The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1915, Page 12

1 / | SS BSTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITSER. Podlished Daily Except Suptay, by the Prose Publishing Company, Nos, $3 to RALPH PULITZDR, President, ¢1, Part, ANGUB SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSHPH PULITZER, 'Jr., Secretary, 6 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter. Rates to The Evening| For FPngland and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International nada. Postal Union, oy 2.60' One Year... . | .20\ One Month VOLUME 56.........cccceceeeccenesteecsseeses NOs 19,858 DOWN TO BEDROCK. HE long and short of it is that on a ehowdown of results the | Asquith Cabinet is bankrupt. No belligerent nation remains patient in the face of official blunders unless there are suc- cesses to set against them. In the eyes of the British public the ill- fated Dardanelles expedition which has used up 200,000 men to no purpose goes down black and discouraging on the wrong side of the, ledger. What is there to put on the other page? The great achievement ef the British navy in keeping the ene-, my’s ships off the seas is now accepted as a matter of course. Pre- paredness gete the credit, not the Onbinet. What Britons have asked of their war ministers is the creation of armies, well-equipped armies, victorious armies, Where are they? Again: To keep behind fighters in the field the full energy and eo-operation of workers at home tho leader must be a man who can grip the laborer with a force born of mutual understanding. Mr, As- quith has never been that type of leader. If the British nation begins to feel that only a Lloyd George can beat the needed iron into it, then that is another sign that sooner or later war grinds down to the toiling millions and stakes its all on their endurance. —— The Ford pilgrims are still proving that peace is just about as cohesive ae shrapnel. BEGINNING AGAIN? I MURDER by submarine to re-commence in the Mediterranean? The reported loss of eighty lives on the French steam ¢ Ville de la Ciotat, torpedoed and sunk without warning by an undersea craft, follows close upon the news of the sinking of the Jap- anese liner Yasaka Maru last week under similar circumstances. American Consuls at Mediterranean ports cable that in both instances the attack came from a submarine without warning and without any attempt on the part of the passenger vessels to resist or escape. One American is said to have been on board the Japanese steamer. If the facts are established, and the submarines prove to have been German or Austrian, American diplomacy will have to dig into its vocabulary for new terios to express amaze and indignation. Can the climax be fur off? fae ey New Yorkers are not to be sneezed at, decrees the Health Department, unless as an aside or in the handkerchief. ++ WHAT ABOUT THIS PORT? 6 EVER equalled in our history” is how the report of the N Commissioner of Navigation characterizes the year’s in- crease in American ship tonnage. “American shipping registered-for the foreign trade numbered June 30, 1915, 2,794 vessels of 1,871,543 gross tons, an increase during the year of 389 vesacls and 795,391 gross tons, This increase is three times as great as the increase ‘in registered tonnage during any previous year in our | Covyright, 1915, by the Presa Publishing Go, (The New York E WOMAN “Devoted Wife" The Eventhi@ World Daily The Negligent Husband By Sophie signing herset writes: history. According to the official forecast, at the rate at which the ship- yards are now working the output for the present year should reach 400,000 gross tons. American shi: pbuilders are showing some of tke it that made this nation’s merchant marine the foremost in the world during the first half of the | jast century. The immediate future will offer this country the biggest oppor- tunities for handling world freigh Does the port of New York intend ht that any nation has ever seen. to play its part? If so, what ia it doing to hasten the development of its port facilities? ‘The necessary millions have been voted. bickering over the plans? Hits From = The difference between a man and a horse is that when you drive a man to drink you can't stop him from it— Nashville Banner. eee Golf requires concentration—espe- clally ape you're listening to a golfer. phia daguirer, About the meanest sort of individual Is the one who crosses his loxs in a car and then looks. offended some one bumps into him, eer . It Gon't want to take the other tallow advice don’t tell him you have a cold.