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THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, GEPTEMBER 7, 1915. TRANNG Old Fashioned MOTHER Not Yet Extinct And She Is COMING BACK, Says Deanof All - o> Committee to Formulate Citi- zen Military Plan of Wide Scope. ARMY “FAN.” He Calls It a Crime to Send Untrained Volunteers Into the Field. MAYOR Ht would be & crime agninet the People of this country. « Bothing less than national suict to wend into the field armies od and officered by untrained volunteers.” dectared ounting to mi training at Plattsburg camp. Within « few days @ commitior of pine prominent men, the Mayor among them, will meet in this city and ar Fange to have @ string ef citizens Camps, similar to that at Miattabure, @etablished in the several military de- Dartments of this country. Robert Bacon is chairman of the committ While the Mayor would not discuss the pians of the committee, it is un derstood that among the sugaemtions likely to be discussed will be the taining of achool boyg, not only in this city, but in practically all p: of the country, and the making of soldiers of male city employees under forty years of age. If this suggestion fe adopted, it is not unlikely that a reserve army of something like thousand men could be put field within a year. But, first of all, the committee will” give national impetus to am to create a big reserte * officers. “The Plattsburg encampment," said the Mayor, “has taught 1,300 of the representative men of the nation the futility of relying upon volunteer armies in case of need and the ce: tain national disaster that would fol- low @ continuation of that policy know now in @ way that argume can never bring home that @ soldier, much less an officer, cannot be made | in a few weeks of training. “I have returned from Plattsburg deeply convinced of the great value of this experiment, The encampment | was @ thorough success, and the spirit brought to the work by the 1,800 members of the provisional regl- ment was an inspiration and some thing to be remembered through a} Nfetime. The discipline was strict, | the work hard and the resulis achieved remarkable considering the very brief period of training. The regular “army officers assirned to duty in the camp did a splendid piece of work and deserve great credit Their patience was inexhaustible, their enthusiasm unbounded and their courtesy, while exacting strict ad- erence to discipline, unfailing. All of us leave Plattsburg with an in- creased respect for the efficiency and oharacter of the officers of our regu- lar army and with the warmest feel ings of personal friendship for those with whom we were there thrown into personal contact The fundamental objects of the Platteburg training camp were, to my mind, to give the members of the camp that initia! and elementary training in the use of arms and the command of military forces which, if followed by more advanced and more thorough training, would fit them to become officers in the event of a national emergency. This the camp did. No one claims that any one of us, by virtue of these four in the vement of compecent weeks of instruction alone, is now competent te command troops, On the contrary, we app ate now how Nttle competent we are, We have re ceived, however, a groundwork which jayor Mitchel to-day upon | nis return from four weeks of military | Tt Of Fatwonep -mOtmoe Parr | | Home Is Ill-Furnished Without the Sound of Children’s Voices. Being a Mother Is a Woman's Highest Duty and Her Greatest Joy. Old Fashioned Mother Wants All the Chil- dren Whom God Will Send. With Every Child She Brings Into the | Says Amelia Barr, Mother of 15: World a Mother ave Looren art THON nap @ sae wn Should Renew Her Youth. When War Ends Old Fashioned Mothers Will Again Come Into Being. rare specimen fashioned national problem mother of fifteen fom!ly—fifteen, say. w.om God sends to her.” ILLY-FURNISHED. however splendidly ap- the “, point pre’ is M-furnished without the sound of home, 4" Mrs, Barr he Measure of a Man," writes in children’ ives and the patter of . It may be strictly y it is silent and forlorn, and has an air of solitude, Solitude is a great affliction and domestic soli- tude is one of its