The evening world. Newspaper, July 28, 1917, Page 8

n's Jo Doing a Ma Che } ever ng World. b Perrier d ier ke “ wane “hk ew ’ i" 7 — a ——— -_-—- f\ oe , on ° \\) - “ ‘ \ \ - . “ _ vou NO. 26,490 TAKE NO CHANCES. P| NI ’ ve * « harbor to eee that Uncle Sam's tra ' Doren ( iN gian freghtere are ted up bike #0 many ay few that earlier made « fun for it + ) ! 4 and taken to Halifes, there to remain ¢ it for whom their cargoes were Feally destin With the vet re r the Commissioners from Norway and Rolland whe eto W to plead neutral needa, the United Btates can only etand by ite resolve that neither directly nor indirectly Will it help feed the Central Power Better that thie nation i be called hard and uncharite than that it I rick « lengthening of the war and a greater sacri fice of American lives by a too easy acquiescence that permits its foodstuffs to pase by undergr into Germany “1 have sex ross the frontier,” the Dutch cartoonist, Kacmaekers, declared two days ago to The Evening World: I have seen roads blocked with vans carrying supplies into Germany. 1 have seen houses facing in Holland but with back windows looking on Germany where the owner of the house would stand in the door—some one, any one, entering would slip him some money and then go up the staire and throw supplies out of the window into baskets held by Ge: ane in Germany. These things and more like them were reported to the Dutch, Minister of Foreign Affairs and to the Minister of Agriculture &id—nothing. There could be no better illustration of conditions which mu convince the United States that it can take no chances—that in jus tice to Americans who fight, to all Americans who bear the burdens) of this war, it must grimly stick to its embargo and permit no traffic through which aid and comfort trickles to the enemy. SHIP LIVE READING MATTER TO THE SAMMIES. HAT’S a good point Gen, Pershing makes about the reading matter this country ought to send to its soldiers in France: The literature sent to France must be current—that ts, mew magazines and leading nowspapers despatched as soon as possible after publication, Just remember the young Americans massing behind the firing Une are not bedridden invalids or inmates of old men’s homes, On| the contrary they are very much alive and kicking, with an insistent! appetite for the latest, liveliost news of the day. They don’t want nd routes through neutral countries n the most wholesale emuggling who Harper's Weokly for the year of the Centennial or other dusty back numbers, Nor are tattered volumes of the Sea Side Library and. euch garret rubbish the thing to ship to husky, wide-awake Americans) at the front. | In these days most of us are quick readers, The dailynews-| paper, the current weekly or monthly has soon given us what we bought it for. Make it @ rule to put a stamp on it while it is fresh and start it off to the boys across tho water. ——_—_—_-+-___. ~ AQUA TOFANA. Hungry Here at Home — Legislature Is Called Upon to Right People’s Wrongs. By Sophie Irene Loeb Food Prices Must Come Down or the Poor Will Go| possible to keep the wolf from the door, I should like to have them re alize the truth—some of these men who close thelr eyes to conditions and who legislate on all kinds of things except those that keep body and soul together. 1 should ke to show such men the 5,000 } eb jes investigated by the Copyright, 1917, by the U'raw Publishing Co, (The New York Evening W Association Improving the Condl- be tion of the Poor, who are growing ULY 29, 1717, is the date found on a curious old British state} HAT wylitul waste makes wo m that there bal be no ‘waste, | | wanker daily for the want of milk. It A want" we have been told from| | t no wet the Legs e ¥ impossible for their parents to buy paper which directs the British customs officials of that day to} time immemorial, and to-day | ot the Governorie cull Thora ia sees {a suiiclent quantity of milk for these take steps to stop the importation of a poisoned liqueur con- the Issues are Of] thing to be suid by the women of this |? A AB COHDE OE tne Hist BNCas, A ‘ pow i WE teohecatod City ree GH ERE ea | jst thm condition: ien't many of cerning which British envoys at Naples and Genoa had sent home PATAOURE LAvo! in ime hadie’ FV ewtela tire | uidren will be weaklings | be- ; tance, During the ety Nee ne tune eeeea ee oper nourishment during their warnings. : 2 week a Leeim-lV®/ untit the common necessities of lite | Every frob of tall and Chee mae This was the famous—or infamous—Aqua Tofana, named for! Committee