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Ne ee te ae ! ‘ é ULITZ: soda Lae Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Becond-Class Matter, Peerription | Rates eR For, ngiand and the Conti Sot Cots “Beatal Union Year, Month. ‘VOLUME 58... THE BEAR IS BETTER. 8 THE Russian army smashes on into Galicia, ft is striking at the weakest part of the German alliance, All reports from Austria indicate that the Dual Monarchy cannot stand many hard shocks nor much more pressure without some part of its fragile structure giving way. The Austro-Hungarian Empire {s a loose-Jointed combination of Many races with varied national aspirations. What the effect will be on these people if the Russian advance continues, whether the expected break will be economic, dynastic or military—these are problems for purest conjecture. Two wobbly and treacherous allies hang on to the coat-tails of the big Central Powers. Bulgaria dickered with both sides in the war before she sold out to the side she picked to win. are quick to abandon a loosing favorite and hedge on the other side. Watch Bulgaria when the adverse tide runs strong. As for Mohammedan Turks fighting for infidels, there is nothing in the Koran to hold them a moment beyond the hour of their own preservation, particularly if danger threatens to the tomb of the Prophet or the Mosque of Sancta Sophia. A For a nation recenfly on the verge of collapse, Russia {s doing Kerensky, Brusiloff and Korniloff are leading the reorganized armies to amazing victories, and nothing solidifies and inspires a nation like victory. Subscriptions of more than a billion dollars in @ few days to the first Russian Liberty loan compare favor- remarkably well. ably with our own financing. Only a month ago Russia was in the midst of revolution and economic chaos, with the Allies wringing their hands in despair. Bear is getting well fast. B at ABSOLUTE ISOLATION. ANKER HECHT incomunicado on Ellis Island for pernicious pro-German activities is the best move in war strategy at home that the Government has accomplisned, The immigrant station of New York harbor turned into an fternment camp for dangerous aliens, regardless of wealth or social status, will do much toward making the German propaganda game unpopular in circles where treason and disreputable plota have been @loaked under respectability. If the Secret Service does its duty, Banker Hecht will have Plenty of company in his island retreat, cut off from communication with family, friends and the Berlin Government. For the safety of ‘America the rule of absolute isolation must be strictly maintained. No word must come from or go to the interned chiefs of the spy system. Let pretzels and pinochle be their solace, OE One automobile for every twenty-nine persons in the ‘United States is a heavy contribution to the high cost of living. pending as well riding. When people compete for opportunity to spend money hitting the high spots on country roads and on Broadway, don't Dlame all the cost on the jazz band. et ‘This ts Friday, the thirteenth, the second of these suppos- ‘The first, in April, brought no dis- Let us hope for the same good fortune to-day. — ‘With President Wilson knocking out the high finance I. W. W. in Washington and sturdy citizens rounding up I. W. W. miners of Arizona, this {s getting to be an uncomfortable coun- There is reck! edly unlucky days in 1917. aster. ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH cg hepeaflemnenaher AK President, ¢8. Park Row, sara tt BERN how try for bad men of every stripe. PULITZER. Press ishing Company, Hos, 63 to The Gamblers The ning Sho reckless speoding in joy STOOD in the bow of a J iy bound ferryboat lute one after- noon recently, and the proximity of a group of three women and two young men made me listen voluntarily to | thelr conversation, | The pretty although the — Mits Two girls passed, one in a vivid green dress, the other in red. If a train passed, should it go slowly cr stop?—Milwaukea Ne’ ial cag Sensible, thinking men and women appreciate the merits of the rights of women, but they are equally opposed| tle grace and fine civility—in the |t® 40 all Miss Brown's work on top to women abusing thelr cause.—Mem-| presence of Mrs, Man.—Baltimore | of my own just because she's taken me Commercial Appenl, win; Pree two weeks off to Ko on her honey- ‘ oon, That's something I'll never Tt docan't seem falr to permit one| If you have done your bit do an-| dot" she added with a challenging man to start his wartime dinner with | other, and then you will have done| smile at the young mon. “When I cocktail when another cannot afford re bits.—Columbla (8, C.) State, marry I'll never do another lick of en the dinner.—Pittsburgh Gaze:te- ae desert OO hee aah < chtcee wilt cave | Times. aa ae The man who laughs last does rot|to support me, I can you, and | ‘The trouble with the American din- ner table is that for years past It has From Sharp Wits been oversybscribed.