The evening world. Newspaper, November 1, 1916, Page 18

ESTABLISHED RY JOSEPH PULITZER. = PuPitehes Matty Except sunday ny the Press Publishing Company; Now” 64 to $3 Park Row, New York President, 68 Park Row. reasurer, 63 Park Row, retary, 68 Park Row, w York as Second-Class Matter, For Engiand and the Continent All Countries in the Internationad Postal Uniom ceey $9.60 One Vent. ccccsnermerer me neeee®, .40/One Month... rrerrrins ¢ YO. 20,161 RALPH PULIT?F: J. ANGUS SIA JOSEPH PULIT: « Entered at the Post-OMice at Bwbeoription Rates to The fMvening World for the United States A and Canada. THE DRIFT. S THE campaign draws to a close, rivulets of opinion flow to- ; A gether to form rivers, eddies disappear and the set of the current becomes discernible. ‘There is plenty of thinking and talk these last days that takes no note of betting odds in Wall Street) », | et the confident computations of Republican campaign managers. In every quarter suspicion has sottled into certainty that Mr.| Wughes has nothing more to say or offer. No eleventh-hour revela- tion of strength or fitness is to be expected from the Republican can-| ~ ‘@idate. He shot his bolt and, short as it fell, he has no other. His! own party cannot pretend otherwise. | On the other hand President Wileon finishes with every bit of| fhe strength and advantage with which he started. His achievement | Temains untouched, his experience unaltered, his usefulness to the! mation as obvious and indisputable as ever. . | >] The nearer we get to the end the more is it borne in upon many! tainds that the entire Republican campaign has been nothing but a amor. The average voter tries in vain to remember one substantial | argument, one stirring thought, one memorable idea in all the Re- publican candidate himself has said. And there is no longer the @host of a chance that Mr. Hughes will surprise anybody. ; That is why attention now insensibly and instinctively turns ‘Yoward Mr. Wilson, where it finds something tangible, something defi- nite, something that is not merely negative. This significant turning process will go on with gathering force for the remaining days, Until, fanless the American knack of appraising men is at last to fail the nation, by far the greater number of those who cast their votes next Muesdgy will face the President's way. ——_- + -—__—_. PROSPERITY AND COAL. ARD COAL at $12 a ton is a fail phenomenon that might well H dismay the average householder, if such a price were likely to hold. The fact seems to be, however, that the supply of », dal for the moment has slipped seriously behind the demand and until ~ extra activity at the mines and on the part of the coal railroads has somewhat relieved the situation, nobody can say what the “normal” price of coal this winter is going to be. From one point of view scarcity of coal at the present moment may be taken as another sure sign of good times. New factories, en- Mrged factories, old factories working overtime—all this means clam- orous demand for coal. Nor is it only makers of gunpowder, ammuni- tion and steel that are working the boilers at high pressure. Cotton, fabric and carpet mills, together with a hundred other permanent manufacturing industries of the country, are turning their wheels faster week by week. Prosperity must have coal. More coal is being produced at the mines than at this time a year ago. Either it is not enough or some huge.and only partly recorded drain for foreign export is depriving Americans of their own fuel. 1 Here is another point at which official watchfulness ought to guard American consumers. Coal is a necessity. Coal dealers them- selves admit that present pricey are preposterous and cannot last. But what is to be the final winter schedule? Are we to have coal only at “war” prices or is there some way by which the American consumer, whether manufacturer or modest householder, may be pro- tected in his right to buy the coal this country produces at fair terms? eee ee, . GOOD FOOD FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN. HE EVENING WORLD points with pride to the success of its “Penny Lunch” campaign for the benefit of public school children, The Board of Estimate this week appropriated an » emphasizing the excellent results already achieved, One hundred and fifty thousand children can be served penny New York now has an entire building, formerly Public School No. 981, at the corner of Delancey and Tompkins Streets, devoted to the cooking of simple, nourishing foods for school children. This central | plant is equipped with all the most approved kitchen devices and can) provide luncheons éach day for 25,000 youngsters. It is a model for other cities to study and imitate, | Here is one of the most practical, far-reaching benefits ever se-| cured to the children of this city. Its suc she thinks she doesn't need me any more, additional $15,000 to furnish more public school hincheons, thereby|m® Introduce her to my friends, but * |aince she’s gotten in with the Grim- P clety and thinks she'll cut old friends! luncheons this year in nearly one hundred of the city’s public schools, |7® 0M!Y thing that makes me mad Is is established, its fur-|!t ® By Roy L. McCardell Coprrigit, 1010, by The Pree Publishing Ov, (The Now York Erening World.) Reflections of a Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Ceprright, 1016, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Wrening World), ND now it {s almost time for the first touch of frost to appear on the A pumpkin—and on the October honeymoon, . 