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| The World. ESTABLIGHED BY JOSOPH PULITZER. | | | Pudusdod Detty Breept Surtay vy the Prose Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to el Row, New York. RALPH J. Ay oee AT: JOSEPH PULITZER, J at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Clase Matter. nd and Bubsertption ates to The Bvening|For Engle: the Continent and ‘Works for the United States All Countries in the International end Canada. ostal U: » WOLUME 56.0... 0cccccsecceeeseeeeeeseeesess+ NO, 19,910 STAND BY THE CITY. HE progress of the bills introduced by Senator Brown in the, interest of New York City finance, which follow to of articles published toward the close of last year, will be watched with close attention by business men, realty interests and civic organi- vations in this city. By the intelligent and energetic movement which ite studies of taxation and municipal expenditure set on foot, this newspaper proved that taxpayers of Greater New York are ready to think clearly and effectively on these subjects when facts and figures are made to tell straightforward stories. Never before has this city had such an opportunity to secure equitable readjustment of tax burdens which have been eettled un- justly upon it. Never has it seen a fairer promise of home rule. Nover have much-needed economies stood a better chance of being put into effect. It now looks to its representatives at Albany to work for the city that sent them there. That city officials and members of the State Legislature have at last come together in harmony to do justice to municipal claims is mainly due to a new and genuine interest among taxpayers in those claims, . Every Senator and every Assemblyman elected from Greater New York should understand that the eyes of his home city are upon him. The Brown finance measures etand clear of politics. The right of | {New York City to contro] its own finances is all that is behind them. | en WHOSE GAME, MR. WALLSTEIN? NOTHER attempt to put a twist in the taxicab ordinance for A the benefit of the taxi trust should meet with prompt defeat. | : This time it is Commissioner of Accounts Leonard Wall- stein who comes forward with a plan that would enable remnants of the taxicab monopoly to foist cabs upon the public undef no restric- tions as to rates and without even a taximeter for the passenger's pro- tection. For whom does taxicab service in this city exist? Whose patron- age supporis it? Is the public at large to have no say as to whether it shall ride in properly licensed cabs at legal rates or be tricked and pyercharged by companies operating under “exceptions” to the law? Equal privileges and equal opportunity for all taxicab operators are what have built up the taxicab service in the last two years. Further progress in the same direction means better and cheaper tax- icabs. Does Commissioner Wallstein believe the public favors the private cab system—the dictatorial “starters” and arbitrary zone charges—which it now has to put up with at railway terminals? Why is a city official like Mr. Wallstein trying to halt the develop- ment of a uniform, legal, popular taxicab service in New York when he ought to be doing his best to advance it? —————— HARD FIGHTING AT VERDUN. Rows of the German advance at Verdun make it fairly cer- tain that the movement under way is the biggest since the blow ; that broke the British line at Ypres last spring. Six miles and a half of French trenches the German War Office claims. Paris admits hard fighting and the evacuation of Haumont. That there have been tremendous losses on both sides there can be no question. Ever since the last week of January the Germans have been fit- fully grinding nicks in the western battle front. Fifteen hundred ards at Neuville-St. Vaast, 800 more near Vimy, 700 in the Cham- ‘pagne district, 600 close to Ypres and 800 in the last few days near Souchez—all this seems to have been leading up to the smashing for- ‘ward drive of the Crown Prince at Verdun, Apparently Germany means to forget the Russian shadow in the Caucasus in a desperate attempt to register something that can be recognized as a success in ‘the west. What becomes of recent assertions that Germany could no more take the aggressive but only hold on and wait for peace? What is Jhappening at Verdun shows the folly of pretending to say how many more men Germany can or will sacrifice before she admits she has hit her hardest. Hits From Sharp Wits. may know that you could hear his cries for help a long distance if he found himself 2 danger. A Simply by maintaining silence about let her talk just as mucb what he doesn't know, a man may pleases.—Macon New! gain @ reputation for knowing a lot.— i Albany Journal, man who is 80 very perovier ° in picking his company often Overestimating one’s own shrewd- ness is the kind of folly most dan- gerous to eolf.—Albany journal. woman is well entertained tf you Some girls can squeerse their way through a@ crowded street car and emerge without looking mussed. How they do it is a secret.