New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 6, 1915, Page 4

ews for Thea NEW BR.TAIN HERALD, MONDAY. ter Goers and Women Readers eory to Perkins Gilman in the ork Tribune.) w . things funnier than o have no confidence in nce of women as such. Ben permanent. No one moment raised a warn- . men are ceasing to be “sex of women seems I& ‘a -mere superficial ude to be adopted uty.or enforced by | ~and, if not en- disappear. g of“womanhood thus ptained is, of course, woman means a tial to the process of and of no other import- quality of hers is be- 80_absolutely essential to at any desire on her interest and occupation fifle upholding this deep- able tendency to the essential charac- n, these same critics it terror lest the change PIn activity, will “unsex” and she will no longer plty this fear that wo- motherhood will flutter pportunity. More -and differently ex- »throughout history; only in form. We S. ~We speak in € Scientific terms. We -suicide,” which is a Mll-fitting word at best, applicable to war or ithan to a lessening in stead of blaming in- or pitying certain .condemn whole ke our heads sadly ed birth rate. rate question is quite a ‘many of us. We are ing statements buttressed statistics, and very ‘e enough knowledge or to understand the ques- p from being frightened. the broad facts: he life form the higher te—and death rate. Oy- ngs, codfish—these have the thousands upon thou- if 'we look further back sioria, monads, rotifers, reproduce by millions. ier the life form the lower fate—and the death rate. on is in.inverse proportion tion. So with humanity; conditions the rate of baries inversely to the ad- | of' the people. ~ Germany own birth rate as high- of France, yet by no iders the Slavic birth rate, gher than the Teuton, as of superiority, and the admit that the Oriental 'still - greater, shows the . to be true world leaders. s, Too, To Blame. } undeniably, some decrease rate due not to natural al causes. This refusal d is not peculiar to edu- h less to “feminism,” but pund among the most fem- nti-feminists. f Bation must be maintained 3 to itself, though other jight deny the necessity. fon should increase in num- e admitted for the sake of bizt that it shouid increase d bounds, doubling and In. geometric progression is pnable necessity. “most important for any ovement in quality, and in quality means a low- inow th Ihe he Three Monsters. it day alarmists 7 terrifying chimera by x method—combining sev- in one. ‘They have ew ‘monster, Feminism, monster, Race Suicide, notistér “Higher Education 7~ all grafted to the very er. “The Loss of Femin- oman Her | Dressmaker iteachi you in six lessons, make all your own have imerican ' Tailor College of .\ R. 1. will open a branch Britain _and teach gning, - Dressmaking, wg; Millinery and Hand (Flor home and business S ENROLLED NOW R HALF PRICE. as and positions furnished ites. . fices from former pupils. ircular or come and talk gour nearest branch school. 'ATLOR COLLEGE e-half of Them Marry, Males Are Becom- ed to Them and Find Better Wives— Surplus Males a Menace. Contrary—Mrs. Gilman inity.’ It malkes a horrific combina- tion. ¥ Moreover, this weird composite ter- ror is put forward with such sounding lists of figures that minds unused to doubting are likely to be impressed. The charge is that feminism has added its malign influence to that of higher education, with the result that college women do not marry—by half, and that the half who do marry pro- duce a little less than a baby apiece! Human usefulness is not limited to parentage. The mothers or fathers of one child—or even men and wom- en who have none—are sometimes able to benefit mankind more effec- tually than those who, like the smil- ingly explanatory Italian matron, have “T'ree-a, one-a-time,; two-a tree-a- time and one-a all-a-time.” If you hastily run over in your mind such names of great world ser- | vants as you can recall you will notice f that they are valued by what they did : for the world—not for the number of | their children. But to return to our college women, and their sins of omission. ‘Only one- half marry—at present. If, however, we study the percentage wino married in the days when women first strug- gled forward into equality in educa- tion it will be found still less. As col- lege education becomes more common more popular as it ceases to demand only the unusually brave and deter- mined; ‘as men—who, after all, have to be consulted in the matter of mar- rying!