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ee = _ “Be the Aitor of The Brening World ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Pedtiened Daily Except Bunday by the Prese Publishing Company, Nos, $3 to Row. New Yor! be rr! PULT' rot Row. | ANG Park Row, UB. SHAW. Rca, JosHPH PULITZER, Jr. hecretary, 6 Park Ro New York an Fecond-Class Matter, Entered at the Post-Office « A. tion Rates to The Evening|For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International und Canada. Postal Union. sews 68.60) One Yoar.. 801 One Month VOLUME 57. HOW THE SENATE COULD HELP. ARMONY and oo-operation between branches of the Federal Government are always to be desired. Obviously the Prosi- dent would welcome the Senate’s formal endorsement of his diplomatic attitude toward the belligerent governments of Europe. But what if the Senate declines to discuss diplomacy on any plane © higher than ono whereon partisan differences and jealousios can have fall play? What if Republican Senators are determined to wrangle over the nation’s foreign policy just as long as the question will yield political capital ? What if Congress finds itself unable to contemplate even peace except through an aura of politics? Surely under euch ciroumstances it would be infinitely better if! the Senate had kept mum about the President’s peace note, as the country prefers to call it, and left it to him to hold a consistent course through such emergencies as may arise. i" It can hardly strengthen the position of the United States in the view of either belligerents or neutrals to have that position mado the subject of sudden legislative clamor and contention. Until the Entente Governments’ reply to the President’s note “has been received, the best service the Senate can render the nation is one of silence. ——_——___-+—___— 4 now Legisiature at Albany piling up appropriations, another direct State tax impending, taxpayers patiently watt- ing to pay the “demmed total”—how little change in what the years bring round! tp A SOCIETY THAT NEEDS PRODDING. T° remarks which Mra, John King Van Rensselaer addressed to her fellow members of the New York Historical Society on the occasion of ite annual meeting this week lacked neither vigor nor point. Upbraiding the society for letting itself become encrusted with dulness, apathy and coldness, when it ought to be “the centre of the city’s hospitality to strangers,” Mrs, Van Rensselaer went on: “Instead of an imposing edifice filled with treasure from old New York people, what do we find? Only a deformed monstrosity filled with curiosities {ll arranged and badly sorted. We have no collection of New York relics worthy of the name. The few that are huddled in one room are dis- Played #0 unattractively that no picture of old New York can be conjured up in one’s mind.” Yet everybody knows few things are more interesting to the aver- age New Yorker of to-day than pictures, photographs, maps, prints, Tar LBS, Tee Pe ne mee = no. World Daily Magazine — play bille, furniture, clothing, household decorations, family treasures and a thousand and one other homely articles and objects that recall for him the bygone life and fashions of the city. No other metropolis in the world changes #0 rapidly as New York. In no other are the familiar landmarks, vistas and surround- ings of former decades of such constant interest to generations that are continually seeing such things disappear. Where should New York turn for an illustrated story of its past if not to the New York Historical Society? According to its records the society has 880 members. The num- ber present at the annual meeting last Tuesday night was twenty-five. Why are the others? nee More trouble for Tammany in its de®Bning years. —EE WHY NOT FIREPROOF FILM? HE fire which burned out a West Thirty-fifth Street moving T picture studio almost in one flash, while thirty-five film act- ors, actresses and employees fled for their lives down an emergency fireproof staircase, is another reminder that the motion picture industry has created a fire peril in cities beside which the much-dreaded fireworks plant of former days looks comparatively harmless. The moving picture studio to-day is everywhere, And moving picture film which is made, handled, cut, reeled and packed by the millions of feet appears to take the palm for confbustibility. Not only must the moving picture folk themselves face the risk, but thousands of audiences in emall theatres none too well built are exposed to chances which no fire laws can do more than reduce, The wonder is that nobody has yet taken time to invent