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oo IY etme b : } | ee ee ESTABLIGHED BY Published Daily xcept Sunday vy the Prese Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to $3 Park Row, York. RALPH PULATZ: President, 63 Park Row, 3, ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, 63 Park Row. Entored at the Post-Office a Rates to The Evel the United States sues meseeens $8.60/Ono Year, -80/One Month, JOSEPH PULITZER. York as Second-Class Matter. For Bnglend and the Continent and All Countries in tho International Postal Union errr + NO. 19,889 IS IT TO BE VOICE ALONE? 8 THE President moves westward his words grow in potency. The faultfinders are routed by their own pet phrases turaed against them. In his Des Moines speech Tuesday night the ident touched the crux of criticism. Negotiations with belligerent powers have been dawdling on for months. Every time this nation is insulted by some fresh word or act flouting its claims or ignoring its demands, the critics sneor: “We, appose he will now write another letter!” | Well, demands the Presidents Do you want the situation to be such that all the President can do is to write messages and words of protest? Do you wish to have all the world say that the flag of the United States can be stained with impunity? { If these breaches of international law, which are in daily \ danger of occurring, should touch the very vital interests and H honor of the United States, do you wish to do nothing about {tt =| ‘To hear some people talk, one would think the President of the} United States had at his disposal vast and irresistible armies impatient to go forth and quiet the earth. What these folk have got to get into their heads is that in the present state of the world no nation that sets out to champion human- ity and international justice can be anything but a laughing-stock so! long as it reclines unarmed and indolent, frowning portentously aid issuing warnings to other powers from a fool’s paradise of self-com- placency. Much as we love aud cherish peace, a time arrives when the only way to maintain our proper place among nations is to be able to speak with a voice that admits no question of the force behind it. Tho President may supply the voice. But only the will, the strength, the practical patriotiem of millions of individual American citizens can furnish the force, . ——-+ MORE MATTER FOR “‘UNTRAINED MINDS.” W's the Interborough made with the City of New York the contract for new subway and elevated construction, which included the third-tracking of elevated lines, it ap- pears President Shonts of the Interborough found it necessary to arrange for certain “commitments and obligations” amounting to $2,000,000. VOLUME 56... oo. The trouble with tile father of trip. |lets, and {t 1s a great one, is that he always considers himself to bo a very euperior person.~New Orleans Btatea, Th ‘commitments and obligations,” according to the tes of former Interborough director George W. Young before the Thomp- son committee, were to be disposed of by appointing Engineer John ling $2,000,000, the money to go, however, not to Mr. Stevens, but to the person or persons who held the “commitments and obligations.” “Untrained minds,” as General Manager Hedley of the Inter- extraordinary transaction. Now we think of it, could it have been a wish to spare “untrained minds” the puzzling intricacies of traction finance as practiced by railway corporations operating in this city .nat mittee out of town on a roll of hotel bills? ‘osicnnatnreecincinetdpighbipsanhinemneny FIENDS. W pouring vitriol into the mouths of sleeping babies or mad- men like Albany’s “silent assassin” who has killed four persons and terrorized scores of others with his mysterious noiseless Every now and then crime forms a kind of fester of inhuman cru- tity. One act follows another almost as if there had been some pre- concerted arrangement. Sometimes a series of crimes of the sam: different places under circumstances which can only be accounted fur by supposing that crime has its epidemics. Is the germ in the air? Is it the power of suggestion—imitation, it drage? Of one thing we may be sure. Nothing gives rise to more vaga- ries of cruel or murderous impulse than the drug habit. False and hee- from the use of drugs. Take a mind already tainted with criminal instinct, craze it with cocaine, and you have Uie makings of a fiend. Is it not a contradiction in terms, sectional bookcases would invent a to cal those pacifiste who fight pre-|sectional hat for women that could paredness? be built up and added to as hubby It is when the poor relations bob ee up that success ts found to be rel Another pathetic little feature of tive. everyday life Is the way a $2.50 shirt . hi =| « rat Wa . . 3 4 essarit victory for the] hand 7 § tide that i# permitted to have it. (may wis studios is nog gna ye Be: phia Telegraph, obs his own worst enemy or best . friend.