The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1916, Page 10

The Eveni Che BWiorld ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, ae Pudlishe@ Bally Bxoept Sunday by the Prose Publishing Tompany, Nos. 53 to * Free Mocretary, e2 Park Row, Now York ar Second-Class Matter. tA For England and the Continent and AN Countries in the International Postal Union. 60} One Year.. 301 One Month A VAIN HOPE. STATE income tax has been ‘recommended ly the Mills Joint Committee on Taxation. It is proposed to assess this tax on the incomes of corporations within the State and of othe companies who derive their revenues from business in the State. ‘The tax would be levied on net income. Without going into all arguments for and agains! such a tax from various angles, State and Federal, a practical question presents itself: | Take the railway corporations of this city. We learn from the| inner financial history of the Interborough that $500,000 Bonuses to} bankers, $125,000 gifts to executives, payments for extraordinary legal services” amounting in a few years to $3,500,000, | not to mention a disputed $2,000,000 item for mysterious “commit- ments and obligations,” have been a few of the pale ink features in Taterborough budgets. { Should we find the Interborough figuring ifs net income before | all such bonuses, lawyers’ fees and bankers’ rake-off had been carefully | deducted ? ; | Would other corporations be slow to follow this eminent ex-| P ample? Would the net income tax find anything save the little that) | | special and corporation bookkeeping chose to leave in evidence? | The answer is obvions. If the taxpayers’ burden is to be light-| ened by help from the transit companies a tax on gross earnings is the} better hope. Interborough finance figures the Mills net income tax into ab-| surdity. a | . THE SMOKE NUISANCE. NCOURAGED by promises of relief for Riverside Drive resi-, dents, Staten Island has started a new action to rid itself of the long-standing nuisance of smoke and noxious fumes that! Mow over from factories on the New Jersey shore. Protests and court actions on this subject have been pending for years. There seems to be a fair prospect that the rights of persons and communities to unpolluted air may presently be defined. ee =<", It is strange that civilization has lagged so far behind in this} ~ppeeerenee direction. Anything more barbarous than huge chimneys belching soot and poisonous gases to blacken cities and weaken lungs it would —<ot have been difficult for humanity to conceive. Yet these huge smoke towers have been hailed as the fairest signs of progress. Only of late years has thero been any effort to find ways to consume the smoke and poison that industry vomits upon the landscape. Methods of smoke consumption, however, are now being con- stantly tried out. Every State should require its factories to study) — and adopt them. ecco pepiemenercemeemes \ EVERYBODY’S ENGLISH. ys : - S ' I WORLD reader complains of “the large class in New York and to some extent in other cities which refers to oil as ‘erl,’ girl! as ‘goil’ and a number of similar words.” There is no excuse M & for it, he says, “except carelessness.” Wane Is it carelessness? Carelessness would be more consistent. If|askea Mr. ‘ fgg)” % an “o} why distort girl into the I'm not going to have my d S|} when tho best slipshod speech finds “erl” easier than “oil,” why distort ¢ salt Ga, Aiabal's what you meen, more complicated “goil.” said Mr, Jarr. Corrupt pronunciation seems far oftener perversity. ney will tell you “as ’ow ’e’s tried hover and hover to say ‘haiteh’, He can aspirate it perfectly—in the wrong p rural New Englanders who always said “runnin’, nevertheless bring out “garding,” “curting,” “certing” with ringing Why, if it were merely a question of e anybody call it “thee-ay-ter” when “theat requires so much less These are mysteries that have never been explained. Some of) Rangle them are akin to the strange force which drives a man manoeuvring ———= | nome A man can get plenty of assistance |crumple at. what the other woinan | mone when he sows the wind, but when says, unless, of course, the o wo-|to Mrs it comes to reaping the Whirlwind |man has the tof her in the matter! “And harvest helpers are scar of operations.