The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1916, Page 14

ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Bxoept Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 53 Sas! ow. Kew Fore pany, No: te waeane 2B, Pre dent, st, Part, Rew. V, * Wy JOSHPH PU: ite Ire wecretary, 62 Park Row. Pntered at the New York es Second-Clawa Matter Subscriptien Rate ts Mie Hrening [Tor Tngiand and. the Continent and rr rd tor jhe United States ‘AM Countries in the International Postal Union Published Daily SE os es mew 42.60] One Year.. .30!One Month SOUND AND SENSIBLE. | HE plan to share the expenee of the Public Service Commission | of this district between the city and the State—the State to pay for the regulatory part of the commission’s duties while! the city etill provides the cost of eupervising the construction of gub- ways—was worked out by Mayor Mitchel and Senator Brown as an important item in the programme of municipal economy. It may be! ry the best that can be obtained during the present legislative session. Looking to the future, however, we eet Sra ee RE CRI The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, March 29, 9 1916 The Stories ~ Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 16, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), THE MIRROR IMP; by Antonio Fogazzaro. KNOT of men and women were chatting together at a reception in Milan, Among them were a soldier, a poet, a statesman, & judge. They were discussing feminine vanity. Countess ¥ | declared that men are far more vain than women; and, by way’ of proving it, she said no man ever passes a mirror without glancing at his own image therein. The men promptly and loudly denied this. They vowed that none of them ever bothered to look into a mirror, except when brushing their hair or shaving. Next evening all of them were guests at a dinner party at thi ; Countess’s house. In an arcade, on the way thither, hung a mirror, nti ; men, passing through the arcade, one by one, instinctively looked at th | Senator Thompson's proposals | i go further in the direction of order and consistency by putting eub-| ATRCIEatee, way building where it belongs—under the control of the city. Disclosures concerning the dua] subway contracts have shown y too pli jselves in the glass. ‘ And, by the uncertain light of early evening, it seemed to each that i there was a smudge somewhere on his face. There was no time to go home and wash their faces, So they hurried [on to the Countes: nd, on thelr arrival, asked the butler for towels and and water, With cheeks scrubbed pink, they entered the drawing room. The statesman explained A Bunch of 3 el nea: Explanations. “lL was visiting the Prime Minteter to-day, Ha: ' pinched my cheek affectionately—he ts very fond of | me—and his fingers must have becn dirty.” | The poet sald: | “TL have just finished a poem which Sarah Bernhardt hae been teasing me to write for her, And an ink-spot happened to spatter from my pen to my face.” The soldier accounted for his own dirty face by saying he had gone to the train to meet beautiful woman who was interested in him, and that she had publicly thrown her armg about him and Kissed him. He evppesea some of her eyebrow make-up must have smirched hia cheek, All tho men had some such tale to account for thelr spectad mrighaps, story redounded {n some way to the teller’s credit, y, somebody who had seen the men, separately, entering the house, chance ) say that no smudge had been vistble on the faces of any of them. The butler was called in to disprove th: He, too, asserted: “I did not see a spot on any of the gentlemen's faces.” A thrill of genuine ment ran through the room. The (after laughing at her men-guests’s vanity tn looking into the mérror mM the arcade) suggested t she get out the “planchette” board to eotve the mystery of the phantom smudges, (Planchette is an apparatus, rigged ap with penct! and paper, witteh is supposed to write automatically when hands are laid upon it—the wattter words