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™ SS 32 ty BWiorid. ESTABLISHED BY JOREPH PULITZER. Except Su: by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 3 Park Row, New York. be RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHA reasurer, 63 Park Row. . JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr., Secretary, k R 63 Ps it New York |For Eng All Countries in the International Oviteades Daily Es:ered at the Post-OMme Oubecripiion Rates to The E ‘World for the United and Canada. VOLUME 56........ccccesccseeeeceeeeeeeseeees NO, 19,098 AN INDOOR CITY. | : A MERICANS in general and New Yorkers in particular take! far too little of their everyday rest aud recreation in the open air. | They ought to eat more out of doors. They ought to eit more| oat of doors. They ought to hear more music out of doors. The municipal policy of economy in this latter direction is all wrong. It) should be reversed. | From May to October we have an ideal out of door climate. But how far are the habits of most people in and about New York edjusted to make the most of it? The instinot for being in the open, for gathering in parks, equares and out of door public places is only 20 per cent. developed. This is only one reason, we believe, why Americans as 4 whole | ate slower than they should be to kindle—to rally, for instance, to | ® common idca of patriotiem or preparedness. A great parade organ- | ized for deliberate demonstration, yes. But where in this country will you find people assembled by thousands during a noonday hour while a band plays national airs? Where will you find thousands more later in the afternoon, after a day’s work is over, sitting under perk trees listening to music, much of it with the national ring? For generations men, women and children in European cities ave done these thinge—not as a part of militarism—but from a natural impulse to get together and enjoy themselves in the open— with the help of familiar nrusic—as one people. Republican France no less than Imperial Germany long since recognized the eound, enduring value of this stimulus. The amount of money spent on public bands and orchestras in the great parks of Paris and Berlin would amaze this municipality. It was money well invested. Music—particularly patriotic music—in the open air has an| ettraordinarily tonic effect upon the spirits. Everybody knows that. | Wet it has not occurred to the zealous “preparers” of America to turn the fact to practical account. Not that the crowd that listens to stirring national music be- comes excited with thoughts of war. Not at all. It only feels a throb and thrill and exhilaration, a sense of belonging to something big, vibrating, vital—it gets a quick, inner vision of the nation, with eomewhere underneath a gathering determination that nothing shall happen to it, No people is going to be led far wrong by such a feel- ing, however often experienced. Here in New York there ate plenty of arguments for anything that will induce workers to spend ‘extra moments in the open air. The great army of downtown toilers, for example, pass their days in towering etructures that shut off air and light from one another. The rooms in which these people work are hot, many of them artifi- cially lighted, ventilated only by dusty draughts of air from open “What's the Use Following Up Thes The Evening World Daily Magazine, Mon Before Now windows, ; To counteract the devitalizing effects of office toil New Yorkers The Office Force — By Bide Dudley —— Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), need as many minutes in the outer air each day as they can get. If) they cannot lunch out of doors they should at least spend part of | the noon hour there. And a little wholesome entertainment at that time would do them worlds of good. Here is where the city could help. If a band concert were made a regular noonday feature in City Hall Park or in Battery Park or in both, playing each weekday from 12 to 1, thousands of office workers would be attracted into the open, to go back later with refreshed lungs and relaxed nerves. If successful the plan could be extended to inciude other parks or squares, Private subscription even might assume a share of the cost. That municipal open air music has high civic value is no theory. Public provision of this sort is what develops even in younger, less | thoughtful citizens instinctive love and loyalty toward the city in which they live—a good start toward wider patriotism, Nothing helps the patriotic spirit like bringing people together in the open. And nothing brings people together like music, Hits From Sharp Wits ‘We never could figure why they call many a big gun “she,” when it can be si- lenced.—Columbia State. . ° Did ever notice how much; heavier the girl on your knee seems etter you marry her? 7 people are running their mouths instead of stopping them.