The evening world. Newspaper, February 29, 1916, Page 16

mA y SOPH PULITZBR, j { Press Publishing Company, Now, 6€ to ow, New York President 44 Park Row. Row. rer, 08 PULITZOR: Je, Secretary. Ld ee the PegOrice of at Bai Fer tnt Second-Claes Mi es to The gland and the Continent and the United States” e All Countries in the Intermetional and Caneda Postel Union $2.50! One YOR, 26. versa var vemceme en OTE $0/One Month...—,..:.eeverere i .NO. 19,015 ZLING BUT DANGEROUS. * “new world conditione” have meant for some! nation’s industries is eeen in the annual report of the| ont de Nemours Powder Company. | ‘Witard (e year the net earnings of thie concern jumped from for W to $57,500,000, an increase of 1,000 per cent. A force of, Johnetkmen was enlarged to 62,168. ‘The plant was enormously sed. The corporation could now cut a melon which would pay | ers of ite common stock 94 per cent. on their holdings. W Amazing figures but ——. Offic of this corporation would oe foolish, indeed, not to point out that such earnings cannot be ex-, pected in ordinary times. “It is hoped,” says President du Pont to his stockholders, “{hat new manufactures will be developed to take the place of the almormal wilitary business, but we cannot expect to employ all of the large plants we have recently built; we are therefore! ‘ amortizing fhie ‘ovestment by heavy charges against the profits of; *)this temporary busines: This is the only sane policy for corporations bursting with pros- perity due to “present world conditions.” Nor can the rest of the} country be too careful not to be dazzled by reports and figures like| the above. There is grave danger that war profits, war dividends, war hits war confidence may set up artificial wage standards and extortionate charges on production which will bear heavily upon ordinary indus- tries and upon the ordinary consumer. The Government should come forward with all the facts, figures and authority at its disposal to help the business of the ecantry to ~. Weep its head and remember that Americans must be fed, clothed and their ordinary needs supplied at a cost which cannot keep pace with the hectic.extravagance of European markets. | a on De RR eit a ee aS ae N srr es Thert gbt'ng around Verdun “has settled down to a terrific Y slaughter.” Armies no longer vanquish one another, They ; oa only meet,and die together t ‘ —— ' LONG DISTANCE SEA FIGHTING. 4 | ‘ HLLD there is difference of opinion in Navy circles as to f whether the nation’s new battleships should carry ten 16-; inch guns each or twelve of the 14-inch size, the war seems| 4 to have convinced naval experts that ability to fire at extraordinary } range is bound to be a more than ever important factor of success in sea fighting. --—» Admiral Winslow lately told the Navy General Board that under! certain weather conditions he has seen ships fifteen miles away and’ ——- feels sure he could have bombarded them effectively if he had guns © that would carry that far. ‘The latest wrinkle is for a battleship to fly a kite balloon a thou- ‘mand feet or so above her decks, From the balloon basket officers Sean direct firing and watch the effect of shots even when the gunners ‘cannot see so much as the top of the masts of the vessel they are u firing at. W We wonder what Nelson or Jawrence would have said to a sea! plainiogiy » fight where the Admiral sits in his cabin with his back to the port-| thts day! It was just aa if a hand of | hole and blazes away, with the aid of a balloon, at an enemy that, go| "tee! Was around my forehead, being | ; . . . | drawn (ighter and tighter all the time. | far as those on deck are concerned, never shows above the horizon? | 4 wasn’t intermittent pain, 1 could Copyright, 1 4 2 ve stood that, but just a dul, ~~ 7 vy avy, terrible, intolerable ACHE "1 Mr. Morgan is in Hurope. The Bradys are tn Fiovida. But eyes ached, the back of my head | wil: the Interboro and the B. R. T. are with us and the digging ts \ still good. ould tell what I suffered The fitness of this Jabor ae a tribute to the poet needs no praise,’ “They charge enough, They should,’ house, too, had its modest claim. Bu 1) sald Mrs, Jarre, But the » Built originally for an olde cota compress, a cloth wrung Maine shipmaster, it has stood these hundred and twenty years, firm, out in ice water might have helped four square, two windows either side of a porchless front door, the You." suggested Mr. Jars (was ihe first thing 1 