water, so drini tong. A creature having taken about|and bathe more to dissolve the body ? : Pv tuve. has ‘no POlsOuR rend them out, If a twenty-five eet t9 bi y. Why are| Meitty breakfast is taken, reduce the business to be unfit at fifty. ya lunch to a mere apology. leg many ness man's life a At about forty it behooves a man to] + pay attention to what he eats and drinks and does. This applies particu- eee a ca enee liarly to those doing little manual Ja-|dinner; a light supper at night, and hor, as the dangers of middle life are} they ep before midnigt | At Mitty waste Is greater than re- pair; #0 less food Is nee Asarule we eat too much and exercise too lit: tle, and grow stout by not working off the excess as we did earlier in life Ugo with life to- alked to and froin dined at noon, taking to an hurried them go ont midnight—un- szain. befe ‘An we near fifty our overworked combinations—and then machinery is apt to grow rusty: the| they sleep without having done ong blood loses some of its richness and|aane thing all day to assist nature the blood vessels their elasticity.) dispose of that food. Nature de- While exercise was never more nec-| mands intelligent co-operation, end essary than now, it should be a less} does she have tt? First Aid to Christmas Shoppers 1915, by the Poem Pub) | Copyright me OY e New York Evening World! “ec HAT do you want forpfor $15. They are Imported from the | Christmas, dear? | am] Orient and will delight the womaa | going to do my Christmas| “yy),." Honpswivanac) reciate acqulal- | shopping to-day and I may as well] tions to the table accessories, got something you really want,” re-}rich red and green old 1) is aa glassware is a new offerin, | marked a husband the other day. | inn te aher - ‘Dhe wife confided to me later that] ; hoy o salad bowls at $1 “Christmas sen at $3, and wine bottles at water jit in dull white bas ndles and is right smart look- sha always had her spoiled Just this way.” In another home @ piece of furnl- pate |ture was delivered on Dec. 3. It was! 4 pedestal might add to the ie { an article the wife especially desired|of the library or boudoir. These \and was happy to receive, but, “Ever| come in all prices both in wood and | arried the Christmas| marble, and a bust added wil make seit ‘a taken Coe tot ma ny |auite a worth while gift, Then there things Tike this," she wistfully com) are the low Jardintere pedestale, plained. “Will believes In early shep ere is a wide variety in these, Tt ping 1 { never let him know mm handsome fern or palm is placed disappointmen into the Jar the woman who is work« In. both cases the anticipation, {ing for a ty home will be de which is one of the Joya of gift-mak- | lighted with the gift. | ing, had been aborted. Tf, in the first why hot get one of those bulb dish These come in pretty shadings Dlue, green and brown and are im boxe&srith directions, cover bearing an appropriate eontiment, A good sized dish j6 $2. One with @ hyacinth buth is $1.76 and in the am ware, similarly packed, are attrac= tive vases designed Just a single blossom—these are $1,25. A fern dish in Austrian china, 4 orated in dainty floral desigus, $2.26, and when filled makes @ aift. inatance, the husband had requested fa list of desired gifts he would have attained his object and his wife would pave bad a happy Christmas. The second mentioned husband might have carried out bis commendable de- sire for early shopping and arranged for the delivery of the present Christ- mas time—there are several expedient ways of accomplishing this. Give the lady a real surprise this Christinas, 1. you think she will like a pretty dress you can get @ robe in pongee or white crepe, exquisitely embroidered, If she likes posies about the need Jungle Tales for Children, NE afternoon Jimmy Monkey, bis eyes. for in front of the looking had nothing to do, so ho] siuss stood the little fellow siumng | sal «i sen the Raby | 4&4 Into his trousers: | TREIRAG) OFRE TRON LR RH What on earth are you doing?" Baboon asked Jimmy. "Go right upstairs to the little fol- low's room,” said Mrs, Baboon to Jimmy. When Jimmy had climbed up the banisters and arrived at the Baby Baboon's room a funny sight greeted “I have a hole in my trousers and I was stopping it up,” replied the little fellow, Then he added, What are you laughing at?” “Iam laughing at the hole in your trousers,” replied Jimmy, — charity, But in his ease facial ex-| murmured in chorus: preaatons were synthetic, Meanwhile| “Don't be afraid, dearie, he won't other parents and other children had] hurt you!" gathered around to interview Santa] So Master Jarr, noting that-the at- Claus. Other mothers also detected] tention of all, including Santa Claus, the traces of tobacco on the beard of} was distracted, brought down the heel Santa Claus and whispered Indigna-|of his stout scout shoe on one of the tion to each other. knobby projections on the expansive Little Miss Jarr being now conxed|teft foot of good Saint Nick, With a to look at Santa Claus, nervously did} howl of pain the good saint almed a But Master Jarr was also gaz-|blow at his tormentor. But Master ‘ing with a mingled expression of con-}| Willie ducked and fled, followed by Santa Claus on the run, shriek of terror and pulled her mother No parent or little girl of the nelgh-/ This diversion distracted the borhood believes Willie Jarr will get @ tulng fog Chsistinas!