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— Evening World Daily Magazine bythe (The New ecaiwn, ‘ork Evening ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PU "A Rough Sketch LITZER. Nos. $3 to Published Dally Except ms Mg the Press Publishing Company, 63 Park Row, New York. Entered at the Peat Office at Naw Tork as Second Budsoription * 1e Eveaing| Mor England and World for the U ‘ni ted States All Countries in the Tnt Poatal Unton. y seeeeeeee ft | TERMS FIRST. \ REMIER LLOYD GUORGE puts it plainly and in fow words ; P Toward Germany's peace proposal the Kntente Allies are of one mind and purpose. “Without reparation peace is tinpos | sible.” “We will wait until we lear what tering t are surer than 4 those which Germany broke.” Great Britain having France's answer,” t erm of the results it may have hoped for from its manoeuvre: (1) No one of Germany's enemies h wn the slightest wishing to withdraw itself from the common cause to disenss a sepa-l Tate peace, (2) Neither the Government of the United States nor the Gov- i ernment of any other neutral nation has added its moral support or suasion to the proposal made by Gerinany to the nations leagued against her. The second of these failures, we believe, must be almost as disap-] “indorsed word of Russia's and Government can eliminate at least twe every as sl $ pointing to the German Government as the first. was undoubtedly planned in part to make a friend of this country in the general interest of peace, before declaring a single positive item] of the terms upon which peace was to be concluded. | ' Tt didn’t work. If Germany still wants to discuss peace, and) ' there are reasons for believing she is desperately | one course is now open to her. She must show her hand. nations as well as those that are fighting her have made it plain that only a proffer of specific terma which she is ready to submit can im the support of neutral governments or the attention of host ones, There will be no round table discussions of peace unless Germa Its pence overtere anxious to do so, but utvai} ee ; i bike Geo _ Test Yourself by This Standard LLoyd ROE Famous in History NO, 29—CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN; THE GIRL ‘‘KING.” King Gustavus Adolphus, “the Lion of the North, had built up Sweden from a third-rate to a first-rate European of it. Her father had lad odd ideas as to how And his advisers tried to +»! carry out the dead King’s wishes. By Albert Payson Terhune HE was Queen of Swoden when he was only six years old, S power. Then he died in battle, in 1632, leaving bis little daugh- Yet she begau well enough. Gustavus Adolphus, having no son, had commanded that Christine b@ i Conprtaht, 1918, by The Ime Hublidiing Co, (The New York kvening World.) ’ Her father " ter, Christina, to carry on his mighty work, And a sorry mess she made y @ lite girl should be reared to womanhood. brought up like @ boy. His Chancellor, Oxenstiern, chief of the wa council during the child's minority, obeyed these orders to the letter. Christina was dressed in boy's clothes, was taught to bear ped and perils. She was trained in every, martial and athletic accomplishmen! and she received a man’s education. By the time she was ten she was not only well versed in statecraft am in languages and in all other branches of prineely rw study, but ahe was a splendid athlete, a crack ebot, n a clever fencer and a superb rider. Me tid tum deyo Incidentally, she was a heavy smoker, a steady drinker, and swore more luridly than any soldier im her army. She slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, could stay im the saddle for ten hours at a stretch and was an intrepid hunter of bears and wolves, She was well read, too, and had all the details of Europe's tangled politica! situation at her fingers’ ends, At efgiteen she formally assumed control of the kingdom's affairs, For! her teens sie began to show eccentricities that were liardly to be wondered at in view of her upbringing. For one instance, as soon as she was i® power she broke off the marriage engagement her Council of Regents had arranged for her. Whon she was