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ESTABLIGHED BY JOSHPH PULITZER. Pudlishes Datly Except Sunéay by the Pross Publishing Compaay, Now 6s bad | Park Row, New York. President, ¢2 Park Row, RALPH Z J, ANGUS SHAW, Treasur: Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, J: rk Ent at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clasa Matter. @udscription Rater to The Evening|For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries tn the International _ | - and Canada. Postal Union, . + $3.60/One Year. .40|One Month... BELSHAZZAR’S FEAST. OLITICAL Wanquets in the United States have usually resulted in fatalities. On the evening of Oct. 29, 1884, when Mr. Blaine was running for President against Grover Cleveland, there was a banquet at Delmoni day. The World printed a striking cartoon on the next morning por traying it as “The Royal Feast of Belshazzar Blaine and the Money Kings.” The malefactors of great weaith wero splendidly represented, just as they wore at Judge Gary’s private refection the other evening, | where Mr. Roosevelt for the moment occupied the place of Mr. Blaine.} Mr. Cleveland was elected. Daniel Webster owed much of his political misfortune to tho} inners he attended. We do not mean to discourage the habit of| dining out in good company, or from expensive china, but history haa! a habit of repeating itself, of which statesmen and even men of action! ought not to be unmindful. The American voter is a curious contraption. He adinires the) energy. which produces money. He often votes for conditions that lead to industrial oppression and then spends much time and energy in breaking down the thing he has created. ciates who fed the Colonel last week believe the time has come for a repetition of the usual mistake on the part of the American voter. There is no harm whatever in making money by ingenuity or iligence, but there is a great objection to making money through privilege. There is a great objection to turning government into an appendage of a dollar factory. This is what Judge Gary and his asso- ciatés want. Ts it what the people of the United States want? We thiak not! After all, why wean the New Year when but three hours old” THE HORSE AS FOOD. ROPER excitement attends the announcement on the part of the Board of Health that henceforth the horse may be legally | consumed in New York. { than a generation ago a very well-known Brook-| Something les Thr Provision house was prosecuted becuuee it was devected using horse- flesh in sausage meat. Now the horse takes his place on the bill of fare, where he may or may not be welcome. The use of horseflesh in Europe grew out of economic conditions that hitherto have not existed in the United States. This has been a land of beef, pork and fowl. Moreover, there is much sentiment involved in the new suggestion. | How could any man who ever owned a horse and loved the animal, as most horse owners do, cat him? It will require a greater pinch of dhunger than has prevailed yet to produce a popular demand for the new comestible, although, sanitarily and gastronomiecally speaking, the meat is all right and of good flavor. | ——_—__—_—_- The esteemed Times allows that quite often business is * better under Republican than Democratic administrations; usu- ally, we guess, because the Republican administration arranged a cataclysm for the Democrats to sit on, ——_——-+-— CAPT. VON PAPEN’S FAREWELL. APT. VON PAPEN bids us all a good-natured farewell. timate who are “poisoned by hatred.” We do not think that anybody in the United States has any hatred whatever for the German people, or any individual German. s, attended by the plutocrats of that Judge Gary and his asso-! ! | life, that ' | V ON GROWING OLDER, by HAVE a theory that one ought to grow older in a tranquil and appropriate way, that one ought to be contented with one's time of amusements and pursuits ought to alter naturally and easily He in-| and not be regretfully abandoned. that he feels kindly toward everybody except those} Ono ought not to be dragged protest- ‘ing from the scene of youth, catch- {desperately at every doorway and | balustrade; one should walk off smil- ing, It 4s easier sald that done, ‘Where has been no evidence of any activities against Germans except! 1* 1# not a pleasant moment when a that on the part of the officers of the law toward proven acts of hos-| tility. The hyphenated howlers have been allowed to say what they | man recognizes that he is out of place in a football field, that he not stoop with the old agility to pick up thought in the open and to indulge in practices that under same cir-| 4 **imming stroke to cover point, that cumstances would have produced riots and bloodshed. ‘ he average American cannot yet believe it is the trae Germany whieh has become a monster going about seeking whom it may devour. Hits From Sharp Wits If there is one automobile for every fast tn bed once in a while, forty-four people, a man hi ly, Angeles Times. forty of ‘em dodge when he takes . four of his friends out riding. ; Many a proud family se daa) | citrous-bearing varle * e nalf every man who was “a little odd” | some people hate to part with money © bad that they have things charged endugh men ut liberty to enforce the | *° De i law.