The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1916, Page 10

A EE A sO8HIM PULITERN | by the Prem Pw few, New } (1 Perk Mow " 1 the Post-Office at New Yo te The venting Fort ) ame ~ OM OT Ty VOLUME 67 AN INEVITABLE SHIFT. | F¥, after the President's efforts to wave the country from the eor | quences of @ genera) railroad strike, such @ etrike were to be] eclared, the attitude of the public would unquestionably undergo @ quick change The opectacle of intelligent men, representing on the one hand the management and on the other the working forces of the nation's chief railway systems, gathered deavor to settle, with the President's aid, their differenc on the whole, a reassuring one ‘ Tt has strengthered public faith in the power of arbitration and] lessened belief in the need of strikes as @ means of adjurting labor dieputes affecting public utilities, It has seemed a guarantee of progress and an assurance that the rights of the greater number were to be more than ever recognized as paramount 5 If now, despite all concessions, a strike were to come, the state of the public mind would instantly shift from impartiality to prejudice, Can the railway brotherhoods doubt where resentment would chiefly fall? Granted demande of the employees are for the moet part just and must be met. Nevertheless conferences and resulting concessions during the past two weeks of parley in Washington have convinced the country that no differences exist which could not be adjusted without tying up a single train schedule If present conditions of railway employment were to continue a month lpnger would any railway employee lack food’ Would his fam ily be less well off then they are now % Would his rights be further infringed upon? Then why, pendiog the consideration of his case, deliberately aub. Jeet 100,000,000 poorie te undeserved suffering and loss? In the event of a strike do the brotherhoods think the nation would fail to ask t! blame? at Washington in conseient { question or make its own assignment of the ——- + =__ Merely as a matter of convenience it Was about time for Italy to deel war on Germany. Now the Italian armies are fairly on the march they couldn't very well walk around Germans when the woods are so full of them, ' WILL THEY EVER MEET? UT of the present milk inquiry before the Wicks committee seems to emerge t!.c old familiar finding that what constantly cute down the farmer's return for his product, and at the same time raises its cost to the consumer, is the ever-increasing toll exacted by distributors. Over and over again the public has heard a similar story concern-| goocoo ing other kinds of farm produce. Whether there is abundance or T he O rigin of dearth, the farmer zcts a minimum figure for what he raises, Yet! xe : by the time his product reaches the householder the latter finds k Inger Rings himself charged as much as he will stand, If the farmer must have Saw. | more in order to live, the middleman is ready to explain that it can F ROM the earliest pervod of alvil- " ; | lzed relationships, the fingor only be done by putiing up prices to the consutner. ring bas been accepted as the! Secretary Manning of the Dairymen’s League talks of independent! symbol of Adelity and truth in the! distributing agencies which shall enable the farmers to place their, {ment of @ pledge, and for the ‘ ; ‘i ; Kroator part of two thousand years it milk more directly iu the bands of the householders who want it. was used ag the most conventent “All we insist upon,” he declares, “is getting a living price | means for conveying the signet of the for our product, but we are interested also in seeing that the wearer, price is not raised too high for the consumer, as a higher According to Herodotus, the wea price means decreased consumption and, tuevitably, a lower ing of finger rings originated with the) 5 Habylonians, the ring of those times rice for us. | p siliaee s : being of iron, ‘That the custom was A baffling situation. Vor years past, with the aid of co-operative | gradually transmitted from the Baby- | organizations and housewives’ leagues, the farmer and the consumer, lomlans to the Hellenes is certain, the have made desperate efforts to do business with each other to their ‘te? Greek historians describing min- : , Utely the richly chased gold rings} mutual saving and p Despite everything, the middleman still) worn as talismans by warriors on contrives to keep thei apart. |their departure for the wars, while We have a Stats iepartment of Foods and Markets one of whose “t "He end of another contury every Ale ; ‘| . | freedman in “Greece possessed a functions is to help farmers