—Boston Tr. script. ——_—_— Letters From the People . t t they have not been cared Ber Dress Low and yrenibition. |lating every principle of individual See ey ney faa waeioel itor of The Even rds jrighty and personal liberty on which | pressing and brushing. Such beauty Your correspondent V. F. 0. at-|the nation ts founded W.G. [2eyou have will not survive two years tempts to make an argument for pro- | Mother Pratnes Parade for 0 [ hibition by claiming that the National draft law js @ violation of individual Iberty, equally with the proposed law forbidding the use of alcoholic bever- ages. ” ‘Phere is no basis for this assertion The draft law is simply a method | My heartfelt thanks are sent in| until late the night before talk- Of putting into effect the declare Re vAnOG for 1 have a boy who ts ing over our financial affairs, pose of the United States to pro-| fur, 1 hope he will march down | We lived in @ small suburban town aot at ali covts the lives and rights of || have dod bre id @ deafening roar,| within commuting distance of New ite citizen: The n bavi! and his flag an wer te to my boy! York. He was a clerk in a broker's found it necessary wo declare War | fiere ia ne’ ae, Well A# @ Mag prayer, | office in the financial district, but against the imperial German Gov-| u(o7, ne ONOrUS, his salary was only 0 a year, @pmment, it became the duty of ‘ white stripes run-| which ts less than $25 a week. When every man of military age tol oye the children were little we got along fight in defense of his country and Mite allies, The draft law was enactod Bs the fairest and most democratic Way o1 selecting tne men who should oto the front. hese men will fight because they | Owe that service to their native, Séopted, country, They rived of liberty, bu War against aurocra bition sci@ne seeks to de- Prive 60 per cent. of the adult males Of the nation of beverages which they QFe accustomed to use, at the Instiga- on of a sina! fanatical minority, @oatrolied by paid.agitators und pro- are not de- will fight in a onal reformers. In seeking to de- Prive the invjority of th right to Mee there bevorages, they are vio- oF | the « were not given in a manner leading the recipient to belleve that the giver News, youngest of the party, did by far the most talking by the right which pretty girls are conceded every- where in this country. "Gee!" exclaimed the prettiest girl, “I've worked hard this week, Had) More advice would be taken If tt nxious to get rid of it.—Chicago eo 8 Nothing so becomes a man as gen- ve. laugh in bis sl ~Albany Journal * . make a good job of It te | | | Some people love musto and other people love to hear themael: Binghamton Pi tad as was altogether gallant, They just grinned and remained silent But I wanted to say to her—"My | doar Iittle girl, you are fairly pretty, but you are not neat. Your clothes Boys] To the Halitor of The Kven\ug World Your pride in our boys will end The Evening World to every, muther who has a boy avout to leave us fur a long time it may be, ¥ whould get a wonderful fore they go over the sea nd who end-off be- Y husband and I had sat up # follow so grand| pretty well, but year before last 1 de- The twinkling“ Rermined to send my oldest boy to winkling ‘white stare on the! college. ‘This 18 what we sit up ao Boys, don't’ form lTate ‘talking about, for my husband me forget they ehine for) did not think it was possibile though \he was just as anxious as I was to Oh, how the boys will appreciate | give np ier Me Wan very ctodie Mera tha fo.march away, like wol-| ous, a college education dlers they are, and want to be re. | "d am going to do 1t,” sald T, “and me nbered a8 such. The mothers, in!I am going to make the money for he loss of the absent boys, will re-| his firat term out of preserves. You call their departure with ‘gladness know you have always declared that and joy ; erves and picklos w. With best wixhes for the suc: tn? Bietooves P re the ful best you ever ate.” By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ‘Cr prright, 1917, by the Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World.) of marriage if you do your own work and bear children, which is what 1s most likely to happen to you. It is evident that you are one of the numberless girls who are utterly un- skilled in household and arts, that you cannot cook or sew and would not know how to take care of & baby. You do not look very strong and you might not be able to bring a child into the world with @ fair start. A French girl would be trained In household ways and in ad- |dition to the skill she would bring to her home she would contribute @ dower which might enable her hus: band to go into business for himself, or at any rate would give him some sort of start. business tending the shop or sitting behind the cashier's window in the restaurant. Yet she would have chil- tren and bring them up better than you will. What have you so wonder- ful to offer @ man that you can take a life mortgage on his earning ca- pacity in exchange for it? Why should @ man marry you? This girl had criticised a fellow r who married and kept Now, I don't agree with Char. and other 1c F all wives should work for money outside the home. In our present state of