The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1914, Page 3

THE EVENING WORLD, NEW DANCES DRAW RECORD CROWD 10 BALL FOR CHARITY: — we Mayor and Mrs. Mitchel Show Approval of One-Step by Dancing It. $20,000 FUND RAISED. | Uniforms of Military Guests Give European Touch to Grand March. ‘The ball of the year—the Charity Bali—wan kept rolling at the Wal- -Astoria until 4 o'clock this morn- -and then another rolling began, but this was of the motor cars and taxicabs that sped away from the hetel, seemingly by thousands, be- cause all New York aud his wife, to may nothing of bis daughters, were there. Every year the people who go to the ball say that there never had been such a crush before, and they sald it again last night. Perhaps there was a bit more of truth in it this season, because the new dances, for all that has been said against them, drew the largest crowd that has ever attended a Charity Ball. And in further proof of the desire of the management of the event to yield te the modern taste, in one of the ballroomse—three were given up to the bali—the tango and the maxixe were & feature of the programme. Mayor Mitchel and Mrs. Mitchel, who were arcong the special guests, may here be eet down as firm advo- cates of the one-step, because they danced it, and danced it well, last aight. It was not until after theatre time that the ball began to revolve with its customary velocity; then the people simply poured into the hotel Om the second floor they found t main ballroom, the Astor Gallery and the Myrtle and the East Rooms, a double apartment, already comfort- ably filled. The new arrivals no doubt added to the success of the ball, but they made dancing a prob- lor. The mazes of society are said be ii ivult enough to tread; they be- co ™~ aext to impossible when society gathere as jt dig last night. THRONG PERMITS FRIENDS TO MBET BY CHANCE ONLY. / Im the constantly moving crowd it was of course impossible to find any ene that any one knew, one had to’ happen on them; but that is a fea- ture of all charity balls. So, if one} wants to say he was at the ball last might he is in no danger of contra- diction. One feature of the dance is well worth comment in the name of the dancers, and this was the excel- dent ventilation of all the rooms, The heat that seems to be the natural concomitant of balls in general was quite lacking, In the main ballroom there was a large sign in electric lights, “CHAR- ITY,” twined with smilax, and under it @ wide crimson dais, upon which were the Committee of* the Ball, headed by its President, Mra. Alger- men Sydney Sullivan, who for forty years has held that office. Beside her were Mrs. rank 8. Witherbee, Mrs. Menry Clay Adams, Mra, Edward J. Berwind, Mrs. Henry Mills Day, Mrs. ae H. Benjamin, Miss Ruth Law- rence, Mra. Thomas Hicks, Mrs, Charies I. Roe, Mra. Robert Nicol and Mrs. Guy Van Amringe. All the boxes in the two tiers on the sides of the room were occupied, ag were the banks of chatra along the “side lines,” by the “dowager @uchenses” of New York society, and SALTS AF BACKACHY AND KIDNEYS HURT Stop eating ia meat for a while if your Bladder is Troubling you, When you wake wy p with backache and dul misery in the region fmeans you toe mm eating too much meat, says a well-known author- I from the blood and they become sort of paral: eed and josey: , When your Uaeere * fen, Mf ‘and clog you must HH you. relie the body’ gue is coated, and w is bad you have theum: The urine is cloudy, full % iediinent, channels often fet. sore, water acalds and you are obliged to seek relief two @v three times during the night. 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It is pexpenaive cannot jure and makes a delightful, effer- eeccsat lithie-water ! “THE STREETS ARE + Suspect SATE AS LONG AS SHE Four pay! | |" NO GL CAN GE FORCIGLY CARRIED AWAY" Police Files Show 397 Dis- appearances of Women and Girls in the Last} Quarter of 1913, But New York Is Not a Snare and Pitfall for Woman- kind Nevertheless—It Is a List of “‘Wilful Miss- ing.” “Impossible to Kidnap Any Girl From a New York Street if She Has a Mouth to Holler,” Says Official in Charge of ‘Missing’ Cases. Relatives Hamper Hunt by Concealing Reasons| for Disappearance and Add to “‘Lost’’ Record by Failing to Report Those Who Return. By Marguerite Mooers Marshait. Ta New York the port of missing girls? According to the quarterly report