being often attributed to spirit control) The Countess got out the board, The guests put thetr fingers and it began to write, Perhaps the eptrits Perhaps the Countess understoed more mec sm than @he pretended. fn any cage, what was soribbled on the sheet of paper by @@ | automatic penatl: ‘1 am the Imp of Mirrors, I hide behind each looking-siass, [times [ tell the truth, Sometimes I Ue. I led about the smudges, | that’s the only falsehood I've told to-night. All the pretty collection of jyou've heard since that time have been told by these worthy | Not by me.” | Just then the butler announced dinner. And so hungry were the aay that they hastened away from the planchette board as if from a house. | CONFERENCE oF ALLIES nly how dangerous it is for tle city to go into a partner- | ship to which it is permitted to contribute only cash and credit while others do the supervising. The Thompson plan provides a eubway | board of seven—the Mayor, Comptroller and a representative from each of the boroughs—to take active charge of the city’s interests inj constructing new subways, This ie sound business from the municipal point of view. It furthermore frees the Public Service Commission of functions unfitted to it and leaves it no excuse for relaxing the regulative vigilance by} which it can best serve the public. The Public Service Commission has been spending $3,000,000 a year pretending to do more than it should ever have been allowed to do, and doing it mighty badly. If it is to survive, its efforte muet be concentrated in a way to produce better resulte for lese money. MOTOR FREIGHT. HE “railroad breakdown,” as the Bridgeport Evening Farmer calls it, has tried the patience of Connecticut shippers to a! point where there is talk of quo warranto proceedings against the New Haven for violation of the terme of ite franchies. “The New Haven company,” declares the Farmer, “hae utterly failed to furnish the service it was chartered to render.” In this connection it is interesting to note proposals for a daily freight service between New York and Bridgeport by means of motor trucks. The plan is to start with five trucks and add more if business! warrante. Rates will, of course, be higher than by rail or boat. But | { many shippers are willing to pay for delivery that is certain, epeedy end direct. Plainly the railroads have done themselves no good by their un- preparedness in the face of heavy freight demands. If they fail the public, the public must lech for mew carriers wherever there Is a chance for them. If “motor freight” should turn out to be practical and satisfactory, the railroads will have only their own lack of fore-| sight to thank for a new form of the competition they have spent SS oo The Imp's Confession. (et Least (9 Re marked that doth as most men do—DRAYTOW, Whena Man’s Married — By Dale Drummond — . ° P| poeta Lucile, the Wait | The J F | millions to destroy e, e al ress | e vu a r r a m 1 Copyright 1916, by The Prem ng Oo, New York Drentng Wort, '§ —By Bide Dudley — | —— By Roy L. McCardell — CHAPTER XXVI, jivid: And abruptly rising ee com H f: robably intended for | Pi H GERMS SOLD TO ANY ONE? eee ree apropos Tec ots aioli atS of hae Nebo . . ns wiaa: et ‘ you,” Jane remarked hould like to AN deadly disease germs be obtained from bacteriological labo- NEN do you think, kid? No, fl ain't’ T oe "This man | 6 ¢ OW ao ane TeV he agiene ipa rene ar es hater yao Bots , scaskanl fas } 4 said Lucile, the waitress,|%4s reading t mps on my he hat? fy lpia : rence was i r- ratories in this State by any who represents himself t Ae the newspaperman| fe never could read’ yours because Tarr) ported, and you ask the Marion » a) rola ae Some % \ ae warrdreeded BL ME to. any bumps.’ arn the price they simply have no m - | eriendiy aski tp t me $ be a doctor? ached for the bill of f ochepe | 18 Sao exmail ta oy eu oF, leattaa cine tiie ve Ro) mercy: Der | friendly ne ad aleo| Ure *t Wil help you; then {f you wilt) : , | h aie silat ell, you, looked funny to me jmirr jeause they think you want it to dinner gs that she had also| rg for a few moments perhaps I The eelf-confessed poisoner, Waite, lad only to go to the Cornell} "#4 phrenogomist tn here t mse the same,’ she s nga out. | Mt looks 1 to m said Mr.