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| Straps as at present, About this time he begins to wonder over this sudden concern of the I. R. T. He wonders why the craction men did not worry about his comfort when there was fat profit in ihe five-cent fare for seats and fatter profit in the five- cent fare for straps. At about this point Mr, Strap- hanger finishes his sentence. j ——— = “omdgut I'd like to pay the higher fare AFTER 1 ; Our Changing - " get some of that comfort stuff.” : IMR peace Repro dad gun then d That is the answer the I. R. T. overlooked in its 4 WA ence webpage Pegiorn “beefsteak days,” saya, “Modes and Morals,” pointe That is the answer the 1. R, T. overlooked only the other day when it attempted to decrease service on the Second and Third Aver elevated lines. that the men who made heroes for mid-Victorian the a MELT THE SOLID SOUTH. ‘Rochester, whe fought the at HEN the Virginia State Convention of the ‘ ; ’ |the Vicomte at dawn, and Republican Party met last March it in- dorsed for Vice President, Col. Henry W. Anderson, a “native son.” To date he is the only avowed candidate for the office. b | Fitegerald (the only tove of that tm parab) seven years ago with the city. a summer breathing for , t Bee ia : rs Sfiatt | English hero of the road oenien avon, spot The qualifications of Col. (not William H.) An- é \. NG & Ae fg Baciish here of the ruad weeid be surf and sands represent’ the only “seashore” derson are of relatively minor importance. The i that eodld oaly be ante iy 7 0 % Levantine pirate.’ Blanche Se the reach of hnindreds of tt nds of men, resolution naming him as Virginia’s choice is of na- pore - ag bre oe tional concern, % | Hero; some one who has a particulas Ben scx? children, many of whom toll in New | 1 reviews political history since the Civil War, eam aa respect for convicts and fallen womed the hot weather with no more than a is pertolita which “no tative of the South , ow and whose favorite author is Tolstot ‘cdhsd ees a a ey et : Island | Staté8 has been named on the national ticket of the . Sete: f b) F peers peprtiged alee rocky er hoes wom, baa Ser at iteral city | Republican Party,” 2 condition “prejudicial to the ‘ Vid Hfaree) 12,20 stusnss he may inberit interest of the South and the Nation.’ 5 If, tinder its contracts with the Brooklyn subways, It recalls jthe war period in which men of all sec- a Z z eae Mean! ‘4 Moly UD to Gate be must refuse 3 ‘ foses on tia S-cent fare to Coney, charge it tions fought and worked together and looks to the K —\ =a 3 CF _ e Seigiane ements aul cermateed of first: municipal sstet-—pubic haath, future when “the solidarity of the South must be ietsit - 4 f ee ee) ; is benevoleut legisiation. merged forever into a greater spirit of triumphant eg: r) i 49 \\ F * : ae ia & very complloated and in Americanism.” It urges the Republican Convention ‘ nue Re ae ; ; ; traits are discernible in him, but eighteenth century would not havé to name a Southern Republican on the national known him for human,” The Prophet of Cape Cod-- it has yet to be shown that the more attractive will not bring in more money. ta) ae With the striking success of t! vings,” 4 ticket. , REDUCING THE PERCENTAGE. The “Sofd South” for fifty years tias been a , ; OLLOWING hard on the confession that the | Stumbling-block in the path of political progress. It ‘ i gs a nevdl eae @oMy, tc io Ss Oot " has been, if anything, a worse curse to Democrats 3 ” gg § f | Cod novellst'¢ “American Woolen Company earings “for 5 6 H | ready selling at th of 1,000 a d has amounted to 39.89 per cent. comes the news than to Republicans. BRN ‘ tah! J iy at the rate of 1,600 & ay It is a whimsical love story, told the writer's agreeab| s yle, The Peck’s Bad Boy of Letters-.