The evening world. Newspaper, February 5, 1916, Page 10

q kins’s desk. the market for peaches buy the Gilt “Come over and sit down,’ said the| Edge. Reduce the extra weight of restaurant man, who thought he|#°tual peaches in the Gilt Edge can | Mt et us to bidding for the order, {2 Pereentage and you'l find that ous “Before ; ‘ pa at $8.50 is w 10 per cent, bette Before him on his desk were two) purchase than the Linperial at 83. opened cans of peaches, one of our! “Todd's cheerful grin suddenly. ¥ ‘Gilt Edge’ brand, the other our com- ied. He trie issue by vo aps jtalking qual "t work, _ petivor’s ‘imperial, Re cumsity. DY ane PS ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULA BR. ul Sunday the Press Publish) d iblished Daily Except ape ny. 8 ihe rene Fup ing Company, N RALPH PULITZER, Pres ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, $8 to ‘*k Row, Park Row. . a JOSEPH PULITZMR, Jr. Secretary, 63 Ent At the Post-OMce at New York as Second-Class Matter. Bubseription Rates to Tie Pvening | Fo G id the Continent ‘World for the United States » and Canada. One Year... One Month. THE QUIBBLE. ’ CCORDING to Dr. Zimmermann, the German Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Germany has gone to the utmost limit in the Lusitania case and cannot utter words or make con- fessions “which would take the submarine weapon out of her hands.” Who's trying to take it out of her hands? Only a month ago Germany announced that she would operate her submarines in the Mediterranean “only in accordance with prin- ples of international law.” She guaranteed in detail the most exact code yet drawn up for the conduct of submarine warfare against mer- chant vessels, including the pledge that passenger and freight ships ehall not be destroyed until both passengers and crews “have been pecorded safety.” Tf this code holds for the Mediterranean it should hold for other waters. If this code is according to law, then Germany's former sub- marine practices, including the sinking of the Lusitania, were not according to law. If “principles of international law” to which Germany subscribed last month réquire that non-combatants on mer- chant ships be safeguarded, then the murder of women and childreft fon the Lusitania last May was the opposite of lawful. What’s happened to German logic? ; ——-4 $150,000 bonus to President Shonts, $50,000 to Lawyer Rogers and $10,000 to Auditor Gaynor! That subway contract ) with the city seems to have looked like buried treasure to the Interborough directors. ‘ ooo LOCKED DOORS. T IS demonstrated with frightful frequency that when fire breaks| out locked doors are as great a peril as flame. ¢ Smoke is something that stupefies quickly. With doors nd windows closed, its deadliness is intensified. Where keys are ‘turned or bolts drawn, rescue must beat down barriers. A second’s Welay, and it may find only dead bodies. In the case of the Brooklyn fire tragedy in which six women fost their lives early yesterday morning the firemen reported that after chopping through the front entrance they found every door in tthe house locked. Stout oak doors they were that resisted bar and axe. Only women were in this home. No doubt fear of burglars led to a general locking of doors. Yet if the firemen had not had to lose time chopping through thick panels some of the half-suffocated vic- tims might have been carried out and revived. ' There wore many doors to the vast Parliament buildings at Ot- tawa. As a safeguard during war times all but the main portals were closed. This made escape more difficult. It probably cost the lives of the two women who perished in the disastrous fire of Thursday night. Locked doors or traps in factories and workrooms are now re- garded as no more to be excused than wholesale murder. One terrible ‘tragedy after another has driven home that lesson. Even in private dwellings those who sleep on upper floors are safer with unlocked doors. When fire starts below, amoke and gases pour upward. For those who, failing to get out promptly, fall choked | or stupefied, the only hope is rescue and rescue that finds few ob- Stacles in its path. Let every family take warning. ——— Marching to Capture Villa.—-Headline. Again or still? WASTED SPACE. F SNY private corporation put up a costly building to house its various departments, would there be suites of empty offices, ente-rooms aid lobbies on almost every floor? Would there be huge rooms full of desks with nobody to sit at them? Would there! De vast areas of wasted floor space bare even of furniture? Would some departments be sprawling over more space than they could possibly use merely because they asked for it, while others had to be established in quarters outside the building at high rentals? Hardly. Only the city can afford to do business that way. The Evening World’s survey of the new $13,000,000 Municipal Building shows why there .s “no room” for the Public Service Commission in a structure where thousands of feet of floor space have been assigned without economy or system, on the principle of giving favored depart- ments what they wanted and housing left-overs outside at taxpayers’ expense. y