The evening world. Newspaper, May 24, 1913, Page 8

oe J ‘ bei apne Ya My det ‘ Tete ERY vex no woxxp, SATURDAY, MAY %4, 1918. : ghbors in New York? No Such Thing!” “If I Must Be a Suffragette,” Says Meg Villars, Amusing Results of a Real Investigation| “I'd Like to Be a Nice, Helpful American One” 7 r thy | OuSINESS OF HANDING ie 7 ? : 4) hee ad wcaas awonaenve | | |B P THe ANEMCMT SISTER en é ai shail “ 1 700 WANT A THIRD weEe seas Dour Dorr yoursa' you ane CLUMmBy. ) The Sex Question , My ENGLAND THE AwnwWaap PREDICAMENT oF THE PLaiM CLOTHES Devectve She Lunches at the Suf- frage Restaurant and “Most Emphatically Removes Her Bonnet to the Luncheon” — There’s a Helpful, En- couraging Atmosphere ) Rewson Why Neighbors in an Apurtment House Shouldn't Be as Friendly as the Neighbors in a Small Town, Thought This Pioneer. Wearing His Most Ingratiating Manners, and “Just to Be Soctable,”” He Makes a Few Calls, With Resulte Here Recorded. hurried and undignified exit while the! Thon ehe suddenly looked at the dleck in Mrs. Belmont’s exit was good. and exclaimed nervously: “Gee! It's! Political Equality Club 1 think I can claim a fair amount of | time for the missus to be back, and if N Persistence and devotion to @ eaum) ahe eho i callers and oO Red Eyed, Fan- ean odin ke Gans Shad for thsi beer hen I that I (ried one more ‘ave @ ft!” ‘anspo! i! H sbavenane For a moment I suppose I regarded her atical, Shrieking, Crim- Mf T've got to be a suftragette, I think 14 No longer with the fresh, untramelied|qumbly. Then for the fourth time I inal, Crazy Females oi 1@ to be @ nice, helpful American one. spirit of the pioneer, but with unde-| made an exft in which there was I most emphatically remove my bonnet feated hopes and the readinces to meet | umph. the English Militant | to te iuncheon arrangements of the band, will you please give me your name?" 1 gave my name and stood waiting father uncomfortably While she went into another room and con with her buaband. The reception was not just what I thought I deserved. ! By Roger L. Lewis. Re sich thing as social tife Hew York unless you have loads of yeu ever been cornered at an y the type of person whe Tl anything, I called on the inmate of When I got out on the atreet, the P. B. C. even if I did feet as shy and Sg Sameer ine saeromaa | oe e aunt my rer my ies amare ot Sane nua] Sef fregette Tipe tre Hod) casey os ture 7 dry ees @uffy hair, Thon she came back to the oh ge mated amy own apartment suddenly dence. ward. What I said seemed to please door with reproach ema contempt ‘n| ang ¢ the girl with whom I epoke her round eyes. ‘ae an inapiration. She was a very stm- Holmes can't eee you now, 404 / pig, domestic type who, I tancted, had e caye be can't pay you the whele/ not ved in the city very long. The bill now, but he will pay ten dollars &/ iqeq of establishing friendly eoclal rela- Week until it la settled. If you had) wong between people living tn netghbor- ‘ anid what your business was to starting apartment elicited a very warm ap- would come along and play the sextet) hurt either the cause or me, I've been is eek bate: | liter,” proval. She wasn't exactly « cultured from “Laelia and “The Wearing of the! seen reading some yellow hand bills, And the door closed eefere 1 could say Li idonalirory one that I thought that 1) 2ree™.” | [and mow I'm wondering if that makes 1 would find very sympathetic or com- ‘There's one thing you can bank on: [me a member of the brigade or not. aap tt dian't de to be at Dut I was grateful to her for! “THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS/If I am, I refuse to live down to {t in well, eewied Peres eh Lvigy = nkness and intelligence with} SOCIAL LIFE IN NEW YORK, UN-| England. I don't feel up to marching de yecy start 7 twas mortang for a| Which she received what Ihad tocar, LISS YOU HAVE LOADS OF MONKY."