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CVU | : Camel dg me ISNAOAZIM)€ How They Made Good By Albert Payson Terhune Coprright, 1919, by The Pree Pubtishing Company (The New York Brening World). No. 73—MARK TWAIN, the Mule-Driver Who Be- came America’s Foremost Humorist. LANKY, drawling-voiced mule-driver and river boatman decided that he was wasting his youth and his pros pécts in day-labor which got him nowhere. One trade after another he had tried in his lazy fasion. None of them sulted him. None of them led to stocess. Deep under the young fellow’s outyaaa& Bemblance of laziness blazed an unquenchabie’Mfe of genius and .NO. 21,177 WHILE THE WORLD WAITS. JROP conditions continue unsettled and menacing, largely ‘peodiise tis United States is still outside the League of Nations. "at home affairs fare disturbed and speculation rules ‘for the ie $Y cu é od beng ts & - re pul ah ‘ “Lodge's top-lofty argument will convince no one not 1d to the true state of things international. The world lot wottlé down to peace when pesce is finally proclaimed, but the oforsile, enforcement will be at hand and it will be possible to notice on the turbulent to bring about tranquillity, or oan ea of it as is possible in a wicked and unregenérate uni- fa? Ylorort tev Ov, awed 3 2 part of the performance is that Senator Lodge nit PuIBK lig? is building up an issue upon which the discredited | y ‘Republican Party can again ride into office. In this | chasaly’ tulstaken, There ate rampant issues in the country is-eould-eeine and make iteelf once more powerful. Instead, fi fatuovaly continue to oppose public sentiment, common ibe aiid fhe, welfare of the world. i SS jed@hen Jaber acquires the tools of capital will it not then @apitalistic? In which event, what shall be done next? a MOY walnut —_—++- ___ ot § benrojeiooa’ _...SAVING DAYLIGHT SAVING. IDENT WILSON’S determination to veto the -bill which’ oomepeals.the Daylight Saving Law will be welcomed by seyen- > * thlittid’of'the American people, and should be by the remaining aree-tenths if they will stop and think. “Whe? PFatest good to, the greatest ‘number is the motto of a " ewWertainly no measure ever before enacted brought so Plemil fe anid ‘refreshment to the majority of the American pte agdaylight saving. It has given them the enjoyment of the late, summer afternoon for recreation or garden work, the latter be bring’ extraordinary blessings, es every. man holding a patch * = in Wealth and Fame at Last. an iron resolve-to make good. His name was Samuel Clemens. The world knows him as "Mark Twain.” Without wasting more time in ~wearying and uo- : profitable toll on river or with his team, he turned his to wrfting. The first story wrote was sent back to him by # causfle editor with the sneering comment: % “You'd better go’ back to mule-driving!” 4 Clemens refused to tdke the advice. He never “went back.” That was not his way. To him there was always only one direction in which to §9. And that was forward. And forward he went. He kept on with his writing, grimly confident that he could make good |along this line and along thi line only, He was wise enough not to | Qrnereng, fly high, but to depict at first the homely life he knew Edi od ¢. the life of river and cAmp and small town. ‘ , ee Into his writings, subconsciously, he put’ bis own Him Down. queer personality—his odd way of looking at life, the quaint mode of expressing himself that had won him a name for originality even in a region of strikingly original characters. In brief, he had hit upon a vein of humor which was as new as it was delightful. Such work could not go long unrecognized. Presently the English- speaking world awoke to the knowledge that a mighty humbrist had arisen. And the world was quick and eager to acclaim his genius. Mark Twaty had made good. * One of the secrets of his success and of its long continuance was that |he combined heart with wit. He was no mere shallow buffoon, earning a laugh by making the rest of mankind ridiculous, He was a true humorist, with warm sympathy for the sorrows of others; # heart that beat high at the wrongs of the weak; a sentiment that was never false or maudlin. (His splendid anti-vivisection crusade was but one instance of this.) ‘His was a combination which blended into geriuine greatness and which kept his fame bright long after other would-be