—become more used to college bred women, a larger number of them marry. A woman cannot marry all alone. Neither can she coerce whom- soever she will and compel him to come in. These figures would remain the same if treated as the measure of men’s willingness to have educated wives. With the steady increase of educa- tion among women comes an equally steady increase in the number who marry. But there are other factors to consider, many of them, Our Surplus Males. ‘We have, to be sure, a goodly num- ber of ‘“surplus males” in our coun- Daily Fashion Talks' BY MAY MANTON SIMPLE FROCKS ASHIONS for the little folk are especially attractive this season. FOR LITTLE FOLK Here are two frocks that are quite different one’ from the other, and each shows a new idea. No. 8713 is a perfectly simple little dress closed at the shoul- ders and worn over a separate guixppe.. but it would be much more attractive if In the picture this guimpe is shirred 1t were smocked and smocking is one of the simplest forms of needlework and exceedingly fashionable. If the dress were of blue linen and the blouse of white lawn. with smocking in blue to match the dress, 2 very charmin; wide for the dress, with No. 8713 is cut in sizes effect could be obtained, For the 6-year size will be needed 234 o yards 27 or 2 y m 4 to 8 years. s of material 27, 36 or 44 inches . 36 for the blouse. The pattern . CAMERON ‘Do Animals Talk? Sorae time ago I discussed the subject of communication ‘among ani- mals and invited my reader friends to tell me what experiences they had had along these lines, The following are among the interesting bits sulmitted: ~ ‘Felix was an aged and decrepit dog belonging to the writer and his friend Jim a vigorous youngster that barked across the way. A strangen came ang overhauled Felix's store of bones. Felix tried in vain to drive him off—the other simply side-stepped and continued his robberies. Felix then went to the neighbor’s yard, found his friend and brought him over. J"lm, the friend in need, promtply whipped the stranger for better morzls One Man isSure Ants Talk. “Yqu ask for examples of information given to one animal by another- We have many examples in insects, It is evident that ants communicate Wwith each other, probably by the antennae. A species of ants in Africa Wwill march is a seried column, will visit a house at night, will divide the ranks and enter each room and retire again after clearing the place of insect pests, a missionary told me He sat all night in an insulated chair holding his little boy in his lap. Nofhing ‘but bones was leff of a pot bird they forgot to insulate.” Looking for a House to Rent. _“I have a garden, mostly trees and shrubs, which is my hobby. Last winter I decided to put up bird houses to see if I could draw the wild birds and have been very successful and we have had, and are having, a wonderful lot of pleasure out of the experiencee When the mating sea- Son opened 1 watched the houses very careful as I was anxious to get tenants. One morning I noticed a beautiful pair of bluebirds flying round the place. Finally they settled in one tree where I had a bird house, =0 then I hid behina another tree close to them and watched. First one bird Wwent in the house, stayed a few seconds, then came out, flew to where the other bird was perched and started to chatter- Then the other bird flew in. made a brief siay came out, joined the other bird and did his chattering They kept this up for at least ten minutes, first one and then the other going in the house and the one that went in always chattered to the othcr when it came out. I was inclined to think after the episode that “birds talk The sequel may interest you, They did not rent that house, but they did rent another and raised a family.” The. Dog Who Would A-Fishing Go. “A family on our street had four fine large hunting dogs and one of them was a great fisherman. He would stand for houfs every day out about thirty feet in the shallow water, with a most absorbed look in his face, watching for small fish, and often catching one. About this time a family moved into our neighborhood with a small white dog with a very large bark. This dog would run up and down the shore. barking and thus frighten the fish away. We noticed the fisherman dog running quickly up the street and, soon after, returning with three other dogs. Curiosity im- pelled us to go out and watch the developments: To our amazement the first dog went back to his fishing and the other three patrolled the beach. try, nearly 3,000,000 in 1910, but these are mainly young immigrants, men, to | be sure, but not the sort fi?at college | women would be likely to marry— | even if they had not been to college. Allowing fairly eéven numbers of men and women, there are some disad- vantageous qualifications among men which unfit a certain number of them for marrying—at least from a wom- | an’s point of view. Among our prison populaiton in ! 