The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1916, Page 8

World. fie wy “uF reram Prrneres Deny rs patent “+ F rton %, ” "FT ’ VOLUME 5 “O WHOSE PROSPERITY? AILY and fr « r ‘ arrive end . ee * prosper ty The rt Amer ! t ‘ y ie the single year end Jur a net e160. egeinet @ $1,600,000 defeat the pr year I reper typieal. Beores of other pla have prospere the same greater extent Vet remember the war munitions exports for the last fecal year amounted to only one per cool of the nation’s indus. : tral prodect. j The whole €4,390,000,000 of our 1916 exports to all countries : constitute less than one per cent. of our aggregate volum business. oo Of more sustainedly in operation. Never has industrial activity more deeply stimulated or ite returns more «ure ere piling up month by month of the United States are producing vastly in excess of American needs Who gets the good of it all? Is this colossal production prosperity to mean nothin t biguer butcher's bills Germany ie not at war with Italy, Austria is probably beginning to look for the joke, < JAPANESE GOING HOME. fornia to return home than are entering that State. “There has been much talk of late,” the Ambassador is quoted as saying, “about the increase of the Japancse in the United States and elsewhere, and this is particularly so with reference to California. It may interest you to know that more Japanese have left San Francisco recently for their native land than have gone to California. They have only gone there to atudy Western methods, which they apply to their business on their return, They do not wish to stay in California and they are not staying there.” ee Amb: ador to England, who is on his w visitor from the Eastern tates is the honesty Chinaman contrasted with the perfidy of the Jap. ee arrivil 10,000 tons—which will presently come bursting and bristlin, the Golden Gate, Cool days may also check the spread of infantile paralysis, j but the Clean-Up Brigade believes there cannot be too mauy t allies in the fight. ——————<-¢ - A CHANCE. are apt to be interesting and to the point. show that out of « total of 2,49 one foot past a stop signal his action counted as a failure, not « single one was killed in a train accident. direction as distinguished from Wall Street dire for a railway system, Pennsylvania doesn’t launch a few super- comfort and conyenience. . For instance, why not abolish the Ame replace it with something civilized ? Any road that will do away with the barbarous, seemly contraption of curtained sleeping shelve in the United States are now expected to trave a national service, Why doesn’t the Pen neylvania take the The productive forces of this country were never more generally Enormous profits The farmers and industrial workers 1 and necessities in quantities ARQUIS KATSONUSKE INOUYE, the retiring Japanese back to Japan, | makes the assertion that more Japanese are leaving Cali- Dwellers on the Pacific Const will doubtless take fresh alarm at this, To-day the first thing a San Franciscan points out to al and reliability of the) —— If the Japanese are going home in larger numbers than they are be sure the Californians will explain the movement as an ominous rallying of forces preliminary to a general embarkation in. ¢. gigantic Japanese merchantmen—Japan has six ships of more than| °°"? ig through | HEN the Pennsylvania Railroad talks about itself its remarks : The Pennsylvania’s report of its efficiency tests on lines east of Pittsburgh during the first six months of 1916 goes to h 04 tests and observations made to determine how carefully employees were obeying signals and operating rules the results indicated “perfect performance” in more than 99.9 percent. of the cases. This, though if an engineer ran his locomotive During the period in which the tests were taken 76,700,000 pus- sengers were carried on the Pennsylvania lines cast of Pittsburgh and Unquestionably the Pennsylvania has developed to a high degree the science of being a railroad, It is an example of what operative ction can accomplish Now it has its railroading technique down so fine we wonder the innovations in the way of rican sleeping car and unsanitary, un- » upon which people | I by night will perform ad and get the credit P Hits From Sharp Wits A word to the wise is suMcient pro-, The old-fa d sided It Is the key word to the codr,| to think Kwioe tate ~Deseret Ni has a son who lig fore he jumps at Toledo Blade, ee No hustler has tine formation to a man ~Boston Transcript. .-. man who fore he spoke eee One way to keep friends is to keep mast of your gpinions to yourself, . fou can never tell by the sound of 4 man's voice how well he can talk.— » Albany Journal. ‘ . You can also judge a man by the company he keeps goin, eee the principle of the thing. Bome men are born fools, some; State, achieve foolishness and others are “driven” to drink.