The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1915, Page 16

> 8Y seer POLITE moe pomnr etre we Poet Orr vow o 1 9 chal F ot Ragland ont _ Werle fer ihe Uniiet Motes ent Connte AN Coumtrer te Peeve! 8S Be “e fe ants iene Merton oy en tiese! aod terers@tionsl — | nin ! One Toor | Ome Mone EPTEMBER TWENTY FIFTH, it coome more and more ceriem, “sew the beginning of « ehift im the battle lines of Western Karope. While the Germans may check for a moment the brilliant drive! @f the French in Champagne, the letter have nevertheless demon strated that, after due preliminary hammering with their artillery, they can carry in one twenty-minute rush fifteen miles of scientifically eomsiructed concrete-lined German trenclier | The demonstration no doubt cost heavy losses to the demonstra tore, It hes not been Gen. Joffre’s way to waste men for the sake of a few hours’ advantage. The more reason to think that his sudd-n) energy after months of restraint and preparation means movement, edvance—determined, far-reaching—and that the long deadiock in the wert may at last be broken by some of the most telling sections of the war. Trench warfare has chown one thing: Armies bitten into the @arth along their battle fronts gain ground only at the expense of what seems appallingly disproportionate sacrifice of life. On the other hand, field battles of the old decisive type appear almost impos- tible in current warfare. There comes « time, therefore, when a Great advance at great sacrifice is the only way to avert greater sacri- fices still by pushing nearer to conclusions. It is easy to eee special reasons why the allies should at leas: begin the task of pushing the Germans out of France and Flanders. Winter is coming. The season of fighting should not close upon a record in which German victories and German territorial gains chiefly figure. Russia needs encouragement if not help. Bulgaria neede 4 warning. Greece and Roumania need heartening. The Turks are re ported recapturing positions from the allies on the Gallipoli Peninsula. In all directions the news of a great offensive move on the part of the allies in the west will stimulate all foes and potential foos of Germany to fresh efforts. By this timo badly needed munitions must have arrived and been distributed in France. Behind tho allied lines should be vast quantities of ammunition and between two and three million fresh British troops. If Joffre is ready, October ought to see new markings on the War map of the west. — a NOTHING TO CELEBRATE. IRE PREVENTION DAY will be observed Oct. 9. Observed, not celebrated. The city’s record of fire loss is no cause for Seventeen million dollars was the total oost of fires to New York last year. Fire Commissioner Adamson reports that “every man, woman and child in the city has to pay $1.44 each year for fire loss.” This does not cover the upkeep of the Fire and Water Departments. . Seventy-five per cent. of fires in the city are due to carelessness; Jetting rubbish accumulate in cellars and under stairways, throwing away lighted matches, cigars or cigarettes, neglecting chimneys and fines, handling inflammable liquids near burning gas jets. ‘Taking chances in such ways is criminal. Still, year after year, New Yorkers go on doing the same things. Courts rule that persons can be held responsible for fires caused by culpable carelessness. But save in cases where loss of life attracts the notice of the community, carelessness of this sort goes every day unpunished. Personal responsibility in the direction of fire preven- tion shows scant growth. “The fire loss per capita in the United States,” says the American Wear Book, “is still enormous compared with European experience.” In 1918 this per capita loss ranged for the various American ; municipalities Msted in the Insurance Year Book from $0.06 minimum to $40.91 maximum, as compared with $0.03 minimum to only $4.31 maximum for Buropean cities. In Baropean cities a fire is a crime for which somebody must be unless « natural and unavoidable cause can be proved. When New York adopts that attitude toward fires and persons upon whose premises they occur, Fire Prevention Day may celebrate progress ir- stead of annually deploring continued heedlessness and waste. Hits From Sharp Wits. Could the chap with a correspond- @mce school diploma be referred to as ~% parcel post graduate? — Boston eee Many « good idea goes to waste be- @ause there's no energy to push it Every time one runs throu; byes a4 casual way he ands en of wot he thinks he would day. “Life is too short,” remarked the man on the car, “to do all the things Ly lo to-morrow,”. edo Blade ie oe Some folky who are quick to anything elae are slow to take a hint Ledger Dispateh. ng a certali ready to tell how it ought to be done. Albany Journal. The Unt ‘Fo the Raitor of The Brening World: Would od very much to know which ry has the mont warships, Italy or the United