humorists of his time had been forgotten. ‘Wealth and fame poured in upon Him, but without changing his point of view or spoiling the perfection of his art. It was not until he turned from the thing he could do better than any one clse— i to the thing he could not do at all—that he met his RE first real setback. That was when he backed « publishing firm for an enormous sum, and put another fortune into « typesetting machine. He had no practical knowledge of the publishing business or of modern machinery. Both ventures failed, Clemens was dead-broke and $70,900 in debt. Moreover, he was by this time growing old and was no longer strong. Here he proved himself a man as well as a funmaker, For he refused to take the benefit of the Bankrupt Act or to let rich friends pay his debts. He went to work like any ambitious beginner, and a second time he mado posetble aotiar to pavtag of the cataps agataet int he tence Se she her? ght. To a friend he wrote: Panda Dx tt in. We've lived close to the beds aust aaNOG every seat eect eae ba pres heH claim now that we can't pay. I have abundant peacd of men ho amassed ensogh of « aaw fortons Vy bis witicentond Seca ane live in comfort for the rest of his days. been impossible to trace the persistent legislative activity to any definite source. The rural papers have been well -eanned matter from @ mysterious woman in Omaha, 01 course, thé coal, electric of fomenting such a measure ee 4 bs ieny and kerosene in prices, up {t also before Why cann ‘Taises are reflected by its s to be an opponent of the general welfare. and gas ‘companies would not be ! i Oil Company has always managed to keep uniform and to force the refiec- ‘or down, on the retailer, The the Government supervised tite ‘ot the Beef Trust do likewise? retailers, ——-+-—____ $6,000 A ROOM. HE growth of gorgeous hostelries in New York promises to | come to a 7 permanent halt under the increased cost of con- struction, which has doubled since 1916. We have the word : 7 syaitidat ad Agha ‘to arrive at a general A or equal in price to that ‘old days». ‘The rent-raising landlords ha ficklesé bar as an excuse for go }is exorbitant on old values, hoist"ii ‘easy. A hotel, ‘being permanent in its character, ae in.cost of construction. it can readily retreat. But the deed if he dares to invest under the cire! experienced architect that the cost of such buildings in that that ready method of calculating result. Now it figures up $6,000 of a fairly good suburban house in ve therefore something more than ing up in charges, It is true that but the new cannot incet it for less, must eventually bear Those hotels or apar(inents already builder at the new-figure must be umstances, -_ "The pstoethed Evening Pos will, under a Gay management. Ho! To =. A. Ciyiiae Bextag Instractor. Maltor of The Brening World :— Ny ‘inform me the ‘title of Mihy Leonard While he was in ser- iee., Whether ho was a Lieutenant / Yours ‘truly, Bie PAVID GETZET, 18. 107 Bast 109th Btreet. fare be arranged sealing list; a fare in Man- to be less than one which the other boroughs? Are we brother's keeper? railroad in the world mileage fare, why should ‘thayel be considered diferent ‘eneral railroad calculation in i ‘The surface roads led the way, by an extra mm for ride; why not ate some system on “L” and ‘that ‘a circulation in Man- coats less than outside ? Manhattan has paid tune to, by far, the Pas | im the cost of the St RS ee rn. oe * Letters From the Peo Bhould ‘penalized to pay a fare for ride; when what we get is a it announces that after Jan..1 it the frolic! ple. subways all over the greatest city; |Why Aggravate the charge to the |t4xpayers here, by making us pay the cartare of our neighbors in tho vther boroughs? Respectfully, LEWIS PHILLIPS, Aug. 12,1919, 158 Broadway, N. Y. Automobile License, To the Editor of The Krening World Tam sixteen, Is it possible for mo to get an automobile license if a Meensed operator is in the car with me, and if so, how? Thanking you for your an: Yours truly, = M. L. Aug. 10, 19: Apply for details at Automobile Hureau, Secretary of State's Office, No, 127 W, 65th St, Manhattan, Widow's Compensation. To the Editor of The Lvening World: Will you kindly inform me whore be taken in order to secure compen- sation under the Widow's Compensa- tion Act? 1 am the mother of seven, three of whom are under sixteen