The evening world. Newspaper, September 15, 1916, Page 14

The Evening World Th TAR LIEWED PTD . @ ** Tx 8 ‘ : t a) ‘ onese - ‘ na VoLIM) NO ‘ ( -_ — , FEED AMERICA FIRST. EW YOR) . , ' card from par nake @ é 100 ; © can sell the same sized | ‘ rea smaller loaf for | ' { to g t of | ounce iy " ftw “ r thant & Week ag Nols twe t a en where a few they cost ten im the price ead lite everybody more lew the hardest) : hit are those whose y thooks have been least able to stend the | Grain already made upon t by the extraordinary and alarming in hl @rease in the cost ly of meat, vegetables and foodstuffs gen-; 44 Hy, but also of shoes, clothes and a hundred and one articles of everyday need | The public has no wish to see the bakers forced to shut up shop.| Nor does it mean in any way to prejudge their All the public ts to be protected from unse ing which selzes spon rumor, paule or war to put extra profits Into some- bedy’s pockets at the expense of millions of he! “Some of our bakers. neral Organizer Frankel of the Master Bakers’ Association, “favor organizing a parade to the City Hal! to ask the Mayor to urge the President to start an inquiry into the jaggling of wheat pric \ In the interest of 100,000,000 American consumers the Federal Government could perform no better service Let the Federal Trade Commission make a thorough, impartial investigation that shall show what is being done with the country’s wheat and flour. Let’s hear the worst about fhe crops. Let’s hear what unfavorable reports AND nimble speculators have done to’ wheat prices. Let's hear how much American wheat Is to be kept ont of reach of American consumers and sold at huge profit in Europe and how much of their own wheat harvests the people of this country are to be permitted to buy—at war prices. Let’s hear how the big flour mills expect to protect themselves from loss, and whether the wholesale dealers plan to turn the situation _ to account by exacting more from the retailer, leaving it to the latter if t to pass on the aggregate burden—plus a little more for profit—to ‘ rs ¥ the consumer who must have bread. These are some of the things the public wants to know before it 1) says accepts a smaller loaf or pays more pennies for one of present size. - : Nobody will deny its right to know. Nor cam Federal authority tite . better exert itself at this time than by insisting that, whatever the demand |! FO W Weapons | Dollars and Sense may be elsewhere, American consumers shall have first call—at fair and | By H. J. Barrett ! consistent prices—on the food their country produces. Began ig y i. gd. | ———-+ > —__—_—_. e > i cana Copyright, 1016, by The Prem Publishing Cu, Postage Rulings. Stamped pny popes ind wrappers are Publicity, as encouraged by Warden Osborne, has done much Wie ave pce oreo Were ETTERS are regarded as printed Cisvg Pochuse of thet cunventenee for Sing Sing. It can do much more in drawing attention to No, 15—Pistols. matter, mailable at third class and in others because it is thought needs whica call for legislation or the expenditure of public a HILE seeing the sights of the) rates, if produced by a mechani-, they present a better appearance than money. Tower of London nearly ajcan process other than actual Cod barat soos nae wrapp awa ; | se e re a great many But publicity which makes press agents of prisoners does hundred years ago, #o the|writing, provided twenty or more) pio of advertising are to be ‘chek, harm. Here, we believe, is where the seal of prison reformers story runs, an American was struck | letters containing identical text are considerabis by a specimen of a very ancient Weapon—a revolving matchlock. It was Col. Samuel Colt, and he put the ‘Idea he got to good use, In 1835 he produced the Colt revolver, which be- came famous throughout the world. The principle wasn’t a novelty—it dates back to the sixteenth century— but the old weapons, consisting of veral barrels, all of which revolved, were clumay and heavy, while in the new invention only the cylinder turned. The immediate predecessor of the Colt revolver was the “pepper-box,” built along the old lines with six or eight barrels, The first Colt was a muzzle loader, made possible by the perfected percussion cap, but it was easily adapted to the breech-loading principle when that became estab- lished. The “Mariette,” which had from four to twenty-four barrels bored in a solid piece of metal, was the first revolving weapon to be- come popular, Caminelleo Vitelli is said to have originated the manufacture of pis- | tols, about 1540, and they got their If it wasn't for having to pay one's| name from his home town, Pistoia, most needs restraint. Prison reform has needed public interest and public sym- pathy, to the point of overemphasis, to get itself fairly started. But we hope it will soon be able