The evening world. Newspaper, August 24, 1912, Page 3

Ip ren tre oe RS. VANDERBILT QUTOES ARAB NGHTS AT BALL Wonderful Entertainment She Gives at Beaulieu Amazes Newport Society. SAID TO COST $175,000. $5,000 Opera Imported From the Casino and Gorgeous Dance of Seasons. (Special to The Evening World,) ven NEWPORY, Aug. 24.—In a blaze of mifiti-colored light, surrounded by all the barbaric splendor of the fabled Orient, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt's forgeous Persian ball ended with the dawn to-day, when the wearers of $10,000,000 worth of jewels tore them- elves away from such a scene as Probably never before was set for @ ingle occasion by any private individ- ual in the world. For the seven hours of wonderful entertainment that Mrs. Vanderbilt @ her guests she is estimated to @ spent every penny of $176,000, There were brocaded hangings, rare tugs from Persia, India and Turkey; favors in gold and tvory; huge search- Vghts that turned the court into a won- der land of razziing colors; avenues of tropical trees, a special theatre built for the one night's entertainment; a ball- room hung with painted canvas that transformed it into a Persian landscape; ailk-covered divans from which the rich- ly dressed men watched a 95,000 per- formance of “The Merry Countess,” brought from the Casino in New York Then there was not only an elaborate | inner served by Sherry but a break- fast as well; there were richly costumed quadrilles danced by the younger set, and thro * mazes of statuary and fountains, hangings and winking lights, with the rich odor of Incense over all, a throng of fantastically apparelled men and women in the garb of India, China, Turkey, Japan, Persia, Syria and Hin- | doostan. As prepared as the guests were through the sp! dor of Mrs, Stuy- vesant Fieh's re nt ball, the setting given by Mrs, Vanderbilt to her en- tertainment made them gasp. A blaze in vie sky of Beaulleu a half a miie away A forty-foot ortental | arch, covered with vines and festooned THE EVE NING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1912.° It Is Better to Be Sex Emancipated awe aed Than It Is to Be Sex Crazy, as Some Are iN MY OFFICE" STHE YOUNG GIRLS TURWEY TROTTED AND WHISTLEO.TO THE MEW Copyright, 1913, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). “I’m Ashamed of New York Girls as Compared With the So-Called Farmers From Small Towns, Writes an Employer- “‘You Don’t Have to Go to New York to Find Elashy Girls ”? Says a Californian. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. WixOLd GREELEYSM! First of all, to those persons, all men, who thunder against what they term my “approval of the emanci- pated woman,” let me say that, though neither is an ideal condition, I consider it tends to the higher de- velopment of a human being to be sex emancipated rather than to be sex crazy. 1 do not share the opinion of May Sinclair and other ultra-modern writers that celibacy is the essential condition to the highest creative work, but I do believe that the tre- mendous intellectual development of woman in our own time is the result | of her comparative emancipation from the shackles of sex which she wore for centuries in the name of religion and of duty. Woman as an individual distinctly a discovery of our own times, The Bible may be right in ying that Adam was Created all at once, but Eve was and is the slow, gradual product of the ages. For in the beginning woman was just a body, and that didn't belong to her. Then | some progressive religious councit in the Middie Ages decided by a majority of With tiny lights, gave entrance toward the gracd court. There were six such ar 4 ob pre one reached the door | Way through lanes bordered with brill jant h ene over which immense Searchliwits yed in shafts of yel- low, and purple, IMMENSE SEARCHLIGHTS SHOWED MANY COLORS. From the door a great avenue of Cocoa trees stretched to the ballroom, beyond wich, and covering almost ail the formal garden, was a@ specially built theatre that presented a pros- cenium arch of dazzling gold, The minarets of mosques looked over the walls, Silver and gold lamps burned. The ceiling represented the firmament. Red ropes led through gold standards indicated the dancing floor, but first the guests sought low divans or sat on silk rugs and cushions on the floor to seo the performance of the oper Even at Newport such costuming