asked why #he lad consented to the Match if she did not intend to keep her word, she answered: “At the time the betrothal was announced I had not the actual rulers ship of a single farmyard, and certainly not of my own future She declared that other women were fools and not worth her friendship. She preferred to ride and hunt and carouse with the rough officers of her staff. Except on rare state occasions she dressed either as a man or else im the very plainest frooks. Sie did not apend more than fifteen minutes a da combed her tousied hair only once a week, and sie washed her hands little oftener. A comb and a scrap of ribbon were her only ornaments, Then the eccentric girl went a step further and scandalized all ron rope by insisting ele shoujd be called a “King” and not a “Queen,” mie it was no fault of hors that she had been born a girl, but that she pi: | t least refuse to be anything so effeminate as a Queen. ‘Therefore, he putiiely proclaimed herself “King” of Sweden, She had a furious temper, a canal boat captetn’s Vocabulary and a love of practical jokes, There was nothing regal about her except her title. Stubbornly she refused al! offers of marriage, ee though some of her love affairs shocked her plows ads y in dressing, Bhe eee, No Husband visers. And now, under her title of “King,” she began to rule so incompetemtiy and unjustly that presently her kingdom Was th a hopeless snarl and her foreign policy was rapidly undoing all her great farier had achieved for Beadan In a fit of remorse sho resigned the crown and left her native tang, Seldom has ony girl in all history had such glorious prospects as Christina of Sweden when first she mounted the throne. Seldom, tf e has any other girl managed in so short a time to wreck every one of hi chane By Roy L. ‘McCardell aches a first comes to the point: What is she prepared to bring to the eonfer- ence besides elaborate demonstrations of her success and of her powers of resistance? In short, what will she yield? The German Government has now manoeuvred itself into a po tion where its next move seems bound to measure, in the eyes of al! the world, how serious have become the problems which it faces UNCLE SAM A PRICE-BOOSTER? | MAND for a revenue measure to meet a 1917-1918 detivit! D estimated at anything between $185,000,000 and $300,000,000 raises the question whether the nation itself is not being com mitted to a programme of expenditure based, like so many others just now, on the exhilarating hope that there will be plenty of money from somewhere to pay for it. It’s the spirit of the day. One glimpse of prosperity las becn enough to set thousands and thousands of persons in this eountry livirg straight up to and beyond their incomes, And in many cases the sight} of somebody else’s prosperity has been the sole basis for advanciug} the scale of living. Gamblers, speculators and price-boosters keep jt t ahead of the rush. The cost of living climbs as fast as those to whom it meuns least can be persuaded to keep pace with it. Poise? Meanwhile what becomes of the’ average citizen upon whose Bnarey? Former employe und te Hl. J. Barrett Name tress | 1 " 7 aH ‘“ ERE is @ blank apptication! self-confidence? What work did you do salary, wages or savings neither the influx of gold nor 100 per ce which 1s used by one of the} Optimism? What salary did you receive? dividends declared on war stocks exert any immediate effect? He ' country’s great advertising| Are you systematic? Why did you leave? j legun to look on Uncle Sam as his last level-headed and influen agencies for the BOEpaee a EINE, psi lea What one thing do you think you $ i : Tin i saath +e i, the qualifications of candidates fo! eliberative? contributed while at this work which 4 frend. But what if Uncle Sam takes to capitalizing the future,|empioyment," remarked a local busi- | Impulsive? linnreved eh develenadiaitier it or the i spending ahead of his prospects, und piling on tolls and taxes to pay|ness man w do you lack? method of handling it? z his bills? | “It struck me that most of the} What is your ambition? : Of what part of the work are you z ‘ : que s applied