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_The Eveni jay Tlorld. ESTADLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Dally Except sunday vy the Presa Publishing Company, Now 5% to 63 Park Row, New" York. RALPH PULITZER, Preadent, 6% Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Class Matter. weription Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International @ and Canada. Postal Union, ' . 9.75 $3.50 One Year... .80/One Month. Year. .. NO. 19,903 VOLUME 56.. ®: THE POWER OF CIRCUMSTANCE. bs VERY THING comes to pass in politics. Yet who would have) thought a rock of Republican conservatism like Elihu Root} : could fly from its firm base to become a battgring ram? Why has Mr. Root limbered his muscles and gritted his teeth to Jat and hack at the Administration like a Warrior of the Spear? Why @ does he assail the nation’s ears with talk of fists and guns and aggres- Sision? Why does he too blaze with wrath because tho first thought of the country is not of armies and wars? + Why? Because the Republican Party is desperately in need of n issue. Be ‘Tariff, Cur- Fency, Trusts—Republicans and Democrats no longer divide witir] “*apirit. Because at this moment, when national honor and defense ause on the good old fractious questions— | fre in all men’s minds, the best way to attack the party in power + weems to be to light a colossal bonfire of Republican patriotism. i» Suppose a Democratic Administration had pushed the nation to ©, the verge of war: Should we not then behold a calm and steadfast M-. «Root appealing to the sober sense of American citizens, pointing to the »@Republican Party as the great sane and safe pacificator as against 4 .Fed-eyed, war-mad Democracy? me “There is nothing,” said Disraeli, “in which the power of ciroum- stance is more evident than in politics.” Nor is there anything which puts statesmen up to stranger antics. os *. ENGLAND RESTRICTS IMPORTS. 5 OW that Great Britain has proclaimed that after March 1 certain : commodities, including tobacco, furniture woods, wallpaper ef and wood pulp, may be imported only under license, American ‘interests will be further subject to the rulings of the British Board aot ‘Trade. . From the beginning of the war this powerful protector of British “@ommerce has been wide awake and busy in a hundred directions. Its gtforts to regulate the relations between American exporters and their markets in various parts of the world were exposed months ago by ©The World. While British armies were fighting in the field the British Board of Trade has-used every means to make even neutral “nations recognize the ascendency of British commerce. The new restriction of imports is expected to give the Govern- ‘ament fuller control of free tonnage and better regulation of the trade “in what are considered luxuries in war time, ‘The discovery that the cost of living has advanced 47 per cent. since the beginning of the War no doubt urges England to more thorough conservation of her . forces. Her Board of Trade is a strong asset. “object to its methods cannot but admire its vigilance. ———E * TOO MUCH COINCIDENCE. + ROOKLYN’S $5,000,000 pier fire, which destroyed or damaged three big ocean steamers and thirty-seven barges and lighters, ‘ «may have been due to natural causes. The fact remains never- *theless that the steamships were chartered to carry munitions of war *to the allies. ‘The captain of one of them is positive that at the ont- ‘break of the fire he saw the pier ablaze in five or six different placcs, also that earlier in the night he could find no watchmen about. *** There is no absolute proof that the fire in the Chicago City all yesterday was of incendiary origin, It started, however, close by a sehemice] laboratory where poisons were being analyzed in an effort "to find evidence of the alleged anarchist plot to poison 300 guests *@t a University Club banquet last week. , The letter Mayor Mitchel received yesterday warning him that "New York’s City Hall might be destroyed by fire one day this week ‘may have been written by a joker or a lunatic, Unfortunately this is not a time when suspicion can be pooh- “poohed. Too many attempts to destroy munitions or ships that earry ‘Sthem have been authentic. Nor when the world is full of violence Sand unrest would it be surprising if anarchy were excited to new and “dnistér stirrings. “>. No alarmist measures are needed. *Apquiry into the origin of mysterious fires are clearly called for. Hits From Sharp Wits. In talking to other women a wife often prove themselves to be simply +yean always find something about her | dead. chusband to brag on, no matter how worthless he is and how well she iIsnows the fact.—Macon News. 2 Se wr "To a person who finds delight in king back silence is exasperating. — Ibany Journal, Even those who must But watchfulness and careful ore. Ask some ‘people their advice and they think they have greatness thrust upon them.