Tt now costs 108,000 a year to provide quarters for the Public Service Commission, That amount could be saved if only 70,000 square feet had been provided for the Commission in the Municipal Building. But the city authorities are not worrying. It’s not their money. Why save it? Dollars and Sense 66]N selling my Lne,” remarked a salesman for a wholesale groc- ery house, “it figures right down to @ question of merchandise. ‘Show me,’ says the purchaser, and if you t show him, all the hypnotic sales- manship in the world won't land the By H._J. Barrett ing ‘my chef reports that these brands are identical in quality. The size is the same. You quote $8.60 against Todd's $3.25. Why shouldn't I place my order with him? “Todd grinned at me triumphantly, “I promptly poured the contents of me, order, Consequently, it behooves me|¢ach can into separate dishes and to know my goods backward and|4rained off the liquid. Then reaching | forward, and also my competitors',|for the scales which Calkins always | “The other day I calied on Cal-|keeps on his desk, T proceeded to} weigh the actual peaches, “If you want to pay for water buy the Imperial,’ said I, ‘but if you're in kins, the big restaurant man. ‘When I walked in, there was Todd, @ competing salesman, seated at Cal- The Evening | Copyright, 1 “ HAT I want to know,” sald the head polisher, “is how, according to the bills filed with the State Comptroller, Gov. Whitman's party that attended the San Francisco Exposition could have spent $3,579.20 for meals in nine days.” ‘ou probably noted,” said the laundry man, “that the charge of $3,579.20 was for ‘dining car service’ and pot for ‘meals.’ Dining cars fur- nish travellers more than food. “There were thirty people in the Governor's party, Assuming that each ate tMree meals a day on the dining cara of the special train, there would be a charge of ninety meals a day for nine days, or 810 meals. It is pretty hard to spend more than §2 on a dining car meal when you strike an average to include breakfast, Juneh and dinner, Say an allowance of $2 a meal, including breakfast, be made for 810 meals, and we have a possible expenditure for food of $1,620, This leaves a balance of about 2,000 to be accounted for in ‘dining car service,’ “There was a club car on the train, too, and whatever was furnished the guests in the club car was charged against ‘dining car service.” An ordi- nary highball on a dining car or club car, with mineral water, costs 40 cents, If a special brand of liquor is used the cost ts higner. A bottle of beer costs a quarter, Wines served with meals on dining cars cost about the same per pint or quart as in Broadway hotels, “Now, take a supposititious case and you will find that the charge of $2,000 for dining and club car re- freshment not listed under the head- ing of food would be reasonable enough for thirty people t from Albany to San eling Francisco and back. On a highball basis alone— assuming that all the members of the party adopt the common way of counteraciing the effect of sand, dust and cinders—the bill would mean only about fourteen highballs a day per traveller “Undoubtedly the cost of wines and beer served with meals would cut { average down to, say, about seven highballs eller, Con- sidering is on a rail- road train, scenic route, y is twenty-four hours long, it charge of only proximately 00 for ‘dining clusive of service,’ e negligible. What do tatives of t are going to do crossing the great plains and deserts and prairies of the Woman Suffrage States? — Drink water?” 6 * { Middle vs. Ends. Bere | Do anh soft for those Inter- | borough officials who patent | \il the improvements, manu. facture them and sell them to the company,” remarked the head pol- deh goed order ia my pocke: . @ Now, then,’ aid Cihicins, addreas- + 4 “The Thompson Couunitice,” said “Yellow Dog’ Track The Week’s Wash — By Martin Green by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) the laundry man, “can find, if it in- quires far enough, that the Interbor- ough isn’t the only railroad which buys certain patented fixtures from officers of the corporation. It hasn't been so long ago that officers and directors of railroad corporations sold to their own corporations about everything used in operation, from coal to drinking cups. In the Nght of the developments brought out by the Thompson Committee, a con- siderable amount of information is opened up as to why it was so long after the Public Service Commission ordered side doors in subway cars before side doors were cut in eub- way cars.” e ° said the head polisher, 2 “Going Into Neutr se “that the British Ambassador has asked the United States to return to jer British owners the steamship Appam, which was nabbed on the high seas by a little German band.” “And still,” said the laundry man, “there are critics of the President who think it is easy to be neutral.” By Sophie Fables of Everyday Folks World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Februar y 5, 1916 : ; Py Hinkle 0 York Evening World,) Ss — By Roy L. she's at all sore I'll pretend not to notice it and pay no attention to it, and she'll get over it all right,” sald