years of age. Thanking you for your kind- ness, Tam A CONSTANT READER. Aug. 8 1919, Answer: Apply at ni dustrial Commission, Avenue. the State In- No, 20 Fifth I should apply and what steps should | , And the By Sophie } CASB is now before the public of @ girl nurse, thirteen years of age, who, it has been re- pofted, because of her dislike for tho C other nurse of sev- enty, poisoned a child by giving it lysol. While this giri has contradicted herself several qtimes, as to her reason for giving the Shild the pol- Sy “gon, the fact re- Pesce” mains that tho child is dead, whether by mistake or intent to murder, It can never be brought back, Evidently the old nurse of seventy ha@ to be aided by the young girl cf thirteen in the care of the baby, This baby’s death has doubtices caused no end of suffering and should eerve as @ warning for parents in the interest of their children, No girl of thirteen should be al- lowed to act as nurse for a baby un- j less it ts the child's own relative, Also @ woman of seventy, as & gen eral rule, cannot be active nor thor- ough enough to be depended upgn, In the case of the young girl, not only is it unsafe for the infant that she cares for, but it is indeed detri- | mental to herse If, I have seen too much of the over- burdened child*in nursing the little jones of her own family. Go into any | crowded section of w big city and you jwil! see on the streets scores of little girls, their backs m'serably bent in thelr effort to carry the weight of a baby sister or brother, Small wonder that many of these children are weak and wan nad weary of life long before the bloom of youth has passed, It is not surprising that many of these children are under-sized, defi- cient and even delinquent. They have borne, burdens that na- ture never intended for young shoul- ders. Many a@ little back has been weak- ened and many a@ child's bones miser- ably bent by just such care that has HURRAH FOR CHICAGO! A Chicago inventor's motion pic- ture projector is small enough to be carried in « sult case and uses an incandestent lamp 80 mounted that the film is kept cool and can be Stopped for @ picture to be exumined, The Young Nurse at Thirteen Old One at Seventy lrene Loeb Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Uo, (Tao New York Brening World), ~ been put upon them by thoughtless parents, ij “ I believe there should be a law against any woman hiring as a nurse any child under sixteen, In fact tt is the law that unless a child hos working papers after she has passed her fourteenth birthday, she cannot be employed legally in the State of New York; yet it should be more ex- plicit, since many people employ young children in the home, little reallzing they are breaking a statu: It is bad enough for the over-bur- dened mother of mapy children out of dire necessity to have the help of her older ones in the care of the baby, but for a child to be hired out for the purpose is surely against all Principles of safe-guarding growing youth. If the truth could be ascertained, many of the children now in hos- pitals for various ailments aro there because hey have been over-worked | when they are having thelr growing | pains. ‘This matter of employing children should be one of community interest, It is of prime importance. The child has many rights which Mother Nature cries out, for | | born right, the fight to play, the| right to have sufficient clothes and | food ‘and schooling, in the interest | of making good citizens, } It iy up to the individual to seé to | it that every child who in some way comes in touch with him is aided to get these necessary perquisites as tar | as he can. This is the highest kind of com- munity interest, Dog Days. UZZLE that dog! The idea of letting a dog go abgut that way in these dog days!" And it was a “dog day.” Why do we call very hot days dog days? To be sure, in the summer | dogs are dangerous, and when people were not compelled to be as careful aa they must be now to incapacitate them for doing harm the hot days witnessed enough horrible accidents to earn the appellation, But thht| isn't how it started. ‘The ancients with their myths and goddesses © ardent devotees of astronomy, Tife planets were popu- “ee > w Some of these are the right to be) How It Started: By Roy L. R. und Mrs, Rangle came over M to spend the evening with Mr, i and Mrs, Jarr. It