[around and, because I'm a woman, . “pinny” etage of life, ‘What a truly hygienic looking bulld- ing the P. E. C. is, and how good the By Meg Villars. luncheon rooms look to a lover of “any "VE lunched at the Political Equality | oid thing as long as it's served cleanly.” I Club, I've given “a penny to the | Talking of appearances, however, I hope cause” because I thought it wouldn't none of the Pittsburgh Aldermen will come to visit here and stroll down that way; they'd have the shock of their young lives if they saw the damsel who waved the Votes for Women flag over the entrance. This stone goddess te a husky young person, and the way she is olipping out of her slashed ekiet, to The Very Newest Thing in Hats on Broadway It’s Just the Cutest = Te 2 DARLING, and Mlle. L : Lydia Lopankowa Pays Personal Taxes on It and (Secret) Here’s Just How She Got It. locked good. In It there was @ piano and the late magasines—and there was a nice, wide fire escape, where you couid ait, emoke your pipe and look out geni ally on your neighbors trom a comfor- table dirtamce, Soon a hurdy-gurdy ig it I tried a ‘The next apartment was feotly over my own. I had always had curtoalty to know sf it was really ran over the say nothing of the stashed dodice, would Play havoc with the eyesight of the Pittsburghers. I may as weil confess that, in my didn't dare ask my neighbors hal the things I wanted to know. For instance, why was it that the American suffragette, Mian ZelleGome- heart of hearts, I expected to find red-| body-or-Other, who got mixed up with eyed, fanatical females flurrying around | those crazy, criminal, shrieking milt- and wigsing folks, in impassioned | tris at home in England (oh, yes, Pm speeches, to vote (and be merry, for! f#hamed of THEM), started to whine to-morrow we te), but there didn't|When they put her in prison and seem to be any of those kinds about. | her by force when she began that ‘The lunchera were nearly all young giris| {tick of refusing food. She wanted th of the middle and working classes, who|UMited States Ambassador, all tl —now, this is in strict confidence be- | !’resident’s army and all the President's @ween you and mi Aidn't took as if] en to come to her. © © © It they cared half a cents worth whether surprised me beca Aemricana @ener- they were to be allowed to vote or nor, | #lly seem to take thelr pcan Pd A The thickness of thelr wedge of choco-| tings ane must have been the exception ‘among the people who tive in the same HIRE seems to be no 6! co l , | late layer cake seemed a far more im-| fir roves the general rule ef law and house?" i ae bedlnesdbpea hemareghsy f; ‘ " | Portant question, and whether it was Lg 1 read encouragement in the amall * eature : ier over here. dancer who has taken yard and a quarter or a yard and 8) °c; can have lunch at the P. E. silstening eyes of my host. 1 had found |e ahe ® Syritora, They ave all the half, of double width material, that is! ang there were quite a few. I suppese eome one who felt as kindly toward the| 4 eg they pase 0 shop window Becdtul for the making of “those eutel it's the old story over again—selling fen as if he had thought of It Bimselt.| same when ter fase Sint ogine Bulgarian blouses. Sour volecant ter @ Tikeh 08 PATRI 7 Resame. very epinenero. the story of how Mile. Lydia Lopankewa Goody, but you can get some nice|jr you want to «et a man to counten- fe “Mon Dieu!" exclaimed the mam when made all - . b f things to eat at the P. E.C., and—oheap! | ance something—feed bim, the dear fe at “ton'et being done. I had finished, “It ees to me to regret| came upon the tiny hat that é i i But everything is inexpensive and good | Brute! . Broadway ot ' =) {the Fen Commandments lghtly, but You} ..) 7 cannot understand se Eenglish. Oh! she at the P. HK, C., whether you want to] 1 guess that's why there are more held something sacred. Male—I have no money to buy what it] It wee ® dream of a hat. buy powder for your little nose, skin| maids than matrons who wish to vote. Ge A few days ago it occurred to me tol egy you sell. Au revoir.” ree lipeeigecia prt feeder y food for your Uttle cheeks or food for| A married woman usually has her hus- = the truth of thie statement, which) 17 walked downstairs saying a few ber spensgy le yan ‘the very Grat JZ } your fittle inside, and it seems a better) band’s vote at her