The evening world. Newspaper, July 25, 1916, Page 12

: nited Bates -_—---. —--———-- MERE ip still too much long eriticiom, too much openly © tunderstending al) around The evnceded fevte are that an improvement of some rgently needed along the West Bide rf comprehend. Don’t be piqued, Mr. Mayor, because your echeme fe oriticieed, weloome comment and try al) the more to qnewer every question it down for a while with you will better be! meet every objection. fo all we shall get. much money you pay out in gee they are partners with you? Here is a eplendid opportunity for both Mayor and President to take the question 6nd answer platform every night for a week, Be particular to have reserved front seate for the critics. get this Riverside fog of controversy cleared away in advance without danger of unpleasant aftermath disclosures as in the subway contracts. — LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. OLDIERS at the front are apt to cee things with simple eyes. They write home letters that throw new light on situations . complicated by politics and controversy, For example, Private Marry Curran of Bangor went to the border with » Maine regiment and wrote back to his home f6lke: ‘We bad a great trip and are having o fine time here It foe regular plonie. We get good food and plenty of it I never would be too bad to epoll it by fighting, of which, hewever, there ie no possible danger er chance. ‘The pocr Mexicans need sympathy and charity, instead of Wullets, They are just poor, ignorant beasts, half starved and mot half clothed or housed. You can't imagine how the feeling changes toward them once you see how they live, ‘The little Mexican children are real objects for charity. ‘They crowd around us at mess time and will take anything trom @ prune seed to a crust of bread, How foolish and ignorant is this Bangor private writing about people and conditions as they exist in everyday life before him. He| bas not yet discovered the dreadful Mexican spectre built up by! \ strident interventionists, by financial interests * by Rooseveltian warriors wanting to be heroes, by politicians making campaign capital, by soft, parlor soldiers complaining of hardships. ROTARLIRHE®D BT JoRmrn PULATTON Ravent ening Company, Mee 08 te) Berend lees Monten na ond the f Al Cowntrion to the Teternetional he vere OT A “ es NO. gota vou Tale moe RIVERSIDE FOG. e debate, too much vague bout the pr improvement arrange What is needed is & better eased uBpic le posed West Bide and Hiverside Dri Ment with the New York Central Mailroad die ter front, and that for the fizet time officials of city and reilrond company have agreed wu about which @ good many people are doubtful and many more, pon «| bet ond Go over and the opposition to get their point of view. ‘Th Oble to throw clear light on misty points for public benefit. Don’t be stiff necked, Mr, Kailroad President, and say that thie! Rather seo how cordial you can be to the poor, ignorant public and how flexible your corporation te in concessions. You have conducted big advertising campaigns to explain how Why not give the public the| benefit of publicity about this great and costly undertaking in which ‘Then we can, |Comin one The Office Force king protection, | (rrr), By Bide Dudley. ore ew Ved ™Roccine Worth Harry Curran probably is just a plain, honest Maine boy, a! ¢¢ KLL," sald Popple, the ship- common soldier in the ranks, with a clear head and keen eyes. Some day he may grow up to be a patriot back home and be able to conjure up international ciises and to fabricate for political purposes amazing , myths about other nations and other peoples, ——- 44 —____. As a writer of evasive notes on mal! robberies, British For eign Minister Grey te rivalling von Jagow's best Lusitania dodges. ——-4¢-—_____ Bvery man in the United States may have # job, but if prices of commodities keep on rising he will need two jobs to pay the bills ——- 4 Aemageddon has been definitely located Bomebody at Oyster Bay has been trying to put over more geographical faking on us in the past. _—_—_-t >—____ ‘That ely old ghoul of the sea, the Undertow, with ats vietime in a single day at suburban Leaches, te beating the record ef the most ferocious man-eating sharks a ‘Too bad the Prohibitionists have nominated already. Geo, ORyen's demonstrations in practical prohibition and oose dusting along the border entitle him to their Presidential ination, ——-+->+-—___ If the British matis passing through Ni Canada were delayed and examined here like American letters are at Kirkwall, how the English mat) robbers would bluster and bowl. _—_——-4¢ 2 Vather Knickerbocker, with more than @ billion of debt and 102,000,000 deficit in liberally bestowed pensions con: fronting bim, te the moat lavish apender who ever it up Broadway, Being next door to Hurcpean war, Spain ts economising in mational expenditures. Being 3,000 miles away, the United States is spending hundreds of millions on preparedness and mational defense, +: In view of British biackiists, mat! robberies, ship hold-upe , end general bulldosing tactics over world commerce, how fool- Jeb for Uncle Bam to bogin negotiations for purchasing Danisb England's permission. 