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ESTARLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. dy the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 88 to rk Row, New York, PH PULITZER, President, 61 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row sJOBEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. tered at the Post-Ofice at New York as Second-Clans Matter, m Rates to The Evening|For England ant the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries tn the International q “4 and Canada. Postal Uniom ne Teah ess. nesses ees ancevaes 69.80/One Year. 1... | Tne Moat n swe cmecisnesscenesee 90) One Month. errerr rior" GERMANY WON'T LET IT DROP. N’ee expected France and England to receive the news of "Pudlished Dally Except Gunde the German peace proposal otherwise than they have re-| ceived it. “Poison-concocted to spread dissension among the allies!” cries Premier Briand, while the British Chancellor of the Exchequer sig-| nificantly pointe to recent words of Mr. Asquith insisting that Eng- land can contemplate no pence agreement which does not provide “reparation for the past and adequate security for the future.” Neither France nor England, however, is inclined to go on record as rejecting peace itself. It seems probable that both will examine the terms Germany offers and then make clear to the world that what they are refusing is not peace, but impossible conditions thereof. Yet how astute is Germany! Her reported proposal for a round- table conference at The Hague next month, where representatives of the belligerent nations can have a “face-to-face exchange of views as to the causes of the war and the things for which the belligerents are fighting,” proves the Teutonic grasp of psychology. It is evidently Germany’s intent that the peace proposition once! put forward shall not be suffered to fall, but, on the contrary, shall le kept day after day, week after week and month after month in full view of war-worn peoples, upon whose minds and hearts it hound to have a slow but certain action. | Nobody, of course, knows exactly how much Germany is pre ; pared in the end to concede. But there are signa she is ready to enter | upon protracted negotiations upon almost any basis that will keep) the attention of nations, including her own, constantly fixed upon or reverting to the possibility of peace. In the eyes of the world Germany has had to bear the discredit of having precipitated the war. It may well be that she now purposes to make a virtue out of impending necessity and get all the credit she can for proposing and diligently urging a termination of hostili ties, By so doing she adroitly ranges herself within hand-clasping distance of neutral nations and peace-makers generally. : If the manoeuvre is carried through with German thoroughness it will be more interesting to watch than any that have gone before. —__-+-_____ NEITHER FAMINE NOR DEARTH. T" increasing cost of necessities in the United States mi lead to the belief that sinister influences had paralyzed the nation’s productive forces. Nothing of the sort is true. There is no dearth of necessities. There is no shortage of any kind of food or goods if one ioney to pay the increased prices demanded. as the No automobile has been stalled because of lack of gasoline. Nobody has to go without shoes for lack of shoes offere sale, But some persons will soon have to go barefoot for lack of money | ‘A Stumper for Santa sstha By J. H. Cassel Fifty Boys and Girls Famous in History By Albert Payson Terhune Cocerriaht. 1916, by The rem Publishing Co. (The New York Wrening World.) NO. 27.—EUDOXIA, the Girl Empress. E began life as Athenais, not as Eudoxia, Her story reads like @ fairy tale than like a sober record of fact. { Sho was tho only daughtor of Leontius, a rich Athenian ppil- osopher. She, alone of his three children, inherited her fal brilliant mind. And from her babyhood Leontius taught the girl the mys- teries of philosophy and of higher education. He died in 420 A. D., leaving his large fortune to his two sons 4 bequeathing nothing to Athenais. Leontius was not heartless in this sion of his property. He was merely foolish, as even a great philo t may sometimes be. In leaving his fortune to his sons, he wrote: { “They will need money, for they have nothing else. My little gi har beauty and great learning. These gifts will surely win her a wi in her brethren’s home and will give her her pick of husbands.” But the fourteen-yoar-old Athenats soon discovered how mistake! father had been, When she begged her brothers to let her remain in home, there to keep on with her education, the elder Gee replied: i Jeherltance: “You have our father’s knowledge, which ts ® best part of his wealth. We have only his home his money. Why should we share his money and home with you, when