disposal. She gives to imply that New Yorkers were] terse things to my myself, 1 didn't even pened to be way to make yourself suftragettyly pop-| him a good dinner and a ni ably different from other Pe-| stop to ioe about the lawn mower. The Lehi pada sag wendys beautiful hat ular than to burn down your neighbor's| afterwards. A real one (that There were really just as many] ojg apartment house I lived in wasn't prove ca tn the window, f shanty! When you are inexperienced | matches fron an old stub!) and not ¢ tunities for social intereourse 10 | the only one on the street. Over across ane pleagure,"" was the courteous J in the ways of the olub {t's rather pus- | sort they sell ina pretty box, with satin Ay an anywhere cles, if you went ithe way 1 had seen—when peaple for- yas he made baste to bring forth : iN, sling to have to buy your checks down-| ribbon round it, for birthday present. them. The trouble was that every | got to pull dowm thelr shades—what I ee tn pink chiffon. | Stairs in advance. (I never do see how| Well, if—when he's in that state of tufty little apart-| had seen. “That ie not the one I mean,” said the | People can know, before they start on|heppiness—she can't talk hin round tu idn't} 1 took the elevator to the fourth floor | gancer. } in, what or how much they want to/her way of thinking, then she doesn't and went to the fourth apartinent on! 4 thousand panione were offered and eat!!) merit @ vote, that's all. and entertain hin} the left. The number was #4. The! another hat was taken out of the win- When you've got the hang of the| Now, look here, Was no reavon why neighbors !4| omens looked favorable. I decided 1] gow, this time an old blue. Place, though, you realise how very a t house siouldn't be as| would adopt @ manner that was jem} Nor that one; the other PRETTY splendidly the lunch room is managed. ty ap the neighbors in a small/ professionally buoyant, I would show 8} 9, Mile. Lopankowa, now 6 trifle f ‘ At firt 1 picked out en inconspicuous They don't want the ete, itt tne 0% ‘that wes nested wes 6 reserve. impatient, and, going to the window, she § the Bat estects. “Te corner, sat down and just waited. and | wan seguir @ the \e shane tor hope" — forefinger. or any one el: way, A ' let ot “Periment df rebelling againat the tyranny | J got just as far as this when o rpute ‘Mademolgetie!* exclaimed the ny one else's way, Gad one Gore net free fights, banting and—massag pag eter tely all day It I wanted, but the best sort jing, f pe ego ee convention I was alone in MY} woman's hand seized the lapel of my| man, ‘that {s not a hat for you!” “Then, ¢00, T am eo short and slender |! Welting I could do would be to wait | That's why the English policemen My wife was taking &/ coat and drew me into @ small recep-] “It ts THE hat for me!” ehe an- as wich a lot of work! that were I to wear a big hat I'd look | OM ™yself. ‘There's a good deal of wait- | *° a Yeostion in the country and tho|¢ion room, My pian was looking up.| swered. passer abe 6 iit Little garie |! about that sentence, tan’t there? 1| Banting and massage You agree with was taking the dog for e walk in| This treatment had my ideas of hosp- es, yen, of course; but-but you see should never wear big hate; they tend| forthwith joined the bread tine, ang |me? You know you du! The moenotonove wall of | tatity classified with the Callfornie anti-| this ts a child's hat. It Is @ baby's hat. » | having picked my menu off the wall— eat to make them look out of proportion. hovers on the opposite aide! sien legislation, No doubt it ls very sweet on @ child of “Being such an advocate of comfort,| Prices marked in plain Agures—t gavel All’g Well in Montclair. treet was checkered with yello George,” began the woman,| four or so. Why, the crown /s eo emall “Now, what do you think of the tight skirte?”