—Toledo Blade. ee 't expect to take a brace pA yeu. takes bracer.—Columbia State. it is in some cls good, ut also it induces worriment and —_—_——_— ‘The Direct Tax. ‘Wo the Mtitor of The Drening World: Your recent editorial on the impos}- ‘of the $20,000,000 direct tax proves honest independence of The Evo- World, A man's position, money or influence does not deter your paper from is would build OF a dozen new schools or employ a sufficient number of competent teach- ora. M.L. D, ite righteous course In vault ‘Twenty million dol- @ new court house Pet Lard in the Starch. "Be the Editor of The Evening World: In @ball I put into the starch to pre- ‘¥Yent the iron from sticking” I can may that as much lard as will cover your thumb nail in a pint of starch) ‘Will stop sticking and will not grease, ‘You can ascertain the true proportion of lard for ony kg si quantity by emperiment. Do not increase the pro- portion of lard to starch in direct ratio. MRS. W. H. R. “Explain the Difference.” ‘Bethe Editor of The Evening World: 4s @ problem that bas been Letters From the People answer to the question “What How many committees are dawdling and Sharp Wits. shoos us away from chances which it would be well to take. oe Some men say they remain single be- cause they cannot afford wives, and yet they own qutomobiles. If a fellow wants to hide himself so that he will not be noticed just let hm be the bridegroom at @ Ma con News. ere After a man has succeeded in grati~ fying a long felt desire to be his own boss he is likely to find that he has taken on @ burden of responsibility which mars the joy over his success. r-Albany Journal. . 8 One of the first things a baby learns his foot into his mouth, And a whole lot of oe, Sever break grow up.—Memphis Commercial Ap- peal. Puzzling quite a few people, and I would like readers to try to solve it: A party of ten men go into @ saloon. Four sit at one table, six sit at an- lother. Each man blows to a round of | drinks, hen figured up the total | comes to $2.60, A second party of ten n 60 Into a saloon, Five sit at one table, five sit at another, Each of |them’ blows for a round of drinks. ‘The total comes to $2.50. Readers, try and explain the difference in’ the amounts, F. 8, H, For the Protection of Horses, To the Editor of The Evening World: Nothing pleased me more than when I read about the effort to pass an ordinance for the proteotion of horses on slippery days, It is a dis- grace see the crueity among drivers. I came down in @ Broadway car recently and saw enough to make one's heart ache—horses being beaten and with overloaded wagons; men standing around watching the spec- tacle and saying nothing, Personally 1 always try to atop ft, even thou, they do swear at me. Cannot the DP. CA. help in this? DAISY W. A “I have been married twelve years and I have a good husband; that is to say he works steadily and tries to provide for his family, while I also work hard, having four children and @ large house and do all my own work, which I enjoy doing. And yet I am not happy, for one reason, I have a tender, loving and sympathetic na- ture and I am deprived of little at- tentions and acts of affection which almost every woman longa for. 1 am just as devoted to my husband now as I was the day I married him, but he has slowly but surely given up, one by one, those litle acts of kindness and appreciation that mean #0 much to a woman who really loves her husband. “I have told him how I miss those little attentions he used to show me. but he only gets cross and seems to feel that I should not expect them any more, and that he does enough by providing for the family, How can I make my husband realize his mistake and have more consideration for my happiness?” My dear little woman, how many of you there are! Such men as this husband only face the mistake when calamity knocks @t the door and takes the devoted oneaway, either by divorce or death. My solace and sentiments are with the woman who goes on slaving every day in the interest of her house- hold, without the soothing sympathy that her heart craves and her soul needa to keep her above the sordid- news of it all, Strange, men do not underatand that woman wants but little here below, but wants that litte attention! How easy it is to gratify itt Yet when it 1s withheld the misery and oftentimes