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SS a aT N I ees ene 3. anew "tl eee eens: tewtiiemmnnn eee 6 eee ee seHg sori. | An After Dinner Smoke «tie, By J-HCassel][Pifty Failures AN 63 Perk Row, Oh Park Tow. 1}! By Albert Payson Perhune at the Port-Offce at New York as Fecond-Clans Matter / — - = rar GaN Wonk da Bubscripiton Rates to The Fverting|For lingland and the Continent | Copyrigt, 1917, by The Prem Uubliening Go (The Now 2 tthe nd bh “\} we tice otic OR alate |NO. 12—-OLIVER CROMWELL: The ‘Failure’ Who Ruled ne Tear... ee sense $3.00 One Year. soeems ~ 08 ‘ c) b 8 Month 1 180 One Month avne ae England. | N @nglish farmer decided that bis career was a failure; that ing | ' VOLUME 57 ee 0. 20, | A land was no longer worth living fn, and that his one hope was to f begin life afresh tn America So he joined a party of emigrants and prepared to start for the New World. In this plan, too, he failed, for Charlos I, King, of England, refused permlesion for the party to sall, This was the crown ing stroke of failure for the unlucky farmer, Life was hateful to nite ft his own land; and yet he was not allowed to go away and try to shape & | new career elsewhere. * ! Tho man was Oliver Cromwell, At this time he was middle-aged and i had no hope of bettering himself in life, Within a very few years he wad to reign as uncrowned King of Englaod and as supreme master of that country’s destinies. Ho was not an attractive figura, this Failure who was soon to rule Hinge land. His face was swollen and red. His linen was dirty, His clothes were il (itting and slovenly, His manner was gawky and bis voice was aa harsh As @ peacoc! | He has been called a hero, a scoundrel, a patriot, a hypocrite, @ lofty, | statesman, a demagomue politician, a saint, a devil. This is no place to @ig- FAMINE FORCING PEACE. | MERICANS returning from Germany with Mr. Gerard con-! firm the belief expressed by The Evening World yesterday that famine is the only conquering force in Europe, | These Americans, who a month ago were living in Germany, with every opportunity to observe conditions there, report the food situa-| tion as most serious, the people underfed, mortality among old and young increasing and this year’s crops of doubtful sufficiency. Three, hundred and fifty thousand persons in Berlin are now dependent upon| the soup kitchens for their food, and in all parts of the country hun- dreds and perhaps thousands are likely to die of hunger before the harvests bring some relief. At the same time comes news of bread riots in Petrograd, while| | ¥ . tte | cuss his character, but merely to tell without comment the story of his rise | warnings published by the British food authorities become more and | | from failure to rulership. more insistent and disquieting. i Charlies 1, King of England, was calmly certain that the plain people had Deadlock of armies on land, deadlock of blockades on sen, with | ho rights a monarch wan bound to respect. He besy | millions of non-combatants toiling in the face of starvation to main- . pieased, So, In sp of the people's wishes, ex- Rignt pressed through Parliament, he levied unjust ana heavy taxes, formed an unpopular foreign policy an@ in a dozen other ways assailed the public's rights, Parliament objected, Charles rebuked this move by dissolving Parliament. ‘A century before this England might perhaps have endured such treats ment. But times were changing. People were beginning to think for them. selves instead of submitting meekly to their King’s commands, “The Divine Right of Kings was dying out, The Divine Right of Trusts was not yes born. Parliament resented King Charles's tryanny by rebelling against him and in 1642 declaring clvi! war. In the name of religion, as well as of Mbe erty, this civil war was waged. The so-called Purttan Party was in power among the Parliamentary forces—a party made up of erim, fierce men, almost fanatic In religion and in the rigor of their private life—not pleasant folk to get along with, but terrible fighte 