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Re @STABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pubtseee Daily Broept Oupsey, ty see Pree a Noa, 8 te LS |-Clase Matter, SW or Bivend the Continent and Tear... cess. VOLUME 56 TO THE CITY’S REPRESENTATIVES AT ALBANY. Wf there is any reform om which members of the State Legislatare elected from the City of New York ought to unite without party bickering It ts the relief of the city from burdens which oppress its taxpayers. Yet at the second meeting of the conference called by the Mayor to consider legislation which shall free the city from the constant! drain of up-State extravagance, legislators present, both Tammany! and Republican, chowed little willingness to get together and forget! party lines in the interest of the community they represent. | Tammany members shied at any plan which would take county offices out of their control. Republicans, even though the mistake) of last year’s $20,000,009 direct State tax has been heavily breagat home to them, nevertheless held back, loath to give up the honey going” they could count on from another direct tax imposed this year. All Countries tn the In Postal Union Party manoeuvres have no place tn the movement to free | the city’s finances, ‘The plans put forward by The Evening World and em- bodied tm the Mayor's programme contain no politics. They aim only to limit the Mability of New York City tax- payers to charges which New York city taxpayers can justly be called apon to bear. They aim only to put a stop to legislative practices which { make of this city a handy and inexhaustible pocket from which | to pay up-State bills. The leading civic organizations of the city have come forward in force to support this campaign. They are not supporting it to play politics. They aro allied with no legislative cliques. They are interested firet and last, as every taxpayer is interested, to secure for the city a square financial deal. Let those who represent Greater New York at Albany try | to grasp the situation. Let them themselves whether they | can afford to go on record as partisan marplots in a non-parti- san movement to put their home city on a sound, Just and inde- i pendent financial basis. \ commcnsenscaeemendpdoomm eel | Convenient axiom of Diplomacy: One Kimit wili stretch to another. scsi Gad chacisin A MARRIAGE BOOM. | HE Marriage Bureau in the Municipal Building reporte that T it is too busy these days to go to luncheon. An unprece- dented demand for marriage licenses has kept the clerks on} the jump from morning till night and broken all records of pre- vious years. | During two hours last Saturday 189 persone applied for licenses. | Nothing like that has ever been lieard of hereabouts before. 'The records of the department show no January that can compare with) last month in the number of licenses issued. | It Tt may be due to leap year, as Chief Clerk Scully thinks, j may have been the spring weather, It may be preparedness. It may be madness. It may be a microbe. We believe it’s, mostly prosperity, or the promise thereof. Pros- perity is a great promoter of confidence. And confilence is the one! prerequisite of marriage. Some of us are already enjoying pros- perity. Others have only got as far as reaching for it. But all are talking about it and getting occasional glimpses of it. And this, if we mistake not, is the psychological) moment at which matrimony precipitates. Prosperity does a lot for marriage. you're lucky. And vother way round if +2 After nine years of patient study and experiment the In- terborough has put @ rail down tho middle of the subway stair under the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, thereby enabling crowds coming up and crowds going down to get by each other without fierce combat. We wonder if this ts one of Hedley's patents. Hits From Sharp Wits. Ive near enough to serine to think | generally to be found Of sitting by the river's brink, cbair. And there in soft and sweet repone Hear bow the gurgling batt jug flows. Baltimore Sun, . in an cas: You can't nicasure a man's appe- tite by the distance around his mid- ® dle. When a womun isn't hearing bur- glare in the dining room s#he ts always emelling something burning. * ee ‘The money that used to make the mare go iy now barely sufficient to buy gasoline for the automobile. Albany Journal, SE the People. readers, if