- « 4 Ae >i i / a functions Bad B North it has engendered suspicion and has hampered soap ib eee * dee : ot/Amerioan letters.” Fs Democratic invulnerability south of the Mason Arai ibe Sagalgat pe dee ares and Dixon line tas been a constant incentive to “edt 07 osm pafhong 09 Ae Trust hopes machine politics and its attendant evils. In the “perpetuate the extortion which resulted in a ; ly profit of “only”-81.50 a suit. party growth. s : f Sieber nee oF, : I | cotenting a his easewe Some pubis : The “black and tan” delegates from Dixie have ‘ re np uagl ae cases Eng: #; : / Mr. Mencken knows no armistice. debauched Republican nominations and have been a é ¥, ig “te ee - Vid Senate at. ine: “wits. marian hea ybe Mr. Wood thinks it would be preferable | Néver-falling toot of the “Old Guard” professionals. | -ae#~* ; wait “a7 3 ; gy ook ioe ss Menaisea epaek Gar Biae 4 i be known’ a3 a 19.948 per cent, American” Misuse — aanae votes i, the Re- “ na s wx eee yal eras aa as a “ ¥ » publicans in 1912. They are scarcely less a menace is, I fear, extinct .. . after @ prooy } f than as a “39.89 per cent: American. in 1920. es8 of gradual and obscure decay. ha . Arnold Bennett's “Fi Te } Se ! Sectionalism has-weakened 25 a result of the war. ui TePharah and ookeure, Tt haw | FOR TENANTS TO THINK ABOUT. ‘Only the Scotland Neck school of kitchen statesmen “AR hap ey ‘ : fo ybounderiem ‘ ROVIDENCE helps those that help themselves.| *¢ Stanch sectionalists. Party ties are weakened. My Sat 3 ee : nalisnal acute ban and hii ; That applies to a lot of troubles, Party differences have ceased to exist. There never ty he f x es ; oe i es, . Leeretrabio oN gentlemen, 0 ste applies to tackling the housing problem and |/ Was abetter or more opportune time to break the : eb ‘ . Conte cacortn AEneS i frying to beat the profiteering landlord. Solid South. z Carl Sandburg—“He shows a grea © tf the individual New Yorker would sit down and Eventually a successful breach of Southem De- deal of raucous credulity, he is UNCOMMON SENSE a probably thd soundest and most intriguing of the - - often a bit uncertain and wabbly vidual housing mocracy could work nothing but advantage for the VENING WORLD READE but he. is ‘hagg scot aig eoang Nation as a whole, whatever its immediate effect on __FROM E — GV 0 D _ RS a view to'seeing whether it might not be fou } for ton to become tis own landlord instead of | eter party. What hind of « letter do you Sind most readedie?, Jen’t tt the one By John Blake Ate movement (New Foomy) wastid ; P rent year after year to somebody else, he A break in the Solid South would open the way shat sieet you the worth of & thousand words in @ couple of (Coprrtght, 1920, by John Biaka.) tare the edngogue than’ ther Get ; Y hundre 2, F ‘ P . d'make a highi}y constructive contribution. to 2 recreation and rejuvenation of partyism, a new There ts fine mentol exercise and a lot of satisfaction in trying THE BLESSING OF BARD LUCK: Masters—'T believe that ly extinct.” y—"Of late his ele. have “I have had,” says Benvenuto Cellini, recounting his benefits, ‘many inestimable evils.” ; ‘a Lots of people are obliged to live and go on living rashes Yigrorne ntl Place of traditional ad- to say much in few words, Take time to de brief. ; tenants in the crowded sections of this city. erence ead SI fe _—_ jut there are tens of thousands of others whose coded. himeelt, h school Pollina ag; yaw leno wee) ai talontogugplasense) Watt 3||i vane cce os etree joatea tiem ‘ are t t Ss 7 New sprtve® Neeted. Tam also a hig! stu-}3 sach a high opinion of himself that nothing daunted him. Ane] aaa “Tees 5 ae and pay would permit them to own homes of LONDON'S GALLERY TYRANTS. vt they Soh wbh rgd sent ye ane. am only too glad to get a He quarrelled ‘with everybody around him, fought val- “plermann aemaeree » he hag \ no sound underpinnings.’ Mary’ McLane—"A humming bird immersed in Kartofti { : My mother fled from Kishineff in iantly in as many of the wars of his time as he could get ; oh leonarpllte J aaogy: Bo TTEMPTS to explain why an American actress ‘|""here’ have “teen, many arives| 1906 10 cacape the maamcres, and 20% | # into, and all the while toiled anflaggingly. at his trade. tHe i 9p would jump ai ince were made and an Amefican play were booed off a Lon- | since the War, realizing several mil- | country in this small way. Julius. this|~ narrowly escaped being one of the great artists of his day. ° to them just how they could do a don stage at an opening performance the other night hendtid Sater aA owt agiunetn country és giving you everything you In the autumn of his life he wrote his reminiscences, in “The Evening World believes it can construc- by bape sedi want—freedom and education and op- i . a I iT t I think char-| purtunity—so get wp and take the which he tells of the evils he encountered, and rightly char- ’ by showing th ential t ers | are lame. A balky curtain seems hardly to account | eel igo Hie Wit new Sales ene ’ a drill as you ought. Don’t disgrace acterizes them as inestimable. for the disorder, bad language and missile throwing | suggest a drive for a few more mil- Lucullus travelling steerage.” All Americans—"A mongrel and iné ferior people, incapable of an: spiritual aspiration above that of second class English Colonials, , , .' # Four Nece by putting up say of thoes Hard luck is nearly always a blessing. It is always $|- pia 5 ctly what it is in their pags toward sa that stopped the play. at the London Garrick. Wane te be aaed In erert ne ee whe eR, nea a very successfully disguised, but after it has passed the dis- $ ja lighted firecracker dowa a manholg } a house, and maybe “a green grass’ The “gallery” of a British theatre audience has, of | will be homeless: thie coming win-) Brooklyn, April 21, 1920. guise falls away and we can calculate its true value. Sale the sane At anes 00. ! ‘anda garden, for less money than they pay out now course, for years been a recognized terror. American 6 2 Shine oes see ores many,| ., The Common Feepicts Paper The dntcinncs of his fellow craftsmen, who sought to Argonne offensive, : ‘ mw rent, theatre-goers—of this generation at least—have never | Vut Rot, those (aa Dare, base. Be [cg re sppnlent hiss in the favor of the Pope, infuriated Cellini } |, {¥s fun. too. It terrifies elderty by, Yet, after all, it’s onl: very ble taper on ig abide He was constantly in fear that they would succeed and $ | frecracker. egies smal upon Senator Cappers speech on he would lose much valuable work. Binee Gece ane axcieera: Ace: Caeet But he toiled all the harder to establish himself, and mon people that t! cannot com- soon discovered that these intrigues had really benefited mend @ real expose of ‘profiteers? him, finning next Monday this newspaper wil! print | seen anything like the bad manners ‘that are still | es by October, 1, 1920, and cannot | rbitant ts ¢ Ae Wag ang 4. ogee) tolerated in the upper regions of London playhouses. pee] an as thine every Paw 7 ord is fortunat th to have stage where they feel they “have paid rent lon But the London “gallery” has been entirely and | Krohn one. No ‘Taw wil ‘help when ” rad 8 | even enthusiastically cordial toward several other ett tasetat aves ta of with oe e * The Ship’s Library-- Of all the libraries that find, Sunday School libraries, bache lors’ libraries, the Ibraries of mi ‘ , » 3 £ ; chronic tenant converted by te dinuhs American plays and companies that have opened in bag eo 29, 1920, New York, Aprit 20, ree’ arial Often he laid aside his goldsmith’s tools to take up the Vistorian mation ladies, the J : aiden the British capital this season, The Ubiegiives “Johor” Pid sword, and complained bitterly about it at the time. ' : ‘suggestion an enthusiastic home- The bulk of the audiemce at the Garrick appears | 9 tne naiter of Te ‘World: To the Mititar of The Wrentng World: But his heroic