—Pittsburgh Sun. instead of paying cash, wipe e The weather is the only thing that Don't expect to find much true)can change quicker than a woman's religion where you hear a great deal! mind,-—Baltimore Sun of arguing about it. . . . a6 Los ee is of the . | The average man who boasts his ery morning usually con- it with merely lying about Jelphia Inquirer, Caer yar) Une trouble with th that he thinks you ou the living. which the we eee otal Most of us make the mistake of/ Women don’t object thinking our cold Is bad as the other |ioned things if they are fellow's.--Toledo Blade. | eee, Pe ss -* 0 old-fash- 1 style, ! But for Old Porce of Habit nothing men is to have] would be to eat break- | resolution ‘The ideal of some meney enough to be abl Toledo Hlad i To the Editor of The Hrening Wor! in a recent editorial I read the; question. “What is America Pho} “desire of having a distinctive name) )¥ for our part of the western heml- sphere is very natural, and possibly | other good remedy to keep trong from the foason We have not got one is! sttcking? This that no concentrated effort has been, housekeepers: sages put forth in that direction. You! Mrs, D,, Westchester, N, Y, ask, “Couldn't we invent a single’ term that would be handy, correct! and exclusive, without ignoring neighbor: Undoubtedly, with fo the Lait of The Droving Word Will some wise housewife tell m+ t kind of ofl Is used in starch to irons from sticking; or any Both Are Incorrect, To the Editor of The Txewtng World: Kindly tell me which is the proper native bent for invenativenes: pression: “Betwee: ou and 1," wu could find just such a name.’ The! “Hetweon I and COA. edaptation through legislation | either ts correct. The expression such a name should be acc lerated | should be “Between you and me.” by pride in our Nation and its his- -, *, Lory. Asa first contribution of names| —APvIY tw Your Congre 1 would suggest “Unistania” for our To the Editor of The Wrening Word territory and the appellation of “Unt-| Where can I apply for entrance to atentian” for its citizens. What do| West Point or Annapolis and for in- others suggest? WM. T. SCHORN. | formation on the subject? DB, mem dancing is rather too heating to be | decorous, that he cannot walk all day | without undue somnolence after din- ner, or rush off after a heavy meal without indigestion, These are sad moments which we all of us reach, but | which are better laughed over than tretted over. What then, if any, are the gains ithat make up for the lack of youth. fu) prowess? They are, I can con- tentedly say, many and great, In the | first place, there 1s the loss of a qual- | ity which Is productive of an extraor- ‘dinary amount of pain among the | young, the quality of self-consclous- ness. How often ix one’s peace of mind ruined by gaucherte, by shy- | by the painful consciousness of ne ‘having nothing to say and the still | more painful consciousness of having said the wrong thing im the wrong privilege of advancing years is the decreasing tyranny of convention, As a young man you wish (o do the right thing, to know the right people, to play ‘the right | game. | Manat growing older, you discover \that people trouble their heads very little about what one does; that “the er than keeping good| right people” are often the most bore- {some and the most conventional, and |that the only games worth playing jure the games which one enjoys, | Of course one haa plenty of dis- agreeable duties to perform in any cuse, but with the perception which \comes with maturity you discover \that to adopt the principle of doing |disagreeable things which are sup- posed to be amusing and agreeable is to misunderstand the whole situa~ ; ton, ‘And at this period of life you re- | fuse to stay at a tiresome house, de- ‘cline invitations to boresome public may Interest other| dinners and dances, and never play |games if you can help, because you have found by experience that they | do not entertain you, | ‘Then, too—the greatest gain of all— there comes a sort of patience, In ‘youth mistakes seemed irreparable, | calamities Intolerable, ambitions re- alizablo, disappointments unbearable. | Every anxiety hung like a dark, im- penetrable cloud, a disappointment | poisoned the springs of life. | But with age T have learned that mistakes can often be set right, that anxieties fade, that calamities have sometimes & compensating joy, that ‘an ambition realiged is not always pleasurable, that a disappointment ts Wit, Wisdom, Philosophy By Famous Authors Arthur Christopher Benson. often of itself a rich incentive to greater effort One learns to look over troubles inst of looking into them; one learns that hope is mi: able than grief, and into the gap the make more of unconquer- so there flows ainty that can isadvontures, of un- promising people, of painful’ expert. ences than one had ever hoped, It may not be—nay, it 8 not—so eager, so full-blooded a spirit, but it is a serener, a more interesting, a happler outlook. Disraeli once said that the most evil one had to endure is the antici- pation of the calamities that do not happen, And I am sure the thing to’ aim at ts to I as possible in By Sophie The One Christmas Eve. DNCE upon a time there was aman, Like all other hu- mans, he sought happiness. When he was a little boy he looked forward to Christ- mas Eve as the event of the year— the happiest to him, Oh, the joy of hanging up his stock- ings and trying to keep awake to| hear old St, Nicholas come down the chimney, and, when at last the sand man came around and he closed his droopy eyelids, to open them again on Christmas Day—the one day In the year that gladdens all boys! There was the bright red sled that he had dreamed about, and the top, and the Kite, and all the rest of the things the possession of which was the acme of all joy to him, And how grateful he felt toward the parents who made ings possible! 