4 Dy refusing to let Oliver Cromwell safl for America poor foolish Ring ™” Charles had unknowingly signed his own death warrant, For Cromwell at once came to the front in the Parliamenta my. At last he had found career that did not spell failure, Ho was nearly fifty years old and he had no expertence at all as @ soldter, (ain the grim and costly equilibrium! How long will they stand it? How long before weakened, worn- out, starving peoples behind the armies will be drawn together by a} | common despair in one vast, desperate desire for peace? | a THE MAJOR FLAW. HIE more the west side improvement contract with the New! York Central is discussed, the more docs publio attention j focus upon a point where the agreement seems weakest: i By the outright and unrestricted sale of real estate to the! railroad the city is handing over valuable rights which it can never, recover or revise and which may even be used against it. Public Ser- vice Commissioner Travis H. Whitnoy, in a statement issued yesterday | preliminary to the Commission's official report, put his finger on th P weenneneenenanaee ; { By “Divine H lieved in the “divine right of kings” to do as they t But he was a born military genius. Quickly he rose from militia Captain to weak spot: | a Coloncley. Ho recruited a cavalry regiment, known as “The Ironstdes,” r land made up of stalwart heroes whose powers of prayer and exhortation “The company is demanding perpetual rights with @ free, were equalled only by their prowess at threshing the King’s troops, Crom- unhampered hand to develop as it sees fit, to determine and well Pines vee fo ise into battle with sword In one hand and a Bible 5 \ tucked under the other arm. to change the character of yards and terminals with no re: | King Charles was overtlirown and captured. Cromwell was one of the strictions on rates to and from New York City, with no re- | Judges who condemned him to die, On Charles's death England became @ strictions on its right to use the generous gifts of the city to | epublic. Cromwell pushed ahead as fast in politics as in war. Presently sustain in rate proceedings a high valuation on the property Hl @ Ne had himself appointed “Lord Protecto used by the company. Citles have before this made vast gifts An Uncrowned Fealm, ‘This was the highest office in the land. | i possessor was King itn everything but to railroads to secure increased facilities and then had the | | Monarch, } title of “King” just then being decidedly unpopulal value of their gifts used to sustain Increased rates. Gen- | | ere Cromwell governed Engiand wisely, ¢ ough erosity by public authorities should have @ sure return to the | sometimes cruelly, but, on the whole, with a sort of rudimentary justice, © public.” i For years he held his lofty position, in spite of conspiracien and prtaina Rigel H ; against him. Parliament was completely under his thumb and did what i New York is no callow, inexperienced municipality. It has cut} told it to do. In a way his rule was fully as absolute as Charles's had beem, its eye-teeth, and it knows the enormous value of some of the things! OS aad raaeveypalaiy gialgey Sapte it gave away with both hands in earlier days. | i : i s i Any railway corporation now doing business in this community = eee : me wie 3 Rae a ar Sener | i ef millions can not only afford but be glad to get additional rights in Y t d ’ M t h tt 1 D ’ D h Love Letters and the Lovelorn the form of a franchise, guaranteeing the city the right to revise, esterda y S oO er oO O= a y S aug ter | By Sophie Irene Loeb | } restrict and retain ultimate control of concessions and privileges) : j ; : ; : | 4 - ity who have discovered innate vic-|beon growing fast and your body has | which, after all, are granted only in the name of the public, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. fousnese in the dress of the modern | not attained complete ‘symmetry. You 107, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Xow York Evening World.) i The city can be generous without being shortsighted. Coorriaht. 