—Toledo you! Blas Letters From the People. A Car Conductor's Grievance, {Fo the Editor of The Brening World: 1 am @ surface ae conductor, 4 other a man woman got on 7 The woman came in first own fare. oilk c. ) fol e car bag and wanted to know do with it. When I assured I would turn it in to the ticle Department” of the way company he suddenly be- came angry and said, “How do lknow man in sending an untruth like that through the mail, thereby depriving me of four days’ work? BROADWAY CONDUCTOR, “Deserving C Suffer.’ ‘To the Editor of The Erening World: Your recent editorial as to “De- gerving Causes Buffer" is well writ- ten, and I have noticed that of late the clase of mendicants described in it has been increasing, The other morning at 1.30, while 1 was waiting at Ninety-sixth Street subway sta- tion for @ Broadway train, there were two women there who were soliciting for some babies’ nursery, And when I asked for their credentials as to game they tmmediately walked away, From that fact I concluded that they were fakes, Both these women were well and seemed to take de- Nght in shoving coin boxes under the | noses of men who were The man 2} z gE re if = a 5 & ey z rf the bag in or not. 1 knew he hed all the right in the world to do that, so I said nothing. Tbe day after that occurrence the railroad company received a letter] by women. I am glad to sve that you | Inquiring whether I turned in a mesh-!have taken up this condition, and ‘The writer also said that 1 was‘ hope that all of the charitable cases impudent to him. Now, can any‘ which are deserving will be set right teader sxplain the motiys of that with the public, a om panied | a marked) degree the suggestions made by The Evening World in a series, At the Dog Show »: — By Roy L. Copyright, 1916, by ‘The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), RS. Jarr returned from the door with a smal! pasteboard box and said to Mr. Jarr: “Try this on and see if it will ft you.” “What is it?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Never you mind what it ts try it o1 replied Mrs, Jarr, Us something I bought for you. I go downtown to get something for my- self, but if I see something nice for you or the children, instead of buying what I need 1 spend the money on you and them.’ As she said the words she broke the string around the box and brought to view an automobile cap, “What do I want an automobile cap for?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I haven't an automobile.” “Well, you are always talking about moving io the country, although, goodness knows, you'll never get mo to go there, and if you do move to the country you'll be wanting to keep a cow or an automobile,” “Who ever said I wanted to keep a cow or an automobile?” asked Mr, Jarr in astonishment. “Aren't you always talking about ping chickens?" replied Mrs, Jarr. just at breakfast you were kicking because your soft-boiled eggs tasted musty, and 1 told you I couldn't help it, that 1 paid the highest prices for you eggs, and you said you wished we) lived somewhere keep chickens!” “Yes, but a chicken and an auto- mobile is a different thing entirely, said Mr, Jarr, where you could “These caps were reduced om three dollars and a half to seventy- five cents,” explained Mrs, Jarr, “and it shows that I was thinking of you. 1 see lots of men wearing automobile caps, and they have no more auto mobiles than we have, and if you were | wearing one people would think intended to get an automobile, or wi could pretend we had one, but that was being repaired. N ore body's automobile always being repaired,” “Oh, all right,” we is said Mr, Jarr, “give me the cap and also get me a pair of ear muffs, and I'll wear them, too,|cannot afford even that he can make and pretend I own a flying machine.” “[ don't like the way you talk! plied Mrs, Jurr, petulantly, sure I bought the cap with the best intentions and if you don't want tt you needn't keep it, and I can get something else with the money.” “You can't gel much for seventy- five cents," remarked Mr, Jarr, “but at it's Just throwing away sev enty-five cents to buy suinething we don't need.” “I don't talk (iat way to you when ‘you buy things we don't need,” suid Mia. Jars, The Jarr Family McCardell —— need often enough, I'm eure; and, anyway, t's only here C. O, D., and it you don't want it I can send !t back.” “It's too big for me," said Mr, Jarr, trying the cap on as he spoke. “You know I wear a seven hat, a seven shoe and a seven glove.” «“T know that, but the man sald these caps ran sometimes a little larger, and seven and a half was the only sizo they had; that was the ren- son they were going so cheap, as it was just an odd lot.” Here the man at the door who had brought the package commenced to mutter and stamp imp :tlently. “Oh, if you don’t want It, if you are only gulng to sneer at me because 1 think of others when J should think of myself, give it to me and I'll take it to the man!" said Mrs. Jarr. “You | forget the poor fellow has other places tu go