—Philadelphia In- quirer. \etone is a poor way a ° | wits. The wise man follows the lines of | oe least resistance by telling all women| -If you are pick, how well they look and all mothers | discovers what you that their babics are beautiful.—| chan’ his Commercial Appeal. to give up . All the liars are not sending out | Ws to st war dope. like best, ‘ used | now | hts a cigarette bee & conclusion.— to supply tn- > knows it all, | the There is the fellow who | {als in explains that it's not the money, it's Columbia Holding @ man’s nose to the grind- to sharpen bis) ent q and the doctor considered fully dr “are (hat is what he'll tell you beat in marring Watering the Elephant _ of been 4 > The Origin of Cosmetics ‘The New Yoru Evesing Word} °° ONSENSUS of the authorities C fixes the onus of responsibi! | ity for the first suggestion o: the use by women of perfume, pain ‘and powder upon the nymph Oenone, who Is said to have descended Mount | Olympus bearing perfumes and paints) to the professional beauties of my- | thology. Assuredly Venus perfumed her golden tresses, while, according to Bophocles, even stern Minerva did Rot disdain to anoint her face and faze into @ pool with all the eager- ness of a New York society girl set- ting out for her first ball. It ts certain, unless history errs, that painting the face and bleach- ing the hair was @ favorite pastime among the Greek women in the days of Alcibiades. From Tetrullus, chief among the satirists of those times, we learn “that women covered their faces with powder of chalk when not of ceruse and reddened thoir lips by art To Cleopatra is the world indebted for the invention of pomatum, which in one form or anotber bas continued in use down to the present day, ani again for Lue custom of pencilling the eyebrows, &@ feat she accomplished with the use of sepia and belladonna. But even prior to her time the Egyptian women made up thelr eyes to such @ degree that the lines of th ids were 4s well defined as the eyebrows, this being done with antl- mony, with the ald of 4 small pointed plece of wood shaped like a tooth. pick and dipped in rosewater. Poppaca, one of the most beautfful, she was one of the moat evil | women in all history, is the originator \of the practice common among city | women of former times, of using a/| vombination of rye bread and olive | oil, a compound cloasly resembling the cold cream beloved of the women | of tu-day, | ‘The Persian women of the time of | Darius produced thelr famous raven black hilr by an application of henna, which, applied for half an hour, turned the hair yellow, and after- ward by the use of indigo produced a glossy black, With the passing of the era of heathenism and the gradual spread of Christianity, the use of paints, jpantet and dyes would seem to have | Into disuse, to remain almost t for hundreds of years, only tu revived with the later Bourbons, stom bringing hordes of as- |\rologers, perfumers, fakirs and chur- | latans of ali kinds whose business tt th y the possibilities of chem- h rauty of the women of France and Italy, In England the use of cosmetics may be suid to reached {ts height among the beauties of the Restoration, to continue with greater or lesser virulence down to the pres ay. In tho days of the Second and Third Georges and of the Fit. feentl Louls no gentiewoman was wel for court un had done thetr beauty that Ng- ture bad bestowed upon her, the ti powder and rou tt The Evening World 4 By Sophie From the East Side to the Farm —_— o wtettas,, Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) T last, after years of investiga- A tion and debate, the farm loan system is being established in his country with the Government olidly behind it, ‘The wise flat dweller of the east side and west side, too, might well take notice, What does it mean? It means that farm people will be able to borrow money at a low rate} of interest for @ long period—as long as forty years, The rate of interest will never exceed 6 per cent, In fact, it is proposed to make the in- terest very low indeed, as is the case in European countries, where the farm asset is one of the greatest of the country, It means that by easy payments the mouey may be paid back and the interest thus reduced, It means that the everlasting nem- esis, “the mortage on the farm,” will not be hanging like a sword over the Tather of the farm, It means that & man may begin in @ small way to till the soil and grad- ually develop his farm so that his children and their children may go on where he leaves off, Mw means that there will be farm loan bonds easily negotiable that will be made attractive by not more than 5 per cent, interest and which will be exempt from Federal, State and mu- nicipal taxation, It means that you will be able to borrow money for purchase of land, or its