The evening world. Newspaper, December 20, 1915, Page 14

” ‘e for th ? “Xt reminds me of how my sister|,,/f there is anything reprehensible! ve brought you some hot dhoco-| Poking up Mrs, Jarr’s pillows that baby. All day I wandered around the| it I may the note shall be bp Paris is painfully wrought up about it, “We feel sick,” they say, “but| Anna kept our hired girl from quit- {atoto—— ~ old jato and toast. Now, don't you get|she might sit up in comfort, Gertrude | Pole, renilens and Uneasy. 1 oer )if not I shall open it.” P ‘eh? tin',” aaid Bobbie, the office boy. “Shut your mouth!" snapped Miss| up, Mre. Jarr; you are ail tired out! gave her mistress a smile of devotion Yund education of ‘the child nol ing: a epPone Emay have until morn. that does not mean we should permit ourselves to perish. “What do you’ mean?” demanded Ds 3 care an rm nild #0] {ng to decide? he asked in sarcastle if bit of it. Just because, for the nonce, Paris hotels are not| Mise Primm ore from shopping yesterday, and you|and lightly tripped away, to return strangely left to me upon myself. How Not « bit o: ause, for the nonce, 2 Py “BSTABLISHDD BY J PULITZDR, a Published Daily Broept Sunday, by the Freee Podjishing Compesy. Nos. A-Clase Matter. pe ay Cw ae eae For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International Se Ewacse re ns 09 00 * injon. M VOLUME 56. seveeees COTE aoe | 86 seees NO, 19,844 ’ AUSTRIA’S CHANCE. NE passage in Austria’s reply to this nation’s demands anent the sinking of the Ancona sounds significantly like an ag- grieved reminder of Austro-Hungarian dignity and inde- pendence. Noting this Government's allusion to its correspondence with the Berlin Cabinet on the Lusitania and similar cases, Austria says in effect: Why quote Germany to us? “The Imperial and Royal Government must, in order to preclude possible misunderstandings, declare that as a matter } of course it reserves to itself full freedom of maintaining its own legal views in the discussion of tho case of the Ancona.” an ‘The celery with which the new note to Austria got under way was nothing short of—preparedness. tt i DONE WITH US? w e flerce denunciation of the wey Americans treat works of genius which come from the French fashion etudios. Amorican buyers and their agents, we are told, steal everything By, from buttons to clients. They not only copy models but “vulgarize” | Qn4'the ship la the Ancona. them in the process. The Syndicate of the Grand Dressmakery of fell of Americans with deep pocketbooks, life isn’t necessarily over or hope dead. For that is where the robe really pinches. In ante-bellum days, whenover an American of means arrived at ‘an hotel-de-luxe in Paris, before the blinds of his apartment were remember Clara Mullen, Has-{ I went to bed very early and morning wrapper that Mrs, Mud- 1 ventured. “The gir! 7 early en left fairly open, three or four apes be esa sure to tap ye a cask eset zou were pretty good at = | Hage Scatth xave you last Christmas, |C2¥m me the 9300 for?” girl you pm pending, of, pretending to sad. with the cards of various illustrious dressmakers eager to supply! | ‘Very good, Bobbie! said theblonde. B h 1 G ] While you were out yesterday I had| “Yes. Why turned a page for ever so long. ; of 5 se “There's an apple In my cloak pooket, a acne or ily | gome spare time and I cleaned it and| “She is dead. ng. tT saadame with the latest creations. Clients were anybody’s game and] yoy "nay have it for that one” iD prices what the traffic would bear. There are no choice pickings of this sort just now, so the dress- makers take it out on American wholesalers, “Sick” indeed! No doubt Mr. Poiret and his friends have their Men Who you know,” said Pop- desk, “I've been study- Miss Primm, private secretary to ping clerk and then laughed. “You certainly don't get it,” “The trouble is with Austria, Anacon- |! da is a town in Montana.” “Anne conned her.” ‘ “All of which,” returned the private secretary, “shows that you pay more attention to one-stepping than you do to the war.” “You don't dance, do you, Primm?” asked Bobbie, “No, of course