1+ - ‘Fhe Attorney General's investigator ts surprised to find Wetter and egg quotations “manipulated” on Meroantile Ba- qhange, Mere pura! pikers, patterning after theyoriginal big manipulators in Wall Street exchanges Take a look down + West Indies without first aski: town, Mr, Attorney General, at Syracuse, +. Ding clerk, as he put his newspaper aside, “I see to Cincinnati.” “Bome lady friend of youre?” asked Mins Prima, private secretary to the “Pitoher,” eald Popple. “Mattle Pitcher!" came from Miss Primm. “I don't believe 1 ever beard you epeak of her before," | “ho means Mathewson, the baseball | pitcher," ald Bobble, the office boy. “Where have you been for the last olxty years?” “Keep quiet!" snapped Miss Primm. Then to Popple: “Why didn’t you eay | you meant tho great southpaw?" | “Matty’e mot @ southpaw,” eaid | 21 @ Tillle, the blond stenographer. | “He wae bora in the North." ‘Goodness, what ignorance!” said Mise Primm, "A southpaw, my dear Mise Tillie, ts @ left-handed batter. The term originated years ago." “I presume you origivated it,” said the blonde. “Oh, golly!" came from Bobbie. “Mise Tillie certainly is a funny girl eometimes,” “Thank you, Bobbiel” the blonde wald, “Yea, sir!” chuckled Bobbie, “She even looks funny with her bair all yellowed up that way.” “Thank you, Bobbie!” said Mise Primm, grinning, ’ “Listen, kid!" snapped Mise Tillie, | “Real ‘Your brain's about as stro: @ peanut.” she snapped, padi "A peanuts pretty etrong some- umes,’ iwaat 2° you meant” A “I've often seen @ peanut-stand,” aes Ty on ia Mi : mn, : “That joke” eal ee Pri “te one of the soven originals, I've hoard it a hundred times, | guess.” At that eame in, olnt Mr. Bnooks, the boss, ie seemed pleasant about "he one amateur ininstrel show, ted t ly. nd it's ab- It I" aatd the bos 4 it, Give me credit.” ry od in Kis private room and quiet reigned for a minute over the offee force, Bobble Anally spoke vw "itemeboty Ned," he murmured, “That will be all from you, you “You hang off my hair, ite oolor is h Home! — When Is a Romance? By Sophie Irene Loeb. ewreteths, ” Copyright, 1010, by The Hrea Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) YOUNG girl of eighteen de- but she has not @ righ t to pose as a plores the marriage of old age heroine before the daughters of the and youth that is often des- | ignated as “romance,” decries the halo that is thrown around | young “heroines” that marry old millionaires, i 1 wish all girls could view tho idea} ‘This te what she says: | commonwealth, “We who have reached a sane view ® girl's flance- fathar. push is havior, She further | of decency—we who would not steal lexs a child's rich in things | material la ao excuse for her be- “We of the ‘common herd’ no longer of real romance as this one does, desire to pore over ‘romances’ of ‘Le Pompadour’ at Give us clean, up- itt “{ am sure there are thousands of | lifting romances and we will devour irla who are tired of reading about Eeroines of @ questionable kind. “L take the liberty of voicing my criticism and indignation at the mon- atrosity people thoughtlessly dub ‘ro- mance’ 1 am & young girl, pretty and incidentally have a darling, hand- some ‘dad’ ef fifty. mag ine my grief and despair if this same ‘dad,’ whom | adore, were to renoun mother and poo to marry some slip of w atlly girl? “Furthermore, what would be my conception of the world if it were to call such @ disgraceful proceeding ‘romance?® “"When is @ romance? would be a very good subject to art up to the public, Personally I do not deem a girl, no matter how old or young, normal if she stoops to rob @ child of its ‘dad.’ “She ie either sexually weak or else has some ulterior motive for her a tions, And the man? The less said about him tho better, be @ man when ho filn into the arena of goss! from such @ fervent praye' ‘The young woman then goes on to tell about @ well known society girl of her own age who married an old rich man and who has been very much in the public prints, and seem~ ing to delight in being thus tn the limelight, She saya: “Let Mra, X, live her own life. 8 a right to thts as a human being; He ceases to his children Deliver ua} nantio father,’ ls my them with married men whe very first page of « ma; told to u of the exalted kind? Give this 11 tmportant “It's dreadfully hard mance! different set of rulos ft oh tions with married «ne! warnings? other gir!, “L wager there will be an innumet able number of girls who will make an attempt to reach the land of ro- mance through just such channels. every sense of the word a fronted with the altar of Why is it that the reedily, appreciatively, but do keep the lid down over suoh demoral- izing stuff as the romance of the old warning girls {against becoming involved in affairs on the t wazine, we a behold and read about a woman who, through having had just han intrigue with a married mul- nillionaire, has become a heroine subject—clean romance--a« little of your time, to be in @ con. is ‘or us and ai ty » but we want to live up to mother's rules, Why fling temptation into our fac and on the other give on one blood t you please be patient and give. the subject your attention?” This subject has had attention, at this girl has sald something that It worthy of real reflection by every Anatomy. HF first anatomist to attempt a | li systematio analysis of the ha- man body was Marte Francois Xavier Bichat, who died in Paris 114 yoars ago, at the age of thirty, Prior to Richat’ Investigations there had been little systematic Aiasections were chiefly made with) alone, Bickat was a pioneer in at- tempting to reduce the complex struc- tures of the body to their elementary tinsuen and to ascertain the peculiar properties of each simple tissue, His “Anatomie Generale” and his “Ana- tomlo Descriptive” formed a now era in tho dovelopment of the sotence of anatomy, and while many of his gen- eralisations wore faulty, he supplied the incentive for others to carry on the work, Naturally of a w con. stitution, his Ingvssant labor eo wore order in the | study of anatomy and physiology and | a view to tho practical arts of surgery | frequented by many but tt remained for Cor the movement whic! “Coney” @ synonym kind of amusement, his financial career at purchased the eastern island, He also become Long Island Kallroad has become the f summer resort in the visitore from the city Uttle fool!” enapped Miss Primm, And then she left the room, slam- ming the docs, upon him as to bring his brilliant ca- reer to an end while he wae atill little more than « boy, ular summer resident ~ and cottages which line ite shores, addition to the millions of tri Coney Island's Start. HE first man to realli jh possibilities of Con & summer resort was Austin Corbin, a banker and railway official, From the beginning of the last cen- tury the beach at Coney Island was tho groat i das New Yorke rbin to Initiate bh has mad for @ certal Corbin starte Davenport, but In 1865 he opened @ banking house in New York and in 1873 he part of Coney There he created the great resort known ws Manhattan Beach, President of the and played a big part in the development of all the summer resorts on Long Island, In the last forty years ° y Island atest popular world, and tp who Ké ee The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, July 25. 1916 By J. H. Cassel | me bes blind them with my make | 1 pour ot] upon the troubled RELIEF trom all other woment “Grant me @ Bweet Vole “For, behold, @ melodio it with cords of alik, “Teach me to say Sweet Thin; “For more husband | the paprika of noble! And they shall not wander “For to, riches, nor atyle, nor t “Make me SWEET! added unto me.” Selah. —EMERSON, * machine? belowed Mr. Stry- ver, wiping his heated brow to remove the perspiration. “No, there isn't @ drop. ‘The tank's so dry that when the electric self- starter turns the engine over, dust clouds blow out of the exhaust! How to Dress Summer Babies Ann F the bables must be kept in town during the hot weather, do every- thing possible to make them com- fortable, The other day a distracted mother was vainly endeavoring to still the cries of her inf. it in the park, and finally lifted from the per- ambulator @ red faced, perspiring baby, whose cries would have indi- cated suffering to the itutelligent mother, 1 noticed that the obild bad on Woolen stockings aud above the neck of the dress the edge of a flannel whirt was visible, 1 took the liberty of suggesting to the mother that the burdensome garments might be the cause of the cries, sad | asked: “Do you wear woolen underwear and stockings?” =" whould say not,” she retorts “but 1 surely can't take woolcns off the baby before he has pasued bis second summer? Imagine a baby with @ flannel band, woolen shirt and