The evening world. Newspaper, April 13, 1916, Page 18

Ree i | | | t j i oa = sre ER aren 5 Hay RET EE i (a - The Evening Tord. FESTARLISIIOD BY Peblished Dally Except sund JOSEPH PULITZER es Pu ing Company, Now. 83 to "ark Row, New York. RALPH F 1 JOSBPH Treasurer, 6% Park Row, ft, Secretary, 63 Park Row, Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Claes Matter. Subscription Rates to The Evening| For England and the Continent and All Countries tn the International rm jal Union. + $8.80/ One Year... . 8 801 One Month E “PRESENT BUT NOT GUILTY.” HOUGH admitting a German submarine was doing a torpedoing job in the vicinity when the explosion of something or other damaged the Sussex, the German Government, we are told, is quite positive that no German torpedo was launched at the Sussex. ‘Time and place tally, but not the victim. The German submarine commander, it appears, with Teutonic foresight and thoroughness, sketched the vessel he really torpedoed—with what justification has yet to be made clear—and his sketch does not resemble photographs of the Sussex. Germany evidently thinks this will do nicely. But if it shouldn't be swallowed, there still remaina the explanation that the German torpedo, though conscientiously aimed at # ship that deserved it, wan- tonly turned about, scudded over the horizon and blew up the Sussex. Which, more than ever, therefore, appears ta have been an act of God, to which al] simple-minded peoples and Governments ought to resign) themselves as speedily as possible. SY Sa) BEGIN WITH THE B. R. T. OMPLAINTS of the utter lack of consideration the B. R. T. is showing toward residents of various sections of Brooklyn mul- tiply each week. People who use the Putnam Avenue line declare the service has| never been so bad. “This is caused,” writes one of them, “by the B. R. T. out- ting off Putnam Avenue cars at Borough Hall, Brooklyn, and running only about one in three over the bridge to Park Row. | You board a car at Park Row which bears the destination sign | Wyckoff Avenue. But when you reach Broadway you are told | “car ahead” or “car behind,” and have to get out and stand in the cold while five or six more cars are run up to Broadway and every one dumped out instead of being carried to tho proper destination of the car—Wyckoff Avenue.” “Again, owing to the poor service, cars leaving the Bridge are packed beyond their capacity. It is common to find at Broadway that the totals of the two registers read well over 200. The capacity of one of these cars is seventy-two persons —which means they carry nearly three times as many as they are supposed to.” On the Fifth Avenue elevated the conditions appeer to be little better. Among formal complaints which have been sent to the Public Service Commission is one which reads: Since the Fourth Avenue subway was opened the service on the Fifth Avenue elevated line has been cut down one-half, The trains in the rush hours are more crowded than evor. Fifth Avenue trains are no longer run to Manhattan, Getting off the trains at Union Street and Third Street in the evening is almost impossible without having one's clothes torn off. The B. R. T. has recently put up @ poster at its stations asking its patrons to be patient about overcrowding. Meanwhile its executive officers are studying how to cut down on its train service and run two-car trains in rush hours, with passengers hanging on by their eyebrows. These are fair samples of the way thousands of Brooklynites feel about abuses that have tried their patience to the breaking point. We have a brand new Public Service Commission which professes to be eager to right wrongs and right them promptly. Why doesn’t it show its mettle by an immediate overhauling of the methods of the B. R. T.? World for the United States and ‘anada. ‘One Year One Month od RICHARD HARDING DAVIS. | HE sudden death of Richard Harding Davis came as a shock to; a host of his fellow countrymen who knew him for a sinewy,| steel-built American, good, it seemed, for another fifty years. Indeed, one of his great attractions was the superb physique which,| with his buoyant, adventurous spirit, carried him through so many} journeys and over so many battlefields where he absorbed at first hand! the extraordinary vigor and life he put into his writing. His recent work as a war correspondent in Europe put him under heavy strain. | Tt took the biggest war of all to kill him. It was as a newspaper reporter that he began to write; and un-| derlying most of his subsequent literary output lay the instinct of one of the best reporters the country has produced. He saw expertly, and he told what he saw with a crispness and personal flavor that made it irresistible. ‘To this he added the wholesome imagination and clean! American optimism that freshen all his fiction. | He knew New York, outdoors and in. He knew boys, “Galla-| gher” was one of the first stories he ever wrote, and it remained one| of his best. He has left one of the most