hardest forms. No number of balls and dinner parties, no visits from friends, can make up for the absence of Sons and daugh- ters around the family table and the family hearth,” nd yet there are so many mod ern women who won't have children’ sighed the novelist, Crisp white draperies floating all about her, a rosebud- thed bit of lace on her crimply gray hair, she sat in a wicker in her Richmond Hill liv- armehair ing room, I was reminded, not for the first time, of the ruling spirit of which Mrs, Barr that Victorian age still interprets so serenely “How, ingthe first place, do you fashioned girt and the old-fashioned boy. mother By Marguerite Moocrs-Marshall. The old-fashioned mother ts not yet ertinct, but she is an increasingly With her, and because of her, are disappearing the old- And the scarcity of the ota-| is not merely a domestic but a of the most intense gravity, ‘Those are the tenacious convictions of Mrs..Amelia FE. Barr, the dean of American women writers and the! children. There is this much to be sald for Mrs. Barr—she has infinitely more right to! combat the modern belief in the Im‘ted family than | have the varfous male conservatives who preach her! theory without having endured the practice of tt. Any} of us who are on the other side may admit that much. | In her newest novel, sixty-sixth book which she has written, and which is published in her{ elgnty-sixth year, Mrs. Barr tells the story of a woman who wishes to! escape from the role of an old-fashtoned mother with an old-fashioned | nomn 2 ‘The book {s arousing wide discussion among women, | ‘for after numerous tribulations, all traced by the author to the anti-stork gone to work, after her daughters policy, the heroine repents herself and resolves “to accept all the children have grown up and married, let @ “The Measure of a Man,” the —— HOME WITH NO CHILDREN |S define the old-fashioned mother?” 1 asked. “The old-fashioned mother real- izes that being a mother is her highest duty and her greatoat joy. She wants all the children whom God will send to her. She tries to avoid neither their coming after their ar- nuri her own ature intended, car for them herself, trains them to standards of right living. She “This type of mother by no means has disappeared, I myself know some very fine old-fashioned mothers, But they are much scarcer than they used to be, and a study of the birth rate in this country shows that the de- crease in thelr number is the great- est danger confronting America to- day. WOMEN REFUSING MOTHER- HOOD CLASSIFIED. “With the exception of a very few {genuine invalids, the women who re- \fuse motherhood fall into two large groups. The first group consists of wal Whe BRING BACK THE OLO-PASHIONED MOTHER = v2 (6. era tex Ory 2D “US2 VV a? (fe self-improvement, to 1 consider that women’ clubs are largely responsible for the scarcity of the old-fashioned mother. Women who couldn't get into socicty have gone into club work, where they have met and been flattered by other women and where they actually believe that they can accomplish greater things than by staying at home | and caring for a large family of | “But are you absolutely opposed to all activity for women outside the I questioned. “After her sons hive grown up and mother seek club work or some form of artistic expression,” said Mra, Barr, “I know of a large and delight- ful club called the ‘Girls of Seventy.’ You can't even join it till after you're seventy years old. Its object ts char- ity, and it has set many poor families on thelr feet. As for any genius or talent a woman may possess, it be- comes ripened by motherhood, 1 didn’t begin my first novel till I was fifty-four, For that matter, the world can get on without amtaeur opera singers or water-color painters, But what would the world do without mothera?” OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER VS. THE $16-A-MONTH NURSE, “Do you think that if the modern mother has children she cares for them as well as the old-fashioned mother used to do?” I inquired. “Some children are receiving great are,” Mra. Barr prompuy admitted. “But there are still plenty of mothers who turn their little ones over to the ‘tender mercies of an ignorant young girl to