The evening world. Newspaper, January 6, 1916, Page 14

The Eve Che Ch World. mgTABLIeNED BY JokwPr PULITZMR. Bxrcept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Now. 63 to 43 Park Row, Now York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 6% Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Troasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clans Matter. Budserip ening |For England and the Continent tia tor the United States "| All Countrien in the Interneslonal Postal Unton. oss $3.60/One Year....+ + .80/One Month. . " puvtuane Dany ‘World for tho United States and e bet Canada. +e NO, 19,861 KEEP IT BURNING. N'HIS message to the Legislature Gov. Whitman reminds us of the chief executive of an extravagantly run corporation who has been “hearing from” his stockholders. From first to last he tals finance. From beginning to end he holds out hopes of reorganization and retrenchment. His State budget echome, his plan for centralizing the expendi- tures of State departments in the office of the State Comptroller, his proposals to abolish various State enterprises and activities, call for exhaustive examination and discussion, One thing, however, is plain at the outset. The Governor real- izes that his administration made its first year a financial fiasco, Overwhelming proof furnished by ‘The Evening World and corrobo- rated by State Comptroller Travis, that last year’s $20,000,000 direct State tax was a needless burden imposed upon the people of New York, effectively turned public attention to the consequences of legis- lative extravagance and of chronic confusion and waste in the hand- ling of the State’s business, Economy and efficiency can becomo watchwords at Albany if the 7 taxpayers of the State so determine. A light has been flashed in the Governor's eyes. keep it burning in the Legislature, oe . $10,000 REWARD. RDAY brought a report from Salonica that the British authorities had offered a reward of 10,000 for information of the presence of German submarines in the Aegean 8 Such action would seem reasonable. It growing source of wondor that nations at war bestir themselves so little to protect their own merchant ships. submarine the belligerent nation under whose flag the liner sailed protests with rage and horror—and looks to the United States to do something about it. The hazards of war are heavy. But has it been clearly estab- lished that the allied powers are doing everything in their power to safeguard passenger carrying vessels that fly their flags? as it ever been quite proved that the Lusitania would not have had a better chance if her pathway had been better guarded? Since submarine murder began to hold high carnival in the Mediterranean has there been concerted effort on the part of the allies to hunt it down and stop it? Attacks from the enemy must always be a risk. Es has been a Whenever a liner is sunk by a But risks can be " réduced. In time of peace, nations take every precaution to insure i the safety of persons who take passage on their ships. In time of war ought they not to make enough extra exertion to minimize the danger? To protect Americans travelling in pursuit of their legitimate business on the merchant ships of a foreign nation we are willing to | do our utmost. Should the foreign nation itself do less? 4-2 BANKS RIGHT SIDE UP. HE financial storms of the year 1915 left their mark in many quarters. The banks of this State, however, came through with flying colors, Tn his annual report on banks of deposit and discount State Su- ‘perintendent of Banks Eugene Lamb Richards calls attention to the Tact that “during the time of strain and stress not a single institution previously under the supervision of the departinent failed to respond to all demands legally made upon it or was compelled to close its doors, with the exception of a small ‘one man bank’ in Northern New York having deposits of only $55,387.8 The failure of the bank was “due to the manipulations of its principal officer, who was also ita principal stockholder.” ‘ Be it noted the banks maintained this record through some of the wildest speculative revels the Stock Exchange has celebrated in years. War stocks, 60 called, skyrocketed out of all range of sense or value. Prices aeroplaned until nobody remembered they ever rested solid earth. Yet the banks were expected to sit tight through it all. they did. on An! should they have to stand the turbulence of these terrific gambling orgies made possible by a Stock Exchange that knows no real. re ulation ? Hits From Sharp Wits. Some people seem td think that a lear complexion is more to be de- than a clear conscience, e1¢ 8 After charity has covered a mul tude of sins the sinner ought ¢ them stay covered.