to sell their product. Can it do anything | signet. to solve the milk problem, or must it also wait until the middlemen and | Coming down to the Roman era, we the distributors have made their calculations of how much tho con-/ Ltt the freedmen, in iinitation of the Babylonians and Spartans, bearing sumer will bear? their iron signet as evidence of the | simplicity of their lives, the custom down to tho last days of lic. Ambassadors alone © permitted to wear the gold ring, | | this privilege, under the intivence of the splendors of the Augustan era, being extended to Senators, Chiet —_—_——-4-—______ “In short, this delightful, bilssful, wise, Pleasurable, honorable, virtuous, true and immortal prince was @ violator of his word, a libertine, over head and ears in disgrace, a despiser of domestic tes, the companion of gam- | Magistrates and Kquites, ‘Tiberius, dlera and demireps, a man who hax just closed half a century [enOU Hae Ua Uhh ceemeeee ete without one single claim on the gratitude of his country, or | Property qualifications, Severus con- the regpect of posterity." * o* * Jeeded tho dist rection to all Roman Thus the London Examtner one fine morning tn 1818 pata a Alec {ts compliments te the Prince Regent, afterward George IV. rl "ings being worn ‘by ‘The man who wrote the article, Leigh Hunt, apent two sub- | freedinen, and iron, by Waves, a sequent years of his life in prison as a result—despite the fact the Christian era saw the first use ef that the greater portion of the British public acclaimed the | J symbol, the truth of what he sald. revered uwise, nd this sustem ns Who will say free speech and a free press have not Inctinod jin one form ‘or men's tongues and pens rather to moderation than to excess, oe ee rather to charity than to bitterness; or who maintain that in |the ring as a retigiou another continued held was of beneficent influence is the poison ring dear to the hearts of all love sot the weird, blue lights, the m dramatic, Historic examples of this sinister ; » chosen lees judisiounty ¢ ance in relig f public discussions ams are chosen less judiciously than a or priv affairs, Among be- hundred years ago trothed co of the fifteenth, six. ab —- - teenth and eig! De Paige many rings Were inseribed with words sup. Letters From t he Peo p le posodly of tallamanic power, such aa Petmarics, Sept. 0: Re: ry Melchior and Balthasar, the Get. 9-14) james of the Magi, while in the gin nth century nearly all engages ‘To the Editor of The Evening World linent nks bore the familiar "Miz. When do election and registration) PI inform m ne retiable | pan’ C'The Lord watch between me days in New York City occur this Brooklyn or New York sehoola which and thee when We. are absent one year? M. J. M. ane 4 course in electrical engineering. | from the other"), | Ww In direct contradiction to the ring! | | Koy After He Is Naturals ‘Te the Editor of The Eveving World aka One tn 1904 If @ boy comes to this country bo- | Mt itor of The Evening Wond fore he ia five years of age is he a| How many fatal bicycle citizen, and when he lecomes of age 0°curred in New York last accidents te he eligible for @ civil service posi- a t are the ring containing @ hol- | JR. | Wette New York State © low bezel with which Hannibal, pur. | ny Take entry, § sued by the Romans, ended his life at| To the Ruitor of The Where can I obtain a course in for- ostry? 8. 8. Navy Washington, he Editor of The Evening World To whom shall I address a letter) way that the murderer could give the note applying for a wireless license? Ifatat scratch. while shaking hands Cc AMATEUR, with an enemy, Libyssa; the ring of Demosthenes, the anello della morte of the Borgias | which carried a t point made to | | work with a spring, this point com- municating with & receptacle for I am @ boy of fifteen and I wish to get my working papers. I have no Mother and my father is too busy to|T wo with me, If my elder brother went with me or if my father wrote a oweld I get them? HLA. _The Evening World Daily Maga | @ |it to Ned to poison in @ cavity behind, In such a| Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland ‘ i] | > | Corent, IWI8, by The Press Publabing Co, (The New York Bveming World.) | most modern flirtations a man merely goes through the motions whiic &@ woman gocs through the emotions. Tho best thing to give a man for “that tired feeling” after a summer romance is a@ little distance, Ananias may have been the most skillful lar of his time, but in these days, with the magic afd of the telephone, almost any normal hus- band could make him look like a mere bungler. No matter how sincerely a gir! may wish