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The tramp of thousands through the streets to-day is prompted NO. 19,989 by neither dread nor triumph, gaiety nor gain, In a sense it is not! a parade, but only a mighty march of citizens moved to show them- selves of one mind and purpose in all that concerns or shall ever con- cern the country’s safety and preservation. ‘The note of simplicity is profoundly American. No uniforms or emblems other than those worn by military bodies—few banners, The flag and the flag only aloft. Under it gather practically all the| forces of the city’s industrial life, distinguished only by inconspicuous | Standards showing the trades and professions represented. | To no organization, commercial, civie or political—the official| programme reminds us—belongs the credit for this day’s observance, It grew spontaneously out of a demand that was itself spontaneous. And now the hours prove too few to permit all who would to fall into line. The day will be long remembered. In the earlier years of the mation’s history Americans in city and town dyew oftener together to refresh the spirit, of patriotism and renew resolve. That instinct {s not dead. What |is still more significant, the most populous and multi-peopled city in the land has been the first to fecl the old im- pulse and set the example. ee 0 Carranza’s presentation of the Mexican point of view re- garding the presence of American troops ip Mexico is based wholly upon a tender solicitude for Mexican feelings. Meanwhile the border raids go on. When shall we hear that out of regard for Mexican sensitiveness we ought to move the border? ooo THE NATIONAL GUARD NEEDS MEN. T*: National Guard of this State numbers, with recent enlist- ments, about 18,000 men. The new law calls for 23,000. Three thousand—60 per cent.—of the increase should come from New York City, that being the proportion of the Guard already here. Whatever its defects, and many of these have been or will be cor- rected, the National Guard still offers the most immediate, practical and economical way for the average citizen to keep in readiness to stand by his country in time of need. The State has $20,000,000 invested in armories, rifle ranges, camp sites and equipment. It furnishes uniforms and guns free.) Twenty-three officers of the regular army are on hand to give in-| struction. The National Guard in this city is keeping its armories open day and night next week to answer questions and receive enlistments. Its campaign for “3,000 men in thirty days” won 715 recrufts the firet week. If two per cent. of the estimated thousands who march for pre- peredness to-day are ready to act for preparedness by joining the Guard, its maximum etrength is assured. fae IN 1850. .“1 shall know but one country. The ends ! alm at shall be my country's, my God's, and Truth’s.” 2 was born an American; I live an American; 1 shafl dite am American; and I intend to perform the auties incumbent ‘upon me in that character to the end of my career.” “I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences. What are personal consequences? What is the {individual man, with all the good or evil which may betide him, {m comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country in a crisis and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country’s fate? Let the consequences be what they wifl, I am careless” “No man can surfer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer of if he fall in defense of the liberties and | Constitution of his country.” DANIEL WEBSTER. Hits From Sharp Wits too’ weight, 1916, peas Pibliaing Co York Evening Worl) wt (Te New ng World Daily Magazine, Saturday, May 13! 1916 The Spirit of 1916 —- By Roy L. 66 [COR goodness sake!” said Mr. Sarr, péevishly, as he was wttiring himself for the labora of the day, “what makes you tilt the mirror on this bureau so that Tf can't see to tie my cravat or brush my hair without getting on my knees?” “You can tilt the mirror up again,” said Mrs. Jarr, coolly, and then she @d a disappearing act for a moment by putting on the skirt of her dress over her head, “By George! If there is any way to do a thing right, women will find a way to do it wrong—and get away with it,” said Mr. Jarr. “Why don't you step into your akirt?” “Why don't you mind your dwn business?” replied Mrs. Jarr, “Well, you leave the mirror alone,” “You leave the mirror alone your- self!” said Mrs, Jarr, “And you leave my bureau alone, There's a chiffonier on the other side of the room that I got for you—there's a mirror in that ff you are so vain you have to be looking at yourself all the time you are dressing!” na you've got that tilted down, said Mr, Jarr. “J want to see how my skirt hangs k, don't 17” asked Mrs, ‘Whenever the wife asks the hus-[itinerant pains than at band to beat the carpet he gets right) time.