—Albany Journal, ewe F¥, Stevens to supervise the third-tracking job with commissions total- borough charitably terms them, will demand to see further into this prompted the recent unsuccessful attempt to ride the Thompson com- HAT conditions or habits produce tle fiends who go about revolver? type can be traced to an individual. But oftener outbreaks occur iu working upon weak minds ready to develop latent fiendishneas? Is tic courage, diseased imagination, weakened self-control—all follow Hits /From Sharp Wits. ee could afford it—Macon News. a doesn't look a bit more expensive ‘The last word in an argument does| ‘They say that a dog will lick the within the power of every mi We wish the man who invented the ne Letters From the People. ethe hair and the boof he injures himself GEORGE 8. As to this question of calks for) ine for “Complete Novel,’ horses in the winter montha—this | 1 ile Piller of The Breuing World idea of calks is all right in the coun- try on dirt roads but not #0 In the aity, where there are hard asphalt roads underneath the ice, Instead why not have pads o. forward shoes and on toe and heel bebind, with a mv of chain shoes on hind feet’ \Bertrand M. Sinclair, author of "North of your complete novel each week, and its sequel, I must say the st y wan very fine, It ts a story, I think, that lc; an impression on every one who .-ad It, Jt was so full @ reason some horee owners don't of love and kindn I compliment Like the {dea of caiks {# that a horse | Mr. Sinclair with ail my heart, and I will “calk himself” very ily by|thank you for the story, The Evening duty to compliment Mr. | oan ttle mt ey a mB nama tl om di World Daily Magazine, Thurs we a a a + “Make Him Give It Back!” day. February 3, | By J. H. Cassel Covyr' At, 1916, Dy the Press (ihe Now York pissing Go, ens | | | Thin Ysick, look at once to the milk. By Helen dise, {t will be more than some of There are just two reasons why a one is because she is Man fs the “bad Ifttle boy” of the human race, who receives « medal and @ sugar plum every time he does the “good example,” who receives @ bl An optimist is a man whose mind will endure nothing but “southern exposure.” | delicate young girl might have rouge on her face; debutante’s vanity case for her, and assembles her complexion and repairs love, some from religion, and all wom: A husband may claim most of the Bad Milk for Babies. T's. loss of future citts.... to the state from bables dying of un- fit milk is greater each > ‘s loss from , plague, accl- de * and i * all put together, When babies begin to droop and fail In this day of focal and State wilk in- spection and the warnings sent broad cast all over the country we often — By Roy L. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) {t were not for the chifaren I| served soft boiled? And what would | do declare I'd give up house- keeping and go to boarding. just simply can’t stand the expense!” aaid Mrs, Jarr, as she came back from the grocer’s. “How would boarding lesson the ex- pense?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I wouldn't have to pay 50 cents @ dozen for eggs if I were boarding, would I? asked Mrs. Jarr. “I ‘wouldn't have to pay 9 cents a quart for milk, would I? All the same, it is very queer to me when I come to think about tt,” added Mra. Jarr. “If you'll notice, the butcher or the grocer is always speaking well of the doctors, and the doctors, after they have charged you for the visit and written you a préscription, tell you that good food 1s better than medicine, but take this three times a day just before meals, aud I'll be in to-morrow to see how you're getting along, and just for one slice of bam I paid twenty-eight cen! “What are you talking about?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Aro you talking of boarding, or milk and eggs, or doc- tors or the bigh price of sliced ham?” “I'm talking about them all,” said Mrs, Jarr. “If I buy @ whole ham, half of it's wasted, and if I buy it silced as I need it, it coste twice at much, And if you would see how everything bas gone up in price you wouldn't wonder where the money goes and you wouldn't be finding fault the way you do and saying I waste the money!” “Nobody's finding fault,” said Mr, Jarr; “but I can’t eee how going to a boarding house would help. If you have to pay more, they have to pay more, and they elther stint you in portions or quality, or elae charge you more,” “I suppose they do,” thoughtfully, “L feel sure thoy must,” said Mr. Jarr. “Downtown the restaurants have cut the sizes of portions down and bave incroased the price. T used to get a nice slice of cold roast beef for a quarter; now it's 3 or 40 cents, about half the size they used aid Mrs. Jarr, “Well, you see how It is then,” “Well, let's go boarding then and try it a while, if you're so stuck on it and think {t the {deal life,” said Mr. Jarr, “Do you think,” said Mrs, Jarr, “that I'm going to be poked into one or two shabby rooms and have to eat prunes and oatmeal and second-qual- ity meats, and get black looks if I ask for boiled eggs and toast, because sre, around short or backing in, Mrs, C. W, If @ horse qalks himself between Beliport, L. L eee, eggs can be used in omelets and ocrambled that cannot possibly be The Jarr Family McCardell —— ° we do with the children? They will not take the children in boarding houses. And it would ruin my dispo- sition.” "I don't see why a boarding house Should ruin one's disposition. It gen- erally ruins the digestion; maybe that has its effect on the temper, eh?” “No; it isn't that,” said Mrs. Jarr. “There's something in the air of a boarding house, a sort