has ~ never been seen, from Mre, Vasderbilt's ‘own Ortental gown, set off with the fa- mous Vanderbilt pearls and diamonds, to Mrs. Nicholas Longworth’s Turkish Gress, complete to vell and trouser. Men as well as women vied with each other in the brilliancy of the clothes they wore and the Jewels that flashed from thelr chains, collars and scimetar hilte. ‘The opera came first. And as soon as that was ended the gold curtain rose @nd fell for a series of fancy quad- rities, Russian, Gypsy, Persian and as @ climax game the “Dance of the Sea- eons.” Mrs. Vanderbilt and Henri de Bach of the Russian Embassy led the Russian quadrilie, Mre, Herbert M. Har- riman and George Brooke the Persian: and Mre. F. Lothrop Ames and Sumner Gerard the gypsies. Nothing more brilliant was seen all night than the “Seasons” quadrille, Ganced by the younger girls of the colony with partners of thelr own age. The dancers representing Spring wore apple green chiffon draped over white satin and bound with silver, with chap- lets of apple-blossoms. The Summer sirls wore pale rose chiffon, with chap- lets and garlands of pink roees. MRS. VANDERBILT LED THE COTILLON, The autumn costumes were of dark purple and cerise over white satin, with garlands of grapes and vine leaves and pieces of tiger skin worn over the shoulder. The girls repre- senting winter were in crystal-spangled white, with scarlet capes and chap- lets of holly leaves and red berries, Dinner was served on the enclosed | Sheldon pla: where baskets of rare flowers hung from the ceilings and Egyptian lotus, banana and orange trees stood between the small tables, Mrs, Vanderbilt led the cotillon from one end of Dyer and Mrs. Longworth from the other with Craig Wadswortt; The favors were inlaid mosaic boxes of In- dian make, gold slippers, gold and ivory cigarette holders from China, paper cutters, carved frames of rare woods, fans bearing hand-painted min- intures, cigarette cas of gold silver bearing the Vanderbilt crest, ivory elephants from Japan and curlous and costly Arabia, Among the conspicuous figures were dancers in the various quadrilles, ow be Peralog: Mrw, Herbert M, Hawt- | | the ballroom with Elisha) and | trinkets from Persia and | este enesnr one ranear e e |spired to : jand exe one vote that she kad a soul. But tnat didn't belong to her etther. soul she was dedicated sordid, automa motherhood Body and to the blind, that Church and State and individual con- se for being. ‘To-day, for the fi an is absolute sovereign self, Her sonl and body are her own to save or damn—(of course, she alwave had the privilege of saving them). Having been the slave of sex for go long, is it any wonder that many women to- Gay are too emancipated? The Evening who said the might as well emancipated, |. e., diapeptic, sex-emancipated." But also one might just as well take pride in frothing at the month at the sight of beefsteak as in forgetting all the laws of Gevency at the eppesrance of & pretty woman, as the Mew York Johnny does. that other day was her sole duty World reader was rignt ne glory in being hunger- in being ‘Take sex for granted, as one does hun- ger, and the philosopher has no quarrel with you. But have we done this? Isn't sex the basis of all ouh art, the fundament of all our literature? If sex holds no greater ascendancy over the human race than hung » why do we consider a sonnet to Julla’s eye- brow #o exquisite and why has no poet ever been brave enough to write @ ron- del to a beefsteak or an ode to a pork pie? Many a hungry poet, you may be sure, has felt like doing It. A man is ashamed of being a food glutton, but is he ashamed of being a man and George Brooke, R Mrs. ler, King, Mra, W. Bourke Mra, John Drexel and Hantel von Haim)hausen, Adolph Ladenburg and John But- Miss Edith Wetmore and LeRoy Cockran and Paulding Fosdick, Mrs. Richard Stevens and Albert Horstman, Mrs. Belmont Tiffany and Arthur Iselin. Russian—Mrs. Bach, Mrs. liitam @. Loew, Mi Whitehouse, Mrs, rr Ww! Richard T. | Wilson and Lawrence Haughton, Mre. Vanderbilt and Henrt| Robert Goelet jr, and) Wiborg and James B. | Eustis and James W. Barney, Mra Ar- thur Scott Burden and Lydig Hoyt, Mra, { Craig Biddle and Philip Livermore, Mrs, William Woodward and Henry White house, Mrs, Arthur Iselin and Maurice| Roche, Gypsy—Mre, F, Lothrop Ames and) jarence W. Dolan Countess Szechenyt | Sumner Gerard, Mrs. and