The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1918, Page 18

<a + fa ae te A a a a onan w pga a fife is to blame. has weathered ten or more years of marriage and {is entitled to whatever @omfort and happiness she can extract from her bargain, gured her. fs tired of her and would like to be rid of her.” FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918 The Eternal Triangle Can Never Be Squared By the Third Member The Dangers of Handling Electricity in the Home Case of Grace Lusk One Proot—Average Husband Hesitant'NEVER ATTEMPT ANY OF THE METHODS PICTURED BELOW—THEY ARE COMMON CAUSES OF FIRE AND DEATH FROM SHOCK. to Risk Giving Up Fixed Quantities, Wife and Home, for Passing Infatuation—When “Other Woman” Wins She’s in Greater Danger of Losing. By Nixola Greeley-Smith HE case of Grace Lusk, tried at Waukesha, Wis, for undertaking to I equare the triangle with a bullet in the heart of Mra, David Rob- erts, is most remarkable for the hatred shown by Miss Lusk toward er victim and the impudence with which she wrote this outraged wife Mhet “the only solution of the eternal triangle is in the elimination of one character.” ‘The statement ts true enough, but human experience has demonstrated that the person most likely to be eliml- nated 1s the woman unwise enough to love another woman's husband, Fierce, unremitting hatred of the wife, the one innocent member of such trios, {s a frequent symptom of these unbalanced beings Any one of us who numbers such a being among his acquaintances must have listened to shrill tirades against the injured wife with a feeling of bewtlder- ment and dismay. Gometimes in euch a situation we are goaded to Inquire just why the She saw the man first, we say, cast her life with his, Why hate her? “Why hate her?” repeats with weary scorn the woman who has tn- “Because she has no self-respect. She hangs on to a man who 1 ‘kmowing the facile vanity Of/ piiures—some one, in short, who Men, you question whether the hus-| band is really tired of his wife and {wants to domesticate the Third) ngle, you merely draw the light Bing down upon your own head. Man has invented ways of putting he strength of waters to turn bis mill | ‘wheels, the forces of wind and steam @nd electricity to drive his ships and engines, But he has never managed | t® dovise any way of harnessing the Btrange, powerful impulses of the hu- an heart. He has made laws about them, to be sure. And sometimes these laws work and sometimes they do not. Knowing this, we cannot censure & woman for mere loving, Qut we can and do blame her for pains love, the greatest constructive roe in the universe, for destruc Bion. Perhaps the lean Waukesha school teacher could not prevent the ten- @rils of her flerce and stormy heart from taking hold on Dr. Roberts. But only pure egotism—the exag- erated ego that is the motor power of every crime—could have urged hér to break up his home and kill the in- nocent mistreas of his home. The way of the third woman In the triangle inevitably is a dark way. For she never knows real compan: fonship—the companionship of the home; she never knows real love— the acknowledged love of a man who seeks no other woman, She knows brief, furtive meetings, snatched mo- ments from the rich association of wife and husband, She 1s Lazarus begging for the crumbs from the Rich Woman's table—crumbs of af- fection, of tenderness, appreciation and understanding. The man she loves never leaves her without leav- dng the bitter knowledge that he goes to another woman, and that, even if he gives her his heart, it will ‘be a hand-me-down. The woman who knows men—the woman who knows one man—must realize that the love which binds gen to their homes is not physical fove, has nothing to do with early femance or late adventure. It is the Glow crystelization of little habits— fhe yearning for a place to go after ‘@e day's work—the yearning for @ome one to hear your troubles and share them with you—to rejoice in will ee you in the large heroic out- lines in which you view yourself, All these things have nothing to do with infatuation and cannot be found outside of marriage. Men are| not the spendthrifts of emotion that women are, They rarely risk their entire happiness in love affairs, and in triangles never dream of jeopardizing the one really important | woman in their lives—the woman who gives suits to be pressed to the tailor, finds a new sovereign when the cook leaves and sends the laun- dry out—to the mere object of a) transient feeling which long expert- ence has taught them to despise. A wife is the unit of a man’s af- fections, and the women who come after her just 60 many zeros. Nothing they can do or be will give them any other value. It 1s perhaps because the third) member of the triangle realizes the Preeminence of the wife's position and the worthlessmess of her own that she concelves for her a frenzied hatred such as drove Grace Lusk to kill the woman she wanted to sup- plant All crime springs from a defect of reason, Balzac sald. The balanced human being never breaks the fun- damental laws of human association, There are few women, even among those in Grace Lusk’s position, mad enough to adopt her desperate rem- edy. most It is @ strange