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ee “Che EGE Glorld. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Pudlished Dally Except Gunday by the Press Publishing Company,” Nos 88 to a3 Row, New York. RALPH ATZER, President, 63 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secreta. y, 63 Park Row. Entered at the Post-OMice at New Tork as Second-Class Bebscription Rates to The Evening} For England and ‘World for the United States in A and Canada Matter, Continent All Countri: Pe $260/One Year... .40|One Son' ‘Year. VOLUME 57... NO. 20,154 THE NEW KIND OF ALDERMAN. the new and higher standards of that body in promising its Preven DOWLING of the Board of Aldermen exemplifies prompt attention for a matter of such importance to New Yorkers as the price of milk. In the city’s earlier da: fixed by ordinance the maximum prices of common foods, such as beef, butter, bread and milk. There is no reason why the practical living problems of its citizens should have ceased to interest the city or its legislators. “I know families,” declares President Dowling, “that eat meat but once a month, so high ts the price of meat, and I am confident that hundreds of families should and would use a great doal more milk than they do at present but for the price they are required to pay.” “The high price of food is one of the biggest questions be- fore the city to-~iay, and it is well worth the effort of the Board of Aldermen to help alleviate the growing distress.” We call attention to President Dowling’s spirit of co-operation not only as showing the kind of support the Housewives’ Protective ‘Association can count on in its efforts to safeguard the pocketbooks of New York purchasers, but also as proof that the Board of Aldermen is reverting to its earlier and purer standards in getting closer than St has been for many years to the practical interosts of the people of New York. a U. 8S. Army officers are testing an armor plercing bullet which will penetrate three-quarters of an inch of solid ateel and kill a man behind. The bullet was invente@ by the U. 8, Ordnance Corps, so there is some chance of Uncle Sam's get- ting it before, as oftener happens, some foreign government discovers what his experts have let go by. ————_-+-+-—_____—_ MORE PENNIES! MORE PENNIES! HE Treasury Department reports the country desperately short T of pennies. The Philadelphia and San Francisco mints are working twenty-four houre a day and the Denver mint sixteen hours a day turning out coppers. Is anybody surprised? With every dealer in food or other neces- sities of life marking up his wares cent by cent ae fast as he can find excuses, what can the public do but reach for more coppers? A loaf of bread that could formerly be paid for with a nickel now costs six cents. For articles one used to buy with a dime, twelve or thirteen cents have now to be counted out. Everywhere, in all directions, a few pennies more have to come out of the pocketbook of the consumer for every modest purchase handed to him across the counter. Of course the country needs more coppers. The millions of theee little red coins the mints are working overtime to add to the normal supply are a measure of what the mounting cost of living means to the poor. a The bars The Evening World fought to let down at Coney Island Beach are vanishing without the help of the State At- torney'’s axe. The sands and the sea will be there for the public next year. a be Preparedness isn't everything. Look at Roumanta. Letters From the People More About Arithmetic, N.Y. Library) No, To the Tiitor of The Evening World: ‘To the Editor of The Erening World: The arithmetic lesson given to H Is there any place in New York RD, by T. P. Sin The Eveniog| * ped I can see the Rewspapers, of a few years ago, su: , 101, 1902 World shows that T. P. 8. ts of on Aico" would it cost anything to look ‘is arithmetic, too, It ts true that) up these papers? If so, how much? selling for $1 an article which cont 50 A READER. cents brings ain of 100 per cent., New York's Coffee Wri but not for the reason stated by T. P.|To the Editar of The Brening World 8. Kindly print in your paper where In| the Coffee Exchange is located; what business it transucts; if New York is a coffee centre, and why and how, and in what manner goffee is im- ported into this elty. B.C. The New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange, Inc, located at No, 18 Peurl Street, 1s a place where the commodities named in its title are gaining 100 per cent., just because 50| bought and sold. New York is an ae 60 equals 100. And right thee| important market for coffee, which is {s wrong In saying 100 is 100 per|brought hero from South’ Ainerica cent Per cent, means hundredths. and elsewhere, usually in bags, for Therefore, 100 per cent, ts 100 hun-|the domestic trade, dredths, or 1, That's why a gain of 80 cents on @ 30-cent purchase |s 100 per cent., because the gain equals the cost, Might not T. P. 8. derive same good from consulting a book on commerctal arithmetic? L. M. . The reason te that the 50 cents fa equal to the 50 cents cost, and is therefore 100 per cent. of the cost. ‘or the same reason, selling an article for 60 cents when its cost is 30 cents brings a proiit of 100 per cent. Ac- cording to T. P. 8.’ reasoning, only 60 cent purchases have a chance of an" and “Go The Evening World the correct way of using ‘come” and "go"? A. gays the words “I am going out in the garden.” B, says: ‘Can I come with you?” Kindly let me know If it is proper to say “Can [COME with you?" or “Can I GO with you?" A READER The proper form would be; “May I 60 with you?” “Can” implies If it is | possible for B. to accompany A., whereas B. really seeks the permis- To the Editor of ‘The Eveuing World: Can an trishman with his citizen rs from the United State: Pireiand? R. N. B.—A proper passport fr United States OERnarAy qnaurea clt- | Moe fA to ee with wl ns the privilege of visiting friend! ° ? m. Setiteta bot ly was hase Re one chs Write Mintater of Militia, Ottawa, Guarantee what another nation may | To Kitor of The Erming World do, England has turned back sevdpai! Kindly tell me if the American Americans of Irish extraction on the | Legion ty still recruiting in Canada, ground that they were undesirable| ond in what city, as 1 would like to visitors. "Join it, U. 8. M, nan eeeeeeeesss>—eeeeeesrerrerrrrrrrrrrrrm } What the Red Cross Is Doing { EPRESENTATIVES of fourteen | ti R atta fat in. Geneva (ittes t—a task in itself, involving thou. nds of men of the same names, three years ago and took the/about whom anxlous relatives are first steps toward organization of that constantly inquiring, beneficent society known us the Red| Tidings of the imprisoned, the killed ns. Here the lists of prisoners are : and the wounded have been supplied Grom, It was a Swiss, M. Henri) yy tne committee to a multituce of Dunant, who fathered this movement, widows and wives, fathers, mothers, children and sweeth: belligerent countries. Among ers, volunteer and paid, of Engiish, German, French, ustrian, Italian, Russian and other nationalities, but in their relations and it is in Geneva that the Red Cross still maintains its headquarters The Comite International de la Croix Rouge in Geneva maintain 350| A men of all nationalities who are handling the immense business in- eldent to the war rts in all the and helpful, one and all animated by The Geneva headquarters 1s common desire to clearing house for communtcatio: ppeals pour intc between people of the warring na-! avalanche * ' The Evening World has pointed ont, the Common Council, from which the Board of Aldermen is derived, with one another they are friendly) “And that's wearer EN Mr, Jarr came home the other evening he looked in the hall mirror and said, "Gee, I feel tired to-night and 1 took it!” “Maybe it's a cold coming on; thie is & dangerous time of the year!" re- plied Mrs. Jarr, the desire that 1s in all women to bo a ministering angel rising strong within her, “It's nothing of the kind," sald Mr, Jarr, “Oh, that's always the way with you,” retorted Mrs, Jarr, reproach- fully, “You never will take care of a cold in time; you never will iisten to me,” 4 “Haven't I taken your advice all my life, eh?" came back Mr. Jarr. “Yes, and you'd be better off to-day if you had heeded what I said!” re- plied Mrs. Jarr, “But, come now, take @ tive-grain quinine capsule and let me make you @ hot lemonade, Maybe if you took @ hot mustard foot bath and some aspirin you'd feel ad right in the morning.” “Look here, dearte,” sald Mr, Jarr, “do you think dope 1 going to cure that ‘tired fecling’?” “Dopo?” echoed Mrs. Jarr, 4o you mean?” “What h, you know!" replied Mr. Jarr, You women are always complaining and taking pills and powders and dosing yourselves. Mia not going to do it, There's nothing wrong with me except L've beon working hard at the office and I'm tired.” “It's because you're getting a cold,” affirmed Mrs, Jarr. “I know when I'm getting one I always fee! the sume way. As for taking medicines, there lsn't any one takes less than I do, I'm sure if you have a dull acho tn the back @ porous plaster would tix you up in no Ume,” she added, “It won't fix me up, no time, nohow, nowhere!" answered Mr, Jarr, “Do you think I'm going to let you play paper-hanger with me and put a gununy old porous plaster on my back that curls up at the edges every time [ take @ bath and drives me wild? “Oh, well, Mf you are golng to be as cross us @ bear I won't bother ‘you,” sald Mrs, Jarr. “But 1 know those quinine pills will cure you right \away. Mrs. Kittingly saya"— | Oh, bother what Mra, Kittingly jays!" retorted Mr, Jarr, “1 don't |need anything; I'm all right! | throat hurts @ little, that's all," enough My Jarr, anxiously. itis begins. Now, why don’t you * an| reasonable and take five or ten graine ef quinine? Evening World Daily Magazine Reflections of a Bachelor Girl. By Helen Rowland. Copyright, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Uo. (The New York Drening World), [" the game of love, when a man succeeds in “winning” a woman, he has lost; when he succeeds im “losing” her, he has won. Strength of will never kept a man from falling in| love, any more than a strong constitution kept him from | catching a fever. No man ever told a woman the whole truth, He hasn't enough strength left, after ho has recovered from the storm he has caused by telling her just a little bit of the truth. | No matter how many perfectly good reasons a man may have for doing a thing, he will always try to in-| vent @ better one for a woman's delectation, if he really loves her, There never yet lived a man so commonplace that he didn't secretly believe that his life would “make a book," if he cared to write it down, A woman {s known by her dressing-table. If it is neat, she {s simple; if it {s bare, sho {s intellectual; if ft resembles Aetna after an eruption, she| is temperamental—and if it 1s locked, she ia mysterious, | Every married woman has at least three husbands; the one she brags about to her friends, the one she thinks she has, and the one she really has, The average man would be a little ashamed of himsclf if he were really as good as he pretends to be. Every woman .dmires firmness and mastery in a husband—another woman's husband. Books, Uke proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages thraygh which they have passed.—SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE, ————_— ! “And have my head bu ng like a Mr. Jarr, “And If you don’t stop pas- bee-hive? Why should 12" asked Mr.| tering me I'l! go right out,’ Jarr, querulously. “I tell you there's) “1¢ you are trying to pick a quar-| nothing wrong with me. I feel tired, rel with me as an excuse to leave me| and I've got a headache and M™MY/ajone while you are out with your throat hurts a little, but there 180't | friends you won't have it!" replied! anything wrong with me.” Mrs, Jarr, and she withdrew and went “Your eyes look feverish,” said Mrs.| to bed. Jarr. ‘Now, you do as I say, take) Some hours later she was awakened ten grains of quinine and a hot both] yy hearing Mr. Jarr fumbling with and wrap yourself up warm and eo} the bottles in the medicine closet | If you're not better in the to bed. "What are you looking for?” sho} morning I'll send for the doctor asked, ‘There, you've broken the! “From the way you talk you'd bet-| camphor bottl I can smell it.” ter send for tho undertaker, teelod “Dog gone It!" ggowled Mr. Jarr, Mr. Jarr, impatiently, fans tell) 1, grievous tones, “I'm feeling as you I'm all right? 1 wish you'd let ; sick as @ cat! me alone!” quinine,. but I'm trying to find the you care! You | by Agricola A. D, 70. | the noble or the woolly protector worn The Story of Hosiery °. THE term hostery, used in a imit- ed sense, !s held to apply onl to stockings and socks, but {pn {ts lator and more general application {t comprises all knitted goods whether made by hand or machinery, Tho frst record of stockings 1s found in the story of the Invasion of Britain The Scotsmen, fiercest and most savage of the tribes | that resisted the Koman yoke, went! into battle having the lower part of their legs covered with a rough sub- Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Copyright, 1916, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Dvening World), No. 6—Sir Isaac Newton, the Boy “‘Dunce,” KICK from the hobnatled toe of @ bully turned the stupidest bey, in the school into the cleverest, and started a career that is immortal in the world of science, “The boy was Isaac Newton, son of « Lincolnshire widow, | Ho was & puny, sickly little chap, and seemed scarce better than \ait- | witted. When he was twelve years old—in 1654—he was sent t | School at Grantham. There he promptly took his place at the va Y foot of his class, @ position he had always held in every school he had attended. He had no rival to his title of Dunce, One day the school bully chanced to be in « mood for playful exercise, Little Isaac Newton was standing nearest to him. The bully kicked him, Newton had plenty of spirit. He resented the kick with a very industrious | ettort to thrash the big fellow. Failing in that he sought for some other | way in which ke could excel his tormentor. The bully stood at the head of the class, Newton resolved to rob | Bim of that coveted place. Bo, for the first time in his Iife the “dunce” began to study. In an incredibly short time he was at the head of his class, | And there he remained, ma The experience had given him a taste for study, And now he became | as studious ag once he had been Idle, | Finding that his lessons did not afford enough work for his newly~ awakened brain, he began to look about for new mental employment im ‘his spare hours, And th his fe ay an inventor b | His first invention was a tiny windmill, which he set up on the dor-" si roof, When the Wind did not blow the windmill would not move | This annoyed the boy. So he rigged up @ tread-wheel, connected it with the mill-wheel shaft and set a mouse to running the tread-wheel. The mill thereafter turned without regard to