The evening world. Newspaper, May 1, 1912, Page 18

{ i \ ve GS caionio, BSETABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 52 to ’ 3 Park How, New York. : RALPH PULITZER, President, 49 Park Row. ANOUS SHAW, Treas 'g Park Row. JOBHPH PULITZER, Ir, Secret Bntered at the Post-Office at Now York a: ition Rat t Becond-Class Matter. tes to The Evening| For Fngland and the Continent and ‘World for i United States ani All Countries in the International Postal Union. . One Year. One Month. VOLUME 52.....csscscccccescceccsesscceessee+ NO, 18,516 Canada. “THE MERRY MONTH.” ee AIL, Bonnteous May that dost inspire mirth and youth;” H “May, the merry month;” “May, that mother is of monethes glad;” May of the “darling buds”; May of tho “welcome flowers”! The poets have certainly outdone themselves to| be nice to May! ‘From earliest times May seems to have been regarded by all Latin | and Germanic peoples as the happiest month of the year, the month | of merriment ‘and revel. Its jaunty little name, which suggests blithe- ness and gaiety, it gets from Maia, Tatin goddess of fertility and growth. From April 28 to May 2 the Romans celebrated their Flo-! Talia, a fenst consecrated to Flora, the flower goddess. Gay costumes, | dancing, dramatic performances and a distinct loosening of decorum | are known to have marked these rites. This was undoubtedly the! rade%and boisterous origin of the seemlier May Day festivities of | modern times. | In the Middle Ages the celebration narrowed down to the actual | first day of the month, and “bringing in the May” became a regular, pring festival. An important feature of this celebration in Medieval | $lmes was the beginning of our almost forgotten custom of hanging | May baskets. The young men eallied forth the night before into the | forest and brought back branches, bushes and flowers which they LET AE SEE 'FYou You CAN AND You! eee GK You m AT SH Place i “The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, May (Can You Beat It? 3 ‘T MARCH WITH YOUR IR HIGH HEELED SHOES . ANO TH EN (WILL kA THE SKIRT, PUT ON planted in streets in front of the houses of their lady loves. Also it became usual to bring back one tall straight tree, stripped of its boughs, which.was set up in the middle of the green or market place, painted, bedecked and beribboned, and straightway made the centre of afl the dancing end merriment. This was, of course, the Maye Pole—that frivolous, sinful, device of the devil eo frowned upon by the Puritans, which the godly Deacon John Stubbs referred to as * that “stinckyng idol” about which the people “leape and daunce os the heathen did.” When the’ Puritans got their chance they abolished it with zeal. e@ On-May 1, 1661, however, after the restoration of the gay Stuart king, the London populace showed their delight at escaping from the gloomy square toes by erecting in a conspicuous part of the Strand an enormous cedar May Pole 134 feet high, covered with gilt crowns and gorgeols paraphernalia. This May Pole of May Poles stood, one of the sights of London, until 1717, when, having grown old and de cayed, it was sold to Sir Issac Newton, who took it down and used it axa support for his great telescope at Wanstead. The Qucen of the May was a eurvival of the Roman habit of having a living flower-crowned representative of the Goddess Flora.’ Usually, in later times, this was o live girl eelected for her good looks, but sometimes in England and France elaborately dressed dolls served the purpose. Milkmaids were especially given to celebrating the dsy in fan- tastic dresses, going about town with « flower-decked cow, and dancing | around the animal to the sound of violin or clarinet. May Day in Medieval England was in fact one of the great public holidays for all classes. : Yet with all its reputation for fun and frolic the month of May Wes regarded, even in Roman times, as an unlucky month to be mar- ried. This was mainly because of the Lemuria or festival of the unbappy dead, which occurred on the 9th, 11th and 15th. We find the poet Ovid saying: ay Tf proverds weigh with you, people say that May ts the “month to marry bad wives, Morry ™ May 4 Repent el} way saw has it, ‘And in spite of its beauty end ite promise of summer our wise @meestore realized that after all May is very much of a spring month and that cold treachery often lurks beneath its smiles, Change not @ clout NU Mey de out {eetill eound advice as to light clothing. Other old sayings, euch as: 4 colé Moy end @ winty Makes 6 full barn and « findy. 