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Py so -————- PPT AR teHeD Liter Petisded Deity Pacem te sey © waking Compens, Nee 8 + 44 Pare Rew. he apten hy a ttren 1 RHAW Treaes poenin PULIT ERK. Jr be re VOLUME 7... , _——--- A SORRY PERFORMANCE. HE chief impression produced by the cluill, wertal deluge whi the Republican candidate 4 “4 Wileor tretion in general upon ite foreign policy has been merely one of damp, dismal ineptitude A more formal, forced and unconvincing attempt to disered Democratic achievement, conve licen craving to get back into power, it would be hard to conerive When Mr. Hughes assaile the course of action by w President admittedly euceeeded in upholding the dignity and hon of the nation, preserving ite peace and forcing the most arrogant mili tary power in the world to modify its methods of with the requirements of international la ‘er au ¢ — . Ar0e tm the bet Peete! Ueion 0886 One Your 86 One Monta nH the » particule when the Republican can- | f didate cavils in vague generalities over the way in which the President through most serious international crises, has secured results deeply | gz eaticfying to the country; when the candidate abuses the methods mployed by a Demoeratic Executive to ach showing how a Republican President could t at them dif ferently or, indeed, that he could have arrived at them at all ve such fr stanceless political pleading, A boy walking along one of the great dik rolling in upon Holland once dd @ tiny stre from a hole in the embankinent beneath him. water from widening the break, come along and rated him for employing auch methods to stop a leak pointing out in acrimonious terme that he ought to have used plugs and sandbags for the purpose? When the Republican candidate cudgels his legal brain for some- thing to say against the way the Wilson Administration has achieved ite results, he only shows up the desperate inability of the Republican- Progressive amalgamation to prove that either ite combined or ite component parts could ever have done half as much. —— po ‘The threat of a general street car tie-up tn this city becomes more and more omino Have the Public Service Commission tha public mothing practical to say to each other on the subject? ——+ 42 WITH SHORTENING STEPS. OTE the significant change of tone in the Kaiser's proclamation N to the German forces on land and sea and in his message to the Imperial Chancellor on the second anniversary of the beginning of the world wa “We must continue the severe struggle in order to secure th safety of our beloved homeland, to preserve the honor of the Father lund and the greatness of the empire.” \ “Germany kuows she is fighting for her existence.” “We shall bring this struggle to such an end that our empire will be protected against future attack and that free field will be assured for the peaceful development of German genius and labor.” “We shall live free, secure and strong among the nations of the world. This right nobody shall or will snatch from us. “Safety,” “existenc “protection from attack,” “security, “peaceful development”—it was not thus that Kultur proclaimed its earlier programme. The right to “live free and secure among nations” isa very different claim from the right to dominate the world with a Teutonic super-civilization, Evor since the Marne, Germanic pride and arrogance have walked with slowly shortening steps, Again and more than ever Germany heaviest defeat is not in what has been done to hor but in what she has failed to do, ‘ ————< 4 =. Anyhow, the Colonel still gets into the among-those-neen- in-the-boxes class. ean eneeieeneeneneenennnennnen Letters From the People Nome. To the He va World In regard to the model designed to] A few sugmesiious to those who show result of compietion of pending | have had a ! experience in the contract between tho City of New York and the Now York Centrai Rail- read, now on exhipition in the egat mezzanine gallery of tho New York Central Station: The city has labored for several yeare with this Important question and though scale drawiggs and in- formation have been within the reach Of all interested by application to the Proper city departments, a compre- hension of the full scheme was impos- ible without @ lengthy technica: ex- amination of many drawings and a full knowledge of the entire contract, Therefore the city was urged by the Municipal Art Society to make this! Model to show as clearly as possible to all interested what the result of the completion of the contract would be. ‘That the model be correct ts essential The makers have certified that the model has been made in accordance with data furnished by the city, With @ Visualization of Riverside Drive on @ompletion of the contract, the ques- tion t* open fur any practical a gestion that may improve the use and beauty of this, in many ways, most Deautiful part of New York City, The purpose of the model ts to pic- ture what is contemplated, to trans- Jate the contract tu such form