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a a het tate De ’ haus Perk tow ’ Tork one ‘ - ' er) vo AUTOCRACY ALARMED. ' wens the ‘ Ms + ‘ . ‘ eaurte « Prude f The new Cha Michaelis appeare more and more dubious equivova) figure t forward by the Prussian ge and war lords in an effort their prestig Phe emer f the Crown Prince at a gnized force in Pr un politics ie f en almost certain sign that tariet at " nb Gerna te bucking up to ite last d No need t k for Wunifestations of tue pop in the present shake ' ' ra rhation of t counsels of Pruvsianism are there plainly to be Au in drawing together and sta ite all on eraftily devised initia And that is the most convincing of all signs that it at last fee closing around it the vast and irresistible power eople ning to set ite fave toward peace and toward the political rendje ments that shall harten its coming pail iiabeesiabahianen A SEND-OFF FOR THE STATE’S SOLDIERS. VERY man, woman and child in the city will weleome the tainty that the national guardsmen of the State of New Yor .will march away to become a part of the Federal Army wit! the cheers of their fellow citizens ringing in their ears and the heart felt good wishes of this commonwealth following them as they move through the streets in what is certain to be one of the most soul- stirring parades New York has ever seen, Federal and State authorities have agreed that the people of this city and State shall have a chance to give New York soldiers the rousing send-off they deserve. It only remains to saw throug the last of the red tape and set the day. | Once the date is fixed, New Yorkers may be relied upon to pre-| pare for it and show the home troops what the city thinks of them! in a way that will warm their hearts and thrill their memories K through the thick and thin of al! that lies ahead. It will be a great LS | | day in the city’s history. SS SIX-CENT STREET CAR FARES. ‘ 8 IT the duty of millions of Americans already engaged in a serious struggle to keep up with the rising cost of pretty much| everything they need, of whom immense sacrifices are required to meet the enormous expenses of war—is it the duty of these people Soeeilld, Ghd, ein Oene Suuliaed Ge to bear added burdens in order that no street railway corporation (Phe Now York Bvening World.) | shall have to reorganize its business methods or shave by so much asa fraction of a per cent. its accustomed dividends? Twenty-eight up-State traction companies have already peti- tioned the Public Service Commission for permission to increase their rates from 5 to 6 cents, Think what this means For the corporations, a comfortable increase of 20 per cent. in revenucs, For every 1,500,000 of population served, an estimated addi- LWAYS before us is the theme | setting forth what @ wonder- ful er grandmother | was; about her in- nate frugal faculty in the interest of her family, ‘This woman, wno saved nd slaved foe household, has been A house: ld up as the tional levy of 000,000 annually upon earnings already heavily raat Males th taxed to cover the bare necessities of life, yworth - whil At the preliminary hearing before the Public Service Com- woman for many &/ mission of the Second District at Albany last week representatives And always before us is the bus-| of several cities argued that specitic franchise agreements or special| band forever holding up to the wife| love and joy In doing, A true help-| prosides she. is Ibarning the joy of | {#8 can get the Garman. mesaeg, local i ld i y case preclude act b f the| tho great example of his mother, her| Mate for her husband ts this dear Mt- | country life remarked Mr, Jarr, “And they can local legislation would in any case preclude action on the part of the TARARERMIAR ES HEP aacHilaay ac ke | le woman, who now 1s properly en The young housekeeper of to-day 1s | have better breakfasts, too," he wur- Public Service Commission tanctioning increased street car fares. the very man who, if he had to put | Jo¥ing the goods the gods provide- jy Ae ense OF ar pot nes, anne mured under his breath, . is One thing is-certain, The distraction and confusion of war! up with the inconveniences his grand-| fF She has helped