Mr, Jarr to himself as he turned his nightkey in the door. “Anyway, I telephoned I'd be late, and that generally squares ft" Mrs. Jarr was in bed and the light burned low. She gave no sign of being aware of Mr. Jarr's presence as he prepared to retire, and he re- marked, in a matter-of-fact tone, “Well, how are you feeling?” There was no response, “She's asleep,” said Mr, Jarr, as if to himself. “I'm not asleep,” came from the pillows, calmly, but coldly. “Thought you were,” said Mr, Jarr with airy nonchalance, “It's been a beastly day. By George! I hate downtown after dark at the best of times; but to have to stay down and work on a damp, gloomy night gets on one's nerves. Still,” he added, Irene Loeb Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Wife No. 1 and Wife No, 2. CE upon a time there a wife whose husband was well to do. Asa girl, this woman considered very industrious—the kind that is “suro to make some man a good wife,” She was domestic and very eco- nomical, She always wanted to see how far she could make a dollar go, and denied herself many things in order that she might at the end of the week make a good showing in savings. Often her husband remon- strated, explaining to her that there was no need for her to pinch and save as she was doing. It was only on rare occasions that he was able to get her outside of the home to any was . | festivities, Occasionally when they went out for a meal she would order the cheapest things om the menu and thus made him very uncomfortable and unlwppy, After the children came (there were two) the woman insisted on caring for them as. well as doing her housework, and refused help—against her husband's entreat- tes, Therefore she plodded from morning until night; mothering babies, scrubbing floors and in gen- eral being a domestte drudge, Many times her husband tried to show her how UNN SSARY this was, but without avail, Winaily she grew tired, and run down and il, She began t look back on her Life and saw noth ing but work, and peevishly com- plained to her husband that she had “never had any pleasure” and that life had meant only toil. The woman died, The husband bought a very beautiful casket and covered it with lovely flowers. He wept copiously at the loss of the mother of his children and then pro- ceeded to find efficient help to take care of them. After the mourning season was over he began going about in order to “bury his sorrow.” He met a nice woman, He was very lonely and she proved a source of solace to him. Pretty soon he married her, She took him and his children “for better or for worse"—but it turned out to be “for better.” She learned the limit of her husband's income and she lived within it, She secured the best trained people to take care of the little ones as well as proper help for the househod, Thus she planned to be a compan- ion to her husband. When they went |to a restaurant she chose a good dinner, though well within bis means, and enjoyed it WITH him, She did not pinch and save, as the other woman had done, when she knew it was unnecessary to do so, She took “the goods the gods provided” and had a good time, She tried to be a mother to the children and make them as happy as she could. Yet she got something out of life, HER- SELF, The money the first wife had ed was now eusily spent. One day the spirit of wife No, 1 came back to this home, She saw it Jal. She sighed and said “What a fool | was!” and returned to spirit land. Moral: Many « wife saves that which her successor epends freely, By J. H. Cassel Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New Ydbe Evening World.) The Jarr Family McCardell —— lightly, “it's all in @ lifetime, and I Suppose a man should be glad he’s got a job, even if he does work over- time.” Bilence. “Met young Haggers as I was com- ing home,” continued Mr. Jarr as he proceeded with his disrobing. “Gee! He was feeling good. Now, there's a fellow that had every chance in the world, His father started. him in business after he came out of col lege. He married a nice girl and bh just breaking her heart. I can't un- derstand these men that drink like fishes. What they see in bumming around clubs and saloons and such places gets me! You'd think they'd realize the responsibilities of life, wouldn't you? They don't know when they are woll off. And yet they say Haggers’s little wife never scolds or complains. Can you understand a man like Haggers?” But there was no answer from Mrs, Jarr. “What's the matter with you?” ne asked, “There is nothing the matter with me,” said Mrs. Jarr in @ suspiciously quiet tone. “Now, are you going to start a row and jaw at me because I had to work at night?” asked Mr, Jarr in a grieved tone. “I suppose you'd be perfectly satisfied if I was like that fellow Haggers and didn’t work at alll When a man tries to do what is right and attends to his business and works overtime, what encouragement does he get?” “I do not know,” said Mrs, Jarr jelly. ‘Try it once and see." “All right!” he said solemnly. “Ali right! If you prefer to live this kind of Mfe, if you would rather quarrel than be kind, have it your own way! But I tell you this ts the thing that