I were to call on one or More siore managers and earnestly Tequest them to keep their establish- ments open on al! future holidays? Yet shopping on holidays very for- cibly expresses thin request. Read- ers, kindly remember thls and try make your purchases at times other than Lincoln's or Washington's Birth- A man who rests on his laurels is Letters From Te the Editor of The Krening Wo: There are many ways of showing want of consideration for others, but the practice of deferring our shoppin until @ holiday ie one of the wors by so doing we deny to th hard-working store employ \lege We ourselves enjoy. consider it kind or just on my part,!day, CONSIDERATE SHOPPER. _ | Dollars and Sense By H._J. Barrett | ee FoI had the money which ts “Very modifications in the} wasted annually in this coun- i, of ra > effect sub- y . oxee. ® al vings, ‘ooden tops try through excess freight | jo rely instead of cloth Tan nial charges arising from ignorance and in packing I'd retire on said a manufacturer most cominodities at least one class, On some non-perishable products shipped in barrels the absence of top does not carry & penalty. Good shipped knocked down invariably command « lower rate than those set| up. | ‘or years u vertuin manufacturer! of shafting shipped his product with! couplers, pulleys and hangers ut- | |tached, He was charged at first class| jrates, A new shipper reduced his! j(lassification to fourth class merely by shipping these goods non-a ° by assem - | | “The rulings issued by the jure admitted recently, “Goods which could weil be shipped in boxes or barrels are packed in crates, which pushes them into a higher classification; products which; could imto crates often are shipped with the same result. “As @ general rule, the more stantial container, the lower less expensive the classification. This is to penalize the man whose methods of packing are likely to result in dameges aguinst the railroad, But it does not always apply. So weird ave some of the rulings that in ship- ping a desk across the country } dis- covered that to put several pounds of roge tones in the drawers brought thy nt into u weight classifica-|money than to reduce your ship) ing bh waved severul dollars in|charges by ascertaining the one best I. and cheapest method o ii in railroads and dificult tudy of them | the whape of And 1 don't] thod of saving intriea Ca patient vard in savings. know of any easier m s The Evening World Daily Magazine. Monday, Februar aniiv Steg eee o 66T\O you know,” said Popple, the shipping clerk, “its awfully hard for me to keep track of the war developments. What will this country do with the Appam, the German ship captured by the Britis as it entered Newport News harbor?” “Goodness, Mr, Popple said Mise Primm, secretary to the boss. “Why don't you read the news more close- y? It ts a British ship and it was ptured by the Germans, It went Lo Nowport News to get more hospital internes for the wounded, I believe they're interning it now.” “I should think the British wouid capture a German ship in turn,” said Bobbie, the office boy. “Tut! tutl” me trom Spooner, the bookkeeper, “Let's be congenial’ this morning. I think, Miss Primm, you © used the word ‘intern’ incor- tly. will tie up to the shore until the war is over.” “It shor will," @aid Bobbie quietly. Miss Primm tgnored Bobbie's com- ment. Turning on Spooner, she sal “If you please, my dear Mr. Spoone: you will refrain from criticising m, uso of words, I went through college and did very well as an English stu- dent. Do you know the meaning of the prefix ‘in?’ “Sure,” came from Bobbie, n inn js a ttle hotel where auto par- tiles stop to grab a highball and a sandwich and maybo"-—— “Oh, shut up, Bobbie!” said Miss Tillle, the blond stenographer, “If you don't I'll have to get a balm for my head.” “You uso one on your hair every |, asked the boy. "Bob- jome- morning, don't you Miss Primm laughed quietly. bie, you're a funny litte fellow times,” she sald. “Oh, is that so?” Tillie of Miss Primm through college old hadn't invented that word ‘ his annabridged dictto: “Not Daniel Webster oah!"” Yaw!" came from Bobbie, you try to be smart all the time, don't you, Bobbie?" asked Popple. Yoah don't,” replied the boy. nm stamped her | foot, it out, Bobbie! she almost outed. “Now, you mind or I'l re- port you to Mr. Bnooks, As for you, Miss Tillle, I'll have you know that I'm still a very young woman.” Cole and Bob of Missouri were Younger,” sang out Bobbie. “Awfully far-fetched humor!” She was interested by the entrance tern’ for said Popple, xt Mr. Snooks, the boss. He disap- peared in hig private affice. A mo- later he came out, he said, "lm to make a speech to oll me night at a dinner, What's that old joke’ about the servant girl putting oll on the fire and being blown so Ligh she disap- red ‘Oh, Mr. Snooke, Primm, “that's a good joke. The rest is, ‘sho hasn't bengine since.’ wouldn't believe ft, I'll bet you, but I invented that joke myself.” “ls that 607" said the boss, ‘Well, Ta this case It means the ship | Dan Webster | “Gad to get that money out! The Office Force By Bide Dudley —— | Copyright, 1016, by Tho Pres) Publishing Co, (The New York Svening Worl! | I've always liked it—ever since T was @ ittle boy.” It was entirely unintentional and Mr. Snooks returned to his private office without realizing he had made 1 declare! @ sort of faux had closed “And Mr, know young man,” s: Miss Primm. “IT hope bri | N Dear Adam est man, maybo he nev live. came upon Magnificent” |nero of The b: College—says: "These Big } soldiers a wa | write in news | ings don’t care. | thelr dinners, of thet | money, of thol | home” | Adam, I belleve every word of that and I never heard {t from man be- Women ot | fore. | ashamed upon ourselves. long ago by W. that no woman | tellectua! | France 1s an | woman has ev | herself, never recognized love, for in- stance, as merely the reaction to cer- tain stimuli. Now what does it matter whether | you call love |sons do or a “reaction to certain |stimull?* Whatever we call it sen-| | thmental and nm will Iright on Hing In ‘and seit. | conscious ellectuals will go on “re- {acting to vertain stimuli’ and caine from Miss jing very proud and superior because | they have foun You | phrase for the same old thing. But women |i ter, We prefer Just Uke that, Snooks is he said. He is only in a book and) His name ts Prothero and I him pursues the aristocratic life--he wants to think big thoughts, do big things. And his friend—the wise man, honest man, who !s a fellow of Oxford | botty is thinking of them really, Ev- lerybody Is thinking about the Near! Things that concern himself. demanded Miss | nonsense to suppose people think “Hiy jokes are | Politics because they are in ‘em, all right when they hit me, ch? Well, | Well suppose that the passen, T'll tell you one thing—when you went | ner understand it. | think us so personal, so concentrated in the When his door turned his pas. where you may napped te infuriated “And,” sie concluded, you land ‘in the fire and lone."* £0, | The Jarr Family —— By Roy L. McCardell | i | ! i ' i | ) | | | i | t | i "en too youmg to begin saving.” | Copsright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (‘The New York Kredlag World.) home early to-da Mrs. Jarr. Sister from Chicago ere this afternoon.” that's the case I'll not roplied friend have company me” “Tm sur do not want Jarre went on. to come hom Leap Year Love Letters From the New Eve to the Old Adam Ooprright, 1916, by T’he Prem Publishing Co. 0. VU. I have found an hon- cr llved--never could} “The Research | Wells, The Magniticeat! in iH. Research y the Things of Yours no- It's all ot As ors On a the engines or the Even the men who pors and tulk at meet- | ‘They are thinking of clothes, of thetr jr wives, They hurry feel it and are not That ts why you I read an article not L. George which said had ever been an in- sense that Anatole! intellectual—that no ' seon life apart from love as sensible per- feel- id a newer and longer ke the old words bet- to say--[ love you— Do you know, Adam, By Nixola Greeley-Smith New York Hrening World.) husband. you won't 3,” sald “Mrs. Kittingly’s | *atisfy you!” said Mr. Jarr. ie going bs home “It want i © no one wants you if youl, Mrs. | ean what I thought the other day, that 1 might as well be converted by Billy Sunday as feel the way I do about you? I mean that it req more intense and unreasoni uires no ing emo- tion to hit the trail than to be as much in love as I am. Hei ing like a silly schoolgirl. E let me deceive you, Adam, neath all this softness and cold, logical and hard, remember aft you had kn a little while you said tha not think like a woman’ women are flattered by that re I am,! now, dreaming and acting and w But don't Under- am