—-Houston Post es at a a 8 Many of the things man is going to] It is a noticeable fact that the do to-morrow will be left for posterity | women whu denounce the custom of | to perform.—Toledo Blade, ap year proposuls aye the ones who ea already marr 8 6 | mone Well, asked Another thing you have to give the | new styles credit for—they've shown that all the family skeletons are not} If you are poor and nobody you are | much, in closets.—Columbia te. “alek” or “getting v but if you'ro | eafaybe ° ° ° rich and somebody you're “indis-| |. n her share of the time | posed” — recuperating." Macon | Rangle not! News loft a night ’ _— r i on.” Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett (iced Mr dary “ SARVER, I’m about! THE BLANK BRUSH COMP. | “This ready to quit,"" sa “iif | Ay ing Department Mr. R as be walked into pile oes ontition pany fice of the Blank Brush Company's|io one complimentary wBanianess | “AML rie Clatrict manager late one afternoon. | Woven Wire Brush to be presented by | me BEX “It may be possible to earn a living M : rs selling brushes from house to house These card: ’ rive | and nh the mornin \ few hou an but I'm not man enough to make 5 . jlater the sales vil 1} The i go. should find little y obtains | They ‘ “It's no cinch, I'll admit that,” said|ing an intery ‘ usewife | end Mr Fd Barver, “but stay with it another|Wili be flattered « it ie week, The main office is about to tion: few will refine fo inapect the /and M inaugurate a new sales plan, and jt, con, ‘This little devi sane wheel ee | beneve it will help you felows out) voy will “ee ‘ men on the firing & preat deal, You! What is more Important, Inte b yee this?” The manager produced al yeh ; ; little brush oe pa his desk. “Here a vrush which retails at nds mighty we resumed. veral cases are down at per aL Re the freight house right You| an Pent tA mnie a say that your chief ob is to} aint having the ice broken obtain an Interview with the houses | way wife, This little brush should prove! And it aid. Willa’s commissions | ¥°" an open sesame, Be ing next! during the first week the new | your week, We shall select f from|regiine exceeded $20 ay thal ool fifteen to thirty names daily 1} Blank Beush Company: | t ane ‘ the blue book or directory for ehito each of Abld aa . 7 a waleeman and inal) to cach address) sules manager reports an average in this posteard.” Harver handed Ellis! creuse of 100 per cent, in individual) Wall x 1 Betis bile see “a 2 hn O¢ WEE’ Velly Megesise. Menesy, Tepe br tHe eel Oo, (The Now York Brening Word.) P naapaaanaaanaaanl a {Men Who Fail By J. H. Cassel | It was a fine looking book and th “The only interesting thing about my work is pay-d The Office Force —-By Bide Dudley —— Co, (The New York Eveuing World), 19 going absoad to fight, never come back.” Silence of a minute's duration fot- It was broken by Bobble, the The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1016, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), that your family needed.” ¢ joined Mr, Jarr at rs office at the clos ping clerk, as he el of his big books, “I sailed for England ps of the Brit- humbly, “I would have come home, but I can't come home when you are cross at me, What is my home to me little woman in the world Is cross at me? “Oh, please don't start that!" “I'm not going to drag you to any] plied Mra, Jarre frigidly +! highbrow affair, All 1 meant was If! choose to waste your No come hack for t itish army is made spect is a delus and @ snare.” 