The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1906, Page 17

ys MRS NAGG AND MR.— By Roy L. McCardell. b6 SUPPOSE all those celebrated women will have I a splendid time at that banquet at the Hotel Astor to-night, Mr. Nagg. Of course I can't go, Oh yes, | I have been invited. I'm President of the Kind Words} ‘| Club, I belong to the Modern Mothers, although I haven't | | bcen able to attend any of the meetings on account of the | Wee} children, for it is all very well for those old maids, and it) [ay isa terrible clique of them that just run things their own ey way in the Modern Mothers, and it is just as bad in the Don't Worry Club and in ‘The Little Makers of Happy | Homes. “The women that belong to those things, and espe- clally is it true of the Modern Mothers and Happy Hom- | all live in boarding-houses and apartment-house hotels, and haven't after except maybe a spaniel or a canary bird, but with to look after how can I go to the Happy Home meetings, ani with Imogene having the German measles, and that terrible | gold Harold has, and Brother Willie being so sick and feverish from ove study at night-school he drinks about a gallon of ice-water and can't eat | any breakfast, and his eyes look terrible and he complains of such head-' aches, but you give him no credit for studying till 3 o'clock in the morning at night-school; so, just as I say, when I have to look after the children and give Brother Wilile his bromo-seltzer, how can I go to the Modern Mothers?) “Oh, I don't complain! It is just the same with the Rainy Day Club. NWe were to have a meeting last week and I did hope it would be a nice day, but it was so stormy, and I couldn't afford a cab, All those women who advocate co on-sense in dress, they don’t care how much St ratis, because they have their carriages or can afford a cab and so do not get their oiled, Ai the ve t meeting of the Society for Common Sense | in Dress i attended I felt so ashamed because I looked so shabby, and I was glad when Clara Mudridge who read a paper on “Ciothes-Health” fainted ecauce she was laced so tight and I had a chance to get away in the ex- t followed when all the women crowded round her saylug, because Clura Mudridge had a new diamond dog collar on in the room was s0 anxious to get a near look at it to ser imitation—and it was imitation, because I could see set with tinfoil behind them—you can always the diamonds are open at the back, and I just got good look. What was I saying? tulking about that banquet of noted women at the ‘There will be women doctors and women lawyers and nd women editors and women dentists and women philan- nen humorists and women sculptors and women artists s and women engineers and women on the stage, and 1am only a fond and foolish woman, who threw ef to mar uu Not that 1 complain, but T do think you might the soerificcs | have made. I do leve to hear Susan Anthony nd tell the men how little she thinks of them. The dinner is in ers, pnything to look this house on my hands feathers 5 citement ih “Give Her Alr if it was real or bow the near dinmonds tell the real t up ren! clo “Ch. y lAstor to-night women ports H diy had If I have an Invitation, you ask? Because I have because 1 have nothing to wear. Do you think to show myself there when I have nothing but what ail these © seen a dozen times, and every one of them, especially the In Dress Club women, will have new lace evening dresses. suryver show me ners that she geing to wear at the Com- Drees Club table, but she wore {t at the opera night before s contracted pneumonia! Serves her right! Why can't I go nothing to wear, Mr. Senre Jast and now they think she hi {A woman of her age and with such a figure appearing in decollete! ‘Don’t mon talk to me, Mr. Nugg! Iar't go because I have nothing to wear!” The Day the Boss Is Late. | By Albert Payson Terhune. | oO aurshe joys that p along nd of Gaily toil, thers Into song And cheer this That serve so Th The day the Boss 4s late. Vhon 9 A. M. has come and gone And half-past 9 creeps near, Ani 19 o’clook ts drawing on, ———| And still he jan't here, We fe: to wondering if he's sick | Or if he's on a wkate. peculative talk flies thick day the Doss Is late! Mice boy cuts out sll work: sweet stenographer with the shipping clerk, vars hot alr with her. The vim wherewith we're all tmbued Melts into that glad state, Inncoudus desuc : | | The day the Boss {s late, < Of course, when he at Inst hall come | He'll h happy face } ma | Brisk industry's contented hum ortal coll— santly to fill | Pervading the who eC Kate ts gett t dovecthat toller “Well, wells soo! BAL Huggins I 1 suppose you sailors wet your pictures taken in nearly “I wonder why sailors ts always dry Jane in-gettl peut Cte oa tpllers know give up sallorin’ an’ gone t” runnt “Bein called ‘salt’ so much makes ie i F | Is any 0 grea rs vagin house! rhe ‘Tar—N R trsty, I s'pose.’ But Jane will soon be married, too, | As that uncertain hour or s0 . well, there ain't much The Tar—Nope. Only our money, ‘em thirsty, I spose, So walt The day the Besa iy late? frin’ ropes an’ ro ning World’s |ALLIE GAZAM Almost Makes Two Arrests "s none to match the happy thrill , 6 fio m6 Magazine, Tuesday Evening, Februa 1 ry _ 20, COUPLE OF BURGLARS ROBBING URRY UP! DONT, “THERES A SAY? Ng 23) (WELCOME IN OUR SIDE ENTRANCE SARSAPARILLA, Aw, BAH Jove! HOW DEUCEDLY GENTEEL THESE/@) Peri PERSONS RE! CHARMED TO Meer Youse! ZAND SUCH & DO HAVE & [Do TAKE CHAWMING red KNNERS!| (CIGARETTE: SUSE J BACK To DE FER Youse! OLD MAIDS ARE CRAZY-QUILTS. By Nixola Greeley-Smith, everything In spasms—spasmns of laughter, spasms of indignation, spasms of righteousness. ‘Teil them the same joke six times and they will digest and redigest it| mentally in thelr ruminant fashion without cracking a smile. But the seventh time it will seem to them side-splittingly funny, and you may even be a Uttle alarmed at the extent of their hysterical appre- clation. ‘Their indignations are quite as slow and as overwhelm- ing, while their unexpected attacks of conscience over courses they have peacefully pursued for many months are wonderful to witness, ‘The trouble with these spasinodic women ts the lack | of @ fixed purpose, the first essential of serenity, which 1s woman's best and rarest quality. | ‘Though we may not all be able to hitch our wagon t | ‘a panet, we certainly ought to realize the necessity of Kitching it somewhere, 4f only from observation of the restless, discontented, envious women derelicts who are without “The star to every wandering bark ‘That looks on tempesta and is never shaken.” Life for most women consists of a few years in which we ask questions ot! Fate—a few in which we get the anewer; @ great many in which we wonder whether the answer was worth while. It doesn't make much difference whether the answer.is yes or no—the Important thing te to get it, whatever it ta, That's the reason It really 1s better in the long run for a woman to be un- happily married than happily, single, The married woman of thirty-five knows Just about what she has to expect of life, even if it be only a Saturday night now with her husband. The unanchored woman, even if she be eighty-five, lives fn the future, prattles gayly of what ‘we girls” are golng to do, and her life | in retrompect is a crazy-quilt made of scraps of other people's Hves, beautifully embroidered, perhaps, with her own dreams and illusions, but, nevertheless, far Jess desirable than the comfortable common-sense blanket of domestinity, even if that, In certain aspects, has been a wet blanket to romance. ‘The old mald Is apt to be @ spasmodic creature, spasmodic én her gigglings, her tantrums, her moments of pale joy. The married woman has more repose, Bo, while it may not always be better for us to marry from our own point of view, our duty t6 be normal, comfortable fellow creatures of the rage, rather forces matrimony upon us. Toes ure people, particularity women, who have this over the tea kettle or in doubie boiler on back of the stove until the hominy absorbs all the ter, Put in @ dish and add one cup boiling milk, one seant cup of cornmeal, two tablespoons of sugar, When cooled add two eggs, yolks and whites, beaten separately, ee Sg rae rd teaspoon baking pow ‘. ake hot buttered about twenty minutes, ia toe sande as acd World Wants Work Wonders. _ «Soft Gingerbread. BN 1H essa, 1 cup of sugar, 1 oup molasses, 1 cup sour milk, tea- spoon soda, little salt, 1-2 tea- epoon cinnamon and 1-2 teaspoon gin- wer, 1-2 cup Inrd and butter mixed, flour to make batter like cake, Hominy Cakes. WO tableapoons fine homing, half iy teaspoon salt, one tablespoon but- ter, half cup bolling water, Place larly appropriate put should a8 party, where It would appear too fantastic to be paper, toothpick: umen woed. laugh HINTS FOR THE HOME. ff @p «WOMEN ERE Is a novel method of serving frult at a woman's luncheon or a dance supper, It is particu- for Informal