was a warm evening and it looked as though it would be a hot night—but why be peevish when friends call simply be- cause you foolishly invited them? “That's thelr ring!” said Mrs, Jarr as the bell rang. “Hurry up from the table, everybody!” she added. And then plaintively, “and I dis- tinctly said ‘after dinne “Oh, never mind ‘the Rangles,” said Mr. Jarr. ‘They've had their supper by this time, ‘And even If they haven't, there's plenty here. What's the use of putting on airs for old friends? Anyway, a littls teed tea and cold reat for the friends at cur hospitable board {s not beyond our modest means.” By this time the Rangles were at the portals of the Jarr flat, “Come into the front room!” said Mrs, Jafr in joyous tones, after kiss- ing Mra. Rangle and shaking hands with Mr, Rangle. “Mr, Jare is seeing the children having their dessert— you've had dinner, of course? We've Just gott through.” “There's an agreeable change in the ther, isn’t there?’ suid Mrs, Rangle, ignoring the remark about dinner, for the Ranglgs hadn't dined and they expected a repeat of the in- vitation, At this juncture Mr, Jarr cone into "Glad he said heartily. @ dining room." This was a dan; under the circumstances, a8 Mrs. Jarr knew, The children were not through with to see you, “Come on out rous spot, By Hemine Neustadtl larized, so that school childfen wer familiar noé only with their symbol- ism but with their physical changes. “Dog days” was the name given by the ancients to a period of about forty days at the time of the rise of Sirius, the planet called the dog star. This happened to be at the hottest e of the year, the star rising on Ju 1, On account of the changes of precession of the equinoxes the date has been brought down to about July 23. , But, regardless of Sirius, we call them “dog days” if it is hot, and in cool weather do not divert our atten- tion from the strenuous life to astro~ nomical problems; Yet the planet rises just the same, The Jarr Family | Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). Mr. and Mrs. Rangle Pay a Social Call. asked Mrs, McCardell their dessert, and Gertrude had not cléared off the table. ; “Oh, you and Mr. Rangle just want to get at your old card playing, I know!” cried Mrs, Jarr, “Do walt till people who come to see you have time to get their breath after climb- ing the stairs. You and your old cards!” The Jarr children had now come running in to greet the visitors and, ere Mrs, Jarr could sound a warn- ing note, the little girl was hugging Mrs. Rangle and the little boy was on Mr, Rangle'’s knee, demanding five cents in a whispered “aside.” “Look at their hands!” cried Mrs, Jarr. “Well, look at their hands, Don't] took at met” cried Mr, Jarr. “I'm not to blame for their having choco- late pudding on their hands» Gere trude should have seen, they were washed.” “Don't you think Gertrude has enough to do? I was in here seeing Mr. and Mrs, Rangle and you might heve looked after the children! It's hard enough to keep a girl, as it is, and they won't stay if you say the least thing to them! And yet there's people like that Mrs, Kittingly> up- stairs, with no children, or Mrs, Stry- ver, who has no children, either, who keap two or threo and even four and five servants!” Then shOwmacked the children ana| led them away to wash their hands, | Mr. and Mrs. Rangle assuring her} that the children iadn’t harmed them in the least, Mr. Jarr and Mr, Rangle then got| into an excited argument as to nation wide strikes, thé League of Nations and what we should do with Russia and Mexico, the du of the stock market boom, baseball, race riots and other things of, smbll interest and importance to the ladies, Why, where are’ the children?” Rangle when Mrs, Jarr returned, for the men's conversation had bored her to extinction, Mrs. Jarr announced that the girl was putting the children to bed. At his instant the voice of Willie Jarr Was heard in the hall) He was yaged in a passage of arms with Gertrude, the light-running domestic, “1 want my fi’ cents!” he bowled. Mr. Rangle said he was going to give me fi’ cents!” Then Willie lay down and kicked, Mr. Jarre was called upon to take punitive measures, and the Rangles declared that they. must go, they really must, ‘They meant it, tuo, “Oh, it’s only the hot weather that By Rube HE bunch got home early and afte? disguising themselves as yachtsmen