66]. SUPPOSE Mrs, Stryver thinks Tt she's hurting my feelings!" said Mrs. Jarr, “It's either that, or | else she's afraid of me because | knew who she was, and I know who her peoplo were.” “What's the matter now?” asked Mr. Jarr, “Mra, Stryver Is giving her first party of the season to-night, and she never sent us an invitation!” replied Mrs. Jarr, “She's used me and now She was glad enough to have leya she imagines she's really in so- to think she got the advantage of mo, for she must have heard I was going to drop her, I told Mrs, Rangle that 1 simply couldn't stand for*the way she truckled and toadied to people she thought @ little better than her- self, I told Mra, Kittingly ao, too. | I wonder which one of them told her? One cannot trust any one these days. Maybe she gave this party Just to do Oh, well, I don't care, It's ridi | stage door, | ther extension assured, It provides by the simplest, most economical | “W0Us! 14 simply Fidteuloust | F } | “Why? asked Mr, Jarr, | means, that ill-nourished school children may have the food they! son don't say it was any. solatake re need and that well children may have the kind of food that will keep|or that the cards might have been wit them well. |missent in: the mail, 1 always sald 1 — ae ' a ‘that woman was a cat and a vul- The Evening World takes special satisfaction in what {ts efforts cetlanl I wouldn't have gone to her for the Penny Lunch have accomplished. Also New York is to be party anyway. And I can say that she| to any of those cheap soctety stunts congratulated that the new kind of Alderman is the kind that brings interest and co-operation to a movement of this sort. A Glimpse Into New York Shops i annem nnn nnn NAN, you have one of grandma's Pats- | is one of the leading colors, ley oF cashmere ghawia get it] Evening gowns are mostly in tat- out of the camphor and mako it! fet# and brocades, Simplicity ia /the keynoto, Skirts are either medium wp into a blouse. Have some of tt or jong and full, The short skirt with | put on your hat and a piece made up! the train that was so much worn last into a handbag, You can use it Yur is not seen this season, Bodices| a cauan, a #re snug fitting and the favorite trim- for almost any dress accessory, and | 4!" * sprite Sele + jean bear me out in that, Ishew I tntended to cease galling on her, Mrs, Rangle and Mrs, Kittingly She need not have been afraid. I wouldn't have | gone, Tho kind of people one meets | at her house are no credit to one, I wonder If she's going to serve prunes. | She should, as a reminder of old times | when her mother kept @ boarding house, and a cheap boarding house ut that. I know her, I know all about her: “1 was going to say,” sald Mr, Jarr very calmly, “that I got that invitation if there {s any chance to escape,” “Oh, don't mind me,” replied Mre. Jarr; rather sharply, “I never get anywhere, Of course, as I sald, I do not want to go, But, just out of cu- riosity, I'd like to see if the Grimleya will be there. I'd Just be glad to go and see how Mrs. Stryver will look when the Grimleys do not show up. For, of course, THEY won't bv ‘here,” “Well, get out my things,’ sald Mr, Jarr, resignedly. “What would you wear if you were me? asked Mra, Jarr, haven't pu will be fashionable, ‘This te iki and took 1 downtown with me two] On fe Tet A and: something,” proved by a visit to the shopa. | ‘There 1» sill) constderable fruit to|weeka ago by mistake with some other! 041. Jurr soothingly. And ao she ‘A. dress of blue duvetyn shown. De Preserved for the winter, and the| mail, I forgot all about tt.” ah $m one shop has the shaw! collar, ))"s*wife will find paper jar tops,| Mrs, Jarr gasped, but controlled |“ that come In. package They ages at 10 con of @ picce of casiinere and of at. ¥¢ the cuffs and belt are of the same material, A hat to match this cos- © nlent, Uractively printed labels that co tume was of blue duvetyn, trimmed | jy, ioratad sheets, bound tn pane with cashmere, phiet form, The usual fruits and | Tho present displays indicate that | vogeta for canning are repre. rgeundy—the old-time wine color—| wen n these labels. There : to be popular this season. Dressow _ tm this color range trom Georgette erepe to heavy cloth, Suits in wine are prominent, and Burgundy twelve sheets In @ boak that sells at 250 each. A sheet contains two dozen | labels and can be purchased separate. ly at § conta a sheet, s.4 e | { ‘ | herself. Arriving at the Stryver house, Mrs, Jarr clutched Mr, Jarr's arm. “Look at the floral decorations, I wonder if they're paid for, or if they will be paid for? She must expect the Grimleya,” she whimpered, "I “] suppose you want to go, wifen you know I don't care for the person at all?” she said with forced calm- ness. “Me!” exclaimed Mr, Jarr. “Not Possible, and Rangle looks like @ thug in ning dress!” be thrown in with skates!" sald the affair, told Mr, Jarre missed it for worlds, But it*wasn't Mr, Jarr’s idea of a good time. (esa oe, fn the warring countri Saints’ Day—known to S** will be the observance to-day Morts, the Day of the Dead, places flowers a i ro} tenary of one of Germany's foremost military ro: ancists, don't see anything of the Rangles, much! I want to go out and bow!