of ‘grab for yourself or some one else will get the best of you’ frenzy that spoils the most generous disposition, There was that Mrs. Dilkins, who lived in West Orange, a more hospitable and gener- ous woman I never saw. Always had | @ houseful of company.” “She cared enough to give up her house in the country,” said Mr, Jarr, “Oh, she bad to do that. Mr, Dil- | Th i By Soph Copyright, 1910, by ' here the other d to Canada to dy farming. It Is not a fad nor a tem- since the young man kins lost his business,” said Mrs. Jarr. “But I've visited her at the boarding house, and she gets as peevish as can be if some one else is helped before she is or if she has her eye on some- thing and some one else gets it, and I noticed that all of them—women and men—had the same feverish, tigerish way.” “We won't go to boarding, then,” said Mr. Jarr, “oven ‘f milk is 9 cents ; I'l just take a quart a day said Mrs. Jarr; “half the ttme the children leave a bottle to sour, anyway.” No, 3.—Table Manners. MONG the peoples of Europe, America, Asia, Africa and the Arctic region eating has al- ways beon the favorite indoor sport. It was at first an open, fred-for-all contest, But as civilization advanced it has, like all otber forms of athletics, become tied up with a mass of rules and, regulations. In the olden times the man with the longest reach, the biggest fist and the quickest eye got the best of all eating competitions, “Women and children last" was the motto, But all this has been sadly changed, If a “white hope” is dining with a five- foot-two stage beauty to-day he isn't allowed, under the rules, to take ad- vantage of his natural superiority in length ‘of arm and grab all the best food, but has to hold back and give her @ chance, At the very beginning eating seems to have been # burehanded affair. The old stone knife was the only tool they had, After the mastodon steak had been well roasted under the ashes the head of the family would haul it out, cut it into chunks and give the word, All present would make a div- ing tackle for the biggest plece, and after the scrimmage was over would sneak off to a corner and bolt down the food. Nobody knowa when epoons were invented, but it must have been. a long time ago. It couldn't have taken more than two attempts to convince an old Stone Age boy that he would never have any luck trying to eat a soft-bolled with his knife, The Greeks and Romans took a lot of interest in their meals, and fellows like Epicurus and Lucullus used to ask their friends, when they were travelling, to pick up all the new cook book stuff they came across, But they were stl! handicapped by the | lack of the proper weapons; they used thelr fingers, and it is very diMeult in this way to get the proper pur- chase on @ large plateful of turkey dressing and cranberry sauce, How Men’s Habits Began} Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing ‘Pho New York bening Worl.) But with the Renaissance dawned a better day. there Real kitchens, turning out real, honest-to-goodness food, got their start. The medal for this is pinned on the Italians, and they als» say they invented forks Considering their national dish, this is but natural. There is but one pla where spaghetti could be eaten with any other implement than a fork, to vit, the edge of a swimming pool, poised and ready to dive in. Forks were imported into England in the time of James [, and of course fanny Jokes were made about them, One fellow was joshed for using those “Italian neatnesses called forks.” The French later stole the Italians’ epicu invention and made peopl they had really invented “the eats, | The old chefs were in dead earnest Vatel, Conde's cook, killed ‘himself one day because the fish didn't come in time for dinner. After the Stuarts were chased out of England thoir rooters had a little habit of crossing their tingers when elie the toast to “The King pro- | posed, They'd pass their glass of ruin over the finger bowl so us to be drinking to the king “over. the water,” in France, So up to the time of Rdward VII. finger bowls weren't j allowed on the table of British rulors, A pathetic incident is related of their spread throughout this country, The men guests at a dinner. seeing them for the first time, drank the contents of the bowls eagerly, thinking it a | new beverage, and were bitterly dis- jappointed to ‘find it only water, The development of cating rules hasn't been logical. A large wedgo Jof pumpkin plo just sits up on its legs and begs to be eaten with @ knife, but {£ one ylelds to the temp- tation and) throws away his fork, nice mothers won't let their daugh- tera associate with him. Jt is r | ported on good authority that a great |{nvention has been halted by the war. This {8 a dainty little Maxim Silencer in sterling silver to he attached to @ll spoons when the soup is served, of e Farmer-Prince | | | | great 1 © Irene Loeb Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) RINCE ERIC of Denmark landed | has just spent two years in England on his way) studying cattle-raising. I could not help comparing this Prince who is Willing to go out on farm to learn farming with the many paupers who shrink from it, Here is a young man in the hey-dey of life giving up the slare and glitter of a great city to get “back