affair attempted at @ din- not be in good taste. arrangement of fruits, etc,, very ludicrous and animal figures may be pro- ‘They are sure to provide a at the time when {t fs most needed, the torpid moment whew ane 16 regretting, perhaps. ‘eaten more sparingly. ‘There is scarcely a subject that may not, with a little Ingenuity ve imitated in these frult designs, and those given here arg suggestions which any clever hostess her The sony fe a ren jo woking boxer arms and legs made of a, 1t yOu marry @ capab bananas, the body and head of oranges wal gil. “Bur It would mot be eamy. vary and Improve on to heart's content, that one had not and two tomatoes to represent boxing gloves. | “The banana boat js made simple, be- ing composed of a single specimen of | the fruit open on one side with two | wooden masts topped by flags made of | postage stamps and oars made of tooth: | picks. The third, a setting hen, Is formed of @ banana and an orange. The dancer {1s more elaborate, She is made of two oranges, the one representing a skirt having the peel cut to form a fanciful trimming, and an apple for a head with toothpick arms and lege. Very stunning indeed Is the lady attired for BETTY’S BALM FOR LOVERS. He Yearns for a Home. Which Shall He Take? Dear Betty: Dear Betty: | AM @ young man twenty years old, AM in love wkh a young lady m: vit ir @ walk, She is made of two oranges and an apple, her skirt fringed with lace paper from a candy box, her neck ‘and {Tan away from home. {have | 4 Food position whieh pave me sit Pen nee aud Ko ire a week. Do you think that 18| 1 my own aco gnoush to Ket married on, as 1 would s Hike to haye a mlce home for mynolt? asked me to keen com- pnay: with her. Should I Wave the one am going with and go with this oper o-with the one you like best. oI FOR WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY PARTY. wreathed with strung popoorn, while an ‘Washington's | pretty addition for the occasion, as is |& cocked hat made of turned up and ida hema ad@iitional half orange is poised on @ stick over her shoulder as a parasol. ‘The turkey {s mad» of a banana and two toothpicks, and Is the simplest of all designs. The foregoing quaint ways of arrang- ing fruits are especially apropos for Birthday part: At such functions odd and amusing fea- tures are always in demand, A hatchet head, cut from a slice of apple and mounted on a match stick handle ts a shaped banana pe > A Grease Remover OUSEWORK may be lightens a good deal by simple care, Tins, | By F. G. Long fy party. The shock of concert-hall mem~ the Guilbert’s Songs Aimost Good Enough for a Sunday-School. upright, and even its legs Were qU.so with a bouquet of fleur de lye; screened, but the audience couldn't, think of It was a chastened Yvette, & mild crying about Mt at this Jate dey, With Guibert, who at the Lyceum Theatre | all dite resepct to Guilbert’s tragic pow- scatenday afternoon entertained an Qu-|6rt. we have more pressing troubles of Deere but the piano was tury.) The oneen poisoned the mer dience that was neithor sensationally |OUr own. Ghe was more like berssit as large nor depressingly small. jtatned’ Is the word. It was like your great-groat-grandmother doing her pret- aa old and know.ng one in showing ® young girl “how «) attract the men and keep up the family name.” Here her iiimitable gestures and her hundrew and one Uttle artifices came to the front and won her an encore, White madame wan out changing her gown M. Armand Forest fiddled and the audience tried very hard not to look bored, It was helped in this by looking et Miss Ethel Barrymore, who was looking her best ever in a box close to the stage. Guilbert returned in another pink gown, a la Pompadour, and captured the trouse with the domestic comedy of ® “Enter- tlest as the headliner of a birthday ory was like letter that never Yvette Gullbert In Crinoline. came, It had been Jaid away with the | black gloves. The long, lean: arms of nine years ago were covered with sonie- thing more substantial than gloves. 1d where was the flery mane of genius | that alone w indicate the divine | spark in thls very much grown-up | daughter of the boulevards? If you must know, it was under a powdered wig ‘And there you had her—Guilbert con= ventionalized, 90 genially respec:able that no Anthony Comstock could rise from the orchestra and point the finger of correction at her. But eighteenth century toggery could not wither and more recent flesh could not stale the Guiltert “phiz.” It was still in evidence, with the small brown eyes set too far apart, that can wink and store, and allure and repel; the) uptumed nose that can sniff and snort | and sneer, and the mouth—last, but never, oh, never least!