—Toledo Blade, up and “beats it.” aa es ¢ Personally, we don’ i conn who stands corrected atc | par emeiticee ane ways feels as though he had been #at| together miserahl down on.—Deseret News, the “Before takin; r any wretched and al- as the people in| ads, eo ee Grioke this in your pipe for a phil- osopbic truth: It doesn’t satisfy the] Some women really like to dance soul or the stomach to chew the rag.| With thelr (0 rn) husbands. white eee Vie mona in) A opegL, other women look just like they look | q preps Comaarey Jatter taking a large inhalation ‘of When « man speaks of the ctviliza- jerbe r—Macon News, tion to which lie belongs as being dead o 8 it is surmised that his reference Is| ‘The young man who has been made | purely persc Nashville Banner. | accustomed to get whatever he wants . {when he wants it has a lot of disap Often two neighbor women seem|pointment coming to him,—Albany happier when comparing aches and Journal, Letters From the People of Arbitration.” The Evening World at the American people which have been | rf believe that! » would not only bring un irresistitge moral pressure to bear | this procedu other|in the ba | Jarr. | chiffonier I do elieve any-| ference it makes which way the mir- | | sald Mr, “And as you never use the not see what dif- ror is tilted “L ne e it because I can't,” “There isn't a drawer in the thing that I can call my own, You've got it filled with your things and the children's things. “Now don't say that,” said Mrs, Jarr. “I've given you half of the two upper drawers, and you have every- thing in all the drawers mussed and tossed. You just come away from my bureau and leave tt alone!" This last remark was brought about by Mr. Jarr tilting the mirror on the bureau at an angle at which he could see the reflection of his head and shoulders without stooping almost to the floor. He retreated angrily to the chif- unc. »prove the firm stand nthe GAVERAOnE OP the vai {fonter and turned the glass on tt to taken by dent in the nego- ipire, probably preventing war be-| What he thought a proper angle, when tiations with Government of the} tween that empire and the United) the glass came off the swivel and German Eupire, We desire, 1 think, | § ance Due SANE AUER convent bumped down on the floor, neithe ignoble peace nor an un-| World court of arbitration te aoe “Doggone it! Now see what you've necessary war. At this critical mo-| be not a military coalition but a moral | done!" ‘he shout “ty Bo0d no- ment most citizens wondering | coalition; a « nded | tion to throw it out of the window!" what will follow in the possible event | \ the armed| ut he hadn't any such notion at neutral nations, . of a future erance of diph to express to the|@l: Furniture costs money, and Mr, relations with G ny. itis any de- | sallies the Joint | Jarr restrained himself, irc that he event of 4 the world| ) sorry you hurt yourself," said euch a ¢ United And desires to! Mrs, Jarr, “But if you had left it} a eauies Fe Meir aon | alone it would have been all right.” ret men are Or, Neh Del Rerant Da | ou leave things alone yourself | announcement of opini concerning | t ¢ Walt {The Evening We and they'll be all right!" retorted M the policy of Germany Is allies, Who is the author of the poem “The! Jarr, “If you hadn't been all the @@ well a» concerning cert Phases Man With the Hoe?’ MRS. M.D, tume turning those mirrors that way ‘ 4 i ’ Copyright, 2816, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Erening World) The Jarr Family McCardell this one wouldn't have fallen down.” ‘Are you mad at me or mad at the mirrors or mad because you're get- ‘ting bald?” asked Mrs. Jarr sweetly. “I'm not getting bald,” said Mr. Jarr. “You're cranky because you are getting fat! Talk about fat people being good-natured!" “I am not fat, and I want you to stop saying I am!’ replied Mrs. Jarr. “Well, you're getting fat, all the same!" grumbled Mr. Jarr. “Iam not, I am wearing—or at least I can wear—the same things I wore two years ago,” said Mrs, Jarr. “Get out of my room!” “It's my room, too,” said Mr. Jarr, “put there doesn’t seem to be any place for me or anything belonging to me in It. You women get all a man's money, take up all the room in the house, and now you say you want to vote,’ “I don't want to vote, thank you, I leave that to the men making fools of themselves and spending time and money to elect people who do nothing for them.’ “You don’t want to because you can't," said Mr, Jarr, “Oh, can't we?" replied Mrs. Jarr. “Well, I'm going this afternoon to the ‘Bureau for the Propaganda of Fran- wounds,—ARMSTRONG. The Week’s — By Martin Green — { LL," remarked the head polisher, “It is beginning to look as though we might have a set of whiskers in the national | campaign after all.” | “Quite so,” agreed the laundry man. |From present indications lithographs ‘of the enfoliaged visage of Justice Hughes will become prominently asso- ciated with the landscape of our di- versified Republic, beginning about the second week in June and extend- ing along into early November. Of course predicting the nomination of Justice Hughes for President on the Republican ticket 1s like betting in ,4 future book, and a future book has utterly ruined many a speculator, |_Col. Roosevelt is committed to Hughes. Away back yonder when Justice Hughes's chances for the nomination were about as flourishing as those of the leading Chinese stu- dent at Columbia University, the Col- onel came out for Hughes. Ordinarily, {a little thing like indorsing a man’s ‘candidacy at one time and with- drawing the indorsement at another | chise for Women,’ and you'd better come along with me.” “There is nothing tn it for any human husband,” grumbled Mr. Jarr, “[ mean any bureau that women have anything to do with.” And maybe he is righ For want of timely care millions have dicd of medicable —— By Sophie Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishis URING the week babies were awarded prizes—over a hundred of them, A hundred mothers oF more were made Joyous by the medals that designate their babes as test- proof in the matter of perfection, Doubtless new enthusiasm will be in- stilled and better knowledge dissem|~ nated by the establishment of a week —for babies only. Good results must obtain, Yet there is something to be said about the hundreds of thousands of bables—many of them perfect ones, too—who are awarded no medals, Every one of these prizeless babies is priceless to the mother who bore It, Many such @ mother is undergoing hardships so that her little one, in+ stead of boving for a gold cup, may not be crying for bread, She hasn't the time nor the energy to make him the perfect baby he ought to be be- cause the handicap of livelihood ts ever before her. bus nly with financing i y ittle ones but fostering them as jWell. 1 speak for the working mother, | she who either as wife or widow must needs, on ¢ | fo. jor d to help p vide as well as act as sole parent for the babies within her home, +|the Babies Who Get No Prizes Irene Loeb —— ing Co, (The New York Evening World), Let the baby week be extended to the other fifty-one weeks of the year. Kind your neighbor, the little over- tired mother, and give her the lift she needs when she is most tired, See that the money you spend for charity reaches the home of some babe who may otheryyise become a weakling from unde” -*ishment and undercare during its gr < period, Look to it th, the little eight-year- old girl be not overburdened by “minding the baby,” which means ear- rying him, hee little shoulders almost breaking With the weight. There are hundreds of such “little inothers.”” Help encourage schools for mothers and community groups whereby the newest and best scientifia methods of building strength for babies are trans- mitted to ignorant mothers by the best authorities, Ratse your voice to keep little children out of institutions where the lockstep habit prevails and the good night kiss is unknown, A cruelly large per cent, of these chil- dren later land in Sing Sing, Raby week? Let it be bables’ week every day, every hour, every minute, The better the baby the less trouble the community has with him as a citizen. If each individual would take upon himself a civic duty of looking to the interest of any little habe when it Jorosses his path—a baby who has but fighting chance for perfectness— jalls and hospitals would be thinned out and a happier condition ned all around, jis Hughes? | Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New Yark Evening World), time wouldn't worry the Colonel, but his is not an ordinary occasion. ‘The Colonel entertains for Justice Hughes all the ardent affection of a ted-blooded warrior for a molly- coddle, Justice Hughes has never called anybody a Har. He has never ridden a bucking bronco or shot a wild bobcat or trailed the flerce rhinoceros to his lair, Judged by Past performances, Justice Hughes is waited for peace. “Neit the Old Guard war- ard Justice Hughes with other than frapped affection, They are afraid of him. Every time they think of him there shoots into their minds the advertisements of @ com- modity which is alleged to be id a fraction per cent. pure. And just about now they are thinking about him a whole lot. “Dherefore, you may well ask why The answer is that neither the Colonel nor the bosses of the G. O, P. have been able to pro- duce anybody else. “However, there is one factor in the situation which may allow the Colonel to dictate another candidate than Hughes. If Hughes runs there will be a vacancy on the United States Supreme Court bench to be filled by President Wilson. The pre- sentiment that President Wilson might select another Brandets rests on the financial interests