not. Why?" Miss . “Bobbie had his eye én that apple a while ago,” eaid Spooner, the book- hoger. €s,” replied the boy. “It's the ap- ple of my eye.” “Go right ahead with your nutty aid Miss feotly delicious, Mr. Snooks!" she said. ahr on earth did you ever think pe . ca a ategemencen ant ute Cakmee the boss, looked escornfully at the/Then he disappeared in his to office, while the private she | Ja) broken by Bobbie. cious,” murmured Bobbi The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, December 20, 1915 Fail AANA oe ple, the shipping ciert,| Be vine as he turned from his) in my egg cup, he asked: ‘Shall I open the other, boss?" ing this Anaconda quos-| replied: tion and I don’t get it. Wil some- . Dedy please tell me why Australia UL POIRET has issued, we learn from the esteemed ‘Times, | gnoura disavow sinking that ship?” T looked at him and ‘No; open a window!’ How Y Miss Primm amiled broadly. “Por- secretary ughed. When Mr. Snooks had gone there fas silence for moment. It was sald it waa portectty de- ie. The ‘private secretary went out, | hi slamming the door, Copyright, 1918, othe Rew York Braning Wend, AAA NA ARARARRARAY * & By J. H. Cassel DOODO*OOESOE COOH POOODODOOS) ' The Storie | Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces . By Albert Payson Terhune OODDAODOOOODS: O® TOO OOOS Copyright, 1915, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), NO. 87.—DAVID SWAN. By Nathaniel Hawthorn. AVID SWAN was a good-looking boy of eighteen, He had been brought up on @ farm. His uncle in Boston offered him a pet as clerk in his counting house, and the Ind set out, full of tien | hopes, to begin his career, | David Was poor. So to save the few dollars his father had given tim he decided to make the journey to Boston on foot. He started early one morning, his meagre possessions slung in a bundle over hig shoulder, By noon he began to feel tired. So he turned aside from the highroad into a little glen, There he ate his lunch of bread and cheese and then stretched himself out for a nap. As he lay asleep, a pretty girl happened to pass through the woods, | halted at sight of the slumbering youth and looked down, long and oarnestly, into hia handsome face. Love stirred within her heart, She, who had never | loved before, felt irresistibly drawn toward thie sleeping | Orr stranger. Had David awakened, he might readily have won fer He opened one and it was ter- Really, it must have been laid the war, Bmpt; that one an good as can be.” There are others. Wives, sisters, all femihine kind, tneluding Ught running domestica, But ell bu- manity loveth the Christmas spirit! Mra, Jerr especially appreaiated “the bervice neatly done” of Gertrude, that Jewel of housemaids, It was toward 8 A M. on @ certain day in the late| teens of December that the aforesaid | Jewel of housemaids etood tn my | lady's boudoir murmuring: _ must take a good rest.” “Oh, Gertrude, really you shouldn't a I can Refiections of By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1015, ty the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), Day, he begins to treasure tenderly even the memory of his head: abroad in. “Oh, Gertrud | pressed it and put some lace in the | ,.3) yoke and sleeves, that was on the other gown you gave me and it was as good as new, it was too fine a lace for a poor girl T 4s not alone children who get up to breakfast. I simply can’t | Will you see that he “Just before Christmas are | impose upon you this way!" At this period of the year it may be mentioned mistresses are more! than kind, that courtesies and con-| paid. siderate treatment may be reckoned| the inclosed note, when gifts to the family retainers, please do not open It. take the practical turn of caps ang ‘rend, Clare Mullen, @prons rather than gauds to 60 and over. in @ few moments with a lace trim- med morning gown, Jarr stared in pleased surprise. It was the at which Mrs. brought up to be a good man? Mrs, Clarke, the woman with whom [ have been Li will take good care of him, but she cannot afford .o do so unless she is If Mr, Borroughs objects, read It he does not, Your