obstinate Do you nown me t I “did +” Most remark. Whe. I was very young I used to be. But I know now that it ts that I do not want {t to be t not true, rue, that it 1s part of the amazing sex-egotism she has no beard. She docs like a man?" T suppose It is love that m clairvoyant {n the matter of beauty, After a while tt you # vision of her mind you will understand that tt fer from yours and still You will have to come to it to economize. ‘The human cepted monogamy primarily use it was right but because {t cheap. And the Greeks did not of men to assume that if a thing is good it ls male, and if it is male it fs good woman of genius Is a man said Edmond de Goncourt—or maybe it was Jules. Was any! thought so concelted ever crammed into a phrase before? And yet in i your hearts you all believe it. Some- times it astonishes me that the men ‘ Je oven the superior beauty of woman, Why don’t they say to themselves: “She can't possibly be beautiful, not look akes you woman's will give aiso and may dif- be good. » if only race ac- not w educate their wives—they were kept at home merely to spin and have children, But they gave their lov @ specially trained class, the irae, who could discuss, between ses, questions of politics and statecraft, But to-day that division f interest {s too expensive, The wise and thrifty citizen combines the two functions tew of us are equal to it. I may be because I love you, of keeping his home and entertaining him in the same woman his wife, It ts some job, Adam, and I pray hat EVE. “Oh, I'll be home early, {f that will | “Don't | y anything more about It.” | ‘Well, she's a very nice girl, or woman, rather," explained Mrs. Jarr. | “She's had a lot of trouble, poor | thing, Her husband was a brute and | she bad to leave bim. I've mot her at Mra, Kittingly’s and Mrs. Kitting! trying to make r forget her troubles, and I invited her to come and spend the afternoon. But notb- | ing seems to rouse her, poor thing! | Her heart is broken.” | So Mr, {met the [she was Jarr came home early and! lady. She was young and | Ir, and it wasn't a nara! {task for Mr. Jarr to play the agree- | able; 1f, as an injured wife—injured | {in ber tenderest emotions—she had | |any troubles on her mind, she gave no sign of it when gentlemen were present, She Joked with Mr. Jarr about being @ grass widow and also opened a budget of stories, which re- | minded Mr, Jarr of a few. Mrs. Jarr | was kept busy with other matters and | the entertainment of the caller fell, almost entirely upon Mr. Jarr. The visitor sang and Mr. Jarr sang, | her, | and then they both sang tog: They got in an animated conver: concerning people they knew in cago, and when finally she said she! must go, both sho and Mrs, Ja: agreed that it had been indeed w pleasant call. ‘ “I'm #0 glad you came,” sald Mrs, Jarr. “Now, you must come often We must go to the theatre, too, Mr |Jarr must take us, We will make a jolly party!" |" “Beems ‘a nice Uti marked Mr. J ftor had fi 'y 6 “I'm glad you t Jarr telly. “Don't you think so? asked Mr. | Jarr. “Sho'g not the kind of person I| number among MY friends,” hissed | Mrs. Jarr. “Of course, YOU' like her. She's the sort you DO like.” | ng, eh?” re- he lady vis ne. { hink s0," sald Mrs, people! I don’t thank Mrs, Kivtingly | for introducing me to her, even if she is her sister, and I always did say I had my suspicions of Mrs, Kittingly! | If I ever meet either of them again Th cut them dead!” “Gee whiz!" cried Mr. Jarr, “Don't you ever ask me to speak to any woman in this house again!” “Not that kind of a woman, I won't," replied Mra. Jarr. “And don’t | to me! Don't say nother! speak word|"" y 7. 1916 J of woman is always lucky.” jabout it? The Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copgrtght, 1016, ty The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) THE GIFT OF THE MAGI, by O. Henry, , IM YOUNG was earning $80 & week when he married Delia, Them his salary was cut to $20, He and Della pald $8 a week for she privilege of living in @ top floor “furnished flat” somewhere in Hariem. : The tawdry little flat held just two treasures, Ono of these was Della'a Slorious hair, which rippled in brown waves to her knees when she jet | down, The other was Jim's huge gold watch that had been his father's and bis grandfather's, Nothing el#e in the place was worth having or selk ing or stealing, Christmas was