tied,” said Jarre, “I took as many headache 1 dared, and then I tried * fanlight kind--an honest, plain-faced specimen of the old houses of re F the New England seaboard, fast vanishing save whey somebody steps, powders Bin to save them smelling salts and vinegar and harks : ‘horn and cup after cup of hot tea.” yery e Eng dwelling of ore 8 s o}}-k ‘ Most every New England dwelling of those days was well-built Do any good?” asked Mr. Jarr, watched tie builders, what straight and sturdy timbers went into it, ove" cated up Cora Hi r : | who demonstrates in Higher Though! what perfection of mortised join eee : Py . what water-tight floors and wind prooi walis, what convenient cupboards, clever etairways and snug! Was very sweet of her, too, be corners! sho bad company at the time : was making them a welch rabbit We have i You know she's very proud of her there was not a nail, A retired New Hngland skipper built it, and he, welsh rabbits. And Cora Hickeit put it together piece by piece, timber mortised into timber with) “M* entertaining a bridge party, and altbough Mrs, Mickett doesn’t play F ; ase en a barp a hundred y s old and more in whieh tough wooden dowels and pegs. He had no stairway in it, either—~jsne personally superintends the only straight up and down ladders aud no end of ropes and pnileys, tables, and, as abe (old me over the The skipper has been dead these sixty years. But hie barn is ax trig, wlepuene, IL was: a foolimh mo ‘ri th os ment, just because somebody praised One true as any in the country @ welsh rabbit sho bad made one time eae - alias - -— | for them, she promised to make thew | for everybody at the card party, j Hit its Fr rom Sharp Wits. te ges Grated ack Oat as A jot of men owe their success to, "Fish tremble with fear,” says the lly Reblog Ma net pluck, the consisting of their? Milwaukee Sentin Yee! weed (he) waters and chicken and caviar annd ability to piuck other men. Macon! ticed many a poor sucker quake all! Viehes with cold light punch and tea News over spon approaching the front door | for those who preferred tea . . . ve hours after the time he ‘oro! d, as 8 chet old me h No wonder money talks, Inn't there! faith Ne Ae Oa Ate ee |. phar he Aire Hickatt told me hei @ woman's face on the coins? Colum- | News self, | couldn't very well expect a bia State. | és bas good demonstration und the circum- * Hi os, . . It ¢ body's knowledge measureg| stances, because, what with all the up to bis own estimate of it, what a» 3 or t | wise world this would be worry and confusion, she had a slight rople | a woule & headache herself. But it was sweet inch | taal money he root of we ste how some when they get a f Vhilade!phia Inquirer. F blott alwaya wing ap. | of her, wasn't it P| . . . re = ‘ie a binff that was it cervtainl was.” sald Mr, Jarre \ Many men hang signs tb wa aha kr Did the demonstration help you" My Busy Day," ove eiri & ’ C "Not a bit,” replied Mra, Ja ne men 7 teal of Geeks and then spend ox afternoons a attention by sim 1 we Tuesday, February 29. 1916 . PEvening World Daily Magazine? aor s U-Boat Day wre eee. By J. H. Cassel The Jarr Family - By Roy L. McCardell —— 6, by The Press Publishing Oo. (ihe New York Breniug Wo Mr. Jarr returned home | tel) me | must at eve and asked Mrs, Jarre) way how ahe felt, she replied com- | awa I certainly have felt bad | ter to the pain as a triumph of mind over would pass | possibilities !spirit of responsibility the Lambert Who "4 should think it could!” evtainly was matter and | and algo that Cora might cards, all at the but this one set me | said everything went wren urely would go in- | fel! win at/ should sow her wild oats? It is pre- ; and she | Mm , and ehe| but the beaten so sick she was going right to! @irls a label is | bed as svon as the company was gone | Sometimes |—out why don’t you eat your dinner?" ! til she cries ont itke Rachel in the | Sas Uy ais wlotin es (heen an ‘I've got a headache ely, headaches before, horribly and constant No | sane the worry and | trouble that Mrs, Hicket rything on her shoulders, be- ‘a Hicke(t never takes charge mother ja headache great astonishime have given you pardonabie sin with used hal Shall I call up| indeed! 