equally well to al- Do you do your best work when tt|most proud? In making the best use of its prosperity the country ought to Le) most any line of business, Look it {Is planned for you, or when you plan! phen comes a test which appiies | able to look to the Government for an example of prudence, far-|over and see how you measure up. lyour own work? Jonly to the advertising profession sightedness and restraint. Already millions need its protection,| Note that they demand (hy A al ay seriously do you take your| solect from the last issue of tho] Ny i A joi g you nh fe work? Never was there stronger reason to keep its influence at work agnine | Ue" Lhdgh epee “ur (name of -known national weekly) Aid = mer employers four times, be. fom) What is your hobby? lwhat, in your opinion, are the th r extravagance, | four employer 1 Does It interfere with your busi advertisements # your rea. | ie | Have you judgment j ness? for this selection in not me ADDING TO ITS ATTRACTIVE POWER, | sents scours? | How do you spend your teisuse| than 100 wordy | Mental aeauranyt | time—chief sports of amusements nia application blank is supple-| HE Save New York Commit which is working to relieve) 4 anes you a member of any club, or-| mented by @ personal interview upon | i ion or society? which much depends. ie congestion in the city’s retail shopping district: by persuading) Perseverance iene cloak, suit, skirt and fur manufacturers to remove to a zone south of Thirty-third St ssuvs an appeal to retail houses throuy! R fl . ener) D... oy) oat the country asking them to join in making the Save New Yorl eflections of a Bachelor Girl ovement “nation-wide.” | SHINGTON, the capital of = A movement “nation-wid | ARMING TON: ther-onpital. 9 By Helen Rowland \ The argument likely to have most weight with out-of-town mer _ Neh spe ming apse ee “= et fs : | ed 126 years ago to-day, Dee. \ chanis and buyers would seem to be the convenience of having cloak, | 20, 1790, In the carly days of the sright, 1916, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Wo | suit and similar industries centralized in one district and the prob-| Reputwic Congress engaged tn a | RASS WIDOW; The angel whom a man loved, the human being he} ability that under such conditions they can buy merchandise at better| #94 bitter wrangle to ” v8 ng married, and the devil he divorced, | ation of th capita, anc yk u east terms from manufacturers who are not trying to carry the burden of RET oveslead ex pa 1 Fj i the controversy threat Introducing your “pet” man to @ prettier woman | ig! overhead expenses merely in order to be in the fas\.ionable re-! the infant Government, At length is almost as great a proof of human faith as handing tail zone, an agreement was it 1, and @ the baby the matches to play with New York itself is now thoroughly convinced of the benefi wy We Tae ether penne aan ae to be gained by taking workshops out of the shopping section. The) selected, In realizing the dream of Why shoul i one womat Went te punish another | 4 woma tealing her husband? Isn't the at | old Twenty-third Street and Sixth Avenue shopping district has ]yn}| Washington much vexation was ex- man for ate be he fact, that} | ep akGan Washi de the aitisuda at she has a “stealable” man on her hands, punishment been waiting to be reclaimed from its run-down, deserted state. Realry; Perenced Deckust Of Toe aultwls oF » enough? values all over the city are bound to gain in stability and consisteney| whom were Scotch, and had inher- 4 ee | by a readjustment of busincss to localities specially fitted for particu-| Most faiubhorn. we ait was David 4 When woman wants to renew her youth she tries] lar kinds. m Burns, & tobacco planter and justice ower a new hair tonie, a new. style of corset and a new sys-| _ ‘ : of the peace, who insisted that he! tem of face massage; n simply goes in for a new flirtation and gets | New York’s habit heretofore has been to huddle itself together “did not want a capisal in his front | iWiee the etteet. ge; 8. Man Simply & nd gets | in one “centre” after another. Other cities of the country are certain) *“Mteenington argued with