con-|drop tn price, I shoula like to take some of these the Greek woman said to have invented it, which toward the close of tors who.are opposing regula- ducted ae on the seventeenth century enjoyed extensive popularity in Italy as a) tho questio lew of food is saved In such homes, ing is wasted. woeful want Noth- And yet there 1s want And all of this goes on tlon of food prices to the east side, [lin a great city, the most prosperous h t : : é | Ialation against the) could take them into homes and show | city. in the world. Millions upon highly convenient and efficacious poison for domestic and general | high price of food: | them women, splendid w fnen, moth | millions of dollars are belng spent daily bs | cuiaes| © tle children, who with the | ¢ ave t esruilatios Dose: uses, At Naples alone six hundred persons were reported to have m Also the How : Patsy ae ian af toon poulsat Hoga te a a culator and been kdiled by.it. wives Protectlye) vive another cent to save thelr souls, {artificial middleman’ continue Association of svening World held @ mass meeting tn City Hall and resolutions were passed concerning important provisions that should be put into @ bill for the Legisiature when tt meets next week, ‘The country ts being flooded with pamphlets issued by the Government on how to eliminate waste-—waste of food; how to dry and preserve and ‘They deprive themselves of commen necessities. In many cases It is im- | Copyright, 1917, by The Pree Pobiirhing Co, (Tee New York Brening World.) Those who distilled and sold it professed, when caught, a benefi- cently social purpose—namely “to keep the world in ease and quiet | by furnishing husbands with the means of getting quit of troublesome) wives, fathers of unruly sons, a man of his enemy, and ao forth.” The poison iteclf is believed to have been nothing more mys- terious that some preparation of arsenic, but it gave tho Italian authorities great disquietude and sent shudders through all Europe w. th Prudent Britons decided to take no chances with it, can fruits and vegetables, There Is| €¢ ately egredsed = The British Secretary of State who on July 29, 1717, penned the|* ,@Teat compaten for conservation, night,” said Mra. Jarr, after whereby each and every one of us is supper the other evening, “It ta Ger- trude’s evening out—which I forgot— and I must go to our Red Cross branch and help pack things to send to the soldiers.” warning letter to the Commi. than Joseph Addison. joners of Customs was no le 4 person asked to save, save, save, Now all of this 1s very good and !m- portant, Amertean thing, hi Letters From the People Everybody Knows that the housewife, as a general been less economical than her foreign sister, It Is wise to teach| “Cinch!” sald Mr, Yarr. “T've got You Caw Obtain Firat pers atyand “One Cent” in wreath. Please|the women of the home ways and a book, and I guess you'll permit me Once; Apply County Clerk, tell me the value. "] means for utilizing every scrap 80] tg smoke my pipe while I act as cus- pply J. HT, Hall of Reco: IC In Worth 25 Cents, 7 ]] todian, mother's helper, night wateh- back th yeebdhigvat shalg haere PP treacle rvaiag Woridi New Source of Platinum |[) mon and amateur go , while you please inform me “et me know if a penny dated 179 | eae i. Nlitcedces ca@cen ike ar oiker. Possible for an alien of a friendly | Ms any extra value, MRS. J. M. M, Found in Siberia, LU Reaselppay atte Hage fd ‘“e . country to get his first papers? I Yeu! He Would KI —— ——J| rather to help in the war work | TV the katitor of The Kren! : | Mrs, Jarr looked around, as though a World ” would like to serve under the colors, N interesting discovery of a new i" if Mil be | italy Jet me know if an American source of platinum ts reporte,|t® ##Y him nay about the amoking, Lad told that no a! a5" i 4 * eer Ban whose parents are altens from Siberia, where the valuable | PUL Roting the lace curtains were . 8.14 |can become President of the U: | hi Eneets ere ENO VG! UAE i gay od ; oe he United | tal te now being extracted by a Rua, |down for thé summer, gave a nodded Two Years If You Have Lived Here! RM tal bl PET Five Years: Ye . Wednesday, sian mining engin from the con-|4 Bo the Maitor of The Krening World: Tote Halton of ‘Toe Kenting Work Iplomerate rock known aa dunite. This| ne children goto bed by I made my declaration of intention | 9g) 1,3)" el! me on what day March | ‘rock contains ehre ron ore, and it|9 o'clock at the latest, if I am de- two years ago, How long would 1| Date Not Set) No Delivery Viedsee|!