The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1916, Page 14

| ; | | | { BOTAMseHMD HY ' men Bplay ruareme ét Pew Now ANF Bila . ‘ scemrn PLAT een feces e? . Nered o! the Poet Ore . How The Brewing bnglent « . ona v tod Plates All Countries tm # ettonel CALL THE LEGISLATURE. ME EVENING WORLDS « \ Special eee 1 Bpon whi! i The Interbor Na 1 ‘ ) Railways Com the recommenia M i that the tras ' . Wide adequate and uninterrupted transit fa { pu Where is no likelihood that the ane { President White the Third Avenue Railroad and Receiver Beaver of the Secor Line will be different The line-up ix final: ‘ra f aun each other, But both age the | Tn this situa om the pu Who represent it in its lawmaking pov Upon whom sh " ff not its Legislature? ‘Vo whom should it demand that power be Gelegated—in the present emergency —if to the Publie Service Commission specially created to protect it against the ire or mis ‘wee of its public utilities? Summon the Legislature, Gov, Whitman, and let it arm the Pub: Nie Service Commission. The rights of 5,000,000 pec @onvenience of any transit company.” ‘The will of 5,000,000 people Ought to be stronger than the obstinacy of any corporation executive or the stubbornness of any strike organizer Call the Legislature and let's see. nle outweigh the ——____ +2 - —- Hughes Back Again in Best of Spirits. Headline, Even the discovery of an issue couldn't have chirked up more than Maine did, him GO SLOW. NE SCHEME suggested to frighten the traction interests into ending the strike is to have the Board of Estimate and Apportionment make a wholesale grant of long-sought fran- chises to the bus companies who are eager to parallel surface and gubway lines throughout the city. Any such precipitate plan calls for but a single word of counsel Don’t. The streets of New York are already perilous enough. The ¢ity’s traffic problems must be much nearer solution before new bus lines are laid out with anything save the utmost care and caution. The bus has proved itself a highly efficient means of metropolitan transportation. Its usefulness deserves to be extended. But New York has got to get a surer grip on its motor vehicle traffie before it Consents to multiply the danger. As for jitneys, anybody who knows what has happened in San Francisco, where a ceaseless stream of jitneys tearing through Market Street has killed and maimed so many people that business firms are moving away and hotels threaten to close their doors unless passage ways are built under the street, will not welcome the jitney in New York as anything but a temporary feature of street traffic. New York may be in a bad fix. should jump into a worse one. ——- + > ____ But that is no reason why it ‘The strike has so far caused no appreciable inconvenience to the people of New York.—Evening Sun. Our old neighbor must have given up going out of doors altogether. AFTER A YEAR. HE ARREST at Ironwood, Mich., of the ex-butler, Waltonen, charged with complicity in the murder of his former em- ployer, Mrs, Elizabeth Nichols, in the drawing room of her home at No. 4 East Seventy-ninth Street the night of Sept. 8, 1915, Occurs almost exactly twelve months after a crime the cold-blooded- ~ pees of which shocked New York, x pabag The lonely widow in her handsome house, the diamonds she wore even when alone, the robbery plot involving her servants, one of whom let the robbers in, the woman found strangled or frightened to @eath—nobody has forgotten the details. Talas, the house boy, who confessed he opened the door to Waltonen, was until now the only one caught, and he narrowly escaped the electric chair. The police have always believed that Waltonen, who got Tal his job in the Nichols home, was the chief instigator of the robbery. For months they have watched others suspected of being his accom- plices. The fact that the former butler was found, while working ge a barber, through the suspicions of a client who had studied the police descriptions of the indicted man and spotted a tell-tale scar on the finger of the hand that shaved him, speaks well for the effi- eacy of police circulars and rewards. After all, there comes a mo- ment in the pursuit of many criminals when the public is the best of all detectivss. + The French appear to be celebrating “clean out week” along the Somm: Hits From Sharp Wits Many a candidate for office is able) ve reasons why he One of the con follies is to be jould be| lieve that what is called “the latest” Albany Journal, . 8 6 sible to the| is the best. eye.