The evening world. Newspaper, October 20, 1915, Page 3

a ~ WORLD-WDEFIGHT fTHE GIRL eugene Japan Court Gives Mrs. Bills Custody of Child Father Took Away. FILMS AIDED IN HUNT. Picture of Child Recognized in San Francisco — Then Search Led to Orient. | ] let Court bes ewaried the custody @ da-yerol4 Olge Mills w her ‘mother, The father, who hes been engaged in many kinds of business ence he Meappeare’ from Meesac: eotts three years ago, may appeal, ‘The court's decision markes the end @f search for the chii4 by means of | moving piotures all over the world, Mx months ago Olga was discovered im Japan, and the mother having falled to got her through the efforts Of counsel went to Tokto io person. During the court proceedings little Olga has been in the custody of Baron N, Kanda. ‘The married life of Mr. and Mre. Billig was unhappy almost from the beginning. They first got into tho newspapers ip February, 1933, when Fille had his wife committed to the ingane asylum at Northampton, Masa Her brother, C. J. Fox, of Revere, got her out on Fob, 18 Mra, Wills de- @lared that her busband, then pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Chioopes, Mam., had objected to the words "until death do us part” in the marriage ceremony, and that they ‘Were omitted. (rs, Kills sought a legal weparation m her husband, alleging that he ja left her to learn French from a jung Russian woman who was @ evolutionist and who oould not speak Hngiish, She declared that he neg- lected his family for this ‘woman, Kills protested that his wife did not treat him fairly, Meantime he took his little daughter, Olga Natalie, out for a walk one day early in 1918 and disappeared. Mrs. Eills wrote letters in every ai- rection. The police all over the coun- try were notified to hol Etlls, who had disobeyed an order of the court by taking away the child, But no trace of the two could Be found. Mrs, Pills wrote a chain letter to women in all parts of the United States begging them to help her find her “little, Dlue-eyed, flaxen-haired girl, with @ dimple in each cheek.” ‘The letters were repeated and spread by the thousands, ¢Mhen the mother got the moving picture managers to take up the search, They put photo- graphs of the child and her father on the screen. Mrs. Myrtle Palmer, housekeeper in @ hotel in Gan Francisco, recognized the two as having stayed at the hotel pot tong before, From her tdentifica- tion they were traced as having sailed for Japan. Mr. Hills tried to become a olttzen of Japan after he heard from his wife, ILL, KILLS SELF BY GAS. Charles Jemminson of No. 207 Past ve Hundred and Fifty-sighth Street, ‘amelled gas at 1.45 o'clock this morning, and traced it to the bathroom, There he found his wife, Agnes, forty-five yeara old, dead on the floor with a gas er mouth. Cube 15 guminson told the poltos bad jong been in il health and Guently threatened suicide, She leaves Fre, Shuudcen, one twelve and one four- jeen y' ————_—_——_ STEAMSHIPS DUE TO-DAY. ve teens BALM, 10 A.M. 10 A. M. 11 A.M, wite his had fre- Apache, Jacksonville Narragansett, London. Bowden, Port Antonio. Vauban, Algiers.... ‘For Constipation EXLAX The Delicious Laxative Chocolate Ex-Lax relieves constipation, regulutes the stomach and bowels, stimulates the liver and promotes digestion, Good for young ana old, 10c, 25¢ and 50c, at “Biny” « neither a sport nor a high brow SHE'S « success. Hence the | wien, in search hut yn "ie ae OF ee eee be 4 wer Mewrer tee | OAS One nsen ave cary ~~ ts The Up-to-the-Minute Girl Is the New York Girl, Says a Travelling Man Who Has Been All Over Creation and Knows, and Unequivocally He Pronounces Her a Success—That ‘Paint- and-Powder Girl’ Finds Champions. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. The sport, the highbrow and the types of the girl of to-day discovered admits he’s in search of a wife), whose letter I publish to-day. Coelebs, who business, or may masculine flattery may gaze owlishly from behind the heavy spectacles of the solemn, self-conscious blue-stocking. Or she may smile at you through the slightly rose-tinted eyeglasses of the “nice girl,” the girl who frivolity and superlative seriousness. $$ $$ strikes a happy mten between extreme THIS CONTRIBUTION PIPES UP THE DOXOLOGY. Tt 1s this last mentioned girl who seems to our correspondent, in his own words, “an absolute success—the masterpiece of an all-wise Creator.” ‘This admission i in itself a triumph of feminist principles, It wasn't neces- ary for a