States? G, M, B. Benjamin Franklins, ‘To the Kiitor of The Krealng World: Would you kindly inform me through your gpeeicn. and answer column who discovered electricity and the first man to use it? CHARLES ANTHONY, Ol4 Papers. "(fo the Editor of The Rveaing Work’: I have an old paper, New Hamp- shire Sentinel, date March 28, 171 grins an official account of the noh frigate Insurgent captured by Fouxton of U. 8, frigate Con- tiom- Also Worcester Gazette, reh 26, 1795; New York Herald, March 15, 1865; St, Louls Reveille, July 24, 1548, Can any many? hauwe: We the keller of The Tam in charge of for Thanksgiving of 800 tertainment, decorations programme will be moat gratefully received, M. No National Holidays, To the Editor of The Bening World, Will you Kindly setue a diseu between A and B? A said Labor Dey J» @ National holiday, B said we have no National holidays in the United States, according to an encyclopedia. Will you kindly give answer in your “Letters From the People” eolumn? J. Editor of Tho Bri World . K, ow @ are all slaves to custom in one Way or another, but one of the most foolish thin to my way of thinking, is for Labor Day to cause the cloas of the summer season at most places, Beptember being the finest month of the year, We usually have good weather way into October, and yet the boards go up on the hotels in- variably about Sept. 15 and the home rush starts after Labor Day. Should Labor Day be changed or should the people be educated to the fact that {t is a summer holiday, as the Fourth of July, and not a boun- dary mark of the scavons? V. A.D, Labor Day, one show as , BCOLLAY. children's party week. It is @ Won members, so would folks, Any ous- By Roy L. Copyright, 191, by the Pree Mubiisbing Co, (The New York Brening World), 66 HERE'S that heavy fall; sult of mine?” asked W Mr, Jarr as he fumbled around in the dark depths of the closet. “Now you just come out of there! said Mra, Jarr sharply, ‘You'll get all my skirts rumpled that have just |* bon pressed. You know your clothes @re not In that closet!” “Where are they, then?” asked Mr, Jarr. “I want that fall suit.” “They are with the rest of your things in the closet in the other room,” said Mrs. Jarr, “TI give you @ closet to hang your things in, but you throw them all over the house, and it takes up all my time running around after you picking things up! You might be a little considerate and not make my work twice as, hard! 1 do declare I get ao dis-| couraged!” “Gimme a place to hang my things, then!” said Mr, Jarr. “Gimme a place that I can really call my own! There lan't anything in that other closet but some old summer sults of mine| and a jot of your things and the cbll- dren's, Besides, 1 asked you not to put any of my things in that closet It’s full of moths.” ‘There isn't a moth in this house!” | said Mrs Jarr “You're always say- ing there's moths in your clothes, How could there be when I'm always \aking them out ad airing and brushing them? And your fall over- coat and the suit you can't fod has been put away all summer in tar paper and moth balla, and they are in that closet, for 1 put them In there Just a couple of weeks ago, You didn’t half look!” “Then they're eaten up by moths!” exclaimed Mr, Jarr, “Don't 1 know moths? Those little, flossy, milky greasy rolls about as big as a grain ot rice with a worm inside of them!" “That shows how much you know,” said Mra. Jarr. “Moths are little tiny dust-colored butterflies.” “That's old Mr. and Mra, Moth,” eaid Mr, Jarr, “It's thelr large and hungry familles of little worms that eat the clothes, Haven't 1 picked them off my coats and vests enough to know?” “You never did! There ain't a moth in this house!” said Mrs, Jarr. “Look here at the lapel of this coat, what's this?” asked Mr. Jarr. “That's a cut or a burn,” sald Mrs, Jarr, not looking; “you are alwaya The Jarr. Family McCardell in my house coat?” suggested Mr. Jarr, “Oh, that was done a year or #0 ago,” said Mra, Jarr indifferently. “You don’t have to wear a house coat downtown, do you? There's no moths in the house now.” “They are in that closet,” said Mr. Jarr. “I kept the house coat hanging in there in the hope If there were moths they'd be good fellows and eat the coat they'd already started on and not touch my other clothes.” “I never heard such nonsense!” said Mrs. Jarr. “But I suppose you are feeling like having a fuss with poor me this morning and mothé are just as good a thing to fuss about as any- thing else, Why don't you take care | | ] Mr. Jarr’s Fall Suit Suited Them, a ened er 26. 