The evening world. Newspaper, July 18, 1916, Page 12

PH PULTE ening Company, Maa OF te meen, By J. H. Cassel Stories o Plots of leamortal F By Albert Pa Fogien’ ont AM Counttion te Poote! One Veer ne Month THE MAIL ROBBERS. THE news columus to-day is reported the seizure by the British ft Kirkwall of first-class mails from the Danish linere Frederick WIL. ond Oscar 11. and from the Norwegian liner Bergenstjord. This sort of news comes with weekly regularity, Ships of neutral with mails to aod from New York are halted by British and despoiied of their bags of letters. Evening World is credibly informed thet outw bound from New York to Scandinavian countries is not forwarded after but is incontinently chucked overboard. One month and twenty-five days ago, on May 26, 1016, Becretary tate Lansing cont to the British and French Ambassadors in @ lengthy diplomatic note containing the following “The Government of the United States, in view of the im- Proper methods employed by the Hiritish and French authori- tes in interrupting mails passing between the United States ené other neutral countries, can no longer tolerate the wrongs Which citizens of the United Mtates have suffered and continue to euffer through these methods. “Only @ radical change in the present British and French policy, restoring to the United States ita full rights as « meu- tral power, will satisfy thie Governmen ‘This was very true on the 26th day of May, and it is emphatio- more so to-day. +: BOR AND WAGES IN NEW YORK. W, THESE DAYS of war stimulated prosperity, when jobs are plentiful and wages high, but the cost of diving atill higher, a report by the New York City Bureau of Standards recommending minimum wage standard of $840, and classifying the pay of all jpal employees, furnishes material for infinite discussion, both mic and political. It serves to focus attention upon conditions of labor, employment wages in and around the metropolis. Here are many 1ore places than there are men and women to fill them. No evidence of fe more graphic than last Sunday's World, which printed 3,417 ite “Help Wanted” advertisements relating to many more jobs that number. Demand for any commodity tends to put up prices. So in the market there is a rising scale for those particular kinds most red, and in this case it is the strong, husky kind. ‘The pen may be mightier than the sword in theory, but in actual 7 PRactice the pen that is not pushed by brains and guided by intelli- “gence 1 is cheaper than the pick, the hammer and the trowel. In the are worth more than ink-stained fingers and half-educated minds. year, while average bookkeepers get only $1,320, with juniors starting as low as $840. There is equal pay for a law clerk and a carpenter at $1,520; likewise for an assistant accountant and a stationary engine at $900, ‘ae Unskilled labor with the shovel and the broom is scheduled to be paid from $720 to $840 per year. Young clerks with clean collars aspirations for social status start at $300 per year for juniors and é $600 a year as assistant clerks. After many years of service ‘they may rise to be eenior clerks at $1,980. Manual labor, both skilled and unskilled, is demanding and ob- ee, most of the increases in wages. War cut off immigration from ‘ a rope and deprived the United States of its annual labor reinforce- its that do the heavy work. But we still have a surplus of home- recruits seeking the nice, soft, easy jobs that won't soil their muss their clothes or affect their social position. ‘The old law of supply and demand has raised the rewards of vigorcus toll and still oppresses labor of the weak brain and ne mutecle type. The Bureau of Standards estimates that a family of five persons @eunot maintain “a standard of living consistent with American ideas” "am less than $840 a year. It proposes to grade all labor on that basis | > gave beginners and the swarms of young clerks, stenographers and Le ‘telephone operators supposed to live at home without responsibilities |) eave for cell. “i The highest pricedkilled labor in the city’s rating is the brick- ir, with the plumber and the plasterer next. The best paid posi- aside from department heads, are reserved for lawyers at $9,000 -@ year. Chief auditors and managing accountants at $6,120 and serious kinds of engincers at $6,600 rato next, i Fizing the wage minimum for a man of family at $840 per year is essentially a New York City figure that, cannot be taken as the dard for other places, particularly rural or semi-rural communi- The conditions of city life, the expenses of rent and transporta- the necessity of purchasing every commodity and producing all bear heavily on the metropolitan wage earner, Difference in cost of living