J. Boardman, and Za Bey, Miss Julia Meyer and Don Arturo de la Cueva, Miss Alice Meyer | Mrs. J. | and Don A. Algaro de Terrero Norman de R. Whitehouse and Joseph du Barry, Mra, Ralph N, Ellis and W, Stewart The girls tn were Misses Roberta Willard, the Seasons quadrilie Helen Dorothea Kane, Alida Chandler, Mildred Rive: Andrews, Hole Ladenburg, Harniet Ferry, Bigelow, Loutee Iselin, Dorothea. Carroll, Muriel Margaret Steward, Margaret F. L. Figh, Eugenie M. Dorothy Sadie Jones, Winthrop, Elizabeth Sangg and Mrs, Robert L. Bogen y aang sex glutton? Not at all, He's proud of it.” He regards his fellowman who eats fourteen pounds of beefsteak in a con- test as a disgusting brute. And yet he envies the roue. All I have to say about the sex emancipated is that they are better than the sex crazy. And now let the New York girl read and ponder words of wisdom of a New York employer. The conditions he de- scribes do exist among girls downtown. I have seen them. But I hope they are not so general as this Evening World reader believes, He writes: IMPLORES NEW YORK GIRLS TO SET A GOOD EXAMPLE. Dear Madam: As a man I deplore the tenuuncy of American girls of to-day toward overdemanding tn all things. Among the men I meet, to the question of marriage the gen- eral attitude is that it means too much for the man to give up and too little for the man to get. KE, M. J. wonders why forelgners marry our girls. Answer, money. Every- body praises American girls, because they have been brought up to ex- pect it. A man who tells them the truth, such things gs are written to them In your paper, is ostracized as ® boor, and men who praise girls to their face while trying to harm them in secret are preferred by the majority. In my office are employed quiet, nice girla who, it scems to me, are spending for thr clothes the proper part of their salaries. In other offi I have seen girls who would describe themselves as quietly Gressed, no doubt, with outrageou ly extreme and cheap copies of some ot the ridiculous styles of the day. How many girls do we meet every- where dressed tn plain white and black with thelr waists apparently not tucked in? Is this appropriate for working girls? In a shop just back of my office several young girls during thelr period of recreation dance the tur- key trot‘and whistle and call to the men in my office, Does this lead men to believe that other girls of the same age are quiet and well be- baved? How many of the girls who write these letters to you could get 4 cordial recommendation from thelr families? To EB. M. J., who wonders why men praise the mothe ere and asks whether girls don't usually follow in thelr foutsteps, please let me the mothers of the present generation were not afraid that men would be conceited if @ girl treated them naturally, in @ kindly manner and as though men were sensible beings, not coxcombs, It i only in small towns to-day, in New England and in the Weet, that girls @ willing to serve men in any way, to seo that their meals are hot, their houses well kept end even, think of it in New York, wait on them at the table. These things thelr mothers were brought up to do, therefore men praise them, When men see the sirl of to-day Mrting with Me man of prosperous eppearance and advertising her figure because a dressinaker tells her it {» smart, but resenting the @tentions of the better class of men Decause they are chesp sports, why OP OLD sTVce EXPRAY AL - DROSS should men sot the New York girl on a pedestal? Do men condemn women or do women? The answer fe always women. I know of six tine young men to-day who have in- comes of $2,600 a year who wish to marry and dare not because they figure that half of their incomes would go to the dressmakers and follles) They may stare at pretty wirls in cars, and it's all their sober reason teaches them to do, because they can’t trust the girl of to-day to be sensible. Did men cause the turkey trot and grizzly bear and other rotten dances of the ume to be introduced into thelr homes, men who among themselves . such things whatever the women? they say to Girls who dance such dances admit they think litle of making common thelr persons as they do by the dress of to-day. Let the girls ead and make @ union to suppress the painted dolls, isn't it because the painted dolls are more cheerful, more natural and not pol ing as goddesses afraid of the cons “Celt in man that they