1 thought the boy, “this is th greatest happiness in all the After he grew up, however, and suc ceeded in his work, he uld buy prac- tically all the material things he wanted, and Christmas meant to him & period of giving gifts to his family and friends. During this time he had been so busy making good in his ca- reer that he had not much time to think about what real happiness meant, aside from success in work, The bright spot along these Yines was the bachelor dinner “when good fel- lows get togeth On such occasions, in their merry making, some would tell about what fools thelr friends had made of them- ives during the year, in deserting the crowd” for just one—the ONLY one, Others would tell about the latest divorce scandal, breach of prom- ise suit, alienation proceedings, é&c., and, after all was said and done, those present would congratulate themselves that they had escaped, pat each other on the back and sing the well known refrain “I'm glad I'm free! No wedding Copyright, 1915, br t | HEN Mr, Jarr reached home ho itors, or at least a visitor, within, The day was a mild winter one, and 3 Jarr was not watching for him from the window. Master Willie Jarr opened the door for him and Master Willie's face and hands were clean and fair to see, Mrs. Jarr greeted him in @ cheerful, bustling manner with her second best house dress on. “Guess who's here?" was her first question, Mr. Jarr could not guess, but he the day and fo rth du scented a cigar, It was not the sceat | the day and for the diy.” "scented a cigar. It was aot the scent Fables of Everyday Folks Irene Loeb Covyright, 1915, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). /“Ah, this is happiness! No cares, no one to worry about but myself, no one to account to i be responsible for, Then Christmas Day would come. The same freedom was there, the same sun was shining, the same comrades were met downtown; perhaps a dinner, alone, and then home again, The next dady—business. So it went on for some years and his lonely reflections by the fireside were not so happy. He did not know-why. He began to wonder and question whether “this is the life.” And, strange to say, during this “question- ing” period along came a charning creatuN’—a woman who saw some- thing in the man that the little love- god pointed out to her. He saw the same in her, Bachelor friends and freedom meant nothing after that. It never does. When Yuletide came he looked for- ward to THEIR first Christmas Eve. It was the happiest he had ever known, because he was sharing it with another, his other half. “Ah,” mused ‘the man, “life can hold nothing better than this—the love of iny life.” He thought his cup was full and that there was no other Christmas Eve like it. Christmas Day loomed more joyous than any othe Yet again Chrisimas Eve cam time there was ANOTHER ation, That consideration ture—the most beautiful one he had ever It was the living picture of his wife with their little one in her arms, and all was centred on this child that had come Into the world to dwell with them, to be cared for child in which all hope and ambition was centred, the same old miracle though ever new, This time the man fully realized that, after all, this was the greatest of ALL joys~the responsibility and love of one’s own wee one. And on this Christmas Eve he looked back on himself, the boy with the top, the youth with his hope for success, the bachelor with his freedom, the lover with his love, He realized at last that the measure of happiness is only bells for me!" They would all depart, full of good cheer and wine, and re- turn to the silent bachelor quarters to think it over—alone, This man would indulge ip the refleotive soliloquy: COMPLETE with the little child that leads them all Moral; No greater happiness hath man than this-—to know the love of a clinging child The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell i ne Press Publishing Co, sensed that there were vis-/ was not Jack Silver, their well-to-do jin a little project that is as sound as the | By Helen Copyright, 1915, ty the Prom | queen, | ~ | try to catch him. | Dusiness partner and then walk cheer! | or @ dimple in her chin. In the divine symphony of love to 6 P. M,, you needn't bother to inv | His Majesty's work. | around the house, A widower {s like your last year’s HAVE sent out al! my gitts!* exclaimed a housewife, “and now I have several days left in which to attend to all the things ‘ that require looking after in the home | | to haye everything in readiness for the holiday season.” “But that je foolish,” companion, ‘The recipients of your! gifts will have no Christmas sur- prises and I consider this the nicest part of Christmas giving, so I am | sending out my gifts #0 they will be delivered om Christmas Day. I al- ways put on placards, ‘Deliver on Christmas Pav.’ "That secms hard om the oapress and mail service. Both do their very best to give satisfaction to their patrons, but isn't it people like you who cripple this service? It is impos- sible in the holiday rush to pay heed to any such instructions, and both services Just do the best they can, but you know as well as I that there are hundreds of disappointed people at Christmas time. A_ better way | would be to send out the gifts real early and apply one of the labels which read: “"Do not open until Christmas.’ “This will be a notification that the package contains « Christmas gift, end itis hardly probable that the re- ciptent will open the package before the specified time, I find this an ex- jcellent plan, 1 do not have to rush \to get my gifts to the office and I am | always in fide condition to enjoy the holiday season.” Wise words that may well be heeded by those sending out gifts, especially lif they are to go by parcel post, This service probably does the bulk of the replied her) ‘The New York Ev World), of a very good cigar, so he knew it bachelor friend. “It's Mr. Berry, Mr. Berry of Brook- Reflections of A Bachelor Gir] Publishing | A DAM was the first man to “misunderstand” a woman. Rowland Go, (The New York Brening World). When # man begins telling a girl about his castles in Spain, | somehow he always ewbtly paints her into the foreground as the reigning A man fs like a park squirrel; if you fling your favors or your charms |at his head he will never come up and eat out of your hand. A confirmed bachelor ts so sure of his perfect safety that he fs willing to amuse every pretty girl he meets by handing her a rope and letting her A man will spend months investigating the character of a possible fully up to the altar and take a life partner on a “non-breakable” contract merely because she has fluffy hair your soul sings an aria, while your heart plays a waits and your pulse beats to ragtime, | _If you can find a husband who is wrapped up in his work from 8 A, M, estigate his morals. Satan wouldn't waste his talents trying to tempt a man with so little time and energy for ‘ | The best judge of wine or of women is the man who has judgment | enough to avbid them during business hours, Sending the Christmas Gift Copyright, 1915, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Christmas gift transportation and ts taxed to its limit, but a little individ- ual consideration will help, in attaching the “Don't open” ad~ monition the printed pasters should be used if the pareel y mati, It the request is written the package is Subject to first class rates—2 cents for each ounce or fraction, A five-word written greeting la per- mitted inside & package, but any writing beyond this places the article under the head of first class mail. The Postal clerks are doing their best, but remember they are but human, Do not ply them w! que: tions, and have your parcel ready for the mail when you bring It in. This means you should have the package securely Wrapped and ted with slrolig cord, ‘The postal clerk ¢annot accepts’ parcel unless these instructions are carried out and much of the clerk's time and patience Is expended by these refusals. Another postal ad- mouttion read “Have addresses plainly written.” This {s importany as each year there are numberless complaints that gifts have not been delivered and the cause is traced to illegible addresses, Then, too, your own name and a@+ dress should be plainly stated on the parcel. The words “Parcel Post” uld be written or printed on the package, and you will facilitate the mailing by declaring the contents on the tag, which must be affixed to the package. Before mailing your gift make sure there is a parcel post delivery where you are sending the gift, These seem trifling matters to the individual, but they mean much to the systematic and satisfactory workings of the postal system, lyn, mamma's friend, you remem- ber?" added Mrs, Jarr, | Mr. Jarr remembored. Mr, Borry of Brooklyn was indeed Mrs. Jarr's| mother’s friend. He was the family undertaker and had buried two bus- bands for Mrs, Jarr’s mother, wel The Rode te « Colony of Cele, leaving that good lady a moderate} WB. vodien and tne Godlee! cf al competence. | physical life are composed of In the parior Mr. Berry received | or lap ape la oterrrdiyyy Mr. Jarr with that geniality that only | Colony of cells, each cell having its au undertaker off duty SRR N ORI 00 52 Kant! SOOT “Hello, E said Mr, Berry, | live. “You're looking fine, Have a cigar! | I thought I'd drop in and see you this evening.” Mr, Jarr could not refrain from| wondering to what he was indebted for the honor of the call, But Mr, Berry soon made It clear, express, tiniest things in nature; being, of | course, microscopic and about 1-3,500 of an inch in size, One can scarcely imagine anything #0 tiny, and these) cells aro made of protoplasm, which is like the white of an ess. “Yes,” Bones, muscles, blood, nerves and Yes," he sald, “I thought I'd drop | body tissue—all aro made of just such Intosee you. I'm an old friend of the | cella, and they increase thelr