just sent to Mayor Mitchel by Police ‘Commissioner McKay, 397 women residents of this city were reported “missing” Guring the last three months of 1913, Also, the police were asked to look for 139 women who were supposed to have come to this city and then vanished. On the face of the returns it would seem that New York is a pitfall and a snare to womankind. But it fen't! I have talked with women whose par- tleular ocoupations compel them to go out unescorled after nightfall. I have talked with other who on prin- ciple are averse to “bothering with a men” every time ey they wish to pay an evening call on a girl friend. For several years may own work made it necessary for me to traverse the city letreets late at night. And I positively know, from my own experience and that of others, that a woman alope can go about New York at any hour of the twenty-four without being exposed to serious insult or real bodily peril. Then why the Jong list of missing women and girls? They should be called by another and slightly different name, which Mr. Kipling tells us is used to describe the deserters from the British army. The name {is “wil- tul-missing.” The man at Police Headquarters who has had most experience In deal- ing with this particular problem is quietly but firmly convinced that the girl who disappears and can’t be found doesn’t want to be found, Which does not mean that he relaxes in any way his efforts to discover her, But careful investigation has shown that in so many cases of disappearance there is contributory negligence, if no more definite action, on the part of the girl. ‘One of his deepest convictions he girl expressed a wish to come to this summed up in a single homely sen-|city, or a hope that she might some tence: time live here. Perhaps she left 4] do not believe,” he observed, | with the open intention of coming “that it is possible te kidnap any =| here, but with a journey of # thou- sand miles ahead of her, In such instances the anxious relative fre- quently admits no letter has been re- ceived from the girl to indicate her arrival in New York, And even when & person supposed to be living here drops out of sight there is always the presumption that he or she has simply moved some place else, DON’T REPORT RETURNS OF THE “MISSING.” “Then parents bavei@ habit of re- porting a girl as missing and of for- getting to notify us when she turns up. In a fit of temper or sulks she hus perhaps run away to spend a few days with an aunt or girl friend. When she doesn’t return the father and mother are convinced she is | cither dead or forcibly detained. They girl from a New York street who has a mouth with which she can holler. “A wrong impression may be read- fly gained from the figures repre- senting the number of women who disuppear in New York, For in- stance, every letter to the depart- ment which reports a missing woman adds one ‘missing case’ to the ree- lords, Yet the writer of the letter may have only the vaguest idea that person sought is in New York. ‘Perhaps before disap) ge in the city’s social Pfid not contribute there ia not a register whic! names to the long list of “those pres- ent.” UNIFORMS GIVE EUROPEAN STYLE TO GRAND MARCH. ‘To begin the ball there res mand report the case to the station house march, just am there bas been sinto! i), their prec: P ice Fa eee ae ie raa. re, | it thelr precinct and a general alarm js went out, The girl is home in a day or two, but no one takes th trouble to tell the police that ther is no need of furthi “What is the ri the disappearal viewed by Mrs, Sullivan and the other members of the Floor Committee, the | directors of the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital—the beneticiary of the ball—with their wives, the spe- clal guests, who included bexides the Mayor and Mrs. Mitchel, Jacob W, Miller, President of the hospital; Major-Gen. and Mrs. Thomas H. Barry and Capt. Albert Gleaves, com- mandant of the New York Navy Yard, | ‘and Mrs. Gleaves, Before them passed | the long line of dancers and the army and navy officers from the garrisons and ships aear the city with their women folk, the brald and brass but- ing an almost | ning’s bril- | wan ended | the Floor Committee went to the mid- | die of the main ballroom and the, Chairman, waved a signal for the opening use of most of yay | asked. home conditions. Perhaps there man to whom wants to become an