— Toledo Blade. . A critic too often thinks that his first duty ts to find fault. eee Unfortunately, horrible examples do ‘The only thing the average man re-| not always serve to repel.—Alban: members about his proposal of mar- | Journal . riage is the results thereby achieved. ie ee —Macon New: Many @ vain man charters a hox car when he might easily cart his goods in a wheelbarrow.—Philadelphia. Telegraph. wee “I'm running my own mouth,” says one man. And that's the trouble; too Letters From the People A Letter Carrier's Walks. ‘Po the FAitor of The Brening World: No doubt a large number of the men nd women who marched in the pa- rade of last Saturday, travelling from three to six miles, now feel tired, mb sore, and have that never-again doubled without increasing the di- mensions? WwW. Gi. DONOV Information Wanted, Te the Falitor of The Evening World Would you kindly give the following questions space in your “Letters from People fecling. This was on a fine day at Jgot it straight from her brother | thelr “own speed, not against ‘ime.| 1 am a young man and have the’ and”— What is their opinion of a man opportunity of learning either the “Oh, shut up, you little fool whose dally average of walk reaches | Piiters or woodcarving trade, Would snapped Misa Tillic ‘You're always from seven to twelve miles a day, in |#0Mme kind reader give me some in- 66 adjusted his spectacles, “that | Billy Sunday is to preach in Bostot next fall,” | “I thought ho'd already bean there,” | said Bobbie, the office bo: “Just a minute, folks Prim, secretary to the bos to ask Bobbie a questio: turned, facing the boy, “Do you really consider that funny? she demanded | of him, “Bure!” sald Bobbie, “I guess you | haven't let the point sink into your) bean, Now I'll explain it, You see"— “You'll pardon me,” snapped Miss |Primm, “but a reference to my head as a bean Is an insull peaking of Boston," sald Miss Tillie, the blonde stenographer, “it reminds me of a married man. “A married man?" came froi Spooner, the bookkeeper, “Why?” i} t's the hub," here's another asinine snapped Miss Primm, Miss Tillle seem to be In a con see which can make things th unpleasant around here for u “Why don’ u get in the race, i Primm the blonde, “You'd win in a walk. “Tut, tut!” said Spgoner. mustn't quarrel, t's be pl Changing the subject, I'm to havi \birthday’ to-morrow, ‘I'll be forty | “What-—agat asked Bobbie, | “Oh, shut up, you Httle fool!” said Spooner, “Tut, tut! We mustn't quarrel," 1 ktdt" ne from the, m, “You're vitty.’ “Speaking of birthdays,” Bobbie) \econtinued, “Miss Tillie had one | leently. She was just twenty-one” | “That's right--L was,’ said the} blonde, “And some guy give her a bottle of yellow hair dye for a present. 1 shooting off your SEE by the papers,” said Pop- | Mr. Snooks then stepped out, smiling, ple, the shipping clerk, as he], “We were just having a little dis- said Mr, Snooks, where my shoes were made and I sold ‘In bhoe-cago!’ How's that?" “Por 'y good for an old man, I thought,” said turned to his p . “He originated that like fun!” said Bobbie, “I'll bet it's fifty years old ain't it, Miss Primm?" “How should I know?" snapped the private secretary, “Oh, Bolly—thats a@ hot one!” said on,” said Miss Primm, pleasantly, ‘Speaking of shoes reminds me of joke 1 originated the other night,” “A man asked me cuy delicious!" replied Miss an Ra By J. H. Cassel The (The New ( SSS See e Ads.? The Jobs Are Provably Filled The Jarr Family McCardell —— Copyright, 1916, by The Press Pubilahing Co, (The New York Evening World), “OW really ought to call on the | when these people call on her or when — By Roy L. jrimleys,” said Mrs. Jarr.|she calls on them she tntimates that ‘I've been putting it off and | you have said it.” day. _Ma y 22, 1916 | 4isouss money with one’s husband. 4 Annee, Our National Conventions The Story of Thew Beginning and Development Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), No. 5.—Lincoin, Dougias, and the Siavery Issue. Po ventions excitement never ran higher than during the national con- ventions of 1860, for the great issue of slavery, over which parties had compromised during a quarter of a century, could be evaded no longer and the supreme crisis of civil war was at hand. For the first time-the people themselves took direct part in the pro- ceedings, Ten thousand spectators swarmed in the Republican gathering at Chicago, and thousands more waited outside. The demonstrative scenes of cheering throngs, blaring brass bands and organized parades were then inaugurated, The Democratic convention met first at Charleston, S$. C., on April 21, was the longest on record, eventually resulting in a split of factions. It was a struggle between Northern and Southern wings of the party, with slavery as the dividing question and rival candidates io represent each particular point of view. Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from lilinois, was the leading Northern candidate. Like many of his predecessors, he had ; Played both sides of the issue, always seeking to avoid a “show down,” though in the end, when secession came, he turned against the slave States and called on all his followers to etand by Lincoln and the Union. For @ week the Charleston convention debated fiercely over the plate ;form without ne OY ballot on candidates, When finally modified resolue tions were adopted by votes of Northern Democrats, eight Southern States bolted and their delegates left the room to organize a convention of their own in @nother hall, The regular convention continued in session for a second week, taking 67 ballots, with Douglas always in the lead but lacking enough votes to win, Then after adopting resolutions requesting the seceding States to fill 4 their delegations, it adjourned to meet again in Baltimore, on June 18, e@ bolters did likewise, fixing their adjourned session to meet in Rich- mond on June 11, The Baltimore convention, after tumultous scenes, contests over seating delegates and still another factional bolt, finally nominated Douglas for President and Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama for Vice President. The latter declined to serve, so the Democratic National Committee named the candidate, ex-Gov, H, V. Johnson of Georgia. The Richmond convention of Southern Democrats nominated for Preai- dent John C, Breckenridge of Kentucky, who was then Vice President under Buchanan, and Senator Joseph Lane of Oregon for Vice President. Thus each faction took for Vice President a man from the other's territory, There was no such dissension in the Republican conversion at Chicago, but its choice of Lincoln was one of those surprises that occur so eften ia national conventions when great leaders @re set aside in favor of com- paratively unknown men. Senator William H. Seward unquestionably was the most noted figure in the new Republican party. He had the backing of Thurlow Weed, the old Whig boss, who had made Presidents in the past, and he represented delegates were given seats to vote for six of the absent States, Of the twelve candidates voted for on the first ballot, Seward led the lst, but enthusiasm ran wild for Lincoln. On the third ballot, this relatively unknown man from Illinois was nominated for President and Hannibal Hamlin of Maine was named for Vice President. Though many people afterward ascribed the selection of Lincoln to almost divine inapiratio: there was shrewd political manipulation to bring about his nominatio A fourth convention of this eventful campaign was held in Baltimore, May 19, by a remnant of the old Whig Party that had not merged into th new Republican party and held ultra conservative views on the slavery question, They called themselves the Constitutional Union Party and declared that the slavery question should be settled by tho constitution and the courts. John Bell of Tennessee was nominated for President and Edward Everett of Massachusetts for Vice President, and There is nothing 80 minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not—JOHNSON. Just a Wife--(Her Diary) Edited by Janet Trevor. Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), | CHAPTER XV, I would divide what ts left into four UGUST 1—This morning I asked beer) parts—one for each week. Ned for an allowance. In tact, AMT oe of hookk b eeping for a little Tasked him for two allowances; girl!" he chided. “No, no, dear. It's one to cover housekeeping expenses;my place to pay the bills, and I and one to satisfy my personal needs.|40n't think you'll hear me complain- i ing #0 long as they are within reason- I wonder why it's eo dificult tol aii yimits But it can't stick its finger in the pooketbook.” “Then, if you don't want to give me tried to be simple and businesslike, but my voice fluttered in an absurd | way and I could feel my cheeks grow- ing hot. I had @ perfectly good ex- housekeeping money, may I have a personal allowance for my clothes and that eort of thing?” I demanded, trying hard to keep my voloe steady. Instantly his hand went into his pocket. “How much do you want fur cuse too for beginning our conversa~ tion, because the bills for the first month came in this morning. Also I knew that I must give Bertha, our maid, her $25, Ai e Ned didn't say anything es putting it off, and now we simply| “Me?