1910 there was a preponderance of 99,226 males; among the insane, in asylums, a preponderance of 9,595. Here is an array of 108,000 undersir- able citizens to reduce by that number woman’s chances of marrying. Then there is the great army of drunkards, | preponderantly men, and, still fur- ther, men with transmissable diseases —a ghastly array. In the worst of | these diseases we again find far the | greater number to be male. It would seem as though among our 20,000,000 | adult males the most conservative es- timate of one per cent, or 200,000, are unfitted for marriage by one disease alone, which, with all these otherwise unfit, gives us from 200,000 to 400,000 possible candidates for matrimony who out to be declined. The college women, who are sin- gled out for critcism, amount now to perhaps 80,000. Half of that is but 40,000. The forty thousand men they have not married are but as one to ten in the number of undesirables above mentioned. Are They Asked. This does not, of course, prove that our recalcitrant college women were asked in marriage by ten—or by one —criminal, insane, feeble-minded, de- fective or diseased person. But it does prove that with unfit males largely outnumbering unfit females, some females must go unmarried— through no fault of their own. The college women, as being a little older, somewhat wiser and more experi- enced, are perhaps better able to dis- criminate, and, in added enormity of | economic independence, better able to refuse. Cannot these opponents of femin- ism see the deadly nature of their re- flection upon men? Educate women and they will not marry! Why not? Give them economic independence and they will not marry! Again, why not? Is there, then, something peculiar about the ardent offer of “heart and hand” which requires that a woman shall be ignorant and helpless in order to accept it? The whole position is “given away” by the sad conclusion always arrived at—that our best and wisest are dying childless and our country is being populated by the lowest and least fit. What is it that makes men shy of our “best and wisest”? Must we, then, to make them will- ing to marry or to please their suitors, force them back to the ranks of the lowest and least fit? i All this agitation is mere short- sightedness. The race advances by an improvement of individuals, of their relations and achievements, and this means a lowered birth rate, a lowered death rate and an all around advance in living. None contribute more gen- uinely to this improvement than that heroic generation of women who have grown faster than the men of their times could appreciate, and whose work, with or without children, has helped the world on. 8326 8713 8713 Girl's Dress, 4 to 8 years. 8326 Child’s Dress, 2 to 6 years. The second frock is in what is known as “Oliver Twist™style. That is to say, the skirt is buttoned to the body portion a little above the waist line. Here the blouse is made of white lawn and the skirt and trimming are made of éponge, but number}ess materxals~ are suitable. The ginghams for autumn wear are very beautiful; galatea is always serviceable; linens are handsome; and all or any one of these can be obtained with the guimpe or blouse of some= thing thinner and lighter. For the 4-year size will be needed 114 yards of material 27 or 36 in. wide for the blouse; 154 yards 27 or 36 for the skirt; to make of one material will be needed 254 yards 27 or 235 yards 36. The pattern No. 8326 is cut in sizes from 2 to 6 years. The above patterns will be mailed to a dd by the Fashion Departe ment of this paper, on receipt of ten eem';yfoar exxs: & ’ “ROSE OF THE RANCHO” | DAINTY VIVIAN MARTIN AT KEENEY’'S TONIGHT| ATTRACTION AT FOX'S Several good photo plays are promised the patrons of Keeney's for the current week. The management has secured a number of high class screen dramas and local people will have an cpportunity to see some of the world’s most celebrated actors, portraying important parts in pictur- izations of widely read novels. A splendid holiday bill is to be given this evening. Among the epecial film attractions will be “The Tiose of Rancho,” with Bessie Bar- risdale in the title role. This re- markable drama was arranged for motion picture presentation by the Famous Players Film company. Since it started on the circuit it has been a tremendous success and it is in big Gemand wiah enterprising theater owners.. The Keeney management ex- pects it will be a hit