fighting disposition won him new and T read in ‘The Preeg: Worm ot|} powerful friends, and through them more work. arden | Constantly in fear that he might be thrust aside by br dd eee 58 Corres | other craftsmen who appeared, he wrought all the more be made to sell at $4.50. I believe untiringly. it would be « good thing to open 8 And in the end, although he never became as great as at t Ml these sho te the people a ones, 23 Michelangelo or other brilliant figures of the Renaissance, Ider helps not only himself but the whole housing to have registered strong disapproval of the disturb- | ‘Twice the people of New York and defeated ance, Maybe the incident will convince London | State Mave wove Spee aie “colaries play-goers that the time has come to dethrone their | pf their legislators at Albany. FORGETTING THE PUBLIC AGAIN. “gallery gods.” ‘The increases would probably have been granted but for the joker in- Magistrate Dale of Brooklyn belteves poker serted to differentiate the status of parties involved by raising ‘the sal- : A. W. BROWN, he left work that will endure forever. And at last he 8 ti $500 per an. a was JAZZED JUSTICE. Bree oe eine eeehat of the assum. | NOW Yorks. April 2, 2600, - |} able to write « book about his life which will remain a irate emende 06 far 80 Che sharper t6 con, HE American public has accepted the idea that | Pizes°atismpt to create am autocratic| 10 we maar o Tor Smeg Wont classic as long as men can read. : itso ccematges eke enene trent the fall. Justice is blind, beautiful and admirable, but |>%dy 1m the State Legivlature, | oo , rather a dull stick at the party. would be advisable, so that the peo- sa Federal Judge Landis of Chicago has made |?its treacherous little scheme in the UI“WHEN THE DEVIL WAS SICK——" _ | repeated efforts to tickle the lady's short rits and | ud,before,X te neta, Rony? 9 987 ’T you prefer to pay a little more | get her to put a little jazz into the performance of ee one Aa detec: her duties. It must be admitted that as a vaude- Atpril 27, 1920. It is bighly amusing and elevating, Cellini’s autobiography will give you a delightful pic- during this strenuous period of argu- ture of one of the most interesting periods of all history, Timea Concern ng | aabbares £241 $ and it will convince you that a man can succeed, even as to the reason why women cross though opposed by half ®f the people who surround him, or Fo gM Me Cis RL and often by the very ruling powers themselves. | Was a child’s scrap book of St. Ni modesty, indecency, vanity—with clas pictures pasted up by “Mii certain amount of ‘wonder, Has it |” Vera MacDonald, ten years old, 4 tures in Contentment,” beside and I,” and there that-we looted Goaguent of the eeneen ex-lib; . Hopkinson . 1887, Tread | the shallow ae the after Gace: mee i eS eet oes not dawned on these “good” people, Fort Worth, Texas.” “The Wheela fo ready to impute evil motives to| tecere valtable time te unorer ame, | ;hased right on Fulton Street, Brook-| Chance,” by Chesterton, and a villian he rather better than most of his A Lover of Art. their neighbors, that a w MAY | Out-of-binding copy of “Rel ‘Hmagine the response of Mr. Straphanger. He is | associates e thout violating |"iaving read M. L. E's letter, I Arian ‘doos-becuuse it Im comfort: | 80 icy bal | Taleon Bureet ond Wey ae every Olt) Hubert Palfrey Utter, writing in 4 le, I know io it myself at en, vad eview, also knew such a library, ‘holding on for dear life as the car swings round a | the fundamental principles of the goddess. Pee eo eae ne mimon on the Without any empecial consciousness | gat *ArM, the magnificent ealary of | all depends on the way you buy. | |he tells of it in a recent article v@irve. A fellow sufferer unable even to discover His Intest exploit was the imposition of the record | the syerage of being any of the terrible things | Shoge and $18 for'a dress