Show V IMPROVED MEN OF WEALTH IN EUROPE AND FRUIT JAR HOLDER Its Use Enables the Housewife to Handle Receptacles While They Are Hot Housewives who have burned their fingers in handling hot fruit jars and have sometimes dropped and broken the Jars as a consequence will appreciate the usefulness of the fruit jar holder invented by a New Jersey man This holder consists of a flexible band of metal to surround the jar with a handle attached to one end of the band and having projecting pins to engage hooks on the opposite end and so tighten it about the jar that the latter may be easily lifted from one place to another- with perfect safety UNITED STATES This without any of the other work was enough to have kept him busy Yet with it all he had written regularly such New York World articles which displayed such powers of observation and such keenly critical wide ability that an unprecedently representation of the press daily weekly and monthly of America has based editorial articles upon them To maintain three such forms of activity simultaneously under high pressure would tax the strength of the most powerful constitution yet this tall lank historian did it and went away smiling like a schoolboy off for a holiday Admits He Has Learned Much “Yes I am tired” he said laughing? “but I am very happy and I thank America not only for its great kindness to me but especially for what it has taught me I have learned much while I have been here “They told me in Europe that I should find New York ugly I like the beauty of the cities of Italy more but New York has a majesty of its own that cannot be called ugly They told me in New York that I should find Chicago ugly The New Yorker’s preFits Any Size Jar diction about Chicago was no more to the jar and to the hands of the pernearly true than that of the Europeans it" There is a row of son carrying about New York had been Chicago hooks and slots so "arranged that the in detail is not beautiful but as a band can be adjusted to any size jar whole it is by no means ugly Its It is a simple matter both to adjust lake is beautiful and some of its streets of private It is for and detach the holder and the advanare potic sway' The American millionaire state have charge of that residences It is very like Buenos is no such thing He is less powerful me alone to say how the young men tages of such a device for use during splendid time will be readily apparAyres One thing about it however here than his kind in Europe Europe and women are to be brought up I preserving will place before them the ideals that ent to all women The holder can be is more than ugly — the smoke that will be surprised when I tell it this I think they should have I will allow put to other uses when hot receptacles fills the air Here in New York you Secure from Press Attacks of no interference on your part’ Such have to be moved about have solved the problem of smokeless “Europe also has its millionaires air and your brilliant clear atmos- many of them but it rarely hears of an institution as Chicago university is unimaginable in any country of Euphere is one of the greatest charms them in secret work They They of the city In Chicago they have not are the real power but Europe scarcerope It would pot be tolerated for solved it yet” ly knows it In Europe the press one moment It is a beautiful place was glad to lecture there but I could “And of all the things you have seen cannot attack a millionaire It dare I not If it began such an attack this not help thinking what a peril to sinwould at once be silenced A glazier’s knife will be found an the America it might become what by Such a crusade as ister possibilities are latent within it excellent thing with which to scrape power of money Mr I Rockefeller understand does has been made here against the and clean the bottoms of pans and not interfere all in the at manageStandard Oil Company wrould tave kettles ment of that university he does not been impossible in Europe Much time Is saved If paper linings dictate the professors who shall lec"The European millionaire gives ture there nor the curriculum that for cake pans are cut in quantities nothing away He would laugh at the shall be followed and from what I and kept ready for instant use in a mere suggestion that it is his duty to have been able to box with tight lid learn fo him I don’t give' away jnnnex or that he holds think he ever will But some succesA little muriatic acid added to the his money in trust for the people or sor to his millions might choose to rinsing water after a blue and white for society at large ’What!’ he would wield the fiber rug is scrubbed with soap and power which Mr Rockefelcry ‘My money is mine! I made it ler thus far let alone Think of water will help to restore the color or I inherited it It is mine mine njy the has A clean clbth dipped in hot water power such a man would have if very own! To do with as I like!’ And he wanted to exercise it! Think of then a saucer of bran will speedily everybody would agree with him No the ideals that might be set before the clean white paint without injury to one in Europe would suggest that it The soft bran acts like soap on of America by an unscrupulous millions entail a duty to society Yet youth millionaire controlling a university the dirt here such a notion is quite prevalent his donations The easiest way to clean a cereal too great is It through It is even put forth gravely by mil- a power to be permitted to any man cooker Is to turn It upside down In lionaires themselves Mr ' Carnegie and I am amazed that in America a pan of boiling water and steam it to me this very theory where the millionaires are expounded checked by until the sticky mass is soft and which to a European sounds so expublic opinion no question seems ever loosened from the sides of the pan that the community at to traordinary be raised as to the possible danger A good silence cloth for the dining large has an absolute right to share of the university that is millionaire table can be made with a double in a man’s millions — that he made thickness of white flannel laid with a trustee of his wealth the soft side on the inside and quilt“I have earned enough of Ameri“In Europe as I said millionaires ed on the machine edge with a binddo not give away their money At can life American politics American least not while they are alive When institutions and American men and ing of white tape they die they may have a trifling sum women to be able to follow intelligentJellied Mutton Broth to charity and the general public ly the history of America as the news will exclaim: ‘How generous!’ Cold broth jellied Is Just as nour In of the day reports its development so not as this is so the same broth hot and is as on much Few men in Europe understand Amer- ishing England the continent for the British aristocica of usually more tempting on a scorchThey cannot help judging racy whose wealth is largely Inher- American affairs from European standing August day Make the broth from ited from long generations has always points This 'makes them unfair and two pounds of mutton soup meat simbeen taught and has always recog- futile in their judgments While I mered slowly for five or six hours nized that it has certain duties to so- have not been long enough in AmerAdd water when necessary but at the This is not so on the ica to dare to say positively that I end of this time have only about a ciety at large I continent can think of only one really understand it? I am convinced quart of broth Season it with salt millionaire in Europe who is public that I know enough about it to enable and pepper strain and pour into cups spirited in his munificence and this me to understand better than before or individual molds When set turn one is the French Baron Rothschild what is going on and to read of the jelly on pretty plates with a In America your millionaires give American affairs intelligently I am spray of mint or parsley — just for away vast sums but I do not believe taking back with me four big suit looks — by the side of each mold and that even they give altogether because cases filled with books documents serve with small sandwiches of whole No millionaire and newspapers which I have they love giving bought wheat bread and butter likes to give up his money!” while here and not yet had time to A broad quizzical laugh put the exread These I shall read and digest Baked Bean Sandwlchcc "In Europe When We Are Opponents We Hate Each Other in America Mash a cupful of baked beans add a clamation point at the close of this at my leisure When I have obtained Political or Religious Enemies Can Be Personal Friends” the perspective which rest time and teaspoonful of chopped parsley a tea- sentence to use his own phrase For he was here what has left the deepest imdistance alone can give I shall begin sP°°n ° onl°n Juice and a little The Fundamental Difference Season to taste with closing a tour that had been unique pression?” put in the writer pared mustard “But — Although your millionaires writing about America” salt and white pepper It had lasted ten weeks and each one Butter white “Give me time to think! My brain are restrained in so many ways you Tribute to America of those weeks had been crowded is in a whirl bread on the loaf cut into thin slices So many impressions allow them to do some things which “Is there any parting message you and spread with the filling with work This work had been have crowded on each other’s heels I we would never allow them to do in Trim threefold — lecturing writing and be- must sort these out and arrange them Europe You allow them to found uni- would like to leave for America?” off the crusts and cut into shapes— the last no less before I can make up my mind what versities! You allow them to devote asked the writer Housekeeper ing entertained arduous than the others He had pre- has impressed me most But!” — their millions to founding and support“Far be it from me to give any ad-Immense Rosebush Sig- Ferrero’s “but” is an exclamapared and delivered 37 lectures and ing vast establishments in which the moftition to America!” cried Ferrero A rosebush ln a addresses in English French en at Freiburg and tion point it is an explosion He says youth of the nation is to acquire its with a deprecatory shrug that began Italian at Lowell institute Harvard it not only with his mouth but with ideals If the millionaires themselves at his knees ermany covers 99 square yards and ? rippled jerkily ud ' bCarS 10000 Cornell Columbia and Chicago uni- his whole face It makes his eyes cannot teach the rising generation the through his body and shoulders and versities the University of the City blaze and his glasses tilt forward He ideals they would like them to divided into three one shaking of New York the University of Penn- says it with his whole body It startles they can at least select the men his head the other two sending his sylvania and clubs and learned socie- him out of a reposeful attitude and who are to teach them May there arms flying out in the gesture of one ties In many cities This alone would sends his forefinger darting out at the not be some method in this kind of who repels something “I am not yet have kept him busy He had been en- person he is addressing learned enough In American affairs giving?” N tertained at luncheons dinners and “But — ! One thing that has im“Why do you say that a millionaire to have the right to give advice to receptions by the president of the pressed me profoundly is the diffe- could not found a university in Eu- your country And it would come United' States the ambassadors of rent between your millionaires as Eu- rope?” asked the writer with from one who has been t0 ®ach CUp’ and Bugar to taste" four nations the faculties of many rope imagines them and as I have The state would not allow it!” received so hospitably My colleges and a host of private indi- fouLd them in their homes their came the reply like shot from a rapid-fir- message is a salutation not parting an In all of those ten weeks clubs their places of business viduals Eugun “If a- millionaire started to I say to the American peothere was scarcely a meal except rope thinks the American millionaire do anything of that sort the state aak from you heart for breakfast at which he had not been is a tyrant “y It thinks he grinds down would instantly step in and say to plf the kindness with which you have He had the people under his heel It thinks him: ‘No my dear sir do what you overwhelmed me some one’s honored guest a bean The soda' destroys the for all that been pursued by invitations and he he is It thinks of like with your money but leave the shown me for all that yoiThave free acid in tanthf 60ur taste caused had accepted all that were possible America as groaning under his des training of our youth to me avwiaugnt the coffee the me!’” IFFERENT In every way Is the status of the American millionaire from that of the European millionaire and this difference has impressed me perhaps more than any other one thing during my ten weeks’ stay in America” Guglielmo Ferrero was the speaker Few foreigners who ever visited America have had such opportunities to Judge of the conditions of here and abroad as he has had He has talked in America with juch representative members of their class as J Pierpont Morgan Andrew Carnegie and Jacob II Schlff and In Europejyith such men as the Barons Rothschild of England and France With them he has discussed the powers that millions give to a man the dangers to which his millions expose him the duties and the responsibilities which millions impose upon their possessors Upon this subject he has also obtained the views of the professors of almost all the principal universities in America and in Europe of the leading journalists statesmen authors philosophers and plain business men Here he has stretched his long legs under the mahogany of millionaires’ dinner tables he has lectured In universities that owe their existence to millionaires he has studied the comments of the press upon the deeds and the words of millionaires and he has brought to bear upoh the subject one of the most keenly analytical mind3 of modern days This farewell talk was on the eve of his sailing Flanked by strapped trunks and bulging bags each piece labeled “hold” or “cabin" he sat waiting for the express w'agons that were to take hisbaggage to the French line pier He was tired — “tired but happy” y J ' |