The evening world. Newspaper, October 18, 1913, Page 10

“Hartage motherhood and profession” “The Husband Who Doesn’t Approve of His Wife’s Being a Wage- Earner Isn’t Worth Marrying — Fifty Per Cent. of the Divorces and Unhappy Marriages Are Due to Idleness of Men and Women.” “The Women Who Com- bine Business and Do- mesticity Are the Only Ones I Can Stand—The Other Kind Bore Me to Death—A merican Women Are Setting an Example to the World.” Marguerite Mooers Marshall Te matrimony woman's only business? Jon't it, like numerous other ent Drises, mst successful when incorpo- rated with @ flourishing side-line, a pro- feesion or an art? Does the job of Deing | wife automatically disqualify the holder from being anything else? Wor each of these questions there are we answers. One of the two is copy- wighted by the New York Board of Réweation, Then there is the Other Amewer. And I know of no ene who emphasises (t more satisfactorily than does Robert W. Chambers, by majority ule the greatest living noveliat in the Jength and dreadth of America. Wf you are one of the five milifon dealer in antiques, her marriage io the mau be “The business of iife must go on * she tella him, gently; “for well as for you." And, contrart- @ ‘*villainess” in Mr. Chambera’s @ completely idie wife who gets jet because she has nothing do, int 1s something more than in @ieated; in tact, it Is hammered home in #9 many ways thgt I set it down at onee as a personal conviction of the author. And he confirmed ty intuition | when I found him at the rehearsal of “Tole,” one of the most charming of | his earlier books, Broadway will see] (% shortly, as @ musical comedy with| the real Gilbert-and-Sullivan tang. i} “Fou believe that a woman should! net be forced to give up her career Just | because she marries?” } asked. “1 certainly do!” he affirmed, vigor: ously. “% think that every woman—t don't core who ale is or whom she marrice—should be permitted and even encouraged to continue aftor marriage the art or profession to which she bas devoted herself in the past. Z think it's the height of #24; cdf 3 ty euperted to tag around after him Mr. Chambers back, untwint * @@ Gio brows, wlighly furrowed with honest indignation, and smiled, Let hasten to assure his a of the few writer-persons who | He is 01 ite satiwfactory b ses the youth @ver saw !p man, woman or child the most malleable eyebrows. His fea- tures Bave e coin-like distinc’ 38, and he gmiles broadly and easily, He and ot themselves THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1913, Women ate maxing a “Bench Show" “The” have more to tak shout? shen women advance get all they want because going about It the right way, with self-respect, with It was hard to put my next ques- tion seriously to ao intelligent » man e Mr, Chambers, But at lust I man- aged it, “You do not think that working ou! aide her feminine “ ith “And you are acquainted with women who combine business and domesticity?” “I know hundreds of them,’ Jt, stands and walks «= no middle-| chief, You see tt even in the case of | sponded promptly. “And, as far lived out- sme, But the most attractive thing about him is bis expression, a distinctive compound of y and sheer then @ sparkle of humor seething up to the surface “ofr he returned to charge, after the briefest interval, “If married woman is ao circumstanced that the herself must perform the work of the household, that’s all right. That's her share of the business of life, and she ought not to be compelled to do other things. But there are hundreds ef wives who don't cook and clean and sew, These services are all per: formed for them. What part can suob wives have in the work of the world unless they find work for themselves Outside their homes?” “and you think the American hus- band approves of hi being a roer?” I wu he doesn't he ing!" Mr. Chambers e an impatient shrug. “The American husband is & caricature of @ husband anyway, All this bench-show business me sick and tired; This worth marry+ claimed, with to be starea at by the world ie perfectly ridicutous. The Ameri can husband ts praised because he gives his wife so much money. ‘What » reason for praising mas! he let her earn her money in her own way, to buy na" mt this he might be able to give her More of his society%" I suggested | "Le he permitted it they'd have a Jot more to ay when they did Ket to- | ge Jeclared em= phati 1 tulle with each ‘ at each other, for teresting things to sould be really congenial would have They The Pustness of cues hae a husbands and wives,” | baen't it as demanded M., Chambers, whe identally is one of the busiest persons} know. “The dogs. A bird doz, @ dog who has been trained to have ao! tlen in life, behaves himself lke « gen- tleman when he has leisure hours. But @ “ommon, omilu ry dog who's ne Garden, barks at passersby and playe other tricks An idle dog, idle man or woman, they're all the aame 60 per cent. to idleness of both men and women; 50 per cent. to the fact hat women have nothing to 40.” “Amd you do not agree with those who easy that being e wife and working @t an art or profession puts too severe strain on @ woman?” Fi “Does dhe want to admit that one's man’e mental inferior?’ Mr. Chamber! inquired sharply. “I don't believe she ts, Even to-day her attainmente in iit- erature compare most favorably with his, 1 fail to eee why she should not be equally auccessful in all the arte and professions when we a'e prepared to give her a full ard fair chance at them, and when we provide her with @n education as her brother -la-ra-LA!" sounded from the stage, like @ trill of triumphant ap- plause for Mr, Chambers, “Tole” and her sisters were Most sensibly educated, remember, They had the jen because they d out uf doors, unhampered by fash: thelr sum garb being pink amas, And they held fluent con ations in Latin and Greek, Thi married happily, at that, “Even when there are children," the guthor-draimatist continued, “1 believe that the mother need not give up en- y the work which she loves, “Wifehood, motherhood and a profession are not iacompatible, “phat, at least, is one man's opin- fon,” he broke off with @ smile that | would disarm the anti-feminiat edli- tora of Life, “Other people may think differently, But, personally, 1 |Delleve in the wife who does things, 1 believe every word 1 wrote about 1 don't always believe what I you know my theory that tell- e story is the really important But 1 was willing to make « this instance, ry point in # American women are setting ‘They are concerned, they're the only one: stand. I can't get on with the oth kind at all. They bore me to death!” So let no maid or matron believe that fed sapton 9 ot, the ani iratien of her favor author by posing as a lily of the feld. She doesn’t! You've seen * lot of sights to-day 1 hope you're satisfied, You've seen the gowns diaphanous, You've sees the slits bold” ks “Published by TEEK-A-Goo MUSIC Co “Tango an for the Sta MINUET + HS YY, ge, TANGO: 19% U3 THEY Keer ON THE BALL Room WILE BE TURNED WTO A “BALLET? Room? “Nice Young Girls Should Not Dance in Public Restaurants Where They Come in Contact With Every Sort of Person—it Is Wrong for a Young Girl (As Happens in These Hotel Dances) to Be Thrown Into the Arms of Everybody.” A Young Girl Must Not Cultivate Risque Effects —She Must Keep Herself Simple and Child- like and Sweet—Rouge and Powder! How Can 1 Believe the Young New York Girl Uses Either? So Stupid! So Useless! Anna Paviowa ie back in 3 | with one hundred and ninety-sl forty members of the Russian Imperial | ballet, a small aaffron-colored dog named Purchok and an objection to tur- No longer may we carol erybody # doing it.” Pa' You are perhaps surprised at this at- titude on the part of the woman who has won worldwide recognition as the exponent of what {s known as the acro- batic school of dancing. You rather ex- BROADWAY BALLADS—NO. 1. SONG. You peek at each snd every one That passes near the house; You know you do, so I'll fix you=- It's the cure for an esting spouse, coming of the waltz, he placed his arm around her it. But now what aoes he do? He selzes her anywhe her shoulders, by her hips, where hands happen to rest, and he pulls her about roughly, brutally, 1t, Ido not think it ts nice, or that it shows a nice feeling on the part of the wentleman. T should lke to Pect clergymen and other conventionally minded folk to turn away in horror from the violent and vulgar contortions of the “new” dances, But you supposed that Paviowa, who tles herself into terp- sichorean bowknots, would look with tolerance on your doing the same in your own crude and clumsy atyle. But hi the point. Paviowa knows herself to be an artist, And, with ali gentleness, with all courteous con- sideration for the sensitive souls who throng the New York trottert Pav: lowa leves that they do not dance for the pure love of art. One who has visited the trotteries cannot feel that Paviowa 1s unduly sceptical. And the polmt she makes is a good one—that many things which artist does un- consciously, become unjustifiable the moment the personal element enters into them. Rei) tango and all such Gances are tor oald decisively, may be graceful, beautiful, a delight to the eye, if they are done by skilfully trained dancers. But in the ballroom they have not the same et. They have ad effect, and they should not tolerated. lot even on the stage do I approve ee the old dances revived, the courtly, courteous measures of another day. 1 believe dancing them would have an excellent effect on both men and women, @ much better effect than all this