grateful read the poor little letter over Then | looked at the thin But Gertrude had long note |t inclosed. What did it con- resolved that the Jarr family were tain that not to escape this year with many kind words and few presents. So, deftly arranging the tray and about it ould influence Haskall if it were necessary to read it. I slipped it into the pocket of the house dress 1 was wearing and thought no more But I did think of Clara's I hoped that Haskall would not ob- ject. |" When he came in to dinner he looked brighter, more like htunnelf you shouldn't have| than he had since his iliness, I walted bought me that!” she cried. “I didn't buy it, ma'am; it's your) ached the subject. until! we had had our coffes before I Did I imagine ft, or did a look of jef cross my husband's face? But as he made no remark I went on, “She left the baby. He ia with the and) Woman she lived with when she died, She has written me a letter asking me to look after him.” ing to refuse to allow me to do anything for the child? I want to see It." “No, Haskall, The dead girl trust- me, No-one shall see that letter unless it is necessary for me td look at it!” hat do you mean by such nens @enee? I tell you I want that notel® ~ I saw that he was getting into ome of his nie. but I determined to Tet him eee It only after I had read it myself, if he made the reading neces- sary. “It is no use for you to storm at me, Haskall, [ shall not give up that note, Now, may 1 ofr f Ramet tones, @ sneer on his face, “Certainly, And, Haskall, you will make me very happy if you will al- low me to take care of this baby.” [ jaid a detaining hand on his arm, don't suppose you would let ‘bring him here?” ie “I should say not!” was tired, still weak from my break- down, and fell immediately asleep, I dreamed some one was in the room and awoke with a start, There was! Haskall in front of my through my papers. was seated desk rummaging * 44) a |} Love and { : A i Dire Peril. consent to be his wife. But he slept on. And presently i Bravo! If Vienna is anxious to dispel the belief that it takes | the siet sighed and shaved rig fi - fe] a s few minutes later an evil-looking tramp ¢! ; orésrs from Berlin here is its chance: } | through the bushes. He saw David and crawled closer to him. 7 4 Dissvow the sinking of the Ancona. Disavow it promptly and | _ The boy looked prosperous, There was a chance he might have plenty 4 completely—even as Germany has not disavowed the sinking of the| [of money in his pockets, The tramp atealthily drew a knife from his belt jeaned over jeeper. 4 i Had David awakened he would have f id int Troat, . Lasitanie. hi to tect | But he slept on. A dog trotted across the rat Share theca bia thet ieee 4 Let Austria meet the determination of this aha Cis eyes |are likely to be men, In guilty fear, the tramp sheathed his knife and tele : the lives of ite citizens and uphold the laws of humanity with a direct- | away, : im A little later a carriage stopped at the ide. ness and good faith which Germany did not exhibit. | siasity wusband and witeenery es ae bees ~ Te socerehts vas Austria could do nothing more certain to secure the good will) Ee and wanted a drink of water from the brook that trickled of this nation or to convince the world that it is something more than | yo Suddenly ghe aut at her husband's arm and pointed at Davi. pe yung man, as he there asleep, tl a eword-bearing squire to its dictatorial ally. | | Sic tot lone wore : ere asleep, was the image of thelr only son, who had | eo le eee er husband to adopt this handsome lad and George F. Baker, a ae rene eee le Sim fll the breach in their-lonely lives porte fog a ; A»gust Belmont, George W. Perkins, Clar- | } as son. On impulse the husband consented. 