The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1917, Page 14

Pees tate SON Re ty oe Fe bisfte Commer, + Poet Otten wh How Yorn 20 Recent new Matior me at fventeg |For Fortecd ent fe Comer at Cremren in The ovat | eton rnse i” ~ onete sage Ce en wewnen oF THe canara rom At OUTLET TS AT le OS Oe ANOTHER TEUTONIC PEACE-FEELER. K AvstroMangatian peace proposals forwarded to Brent- Litovek in the name of the Central Powers may beguile the Bolshevik. They may perrunds « fow war-sick Teutone that their Govern- ments are forced to continue the straggle because of the uncom promising attitude of their enemies. But the Crernin peace-fecior will not fool any of the Aliies— @mong whom Russia need be no longer counted. “A general peace without forcible annexations and indemnitiew” has a liberal sound. But Count Crernin’s statement offers no repara- thon for Teutonie violation of the territory and rights of other peoples. From the point of view of permanent Kuropenn peace it proposes qnly a stacking of arma. As for that fine phrase that “for the sake of conquest they (the Central Powers) will not prolong the war a single du has its own lexicon of meanings, To the Prossian mind the subjugation of Belgium, Serbia, Poland and as much of France, Russia or any other n@tion as could be con- veniently overrun would not constitute conquest. It would he only the beneficent, God-directed expansion of Kultur. ee RN oS RE te REPRE Serr Seren a The Government, we are told, plans to out the big salaries of railroad executives. Maybe some roads can be persuaded to skin down the list of vice-presidents to an even dozen or 60. CHEERS FROM WALL STREET. T= part of the nation that always cocks an eye toward Wall Street to see whether it should view events with enthusiasm or alarm had no trouble in reading the signals yesterday. The way the ticker registered approval of Government direction of railroads—at least when it carries a guarantee of net operating income reckoned on a liberal basis—went far to persuade the public that the New York Stock Exchange can dispense tonic as well as gloom in war time. But the irony of it! : ; Here is Wall Street—which for years bedevilled railroads to their ruin, discredited railroad managements and brought indictment and condemnation upon railroad finance—capering with joy because the United States Government and the United States Treasury are now going to stand behind the railroads and make sure they give the country the service it needs! Wall Street has been the great railroad wrecker. Often as it found itself caught under some of the wreckage, it nevertheless went en year after year building inverted pyramids out of unlimited stock issues, trying to squeeze out of snug railroad properties earnings big enough to pay dividends on enormous overcapitalization, ruining the properties in the process—reorganizing, merging, refinancing to stave off the crash, _ | The damage it did was responsible for the worst difficulties with whieh American railroads have subsequently had to struggle. To-day is a memorable day in railroad history in the Unjted States. It points to a now progress in railruad efficiency, It promises great things for the development of railroad co-operation. It assures the further rehabilitation of railroad finance, _ _ Stocks go up as Wall Street sees a chance to bury a part of its ruthless past. ——— - —___—_ ‘To boom the Stock Market: Pass the buck —_———_- 4-2 THE SHIPPERS’ PART. HERE is a sharp reminder for shippers in the statement issued T by the Interstate Commerce Commission, the New York Public Service Commission and the Public Utilities Commis- sion of New Jersey following their joint investigation of the freight Dlockade in the New York Harbor zone: It fe the intention of the joint comm'ttee to, begin shortly to make public the names of consignees who disregard the ur- gent requests of the railroads and public authorities to unload cars promptly. As an example of the abuse of railroad equipment, there 1s @ car loaded with copper In one of the New York railroad yards which has been reconsignod fifteen times and fs still not unloaded. + The habit of using freight cars for storage purposes, while specu- lators sell and re-sell their contents, has been pernicious enough in times of peace. Under the pressure of war demands it cannot be tolerated, Every individual or concern receiving a carload of freight should be compelled to empty and free the car in the shortest possible order. Tf publicity fails to impress this need upon consignees, then penalties must follow, It is time for shippers of all classes to understand that even {under Government direction the railroads are not expected to supply the practical patriotism and co-operation Phipper and consignee to furnish, ' : annnenned ‘The latest peace proposals from the Central Powers via the Bolsheviki look Mke just peace proposals, Do we make our- selves clear? ch it is the duty of every c Saenieras ans . vr) se, ly Hits From Sharp Wits Reform ts always intended for the | young men that while the nation ts at he ser mal re ( er wees reformer war ine ae their time ini oO prescriber 01 -—Co-| acquiring a polish? burr . - Tmbia «8. .), State, sette-Tines, murah Oe . The “millions for defense” includes Women hate to « er questions, doth dollars and men.