| UP eome of my tin checks to a.muslin- | sgontelair, proud ‘suburb of N of light, and in these squares, ty Mademoiselle could never get her bead I ventured. aproned suffragette who stood behind 4 has plumed itself upor Me the Ggures prajected on a moving bhichis LN oe a reece reaver “They are perfectly awful; that is to| hole in the wall. In exchange she doled Se etn Mertsin’” oak on ’ waren, 3 ceuld see people mov- been—there never can be for me— jevertheless, 1 want that hat. Let say, for myself, they are impogaidle, but of bread and butter and | ja, proclaimed self New York's ers Ne their hair, shining their ee loan but you. Your Jealousy and|we try it on," and whisking It Out Of] having @ design wowked in blue, green} whistled; in fact, she was attracting too|! have no objection to any one elee|® scrumptious pork chop swimming In) weattnicet suvurd against all comers. 5 Shes. playing cards, pacing restleasly |S02 Cin 2°. ridiculous, If you want{|iis hand she tripped over to a mirror,/und white, Laid lightly on the brim| much attention to sult her modest self, | Wearing thom if they can walk comfort-| mashed potatoes and apple sauce. Did) street curs between Newark and MD 004 dows-—vut all detached from | es oianation 1 can give tt to you,| clapped it on the back of her head and/roposed three tiny apples, one red, one| and when It became unbearable she|ably or If they don’t mind discomfort,” I feel clumsy? Did I not—you see V4} verona Lake and Caldwell pass through; Em Sther and confined to thelr nar-| oi) Y would Iike it better if you could} had her old hat sent home while she nd the third green and each Uttle| hailed @ taxi, rushed to her hotel and | she answered. forgotten to rid myself of an umbrella, quarters Hke so many prisoncre in ll out to the avenue, wearing the] appie had | turning to the hat again she|to say nothing of my gloves and a Y that Intensified ee ey scree us (oe alent ee Th was @ bonnet With @| Wat fir ene moment iA Mia Karam ‘ou like my hat, don't you? Isn't| Pocketbook, As I stood hesitating and Fy “Just thought I would drop in on you,’ 1 began. “You see, I think this Is all counfounded rot—our sitting around in our own apartments and never going outside to eall on each pave Nabe oe enjoy & little of each of ‘a soctety Why not otart a little eoci§i contact By Eleanor Schorer. going to be very the main street of Montctalr, and a that main street is the Y. M. C, A, building. All year long the announees| own two little leaves! sought the seclusion of her room, e wend it back?" She caught crown of black, loosely woven straw,|kowa dream that her petite self ana of the hat in the mirror and | it a darling? | trying to got my thumb out of the po-| ive pourd before the building has of & ureat city. looked at me, ‘a brim of Hght blue and white checked| Becoming bonnet were to create the atir No," only she would not go out| “Yer,” 1 admitted, and could not help| tatoes, a mild voice from the crowd | eee es mentaries, bookiKeep my hat and stick I went out/ “Good heave claimed weak-| 0. ivon, faced with a Nell rose straw| which they did on Broadway and Fifth| in it again that day. thinktng of how many girls are going! behind murmured: “Would you mind ing, stenography and the like, @né@ Montelailr has looked and wondered, ‘The idea of a Montolairite needing T hastily sidestepped and thereupon | anything so crude. They hid thelr heade in bie ated the Ne aecount of more 40 10 ; Jogned the arm of & coffee-drinking suf-| oy they paxned And You Say a New York Alarm Clock Has No Soul? Read This. | traswie.”.te'‘momoty”thored, ana [50° "hay tianged nom. Herve the — i jt is the pink of punctuality, the soul, bought another alarm clock, He set Alas, alas! There Is no ost to sing| wee Ave ? : plenty en ene announcement on the boar y the interloper on the shelf beside the homely herolsm an cleck, . = of honor in giving to hie employer vie that had. that morning| BUt here 18 the epic fact: ‘Next morn. ("ever apologized before, and all the while him by its atlonce at the crit. |!PS promptly at 7.66 the sllvery voice of | that apple sauce was trickling up any BAM TOS CAR the old watohdog on the shelf cadled; wrist and my thumb was sinking deeper ly, “I thought you were George. ‘Who —who are your" 08 the hall. The ber of my own was 44, and just to have 1 decided to choose numbers! After this my formula sounded a