in flannel trousers or white duck, a ‘blue coat and a cap, went down to the Shore to see @ local yacht race, for Paradise.is on the water, though not yet on the water wagon. “One advantage of a yacht race over @ baseball game,” said the local wag, “is that it is never called off on account of wet grounds.” After the race all hands went to ‘the Paradise Hotel, which is on the bay shore, to celebrate with the vic- tor and to fix up a challenge for Sir Thomas Lipton, “Well, it's a good thing you got down here ahead of him,” said Doc. } “Just Igok at that bay—jammed with ‘boats. Have you made any arrange- ments for anchorage tor your friend's yacht?” 4 "No; do you have to do that?” asked ‘ewcomer. “Sure,” said Doc, “or he can't stay. I'll introduce you to the Harbor Mas- ter and you can fix it up with bim. Has anybody seen the Harbor Mas- ter? Anybody seen Gus?” * “rll go get him,” sald Mawruss, take a special delight in this particu- lar attempt to help out Newcomer. In a few moments he returned with Gus, the Harbor Master, a handsome smooth-faced man, well groomed, wearing @ blue serge and a cap with a monogram insignia which nobody could decipher. “I don't know whether I can give him any anchorage,” said the Harbor Master, Then to Newcomer he said: “Why didn’t you apply for this when you learned your friend was comin;? You knew about this yacht race here to-day; we're evercrowded worse than the Thames on regatta day; all the best ahchorages were gone sev~ eral days ago.” Doc gave Newcomer a wink nodded toward the bar. “Let's have a drink,” said New- comer. and Hed the 7 . Jarre, “They'll be quiet now. omy like this, we shall feel hurt if you do!” And she gave Mr. Jarr a side glance and took Rangle’s hat from him and Mrs. Rangle’s handbag from her. As the handbag had what was left of Mr. Rangle’s salary, Mrs, Rangle decided to take off her hat nd stay a whilt, and in so doing, recevered her handbag, which was one comfort, for, as Mrs, Rangle said to M’, Rangle afterward, “Who can you trust these days, with so many people taking up Bolshevism and wanting to seize everything the makes the little things peovish,” sald better classes have?” everybody's friend, who seemed to} i gray TheGayLife of aCommuter Or Trailing the Bunch From Paradise Towner Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wond). The Harbor Master Accommodates a Friend. Harbor Master to the crowd, “everye body drinks when the Harbor Mustur drinks,” “I guess we can fix him up,” suid the Harbor Master after tho libation.» “I'll have to put him out beyond, those oyster stakes; it's pretty close to the channel, but if he’s got good boat it will be safe enough. i Suppose you know the regular fce?”’ “No,” said Newcomer, “I did: know there was a fee.” “Five! id Gus, “ Waving the five dollar bill whictt Newcomer. promptly paid, Gus called out: “Come on drinks when drinks.” Gus pocketed the change from the round and then asked Newcomer: “C suppose the Commodore will want -a! permit to come ashore whenever he feels like it?’ suppose so,” said Newcomer don't know anything about t regulations; whatever's the thing to do we'll do, “A permit will be-twWo dotlurs,’ « said the Harbor Master; “Ji“hand it to the Commodore as soon os he comes in,” Newcomer paid and Gus c: “Come up, boy drinks the drinks.” Before the crowd had finished this round, a tall fine-looking man wiih mustache and attired white duck, his cap beari; blem of his yacht club screén door, Newcomer rushed up to greeted him as “Commodore began an explanation and api for not having attended to the au chorage arrangements earlier, but just then the Commodore—for it was‘ Commodore Goodsole of the ‘Threa Stars—spled Gug. “Why, Gus, you old sinner, are you; I haven't seen you slice that night we were together ia Lyons, Frange, before: the war, whew you were on your’ &nnual buying trip"—- “He's Harbor Master here now, interrupted Newcomer, “and fixed it with him for your and permit to come ashore." With a pitying amile the Commos dore permitted Newcomer to expluing Then he said: “Gentlemen, let us have a drinks Newcomer, here's hoping you will grow wiser a8 you grow older, and here's to the good health of my old friend, Gus Kidder, the best named man in America,” up, the boys; everybody Harbor Mastem ue ° Med outz ; everybody when Harbor Master, L thie in the cute hun, aut “ey, how