drives men from hom “What drives them home?” “A little kind treatment, a little interest in a man's affairs, To ap- prectate when he's working late into the night to"—— “To be careful not to telephone and find out he’s been gone since 5 in the afternoon,” interrupted Mrs, Jarr, and her tones weére frapped indeed. “I didn't say I was working at the office, I had to go out and attend to some business for the firm, und I can prove it!" said Mr. Jarr. “What makes you be so suspicious? What makes you find fault and get mad at me? What's the matter with women?” “There's nothing the matter with them,” said Mrs. Jarr. “Only beware of the day when what you do doesn't make your wife angry, because when that time comes"——— “Oh, to be sure, to be sure!'’ said Mr. Jarr, willing fo let it go af that. But be winked to himself in the dark, | . HLL,” remarked (he Bachelor, as the Widow held up the dainty black-satin-and-lace mask for a fleeting inspection and then iThe Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1916, ty The Pres: P-bilshing Co. (The New York breving World.) SHE TELLS THE MISSION OF THE BAL MASQUE. \ quickly tucked it back in the flowered box with the mysterious ruffled confection from the costumer's, “are you going a8 @ nun or as an Oriental houri?” “Why should I go as either, Mr. Weatherby?" inquired the Widow in surprise. “Do I look like a nun—or do I act like a houri?” “On the contrary,” responded the Bachelor gallantly, “you look like @ houri and act like a nun—sometimes.” “That's just why people are always so mad about mask balls,” observed the Widow, as sho tenderly Ued up the precious box and laid it lovingly ow the piano, “It gives us all an opportunity to pose as something we are NOT; and we do so love to do it! Did you ever notice how a stolid, stupid man always revels in getting himself up as a clown or a harlequin on the eltghteat Provocation, while all the funny little fellows insist on impersonating Romeo or Don Juan or Napoleon or Samson or Goliath or something else big and brave and dashing?” Yes," sighed the Bachelor, “and all the pretty, frivolous, little women insist on going as Martha Washington or Mary Queen of Scots or Boadicea, or Queen of the Amazons, and all the elephantine creatures insist on ap- pearing as Carmen or Pierrette or Madame Butterfly or Dolly Varden, and aii the gwunt, scrawny ones revel in Greck draperies and the diaphanous wood nymph things and"—— “That,” interrupted the Widow, sweetly, “is the inborn human passion for hiding one’s real self beneath a bushel of paint and powder and poses! And it’s all so futile and silly!” Ae neers: ; Cutting Character by Pattern. 1 errr!) “ ‘HY ia it?” demanded the Bachelor, “Aren't we trained from babys hood to pattern ourselves after something or somebody else? After Washington or Lincoln or Grant—or papa and mamma? Aren't you girls always striving from infancy to old age to resemble Lillian Russell or Maxine Elliott or Billie Burke or Cavalieri? How in the word would we know what we wanted to make of ourselves if we didn’t have @ pattern to follow?” “But don't you SEE?" protested the Widow, “The people we follow are those who never followed a ‘pattern.’ They are our ideals because they made themselves DIFFERENT! It is only when a man or woman has the strength and originality and individuality to break away from all patterns and to be himself or herself that he stands out from the crowd and becomes anything or anybody.” “Great Scott!" exclaimed the Bachelor derisively, “If some men insisted on being ‘themselves’ they'd be murderers or wife beaters or gentlemen bur= glars! Or, at the best, they'd take off their coats for dinner and eat with their knives if they didn't restrain themselves.” “Oh, dear!” moaned the Widow, “why is it that whenever you suggest that a man ‘be himself’ he always takes it as ticket-of-leave to go ahead }and be his WORST self? Being ‘natural’ doesn't mean trampling all over other people's rights and toes and illusions and conventions and deals, It means being your BEST self—exaggerating and intensifying your best qual- ities instead of imitating some one else's, For instance, suppose I wanted to be a blonde—wouldn't it be silly of me?” “Oh, I don't know,” retorted the Bachelor nonchalantly, “Lots of brunettes have tried it and succeeded.” “But only succeeded in becoming second-rate blondes,” declared the Widow, “when they might have been perfectly stunning first-rate brunettes if they had concentrated on it. And that doesn’t mean that they need blacken their teeth and stain their faces with walnut juice. Just because @ man isn't born an Adonis he need not be a Caliban, and just because he isn't born a Chesterfield he doesn’t need to be a boor, and just because he isn't a Shakespeare he needn't be a doodlewit. Being YOURSELF means merely discovering the grain of individuality, or difference, which God put into every human soul, and living up to THAT instead of following a ‘pat~ tern’! It doesn’t mean going back to prehistoric brutishness and living DOWN to it. It means finding your OWN ideal and” — > Hi, well,” broke In the Bachelor, d 1 to be cal , well, re e