whom they pay $16 or $18 a month. “IT myself saw one of these girls take @ baby from its carriage in the park and brutally beat it because tt Stor wOeans Conwy - Gn weer ANP avow amence nan yee ep Cn ated y Oh DUMBA DEPARTS J) TO “EXPLAIN” TO SECY LANSING Two Embarrassed Ambassa- dors Play Game of “In and A ircle 10 degrees from this point in- Out of New York. ” cludes the Inth of Panama The Central and South Amertoan — Telegraph Company to-day reported that earthquakes had interrupted their The two embarrassed Ambassa- Ines between San Jui del Sur, dors, Bernstorft of Germany and| costs, Kiog and Hallinas Crus Thelr Dumba of Austro-Hungary, played|very heavy in Costa Rica, but there are 4 game of in and out of New York to-day and missed @eeing each other to offer mutual consolation, Both Ambassadors are in danger of being sent out of the country. Dr. Dumba came down from his summer retreat at Lenox and arrived in New York late last night. He left at o'clock this morning for Washington to do his turn at ex- plaining to Secretary of State Lan- sing his activities in disturbing in- dustrial peace in the United States, While in New York he refused to say anything regarding the affair, Count von Bernstorff haw been in @ secluded camp in the Adirondacks as the guest of Archibald C, White, a New York banker. News of the recent events was late reaching him, so that he did not have the disquiet- ing Sunday and Monday holiday that Dr. Dumba experienced. At the Ritz-Carlton Embassy head- quarters to-day Dr, Edler, Secretary to the Ambassador was expected to arrive from his “motoring trip” some time during the day, but there was nothing to be said just now about the sinking of the Hesperian. Count von Bernstorff is expected to follow Dr. Dumba tn the * id that his chief | xplana- | was crying. The sun was pouring in| Won" room of the State Department | ‘BROADWAY CROWDS SEE TWO CATCH RUNAWAY ON A FRANTIC DASH Chauffeur Adamson and Policeman Commissioner Stop Horse | —— ‘The bells of engines on the wer to & five frightened « © wage een Com pany of No. 118 West Sixty-mfun Mreet, at sty-eleth Street and Wrondway to-day and the animal off * wild clip @ ® Mroad way. The driver's effort to stop it Were futile and troileye and were erased in the a The Boise of the engines drew William Doyle, cheuffeur tor Fire Commiastoner Adamson, to Hroadway and Hixty-fourth Street. He had , been waiting with (he Commissioner's auto nearby, As the runaway swept caught the *1 along for » drew himself to 1 was swaying carried along Patroiman Farrell of the West Bix ty-elehth Bureet bi nm tried to get the horse as it went by but he was thrown aside, He just caught the rear of the wagon and managed to climb in. He failed to take the bit from the horwe's teeth when he tugged at the reins and he finally climbed out upon the wagon shafts te head of the frightened animal, inbined weleht of De finally told and the h | Both men jumped a \Jury. [HEAVIEST QUAKEFORYEAR | ~ RECORDED AT NEW HAVEN Coast of Costa Rica Centre of ™ Disturbance Registered on Seismograph, NEW HAVEN. Conn, Sept Earth shocks with extremely strong vibrations were recorded on the selamograph at Yale University dur- ing last nigh! record ia more | Pronounced than tho produ by earthquakes in Southern California, Alaska and Italy during the last year. Shocks Centre on Con of Conta Nite LONDON, Sept. 7. office was notific The meteorologient to-day by the ob- wervatory at Exskdalemuir, Scotland, that a violent earthquake had been rocorded there at 1 o'clock this morn- ing, The indicated centre was at latitude 9 north, longitude 86 west, about 70 miles from Cape Blanco, on the coast of Costa Rica, in the Pacific. | no Indications of loss of life in their advices, —_—— SENT WIFE OUT; SHOT SELF. Yorkv' Man Dr le Herrnstadt, German, until a year ago made @ com- fortable living in the lumber business with an office at No, 66 Hroad Street, Conditions following the start of the Simon a middle-aged war wrecked his trade, ‘Then from Ger- many came tidings that five of his aix brothers were at the front, He never heard from them after they went to the trenches. His troubles preyed upon his mind and he became moiancholy, Early to-day, while his