—Memphis ¢ mereia! Appeal. “ar ae Isn't it funny how many women tHere are who are never suspe We can all say nice things about ourselves, if just given a chance, And we all believe ,them, even if nobody else does,—M. News. ce oo. let) A man Jacks m=} his humor Inquirer, sense of humor when lacks sense,—Philadelphia . torhis ts the season of the year for of iving all your enemies, exc in society until they get arrest- | f0" : pt the ed for something?—Indianapolis Star, | !ittie ones you can lick ‘olumbia ait ae man is always particular about A erin A the impression he makes on strang- ers, but he doesn't care what his wife thinks of him. son the fellow wh suse » knows it ignorance is rievance, ¢ World » to ride ut two blocks and have eome in the man guerilla th car for ali _ 99 the KAitor of The Eveni dri A motor hack r has to pay for |t get him out of the line, If a hack ‘tWo licenses, viz. a hack license and |™4" gets a sun nx he is brought hauffeur's license. ‘Therefore he | before M Burean of Lis have some protection, All that hardly living in said of chauffeurs has been it worth all this crooked them, But few people realize | Work” Js there no protection for the ‘@ man going in the hacking busi-, !0nest chauffeurs and hackmen? often has to be a bandit or work Cc. R, the “clique,” othe se he is Ves, get beaten up or they work of frame-ups on him, for in- aticking needles {i even go sb far as to! York of alien parents a citize making 30 cents, United States? To the Editor of The Eveaing World the tires, Pd. M Turn it on and) But why, in addition to inevitable ebbs and flows of tinance,! a child born in the city of New portant discussion as to the business. of the RESIGNATION | a at Wren <2 CSERAY ww MASI SS 7 >| » ay Everyday ables 1 —— By Sophie Irene Loeb —— | — By Roy L. : >| | Copyright, 1916, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | Copyright, 1916, by the Press Publish | The Man With the Mask. the man's mask fell off and his usual RS, JARR was fussing at the | self was seen, Ho broke out in loud | Abts 5t the Slonatan har bed criticis: of the oce ence and a « | mah. He was the father of| usual, did cot reece pee ae, One ae room, “It's the best I can do several children, He had The visitor su the who! thing | she was saying as though to herself. married when he was very| #4, being a knowing individual, r st Lean do—ties!" young. His wife assumed the situation at once. He # “You can wear some of those I got ' how carefully the mask, had be | P |the burden of rearing the family and] worn, Now, as the Business ho had {for Christmas—those your mother | was a very good mother. She toiled| in hand was one that.required honest | gent me,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “Is the Personal inethods, devoid of all shan he Brew suspicious as to power to carry it through, had now se day and night to bring up the little ones in the way they should go. And the children came so fast that there | Was little or no thme to consider her- self or hor own pleasures—which Iv] WhO could treat his family badly and | tles—low shoes. Goodness knows, tles Bee i fool the outside world as to his real! have been out of style for two years, jthe way with thousands of good moth-\ nature might get away with it for Menta terant @liciaeeionee nating ers, time; but tl: A finally tell and |” paris The husband (ook all this asa mat-| the mask w ome threadbare | Presents for other people and neg- ter of course; and went about his ney tae see} mag would pe gets |leoking meets t have to-go ce wns business, leaving the care of it ali| rt | town, and I haven't a decent walking | or ila in ok the: ant The deal was declared off and this! shoe, Nobody 1s wearing anything NA SH Rot the only | good fellow thad the interest of hu- | exec ‘h boots, and I haven't any Nigh boots, except my best ones that | bebind him thing he left behind him, He left|manity at heart enough to. expl he man with the mas’ behind his evil spirit to rancor and | the res son here again you talking about?" rr. “I'm not speaking | he For n him without the mask. ' He came to the conclusion that a man |f neckties—I'm speaking of Oxford 4 then reallzed that others might find |1 don't intend to wear this weather, ia etic ght fin jBuse @nd wound during te whole sin out. He therstors etudied ‘his |for Tim not lke yousalwaya putting day, But before he went about his| mask and be: gan an effort to ake the best things on my back!" | business he donned his best looking | himself truly act as it looked—at . clothes, his highly polished shoes, his | home as well as abroad, ],, Mm fart was going to sussest that reoat und—« mask, ‘This| Moral: If you would strip a man|!t Was not customary to wear shoes made him look ten years! of his mask, learn how he treats his|on one’s back, but he was afraid he younger eu: to appear always with a | family. ‘would start something, smile, and an interested look that ae hele invited dence and respect. No| ” rain’ aeate: io era one had ever seen him (except his Ss W. he World family) WITHOUT this mask, oO