with local people and crowded houses should prevail tonight and tomorrow. Other features for the week are: “Captain Courtesy,” with Dustin Farnum playing the lead, Wednesday and Thursday; Blanche Sweet in “The Captive,” Friday and Saturday and “The Blindness of Virtue,” a special attraction for Thursday and Friday. This drama is in six acts and is one of the Big Four's special bookings. In addition to this evcellent screen program, the management has se- sured some high class vaudeville aects for the entertainment of the patrons. There will he three good specialties et each performance. Vivian Martin, the extremely popu- lar screen star, remembered here for her excellent work in the many Shu- bert attractions shown from time to time at Fox's, will again be seen to- day and tomorrow at this popular photo-play resort in ‘“The Little Dutch Girl,” a picturization of Ouida’s famous novel of “Two Little Wooden Shoes.” The story is replete with tender situations of love and romance, and for the lovers of the sweet and charming tales of freindship and love this photo-play production will more than delight. “The Goddess” with Anita Stewart, with ever increasing popularity from week to week will also be shown and: this, the seventh chapter promises some real good scenes which will be most entertaining. The Pathe War News with its current events that are always interesting and an excellent comedy frame a two hour program of marked excellence. Owing to the holiday the perform- ances will run continuously from 1:30 to 11 p. m. with night prices, that of 10 cents for all seats, prevailing. DISHES FOR INFORMAL SUNDAY SUPPERS Every one enjoys the informality of a Sunday night supper where all present have a hand in its prepara- tlon. The hostess who wins a repu- tation for always having the neces- Of course the small dog promptly disappeared.” sary ingredients at hand will find many friends to drop in and participate in Sunday night spread. In order to be ready for emergen- cies, the icebox should contain some seasomable fruit and vegetables, eggs and relishes. After the party inspects the supplies on hand the menu can be made up, and in about fifteen min- utes any of the following delicious supper dishes will be ready to tempt | the eye ana appetite of all who are ! fortunate enough to be present. A chafing dish will also prove a boon te the merry party, but, of course, in the summer the fruit and vegetable dishes will prove most welcome. Cut cold boiled corn from the cob, carefully removing all shreds of silk that have lingered between kernels. Line a salad bowl with small white leaves from the heart of a lettuce head and then heap the corn in the center. Pour the mayonnaise over the whole, being sure to have plenty of it. The toothsomeness of corn as 2 salad ingredient is just becoming known. It is much better eaten alone, mixed with a mayonnaise, than when mixed with other vegetables. Put a pinch of salt and a dash of pepper into a bowl, after rubbing the bottom and sides of the bowl with a split clove or garlic; add the yolks of two eggs, half a pint of olive oil and a tablespoonful of vinegar. Take an egg beater and stir them all up | together briskly for about ten min- utes- Then pour the mixture over the { salad- Lemon juice may be used in- | stead of vinegar if preferred, and | half a cupful of whipped cream may { be added, but the combination of | cream and vinegar is not always eas- i ily digested. Some persons like to | make mayonnaise by adding the oil to the eggs drop by drop, but this is a tedious and laborious process, and the sauce is just as good when made in the speedy way described. First rub the salad bowl with a split glove or garlic then pour in four tablespoonfuls of olive oil to one or Tarragon vinegar and stir thor- oughly with a silver fork. Next put in any vegetables you have in the house—you cannot have too many- but two will do. Sliced cucumbe tomatoes, onions, asparagus, parsley, peppergrass—all these are good and will blend harmoniously with the dressing. When yvou mix the vege- tables sprinkle with salt and celery salt. Edge the dish with lettuce leaves. | Fresh goseberries, if they are ripe, form an excellent combination with cream cheese. If ripe gooseberrics cannot be obtained the green fruit must be stewed the day before. An- ticipating the Sunday night frolic. the hostess may do this, in which vase the fruit is set on the table in a glass bowl. The cream cheese may be used just as it comes or it can be mixed with a cup of whipped cream. If desired the cheese and cream so mixed may be placed in a little mound in the center of