is not to be reckoned as existing only ‘between city and country. Here, within the boundaries of, Greater York, between the boroughs, there are recognizable variations, this account the Bureau classifies carpenters into three geograph- groups. Those in Manhattan are credited with the highest wage. x, Brooklyn and Queens form a second class, a little lower in scale, and Richmond comes last as cheapest of all, In these days, when jobs seck the man, cost of living is becoming most vital problem of the average family. If the man has the of earning the wage, the woman has an equally difficult task trying to hold down the costs of “a standard of living consistent American ideas.” ea Questions and Answ ‘The Husband. Sater of The Breaing World: Lindly inform me who is the heir the following case: A woman in rk dies, leaving $1,500 in the ®@ husband and two sisters. DC. 8 ers. ¥ ‘To the Kaitor of The Evening World Please publish in your paper whether the Child's Welfare Board will notify a widow if abe has been denied 4 pension? ANXIOUS WIDOW, d municipal wage scale is evidence that big muscle and skilled |} Bricklayers, for example, are rated at a minimum of $1,560 per by a Pal By Sophie Irene Loeb Comrise Yok reales Wort FEW days ago a woman and her husband came to town from the West, She te the mother of four children and she is on her “second honeymoon.” They |celebrated their sixteenth anniver- | ary the other day, and I know that At least thin one couple, if they had It to do all over again, would have married just the same to-day, ‘This little woman ts enjoying every minute in New York, and though her | Her Husband’s | husband i# ocoupled with conaider- able business while here, she ts hin real comrade—hin chum, Her face as sho on- L could nog help wishing that there wore many more couples like this, And when | sought to find “the an- ir," the secrot of this married suc. cease, Ifound It was because this wo- man knew how to keep the spirit of youth alive, She had not allowed the work of jrearing children to weigh her down and make her unattractive as the years went by, She has given them @ real mothe care, and yet haa found time to look and act the part of the sweetheart as well, In @ word, her dutics ag mother pave not entirely excluded those of wife, he is old fashioned enough to want to be the real mother of her | little ones and yet remain her hus- band’s pal. 1 could not help reflecting what a Ane example this woman might be to many a New York mother with her hired help and her tired society tace whose husband's company she rarely is because of their separate interests, And therdin is the secret of it ali the mutwal infcrcat which iw the rock of ages in the woa of marriage, |. This wife is interested in his wel- farehe in hers, Aa L saw her the other day in @ beautiful litte up-to- date gown and a dainty flowered hat with black velvet streamora she looked more the girl graduate than |the matured mother, Here are a fow suggestions that I | d from this Western girl prin ciples that have made her one of the | happiest women in the world: | Never be the thief your hus- band's time at his business, Remember that though’ «father should be interested in his children be must not be burdened with their little whines, Many a woman loses th jher husband because she spendy too | much needless toll with ber children \and thereby thinks that excuses her, A vacation with your husband away from the children 1s apt to get you much better acquainted with qualities that endure, Also a little absence now and then the best of men, too many demande of than you wish will ve of | Ne him and come to y Don't refcae to entertain hia bual- ness friends just because you con ‘happen to admire them. Don't dreas badly whi CALSHOEHUT nS ia you know be ‘© for the divorce decrees than love ee od war ay ere enrnseemenmnns tt | Reflections of a Bachelor Girl The Office By Helen Rowland Force i? al? > Coprrigat, 1016, by The Pres Publiahing Co, (The New York Brening World.) CCOASIONALLY one meets @ man who plunges into a love affair as O he plunges into the surf, but most of them just sit back lazily on the beach and let the waves of emotion splash harmlessly over them. When a man speaks rapturously of “the godd old days” he is really thinking of bis wicked young days. Bome men win a girl with mendacity, some with pertinacity, some with audacity—and some with all three, Every man admires a good cook and would marry one if it were not that he is usually too busy courting some fluffy, helpless little thing with & pair of eyes and one brain cell, ‘This tr an age of optimism! ‘There are people who believe they will find eterna! youth, men who believe they will discover perpetual