as all handling of Hous diseases, six childr the ehildr contagious 1am the mother of who have had most of n's complaints and have all recovered’ without any after ef- fects whate The precautions Used successfully were simply thence: Absolute cleantiness, keeping a kettle of boiling water always on hand, b sides @ sanitary wWashtub, and acald- ing immodiately everything that was handled, such as sheets, towels and handkerchiefs. Never putting soiled clothes in a hamper or clothes bus to stay until wash day, Bathing the children at night and dropping their clothes Into a pail of boiling water, Washing all dishes, milk glasses and spoons especially, immediaely af use. Ia & continuous performance of course, bat a habit well worth try ing during a time like this at least, MKS, PAULINE LIGHTFOOT Danger in Hobbian th To the Editor of The Evening World Aw the mother of four children and residing in one of the districts where Infantile paralysis is prevalent, Tam of course very anxious to know all that prevents its spreading, I would surest a th © refuse from cently got ome other place, and re one with some sticky, more around my place, verside. JOSEPH HOWLAND HUNT, President The Municipal Art Society, bish bag te @ handy but very dan Gerous place, MRS. C, M, f i Nuewt ont Adminw ing nothing whatever save the Repuly tfare to conform | ulte without the speech of acceptance degenerates into a pitiable exhibition of sub- that keep the sea from m of water trickling Acting upon evente as they befell, he threw himself down at full length, thrust his thumb into the hole and, remaining thus until help arrived, kept the pressing Suppose while he was lying there some tall, whiskered person had | | pd infor. | taining piy, as shown by an story, There- atier a chart of the ideal stock wa. | checked weekly against my actual | slimy brown stuff on it which has #0 | stock sickened me that I do not want any effect an agreement between the wo, 1 positively may read as easily as is practical | know that some people are too lazy toln uced over $25,000, Six per | oor possible—further to serve for|keep a garbage can clean, and in-! cont on $36,000 ts $2,100. And this was etudy of later and fuller development | stead the garbage goes into a paper not all that L save Rent, deprecti bag and into the rubbish, The rub- Hor mee we | 7, » f kK r | , The Evening World Daily Magazine. ae oot Getting Nowhere | Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. “Most Concerns Are Overstooked,”” | Says This Business Man, | 66] WONDER how many Dililons, of dollars are tled up in su- | perfluous stocks of merchan- | dise in this country,” remarked the | proprietor of a wholesale paper houte. “Take my own case, for example, | About two years ago I found myacit | hampered Wy lack of capital. I went to my banker to apply for a loan, “He studied my statement clonely. ‘You say you want to borrow!’ he exclaimed. ‘Why, Leonard, you ought to be in @ position to len Your trouble {s too much money, not too little, Like every paper man I've ever | known, you're heavily overstocked, Vi wager you've never analyzed your orders to arrive at a standard of Proper stock keeping. And, further- more, Vii bet that you've paper in your warehouse which has beew there for over two years, i you to set your clerk to typical month's business exwetly what the demand is for, fte- | duce the result to a percentage bas! ‘Then wee how nearly your inventory | grees with your findings, You'li and | |that you're carrying vast quantities | for which you seldom receive an or- der and that you're low on nes for | which the demand js frequent, ‘You have at least twice as much money & you need tied up in stock. {1 Kno» what I'm talking about be cate I once acted as receiver for @ | bwokrup! paper concern, It will take you some time to get your stock into prom: shape, But once you reduce| kt to @ Proper level you'll find your. | self with capital to invest in real estaie, bonds or whatever looks good }to you. You'll find that you save storage rental and waste from de- preciation as well a# interest on your davestment, “lve far better to buy a few items fron your overstocked competitors astonally at @ price which leaves profit than to stagger along pow doing under an incubus jor superfluous merchandise” | To make w long story short, I was appalles at the result of my analysis, nalyaing a Asodrtain | oc you n as you’ tween the actual demand and my sup- It required nearly a year to “When (his was aty dd my inves: and eee me, for I'm not of receiving other women's husbande, “Tell him i'm out,” I sald to Bertha. I “‘Bofore Llend you @ dollar 1 want, ¢ ‘ooking more cheerful than usual, He | are large and of that beautiful and Just a Wife—(Her Diary) Edited by Janet Trevor Coyyright, 1016, by The Pree Pubtuhing Co. (The New York Eveuidg Work), CHAPTER XLVI. EPT, %5.