an ex-flame good luck she can't help feeling just a wee bit thrilled when she hears that bis marriage has turned out unhappily, In & man’s opinion no woman wants to hear the truth unless it aas been spiced and sugar-coated until it sounds as convincing as & good lie. What some peopl: call “love” is merely eex-antagonism covered with @ thin coating of passion, spiced with romance and tied with a slender string of curiosity. Most bachelors seem to regard the “flower o' love” as a dangerous species of poison ivy. Lactate. J There are timos when a man has to lubricate his conscience with | alcohol so that it won't grate on his finer feelings, A sense of humor is the only reliable life pre Matrimony, Just a Wite—(Her Diary) Edited by Janet Trevor 1016, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worl.) ecause I've been worrying,” I ad- tted, “What's the matter, dear?” he concern | asked quickly, and the swee ®? Should 1 ask bim about in his voice made it at once very easy | beautiful young woman with | nd very hard to sey what I had to! nm my mother’s old friend sald he | "Nx, en dining on the night ho said ad spent With a patient critically ver on the S oO Copyright, CHAPTER LVIIL, Should I or should I not ed what Mra, Furman told 1 continue you remember! that might when I got dinner and it} Was a failure, and you went out? You, [telephoned me afterward that you jeould not come home because one of Over and over again, during the past! your patients was dangerously ill’ | two days, L asked myself these ques-| And Uh in the briefest possible | tions. On the one hand, it seemed Manner, I repeated what Mra, Furman had told me, “And I suppose you pulled me to pieces between you,” Ned exclaimed, | with swift, flerce bitterness, "That's to me that even by repeating to my | husband the gossiping tale 1 had heard, L should be casting reflections: upon his honor, his truthfulness. |e a woman’ Looking at the problem from another yt "gld not!" 1 interrupted indige point of view, I reallaed that with] nantiy, “told her what f knew Wwas| the best will in the world 1 could not! a plausible He, in order to protect you, | forget an incident so cireumastanually |” Spur why should she invent such. a! ated by a wor 1 couldn't help asking myself triend. T am sure there is some simple give him @ chance | a but I think’I am juste f was my ke his own explanation of the in- in asking you for it, eldent? ou're a brick, Mollie,” Ned sald That reflecti@n, together with my| mora quietly, "I showldn't. have natural frankness, triumphed, I had flown off the handle lke that, but the! wondered how 1 should bring up the | fact is I hate a female gossip, Of topic, but it was siinple enough, Ned|course there's an explanation. It's | looked at ime several times rather! simply that I have a double, I've sharply during dinner, After we sat | nevor seen him, but I've known about | |down in front of the open fire in the|him for some ‘time. He's been ob: | living room he said suddenly, “Aren't | served by fellows who visit Broadway you feeling well, Mollie? You look | a good deal oftener than I do, A white and tired to-night,” | young Westerner with more money | “I'm nervously tired becau well, !ivan morals, I believa, As for me, 1| ae DU ie —G&_~er”rnaees=reeeee—s > | Dollars and Sense. By H. J. Barrett. Facts About Figures. ‘LL want 63 pounds of it at 57 cents a poun sald Carhart, the purchasing “That comes to"—- remarked Andrews, the salesman, instantly. “That's right,” agreed Carhart after & moment's figuring, “but how the deuce did you figure tt so quickly— mentally, too? You're a wizard.” “It's simple enough,” explained An- drews, “and applies theoretically to the multiplication of almost any num- bers, But it's of practical value only where the mean number, in this case 60, ends in zero, ‘Take 67 and 63, The mean num- ber, or that which {sas much greater than 67 as it is less than 63, 60. Sixty squared !s 3,600, Subtract 9, or the square of 3, the difference be- tween the mean number and one o the numbers and you have $36.91, the correct result. Thirty-seven and 43, 18 and 22, 116 and 124—all these in- stances and those similar to them can be multiplied mentally with ease.’ “They never taught me that tn school,” replied the purchasing ngent. “Got any more short cuts? lll pro- ceed to electrify the boss,” “Here's another,” was the response. cae 85 by. 75—the product ts 625," “Yes, it 1s," conceded Carhart, after! laboriously figuring it out. “Very simple,” said Andrews. ly multiply the first digits—3 which gives you 21; add one-half the sum of the two figures, that ts, 5, and prefix the result, 26, to 25, giving you 2,625, This applies to the raultipll- cation of some, but not all, txures ending jn 5." ‘Mere. id 7, — NEW machine has been invent. A ed which warns the motorist of r d dangers ahead, says the Popular Science Month) In other words the machine, in its me- chanical way, looks ahead and tells the motor and holes. =e was working that night just as I said 1 was. “thought just flickered through brains “Why is Ned looking away as he tells ine this?" With a shock of sha I realized that 1 was doubting a clear and perfectly possi- ble explanation offe by my hus- band, the man I love. Impulsively I left my chair and perched on the arm of Ned's, drop- ping my head on hie shoulder, ‘My dear, my dea 1 breathed, “I love you so, and I know that you love me. I ought to have been strong mind the instant I heard it, But from now on I shall never think of it again, | | After making apples into apple sauce tt is a tough job to count ‘em, Only, dear, if there ever should be anybody else, please don't He to me, 1 think tift I love you enough to deserve the truth, even if it hurts, And I should always want you to be happy.” 1 4m happy, Mollie." Ned sata “And you are the only that ever geally counted woman for me," zine, Mondsy. August 28. 1916 ER weme was Juliette her Gernese of bie great heart, viry far oe eorlly and w obe liked to wear ded by U we loyal « of the he these attacks ehe died broke i ed beside her body for | Prepared Juliette fur her last sleep ' Kemembering her love for Jewelr be buried te her favorite ball neck! Pre } congruous tannnnnnnn ty siaied Aud his own room, | Stories of Stories | Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces. j By Albert Payson Terhune corre ite Tee Pee Peres to TUB VALET - by Guy de Maupassant, The two lived very very quietly in « er and to Julletio and was pat eter had pronoun two days « drese and t (Vee Bee Vee Brewing Works wae © freetic, gentic girl, and the father, Whose wile bad died many ed on Juliette all the a3 qulette but whi pretty house tn the suburbe, Vrosper The valet waa der aly worried, over mH the had & sevice of fainting epella, art, on old valet would let no owteidep the wirl dead. 4 Righia Tomer ¥. her father @ecited that she should eked With all her costly ring bracelets n the night after the funeral the father retired oxbe in mind and body to sleep or even to und He sank into a chair and aat staring dully into apace Old Prospe: came to him with timid offers of « Rut he refuse® them all and curtly dismianed the grieving old servant for the night é For hours the stricken father sat there, moveless, numb with grief fatigue, The night was bitter cold, howled about the be Then suddenty ch thew whe doorbell rang. t house, bringing the father ad dared to tntrude front door and threw tt open. “itt across the threshold. | vault at the nearby cemetery! “Don't be frightened, father | horror, making the sign of the H “Don't be frighten — * to the vault in the The Summons inven irene } must hi wrannooranee trance, T found | home.” begged tried to t this finger was cut, ‘The hearth fire died out, The wt The sound af the gong shed throug to his fort with a bound. Wondering Upon bis grief at such an hour, he went to the | “Whe ts there? he calied, peering out into the darkne | fathes." came the faint answer; and a white figure staggered It was Juliette, the daughter he had that day laid to rest in the family Jullett he shrank back to drive away the supposed phant ed. lam alive, Some one came ‘very darkness to steal my Jewels, ‘The thi Vor, seo And the pain Dr@ught me out of mp the vault gate left open and I came | ‘The father, in an ecstasy of Joy, gathered into his arms the frail figure | of his miraculously restored daughter and he bore her into his own roomy | where he placed her in a chair and quickly rekindled the fire on the heartiity | Then he shouted for Prosper to bring doctor. At sight of the girl ishment that must now be his | with, and the future ia uncertain.