4 hot May maves @ fat church yore, 4 leaky May ond o hot June Keepe the puir man's head abune; and the Spanish proverb: Rein in Moy makes bread for the wile year, all prove that May hes never been all warmth and sunshine. Celebrations of the gay month and ite opening day have badly fallen off since the old days of “Merrie England.” Jt is curious to find our own Washington Irving early the last century lamenting that Decome expensive and artificial in thelr pleasurce and too know- ing for simple enjoyment. Some attempts indeed have deen made of late years by men of both taste and learning to rally Dack the popular feeling to these etandarde of primitive sim- plictty; but the time has gone by--the feeling has become chilled by habite of gain and traffic—the country apes the manners and amusements of the town, and little is heard of May Day at present eacept from the lamentations of authors, who sigh after it from among the brick walle of the city.” Must all times sigh for the “old times”? with @earch- collapst- ble boats, lifebuoys and Mfe-saving ap- Paratus to accommodate al! on board, Tam eure the House Committee on Mer- chant Marine could at once get to work On legistation to prevent, if possible, @ny more accidents due to inadequate safety appliances. And if we should Content Fea gemnne ry} OW, I think st will be real nice N to invite some friends in this evening,” @ald Mrs, Jarr to Mra, Jenkins. ‘Tt isn't often we have the pleasure of entertaining you, and Ta ithe you to meet some of our friends,” “TI think that would be real sweot, ven- tured the lady from Past Malaria, “You won't have them to come to dinner, though?” “No; Til just call up Mrs, Rangle and Clara Mudridge-Gmith on the telephone and ask them to come o after din- ner,” “Ian't it about time those men got home?” asked Mrs, Jenkins, “Mr, Jarr didn't forget to tell my husband I was taking dinner with you, did he?" “Oh, I feel ure he told him, and he and Mr. Jenkins may be here any min- ute. Probably they are coming now. Wil you look out of the window for them? I want to give my maid a hand eotting the table.” “I don't wish to seem too anxious about Mr, Jenkins, (Ve had a few words yesterday,” oxplathed Mrs. Jenkins, “A es on you If you give per eafeguarting of passenger lead the way other nations would soon . sigh - Alpe fore|ading |adopt the same ats S19 him pretty hard.” “What is he? A fortune teller or a doctors” t OPP Paw “The law against people making a living by feats of guesswork hits 4 firat, and he'd be sure t> think I was Siving in if he saw me watching for him." This was where Mrs. Jenkins made @ mértake. Had she been looking from the window ehe might have ecen Mr, Jenkins deing called into Gus's place as he barbell from the subway with the rose bushes he was carrying home to East Malaria by way of Harlem. Ghe might also have observed Mr. Jarr going into Gus's, But as she didn’t Watch eho didn't know that the two were in the man-trap on the corner. Pending their arrival, Mrs. Jarr tele- phoned her friends, Then the ladies eat waiting for the men, while the dinner waited, too; as @id Gertrude, the Ught-running domes- tio, who had an engagement to go to see tho new moving picture, “The Hand of Fate!" Gertrude was a moving picture firet-nighter, because Claude, her fire- man beau, could get her in to see them LS Reflec , That look of ceives @ man's proposal, after she quered he is the kind of ex-champion attitude, ~ / ebecesoooooooooee sescesoooooooseeEeceeesoeooesseoet “The Country Mouse Visits Her City Cousin’’—In the Jarr Flat for nothing. She asked Mrs, Jarr to ex- cuse her. “Should we telephone Mra. Rangle aud Mrs. Smith not to come?” asked Mre. Jenkins, nervously, as the clock struck eight. “What excuse can we give?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “And they may be here any moment now, and we haven't had din- ner, Let us eat before they come, and never mind our husbands.” “Tm @o angry I couldn't touch a bite!” declared Mre, Jenkins. “And I'll never forgive that man Jenkins for this ae long as I live!” “We'll have to speak to them if they come while visitors are he aaid Mra, Jerr, “That Mra, Rang! est gossip, and she just del! something lke that to talk “I wish Mr. Jarr\ hadn't taken Mr, Jenkins off somewhere. Now I'll have replied Mrs. Jarr, loyally. ‘I'm afraid) Mr, Jenkins is keeping him. You said} you were not speaking to your husband, It's, bad enough when people quarrel who are old enough to know better without making trouble for other peo- ple.” “Mr, Jenkins never drank @ drop un- til he went to work in that office with YOUR husband!” retorted Mrs. Jenkins. “Ite too bad he should Mave begun then, He was old enough to know better!” eajd Mrs. Jarr. “Fortunately, MY husband* doesn’t drink.” Mrs. Jenkins glared at her hostess, and there ts no telling what she mig! have replied, but just then the doorbell rang. It wasn't the missing husbands, however. It was Mrs. Rangle and Mrs. Mudridge-Gmith. M le declared she couldn't stay Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1012, by The I'rese Pubvishiug Co, (The New York World), ~ LATONIO friendship ie NOT a failure; it ts the most delightful state of intozicating uncer- tainty in the whole love-game, bringing him to it, is the feat of her tife, Don't try to bring a man's love back, because once Love has been con- A whole harem wouldn't keep a modern man in the house once he has heard the call of the wild any more than a string of hoses will