ags t 1e or) ‘Therefore people Jabelled “him 7 Cast |very genial gentleman, and he w By Clarence L. Cuilen. sstul wh Copyright men are successful like that, 7 t masks were but stripped | ow t wireless telephony to m for a moment, some hor- | Honolulu is working, there are jhible features would be disclosed un- | a lot of good scouts down there |derneath, On a few occasions the | a . burs’ ore | Wife of this man had come down to| 82 !snoring the five hours’ differ \his office and had seen her husband | €nce in time, will be calling us up in| ‘The war has been going on now for with the mask. She marvelied wt it.) the middie of the night. inviting us) ear and a half and we don't know Ho wis such an attractive creature| to take a swim with them in the/}*! Whether his namo Is pronounced ven he wore the j otf or Zhoffray, when he wore the mask, wimpling waters of Waikiki, OR AROE IBY ver 1016, by the Preay Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), zie story movies with a mill- so of Zulus with spears and and things in it and then we stood, How she wished he would wear it atl 1 EE ge r At home, sometimes! She knew him . s pee arent r| nts astonishing bow promptly a na Ths One alk isan the ALY No doubt you have discovered for) flat-hunting woman will fall for an a wel n yourself what grisly work it is to ment the clothes closets of « nd went home to reflect on ¥ what a difference that public mask| listen to an unimaginative friend 1 are about twice the size of the | ber husband, ‘For her t made in her husband. For her he| had’ only 2 ft gen en with a limited vocabulary try to de- eite world'all the GRINS “'° °4t| scribe for your edification the ‘Tower | Now it came to pass that the man | of Jewels at the San Francisco blow- left home one morning braced for a | OUt. big business deal which was to come}... of that day; and he polished up his| What's It's hard to convince a woman that & wan sitting alongside of her when she's driving the motor ear is bound to look and feel like a simp. become of the girl who} mnask in trying to carry out the en-| sed to say: "Mamta doesn't mind| We Move to Expunge “Desh ol" Noo terprise. At dinner time It was not | MY dancing square dances, but round | Yawik!” yet finished, He did not wish to let| dances—merey sikes, she'd assassi ae it go Ui! morning, and, knowing that | Mate me! 1 she's got you trained so that owl put on ® Paineoat over at a quarter past twelve and take the flat-mutt out for | If by any stretch of the imagination | we could convince ourselves that we'd do dinner turneth he telephoned ht way obj in th your at as follows: ever look so High and Lofty ‘and an airing you're all through) with “Hello darling! May ¥ bring Mr,| Nifty and Noble ina union suit'as the that Jekyll and Hyde stuff, old | Smith he to dinner? T told him| fellows who r them in the back | hawss! it would just be a nice litte family | Pages of the inagazines, there's a meal, and T know you won't mind,” | chance that we'd buy one of ‘em for licking Stuff: ‘Yo hear, as we >| The wife knew lie had the mask on} @ tryout \did, a Barnard girl (16) at one of before the customer and that she| ’ —— ‘those dead-wise Sunday afternoon must drop everything and prepare a|_ The difference between the 15 cents | ‘salons’ chirp to « passel ofgmiddle- sumptuous She did. This| for the movie ticket and the $2 for a|aged, more or less life-weaty folks tline the man wore his mask clear | seat at the other kind of a show Is|about ‘Individualism and the Indl- into the home, when he brought the | always going to be just $1.85, no mat- \vi tualistle Life," Kind of salf-kidding. arith. | ss gors of the talking| Somebody will tell us some day vying to prove the|why it is that ail of the young men pictured in the ready-to-wear - {clothing advertisements are human Not long ago we fell to wondering |slaty the measure of whose perpen- what had become of all the negro!dicularity is never less than Ip te muddle that followed’ waiters, but last night we saw one of fewt nine and three-quarter inches, He greeted his wife t cordially; were surprised, \dinuer ‘had proce | happe tor What metic the mar theatres use in contrary. visitor and chil- and of course But after the eded, something ed right in the midst of an im- One of the children had spilled the soup, The Jarr Family McCardell! — ng Co, (The New York Evening World) I didn't ksow low shoes for ladies out of style," he mumbied, Married men seldom know what's out of style when their wives wear it,” rked Mrs, Jarr, I must admit 1 with the modes,” am not con- ant ventured arr, “Like the man on the hearse, you are not ‘in it" said Mrs, Jarr, mean- ingly, Mr. Jarr winced. Poon had struc a vital spot, a cutting allusion to the rece ful eatastrophe Mr, Jarr had 1 when, to paraphrase the “All for a bit of commission he'left us, All for some mausoleum stock to stick in his coat!” | “Let me help