are popular? American men have always followed where their women led. I'm ashamed of New York girls as com pared With the so-called farmers from small towns, and I don't want to be, Men are not angels, but let the girls set a good example R. B. HL And now here are two widely different letters from @ man in San Quentin, Cali- fornia, and another in Brooklyn, merrow we will hear more trom the girls. ENTHUSIASTIC OVER THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD. Dear Madam: ‘The lite town where the writer lives ts stricly a farming community, You don't have to go to New York to find the flashy girl, nor the fast young man, and ag for thelr clothes, they are on @ par with these young people's morals, , We have the Ught fAtting, tignt wafking women's dress here that accentuate 4 Woman's physteal charms so beaue tifully (") as well as in New York, and the man who cay meet some of these Venuses with his eyes open and not be “interested ther suf. fering from “senile dementia,” or else he {8 an “old woman” and ought to be wearing @ round collar and @ habit. Personally, at the risk of bee ing called “sporty,” I think the clothes women are wearing to-day | are the best ever, because now a man | can tell whether a girl is built lke a “wood nymph" (not a wood pile), whether she is flat foo hollow chested, pigeon toed, slabsided, haw wide hips or narrow ones; and who wouldn't prefer a “wood nymph" of sylph like figure to one of these stuffed old dowagers with pads and breast plates and until she looked like @ bale with the middle hoop busted. You can have the “bale of hay" 1¢ you want her, but give me the “wood nym the corsetless, petticoutless, ss, puffless, little maid of ri take her with all her virtues, and her faults thrown in, AN OLD FASHIONED MAN San Quentin, California. KIND OF A GIRL THE FELLOWS MEAN BY A NICE ONE. Dear Madam, We fellows when we | talk of @ nice girl do not mean one | of those things painted up to de- celve man, We 80 noi ian sume poor creature who Is #9 tightened up In her clothes that life is being slowly crushed away. No, ula, Bo re “NOWADAYS A RELLOW CAN TELL WHETHER SHE & WOOD NYMPH OR A WOOD PILE" Pee ee ae MODERN GIRL-DRESS 18 BUILY UKE fellow has any love or desire to marry such a girl. During five years I have had occasto converse with girls In various walks ‘of life, and I find that there ts not @ more precious ptece of art than a clean, up to date young girl. One who ts human, Not entirely false. Girls who paint and powder to ex- tremes have in mind but one object. That is to attract some young man and bleed from him all the money, &c., posable before he gets wi and believe me they are good at tt, if their poor victime ts not awakened soon, They have no love in their hearts, It Is simply @ matter of “which fellow will take me out to- night?" and so on through Ife, Whereas the girl who Is really a girl in all that the word implies enjoys love and happiness, When such a@ girl gives her hand in marriage take it from me there will be no divorce and no troubles whatever. Only these dolls (you know the ones whose cheap perfumes you can smell when ‘on the opposite side of the street) are those seeking divorces, and they get them, for the poor man Js «lad to get rid of them—he knows he has fallen, Hut where are the mothers, who were such true sweethearts in thelr girlhood? Why do they permit their daughters to enter Into this era of girlish nonsense, which in time will destroy the respect woman demands? A PLAIN ‘ONE GIRL BABY CRES, “OTHER SLEEPS AS THEY “ARE FOUND ABANDONED Two-Weeks-Old Left in Bun- dle at Door; Two-Months- | Old Is Put in Milk Box. BROOKLYN LAD. Two girl bables were found tn at t parts of Brooklyn early to-day, and after being examined by hospital doc j tore, were turned over to Mrs, Ulrich, City Nurse, while detectives try to find the persons who abandoned them. Joseph 0 of No. 439 Seven- Jteenth st South Brooklyn, was aroused at 1 o'clock by erles from the |hallway outside hit door om the first floor. He found propped in the corner a bundle that after being unrolled dis- clowed a two-weeks-old girl in) whi dress, booties and stockings. and wrapped in @ gingham apron and bisck shawl He took tho ehild to the Fifth avenue police station, A little | paries Cellar, @ milk L. 1, was delivering avenue when he found a milk box in the ves- The empty box had ought {nh fro rib. ‘This