provide. OPPORTU? a the one wh Well,” sald Mrs, Jarr, who only father knew, of doing done in days gone | firat to rebet I spent t of the week-end With ;a friend—Mrs, G lives in jcountry in a wonderful colonial place and with the arduous things as they were by, would be the | must not for one instant be allowed to serve as a cover under which! street railway corporations may shift their share of the general load| **Y to the shoulders of the public, Hits From Sharp Wits Shi the What tins become of the old Our notion of a conservative com- | that she and her husband built, Hap- tle who used ae to nes Bed my pliment tw ie tell Pear hans is euly | piness ts the koynote of this tome. on Sunday and spend ne da foe | one nw the matter with him. lo~ } ; ‘| 3 k ry room in the house speaks of lumbus (Ga) Enquirer-Sun. do Hlade, ase bees ogee Jcontentment, beauty, Everything Of course you have noticed how the) That corresponde school which | has been considered with consummate prize fighters are rushing to st 4 a course in “learning to swim by |oare, In a word, the place is oy Pittsburgh Gazette pbubly expects to teac the | It ta ru in ‘the : t nae nt . . . with a fow strokes of the pen,— ' os és Too much attention ia given to Philadelphia Inquirer, | apne Everything ts in its right what people say whose suyings aren't ear plabe, and nothing scems to be for. worth notice,-Albany Journal No cavalry for the my." | . Hear the horse laugh phis | The best some men can do ts to| Commercial-Appeal | place themselves on home - made ales ar | pedestals, —Chicayo w A lot of charming women don't ® ° ° i rem to understand that they can't The boy who can do a man's work | stop a ul by spreading It. —Bing 2TALS, Just ike people, usually haw to do It—Toledo Blade, (harton Press subject to Wearing efte | of time, And they also have . | ope thi tall iG etters I rom the Pp eop | e | dine a ey Ley their vi uty combination of both is responsible Cleantiness Begins at Home. 1 tid fakir, We ele a Domo-| * th ; t crack ino ng rn ‘Po the Enitor of The Evening World cra President and Democratic Kep- | £6" the bib sellin veciasy oa T admit it-1 am of the common resentatives from Now York State, not | Liberty which recently has people. But nevertheless, I want to ade bit onlet ; Ww hy should ; they | shown a tendency to spread, be treated asa human being. dave pocrisy should rule ey nt 27 | The belt w yA peda e botitiel: : : 4 ; ® | one Thomas Yr and shipped you ever been sarcastically advised gy, he | one y M = to Misuse of the Flag. 1 J delphia : oy ste what to do in regard to sanitation + Bilitor of 7 ewer, | to Philadelphia When tome and cleanliness by a Board of Health) After reading the letter of “A Real | With & hammer SEBORSD AS. Ne nspector who looks like he needed American” 1 feel called upon to draw| Arst stroke, metal was recas advice on the subject himself? M,Z | your attention to further misuse, and} and 10 per cent, of copper ad A Reader's View Auninat Prohibition, it F would term an insult to Old ¢Phis addition did not have jsood ef Mo the Eiliorof The Exening Word [ntand, “there ia 9 eat COBY | foots, seeming to apoll the belt's tone As a constant reader of your morn ing’ on In which tho choruy | #0 it was romelte second time ing and evening papers Tam more Comey ty the audience bawling | and tin with the copper to I am forty-five years of age and jhe ‘ ‘Atripen” Chere nat g |, AIHUUKA dentin are momew ii have used (not abused) Uquor jaw against this use of the flag? fT) nary, tt rtain that facilities in of all kinds since I have been! have witnessed this every Saterday ‘the. col for han uch a twenty-one years of age, und will’ and Sunday evening for the past quantity of metal were pot 1 tack my health urance and ca-|tiree weeks In passing on my way to | Mpa dete ity for work—ngaingt any Pro-' Dreamland Piet The bell welkhs about pounds Weiionist Benator or 7Anti-Saloon SPANISH WAR VETM@RAN, | /and i is estimated that twenty to k AN, nty t ' | come. else t o matters: you are mistaken, gentle reader. She is young and behind the iy to be busy. do but a drudge, her lovely all along the line gan it was not so easy, do her own housework, and it took | some