Show THERE ARE OTHERS It The Brooklyn Eagle prints the following fol-lowing under the heading Coney Island I ought to be thoughtfully I read bj a near contemporary for there l bo other Coney islands and other Pharisees in the world The Eagle says Oh If wo could only make everybody else as good as wo arc whit a delightful world It would bo This Isc the thought variously expressed of thousands of good people cXfre9scd read the tale of tho Pharisee but never dreamed that It had an application wider than ltd day and place Of all tho troubles that bother this moderately good old planet possibly half arise from other people tr lnC to do our thinking anti our work This Implies Im-plies that wo are not up to doing them ourselves and ouch a reflection touches our pride Not enough latitude Is allowed enolih lowed for differences in pfllnrof view In custom In nationality In bringing up I and down Becauro tho man of old lamlly and university training delights In trivel > In lino books In Beethovens symphonies In the works of Millet und Corot Is ho olng to Insist that Mr Casey who carries car-ries bricks on week days to the seventh C floor of tho new tenements Is to spend i his leisure when ho gets any ° In Europe Eu-rope or In the Metropolitan Museum or I In tho Astor library and that he shall buy subscription tickets for the concerts I I of tho Boston orchestra Il Is to Unnoticed Un-noticed that Mr Casey docs not insist 1 that the university man shall go with i him to Spiciers place In the Bowery and drink beer with him on Sunday afternoon I after-noon and listen to t tho t llddlo and cornet In n ragtime programme I is right to give Roods to our neighbors neigh-bors who can proill by them and wo aro doing this Wo are supplying libraries and art galleries and parka and other blessings In a way that would have filled our ancestors with astonishment but thoro aro other human needR that are not mot by these things social needs chiefly Mr Casey likes his society thick and he liken It long and ho likes It hearty and ho likes It loud hence Instead of going to hear somo distinguished member of tho Ethical association on Sunday mornIng morn-Ing and meditating beneath the trees of his private park on a volume Browning Brown-Ing or lIch 0 or Kant In the afternoon he routs his family out at a early hour and with babies baskets bottles and boxes rides to Coney Island In n close packed mob and patronizes the merrygo rounds nnd the otrnr delights of that I otpr r place till his money gives out And watching the conduct of Mr Casey r It Is not often seen that ho goes wrong I I IIo may sing In a way not permitted in I time German opera but then ho does not sing opera lie may talk loud but no do I others nnd tho babel of voices Is to many a cheerful sound ho may dance and swim and drink beer and roll on the sand like I tho others and In his own way he Is bot tel for It than he would bo attending Icc tuies on tho Whichncss of tho Whcnco as Related to the Whyness of the Wherefore I Where-fore Wo can spare reformers from Conoy Island for a whn 3t never was as bad as It was painted and It Is not so bad now us it I waa a few years ago Arc you to deny all the pleasure of aso cheap and common sort to the people who prefer pre-fer that kind Where Is your warrant and your law for It I does not exist 1 thcro is to he any police work there let It bo In tho way of protecting the pee plo against the rapacity and dishonesty o traders Let It bo In tho enforcement of honest measures at tho beer countes and honest food In tho restaurants not In tho nngglng and bothering of men and women who are taking their pleasure in their own way and not In other peoples i ways Wo have quite too much meddling |