1907, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The Now York Breing World.) school girl, &re in the chicken stage of develop- SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD young-| a mato by the mail route? It is only 3 No. I. ‘ will think of me as yesterda But do you remember a certain) rent, and Jet mo tell you that no ster from Yonkers has van-|the adventure secker who stoope te aaah enema ; mother, not only because 1 am away|somebody ‘who sald of a certain| Broadway beauty would care to be | er jo “love-\et-| suc thod it « é A “ E | Y Dear Little Girl: Yeaterday | {rom sou, but because, unlike, the | something, “Its worse than a crime— | called broiler” if she had ever | igbed after Joining & “love-\et. a methods, ' Jf “Senatorial precedent” and “Senatorial courtesy” are | I was your mother, To-day I| mothers of so many of your friends,| it’s a blunder?” That is a literal|seen in a barnyard that long-legged, | ter exchange.) hen, oh when, will we recognive i} strong enough to keep Senator Stone, First American Ally of am that miserable thing, a|! cannot remain an indiffe nt Beye jand pies ise geesripeen CA the greed scrawny = necked, sem{ - feathered Her family is dis-| the truth that he who offers marriage y t 4 t n my daughter's struggle w worn by most of the girls you know. | MIS7 B! tracted. At the|to a we the Kaiser, in the Chairmanship of the Foreign Relations health Hunter! {ho etornil taversury, the world, 1|Poor little creatures, they are not | You-are more fortunate than the eR oo ice oes aimee Teno. lhe sty): Dee i Committee, then, for the credit and safety of the nation, it ts hurrying across| must mobilize to help you all the re-|"temptations’”—they are WARN-|chicken because you can cover up H sy life, an ely | j time these two forces were controled. the continent | serves of my experience, my trained | INGSI the angles of adolescence while walt- mail of a newly| doesn’t appreciate the first prinetple / with daddie to the| Judgment, my xreat love. My mind| "Dear, please don’t be hurt by what|ing for the curved line of beauty. made heiress in| of love? A really doesn't dress in hoopsktr' Iam going to tell you, but it 1s the| The question of your frocks ts not @ i 4 F 7 = warm — Pacific | jeg.o'-mutton sleeves, but I ha cold truths ‘The reason why you, or| question of Right or Wrong, but—as rages hs lll Seer iee cure cick tara i | Hits From Sharp Wits breezes, hurrying) the serene Irresponsibility of to-day'a|other girls of sixteen, should not] will be true of moat of your prob- pana aed Peay Ha i ger betaradhs, i ‘i | " mother: wear ris like those o! he old|lems—of what 13 wise or unwi: hen, * ist what plies, ; To do the thing right and make, It's time for a wideawake press and HRs Md That's why I coutdn't let you wear|woman who met the peddier nemed|teautiful or ugly. want you Just « will youth realize| @ jong distance trom the real thing? people believe they are getting their agent to turn out stories of an act forget the fear} tne gehool clothes on which you had|§tout—ta because your legs are like| pretty and charming as you can be, i van't| There is only one reason for the Money's worth, we suggest that deal-| Tess being robbed of ber potatoes.— that I may not|set your heart. 1 was so tired when | sticks of uncooked maccaront and that's why | DON'T dress you in that love doesn’t! ove tetter exchange.” ‘There axe wt Gettin tin] Nashville Banner, | pi catch my prey,| we, talked about ie new ourak & The reason why you should not| clothes designed for a woman fifteen come that yids many people wo wre lonesome oll.—Philadeiphia Inquirer, | ‘ fortnight ago that Tam \d wear low-cut blouses {s because your| years older, thirty a r vhen, oh when, 1 | ee a | Suppose the women had the ballot; $F that Tf have) ott arbitrary in my condemnation] upper torso is as knobby RIGA torte test Manian the deothanee, Synen pigs tern e re tees Me te, ties See The new owner of the flivver al-/@nd your mother-in-law were Chief | { bee pues atarted too late, | of the very sliort skirt, the tieht-ft-|chicken's drum-sticks. All this is| Please believe and love | will young people unde vt eeeg and making friends wave refers to it as "the car "Mile (3 Police?