gl and better dr She had on a man of Maspeth, | milk in Myrtle a child asleep | tibule of No, Patrect to serv about t |than thi 5 embroidered dress, white lac t ed tn pink and white kid shoes © 1 baby and box into hi drove to the Vernon avenu and the Infant was still slee when he turned it over to Lie ; Withers, a ALMANAC FORK TOD. par 1) Mo Bun rises Sandy Mook, Governor's Island. . MAA MAbs casceses 6.00 cet a te me pe tn eee io Lat GH BACHELOR Richard J. Donovan Guardian for Bright Little Sons of James P. Cavanagh. BIG FORTUNE FOR EACH. Parents Had Taken Children Back to Ireland, and Both Died There. , Why Richard J, Donovan, lawyer at No. 170 Broadway, club man, raconteur end firat nighte@ ever remained « bachelor not even his moat intimate! friends knew. For many years he was one of New York's most eligible single men, with money, position, good looke and « charm of intellect that attracted all classes and both sexe: the age of fifty, or t the majority of men have abandoned ail ideas of cunnubial felicity, Mr. Donovan finds himaelf the “father” of | two bright lads. one of seven and the other five years of age. Mr. Donovan returned from Ireland to-day on the White Star liner Baltic with his two charges. Mdward ts the name of the elder and James tho younger, and theire ts an unusually pathetic case, The orphans were the children of the late James P. Cave- nagh, well known in thin city as « marble and stone man and an owner of valuable real estate. Mr. Cava- nagh came to this country, an immi- grant from Ireland, thirty years ago. By close attention to busin he ao- cumulated a snug fortune.” He had the right idea of the increasing value of real estate and put all his aj money into property. He married Miss Margaret Burns, who came over the sea from Ardee, County Louth, Ire land. TOOK CHILDREN ABROAD TO EDUCATE THEM. Time prospered with both and thetr union was blessed with two ohiidren Mrs, Cavanagh wanted to #ee her oli home once again and Mr, Cavanagh conceived the idea of having the youns- stera educated in the best of insttu- tions on the other aide, A relative of Mra, Cavanagh died and left her a fairly 00d fortune, There was nothing to worry about In the way of money tn the family. So two years ago the Cavanaghs shook the dust of the metropolis from their shoes. Mr. Cavanagh closed out his marble business and put his real estate In competent han It was a fine change back to the green flelds and hills of the old god, and the family was happy until toward the close of last year Mra, Cavanagh became Ill, On Christmas day she died, She was buried In the green folds #he loved so well Mr. Cavanagh, discouraged and din- heartened by his wife's sudden death, resolved to return to this country, and took passage at Quenstown on the first and last voyage of the Titante, At th last moment he was delayed by a busl- ness engagement and the Titanic satled without the little family Soon after Mr, Cavanagh was stricken with a fatal tlness, and on May 10 he dled. Mr. Donovan had been the warmest and closest friend of Mr anagh, and on July 10 he was appointed guardian of the two orphans, He went to Ard: and this morning returned with charges. The lads were dressed tn uniforms, They were bright and merry on the voyage, not realizing the great lows they had sustained. MANY WANTED TO TAKE THE CHILCREN, ‘The men smiled on them and had an affectionate word for them at every turn, and the women adored them. Mr Donovan could have had the cherry manly little chaps taken off his h a dozen tines, but the bachelor wouldn consider it. He, too, was proud of his wards, What the bachelor lawyer will do wit) them he hasn't quite made up his mind Hetween the fortunes of thelr fat: and mother It ts estimated t the eat will be heirs to a million ea Tam going to put them tn etthor public or private school to begin with,” sald Mr. Donovan. “They have any number of relatives, all of whom a anxious to give them a home. My tea 18 to allow them to remain with xome of | theme for @ certain time, nwht | shall look after thelr education, I # follow the plan of the parents to ha Jucated abroad. This noukh, and the boys me that they shall go to school tn this city, In the future It 1s Yale or Mar | vard for them, whichever they wish. 1 | am going to endeavor to inculcate aom good Democratic Ideas Into thetr minds and make them the best of young Ameri ca Insist on Getting This Package VAN'H NOTUB wa and Hut your clot wulifully elean, VANS NORUB piven om bett th: ‘NOW A FATHER TO | BLOWN BY BOMB TWO ORPHAN BOYS} CLEAR OUT OF BE |The infant wae almost smothered by <i TAFT READY FOR VACATION. Will Leave for the Beverly Summer Te-Night, Ca: » WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 4.