make ends me As 1 sat in the lovely sun parlor | and watched her pretty fingers busy | with knitting needles, I marvelled at her, I could not but reflect that this | | is the dawn of a new era of house- | || when women do not need to | grow old to enjoy the best that life young house- keoper has it within herself to leave grandmother far behind in the matter keeping; can managerial give that who had think of household | nothing | gotten for the welfare of all who| home in which to live b By Sophie Irene Loeb | an—vut you wit say—douptiess | there Is plenty of money, or a hard- | v working woman ssel By J. H. Ca ~~ ae _— ao — ~ ~~ weet Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Publish: py ever! ° i ; jafter, All her broad Pee nel New York Brening Worlt merely to look upon “ THER meatless day It is a real farm, and is being de- | groaned = Mr, Jar NPnee sito a mceel one, Te 18, Of thought I smelt fried ham erated on a purely business basis |the work of the farm pay for all of the en nd is helping t avor put Into |cooking for breakfast! As he sald the words he gazed dis- perhaps, There} the place. What real satisfaction she cousolately at the war time break- must have as looking over her per-!fast of mush and milk beautiful. But | fectly appointed table she says, “All “wit you smelt any ham frying It skin and eyes! Mrs. G. wu ne interest and | Was up the alrshaft,” sald Mrs, Jarr, manoeuvres ch of getting more out of life. She is the ts -for better things. e all the time gracious hostes with she w. fore success Is the my example, Gow | beautiful and tent smoothly |twenty-flve of the largest |then in America wore the purpose At all events the bell cast @ third time and accepted, But rimony, and the kind of love that “flies out of tae {t did not cool evenly and was im-| window when poverty comes {n at the door’ 4s small enough to have inediately subjected to shrinkage | sitppedq through the keyhole jstrains, These strains had about the by ee r ne A oleae One way to tell a man's a 1 looks flattered when you call him a and torn down the middle, This | “Woman-hater’ under twenty-five; if he looks flattered when you'eail pressure ultimately caused the big| him “silly boy’ is over forty; 1f he looks flattered when you call him crack which ts such a famillar|a “heart-breaker" he is over fifty charact of the bell, and which | - now promises to become even larger.| A woman seldom knows the real depth of any man’s love; that {s how Ano point against the bell was | she manages to preserve her vanity so long the trip! meltings, Metal lose: - something of its vitality every time Some men are born brilifant conversationallsts, others acquire the art hat tt through the crucible. ldom. 1 remade 1 forth th is quit Liberty He was finally u Hig (OAT Undergoes the nes befor crucibles had 19 a brain whose prime business | energy 4 She has done her bit For when she be- She had to | type t. Although at that] tions, telephones, electric time they did not have much of this | at world’s Koods, there was courage, and woman who works while Thero- required for making | as Rood as be watching the churning of 4s she does in entertaining “It must have been from the kitchen her butte of those new people who've moved in |a popular celebrity is the h | manager of the hour, and her proto. {OR the second floor, They have mea fast becoming familiar, every day, and L wouldn'® be sur- Woman is no longer growing old tn! prised if they were German sp {the service of her family. W "Bi tOl cause with now workssaving "| heard the woman telling somebody is}that her two children had had the] p to ynduct her hom ar German me al less effort. than grandmother 10 § “But the most Intensely loyal fam- | may keep herself youthful as a result hom heard his opening remarks, “if peo- Bachelor Girl Reflections By Helen Rowland (The New York Evening World.) is sought as the ideal Co inriaht y the Prom Put men take sling Oo, mer riage. ror ‘he honeymoon is not positively and definitely over rs having @ Until a Uride ceases to suspect that every girl who wulated glances at ber husband is trying to lure him away from her, a “vampire” or a “cynic.” The kind of love that cannot