you open that door,” jsaid Mr, Jarr huskily, But the door resisted his feeble efforts, "Where Is the key?” erled Mrs. Jarr testily. For there 1s one thing about he is merciful in that as wounded us in our ten- derest emotion she does not rub tt in, “Yes,” she went on, “I'm in a dread- ful hurry to get downtown, and every- thing I have that's fit to wear Is in the closet. Oh, dear!" Well," sald Mr, Jarr “I saw a Jap- anese lady shopping tn a kimono," but noting his lttle whimsey was making no hit he changed the subject, “What do you lock the doors for?" he in- quired. “It drives me wild to find things locked up in my house, If any- body is mean enough to steal he'll be smart enough to know how to open a locked door!” bi » no thieves in this house, ver The verbal har- It was dread- t with poet— 4} thank you!” replied Mrs. Jarr sharply, “Bul you know how children are, have to lock up everything from them, and even Gertrude goes snooping through my things when I'm out, And you're not to be trusted either; you go through the closets and get everything all tossed around!” And Mrs. Jarr set to work to open the locked door with a shoe horn and 1 button hook. Mr, knew her effort would be f unless perhaps she essayed with a hairpin, against the might and magic of whieh ry can pre’ “Here's the key on the floor, Mr, Jarr as his foot struck the cor- ney of the rug, turning it over and disclosing the key, “It's just where I put it," said Mra, Jarr, “But I forgot it, you get me so upset,” So saying, she took the key and opened the door, After much stoop- ing and scratching In the dark re- cesses of the closet she brought a low pair of shoes to light and regarded them with disdain, “T never could wear those, even with galters to hide the fact that they : ! ning World Daily Magazine, Thursday, January 6, 1916 MENTAL JELLY-FISHES. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. JE President of the Life Extension Institute has suggested the T formation of a National Vitality Commission to pass upon the physical vitality of our men and women. It remains for some- body to create a commission which shall investigate the vitality of our ideas. And meanwhile I suggest a New Year’s resolution for every ; Woman: “I will probe my own brain and find out what I really do or | don’t believe, I will not any longer be a mental jelly-fish.” The thoughts in many a woman’s mind are like sick yellow grass blades under a stone—the stone, in this instance, being the dead weight of centuries of convention and tradition. For eo long almost nobody wanted a woman to think. Almost everybody frankly shared the viewpoint of the French King who told his Queen: “Madam, we have taken you to give us children and not to give us advice.” But grass needs sunlight no more than the mind of woman needs the clear light of reason, of logic, of independent judgment, of dispas- sionate analysis. It is the utter, absolute right and duty of every human being to take nothing for granted, to think out his or her own position on the big questions of sex, of work, of religion. Yet the very woman who would never accept a hand-me-down covering for her | head doesn’t trouble even to examine the hand-me-down opinions that line it. How little vitality inheres in these opinions is shown by the fact that in a crisie, particularly a crisis of affections, a woman is likely to jact with an almost barbaric disregard of the very platitudes she has lisped for years. Nevertheless, even in this moment of daring sho ie handicapped by her mental unpreparedness, by the clear, straight | thinking which she has NOT done in the past. ‘ ~ Refiections of e a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland : Copyright, 1016, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wrid), 7m | SONG OF THE MODERN OMAR, ! IVE me the wine, the book, the loaf, the bough— Gc And, every week or so, a DIFFER T “Thou!” The average masculine “explanation” is about as convincing as a lace | boudoir cap over a last night’s coiffure, | Nowadays, a typical debutante can make a grass widow feel ke an | unsophisticated little prude, and a sod widow feel like the last yard of | silk at a remnant sale. Ending for an up-to-date love-story: “And so they were married, and ‘lived happily, until her mother came to visit them, and he met her pretty cousin from boarding-school.” | A brillant woman may make a fool of a man, but it takes a little pink-and-white “broiler” with a dimple and one brain-cell to make him make a fool of himself. The bitterest revenge which a man can take on the girl who threw him down is to tell her how much he “USED to” love her, when she was young and slender. | Of course, men are not vain; but every mortal one of them secretly |imagines that on the day he marries there will be @ loud explosion of | fifty or sixty shattered malden hopes and hearts, According to a grafter, a “piker” is a person who