Iam broke | this litle Up. STENOGRAPTUAR.” | ying a® abe short sentence of twenty-five seconds on a prisoner ne care not sme, crogeen thelr mba, 5 ca, found guilty of the serious offense of tampering |freedom, and ‘there being ‘no low with the eralls, iSwe are next to our religions in de- The culprit, it appears, abstracted letters which Vormining right trom wrong. We say his wife wrote to another man, ‘The Judge was | “Kua‘es te iockdne at an anil, also st that, ‘It is privileged to review the correspondence and seems bo, mare, of Geis, than py eed ba the had rather Tear | "Ft though some of Us may seem to son for his acts. be “rough necks” and uncouth, yet t dh A more conventional Judge might have suspended | Sotadmire dat which te eracegul and ‘ “ g Brooklyn, April 23, 1920, has been that by 80 doing I sat “more | ‘O" weeke—yet some “poor 'wolking’ ing Mudjckeewis was the slow to myself," and, therefore, further | §!8” can afford to pay $0 for a maacthan’ Ca ssdent |in'the service.” But when I discovered away from a crowding neighbor. But, | dress and $13 to $16 for shoce—sev-| |. Beerinee tay that: the ship's library had frankly, it has usually been because | ¢ral hundred for @ set of furs, and wel Sraiag the ravages of war I began 'to see thé [ had Quite blandiy forgotten 1 HAD| Still be plentifully supplied ‘with| Tf M. L. C. does not cross her legs| hand of Providence. any neighbors, and had become lost | money—all pn $% per. ‘They must be| to attract the’ attention of men she| ished copy of in @ brown study of some eort, and| magicians, but to get down to busi-| knows that is what men believe and| Easy” into my berth, cast off instinctively relaxed into a comfort. | ness. knowing this I should think that, shining greaves and brass-moun able position, We women cannot al-| I bought three dresses this season | rather than leave herself open to this} regalia. chinned myself on the Ti ways remember that there are people|--and this season's styles—two of suspicion she would sacrifice thid|that ran across the top of who believe—and perhaps hope—the| them cost $16 and one cost $18. Shoes| “comfort.” All the women who have| room, swung my legs over th worst of us; sometimes we like to} cost $6. ‘ silk stockings and new shoes do not) of the berth and dropped after tl forget it. F.C, My $39 total for four articles equals | cross their legs, I opened he porthole to the deck Harlem, April 26, 1920. not quite one party dress for Miss| It is my opinion that to come down|the summer night, daposed tobaces ovina’ den aaaaeces Brooklyn. pantie : A | to ~ ane PalAt yay Ve hon real | and other necessities In the walk Not Judge Landis. The court decreed | beautiful. A PLAIN FELLER, Eeonemy. I'll bet the three together are far) rea why women # stylishly,| pockets, started the fire in a well rooklyn, Apri? 27. To the Extitor of The Prening Work! rettier than her one. | else why would one woman try to be crusted briar bowl, and fort! twenty-five seconds as a fair punishment, then » ipeghvns , In re a Brooklyn girl's quandiry as » "Mey were all reduced from $45, the | more attractive than another if there’ was in company with ety \ A Willing Trainer. to where to find bargains: selling price a few weeks ogo, All! Were none but there own sex. to ad-' whom I had not seen for yeara— “Time's up” before the marshal reached the | te tno maitor of Toe Breaing World: Being, to my sorrow, a Brooklyn | were on sale—each one was a beauty. mire their beauty? | 9 o'clock that evening Mr. Jack Bus I'think that J. Fridel, the “Unwill- a myself, and also a stenographer, | And I did not sojourn into the wilds T. E. DECQUE. |iwas safe on board His Majesty’ Le | 4 or ing Trainer,” ought to be ashamed of letter interested me to ap aither for them, They were ~ New York, April 27, 1920. | gloop Harpy.” _ i I oe. Br hen, . Ss ta AY # I ~~ ba » bei Urea f - Ed RR 4