1915 Reficctions __ A Bachelor Girl ne te hee Peters (© LAS! if cer bearts were only Ihe our teoth and could be Milled oF emtrected ot will! Whee man cape “Darling, | newer told you © ite we my lite” bee telling you Bie favorite sed wort colossal one A women vever becomes & real philosopher until ber been burnt out, ber last illusion kpocked out and ber inet Girwtion plaped out Theat tenderness with which the average man looks on bis Gret love | usually three-quarters gratitude to ber for vot having married blu It te wiser for 6 man to take bile love affeirs, one at « time ut safer for s woman Ww mix bere like # selnd If @ man wever made bo out of practice that he woulde logical moment when ectually Lave dies oftener trom « lot of ttle pin-pricks in the vanity them from @ sudden stab through the heart Love ia @ story in which every man fancies (hat he te going to write « discovers afterward that be ie not only « plagtertet Prany phapter but that Adem had the copyright To most men “repentance” is merely the interval between the headache The Theory of Massage. ABBAGE in really not a new thing; we read that Julius) Caesar had his body pinched all over every day by slaves as a means of getting rid of neuralgia and} that the Roman gladiators before en- tering the arena for combat were rubbed and kneaded until they were all agiow, and then oll] was rubbed over and into the skin, The Greeks and Persians and Hin- doos ull knew the value of and prac- tised rubbing for bodily flis, Our word massage comes to us through the French, and one who rubs is @ maaseur, In giving correct massage there are many things to be considered, such as condition of tho akin, the state of the muscles, | the blood and lymph, nerves an blood vessuls. Bach thing requires a different movement, as one which might be admirable for the skin would be quite useless for the muscles. For this reason maasaxe includes various movements, such a# rubbing, Fneading, pinching, squecaing and percussion or quick attac Light percussion on @ nerve, for in- stance, for a short time, stimulates it The same movement done more needed them |who have sufficient Intelligence for vigorously and for a longer time be- numbs the nerve. ‘The skill to use in massage ts to know when to apply the various movements, For this reason, to give So the Moths Took a Fall Out of It “I don’t like to wear clothes that look Uke they were shot up at the battle of the Marne,” said Mr, ,Jarr. “I don't think this weather ts sult- able for peekaboo garments; motb holes may provide good ventilation, but they are not affected by our nobby dressers this season!” “There's no moth holes in any of your clothes, I tell you!” sald Mra. Jart. Mr. Jarr made no reply to this; he had stopped arguing for the nonce and had disappeared in the other room and had penetrated the re- cesses in the other closet. In @ few moments he reappeared with @ fall suit of clothes on his arm, His face beamed with victory, “There!” he oried, “Look there, un- der that collar! Look along that seam! What are those, lady? Moths, madam, yes, moths, m-o-t-h-s— Ways looking for trouble are always sure to find it! And if there are any moths in your clothes you must have brought them home yourself! There's none in mine, thank good- ness!" ;So Wags the World By Clarence L. Cullen Omer, BR Wa ae Wetn® 'E'VE never hankered to be pals with a man who digs his car- fare out of one of those labby, mean-looking little leather vhange purses, It's queer how, when a woman be- gins to keep account of what she calls “legitimate household expenses,” she ingiste upon including therein her of your things? You get them full of holes and burned with cigar ashes and then you say it's my fault that moths did it!” —= By Sophie ‘CE upon a time there was @ girl—Gertrude, She came of honest though humble parents, who worked di gently to bring ber up in the way she should go Thus the father toiled from morn- ing until night that ahe might get the best education to fit her gp her work ‘in the wold, and the md@her was the proverbial one whose heart and soul were centred in the well belng of her child, Every possible advantage wae given to Gertrude, While she was finishing her course n @ business school she met some girl friends and became very “chum- my” with them. The father of one of these young women owned an auto~ mobile and Gertrude on several oo- casions was invited to join the fam~ lly for a ride, How she loved those rides! sitting back in the luxurious tonneau, sne at every was always her eager acceptance. she was under her parents’ jurisdic- tion, But pretty soon she was ready came in contact dropping fire from your cigars on your clothes and burning holes in them.” “Maybe you will say I burnt holes SELECT EME TL shir. Apron Fables of Everyday Folks Copyright, 1915, by the t'reee Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), thought her father was the original Ford, They began to worry at hom whose friends had automobiles, and invitation for a ride there Now, this was all very well while for work and secured a job, Here she with all kinds of husband's outlay for cigars, lunches and newspapers. We know a lot of first-class, all- around, strictly he-men who are pluckily wearing wrist watches—but dern their misdirected bravery! MOTHSI" “Well,” them o eaid