thing that a woman who does most to flout the institu- tion of marriage by ignoring tho wife's claims to her husband ts the very woman who secks most desper- ately to be married, And if she} succeeds in her undertaking, she be- comes the most ardent champion of the restrictions she ignored and do- fled But the black flag can never be hauled down. Once you nail the skull and cross-bones to the mast, you are forever an outlaw, the po- tential prey of any bolder, more ad- venturous pirate who envies your Dooty. ‘The eternal triangle can never be squared, no matter how many in- cantations are said over it. Its angles may be acute, but are oftener obtuse, Whatever they are, nothing pour triumphs and condole your else can ever be made of them, | The Reason “Why.” Selentitic Facts Applying Be Able to Answer. | Why Do People Shake Hands|Why Are the Lines in the| With the Right Hand? "YN the daye of very long ago when all men were prepared to fight at any and all times because ona would not know whether another ap- Proaching was a friend or an enemy, @& men went armed, This was before the day of guns, wnen the sword was fhe great weapon of dofenso. 2¥, then, a man wished to speak with @ otranger, or, as might casily Meocessary, to one who might even be known to be unfriendly, he put out his wight hand upon approaching to show @eat he had no deadly or dangerous weapon io it. The other man could 00 this and knew from tho extended hand that no harm was intended @nd that the approacn was peaceful. Hf, then, he was willing to moot the ether, be also extended tus right arm arith the hand open to show him who approaching that his fighting Si 4 be to Questions You Should Palms of Our Hands? ° TT cannot be said that the lines on the palms of our hands are of any reat service to us. Indeed, it ts doubtful if they are of any value in themselves outside of the possible ald they may be in helping us to detor- |mine the character of the surface of which we grasp or touch. It ible that they ald in some slight » in this Way. There ts little however, that they are @ re ork the hands are con- ed upon to de rather than leontrived for any parcicular pervice, |The habitual tendency of the fingers jin grasping and holding things throws th skin of the palms into creases, which, through constant repetitivn, make the lines of the palms perma. ‘nent in several instances. Tbe pecu- llarities of these lines or creases in various individual 0 details and ‘ “hig When telephoning avoid touching ra-~ diator or other metal object. Oe ed “Never attempt to make any changes in wiring, adjust electrical appliances , of replace fuses unless qualified to do so. ae © water faucet or other metal Whilein_a bathtub never touch any electric cord or fixture. with the current \\ N \ FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1918 Safety for the Household---1 Rules for Preventing Fire and Avoiding Accident When You Use Electricity The Most Common Sources of Danger and How to Escape Them—How to Rescue and Revive a Person Who Has Been Shocked. The Evening World to-day publishes the first of a series of articles designed to promote safety for the household by describing the most common causes of accident and fire and their provention, and giving rules for proper action im cases of emergency. The matertat ts issued by the United States Government in the ciroular of the Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce. LTHOUGH electricity is andoubtedly the safest available agency for A producing light, heat and power, nevertheless many accidents still occur in its use because of improper installation or careless handling of electric wiring and appliances. Careful observance of the pre« cautions outlined below would undoubtedly re hundreds of lives an- nually, besides avoiding mang serous injuries and preventing the loss of hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of property. Do not touch or disturb any electric wiring or appliances in buildings, except euch as are intended to be hantled. Keep furniture and materials away from interfor wires, or see that the wiring {s in conduit or otherwise adequately protected against mechanical injury. After using portable heating appliances, turn off the current before leaving them. Pressing irons, in particular, frequently cause fires where left on ironing boards by slowly burning through combustible materials beneath. Water-heating devices also sometimes become dangerously over- heated and set fire to adjacent woodwork after the water has boiled away. The placing of such substances as paper or cloth over lamp bulbs is apenas Peas Never try'to turn onan electric light while touching fixture., Copyright, 1918, by The Prage Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). HIS {dee of not letting your right mitt know what your lets tunch hook 1s doing ts all right so long as both of ‘em are giving to the Red Cros, ‘The only way to keep your hands out of trouble {a to keep ‘em busy making motions toward the Red Cross, Idleness is to human hands what tanglefoot is to files’ feet. When nominated for six months on Mr. Blackwell's very durable island a hokey told the Judge he wasn't doing anything. Which was the reason Gus Judge