—Columbia (8. C.) Btate. | fea that I may never| ting cont, the Seeply. Nid. fishnet |perfectly natural, since you have} YOUR MOTHER, | the person worth while doesn't seek)’ “aney deserve our attention end waukee Nows “ come back to be your mother once | blouse you wanted. | Le |help. ‘To them the right ° ‘Silence |s golden,” which explains ca xplai r why I end; Sue Gone say that the art of conversa. | WAY most of the shouters are pe | more, 1 did mot suppose that I could |},can, explain, to vou deat may o | Wall lead to the desired end; but em me say that the art of conversa | poor.—Milwaukes News | leavi for w day; perhaps I must | 4 » Z leat, ths in he word to Aaa Dat there ioe talk “er bare von po days zemeng em | oa lie on ca mio tay e Jarr Fam | Sea ary, ey 2 aon au ary 5 jon’ | Albany Every now and then one still nde doctors say that 1 may write to 708 | an inch off your skirt means an ell ry. Fever met, or eumgest marriage somebody who prefers espeare only at certain times; that in each|of¢ your moral stature, here is no ' i . ancl’, Seandal of the price of enlons | to Charlie Chaplin. Teaton News {letter there tnuat De only a few Nuns | otter TOM een an entente, be- | Oovrtdbs, 1017, ty The Prem Publishing Ce. | gaid, “What's the matter?” believe in pampering ohildren, l've| | Tt 1 @ sorry method and @ 5 | ©.) | and Courter, dred words, n I keep sharp and | tween clothes, Dorothy, and goodne: (The New Yors Wreging World.) ‘Why, your Aunt Prudence from| brought some cough medicine and) 4 canes Grat ‘9-8 clear for you the !mago of yester- nly in her RS, JARR wore such a fretful yy , 1 tar | Seed, Kner two necele: ‘wae ok ‘Th days w =» Dressed only _ PMiladelphia is coming for a few/ {t's made of licorice, molasses, never known each other have are days jen one can carry |day’e mother, during the months of|lady Godiva comes look when Mr. Jarr came + me | ti rt! « ; Tt flatters a girl to tel! her that| nome his purchases from toarket in| separation? through the ages as @ be haa| ays," replied Mra. Jarr and mayflower; they can have so: ogether and “lived happy ever / abe dose not like flattery. Deseret | g thimble.-Baltimore Amorican, | Lam going to try. So 1 am going| militant purity, And that home that before si ss “My aunt?” sald Mr, Jarr. ‘She's| of that; tt 1s sweet to taste and will | &fter. The kind of love that | no aunt of mina! But you knew she|do them good, But what T want my! ony with love that te. was coming. Why didn't you write| trunk open for is to get my rattle.” | ends with the romanoe and the ad- to write to you only of the real| always laughed at the spies of moral-| done more than greet him Mr. Jarr : | If husband and wife always thought | things, the things that have to be Instead of munitions stock the pub-| as much of each other as they usually |#ald to vou during this critteal Mo may seen be buying stock In po- | Go of themselves they would be hep. [seventeenth year “Daddie, ‘wheselll > © .¥.. ave “> 0 {]| and tell her you weren't prepared for| So saying, the old lady delved Into| venture. : tato mines.—Chicago News, pler,—Albany Journal, letter-output no doctor has cen-|]/ Be h ] ( = ] t |} | visitors?" the trunk and brought forth @ large 1" matches made on a chance it i: sored, will tell you about the places| || ac e or Dy ec ec 10Nns i | not even a fighting one, Althou “Ob, you know how touchy she taj | wooden rattle e you have been forewarned yor . we nee, about San Francisco and the | "Ob, goody!” cried little Wilttel not ‘f you are Q > Sactti tne “ewalis wland | besides she has a lot of money and + BO A Needs not forearmed. L et ter = I rom the People {PARK sou be patione. with. yester- By Helen Rowlan | we have to be nice to her or when|Jarr. “That's for me | enzCuanre Groping, for bapginess tn ‘The “Katser's Too! on Staten Island, there is n v1 . 