to.” Here Mrs, Jarr gathered up the pack- age, made a few feeble efforts to put the lid on the box and tie the string, but without doing so, handed it over |to the man and told him it didn’t Conyright, 1916, Prem Publishing ow York Lrening B Worl the Evening World Daily Magazine, ihursday, February 24, 1916 y J. H. Cassel Dreams That Come True By Sophie Irene Loeb. Coprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). HE other day a woman went to a department store to purchase a party dress for her sixteen-year-old daugh- | ter, a girl sheltered and protected, and the idol of her parents. sult, and the delivery man departed swearing softly. “Never ask me to get you anything again!” said Mrs. Jarr as slo slammed the door. “Never, never, never!” “Lt didn't ask you to get me an automobile cap, did 1?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Any other man would have been glad to get such a mice cap,” replied Mrs. Jarr tearfully. “You are only quarrelling with me because you are afraid T'll asi you for some money this morning! “How much money do you want?" asked Mr. Jarr, digging down, and glad to get out of the trouble by pay- ing blackmail. "TL won't take a cent from you; put tt all on the bureau!” said Mrs. Jar. And Mr. Jarr did so, and apolo- gized for hurting her feelings. | Everyday P be hostesses, | Bachelor Entertainments. OCIETY is really a sort of “give- S and-take,” but many young men forget the “give” part and it all “take,” | a privileged is run after by flattered and} Jeajoled that it is no wonder his head | jis a little turned sometin thinks he is doing his whole duty by | accepting the invitations he likes the best. and he But unless he wants to put himself nto the position of continually ac cepting for he 1 vors which kes | © return he should occasionally show |™ ‘his appreciation, If he Hves in a | boarding house or thas no place to entertain he can take his hostess or \ner daughter to the theatre, or if he up a party to go to sume of the best erplexities. By Andre Dupont Copyright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co, The New York Evening World, all decent people an insult of « compliment, In planning his entertainment ou: hero first makes sure of his chaperon. Perhaps he has some married sister instead ative who will act in this iling this, he is always to ask the wife of soni t affair is small she usually assists him in pouring tea, o if it is large she simply helps hin receive, The bachelor can give a dinner party to his Women friends and thei rts or he can have a ¢ an serve a “bite” afte tre or he can give a tea decidedly the be gotten up with very and many social obligy d out at once The most popular little The invitations to a bac lor's tea should be 5 week to ten days in advance, usually take the form of cordial notes written in the first person, or, if the affair is very small and informal, messages over the telephone will answer per- uty 30 a ectly, A bachelor can not send ont ; s” or he can send he | of the movies on an send hi q{his visiting card with the date and & litte bine eer (eek oF iour added ax an invitation card candy of a book, as a tuken of upp woman can do this with perfect pro- ciuuio: niet t is not considerec Hut @ man of a little more means eos thing for aman res has many other ways besides these At n t } v most functions of this sort a | of repaying his social obligutions, Hel hare table is placed in one corner of iy lives in bachelor apartinent hel the sitting room and on this are tho un give all sorts of jolly little (ina service, plates of cake and sand tlos, invitations to which will be nason for the punch or sought for, But whatever The host meets all guest» entertainment sueh @ bachelor of the sitting room and af , there ds one ) must | igers to the chapevon he ly undenstand ly introdu them to her women is apartments u hhe chaperon must stay through the he provid proper chape entire affair, for it would be incor. ask any lady to an affair “You buy cigare,we dowt quurcly claperoned tw comsldered by ¢ re r him to receive any tf an uesis after eho had left, Tho family was one of means and the prospective party an event of Great moment to the girl. The saleswoman showed the mother and daughter many dresses, but the selection was difficult, as every effort was put forth to buy the very pret- tiest gown to please the child. Finally one of the daintiest products of the dressinaker’s art was agreed upon, and the purchase was made. To this girl it meant only another wish gratified; as usually everything her heart craved was satisfied. As they were waiting for the parcel the daughter was anxious to look for slippers and other accessories to go with the new creation. Pretty soon they grew impatient at waiting and the mother appealed to the sales- woman as to the cause of the delay. The clerk apologized and explained smniiingly. “The gown, being of flimsy ma- terial, 18 wrapped very carefully, The young girl who does the wrapping is only sixteen years old and has not outgrown her girlish