—Los Angeles | but love to ask them. hicago News, ‘Times, o 9 8 ‘ 8 ‘age milch cow yields 600 Under the Maryland Compulsory a year; whioh ‘ork Law bootblacks ae classed a® | going over the top—of the milk pail, that ap intimation to Memphis Commercial, idievs. Is Prosslaniom { | \ | | the othera. We aro The Seven Ages | Of Love By Nixola G reeley-Smith Copyright, 1917, by The Prews Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) No. 1.—THE AGE OF DREAMS HRD are seven ages of love, and ¢ne age differs from an- other tn glory and in discom- fort. First love is the most wonderful and the moat un- comfortable of hu- man emotions, We are in the habit of making Nght of it, of say- ing to innocent young creatures 2 Just coming down with @ first attack, "Pouf, “t's noth- ing, you'll get over !t." And no they will get over it, more's the pity, and grow {nto middie aged tepid persons like ourselves, just as ready as we are to discourage young, brilliant and beautiful beings who go wrapped in ecstacy, Wo aay t them, quite as If we sat at their bedeides inside a scarlet fo~ ver quarantine: “It's awful, of course, , but millions of people have had It and,gotten over It, and remember you can never have It a second time.” And that, unfortunately, Is quite true, Not every one of us knows first love or any love. There are smug, suc- ceasful human belngs of both sexes who are genuinely bewildered by the degree of importance love seems to have for thome it touches, ‘There are men who suspect the emotions they inspire and women who aneer in- credulously at fovlings they arouse themsaocives, Jt tw Just as foollsh to think that every one !+ capable of loving as to belleve t every oe CAD Write po- ry, bulld cathedrals or dunce lke dora Duncan, Men speak o; 4 ven arts, ignoring love, b and greatest art, which includes all asked, some- Umes, why men have surpassed women in the seven arts, but it is rarely claimed that men equal women in the art of loving. 1 have thought occasionally that it because Women, as mothers, are rtlate in lite itself that they are gen- erally less successful than men in the more perishable mediume of words, music, paint or eluy However this may be, | should way that the proportion of mon to women capable of experiencing a serious love fs about one to twenty-five, Love leade a double life in the hearts of many men. Quite recently quoted to me with ap- from @ current play, a proval a looks like “One woman to love and another to reapect,” and said that for him it would be impossible to love and re- spect the same woman; that when he only. ‘This opinion, one of the ugly weeds of Puritanism, is quite common among certain types of young men and I don’t know which I pity more, the unfortuuates they love or the vic- tims of their respect. No such division occurs in the first Age of Love—the Age of Dreams, age which rarely | into the twen- ea but which mm: win at twelve or even ten or eight, In the last g eration and In every generation be- fore it, boys had many thin dream | of—of boing soldiers, President, belng cowboys or gold wookers, but girls had only a single theme. They could be nothing, have nothing except througtflove, And #0 girla began to think about love very early indeed, My own very early childhood was Known both to me and the nurse who had told mo about him as the Prince of “Whale At the age of four I had fully determined to marry bim and would sometimes describe to other little girls ihe blue silk dress I Intended to wear at the ceremony. And thon one day an ambitious little listener broke Into the blue-silk rhap- body to say that she too was golng to marry ‘he Prince of Whales (we all thought his name meant that he was @ whale of a prince). I was perfectly willing to divide him, stinginess never having been one, of my vices, but another far wiser little girl threw the Apple Discord into the little group by claring that only one of us could the bride, Discussion rose to argu> ment and argument to