some fireproofing device for motion picture film. Is there any immutable reason why $250,000 worth of film should be at the mercy of a tiny spark which can cause the whole mass to flare and explode like celluloid? The film business is pretty profitable. Couldn’t somebody spare a little money to put chemists on the job and find a way to make the film material itself less dangerous to the community? ———-+ “Absolutely nothing doing in Washington,” reports T. W. Lawson. Has he taken his “leak” back to Boston, or left it to compete with other “leaks” that may turn up? Letters From the People Yes; Assemblyman, Six Cents) Monday, By James C. Young “Some great American éndustrics have learned that psychological tests are an important aid in ting em- plovecs for particular tas UCH is the experience of Prot. W. V. Bingham, head of the psychological department at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, where some notable things have been done in classifying students, “By psychological testa we expect to find what kind of men are best adapted certain kinds of work,” said Prof, Bingham, "This will mean an economic saving that should definitely Increase both industrial and commercial efficiency, If we can sort out the misfits in industry, and turn thelr hands to work for which they are better fitted 17 mental char- acteristics and inclination, we will score an important advance, “A great many of us never find out what we really can do best, and others who have enthusiasm for spe- clal vocations are unable to pursue them for want of opportunity. The first difficulty can be solved, 1 believe, and we may hope that {ts solution will help to make the second propost- tion less diMoult, “There 1s an insistent call from all quarters for effective methods where- by the abilities of the Individual can be measured, Consider how anxious the employer must be to judge whether a prospective employee has such qualities as intelligence, re- sourcefulness and persistence, ‘It ts the business of the psychologist. to find a way by which that question can be answered, “A good deal has been done tn this Atrection, but the larger part of the work remains to be undertaken, We are constantly elaborating methods and = gathering data upon” which psychology can draw in Its studies of character, Intelligence and ull other traits of mind. It will be through the further accumulation of facts that the psychologist of the next generation can replace the armchair analyst's hazy picture of human nature, the laboratory analyst's skel- eton-lke caricature, and give to the world an account that 1s eclentifically accurate. me give you an tnatance of Let To the FAitor of The Evening World ‘To the Editor of The Evening Work! Kindly let me know whether or not| Let me know if the following coin ‘Wititam Sulzer held any public office| is worth more than its face value: 3- after hie impeachment as Governor of| cent piece, 1855, with star. ‘the State of New York. 3M. What day did Jan, 31, 1898, fall on? w Rae Ae eaday. 60 Cents to 82. To the Editor of The Proning World What is the value of a 50-cent plece of 17957 arwW. On what day did Sept. 29, 1897, fall? Cc. M. Both on Wednesday, Thuraday, Fo the Editor of The Brewing World ‘Te the FAitor of The Evening World On what days did July 12, 1899, and| Please let me know what day Dec, ‘Wes, 13, 1900, fall? CRG, C, 18, 1694, fell on, RB ‘ heavily,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “He's dying, then,” replied Mrs. Jarr’s mother, “Shake him!" “Shake him yourself,” said Mra.) | MONG the great generals of|Jarr. “1 want to get off this c: iA France, not many hold higher] “I tell you he has expired, Why | rank than Francols Henri de| doesn't this company have people to Montmorency-Houtteville, mars close the eyes of those who expire }and Duke of Luxembourg, It was on their cars?" aid Mrs, Jarre /222 years ago to-day that the great! mother. or slaty-scveny leaving behind hw ea], But MPs Jarr ha fumped up from & memorial the emblazoned record of | her seat and was signaling the con- iM# many victories in the Church of] ductor, Her mother pulled her down Notre Dame, ‘The Duke of Luxem-|tn the seat beside her, and with his death the prosperity of|¢ommon, humanitarlan duty," she ‘that monarch began to decline, aid, Carnegie Institute of Technology. how applied psychology works: Two students tn the woman's vocational lcollege of the Carnegle Institute of Technology were doing such poor work in thelr junior year that It seemed they must be dropped. Both were specializing in the costume economies course. “On measuring