actress. Per- haps she is tired of her husband. Perhaps she feels that her parents are too severe with her. In the majority of ego George Hammond Sulli- | preferred the floor to the box. Estimates of the number of persons | | who attended the ball ran as bigh a | 3,000, and one of the committee sai \thta more than $20,000 was collecte bh the sale of tickets. And this city, I asked him if there had |heen any trouble, but he dented it, and said that he could think of no reason why his wife should remain way from her home, When I found wre ended the Bal eet te hnnsett her the fret thing she eald waa,| ~ the social register. ‘Well, you knew I'm here, but yoo 5 aenecnmiiad a ll re va away and stays it's because she yor and Mra. Mitchel | . fede box in the frat tier, and it was doesn't want to come back, decorated with the Amvrican fag and ‘Just a little while ago @ man the Mayor's flag, but the Mayor and from Philadelphia was sure that hin | Mrs, Mitchel soon proved that they | wito was being foreibly detained in| nee eos “Missing” Girls Averaging 30 a Week Here, (MODERN DIANA Don’t Want to Be Found; None Kidnapped ARE OVE TO AcciDENTS can’t make me go back. I'm not go- ing!’ And she didn't. “In gnother case a young Brooklyn wirl was crazy to leave school and go to work. Her mother wauidn't allow it, In order to cast au alr of mys- tery about her departure, she told the woman who lived upstairs in her house a long tale of having met on @ atreet car a beautiful lady ‘covered with diamondé, whom she planned to. vinit, HER FAIRY TALE OF STRANGE LADY YET BELIEVED. “When she disappeared her mother was positive that the child was being forcibly restrained by the mysterious adventuress, And though a man who knew the little girl saw her some weeks later entering a store with a woman and two children, in the ob- vious role of nurse maid, the mother 1m @till positive that it is a case of kidnapping into white slavery, “Nor is it always the young girls who disappear because they choose to do so. A man came to the depart- ment very much agitated because he could not find his middle-aged sister at the address where she had lived for a long time, and because hin let- ters were returned to him. A little inveatigation- showed that the sister had been frequenting a matrimonial agency, where she had been intros duced to more than twenty men}. Obviously she had found one that sulted her and gone away without leaving an addresa,” “Then you don't consider that New York ta @ specially dangerous place for women?" I ked. Smilingly he shook his head. “The otreete of this city are perfectly safe, day or night, for the woman who is out for some walks and her exp sauntere along looking for trouble she'll find it. Not otherwise.” “L have always been sceptical as! regards the forcible abduction of women," IT said, “because It seems eh an unnecessarily dangerous risk for the only men with any object in| undertaking It. They simply can't afford to advertise themselves in such | @ pyrotechnical fashion.” | DOESN’T TAKE MUCH FOUNDA- TION TO RAISE A CRY. The man who knows nodded assent “I've just had to investigate three alleged poison ni s,"" he aid. | “There wasn't a grain of truth to any | one of them. A man and a girl ara beside each other at a fountain. Bach buys a soda, and the man takes the girl's by mistake, He slides it over | to her at once, and a friend who is with her whispers, ‘Oh! he might! have put some dope in that!’ The story is started, and before you know It evershody hears how he did ‘dope! sion, If the her, how she was rescued in the nick | of time, and so on. ‘That's about the foundation of most of}hese hysterical | an white slavery “Of course, a girl may become ill or suffer an accident al hae to be taken to a hoo, jemcapes fr re ‘another big comber swept the deck. eee pean FSS ar eR tne IDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 19 MAY YEARN FOR A PINCH OF MMT UNPLEASANT SURROUNDINGS RESULT IN “MISUNG GIRLS” Miss Douglass Will Live Alone in Forest to Show What a Girl Can Do, SHE FEARS NO BEAST. “tt Is Only in Story Books | That Bears and Wildcats Are Dangerous,” St? Says. Distaste For SCHOOL WORK 1S ANOTHER CAULE FOR*MiSsING GIRLS’, (Special to The Kreming Word.) BOSTON, Feb. 6.