| put, of course, in the position Mra, with the boye to-night, now the/ Stryver occupies she couldn't ask the weather ts cool You couldn't got me\Rangles, Mre. Rangle 4s simply im- helm “Ritter yon novelist and dram have attained wince the outbreak of the war, - ‘Fyening World Daily Magazine A girl wants to take @ pure, clean heart to the altar on her wedding day, but a man is quite satisfied to have his merely sponged and (re) pressed. ‘The {deal woman, for whom every man 1s uncon- sclously looking, and whonr he never finds, {s one who is as blind to all bis faults and as alive to all his vir- tues as his mother was, The ultimate proof of a man's love is his ability to admire the shape of @ woman's foot while she is dancing all over his patent leather pumps. Never count a man’s love dead until he takes your photograph from the place of honor on bis desk and uses it to cover a spot on the wall, A woman likes to drop a love affair with a crash and @ grande finale, | but @ man prefers to drop it inch by inch—and then crawl out by the Before marriage {t costs a man a lot of pride and the price of a box | of orchids to “make up” with a woman after @ love costs him just a few lies and the price of a new hat at; after marriage it Alas, the things a man boasts proudly of “passing up” to-day are the | things he will sigh regretfully at having “missed” to-morrow, Aman falls in love when he hes nothing else to do, but a woman never | has anything else to do when there {8 @ man around worth falling in love What {s the plural of “matrimony?” Why, “alimony” of course! 4 sooner go to Rangles’ than to this bunoh of Mr. Jarr gloomily, Before departing Mrs. Jarr congrat- ulated her hostess on the success of and on the way home she she would gt have of All rench- mon and Belgians as La Fete des In Paris | all business practically stops while! the populace visits the cemeteries and op the graves of the Jtous in America as well as in will to-day celebrate the cen- Friedrich Wil- Hacklander, it whose works | the blanket ballot into operation and renewed popularity! thus marked W]Birth of Ped <<<. Q —_" | the Ballot » R the creation of the ballot, the modern method of secret voting, Wo are indebted to the wisdom and foresight of the rulers of ancient Greece, The origin of the term “ballot” ts found in the Itallan “balla,” @ ball. Evidence of the first use of this form of voting i» found about 200 B. C. In the Athens of that period the jcaste or judges before whom all causes, civil or criminal, were heard, Benerally decided the issue by the use of little balls of stone or metal. The ball that wi pierced in the centre, or the color of which was black, sealed the doom of the of- fender, The ball of white, its sur- face unpferced, signified acquittal, Seventy years later, or 130 B, Cy the ballot was introduced into Rome @s @n instrument in the enactment and repeal of lawe, in election of pub- lic officers, and lastly, as in Athena, in the trial of offenders, As long ago as theftime of Charles Il, secret or open voting on public matters had been advocated by the professional agitators and reformers, the Scottish Parliament voting in 1662 on the proposed ostracism of Lauderdale by the method adopted in all jury trials, For more than a hundred years the question of the ballot lay dor- mant, the gradual emancipation of Parllament from the power of the Crown and the adoption of an open representative system of votng seeming to render it necessary, But © semi-feudal tyrannical power wielded by the titled landowners, the wealthy commoners or lesser county magnates upon the humbler class of voters brought about a revival of the agitation for the secret ballot at the beginning of the nineteenth century; the battles carried on In successivé generations by Jeremy Rentham, Danlel O'Connell, Grote, Macaulay, Hume, Berkeley and John Bright and lukewarmly supported by Lord John Russell, Lord Melbourne, Karl Grey, the Earl of Derby, Dis- racli_ and’ Gladstone, being, finally adopted in 1872 on the passage of the blanket measure framed by W. E, 3 | Forster and providing every kind of { To-Day’s Anniversary } WAAR AOA AARP APPLE DADA AD ALD awesome penalty corruption, intim class, openly for the treating, fon of the rustic rtised by local