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Copyrigh! 1918. bythe Press Publishing Oo, ow York ving World y Re Gregory Poor Feivow ! # York ivening W } \ red Ii lovers of the little folk throughout the HE Is Aut CRIPPLED UP! f } of the United States delivered an opinion ca A ; \ ¢ rs of the children all the power they i rue th jefarious business; but thanks to the ome | i We + Bureau, the 1 hat might have fol-, ( ruling bas been knocked “patly west,” and once | 1 din ‘ bered that Congress, not 1 since, passed a law tax- 1g Lhe p Odue i iabor, and on the streng'h of this law child labor | S ONCE WYO under Moder supervision, | rhe nes law, putting a tax of 10 per cent. on the net profit of any | concern euipioy ing children r the specified ages, went into effect April | and 1 immediate n to receive the benefits of the most right: | {| cous pit of feaislatlion in the history of the country Ve 1 possible that t Supreme Court may hive been technically right, i | bot inman than even the most dignified and venerable technicality, a passed the ‘aw in never did itself prouder than ft did when It fourteen ar nployed, and the agents of the Revenue Bureau will see to it that the tax is « I am of t r the And tt auty of it ut this most righteous law cannot be set aside even by the Supreme Conrt, since the power of Congress to tax ona national +c is absolutely unquestioned. With that power no tribunal “an interfe: There is no doubt that the new law will accomplish the purposes for which it wes passed. It will make the product of child labor too costly to the employer of the little hands, and that will settle it. A man may not be reachable through his brain, or soul, of conscience, even if he happens to possess these, but he can be reached every timo i throngh his pocket === From now on the tax will be assessed on the profits of every mine, quarry, mill, foctory workshop of any kind in which children under — == Ollected » opinion that fame spirit th it) SS ey will have to colleet it for only a brief t causes employers to use the little hands red-—will cause them to cease using them when they can of them the spirit of g make nothing out It is th t glorious piece of news that has come to us for a long, long tim It is not only er , le people to he workin when they shonld be growing, but it is, from the national viewpoint, suicidal, The children are the Natlon d-eorn, and if the seed-corn is destroyed, what about the harv Ii the children of the Nation are stunted in mind and body what is ‘0 become of the country? What will American citizenship be fifty DID HE FAW ofa hundred years he It fs only by preserving the physteal and men- FRom A tal v he ldren of t that we can insure a great and noble UILDt a ae pti lh How to Bea Better Salesman and Earn Bigger Pay By Roy Gnffith Copsriaht, 1919, try the Treas Publishing Co. (The Now York bveaine World), Answers to Questions, —esmen or insurance salesmen are pinion on blotter advertising *eauently of that type, because in x4 M nis way the firms advertising are often able to secure seasoned sales- men who have sold other linea but is usked by F. vert L. W. All da. If y to take a pon all Who would be adaptable to a spectalty | St ahGeue' t proposition, | Yes, Poor Fettow | HIS ARM Is BROKEN HIS LEG IS BROKEN HIS TAW 1S SNASHED HIS SRULL IS CRACKED. ALL HIS TEETH ARE ( Crone - HE Gor iT Bap ! / 5 No, HE IS THe FELLOW WHO Gives TENANTS Novic€ THAT THER RENTS ARE INCREASED ee and i would err « ple who would read your chalk rRwleees sign and the number of ) might ¢ be indu t : — Blank's would ¢ n. eens oe i Nace In all rt he idea is tol BY HAROLD MACGRATH - ~~ ach the largest n possibl = = was a woman's voice ks end Sak! questions, They won't be answered.” she went to the dor o at potod in possible | San up with food Inter. “Llow- low long are you going to manner which is charming fa Uh fore, tol ft “4 @ /hi A few minutes after Ruth wns set keep me here? [ have no money Orient and slovenly ¢ re tol An Adventure. Story That Whisks | a fey miauioy ster Ruth wert SAG ane Rept aac Ont Sue YAOI N SINR UTES > ” were loosened. A door closed and @ pends upon you, When they come and ¢ 1 mornin Axloey BREE the Irish Hero From New York to | Koy"turned in the tock: “She dragged for you you'll find out what you from exhauation. 