motion and women who believe they will find a confirmed bachelor who can be inveigied \ into @ flirtation—and a married man who can be kept out of one. When a bachelor can no longer struggle against the impulse to marry all is not jost—he can, at least, yield to it gracefully, ‘The average man married one woman just in order to escape from @ lot of others—and then Qirts with a lot of others just in order to forget that he is married to one, The smart hats seom to have less and less trimming every year, but the women who buy them are “trimmed” quite as much as ever, Many a man bas thought he would marry a girl until he discovered that she thought ao, too. The First Atlas. “H ‘ luck leberries. NE first modern atlas was the work of Abraham Ortelius, a +6 oes begin in DAYS” will T Dutch geographer, who died 618 soon begin in those section, where the numerous vari \ tlea of the genus Vaccinium flourish.) years ago, His monumental work, Theso plants grow,in many parte of entitled the “Theatrum Orbis Ter- the United and Canada, and) rarum,” was first published at Art- the frult, ranging in size from that) werp in 1570 and was revised and re- of a small pea to that of a grape, are] issucd five times during the author's variously known as the huckleberry,/ lifetime, Lt waa a follo volume con- whortleberry, bilberry, blueberry, cow- | taining nearly a hundred maps, repr berry and mountain cranberry, Per-| sonting the different countries and haps tha, pans anes OF an tA the continents as they were then known, tter, which Bro No r ; " i i te In Khode Island and othor sec. | Although this atlas was a momentous Now d huckleberry| Achievement, yot a bright schoolboy gerly 10 forward to by! of to-day could draw from ih, Women and childrea, who| memory with a better approximation ‘om $2 to $44 day, Many mill| to correctness, ven England and » and farmers desert their or- | Scotland appear in this pioneer vol- y labors during the hucsleberry) Une with amazing distortions of foason, The Rhode Island huckleber= | coastline and relative area, and many fies are an uncultivated crop and give other maps in the volume bear only value to what would otherwiso be! @ slight resemblance to those of to- waste land, Until recent years the day, The name of “atlas,” derived bushes were free to all comers, but of Trom that of the Greek god eon- demned to bear on his shoulders the the owners of such property have pA Vault of heaven, was firat given to a ved it for their own pickery or Aree @ commission, The best collection of maps by Girard Mer- huckleberry pickers are girla, for thelr cator, another distinguished Duteh fingers are deft geographer of the sixteenth century, oo — The wise man flatters the fool, but the fool flatters himself.—Loth, ————————————EE Your husband can afford for you to | of money. well. Don't discount the need of holding n't talk about the children all the}on to the same romance and een when your husband is interested | ment Ho sure that there ts real reason for Jealousy before being #0, elessly on the as- ption that “only your husband you.” Remember that oyriing and faded Kimonos have done jokes, And, above all, learn the faculty of \being a pal ae well aa a wite, { | By Bide Dudley ovr Nw Work Bening Word) tO OPPLE, the shipping clerk, dropped the newspaper he had been reading. “I see the ad- vance in the price of meats has hit tho free lunch hard,” he sald. “I wonder what they'll do about the lunch!" “Oh, cheese \t." said Bobbie, the of- fice boy, solemnly, “Say, th @ cracker,” sald Miss Tillie, the blonde stenographer, “I get you both,” said Popple, “The Jokes you two spring around here are enough to make @n honest man rob @ bank.” “Ignore them,” said Miss Primm, cretacy to the boss. came from Bobbie. “Show your ignor-ance,." “Say,” said Pupple, “Why don't you spring a real joke once in @ while?” “All right, 1 will," answered the boy. “What's tt about?" “The State of Virginia” “Then,” came from Miss Primm, “it is probably @ Virginia real joke.” “That's very good, Miss Prim said Spooner, the bookkeeper, “Not only is the joke witty, but it brings back to mind the old dance you and I used to do some thirty years ago lin Primm frowned. “If you please,” she said, “you will speak for yourself, Mr, Spooner, ‘Thirty years ago I was two “Twins, you mean, don't yout” the snows of just “Lived in the South quite some time, eh?” asked Bobbie quictly, ‘Oh, golly!” murmured Miss Tile, “Phat's a rank old joke,” replied Miss Primm fiercely, “It's also an insult. £ shall tell Mr. Spooks about it, Bobbts, and you may get fired for your freshness.” “lf Im fired who'll run the busl- ness?” asked Bobbie. “Ho thinks that’s funny Popple. “We'd probably let M. run