land- lords, ergy and police. In ‘America the use of the printed or written ballot dates back to 15, when it was first used In the New England States, in De 7 . Penn. sylvania, North and South Carolina; New Jersey and New York following jin line respeetively tn 1776 and 1773. But It was not until 1888 that Massachusetts led the way in elec- tora! reform with the Australian blanket ballot, insuring absolute se- crecy and freedom for the voter, Seven years, however, were to pass before, In 1895, Now York, trailing in at the end of the Ine of States, put the beginning of the end of the one-man power in politica, Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Ouprright, 1916, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World), | No. 8—VICTORIA; the Schoolgirl Queen. LITTLE English girl—with @ strong mixture of Hanover German | blood in her veins—complained sometimes because her gover | A ness kept her at her studies for unreasonably long hours, end erfhted her fewer holidays than other obildren of her age enjoyed. The ttle girl was Princess Victoria, daughter of the Duke of Kegt, ‘and niece of George IV., King of England. Though she was of royal blood, (there seemed no prospect at first that she would ever rule England, Her s | uncle, the King, had a daughter of his own. Also, he bad two younger \brothers. All these stood between Victoria and the crown. } \ | She was apparently destined to grow up, at the nation’s expense; and = ‘be married, for political reasons, to some princeling, who should want aa ‘alliance with the English royal family. It did not promise to be much ’ lof a destiny for her—as destinies go—to become merely an obscure perm {m the dreary game of politics. But presentfy George IV, and hie daughter died. Then the little Prins cons Victoria was kept longer and longer at her lessons, and wae mgae te take up strange branches of study. | One day, when she wos twelve, sho was shown, for the first time @ copy of her family tree, She puzzled over it, tracing the various bransb- ing lines, At last she looked up, to see her governess 4 watching her intently, Almost with awe, the little ; PR thon Princess exclaimed: AoA) 2 “Why Lam much nearer to the throne than ever 1 thought!" | Tho governesa nodded. “After a moment's pause, Victoria handed back the paper, saying: ~ , | “L think I understand now why you make me study so hard..” | Yet hor wise mother brought her up as if the Princess were any other healthy English child, She was kept at work and at play in the very | simplest surroundings. She met almost no strangers. There was none of the glitter of court life in her commonplace routine, Shoe grew up in almost | Spartan simplicity. One of the very few visita she was allowed to pay to the court—her | nest visit there, by the way—was when she was ten. The King was | a “children’s ball" in honor of his little guest, Dona Maria, the child Queen | of Portugal, And Victoria was invited. | It was @ wonderful event in her humdrum life, And she thought Rew | piatn white musiin party-dresa was quite the most beautiful costume she | had ever seen. Her spirits were dampened at aight of the Portuguese girl, whose gaudy velvet gown was literally crusted with priceless jewels, 1 But it was the simply-dressed Victoria and not the glittering Dona) Maria who provi to be the belle of the party, Her shy charm of manner fascinated everybody there. When she was twelve, she attended her first State “Drawing Room,” | where she had to etand very still ‘and very primly for hours beside Queem Adelaide while endless miles of people were presented and made deep obeisances, then backing away to give room to a new batch of guesta, It was a dull, wearisome affair for the tired little girl after the first fow min- utes of novelty wore off. ) | One early June morning tn 1837, when she was eighteen and was still berlain of England arrived at her mother’s house te notify the Princess that her uncle, King William IV, was dead, and that Victoria was now Queen of England, Victoria, who had not yet dressed, threw on @ wrapper over her night gown and ran down to receive the two guests, Om hearing their tidings, she is sald to have cried out, in childish earnestness? “Oh, 1 WILL try to be goo Her sheltered childhood waa over, | public, | her. Her ministers decided on Prince Albert of Coburg, a big young Gere man, as the best available candidate, So he was sent for, to visit England, By all laws of royal etiquette it was Victoria's duty to do the proposing, Here is a quaint account of her proposal, copied from the girl-Queen’s diaryt "T gent for Albert. I said to him that I thought he must be aware why I wished him to come; and that {t would make me too happy if he would | consent to do as I wished” (to marry her), “There was no hesitation on hie | part, Tho offer was recetved with the greatest demonstration of kindness Brn “| WILL try $ to be aocu | bannrnnnnnnnnnnn Henceforth her life belonged to the *, | and affection. “He is perfection in every way—in