—That woman ts able to battle her way alono under the most primitive conditions, and, equipped only with her wits, her Strength and her endurance, abe ts fitted to cope with nature, is the be- lef of a modern Eve who thie year to risk her life and her health alone in the great amphithe- atre of nature. Bana Dougiass, the most famous huntress in the Maine forests, will cast off the clothing of the modern woman ‘ter the unbroken wil- derness alone and un d. There eke plans to remain the full month of August. She will rely on bark for her clothing, on roote, berries, herbs, equirrels, rabbits, partridges and brook trout for her food; on snares and a bow and arrow to capture her +] quarry. She will make her fire by friction, using @ spindle whirled by a bow, ike the South Sea Islanders. For abelter, ebe will build @ crude lean- to from the Callen sticks, the moss ntering the forest a absolutely nothing from modern life. She will entirely cast off modern methods of living, relying on nature's lore to maintain life und procure whatever crude comforts the forest affords. WILL BE GUARDED BY WOMEN SENTINELS. Bhe will be accompanied on her departure by a group of women, who will bid her goodby and take posses- sion of her discarded clothing. Wom- en look-outs will be posted in camps Qearest to the haunts cf the modern Eve to protect her from annoyance, ‘When her lonesome sojourn ts completed Miss Douglass will come forth, she says, clad in skins and woven bark of the cedar, She plans to have moccasins and leggings made of squirrel skins, a skirt of soft lin- ing bark interwoven like basket-werk, @ tunic of woven water grass and a sombrero of woven bark. Miss Douglass is well qualified to enter the battle of woman v nature, She ‘ong and supple, is inured to exposure and hardship, and in equipped with a lore of nature that {is unusual among modern women, She loves the woods and the streams, and prefers the solitudes of of city ‘ife or 1f ahe ie unconscious and hae ne identifying card about her, her friends cannet be notified imme- diately, and che will be temporar- iy ‘missing.’ But the police find @ girl in a reacenabie poried of time, If aha ie Ill or dead. If neth- nig ie heard from her the pre- sumption le that she wishes te remain in hiding. “Pareats and relatives find it dim- cult to accept this hypothesis of ‘wil- ful-missing,'” he concluded. “That's natural. jut ao often it's the true explanation.” And just then there was dropped on the desk between us the first pub- lished account of how little Miss Lawlor had been found in Chicago, whithei went, of her own free will, alone and unkid ped. SINCE HER —_—__ CHILDHOOD. her girlhood she preferred to BIRTHDAY SOUVENIR te nin her Coubens to Cramp. tno ines through the dense wil- than wash the dishen In the snowshoe ouglass, the famous ABRAHAM LINCOLN PORTRAIT FREE. A sepia portrait of Abraham and trapper of Maine and Lincoln will be given FREE for Mee the ame ot. Cen, thinned through the forests, She was at that tender age the mascot of the hunting camps. She could shoot straight and true, and an she Krew up she earned the title of e beat shot in the De River region. Privation and hardship had no terrors for the youn huntress, and no weather wan too pevere for her, The love of the forent, the love of the the Coupon in next Sunday's World. (In Greater New York}: only.) . BIG SEAS WASHED ST. PAUL DURING STORMY VOYAGE Merry Crowd of Passengers, Just the Same, on Arrival of the Liner Here. ‘The American liner &t. Paul, Capt. essay that modern ‘woman, *mnough handibapped by the of comforts and luxuries of , retaina that inherent ability to maintain herself alone in the heart of natur Miss Douglass hi inched and hunted in the Went as well a 4 has br h F, M. Passow, reached port t morning, two days late, from Houth- hunted the Y fine specimens; ampton and Cherbourg, The day she! hunted mountain lions; in New satled, Jan. 30, she ran into a north and southwest gale and a rough sea. ‘The storm remained with her during the voyage. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning she saw tho worst of it and one bic wave washed over her, sweeping the saloon deck and tearing away about twenty feet of the forward rail spanning the deck On the following morning the car- penter was repairing the rail when Brunswick she has shot moose, and in Maine, the deer, caribou and black bear. She shoots from any position. Run- ning Kame, brought under cover of her rifle, seldom escapes without se trade mark of this girl with tha} ick eye ant steady nerve. ‘SHE COMES OF A FAMILY OF HUNTERS. ‘The Douglasges are famous in Maine hunting camps, Bana’s grandfathe The carpenter was engulfed in thp wave and carried into the jee scup- pers, where he was picked up un- conscious. Two women passengers were swept from their chairs the entrance to the saloon and caupht by men passengers slightly hurt, ‘The carpenter was atiil fn the hospital when the St. Paul reached port ‘The ship brought in a merry crowd of passengers, even if they did shiver in the cold morning. Many of tne theatrical profession were on board. Miss Charlotte Kent, a planiat, re- turned from a three months’ tour, She went over from here on La Touraine and helped take care of the ship- of the Volturno, wrecked passenger picked up by Mra. Frod Ferrell, who have been showing in En, for six months, were among the p: sengere. They said they were ne . to the continent, but got homes! They got seasick, too, on the way home. Ex-Lax is —— gen osieere rote ear GIRL IN HOSPITAL supplies the n afternoon. Grove Cemetery, the meer of Massachusetts conducting the services in Borg rupees with one The Famous Chocolate Laxative EX-LAX Relieves Constipation Helps Digestion | Keeps the Blood Pure = abrnes. AT WHITE PLAINS APHASIA VICTIM. of eighty is Gus Dougiase, ‘Bana owner of Deer Lal years held the nattenal has in fly caatin; ete at mplonab for ab! OWE TL Wi GL IN HOSPTAL ACE To Notices seat Breede: Broadcist by he: Police of White Plains ~~: Bring No Response. the police and physicians in trying, to recall her identity, the gfrl brought. to the White Plains Hospital om, | Tuesday continues to be « pussie te; herself and to her custodians. Allenista have tried every known, q means of Longe iy the i: “I believe in ee Ranrat fh that nature ecosnarien, of hone ateri bears and wildcats are “T ghall find food in course, there ditions arise, worry about that now. It won! all honey and cream. I spall robe ably lang for a few grains tat there anna’ ® piece of tonnt PRESIDENT MAY mi FUNERAL OF BREMNER Body of Cancer Victim Brought Back To-Day to His Home in ie. PASHAIC, N. J. Burial wil “MR. RIGHT” MUST WEAR WINGS TO WIN The Chicago Rachelor Girls’ Club, comprising at present slaty members, te in the market fer husbands, Candidates must an- ewer satisfactorily these questions: Will you treat your wife es your political and social equal? Have you bad habite, such es drinking or emoking to exesse? win as you would your own mother? ‘Will you atart the fire im the mora- Ing and carry out the ashes? De you intend to attais more prominence each year? De you attend church regularly, and how much do you put in the collection box? Will you promise to kies your wite goodby every morning, not as an act of duty, but as one of the rarest pleasures of life? ‘Will you promise to be cheerful at home and not kick on your wife's cooking? Do you promise to spend your eve- nings at home? Will you promise to obey the Ten Commandments? delicious chocolate laxative recommended by | physicians as a mild yet positive remedy for constipation in | ®!Nt?. all ite forms, Ex-Lax has made thousands happy. A 10c box will prove its value—at all druggista, q 1b. 6.—The body of Robert Gunn Bremner, Congress- man from New Jersey and owner of the Passaic Dally Herald, who die@ yeaterday in Dr. Howard Kelly's ean- ttartum in Baltimore of cancer, whicb radium treatment failed to cure, was brought to this.city early te-day. Mrw Bremner, the widew; Heles Bremner, « sister, and Leith Brem- ner, a younger brother, escorted the body, which was taken to the Brem- ner home in Hamilton avenue, where funeral services will be held Monday be in Laurel Rev. L. B. Plu- THESE CLUB GIRLS u treat your mother-in-law life,” de- modern ‘women don’t know ni ture; ‘thay don't know the real happin of are losin, Ife. Trey tratte brought mankind safely Lo It’s “‘socasy” to promise things in the newspaper — Evolution brings about The old method of one of “As You Sow , You Shall Reap’ Taxe a peek at The World ad. orden, | Where Opportunities gros; | Chances to work, hire, buy and sell | You'll find there all in a row. | And this is a fertile garden Where seeds sown grow fruit in a wien So plant a World Want seed to-morrow, And that 5 no ais <yvlee | (ag World Ads. are nourished, ib circulation: In New York mornings and Sundays, greater that @ Herald, Times, Sun and Tribune @ A CIRCULATION THAT, G SULTS