—A | . it Was not due to happiness at Jullette’s rec the thief who had tried to steal her jewels and he dreaded the puge Mvery man's life lies within the pr food and wine for ber and to eummem, he old servant comp hurrying Into the room in response to his master’s Prosper fell sprawling to the floor ta It was vecaush ver nt, for the past is spent and done NTONIUS. The Jarr Family | By Roy L. Copyright RS. JARK, home late for din- M ner, started to explain. “Mrs. Rangle and I were looking some beautiful flats in the next strect. There's @ big, deep closet in every room for clothes, a china closet in the dining room, a large linen closet iu the hall, porcelain wash tubs—oh, It just grand!” Were the rooms large? inquired Mr, Jarr—not that be cared, but it made talk. “Oh, yes, quite large,” replied Mrs. Jarr, “Not as large as these, of course, but they were arranged and | decorated so artistically. “Were they light?” he asked, “If you are so anxious, why don’t you go over and look at them your- self?" Mrs. Jarr retorted. “They are Just as light as other apartments are; in fact, 1 didn’t notice if they were light or dark, but the bathroom was beautiful, with a large medicine closet unk in the wall"—- “You appear to be particularly tn- terested in the closets,” remarked Mr. Jarr. “So Iam, and so would you bo if you had the care of the house and had the putting away of everything. Give me @ nice bathroom and plenty of closets and 1 am satisfied,” said Mrs. Jar, “Besides, there was a lovely little | music room off the parlor in an alcove, | but of course if you put @ piano tn one of those’ little music rooms the People next door always rap on the walls when you play ‘anything, be- cause the partitions are so thin.’ “And you've got the mania to move, jen?" interrupted Mr. Jarr, “I thought | that only came in the springtime.” “It comes any time you see a better nd mor modern home for less money than we pay here,” sald Mra. Jarr. “That is, these flats aro only $5 @ [month more, and while in the other | flats rooms are a little smaller and there is one roem ler modern, and I'm sure it will be more | healthy for the children when the plaster dries.” “How can we move?" asked Mr, Jarr, “Our lease rugs till next sum- | mer." “Isn't it too bad!" sald Mra, Jarr. t all about the bumps “The agent at the new apartment of-| moving out. fered us half a month's rent free, and that would almost pay the cost of | moving.” | "We'll have to wait till next sum- 1016, by The Preae Wublishing Co. sull it's more | McCardell (The York Evenisg World.) « mer then,” replied Mr. Jarr. “We have 8 lease and if we moved out before the lease is up I could be sued. “I was talking about that to Mra ¢ Rangle and she saya her husbat told ber that he had some jolly tri who get up parties to break lease. | AU you need to do is to give a party and invite them and they make #@ much nolse that the other tenante complain to the landiord and you are ordered out of the flat, and whea the landlord orders you out that | breaks your lease.”* “L should say it does!" erted MN Jarr, “and T also should imagine you Wouldn't care to have a lease brokem junder such circumstances, ‘That’e | practically being ejected for being @ nuisance, “Well, if a landlord ts so mean he wants people to stay after they see other apartments they like better, I'ma |sure nobody could blame us for gote ting out, no matter what was the reason!" said Mrs, Jarr, “Just wile till you see the new apartment.” Finding Mrs. Jarr's mind was ref upon moving, Mr. Jarr fell in with the plan of giving a party and having mem? who belonged to Mn Rangle's Ancient Order of Unwelcome Guests present. He also had a few boisterous friends whose work coul@ be relied upon, They all o on the night ape pointed, Mr, Jarr providing retreshe |ments in abundance, An enjoyable time was had by all present, and is was in vain that protests arose in the airshatts, and pipes Were pounded ang floors and walls on all sides beatea and hammered and knocked. The |Botsterous Branch of the Ancien§ Order of Unwelcome’ Guests gayly shouted back in the alrshafts, they |pounded replies on the steam pipes and answered the hammerings on the wall, and sang all the latest unpopue |lar songs of the night. Finally when they concluded the levening’s entertainment with @ j wooden leg quadrille a nervous lady ‘on the floor below threw up @ windows and screa: .ed for the police, The next day the landlord galled d thanked t arrs for helping him t rid of the nervous lady, who was The landlord sald he believed in everybody having a good time, and he had no uge for knocker “ had never had any fun in thei lives and did not want others to have an: |e be saved and utilized as the N | | Weighing a quinine pill on @ hay acales ts a delivate piece of werk, A can of beans will be found to be more digestible if peeled defore eating Umbrellas can be kept dry in a rainstorm by putting ‘em under your coay Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Bear Copyright, 1916, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ER throw away the vacant holes in a Swiss chee The Gazinti dwarfs of New Goofland are extremely short and have te enough to dismiss that atory from my | wear nigh heels 80 that their feet can reach the ground, es They can framework for another cheese,