4 you and I couldn't go off together toe | like Rangle and let your family pe ce. We have heprd] night for a little innocent amusement | ish from cold, you may do so, demanded Miss |q', “drivin’,” “playin’,”|—have dinner together at some good! 7 Know you DID spend your money hey seem to want ‘ ace and then go to 4 good show.” “I'd like to,” said Mr, Jarr, final g’s. guess I better go home for dinner. | or carelessness, would} I'm in Mrs, Jarr's bad books as it 18] q ‘and I better square myself.” “Now, there's the biggest mistake a deliberate lingual effort? married think that's funny, snapped Miss I obnoxious with | hall ask Mr. he's. a good fellow—why Jarr answered. your so-called Snooks to speak to you i spoke to me last night," said »{him,” said Mr, Jarr, showing Mry. Jarr, much relieved, ey'll be just as mad at you if you don’t go home early, and get worried driving you from in too much ners | Even if you are 1 noticed by the pa- that six policemen were |! t)run 4 pleasant to-day if you stay out late they to step around the coal hod to put his foot squarely into it. {and think they" but if you give Hits From Sharp Wits. (es, tal ance So Wags the World ix, but the poll }tul with their ri “If you will permit Hl you the truth f haven't any » Should be more care- “T gave it all and then ——" By Clarence L. Cullen Copyright, 1916, by The I’rue Publishing Co i They always do it after they get the licemen were ow | T woule u mean pract t would over buying himself a badly qj until your needed pair of shoes, unless | at the same time he buys for his wife something of equal doesn't need, properly broken to the matrimonial | I'm too wise for that play.” Maybe you've notice the | stenographer. It means they ¥ wre at you for? ‘ He “What's your wife usually tells you Miss Primm, about his pros pooner sald ther be sald to be | am willing thought difference?” | for you people to humilia afternoon, you begin ae n't pay my share athens, to a make much diff ut in Lowa w nee) about the four | or five hookers of booze that you're going to have about ten minute pull down the 1 going to run for P Root,” said Popple “Root' for whom?" Miss Primm bega: “1 want com- Vl blow you to any standing red light, either! nd how ute} After having been successful for rabbing off the big end of the wish- me of the season's first turkey, and! wishing wistfully on all of ‘em with- once getting wishes across, on that wishbone thing. him pleasantly this morning.” “That's the proper spirit,” said Miss “And let's see that no cheap are in evidence when he's in and Mr, Rangle paid, had our two cups of Jav' in the ta taxicab and rode around rs | with wine with the wi sulked and et atten. | ‘They got box seats at a good show nd he bought | “Hello, folks!” said the boss a “L just met old man Got He never smiles od around for a dav with the hone of re. epriced on the street he intolerable situati ' a n, poke to me about the war, ind they came home in with a past” is darkly, muskily allur- you're forty Pp more tired next ‘Apri wers of her eyes and the te Hows on the sides of her chin, that | cause,’ I replied, ‘they will have just through thirty It's |tie turned on his he you think you are re- evenly to th 1 Do | forward cageriy to listen, We often think what a lot of fun od ae Sunday would be If tt wasn't for that | i job of washing the athtub and drying him But if you think no use, no use at id Miss Primm, Aho best joke I've heard In week The boss retired in his private of+ ldren perishing with haven't had any heat mu haven't be, any jokes in weeks, have you, Miss elaculates, | me en | called down gave me impudenc Because you used to lil your wife's hair rippling down her| She frowned fiercely at him replied | boy. hero puts one over on the vill- on that man Rangle-money | yard for ber to understand w * ppegens bearity the following teat; sules as a result of the simple device, money t ary 21, 1916 The Stories Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1016, by The Prew Publishing Co. (The New York Erening Worl THE CYCLOPEEDY By Eugene Field. I1PN Leander Hobart married Hattie Peasley he bought hor as @ wedding gift an encyclopedia, or a “cyclopeedy,” as the village folk called it, Lemuel Higgine, the neighborhood book agent, coaxed him into buying it by pointing out its value as a self-educator and as a means of spending the long winter evenings, Tag encyclopedia was not yet on the market, Lemuel explained, but would be publishbd one volume at a j time, at intervals about a year apart, Price per volume $5, payable on | publication, | Leander scrawled his signature