the glass dish and the gooseberries poured around it. The combination is delicious and mway be eaten on or with salted crack- ers. Boil the eggs and cool them plac- ing in cold water. Cut in half length- wise and remove the yolks. Mix them in a bowl with a bit of cream cheese. some butter, a little mustard, pepper and salt. Salt thoroughly and then put them back into the whites and serve on a platter garnished with parsley or lettuce leaves. After the eggs are thorougly dcne cpen and cut lengthwise. Place on a, round dish, which should be edged with small lettuce leaves. Pour over this who will be delighted | T O the eggs the mayonnaise described above- This is a combination of which Southern people are very fond. If there is no cold sliced chicken in your icebox open a can and pick out some good slices. Take a cold boiled ham and cut into small pleces. Place these alternately on a platter and garnish with parsley or green pepper in long, thin slices. If preferred, the ham and chicken may be minced in a chopping bowl, seasoned ,with green peppers and served by spreading on bread in sandwich form, or put in a bowl and covered with a salad dressing. Shad Cakes. To two cups of flaked boiled shad add two cups of mashed potato; but- ter, pepper and salt to taste, one beat- en egg, and enough sweet cream so that the mass can be moulded by hand into cakes of the usual fish cake size. Fry a delicate brown in hot fat, and serve on a hot platter with a broiled slice of bacon on top of each cake, and garnish with a little fresh cress. This is an excellent breakfast or luncheon dish. “OVER THE WIRE” / By DOROTHY CLARKE I'm so glad we are going to be able to wear capes again ..... Noth- ing can quite take their place for comfort and general all around use. Last year they were done to death, but I've seen some very at- tractive models lately and 1 think they are going to be quite all right. . I bought an awfully good look- ing one of Polo cloth, which is double faced Bright emerald green on the inside and a shadow plaia with quite a little violet in it on the outside ..... It has crossed military straps in front and a very high collar of the green which can De turned up over the ears j going to wear a hand-crocheted tam-c'-shanter of black and green silk with it ..... Fine for motoring. I'll be over in the morning in the runabout and you can inspect it pergonally ..... Good-bye. RUSSWIN LYCEUM Mon., Sept. 6 SPECIAL LABOB' DAY MATINEE AND NIGHT GRAND OPENING OF THE SEASON Four-Act Comedy Drama MY LADY’S GARTER (Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense) A DRAMATIZATION OF JACQUES FUTRELLE'S FA- MOUS NOVEL By LEE MORRISON Big New York cast which goes from here to the Booth Theater, N. Y. City, for sca- son’s engagement. PRICES — Matinee, 25¢, 50c, 75c and $1. Evening, 25c¢, 50c, 75c, $1 and $1.50. Seat Sale at Crowell’'s Drug Store at 7:30 P, M. Tonight A New 25¢, TONIGHT & TUESDAY Bessic Barrisdale In “The Rose of Rancho.,” WED. AND THURS. “Captain Courtesy” With Dustin Farnum FRI. AND SAT. Blanche Sweet In “The Captive.” THURS. AND FRL “The Blindness of Virtue” “w.;.n?\ TODAY, continwous 1:30 p. 11 p. m VIVIAN MARTIN, the de- lightful star, in “THE LITTLE DUTCH GIRL."” picturized from Ouida’ “Two Little Wooden Shoes Anita Stewart, in “THE GODDESS,” 7th chapter. m. to POLI'STHEATER Hartford All This Week, Twice Daily. The Poli Players “THE MIRACLE MAN” Mats, 10c, 20c. Eve. 10, 29, 30, 50¢c PERFECTLY PASTEUR- IZED MILK SEIBERT AND SON Park Street, Near Stanley. 6 teams. Tel. connection Menu for Tomorrow Breakfast Fruit Sugar and Cream Creamed Dried Beef Saily Lunns Cereal Coffee Dinner Roast Beef Yorkshire Pudding Mashed Potatoes Stuffed Tomatoes French Dressing Cheens Lettuce Wafers Frozen Peaches Coffee . il ] Supper Fruit Salad Peach Cake Coffes Yorkshire Pudding—Yorkshire pud- ding will need three eggs, a half tea- spoonful of salt and six tablespoon- fuls ot flour. Beat well, then reduce with sweet milk until a thin pour bat- ter. Forty minutes before the roast is done pour off almost all of the fat in the pan, add the strained batter (pouring it either round or under the' meat according to the rack used) and retura to the oven. Baste several times with a little of the hot dripe ping. When done carefully cut the pudding in squares and serve it as & garnish round the meat, I'rozen Peaches—To freeze take one pint fwf prepared peach pulp and stip into it four drops of almond extract and a chilled syrup made by boiling togetkher for five minutes one pint of sugar and one pint of water. To give it a pretty tint use a little fruit red color paste. -