4 "t | | o "» t exclaimed the aunt, | oa © the plunj Te the KAiior of The Evening Werid £0 pisten ialand, Guere t9 ne érioten | day's mother if he talke—and doesnt Tanti IDI? we The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Bresing World.) | she dies whe won't leave anything tn| ‘No, it is no the same darkness and you only eee ; Jin th q ge Party, acold—about your clothes, your work per) her will to the ohild: rapping him across the knuckles) tne tient w 5 As @ steady reader and Admirer of MARY OTIS WILLCOX, |in schoo! and at home, your parties, | * Rib’s’? Number ym | ol Hol ag Lars the lia ht when if {a too late ' your respected paper, which I have|Chalrman Woman Suffrage Party of|the boys you know, all the pin- ; a ly to give| “She won't anyway ir, Sarr, . 8 the wise young woman, : enjoyed for many years, | send you| Richmond Borough, feathers of ambition and ideals that) WOMAN knows that to tle a man to her forever she has only to & | Nevertheless, the Jarra went to t “Tia tan't to be touched by you) with mone win Will belteve Chae Os, ; 3 thie tte, Dus 6 on our Au rican | favdhe: Vesten | Pon mind | him all the rope he wants; but, sometimes, it seems es thoug! depot to meet the train from Phila-|children, I keep this under my pil-| many eu ore ¥ \o Jay thelr heart at t situation to-day, e following are | in the Unite interested tn these problems ere wasn’ c ¥ , dearte, Hy ‘ Every’ eet are really extending their if the ‘names of the twelve Senators | ve Years, of yours, because, In my own mind there wasn't that much rope in the world _ | detpnta, jlow. It's for burglars. Everybody | hands tor her pocketbook which you mentioned in your paper: | Te the Ba! { The rening World I belong to to-day as truly as even — ‘The aunt arrived, a tall, old, sour. | {2 piladelphia has one of these] And now about the lonesome. ©} Kirby ; Can a man who took out his firat| you, little daughter, It ts you who Why does a woman object to the word “obey” In} faced lady. She bore with her her watchman's rattles for burglars—that OR 18 corte, you VJ 4 vArdamany Apere over two ve zo apply fo <_aaannneannta " j , “ rrected, “anybody who . ° ’ not man's tome over tn. 3 ars en ly for the marriage service, yet cheerfully and calmly go right) oat and her canary bird and sundry | is, me gor rected, “anybody 18] letters and secure REAL, Pts whee \ Stone | on promising to “love and honor?” It 1s quite poss!ble| oiner packages, and expressed much | “2YDody- | you can do ts to meet it half way, | lan€ ete Fae Aveo Citinem, | to obey @ man—but to “love and honor” him is beyond! aierm ea to her trunk. Mr, Jarr| “You sit right down there, Edwand| | Every vicinity ts full of organie. | woRke ‘Be tho Riditer of The Reentag World Jens he {nepires those things. took her check and suggested that|J@r7.” sald the aunt severely. “I've! fone ro are Young Women's | : cummings 1 came to this country from Russia) PAN DE LA AINE, the] BUMAD DORE TALIM BO TRADIT 20m ; eee ae oe . something very important to tell| Christian Associations es well as at the age of two years; have never seventeenth century French gen-| | the trunk be secured and that aunt ea men's | | la folleTte left this country since; received pub- ~ PreAc idl A ings and he and + here are small civic circles } a Joorman lio school education. and am ate jus who ranks among the great-| A perfect wife is one who can pose as her husband's | oe a} be baongoe. at Pi Ain: fark nudeed Mev dare, acd |@icihe af aber von te ole #28 } } 4 grOnna elght years old, My father was r est fabulists of all time, died | rib, while she supplies him with backbone; whitewash his | sally ely ysl er | held back the children, thinking that|CU!t to enter most of them. Join one oy ek uralized in 1905. 