jor, desperately, “it wo © ‘elves at a mark ball, most of the men would go disguised oo Cane registers or check books or a deck of cards! “And most of the women,” gurgled the Widow, or shopping lists or bridge favors or tea tables! “Certainly,” agreed the Bachelor. “We are all so ¢ wane days that it does us good to get out of ourselves and PSeaiieds rap la): That's the mission of mask balls.” escent “And our tdeals, alas, are always the exact o are!” rejoined the Widow. “Why couldn't we idealize ol does when he painta our portraits?” “Maybe we could!" cried the Bachelor, cagerly, John D, Rockefeller"— “What?" “Or the Jack of Clubs,” corrected the Bachelor, hastily, go a » Carmen or Delilah or Cleopatra or Helen of Troy!” MR, Weatherby!" exclaimed the Widow, coldly. "I am or Joan of Arc or Minerva or something else’ , going as Ports or Joan of else stately and dignifled and—and “And I,” announced the Bachelor, “am go! Henry VIll, or some other heartbreaker. “Phaty one: “What you imagine yourself to be “Not at all,” corrected the Bachelor, “Well,” sald the Widow, enigmaticaily, Dieguised as a Cash Regi ‘would go as butterflies Pposite of what we urselves, as the artist “Then I should go ap “And you could or Louis X! That's what P——# NIV. oF suggested the Widow, It's what I'd like to be." I hope we'll both be convinein; Everyday Perplexities, By Andre Dupont Coursight, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl.) & Concerning Clubs, friend who enginee! OWADAYS nearly everybody be- | Ceding, red the whole pros N longs to some sort of club and|, 4 Club member once in awhile people join so! penular—and we ai T8#—would do well many that they forget even the/I have heard called names until they are dunned for the} Mr.” That is, he o1 yearly dues. But others, and these noe and kind are monly iioant take their clubs Pleasant ey so seriously that during the season| whom ho come x they spend a great deal too much| ll, avoid publicly criticising as above time running from one club moeting | SMeers. If he has any suggestion te to another. Such a woman is what they sometimes call in the country “a Wants to make or grievance there Pd prea business meetings where it either natural born gadder,” and long before @ per- clubs were invented her ancestress was running something else just as who wants re all such mene to cultivate what! 4 “clubable man. r she must accept Hesses in the spirit ro offered, have or any member with missible to air such mittees to which they anne erred directly. ‘Take an interest in Wit’ or lub aftairs, but don't let youreel? © unenviab! “ehtonia kicker." me reputeea “¢f club member who is e! office or becomes a fpaanan 4 board has no right to resent as a per- sonal insult the perhaps well:meant or eiems of fellow-members at his efforts to promote thei that while he occupies this jal ho is, as far ax club lite ty cose cerned, a more or less pub} and that holders uf office pag criticism from the rank and fi If you decide to leave the chai, de careful to send in your resignation at the termination ‘of the year in which you have paid your dius: tor if you wait until after the firat moor, ing of the next season you become Hable for the dues for that entire year. hard. ‘A club is a vary good thing indeed if you don't try to make it the whole show, You usually get a good deal of pleasure out »f it and often a deal of instruction a\so, But don’t take it too seriously. Ig order to join any sort of club it is usuglly necessary to have a friend who is a club member. Con~ sult this friend about the rules for membership, and, if the lists are not already full, he or she will usually volunteer to propose your name and will algo, if necessary, procure spon- sors to second the application. As soon fs you are notified of your admission to a club and receive your bill you must at once send to the treasurer a check covering both the initiation feo and yearly dues, And it is courteous also to write cordial notes of thanks to the people who stood as sponsors for your nomination and also to the Thrift # — By Samuel Smiles No, U—A Secret of Success. MPARATIVELY few people can ( be rich, but most have it in their power to acquire by in- dustry and economy sufficient to meet thelr personal wants, They may even become the possessors of sav- ings sufficient to secure them against Pig majority prefer the pleasure to the practice hy idenial, “With the mass of men’ ate animal is paramount. They ofte: spend all that they earn, But tt is not merely the working people whe ore spendthritts, We hear of men who for years have a1 ar spending hundreds, acca ee nine and enjoymeny enury and poverty in their old age.|denly die, leaving year, who sud- tis not, however, the want of op-|niless. Brorybody ‘knaegtten pen~ portunity but the ‘want of will thatycases, At their death the yok, Neh Stands in the way of economy, Men! niture of the house they have ieee ftt= may labor unceasingly with hand or!Delongs to others, {tig aut led fn head, but they cannot abstain from |their funeral expenses cenit ht? spending too freely and living too|which they ‘have. incursad. qients highly. their thriftless Lifetime, uring