—As | was dressing to go out for a walk at half-past four thig afternoon Bertha brought me Mr. Soames's card. 1 looked at it with considerable sur- prise, and then [| remembered that he had begged permission to call and discuss my success in rescuing Mrs. Soames from the toils of the Rabdin. Candidly, I didn't remember that I had accorded him permission to come the habit told him you were in, ma'am, he replied. So went into the living room, bidding Bertha to serve tea in ten minutes, “L came to thank you for keeping your promise,” Mr, Soames began al- most immediately after shaking hands, “1 was afraid that you had forgotten our little talk. But my whe mentioned that she had just ou to one of the Rahdin's af- terno 4 that you had not ap- ed to be favor tbly impressed. or wae 1" Amitted, Mr, Soames siuiled approvingly, and it occurred to ine that he wa “Oh, is all aod rather thin, with graying! hair, but an unlined face, aad always thought of him as a serious, almost sombre man, But this after- noon his eyes were brilliant. They unusual shade which is neither blue hor gray nor hazel, but a combina- tion of all three, “| don't see how any woman can fall for that East Indian niggers line of bunk,” he continued, con- temptuously, “To me he was repulsive,” I re- piled. jut [can understand how a Woman Who ts not happy, who has Jost faith In the ordinary human af- fections and loyalties, might believ temporarily, at least—that the Its Never speak well nor ill of yourse if il, they will believe a great deal m ERB, HE manufacture of special tent Ab frames to take the place of the} poles and ridge pleces com-| monly used has made possible the construction of tents which can be) wonveniently used aa garages, sayn | Popular Mechanica, Heretofore this has not been practical because the supporting poles are in the way un- less the tent is very large. ‘These tent 5 consist of strips of lumber #o Hinged together that they hold up the ew and also form a gable roof. frame instead of to the canvas, labor, eartage, all these expense ii were reduced, and I didn’t lose |@ doliar’e worth of sales,” thereby relieving the latter of con- siderable strain, The frame when |folded up occupies little more space than the ordinary poles, A avs ing @ trame of the character de- = The guy ropes are attached to the) din’ doctrine uf platonic solac pr Ib a y stand"—— Mr. Soames was beginning when Hertha brought in the-tea, | After he had taken hia first sip h leaned beck in his chair with a little | sigh of content. "You believe in the home things, don’t you, Mra, Houghton?” he said. “All this is 80 quiet, #0 restful, #0 | unusual in an age when women seft the tea table for the suff! Platform. A man with @ shrine like thin--well, he's @ fool if bh ps | strange rods. looked at him wonderingly, but he xave me no chance to speak. “It's been had a home,” he went on tensely. “Don't ‘ou think I'm criticising my wife, but "ve got to the point where I must | talk to some one and you're a sweet, sympathetic soul. You heard ir! side of the story down there in Maire, | 1 know I acted like @ rotter, but | waa sorry enough for It, God knows, | And It wasn't a continuous perforin. ance. As for that one woman—well, | women can never understand tnat! there are situations in which the | man who resista temptation ts move} than human, “Since then I've been treated to criminations, and, in the last f mepths. to chilly automatic che fulness. och ould have made | ton 1a, Must | io on like this the rest Celia and ot our live 1 knew that Mr. Soames was throw- Ing aside conventional reserves, but I couldn't feel shocked; I was too sorry. “Oh. I think things must come right for you!” I cried. “You must be patient aud affectionate—and just wait.” | “You are right," he sald softly, “And you won't ert us, will you? I may come to you agaln—~my friend, our friend?’ 1 hesitated only a moment. ‘“Yea,", 1 aaid, Th Uttle wh! he went, "t help feeling that the @ little unusual, but surely it's always right to be kind. away. I situation ts ——__ ++ -—__ if. ore than you If well, men will not believe you; Y.-H ASTERN PROV- Tent With Special Frame Suitable for Garage. pertinence scribed, mas Ny to house au- Wednesdsy., August 2, IT jhrough the centuries, have become ts | Omran we Tee Frew Pot Stories of Stories Vite of Immortal Fiction Maserpces By Albert Payson Terhune Ee } QUARANTINE ISLAND; by Sir Waiter Besant, | RS VERNON was an tovelid ot (he oom eae ber be i tor, Piorence ere ted now's reluctance © firmed ar ré end wae Florence's fret love moment slop beating end IL) © email ang trom (wo sources. ire, bul he wae seventy pears © And Cioude Fernie *ae very youn ei be tricky heart Chet elebt et eae vlty wm would ep art Recause of thie wncertainty of heart and of income Re dreaded & penniions and orphaned future for ber seven And when Str William I Mre Vernow put euch pressure oo th year jong port eeeed Pore e to marty im ein) that Ole offer was reluctantly ot Wem wae 8 bideous to lovk spon 60d 6 OOR But Claude wae ae poor as herself, being a newly fodged doctor without 0 etn gle patient Bir William