wind. Watches were costly in those days, and Newton was poor, 60 the lad resol h saa Gueer to make @ watch—or, rather, a clock—for himself, Ht ; inventions fashioned @ rude water-clock, about forty-eight inches tall, topped by a dial plate on which he had scratched | the twelve hours, The hour hand (there was no minute | hand) was turned by means of a piece of wood which rose or gunk with | the rising or falling of the water In the clock. | Next he Invented a primitive automobife—a cart that could be made to go when its passengers pulled a pump handle back and forth, This sort of thing did not tmpress his elders, It was not an age when boys were encouraged to be inventors, Isaac's mother decided to make a farmer of ber son, Isanc hated farming, And, secretly, he kept on studying and making scientific experiments when she thought he was | learning agriculture, At last his mother found bim out, A more or less etormy scene | followed. And as an upshot of tho argument Isaac was allowed to go to college. The boy was wild with delight, He threw himeelf into hie etudies at Cambritge with such a zest that his fragile health suffered, But, sick or well, he never abated his work until a complete breakdown drove him temporarily out of college and into the country for @ period of absolute rest, And to this rest perlod of his the world owes Newton's greatest aclentific discovery, He was sitting In an apple orchard one day when a ripe apple felt from a bough to the ground near Nis fect, He had seen the same thing tmppen thousands of times. Yet now It started a queer train of thought, Newton began to reflect upon the mysterious power that draws objects to the earth; and why an apple, loosed from Its bough, should fall to the ground instead of flying off Into space, He wondered | ; if this same strange power might not extend to the } The Attraction $ moon and to the other planets, holding them steady Jot Gravitetonnd in thelr orbits, ® And from that peginning he worked eut bis immortal Theory of the Attraction of Gravitation, Within a very few years ho was acclaimed the greatest living scientist. Yet, to the end, he would every now and then display some atreak of the quailty which once had made him the school dunce—a quality that modern slang would call “bone-headedness,” For example: He had a pet cat and a kitten, When he out a hole in his barn wall, by which the cat could enter, he also cut a smaller hole alongside it, by which the kitten might go In and out, It never occurred to him that an opening through which @ cat could pass would also serve for the kitten, Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1016, by The Prew Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), The Woman Who Went Too Far > y NCE upon a time there was a girl and a man—tn love with each other, Both had similar tastes and si ar occupations, Everybody thought that It would be a “match"— everybody but the man in the case, He was stance akin to wool and pleated in criss-cross fashion, The Norman and | Viantagenet era saw the gradual adoption of hosiery by the whule peo- | ple, the covering for the nether ex- tremities assuming the character of a} long blue or red pantaloon with @ foot | attachment, while the hoslery of King | John’s day assumed the design of a) parti-colored red and white or red and stripe. vlthe first approach to the stocking familiar along Fifth Avenue ts seen in the fine cloth garment, embroid- ered with gold, prepared at the order of Henry III, of England for his als- ter Elizabeth. For nearly three cen- turies the stocking, whether the richly flounced and silken affair worn by by the common people, showed little or no change. Then the year saw the invention by the Scotch of hand needle knitting and its Introduction into England under the aegis of Eliz abeth, the first monarch to wear the | Knitted wool stocking which, Slight variation, bas endured to this a “< leigh records that the noblemen and women of Elizapeth's court wera not ashamed to wear hose of “all kinds of changeable colors, aa green, red, white, russet brown, tawny and what not, the common kind tev curl- ously marked with quirks, clocks, open seam and everything else ac- cordingly.” Dame Mary Montague ts sald to have presented the Queen with the first patr of black silk stock- ines ever seen In England, Twenty-five years later, In 1599, Willlam Lea of Woodborough, N tinghamshire, centre of the knitting industry, loved vainly a pretty towns- woman earned her Hying by weaving stockings, Lee, an M. A. and Fellow St. John's College, Cam- bridge, was not above revenge upon with | ¢ ja more in love with love than the ob- jéct of love, It was a temporary matter with him, With her it was different, The man said he loved her “better than any one else ir. the world.” That was quite true with one exception— himself. Yet he bad never mentionad marriage, When they talked of it at all be would say. ‘You are too good for me.” “It would not be fair to marry you.” “I am not worthy,” é&c., &e. This usually enhanced him in the