—Deseret News. Pyaar wie | Miladi says a good forgetting is as much to be desired as a good mem- ory When there are unkind things in| the wind,—Memphis Commercial Ap- | pe awe qb2Things that are c: a Pollars and Se (Copy rig By H. J. Barrett Barrett.) | HE other day a teacher, who wished to reward his little stu- dents at the end of @ term of close study on their part, brought a pailful of pansy plants into the schoolroom, He announced that each students as he was leaving might take one of the posies home; that if they would put the little plants in a bit of earth somewhere in the sunshine, the plants would grow and bear more pansies. Whereupon each took his pansy and joyfully departed. A little girl with golden curls, holding her plant close to her, waited until the others had gone. She approached the teacher, and with tears In her eyes said: lease, teacher, may I not leave my pansy on my desk in school where the sunshine comes? For no sunshine comes into my house.” And it was true, Upon investiga- tion it was found that the little girl came from a struggling family who were huddled together in three little rooms in @ rear tenement, where Old Sol never smiled—a place where little children were expected to grow and where no plant could, It was also learned that these people, who had to be saving of their bread, were starv- ing for beauty as well, The sorrow of being unable to love the little plant in her own home was terrible to the child, and she had to be content to bask in its beauty during the school period, There are hundreds like her living in our great, seething, rich city to- Wie, by My I was a your “ HE: remarked the store This is suffering was his parting shot soleum, If 1 stayed her from dry ‘It's a meu general man day—the city of laughter and love, and where there is SO MUCH sun, You, gentle reader, will say, “What ager of one of a chain of | * any long: a ager ot on t a oY i { Fa become a mummy, t we is to be done about it? You will feveral large department. stores, t oe | One geveral mangzor| Plame the landlord of the tenement, out of my subordinate i patie ee ry Ou Fons “ mans " or the legislator, or the family itself, “Nowadays my attitu perintendency and. some ten veara | YOu Will cry out in demand that such 2 mene RINGERS 1 one t back, to the general managership, A Places be torn down and livable e d develop the few years ago m ohtef, rke “ 201 d low cos ers of my employees. By ¢ fhe hill oo Ml Mc a, Ph Treita fates as ue Bb tan Oleh ing initiative and enterprise 1 have | lays a Week in this store ine | You will suggest “community kit- g@ucceeded in creating an efficient me that he was le “fia chens" id “socia ettlements” teeth, creas an sminent CASH Re wRA leavin, | cheua!” aud) social asttlementa” and perce omeors Mata tNeiter {roma big or- | play-roofs made by law, and better oi Merwenty years ago when | was as-| pinined I knew he was reseivigg Wages, and “back to the land,” and temistant superintendent [ hired a! $15,000 annually, I concluded that it, #!l tho rest~all of which are good young fellow named Heisler a® a) must be some offer and must be campaigned and galesinan of domestic He worked! “Shortly after Parker bade oh r to bring rea eee tor thires or four. yeare and | gocdiig ed ec wnt eee ete ee tle | fought for to bring rest results and proved to be able and reliable. ‘the advent of my new superior, One, D&tter conditions Jer was always suggesting new and) morning 1 received a wire from head- | Ye the inte e ayy etter methods of doing things, a| quarter New operating mn Fy; yh a be Jptertin, there 1s some tendeney which our general manager | arrives Tuesday A. M! thing to be done ahout It—something a was inclined to discourage “Who do you suppose strolled non- you and me, However much like aahe day the head of t young | chalantly into my — office about 11) Sunday sehool platitude it) may elerks’ department announced that o'clock? Heisler! None other, He sound, each of an carry some 8 had uccepted an offer from a was the new operating manager, He|enine’ somewhere thyy hk gnaun Eastern store, Heisler promptly had scored a tremendous success in| *hine somewhere that it does not s plied for the vacancy, We all joined! the East. It was only through the BOW come. It is the civic interest in laughing at his presump:ton,, and | offer of a prinosly compensation that /that Is lucking—the duty that you Nn our representation to the head he had been induced to join us, call upon yourself to perfor: ohice a newman was imported from| ‘So you see,” concluded the speaker | na wily ota b ; ie Pen the East, A month or two later with a rueful smile, “one never knows © something mbowb st" Yom ins aod informed us that he was the potential capacity of his own eed. Do anything except be indit- for distant city, staff,” ferent, How? There are hundreds of By Sophie Irene Loeb. Sunless Corners Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening We Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, February 17, 1916 Stealing T. R.’s Clothes own ol Casse Tahing Co, > (Pie Ne By J. . « is to marry her. paredness, Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (7! TT" quickest and surest way for a man to get his mind off a woman New York Kivening World), After twenty-nine, an unmarried girl stops hoping and struggling to find her “Ideal,” becomes absolutely neutral, and puts her faith in pre- Fireproof buildings, waterproof coats, and holeproof hosier: the marvels of the