personal com- bat, which brought the mother of my rival {nto the room, And she,* wid what she fondly believed was the ea- plency of Solomon, put an end to the row and also to my first day dream by saying that t Prince of “Whales” was middle-aged, married, and had children old enough to be our mothers, So ond all dreama And ec all princes (urn out to be middle aged and married, even If we ha wo marry them ourselves. But their reign ia glorious neverihelesa and the Age of Dreams 's tho Golden Age of Love, Be SOME SPEED, ULMINATE of mercury, which ts used as the original detonating charge in torpedoes, expands at a furious rate, A writer in the Ulus- trated World makes @ comparison between this rate of expansion and an express train traveling at the rate of sixty miles an hour, * be says, “24,000 feet a 4 of the elghty-nine fulminate of mercury your hand will carry @ and yet not burn ia the ultimate in @, ing off in inger with it iv cout.” Married he would marry for respect | aun | made glorious by a dream of @ beg | cond made by a mile-a-min- | “and you will know why | an/said Mr. Jarr. f|complaina when we have company ‘That Jar. By J. H. ~ Cassel The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 66 B haven't had any fun a@t all this winter, it seems to me," said Mrs. Jarr. “I know it's war time and all the young girls are busy in Red Cross work or filling men's positions, and all the young men of spirit have gone to war, untll nobody is left but old fogies, But, just the same, T in- tend we shall have a party of some kind, There's no use sitting around and sorrowing!" “Well, anything for a quiet life,” “I'm for the party thing.” “It seems an age since we had a pleasant gathering of any Klnd, | Who will we invite?” said Mra. Jarr. | “Let's cut out the old dodos,” sug-| gested Mr. Jarr, "Get some lively folks and we'll cut up and have @ high old time, for one night at least. “And have people say that we are showing extremely bad taste when there is a war going on?” asked Mrs, Still, we might forget all the) and trouble for one night, anyway. “Woe won't “0 your mother, she'll be talking of how she suffers from neuritis,” said Mr. Jarr. "By the} way, what's become of old fashloned | neuralgia and rheumatiyn? Nob ia weartng them any more; neuritis is all the mode.” “Somebody will have to help me," | sald Mrs, Jarr. “My mother never and If she's here there won't be any intoxicants put tn the grape jutco prech, ke you and that man Rangle put in at the! ad. Shall wo invite Mra, Kittingly?" remarked Mr. Jarr : * Mfrs, dure. “put that’s what vou mon Iike.” | well, cut her out, then,” growied Mr, Jarr. | “We'll ask #ome of the nice peopl I met at the Ladies’ Wartime Knitting | Teamie' muent fs. Jarre "Let \| e, there's Mra, Soper, She suffers | ao from falling arches, but sho’) | com "1 dance with her,” suggested Mp Jarr. ‘And there's Mr. and Mrs. Bishtoy, | She talks dreadfully of everybody, and Mr, Bishley gives mo tho creops, | He has a mouth lke a shark, and his | hands are so clammy that tt fool, as though you were shaking hands with a fish.” “phey'll be charming additions to the affair,” remarked Mr. Jarr “and T'll have to ask Clarice pil. or, 1 despina that girl,” waid Mon “It Jack Silver comes « pnd be will be quarreling the rice | Smith," | partment. stant they set eyes on each other.” “It looks to me that It ts Hikely to be one of our old jolly affairs, in- deed!” murmured Mr, Jarr. “Why, certainly," replied Mrs. Jarr, “And we won't have dancing only; we'll have muslo and singing, too, The Clammer girls will bring thelr music, and we will have to have Mr. Pinkfinger to play thelr accompaniments. But I know that as soon as Jack Silver sets eyes on Mr. Pinkfinger he'll tnsult him.” “Shall I have Johnson and Jenkins from tho office?” asked Mr, Jarr. “Jenkins can bring his wife and Johnson will bring the girl he's en- gaged to." “None of those people, please!” sald Mrs, Jarr, “I want a congenial crowd, I met the loveliest man the other day, a friend of Janet Tutwiler, His name ta Dotterby. He recites beautifully. He'll read @ few war poems. “Why hasn't he enlisted then?” asked Mr, Jarr, “You never mind,” Mrs, Jarr re- torted, “Why haven't you enlisted?” “Nobody wants me to. I never re- cite,” replied Mr. Jarr. “We'll have to ask the Rangles and the Stryvers and Clara Mudridge- Mrs. Jarr went on. “Clara Mrs, Stryver are on tho outs, and Sayi ngs of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland OOO OT tr Ten Femme Pammng On Ten toe Care trey Wares DIL, verlag, me Canghted, V Corto waget eet (how seeereed bow the Hepert Cove and (he Rapert at Lave pesemtia one