thetr natural abitt- ties in the college bureau of mental tests it was found that they had plenty of native intelligence to do thetr work well. One of the girls was failing because she lacked®the neces- persistence and moral stamina, other lacked any ability to deal with ideas of space and form, “Think of such a girl undertaking, at the insistence of her parents, to o & skilled designer of cos- ! No wonder she was falling. This girl was not dropped from col- lege, but was transferred to the coul which prepares young women for social service work, where she quickly showed an unexpected apti- tude for working with ohildren. “Similar cases are common in busl- ness, and 1 see no reason why It is not feasible to perfect the applica- tion of psychology to a point where a considerable fraction of this waste in fruitless effort can be eliminated. What we are doing in the school room at the Carnegie Institute of Teohnology can be done in the work- shop. Thousands of men are follow- ing yocations for which they are wholly unsuited, and employment managers must see that the next gen- eration starts right. “A number of large institutions have already come to the conclusion that psychology offers promising methods by which to test employees. Thet methods have bean used extent in the civil service in two States with excellent results, and | The Jarr Family Coperight, 1017, by The Prew Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) HE shades of eve were falling T fast and Mrs, Jarr’s mother and Mrs, Jarr were riding home in @ street car, when the for-| mer cried, “Look at that man!” point- ing at tho same time to @ passenger who sat almost opposite them, The man sat with one side of his face toward them and the other against |the middle window of the street oar, |He was stout, of middle age, with jerlsp tron gray hatr and mustache, | Hs Jaw hung open and the one eye turned toward Mrs. Jarr and her |mother regarded them with @ dull, glazed stare, “There's something wrong with that man; let us get out!” whispered Mra, Jarr, who was a New Yorker with no relish for mixing Into affairs that concerned her not, “He's dead!" Dissed Mra, Jarr’s mother, “No, he's not dead. He's breathing | searched so we can notify friends and relatives.” “But our names will be in all the papers. We'll have to go to the police ation, maybe to the Coroner. Oh, dear! Let us get off quietly,” whim- pered Mra. Jarr. There were not many people in the car, but by this time the attention of all was concentrated upon Mrs. Jarr and her mother and the man with the staring eye opposite, The con- ductor came forward. “What's the matter, aske" “The mart over there—is he dead?” eried Mrs. Jarr'a mother, “He paid his fare when he got on,” said the conductor. “I don't know what I got to do with it, See, he's got a transfer in his mitt!” “He isn't dead. But let us go. He looks dreadful,” moaned Mrs, Jarr, “If you don’t shake him and then stop this car and notify @ policeman I'l) report you,” eait Mra Jarr’s ladies?’ be mother, “Suppose the guy’s only sleeping?” asked the bewildered conductor, “Su, 08 he's only sleeping and I shake him and wakes him and he hands me a wallop?" “Young man," sald Mrs, Jarr’s mother severely, husbands, 1 know what I'm talking about, That man !y gone from this vale of tears, Shake him!" But the supposed traveller to that distant bourne brought an end to all argument by closing his mouth with a gulp and eltting bolt upright. "Didn't I tell you that guy wi “We must have the body | only agleap?’ orjed the conduotor, and ‘I've buried two} Mental Tests Will Show What Work Men Are Best Equipped to Do, View of Prof. W. V. Bingham, to| be as indispensable tn the realm of By Roy L. McCardell I personally know of several large manufacturing concerns that havo | adopted applied psychology as an aid | to etficiency in employing men. A group of the big insurance compantes have recently called a well known Psychologist into conference for the | purpose of developing @ system whereby they can test the natural abilities of agents, These companics employ large numbers of men, and by | the nature of the work many of them follow It as a temporary occupation, It will be the alm of the companies to find the man who ts looking for steady | employment and with the brains to| make it profitable for himself and his employer. “Applied psychology 1s working out mental scales and standards for measuring men. They will come to mind as yardsticks and peck meas- ures are in the realm of matter,” he rushed away to help on @ fat lady for whom the car had stopped, a Proceeding that would