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rid Da | Why Not? ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. by the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 83 te ‘ark Row, New York. SP Eom for the United States All Countries in the In' and Canaée. Postal Union Putitwnet Daly Except Bund One Menth.+ceveessessssnee WOLUME 55.......ccceesscccscccwesscvesesssee NO. 10,390 PLANNING FOR TWELVE MILLION. O LAY OUT « Greater New York for 12,000,000 people fa the TRANSLATED EB Covrtteht, 1914, wy the Press Publisiog Co, (The New York Brenise Worl), 'Y Son, my Son, hearken unto my counsel and dbserve my “TIPS,” that thy feet may not stumble in the love-chase, nor go astray i the Blind Alley that leadeth to Matrimonw Lao, I have followed them upon Thirty-fourth street; at the Tango Tea; I have watched them at their work; and by the Napeof-their-Necks have f taken their Numbers! Job the new City Plan Committee of the Board of Estimate Verily, verily, I charge thee not by her face, but by her BACK HAIR, shalt thou know # damsel! Statisticians assure us that the population of the cfty will) double in the next generation. Somebody must look forward. Hx- pension and improvement in the past have been hit or miss. New York City ie now old enongh to be conscious of itself as a carefully- to-be-considered whole and to say definitely how end in what direo- jtions it shall grow. For a double-chin may be removed and a mole upon the cheelf shall ff time pass away; but the back of a woman's neck is always as the Lord Behold, if her hair be drawn up tightly and severely, and the roots thereof FRANKLY revealed, I say unto thee, watch and pray! For euch an one hath the soul of @ School Teacher and is net ¢o Ge i" | trifled with. . The Committes on Ctty Planning conaists of the five Borough Yea, once she hath marned thee, she will hold THDN es tightly | severely to the straight and narrow path, Presidents and a obsirman. The latter is George W. MoAneny, President of the Board of Aldermen, to whom Manhettan owes the But if her locks fall loosely and abundantly, and without rhyme, rhythas, + ; shape or reason behind her ears, likewise, beware! “The main task of the oommfttes,” explains Mr, MoAneny, “is| _ te present a general city plan by which all local improvements j ita now under way, the dual ebway a@ystem and the dock and terminal improvements will fix certain lines of development for the next twenty-five years at least. The larger improvement echemes are referred by the Board of Estimate to the be eo-ordinated. For the dishes of her house shall never be washed pefore eundown, ner the beds made until AFTER the theatre. Her hueband’s socks shall fal) away without darning, and his dinner shall NEVER be on time, Yea, auch a damee! taketh life easily; she is 80 good-natured. If her Dack hair be scant and fractious withal; if it etragglc i= wings and hang as a string of pennants above her collar, then, my Som, thea as stubble, thou needest fear no danger. Clty Plan Committee, which considers them in their bearing upon For, peradventure, ehe is either a man-hater, or a freak, or an INTEL: LECTUAL. And no man shall sigh for her. ithe development of the city as a whole.” Inasmuch as the ix members of the committee have ten out But ff the hair above her nape be curled ARTIFICIALLY, and slowing with brilliantine and henna, oh flee, my Son, | ef @ total of sixteen votes in the Board of Estimate, recommendations of this body are pretty certain to go into effect. Highly interesting and significant are reports from real estate For of such is the Kingdom of Van! shall she cook; and all her days shall be spent at the manicure’s, and the | milliner’s, and the masseur’s, and the modiste’s, and the bridge table the tango tea. : Yea, she is the Hulman Peacock. interests that the city is tending to become round instead of elongat- ing iteelf still further up toward Albany. There is lots of room and good living on Long Ieland for that next 6,000,000. Let the Plan Committee remember that. <4 ——____. Yet, if thou findest ONE damsel whose back hair groweth abun yet neither falleth nor straggleth, nor stretcheth, but js neat withal an KISSABLE with curling tendrils, then, my Son, mayest thou safely observe her face For such an one is a REGULAR GIRL! The SUBWAY ‘The gentle bird of peace fluttered back to the bomb-proot HAT Oh, mark my words, and keep my counsel, my Son; for a woman's | back hair'is as a eymbol and a divining Tod. Yea, verily, tt is her “ANSWER!” Selah. ——— A BRACER FOR COTTON. HE country is asked to rally to a nation-wide cotton bargain day when every woman in the land shall lay in an extra supply af cotton foods to cheer the depressed cotton pro- @users of the South whose markets are cut off by the war. ‘Wives and daughtere of Congressmen are supporting the echeme with enthusiasm. The latest suggestion is a cotton fashion show at the Capitol to remind people yhat can be done with this homely and inexpensive material. (Furs Ake Gone UP)” So Wags The World By Clarence L. Cullen. Fables of The Dower