age; but, alas, why has nobody yet had the brilliancy t> invent a foolproof marriage contract? are among Any girl, with a little intuition and a little experience, can distinguls) between a sentimental “connoisseur” and a mere scalp “collector” by tho way in which a man kisses her the very first time. “Short measure:” What a man tells the doctor about liis habits, what @ woman tells the jury about her @ge, what a husband tells his wife about his avocations, and what the average man tells a woman about anything. Next to two appendicitis patients arguing as to whose operation was the more dangerous, perhaps the most amusing thing {s to hear two gras# to invent them. forty. through three-quarters of the night. |THE continued popularity of the tailored suit, together with the increasing favor shown the sep- arate skirt, has created a strong des mand for the separate waist, and so it happens that the shops are display- ing a large and varied assortment of ouses. | A new note in waists is that they should match the suit in color, and so we see many models in navy, African brown, dark green, battleship gray, purple and black, These are usually made up of soft fabrics and it is safe to say that chiffon cloth and Georgette crepe are the favorites, although taffeta, satin, charmeuse and faille all come in for their share of popularity. There seems to be a strong tendency to get away from the dark tones that have been thrust upon us during the past year, and so the woman who is disinclined to wear the dark match- ing waist has a good choice for setec- widows disputing as to whose husband was the more fascinatingly wicked. Sven when a girl doesn’t believe all the things a man tells her @bout himself, she can’t help admiring him for having the brilliant imagination It is folly to say that a youth of twenty cannot love a rich widow of He can—just as he loves the lamp-post on which he leans—until be lean get the strength and equilibrium to walk away from it. The days may be getting longer—but somehow that never seems td make a man any less anxious to improve them, by stringing them out This Season’s Blouse sheer silk crepes, silks and sating, The shades are red, yellow, blue, pur- ple and green, These bright waists are particularly pretty with the rich velvet or handsome cloth suite. For practical wear the sem!-tailored models in white or flesh colored crepe de chine are the favorites. Velvet waists are seen, but as these are too warm for indoor wear, they are combined with alk, chiffon or Georgette crepe. Invariably the sleeves, collar and vest are of the Ighter fabrics. Most of the waists are made , in simple styles. High collars and long sleeves are the new features. Even though fashion has decreed the high collar, individualism js so supreme that women who prefer the low collar demand it, consequently many of the new models are finished with the low collar, and whether the neck shall be dressed high or low still remains a matter of option with the American woman of fashion. The waist of sheer material has a lining of chiffon or net which is either {in white or flesh color, while for prac- tion among the bright hued chiffons, tical wear th: 8 of a matching shade. — By Roy L. groups of people who need your not | A The Jarr Family McCardell — Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), * there be a regal solitude it is a TAIHAG Lae aticatine thatthe Holber Mrs, Jarr sat at her sewing,|slight scuffle and shuffling of feet | sickbed. How the patient lords it i. supe , othe and Mr, Jarr read his evening | and chairs could be heard and a re- there; what caprices he acts with- half” needs so badly. paper—the children being put|sounding slap would reverberate | out control! How king-like he sways Join one of these groups. ery|to bed—suppressed laughter and|from the cuisine, |nis pillow—tumbling and tossing and little bit helps.” Maybe the “Ray of|murmurs were heard coming from] Mr, Jarr was familiar with the! shifting and lowering and thumping Sunshine Club,” which has written tthe tant region, so to speak, of} sounds of courtship among the | and platting and moulding it to the me, may advise you, the Jarr menage, Ever and anon, a| masses. | ever-varying requisition of his throb- “s Fie caret “Gertrude has got a beau to-night, | ping temples. eh?” Mr, Jarr inquired, “Has the| He changes sides oftener than a Leap Year Love Letters From the New Eve to the Old Adam By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The No. 9, Jot my EAR Adam—Just as Gerald- | (5Dt & B DANSIBE OB A the w you know, re- ine Farrar foreswore all her counts the loss of one green bottle vows never to marry and Yew York Evening World), ns beginning, ttle Ninety- and tells how many bottles were left, become a wife, Mme.