k of the Repybliess campaign like an icy og.” Serene NOR $ — Marchless Marchers. ; Re NCCE eee aaa ‘> 66]7)O you march tn the Prepared. ness Parade?” asked the head polisher, “Not this year," replied the laundry “I was like many another be- liever in preparedness, I might say that I have been and am for prepared- ness, straight, place and show. But I didn’t make up my mind that I wanted to march in the parade until after I found out the books were closed and they wouldn't accept any more entries. “Then we preparedn enthusiasts who had delayed because we didn't really think that so many people thought about preparedness along our line of thought actually clamored to be allowed to parade. We were al most pestiferously insistent, The man- agement of the parade gave us a ray of hope that was almost painful one day when it was announced that room would be made for a few thousand more, but when we found ourssives again barred we were resigned. We were getting used to it by that time. “One of the most earnest prevared ness patriots I know is spend'ng the day preparing his motor boat for the summer season,” Ons © $ Sensitive Plants, Oo rrrrreenss 66] SEE." said the head polisher, “that First Chief Carranza, says the sight of our troops wounds the sensitive feelings of the Mexican people." The Mexican people,” said the laundry man, “will do weil to take steps to confine thelr wounds te their eensitive feelings.” | | The Woman of It. By Helen Rowland. Copsright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Co, (Mie New York Kvening W She Tells Why Flirts Make the Best Wives. “ HERE goes a man who refused to marry me,” remarked the | Widow with an enigmatic smile, as @ serious-looking young man in horn-spectacles brushed past with a formal bow. “Good heavens! Bachelor in shocked surprise. “Oh, he didn't wait for me to do that,” returned the Widow, dimpling with laughter, as she dropped the third sugar into her tea, “He was too frightened. He delivered his ultimatum at our fi meeting. And, what was worse, he told me WHY. He accused me of being @ hardened flirt, Mr. Weatherby “The cold-hearted brute!" exclaimed the Bachelor. I mean, how did he dare!” “Fright will make a Bachelor dare anything,” declared (ie Widow. “1 was not a cold heart, but cold fear that drove him to it. But what I can never understand is why a man has an aversion to marrying a flirt—the one woman on earth who could understand him!" “Great Scott!" protested the Bachelor, “He's afraid!” “Afraid of what?” demanded the Widow mercilessly. “That she will understand him too well? Or that she will not give up her wild w: everything to make herself worthy of‘a pure, sweet, unsophisticated young ae doesn't care ‘to buy books for other men to read," quoted the id). Did you prépose to him? inquired the “How did he know Bachelor lamely, « € Rann ; A Smashup of Ancient Wheezes. 3 OOF! On that basis a woman would never marry at all!” retorted the Widow. “Because she could never find a masculine book—or a masculine heart—that some woman hasn't read, But it's an old theory that a man who has ‘had his fling’ will make the best husband; that @ man who has ‘seen life’ will not be looking for it after marriage; that a man who has known a lot of women is much more apt to be sure of hie choice when he selects one of them from out of the whole wide world. Th why on earth shouldn't a girt who has known a lot of men be much more apt to be sure of her own heart when she makes her choice than a girl who simply takes her first offer hapha: ? Why shouldn't a girl who has fancied herself in love several times be much more apt to know the real thing from the imitation when she finds it? Why shouldn't @ girl who has been engaged and kissed before"—— “But that's just it!? broke in the Bachelor desperately. “A man likes to flatter himself that he is the first to kiss his own wife.” “And a woman can congratulate herself if she is the last to kise her own husband!” scoffed the Widow mercilessly. “Dear me! A girl who has been kissed is much less apt to wonder after marriage how other men make love. A girl who has had the excitement of a gay and romantic girfhood is apt to be much more willing to settle down to the monotony of domesticity, A girl who has known the glamour of romance is much less apt to wake uD and yearn for it again after the honeymoon is over and she has grown ac- customed to the prosaic grind of matrimony. Why, most of the nice, quiet, happy, successful wives I know were perfectly outrageous flirts before they married—and most of the married flirts I know were women who had mar- ried their ‘first love’ and wondered what they had missed and what other ere like! It mtst be awfully hard on a husband to be his wife's firat she added thoughtfully. “Hard!” exclaimed the Bachelor. “The only hard thing about {t {a te find a girl like that—a