appealing dog stories in the! language. He liked the young New York aristocrat, but he liked him for his better qualities—his simple cheeriness, strength, susceptibility | to romance and readinese to help a fellow. Van Bibber must have been pretty close to his ideal—which, as| it shows in all his life and work, will be long appraised as one of clean, bright, virile Americanism, | Sane os According to The Far East, of Tokio, a young Japanese in New York in the course of a letter to a friend at home makes the following observations: “In the society here, fellows and girls associate one another very freely when once get acquaintance by an introduction of somebody else, As American girls are accustomed to associate with fellows, freely, y do not easily wove With affection of fellow, just as our gelsha girls do not move so easily. Naturally American girls are more sociable, as geisha girls are in Japan.” The Far East is not certain where the compliment lies, whether with the geisha or the New York gir) Hits From Sharp Wits When a man loses his temper don't | scheme of the universe was not props wtop to help him find it, jerly arranged.—Albany Journal, . . . . . . id The lowest degree of fame ts al A reputation for being @ good tmitator,| why « Albany Journal, (weer woman can never understand should spend his time on ac ding his paper instead of striking up an acquaintance with his ) the “spats” are not! seat mate and starting a monologue ne are matrimonial|on any subject under the sun, nerclal Appeal, il Naas) e ¢ Miladi says al! white « Memph white lie has travelled a few The sub-conscious thought in the city blocks it necds ivundering.—To- YMaluds of uplift Laddists op tbat the ledo Blade ‘ | Rangle believes in pepper; my moth- Stymi | 1b The Evening World Daily Magazine, ed! HEN Mr. Jarr came home the other evening Master | Jarr was sitting in one cor- ner of the front room with a tear stained face, while the little girl was in the other corner making short catches at her breath, which signified recently repressed emotion. | Mrs, Jarr was sitting in the middle | of the room surrounded by an indis-| criminate mass of the family wearing | apparel. “Why, hello! Packing up to g0/ somewhere?” asked Mr, Jarr. ‘And| the kiddies—what's the matter with them?” “lm trying to wrap up and put away my furs and all our heavy win- tor clothes and those children have done everything they could to worry the life out of me!" said Mrs, Jarr. Here she threw back her head and a zed and Mr. Jarr sneezed and the children sneezed. “That's popper—I'm putting some of the things away in pepper. Mrs. er says snuff, so I'm trying snuff, too.” Here Mrs, Jarr had recourse | to her handkerchief and Mr, Jarr| noticed her eyes were red and her nose Hkewlse. “What's happened? Have you all Mr. Jarr asked. been crying?” “[ haven't been crying,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “but this pepper and snuit has driven me crazy and the chil- dren" — “Why don't you send tie ohtldren out?" asked Mr. Jurr, “Il was going to say the ehildren en- Joyed that, and they laughed at me for te ih ; geecre preensnate wns - > . other hardware vas sitting sneezing, Furthermore, if I've got tolaround in his slippers rocking the stand the discomfort of tt they can, too!” replied Mrs, Jarr. “Well, excuse MI!" said Mr, Jarr, making @ flank movement for the door, “And you can stay, too,” remarked Mrs. Jarr decisively. “How Ike a man to permit his wife to suffer while he jruns away!” “Well, call in Gertrude, favoritisin!” said Mr. Jarr as he sat down on the sof | “Oh, Gertrude is busy s }dinn rephed Mra Jarr. But. she |knew and Mr. Jarr know that whi children and husbands may be ehat tels, light running domestics 6u Gertrude are free and independent, | “L don't see why the children are crying, then, If they enjoy the snuff and pepper,” said Mr, Jarr, | “Willie isn't) eryt about the | | sneex He wants m balls, and little Emma has been crying for them, | too!" replied Mrs, J ' "Jelnay Haugie’es mamma lets bimiwas un ugly weapon Wilh « fancy The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Ev sneezed until the teara rolled down ones 1 World), play marbles with the moth balls!” chimed in Willie Jarr. “And I am not using moth balls this year,” said Mrs, Jarr. “I'm try- ing pepper &nd snuff and some moth flake, And those children have me so worried and fretted that I do believe I swallowed a couple of pins while T was sneezing!" Here Mrs, Jarr scattered some of the irritant powders and all present their faces, “We'll finish after supper.” said Mrs, Jarr, as Gertrude announced the meal was ready, “Oh, by the way, get out my dress suit,” ventured Mr, Jarr, “There's @ » ™ Ooprrieds 1018 The Bre: Bubitent Tork © % ay By Sophie Consright The Lady Reformer. INCE upon a time there was @ woman who went forth to reform. Everything was wrong with the world and she wanted to correct tt. This woman was the mother of trade dinner to-night I have to at- tend.” “You can't go,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “Your dress sult is packed up and put a away. You'll bave your trade dinner with me!” “Take the pepper off the table, Gertrude,” sniffed Mr. Jarr, “Aka- choo! I hope you have a dinner not to be sneezed at!” An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.