of Beauty Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb admired Clifton, and I was sure aided with him and thought he hi done right. Jack's salary was now 98,000. Big- ificant of his altered manner was the fact that he had had the ratee for some time before telling me of it. “That is very nice,” I replied coldly when he mentioned that Mr. Flam|, ee ae ie cl ate ry me, had again raised his salary, hurt that| mind the conversation I.had over- he had not told me at once, although F . immediately planning what I should do with the added $500, “but I don't gee why you didn’t tell me before!” “What difference does it make?" he| rejoined wearily, “Nowadays #500/F!am call, you?" more or less doesn’t count.” By Marie Montaigne Cupyright, 1014, ty the Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World), No. 9—Facial Lines and Creasee. N all ages beauty has been a prize sought for by man and maid, and from the time of Eve until now women have sought means to make themselves {We eee the point. Anyhow, it’s a patriotic duty to straighten owt home economics and boost any great national indu honestly needs The When @ woman begins to realise @ necessity for seeking facial im- provement ft is because she notes a line etching itself along the corners of her mouth from_the nose down be- low the outer curve of ———————++-—__. Aldermen ore citting in new chairs of In the latter case the line takes a direction and is deeper than when it is the evidence of care, sorrow or age. Only in the latter lose something of —_-4-—___.. EVERY CITIZEN A HEALTH OFFICER. HE State Commissioner of Health is on the right track with bis plan to persuade people that sanitary regulations are enforced for their own paficular for the sake of others. i case does the lin ite severity and g Widows would get away with claim that their late husbands phenomenalty handsome men if they wouldn't show photographs the deceased te prove it. ys one of the frst ined in early youth irritable or mean. Where temper prints its signature on the sides of lines are so unmistak- ‘@ bad disposition that abi and private good no less . z thoughts I blamed Jack that we were not rich. ‘Chapters From a Woman’s Life By Dale Drummond 11s a High Thinker; yea, she is “artistic,” and te bors for single blessedness. . Likewise, if her locks be cut SHORT at the neck, and grow thereoa 1 She shall mend not, netther Cousright, 1014, by the Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Work), CHAPTER LXXXIV. about the same kind of Coolidge has, her. Jack appeared to dis- joes. I hear, | OFTEN thought of Gertie, | Soatt while ‘t "but talked no more about | can’t bh like any reference to her Spey: seam trouble. He had always where!” motor cars and every- Pa as they moved alo; “Vulgar cats!" ashamed and annoyed, That any one should dare to even intimate that I was-or could be true to Jack was unbelievable. Then, it was none of their business where or how I got my clothes, heard. “Jack, just what is your with Flam & Co.?" — “Why?” y “I want to know! nothing but a ol: ‘It makes ence!" I repli “What differen I bad never overcome my dislike| What I Worth?—and @ good deal * for Mr. Flam, never ceased to think that were it not for Jack's foolish fear of displeasing bim he would hav speculated openly ae others did and so have made more money—more money eT did not ks, the reticence ne e retl observed about hin business z and I determined to have it out good “If, you are not a be to spend. Always in my|clork I don't see why you ‘We now lived more as I wished to. istant ma: jack told me nothing of tis efook rep the. Boks COTES CheerveT se0s market operations, and he never ques- ognizes the source of the disfigure-| photograph appear as ff it had been dad naturally fallen in the way of tioned me about my expenditures. | position?” ment and does not attribute it to taken in @ snowstorm? that most: women of fifty or so like to claim that all of baby clothes, especially the gar- ment they were christened in, extremely expensive handmade aus Blsters in He gave me money when I asted for 1%, paid the billa without grumbling, and in addition often made me a pres- ent of a check of considerable size. Yet I was never out of Bene a are living, that you have no Loraine, finding me so fond of aldthes, 7 constantly tempted me (it was very|{n, eurned with quick understand. @asy), and my bills were enormous. I never had her entirely paid’up. If I gave her ome money I at the same time ordered more clothes, At this when, if you had time she had no trouble in selling me .