8 fone ssi te who might ~ a3 her hand © and tore off the want to know. I'll send food up to mained a prisoner in this ns Peeve Singapore, Where He Fights ee ee ety ahr CRAG So: TIE HG CMORMAREEET GTC PONTE GO, WHA RLATELIGa HOU tor uicen Re TRIREE q . . that she was in a bedroom, you @ bit of good." or to undress, he was not wholly d and who} ior His Sweetheart Thore were two windows, rear and’ “Do you want money?” ignorant of Chia’ ita, abi woul! by pressed by the} side ne in rear overlooked “You've just told me you hadn't solved to steal wh p she could advert | 4 small back yard the centre of any.” ; ‘ du the da ere was alway | which stood a°kind of outhouse. A The woman wont out, shut the door, something {nthe newspapers; and : ‘or th advertising| it, he 10m, ‘ As for Ay ns tCovarisht, 3917, o9 tarpar & throm - Yors, fas Chinaman was Jouning in the door- and locked it th sat down on the she recalled that life among ‘these thereon, I have at the present moment wiveu uy uu uae avete wowace Way, smoking his little metal pipe. bed, fingering the glass heads of her outcasts began at sundown and ended on my desk about a dozen blotters ad- ) eo iP sro tie id a4 Behind him other Chinese mov in hat-pins, If any one so much as at sunr celina aie Ain diMerdut linen £ La aes, a film of blue vapor. uched her, she would strike t The first day was very hot and vertising many d : n reg A ecard The side window was less than six If only her body would cease Its quiet. Lt rained Witte, Tt ta al ‘ould not te ou, without looking, cus brow a feet from the next hou She stared idiotic trembling! —They! Who were APE : 5 ttt ‘and ‘at Cairo "William a ll i Waye raining a litte in Singapor what any sing the blotters | however, fl into the velvet blackness of the they who ald come for her There ‘ware mhe and: beinhas on advertises. They do not find a re- | Sed G window opposite. Even as gazed Her hell an about the same tim@ the bureau, but she did not touch ko i eed eas s Lam| tits re bat ie atts ond match flared, Soon a candle filck- a8 William's, and there was but little tian, much a onged to. ptive buy mind, a as 1 am | returns wes pisunrd scitully, by Camden, “He ered and revealed «a woman in a low- differe In'character, The sum was U7 TNee : i : woncerned—and 1 am average | mi mrat out ct Tin was, then aporogcind Hutu tives ts show tor here abe OUD Hocker dyens, A dead cigarette hung terror and. suspense fee omatae analated Of ages, man i me ae mares sh ivinlbssd Ma ad, pendant from dow Not in the slightest w aid Rah ie she i pay icy AS However, tb blotters are a con-| passed between Tho associate Cam er dreadful ' L ih. ay | See 41 fi eae CHAPTER XVI § jumped from rickshaw shadow was a man w plight. She w Phe Tide DALEK GEE 4) oe 5 ae paper ae ean aie Beanie sap tiey (Continued.) and attempted to run, but her legs the shade oR nae really as pretty as a dell, noticed th far SOCCALMS net LATS Sone O Ruth handed her mangosteens Were too numb, The rickshaw boy | Ituth leaned against th did Colbur sharied and tumb the SLA aand Geld ule hatiedag sda dele the spinsters, took Camden's Kughed silently, scrasped her by the her window: * ner senaibly. reco ner. When with firm and its product eta he rickshaw while he engaged ane @°Ms, and propelled her irresistibly Ton ae rice Mtrowe of pursuing her, he hi Met Bans . point