endure a few tered illusions 1s too weak to stand the strain of mat WHE Row ane. of conver: pretty-you-look-what-ts-that-faseinating-perfume-you-use” 4 reputation as brilliant conversationalists It takes a man with a lot of nerve to marry re \ nerves. t / The Jarr Family OWADAYS ely an experimental Interest In a Kiss, @ sporting interest in love, and an academic interest {n mar- To charm a seasoned widow call her a “kitten” or an “angel,” to fascinate a debutante call her a “siren,” shat- ation, and others simply know enough to say “I-love-you-how- and die with a woman with lots of | £0! mous Teroes of the U. . Navy | ’ Bs Albert Payson rhiutn ‘ No. 24, COMMODORE CONNER, Na Here of Two Ware — Yor the meat three © he work e night 7 rteet bine te new protes Then began ¢ + Wer of 1812 1th Kugiend And Couper hed @ chance to prove @hat sort of buys © releed ry ’ hin (arms) Me quickly » vat 4 lieutenan' on the Horpet when You warship fought ber ae + Britteh manoteer Peacock om vet 4 Li For (iffeen Minutes the (*o foes bammered each ther right murderourly at close quarters Theu, a F now, American w manship Was world famous DANY Comiek. The Peacock fought desperately, but in « quarter an hour the Yankee gunners had riddied her hull, crippled her rigging and wet her ablage Bhe surrendered. There was nothing elee to do, for aiready her decks were awarh * ‘ Conner wan ordered to board the Peacock an H Last ve } to remove the murvivors of her crew te the Hornet the Ship An prinoners, It was a ticklish task at best. And ly did it that the leat of the Peacock before she sank Ms her porte Aptives were transpor elf remaine © sinking ship until every one else wae Mid ve the vck until her decks were actually Then, a# covlly as if there had been no peril at all, he went this exploit Conner was promoted to a Heutenancy, and remained Hornet for the next two years. In that vessel's taht with 1815, he was dangerously wounded. Rut for his herotam tr he received a gold medal froin Congress unanimously voted him a “sword of he and the Pennsylvania T outwe f the Mesican War found Captain and et!!! as eager r danger as he had been thirty years earte As Comm re he umanded a squadron that did mighty aervice tn ting the land forces of ‘Taylor and Scott, He and his squadron were ywhere--wherever the fighting was hottest, wherever they were most Mexico was receiving arms and food from Europe. Conner resolved to it 4 stop to that. And with his ti handful of ships he undertook to ekud whole Gulf, It reemed possible feat for wo small a squadron, especially in days when there was no wireleas and when information travelled slowly and with jability But Conner suc Ho blockaded all the Mexican ports on thes Gulf, and he did it with rigid efficiency, This was a heavier blow to Mexico , Man any other he could have struck eee On Nov, 14, 1846, he attacked Tampico, batter Taking Tampico H ing down all opposition and capturing that im & Big Job. portant hase ORY und of the United S! Scott had succeeded Zachary tes forces In Mexico. Taylor in com- He moved against Vera Crux | !t was Conner who enabled him to land the troops there in safety from hs transports, But at this ¢ dore Conners } were max of the war and of his own splendid serv alth went to pleces, Exposure, old wounds and advancing which even his fearless spirit could not preva Reluctantly he er his command to a younger and stronger man nd returned to th nited States, He never fully recovered, although he ved on 4# a semi-Invalid in Philadelphia until 1 «© Commo ge enem Alp arr Reckon the days in which you have not been angry. 