to the land” and first prin- ciples. At the same time, there are hun- dreds of youths of his own age, crowded in the congested areas of a great city, who insist on stayiog near the bright lights and moving picture shows, On one hand is tho young man who gives up his princely place in a palace to dwell near the cows 4m the pasture; on the other there are hundreds of boys huddled in narrow little homes, blind and deat to the open country that beckons, The Prince's visit here for this one purpose should prove a great ex- need the country and the farm much tore than does this son of a King, ample to these boys, many of klar | man friend, are & great people, tho Danes, have @ very small country, and for that reason have learned the les- son of economy more than any other. They have eminent scleutists and statisticlans, When we want a very authoritative calculation made on any of the sciences we apply to Denmark, It is generally conceded that the Danes have the best municipal laws, Belng a small country they study the details of government, Econom: thelr watchword and they make the most of everything. Yet the biggest thing these ‘people have realized is the Value of Mother Earth and how to get the most out of her. Their lief is “waste not, want not,”” Therefore, Denmark has sent. tte princely son to study the vi art of farming, Sheed Just before the war I visited of the Damfsh farms. ‘Thrift wae the keynote of them all, ‘Phere were very w OLD farmers. The fields were full of young mén. ‘These boys who working on tho farm also have » study from books. Yet there ty timo for everything. And if the fara is not conducted properly the Gov. ernment ask# why. For example, there is a record kept in the stall of e cow, and whe: Miss Brindle does not give tho prope: amount of milk that is expected of her, a report must be made to the proper official and her case investi- gated. Young America needs something of this farming efficiency. Never in the history of this country was there such a need for helpers on the farms. We are eating more than we are produc- ing. We ought to raise more. The big chance for the boy is to go BACK TO THE LAND. I wish it were possible for Prince | Bric to talk to every girl and boy on the value and joy of farming. It is something to reflect and aot upon, If you don't believo it, take the tip trom the Prince. wonder how It ts that so many dis. eases are still traced to untit milk. ‘Hero aro some of the common ways in which milk is made untit and a | disease bearer: For instance, it may easily happen | that some careless milker had been | too lazy or too indifferent to wash | the cow's udder before beginning to | milk. might also have neglected to | wa. his own hands. Or it may be contaminated by haste in some woman who had charge of the milk cans, who did not scald them thoroughly. It may be that she or the milker was not perfectly well at the time of mi-"Ing, and that they lcoughed or snocged over or into the jmilk, Possibly the ce mi,‘.t have giv.n out in the refrigerating car, and, knowing that fact, no one faithful enough to mark the mil “dangerous,” as should have been Reflections of A Bachelor Girl Copyright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Irening World), it 19 true that we shall know our own husbands when we meet in Para- spicious of him—the other is because Ln | tent, Once upon a time a man shuddered at the very thought that @ sweet, Rowland us ever did here on earth. man {s tempted to deceive « woman; anything he OUGHT to do; women ack mark evory time she doesn’t. nowadays he carries. calmly holds the mirror whfle ane 4 her “girlish color” between dances, Before marriage. a man says, “What makes you so beautiful that every man turns to gaze at you?” After marringe, “What the dickens have you got on that every man turns to STARD at you?’ “Inspiration:” The thrill which some men get from poetry, some trom en get from a looking glass. brains in the family, but he is always perfectly willing to give his wife a “corner” on all the morals. gs You Should Know. ice box and the inother or nurse may give the baby milk from it, feeling it to be perfectly safe because she had pasteurized it in the morning. She did not know, perhaps, tbat, though the multiplying of the germs had beon stopped, by her work In the morning, without ico, trouble may begin again. Eternal vigilance is truly the price of health to-day, but on every side are those who are helping solve the big problem for us. People used to believe that the reason so mauy babies died was a wise provision of Providence so that children with weak constitutions would not become too plentiful. But to-day we know that the st as well as the weak are lost th ignorance, and that a high infant death rate te @ national disgrace, im- plying, of necessity, poor living ¢on- ditions end {gnorance tn a commu- nity. If cholera in any city killed as many citizens as intestinal disease Kills babies, the whole city, without the shadow of a doubt, would boil ite water and milk and flee the town besides. And yet, as @ fact, ary week from June to September New York City alone, hundreds babies die because of impure milk or | of accidents to milk, New York City has spent million» of dollars to bring pure water to the city, but it remains for