cashmere stockings, and the thermometer in the 90's!" Does not this gross ignor- ance prove the necessity of including the caro of children in the school curriculum? Besides the discomfort of the litte wearer, overclothing Ie one of the chief causes of indigestion in babies. y warm garments overheat the body and stomach troubles are the result, The other above referred to admitted that ber baby wore cot- ton flannel napkins and @ rubber pro- tection, because she kept the baby in the park all day for the alr and “couldn't bother changing it #o often,” Wae it a wonder that y could not be pacified? In dressing baby the mother should take herself as a It sho requires the lightost Isle or silk underwear, so does the y. Bhe couldn't stand even cotton stockings, so Why {ncase the baby’s lim wool? Thé mother who still clings to the Idea of the abdominal band at least, make the child comfortab! by letting this be of a light weight jersey material, The shirt should be low-neck and sleeveless, just as the mother wears. and for the lower ex- tremities the little socks and mocea- sing aro all that is wiry, Soft birdseye napkins, preferably the cot- ton, are absorbent and more com. fortable, Any mother ought to know the discomfort resulting from a rub. ber protector tightly adjusted over the napkin, A light petticoat and an unstarched low-neck, short alip ts all that any baby requires when tho thermometer i# hovering in the 90's Indoors even the pettiooat and alip should be discarded during the very warm @ To keep baby absolutely comfort - able ona hot day give it two sponge bath and evening sponge. Use pow der liberally and if no taloum powaer is at hand uae cornstarch. Of course, it is Impossible to follow any set rules in dressing an Infant, Dut a safe Kulde for the mother will be to dress the child Just as she doom herself, The baby's requirements are no different from her own, and if her comfort demands an exposed neok and absolutely light clothing, #0 does the baby's, Ry adopting thie method the trri- tating t ri will be ayolded and there may be fewer deatha from heat exhaustion, which I» so often euperinduced by overclothing, baths besides the regular morning | Jception of sellin Why isn't there any ‘gas’ im the tank?” And Mr. Btryver jumped out of the driver's seat of the brand new 1917 model and shook bis fist in the face of the grinning garage mechanio standing by. "Yuh olduhe was not to touch the boat,” said the mechanic, his grin changing to an ugly scowl “I won't doity my hands with it.” “There, you cried Mr, Stry- ver to Mr, Jar tell you, this country is bordering on anarchy. Well,” he added, turning to the me- chanio, “give me twenty llona— what {s ‘gas’ a gallon now?” | “Two bits a gallo! answered the mechanic, “Yer gotter douse your stogie folst. Mr, Stryver went to the door of the garage and tossed his newly lighted Havana into the str “Jan't it enough to make @ man let out @ roar? Do you remember the time when we were paying 11 cents ® gallon for oline? Then it weat up to 16 cents, 18 cents, 20 cents, It is 22 cents a gallon by the barrel now, 25 centa the gallon in luss thay barrel “You should worry about the price of gasoline,” remarked Mr. Jarr dry- ly. “Look at the money you've made in ofl stocks.” But Mr. Stryver still grumbled at the price, as the mechanto filled the new car's tank. “Bhe's all right now,” said the gar- age heiper finally. “Shall I start her for you? Will you get in? La eve thing all right?" “You tend to your own affaires and let that machine aloue,” growled Mr, Stryver, “You know it starte Just by pressing & button, like this," he said Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland am Af Ly — ha “Ok, Providence, make me clever, thet | may delight mes CMD ey Fit end charm them with my reperter | Bul the Prayer of the Wise Dameel te filed wih humility ond founded @8 Bnowledge; aod the refrain joh ehe chanieth te this murmur aod @ musical accent bere mere lips end dassiing teeth, raw a man's glances, attract his cars; but @ tender smile goeth straight re caught with honey and soft soap than wit® pariee, or the vinegar of wit, or the wine of beauty, “Fill me with humility and loug greet them BWERTLY when they return. brilllancy, and Ured of and of the Beauty's whime, them ebell 8 of thelr epirite. “And who te 60 dearly beloved of any wan as that woman whe le @ yea, tnetruct then shall I be able to And they shall chink me 60 in, “Lat me not scorn the potency of a Sweet Bachet! man's eyes may turn to follow after picture hate, and etum ning frocks may delight his admiration; but a subtle sachet clingeth to hie memory an {t sticketh to his coat