him for aa to find interest and profit in studying its plans for a bette siness| Mays and Burns at last capitulated, | Jeyout. ' ra } otter businoss| 5 p exacted a good price, and also So long as one girl accepts as flattery the same little remark which yout. istaebed Pty tite Ta | another regards as impertinence, and which a man intended as neither, 7 . ing stuod Ull a few years ago. how in the world can any man be expected to comprehend women? Letters From the People ~ st wae Cost of Living Remedy. ra setalb} 2 f ' f life he . ea, Cast of having Rem ralge vexstablas in thelr back yard RETORT (OIR)COURTEOUS: | When + man takes a tumble down the ladder of life ie always blames Ldust read the letter from Constant: aur St the price turkeys & A A Maa ei sce ie eld up ih @ it either oa some Woman above him, who “threw” him down, or on some Reader, entitled “Back to the Farm,") aiuing them ita fellow could by two horses ‘Fee { Woman below, Who “lured” him down, and beg to advise all boys who can! |tew Gates GF lana Cue efain iheton 7 | eesthad Uk ng. hur at of the - Get & email tract of land, even if on! A PLATSURH BOY, | way, and at length one of the occ: jive:Uha pull 6 or 10 feet square, to plant pen aaa . ’ p eatin nee The novelist who makes his lovers marry and live “happily ever after-! thing on it in the spring, and by £0) 11 he paror of Toe Yreaive ae d” has certainly improved on Providence doing they can learn a great deal) 4 cluims that w non! What | e@bout farming; also whether they) serve 1 Mal i aiai\ibe daaming fap a-living, it aN oe Success in a flirtation, as in gambling, consists in ing out of the With the population increasing and | * o 4 nen i vith | game before your luck begins to turn. private the area of tillable land decreasing. ‘ the high cost of livin, ; to go higher, and will continue je will have to \T | bawling: | send?” Coprright, 29S, Ae Ba] Faves &, HE paladin had evidently some- thing of value for some one, for he had opened the inner hall | goor of the apartment In which the Jarra were dwelling and his whistle echoed up from the ground floor, “I's a re gistered letter he wants somebody to come down and sign for," said Mra. Jarr, “Oh, dear, L wish It were for m “) don't. replied Mr, Jarr, “It would lonty be a dunning letter with a reg- 1 to prove we had received ulting remarks and threats the few tn to sue.” Me. Ja letters before. “Not at this time of year,” Pe marked Mrs, Jarr, “People are too full of the Christmas spirit to thipk of debts and money.” had received registered Mr. Jarr gave her a look. Why aa- aw so foolish a statement? JayBe it Is for ust" eried Mra, i dar xeitedly, as the “whistle stil ebrill jonger, louder and more Im- patiently. “Perhaps Uncle Henry has went us a turkey or @ lot of money, somebody has died and left us @ fortune, 1 heard other doors open and close, There! The postman ts calling, and st sounds Ike our nami Mrs, Jarr threw open the doorway the upper hall, and the hoarse of tho postman was heard “Jarr! He: And he fol- lowed it with another plercing blast of his whistl Mrs, Jarr gave one look at her hatr in a mirror as she passed and sped down the steps. “You don’t believe in Santa Claus; whatever {t is I'll claim, then!” was her parting shot to Mr. Jarr, the | doubter, She did not return with the same alacrity, but nevertheless she bore a small package and several letters and cards, ‘How or much did Uncle Henry asked Mr, Jarr, “Was it the $30 he borrowed from me when he | honored us with his last visit?” Don't be so sarcastic,” sald Jarr shortly, as she cut the ing on the box with a table knife. package contained a pepper- -salt it fairly cried “Ten Cent Store “[ don't see why the postman was so insistent on your coming down, It n't have hurt if that had been mailbox thieves, Who is it set wou looted b trom? od Mr. Jarr It's from Cousin Emma,” replied Mrs, Jarr doletully, "What did she send me such a thing as that for by vegistered mail? Ob, well,” she added The Jarr Family with resignation, “I can give it to Gertrude.” “Oh, well, never mind! all right,” said Mr. Jarr. rowed money when they went away and took things