| “What happens then?” asked Mr. | asked tt ds. ly feel better. A ‘ ; , morning. | didn't have a ready retor et caceis | + jasked t . ert | Th eR hat ON University Medical Laboratory in this city and eay that he was al «a what he i to take it out on the bump |74"r ar Bae - } | “You will ac of cour: et nad ei mon C ms rrotes baie ‘ ‘A A ey nuals reader } “OF course, it's ac » thing," | cl." replied Mrs, Jarr, “tf the | asked, a pleased expression on his face. | q ctantly f U eS 0) oi 0 at » ngomist-you know, one , ; y Robert rose to ae- physician, to be furnished with test tul f typhoid and diphtheria | ie phrenogomist you Keon : a) “iE sten, Minter’ I gaya, ‘don'tireplied Mrs, Jarr. I had a|Proprietress or inewomenewand | OAs ita wipe to have a 4nd Ow leompeny fae bacilli or any other death-dealing cultures he chose to purchade. hay si epi ‘tale ae " Wages com ound hete ‘trying: to make a real expensive hat, And, anyway, |* of them are terribly sharp—do| “1 should prefer to decline,” Jane) | “Was your head really 20 bad Gear >, Be . your ba account he fact that) fool out of me. Envelope yourself in 's ‘fi *Inot suspect you, the = ‘. . ss ca h that you couldn't ve 4 “Dr.” Waite was no more a doctor than he was an archbishop.| you're in love wi xe blonde, by} Your. biscu beans 1 hash or th i Fitth Avenue milliners charg hs = : pee eee : is just hap- | answered, “but if you care so much I) jh, Yon eran he canes ortee aae 4 { . : t 4 F vu'll come out ong end of the you for their name the way| » ask the cost of the one you) suppose I can go.” | o he! ense ctice either medicine or dentistry | feeling the bumps on your bean. you'll com the wrong end of the /¥ leaaiic: wane suPE Ho held no lice nse to Practics it ine or dentistry in the | fee! TO UIHGan A DBASRUICEIaTt opious they all uround you in thos ly want ‘The dinner was delightful and per- | ad enough!" Jane enapped. State of New York or elsewhere, He could have producd nothing to} "Yes, that's ii. 1 got it wrong th that I left him and served |pat sh und flatter you} ‘ you want?" | gotly serv Tahar’ wi unusu- | 8 if you had done as Marion , A \ . » ho always mix up my. pretixes in solitude, Wasn't he dea eet 1 eplied his| ue . he and Brofear | * you cou' ave remained, show that he was fit to be trusted with the bacteria of malignant jana fibetitles in long words deprived Ct ae | Alsi ya affect ON 8 J0t| Feaditady, *¥ou nee Fa Pepa kde ae ee ned enwiees (ont fa eee: ee ye 2 s able to buy them not only once but 4 y|from the dead languag Ww say, believe in phrenology, |of wom just preter ll cee wears bees IY | sor Crawfor emed to fit va |bad we had to leave, dieeates. Yet he was able t ig my 98 ut MANY | teten, kid—this guy's hair was pretty 1 the newspaperman. lanxious ty got a I've no intention | Poked Im. but y © again tO- | subjects in ich the Nr | green teooener mel” abe in times. much « la Buttalo Bill, When het d pauctite. I alli oe taking pidrrow nated ie Mrs. Crawford kept Jane 1 uaa L tall you my head nan ‘ 4 1 fe te seat on & stool 1 think, ‘Well, y, kid, what do you!" “And you come the next day and sm) with cal ™ going to be Traffic in such things appears to be unguarded to an appalling| well, the old medicine show's it ome of | my bump’ ot ‘On, that's the way you do it, ent” the hat, Aalied Me:sgaer,, | PURE Be Mee ee Oe ce wtordal tin Well, IE opp! Oe ae i r i town.’ So up to him I canter with think I'm pretty well-|asked Mr. Jarr “1¢ you did that . a‘ Jane contempla e Cra you, and you are going degree. It was time we found if out. Se expectancy in my department, to-do in education, and here I may) «why, yes," replted Mrs. Jarr. “rhe| . sf ean a“ " b Head they'd know | win interest. She found ther zo back and have a rubber of cannot carry a revolver in New York without giving the Well, 1 sass, after a minute's | be running around without the slight-| | j here Was a Hpocial hat you were set | tre, vusgling gtudy, unlike with the Professor, I told Bim bes A man cann ft ay + a ne mu wait, ‘you've had your share of luok-|est knowledge of nothing, What do{Mminute they think you want a cer-Jon having, and you'd never get a|Tather nuszling sudy fore dinner I would." llest account of himself and proving that he should have the privi-! ing ‘at the menu. Nx jyou know about that?” tain hat they commence to rave over |pargain,” said Mrs. Jarr, Sie Hi . Mt ood had tt done for her to ‘ ) ) ‘Ou CO ight ou -+- | “sei 7 et " chanced ay if b lege. He cannot buy certain drugs and poisons unless he you ighe at ty f : a sere ; What do you do, then?” asked Mr, | an full of has sta! Reel tl : : - } wienes cite peg. ‘Tis not in mortals to command sv t u more 1 was ¢ + i sd woe i i “0 et he ean drop into aut " he say ss eae cha et she lore the Prescription and gives a receipt, Yet he can drop into a Paulie wsinform you. Lsays, ‘that; ® * © We'll deserve it—ADDISON ‘Oh, sometimes they won't let you | (eae stoop cd man sho an't go back! It's Katee day and purchase enough germs to spread disease and death thr: lt am here to-lend an ear to a food — ae - — —-|out without buying, and you get | had married. J: at itn uxlyy out, and 1 will not etay alone,” : : ; imeelf “Doct »|such special prices you take with his high cheek bones and near- ert sighed, but hung wp the whole community by merely calling hims Doctor ‘3 twhat got you that|4 planar re aes ie vibes eee ee the has sighted eyes, over which he wore} coat he had | just taken down, Be —————_-4-=2——__—_ Fetch me some biscuits, beans M B ses “ ie . iminense specacies. nad enjoyed the evening vi ‘e hand let me fee | me. de rinvilliers, Arch Poisoner, you,” said Mrs, Jarr, “But geN-| Jane wondered what held this and while, he regret d Jan vo walter: ‘Teddy-Bear? “ " erally you drop in in a few days and |lovely woman go olosely to this plain,|!ng, he felt she had been a iittle Will the Teddy-Bird take the place of the Tediy-Bear think he's making me out ib D rate ( ‘ y —_—— —————— | ftentity, you know, and honeat, iad | sed Methods Ascribed to Dr Waite } | tention mat you saw a nice hat at calla’ snes, Were, thay cistern, OF) Sri 1° insist on Coming away aaa | Hits From Shar Wits yl shoot back, ‘I'll let you feo! | +e 2 | another place down the street for $19, |vas she? Why show tele “ta there anything oan @0 foe) its P my fist {f you insist on mixing social HERE {s nothing especially new|to visit her father, He fell 11, She| PUt you prefer to deal here at a more overythi that mage life attractive, you?” ho asked . ‘here tion is the m of everybody | tmentities § tn crime, Most modern crim-|MUrsed him day and night. She pre-| reliable and fashionable house, and if and she have to skimp along on a o, I'm going straight to bed. I Supper is the meal where the family | pati rf ng of everybody! «No, no, says he, ‘I'm «a phreno— ups and medicines. | you ca ything . ou clerk's salary? Just then her eyes| suppose you'll alt up and fi t resume the quarrelling that was start. | else's business ny Journal a | inal cases are cribbed—con- pis soups and medicines, |y a oan set anyiting like what you |Olerk’s salary? Jat then ber sves| suppose ye D read unti{! 4 €d at breakfast and continued throug’ a eH sciously or not—from the starting pe wore bitter, But no one| ince me ere ae hipped; a man of| ‘Yes, T shat! read a while, te te \¢ t Macon News, , Some ene that “every ma He s he's one! ony of olden days. ed thing, At last we} “And the hat you want is the onc woman would nly 9 ofolock.!! ‘ surprises | (WO PePutations and one character.” | and xr I (mate the AValtacase, 20 ance 1 is estate was divi you say is lke the $19 one you saw ¢ handsome face | After Jane left him Robert sat There are many delight tut <sUAIBtC a] Some me ave but one reputation Miste Daddy Long Seve fee