to the contract, and he and Hattie ‘looked forward eagerly to the first volume. Around harvest time Lemuel brought them “Volume A.” were proud of it—until they had ‘Apples.” ‘The caption was: occasion to look in it for information on : See ‘Pomology. . * “Pomology” could not be looked up until the arrival of “Volume P* tey were mildly annoyed, But they made tho best of their bargain. Nexé year along came “Volume B." Along at the same time came the first baby One day baby was ailing. It occurred to his fond parents td look for inf disea) til ses in the encyclopedia’s second volume, 1} An Elusive under tho ttle of “Babies.” Rejoicing that the book | ‘Teal Was at last to be of some use to them, they turned the . pages until they reached this statement: ‘BABE See ‘M must walt eleven y nity, » until “Volume M” should be That meant the | published. By this time Leander had begun to detest the encyclopedia. He heartily erudged the yearly $5 he must pay for such a work. He told Lemuel 80, hat was all the good tt did him. Lemuel had the contract. Tho day Lemuel gave him “Volume D” Leander happened to be drains pasture lot. He thought the enclycopedia might contain useful on the art of draining, So he turnes it fo 3 | fa oe We et K. d to it for aid, He found: { One of the children fell 111 with hooping cough just abot As : ut the time “Volume H" camo out, Leander promptly hunted a remedy. And thia is what he read: jaa aie) “HOOPING COUGH: See ‘Whogping Cough." ly le are was getting used to this sort of thing | been getting used to it ever since he looked up “Cows” tn “Volu di t “C kde 4 - my | found ‘ows: See Zoology.” It was becoming an old story to him, a | Hattie died the year “Volume W" arrived, And Leander was growing fe hate nd ber ed a he simply would not die. He had one grim ambittg, in life, namely, to live until he had recety: v horrible encyclopedia. celved every single volume of thi Three years later he lay on his death-bed. ‘The weeping relations sud« aw him start up with a great light of triumph on his withered face, sed Lemucl Higgins was tottering into the rdom with “Volume Z" of the encyclopedia. Leander clasped the longed-for volume rapturo: to his breast, then sank back and died. Leander ated At precisely the right moment for his own peace of mind, Just a moment too soon to hear old Le : “Hold on! It ian't the last!” we taba) But Leander was lying at rest, mbition was achieved, At least he had died thinking so, + he didn’t Know there was stil an “Index Volume" to come {s suing the estate for the $5 due on it, a He had gradually deni Vor | | | His Life's Ambition. @ smile of victory on Me lips, Hie When a Man’s Married —— By Dale Drummond — Coprright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Co, (Toe New York Evening World), CHAPTER X. “Oh, Jane," Rob “aaa ANE waited in some trepidation for! you realized how. badln twee 2 Robert to speak when thelr &!ve you things you wouldn't talk like guests had left them. Would he one, But I must positively forbid bo angry and scold her about the ident abt for anything, De you understand?" t you intend to do | dress, or hadn't he realized what they| “I understand tha were talking about? {nothing for me. Why, Em: “What dress was that Mrs, Harper JY has accounts all-over. Sh ee | spoke of, Jane?” he asked, one gets so much better nition Lonwe king of her dress," Ban when they pay cash,” Jane re- | parring for time. plied, then thought of the w |" “But sho spoke of the same dress-/ she had not told Robert aoat a aker, ‘Hunting,’ I think she called Which she now dete: |her, having mado one for you." herself for a time ite kee “It was the blue one you so admired! “Oh, Robert," sho said in her tme |when I wore it to thé Brady dinner petuous way after remaining quiet a party.” few minutes, “Iam to have the Bri much did tho dress cost?" | Club for luncheon Tuesday. I want “I suppose I'm in for a lecture, but| You to help me make out the mena Tean't so without clothes forever, Just| | Robert looked up helplessly before beca ried. It cost fifty dol-| he said: “But T t let me have ‘a hought you were 208 to entertain them until towar use T'was beenune you were the last owe to ROE |, “I did say so, but Mrs. Holbrook Jane, that is| has gone South. Do you suppose we half a mont ’ didn 4 will ever be able to go South? Tt consult me before you spent so much? | was her turn, and they ‘wales “L en 4 care ue wa > whole to take it. Of course I couldn't my month's salary, Tha ve it, no. Thi to “Where did you get the money to play als eesti). for it?” Robert asked, sternly. | Robert groaned. “I don’ | didn't pay for it, I charged it.