the martyrdom that follows cannot be estimated, Oh, the sorrow that can be saved by a kindly litte show of interest, a emall, unex- |peoted gift, consideration and fore- thought—things that cost so little and mean go much to women the world over! Dgotistical and conceited is the husband who thinks because he pro- vides three meals a day, a few clothes and @ roof that he fe done with bis obligation. He forgets that he bas sworn to love and honor aa well as “provide.” Such a man should be made to understand in some un- mistakable way that & woman (eape- | clally if ehe be @ mother) gives in re- turn for euch provision a hundred- fold and be expected to be satisfied with the mere material com- forte that she might go out into the world and earn for herself with great deal leas trial and trouble and heartach I wish every man could be ostra- \olwed som bis fellows who neglects the truly Qevoted wife whom he has | | Irene Loeb. —— | ng World), a own “until death his name that men taken for h do them px I wish might be placarded, so might know him cruel, selfish creature band usually poses as a citizen of his community,” j cause he is a “good provider.” generally the kind who has the old idea that HE ig master of his house- hold, and must be “honored” as such wish that his men friends could see the silent tears that come from the wife who sits alone while he is settling the big problems of the day over @ dinner and cigars. ‘ad yet there is another beautiful one where the wits ernie to have him enjoy his men friends be- cause her little wishes have not been overlooked and the attentions due her have been paid with loving interest A neglectful husband might well read the foregoing letter with profit. He will also find a great deal between the lines that he might recognize on his own hearthstone. ‘The new year looms up. Why not very mn ; sound investment of the compartment turn over the new page in the direc- tion of the wife you have neglected? Why not? There is #0 much to be gained and nothing to lose, Copyright, 1915, | No, 9.—Gloves, LOVES have always mixed up with There's the five-or-eight- ounce variety, They look as big and soft as sofa pil- lows when you're sitting in an easy chair wi ing some other fellows | using them; but they feel quite dif- ferent when you stop one with the end of an unprotected nose, In the olden days they didn't hit people with gloves. When you had it in for another fellow you'd hunt him up. ‘Then you'd throw out your chest, 1x him with that steely glance and toms your glove on the ground. He'd pick it up, you'd both pull out | your cutlery and go to it, The fellow who won got his picture in the sport- ing papers as Sir Kid Slasher, two- handed sword champion, but the other boy usually hadmt any further interest in gloves. They say that even the old cave men wore gloves, but it's omy fair to |them to add that they: didh't do it with any idea of showing off, it was almply to keep their hands warm. It used to get the goat of an ancient Roman to see a dude parade down the street some warm afternoon with hig gloves unbuttoned and the wrists turned back, They thought there was something Wiens, with @ man who wore ‘em except in cold weather, and the same feeling exists to-day in va- rious sections of this broad country. ‘The old-time Persians, who seem to have been real high-speed boys in the way of clothas, used to show up on holidays daintily twirling a pair of fur mittens, Gloves have been pretty thoroughly written up. There's the here in the old-time novel who was alwaya pick- ing up one bie lady love had dropped been fighting. by the Pres Publiehing Magazine, Tuesda Preparing for a Short Run x22: By/J_H. Cassel — By Roy L. Copyright, 1915, by the Pi the undertaker, “ere I take my departure, let me again endeavor to interest you in this mausoleum project. There is nothing sure in life except that we must de- part from it. A mausoleum of some kind !s the common end of all, An association of physicians and mortu- ary directors are working enthusi- asucally night and day, hand in hand, to establish the success of the propo- sition to build mausoloums and to keep them filled, The seven per cent. accumulative, guaranteed preferred stock, with one share of common as a bonus, Is a gilt-edged investment.” He drew a packet of the stock from the breast pocket of his respectable frock coat and held it temptingly be- fore the eyes of Mr, and Mrs, Jarr, “IT wouldn't buy unlisted