lapel; and peradventure, he shall mistake v @ fascinating perfume for a fascinating persovality, 4 above all, arant mo a Sweet Soull “For @ brilliant wit may make men smile, and @ brilliant complexion may make thom sigh, but an Angello Nature maketh them rily, verily, I ask not for beauty, nor cleverness, nor brain, gee ent, nor genius, but only thie: And tn the eyos of men all things else shall be RIVET Truth (a the property of no individual, but te the treasure of elt men, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copgriaht, 1010, vy The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 66 YSN'T there any ‘gas’ in thie, to Mr, Jarr, reaching in on the Gash- board, “Look out, you're in the reverse! Throw her neutral, shut her off!" shouted the garage helper. But his warning oame too tate, The great machine uttered a sound lke “Hmph!' and puttered out back- ward. Mr, Stryver, losing hie head in the excitemont, ran to the back of the machine and endeavored to hold it But with the easy effort of a wiant pushing over a child the great machine threw its owner over on his back in @ pool of ofl and ran over his supine form without further harming him. Out of the @urag rolled the ma- chine, with Mr, Jarr holding on to the radiator, stepping on Mr. Stry- ver’s ofl covered and florid face as the machine pulled him out on the street, Then it crashed into a fire plug on the opposite curd and came to @ standetill with a smashed ton- neau. “Why didn't you shut her offf Why didn't you stop her? gasped roared the anguished owner, rising to hin feet and shaking his fist in the face of the again grinning garage helper, “You told me to kep me hands off’ ‘er new boat,” said the helper coolly, ‘Hully gee! Yer friend put his heel in yer biinker an’ you got a lively mouse on it.” “How will we get the car baditat® asked Mr, Jarr, “I dunno,” replied the garage helper, “T got olduha not to touch It, I should worry.” And whistling merrily, be walked into the office and told the book. ° keeper to oharge the fussy guy for / twenty gallone of ‘gas,’ at two bite gallon, “Te that all?” asked the bookkeeper, “For the present, yes,” was the re- ply," but you can start on an estimate for rebuilding the whole front works of the new oar of that old Wall Street robber, Stryver, and half a gallon ef ae extra I'l) use to take the oll eff Nis clothes.” Following Your Card, By Elizabeth Phillips Dowling, HD Impression begins crystalll ing the Instant you cross the threshold and face the “In- formation" clerk. The look of you, your more than surface groom! your clothes that are right and in order and olatm, therefore, no atten- tion, all have lot you tn that far, And all of it will have something to do with the expediency with which you are announced, and the manner of it, Your card has got to him, to the big nan, What are you going to do now? ‘Talk about yoursell Orat shot, and what you are selling? You are not, In the broadest con- You are there to w. It tw your firat help the | busine ly to nee hin | point ¢ ur PAK; youl hit tho bullseye quicker, y care In preparing proa- pect Hats, it sometines happens that it would be prejudicial to # man of hi firm to handle your line. If you aw honest, you Will acknowledge It when thie le true, And when you leave that man, after @ frank and open disoue Hon, friend and @ man who oan if you he him and delivered only your Rules for Good Salesmanshi (Kauacts from © aries of addresses delivered @ 4 the World's Balesmanahiy Sune wongrese at Detroit.) foode—not his turnover nor an: to quloken It—then no power on ennt can ever again wip your houne, me to te Hut it the outer office and the man you face all have been taking your meam how you have your chanos, You have wot to think quickly, you are only one of a thousand ineiden| of the ¢ This la your moment with the prospect. Are you ready? Do you know what you can offer to this man that will bo of advantage to him? Ho may moot you with the etero- typed, “What can I do for yout Your reply--in fact if no haa got to be, ie te Whee hope it la what I ean do for you!" If in that first mos ment you aro tempted to any other wttitude you are lost, beca he doesn't really moan what he saya, Ho doesn't want to do anything for you, ho ty only tossing the ball, Tt de for you to Win cholee of powttion with Out tho tome. And after that you'y got to keop your eye not only on the ball, but on the bat ra ball wt be le carrying with him. reat wane, but don't image t abut ‘deve! nt” of you, you know In your heart when PA right do go ahead, and when You ate tempt your “cloae.”” ‘Then oF afters ward Wowlll fulftl your migal fmtidt and rosoliden with ,