1 was ffteen years ago to-day, at the of seven failings in public, while shee disinfects hie morals in} °#? to the Jarre’ apar the relative would make some an-| or, Wo, iat seem interesting. You jones old then, Have I the right to ty-four, and to the last he was as + that he will{ ATfiving at the apartment, tho are bound to meet people. And 4 | The combination spells “Kaiser's| Am 1 a citizen? t, naive, improvident, reckless ad private; and so stuff his ears with flattery that he w young Jarrs were all excited, espe-| Rouncement regarding ‘ber tosta-|yvou are friendly you will make " OLD ADMIRER. a Xa Cake good-hearted as a child never hear the call of the wild bachelor again. |eyally at the arrival of the cat, a fe-| mentary datentions, friends t ‘ He was the son of a Magistrate clatty ad iJ ee a ry Phils One acquaintance will introd: } io | Pe the Maas he Roeatan eae and in is youth proposed to become oe roclous old mouser that promptly) "Do you know the custom in Phila-| another, And before you know tt you i A letter addressed to John Jones| a" prieat, but abandoned that project There are times when every wife has @ dark suspicion that when thé) soratched them; and the canary, that|delpbla of tying the shutters with) will have a little circle of trlande, iniana | Hee, Been returned by the Postal Au; Jafter clghteen months in 4 eoninary,| Lord removed twat rio from Adam most of the soft part of his heart ad-| quctored at the top bare, to the great | crape when there was @ death in the| The trouble with niost peonle alone i are much astonished to learn from|that “Postal Authorities” should not | and {hereafter for several oir. ity | bered to tt | alarm of the aunt from Philadelphia, | family?” asked the maiden aunt, | ff tat THEY do not seek to break } The Evening World that they “bave| be capitalized, as It refers to no par-|efforis as poet and dramatist were of| ae levery time the children approached| Mr, Jarr aid he had often re-) Tt ig what vou give out . ; a war of their own on,” It ts the first| ticular person and is therefore not|fitle worth, and it was not until he! 1 lane a | marked It. of cordiality that comen back oe way { intimation of the kind they have bad! | proper noui', B claims that it re-| Wes fers four that he gained fame} TBE North of a woman's love may be approximately estimated at half-| the cage “Well,” sata the visiting relative) often manifold. In the old’ Bibliog } The Suftragiats are browd-minded | fern {oa partloulay body of men and with his “Contes pour rire’—talew| Way between the price her husband would set on !t in an allenation eult| ‘The trunk being brought upstatre) a ney don't do it any | OXNTOS Seek and ve shall Pee 9 A Ry atl ge lhl healed + for laughter, seine yg) And the amount of alimony at which he would value {t in @ divorce sult, diverted attention from the oat and! TCA, tniy world coming t0,| ented Vita FO time it Im he. ‘ : ness, wille all of them are still work. | Publlte Sehoot No. 62, Hivington aud.) 4 manos 6™ ag oe x the canary, and the aunt, producing ji vway? H ring # good time with t ing for Votes fur Women. The edy rayth Streets, aE cea: aan the lsat hake Nate ata ta Enea } foaih. MA Rabay thinua at her keys, led the children to he-| Air. Jarr sighed and siipped out.) Th the wor a etion which women have received 4n| to we Fditor of The Brewing Wor oo il compl ed e his h OR ‘ mening ke Sih: teeth. Hef . her eve that the trunk contained pres-| Meeting his nd Rangle, he asked! time, nor in ’ Bh one, ee a working for years men who did| Is th place in the neighbors | death. In them he satirize whole| Unless she happens to bother bim. ents for them, ‘They audibly ex-|him if he knew of any way to getlcan keap my own away frog met ee eaten ee ths | ccuas tn etanaoranhy ond typewrits| Sher aul clwene produced a wars You can't fool al) of the people all of the time—Lut somebow it uevet | thetr hands in expectant delight ab Oy was 10 SBHae Mana] fons! Interest, the personal tosh, po of thelr serviée, Therefore, ' ing evenings? LY At Ae Os | claasia. [eceure to # map to think of his wife ge “people” | “No,” said the old lady, “£ don't|eprinkled something else. | stamp. by way of the twonsent } | “ ’ oe