—Knoxville Journal, e s #4 ‘They cannot all be pippins A fomion pase hint announces that On @ family tree; coming back. They Some of th it P back every morning and have Leek ai vetia nodeneee be Goves @way again.—Cleveland ~—Memphis Commercial er. ‘The average man couldn't tell you Uj won't last twenty minutes after fyhether “Cleanliness is next to god- | Ora of failures veging picking it to . Moralist says that women are tak- Goering, 98 some one sugges: ing up the vices that men have dis Fie e- Tho reputation of a successful man ie to be found in the Bible or ip wencies old blueback speller,— | Pieces. Toledo Blade, News. oe 8 o- @& gross libel—the rded any vices, may ut it @n easy co! a (" incentive to crime,—Phila- men Much as A , wy as Ellabelle Mae | Doolittle By Bide Dudl Copyright, 1916, by The Preas Ph The New York Evening World.) ‘eo EE-NEY!" mud Dethi, stopped | colored boy and listened, “Tee-ney!" of Rosemary Avenue, great called, poetess of She wished Dethi, who had Teeney Ricketts, boy, Ovochie Johnson, the Doolittle backyard and hear the latest Doolittle poom, entitled “Child- hood.” The poetess desired to wit- ness the effect of the rhyme on the children, having written it especially for the little ones, “Ya-es, ma'am!" replied ttle Miss Ricketts » grabbing Oochie by the neck, she jerked him into the {on the back porch with the poem in her hand. “Children,” said Mies Doolittle, “I shall read you a neat poem, If you like it each of you shall be given a | plece of cake." “Dat sho am a fine poumph, Ooch! “Tut, my dea: replied Miss Doo- little, “You haven't heard it yet.” Then the poetess assumed an ea: pose and read the following rhyme: id QiLdhood's happy days, how lovely! wit ey ‘come and se dear warn ¢ ame, tee tobe a child again, ho! torn the. Mlidwool, Tattiewna kes ta ‘of childhood! Goodiens ‘takes! de Good for everybody My i child, ‘Teeney Ricketts teat old Crundia” Uatey, By, ido im wiih '& othe stone, Pe do no act. mo rm firuing to dear chfidiivod t 1 heat Heng Teck, the “grace chek Ia to get married and starve @ wife,” “Now, ohildren,” said the poetess, on finishing her readin, how do you like the poem?" “Oochie and I think it is some poem,” replied Teenoy, | Miss Doolittle was delighted, It demonstrated to her that the young mind ts able to grasp the beauties of poesy as easily as does that of the adult, “Dat sho am @ fine poumph,” sang out little Ooehie, | dxcellent!" sa “Now for the cak | She disappeared in the house, Five | minutes later she came out on the Miss Doolittle, | porch with the announcement that there was no cake left from dinner Oochle was amazed. He climbed on the back fence and, poling himself | there, yelled | spat wah a punk poumph.” With that he jumped down into the back alley and beat it. ‘Phe three old maids who live next door to the Doc littles had witnessed (he entire affair All ware pleased. A little girl, playing In the! pummelling a small} “Ya-es, ma'am!” yelled the child. “You and Oochie come here to me." | It was Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, the} her siater's child, and the little negro | to come into! jehatter, going from one subject to an- presence of Ellabelle Mae, who stood | |children, just grin and bear it until Needed “Dope” | ts Oe A RL LOL AO iy By Copyright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing 6] HAVE a very pleasant job," raid & commuting Worker. I thor-| oughly enjoy my work during the day with the exception of two periods—travelling on trains don't mind the trip itself but I have to endure the manners of people about me. There is no escape, I wish there was a way of establishing some rules for travelling individuals—rules that would be adherred to, It would| certainly save the nerves, the patiencs | and very often the disgust of those | who must dully use trains, subways, ete. “For example, @ man will occupy @ seat with you in the train, take out his knife and manicure bis Anger nails, If the train is crowded, you just have to stay there and endure it, ‘Then there are the gossiping women who ait in the next seat from yours, They keep up an everlasting other, about this, that and the other | person, until you get the impression ; that both are talking and neither is listening. “Of course everybody 1s entitled to} free speech in public places, but 1 am confident that they could lower thelr voices 6» as’ not to annoy the} people who are trying to read, and Who have no interest whatever in| their jabber. “Then