| her most expensive creations. If I) being called ‘a clerk's wie: red. Mked anything, the cost never both- ered me in the least. Jack would have to pay for it. I think his keeping his affairs from me made me more reckless than I thinking that he was the “only” one. Now, the young man had an unole people trom doing things, making them clean up their backyards and _. keeping them shut up in their houses with quarantine. Biforts of health workers will now be directed toward making people feel that the work is an important constructive foree for their own sanitary betterment, rather than an official force of repression to keep them from endangering the health ‘To prevent this line from forming, one should follow rigidly the following , Gon't let finan- BRS SHE wares LCT cial cares weigh upom you; that makes an ugly furrow. Don't weep, don't be 'Zi'these things trace and deepen thie furrow and the emotion most often indulged in is the one which will give most character to proclaim to all the reason of its existence, line ts the most difficult to eradicate, An electric pencil, day, will help to plump out the underlying muscle and bring feed the tissue eo that it will fill out the furrow. Pinches, pats Massage, with a good face food, cows’ cream, or pure eradicate and prevent this unlovely crease, r cross and shrewish, some convent or — ‘We've met o large num! You can do a lot with the average citizen # you convince him i ‘that his slack ways are not merely things that somebody else complains | of, but real handicaps to bis own health and prosperity. With county sanitary leagues, conferences and educational cam- paigns Dr. Biggs expects to save 25,000 lives in the State in the next five years. Everybody knows what local tuberoulosia committees have > aceompliched. Everybody knows how the instruction of mothers in the care of their babies ts cutting down infant mortal! ‘The best thing about this sort of life-saving is that, once started, it! in all their married 1i! woman jen always had a alit of an tron jaw, and ae in- variably the man had @ receding chi: What's become of the used to read “Lucile” gnd Hits From Sharp Wits. It is only @ step from an economic condition to @ moral issue.—Boston ‘Tranecript. could fill bis place, i Te § BEE z As An old theatrical manager tells us that not one-fifth as many girls and) at the sad shows as saya that the women i i Hl ty in this city. i d i ; # i It is usually the man who never votes who knows exactly how the i i Z zs 5 any backbo! demands’ otherwise have been. 1! jot himself go. imagined—wiongly- that ha was! voice was unmistakable. making largo sums in the market, almost—not “kid” the pathetic 5 g ovants its resouss with now prefer to it ft I : § and that he did not want me to know how large. “That's Mre. Jack Coolidge!” I heard a woman's voice remark one day in @ department store. ‘‘Doesn't/ have swamped us {i she dress exquisitely? I used to see| When men af" her four or five years ago, and, while th she always looked well, she didn’t ess anything as she does now.” @ucceeding decades in hundreds of thousands ——4§ = ‘We feticttate the esteemed Herald upon having happily Swscovered and headlined the “St. Charles spaniel.” sf r, i ij Government ought to be run.—Phila- elphia Inquirer. i is j | i i i i 8 iF “| @o wish these ‘white sale’ ad- vertisements wouldn't be #0 confi- Gential,” we heard a other day. ‘I hate to I meet know all about every solitary stitch I have on, and ot I il Most ; argument e sti ii ry i Si A oan’t be good Bre fighte and @ frewater figh ' i i i ; z iz HF 4 ae mills of te : low because they have all eter- nity in which to finish the job.—Des- We hear a lot of days, how sick th ‘re becoming of dignation, Mmited capiti “How does she do it?” her com-| that?” the petures of girls on the magazine panion asked. “Jack Coolidge is only a clerk in Flam's. He can’t get such) “I'm not blaming you, Bue, an enormous salary, My husband} brought up the question, not 1. knew him in college and suys he is a Half the knowledge is only the knowing where to find information when it is wanted. As the years flow on ft seem: all space of time between Pie twepapers “Swat the fly!” ad- ir command that we am doing m: fine fellow.” we eS “Do you suppose there is another] me.” ‘The more you do for others the yhat' more they will expect from you; and jom she then they will leave you alone two do mas shopping early.” tard man in the case?” the first speaker sinuated. My cheeks burned; I was indignant |at the implied insult and strained right-meaning chap from bloc! It takes two pints to make # quart, the band should called one!” thinkin, oonver- sation I had overbenrs =“ “I suppose I am « kind of far as able, ‘But why this #1 den anxiety to know my tec! “I heard some on only a clerk in me mad,” Leva “Made you mad because that we have no right to Ii dress as you do, you would business of your ownl ‘I'm thea’ ot “You have spent the monay than I could make it, Sue, shance had I but to. stay was, the only place where I. @0 make money enough to meet It had been long since Jack had se: 6 bitterness in his quite—overcame my in. “Other women don't havi their husbands called ‘olerks!"® “Had I tried to go into business for myself, Sue, or as I considered @ year ago, with a partner, voy economically until the; shed. Tell me, has there ever been a time when you were willing to do “You always blame me!" a like, I returned, ol” woman! promised to fhake you b: leluge comes, don't b “So you are mana, Co., not a clerk?” T eked to my first question, “Whe 8 yeas y awere jeasantly. tloally their