to go on alone, without appeal- ing indiscriminately to sentiment that only tends to make its methods flabby and its results confused. ‘There is no reason why 80 many eyes should be on Sing Sing. —The Evening World, April 22, 1916. “While this department would, under certain conditions, be glad to let the public know of the work being done in the penal institutions, it is a fact, nevertheless, that publicity can be overdone and to the disadvantage of the prison system. | “There is information which will get to the public and to which the department does not object. But the practice of fea- turing convicts and indiscriminate prison advertising cannot be helpful.” —Order to Wardens and Agents issued by the New York State Prison Department, Sept. 14, 1916. ’ —_— Wall Str played during September. last year. har’ 11 done in the fleld: t is enjoying itself with the same zest It dis- Which reminds us that Hits From Sharp Wits A woman's id perfect home fe one with six in every | debts and board and live, a man could] Italy. They were simply small edi- room.—Macon News. | save a lot of money.“ Macon News | tions of hand cannon, had short ° bd 7 a va Off leaving their vodkaless country] Many men who have scruples| DArrels and were of doubtful valuo, and going to fight in France, It was] ag gambling. are not averse to| The ancestor of the pistol was the but natural that those Russian forces} ordering ca: upe time and again.—|demi-hackbutt, hackbutt being the at once banted, C07 the oamoogee Pittsburg Tin ee jname of the arquebus, fitted with the sais oe 8 r Sometimes when trying to smoke |ReW curved stock, (At the begin- Our notion of a satisfactory ar-|some brands of cigars we don't blame | Ning all stocks were straight.) e Gourmand 6 wn ere, mailed at one time. Individual salutations may be filled in with a typewriter, the letters may be signed with pen and ink, and typo~ grapaical errors may be corrected with pen or pencil; but actual changes in the text which would make indi- are not permissible, rections are made must be the same in every letter, Otherwise the letter would be classified as first-class mat- ter, and postage at the rate of two cents per ounce would bave to be al e ‘The rules of the Post-Office Depart- ment provide that advertising matter may be mailed at thigt-class rates only when it is open to inspection. An ordinary envelope may not bs sealed (if mailed under third-class postage), because it would be mani- festly impossible for a post-oltice em- ployee to examine the contents with- out breaking the seal. A circular or folder carryin, address may be sealed even | its own it can- ly Magazine, Friday. September 15 | 1s often possible to sav handling by using stamped ¢ |or wrappers. Your postnias furnish you with a printed pri Precancelled postage stamps ar perhaps the least convenient of all methods of prepaying postag the precancelled stamps ho n affixed, however, the picces require | the minimum of handling in the post- office at which they are mailed (none at all if the advertiser has sorted | and sacked them in accordance with instructions from the post-office), and thif is sometimes a decided advan- ! tage in the case of especially elaboy rate or attractive catalogues and booklets, The disfigurement of the envelopes by cancellation stamps is avoided and the chance of the en- velopes being torn or abraded. is} greatly de sed. SPECIAL PERMIT. | Mailing under a “Special Permit" eliminates the handling of postage; stamps altogether, no stamps being required, and is ‘the cheapest and most convenient method of prepaying poatage or printed matter, especially not be unfolded without breaking the where mailed in large quantities. ‘The eal, provided it is possible for a poat- permit, issued by the postmaster on office inspector, by looking in at the request, allows the advertiser to ends of the folder or otherwise, to sat- isfy himself that it contains no writ- ting or inclosures which would require a higher classification. print a label on each piece, instead of affixing stamps. Tho pieces are then counted and welghed at the post-of- fice and the amount of postage paid Postage on direct advertising mat-|to the postmaster in cash. This| ter may be prepaid by any one of four method 1s not recommended for | methods: |direct advertisements that derive 1, By using Government-stamped any considerable portion of their sell- | envelopes or wrappers. ‘ing appeal from thelr attractiveness, 1's. By affixing ordinary postage! It is not easy to explain why a stamp stamps jlook# better on a folder than a s \ 3 By aMxing PRECANCELLED clal Permit” label, but most adver: | | postee stamps. \tisers are agreed that it does. Special | 4 Ry, mailing under a “Special permits are not issued fo. less than | Permit.” 