you cannot share his knowledge with us? Gol" There seamed no answer to this argument, nor to the command tg, out So Athenals left her father's house, And here the second mistake In Leontius’s arrangements became parent. Instead of being able to take “her pick of husbands,” Athe found she could get no husband at all, For, in those days, Greeks manded @ dowry with thetr wives, And Athenals had no dowry. She was beautiful and wise, Men appreciated such qualities, but, to the extent of marrying a penniless girl. No offers were made for Athenals's hand, wed In danger of starving, and stung to indignation at the injustice of her brothers, she brought sult to gain share of her father’s estate. Butethe Athenian Judges upheld the validity of Leontlus's will. They refusedoRer plea and made tt very clear that she could hope for no redress from t ‘ Athenais bad persistency as well as brains, Finding she could S20 justice in her own city, she journeyed to Constantinople, capital of Wastern Empire. There she sought to lay her case before the Emperer, | ‘Theodosius If, who had a reputation for wisdom and for goodness, <> 4 But she could not get past the throng of courticrs and officials:shat surrounded the Emperor. Then, as now, graft was powerful, And Athen#is had no money wherewith to bribe @ yr officer to admit her tothe Emperor's presence. H er, Puloheria, ‘Again her wit came to the rescue, Theodosius had a 8 to whom he was devoted. One day, when Pulcherla went from the to church, Athenats placed herself in the centre of the church doorway The deauty of the fourteen-year-old Greek girl attracted the Princess, stopped to look at her. ‘Athenals at once flung herself at Pulcherta’s feet, telling of her wrotgs | and begging for a chance to present her case to the Emperor. Touched by the girl's sorrow, and strongly interested in her very evident brilllancy, Puicherla questioned her further, A friendship sprang up ®e- tween the two lovely orphaned gir “of me Pulcheria took Athenals home to the palace, nd. } An Emperor's £ in person brought her to the notice of the Emperon. | pene The two decided that “Atienats” was too heathem- — teh a name for so lovely a girl. So they had | christened “Eudoxta,” In memory of their dead mother. When he had her story, Theodoslus sald: “Do not think of yourself as Athenals, the sister of two unjust | Henceforth you shall be Eudoxta, Empress of the Hast, and my wife.” | phus, before her fifteenth birthday, the distnherited daughter of a Greek | philosopher became joint ruler of half the elviilzed world. ‘ |The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell. to buy shoes at the extortionate prices asked for them | | Co-Operation the Key to Peace Problems Nobody has yet gone hungry because of general scarcity of foo!,| Commission of Business Men to Find Remedy for Economic War to Come, Proposed by Can any one be found anywhere in the country who has been Alvin W. unable to buy food or other necessities provided he had sufficient) By James C, Young. money in his pocket to pay the boosted prices? What American industries would neace in Europe affect most May we expect a@ demand for | goods sufficient to offaet the loss of | war business? 73 LIEN peace 1s declared there will be an immediate ¢ sation of exports of purely war materials in manufactured It ia not scarcity of commodities but scarcity of the money demanded in ever-increasing amounts to pay for them that is causing people to cry out against the cost of living. We are told that the tremendous influx of gold into this country | must have an inevitable effect upon prices. What comfort is that! to the millions of persons who are the last to feel the effect of accu- niulating gold deposits or of the currency and credit therefrom! form, such as created? | shells, guns, ex- H r . plosives, 38 If prices are boosted faster than the influence of incoming gold ch and to can possibly make itself felt in the modest budget of the average some extent citizen, how is the latter to protect his savings, and what is to become metal working of the poor who live from day to day? | ona ae Tt is utterly unjust that, in the midst of plenty, n ms President of the people should be forced to buy the things they need for life anit itself . \& Com exorbitant Priees which greed makes higher and higher on the] ay have amounted strength of gold piling up in bankers’ vaults. during the year of 116 to roxi- Sell Ame: ptatinte (ts. Atiasi r mately $1,000,000,000, a Sell American products to Americans on fair ter including |". ali TRG’ #AR CATHORIOND , Sass cual Aaslee ans (i ye demand for American raw ‘air profits to producer and dealer; keop the movement of prices ai|materiais will be considerably above least within sight of the movement of pre ty; draw a line some-|normal well through the year 1918 where between