keep him in the stable once he has heard the toot of an automobile, Solomon had time to look after seven hundred wives, but then hd didn't have a motor car to absorb him, nor a stenographer to distract him. A wife receives her greatest shock on the day that she suddenly wakes up to discover that her husband has changed from the “Now-I-lay-me- down-for-you-to-walk-over” attitude to the “You-stay-there-'till-l-come-back” Just about the time that a bachelor has become so bitter and cynical that life doesn't seem worth living, a new girl comes along and he decides that after all he'll postpone marriage or euicide for a few years more, This is the time of the year when a wife begins to wonder which of the three B's she dreads most, blonde, baseball or beer gardens, Most men lave wigcly—and too man}—to love well, a kiwedli wenn eee to go out to Bast Malaria alone!” whined Mre, Jenkins, “Mr. Jarr wouldn't do euch « thing!" but @ moment, as Mr. Rangle was working late at the office that evening, and her girl was out and have to retugp to get suppe: “I'd let him get his own supper! I don't ‘elleve that ‘late at the office’ story!" said Mi Mrs. Rangle | Paper during 1814. | follow the adventur signature, The market was flooded with “Dumas books” that Dumas had not: i} | rasa, nor even read. Ie founded newspapers, then abandoned them as talle ures. He e' ‘had from boyhood made The Day’s Good Stories Are of certain unfounded charges of day, he drank, tions of a where Mr. Jarr ‘ood thing not to be too dnquisit! ter one was married, Mrs, Mudridge-Smith wee affability it- welf to Mrs, Jenkins. She took an atti- tude toward the wives of her husband's employees as @ wealthy and charitably disposed woman should toward the worthy poor, That is, she took this attitude to all except Mrs. Jarr. Mra, Jarr knew too much about Clara Mud- ridge-@mith. But the boss's bride edified the others for some time by discoursing on who was divorced, who was getting divorces, glad surprise with which a girl re- of has spent ele months at hard tabor|ina who would marry each other when braidered or other Pd various divorces in high life, Bow under ¢Y material the costume Way, were obtained. 49 adapted to afternoon “Did you hear about the Divorce Wear and to luncheons Chub?" she asked. “You pay a dollar rol 08 of the that never “comes back,” ‘ week when you join, and every week Pend ote with high lota are drawn to see Who gan secure and trom pion ,leeven the services of the Divorce Club's law~ srs ‘pique, simply nian vi yer and the expense fund. nin vil {t becomes suited ey “Where is this club?” asked all the il iii morning wear, 8) other ladies, eagerly CORRES For tho 16-year alze —_——_—_ Will be required 41-2 . . xargs of material 27, 4 Queer Signs. , 33-4 yarda according to Placard at a mov- “Young children " In @ barber shop “During alterations patrons will be shaved in the back.” Sign in a Tremont street store: “Empty boxes— suitable for Christmas gifts.” In'a tall- or's shop: “We dye for others; why not let ls dye for you?” In a cloth- ing siore: ‘These pants will look bet- ter on your legs than on our hands,” IGNS seen in Boston, S the ‘Transcript: A allveremith has a place next door to ® restaurant. The: former having put up ® placard, “Jewelry of ali 3 pleted,’ the restaurant keeper fol! ] with this: “Oysters and little lame plated,” er ‘Terbune. Copyright, 1919, by The Press Pubtidting Os, (The Now York Wes), 43.—ALEXANDRE DUMAS, Genius and Lover. alli SWARTHY, shame-faced boy was hauled forth from under a " where he had been hiding, He had hidden there for three days avoid being sent to a seminary to prepare himself for the hife | hood. He had no distaste for the seminary, but his sweet ne ‘a Cella Deviolaine, had objected to his going there, Thus, for the firs a | many hundred times during his‘strange life, a girl influenced the career Alexandre Dumas. | Dumas was a French quadroon, His mulatto father had been & ae | under Napoleon, and his grandmother had been a full-blooded San Dom ing? | negress, The boy was brought up after his father’s death in shabby genteel poverty. He was shaped by ciroumstances to be an obscure clerk or eo! | But he had a soul of fire and an ambition that nothing could satisfy. wit out a penny, without an influential friend, he took the world by the throas and wrested from it not only fortune but dedthliess fame. | At twenty-one he threw over his job as @ provincial notary’s clerk and | ris to make his fortune, He secured a Government position at $20 @ | year. t once began to write plays. To gain the right sort of hearing for Gis U work, the influence of the famous Iitterateur, Nodter, was needful. Nodicr wool not see him. Dumas made euch an impression on Nodler’s daughter, Marte, that 4 she interceded for him with her father and won him the opportunity he sousht After @ baffling fight against {I! luck, Dumas began to score a ase Playwright. In the early stages of his struggle at Paris he mot Marie Catherine | Lebay, @ seamstress, who fell in love with him antl whoee intluence over his wild nature was for a time very strong. (Their eon, Alexandre Dumas the youngey } | wrote “Camille” and many other powerful books and playa) Tiring of the gentle seamstress, Dumas discarded her aml at once had a fervid but unhappy love affair with a womas of whom he spoke as “Melante W."