2,000 pieces. | Ree rangement would be to wake up by|mother for starting the kitchen fire| Pistols at first were “concealed” ° ° H , : | eastern time and get up by central.—|with kerosene.— Philadelphia Tele- pons, but a long-barrelled type } Rapid Fire Guns Which Save Lives. | Toledo Blade. graph. ax Produced and became a popular | wernnnnnnnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnns cavalry weapon, Double and four- HE three and six pounders with j feet in length is used. ‘The end, which A ‘ ix Inserted in the gun, is Mi “4 Letters From the Pe op le barrelled affairs became general after I which all the seagoing cutter) Inserted in the gun, ts a cy Indrical No Any Cittsen Is Eligih | 100 Pr & period Gurlag which the iden of of the service are armed NOW than tho bore of the Kun and about a | @e the Editor of The Evening World To the Editor of The E: the old gunmakers ran ‘to odd com-! are ysed to shoot lines to vessels In) foot in length, It 1s tapered &@ friend says that it is imposstble| If | buy an article for 60 cents and ated with daggers, swords a for a Catholic or Jew to become! sell it for $1, what per cent. is proft?| The French duelling pistol, President of the United States, Is] A STEADY READER, | P08 1 sh. the binations, such as firearms tneorpor. | elds, lose | Monthly. @ rod about a half inch in di and five feet or more in length is a forged eye at tho end of the distress, states the Popular Science ‘or years they had served of Razors HE man of modern times shiv- J eringly trying to shave him- self us he stands before the mirror in the early hours of a bit- ter winter morning may find some comfort in the reflection that he is grappling with a task which has taxed the patience of man for sev- eral centuries. In all ages men have set high value on the razor as an | The History adjunct to health and cleanliness, Discoveries made at St. Achieul, France, by archaeologists as recently as 1860 would indicate that prehis- toric man used razors chipped out of pieces of flint. The flint razor may well have been the precursor or an cestor of the razor “body scratcher,” the first record of which is found in the Book of Job. Thence the use of the razor de- veloped among the Egyptians in the ys of the Pharaoh: From the flint razor or body seratehi ally extended to’ the whom the beard had been hitherto held in veneration, and in this connec. tion we find Ctesippus in 660 B.C. lecturing the young men of Athens for continuing to hide their manhood nd a growth of hair, Rome, always in the vanguard of every social reform of those days, was the next to follow the example of shaving, the custom, even 300 years before the Christian era, becomin general among men of rank an wealth, Scipio Africanus himself set the fashion, to be followed py every soldier in his army. Just when shaving became com- mon in Europe is a matter of con- rable doubt. In modern times Mropeans hav termine this question, as indeed tt has that of everything else connected with mankind's appearance, In France, for example, the custom of shaving the chin dates from the age of Louis XUL and Louis XIV, Both these kings had come to the throne as beardless children, their courtiers gradu. being too polite to allow themselves any luxury which the sovereigns did Thus the well-trimmed a and DORsess. Neards beloved. of Henry IIL Henry of Navarre gradually of grace, the smooth ch.n be the sign’ mark of a man of distine- tion, From the courtiers the custom descended to the common people, to | be taken up in England in the tine | > for which it is intended, is the as nothing more than ornaments On) to which the end of tho lino is tied. {of Jan i, and Willtam “IIL 20 |truest-shooting weapon ever’ made, | c e cutters; for it never! Tho line is a loosely-twisted hemp | that the eighteenth century poth his true? “a we Derringer, un-American, invented and | ee, Socks Of the Cullens; for vine on. [Tope about the sia of a wash line | countries presents an unbroken Probably Sept. 25, {mie Editor of The Byer ned for himself the short, large. | Was necessary About one thousand five hundred feet | monotony of clean-shaven faces, To the Editor of The Evening Work State whether the Count.of Monte|calibre pistol that could be eaaity| forcement of customs and navigation| o¢ it is woven back and forth around| While the Egyptians and Romans Np do the high schools of New| Cristo, by Dumas, ix @ real event or | carried in & pocket and Was #0 deadiy |laws, They were carried mainly for) wooden pins ret in a receptacle tho /used ragors of Mint and bronze, the Yor ed cae8.