7 ence H. Mackay and Frank A, Vanderlip were among those if Ey wont | Geen he might have made certain of Ss ; } I js manners we: 4 invited by Mr. on? to gather round the festive board with Orr, But ae slept on. And, all at tice, bp om sense 7 Theodore Rooseve! rallied to the husband's aid. He oxplained to his wife ‘When the Colone! condescends'to dine with groat wealth It | 1 few footed they, would enue a total stranger as their Own aoa, And ‘must be no pikers’ shindy. An hour later David Swan awoke, Refreshed by~his doze, he went s I Fiat Shae gynd to take the clerkship in his uncle's country house, never ; STREET PERILS. reaming that while he slept “re had been visited by Love, by Murdar and HE Now Year will find the police well started on a new pre- ; 4 for reducing etreet perils. | 4 gramme | a... T Police Commissioner Woods announces that hereafter The Woman Who D ar d gaptains will be held recponsibie for increases in the number) e @f otrect accidents in their precincts. Patrolmen are expected not | By Date Drummond a ely to see that sidewalks are cl-ared and properly sanded in slippery) _ | Copyright, 1918, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Bvening World). :.F weather, but to make sure tha¢ croes-walks also get the same care. | OHAPTER XXXI, “Who has written?” he asked ab- Furthermore, they are to educate the public to cross at crossings, to T last I had heard of Clara |**ntly. oocasi: \d. to ind arents Mullen again. The sbort| woman's, ares of course, The reHteve traffic congestion on all possible release - ae | letter the postman brought | baby must bere dene eae eh od te ourb youngetere who eteal rides on cars and “hitch on’ behind me was so peculiarly word-|thie time, I'wish I might ace tie vehicles, owl ed that I puzzled tong over |i :t\ve What?” He had not been 4 a H Pw ees it before I decided to show it to Has-| "Why" the baby, of . ¥ We note the Commissioner’s order directs policemen in caution- kal, But I was helpless. 1 could do| “Don't be ridiedlousl™ fing people against the practice of crossing streets at places other than | |nothing without his assistance, and| Here's the letter she wrote me.” geguler crossings, “to use proper diplomatic: measures,” also “to try” | <€¢: i . jhe bad been so wonderfully generous |! My lg toward him. “Ill wait till New Year's and then I'll make a resolution tO do better work" |W" 1 Art asked him to help ber! “Please look at it, Haskall. she 4 te keep vehicles to the right. that I finally concluded to let bim eee |mentions you." . How much good will gentle argument end persuasion in euch |<, her letter. ag Mentions mer he qiueried, and 4 ; ri @ pecultar look flashed acrose 4 ‘@revtions accomplish? If these two simple rules—keeping invariably Th re) ffi F e SHAE eA Goad: ether Stoel: 180 1 ace, 4 STs tak ching % crvrteiio—-roe doujed tn: thie iy e ice Force { The Jarr Family jcrssrmee ces 2ge 1 reson watenne in ‘ as nized laws, we should have | “Dear Mrs, Borroughs,” I read, “I| “Well, let me see tt.” instinctively and without question as recog! aes By Bide Dudley. —By Roy L. McCardell — am dying. I made the doctore tall |_.H@ took the letter and read It, then fower street accidents. Why not enforce them by something stronger reread it with a scowling face, Was ; 2 than “diplomacy” j Courright, 1015, by the Prem Publishing Os, (The New York Evening World), Cooyeight, 1915, ty the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), me, I leave my baby in your care. |he . 4 a A FTER a man bas made up his mind to take the pledge on New Year's sexes. my dear friends,’ mm sarcastically. “Bome day some- body will bring quirrel in here and you'll all make @ hasty exit in self- ike me to wear. It wouldn't have) done on any dress I could afford, it! . : would have looked out of place.” |Making a Hit “But I must get up, Gertrude,” re-| plied Mra. Jarr, (To Be Continued.) troublese—some of them real ones—but what would become of them it ii the American market were to lose pationce with their ungrateful H ways and the names of Poiret, Callot, Paquin and the rest should cease to charm American dollars out of American pockets? aches. By Alma Woodward Copyright, 1018, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Erening World), As a Holiday Spirit. righted Nowadays, a real knight is a man who thoughtfully goes about carry- ing 4 lot of pins on the under side of his coat-lapel, for the rescue of damsels 4 Spooner, tn a ‘Let's be