—as capacious us {s capricious, with {ts infinite variety ‘of grimaces, with its Rabelatrian Lvwsti- ter. And yer it was impossible to di- vorve Mile, Yvette from Mine. Schil- ler. Tho lady was “married and settled | down,” you felt quite sure of that, The disevse came out first In a@ Du Barry gown dig enougn for two Mrs. Carters and began making noises that ranged from a Metropolitan Ope House register to a Harlem flat radi tor. But the frank Gullbort @vosn't | Ale) very careful how she sang thei claim to be a singer, and for shat rea- | They were almost good onough for & son it aid not seem that a mamber of | Sunday ol. We could have forgiven sun ‘abiect) moste’ offeiea, went cout of) Hee a Ile more variety. Xt madi m thelr way to get to the Lyceum yester- j mtd, pleasant little enterti Yvette Guilbert in Pompadour Costume. jealous hussand and a tying wifo that brought her lightning change gifts of expression into full pla She was most captivating, however, In crinotines with her pinkish hair twisted into a wild ltt!e topknot and a bunoh of curls toppling over her ¢ “Les Housards de la Garde” was just the old wall of the deserted grisette sighing for her soldier lover. For “Les Souve- nirs de Lissette” she put on a white Ince cap, but ft didn’t make her an old wom- an, neither did her note of pathos ring true. . ‘Three old English songs wore given as encore numbers, but much of the | English was dislocated, {f not broken, in getting over the footiights, The remodelled Guilbert was very careful in the selection of her son day afternon. Who cares about her wise a grievously p veces Marware Leiber equssks! on | lew ea Who were tiere MUL Haye felt squawk, or roar, and leave the rest to) that they were alinust perfect ladies, her gestures. CHARLES DARNTON, But there wasn't anything naughty, She “old first of a chipper little peasant girl who confessed to a priest that she hind committed the dreadfit sin of let~ China’s Newest Study, sugurs well for the future of ng a man Kiss be#, whereupon the nina that so many students in gomt and wise man made her do pen- onls of Tlentsin are so en- vnce by kissing him, Very simple, very| rested’ in’ football pleasant, and less wear and tear on Young Man. “We are your patience thin “The Duel’ at the | rcorunnte in having so excellent a fleld theatre in the next block. |for this purpose and wa are glad to be ‘The next song was calculated to freeze | able to extend the privileges of using the matines blood, It was about ait to a number of the schools of Tien= wicked king who forced a helpless mar-|tsin. A ttle later we hope to get foot. quis m his good marquise, Dall matters bevter organized an (Per 2 one or two good We may have regular matched mar in the elghtenth cen- | games between the different schools, some May Manton’s Daily Fashions, HE vogue of the princesse gow appears to be firmly established an@ Many are the varia= tons thereof. Here is & medel which om be made in a variety of Ways and which serves @ number of purposes. As chown It Is closed @t the back and is quite plain gave for the collar and cuffs of but {t also the embroider. can be oclesed at fmt if a simpler ment fs desired, full ieaves can be mace bo extend to the rists, or those in §-o'mutton” style can be substituted. it can be cut at the neck, in the genuine de- te, cr round or square outline of to make the haif low finish that is always 80 pretty when box com t a tion bosalbitts makes an celiert foundation for the soft, thin crush- able materbls which go often are draped over the titted. prin- cesse model. It can be mado elther with @ slight train or in Wlking length, ‘The quantity of ma- terlal required for the mitiivm size is 101-3 9 yards 36 or yanis 44 Inoher teen D2no Is cut in sizes for a 2%. 34, 36, 440 ond 42 inch bust measure, or meat pans, to which food has jn them with a teaspoonful of baking #oda and left on the top of the stove, ‘Tne greame is thus easily removed, stuck should have some water | mate to Sall or send by mali to THE E TON FASHION BUREAL, Nv, 2 Woat Twenty-third sires, New Ovrete } | ori, Bend tea cents In coin or stampe for each pactern ordered, ‘These IMPORTANT—Write your name and edress piainiy, and mt Pattorne } ways specify size wanted.