nice, unsophisticated, romantic girl with illustons#’—— “Who expects you to live up to an ‘ideal’ out of @ Robert Chambers novel!” broke in the Widow. “Who is looking for a saint, a solon, a hero and an Adonis all in one! Who puts you on a pedestal and expects you to stand there no matter how slippery itis! Poof! I wouldn't be a man's firet love for-anything {n the world—above all, my own husband's! 1 couldn't stand the strain of living up to that flawless angelic role, that combination of Circe-Saint Cecilia-and-sewing-machine, of which every man dreams until he has known a few women and discovered that they are human and have moods and nerves and human interests, And no man can stand the strain of living with a woman who doesn't realize that men are human, too, and that he would rather be babied than adored, petted than respected and coddled than clung to, Besides, it must be an awful bore to live forever with any one who hasn't a soul with whom to compare you, an experience to make you curious, nor a memory of which you are jealous—an angel with a blank white past who makes you feel like a demon every time you look § The Real “Miracle” ls—a Widow! nnn 66 ELL, that’s better,” retorted the Bachelor comfortabiy, “thas W spending your life with a woman who is forever comparing you to some more fascinating man she knew before she married you; to somebody who didn't spill his soup on the table nor drop his ashes on the carpet, nor swear at the cat; a woman for whom your moods and bon mots and tendernessea have no new thrills and surprises, and who always knows exactly what you will do or say nex “That's it!" cried the Widow sadly. very man wants to play Santa, Claus and ‘surprise’ a wo And naturally you want to marry a girl who believes in Santa Claus: “I do not!” retorted the Bachelor indignantly, “I want to marry @ woman who hag flirted with a lot of men and still has her illusions; who will understand me, but still regard me as ‘mysterious;’ who will ‘respect’ me ‘and baby me; worship me and coddle me; adore me and let me alone; in ort” — - ‘A miracle!” finished the Widow, waving her teaspoon dramatically. “No, not a miracle,” answered the Bachelor calmly, as lie paid the check, “Just a widow!” EE. , while still exempt from trouble, to guard against it.~ It is wis SOPHOCLE. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers paid me attention for nearly but three weeks ago we had a mis. understanding. Shall I send back the ruby ring he gave me at Christmas?” If you are convinced that your frisadship is nt At end you should not eep any valuable prese; have made you, BIA Re may ERB ts one piece of advice for the June brides: Live in your own home, even if it must con- sist of one or two rooms. Don't take your husband to your mother’s home or go to live with his people. No matter how affectionate the & year, relations are between yourself and your in-laws—or between your hus- band and his—such a procedure is al- ways unwise and frequently brings disaster to what otherwise would bea happy marriage. The first year of any marriage is ite most critical pe- riod. There are eo many delicate ad- justments, so many slight annoyances and misunderstandings, which by the interference or even the knowledge of outsiders become magnified into se- rious quarrels, If you and your hus- ‘band really love each other you had better eat a dinner of herbs together rather than a stalled ox in the house- hold of ancthe: A Birthday Gift. “I am sixteen and have been re- ceiving the attentions of a young man for aby His birthday comen in a few days, and I would like to know if it is proper for me to make him a little gift. “If 90, what?" ou may give him’ some thing, such as a book or a sare home-made candy “A. R.” writes! “What is . father-in-l.w and mother-in-law?” If cordial relations obtain they ara usually called “father” and “mothen= if you don't feel like saying these Words address them as "Mr. —~" ang “H, L.” welt young man has!"Mrs, ——. ——__ Facts Not Worth Knowing. By Arthur Baer. Coprright, 1916, by The Peg Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), ENTUCKY tailors sew hip pockets in two-quart and half-pint sizes, Now that Secretary Daniels oan talk by wireless t. ‘elephone to the feet at sea, a man ain't safe anywhere any more, tm At the present rate of progress, in a few wears being married wilt enough cause for divorce. te It makes no appreciable difference in the wear of spectacle; 3 wh you look through 'em or over the top of 'em, whether Even Charles Dana Gibson couldn't draw a beautiful girl outing on the cod. ore, An aisle seat theatre has deen designed consisting of nothing but atele seats, It covers a plot of ground six yards wide by 422 miles long. If tobacco is injurious, the average cigarette is perfectly harmiess, a ante 4 dachelor 2 a man who buys Ate own hats. o _ la ————