rough-and-tumble of the Present. I particularly dislike to see young girls indulging in these new dances. "Nor do I think nice young girls should dance in public restaurants and drinking places, where they come in contact with all sorta of persons. Why do they not remain in the shelter of Why do they not restrict their partners for this sort of dancing to one er two particularly intimate friends? It is wrong for @ young girl to be thrown into the arms of everybody.” “Do you approve of the sort of cos tume which the new dances require—the skirt slit high? e was ask “I do not think it is suitable for social gatherings,” she replied, frankly. “And especially the young girl should avoid I do not like) their homes tf they must tunkey-trot?| & Mt, She must not cultivate risque ef- fects, She must keep herself simple and childitke and sweet.” “You don't approve of her using rouge of the turkey trot. The turkey ts one of the most ungraceful of bi ts, so why should human boings attempt to imitate its movementa? Another objection to the turkey trot ts t:.at It involves va lous movements of the upper part of tl body which can hardly es: being suggestive and vulgar. No dance with suc. Movements ia @ proper one. The tango, properly executed, keeps all move- ment below the waist.” Pavlowa paused a moment, and one discovered that she has the same win- ning, childlike charm of expression which distinguished her two years ago. She was going out to dinner, and wore an effective eveiiing frock of sea-green and black, The corsag: was not spe- cially low, and her only ornaments we: ‘a spray of silver leaves and a platinuin chain set with tiny diamonds. Her deep brown eyes looked out from under @ black hat, across the front of which Gen, Winfleld Scott Hancock has a new outlook on life, He didn't choose it himself, For the residents who border Hancock Square, where the di coverer that the tariff was a local | sue actually holds forth in graven stone, complained to the Park Com- missioner that Gen. Hancock's face} made them tired and they wanted It turned the other way. And th®Park Commissioner, who not a Tammany man, listened sympathetically to their tale of woe and turned the face of the Hancock statue the other wa: For | twenty years the statue has looked to| the south. Now it has been turned so that it looks north, Now that the neighbors have brought about the change, they are coy about menta, like colorless ch: obvious make-up, and her smile had nothing of and powder, as she so often does in'Ne' York?" Madame Paviowa and her English sec- Fetary exchanged glances of horror. She does that, you say?" murmured Madame. “Handly can I believe it. And 0 Btupld, so useless, The natural complexion of youth Is the loveliest thing in the world, “Dancing will always fe a social . and there is every on, for it to be. It expresses the Joy and exultation of youth, and it helps to make young again. Then it splendid exercise, eW@ing the body gra and strength. ink it Is preferab t air gives them a polse ment such can be obtained in no make splendid dancers, great admiration for t 5 naturally supple, strong and and they have wonderfully res. If they will stick to the noes of distinction and refin ment. they wil! do well, ‘ “The stage and society are entirely Aifferent world, 4 Paviow: ‘When y an artist living for art. If another person touches you you do npt know {t, The stage kiss tn conventional drama is not a real kiss. The s embrace in the dance Is no real con- tact. But when these things are in eoclety there 1s a difference, That la why I do not like to see the stage nd soctety mingle. If the present f movement in that direction continu the ballroom will be turned into ballet-room." Gen. Hancock “Turns About Face” in New York. the face Is about on the level with the second floor tenants, They say It “sort o' got on their nerves” to have to meet the stony xlare of Gen. Han- cock every time they passed tha win- dows, and besides he should face the square which had been named after nd not be shut off from the rest yorid by a hich building, When You're Sick They Help You Quick BRADFORD'S *2e* PILLS PURIFY. ING Purely Vexetabie, admitting it They declare they had nothing to do with It an? that the idea originatee with the Park Depart- ment, The residenta in the Hartridge Court Apartments were very much in- terested In the right-about-face move- a gentleman danced with a lady he|ment of the General, for the pedestal showed his respect for her by barely |and bust are in a little triangular plot her Then, with the|iuat Gorcas trom he epertment, and Oy ° the artificla! quality which is usually in- separable from the veauties of either stage of society. She began to apeak again in her soft, | slightly hesitant voice. } ‘In the olden times,” she sald, “when |