soct- this question be determined ording to the earning capacity of the wife before marriage. No woman who can avoid It should accept the double burden of maternity and work. But there are thousands and thousands of women who marry with no Intention of having children, but who expect, nevertheless, to be ‘sup- ported, What for? If a woman’ to her hus- i services are worth more Preserves Send the Boy to College. bought strawberries, which I made Into preserves and ‘jam and also currants for jelly and cherries to be canned whole or in halves, When unis work was dono I sent my boy around on his wheel with small sam- ple Jars to the residences of all the richest. poople in town to leave in each place a sample jar and say that he would come arotind in a day or two to solicit orders for TESe! and pickles, or Peeeer ro en the boy again made rounds he found @ very ecouragity Ust of orders waiting for him It was hard work but I enjoyed tt, for I was carrying out my ambition, After buying cana, sugar, &c,, I cal. culated to make a ‘profit of one dollar and fifty cents a dozen on small jure of fruit and from two dollars and a half to three dollars on a dozen of the quart cans of fruit. On jams ana | Jellies ny profit was leas, but I more plan to “give the boys the send-off; Dry Sroceries and meats were ex- that is coming to them,” through the pensive in our town but fruit and efforts of The Evening World, I re-| vegetables were cheap, as the sv main, tn fa.th for victory under tha, rounding farmers brought in gr Pela | Quantities and peddled them MOTHER OF ONE OF OUR Rays. t / than made up for it on pickles, were very profitable h Wii | Tata we! summer and the bo: went to college as I intended, but 1 had work: UP 80 fine a business that from | I did not like to dro; door to door, The Bext morning I! good ay ovary stan * | deal of money every season, domestic | She would help in the | ® band than to any one else she should stay at home and work for him. No one but a husband will pay moro than $80 or @ month for general housework, | But wives are not paid for work. | You say indignantly there can be no question of pay in marriage. The jhusband loves her, &c. Well, if I were going to take more money than I had earned from @ man, I'd far father take it from any other man in the world than the man I loved. But perhaps a woman's hasband can afford to give her a servant or servants: and she stays at home to keep his house. What are her ser- vices worth then? If she manages the house well, she is @ housekeeper her home for the never does take she could earn outside. pays ‘her much more money than she could get in the open market. for the same work, The poor man's wife who does the most work gets the least for her services, and the wife of a man who can afford from two to thirty servants has the largest returns—just what for it 1s not particularly pleasant to consider, Maternity even on the grand scale need not consume more than ten 'B uUsiIness “c 'W of our customers ever stop to think of the amount of study and planning which went into the management of our store,” sald a department store super- intendent. “Even to-day, store ar- rangement {s far from belng an exact science, Conclusions are arrived at, however, by a careful balancing of al the factors involved and even then we often make radical changes. It ts ‘a vitally Important subject--quite as essential to the smallest retailer as to the largest department store. The small man, of course, must work more intensively. Where we figure in terms of departments and floors, he must figure in terms of counters and show cases. “The first question i» that of floors: to which flooor shall the various de- partments be allotted. In apportion- {ng the valuable main floor space to a department, stich factors as these are weighed: Does its volume of sales warrant it? Does the nature of the commodity handled demand too much display space? Is the nature of the article such that its sale is dependent upon its belng seen? Does the margin of profit earned warrant this valuable space? ‘Would its location elsewhere eert- ously reduce its volume of sales? Does it appeal to @ sex which can be induced to go upstairs, &0.? “Take the last question, for ex- ample. Men's departments aro always located on the main floor near an en- f |which often are purchased years of a woman's life, During these ten years sho should be sup- by her husband or by the I tneline personally to the belief that children would be bette cared for if the burden of their main- tenance were shared by all of us. ed over a lifetime, Women were not made just to be mothers. If they were Nature would not permit them td survive their usefulness as long a8 phe does—they would die off when they had ceased to bear. Most of the energy, power dom of middle aged women lost to the world because of the ge eral adherence to the notion that motherhood is woman's sole excus for being—and many women en- courage the notion of motherhood as @ life-work. natural to foster a state of mind | men which keeps them more or les contentedly at work for women all their