—Prosie dent Taft will be off for Beverly for his eummer vacation with the edjournment ot Co THREE CHILDREN Black Hand Explosion in Chrystie St. Causes Panic in Crowded Tenement. TAFT SIGNS $112,000, ‘Three children were blown out of bad ead & beeen, ag aah ot Appropriation Measure Provides 1 tenante crowded the narrow halle of] "® Meney fer Tart® Beard. t five-story tenement at No, %¢ Chrystie street early to-day when @ Black Hand bomb wae set off outel the bedroom door of Pedro Bellone, who has @ grocery on the ground floor. In the room with Bellone, his wife and thetr month-old bi Paulina, Geap several other children, Joseph, seven; Rose, three, and Lena, eighteen months, all three of whom occupy a bed near the door leading into the hall. The explosion splintered the 4dor, broke windows front and rear, and caused &@ thick cloud of plaster dust. ‘The three children were hurled bodily to the floor, the girl Lena being #0 badly out about the head and body that she had to be attended by Dr. Girdansky of Gouverneur Hospital. mately $12,000,000, “Distincl) cf taclividual the cloud of dust, The explosion brought down all the twenty families from upstaira, The house being tn @ bomb-infested ai triot, precautions had been taken and both the front and rear doors of the hall were locked. The back door was blown open, but the front door re mained closed, and Polloaman Dorea of the Fifth street station, with the as- sistance of neighbors, broke it in with an improvised battering ram and re- leased the frenzied crowd that was Danic-strioken in the dark hall. It 9 supposed that the Black Hand agent either had @ pase key or made his entrance by way of the roofs Bellone made the usual denial of hav- ing recetved any threatening letters, but admitted that two bombs had been exploded in his hallway when he ran 4 store at No, 220 Chrystie street. In July there was another bomb at No, 216, and in the last twenty days two bombs have beeen exploded at No. 2% Chryatie atreet, —____. 103, SHE CELEBRATES. Many Gifta tor Mary P. Pellett of Norwich, Conn, NTRAL VILLAGE, Conn., Aug. 4. ‘The oldest woman in Connecticut, Mary Palmer Pellet, celebrated her one hundred and third birthday to-day tn Norwich, Conn. Born in Preston, she has resided here sixty-five years. Luther Pollet, her husband, died forty years ago. Gifts of money, flowers and con- kratulations Were showered upon her to- jay. —_—— Gen, Vv, sami SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Gen, BE. V, Sumner, U, 8, A died late last night at the Pr Honpital, aged seventy-seven. He born at Carlisle, Pa Gen, Sumner served throughout the civil war and Indian wars in the le survived by @ Samuel 8, Sumner, . who lives in New daughters, Mrs, Edward ‘apt, King, Second Cav- alry,’ stationed at’ Fort. Leavenworth, Kg, and Mrs, Carson, wife of Col, Carson, now in the Philippines, Participated tn thi West. Gen. Sumn brother, Major-Gen. UL B.A, retire York, and tw King, wife of Hf owedids lata The News Is Out! The Time Is Short Six Months Will Pass Before Another Such Opportunity Will Present Itself. Beginning Monday, in accordance with our usual custom, the John Wanamaker Store will make a final disposal of all remaining furniture in the August Furniture Sale offering single pieces and sets for all rooms in the house, in mahogany, oak and walnut, at Half Regular Prices The whole Ninth Street front of the Fifth Gallery, extending from the House Palatial to Broadway, will be given over to the display. aN ci ne en oe TN ce cae tins a The other Galleries join the great lesser- price movement, and attractive offerings will be made in Pianos, Royal Wilton and Body Brussels Rugs, High-Grade Standard Carpets, Lace Curtains, Reversible Velour Portieres, Quilts, Blankets, Mattresses and Framed Pictures. The Old Building will join with a number of special events, chief among them a Special Dress Fabrics Outfitting Sale, at half and less than half. JOHN WANAMAKER Formerly A. T. Stewart & Co, Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Eighth to Tenth Street.