not have oc- curred to him save that !t now came as a relief to his embarrassment, “Hey, what's the row? asked the man opposite, feeling conscious that he was the centre of some recent ex- cltement. Mrs. Jarr drew herself up and | looked out of the window, but Mr. Jarra mother-in-law had tamed too many mon in her time to permit a stranger in @ street car to eneer at| her. “Tf people will go asleap like a horned owl and keep their eyes open, what can they expect?” she asked, | “T'll Det you are a suffragette!l A long nosed e@uffragette!" cried the | man in a voice that indicated he wasn't afraid of any woman, not even his own wife, Mrs, Jarr’s mother had a long nose, but whe wasn't a suffragette, | “It people get delirium tremens tn | public conveyances they should be | locked up," she snapped, “Where's a policeman?” The car was bowling along. There was no policeman tn sight, {t being on | @ street of few saloons, A man whispered something to the M rows make! IDEA!” heart: But, lo, 1 could “So glad to meet youl” Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1011, by The Prem Puttishing Os, (The Hey Yor Brent Wertd,) Being the Confessions of the Seven-Hundredth Wife ‘Y DAUGHTER, @ man came unto me, saying: “Let me lead thee unto the Lair of the Highbrows; yea, even unto the Studio Tea, that thou mayest take counsel with posts ang artiste and writers of popular novels, and drink from the fount of INSPIRATION!” And, in my simplicity, 1 followed him, emé found myself among the hewere of statues, and drawers of magazine covers, and venders of verse, And my soul was delighted! For, I eald in mg “Now shall I be UPLIFTED! ‘atmosphere’! Now shall I be filled with Ideas, and tea, and punch, and Inspiration!” And I opened my ears and Metened, mightily, Now ehall I breathe not distinguish their words, one from another; for they all epoke at ONCH. Yet in time I discovered that they were all saying: And I went among them, drawing them aside singly, and persuading them to speak, one by one; the short-haired damsel, and the youth of the waving looks, and the art student, and the Woman-whoDID4hings. And I eet their epeeches down upon my tablet, For the words of Genius are not to be despised. Yea, these were, their words, which I wrote down: “Gracious! What a crush!” “I wish I had worn my new cerlee “Ien't this weather the limit?”” gown!” “I suppose I'll have to call @ taxi.” “Did you SBE that’ woman in the blue velvet blouse? Oh, yes, a dream!* “But how does she DO it on fifteen hundred « year?” “1 wonder who makes her hats.” “HAVE you met Mise Prettything?” “No, they only pay a hundred. Therese no money in good stuff eng more.” “My DEAR! I lost ten pounds tn “Doesn't Dora look dazzling?” “No, it's only her second divorces,” “No, no, please! Only one Jump, “The cakes are deelicious, but fat! “Haven't we met before?” “What brand DO you smoke?” “What'll you have?” @week! You really should try ftf* I'm banting.” toning.” And lo, when I came forth I sald in my heart: “Verily, verily, if THIS be the way of the Intellectuals, let me go among the Bromides, who read the books and admire the pictures which the High For, peradventure, eomewhere among them I may find am But my Guide chided me, and mocked me with his he-has, saying! “Oh, thou Simple One, knowest thou not that there be only three kinds Selah. of company? The No-brows, who eeck dissipation; the Lowbrowa, who seek Inspiration; and the Highbrows, who seek RDCRBATIONI” By Bide Lucile the Waitress Dudley Oepyight, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Brentns World.) 6eé O you believe in luck?” asked D Lucile the waitress as th friendly patron glanced the bill of fare, “Can't say that I do,” he replied. “That's me, too!” she continued. “I swear I can't eee anything slimbol- feal in luck. It happens or it don't. ‘That's the syntax I put on it. And all the luck charms in the world can’t implicate good fortune in the general run of events on this terrestful spear. But there are those who think luck’ the whole thing, One was in here a while ago, “When I elip up to him for his order he sings out: ‘Wait! Pick it up!’ “I think he means one of my feet, 80 I'm very cool in my demeantor. ‘Never mind about the suggestions,’ I says. ‘You come in here to predi- cate your innard man with some would-be food. Let ua each keep within the boundaries of our own romaine.’ “He grows more excited and ven- omous. ‘I mean that pin on the floor,’ he says. ‘Pick !t up or you'll have bad hick all day.’ “Well, sir, just to plasticate him, I dived for the pin and got it. “There isn't anything in luck,” I says, ‘I'm here to dish out the dal inties, Forget the pins, and le 1 “ ‘gee!’ he saya, and when | come ‘pack from the realma of the cookerie he plunges into another dispute about luck. “"Do you know,’ he says to me, Household ‘that !f you don’t believe im tack your luck will be awful?’ lon’t delleve in e860 econicums, Forget all that stuff, oF you'll become more dippy.’ “He never got the ‘more’ all, ‘Weil,’ he rattles on, ‘believe it or not, I carry a luck charm, and it brings me daily? |“ "Was ft thet charm that you into this food factory? T aie wayly. 7Gnt this place te all right’ be emile, ‘You ain't your esas yet,’ I answer him ipely. ‘How- ever,’ I add, ‘I guess this place is as good as the rest. But, nevertheless, I'd suggest that you give thet charm a rub or two before you open the egRS.’ “With that he pulls the charm out of his pocket, It looks to me Hke @ penny made in some foreign tongue, ‘Here it Is,’ he says. ‘It's @reat for bringing luck.’ “Then I ketch his drift, @ got an- other at home,’ he says. ‘Tl aell you this for half a dollar if you promise to handle it with care.’ “That was his game, See? He had me pick up the pin and gave me all that epilogue to get me to his charm for 60 cents, Some em guy, eh?” “T should may 0,” repiied the friendly patron. At that point Lucile caught sight of a girl about to leave the res- taurant, aut, Lage) called. “It u're going home, me good ick charm. You don’t think paid & half dollar for that to steep good fortune your way, do you, you poor fish Economies By Andre Dupont Improving the Appear HY do so many housekeepers allow their furniture to get ghabddior aud shabbier every year without doing a thing to improve lit? Now it Is just as easy to make over your furniture as it is to make over a dress, always provided that it 1s not in such @ tate of dilapidation that it 1g beyond repair, If the frame of any chair, sofa or table 18 In good condition all you need ts a little stain or varnish or perhaps a good furnt- ture polish to make the woodwork look like new again, while upholstered ecats and backs can be renewed by any woman who is not afraid to tackle @ new sort of job, but ane that ty very simple unless the. furniture is tufted. In every family there ts usually an armchair of some sort that is very much the worse for wear and yet far too comfortable to be discarded, It jate sleeper and he laughed, “Hol” he cried, “It was my glass | ey’ | “People with glass eyes shouldn't | ride in street cars.” snapped Mrs, Jarr's mother. “Nor old women with false teeth!" retorted the brute, | When Mr, Jarr came home that evening Mrs, Jarr complained of such a headache that she couldn't discuss hor wother’a visit, needs “doing over" badly and yet the expense of hiring an upholsterer to do the work 1s considerable, and 60 {t Is put off from year to year, For example, let us suppose that ft ts the sort of chatr we have all seen dozens of times, the kind with a comfortable spring seat and softly padded back and arms covered with a faded tap- estry material. The only place the woodwork shows 1s in the legs, and fhese @re very much scratched and ‘ance of the Furniture. dented. If the tapestry covering is not torn or worn through in any p tt can be cleaned and greatly improved in appearance by laying « large bath towel over the stuffed portion and then whipping the upholstery lightly with @ rattan rug or cushion beater Shake out the towel whenever it shows any dust and continue beat. ing until all the dust ts out of the chair, Then brush the chatr thoe- oughly with a bristle clothes or bom- net brush. If there were any tuftings in the back and inside the arms of chair you would wipe them out with a bit of cotton tied on the end af & skewer and covered with a pleoe of old silk rag. Next wipe a over the upholstery of the chair with ® piece of clean white flannel that has been wrung out of hot water until it Is nearly dry, and follow this tm- mediately with a cloth wet with aloo. hol, Change the cloths at once for fresh ones if they grow dirty, and be |particularly careful about this if the |covering 1s in pale bi Icate shade, ne OF in any Gals If the woodwork only dingy looking, need ts @ good ‘pollsht {t is badly ecratchea or re # should be treated before the new cover Is put on. ‘The old finish should |be removed with strong ammonia water or with a varnish remover that you can buy at any paint Scrape the surface with a dull knife and wash It clean with a cloth soaked in benzine. After the wood is ary Tub It over with sandpaper and then & @ood funiture of the ohair is herhaps all it revarnish with