—BAXTER, % Copyright. by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No, 3—Daggere. naine, “inisericorde." After you'd HERE are cords and tons of | &tted your opponent out of his saddle 4 re |you'd rush over to where he lay and those “trusty blade" songs) use your knife as a can opener ia about swords, but few have/ work in between the joints of his ar- had @ kind word to say about the modest and retiring dagger. The sword is touted as the weapon of the open attack, It has to be. There's mighty little chance of hiding one in your sleeve and sneaking up on a follow. But most of us think of the dagger as the weapon of the mid- night assassin, the thrust in the back. It used to be part of the outfit of every up-to-date scrapper, however, The lusty knight, when he'd laid aside baby to sleep, still wore his jowel- | Hilted dagger and didn't consider he} Was violating the Sullivan law, So did the honest workingman in the] good old day's when only chaps whose ares were in the social register were allowed to carry swords. The dagger Is one of the oldest fighting tools on the list, Way back, long before kings be tories written giving an having hiss their sides nd there was Wicke them turned | @ by the 1 lint Work # Union, They were still a the best sellers When bronze Into. style ng the refined + \the proper material for throat-elitting ments, difference between a dagger id a@ sword isn't # matter of size but of what one plans to do with them. ‘The sword 1s for tho long, slashing swing or for the thrust; tho knife for the stab aut close quarters, no large, well xrown daggerg are big & set, boys! size swords, Dur © Midd when the valry gaine was L worked to the ponlard the knits carried mor, The name means that whe: dagger was drawn the under dog hoa to surrender “to mercy” or else phone for the undertaker, Don't let yourself fancy that this class of work hurt the feelings of the beauteous damsels who rode to the Joustings on thelr white palfreys, Instead of a powde each of them had a cute litte attieuy tucked in her waistband. When dueling got to be the favorite outdoor sport, a new species, the left- hand dagger, was invented, ‘This had a sawtooth edge and the stunt was to catch the other fellow’s swordblade and snap it off. Another style of dag- ker when & spring Was pressed split into three forks. We can't go any further witl ve ferring to the potsoned pF eB pages of fiction are dotted thickly with the villains who have fallen by it. The tastes of our little brown brothers {mn knives aren't pretty, The Ghurkas, who came from Indta to France to help the British in Flan- ders, just dote on the “kukrt," a dainty weapon with half moon-shaped blade with which, they say, a classy worker can lop off an arm with one ys are awfully proud With its corkscrew 11 It it doesn’t Kill it scares to © late, esteemed Col. Jim Bowte Rave to our best known knife ie first was made for him from @ sharpened file, but later they were built to order with a twelve- inch, double-edged, razor sharp blade. The Colonel wae not a home-loving character, being of a hasty temper and enjoying his duels, but he put his scrapping spirit to good use at the end, He waa very much present in that fight to the finish at the Alamo. His body was found later, propped up with {ts back to a wall Thursday. Everyday Fables April By J. H. Cassel { ’ moa org < | three children and she had consider- Irene Loeb —- 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), able means at her dispo! She fig- something like this: “Tam an unusual woman, I need a wide scope for my activities, My brain resources should be used for big things. I hate the narrow confines of my home, [I can pay somebody to take care of the children and relieve me of the responsibility. My n will be heralded in the newspa I will find it on the prominent organizations. Speeches at afternoon teas and pre- side at charitable bureaus. I will ve eat woman, Why not?” So she started on her way rejoicing. She secured a French mademoiselle to take care of the childre: She ar- and laundried. Then she shook off all home care and set out for the great career, With money at her disposal it was not a difficult matter. She gave breakfasts and dinners and suppers and was a patroness for everything that came along. She delved into civic questions and settled all the problems of tho universe on public platforms of the East side. Her name was heraided in the papers and on the stationery of reform organizations. She was certainly well advertised She usually cuine home at tired to night, th, and would retire with of content for the “great) During these days she rarely saw her children, and the