sipped him the #ix stanzas. Loafing will get you into trouble, But so will some kinds of work. Look ut the awful dish of spaghett! those conductorettes have tangled the works up into, In the old days a guy waiting for a street car would fiatwheel on the first street car that poked its pink nose within sight, He knew that the conductor needed @ shave and chewed borrowed tobacco, But now? Well, since the conductorettes started conductoretting, @ man will pass up three or four care because he figures the next one will be a blonde, Yea, bo. And the motormen's wiffs are registering a double-barrelled squawk because friend husband ts chaperoning a purple trolley car which ts chaperoned by a blonde conductorette who ain't chaperoned by any- body. Wow, said the fox, Work may win the war, but so far as the motormen’s wives are concorned those conductorettes can go right back to loafing again, Just when we think we have the war running nice and smooth some- body pushes the wrong button and turns on the shower bath instead of the electric Mgnt, You wald it, Looks like we will have to go back to the old style conductors with prominent Adam's apples and a complete set of whiskers on their china, They may not be as handsome as a conductorine with a beauty spot gummed on the fifth window from the front of the car, but they knew that two belle meant to browse along, one bell meant to stop, and a nickel is & Blokel no matter who's looking. And they never stoppod fongth and variations ts the chief ba- Of the so-called science of palinias me hp omneee giving out transfors to powder their beaks, Nobody ever thought of Micting MAA & Woes ped somduaier, Aad whom ibe aac coached the Conductorines Are Something Else Again Looks as if We'll Have to Go Back to Old Style Conductors With Adam’s Apples and Whiskers, for the Motormen’s Wives Are Getting Sore About Those Unchaperoned Conductorettes—But There Are Two Sides to Every Story; i How About the Conductorettes’ Husbands? BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER \ end of the line the baritone passengers got off and evaporated toward home, Under the old flock of rules the oar would travel at least with- in four yards of the right schedule, But now? That's something any more, It's a galloping boudoir, blame the motormen's wiv: Bolshevik yarn, has two sides? an awful lot of flirting on 4 nickel, Even the nearsighted passengers bring opera glasses along. You can't : for getting sore, Or the passengers’ wiffe ; either, Old John Motorman gets a sprained future trying to keep one lamp on the job and the other optic on his blonde conductorino, It sure is a corrugated affair for the motorman’s wife, And it's certainly rough sledding for the passengers’ wives, ’ But did you ever stop to think that every story, even if it is a se again, as the affable stranger said when he slipped the nearsighted old lady a pewter dime and she staked him to two zine jitneys change, A street car ain't a street car Some passengers sure want to do They aren't missing anything. How about the conduotorette’s husband? | PPAHAT China is being modernized faster than most of us may think {1s indicated by the in- |creased use of the telephone in that vast country. It also is worthy of | note that although practically the | whole equipment comes from abroad and ig to a considerable extent op- erated by foreigners, the prices for service are much below those to which |we are accustomed in this land of high prices. ‘The Chinese telephone system at Mukden is owned and operated by the provincia! government. The long distance rates” per ten minutes are, WaADs, 1 pallsa, conversation of from Mukden to Hao Talk Is Cheap in China States gold; Haicheng, 78 miles, $0.20; Liaoyang, 40 miles, $0.10; Hsinmin- tun, 38 miles, $0.10; Tiehling, 45 miles, $0.10; Tung Feng, 133 miles, $0.50; Hel An, 157 miles, $0.60; Hsi' Feng, 100 miles, $0.40; Hatlung, 153 miles, $0.60; Changtu, 84 miles, $0.40; Kalyuan, 66 miles, $0.30, All sums given have been converted into United States gold at the rate of $2 local small coin currency to $1 American gold, but this rate of con- version is abnormal owing to the present very high rate of exchange for silver, Where the small coin dollar in this consular district is now worth about $0.50 gold, under normal conditions it is worth only about §0.35, under which latter condition the te! Totes mare aatabbahed, . likely to result in fires. to combustible materials against it. Never touch those interior live metal parts of the socket, plugs or receptacles which are used to carry current. In handling electrical de- vices use the insulating handles which are provided for that purpose. Persons are sometimes killed or in- jured in their own homes by care- lessly or recklessly touching bare current-carrying parts, especially where the devices are of bad design or poorly maintained. Touching such parts is particularly dangerous if the hands are wet by perspiration or otherwise and so make good con- tact, as is likely to be the case in bathrooms and laundries, The hands of children are usually moist enough | also to increase this danger, While in bathrooms, toilet rooms, kitchens, laundries, basements or other rooms with damp