profit and loot—and the cost of living will be found | Lurene Will want our steel bars and to have fewer world complication 4 i billets, rails, copper, cotton, fats, a r 1 complications than has heen thought The most |lumber and grain. j serviceable key to the problem in the United States is the enfo “The question as to fow far the ment of simple justice, American manufacturer dyill be able A |to retain his home maet for his ; | products and to compet with the Lord Northetiffe says the allies are as “firm as Plymouth \world in foreign countrids must de- Rock” against the German peace proposals. We think that pend upon the following ebnditions; venerable pebble has been moved around some since the Pi rims first touched it with their toe . » . re Hits From Sharp Wits ; The Treasury reports that it is im An a mont of 3,000,000 cab- | ERIE TOR APOE HOM nY MING <4 possible to keep up with the demand|bage plantw for wale appears. ley of Panel 1 the Biter") for nickels, ¢ t ennies, Paya) Morkda newspaper. We will neor te te Paris, a monument tc hay potion’ It, too—Cleveland Pluin|to look © Key West clgar in the face | neering genius of Gustave Kittel, who] er, Ralelich News, wan born ot DUO sehtyah i hewn | | we ss born at D ehty-four years The professional cracksman 1s if the labor is today, "Rie Tower of Habel wits about the only nx who gets any be. subjec reared in the hope that it might af thing from blowing.—Nashville Har ind contra |ford a passage to Heaven, but the ner, en - an in Dealer. | builders, we are told in Genesis, were etter be s Pin 5 r ’ fo hy their language being con- telligible th Ni ver will Mirting with founded. and then In 5 aft Milwaukee i ve Eiffel had no such ambt Albany Journs News, tion in rearing the highest edifice the CS a | Pee world has ever seon, It f Plumber on way to work was fined| | The baker ix a busy man and yet) \dicuted to scie 1 erate tor ee Be a2 fine! ne loath most of IMs Lime.—Descret | Medicated to science, Its rearing was visionary, impossible tale.—Milwaukes, News. one of the greatest engineering feats News. 4 e ® ® of modern times, and was a result . . hasten w ven UD in anime i Their of experiments undertaken to prove It's our notion that Ta aoa ere ee re Harles-\ the greatest mit to which motallic widow originated the | ; s+ 3 2 \}iers in viaduets could t fs no fool like an old Se eauitalt ne toraee RB . si a i Biade, erepininn ae the . a rica eee sori ; ee Baltimore Americar braked wircless Ulogtiph atatione “L've nothing in the world to wear, . . ° Kittel Tows 1,000 feet in he Miladi softly swears it, Our idea of purely academic Interest onnatr tes ed ne fe ins And you can bet your blooming life 4 js the kind an editor takes in reading 400 tons of tron being used Bhe pretty nearly wears it! the divid notices in the, paper, » it# construction, A system of ele- n¢ Memphis Commercial Appeal. Ohio State Journal, vators carries visitors to the top, Krech, President of Equitable The*up-to-date effictency of his plant, His ability to extend long term credits to forelgn buyers, The extent of the co-operation of his banking connections to support his credit, Labor conditions at home and abroad, A moderate nced tariff t porary inequallt sctentifically eutralize tem- and 8. The encouragement of an American m t marine which will ¢ | terms with pottoms. ugh co-operation, through d sales agencies or other- foreign T combir Trust Co. wise, in handling export business. “The most difficult portion of the programme that American manufac will confront the turer is the ques- tion of the tariff. A nation to become «reat in intern: prepared to give that the channel lonal trade must be d take, and to see of trade not clogged with excessive artificial bar- riers. “Adjustments which require thor- ough expert knowledge, some of them of extreme delicacy, should be left to a representative body of economists, practical business representatives of men, bankers and labor, a body which, above all, would be free from politic: eratioy HE history of the healing art | is closely allied with the his- tory of the human race, but of lis two divisions —surgery and medi- cine—the former unquestionably was the earlier and the more effective. Lucretius describes the first efforts of prehistoric man to repair injuries received in confilct with wild beasts, and from the known ages savage tribes possessed remedica for remotest wounds and general ailments, Egypt furnishes the earliest evidence of the existence of a book written on papyrus 0 BOO, treating of the preparation of drugs physician in ancient Beypt belonged to a sacerdotal college and the sick attended the nearest temple where, on the payment of fees from Every which the medical staf was main tained, they of d the services of the physician whose line of etudy was best suited to their case, jans, the