* from this ore that the platinum |jayed. You can let them play in here, have to wait for final papers? Also, is Fa ee tg: Lninenss quantities wp | but don't let them break anything.” the declaration of intention called | 7 {1 Kivi a The Brening World dunitic rock are found in Siberia, the) “Can 1 put on my new dwess, my first papers? READER. | takes tio Gayene eto® bow long it} Nighni-Tagilsk district alone embrac- | Sunday dwess?” asked the little Jarr akes the Government to supply ibe sa of this f th : erty bonds to a firm purchasing a ing an area of thie formation x girl as soon as her mother had turned {Be the BAitor of The Hrening World number of them tated at 11.7 square miles, says POD, | in6 corner Kindly tell what day May 14, he Safent Mace in the experiments now being made in| “At this hour? Why, you are going 1907, fell on. J. M, || To the Kaitor of The Krening platinum extraction method is| to bed soon," said the fond father, Kindly jet ine know whether it Jato grind the dunite under runners “TD wanta put on my dwoss to seo ie ha Bitar cies medias Wolk wa Yar time to put money in the] in order to separate the ohromitte | sw qr tite me!" whimpered. the Heel Kindly tell me the value of a U, $,| PO%8! Savings Bank $ slack, which 1s then su Ito fi w t fi | half-cent dated 1851 J.M A READER. | ther grinding until t atisum Binh Yes, On @ Selective Basle Similar vo) can be wasted {roi ex “AN rh anything for peace, put Up to One Deller. ur Ow perimental grinding of #lack |4¢ on!" said Mr. Ja Be the Wiltor of The Evening World To the Editor of The Ereuing World Melded over 200 cunces of platinum | ‘t,o?! Mr, ge , : A pave a cent Guted i194, nead tac 10 Retile aN argument, kindly state|out of 0 pounds, and plana are a: ‘ ; hate th fag right, “Liberty” ubove head. Ou whether there js conscription in Eng-| being made to work the deposits of mamma's closet,” cried the darling, reverse is “United States of Amorica,” Jand at the present time? D.& V. 'dunite on. @ large scale, “Stand on @ chair,” advised tho e . . , to take their profit from the poor One of the questions asked at the | Legislative Committee hearing was “Are not commission men and mid- diemen patriotic?” Doubtless many of them are, but the continued high Prices demonstrate that patriotism has never torn holes in their pocket- books, me to get busy. Every woman of us and every father of family should see that the Assemblyman or Senator of thetr district votes in a way te help meet the needs of the hour. There are honest legislators anx- lous to provide relief. They are our represenQatives, and it is for us to say how we shall be represented. Federal and State experts have fig- ured that if the prices of food are to be controlled, governmental au- thoritles must be given the following powers: 1, Strict storage supervision. 2. Muntetpal milk control. 3. City ter minal markets. 4. A commission em- powered to buy and sell |foods in order to standardize price, Pr Are you going to do your bit by writing your legislator to urge his support? a the ~ By Roy L. McCardell | head of the household, reverting to his book. Tho little girl was heard dragging @ chair to the closet in the next ngom, and then @ fall, @ orash and loud screams, Mr. Jarr rescued the ilttle girl, bathed the bump, soothed her with 4 nickel and got out the dress and arrayed her in tt, can't I be a soldier this win- and go fight tn the trenches?” d Master Jarr, who had been quietly rifling the pantry, ‘Look out for my new dwess!” erted his little sister, “Look, papa, he's put his hands on my new dwess and he's got Jam on tt!" Mr, Jarr got peace and quiet re- stored for a few moments and re- turned to his book and plpe, while the little girl went to the bathroom and endeavored to wash the stains from her new white dress, Then she gave her doll a bath and erled bitterly | when its hair came off, At this Master Jarr, who was doing | the bayonet exercise with a toy gun, to the and performed a Belgian atrocity by poking an eye out of the now hairless doll, | At this Attle Miss Jarr shrieked so that the ne rs began to raise the to pland, rushed bathroom shbe |} windows and inquire who wi mur- | | dering the poor little child | Mr. Jarrcourt-martialed the brutal 2 F Th Master Willie bellowed stridently, "Go to bed, children; go to bed the both of youl” sald the distracted father, “Why don't your mother come home? Talk of the war!” ® ‘The little girl, who had stopped ery- ing when her brother was being pun- fshed, now began to ehriek that she was afraid to go to bed, ag there