numbers family, you I "i \by dividing themselves. WheR ce family, you know, and I'm interested] Pyasme too old to divide any Wise. Aue aa Ap atitne Ge hey grow into the 4 Christmas, I thought you might want| In all plants the sap Is carried to to make the wife a little present in the shape of sdéme interest bearing stock in a sure and sound | ment.” “wi | Berry lw, passing on from cell to cell. A muscle cell builds muscle; a tissue invest-|cell tissue. Some cells make blood; ‘others carry \t where it is needed, ‘ ‘and others still—the nerye cells—help at the proposition, Mr. | transinit sensations, Mr, Jarr inquired in his best} All of this is Il Street underwriter's manner, hl pei ; 2 * a“ sep something over a decade ago, when A Mausoleum company,” replied a famous German doctor named Vir- most wonderful, Things You Should Know though we knew nothing of it until! son for fancy, aad accuracy for spec- ulation, Dr, Virchow s\ated that he believed that all disturbances of health were due to some disturbance of the in- dividual cells of some particular organ. “ If you should hurt your arm or your foot it heals by new cells form, {| ‘These body cells are among the! ing on the injured place and taking tho place of the old ones. Ww protoplasm is a strange thing, made of four natural element oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and car- bon. These are called doad elements and no one of the four by itself gan be allve, but when they are all com- bined in the wonderful form called lasm, the combination Is alive. n our bodies die they séparate these four same elements again, » very lowest form of life we present is composed of only one cell, This animal ts called the amoeba, and It lives in water, slime and mad. If you should put a hit of the different parts of the plant by |mud or slime on a dish and look at it under a@ strong microscope, you would see a tiny moving mass’ that re- sembles transparent jelly, and it {would be alive. It would ‘move and grow, And again, if you should scrape the green mold off the outside of flower pot and cover it with water keeping \t always wet, in two or threa weeks you might see amoeba through @ mievescope. All bacteria growm Mr. Berry. “Several doctors of my| chow gave the wondering world the acquaintance are interested, and we | cellular theory which substituted rea- are all going to do our best to make | The Wabbling | the proposition a success. Everybody |has got to die, you know, E con- |tinued Mr, Berry cheerfully, | “More HE high cost of living has been T a slogan of distress, not only of |country, Not becauso a country lite | late, but as far back as the | people die in the cities than dio In the | is the healthier, mind you, for it isn't, | Prehistoric days when Joseph cor | 5 an wheat marke But simply because more people tive | 20nes Se ig ee Rd gg yore | in the city than In the country, So|samaria bought bread for its weight where more people live, Ed, more | in silver. people die. In the early part of the sixteenth Mr. Jerr was struck by the foree| century there was an era of such of this observation, “That's very low prices as these: One fat hen cost one penny. true,” he murmured, One cartload of wood coat seven re noet re | cents, he poet says, continued Mp | Ee cen of a tale ef “ortinary Berry, “‘The Ruling Passion 8) shoes ranged from six to elght cents, Strong in Death,’ Therefore, our)as did the payment for an ell of mausoleum project 1s @ dead sure! Woollen cloth. | winner, because it will be a city pro-| near 8 tees than position, The great majority of people | But, remember, the very best day | dwell in small apartments in fe, | laborers recelved very few pennies oe Sy Ae "Der week, Some poor workers got Therefore, in our ¢ mpartment mau pat a penny,a day, soleum, they shall so dwell when) Algo that the prices doubled with- called to the great beyond," in the next century and that wages | The conversation was not particu ‘larly appealing to Mr. Jarr, He de | sired a change in the subject. Then | he remembered an oxpertence his wife a penny o hired Mr, Berry's favorite horse Clar. Mr, Jarr interjected, A e hoterts [and his wife's mother had bad upon prompted by ine memory, “what's be & memorable occasion when they “Clarence?” repeated Mr. Berry , lke the amoeba, by dividing taem- selves in two, Cost of Living Increased scarcely at all ere is a queer scale of vogue in country etores in thie sais try just.a century ago: It, $16 per bushel, lars, not sixteen cents.) Tea, $1 a pound, Veal, 4 conts a pound. Eggs, 6 to 8 cents a dozen, price 10 cents a dozen.) Best calico, 75 cents : cheapest calico, 27 1-2 cents per yard, Chickens (top price), 18 cents each, (Each chicken, not each pound) Geese, 25 to 37 1.2 cents aplece, Wool, 12 1-2 cents a pound, Muslin, 60 cents per yard, Beef, 4 3 cents). Brandy, whiskey or rum, 25 cents a gallon. Candles (top price), 87 1-2 cents « pound, Could anything wabble more ec centrically between high and. lo than the “cost of living” in this Ii (Sixteen def (Top But the recital must be matter for another day, frock; he may have lost a lot of his dash and “freshness,” but he is awfully nice and comfortable to have agente 4 pound (sometimes ‘ ancients:

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