fancies, She | pretends that every party dress that comes to her to be wrapped is going to be her very own, And so she ‘takes great pains in folding it so | that it will not be mussed when it ar- | rives home.” She went on to tell how this giri |worker was the main support of her |mother and two smal! children, She {had never had a party dress in all her life and her day-dreams were folded up in the kages as they lwent out. The story touched the woman's heart as she thought of her n carefully reared child similar to the one just bought ht wrapped by the young ner very own.” Iress |was that n | wor uw worl! is the cynic, the setting better, Human kind Hot low ebb, The sister does obtain, It ‘ contrary to fine exam vom isa How many hundreds of young girls ores to-day are the backbone of a family and have never known the meaning of girlhood and party dresses end childish pranks and glec- ful girlish gaieties! AW? how many of us s them by, little thinking of the young flower left amid sordid surroundings to te her sweetne, Jamid dreams that never come tru |” How conunendable is an act of real |Kindness such as is here record giving to the little hungry soul the thing SHE most desired! It is ry of real philanthropy real CHARITY Create the cheer of realization in a longing heart; there is no greater piivilewe for ihe everyday passenby. A party | | | | | | | | | By Helen T HW Fool hath sald in ber heart: “Beliold, I shall wed none Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), but an ADONIS! For is not a Fas- einating Husband the best advertisement of a woman's charms?” But I say unto thee, more flattering is the devotion of a Cyclops who ‘admireth thee with ON mireth himself with oth eyes! The Fool hath said in her heart 2 eye than the indifference of a Narcissus who ad- “I shall wed none but a Man-Who-Understandeth-Women!” j But 1 say unto thee, as comforting | detecteth thy weaknesses and seleoteth thy hats and dissecteth thy frocks, For “blind love” needeth nd X-Ray wherewith to discover a woman's flaws! The Fool hath sald in her heart: | as home cooking, as distracting as a | with a Temperamentalist. as a Pet Porcupine is a husband that “1 shall wed none but a Man of Artistic Temperament!” But I say unto thee, as full of surprises as Moving-Day, as uncertain straw hat in a March wind, so fs life } His “nerves” are his only amusement; his MOODS are lis high gods, be |fore which thou must bow down and ‘The Fool hath said in her heart: “Behold, | shall wed none but an \his wife's mind” and insisteth upon The Fool hath said in her heart: “I shall wed none but a Manof. | Mfet" | But I same old Rounder still, and lo, as f upon the “morning after.” ‘The Fool hath said in her heart: ‘Behold, I shall wed none but a Alas, my Daughter, how foolish punity, and a loving woman shall not | and shocketh her nerves, how shall Selah. if You Want Pure Milk. 1115 problem of pure milk is one that involves more careful reg~ ulations than that of any other food supply and in time we shall ave tt. It is over twenty-five years now since the germ origin of disease in milk was understood, and the medi- cal fraternity realize that, without very great expense to @ community, the ideal i# not attainable, except in scientifically prepared infant foods. In time no city will think of deliver- ing raw milk to its people. It should come from State-tnspect- ed farms and from tuberculin-tested cows. It should come in refrigerating cars, and it should be pasteurized, and perhaps modified, too—for weak- er stomachs—and this should be done tu laboratories 60 quickly and at such a modest price that the multitude can UY vo a few reminders if you want pure milk for your children and elt: *puy Suan muk tn bottles, and buy as high a grade as you can afford, If you have to buy milk in an open vessel, keep it closely covered. worship, Intellectual Man!” But I say unto thee, beware of the Highbrow who seeketh to “improve reading ALOUD without provocation. | As soothing as a tight corset on a warm day, as thrilling as a Jantern-slide | lecture on “Molecules,” so 1s life with such a one, ‘the-World! Yea, one who hath seen unto thee, a worldling married against his will will be the fascinating as a willow plume after a shower, as convincing as a false pémpadour, eo is the KISS of a husband Masterful Man!” But I say unto thee, as a low chandelier that bumpeth the head, as a sharp-cornered hat-rack in a dark hall, as a tack in the shoe and a pin {n the back, as an alarm clock that goeth off unexpectedly, so is a man that | delighteth to pose as a little Kaiser in his home! He turneth his Wife into an eternal pacifist. 