% fiction, at close quarters, their moral effect, size of a trunk, known as a “faking men of the middle ages depended is | |The modern revolver. in spite of its These guns have been found far box " , After ola operation the box is |largely upon, the cumbrous and slow oe ¢ the Law. serious defect—the loss of force| more effective in line shooting turned upside down and the frame | process of “trimm| skin,” to Toth uit | [through the eacape Of was at’ rel ine line guns formerly carried—email| work holding the pins ia withdraws (quote Pepys, with pumice atone, It A says fortune telling is not al. | T the Haitor of The kveaing World | point where cylinder and barrel meet| brass cannons of the type seen atl jeaving tho line ready to be “fed out," |was only in tho early part of the lowed in New York or Brooklyn. A says Catholics predominate in|-~i8 & highly effective weapon, but it! life-saving stations along the coasts.| without becoming tangled. Prior toleighteenth century that the steel | the United States. B says it is just|!s already being superseded, as a mil. | Although the cannons were in use for) the insertion of the projectile in the |razor, a cumbrous flat-bladed affair B Wins, by AN M the reverse. Which is correct. and tary arm, at least, The ‘automatic! many years, they were never entirely! gun, the first twenty or thirty feet {with a heavy wooden handle, came ‘Wb the Editor of The Kvening World what are proximate Agures?. |pistol, in which by merely pressing satisfactory. It was almost impos-'of the line are dampened, so as tolinto general use “He | H. b, | the trigger all the cartridges can bo! sible to aim them with any degree of) give it more elasticity and lessenetho| It remained for American Invention A bets B that the sentence, “He | \fred inva few seconde, is the fighting y, and accordingly line shoot-) danger of it parting, A cartridge to revolutionize the character of the do not know anything" is correct, No. tool of to-day, Our own army and| ith’ them was a “hit or miss”! containing about ten ounces of black [razor and out of the torture-infilcting Whereas 8 gontends, What “He dose Te the alton of The Brewing Word |navy are supplied with the Colt au- | r in the majority of cas powder is inserted in the breech of | weapon of olden times gradually y ma tie s there any preuuugy, on an 1811 tomatic, 45-calibre, with seven shots; Inline shooting with the dern the gun, which is ton atmed and'evolve the finely tempered, bone eal 4 CONSTANT READER, afty-cent piect tr tae W. =p ite magasing Seen a rapid-fire guns, @ projectile about ox tired, _ . {dlade which wa use to-day.f ! Paitin Igyptians the use of the (reeks with) left fashion to de- | 4 Plots a Immortal e rasa 4. | AJIMA hat been a Aber things, ond » t 7 ia Jape « be trudge * wldier, « me wt and belt @ desen prospered tn pothing Be be tureed are many euch “Wasterions men” OF siulewsly around the coumtry ead live a bee! they can vn Tajima one ve the T t bighrosd lead ing pest the & with @ wanderts The road « hip. At lest, io @ mymen fidence, the past year of more in ¢ « for the efecting of a statuette to he fod Wuddba He bad att wi (rouble, eeraped Cogether 200 oumees of silver, whieh was enough for the purpe And be as Bow on ble War 0 the Ho © buy the late The money wae in bie knepeack Taji t wicked byt Vet, an he ned to the priest's talk, he f weeit king 1am neariy f years penniless wanderer, with @ | poverty -atr 4 age t oy Unie priegt is brageing @ J could live A Double Crime. urd. Aw soon far for any hope of rescuing the vievim Tajima shricked aloud that his dear companion had overbalaneed he rail and had toppled into the w He grieved so bitteriy waken the sympathy of ull his fellow-passengers, Thea, when the sip d port, he picked up the priest's knapsack and went hie way Two hundred ounces of siiver is a tidy little fortune, Yet Tajima ree solved to increase it, He went to the capital and there became @ merchant. Fortune favored him, The » normous returns, Within three years Tajima was @ very rich man. | And for a time he fancied he was as happy as he was rich, He married and built a handsome house, His friends were many, His reputation was apotlens Then all at o Conscience awoke in him, And he began to realise how vile@ thing he had done Vainly he longed to undo bis crime. Sleep forsook him. He was» by so terrible a melancholy that his family feared Was going insan: priest n dreams he was | His wife, hearing that a very holy man was passing through the city, sent | for him to try t J | pres visitor Tajima screamed A Strange ordered every Atonement. the fp nnnnnnnnnnnan # had learn You have done a hateful deed. repaid for my sufferings, Poverty dr on in bh Tajima fell on his kn Jingly granted, The as much money as es, implort id stolen from | atripped of most/of his wealth, knew his life. peeweerers Copyright, 1016, by The Presa Publisbii CHAPTER LXVI. CTOBER 22.