Bo Florence, forced rage and called her anes “ | A Lover's } old drunkard tnoute. “I hate you, nes | never! You have ruined my life! | He rushed « | where presently be secured the |important telet in the Indian Ocean, |#ucoumbed to--the plague, | Exe jtmland to themaeiven, | Yours totled brilliantly jhe could never forget. For weeks Claw Just je worked day he had checked its ex re raving of him, “L kn “Married mother was til. echoed the Colon An olf man proposed \half a dozen offers, but she hy | Within @ week, thanks to |up and about, eee The Doctor's pla ‘an a fool Year me!" cried the Colone! |moment later, “Do quarantine d | selves to copy after—GOLDSMITH, off this afternoon? asked | Mrs, Jarr as her husband ‘was making his matutinal getaway. “1 doubt it,” sald Mr, Jarr, “it's & very busy season with us just now.” “Yes,” she said, “I've been down to that old office of yours and all I see being done in the way of work in the rattling of typewriters and ; * passing of papers to be signed, ani PET A SALON BRD. OF WOE): Petine other papers to these papers, pape cadae hai (eeapeet and that awful man Jenkins, who : looks Uke @ fish, and who has a in a wedding, elther as the central ee ee ey ee a new dri cures or witnesses, And in the every time I sea her same connection there 1s scarcely one | “But you only see her about once who hus not at one time or another | ye ventured Mr, Jar, wondered at the origin of some of the ‘“rhat's oftener than I want to see minor incidental customs which. be-| 1004 reniteq Mrs, Jarr, “and that ginning tn the remotest periods of | 11g nothing to do with what I have history and religiously maintained |i 0.n trying to explain to you, and |that Is, if Mra, Jenkins only saw ‘me once every two years I'd be wear- Ing the same dre: “But if you see her once a year she sees you once @ yeer,” remarked Mr, Jarr, ry Our Wedding Customs an integral part of the ceremony. As @ primary example in point is the wedding ring, the first record of | which is found in Genesis, Chapter IV. The wedding, or gimmal, ring, as it was culled in those times, was a devised in two fitted sections, and at _ “Not if Il see her first,” repited Mra, the marriage service was divided, one |Jarr. “I saw her the other day in half for the bride, the other to tho the tinware department of a depart- bridegroom. Ata later perivd, during ment store and I dodged right behind the time of the Plantagenet, the di- | ¢ whole lot of ash cans and they fell eee en recat wbolianed. the over with the awfullest crash, But of iron, copper, brass, leather and by that time I was tn the paint a adamant, gradually assuming the de-| partment and she didn’t seo me. wun of the plain band of gold Which ghey tike the rest of all those sub- WSyhe third faker of the left: hand | urban women, Wants you to carry Was chosen as tho place for the ring, her packages and then expects you the reason being that it is supposed to take her to a matinee, And all to contain @ biood vein that connects | toy ever do for you Is to say, ‘You with the heart, | " ‘The origin of the wedding vell goes must come out and see us SOME back to the day of ancient Greece and time!" Home, the women of | those thmes| «you were saying?” remarked Mr. being hiaden throughout the ce mony under a flowing yellow draper pak! patiently as he paused at the oor. Many authorities credit the Crusade: “| was saying that man Jenkins with having Introduced it to Western Margaret Tudor to James of Scot-,| and that's because he drinks Ike one, land, @nd so the vell has been worn, J suppose. And all he does ts to alt by all brides until the present day.} on a high stool or stand at a high desk and write down a lot of figures in a book. And as for that Johnson, \ The custom usual among widows on their second marriage and among maids of honor and bridesmaids of | wearing a large picture hat is by no tho cashler, I hate the way he smirks moans of modern date, nel ag tar | as 1159, the Duchess ‘of Gloucester, marrying the Earl of Waldegrave, Mra. Jarr. Down to keep an eye on wore &@ white and allver brocaded | us? No, It would be a good thing gown and @ iarge hat, which, accord- | ¢or you all If you really bad some Ing to the chroniclers of those times, | OP ea, go. “she continued to wear at the wed-| ¥° ding dinner as there was met with 'e do @ lot of work, all right, all generally on such occasions.” | right,” replied Mr, Jarr, There would seem to be no affinity between the bridal veil and the mob cap, or towel, tied in turban fashion about the head of the modern house- Wite whenever she happeas to be on the Job of sweeping and dusting, Nevertheless, they are of the same origin, ancient custom decreeing that the bridal veil shall be exchapged for the housewife's cap, Bridesn or maids of honor, flower girls and pages date back to the time of the Anglo-Saxon kings, Rice throwing, a8 a symbol of the | farewell admonition to bride and bridegroom “Increase and multiply,” degan in the times