lives, While it may be natural, it Is not sportsmanship. And after a while men and women both will realize that the ‘so-called emancipation of woman will bring the greatest of all his liberationa to man, Ui ___By H. J. Barrett Laying Out a Retail Store. trance, because we realize that tt Impossible to induce male customers. in any volume at least, to go upstairs. The women erally located on the second floor be- cause when in the market for @ sult a woman’ {s sufficiently interested to take the elevator, and also because it requires considerable space "Gloves and hosiery being articles because the customer happened to note them in passing are located on the crowded main floor, Aw a rule, they are near ch other because, for some mys- |terious reason, the sale of one sug- ests the need for the other. Furnt- ture, a terrific space eater, !s almost invariably on the upper floors. When people want furniture they want It #0 Intensely that they do not object to cking for it in obscure locations, It is after all not un- t its department is gen- | continuously, perious One! I bow down ton, me gently. For, lo, upon mind! mine hour of tribulation, O Beloved! Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland (Cegyeight, 1917, by the Preas Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World.) EAR now, my Daughter, the words of a Matron of Babylon at her devotions, and the Love Song which she chanteth in her heart O cherished and adored Onel © mighty and im Defore thee in humility and admire Let not thy wrath fall upon me, neither smite me with thy glance, I pray thee. Be kind to me, s worm of Manhattan, and trea¢ thee hang all my hopes of happiness; in the palm of thy hand thou holdest my peace of Leave me not, nor desert me for another, in thia 1 will speak unto thee in a voice of silver, and coo unto thee in words of honey, I will feed thee on the tid-bits from my table, and share with thee my, cholcest bonbons and sweetmeats. On the altar of thy vanity will I sacrifice my favorite hate and all my most cherished gowns; thou canst filch my imported perfumes, and rifle my larder, and I shall not seem to SEB It! My scented soap and talcum powder are at thy disposal, IT will eat out of thine hand! ‘When thou shatterest my pet cloisonne, when thou nickest my max hogany, when thou smashest my cut Glass, I shall not reproach thee, ‘Thou shalt share my planola and rejoice thyself with my phonograph, I will write thy letters FOR thee upon my monogrammed note-papers I will keep thee supplied with silken hose and embroidered handkerohiefs, My hours ehall be THY hours, and thy wishes my wishes. My dog and my oat, thoy shall depart at thy command, I will have no other PETS before thee! ‘Whatscever of my possessions thou mayest detest shall be cast out upon the ash-heap of oblivion, Yet, I pray thee, spare me this! Do NOT demand that I cast aside mine husband and put my children in institutions! For they are dead to me, and I love them—but THOU art mightier and more previous than all, O my MAID-OF-ALL-WORK, my handmaiden and my cook! Verily, verily, life without thee would be as useless as one left shoa, as bitter as a Greenwich Village Cynic, as empty as a German promise, as sad as a summer musical comedy! Selah, Th By Roy L. e Jarr Family McCardell Copyright, 1917, by The Prew Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) RS. CLARA MUDRIDGE- SMITH, the opulent young matron, entered the Jarr domicile bearing with her what ap- peared to be an old-fashioned carpet sack—the kind farmers carry in cdm- edies and in the moving pictures. But when he got @ nearer view, Mr. Jarr saw that it wasn't made of brus- sels carpet, but of some large figured eretonne or flowered stuff of that sort. “Why, what @ nice knitting bag!” cried Mrs, Jarr, who knew what it was at sight.” What did it cost you, Clara?” | “Bloven dolars,” said the opulent |young matron. “There were others much more expensive, but in these days, when one must not waste, I thought I'd get an inexpensive ona, Then I've paid six dollars for yarn, »), and a dollar and @ half for needles, and I am going to knit things for those dear soldiers and sailors, as soon as I can get somebody to teach me. I hear that Cora Hickett's mother 4s giving lessons ir knitting— a dollar a lesson, and I thought I'd ask you tf you thought she was good, I really haven't the time to learn, but , and the yarn, and the I'd die if anybody thought I was a slacker and wasn't doing my bit!" Mr. Jarr stirred uneasil ed to say something, but was afraid real sweet of you!” doing something to help win the war, went out with her maid and ecrubbed floors at the War Society. She ruined) a handsome new dress that cost her} But she told| me whe felt repaid—she had done her| two hundred dollars. duty, and when the Kaiser heard of such’ things he would say, ‘Well, the American women are unconquerable!" “He may well say it, the nasty wretch!" snapped the fair visitor. “I never liked the way he wore bis mustache, anyway. I think the way the young English officers wear theirs, short and twisted at the ends and shaved underneath, 1s much more |cute, don’t you!” |"Mr. Jarr felt he MUST say some- ‘thing. If there was anything that mado him want to shoot on sight it was those cutey mustaches, “And the old Emperor of Austria wore side whiskers—but of course he was on old man,” said Mrs, Jarr, “Napoleon was smooth shaven, but when I was in Paris I saw a great many Frenchmen who wore beards— and yet look how brave the French have been! Why, in spite of the war, the Paris dressmakers have been working on bravely just the same You've gotten several imported dresses, haven't you?’ “Why, yes," replied Mrs. Clara Mudridge-Smith, “Poiret went to the war, and yet his establishment has | To-Day's Anniversary Embroideries, veilings, neckwear these ocoupy good floor positions be- cause many sales are made because the goods caught the customer's eye in passing, As to the relative rental Value of the various floors, this 1a @ question which cannot be accurately ascertained, It can be only estt- od. Yareful studies of the crowds wh'ch throng the great stores indi- cate that, as a rule, only about 80 per cent, ascend above the main floor, A survey of one store, however, which wax equipped with escalators, showed that 58 per cent, went upstairs, This factor of location has quite as much effect upon a department's success within the store as the store's loca- tion tn relation to the city has upon sales as a whole,” EAN PAUL MARAT was assassi- nated July 13, 1793, by Charlotte Corday, who announced that she had been commanded by God to kill the firebrand of the French Revolu- tion, Marat was the most extreme of the popular leaders in the great upheaval that made France a repubjic. When other men talked of democracy and equal rights, he called for blood and revenge. By meane of & little news- paper called “The People's Voice,’ Marat kept aflame the resentment against French nobility and did more than any other one man to bring about the execution of the King and Queen, + enthusiastically. | Why, Mrs. Stryver | | stances than almost any been creating the eweetest frocke—ot course, strong military influence reflected in the styles. But, then, war times one must make erg | and I haven't bought half as man; imported gowns aes I used to. But m; husband has @ lot of war orders an expects to make a lot of money, an Body iy) Fes) imported Opes la | al ave done for patriotism, think T have earned them?” “What have you been Goals fia tl buying the knitting bag an handsome young men to enlist threatening to kies them?” asked Ma, Jarr, The visitor and Mrs. Jary as well did not notice he was spealc: with sarcastic inflection—fortunatel; for Ee “Why,” replied M.: udridges Smith, “I have Joined ‘the Wartina Economy Housewives’ Associ, and that ts doing splendid works We American Gre stopping th itahene ng waste in Y you look now and Se oe mr] my husband ts so particular about hi meals, and {¢ I dared to put my ht in the kitchen she'd leave, And I know she throws cut éverytht ‘We never see @ roast the second on sey table.” “And my maid Gertrude te fust bad,” remarked Mrs, J with Ws sigh. “Why, I was a: ven to pul up that beautiful placard you ei me, ‘Don't Waste Food in Kitchen, What You Waste Wel Feed a Starving Belgian yd] my et vant. (and All You Waste Helps the Mags Win the War!'” “I dare not put one up tn te chen, either,” Mre. Mudrid, ty confessed. “But we have been gend- ing them around to poor people, I got a letter from some woman who spid she had no food to waste, I thought it impertinent, too! Well, I must be going. I am on four war committees, you know!" And the visitor took hes gigantic and conspicuous knitting bag and proceeded out to where her autos mobile awaited her with its lveried groom and chauffeur, “You may think Clara Mudrtlges Smith a social butterfly, but she an: her set are doing @ lot of good!' Ex | Mra, Jarr. And Mr. Jarr didn’t dare to contra. diet. ‘World’s Big Battles | _Fought by Boys Ww is truly the sport of youth, Most of the world's great bats ties fhave (been fought by boys. Reports from Franco and Gers many of the young levies now going to the front are calculated to make the-obuerver shake his head, but the record shows that Waterloo, Gettyss burg and muny another famous fight was lost and won by boys under twenty. When Napoleon returned from Elba n the reién of @ nundred daya he raixed an army more quickly and under more unfavorable cireuin man before or since, The best fighting stock of France had been exhausted in twenty years of War. Only the boys re- mained, Napoleon took the boys and made them Into soldiers who fough nobly at Waterloo. And t were matched against many solders Just aw young as themselves in the ranks f Wellington. ‘The Napoloonic strug. glo had told heavily on England as well as France, The Union and Confederate armies had thousands of youngsters in their ranks, ranging from twenty down to an age that almost placed them In the juventle class. And this has been true of every struggle since the bes ginning of time. The Greeks had saying which the ages have prov true: “Old heads for council, young heads for war.”