anetner in thet mre Wor (9, | have watehed thom at thats wort, and Ge tart mitted of & sated and the ceerming of @ man were site wondertal ante mat (oe (a Ul thaw pieadent with & Good Cont, soring “Trl me how thew makent & ealed dressing” oho aneworeth ALWAYS, sayings “Oh, Nt be wnewediog oanyt “Heheld, thew pottost tn the vinewar and the ot, according to thy judament—eoMctent of the one to mane 1 emooth ant enowgh of the other to mate and miseth them according to thy discretion whee oom 1) thew ahdent anit, according to thy taste, and pay tka and pepper in proper quantities, and sugar to sweeten It a9 tow srout Mi fust a little of everything, and not too mach of anything!” And, sine, when she hath finished her inetructions thew keowent fm more thi thow det before! Vor she measureth by instinct and miseth by tntultion « by sorond sant! cookety Likewise, if thow implorest @ fascinating woman to toll thee how to arm & MAN she anewereth aiwaye, Mt is exceeding BABY! old, thou charmest thom with @ ifttle of « Buch of anything; with a little frankness to ai waying! rything—and got ‘eo rm their suspicious, and © litte mystery to arouse thelr curtonity; with a little flattery to dotight thetr vanity, and a Iittle indifference nem to keep them hoping and @ Iittle- coldness to keep them hambl to pique their interest; a Ittle ewoet tle encouragement to keep them guessing and a Iittle discouragement to keep them chasing!” And lo, when she hath finished ber Instructions thou knowest no more than thou didst before! For whe lureth them by Instinct and baiteth them by Intuit readeth thelr moods by second sight! Verily, verily, tn love as in cooking theory counteth not at all and braina but ittle, fur it is ALL a matter of tntultion and experience. Yot this OND -ule do I give unto thee, My Daughter: If thou wouldet charm @ man or cook for him watch tho fire! Yen, se# to it that the flame bo netther too dim nor too Intense, for Jove, ko unto pudding, should be neither frozen nor burnt out, but kept | “«tmmertng” forever! Selab —«*Ma’? Sunday’s _ Intimate Talks THE WOMAN WHO DID HER WORK TWICE. afternoon last summer T dropped in at the invitin; littie bungalow of Mrs. Brown. Her day's work was apparently done and she was sitting on the veranda in @ spotiess white linen suit embrot- dering, Aa we talked, however, I noticed her eral times, almost unconsciously, glance through ‘the window of the living room in a gue, speculative way, which made |me wonder what was on ber mind, I have an idea you will smile as much as [I did when I tell you sober- lly just what it was—and just what Mrs, Brown, at the close of her day's work, was worrying about. It was tho peaches she intended to pre- serve the next day. She had just re- celved two bushels, so ripe that they had to be used at once, and her cellar was already overstocked, for she had_been following Mr. Hoover's advice about food conservation Where was sho going to put those peaches? What was she to do with them? I turned the matter of Mrs. Brown over in my mind for a few minutes—for I knew she was only a type that thousands of other women would fit-and then I said to her bluntly: “Do you ever realize that you do the samo work over several times— when once ought to be amply suffi- clent?”" “What do you mean?” abe asked, for she prided herself somewhat on her household system, “Just thia. You anticipate mentally everything you have 'to do to-morrow— ‘and some of the things you, have plan- nod for next week, maybe, You have reason enough to say to yourself, ‘Sut- ficient unto the day,’ and yet you are | trying to do with your mind to-day the | tas I] have to do with your |task you wil hands to-morrow, I dare say you have ae ma? summery {and neither of them likes Mra, Ran- ale “What other congenial people can you think of? asked Mr, Jarr, “L had forgotten Cora Hickett and her mother," Mra, Jarr answered, Tl have to ask them If I ask others we know and they know, But old Mrs, Hickett had a spat with Mra. Soper, and if Cora Hickett sees Jack Silver pay any attention to any other girl there'll be trouble, Yet she'll bring Capt. Herbert Tynnefoyle, and he and Jack Silver always taunt each other, Capt, Tynnefoyle says Jack Silver ts a slacker, and Jack Silver lells evervbody that Capt, Tynne- foyle ts only in the Commipsary De~ You must tell that man angle to seo they do not come to biows, although I don’t think elther jof them has courage enough to fight.” “lt looks to me as though an en- Joyable time will be had by al . Jarr, “We'd better dig trenches across the parlor, and have @ hos- pital base Jn the dining room ——_ HOW DARWIN'S WORK BEGAN, HARLES