Weile cane, Bet oe ia betwee s two sons. One of these elxewher asked Mr, Jarr, Isomer in contrast with the pro-|long time without attempting to read, in life, One is getting acaualnted) ang no charicter. Nashville Banner I says ‘you might be a Pres-|Most of the me ribed to Dislenre wns at ese sey fgets couPeath acdgt Ae. Tach sor nggedness, But As] W e'fault? “Was Ween aM with your neighbors and finding tha . o @ i my reaction in your di- | Waite were used two and a half cen-| Presentiy ¢ Then one , id : k 7 h be 4 king at and talking Tle surely tried to make Jane aie indicate lofty thoughts, for {tm i fomes to: DisyinAtes yO Bnd | mous rquise of Brinvilliers. Read a invilliers nursed them | once, C en you do ay see the look of pride wate ho must try all the harder, After vou have taken notice of a eet en eripiy ot Mt may 2 rt . : mous Marquise of Brinvillier er rein hau nein alee looks pretty woll, but'—— Hom Jane's eves he took n Inte magnet} PF |. the faults that your acquaintances yy. You don't understand me, he{this thumbnail sketch of her lurid)’ gne and her unmarried now! Svall, by Georse! You wocien are| fees the Maloun vase that al rect his teounien ied 4 Rave, stop to count how MARY OF Lo nan must lay out and says, ‘I tell fortunes by feeling one's | career and notice how many points it| shared thelr father's wealth, And the| quo silliest” maid Mr. dare Ya (Consumed hen when she saw h v] pages. VAR FOU shore, |g his path duly In repair! noone | ney you're going to'ket mnarried [has in common with the deeds PETOUMAAS DIBNHAD to ROE AOS TMIM| te os He and fool aroundieo ee (To Be Continued.) In a small town the principal o« eine can do it for him.—Deseret News, Listen, kid, he got me going, 1) © arged OARIAN, ADO Haniel the The AMarchionens' vine hogan to| when you aro buying anything, and | aeenad F a h aaah nett _ TT - always did itke fortune telling just| Marie de i ‘8 aulaat’to la oitea intaa was he lie é ls i 0 | 2) t E " "1 obje oO his e's ay © iv. may eas ich as you should, a as an Indoor sport, you know, so I[|Pretty and too popular wife of a ma he tall violantie (nt Aa FOU poy swioe Ba TvOh Aa yon I or e aster 0 Dollars and Sense By H. J. Barrett Mucins iu tony tad te puis"one {Gascon Marquis. “She had an air of| 98 And he foll violently M1, Ax she| ind then think you have got a bar- Be , = pper acl da eb 1 cautal innocence @ aye’ nt allowed to take care o ' (OILET requis or the dressing rved, sunke oped : 7 Btates| curing PM HM slides. Waving ‘ried in duly, Better begin to get your| at all, and she was a wildly reckless} 1 Soe) OS mUstiod with his) “ase eR A . Dv ifts, It a girl is anxious to] {2@ Colored letters. Something Rew Paper published by the United irons, His. shaving * true soul ready spendthrift share of the loot, He threatened his| Jarr, “You thought you were getting 5) the Ivory grained sets is being Department of Commerce, the follow-] and bellies tov oi Oh, my soul's all O, KT slip him, | When she had run through her own] fecomplice. She tried to poison Lim. | such @ bargain in that overcoat, and | complete her set this is an excellent wrticles are inlaid with {ng item appeared under Foreign) | | pee tel eed 1 by an Not your soul,” he answers, ‘Peo. |fortune and her husband's she ht! arorward, wiiile he was experimenting You've only worn it one winter and giportunity to Bie ity Genre snd set with imitation precious ‘Trade Opportunities, issue of Aug. eer LTS OF S8U6; | ple nowadays Vt particular about]on @ plan to get more money by Kills | oth new poison t 1X was ove it's a sight! Iv'a threadbare, jt pals rane ny vabing It possible to carry Phosphate of Soda, 17,747.—A._ firm KRESUL! oe nH OPPOR: thelr I mean your wedding] ime ber father, a rich old) Govern- Avatea na eee é nooks, brushes and 1 lor scheme of the room-in in th) United Kingdom writes an ‘Consul Horie ey clothen.’ ment ollicial, She believed she stood ‘@ found papers incrim. |Sarunnen can all be pure eparately American consular’ officer that It a ‘i, 1 got you,’ T reply well in the old man's will and she Mavanioneen |? “I'm going to get a now one, ain't) Hossibly you know a girl w to mateh the various desires to import monobasic phos) result “Ile feels about on my head and |deeided to realize on her inheritance, but was caught, She|1? Now is the time to buy cheap," 20. 1ollt Wh ry attractive. There is @ phato of soda or other creana, of merce Ke stops over the left ear she made a careful study of] t ) Kill herself before Pers for he hpi \y in shapes, and prices tartar nubstiture, ‘The common portunity Not 1 can't find any bump of knowl- helped by St. Croix, a down | trial, once by swallowing a pin, o Kyaldierqusless sain De BE d range upward, A very taining 112 ecko |? cash will, be has advised edge! he says, ‘but here's the bump|at-heel adventurer, At last she found! by biting out pieces of glass from aj “When?” replied his wife be inted in tortoise shell, Paid dgalnst shipping documents in hipment of love, You y affectionate’ [an arsenic compound that seemed to} goblet und seeking to swallow It. She| “Well,” said Mr. Jarr, “I saw a fing Tom, such as b) ° foreign ports,” quotations should be er nother firm josh, kid, He made mo sore|her « safe and sure means of death, | fought in vain for a means to poison | poady-made spring overcoat I liked C@2Tied out in t If| “it you desire to just peeled made c. 4, f, destination, If possible, that it 18 import ut the Knowledge bump. I. try tested It_on charity patients in| herself, but could not get hold of any feed grote window, went invand €2e, furniture is by token of remembrance, thers Samples of the soda may be exam, phate of sods t my head back to a upright|the Paris hospitals, She brought Jel-|of the arsenic she had sto protended I liked other ones ao much SHell set le effective pencils, full size, in blue and ined at the Hureau of Foreign an per month and ¢ sposttion, but he holds it where It's| lies and broth to these sick folk; and | in her home ' , tiny chick’ at. th Domestic C its branch aaaees t , . 1 , trial eth more that the man casually, not nick at the end, mimestic Commerce oF its purehi at ast then Dolores, from the pie} they blessed her kindness, Then, lit-| Her trial was one of ™ sa anys ied With an attractive ribs { offices, month. H uit intry, looks in tle ittle, the rew wol and the his f th ) | lon ne Wanted it, classed it white box which contains an ap: In the of dh, $0, thie WAS) pemulk of Bie publication of ¥ Whateha doing, Lucile? she yells.{died. ‘The | Marehior carefully r several months ¢ 1 the cheap coats reser entiment. ‘They are Bd Published rade Opportun) he ' Trying to butt that guy off his} noted their symptoms, while she pi ng Mimo. de Brinyilliers w mu take it, then ho toilet | oer Vour blotter ends in aeed pianbers Supplies, No, 18,837.-—T! Many Ame ican business men who tended to be acting as volunteer | victed, and Was put to death. ‘eae eeana Aner uta in n black desi and printed senti- — jureau is informed by an Amer are faci i p petit n the ‘It was too much. | back off and] nurse for them \ ten confession was found in whi , Ne around in old English or the monogram (he mont, make a good gift, They are 31 qonsular officer in England that &® | aomestic market would find that the get my head in a perpendiculous po-| At last she had learned just the|admitied having poisoned about ajdays and get it at my own pe by tortoise shell is selected the mono-|cents, They might be fastened to — Gentes gg porters in his diate | rorolga feld offered 4 greater margin sition again, Then 1 give Dolores| right doses of arsenic to give with-|doxen people and having tried to|pretending I saw one like it else gram will be in gold, which makes @/several layers of blotters aad-shus | ae, ‘of shaving a of 2 lt j —. ene look. out rousing suspicion, Then she went’ polacm almost as many more, where for $20," said Mr, Jarr, (charming combination, In the whitelmake the gift complete, . 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