friendly ‘and I cannot tell’ conciliatory tons lying speech: “I'd like to i" on a ‘iat 1X | in distress, you how much I thank you for fixin, MID the jingle of Kriss Kringle’s| know how much of this goes to char- 4] Te eramanee | e, Temes, be tae Bh the morning wrapper for me, But! AY alelghbelis and the gay laush-| Cofiocted itthia way at ality ie ting. He ‘+ tat ‘Mire. Sudridge-Smith ese! ‘ collected im this way at tioliday tme Dollars and Sense « ww ByH.J. Barrett ‘Tell It to the Kaiser," sang out} where, oh where, 1s tho sweet, old-fashioned girl who couldn't be| tent et ae ee a iether | ter of Joyous children we have} and I'l retire for life. “Anyhow, cbae- 4 an "Let's change the subject," Spooner |kiased?” Just where she always was, Dearie; in the magasines and the| seq i¢? For if she sees it she will| With Us every year, at holiday tlme,| Hy Negins st homes | T has been well said that scientific | the canvasser’s ring the latter handed | went on. “Has anybody ‘here seen i ; e |the Cheer-Queerer, There 18 no} ¢, yaar children bubaie 4 | ij mid-Victorian novels, think I've taken such good care of it ver and jabber constantly at table management in industrial plants| er 4 pail of the product, accom-| that new show, ‘Lovely Badie'?" leaven in his bread. His vision is means that instead of buying an panying this act with a suitable in-| ‘you mean ‘Sadie Love,’ said Miss that she may give me something| about Santy and what he's going to bring; when their eyes fairly crackle with wonderful anticipation, bid them think of the poor little unfortunates who won't get any toys—won't even have enough to eat—whose fathers and mothers are either dead or in hos Pitals and— Just about this muol will succeed in quenching the deltri- ous spark in their hearts. When they are cowed and silent suggest that, in- stead of toys, they ask Santy for nice warm merino shirts and cashmere stockings and other. wanton luxuries. Fifth—Finally, come down to breakfast on Christmas morning in a reminis- cent mood, When the little tots jump into your arms and squeal delightedly about their wonderful gifts, resurrect relations who baven't been on earth for fifteen years or more—in this wise: “Christmas! How old Grandma H. used to love Christmas. Yes, the last one she spent on earth, the dear old lady was paralyzed, almost blind and totaly deaf, but she was just as troductory sentence previously mem- orized. As he extended the pail with his left hand, he tore off the parch- ment covering with his right, This made an instant impresston, To see a brand new pail of the prod- uct apparently sacrificed for the sake of demonstrating {ts merits to the| prospect was distinctly flattering. As} @ matter of fact, the sacrifice was merely apparent. The pail was im- mediately re-covered in the wagon and used again further down the street, Primm, smiling at the bookkeeper. “Bo she calls him pet names, eh?” said Bobbie in a low tone. Miss Primm turned on him like a tigress. “I'll have you know I call no one pet names,” she snapped, “You needn't make me the butt of your cheap jokes, If you do, I'll see that you lose your job.” “In which case,” eaid Popple, with a sudden bright thought, "the cheap jokes would be rather costly.” “Aha! Give him an apple, Miss Tillie!" sang out Bobbie. To make certain that the pros-| Miss Primm arose and faced them all, pect'’s acceptance of the pail would/"I warn you,” she said, “that If you insure an opportunity for the deliv-|don't stop unloading those old, inane ery of the canvass, the demonstrator | jokes around here I'll ask Mr Bnooks instantly produced from his pocket a|to have my desk removed out of this coupon and pencil. The coupon he|room, If there is anything that is held In his left hand, the og 4 in his absolutely reprehensible to me it is right, prevented the woman's |an old, idiotic, alleged wittloism.” h returning the pail and left her no She dropped in her chair and the f from one canvassing job to an- | alternative save to place it upon the|door flew open, In came the boss, q jm such quantities in our great|foor and escape or to listen to the| As he drew off his gloves he greeted canvass. everybody with a cheery good morn- intercepted by @ screen of billous ‘wouldn't let her see it, ma'am," | Steen. The pall he throws is labelled @dvised the crafty Gertrude, “ghe | "Common Sense.” But who wants would think, if It was @s good as new,|Co™mon sense at Christmas time? you either hadn't worn it, to show Nobody! 