stock in the United States Mint," eaid Mr, Jarr, “I'm oured!". nnn | How Men’s Clothes Began | (the New York Prening World), by “accident,” and there wasn't any one handy with a club when he snatched it up, kissed it loudly and thrust it into his manly bosom. Then our friend Ulysses, the gentloman farmer, in the “Odyssey,” always wore gloves, It used to be part of a King’s job to be “different,” but it was pela! with so many pinheads about court always trying to copy new styles So some of tho old English Kings used to have diamonds and that sort of stuff sewed all over their gloves, Killing off any hope the boys. with the jitney incomes might have had of imitating them, The white kid glove is one of the greatest curses that modern civiliza- ton has brought to men. It takes a Ifetime, often longer, to learn to wear Mt gracefully, ‘The ‘average citizen, when lugged into society, knows his hands loom up Mke Zeppelins, And the things a white glove will do—get lost, split up the back, lose its but- tons! There used to be a cinch custom some hundreds of years ago. If you lost a sult in court yould hand ‘the other fellow @ glove as a sign you hoped to be able to pay. Pretty bard lines on professional bondamen and such, Then in the Orient after a piece of land was sold the soller woult hand over a glove and bind the bargain, After that there was no welching allowed, Ol4 Sir William Jobnson started the glove game here, He brought over a crew of glovemakers in 1760 and planted ‘em up in Fulton County, where they have been doing business ever since, One can't be quite sure, but it Ja likely that Lf Sir William bad known about the bright yellow gloves that were coming he might have left hig men back in Scotland where they belonged. The Jarr Family Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), ND now," said Mr, Berry, | FiDese md >) McCardell— “I shall not endeavor to reason with you further, nor try to persuade you against your prejudices,” said Mr. Berry, “But your pessimis‘ic views regarding what mature deliberation or the most cursory investigation would demonstrate was a sound investment, dc no credit to your perspicacity. You evidently have no cenfidence, Mr. Jarr. Remember that prosperity depends upon confidence.” “And @o do confidence games,” sald Mr. Jarr, “Not,” he added hastily, “that I should say that your projected mausoleum company is @ confidence game, but I haven't the money to spare,” “None of us have the money to spare, if we look at it that way,” re. plied the promoter-undertaker, ‘I haven't the money to spare to pur- chase a motor hearse, hence I am looking around to buy a sound and handsome team of horses for my hearse for adults, preferably dark dapple grays. Yet I desire a motor hearse, in them these days.” Mr. Jarr pricked up his ears at Mr, at the horse auction a few days be- fore, Rafferty had offered him a gener- purchaser for the handsome pair, Mr. Rerry, the undertaker, was endeavor- ing to sell him, Mr. Jarr, dead stock that he, Mr. Jarr, did not want. Why not sell the live stock to Mr. Berry that Mr. Berry did want? Affecting an alr of disinterested | carelessness, Mr, Jarr remarked, “If you're looking for a gentle and hand- some pair of dark gray dapple horses, young and sound, I know a party that has @ pair he will sell cheap.” Mr. Berry regarded him with a fishy eye, “As I am an old family | friend, I assume you would remit | your commission?" he asked, Mr. Jarr was exasperated to be de- tected in his first effort to make a commission. “Are you going to re mit your commission ff you sell me any of your old doctors’ and under- takers’ mausoleum stock?" he blurted, Mr. Berry felt the keenness of tho thrust. “Tl tell you wivat T'll do,” he said. your friend hag, and !f the price is right, I will give you stock In the mausoloum company for the cash your friend will tender you as your commiasion on the sale of the horses. I will do this,” he added sadly, “al- though I lose money by it” | But im thie he erred. He bad pro. @7 28) 1918 Why Men Lie To Their Wives By Helen Rowland —— Copyright, 1915, by the Brow Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HY do men Ile to their wives? On the answer to this simple query reste the whole matri+ monial problem and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the solution to the great and much exploited divorce question. Why will a man never offer the naked truth to the woman he joves with . out dressing