girl's eyes. So she refused all other yves and clung to this one, waiting the day when he might prove when he just couldn't wait when he would crush her t and say, “You must be the two went on with their One day the man had to go He sald goodby to the girl, professed his love, but said not a word about the future. He was too |much bent on the prospects and the new cxperiences that were before him, It almost broke her heart when he left. But she made excuses for him. Now this girl was a very attractive girl, She could have had admirers and perhaps found another love, but she shut them all out. There was only one man in the world for her, The wan wrote letters to her~ friendly letters. But he was careful to avold the personal, saying little about their affair, Pretty soon t! man came home for a brief space. was just the same, e told her that he “loved her better than anybody,” but marriage was from his thoughts, He left to go further away, It hurt her cruelly when he lef because the future—their future— was undecided, She wrote him | ters; love letters, but always he an~ swered with the friendly kind, And yet the girl longed for him with a great longing. It almost con- sumed her, Against the advice of all her friends, she decided to go where he was, believing that she could work there just the same, She went. She found him. sorely distressed at her comti ie did not know what to do about her, In fact, her very coming made him feel a sense of responsibility that he had been careful not to assume, He worrled about It and the more she showed her loye the more distasteful {t became to him; because she had taken it upon herself to do the woo- ing. She had gone too far, She had persisted in loving the man without his showing a sign of reciprocation, So she lost him, He helped her to get acquainted with other people, and then his visite became less frequent. He could uot forgive her for following him, It is the way of the world, She returned home and learned this moral: : The woman who goes too far in the wooing of love finds that man cannot stand her pace, CIEE OIA IEEE A LETT \P Gonsenction in the U.S. } | Quennnnnnnnrrnnnnnnnnnnnnn ONSCRIPTION has always been @ bateful word in the United States, and during the Civil War the efforts of the Government to force | the citizens to serve in the army were the woman who had rejected his ad- nd, determined to deprive her vances of a livelihood, aet to work upon an invention to that end. To his labors, horn of plauo and balked desire, wa owe the knitting frame which for the greater part of two centuries was the standard instrument of hostery man- ufacture Successive Improvements of Lee's knitting frame are the ribbing web apparatus invented by — Jedediah Strutt In 1758, the tricoteur introdu by Str Mark Brune! tn 1814 and per- ad by Claussen tn 1844, the Tows- gaint latch needle of 1858, the com- ination clreular machine carrying several feedors ortety v WLC, Gist of Baltimore and, lastly, the frame patented In 1877 hy Almet Ret for making stockings, socks and other artictos, and now [1 use tn all bostery “You wouldn't be ao cross about! could see I was so sick I couldn't nothing if you weren't sick,” Mrs./stand up, and yet you went off to Jarr insisted, “Maybe If you tock] ped and left me without a word!" some calomel or some cough Sy-| Whereat Mrs. Jarre arose and dosad rup"-—— him ao wel! thal the neat diy he way “I won't take anything!" shouted! sick, factories. ore often bitterly resented, At times the lopposition to the draft reached the point of open rebellion, The agitation of the peace faction had aroused many men to frenzy, and when, on July 18, 1863, the draft be- gan in a building at Third Avenue and Forty-sixth Street, a large crowd assembled and fired the edifice, The police were overpowered, and for three days and nights the mob was tn possession of the city, The colored people were the special dbjects of the {mob’s wrath, Negroes were hunted like wild beasts and many were eaten to death in tho atreeta, Be- fore Une insurrection was finally sup- pressed a thousand persons were killea or wounded and property worth | $2,000,000 was destroyed, } To-Day’s Anniversary i ! nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnmnnnnne HE first English bard to attain lasting fame was Geoffrey Chaucer, who was bord in Lon- don about 1840 and dled 516 years ago to-day, Oct. 25, 1400, “The father of English poetry” was the son of @ vintner named John Chaucer, and in his youth served the | King as a soldicr aad was taken pris Joner by the French, The English king patd $80 for his ransom, which was quite a high price for a poet, Chaucer's most celebrated work, “The Canterbury Tales,” was written between 1378 and 1400, It consists of @ serles of tales supposed to have been told by a company of pilgrims to the shrine of St, Thomas @ Becket at Canterbury, and in its pages we eet such pictures of English life and ways of thought as are found nowhere Chaucer doubtless got the ten for this work from the “Decameron” of Boccaccto,