were ghosts in the room, Mr, Jarr finally, by bribes and threats, got the two to bed and quiet. He had just turned the first page of the second chapter of his book, and a loud wall arose from the children's bedroom, Mr, Jarr came upon the scene to find Master Jarr parading in a sheet and declaring he was the ghost of a murdered man, Jarr had no sooner restored and quiet and had returned to his reading and his pipe, when the | little boy was heard to declare that hig sisterywas pinching him. Little Miss Jarr’s excuse for this was that she was thirsty and wanted a drink of water, but Was afraid to go get it. Mr, Jarr got the water, the little girl took @ sip, closed her eyes end feigned to be fast aslec But Mr. Jary was hardly out of the room until she had thrown the rest of the water on her brother and the latter began to make war medicine by pulling the little girl out of bed. | Red Cross branch, she found her hus- band sitting by the children's bed | with his razor atrop. The whole house had a stormed and pillaged as- | Noting the mutilated doll ana » torn and stained new dress of the girl, and the general havoc, Mrs. Jarr administered quick discipline, | made the children say thelr prayers, \iciswed them, and in five minutes they were both asleep. “How do they do it?” said Mr. Jarr softly to himself. . Therefore it 18 wp to you and | ordinary | started from St. Paul's Cathedral on | “Me 3 |Corpus Christ! Day, and marching} pe fad ah A Totel, Washtnata through Cheapside commenced to| Owen Meredith wrote a large peetioal chant “Our Father," or the Vater-|0f (Lucille. It was not an uncome noster, which gave Paternoster Row! Astor and Vanderiine moeeens i) {te name, ‘The good fathers chanted | corner and then repair to mote noes the Paternoster the whole length of | cluded spot to consummate a fh } of kindr ifty By Albert P a NO. @.—SAM HOUSTON; ~~ lw — sean FRO one knows the real cow toe wera 7 ‘ ‘ im 1823 een! bm to ¢ . " ¢ucated and » yw Hie temper y €14 net preven i” was them the t popular man | howors were bis for the taking “ Audrew Je . " vee aed « Kverything was brigut for bin pe . t For are he wit iodace a & cogular member of their pe, Then he *. Texas in those days was a 4 Hut many adventurous Americans had settiod there ‘ clashed with the Meaican Government. T Aw in welf-defense, In 1632 Baim Houston left naclf at the head of the ft rome 1 oe Up the burdes ef fe and was aga making With sublime genius f th organized settlers into @ compact body of Myght 4 them to change thele lawlessnems for w constitution ar laws, He checked pree ure revolt inet Mex at Limobe nee » hie wishes that a band of juoneers were 1 inte the ap Alamo.) At in 1836 he proc od Texas @ free and tndepe nt nation, Naturally th Mexicans resented » bigh-handed irse of action, A strong army under Gen, 8. Ana was sent to annth the ploneera, Houston with barely 760 iuon met this host in battle on the banks of the Bun Jaci April 136. In less than one hour Housten’s weneralship b he day Mexican army was shattered—630 being killed and 730 red Ana himself among lw wus severely wounded in t But the fight had made the Idol of his fe itiersmen, And they elected him President o: ew-formed r Texas, He tm mediately built up the republic'@ finances and industries und placed it om Parr SL 4 Creator of the He red the dict of the new re= Texan Republic.s PUblic ° ised. He bad er plans, From 4 the first he had Intended to turn ‘Texas over to the % United States. When he made the offer to do thie our Government hesitated, offer and to annex the great tract of He was Gove: the outset of the vil War, He n. Because he would not be false to the United States, whose Constitution he had sworn to uphold, the Texans deposed him from the Governorship. Houston went into retire HERE 18 an “Amen Corner the term often used to describe a favori gathering place, and which is ap especially to some corner in # where notables have been wont to as- semble. Before the reformation in England a procession of the clergy interesting with the story | origin the street, so timing themselves that the amen would be pronoun d as they reached the @urther corner, And there 1s the simple story of the name amen corner which still clings to that particular spot, But amen corner came to have a very different meaning, Companions 1 taste met at various inns and taverns in Old London, where y ate, drank, smoked and dis- cussed the various topics of the d When the time of parting arrived rt one said “Ameo,” and with a farewell drink they separated, In this