beauty, tn everything. I told him I was quite unworthy of him. How I shall strive to make him feel as little possible the great sacrifice he has made!" ® (| Lives That Prove Democracy }» By Nixola Greeley-Smith AAA ARR AA RRA ARAAARAA AAAI | Copyright, 1916, by The Prom Publishing Oo. (The New York Brening World), No. 9—Cervantes (1547-1616) | ,,A,vomel on which he was returning, to Spain in 1575 was captured by Al- has oon-|Serian pirates, and Cervantes and hip West are guat}brother were ‘condemned to slavery. After six years Cervantes was rane one name tolsomed and returned to his pative the roster of those Laer rtal minde| In 1584 he married a woman as poor Ailes defy time|*2¢ noble as himself, War and a{flavery had not cured him of the tn- and change =an4| curable disease from which he suffered the Mmitations of tiges disease of idealism, by which ality ~ the {all great artists live and die, In the pepeaat igual de |Cfort to support his family Cervan- Cervantes, author of “Don Quixote.” Though Cervantes wrote scores of tes wrote ceaselessly and unsuccess novels, plays and poems, his fame fully. Thirty comedies by him were produced. While acting as an agent of rests upon a single’ character—Don | Quixote, Knight of La Mancha, naval stores at Seville he was accused |who will remain the supreme type of misappropriating revenue funds and cast Into prison, but was atter= ward acquitted. He wrote “Dom Quixote” while in jatl, and the first part was published im 1005. It felb {Mat, but the appearanc ony» of the tmpracticable {deailst till) mous puinphiet a ounciag the were the end of ilterature. “Don Qul-/as an ittack on high persons had the effect of stimulating puolie Interest, and four editions were sold the iirst year. It has been sald taat Cervantes wrote this pamphlet hime self, so perhaps be was beginning to recognize the uses of advertisement, Still the glory of Spanish literature remained unhonored and poor. A spure fous second part to “Don Quixote" wag published by one of his enemies and in 1616 Cervantes asked the censors of the Inquisition for* permission to publish a sequel to “Don Quixote” hime self, Consent was given finally but the completion of his masterpiece jet, been, ” | xote is sometimes represented mere- jly as a satire on the exaggerated |chivairy of the sixteenth century, | But tt is actually Cervantes's own bit- ter arraignment of’the idealism which every great artist finds tn himself and which no harshness of reality can ever destroy, To some readers Don | Quixote Is just an old lunatic knight embarked upon a series of exciting ad- ventures, His story, like that other great satire, “Gulliver's Travels," 1s | just @ story to them which enthralls | by tho variety and interest of Ha in- cldents To the author of “Don Quixote” the |series of \adventures we call Life | proved even more varied and tragic than those of his tmmortal hero, , Cervantes a# poor as he had al Old, dejected, distilusione to tilt no more aguinat ty winamttt of life, Cervantes entered the Co: gation of the Third Order of St. Brans Cervantes was born in old Castile in | e® “nd soon after died, His death 1547, His family was noble, but very |{C “was thouciy Sha, for a time poor, and when @ student at the Uni-| ang "Shakespeare ha ae Cervantes voraity of Salamanca he lived on| samo daye in the came ogee he alms. ‘ Atfermtie aay ; | When he was twenty-one he went to} Sitifenence of 10 days which them existed between the Italy aa a page in tho servico of a| mye “4 Cardinal, but, yearning for more ex-| though the datens ia Impossible citing occupation, he enlisted as a] "Don Quixote's” tants ha gine ee common soldier, and was severely every year since, ‘Tho book wae Rae wounded In the breast and left band | translated into every language and wee at the battle of Lepanto, ge and the His hand’ soul of Cervantes, who died was amputated, He was a soldier for poor, wil er pie iy five yours. Stimen, “ve stemally in the minds a ‘ pOAOAAAA RADAR ANDORRA DRO RERARNRR ROO OCUE ; . } How November Got Its Name . if : 2 fused to consid ying, “What will you an HE first appearance of Novem=| ‘The Emporor re ber in the calendar of Rome was | this honor, | congeript ners, Af as the ninth month, and {te | teen Cacsar. you have thire, name was derived from “novem,"| By the ancient Sax: ‘ ons meaning nine. When Numa added|was styled “Wintmonat woreabhe " January and February, tn 713'B.:C,,|™onth,” because of the gules which November became the eleventh month. | Year? Novembre gui season of the The Roman senators sought to|of “Blotmonath,” meaning binge change me name ist the jmanth to| month,’ because in ancient ene Tiberius, Who was born in November, | was be In imitation of July, derived from avenge mg On guauEhter cattia TO! in November, Jullus, and August, trom Augustus. | for use Meng eee be salted One of the first things to be arranged was a suitable husband for kept daily at her studies—the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Lord Chame- 4