some one or done, Tce may as easily give out tn one’s | [POSSIBLY you are contemplating a P little winter vacation In the i South after a grip attack, or because you prefer a winter holiday to one in summer. The woman going South must have plenty of summer frocks. ‘The shops linens and all the various sheer and |semf-sheer fabrics that are now so | fashionable and which are quite in- dispensable for Southern wear, ‘The all white costume Is greatly favored not merely for general wear, but many a smartly white-gowned woman is to be seen at the dining tables tn the hotels. ‘These white toileties are also adapted for travel- ling, but if the trip is to be made on a train the one-piece dark serge or silk dress relieved by white neckwear will be found more practicable, and this may also prove a convenient dress to hate on hand during the sojourn in the South. Several evening dresses will be necessary for the dinners, &c. For the hotel tea dances a few simple frocks in soft white crepe, Swiss or organdy will be need- are featuring spring models In volle,! for some organization to have abso- lutely safe milk brought to the city, For the Southern Trip. ed. A few tub frocks will be wanted and a separate skirt of white oF hair-striped pique, one of corduroy and an awning striped skirt will be found convenient to wear with the soft silk, crepe and sheer lingert blous: a , _A white topcoat is part of every Southern tourist's wardrobe. This should be of some soft material, not too heavy, and tt night do service for an evening wrap unless the traveller has secured one of the new capes that proinise lo become a rage next summer, ‘Tho silk sweater often af- fords all the protection required at the resort, and the shops are featur- ing 4 most tempting array of these ; Popular garments, In hats favor is equatly divided be tween the smart white felts and the Panamas. For dressy occasions the Leghorn 1s popular, and the shops are replete with advance summer models in order to meet the tourists’ demand. In shoes white buckskin gaiter will be Tequired and a pair of Tubbeg- kole canvas or buc 4 found conventent. Liat he bathing costume and pa are necessities for the Southers wor journ, Betty Vincent’s | JT is @ silly convention which says that a girl should never be the first to make up a quarrel with a In the first place, blame quite as likely to be on her side as on his, and therefore an apology may be due from her. In the second place, even if she is unmistakably certain she {a in the right, she should remember the advice of a very wise man who once said, when asked which of two Giaputunts should take the first step toward reconciliation: “He who is in the right.” As a matter of fact, In the average quarre) the blame should be divided up, fifty-fifty. But any person who sacrifices a good friend and @ pleasant friendship to a talse and wrong pride makes a bad bar- gain. “0. G.” writes: “Is it proper for a young man, calling on a girl for the first time, to briug a box of candy? I think ‘it would be wiser for him to wait till he knows her better, D." writes: “P, “IT am = e'xteen years old, of neat appearance and not y bad looking. Will you tell me why Advice to Lovers Jall the men stare sheougt the stre ou are laboring under an tHluston The majority of American men are too busy and too self-absorbed (not to say courteous) to stai woman in public, shee: Another Girl. “L. 8." writes: “I am i me. He paid me attention for about, five months; then we had a quarry which lasted about a week. We friends, but I can see that he nw longer 19 interested in me, and J think that another girl has been trying to take my place, Shall I speak to her or try to forget him? atter course is by eans the dignified one, Rises ea eae not even engaged to the young man, you have absolutely no « jother girl, oene Apatiny te at mo when f go “B, M." writes: “Every love very much, uithough Tt do moe show it.” He treats me coolly. Hoge can T Gnd out if be cares for m seems to me that if he cared would try to get better connate |with you. T think you" must tho initiative to him. | | se (By Pormimton of | wings Ban. HE question may be asked: Is it possible for a man workin T thing and lay It by in a savings bank, when he requires every penny for the maintenance of his family? But the fact remains that it is done by many industrious and sober men; that they do deny themselves and put their spare earnings into savings banks, and the other receptacles pro vided for poor men's savings. And if some can do this all aay do it under similar circumstances, without de- priving themselves of any genuine pleasure or any Teal enjoyment, ‘How intensely selfish is it for any / By Samuel Smiles Harpe & Brothers) n the receipt of good spend everything upon himmelfr ar, We |he has a family, to spend his’ whot rr-ad from, reek to week and ing by. When we hes man Who has been “in the reaep of @ good sulary has died and wet nothing behind him—that he his wife and family destitute— them to chance—to live or oon hywhere—wo can not by Lear jas most selfish thrift jAnd yet comparatively tthe thoysht of such cases. Perhaps ty hat goes round." Subseriptions meg produce something—porhay and the ruined remnants Oe thee happy family sink dni ané ‘destitution, a Ory om-steneeaianeiaal