man she married becam: more like @ friend than 4 husband” since he was always at business and she was always busy, She knew nothing about the housa- hold and didn’t want to know. ‘This thing went on for many months, and) she became so deeply engrossed in the) reform habit that she bad no interest in anything else, One day sho came home unexpect- edly. There was a crowd about her house and a policeman at the door. She heard a sad story. Her young daughter had stolen a pocketbook from @ neighbor and had pleaded guilty when found out, It seemed that while the lady wi away reforming the little one had been taken daily to the house of a! neighbor who loved children, while mademolselle took little holidays. The neighbor explained that she had tried hard to break the little girl of the habit of “taking things"—appar- | ently without success, On the same evening (one of the few the mother had rematned at home) she caught the other ehild swearing in the most grown-up fash- | fon and, ina petulant tantrum, throw. ing things at his nurse, He too had gotten a habit quired reforming. little attention t of their mother. They yond that staye: for they had been removed from her authority so long. The wotnan began to think, Her] husband, she reflected, had been in- teresting himself in other things, and there was not the same old comrade- | ship between them, She looked ae at what had been done, ‘All summed up, she could not find anything that she had really re-| formed by neglecting her own. ‘Tho real sacrifice of her foulishness loomed Jarge, She learned thts moral: his Knife in his hand and a half elr- ele pf dead Mexicans in tront of him. The reformer, like charity, should degin as home, ‘ 4 A verily, vorily, . quite conservative this spring, 4 13, 1916 ca ayings of Mrs. By Helen Solomon} Rowland Copyrigat, 1914 <= NOT seek to pase for twenty. heard pay: “How fagcinating are the beauties of maturity! dom and experience, how much more ples of the bread-and-butter damsel!” And she BELIEVED them. Yet, behold, it came to pass that, observed that the multitude had ceas ingly upon the bighway, she likewise to seek his Club upon five evenings of the week. troubled. by The Prow Publishing Uo. Y Daughter, I charge thee, hearken unto the parable of the Full Blown Rose and the Bud, and digest its wisdom, Now, there dwelt in Babylon a woman of thirty-five who did Which The New York Kvenine World) was wonderful! For, lo, she had And the charms of wis- alluring than (he insipidity and dime upon the same day when¢he Woman ed to turn and stare after her admir- observed that her Husband bad begun And her heart was Now, it chanced, upon an April morning, that she passed a flower vene der, and beheld him at his work. And, lo, she perceived that he lifted a FULL-BLOWN ROSE from his tray and dipped it into a pink liquid filled with salt and tee, whereupon thy rose came forth crisp and glowing. And the vender gathered {ts petals together and tied them with an tr visible string. And behold, the rose was as a BUD on And the vender surrounded {it w mor ith young asparagus, and decked Ite stem fn aflver and tinfoil, and straightway sold it to a passerby, But when the woman questioned vender answered her, saying: “Go to! his coat-lapel Where shall I find a purchaser for my ful! in THIS day, every man yearneth for a BUD, to wear upon him why he had done this thing, the For, And, thereupon, the woman fell down before him and offered him thanks and a new shekel. And when she arose she called a thereof, saying: taxi-chariot and instructed the driver “I charge thee, drive me straightway to Madame Gloria, the Beauty Spectalist’s! “and thereafter to Herr Tintorino, the Perruquicr’s! “And thence to Madame Curvature, the Corsetiere's! “And thence to Mi “And thereafter to a Tango Tea! Fluffy Shortskirt, the Modiste’s! “For, verily, verily, beauties of the SOUL may be the kind that a man evenings, nor the kind which he gazetl to supper. ‘really admireth, but they are NOT the kind wherewith he spendeth his h after upon the street, nor taketh out “And, lo, though I bellfeve that I shall meet mine Husband in Heaven, I desire also to see a little more of him Selah. ee here on EARTH!" It is @ consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.