three children were asleep In his home, tn an apart. ment at No. 117 Bast Highty-sixth Street, he asked his wife to go tow nearby store for some fresh rolls, As she opene nm her return en ‘shot, and hurrying to her and’s room found him dead upon the floor. He left a note ahe forgive him for endi stating that bis busin and | the uncertainty aa to fate of his era had made life unendurable, MAXIMS IN BOSTONESE. (Prom the Boston Record) The warbler who rises betimes ts Mkely to got the only breakfast | A trifling divergence from e rect direotion is as disastrous | most serious deflection, a tenet WIFE OF BELGIUM'S JUSTICE MINISTER, BY GERMANS. GERMANS KEPT WIFE OF BELGIAN MINISTER INCELL THREE MONTHS | Mme. de Wiart Tells of Solitary | Confinement—Denies King of Spain Won Her Pardon, of the Petit Parisien, she was greatly women of France: “It is why one lives, not how one lives that matters, I could not have be otherwise than I have, and the German realize it, for if they bad permitted my return to Brussels I who told her admired by the | would not have modified my way of living noun from That was why they pro- 1d the sentence banishing me my own country. It was @ simplo administrative decision with. |B out any form of trial, Mme, de Wiart asserted she was |” shown no special courtesies, but was imprisoned in an ordinary peniten- tary and treated exactly like other prisoners, common-law offenders, ex- cept that the Germans always dressed her as “Your Excellency. “I spent most of my Ume writing translations from English,” she said, “The only visitor I was allowed was the Spanish Ambassador, and that always in the presence of a German officer, I have no impreasion of Ger- many to give you, for I was kept in solitary confinement.” at to the city of Mayor chel's official trip to, the Panama cifie Exposition was $889.20, e prices aod 414 not advertisa ———— FACTS ABOUT MY LOW When in January last 1 fees low and advertised became the custom of ether to way all the mean things they about my ytacticn and warn inst being treated by me, ple quickly found that © at least as good as specialists and that my fees about onethird what the bi specialists charged. LOW FEES DURING SEPTEMBER fees wot hte My * bet we "thie LJ Tartog. inthe" eapithe thane hy that — orem ty setae te on ft the vw thown oe tant Mire len f oping in Throat, Deafness and Head Noises PARIS, Sept. 1—Mme. Carton de} Mr Robert {lten goatee of Mo. 06 Wiart, wife of the Bolgian Minister | Sti; “ay eeeieys ten she of Justice, who was released ast eae Y coal nt a A week trom a Germaa prison to whieh | wy de she was sentenced for three month Ht ur correspond er a, | g” tot oor ie sing with her husband, fereewo veace h'pae gn. Gutta deal declared to the Bawel cc rm poles in. ny. head, ram avel correspondent y, hand Hike ral, earapi Kart worn tor ince treat thet, norte are tg ‘ys tan sleep ie lie fromt"of the head, Phe fe My teat, frme, "The nomee have left, the ears; he com Bear Sell and hls smell reeurning. it, Allen he, reports DEAFNESS AND HEAD NOISES Whee Mr, Edward J. Dunn first a PM re, ena a “My bad t cess of Stiga who ‘wore cold mot what the child's eyes and it had a perfect | at Washington later in the week. His those who fear maternity, who fear) right to ee When I Pllewee eet | task is to tell how it happens that | suffering and possible death. This|carriago home und ventured to tell Lav pe naan paneenner liner i er. 7 J q |the mother what { had seen sho re-| pedoed w | [group may be subdivided into the | risked acidly, ‘Probably the child | hia written promise that Germany | women who are prevented by con-| deserved punishment. I have perfect | Would discontinue that kind of war- iscientious scruples from using an y nurse," fare. can easily be built upon to make of 1,300 men material fit to sup- plement with officers the nation's meagre quota of trained regulars and trained militia. these MORNING’S shopping at Lord a hese the lessons taught by | opiate to alleviate pain at/the birth of old-fashioned | mother Plattsbun sons which this nation) ehild, and the progressive women Pana Tape Matcher Mens RAIN H $ wo MEN: SE a ee RAM HIG he eer ne ec a femncera mmemlocent Many (tT ITS T ' & Taylor's, Best’s or would preserve its free Institutions | treatment as ‘twilight sleep.’ cause their nurses didn't know Altman’s, a bite of lun- cheon at the Waldorf, up the Avenue for a book at Scribner’s, and enough to give them a drink of water, Others have been poi- soned with opiates, eo that the nurses might go out. Beside who but @ mother ie #0 well fitte to give her children that loving discipline they should receive from ti iret dawn of con- and maintain its position of dignity | and independence among the nations of the The Plattsburg camp should be followed by many others of its kind pending the adoption by the | national go nent of full and ade- “There 1s one thing which ought to |be brought to the attention of all these women, Maternity is not a dis- ease, It is as natural a process as going to sleep at night and waking up in the morning. If women would KILLS ONE, MAIMS OTHER Victims Busy Loading Newspapers Into Auto When Struck world | quate measures of national prepared-! live sensibly they would have no! sciousness? at Station. ; ness. more reason to fear the crown of| ‘The scarcity of the old-fashioned . AMERICA'S fe ht . : Pi re ae | mother 1s doubtless the reason for the | (Gpectal to The vening World.) home—feeling as fresh I have been asked once or twice |motherhood than have the Indian /gcarcity of old-fashioned girls and| KEANSBURG, N. J., Sept. 2—A GREATEST comment upan certain eritiel nig of | Ome who bin aun te a river's hoys, and the pre seas lacumsienninl taped ment” ‘rain seade'| as when the day f for my participation tn this) edge to give thelr bables the frat/nent, aulck-1 we BreeneoUs oor empty passenger coaches bound | he began, CIGARETTE camp indulged in by few personally | bath. ‘cute’ and ‘smart’ in their earliest| south from Jersey City to Point | because as she travelled unfriendly, While [have no disposi-| “If women would stop wearing cor-| years for the faults that now mako| Pleasant early to-day struck John N, | tion to give them serious considera- {ects and high heels, avoid athletics |them go disagreeable. Sometimes itl reckner, sixty-five years old, killing | from place to place she tion, I think it not amiss to point out) which do them so much harm, eat |jooms (me as Mf Modest, Innovent.| 11 instantly and also hit David Sol- to those who may have been con-| sensibly and keep regular hours, their the world.” omon, forty years old, fracturing bis used a ' fused by misrepresentation that my| children would be born with little; “And do you belleve that the old- hip and injuring him tnternally. - time at Plattsburg was my own vaca. |euffering. With every child that she |{snioned mother is likely to return?" | Tackner and Solomon were busy Y —_— oned. H tion time which I was entitled to/prings into the world a mother should |” "if we have @ war she will come| loading morning newspapers {nto an I ¥ spend at leisure, and if I chose to | renew her youth, back to us," Mrs. Barr prophesied. | automobile at the time of the accident, E o N spend it in hard Work in camp in the| “The other large group of |"When the nations now involved | and failed to seo the train as it ap- Rheingold Beer, b ‘sek Interest of a movement in which I) women who refuse to be old-fash- | Sinirga fom thin pwtul strife they | proached the station, Lagkner's body color, delicious in its rich ey con Absolutely Removes "(ly believe, and at @ time] joned mothers consists of those | Juncers, Old-fashioned mothora and | Waa removed to Keyport apd Solomon be ordered from any de A 4 when my absence from the city could| who believe there are more im- old-fashioned families will again come | was brought to his residence in Keane- 5 ii Indigestion. Onepackage 11 and dia not in any respect preju-| portant intereste for a woman !n!0 being. burg. Solomon conducts « newsstand S. Liebmann’s Sons Brewing Co, rs dice the city’s interest, tt was a mat-| than maternity. They prefer And if they grow acarom once more, | tor the Union News Company and provesit, 25cat all druggists, (er pureiy of my own " bout the year 2000, 1 suppose we can! Lackner fe engaged in the automobile ~ , ter purely of my concern, bridge, or elu the tango, or ‘always call another war, business at Keansburg. | ' (