—Ned has been O splendid about poor little Mary, I suppose it is partly because he is a physician that physical suf- fering makes a special appeal to him. | After he had seen Mary, and I had told him her story, he said warmly, “Of course we'll keep her until she is fit, !t will be time enough to talk of what she is to do when she loses that starved look. She'd have the way her mother did if she’ stayed with that dressmaker much longer. We know now that tubercu- losis doesn't run in a family; but a predisposition to it, a lack of re- sistance, often is inherited, “Mary must have good food and plenty of milk. Keep her out in the open air as much as you can, Take her for a walk in the park every af- ternoon, and gradually lengthen the distance. In a month she should be looking decidedly better, To-day, an we strolled along, just above the big blue river, Mary looked up at me shyly. “Your husband is wonderful, idy't he?" she breathed, “1 think so," I admitted with a blush, | “Oh, he is,” Mary repeated, with conviction, ‘or two years I've hated men, clothed beasts of prey.” “But did you see many men at | Mme. Felice's?” I asked, “I sup- posed only women came there, “A certain number of men were al- ways present at the big openings,” she replied. “These and others also came to order costumes which they gave away. Some, of course, never noticed me, But there were others They seemed to me nothing but by heating them in a cool place, jon centipedes, | its normal shape after escaping from in the dark by their weight. \ wearing out. Stories of Stories By Albert Payson Terhune Viena 1 chiara Transiated by Heien Millard.) n money Was cleverly invested and tt brought orror in the days of prosperity.” . by way of aton on the poor, that it might no longer « For his was the peace of forgiven sin. To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet, Good manners count for more than good cloth Fiction Masterpieces, doe teeag Roe And there o his way to Vedde joyed each other'a eo! panic priest sald be bad spent the « tel) tote tole tof my reached the jaye i where they muat An the Vessel the deck, and the sea, Tajima wan le kiew and pitehed bim Ue journey knaprock ne out haunted uy vision of the murdered cure her husband, At sight of the loud in fear. The holy man the room, then turned to and said: gently you flung me into the water. I Y. to swim, So 1 reached ahore,+ {and turn from evil, and I shall feel es a man to sing that he looks back ng forgiveness, which the priest will ment, he gave the priest four tim him. The priest bestowed this fortune try a curse, And Tajima, though true happiness for the first time in —BISHOP DOANE, Just a Wife—(Her Diary) Edited By Janet Trevor ba Co. (The New York Evening World) who smirked and made personal re- marks. 1 had several invitations to dinner, which T declined. In two or three instances these invitations were overheard by ohe of the other girls, who thought ‘ was putting on airs. She told Madame, and there was a fine fuss. “One ma » Who had something to do with the theatre, was unusually persistent, After I had three times refused to go out with him, he com- * | plained to Madame that I was imper- | Unent, She came to me in a white rage. I explained why the man was : put out with me, and I added that I refused to know her customers ex- cept in the way of business. It was in the height of the season, and Mad- ame needed me, So she didn't dis- charge me or command me to accept tho attentions distasteful to me, \nd 4 —fortunately for me—the man soon became interested in another model, who either didn't dare or didn’t care to repel him.” “But I thought that even men about town confined their advances to girls willing to meet them half way,” I said to Mary Dunn—that ts her whole name, £ She laughed rather bitterly. “You've never worked for your liv- ing or you'd know better,” she ob- served. “Shyness, even antagonism, on the part of the girl Is a mere to the imagination of the rake. He acts Not Worth Knowing By Arthur Baer Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Bvening World), Pr 'sy nective can be prevented from fraying at the edges and unravelling * ‘ Bees are only dangerous on one end. Wild geese and stray zebras can be kept out of your hair by @lwaye | wearing a hat while getting your hair cut, An electrically operated machine has been invented for counting duntons Running through a long narrow pipe will not injure water, ae it resumes The difference between a piano and a postage stamp can be easily tolg If it wasn't for the ocean whales would have to walk. By putting the carpet om the ceiling it is possible to keep 4¢ from Freckles can be removed with sandpaper, becomes more determined, more un- scrupulous than ever, Mrs, Houghton, been sheltered and protected, thankful that you have @ good hus- band, a gentleman. Oh, one can stand alone and stand ie hard—hard—hard!' he drew @ breath that was like a sob, If only I can put @ little sunshin into this child's shadowed Iii ——- . the pipe. | | rs