5 First—During the week preceding your appreciation; or she might say to! Ghristmas, when you walk upon the herself: ‘L gave her @ nice gift last) street with your wife, and she, in en- Christmas which she still has, so this | thusiastic glee, tries to drag you to- Christmas I will only send her aj) ward the pretty shop windows, tell Christmas card.’” her that you have never included ‘win- ‘Mrs. Jarr, nodded and Gertrude dow-gazing in your ist of outdoor went on, “And you mustn't get up, sports. You must take @ good rest, I've given| Second—In golng over the lst ot Mr, Jarr and the children their breax-| people to whom your family nas to fi Mr, Jane's reading the morning! give, caution your wife that it 1s the paper. Shall I go in the dining room|spirit rather than the value that ‘and tell him you want itt” counts, Emphasize the fact that “Oh, no, Gertrude!” said Mrs. Jarr|Christmas giving has a tendency to hastily, “let Mr, Jarr have his paper. |become a tit-for-tat proceeding, That He likes to read it at breakfast in comfort.” w He liked to read in comfort at breakfast, it is true, but except in| What can I get her that doesn't cost much nicer this Christmas!" 5 employee's time in bulk, the employer p the role r wurchases the employee's time accord- {ng to detailed specifications. Every motion made by the worker during his working hours follows a rigid sched- ule previously determined. The re- wut is that his productive power is tly increased to the benefit of Both empioyer und employes, Scientific management as applied to is about twenty years old. Of late years it has been applied to ip with good results. ‘Phe first problem was the selection 3 ef sound materia!. This was obtained ‘ through searching the local Y. M. C. A‘e and employment agencies of the lass with a view to avolding etic specimens of broken- sbabby gentility which drift The successful lover is one who is sufficiently skilful to gr he is playing, the opportunity, and the girl, all at the same time, ‘The difterence between the old-fashioned novel and the novel of today {s merely that the former told of their quarrels and vicissitudes BEFORL they were married and ended with the wedding; while the latter tells o their quarrels and vicissitudes AFTER they are married, and ends with thelr second weddings, Christmas Theatricals: The attempt to stand under the misletoe and look unconscious before he has kissed you, and astonished afterward, No, Algie, if she is like mont girls, she won't value your gift according to the price you paid for 1t—lut atcording to the price she thinks you could have AFFORDED to pay for it, alast i ¥ q Nothing will make a woman work #o bard to cure her husband's first winter cold a8 the thought that he may get really tl and have to have a trained nurse. elles | ¢ a cahee. Be. Was Bayer | more, than eee you are approached Uncle Charitel Rementae ae a 6 lo 60. ma im, moth Nea ies ayeidentis coretaliy cash ed in Saekevite pat Froroumely intere 1 suten, folks!" he said. “Last Just before Christmas, and not only) on, stiset peruse, aubaay entrances, [ad ae he whispered on his de \- . aa loose in| viewed, The campaign proved to be| night I got off a joke that I thought Philosophy js the only kind of “swootening” with which to make iife|on Christmas itself, is there Ma +4 office bull mae fe Wee ap for bo aoe ue & shocking for me ne an unqualified success. .., Scientific! was pretty funny. I wos in a restau- and will to men on earth, So/ small change, name of holiday | Christmas. yea, ie vs ‘y : ‘answering management scored ‘riumph, rant end'e wailer brought mo two|Dalatable, * ml aad on all kind heartal ‘teot out your Mttle oopy-/deed @ merry, merry i tone eee AORN Nora Nao MMA . ene 7 i COIS irae