| you joined the elub wisn von kee | Mrs, Fisher recommended me, Uwe could not afford to keep up with jlon’t kee why you look so cross and | that bunch. T told you at the time tt |acold just because T bought a dress, was way beyond our means. Now nly a clerk, T have this dress must be paid for, and ted to have clothes you spring the club on me. I tell I know, dean” Robert said, pa-| you, Jane, wo cannot do these rly, “but you must not! things on’ a lara debt, € me the bill,! month. Bude. Sat ® | We must be very ec alcal until it} ‘Phen earn more! If is paid. ut out of the am going to shut myesi? Ge in aa use expen poky place and never go an: Nothing “I can't | you're mistaken! _I am too young to Ret lone decent! tong yite| Play old woman yet awhile,” and ways kicking about your food. If [| Jane burst into a perfect. pasal had known you were golng to make a| tears, PaCS re fuss every time I needed any clothes| For the first time since thel Hono on teuching school | riage Robert did not try to comfort lary was large enough|her. He was too annoy ; 1s noyed, ‘y 89 You, could dress your wife do- | tressed, ret) 0 cently.” “Fifty dollars! tient! (To be continued.) | Pop’s Mutual Motor—By Alma Woodward. Copyright, 1916, by The Prew Pub’ Tho Mitts’ living oa nd Ma are ar phone th me frau the A (weakly)~-You | so, Mil ton, I've got a stitch In my side: aing Co, (Tho New York Brening World), cents aplece on them, And she baked wat snneel cake specially for you uesday Pop (putting hand over transmit- ter)- Do you know the present prico soline? No angel cake on earth | {wi mp to t ‘ (Over the phone), ie cre ie “i! , the weather seems to have got- Pop (@ ro wilng) wt naa A. stitch | ten ‘into the car—it's all out of kilter, |in the side of this bathrobe it'd help| Oh, you were going to ask me to take |some, I mentioned it last Sunday, iple of your guests out to show oe m the clty? I see, eee | Ma (excitedly, at Pop's ear)—Ask Phone rings again very persistently.) her who they are. I'll bet it's her Ma (impatiently)—Milton, either| Uncle Charlie and her Aunt Molle go to the phone or don't go to it,|ffom Troy, Some people have got allt What's the use of letting them ring 8/1! (silencing luke that? Maybe it's one of your|—On> Swo nieces vou sayy egrets) friends, pose they're little country girls ty Pop (sourly)—Say, if I had a dol | Pave never Pra 4 ols city, I'm aw- lar for every one of MY friends Who) tuen anyother tone ates Ht had called up on this phon Va h ve tol "Ma (in disgust)—Oh, berern praia hock my key-ring for car fare, I've 9. was ‘ —Oh, fe qo a hunch that it's some one who or well have to ask her over 0 tog, wants to sponge on me for a ride in > stays the car this afternoon, Well, if it is, have nage Rig lve tea eae oar there’ nothing doing—the ear’ gl from Chicago—put you want (0 show oi tg eee then how different New York is? ) 5 4ittle broilers who are going to dance | "Pop “(robustly)—Hello! Oh, good-|in the new Spring Garden show? | morning, Mrs, Green, How are you| Well, I could go over to the garage this beautiful Sunday morning?;and see whether there's any chance Yos, it is a delightful day for a ride—|of— if you're lucky enough to have a car| Ma (brushing Pop aside with scant to ride in, peremony)—Oh, good-morning, Mrs, Ma (interrupting in a hoarse whis- en. Mr, Mitt was just taken with | per)—Now don't you go and be rude}a violent fit of coughing. It's too to her, Milton, Remember Mr. Green| bad about the car, isn’t it? oO got me those Turkish towels, whole-| sorry! Well, better luck next timel. @ale, last week and saved me three Goodbyl. By 2