out of the house they fancied. They might have sent the children something.” She meant “Here's a Christmas card from! vphey might have se ‘ nt us @ couple Aunt Hetty," continued Mrs. Jarry] of barrels of potatoes or a pest | resignedly. No, it's a New Year's | apples,” sald Mr. Jarr, “for here's @ card, See, it has Father Time greet- ing a flying baby and the words, ‘Welcome to 1904" on it.” “It's a jittle belated,” remarked Mr. Jarr, dryly. “It's like your relatives to wish you a bappy thirteen years ago.” | who wants to buy some fine hana, “I don’t mind for myself," said}es he has more than he can age Mrs, Jarr, a tear coming to her eye, | Want to see his letter?” “I'm sure T always feel embarrasved | "No, | do not!” replied Mra, Jarry to get gifts from relations or any-| and she commenced to cry, body else. But they might have xent ever mind, dear,” said Mr, Jarr, something for the children! They tting her on the shoulders, “Banta ~ stopped with us two weeks and put us is coming just the same, even (f us to terrible expense and never even | he doesn't come from any of our regae paid street car fare. And they bor- tives.” cile, the Waitress By Bide Dudley. Ce, Mina tte York rating ries | ‘ce E had one of those lady-kill- Ww ere in here this morning,” said Lucile, the waitress, to the friendly patron. “Did he try to make love to you?” “Oh, sure! But his success was) old Snes “Well! he says, ‘we can rest rather invariable, He takes @ seat, o14) 5 “Then he hands Bull vee and when I mitigate to him for his| somo modest's shone) me a card desires, he fixes his necktle and says: | get one,’ he tells me, ‘You can get ‘Has there been a blonde in here look- | !t for $10 down and $5 a month,’ ing for me? "To be In. your company Til @e says. Now what ‘Landlady wanting her bill paid? rf 9 at are you going k him, Just to typity his nanny. ft, to matficulate with your teeth? ‘Just beans and a cup of Java,’ ‘Not on your life!’ he says. ‘This lady is a rich woman, who Is in love he tells with me. She follows me all around.’ ‘Fine * comes from ltue me ‘Maybe after I buy that gown you “Better order some fish,’ I says. ‘It's brain food." | will have enough commission money to eat a steak now and then,’ "All joking aside,’ he says, ‘this| lady Is nuts about mi “Say, boy, it sure got his tempera: “Why don't they send her to some mental nature to skidding. He frowa@ and ys I must be making sport of enfeebled resort: for mental detec- tives?’ I ask. “'No,' I shoot at him, ‘noboay coupldn't make a sport out uf you, Hero you are talking about Ten ‘But L don't care for her,’ chatters on, ‘I like pretty girls built on your plan, letter from Uncle Henry complaining of hard times, sickness, bad luck and general misery, He says he would send us some potatoes, but he ex- pects to get $2 a barrel for them. And he asks me if | know anybody “‘And we'll inhale some wealthy water,’ comes from him, ‘Atta boy!’ was my rejomver, “‘And of course, we'll wear eve. ning clothes, Have you got an ever ig dress of the latest a la mode? No,’ I says, ‘mine's six years viants and cating 10 cents’ worth ot beans in a heartless joint like t Then you hand me a bid for the go busine: You'd better dissect up other some soclal partner for your “ yes?’ I says, ‘and where shall I) table visty-vi: ¥ meet you at 7.80 o'clock?” | "Well, sir, he sees I'm wise to him, “He adjusts bis tle again and says; |%° he Bets up and leaves, and that | ends our little tainted tate, “Four-fusher, wasn't he?’ friendly patron. ore likely a floor flusher,* What's that? *& fellow who scrubs floors," Luatle, “Is your pie all Heneen oid "Very good!” Lucile gave another patron neagb; a hard look, There!’? oe oaie him. “I told you a dead ant in , kin pit wowd burt it, like mi’, don’t you, kid? | ,' T tell him, ‘You got such /t a sweet, kind face.’ | “le you're not jollying me,’ he! says, ‘I'll meet you in front of the restaurant and we'll go to the Golden Cafe and have some patsy de foy grass.’ “Mine f says. ‘Kind o! “Yes, wu brief time she ruled wisely, even brilliantly, But while she was still ia |

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