were divialble by four. trifle lame and inadequate. wp two fights 1 hopefully) “1 just dropped in in # neighborly bell to apartment No. 6: way to make a call I sald. “You do you dot 1 said to the| know the way we stand on ceremony who opened the door, in mY | in apartment houses"—— Menner. =“ But she interrupted me, {tte @ lovely evening,| “Say,” she broke in with, “I don't and trimmed with two bunds of rib-| avenue, EWvery one she passed stared;| ‘You know, I like comfort," she ex-}to copy her treasure When she once| removing your elbow from my ico bon, one being plaiy blue and the other’ eome even stopped to look, Small boys! plained as she finished the account of more finds courage to walk abroad tn it. | cream?” HO says that inanimate objeste| gvery minute of the time for which he| falthle W do not possess @ soul? receives a weekly envelope But heis tcal moment of 7.56 o'clock, Then with : know whether you aro cxeay oF T am: What bogus philosopher OF | conetitutionally a “heavy elecp Out with not @ quaver, not a sob, even,|in the potatoes! It was rather like a Special Course words didn't seem immediately | but we can't stop to talk it over, My|stinlent of unhuman nature daree de | wiotever that may be and he has to peseige tg hl he examined hie old /to petray Sag a TE Ene; | bed nightmare before I got sntely to in Automobile Mechanies eaything to her, Finally she} husband will be here at any mo- sinre, that pas Leta re naar rely upon an alarm eloct to rouse him| tt had not been wound. | Beinhe Heaped sro his bed to seize an i= seat with the pork chop, a knife Will Start Here Seon. — or alarm ¢ ormere|at exactly 7.56 o'clook each moruing.| Spinks without thought wound the old| Saitsfed, then, that it had done ital And fork (® separate hole in the wall, Th fa no wi details of what happened after that. You can find them in the secoad act of any society drama, Just as the women finished speaking a key was heard squirming in the look and the in molng into the not Pomessed of the finer and more! One recent morning the faithful aro pel "| auty to the very end, that clock teaped| Please), & paper napkin and my per- attributes of the human intelll- | 95 one glave of metal and coge failed (sig tied i ie tom were. Be from the anelf Dexide its new and ghin- | #onal goods and chattels All'a well in Montolair again. Monte to sound its clarion call to work. Spinks! bed with no thought in his heart of the | DIPS rive, bounded onto a table near; I had forgotten to ger sometning to| clair citizens hold their heads high es Listen! slept @ half hour overtime and was hor-| pirter pangs of jealousy, of injured ve the opened dining room window and) drink and I was thir but did IT dare] they pase the Y. MC C. A., and visitors This happened in Brooklyn, but tt is] rifed. When he had bolted his break: | sibilities, that might then, its Httle heart stil! glad with the| croxs that room again under the hoatile|¢rom New York and other parts of New true as the stare that shine, fast and rushed over the bridge to his| springy gong of the morning slarum, rebounded ‘eyes of the coffee drinker? Nong mos-| Jersey are sure to have the sigan point- 5 looked at me dumbly. with Suify hatr ane dig, /husbaud emterad, It was Ue @ play ta} Spinks, we'll call him, ts a salaried tana ts 7 ‘ 4 seo. I did not! ed out to them. ‘“Kmow Your Gar" ‘e Ri “Vavery ways futile attempt to explain,!man who takes iif as it comes|to tis bese, ut bie contusion ehoked | andthe’ mugned "arice, (hat mieasa ‘tue | “Dowa dour fights plunged the eulcite! I was sorry 1 made such a ctumsy|the announcement. Mowtclalr tales it a I quite understand,” jhen business of handing the indig- through the confines of a five-room: | him. heart of that faithful slave ew] clock and then—iHs tongue was stilted | Gebut in-the P. E. C., for iteort eg paa-' for granted vou ehe-sberene ji we to see my hus- nant busband my cang and making a and-bath apartment across the bridge, Om his way home that night be éuring all the long hours of fevover i éeneh! ‘ caked me ond made me co chy Gat 3 you woulda’ Go esatiais. at a . & ‘ ‘ :