has the audacity to treat him to a cheap dinner or an inexpensive brand of wine, and to ex- pect him to pay back the money he borrows. Sometimes an overbearing wife succeeds in making her husband so deceitful that she fancies she has “reformed” him. i How Men’s Clothes Began Copyright, No. 8, by the Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), 12—Collars and Ties. geaciineg: ey rhe ruff died @ natural KTIES stand out like a ‘ath, but later those foo! ce cra: A TTENGATIEDErAIBN LONG ot vats with the long ends came into the running, | the few remaining liberties As 4 prime illustration of how very of man, As far as the expalnis a lot oF aby wot their start, : . a ake the case of the Battle of Stein- othor things he wears 60 he | yirk, buck in 1602. ‘The fight came vt is bound hand and foot by unbending rules of color and cut, but in his cra- ‘ad of schedule time, so the young neh nobles had to get going with vats ho can indulge a secret craving for rainbow effects, Not all of us might choose a neat combination tn pink and green, but 4f a man wants to wear that kind, he may do @o; there is nothing that can prevent him. ‘As to collars, they're quite up-to- date and haven't been in our busy | midst much more than fifty years, | False’ collars was their old name, land they're descended, so they say, from the “plain bands” the Puritans wore. They—the Puritans—by the way, | didn’t love a bone in a Cavalier’s head and you could have told them apart I¢ only their collars had been visible. ‘The Cavallers, thirty-necond degree sports that they were, had the edges |of theirs trimmed with all the lace they could get, while the Puritans | wore them plain. About the rawest thing In the way of a collar ever put over was the ruff | that broke loose in Queen Elizabeth's time, Sorrowful to relate, men wore ‘em, too, When the craze was at Its height they were stretched over wire frames and starched so stiff that one's head looked as if it was being served up on @ dish, Of course, this brought out a tremendous kick from the re- {form crowd, and for some reason “starch” particularly got their goats, |*Devilish Hquor” was the way they | were ties,” she sald with a sigh, “Be- | sides, they have low ‘commonsen: | neels and the heels rieed to be tapped.’ You speak as though they were kegs of beer,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “Or do you mean tapping them with an axe or on the floor?’ “Oh, don't be #o smart, Mr, Fire- Alarm-Hearse-Rider!"” snapped Mrs. Jarr, roused to revolt, “Now just for that I'll wear my best shoes, and you can pay for another pair, You go buy them yourself, and the kind I want is nine dollars a pair, size 8B last, Here's the advertisement!” ¥ their cravats untied, The Gents’ Fur- nishing Trust immediately put out a line of neckwear made to be worn uutied, and called them “Steinkirks.” They became the rage! The lace cravat got what wi ing to it in 1740, when the wu) th minute boys broke out the “solitaire, 4 shoestring of black ribbon, tied to the wig at the back, The Macaronis tried to muss up things fifty years further on with a big white affair ed & bow a foot wide, but ouldn't get it over, ‘The collar with the long points sticking out on @ level with a man's eves bobbed up next. A cravat almost as big as a horse blanket went with it It took two ping to hold it in place, Then above the surface appeared those lovely old stocks, which some of dur present day long-haired ones are try- ing to start again. No sadder case of the death of a flourishing industry blackens the pages of history, than the one-time merry business !n made-up tles. Dress- ing for men in some of our remote sections used to be somewhat of a catch-as-catch-can affair, During the week he made his own styles, but with Sunday came an abrupt change and each ‘sturdy, red neck had to bo shaved and crowded into a tall collar. But the matter of « tie was difficult for hands used to rough and honest toll. Hence those shaped and padded Ascots in purple satin, sprinkled with golden horseshoes, or those aky blue and red butterfly bows attached to a bit of cardboard to be thrust under a collar's edge. But prosperity came. Some were able to dodge work, and the dude appeared, Pretty soon he could be heard to say: “He means well, poor fellow, but dan you know he wears @ made-up tic? This was the end, ‘Travelling was @ simpler matter in those days than now. Extra neat dressers carried two collars along, but only one was really needed. After washing your face in the morning, you'd wipe off your collar with a damp rag and be fresh and smilii to meet the newborn day. tow in_the celluloid period. But this was too good to last. Again the whispered word got about that fel. lows in “our set” didn't wear that eort of collar, And almost in the twin- kiing of ean eye collar factories an, steam laundries broke out Mke @ ras all over these United States, a ib