it” “Well, I cou'd do it, blond, “I could run thi as | could change my mind, “Or her hair,” said Bobbie, “Oh, for goodness sakg!" chuckled Primm, “Once in @ while Bobbie said is Tillie " snapped the t as eps “He 1s, 19 he?" replied Miss Tillte “Weil, here comes Mr, Snooks, I'll ft that kid's clock’ ‘The boss came in smiling, “Ob, Mr, Snooks,” said the blon: A whil ago when Miss Primm said she } seen the snows of but two winters thirty years ago, Bobble said must have lived some time in tho South, | thought I'd teil you how that boy talks around here.” “Phat Was wrong, Bobble,” sald the “indeed, it was,” satd Miss Primm, “Yos," Mr. Snooka went on, "“be- causo seldom does a winter pass but what the South has @ little sno t that Mr, Snooks disappeared in private office, After a moment his ie able fo laugh at your husband's| of silence Bobbie arose and went to the door, “Sweet girls, you twol” he sald, Then he beat it. »| prunes pene w Te tee Pee ~ MR, LISMORE AND THE WIDOW, Ny Wilde Colina, Sit ae Rt Mahi { Stories ‘etn Maderpuces yeon ‘Terhune ~ ee hee bee beng Bert MNEET LASMONK, riding post bacte thr » the plight te obese chip that © soll ot down foond big journey Booked by © eed fathered owls ® barning cowetry betel He feted y the rescue work, aed saved (row the Gre o Pomen and ber whend ft dim light he could not eee seed won ried on be Bin peers later Léeme: Falae $100,000 before a daper and he wou thaky value, and crise At this elima ae Mra Macy ( be baukrupt, Tw one would lens ender, the band, she said, had died from the shock of the confte had Just succeeded tn learning of Lien » slew heard of La A Stren Grried a eirane | ‘brewseat” whet eons husband, a ‘needful $100,000 if he would marry by he made it very plain that her ble earlier service tow her, The and they would be on terms of the in date th an elderly woman called on him She introduc man be b motive was marriage, # the faces of (he couple, but as be bur eougs le erent the old man's request for one of ble re financial streite Unless he could vue he bad bullt up would cob ore hard, His colluterais were of bim the money te Ude bim over the oreelt Her bum ation, reeit where ute, Mre Callender nad mores hnancial roubles, and she uge plan for ite relief 00,000 from her late «Wo @ive Lismore the for eaid, would be nominal, oat formal soquaiptanceahip. row ued from the Bre | Lismore, after much reluctance, consented to this odd alliance with @ woman who rmed tn private, and the co re's aged wife treated bh turn, grew to regard her aln One evening, howev At an art gallery he had had fallen desperately in lo’ “It you fod her at the wall to become acquainted with her.” Linmore took her her word. call on hia wife, Hut Mra, Lismore wa broke into sneering Insults at the old (rouble to atay at home and receive h Listnore indignantly rebuked her fe wife, When the girl persisted in her Instend of obeying his wtern conn vet ae ite he came t et a young nd ta ‘ully up inte | "Oh, Ernest!” she exclaimed, “forgive met ‘marry me for my money if | had not t tans i) Only OXCUNE, } Not in the first time, Don't Contract. from ruin, My hu 9 mrrmrrrrrrrn® ried mo to give father, what relief and joy I felt when L saw by She turned to a drawer and took her disguise, tome, I mis Envy ts blind and knows nothing of others.—LIVY. By Roy L. R. JARR was eyeing the dish before him and sald petulant- ly, “Prunes again!” “Now, you aren't going to com- mence are you?” asked Mra, Jarr, “Pm sure prunes are the healthi kind of food, and I suppose that's why the children have to be forced to eat them; and how can I make them eat them when you snecr at them?” “1 wasn't aneering at them,” said Mr, Jarr, seeing he was in for trouble if he made anv further protest, “In fact, my doar, I ike them very much, and when I sald ‘Prunes again!’ I sim, meant to show that I was pleaséd.” “Huh!" replied Mra, Jarr, incredu- lously, “do you expect me to belleve that? I'm sure I do the best I can, If I have fish for supper you ask why I don’t have meat, and if I have meat you ask why I don’t have fish, and if I have a pudding for dessert you ask why I don't have fruit, and if I have frult you say ‘Prunes again!'"” “Oh, pshaw!" sald Mr, Jarr, feel- ing that trouble could not be avolded and resolved to m a brave fight, as fight he must, “I don't know what's the matter with you, I can’t say a word but what you go up in the air and make a fuss about It. But, if you want to know, I'm tired of prunes, Other things are just as cheap, if It comes to that, and here it's prunes, prunes! We had them yes- terday and we have them to-day and; we had them last week. “The ones we had it week were not as large as these,” said Mrs. Jarr, “and I see them packed