floors, stoves, heaters, steam or hot water radia- tors or pipes which may be touched, avoid touching any metal part of lamp sockets, fixtures or other elec- trical devices, since it may acciden- tally be alive. While in a bathtub never touch any part of an electric cord or fix- ture, even ff it is a nonconductor. When using the telephone avoid touching stoves, radiators or any other of the metal objects above men- tioned, particularly during electri- cal storms. Never try to take electric shocks from the wiring in buildings or on streets, nor induce others to take such shocks. A shock which ap- pears harmless to one person may be fata) to another, who may have a weak heart, for example. A harm- less shock may be received by a per- son whose hands and feet are dry, and a fatal shock might be received by the same person from the same wire if his hands or feet are wet. Avoid touching bare or abraded spots on flexible cords attached to electric lamps, pressing {trons or other portable devices. Handle all cords carefully in order to avoid such injury to their insulation. Do not hang them on nails or over fixed wires, Always have them repaired or replaced by @ competent eleo- triclan when any injury to insula- tion {8 observed. Abraded insuli tion is a too prolific cause of per- sonal injuries and fires, and this often results from disturbance of originally well insulated wires. Never touch a wire or any electri- cal device which has fallen on a street, alley or lawn, or which hangs within your reach, if there is any possibility that it may still be touch- ing any overhead electric wire. Any such wire or device may be danger- ous or may become so at any mo- ment by leakage from other wires either nearby or ata distance. Even @ damp or green branch hanging from an overhead wire may be alive, Throughout the country as a whole many people are killed annually by touching fallen wires. Insulated overhead wires should be treated the same as bare wires, since the insu- lation quickly becomes defective in outdoor use, Avoid touching the guy wires which are used to anchor poles to the ground or the ground wire run down wood poles. Never try to jar arc lamps, nor touch the chains or ropes supporting them. During and aster etowma 4 pot tonoh evap pal An electric lamp gives out enough heat to set fire | coe if wet. These wires, chains or poles may be receiving leakage current from the live wires overhead, a! though no evidence can be seen of such leakage by sparking or other- wise. These dangers are greatly in- creased during and after storms on account of possible fallen wires, broken insulators and the wet sur- faces of the poles. Never climb a pole or tree on or near which electric wires pass. Never touch such wires from win- dows nor while on roofs. Also never raise a metal pole, rake or pipe or @ metal-bound ladder so that It comes in contact with overhead wires, Never throw strings, sticks or pieces of wire over the electric wires carried overhead. Also never fiy kites near overhead wires nor throw sticks or stones at insulators, Be- sides the danger to one's self one may short-circuit the wires, causing them to fall, or one may cause enough current leakage to set fire to prop- erty near at hand or at a distance and thus endanger the lives of many persons. Never touch a person who has been shocked while he ie stil! in con- tact with the electric circuit unless you know how to remove him from the wire or the wire from him with- out danger to yourself. Have some one immediately call the nearest doctor and the lighting company. Use a long dry board, or a dry wooden-handied rake, or broom to draw the person away from the wire or the wire away from him. Never use metal or any moist object. By touching the person one may receive the shock himself. Cases have oo curred where several persous by at- tempting to rescue other persons from contact with a live wire, with- out understanding how to do so safely, have been themselves fatalig injured. When a person, unconscious trem electrical shock, is entirely clear of the live wire which caused the in- Jury, do not delay an instant in at- tempting to revive him. Turn him on his stomach, face sidewise, pull bis tonguo out of his throat, if he has partly swallowed it, as some times happens, and immediately tn- duce artificial breathing of the vie- tim by pressing down firmly but mot roughly on his lower back ribs at the rate of about fifteen timew per minute, continuing until the doctor or other competent person arrives. If the doctor ts delayed or suggests no better action, do not give up the effort, but continue ¥ S artificial respiration for hours, Remember that the lungs should not be compressed too many times a minute. Apply the pressure every four or five seconds by a watch or each time the worker's own breath is exhaled at moderate rate, _—e___. 3,100 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, N all there are about $,100 islands and islets in the Philtppines, Their total area is about 116,000 square miles. Probably 90 per cent. of the population of approximately 00,000 live in simple palmleat amd bamboo dwellings, with little or me furniture, and live on the simplese Omy and rice Aes, | a ssmmanaad -