—SYRUS. O select the dress accessories to be worn in the Easter parade is now In order. First there are the shoes, The selection of these should be a simple matter, ae never has there been such a varied assortment of pretty shoes as at this ster season, ‘As long as the short skirts remain modish the high shoe will have pret- erence, and so the Easter parade will show handsome novelties in dressy boots. Beauty is the keynote of this season's footwear even in the all black shoe, Those who can afford only one pair of shoes at a time will wear the black, and they have awide choice in the dull calf, dull or glazed kid and the patent leather, Cloth tops continue to be popular. When you select your shoes see that they have no tips; the heels ma be Cuban or in the Louis style, or combination of the two, and ther a decided trend toward lower he Whether the shoe shall be buttoned or laced is a matter of individual taste. You will find the colored shoes The leading shade is beige, then come the soft tones of gray, those that border on silver, The smart shoe of the season {g the all-black boot, or the black patent, with the top In gray or tan buckskin or kid, ‘The medfum- is NE of the worst ways to acquire money is to marry for tt. The interest that must be paid is altogether too high, There are many aiMcult ways of earning money 1n factories and shops, and even offices. But all these methods are easy and simple and self-respecting compared with living with a man whom you do not love, for the sake of his dol- lars, Although there may be no other man for whom you do care at the time when you make this sordid matrimonial bargain, you can never be sure that you may not meet him, later on, Even if your life 1s dificult and uninteresting, even if the fairy prince seems a long time in arriving, don't, my dear girls, marry for a home or for a fortune, You will live to repent your act. “A, 3. writes: ‘I fell in love with a young man when I was sixteen and the affair has lasted for seven years. I think that he cares for me, although he never has asked me to marry him, Dollars and Sense N the ght of the present short- age of raw material for the man- ufacture of paper a recent report, Bulletin No. 322, issued by the De- partment of Agriculture, assumes special significance, It seems that approximately 1,- 400,000 tons of flax straw are burned or permitted to go to waste each year on American farms. At the present time about 2,200,000 acres are devoted to the raising of flax, ebiefly in North Dakota, Ming sota, South Dakota and Montana, The flax is grown primarily for the seed from Which linseed oil is manu. factured, The annual crop amounts t 20,000,000 bushels of seed i valued ot approximately $ For the Easter | Shopper colored tan shoo promises to have a strong vous Notwithstanding the fact that high shoes are smart, there will be many Colonials in th Sunday ts ba ' se formerly popular low shoes will have a strong revival this s¢ pr that shoes will be your gown will fely buy the the vogue for white unprecedented, so if harmonize white you ean for shoes ext to the shoes impor me the gloves. By the way, would make an appropriate 1 gift. The new fashion shades are neutral nd will, fore, harmonize w prevailing com tune colorings, 60 7 vrove satisfactory, and the etill fa soft tone ber, The new grays are decidedly rich and the sand and putty shades are fashion- able. The washable kid glove is a great achievement. While selecting gloves it ay be Just as well to choose these. There will be many silk gloves in the Easter parade, Now that these lare produced in style effects and fit equal to the kid glove they are pre- ferred to them for spring and sums mer wear, and they are now being offered in many handsome effeeta, in all the fashionable colorings. ranged her household matters so that! Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers. He pays more or less attention to me, and seems angry if I accept atten tion from others. I could have mar- ried several times, but I am not able to forget this particular man, What shall I do?” It seems to me that your self-re- spect demands that you should cease seving him, until he makes his in- tentions definite. Try to cultivate, if Rot other men, at least other interests in life “J. Ro" writes: "IT am seventeen and very much in love with a girl the game age whom T have known a month. She also cares for me, My parents say that I am too young to ith young ladies, What I think you're pretty young for a love affair, Why don't you and the girl just decide to be good friends? “J, Do writes: “At a wedding where there is one flower girl and one matd of honor, should there be two best men?” There never should be but one best man By H. J. Barrett The crop also yields approximately 1,600,000 tons of straw, but of this only about 200,000 tons are put to any profitable use. The utilization of the remaining 1,400,000 tons, says the bulletin, would be of immense eeo- nomic importance, since jis. paper producing possibilities are equal. to the annual production of wrapping paper and more than double the an= nual production of writing paper in the United state Its it ix estimated, would rep. ronent an added revente to the fares ers of about $5,000,000 annually, Thus additional profit. would) be a very powerful factor in maintaining the flax crop in our agricultural svstent and would probably result in the + {ablishinent. of paper manufacturie, industries in sections where there are none at present, + JUST A WIFE (HER DIARY) EDITED BY J * * * + i icT A WIFE (HER PPAAAADAE EERE HSY: $ ANET TREVOR Chapters From a Bride's Heart-Story WILL BEGIN IN MONDAY'S EVENING WORLD Vevevevevecovevsreqevevsvssssverss sessrssss0008