| For about six verses the bottle chant 4 a % | made a great hit Ganne_ Waise Polish | ““At the tenth green bottle the little prima donna, broke her engagement.) giri grew restless, at the fifteenth ng: she was bored, at the tw th she ‘ 5 Was angry, al he lwenty-fifth she | ‘One cannot be an artist and) vis screaming with rage. But such marry. | was my faith in the power of monot- Do you know that even Jony that I kept right on till she was though I am going to follow Geraldine's ex- | ney in slat ‘ew : v5 inva aime, Ale ‘| hen realized it of course ample, 1 believe Mme, Walska 48) stopped and began Cinderella over right? For marriage as 1 have ob-| again, and at the twentieth edition served it requires from women more | of Cinderella the child went to sleep, patience than anything So does! holding my hand, Of course I was motherhood—eternal patience, infinite | afraid to remove it for fear she would calm, Did I tell you about the time} wake up and ! Would have to tell Cin- put i to sleep? |derella again, At 1.80 her father and were us, and Alice} mother came back. Alice, radiant and Blair, who had been tied down to her| restored, confided that she had pe thr ar-old daughter from the| suaded Allen to take her to supper child's birth, wanted to go to the the- | Arter the play knowing that baby was with Allen, and, as she said, for-|in such good hands. for blessed hours At slic | She thanked me sweetly, She did 1s a mother, Mo L said nobly hot even notice that I was a ghat- “Go, A I will take care of the} tered, almost demented being, How baby for you." could she? I suppose she had been And Alice kissed her offspring a re- | through the same thing often, But lieved goodby and murmured, "Mamma |she has the temperament for it will be back in a minute, darling | ver since that night of madness I a good girl ‘Time means nothing t ive known What women mean who her,” she added, It was not very | say that art and motherhood are in- long before time meant nothing to] compatibl me. 1 began by sitting down by the} ‘Thy ily thing that makes me little girl's bedside and telling her| doubt their view is that there 80 Cinderella, already an old and valued | many sweet, simple, ealm and 4 friend, But 1 did not tell the fairy} women who are willing to be story in exactly the same words and| mothers to the ehildren of artists with exactly the same tones with|that the human race needs great which her mother’s voice had made | women as mothers more than it needs her familiar, {anything else, But one day with a So after I had taken several flat- | baby—with the best, the sweetest and tering encores. on Cinderella [per ist intelligent baby~takes more ceived that the baby was getting! from a woman's brain and nerve than wider and wider awake, And she| the most exacting art asked for her mother oftener and| You know, Adam, instinct of more fretfully, Once in a while T} preservation in every artist tells would stop hopefully, She would let! her that marriage is not for her, But just time enoweh elapse to lull me! the race instinct, still so powerful, so nto the bellef that had gone to} wonderful in woman, takes possession sleep, and then she would say of her. Her mind knows that it won't ‘on; more Cinderella.” quite do. Her body urges her on, That's if she were urging a balky horse to!our trouble, Adam=-the lack of co- tup." Jination between our minds and our This won't do," 1 thought, "She lics—-the fact that few women are needs constant repetition of the same|able to harmonize what they think sound to make her sleep. vith What they feel. You see, 1 am Aud 1 racked my tortured brain for} telling you what L think, now, because some long winded tale in which the same sound would be reiterated over| here, you overpowering person, I and over, All I could think of was| should not be able to think, I should a college chant I had heard from one’ be too busy loving you. BVE, you are away from me, It you were ae a od | the janitor," added Mrs, Jarr, mysterious missing milkman returned | politician, Now he lies full length, to plight his troth again? Ah, milk-)then half length, then obliquely, men are as weak as water: transversely, head and feet quite “It isn’t the milkman,” remarked | across the bed, and none accuses him Mrs, Jarr, “It's Gertrude's old beau, of tergiversation, Within the limits Claude, the fireman,” jof the four circles he is absolute. “A gallant lad, but fickle, I fear| He has put on the strong armor of me,” said Mr. Jarr. “So our Ger-| sickness, he is wrapped in the callous er hide of suffering, he keeps his sym- Srugesnash lured Hin: nagley pathy like some curious vintage un- “And Elmer, a very nice young | der trusty lock and key for his own man, I must say, even if he is em- ployed where he shouldn't be—in a use only. He is his own sympathizer and instinctively feels that none can well perform that office for him. cares for few spectators to his tragedy. To the world’s business he “So she bas Elmer, ‘" bartender, is dead, He understands not what the poor boob, on the string again, the callings and occupations of mor- too?” inquired Mr. Jarr, 1 Sgaln, | ve are, only he hos a glimmering wy ‘ : conceit of gome such thing when the You mustn't speak that way!" | doctor makes his daily call, and even said Mrs, Jarr sharply, “Elmer kept jn. the lines on that busy face he| of reads no multiplication of patients, way because he ayer ‘waa seslous conceives of himself as Claude, the fireman, and Claude, the | but superbly i man, fireman, kept away because he was the Sick MAM | 1 onioy monarchical Jealous of Elmer,” prerogatives. Compare the silent {tread and quiet ministry, almost