* asked Mr. Jarr, ineredu- | opencd the envelopes from our trades- tf ei t | ously, men, but I saw his eyebrows go up & aah ini es TON one,” said Mrs, Jarr, “She's Bee I deliberately looked over his 4 . ‘4 shoulder. “Well, why don’t you call if it wor- ries you so?” yawned Mr, Jarr, “I don't like the woman,” said Mrs. Jarr, “All she does is to go around and talk about her best friends.” “Don't call then,” replied Mr, Jarr. “That will let you out, Sho won't| consider you one of her best friends if vou don't cali.” nothing put an old trouble maker; everybody hates her.” “She's not popular with me, I know,” replied Mr. Jarr, picking up his paper; “you can call there if you like but it will never be vistting day for me." “You don't want to go anywhere with me," said Mrs, Jarr, “and I think | “Please, my dear,” I said, “I want a housekeeping allowance.” Hoe looked up with an indulgent emile that somehow irritated me. “Why, you're not to worry about these,” he declared, “I'N send out the checks this morning.” “But I want to be economical and lsystematic,” L tried again, “I am sure T can do better if you give mo a cer- the new hat?" he asked indulgently. “I don't want a new hat,” I half laughed, half cried. “I shan’t want any clothes for ever so long; I have all my trousseau. But when I do de- sire a hat or a blouse or @ box of candy I don’t wish to come and beg for it. Honey, it’s so horrible to ask @ man for money! I know you are beautifully generous, but won't you Please do this thing in the way I'm ,a8king you to do it? Just give me @ fixed sum—no matter how emall— on the first day of every month. Better still, put it. in the bank for !me. I am_ perfectly willing to economize, but I don’t want to talk money and—and wheedle you"—= tain sum for the house the first of 31 x th room in a rag | ble, « Miss Primm left the e, +vu vet sue is!" murmured Bob. “Oh, I'm not afraid of anything she can say about ME!" said Mrs, “But she has a nasty way of saying arr, | it would be an agreeable change for | gvery month, with the understanding you tf you took a little interest in) that I shall not spend more, Mother social affairs, Our new neighbor, Mr, | says that it is cheaper to pay cash for cover virtue—BACON, Reflectio VERY accusation from the Nps man's love, pliment” to observe the ostrich-like can and all! and there is seldom room for any human heart, but she will have to blondine her grips and check her own trunks, > », {formation as to which is the most| "Gee whiz, Bobb CE aL a i wan profitable and chances for getting Primm, "you're ¢ vary from thirty to sixty and some- 4d. Any information anent| “Walt a minute t times eighty pounds? Do such men|t rades will be highly appre. {with «@ smile, “You ps under the mentioned conditions, after THOMAS MURPHY, [speaking to each other if you aren't twenty-five or thirty years of service, a wine: jearetul, | Hobbie doesn't want to hurt saverve Wo paawlantes aris your To the KAitor of The Erening World , with another sini must fashington, D. C. And oblige, To decide a bet kindly furnish me |have a ‘Ket together party in a cafe " “LETTER CARRIER, | With the following rrmation: — A \#Ad Tl open wine eae * Theta that t te F ent MeKine |, “They'll probably have another 1¢ USED to Be May 15, ley was elec ‘and. considered aa |Dartender to do that” said Bobbie. Fo the Ruitor of The Evening World President of United Staten twies, | “Goodness me chuckled Miss To decide a bet please let mo know |B bets Mr. McKinley was President Tannen ahanesal lineal ‘the official opening day for wearing only once, Kindly let me know “What do Cry bres rh Faenle straw hats and oblige READER, | Which ts right A. MREA, Re ALI a a |No. Yerkes Observatory, 40-Ineb manded, flereely, of the hoy, "You've Wo the Editor of The Brenina Word Lene, got about as much brains as some Kindly submit the following to your | T° the Paitor of The Brening World others osaom around shore! Nii ers for solution: A window two| Is the telescope with the nch| «if the shoe fits put it on!” equaie containing, four square lens at Lick Observatory the largest (@hat phoat’ abked 6 voles cam 3 how can the are@ of same be ip the world? aL proachtul kiss, } A man always wants to be th woman counts herself lucky to be the last to kiss her own husband, Return a man’s kisses with in ing from the door of the boss's room, | interest. Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best dis- A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), It is always astonishing to a girl who offers a man a “canned com- There are just three brands of love—spiritual, physical and practical; A man may love a girl with dark hair and a brunette complexion, fluffy® before he will have the courage to marry her, No, deario, a woman can't lasso a husband and rope him to her; she has got to tle him, little by Ittle, with a thousand threadseof patience and long-suffering, until he les helpless at her feet, a sleeping Gulliver, Somehow a man seems to consider it a mark of “feminine superiority” in @ woman to be unable to buy her own railway ticket, carry her own Nothing gives @ man such a thrill of tenderness and sweet surprise |as to come home expecting @ ragging and be met with a warm, unre- things to you about people, and then wife, The Stanleys ure to be at the Grimleys to-day, 1 don’t see why you jand a silk hat, but you never want to | go anywhere except to be out at night, and I'm sure I don’t know where you are or whom you're with!” “There you go again!" said Mr, Jarr, ‘“E haven't been out of the house for weeks, except once or twice, and I'd fit in nice at a pink tea wear- ing my regalla and @ pearl gray tle and saying ‘Charming affair, isn't 1?" like that ladyfied fellow Stanley!” “There are worse men than Mr, Stanley,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “Ho se- lects all his wife's hats, and sho gets a lot of them too, and look at the old hat I have to wear, I'm ashamed to so anywhere.” "Geo whizz!" exclaimed Mr. Jarr, “You have more hats than I have, As for that fellow Stanley—what do I care for him? He may select his wife's hairpins too, for alli 1 know, ‘That's all ho 1s good for, She pays for them, Ho hadn't a cent when she mot him when he was clerking in @ store and married him, and he hasn't worked since,” “But I know he goes with her ev- erywhere, and he's just as attentive to her.as he can be," sald Mrs, Jarr. “LT heard tt was because sho never allowed him a cent for carfare even unless she was along, and if he goes along when she buys her hats eho goes along when he's getting anything he needs because she doesn't trust him with the money.” “lL won't bear you talking about people that way!" said Mra, Jarr. “They appear to be very nice people and I'm surprised at you speaking about them," “You told me all that yourself," re- plied Mr, Jarr, | “L never did," sald Mra, Jarr, terest—and then watch him lose the ns of of @ woman is a@ nail in the coffin of avidity with which he swallows it— |‘ two of them at the same time in one temperament and make it light and jo first to kiss his own wife-—but a “ never heard it until to-day; 1 wonder don't come; you have a cutaway coat | Stanley, goes everywhere with his|Some things, and she doesn't always ‘go to the same butcher or grocer, as I | must do if I am only to run bills." | “My dear Mollie,” said Ned in his most paternal tone, “if I gave you at ono time all the money represented by these’’—he tapped tho pile of bills— |*we'd live on turtle soup and squab ‘for a week and then you'd be cleaned out.” jut I have planned just what to I explained. “I would set aside tt we need for fixed expenses, such as gas, clectricity and milk. And then States, Palm Beach suit if he saw one, For the greater convenience of facturing a high silk hat that docen't Stanleys any longer,” said Mr. Jarr. “And you won't come with me to call on the Grimleys?” asked Mra, Jarr after @ pause, “No, L won't!” said Mr, Jarr, Mrs. Jarr drew on her gloves and went out, When she arrived at the Grimleys she informed her hostess that Mr. Jarr would not come, "You know how it is?” sald Mrs, Jarr, “He's very |fond of you and Mr, Grimley, but he just can't stand that silly Mr, Stan- It 49 cheaper to put shock absorbere on automobiles, too much to put ‘em on every pedestrian, “Mollie, you have only to ask me for anything you want,” Ned tested, a note of injury in his votce. “But I don't want to ask!” I ex- claimed. Then I told him how Patty Kane had had to borrow money from me to pay for medicine for her siok baby because her husband would not [give her a purse of her own. “And now you're broke and you want some cash?” he smfed, “Well, well, little girl, here's a fiver. Get some violets and chocolates and forget the allowance thing. ‘Bye. “Ned, dear, I am NOT an trrespon- sible child. Oh, I wish you wouldn't treat me like one!” (To Be Continued.) Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1916. by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Drening World}, About the first thing a patient does when released from a strait-jacket ts to start looking for Smiths and Joneses in the telephone directory. Experiments prove that a tire with a non-skid tread won't elilp of a pedestrian's face so easily as the smooth kind, There are two street car straps for every inhabitant of the United A submarine that won't sink ts the remarkable product of experiments by a resident of one of our leading feeble santtariumes, Every sizteenth citizen of Greenland and Iceland wouldn't know a bachelors a prominent firm ie manw require any button hooks, Tt would cost 7: “I don’t blame him,” replied Mra, “Ot all the cheap Uttle “Did you know his wife won't give | him a cent and that they had tern. ble quarrels because he borrot nickels and dimes from the servante?” asked Mra, Jare. “I heard they were going to seps arate and that Mr, Stanley will sue for alimony,” aald Mrs, “Mushi Here they coma seat