in glass- topped boxes stuffed with nut kernels as delicacies, The very best people eat prunes. “And a lot of people are full of prunes, and I'm not going to be,” replied Mr. Jarr, “If you tried some! of those prize recipes we read in the newspapers it would be an agreeable change.” | “Those women who send those prize} | recipes to the newspapers live in fur-| peared to be at least double his own 6 wee though he were at fret wight ry to-morrow bring her here. Next aft When I went to meet you tn my si who Was about to cast it Into the “No,” he said, taking the disguise t ust not forget my ‘old’ wife!" —————-¢= to pay for the things we eat, You marriage was o live in he we nis o her With @ shamefaced confesson, and beauuful woman with whom he His wife merely replied: 1 shall be gad he brought the gtr te # not at he Hearing this, the qtrt woman who had not even taken the er. or daring to speak thus of his honored gibes he ordered her from the house, 4, the girl threw her arma about bis 8 face, Could T hav aken refuge tn divguine? ked you to Love ts my I never loved till I saw your face for the desplae me, dear anla Me I had to save you old man, who mare the protection of @ son at the pleture @allery ad me!" gray wig and the rest of ire Lismore checked her, derly into his own hands, “give It was a ve a home wn a adm ith ow y frou except to depreciate the excelienctes | The Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1016, by The Fre Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) nished rooms and eat canned gooda, 'm willing to wager,” sald Mra. Jerr. "I know tholr recipes read good, but you go to make them and they don’t taste good at all, or else half of the things they call for are out of season or you haven't them tn the house. So, prunes or no prunes, you eat what's before you, Mr. Jarr, J: . were any- where else but in your own home you'd be grinning and smiling and praising the prunes. If you want hothouse grapes or peaches and cream, give me more money to run tho table.” “Why do you fly from one extreme to another?” asked Mr. Jarr, “First you tell me these prunes are expene sive and then you say you haven't money enough to get anything bete ter, I'm not Kicking about the prunes in particular, but it's the repee tition, Why don't you have some chango in the bill-of-fare? That's what I object to!" “Yes; and you'd object to the change in the bill-of-rate, too!” ree torted Mrs. Jarr. “You'd object to anything, We had macaroni and chee night and you wouldn't touch It) “I don't ike macaron! and cheese,” said Mr, Jarr. “You might have something else. “What els asked Mrs. Jars, “Namo me something you want and I'll get it.” “That isn't my duty, replied Mr. Jarr, “Ive got to work hard enoug! should select them,’ “Select what? What ts it you want?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “Well, we might have liver an@ bacon,” said Mr, Jarr, “We had it this morn! replied Mrs Jarr, 2h, well, stop fussing about it then," sald Mr, Jarr, "and" + “And what?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “And give me some more prunes,” sald Mr. Jarr, for during the argue ment he had consumed the fruit in question, ee | Illuminated ‘‘Hand”’ for Night Driving. AFETY In night driving 1s esson- tlal to real enjoyment, and to promote this some means of posi- tive and sure night signalling seems to be necessary, says the Electrical Experimenter, There have been all orts of mechanisms consisting of ar- rows, lights, swinging indicators and | what not proposed and invented—but none has come into use to any great extent because of being so different than the usual mothod of day signal- | ing with the hand, Taking @ left hand drive car the holding out of the left) hand is universally and quickly ree- ognized as a signal for a turn to the} left, while holding the hand straight up ‘is known to be the signal for a, stop @r turn to the right, A Milwau- | kee motorist noting how simple day | signaling really was and how natural! {tis for one driver to watch the other, has invented an illuminated hand which he bas called the Universal) Signal. ‘This device allows the motor: | Jat to signal at night In the same way es be does during the daytime lover a tubular battery lamp. As Wu a blown n be seen in the accompanying ons, the device 1s made up of colluloid hand which ts fitted ‘his lamp, which is lighted only for an i stant when signalling, has a special reflector which throws the rays of the lamp uniformly into the hand and {iluminates It so that it can easily be seen for at least 300 feet, The hand may be removed and the device used 48 an emergency lamp on the road or in the garage, which makes {t desire able to have in any motor car, «