1s the heart, of a womal For she | adoreth a man for those things which serve to make her most miserable. | Verily, verily, a man may shatter the Ten Commandments with im- suffer, But he that shattereth her vanity and treadeth upon her sensibilities she endure him? | Things You Should Know. Eapose the milk as little as possible and never keep it uncovered in a re frigerator, If you do not know how to pasteur- ize milk, learn how. At the very least elways bring raw milk to @ boi Never set an open dish out ove night for the milkman to ‘fill, and never let the morning sun shine on the morning’s milk. Place the milk in the icebox as soon as possible and keep it there. Carefully wash the mouth of the milk bottie before pouring out the milk. Serve the milk from the original dottle as your own pitchers have nor been sterilized and may be sources of infection, It may not look as well to serve it from the milk bottle, but it is a hundred times safer served that way. Keep the files away from milk ways, These few ideas if followed will help decrease the inortality from typhoid fever, which is oftener than not traceable to milk and its unclean handing. The great dangers sur rounding the use of milk in the home are summed up as follows: . In placing it in unclean vessels, . In exposing it unnecessarily t the air and germs. e 3. In failing to keep {t cool up to the moment of using it. 4. By exposing it to flies, ne OUSECLEANING days are not H far off and the systematic housewlfe is now planning the renovations of the home, Of course the bathroom will be done over in white and the new furnishings and accessories that are to be added will | probably also be in white. | This is so much easier to keep clean than the nickel finish, and as it Js finding such favor with house- keepers the shops are offering a full line of bathroom fixtures and neces- sities In white celluloid over brass. There are soap racks at $1.40 and sponge racks at $2.25, Soap dishes are 60 cents, A whiskbroom holder is |45 cents, A hanging rack to hold two tooth brushes is 121-2 cents, and prices graduate to the one for six brushes at $1. A 24-inch ends can be towel bar with nickel had at $2.26, The same the same length 18 $1.25, A nice three- bar rack for towels and wash rags can be had at $2. The bot | offered in the shelves are now white cellulo being finish, we (By Permiwion of | No. 19—Self- Respect. HAT a inan should maintain him- Ali self and his family without the help of others Is due to his of self-respect. Every genuine Furnishing t size in glass ts $2 and a@ li¢hter bar of he Bathroom and the 24-inch is $5. A glass nickel- trimmed shelf 12 inches long ts $3. Attractive bottles for medicines and toilet requisites can be purchased separately, They are labelled and have glass stoppers. The 2-ounce eize is 20 cents; 4-ounce 25 cents and 8- ounce 35 cents each, A square-shaped sofled-clothes bas- ket in the celluloid ware is marked $5, and then there are standing towcl racks, medicine cabinets, white framed mirrors, bath tub, cross-seats, and scales and all shapes and eizes in soap and sponge receptacles, tumbler holders, trays and toilet articles. Bara come in the various sizes, from the tiny one for the wash cloths and guest towels to tlose for heavy bath towels. Bath brushes with white bristles and white handles can be had in all desirable shapes and sizes, Then pete are berg agg ood glass tumblers Oo carry out the pure whi White hooks, too, are obtainable it porcelain these are eight cents, while in the celluloid or brass they are eigh- teen cents. A triple-pronged hook—@ convenience in space-limited roome— is sixty-five cents. Wor the really comfortable bath a rubber mat and @ head rest are neces- sities. The former can be cents and the latter js $1. Now thet to hold six 4-ounce bottles is $2. satisfactory adjustable show: ‘ | hos for four 2-ounce bot-| tachment can be had at $6 the bath | thes are There “are marble|room can be made quite complete shelves hes in Jength at $3.60'at a moderate cost. | ———____-. -——$}>N}N}N By Samuel Smiles} +}; arper & Brothers.) the angels." Let him think of his high destiny-—of the eternal interests in which he has a part—of the great | Scheme of nature and Providence—of the intellect with which he has been endowed--of the power of loving con- jself-helping man ought to respect | jurii prying tr antes, home on himself, He ig the centre of his own) cease to think meanly X) Ae little world. His personal loves, Lik- poorest human being 1a the con- ings, experiences, hopes and fears} Wverstudowing alee’ the Creator how important they are to him, al- | though of Httle consequence to others! |‘Phey affect his happiness, his daily life and hls whole being a# a man, liv cannot, therefore, but feel ite ested, deeply interested, In all that | concerns hi t. ‘To do justice a man must think well not only of himself but of the| duties which’ he owes to others. He must not aim (vo low, but regard map as created “a little lower thag He let every man respect him- his body, lis mind, his charac- Self-respect, originating in self- love, tustigates the first step of tm- vement. It stinvulates @ man to , to look upward, to develop bis ce, te improve his condition. | Sell-respect is the root of most of the irty of cleanliness, chastity, rey- honesty, sobriety. ‘To ‘think mean! oF | one self is to sink— wmetimes lescend a preci; Aho bottom of which tg tuo? ** hee, meanly