Israelites, s abd Persians had in ros practised healing by inedivs, is to Greece we must turn for the founda- of rational medicine. + Iliad, tells us of the toners who visited sick feos. During several cen. turies bef Christian ra medie cine Was pract in Greece as a dis tnet selv profession being open to every free-born citizen, Stu. dents of those times began thelr tn- struction With the study of plants and the preparation of ofntments, draughts and plasters; the abomina ble practice of blood=lettihg, which jwas to Jani until the beginning of the | enth oeentiry, an finally, | treatment at the bedside, e physician on being duly qualt- tooh the Avsculapian oath, re- od patients in his own’ home, or vielted them at their homes, Many cities kept a physician for public sar- vice, his position being comparable to that of the Heal umes, Hippocrates was party affiliations or consid- ‘There's the problem!" ~ Old Documents Now Reveal How Medicine Began __ ith Officer of these the first to give the profession of medicine something pproaching character and direction by denying to disease @ supernatural | origin, “From God as well as another,’ nothing happens with nature.” we derive diagnosis followed From Hippocrate: the threefold comes one disease he writes, “but fe in conformity too, method of by physicians In all ages, viz, to ascertain the past, to examine the present and to fore- the future. Then the treatment of the sick grad- ually became involved tn a maze of un- certainty and doubt, and was rescued ning practice in Rome 194 A, D,, re- duced diagnosis to an exact science in basing It on anatomy and physiology. The progress of medical through its successive stages Is best summarized in a record of the names associated with gre the t discoveries in the n and treatment of specific dis- 3. Rorelll and Bagitv! put into practice sult of their researches in phys!- Harvey discovered the cireula- tion of dhe blood; Willis set the stand- ard for all successors in the treatment of nervous diseases; Addison solved | 84¥1¥- the mystery of the tubercular and origin and cure of Roorhaaven of Leyden, greatest of all clinteal lecturers; M first and best of all nerve spec! Jenner, with his discovery of vi tion, opened the way to endles: nues In the treatmen eases, orgagni of Bologna, in ave- nt of infectious dig- chaos only by Galen, who, begin- | science | meningital disease.; And, mind you, | Corie 2 ee York Brean Word) R. JARR regarded his empty coffee cup intently. He would have Ilked to have more coffee, but he thought perhaps he better not ask for it, as Mrs, Jarr wasn't speak- ing to him. Generally she spoke to him too much, But sometimes, as now, she didn't speak to him at all. Mr. Jarr would have preferred the “too much,” but he had not the order- ing of these things. “Mamma, am I going to have a new Sunday dress for Christmas?” asked little Emma Jarr. ‘Mary Rangle has a new Sunday dress now.” “Hush, my child," sald Mrs, Jarr sadly, “Mamma cannot get you a dress for a long time. Mamma Is very poor.” | She sald this in a tone indicative of widowhood and destitution. This can be explained from the fact that Mr, Jarr nad his week's pay still in his possession. This ts one of the humiliations a wife must endure, When she is not speaking to her husband he holds the power of money over her. Sometimes she sends the children to him to tell him the milkman or the grocer Is at the door—sending the child far as across the room ¢o him at such times, Where there are no children the wife must bear the ignominy of not being able to get any money until she asks for it as best she m At the news that mamma was very poor the little girl regarded her father with a reproachful air, The instinets of her sex told her that her father to blame for this sudden blight of poverty Mr. Jarre groaned inwardly, but re- solved to be asked for his salary, even though by proxy. Supper concluded in gloomy silence, dan then Clara Mudridge-Smith called. “How are you all?” she rattled on “We have been out so much lately that my husband ts sick in bed. he's a@ terrible old grumps when he js sick, and he wants lists; | THE GREATEST BLOCK SYSTEM. He was travelling on a branch rall- road in the North, After a series of sudden bumps and unexpected stops, Pringle enlightened the profes- | he became uneasy. sion on the origin of fevers; Fothorglll | "“pook heres’ he “Look bers he sald to the porter, conquered diphtherla; Bright, in the! is this train safe?” treatment of the an epoch in the maladies, lialy is the mother of electro-th peutics, and Germany, through Sch founder of the modern natural jein, kidneys, marked cure of human “It sure am," said the porter. | ,,{*Well, have they @ block system on this road?” “Block system, sah? We have do reatest block system in de world fen miles back we were blocked by a | history sehool in medicine, has given | load of hay: six miles back we were to the world bacteriology, which, in the | hands of Koch and Pasteur, has for cholera, tuberculosis and malaria be- come one of the most powerful instru- ments of medicine in practice, diagnosis and blocked by a mule; Just now we were blocked by @ cow, and I reckon when we get farther souf we'll be blocked ap alligator, Block system, boss? Ah sbould smile.”