tt up in a lot of frills? It ta folly to deny the accusation, Because it is a known and long ae« than to the man she loves, a man will lie to the woman he loves sooner than to anybody else on earth, It ts one of the proofs that he loves her, and ha love is never quite dead until he ceases trying to whitewash himself as@ begins telling her the brutal truth, But—WHY? This sounds like a simple proposition, but it is as eryptia end unfathomable a mystery as the ancient question of whether the hen ee the egg came first. It is the first white lie that casts the first dark doud over the honeymoon—the cloud that later bursts into the domestic storm which causes the matrimonial shipwreck. BARRA ARRAN 3 The Father of the First Lie? § O RNR UT—ta it fomintne SUSPICION that causes the first masculine lie, or is B it the masculine LIE that causes the first feminine suspicion? If you @hould take a worldwide ballot on that question every man on earth would answer it unconditionally in one way, and every woman on earth would answer it just as positively and unconditionally in the other way, And we would still be in darkness as to the truth! In a recent editorial in a morning newspaper a bachelor who happened to be atalied in a snowbound suburban train during the late blizzard te quoted as expressing his astonishment at hearing half a dozen married men discussing the problem of how to explain to their wives their unwonted late arrival when the train should get in. When the bachelor suggested that they “explain” by telling the simple TRUTH every one of the benedicts laughed a short, bitter, horrified laugh at the mere idea. No woman, they declared, would believe “the truth.” Is It @ fact that no woman belleves the truth—or is ft merely a maseu- Ine fallacy? Whatever the answer, it certainly seems never to occur to the average man to tell a woman the truth so long as he can think of anything more convincing or interesting to tell her. The only way for a woman to got the truth out of a man ts to put him under hypnotic influence and make him tell it while he ts unconscious—and then, of course, she wouldn't believe him, A woman always suspects that a man ta lying to her long before ahe catches him, and he always suspects that she suspects him lone before he begins lying to her. ener 5 On the List of Incurables. § RAs HERE is no solution to the problem—and apparently no CURB for the malady. The only two possible remedies have been tried and found | wanting, There have been sensible women who have gone into mar- riage DETERMINED to place blind faith in their husbands, believing thet faith begets faithfulness—only to awaken too late to the knowledge that their husbands were lying to them quite as casually and habitually as othes women's husbands, There have been fdenlistic men who have gone into matrimony deterS mined to be “on the square” with their wives and to tell them the truth at any cost—only to discover that they were living under just as deep and eternal suspicion as the faithless husbands around them. In one case the egg, or the lie, came first—in the other the hen, or the suspicion, A man’s faith in the policy of gever-telling-the-truth-to-a-woman is 60 firmly rooted that even though she might catch him with in his arms he would declare that tt was only her “imagination” and there wan “nobody there.” thet A woman's faith in the policy of never believing a man te so deeply tm- her planted, so firmly fixed, that she won't even believe him when that he is sick and tired of her, It 1s useless to argue about it and hopeloss to try to remedy be cured and MUST be endured, The hen will go right on taying the and the egg in turn will become a hen, and nobody can tell you first. ‘Why do men le to their wives? Oh, just--for instance! Dollars and Sense : By H. J. Barrett. 667 JHE first step in the installa- tion of a practical filing sys- tem is to adopt a system of symbols, either alphabetical or nu- merical, for the classification and in- dexing of the data filed," said a fling expert recently, “The Commission on Economy and Efficiency appointed by Président Wilson indorses the Dewey Decimal System in this conection, For pur- poses of illustration they have taken @ telephone company. 