re do not help to sell other, and the two of them !to the tavern, where he calmly faintness threa she Now York ae new, "Chit buy tem moon Girecily. Het Giey May help 6 led away. Now Ruth possessed locked her up tn a room whose walls clung to her sensex All ene Daa: Athan op over tows uu. OM create good will os ti be t pres- Were lined with tousled bunks, be- {he strenst! vt din : ga da t Suki San. Me comb Me ood 1 of Jooulity, and it pres vention God wiv would in the Far Ka Ruth could not. hiel tre " ; ig, [ently occurred to her that her rick- side which stood small stands lit- >t had noticed Dunealy abe. waveoti hee H, M. G. is twenty-two yours old, | boy was not going in the ‘ered with the paraphernalia of th took off her hat—a a hole Wel she sould 1 to her on tk) San and sat down in a A Russian, six years in this country, [S10 0% tig markets, which lay OPlum-smoker, and hid the two st Te heey si girl fussed over Ab well ¢ judgin vard, She touched the boy onthe S¢me time after sunset they came side of Kirt where she ' : r for an and somehow her from his letter, Ma » with her sunshade, Instead fF her, a buge Chinaman and a slim, Bla th 7 Then ah CHAPTER XVIL POU ON DOCLI AG: He Fa AL ees uy for a short tim ne his bead to inquire what the Malay, ‘They robbed hur of her menasinl lt was thouon net Hi er was interrupted by bruug this room an sulesman—city an | by he fall run Bafid bag and purse. ‘The Chinaman heroes ‘ ie 4 he: wished, ‘ok » the ful thrust his hand down her neck and t but as ne You a; “e Dols which js almost fast as @ horse or- ¢ loose the chamois bag ey * “prank up Wuih dit nottaiow: w 5 RED BORO RUAN 6 taely well) Gnarily trots. He would be able to then proceeded to bind her hands le window the now ‘ fe mist ‘ Think, would like to change bls | ore thin galt for an hour or Wind pine, backs | Clothe were tied prett j 1 I line, Has Hy wered uds calling for | Dae Chiness in Blngapore are Oye Her eves and mow Bho sub: to apon whieh Ye al tv ‘ vlegmer tally secures an inte asi se ab ne Gy ; M ated ‘“ si anant eer | the sturd n the wortd enough to app er folly re she " AA Meant de min ath view, but, as h , tis always | ‘mo alarmed. The boy of sruggiing. ‘The Chinaman awung 3 i ; potas ar bone al her over his shoulder and trotted Atte . 4s patently running away with her, $ h " in mild night wind. Uy ' { Hid Yew hidden A | Weep to find that Cam. 2oW9 stairs. Presently she knew jantern was a rudely painted numb a uy *L | Sal wn, which Was a un cpa looked back to fin i that she was being put into a closed — gy ard footstep: ’ knew t abou den had stopped and was arguing carriage he stepped back bel " wv the furiously with bis boy, Next sho | She was ina peculiar state of mind. the comer Rane ans ked Ruth. jit tdyoU ned him jump from the rickshaw She dared not think; she must let gross n, with thick, dry, blond 1 o Me th AW ff in Saki, Japan. , ‘ nt Jand run her, He stumbled and with anxiety. She even tried to con- tered Ww pilsia ed ult of 1 Rut in es hile pad: db me he was on bis vince herself that she was acting if around th 1 U vered Stl a tly he did know that this 1 c r deal eaain was no possible 4 moving-picture drama of so Ruth, Then she na r They w ak r trange, beautifu wounan in t te of 2 aking ber, He Kind. Soe forced thee pictures int and in the f r 7 Ju la fr fingor thir ffore : ‘ : vices A her thoug and others; she called tate age t 1 nt ; i : iki 8 1 1 od in the middie of the dusty yy ; - Bub thes the ey he : Jon and nodded and , ad, apparer bewildered and un- w str enough for the one any idea 6 you & a This & are veyed Ru frat 1 al b deci and this pleture was the Slaughts of terror, What were they “Oh. W Maiay tha me was on 1 outside n tru ! 