1 be angry every day; next every other day; fourth day thanksgiving used to than every third and If you miss so long as thirty days offer a sacrifice of EPICTETUS. By Roy L. M plo have German measles these days|for myself and the children,” oa they ad better call them something Mrs. Jarr. “I can't eat mush and c Nothing German is popular | the children won't eat it besides, thi« now, Why, they are calling German is a meaties ‘pancakes French pancakes on the “It isn’t is asked M en Jar. | "I wish we had some,” muttered) “I don't mean that,” said Mra, Ja | Mr. Jarr, + you know I'm used “But at a meeting of the Ladies’ War to @ substantial breakfast. Can't Auxiliary Society at Mrs, stryv you cook me a chop?” ast week we all pledged ourselves to “Look! There more buttons off have one meatless day a week. Mr our sh Emma!” cried Mrs, Jarr, | Stryver can’t eat meat because ale shaking the little girl, “In war time| has neuritis, and C1 Mudrids: |buttons must not be wasted. And Smith is dieting, and Hicketts iw eat your crusts, Little boys, mother is a vegetarian, so they a in the trenches would be glad to have pledged themselves to have meatles those crusts!" days, and of course, | haa to pledge | “IM take ‘em to ‘em,’ said Master | to Jarr, “I'm going to enlist, Maw. Sid “But you say you are going to hay ney Slavinsky, little"Izzy Slavinsky's chops for luncheon. | won't be he big brother, has enlisted, and Izzy | for luncheon.” Slavinsky is jumping off the highest} “You know T always eat a ligi fences to learn to be an aviator." |breakfast,” explained Mrs. Jarr, “You can enlist when you are old when luncheon time comes I'm fain enough, and I am proud to hear you, Anyway, the meatless days mea say you want to fight for your|the meals when ali the family is country!” remarked Mrs, Jarr. present.” | This is the voiced opinion of all “But all the family is always pres mothers whose eons some six or|*@t except at luncheon, when I'ma ns are some six OF! my' work at the office,” (eight years too young for the selective "said Mr. Jarr draft, Surely the war will not last six or elght years. ‘Just one little chop “And I want a chop can't T nave a chop?” asked M. ster Willie Jary spi Mr. Jarr might have got his chop. i} Can't I have @ chop cooked for!but just then Master eWwillle ee me? asked Mr, Jarr pleadingly, bowed his head to hide a crust unde {"Just one chop? the edge of his plate and Mrs, Jair way ‘Bat whats before you and be sat- { she cried, “Loop. isfled. How can I expect to make | at your neck ee jthe children at mush, which they wanes Jarry endeavored to do s, don't like, if you won't eat it?" asked? od A an acal Imponelbility . sked “1 washed it. 1 washec Mra, Jarr, “Oh, I'm sure if those | he whimpered eee te ash AIRE people who got pald big salaries to Now, Just for that you don't get a chop!" ‘said Mrs, do you expect to you grow up when write artic *h on th Jarr firmly, “How * @ soldier when ou are not tidy?” 8 for the newspapers on + War Time Food’ had to set it tables own maybe they |added the fond mother’ plalatively. | woul in't be so Mhsistent,” a Ha! Soldiers don't bh muel | ‘Just one ittle chop?" maid Mr. | qncy can't in the tronches!” replied Jarr. “Then I'll eat some of tne | the mov Pana’ teen ig ie mush. I saw some chops in the ice| Mrs. Jarry selued upon. the weted 10x last night," he added young patriot and led him to the bath “Well, if you want to know, I|{jmu and Mr. Jarr, noting it wae hought I'd have them for luncheon , ned 0h Wars parted chopless | Where Ermine Sells at $1.86 a Skin | SHE fi trade good e of ouse ¢ ur trade is a good line of house cat was worth only a quarter business, from the 4nd 60,000 were sold at thet and prices commanded by raw furs JON" quotations. ‘(The dog tured bat and the finished profucts, Russia 18 to $1.46 AV Nee skins bringing up one of the principal sources of supply’ Ermine: imost priceless on Broad for the better grades, and any woman) Way—commanded $1.66 for the "best familiar with the fancy valuations skins. No less than 120,000 akina laced upon a Russian fur were sold, of them going for a | Every year a big fair is held at price as low as 46 cents. ‘The best Irbit, Russia, and furs are sold to red fox skins brought $10, Only blue buyers from all over the world, The fox skins ran to anything like the jaifterence petween prices opus Dg urce in this country, thisey jand those which will be asked for sking 8 goods are Sluminating recent fair ne At the most 3,000 badger skins sold Up to $171.42," Many other kinds of fur were sold, the total mounting {nto thousands o! i 80 to 86 cents each. Three hun-| Hut the fur dealer will no doubt ane dred bear skins brought from $11.43) sert next fall that “the crop was lto $20 @ piece, The coat of the lowly |short,” ) & i +