1 © demonstrate Higher! tend to he ly helped me." | Why per Clothes Are Not Becoming} vc". By Andre Dupont — i eyes y t | “Did you take anything for it?” b % asked. § MASTER BUILDERS. “What's ine use?” replied Mrs. Jare b HE Langfeliow Society seeks to raise $20,000 to free the poet’s, “* Beadache like that has just got) around like @ « ‘ : pe to wear itself away. Medicine does! was trying t birthplace in Portland, Me., from mortgages and obligations | no good. Doctors can do no ood, 1 bi 3 incurred in restoring it. ‘The house had already been ‘cut| snow ff it ever comes again 1'l! have | 77 z A ; ents when protesting hands rescue | to consult a specialist." Ly up into tenem en pl ig escued it and turned it} “Do you think @ spectallat could do | ¢ into a memorial. any good?” asked Mr. Jarr. 1918, by Phe Pree Publishing Go, (The New Yo The Art of Choosing a Veil. a of dress make a ar is anotting so becoming or so disfigu: The shops offer such a w de oiee is fed Gtetiour, n the appear hg am a muitable | } unsuitable of patterns | #! Serle of liberties in governing and which you hope to change. The} ney prother well, and I should lke to this season that the « But when it happened to be a sea captain who ordered the plans and ‘Not a bit!" replied Mrs. Jarr, 1) woman with delicate tinted complexion looks ‘hin-meshed veil, should be small, "The dots or figures | On the other hand, @ e patterned and 1 la very becoming Yer to these parents ofleo may be of prides are unwarrantabile infring urge features | laid reason for latter atures Xion, while mosh brings out | jnjy and dows not ‘and she demonstrated for me; and !t | nd | woman with his of course ts ° of the comple » the a heavy veil face coneewis the shap snd shadows of the pale to have an ugly pallor, have black wheeks you black or navy ni this type |. Much cit be done to alleviate these, man one year my senior, { of the nose | things, While there is a considerable | deeply in love with him and believe} would lik so that AVEIL THAT BRING SOUT GOOD veils of | w blondto | black, and makes coming indécd a golden or Afnican shade has y becoming to a florid face or pale face look still paler, » manner shown in the illustration and | pearing the CONS ‘in, or you can wear a figured veil that reaches | wild oats sown by others who were an wear a French vetl with floating ends, with scrawly figures that at a | bility medium-tinted A white veil 1s ve You can pin your peed | be by him and her J ~Average Life. Equally extensive observations e with color {BOR ‘held as sucred na though sbe WO things are very obvious~the | Pee? made as to the average nu et were his own sister, Make him reale 8 fe aarinina Hoar Ge of persons of ious ages who. ize that there are too many people! uncertainty as to t of yearly, It is always the number ne |vell straight around your well below the ‘only to your | whatever shape you choose, don't select one ace look hideously scarred. {ter if @ vell is w * vells strotched pull them out of shape , and then you can be certain | n with them. jetraw hats lc have worn the veil freshly | censure hii (1 becomingiy | tection of h ites act "Sook to the’ box pig tally SAAR ; ake the crime | tion of human life in the aggregate, 'oxisis at any given period of lite, {(% that he fi v' snhood | it is & matter of certainty that the The tells you that he re y punishable ronalties, |averoge Ufe of all persons born in this: b nided by the jaws of mortality, Let society disdain and |country extends to about forty-five! Now, the results must be very remus | “but ) them, for Mis, Hiekett | each vee elt own co eid ng yen | "ny cand gue “ ieee w \acipomped, —ee ea te tary y: Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Breoiag World GIRL always knows intuitively when «a man wants to marry he the dificult thing ts to prove it to him. The women who goes insane for love, and the man who devil for a woman usually Paven't far to go. s to the No man's life is a complete tragedy so long as he bas courage enough left to make love to another woman; no woman's hove completely dead s@ long an she has vanity enough left to powder her nose. What's the use of being philosophical? If a woman is jealous of het husband everybody says, “Poor thing! She knows him!” If she ten't everybody says, “Poor thing! She trusis him!" So, what can a poor wife do? Nowaduys haif the people live in motor cars and wonder why @h@ other half are allowed to live! There are ouly three things worth while that a man can give any woman in this world.jove, support or honest [riendship; yet, so many of them seem to think that she ought to feel highly thrilled and fate tered when they offer her a casual kiss and @ cheap