—Milwaukee Sentinel, compelled to marry for a liveliheod. Thank goodness that fate for women. isa thing of the pas “Oh, I wish I had been a trat nurs cried Mrs, Clara Mudria§Q Smith, “The uniform is so becoming to me, And on the fleld of battle 1! niight nurse some handsome: young millionaire General through an attack’ of brain fever and marry him, Brain fever 18 so poetic, ‘They go out! of thelr minda and cali for water ang murmur your name, I'd just love be a nurse!” “Why didn't you stay home me to stay in with him all the time!" “Well, It is a good thing he Is sick in bed; then you know where he ts," said Mra. Jarr. “Indeed, I wish he were well and would get out. Ho just drives me wild!” replied the visitor, “They never appreciate what we do for them, Never,” said Mra. Jarr. She said this as gravely as though Clara Mudridge-Smith were @ patient and devoted and attentive helpmeet. “Indeed they do nqt!" replied that fascinating young married woman. “So that’s the reason why I made up my mind, from the very first, simply EA dae ely Se <) to do as I pleased.” cae “They think all the more of you 1f|*"syoy mind your own businana! you do,” sald Mrs, Jarr. You leave other people’ r "Oh, I suppose 80,” replied the VI% | aionet atalrs crlgd Mrs, Jarr, flaringy up. “Clara Mudridge-Smith ia only,too | good for her old husband! And I’m glad there is one woman I know who isn't @ slave,” Mr. Jarr gave an alarm: and runned out,” o8 look “There, you see,” cried M! “that's all 4 man cares for one! he's gone off with his moneys, dear, one might as well be @ bride!" , itor, “but I don’t want him to think #0 much of me. He bores me. Why did I throw my life away on him?” “Why do we all throw our lives away?” asked Mrs, Jarr, "Well, 1 have made up my mind to one thing: My little Emma shall take a college course In one of the professions something refined, She shall not be Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley 1018 by The Pres Publishing Co, (Toe New York Brening Warld.) yaw the street with Billy Mason and insisted on smoking his pipe oft: public with me, Was that elite? A man,’ he says, ‘ought®; to smoke his pipe any time he wanta “But, I says, ‘Billy kept blowing Coovriah! ‘“ OLNG to quit any bad baoits G New Years Day? ed Lucile, the waitress, of the friendly patron, as he dropped the second lump of sugar in his on coffee. out big’ bunches of delicious “ think (M1 quit smoking,” he re-]an4 ma right by his side Task gop plied. is it right for a man to enjoy habits ike that? “ “Pop gives a twit - ders, thow do T know? he apie, Then 1 pervade his sanctity ngatn. perry And, as I come in, [ tell him 5 Tony, the Dago, smoking your. the bueco and having a great tims wants to know if your hale nm formed.’ “It was too much for Dad. “pon't do it,” she advised, “L had ® lving example of it at home last summer and all 1 got to say is don't do it.” “What was the example?’ “Phe old man, One day my mother says to bim: ‘Mike, if you'd quit smoking, I believe your hair would t coming out, Why not try it, you] oes out and makes Tony hand. oor ish, yout” Beek at ae teeny Rand “Lagsie, be says, ‘I'll do it and if} scene changes to the back ya the hair starts to coming in again, Tl buy you a new dress, you female monstrosity, you!” “So father did, He threw his pipe jut the back window and give bis to- bacco to the Dago who lives above! , us in apartment de luxe number 16. “Well, sir, It went all right until that night when I come in from and hunting his pipe. Pretty he finds it and starte it going, e comes into the | " he comer int the house and ‘¥yae ‘Howdy, Mammal" he 6 ze "Howdy, bunkol" ehe euyo., I don't tag onto no new dress!’ ‘With that she hands him a Jes Willard on the ear and we have where we see Dad kicking 98 | work, There sets the old man with rough and tan; i Re bins glo time for a wi nis nervous latitude all topsy-tur No. ain, 1 wouldn't advises ea >Ritowdy, Pop! I says, sweetly. quit smoking if you want t¢ F/cp your wife placitied.” “But T haven't a wife,” anf friendly patron, Wits” eae "Ob, that’s different," saté 3 “*Howdy, bunko!’ he growls. ‘What made you slam that door?! "It didn’t seem to me that w quite the reply for the paternal a “In that case you don't count OW cestry to make to his off-shoot, #0/ about { rig up a scheme for revenge. ‘Lis-| ate ean a arate i ee ina)! ten Pop,’ I eays, ‘T Just walked up| be didn't look very »| Fe * f