of the ancient kings of India, although Its introduc: into Europe waa not until the of the Stuarts. In correspond- ine vein of inspiration ts the throw-, ing of old shoes, symbolizing the cast- ing off of frivolity and the entrance at me and says: ‘Ab, good morning, XHAUSTIVE tests by Prof, P: Gn egg that is sad at the E caused by propinguity, egg occupics. five minutes, tomobiles, measures § by 16 feet, with 7 foot walls and a misainum beigh! of 10 fect, upon the serious duties of lite, while the casting away of the pins that} fasten the wedding dress is deemed Wm insure the happiness of life, A stan only sings on | that easily, When she broke thie news to Clay every bisek name he oould think of & girl who would throw ‘ and who would eli her Youth end ber Self @ you!” he concluded bie Urade. her,” ald Claude, “some years ago, 8 wife holding out his hand suppli If you give me your hand I whall keep it wife, entering the room unexpect: ctors ALWAYS kiss their patients?” —-+ -—___ on by ber mother, threw bim over OF He told her I loathe you, I shudder at the aight of “1 cannot forgive you ¥ from her detested presence end went back to London, owt of “resident doctor’ on « Uny but alle |, This dot of coral reef wae known a@ Quarantine Istand. Hore the | Cholera-infected ships stopped while their passengers recovered yt during such visits Claude Fernie and hie native servants haé the Claude threw himself into his work, and for several on at his isolated station, trying to for t the womas Then one of the periodic cholera ehipe touched at Quarantine Island ang A ewarm of home-bound Angio-Indians landed for inspection, Many were ii nd night to etay the ravages of the one of bis volunteer nurses, @ Colonel's wife, told him that another volunteer nurse had collapsed, Claude went to ser this new pationt, She was Florence, In her delirium she was Before she married.” “Florence Is not married, ‘Then the mother died quite au and the girl broke it off. She has been teaching tn India. She has al” skill, Florence was able te be “Did [ruin your Ife, Dr. Pernte?™ she asked him one day; adding, "Until you fell into such @ rage and called me such names, I didn't understand, ‘Then—the marriage aid and a@ brut “he told her tn remorse, atingly as he spoke, “Flor. People scldom improve when they have no other model than them The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell hy Copyright, 1916, ty The Press Publishivg Co. (The New York Ev: World.) 6c ON'T you think you could get) “I never saw anything done there except the Saturday you asked me to stop in and we'd go down to Coney Island together, although you know T hate to go to Coney Island or any other place of that sort on Saturday@ or holidays.” “What work was being done ‘that met with your approval upon this occasion?” asked Mr. Jarr. For he took {t to heart that his wife should consider him an idler and a lotus eater during business hours down. town. “Why, that woman who was dusting and the other woman who was sweep- ing,” replied Mrs. Jarr. ‘The idea of having two grown women to do work in an office where there ts no cook. ing, and the laundry goes out, one might say. And yet the woman dust. ing didn't half do it, and the woman sweeping never lifted a rug at the edges, and you know if you don’t turn back the edges of a rug when you are sweeping or cleaning hard- wood floors"—— “I'm sorry we don't work to your satisfaction,” said Mr, Jarr, “even with our dusting and sweeping, Of course you must not mention this‘out in the trade, because our dustings lead the market and our sweeping is the despair of our competiters, Sccubbings, I am sorry to say, are dull this season, but we hope they'll pick up, and if 80 we are prepared jte quote for immediate delivery"— “What nonsense are you talking?” cried Mra, Jarr, “I presume you are trying to make fun of me #o Fl feel bad. And then you can get angry. and fling out 6f the house simply bee cause you do not want to come home early this afternoon,” “Oh, really, you are mistaken,” Mr, Jarr retorted, “Honest, you are,” “1 am not,” replied Mrs, Jarr, teare fully, “But I might have known you didn't want to come home early by the evasive manner you answered me, And it was something very important.” “What ta it? I'l gi and come, “Never mind now!" whi; Mrs, Jarr, “But we—Mrs, Stryver and l—wanted to motor out in the country and wanted you to oi Facts Not Worth K By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1916, by The V'rea Publishing Go. (Thy There ain't much scenery inside Of a chimney, ‘ haperon Us because her husband to toe saya he's nowing @ Now York Brening World.) ‘imento Roquefort prove convulsively that northern extremity is decidedly apt to be uthern end. This condition is undoubtedly due to the email amount of geoyraphy that an adult , No pterodactyls have been observed fying over Ni as they have been extinct for millions of ‘ew York in the last years, ce, but apartment house sopranos aren't discouraged ‘ ‘