there is the fond mother who | inaisty on playing all kinds of games} with the baby who Js seated next to you, its little feet digging into you. ‘The mother 1s seemingly oblivious to the discomfort 1t 1s causing you; and you, not Wishing to be unkind to little they get off “Thus there are so many ways in which people can be annoyed by trav. elling companions.” Quite true. Much of tt was due to thoughtlessness and disregard of other people, There are those, T am OHN HANCOCK, in the act. of J signing the Declaration of Inde- pendence, remarked that they must all hang togethe | “Woe must all hang together,” sald Franklin, “or we shatl all hang separately.” “Be easy," said a rich merchant) to a fault-finding son-in-law, who! was perpetually pestering him with ings, “as her behavior Is so intoler- able, 1 will alter my will and cut her off with a shilling.” The old man heard no more of his daughter's failings One of the carriers of « long for- gotten New York newspaper, the L Advocate waving become rere: Some Famous Anecdotes i complaints of his wife's shortcom-| ig Ve ya Wikb yous Darvente’* Train Manners ophie Irene Loeb. @ | (The New York Evening Word.) | sorry to say, who, having paid their | fare, assume iiverties that they call] rights," forgetting that if all would | assume the same there would be con- | rable commotion, if not actually ans of creating strict rules | egulations ' are good souls who ar tolerant on trains, but they su it. A little bit cf training in e home as to good manners on trains | would not go amiss, and would make for the happiness of thousands, A few suggestions are: Remember that @ train is not a sing-room nur @ manicure parlor, See that nobody is squeezed in @ cor- ner in order to give your package room. If a person is sitting In @ seat with you and trying to talk to some- one directly in front, be gentle enough to change seats, that the talking friends may be together. Understand that you only pay for one seat for one person. Just figure that a newspaper costs but a penny, and it 1s sometimes very | annoying to the person whose paper | you are reading. Teach your children to remain close to you on trains; explain to them that. ey are disturbing others, which {s “bad manners,’ Be a little gractous by giving the strap-hanging workingwoman your seat, Why throw the papers all over the seat when you leave? If you have been eating on the train don't leave the garbage for the next! person who occupies the seat. You would not do this at hom Don't forget your short dress when changing the position of your feet, and thus avoid the smile and the smirk which may embarrass you. If your clothes are particularly soiled, even though with honest labor, be a little careful about the woman in white next to you, Don't grumble to the trainman about the bad train service; he ts merely carrying out orders, Do not scold the conductor because you have failed to get off at your sta- | tion, ‘And, above all, keep the element of consideration in your conduct with the stranger as well as the friend, > his son took his place, but not know- ing the subscribers hé Was to supply ho took for his guide a dog which had usually attended his father, ‘The animal trotted on ahead of the boy and stopped at every door where the) paper was seen to be left, without making a single omission or mistake, “My dear, you must pray to God to bless your grandmamma and that, she may live to be very old,” said a mother to her little daughter, “Ah, mamma,” sald the child, “she ery old already, I will rather pray that she may become young.” Scarlett Sovate, observ.ng that a Judge of the Hankruptey Court whom he wished to address was closely perusing the ilist’ of insolvencies in the London Gazette, said, "T beg Your Lord- stip's pardon, T see you are busy ee nt ROOM ALLA AAR LLL: LODO the famous English ad-| The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, Septemb The History ail Tobacco frre HE knowledge of tobacco and its I uses came to the world, like many other good things, from America, and by the agency of Chi topher Columbus, For it was in the second week of November, 1492, that Columbus, hav- ing landed and taken possession of and of San Salvador, set out on an exploration of Cuba, The first party which he despatched into the interior returned with a weird story of having seen dark skinned natives “carrying lighted firebrands" where- | with they kindled the end of small rolls of dried herbs, while they put the other end between their lips, sucking