5 ra she ever saw of bim, for her 0! do with her? Where were right, Now, don't waste your bre the hall, the blond n probe ya strange God Saki a tt aking ber? What did it ail cailing o} en t vr \ urd of w 1 t . lhoy shot up a side street, AN this Magne ops i Sa Ga ee ican tunyerrar cr ' Aqat Y white. mar There aa was good acting on Camden's = The ride took something more than ¢, waich us careful And t “No can d n p retin’ nd y loft hy At! Dart. an hour, There was at no time any do hear you y'll think it's t uutside do. I You n Singapore, I w € secur 4) About half on hour lator the boy {dication that her captors were jn Hada! Macket, Ff You re weneins YOU a: peas her women” 8 ar Ml beer or a ‘ ; ne stopr n front of what appeared When the earria to the fine! If you 1 pr Ruth and s Basically, 10 to the Rus-\to be a low native tavern, aioe GAIT thosh eeeRE HL CORN CAT PnilG AP hoe ant t ary) al goH Jish cur " sian's 1 y love of the myrterious. | pack from the road in the shade of five minutes. Then felt t 1 1 n f of Japan ‘ ! V ' ! “ He preferred t ran ad. w eh | some bamboos, Hoth Malays and ‘muscular arme 9 the pin M that’s wor z you I " ; ; A wk hy : @ia not tc ust what the | Chines “ , the Bain, She was being carried into “Are you an American M Pr Wour da aed the ves by Nid not i i i va ih in so were grouped about on tho 4s” house, ‘Tho air was strong with “There's no natlo Oth i Ton , Miaee lates Seen an are proposition was, Ads, calling for veranda, some smoking and otherg the stale smoke of Turkish cigarettes. noss, d the woman shrugging. As Ruth did not answer she bobbed Kuth did not think of her trishman wtock and bond salesmen or book drinking tem 2 eee “Take her up to room twelve,” It “And don't waste your breath woking up and dowo several times, Then Ob, be would not forsake bi be 4 5 t ‘i ! é 9 | | The Evening World's Kiddie Klub Korner Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Copyright, 1919, ty the Press Publishing Oe (The New Tork Rrening World) Think Twice Before You Speak By A. Shapiro. FRED, WHAT OES PROPHET A BUSINESS FAA MAKES HIS PROF ITS) THE ARTSIST HAS MADE A MISTAKE IN THIS PICTURE, YOU DISCOVER WHAT IT 18? | Cousin Eleanor’s Klub Kolumn | Cennnnnrnnn nner AA RAR RRDLODDAAA A AA ARDARAAAR AARNE r | Dorothy Farrell, aged eleht yourm My Very Dear Cousin Poets | 0.) i) iotrorson Avenio, N.Y City. OU are very, very dear to me. Sydney Bainbridge, aged nine years, Indeed all my Cousins are, But No. 380 Classon Avenue, Brookiym, of all, the poets seem the dear- |.) ‘y est just now, It is because your! gui, rrarvey, aged ten years, Cae poems have told me that you truly! verton, LL love the bright-faced flowers. Cousin Margaret Kinsella, one of the honorable mention winners, wrote 1 love to enter contests, And try with all the rest. But it gives me extra pleasure ‘To tell the flower I love best.” | It seems to have given great pleas to all the poets to write about flowers. And the poems show it Have you ever noticed how much better we can do the things we love| to do That \s what makes true art./ It is a delightful task to judge the contest winners, But It is a diMeult ane too. So often all the contestants | Hildegard Alexander, aged elewem years, No, 438 White Plains Avenus, Wakefield, Bronx i Gladys Drake, aged twelve years, | Sth Street and Shore Rosd, Brook- lyn, N.Y. George Beyer, aged thirteen yearm, { No, 640 Hast 6th Street, N. ¥.. City. Fred Solomon, aged fourteen yearm No. 1437 Madison Avenue, N. ¥. City, Mary Kearney, aged fifteen year, No, 165 it 14th Street, N, ¥. City, APRIL CONTEST HONORABLE MENTIONS. SHVEN-YEAR COUSINS. ene. Se Hently ve ot tnat vina,| atrard Biallh, May Belbold, Phis contest was one of ite Mee ae ie ae one was sincere. It ls your love for RORY Rn: COMETS the flowers that mado your poems %0] Vo. 1 oopert, Irma Styer, ‘ delightful and it was this that made] ayuwith ee” yer, Bertram it so hard to select the best the offerings. When at last mong NINE-YEAR COUSINS, i Marguret Kinsella, Genevieve Ward, | Were! edith Morris, William Kirby. made these Cousins carried off first the decisions | | | TEN-YEAR COUSINS, | honors: Elsio Wrede, Winnie Marks, Gere, —— trude Le |, Dorothy Armijo, Kathee .