country amen corners date back to Revolutionary days, In Hos- ton there was the old “Bell in Hand” Inn, off Washington Street, where Paul Revere, Israel Putnam and other patriots met. In New York we have Fraunces’ Tavern, on Pearl Street, where George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Marquis Lafayette and other personages of the Revolutionary period formulated plane for American independence. It was in the “long room” of this tavern that George ‘Washington made a farewell address to his officers at the close of the war In more recent years the Lick House, San Francisco, was one of the ‘ ‘T" seems a good place for a shop,” John sald, “and yet I'm afrald| of it, McDonald isn't doing} very well, That's the reason he| wants to sell.” A chance had come to buy a forist’s business and though he had| long Wanted a shop of his own he| hesitated for fear of failure, But| er since we married I had een lookinfy forward to just this chance, so I did not like to let it go, for I was sure we could make the business successful. Without saying anything |to John, who was manager of a shop When Mrs, Jarr returned from the! further downtown and had very little time to himself, I set out to make a thorough Investigation. | First of all, 1 discovered that the ution Was all right, This was im tant, because a good location makes more difference to a florist than to any other tradesman, | MeDonald's show window was too small, his display of flowers badly | Arranged aud Dixy Wanner 1 Custom ers rather surly, Al her I saw many reasons why he failed to get ‘ we ‘w + « A € " ecif most gold er ern Hotel, Amen thena Mississipp! River Cullough, writer; Bedian, and contemporaneous itinere ants gathered and contributed many bases to the literary humor of thelr up. But ner yard V 8.4 mad “Rum, Romant sna in 1884, To emphasize t! this Amon Corner, pew, In his speech t was given to t “I know G they did things Chamber, but th the Amen Corne who were looked to thelr committ the Amen Corner. tions where 900 de would make selves, but received their the plush se sald: fron ner, make a success of the stor ning it on different lines, 7 Sol h bought him out, enlarged the show window and gave the coat of paint soft rose pink, whieh made backgrounl for the ‘ut tower ey plants. I thought out all sorts of vel color schemes for the window und made it so attractive that almout one who passed by stopped to yet ight some little splin green for th tions, At the bac! a bargain tyble tons t yet heavy losses, yun plant, fern or small palm would for one Failures Who Came the beilure Who Gave Temas te the United Mates But Houston soon persuad: id he had snatched from Mexieo, ar of Texas when that State seceded from the Union at fought in vain agains nent and two years later died. ‘Famous Amen Corners of America _ Where History Was Made of | O'Brien, and lost fortunes in a c the best known of all prese: generation ne Fifth Avenue memories jured up in recalling this unique core where I | Pedro of on hed the Pres: Novel Ideas Bring In Money to the Florist, Jalong ana und filled t irranged flowers, worked off all sor of stock and they ¥ made beautiful table decoras th ~* ’ y and triende r trend of the all-pow « Vresideatial posstptiity, wife to w bad been s. Me " ‘ nied t a 1 “ aato y way everything « 4 saves, He faiiu r. Ilousten it to accept the seces conspicuous here Floo Mackay 1 others madi ay during the The South- had a famous Mark ‘Twain, Pilot; Joe Me= win Forrest, tras » of California St. Loui wher orne) amen cc He thi ‘ners was in the New York, What bast can be cons of at Abraham Lincoln, Ede then Prince of Wales; ‘Dota Brazil; William McKinley, , Roscos Conkling, Chester ens. Sherman and Shberl- n Platt, James G. Blaine, Dec ut d where nearby mous utteran and Rebellion” that idency from Blaine h isin a ho significance Chauncey M, Det he night farewell he old place tn 1908, overnors who thought from the Executive hey were done from rv. I know speakers for the make-up 68, that consulted I knew conven. legates thought they UP the State ticket thems ‘inspiration’ ats In the Amen Cor+ T was certain we could interior a nm I stained the wal ap, stained them dul 1 with gracefully By this means we ts of odds and ends brought good prices Kk of the shop I instituted for roses and carnas \t Were not quite fresh and not faded. We never sold wers for fresh as some flors In this way [prevented | also took several large ts, pined th dull yellow 1 stencilled a simple dos mack on them, A rubber j ni “more in euch @ Doty ey J