Mra. Jarr, looking r covily, “people that are al- When you hear a woman of fifty about what Irene Loeb When you reach the forty-or-over stage it's mortally hard to overhear @ pair of young purre exchanging supercilious confidenc about their affairs with wi without feeling like throwing @ spit-kit or something at them, In a chair car the an extremely pretty ding Kent's “Critique of Pure Reason. hen the porter asked her if she'd have one of those big paper bags to put her bat tn, she replied merrily; “Not on your zinc- f I might never get the lid back! We give it up. ‘The large, Klowing sympathy which we have for sick babies suffers a con- with great misgiving would remon- ‘ate and beg to know all about the people with whom she was thus tray- elling. But Gasoline Gertrude would wave them off with an “Oh, it's all right!" and insisted on being ber own steering gear, But she had no gear to start her in the direction agains danger. Thus she went on merrily, willy nilly, careless of the company ashe chose. The only requisite for her re gard was to be able to muster a ma Mystery Stuft— other day we saw young woman ehine. No matter how ugly a man | yide) truncation when the walling hone in her eyes at the firs | infant located in the flat right in headlights, alongside or above us. Along came one who was not the right sort, who had a car but no scruples, His Intentions were not honest, But the girl saw only hin beautifully painted Hmousine, There was a party planned with a few friends, The girl was introduced to wine, Which is usually @ part of the ‘The suffrage ladies who argue polsterously that women are “morally better” nee men get away me that im for the reason that the great (aus of mankind still adheres to the ancient dictum that kissin’ and tellin’ ain't playin’ the game. fancied herself “a lady of high de-| joy car. The man said things to her gree” and her knagination soared|that even in her startled senses| When a woman no longer ts secretly with the speedometer, It was indeed |gounded not according to her up-| proud of her husband's jealousy of a joy ride for her, She met othere| bringing. hor, and he divines this fact, the fur- On the return journey there was an accident, The man at the wheel had imbibed too freely, It was lucky for the girl, although she sustained Ine juries that kept her ubed for weeks. The whole sh -ck. however, pulled her together, Father put the emergency brake on Gasoline Gertrude—in time, niture might just as well be stored. Another sign that the honeymoon ts on the wane ts when he's willing to let her see him in his fishin’ panta Gen, Sherman meant flat-hunting, eople. But always she sought to| And she saw how far her foolish de-| ¥ time we make \ Inake friends With thdse Who conld| sires had been drifting her, she to be Higher ‘and ‘Nobler. we an procure a xasoline buggy, Autoing| therefore propounded this moral to| front of somebody at a movie show got into her blood and at the promige| the other girls: who audibly tells his or her matey of a joy ride her head was turned! “If you joy ride, be sure of your| everything that's happening on the She indulged in flowing veils and in: companions, for every automoMle may| screen, and then we fall with a thud automobile talk, You would have @ soul-perd.” into the roughneuk class again. ome! Pee eo atk tt ae lhe earner arena reeredl cnamremnetie: oe nines + tue best massage and to get the best bing automatically alone is acientifio massage. Be cautious, therefore, whom you employ, as it is very easy to do more! various systems 6 ‘based on Ling’s #: harm than good, He'ps for the Home Dressmaker OW wide shall I make my new skirt and shall I make the waistline bigb or low?” asks a perplexed woman. make it any width from two and one- half to six yards and be quite In style. Many of the new cloth models 66 three-quarter yards in width, but that fs because they are of a heavy tex- ture. It seems the higher the price of the width for the practical skirt is three yards, Make your fall skirt a trifle longer than you did the summer one. Skirta are still short, but moderately so, The flare skirt that fs so popular now should clear the und from three to five inches in of pretty. The present waistline je eithor normal or low. “What goods are fashionable blouse and what are the new styles ‘a another query. The favorite mi terials are chiffon, crepe—preferably Georgette—satin, taffeta and char- meuse. The blouse should match the suit in color, Modish shades are navy, black, brown and green, Style features are the semi-fitted effects, long sleev high, snug-ftting collar or the low, flat collar fitting smoothly over the waist, ‘There i» a strong inclination to- ward the rounded figure, and It is all Betty Vincent's O many girls write 'to'ask me how they can induce a young man to write to them, or call on them, or fall in love with t ‘To these ques- tions there ts only the one general answer: “You must