compliment Fliriation ts the relish of life, love ihe wine, marviage the roast—and divorce the black coffee which “setties” everything The price of money {6 heavy indeed! The » who works for It earns it by the sweat of the brow, but the anan who marries for It earns it by the sweat of the heart and the shrinkage of the eoul, When 8 man says he merely means that he's tired, Dearie. No man ever repents so long as the game or tue woman ts Ine | teresting: Reno motto: It's a wise woman that knows ber own divorce “grounds” —before she has consulted her lawyer. By H. J. Barrett lee S 1 anal your newspaper advertising timely? Is it convincingly written? Does it | the present-d: | : iighe {aiscuss the customers’ necds rathe! remarked one recently, “tB@/than the establishment's, virtues! | strength of his business structure 4®-| Does it carry conviction? Do you in- \ | pends upon seven main timbers. stall attractive, business a ‘Dolla rs and Sense windows? Do you use the mail t “Or Do wy in- ne ne is values. you buy best advantage? Is your interior tri |telligentiy @o that you may Sell 85) attractive? cheaply as your competitors and still] "A fifth factor is capital—ithek make a good profit? cash or credit. Do you discount your nother is methods. Under this 1|Dills promptly? Are you sufficiently broad-jauged to overlook the prese: |include syatem. Is your system de-| penny for the sake of the future fois signed (o indicate leaks—post you on Jar? your actual condition from day to| | “A oF bolnt ls aervion, Aram ' y- 7 " verstoc! is r' ia indeed, jday—prevent you from overstockin€|inciudes speedy delivery, avoi anes. on dead stock, &v? Are lost motion! of errors, courteous treatment. Many jand waste effort reduced to @!a commercial success ta based uj | minimum? Are your deliveries service more than upon any o' ‘telligently planned? Do you collect) single factor. ‘To paraphrase a well- promptly? Are you utious iN} known slogan. ‘the memory of a few granting credit cents extra pric is forgotten Jom “A third fact is organization. Arelatter the silection of an. ext your employees competent, courteous, | accommodation remains! learefully coached? Do they under- ‘And last but not least {mn mi stand how to increase sales per cus- lysis comes old-fashioned honesty Itomer by unobtrusively suggesting| For although the crook may mak ‘overlooked needs? Have you devel-|more money during a tweive-montl oped a system whereby they are given| period, the man of integrity is an extra incentive in th way of| doing business at the old stand ys | profit-sharing or a commission above|after the former has had to |their salaries? fresh flelds. nother point is service. And sers ° I he W 1 Id Oats ( ro “A fourth factor is advertising. Do] “Apply these seven tests to yon! | you devote sufficient thought to it? Is” business and see how it meets them. -—-By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The Prexs Publishing Co, (‘The New York ruaing World ILE sooner we discourage the | cas tolerance of a) tea young man sowing his wild| that “os ye sow, so aha ’ . 3 > The Torpedo’s Biography. pia IAT most. terrible of modern] pd to explode when it strikes ane sooner we inc de in our Weapons, the torpedo, in a] felid object—such as a ship's bottom, 8 Of youth the practical truth ‘ “ bet : orpedo ©: he largest most Yankee notion.” David Bush-| nogern type will tear a gaping hole neil, an American inventive genius,|in the stanchest ship ever built, The made a torpedo in 1777, but his at-|nose or “explosive head” of a torpedo ape tempt to destroy the British ship Cer- | Contains th ee tend cares = high heed 008 Ad- Kerus was a failure. Robert Fulton eee Gad: ta young woman ye reap,” will | the y will be rooted the ver | Vancing the idea n being oftenest used | made @ successful torpedo in 1805,]” Wien the torpedo strikes its target erous! but could not interest any Govern-|a tremendous detonation follows In= , y ial hoot anything | ment in hig idea. In the American | sts driving in both the outer and { sath preseribed for| Civil War torpedo shells ignited by : 'skins” of a vessel, ‘The hole it | ly for her, andjelectricity were successfully used,| makes in a ship's bottom varies in baiaverahakanat oe: nd from that time forth the torpedo| size, but is seldom less than ten wn | has been employed by nearly all na-| thirty feet. The torpedo — trav Mr./ song, “Death, let me Should she commit int” | “"The present-day torpedo | y}of about @ thousand yards a minute. different sort of weapon ‘The distance and rate of speed have alta century ago. to be calculated to a nicety before the ai S08 a ‘tending | gomething like a cigar, and is about | torpedo is discharged, It is kept te ec unto her!fwenty-threo feet long and twenty-|its destined coursé by perpendicular, ore are few who ex- one inches in diameter. It welghs rudders in its tail the helping hand of pity considerably more (han @ ton, and tts ie modern “dirigible’ torpedo waa! and compassion. H. onstruction costa from $5,000 to! first used in a naval war during the | Assi ow many would Gouble that sum, It # made to travel| Chilean revolution of a quarter of a jadmit her into \elr inner shrme of in certain direction in a fixed ttme, century ago. | thelr soctal circle? It ts this way, | — lever since the world began Not no with ihe boy. While it ie, Betty Vincent's Advice to L overs. deplorable to burt the feelings of the Y dear girls, whatever other) Count of abs erihsame of my friends, ; K ae alias oe ep yout consider it impasper for me oaldaiehes siliy Mistakes you may com>} aooept any gifts trom hint? senScommenta wit, don't, don’t marry a man|" you should not accept veluabl the so-calied un inlsorrows and suffert: n the publie prin sa GREAT! to reform him gilts, such as jewelry, when you are OPPORTUN1 saving of It can’t be done And when I say | HOt engaged to the young man. reckless youth. “reform,” | am not referring merely | spy op writes: “I am a young girt ‘Too many indulgey! parents go on to vices, such as intemperance or/and J 1m going to spend a week-end the theory (hat “boys will be boys.” gambling, but to decided traits of}at the home of a girl who lives in csc Miece ahusine sob ngs ‘ neable | the country, 1 have only spoken to : 1 sof boys allow them character whieh you find disagree her half a dozen times, though I know themselves, in goings their way, re-' girl who tsa social favorite should not| know if it would be good form to way at night, not AC- marry a bookworm, hoping to trans-| bring her a smail gift’ for their absence; such | form him into @ companion butterfly. | I advise you to wait ll you kmow by on the theory that, serious, grave young woman} her a little better. , ho great m Can be not expeci to turn the “good fel- A sensy of relief is evel whom she weds into a sober, “L. S" writes: “I bave been owt ause the bey Is not the pijar of church and state, As @ mat-| with a young man several times and ne ra ter of fact, such attempts on the part | have met biin at several places which he has escorted me home, t © blame of such cases a the ments on the individuality of another, | should like to continue the frie jone Just mentioned, How much pin’ apd trespassing on minds and souls} 1s it proper for me to ask him and misery and degradation is! jy ultimately more disastrous In its | call?” wrought by sons of such paventa! yeaulis than trespassing on some-| It ie not. But can't your mother Many a girl dies in dire distr body's estate, lask nim for you? baad in | her Durie her, Ob, the + | a, of it wil! ‘Che inequality of! M. G." writee: "Tam sixteen) “OX writen: n in love with xet (hat Seeais almost Somwr-, years old and for 6ix mootas havela gtri, but her stepmother at ble heen receiving attention from a young) prov our friendship. She is now staying with other relatives: ag £ to call on her, would it be | i this pr a the | mounts propagauda advocated now to teach | iny love returned. He has offered me} proper to 4 the girl the importance of KNOWL-|a ring, but 1 have refused it on ac-)) Certainly, DGE concerning motherhood and to| — —aearemene seamen -_—--— lerstand what is best for her inj / n of WOMANHOOD, the big + rears = ics yet to bo done with the boy, {T hriit “ By Samuel By Samuel Smiles} rosy look ts. Male iim understand CONS UDOT a I Manne , than his should + hhim that it is not “smart” to By Pernimion of ee aims & Brothers) te or au NCES ot death in individuals, but the) the experiments which gives the di regularity and constancy of the lof the probability, It is on such ol i y a sha eG servations that the actuary fo! cumstances which influence the dura-| fi," eatimatos pf the mértmity. bi +4 But, left to go scot free of blame or Ha. zards the pro-|years. This has been proved by a lar to justify the actuary in spa a number of observations of of mortality ued. by ine buman ify and iis duration, AU 200 db Le gy Li er abe