coming. Della had saved and ecrimped for months, lay ing aside every penny she could spare from the housekeeping money to buy Jim a Christmas But on $20 @ week in an $8 a week furnished flat {t isn't easy for am {nexperienced young housekeeper to save. And on Christmas Eve, when Delta counted her hoard, she found she had only $1.87—most of it in pennies, Sho sat down and hed a good cry, That was the woman of it. Then she i tak Cal Gan Oe ee br And again that was the woman THe Chrtetmes which she hed an inspiration, A genuine inspires Moard, tion, anmanaccatageiatenatind Ghe hurried out to the nearest wigwaker’s estab'ishment, let down her wonderful hair and asked how much #* wad worth, The proprietor offered her $20. Della gladly accepted. The wigmaker cropped her hair close td the head. And with the prin fortune of $21.87 Della started on a tour of the shops to find a Christmas worthy of Jim. At last she found tt. It was platinum fob. Just the thing for Jim’g huge gold watch. They charged her $21 for tt. With her purchase and 87 cents Della raced home ¢o make ready (oq Jim's return from work. Ho came home late, but excitedly happy about something. At sighf a Net close cropped head he halted aghast and stared et her in epecche jess dismay, Delta gayty explained that her hair would some day grow again. me gave Jim the beautiful watch fob. But somehow he seemed even Sane ined and dumfounded at sight of the gift than et the lone of Presently he rummaged tn his pockets and fished out @ parcel, Pt wag his Christmas present to her. Eagerly Della opened the package. Then her face tock on some of husband's dismay. The present wasip cet of side-combs that she had for ever since first she eaw them in @ shop window several weeks earlier, “I sold the watch to get the money to bug i A Double H you comba!” shamefacedly Jim confessed. Bide-combs for a shorn head! A watch Seorifies. for @ man with no watcn! an A supremely exchange of presents? Not necessarily. ‘ Of all givers since the Magi brought gifte to the Babe in the perhaps none have been wiser or more full of the true Christmas love and of sacrifice than Wore these two marri with their chief treasures for each other’s happ! Onn spirit led sweethearts who parted ness, When a Man’s Married —— By Dale Drummond — Copyrig’t, 1916, ty The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Drendng World.) CHAPTER Iv, wouldn't play cards anywhere unleap HIE tea kettle was boiling merrily | they aeneee Pe ould ‘ast bo “past 5. That she woulda bee) peony was laying th® Keep George walting for bis dina table when Jane came burry-| and—what are you looking at y ing in, It was her first afternoon; watch for with that expression of at the bridge club and she was all|¥OUr face? I know it was + o'clo pe ag When X came home, but what of 1¢ : tt “Weil, did you win a prize?" Rovert| once In awhile © Pave & little tua asked as he carefully straightened a! "You should | fold in the cloth. In spite of bis ub- ve heard them The very itlea of talk about it. Jections Jane had insisted upon join-| VOman giving up her liberty in that Ing the elub. way was disgusting,’ M: Brady dee “No! but I would if {t hadn't been| “!@red, and I think so too. for that Mrs, Harper! She's the! Robert groaned inwardly, but only woman who lives in the big brick| "Marked very gently: house as you turn to go to the sta-|, 1 thought you held George up ae an ignane of all the vy: “No such thing! All men are selfis and he's no different from the re T'll bet, if Emma does & around telle ing how good he is to her. Wop shouldn't he be when she makes ton. I never saw anything like he: She bid over me every blessed time, then would insist on playing nollos} when I had every high card in the pack! It was disgusting!” Jane tied on her kitchen apron go viclously she! Irtues."” broke the string. martyr of bereelf for btm! Poor gi “Who did get the prize?” “T wouldn't waste my ayn y “Mrs, Harper, of course! ‘Th Robert said dryly. bb fen “Sho seem happy to me. And I like ae, sho tries to help George along. Hi Was lslling me how well she had mane aged even when they wore first mare ried. Of course, they have been aN tied several years, and she sho. know hor he added lamely, h m the signe of @ storm,” nd you should have seen lovely clothes the women in thin Low wear. They were all beautit gowned. I felt like @ perfect dowdy with my countrified clothes,” ‘ “I'll bet my hat you wer looking woman there, and. probe the youngest. If you knew, ere probably ever: 6 at sort | “What was it?” | “Ob, the dearest cut glass vase; | it must have cost at least $3. [¢| would have been just the thing for flowers for the table, You know we| have no centrepiece. I'm mad yet “Doesn't that make tt rather expen- sive, dear, for the one who entertains the club? A three-dollar prize added to the cost of Lie food means a lot to poor people,” Robert sald, trying to smile but feeling more Hiké crying here you go again! Always cry- ing ‘expense.’ Ido wieh I could do any- thing, go anywhere, without hearing go \ ¥ one of them thut ‘word. I hate it! Anyway, I/vying you,” R seit} sha‘n't have to entertain until the very! cally, ee wie ae added fonihae' lust of the season, as I am the last) helplessness. How would he over one to Join able to natisty tho desires of the et's be thankful for that and eat|he loved so dearly, but who see! our dinner.” 80 dissatisfied with’ what he could” “Oh, Robert!" Jane exclaimed, try-|for her? ae ing to draw his attention from the badly cooked dinner put u; hurry. You know I w. Ho wrung out the clot pin auch a| the dishes away, aed tony rt apt Wondering | sat studying the “Rule Play why Emma Lovojoy didn't belong to| Bridge” in tho evening parce, teey ine the club dered what he could do withou ag e that she might have more, a na told Mra, Fisher that she (To Be Continued.) Pop’s Mutual Motor—By Alma Woody Copyright, 1016, by Tho Pree Publidhiog Co, (The New York Lveaing ‘ rde 4 66 J) vou notice how well thoy) “Oh, that was # pack of handled tho ast snow-| lms,” Milton. Just ial tte hoods storm?” asked Pop, “The|Shildren—how beautitutly ~~ dressed. And how nicely | ” were passable in no time! And see, they live in’ the oak 4 restricted park. ‘They must he wey et's go out In the car and look ely brought up," oe for some pretty snow,” suggested Ma, | «qzitgn WERE Ids," Poo announced, “We won't have to go far-—up Tarry-| Up hill r P and down dale they town way, I guese.”” Tho dry snow churned out {nore wa ne And an hour later they were more|th® wheels, = The | mo | igh hed laughter and gay shouts of chit than repaid when their eyes fell on|dren rang outron thee no's the s u DO the sombre Pallyades, sheeted in| Ma smiled and reminded’ prin? att hor oor certs never mot | white, the cold, blue-gray Hudaon,| ten miles an hour was fest ol, that ee mecorel orled Mr. J69?, “SOU cos with los chuaka streaming | AD? WHOR ha brousne ae ohne Insisted I should be here and help| ‘lotted . 2 TaihS | the starting point and told tee to entertain her. You made me do it!” | slowly at thelr base trip was at an end, ther antes the “I didn’t ask you to uct stlly over ll you ploase give us a hiteh,| thelr sled ropes nnd’ ones, Unlvosened hor. 1 didn't think you'd make so sir?" a slrill, little voice cut into thelr | up to the side of the ecr Vcome free with a strange woman! And in! rapt meditation of nature's majesty. “Thank you, sir, for giving my own home, too |. Pop looked over the side. A smmiling|@ good time,” iVINg Us suody Yet you are making up parties to| boy, topped with @ scarlet toboggan| “See?” sata Ma when they sts take her to the theatre, are you not?” |cap' and bundled in woolly clothes, aguin, “what did | teil ue Me?" asked Mrs. Jarr. “Me? I| stood there holding a bob-sled. Be- t little angels. I knew that» ut guens NOT! You can take Wer to bind him was s group of youngsters, | dren dressed Hike that sit'itiae ile a ers if are 80 | pi veked, ing-eyed, lovely, si! eau bre lid fond of the oomnany of that. ont aa heeked, sparkling-ey: eager in we restricted park couldn't a sald Pop, aot un- kindly. @ snowball hit the back of th, “On, Ma broke in impul- | Others followed, gome finding lx ing sively: "Why won't you give the kid-|in Pop's neck—some tn Ma's neg fie dies a ride Faint shouts, given ear to, beccme “Now, lissen,” said Pop. In the| “Hock the tin Waard!” “iyeg0 firgt place, there's the danger.” | Qivver!" do, th “It won't burt you to go slowly,” ‘ou see!” Pop rey objected Ma, tlently, when they'd mit ney ope “In the second, don't I know the| war zone, hoodlum's bo matter where he lives. “wood! way kids act after they get a hitch? wi rf mind takin, td Bae Ming Ghat ‘elola out me Don't you remember our lest vert”

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