000 General 100 Executive 200 Finance and Accounts 300 Construction 400 Equipment 600 Operation 600 Rates “Additional digits permit of the sub- division of each of these classes. Take *300—Construction’ for example: Construction Real estate Pole lines Cireuits, loops, phantoms, Conduits Poles, wires, &o. Cables 370 Private lines, wire, &c. “A rival of the Dewey System, and one which it seems to me possesses all its advantages with of disadvantages, is what 1s called ibe Mnemonic (Syatem. The System is identical in principle with the Dewey System, id Binge the latter system the tele phone companies’ main be symbolized as followst wo" © Construction EB Equipment F Finance and Accounts General Operation Rates Executive “This leaves seventeen letters for future use. ‘C, Construction,’ would be subdivided as follows: Circuits, Loops, Phantoms, CK Cables sos * CL Pole Lines CN Conduits CP Poles, Wires, &c. CR Real Estate CV Private Lines, Wire, &c. “Tho remaining possible combina- tions under Construction—CA, GB, &c., can be utilized later if n a Let us take CR, Real Estate, a ri4 division under Construction.” Under sidered necessary to cover would ap- Pear as, follows: "RC Construction of New Butldin: CRM Maintenance of Real Estate” CRP Purchase of Property and so on. Twenty possible combin- ations remained unused Everybody is dying to ride Rerry’s remark, Mr, Jarr remembered [te pair of dapple grays Rafferty, tho contractor, had bought on speculation ous commission if he introduced a “It I Wke the team of dapple grays) |, A Group of Interesting “Firsts,” HE first match was invented; ‘ho first mowing machine was ninety-nine years ago by De- belay Seventy-one years ago by rosne, a Frenchman, jlama and Ketcham. Nearly 10,000 But} patented improvements have since matches were not used to any extent! been made on that early design, tow outside of France until 1827, when an|commuters passed their home hours English druggist named Walker im-|up to seventy-one years ego ie m proved on Derosne's idea. The safety | mystery. Perhaps there were no match was born in Sweden in 1855. | muters. Certainly there were Patent leathor was invented lawn mowers, Newark, N. J., seventy-one years! The first club (in the sense we now ago by Seth Boyden, a blacksmith, | use the term) was launched in Hinge who had a turn for mechanical dis-|land 246 years ago, It was the There is a statue In his | Civil Club. ‘The club was founded Sicuae: this way: A group of London men- The first white child born in New| about-town used to meet in a ta Fngland saw the light 295 years ago|nearly every evening, They banded | while the Mayflower lay at anchor in| together and moved from the Cape Cod Bay and before the Piigrims! to a house of thelr own, which touched at Plymouth Rock, The child called a clubhouse, ‘The first was a boy, saddled with the name|tant club in Amorica, the Wister of Peregrine White, in memory of his|hiladelphia, was founded in arents' peregrinations across the| The first distinctive club for Rintry Atlantic, He died in 1704 in|in America was Sorosis, foundea New York in 1868. his eighty-fourt h year, | How Italy Hates Austria. RIA and Italy are at each/at the theatre there, had a other's throats. And not for the | thrown her, tled with a ribbon tm first time, Italy haa always| {tian colors, She immediately | | the ribbon, which ereated | hated Austria, as the ill-treated small | enthusiasin amongst the audience boy hates the school bully. Here Isa) | vAfter tho performance | story, the San Francisco News | “allied to the police office, Reese Ook 6, 1866, when Austria still | 'ePrimanded for this act of \ruled Northern Italy, which gives an| She excused herself by odd sidelight on this hate: “As a proof of Austrian unpopular- ity in Venetia, it is related that a Venice, while dancing | in coveries, lowed the universal eustom on occasions; but the authorities not accept this excuse; and told that another time she should not ithe bouquet, but tread It underfoot, motion stock that cost him nothing,, "The following evening | anemer | and thus he would get cash from Mr, | bouquet was thrown, and Jarr, and perhaps get the horses for|in compliance with her inetru | more promotion stock from Mr, Jarr's trod it under foot, again amidat 4 friend. j{ic applause, ‘The ribbon. roung | So the two went to seek Rafferty, | bousuct was, however, this t! = the contractor, at his uptown office—|red, green and white, But Gus's popular cate. yellow—the colors of sie ‘ _—e | ballet dancer that kissing the bouquet she had only ¢al- a cepted fact that, while a woman will lie to anybody else on earth sooner ~ the Mnemonic System the items eom- | } | |