PARWIN lad the foundation for his great work on the evolution of man while acting as naturalist to the expedition of H, M, & Beagle, which was des- patched to South American waters for w hydrographical survey tn 1832, one over mentally a dozen times every tail of the preserving you have plan- de You are tiring yourself out ned to do, before you ever begin the actual physical work—and It doesn’t make the work any easter, not @ bit, when you really get to tt, It's a common mistake, this habit of doing work twice, and sometimes a good many more times than twice. It 1s another of the results of great American disease of Mrs. Brown looked thoughtful when Thad finished. She was an Intelligent 9 woman, Intelligent enough to know what I meant, and not to take offense by my plain speaking. "You aro right,” she sald at last thoughtfully. “I wonder why we do it’ I know dozens of women just like my- sel = 1s an excelient idea to plan your work tn advance,” I told her, “but don’t keep your mind on the planning unftt! the time comes to go to work, Wher you are through your plans ewtter your mind completely away from your work and all thoughts connected with it, Get to something else utterly for elgn to It, Seek pleasure, relaxation or maybe some other kind of wort but Ket away froin the Immediate job of to-morrow. You will be surprised how much better vou will do tt whe you come to it, at the new interest anc enthuslasm you will have for {t. Goou work doesn't have to be done over anu over again to be good. You are mere.y lowering your own vitality and yoy ability to work properly when you your mind run around in vague cire! as to ways and means. And tho you think about it the chances are more befuddled and disheartened become about it. Isn't thet true? Mra, Brown nedded with @ tittle smile, "I was at my wits’ onds abou that preserving. T couldn't figure ou; ie favo me, just what 1 was going ty 0. you “And yet you'll probably find some ridiculously simple way you bad never thought of at all when you g to it” I answered. “Someliow wo always manage to get our work don. it js up to us, thougn, whether we drive our work on to @ satisfactor completion or whether our wor drives us to sleepless nights and racked minds, and tired bodies thir are not really able to carry throug; the necessary duties that come to us,” Mrs, Brown looked very thoughtra! when I left her, “I am glad you came,” she sald. “You have shown me some things I had never aeen before-—and which I gee now 1 needea to know vory badly.” (Copyright, 1917, by The Bell Syndicate, Lue.) Pocket Stoves for Heatless Days N¢their effort to combat the dan- | gers of a heatless flat New York- ers might adopt the pocket stoves used in Japan, These are called kwairo, or pocket braaiers, and are guaranteed to keep the person warm who carries one about with him, The fuel is made of hemp stalks, from which the fibre has been taken, and the stalks then turned Into charcoal, | This charcoal is packed into a casing, }something lke a sausage end the lgstove fired as one may wish, When |it 1s fairly lighted the charcoal burns without smoke or flame, giving forth a steady heat that would be moat wel- In come to many a fMat-dweller, Japan enough fuel for a single cha: costs one-sixth of a cent, and will last |for threo hours, But, of course, we | would have to consider the pocket- stove trust, should these suggestions be adopted, There is no such trust at present, but no doubt it could be quickly formed. During the Russo-Japanese War many @ soldier of the Mikado kept himself from freeging by use of these pocket stoves, The Russians became acquainted with their virtues and the former Government of the Caar bought thousands of the miniature heaters for Russian soldiers in this war, Tho pocket bragiers also ary recommended for use in the treat- ment of colle, cram, &c., answer- ing the no Purpose as a hot-water bottle, These stoves are about the size of « pocket cigar et mado of tin or some finer metal thay do not become red hot, as might be supposed, but just pleasantly warm, and give forth @ steady heat while the fuel lasts, Such a stove would be partoularly desirable for coanmuters, who might reach home without being frozen to their seats, as case at present, 4 onan? In Japan It is or feeble persons these stoves in t Delicate children custom among aged to sleep with one of wed night clothing. ae) with @ little stove in thelr poskels cant those Bong, on @ journey see to tt stove Is burning bright): y start. If coal oonitance 4 in price, landlords no sorb in suppl mae Ket stove Aner ain adval will be interested tenants with a pool cutting off all heat,