improvement, for purchase of | live stock, equipment, fertilizers, to | provide buildings or liquidate in- | debtedness. In a word, it means tbat the frat ‘are fortunes to be made on the farm ; Side who came from European coun- tries, where they had spent thelr lives on the farm, and were excellent farmers, They are now digging sub- | Ways and carrying brick. ‘Their little children are breathing tenement alr and are weakly for want of play | spaces and fresh food, If these families would but grasp Uncle Sam's new opportunity opened out to them and take their dear ones away from the congestion out into the great green acres, what a boon it) would prove—these folks who know| how to get the most out of Mother Earth. What a@ chance for the chil-/ dren—the chance for health and the possibilities for their later progress. If these families would but realize that We produce less bushels of food- stuffs to the acre than most of the European countries and that there if properly managed,, 1 know @ farm community of elghty families where, In five years, t have become #0 properous that “the morteage” is nearly paid off and each | family owns its own automobile, — | And for women? There is much| opportunity indeed, especially since) they are entering every field of en- deavor, I know three young women at Hast Aurora, N. ¥., who in one sum- mer made a handsome sum of money by growing a large garden of peas. 1'wo of them looked after the ga: and the other to the sale and clerical work, Why does not woman enter thie sure fleld of fruitfulness on the farm? Do you fear the winter and the ab. sence of the moving picture show? Well then, know this, that bad roads are practically unknown so fast are good ones being built, and the tele- phone is much in evidence even in re- real chan now offered in answer | to the long cry of “Back to the farm." | And, my dear East Sider, the farm is! urs and Uncle Sam's untapped | reservolr, There are thousands of glorious acres wall profitable, It is becau © these acres xl costs so enormously. suse We are consuming more than we are producing that you have nothing deft in) your when the living expenses are paid, 1 know sone families on the east pay-envelope | seemed + | Great men begin enterprises because they think them great, and fools, | because they think them easy.—VAUVENARGQUES, mote places, Communication 1s becoming easier every day. People are not far apart Daily Magazine, Saturday, August Lucile the | Waitress By Bide Dudley Copsris! tng Co, chronic sick people in here yester- day morning, kid,” said tle, the waitress, as the news- paper man took @ seat on & stool at the lunch counter. “You've seen them kind who belleve they have got all th diseases in the cirricleham, haven't you?” “Often!” he replied. “Well, this man was one. When I spurt up for his order he looks at me painful, and say: ‘bo 1 look anaemic, lady? ‘o,' 1 gays, ‘I'd take you for “You don’t get me!’ be says. ‘I'm porais in it, Pretty tough, eh?” ‘sure!’ I tell him, ‘You ought to your blood a good talking to.’ “Don't joke,’ he says, And then he adds, ‘1 got a weak heart. jeft Ventilator is missing @ stroke out of every ten.’ Vell, that's a shame,’ I reply. ‘But this ain't no hospital clintic, We don't fix up sick people here. fuod artists, ‘Lain't hungry.’ “Oh, 1 gee,’ comes from me. ‘You says, just come in for sympathy. Well, you'll find that in Webster's unabrig- anded dictionary’ ou're yo mean about it,’ he re- “that I'm going to tell you some- You look like your jiver is off duty. I had that failment once but luckily I got cured, I got about $10 worth of pills left. I'll sell you enough in this twentieth century. Besides, the end certainly justifies! the means. If the cities could only the farm and more produce sent to! ve been calling In vain that your: the city as a result, the scales of Iive-|to_ bring him @ It 1s be- | lihood would certainly be better bal- | 6 anced. Never has the need for the farmer so urgent. Leastwise with | the new furm-loan system it is cer- ‘tainly worthy of reflection. 2 first Secretary of War of the United States was Henry Knox, who was born in Boston 166 years ago, July 26, 1750, of Scotch-Irish parentage. Knox was the chief commander of the artillery throughout the Revolution, and was Secretary of War both before and after Washington assumed the Presi- dency, being one of the few soldiers Appointed to that position, His successor, Timothy Pickering, hud also seen active service, James McHenry, the third to hold he post, had been @ surgeon in the | Our First Secretaries of War Wevolutian, Samuel Daxter, ihe next in the last bals in ling, was 4 lawyer, but Henry Dearborn, Jeiferson'’s Secretary of War, had had much military experi- ence. William Eustis, appointed by Madison, was a physician, and gave way to a military man, John Arm- strong, James Monroe ‘and William H. Crawford were lawyers, and since thelr time most Presidents have ap- | parently conaldered 1egal education | the best qualification for a head of the War Department. U, 8. Grant, who held the war portfolio for a brief period in 1867, and William T. equally short, were the only distin- guished military men to hold the post canpury. . to cure you for $3. ten, listen!’ I spout. ‘Order or dismiss the little lady \n white. They’s is to be mad@ hecome more depopulated tn favor of | Other victims waitin, “Then that sick guy, kid, tells me round steak, two some toast, potatoes and a cup of coffee with ple to act as a chaser. As 1 sorve him the load I just have to kid him a bit, you certainly are sick,’ I says. “Yes, he replies. ‘But I don't want sympathy, He gives me a close once-over and continues: ‘That spot on your nove comes from a topic liver. Say, but I'm sorry for you. Better try the pills, ‘Listen, Mister,’ I says, ‘T ain't had a sick day in four years and, as for my nights, they've all been one round of gayety in the land of dreams, Your liver talk gocs in ore ear and out the other.’ “‘Nothing to stop it, I guess!’ he wa y, but it made me mad, I turn on my heel and leave him flat, When he goes out I find a card by his plate in lulu of a tip. Here it is,” Lucile handed the card to the news. aper man, who glanced at it. "Oh, e's a doctor, I see," he said, "Yes," replied Lucile, “but I don't think he's a extensive partitioner.” “Ave you going to try his pills?” I was going to," admitted Lucile, and) Sherman, whose tonure of office was| "but when I got home last night I found my little brother had ‘em all Jout in the dirt playing marbles with paid |'om" My bloou ain't got enough cor- | Lis | ections of Thy Dhelew ever complet it you dows pow hetal, {@) move, if you ane buckend, remove bie | A woman tt ho! really Wlase wort he feels nothing but eputant it te te . Hive bepplly Ith people provided pow Aree learn bow to tive y without them front forget t he man who bee pou for a & to neht may Beg « * “ether woman sive bem for to merroe Hivery huwhand te sing romise a problem tn rimple arithape.: tir, Wo which you find (he atewer uy adding up bis teulte aud bie virtues iu separate cx A tleter, if pre ve Gy and surpris wen from «lot ol A bac at him t* trying to marry suower or lw wlor iives th the constant and t If your append! “Old friends, old book: je brand new By Roy L. 667 TCHE aay te comin, id Mr, | Jarr, impreasively, “whon in+ | telligent men will no longer | do time in business prisons,” ‘What do you mean?” asked Mra. Jarr, Bhe meant this, She wanted to know just what he meant so she isu oppose it. | “I moan thie,” sald Mr, Jarr, “Take @ fine day like this, I've got to rusi through my breakfast"— “That's because you won't get up when you are called. [ve been up for hours and hours,” replied Mra, | Jarr, She had preceded him in aris- ing some twenty minutes, but “hours | and hours” sounded better, | “Well, no matter,” Mr, Jarr went on. | “Buppot I had gotten up hours and | hours ago; I would have had to go down to that old office and muddle over books and accounts and stay till 5 o'clock In the afternoon because | that’s the hour for quitting, just the same, It doesn't matter wheih | there was, work there to keep me busy or not"—— “Oh, I don't suppose you kil! yours self in that old office,” interjucted Mrs, Jarr, “Now, if you had this | house to look“after! For, as the old | saying goes, ‘Man's work 1s from sun | to sun’—although it really is from about 9 A, M. till 5—'but woman's work is never done. “Woman's talk is never done!" said Mr, Jarr, shortly, A very dangerous remark, by the way, But Mra, Jarr Was not going to bring up her forces | to the attack till she rightly knew the position of the enemy, and she didn’t even throw out skirmishers at this, “An I was saying,” Mr, Jarr went | on, “in these days of so-called modern | | conveniences, why couldn't I do my | | work at home and let some of the} | underlings telephone me about any | new shipments to the trade, or check lover the invoices with me over the wire?” “How about the underling being! home taking it easy, too?” asked Mrs, | Jarr, “You never mind about the under- lings. Let them eerve their time onj the treadmill as many years ao [ have,” said Mr. Jarr, “It would be nice, I am sure," re- marked Mrs, Jarr, scornfully, “having you home with your old books, clut- the wrong way.