the smoke through the roll and then puffing it out through their nostrils and mouths.” The term “tobacco” is indeed de- rived not from the plant, but from an instrument sharply described in 1535 by Oviedo as a “small hollow wooden tube shaped like the letter ‘Y,’ the | two points of which are inserted in the nose of the smoker, the other end held into the smoke of burning ;to- bacco and thus the fumes are in- baled,” The introduction of the tobacco plant into Europe in 1558 is due to Francisco Fernandez, a court phy- sician to Philip II, of Spi who had been sent to Mexico on a mission of investigation into native products. Almost coevally with the introduc- tion of tobacco Into Spain did France obtain her first specimen of the weed from the hands of Jean Nicot, French Ambassador to Portugal, who, hav- ing obtained some seeds of the plant from a merchant of Lisbon, dutifully forwarded them to Queen Catherine de Medici with the label, “Herbe de la Reine,” by which title tobacco in its medicinal use was to be known for the greater part of the next century. While the plant was. brought into Europe through Spain, the custom of smoking it begins with England in the person of Ralpb Lane, the first Governor of Virginia, and Sir Francis Drake. We are told how one fine day in 1586 Gov, Lane and the two dough- ty sea fighters, Drake and Sir John Hawkins, landed at Plymouth, “smok ing pipes that puffed smoke like small furna From which it appears that the party brought with them the implements and materials of to- bacco smoking which they handed over to Sir Walter Raleigh, It is, In- deed, through the influence and ample of Raleigh that the habit of smoking became rooted first among the courtiers and finally among the mass of the people. And we are told that Raleigh, loyal to the last to the weed, “tooke a pipe of tobacco a little before he went to the seaffolie.” Through the seventeenth century did the tobaceo habit spread through all nations For nearly two hundred and fifty years the pi was to be the sole medium for smoking, the cigar being an innovation of George 1iL's reiga. | Happiness, since for no TWO people ft leadeth in the same | part In my suc 14. 1916 | Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland — . . | - ee eo a a wore mH me te @ theory, ond for V everyt there 6 @ KEABON | be imple Woman, discover it? | Hebold, | ead Unto the Debutante, “Why dost thou weep the were Heceuse | am only sixteen, and can do naught that le interesting ny I we ( ibirty, thet 1 might smo LIP? I said unto ¢ “Twirty, “Why dost thou wigh* And she anewered seen life, and am eae bored Would that | sere ois od something NEW to which to look forward « Beauly, “How dost thou keep thy eatin hin and the br cheek J prithee TRY tt. For Jo, there ts nothing like unto i ' ‘ thy eatin ek aud the brightness of thy chee Aud « ted ' aessge’ | eharn t For there ts 8 ing ike ' , I said Unto the Opthnist, “How dost thou preserve shy youth and thine Ande anewered lo, | arried & man t ved and he bath made me perfectly happy! 1 said unto the Misanth “How te it that thou art cast town with age and sorrow, and gray hairs, and pessimism? And eb answered Lo. | married a man fT loved and he hath made me perfectly mise able 1 sald unto the Neurasthente, “How didst thou lose thy nerves, and thy n and become @ paranotac at forty?" And be answered ‘Hy smoking’ For lo, I have smoked all the days of my life” 1 said unto the Octogenarian, “How hast thou kept thine equilibrium, © brightness of thy spirit, and the alertness of thy mind at elghty?* And he answered “Hy smoking’ For lo, 1 have amoked all the days of my life.” id unto the Bachelor, hy has thou never married?” And he answered “Alas, I ve more money! wife and a family would ruin me." he Married Man wered ant must For the expenses of a home and a T said unto And he “Lo, that | might save more money! For the expenses of bachelor and orchids, ant champagne Were too much for me.” Whereupon | departed, tearing my hair and rending my garments For alas and alack, how shall I, a Simple Woman, find the Road to direction! “Why didst thou marry?" flats ah . Dollars and Sense | By If. J. Barrett \¢ 7 M This Next day card ¢ back \4 Dollar Investment fade T Kain the auth tne el Nee E | Man's Fortune. » made an error noting ” quired for the job tndi- oe HAT gave me my start?" | ¢, ‘This is only half the time sald the general manager recuired in the best previous record,’ “ls 1 industrial idoth wri comment 1 sent Eat Me the Interviower's | 08k word jokingly that doubtless [ onse to in bh * was twice as Kood a man as bad ever That's Here's the been on the job, and he extracted two amall) | “For the next few w f stor s vest pocket | ll records. ‘They hes: pieces of steel fro 1 his vest pocket! tng gooed demon. No one knew my and hand “Lcarry them as tall plained, “Although they insignificant and inches long by al an inch squa 1 them to the writer jsecret. As it was my inithetive which 8," he ex-j) had achieved this result, I figured look very; that it was purely my own business. hortiy after thia a vacancy o¢ measure” bit tee job of night foreman of ut three-elghths of 1 toolm. rs was they played a big eted. It carried a " at $1 investment is paying of $208 annually,’ I re- flected. “If $1 worth of knowledgg will pay any such dividends it’s up to me to accumulate a few thousand dollars’ worth.’ From that time on [ got an entirely different slant on the whole proposition of making money ‘Knowledge sure is power,’ I mused Me for knowledge.’ As mine was a night job, I set aside three hours every afternoon for study. I obtained access to all files of many technical journals and studied them closely, I began to turn in written suggestions to the office. One advocating the services of a combustion engineer to study the needs of our power plant resulted tn the retention of such a man who after a fow days’ investigation recom- mended changes which resulted in a saving of over $5,000 annually for coal. Another suggesting the cen- tralizing of our employment prob- lem and the maintenance of a scien- | tifleally conducted department re- sulted in the hiring of an experienced man who reduced our annual labor turn over from 72 per cent. to 34 per cent. This meant another great saving. “It was not long before I was ap- pointed day foreman, I kept up my studies, pursuing them evenings. My research along lines of scientific man- agement wrought many economies Gradually I went ahead. It was about five years after my initial im- pulse that I became assistant genera! manager. My appointment to my present position came with the retire- ment of the general manager. But !t all started with those two little pieces of atee] that I showed you.” “For some years after learning my trade as a mech: I drifted from job to job with little thought for the future. My pay envelope sufficed for my needs; I was more genuinely in- terested in the baseball scores than in my work, “One day I read an crticle in a newspaper covering an interview with 4° on Who had accumulated a for- tune. The subject of the article ex- plained that it wasn't until the idea gained lodgment in his mind that it was the extra knowledge that a man gained about his work from study outside business hours which in- croased his value that be began to move ahead, “There's something in that,’ I re- flected. ‘I ought to read along the lines of my work whenever I gi time," That day I subscribed to a counle of Wade magazines, Thereafter when they arrived I devoted two or three evenings to a thorough perusal of their contents, Some two or three! months later my attention was at- tracted to an ad. In a medium which I'l call the National Mechanic, It dealt with a new high speed or self- hardening stecl for cutting tools to use in our patent tool holders for lathe and j!aner work, Samples were offered for $1, I sent the dollar, A few days later I received the two pieces I've just shown you, Next day 1 tried them out in the shop. I found that they permitted me to about double the speed of my machine, This meant double the output, ric Facts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1016, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Word.) y ery 1a enough water in the Great Lakes to fill all the thimbies in the world. In the antediluvian period any cave man could afford to cWmd a tree and get his wife a handful of new dresses. An Indiana woman has invented @ mirror that divides all wrinkles by three. Every fifteenth male inhabitant of Skooflimpa carries a latchkey, while the other fourteen are married. A Jersey City firm is now manufacturing a fountain pen that spells much better than the old fashioned kind, | The scheme to wear clothes to match your hair has been declared | unconstitutional by the bald headed Mayor of Blurpsburg. You can always look neat and natty by taking an old button and having | a new vest sewn on to it, A progressive ocean resort now mails out photographs of the sea breeses adjacent to ite hotel, naa