wait for the man to take the initiative.” Often this is f hard thing to do, but it is woma) traditional role in the world. If aI ate! it of it she is likely to forfeit the respect and possible love of the very man whom she 4 to at- tract. The only game for a woman ja the waiting mn if it doesn’t ceed she may be sure every other also would have failed, and that her defeat would have been even mor bitter. Calling. “W. M." writes: “On my vacation I met a young lady who now writes asking me to call, Is it proper for her to do #o, as I only knew hor for two weeks and a not act as if I wished Hi to prolong the acquaintance?” Strictly speaking, the young lady should not have taken the initiative as she has done, ‘1, BY writes: “@hould a young results, a goed knowledge of anatomy |in Sweden and te is absolutely essential, as mere rub-| there not| known as the Swedish jan he called them, acti it measure two and one-half to two and | ! material the wider the skirt, Many; skirts of high-grade fabrics measure) nix yards, but a nice, conservative, Bands» of trimming or braid are alsu i ming. fer to be real| trimming and A of Tee Rew Ten Pree Wert ot emotion Bee he ts in love we would get a0 # at the peyoko use bie tal The eye and the hand need to be well trained to work together, the dincerning everything about a pati the joints . muncler Only thowe who are well t their business should be employed. We in America are indebted to Dr. Weir Mitchell, the great Amerioan neurologist, for t introduction of 4 real scientific massage in the treats was about 1870, leading doctors ment of disease. Th and since that tim and surgeons have used and ad- vised It Massage in not a panacea for every iM, but tt hi to be a help in many cases ond they are netther few nor far between, In Dr, Mitohell’x treatment massage takes the place of real body exercise and by it the cireu- lation Is kept equall: Deep breath- ing, he insisted, should always be used with massage, so that the dn. ternal blood and lym: vessels may be acted upon at the sume time, thus producing really internal massage. What real good does massage do’ it When properly done wonders. The skin eli better after being stim: sage, the flow of blood quickened, the blood | the surface and drawn ternal organs and nervy or stimulated as the may do ‘tem waste ed by mas- 4 lymph tn ttracted to from in- re soothed case may re- quire, Adhesions are broken down, swellings and thickenings of the th sue are reduced and nutrition is In- creased Way back in 1813 the idea took root Ling introduced movement his system of resistive © moveme a matte: of feminine decision, as all fashions ould be. Those who ike | the curves and rounded figure will ; draw in the corset at the waistline You can) and mode! their garments *- cording- ly, while the woman who is loth 49 give up the long, straight, youthtul figure will make up her garments in @ unbroken line, So make up your I dress in either style, Both wil be fashionable this season and by spring it will, probably, be decided which has won out, Not only ts the simple kimono sleeve passe, but now the armhole must be accentuated. This is accom- outlining the armhole in embrold or simply binding it, used to emphasize the armhole, Siash- ings are another favorite sleeve trims These often extend from the wrist to the elbow. When finished off with frills and straps this makes !an attractive sleeve finish. Appli being revived as a Promises to become n ‘dine, t with black velvet leaves, outlined ie dlack silk braid, is very smart. Em- broidery is much used on suits as well as dresses and the use of embroidered mot’ » collars, cuffs and girdles {s very modish, ‘Fringe is ssen on bas of the new dresses, you are stout, get a striped drees, They are very’ ‘fashionable now. Make it up in a modified flare effect, piace the soft belt a little below the normal waistline, Let the stri; bias in the front of the bod put in @ vest that tapers to walet, seacwnmendrizt anes oe nea Advice to Lovers man allght first from a trotey ear and assist the young jady who ao. y companies him or should he allow fer ‘The former procedure is correct. "a. writes: "I am years old and Intend shortly to twenty marry @ young man of twenty-six family thinks Tam mak n, because this young man never ey me anything when he callg, ‘though when Wo are out together he buys anything I want. What do yen A stingy husband makes happy wife, but perhaps ee age man cannot afford many presen Perhaps he dooan't realtae how giste 6 them. Don't jud, 7 Ascortalning hls motives, Without But my ow. D." writes: “At formal home wodding the bride's at” ter i# to wot ay bridesmaid and w yom dear friend of the bride and gr ag best man, There will be aime oam™ ly no other guests, The fn Py yc beat man, who is ulso a friend ot ge bride and groom, forlg. that EM should be invited. Is tho putt sary? i 1 don't think 90, since the wedding is not really a social function.