—PLA70, rs ' » 7 } First U. S, Admiral { . ° HE first officer of the United States Navy to hold the rank of Admiral was David G. Farragut, who was elevated to that position half a century ago, July 25, 1866, as a reward for his great services in the Civil War, Prior to the conflict be- tween the States the highest rank in the United States naval service was that of Commodore | In 1862 Congress conferred upon | Farragut the rank of Rear Admiral, jin 1864 that of Vice Admiral and in| 1866 he was made « full fledged Ad- miral, Farragut died in 1870, and the title of Admiral was then conferred upon David D. Porter, who held that rank until his death, in 1891, Con. gress then abolished the title of A | miral, and the grade of Rear Admiral remained the highest in Uncle Sam's ‘nuval service until 1499, when that of Admiral was revived and conferred on F, one of them will succeed, r your last tooth, or your last Mirtatt Liluston must @o, don't protest. Just have it OUT, and be dome with 4; ané you'll soon forget that you ever had it lame” every now and then to keep up the glow of life, The Jarr —_—e- + _ _xv—VWm\mn"”"”Ol_ _E—_e_eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee rabt, 1016, ty Tae Pree Publishing Co (The New York Brening World.) The passionate are like men standing on their he sss a How band ng the resuite oe “shock absorber which later saves e the love-route fear that every woman who glances he eternal torment of knowing thet, or your ler may be all right—but it requires — ~papasay “amily McCardell tering up the house and raging like demon when I wanted to clean up the room where you were working.” “But I'm not talking about deiag ( work at home in this Gat” sald Mr, divorcee!” said Mr. Jarr, “You listen to what I'm saying and don't tater¢ rupt, please.” “Oh, dear me! lot all be silent!” remarked Mra, sarcastically, “No,” Mr. Jarre went couldn't I have @ nice place te the , country, in the midst of shady lawas and flowers? There, in a cool I could do my work in ease and fort and much better than downtown at that stuffy old office, weather he ien’t ft to do any work.” “What would you expect your firm to be paying you for while you were “Poetry?” replied Mr, Jarr, “Well, why should @ poet have it any nicer than @ hard-working bookkeeper?” “You'd be a nice one trying to de office work at home! This home—any home,” said Mrs, Jarr., “If the ohil- dren made any noise—if I came pear —you'd be a nuisance to have around. “Well, I tell you the day ts coming when the average man will ask for something more out of life than toll- ing and molling during the beautiful ai J with you," suld Mra, Jarr, dryly, “You've an acute attack of nervous prosperity, Suppose you had no po. sition at all and were walking the streets looking for employment? You'd rather welcome the dally grind you have now, wouldn't you?” “Yes, that's the very curse of the present system,” remarked Mr, Jarr, “I tell you @ time 1s coming when"—— “The time has come when it's tim ne you hurried down to th ie Mrs. Jarr, aden ant And Mr, Jarr got him gone, ‘ads; they see all thinge Riennocnannenanipsonnenn {American “Knights”} 1 ennnnnnnnnnnnnnannnnnrian ane iLB first native Ameri knighted by an Sagi monersh was Sir William Pepperell, who was born in Kittery, Me. 220 years ago. His father was who came to New England i hpeyrs Prentice to @ fisherman, The son bes came a merchant and a) a large fortune. As 4 nitHtary leader he took { part In several confilcts with the Ine dians and attained much distinction, For thirty-two years he waa a meme ber of the Royal Council of Masams chusetts, and as Ohiet Justice of* Coimnon Pleas he won eminence ag ehted for his ® jurist. He was kni success as leader of the ex; against Louisburg, the French etresce hold on Cape Breton, and afterward ttained the rank of Licutenant Ge: 1 in the British army, Since Pe berell's time many Americans hepe sithood and higher Brit. e George Dewey. In that year the old title of Commodore was abolished and the holders were advanced to the | grade of Rear Admiral, ¢ ¢ HE frat normal achool in Amer. I fea was opened at Lexington, | Mass. seventy-seven years ago, | prior to the introduction of the nor- mal school system few teachers were really proficient, and the great major- ity knew Ittle or nothing about the theory and practice of their profession when they assumed their important duties, ‘When natural aptitude was combined with experience the result was often highly gatisfactory, but the teachers were so small that fe continued teaching longer than was The First Normal School I OOAAAAAARARAR OAR ADRIANA achieved kn {sh honors, Lord Astor and Shaughnessy, the former a mative ot New York and the latter of Milwau. kee, being among tho more promi: ent latter-day examples, ~ Ny necessary, The development of n ys mal schools Rave to teachers the Let nity and importance of @ professio, . and imposed standards which Mors constantly become higher. Massachy® setts took the lead in this great mown. ment, and most of the rd in North America have been gee oped from the origi model, Thanks to the norennt’s ae there are now very few inn teacher The first th ltettcant represents 4 new and important ext tension in the ons for the trainlog of tenasegtt"