—and whose final rejeor tion of him almost broke his heart. But Marie Dorvai, leading actress at the Porte St. Martin Theatre, drove [@way the cad memory, She adored Dumas. It was largely due to her that Bie | first successful play was produced, And she was of great telp to in his later work, : Far different was Ida Ferrier, a pretty second rate actress whom Duma@ | married in 1940, He lived in misery with Ida. She was Jealous; she was extravae gant; ehe disturbed lim at his work. She would not let his son, Alexandre, ene ter the house. Dumas, after a few turbulent years, got gid of her. : Now that he had reached the acme of his fame as a playwright, Dumas turned to novel writing. He ground out his work in eystematic fashion, writin from 7 A. M. to 7 P. M., and covering exactly twenty huge sticets of paper e day. For instance, one day in 184 he finished “Monte Cristo” on the o aheet of his twenty page dally task, And, without pausing a minute, he p! up another sheet of paper, scrawled the words ‘Phe Three Musketeers” across top of dt and wrote the first five pages of that glorious book before he ot from the day's toil. “Monte Cristo” and “The Three Muskeivers” ran as serials in a dally newse Dumas thus originated the “newspaper serial story.” Fae day, throngs woul wait in the street t» selze the first copies of the paper and of d’Aartagnan and Edmond Dantes, ‘ Dumas found himself the most idolized man in France. Ife had an income of more than 30,00 a year from his writings (an almost unheard of sum in those days), And he spent it like a drunken hie @old pleces by the handful: He | He built a garist> castle for him. He built a large theatre. ‘That was a failure, his fortunes, Money ran short, Debts ran high. Dumag had always used the services of unknown nd could not pay for it. The Downfall. . Derr? Now, for pay, he elgned his famous name to Then hard times ect in, The Revolution of 18i3 marred boratol poem or essay that other people had written and had brought to bim | for money, stood on exhibition !n a shop window. Lvil days were come upon him. When our civil war broke out Dumas sent President Linco! money and a hundred airtographed mottoes to be sold for th soldiers’ widows. He even planned to ome hero and write 4 In 1859 he won the hero-worship of Emilie Cordier, a gi his daughter. They used to go on cruises together, Emille clad as a boy and ale ways addressing Dumas as “papa.” In his very last days shortly vefore tie death in 1870 there was another spectacular love affair. ‘To the very end Dumas retained the gay charm and dashing irresistible. He was one of the y masters Senjuses. A man whose very faults—and there surely were cnough of themee were lovable. a large sum et venedt of Union Amert sai novel. oung enough to de Probably Got Off. A Willing Worker. RIVE like the devee!’* utes Omitly drunkenness among the naval cadets at “1D soxingiog tneo the teat, no Aunapolis, Admiral Dewey, a dinner in ‘With @ lurch the car darted forw ington, told a story about a young allo. | | and away thay ment like lightaiog ibrovah the "The sailor, after a long voyage,” he said,| Oreeh! ‘They took off wheel of a jent ashore in the tropics, and ft being a hot | Wagon. Hi! hi! They mined Mattening in certain tropical bere, too | mall child by two.ninthe of e balr, Clang! ‘upeet a milk cart. People shouted, constables seys the Chic&go Journal. potently bela up their bands e¢ the taxi ‘eded sailot lurched under his beary loed | up one street and down another, taking cormess palm-bordered arenue, his captain hailed | two wheel aud threatening every Jamppaet indigcantly. Gestruction, + tok . At last, after half an hour's furious racing, theg! slowed up fo @ narrow thoroughfare and poked bla bead out of the window, “Are we nearly much beer," “Ae the captain aid, ommander, atl you met me in mn As you're {1 now, what would said the ‘sailor, ‘I woulda’ ka no notice of you ich you do to met" ‘Well, ar, descend to ‘The May Manton Fashions VERY variation of the belted or Rugs stan idea is smart this ‘season. This cogs tume can be made available for linen, line Serle matorials, taffete for ightweighe Wools, The skirt tg made im two pieces ana there i9 an inverted Dlalt at cach side thes extends to the depth of the tlouncing. The tte louse coatee 1g quite separate and closed ag the from, Made with square neok and sleeves and << inches wide with 21-8 yerds of embroidery # inches “wide and 314 yards of tucking. 9 yards of banding; 8-3 yard 18 Inches wide for yoke when hi yoke w wh neck Pattern Wo. 7423 {5 out in sizes for misses of 16 and 18 years of awe. 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