by “And now they are both’ worship. | ted ant wi tin which he is Kerved ping again at the shrine of Gertrude Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy By Famous Authors THE FALL TO CONVALESCENCE, By Charles Lamb. with the careless demeanor, the un- ceremonious goings in and out of the very same attendants when he is get- ting a little better, and you will n- fess that from the bed of sickne to the elbow-chair of convalescence is a | fall from dignity amounting to a de- position. How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! Where is now the space which he oceupted so lately in his own and in the family's eye? The scene of these regalities, his sick room, which was his presence chamber, where he lay and acted his despotic fancies, how it is reduced to a common bedroom! The trimness of the very bed has a something petty and unmeaning in it, It is mado ry day. Hushed are those mysterious those groans, so much more while we knew not from what caverns of vast hidden suffering they pro- ceeded, The Lexnean pangs are quenched. The riddle of sickness solved and Philoctetes is become am ordinary personage. In this flat swamp of convalescenos, left by the ebb of sickness, far enough from the terra firma of estab lished health, what a speck has he dwindled into! The hypechondriaa flatus is subsiding, the acres which imagination {t had spread over—t the sick man swells in the sole cone templation of his single suffering till he becomes a Tityus to him: are wasting to @ span. For the of self-importance which I was so lately you have me once again in natural pretension—the lean meagre figure of an insignificant ese sayist. ' because they are jealous of the mys- terious missing milkman, who pro- posed to Gertrude up the dumb-waiter shaft and then disappeared without telling his name or lineage?” ventured Mr, Jarr, | “I do not Know what motives actu- |* ate them,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “I only} know that both of them are paying Gertrude attention again and she has! forgottert the wretch who won her confidence and blighted her life." “Geo whizz!" cried Mr. Jarr. “How could a man whose face she had not seen and whose voice she had never heard before until upon the occasion he bawled up from the cellar, ‘Milk! ay kid, will you marry me? blight Thrift wa 16—Forced Economy. H economy is looked upon asa thing that must be prac- tised it will never be felt as a burden, and those who have not before observed it will be astonished |to find what a few pence or shillings }latd aside weekly will do toward se- curing moral elevation, mental cul- ture and personal independence. ‘There is a dignity in every attempt to economize. Its very practice is improving. It indicates self-denial (By Permtetton of Harper & Brothers.) By Samuel Smiles and imparts strength to the charaoc~ ter, It produces a well-regulated mind, It fosters temperance. It te based on forethought. It makes pru- dence the dominating characteristic. It gives virtue the mastery over self- indulgence. Above all, it secures comfort; drives away care and dis- pels many vexations and anxtetles which might otherwise prey upon us, Some will say, “It can't be done," But everybody’ can do something. “It can't” is the ruin of men and of nations. In fact, there ts no greater cant than can't of each other, and yet they both turn up to sue Gertrude for her favors no doubt,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “A| {when the mysterious milkman ap- woman knows her own heart best, | pears upon the scene unseen and perhaps @ voice that proposes “You don't understand human na- marriage means more to a woman’s| tyro, it's quite evident," asserted Mrs. her life.” “It was the romance of it, I have life, though she never hear it again.| yarp, “It wasn't Jealousy exactly, but than the constant presence of a tri-|(iauae, the fireman, and Elmer fler.” couldn't understand how Gertrude ‘Awain a scuffle, a giggling protest| Cong care for the other, ‘They know and a slap were heard from the) ach other and despise each other, kitchen and that Gertrude could receive the addresses of the other caused both of them to cease paying her attention, ertrude’s life doesn't seem to be blighted much at present,” ventured Mr. Jarr, “But what I t wnder- stand is how Claude, the fireman, and Elmer, the bartender, both deserted \them both, and that brought them around, eppecially when they saw Gertrude because they were dealous Gextrude wearlpg hex engagement’ Jarr, admiriogly, But the milkman was a stranger to) rin ngagement ring?” repeated Mr, Ja “How could Gertrude get an engagement ring from the mysterious, missing milkinan, when she only hecrd his volee once, and never ac- tually saw or met him?" Mrs, Jarr looked around cautiously 1 ring,” she and sank her voice to a whisper, lent her the engagement You? Why?" asked Mr, Jarr, “You mind your own business an@ read your newspaper,” was the reply, “A girl has to have a beau or she won't stay in a place! Gertrude ob- jected to doing the ironing last week but she told me to-day phe felt stronger now, and I needn't get Mrs, Jones in for an extra half day on ac« count of the troning.” “Domestic science!” murmured My (et