| tine Gutknecht, Walter Whelan, Sy APRIL CONTEST AWARD WIN via Bawarde, NERS. BLEVUN-YEAR COUSINS. = <A ane Allie Buckley, Alice Brown, Hi \ William Morrinon, aged sev mY 2 Boson, Glaneirn Moree oe No, 4911-2 Kosciusko Street, Brook) Kennedy, Mollie Kalina, Albert Ble lyn, N.Y. ; | ing. Thedore De Roche, aged seven ow TE yearn, No, 82 Randolph Street, Free A 7 TEAR COUSING: MBO NG Ge || Walnbore 5 {Ph Blizabeth I Harry Malme | miinre Mirtam Stith, YEAR COUSINS, je Lichtenstetm, ¢ JFveleon Diestel, Michael Columibiim, , “1 6 | Huth Platt, Isabella Edwards, Dore | tay Doyle, Dora Beresov, Kathleen , . | Goss iy Nicholson, Catherine | Morr Ro: Buckmaster, Wilmet “ must hurry! | Sduires, Letty tiunther, Anna Drese hu al blue-eyed | Sell, Irene, Griffin Iris niful and FOURTEMN-YEAR COUSIN®, — / kind , Olga Reboli, His Stevenson, Ww Strack, Victor D'Amie t 3 FIFTEEN-YBAR COUSt H upon h with a bs 3 { fab acted upon him WN! Dorothy Quinn, Edward Nagel, Rees +1 of. Ni Maguiness : nd old men grew fond of, No, he} BBS ON RT Bree a | And the poems written by the home Then suddenly « wit lorable mention winners are of almest worn the door open and ual merit with those of the award burton entered the room and stood | Wiiners. with hig back agwinat the door Cousin Eleanor. “You” she whispered across th ied behind which she had taken WHO KNOWS? : tu at f the turning b ' retup Who knows where the fairies live, key, For a res What they eat and what they drink, room warnod fantastically. AX tf Where they lay their litte heads wadie and became no When the shades of eve ‘ome hguin she vlowly reached for one of; tre cole SS eveting & her hatpins, She could die | How they play their litt oo Weren't you expecting me, then all made thas w Pah ei No. I hadn't thought you quit What they do the livelong day, Dase as th The « et of hi eat Oh! can mortal man not tell me? eg. Aer eer EL a Maps | By ANNA LIVIN, Coney Island. ency left in his soul. “Better | ——— me gu, Norton. No good can possibly | THE VICTORY LOAN, ‘ comm of this, You'll be sorry. There If you want your brothers home 4 must some good in you, just Please subscribe to the Victory Loam ¢ yugh not to let you do such a horrt To bring w Please such Pleas I beg of you, dear friend, on't you give your money eng ble thing as this. 1 house! Ob! You had better let mo| — lend Ko.” | “L offered you marriage in V », Ob, don't and you declined it, Twas a fool, T But be ¢ ippose, but fF meant tt that morning, Backer of the ory Loan Now you're going to ) me of That will bring our brave boys home, 4 | By ANNA TOWBPR, aged eleven ears, College Point, Ly T y i | 3 WHY | LOVE THE KIDDIE KLUB, ntinued.) ~ From Baseball to Boches | Ther. is something which the ie | By H. C. Witwer. | iniucns't in Fl anor sof Na A Story Every Baseball Fan 10) ise not the “arous Will Want to Read, for (vir ya ito wie ht 08 There Isa Laughin |“ nold me in revereneet ry Line. wiedge Of OF Owe Mion thore’a\one t , « like the s family, That you right th ) what the Kiddie pennt. She aed ibe eit ins to you, me and hundreds ladda ra who lie awake nights thine nin’ oy re oD wonderful things they have wv off the wa out in our own little Kia oF ig Ms PRED LEEF, aged fitter, umbre ame nd mud i; r a | IN THE KLUB AND j A OBTAIN YOUR PIN, 4 the san n | “—ovury Mew! This is only a from “Ed Ha J ul ‘ wa \ nd alw An an, fh mK " cure ery bow la ead Pa snd Londone--throu the y te, of an plu-time ball player, ‘The story COUPON NO, 462 begingjon this page peat Monday, i ee EE A COE nee Sey i I gr gg ED. A ER a 1 4 ‘ 4