masculine writer to proclaim “An honest man's the noblest work of God.” Mos men always have known | this, and many of them have found the qualifying adjective a work of| supererogation. Let us be grateful to “Billy” for conceding that any woman may be a divine masterploce, even if his candidate for the honor 4s flavored too strongly with sugar-and-cream to suit some of us. But here's his letter, and, to balance {t, some defenses of the paint-and- powder girl. _— ee © tho doad Hno, which the modern girl may pass only ov peril of his displeasure, at the threshold of the home or at the entrance ¢o the business office. any one of the three variet classified and named may be found in the world of| St&nd on one of its corners for two each type is her personal viewpoint. Mfe through Broadway opera glasses, seeing only a whirl of elaborate clothes, paint and powder, dancing, “Dear Madam: The girl who measures success by her ability to attract attention from men of the kind she wante—the wrist watch, perfectly Iady-like young man, the only kind who would give her more than @ passing glance—at- tains her end by using those means which most surely will cause real men to pi her up, viz: Suggestive dress, paint, powder, boisterous conduct In public places, and keeping her head empty of everything that would be useful to her, She lives to be the centre of an admiring group of near men, and her sole aim in life is to go much ad- miration from thot whom she attracts as possible, “She is a glutton for it, Of course she is skilled in all the latest dancing ateps—but she couldn't boll a kettle of water on a gas range Without burning it on the bottom, She may be a bus- iness girl or she may not; she is just what she {8, nothing more, and I want none of her, “Then there is the girl who (if you give her the chance) will quote high- brow stuff to ye until you a »lue in the face, There never has been an art or science that she is not stuile with; it (the highbrow stuf") is Just oozing out all over her, and if by any chance some one (who probably has a grudge against you) tell you have taken any deg pounces upon you her | prey, And then 1, Le w mercy on you, that's all. 1 ail druggists. BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it. 25c at all druggists, fn“ up against {t more than know. I hold an LL and E. M,, but 1 am very ¢ ep tt dark. This he rex treme and, to tell you the truth, I don't know which I would choose if =] PUL to Ht. She iso muy be a busses girl or not—but I want none of her “But there is a dear, sweet girl, not a prude nor a frivolous but- terfly—just a real, wholesome, red blooded, fun loving, serious mind- ed, exquisitely charming morsel of feminine loveliness, She is well read and able to discuss the worth-while things with you. She dances, yes, and enjoys it very much. ‘She is the centre of gayety in the decent. entertainments— they are the only ones she will go te or take part in, She knows how to cenk a cocd mest and how to serve it proporly; tho knows how to sow and is a past mastor in the art of making a home. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, Ov. TOBER 20, 1918, 8 “a wite just betwiet and between, ot pre wee JERIOUINGSS * 6 eure “regular girl—these are the three by the observant young Coelebs (he signs bimeelf “Billy,” doesn't draw He says that of girl whom he has not. The thing that differentiates She may look at and other brainless diversions. She Bho ts a real, rerular girl; a womanly woman, She may be a business girl or she may not, but she ia the real article and I am looking very hard for Just one of her. Ihave met a great many of her, but sho is very much engaged. Your cor- respondenta “M. I. L.” and “Woul Rather Be Natural” imprese me ai being just her. I want to say to the latter young lady, “Keep up the stand- ard,” and a real man who is worth while will come along and claim you for his own, My girl, God bless her pure heart, will never be a failure She {s an absolute success—the mas terplece of an all wise Creator, She may be a business girl or she may not—but I want one of her “until death do us part.” Somewhere, some: how, sometime I will moot her, in duce her to say yes and thereafter she will be Mrs. BILLY.” THEY'RE NOT EXTREMISTS AS POWDER-AND-PAINT GIRLS. “Dear Madam: “I have read with much interest the letters published every evening in this paper, and as I am a business girl, I have met all sorts of girls. I think the modern girl is @ success in most cases, “If you do not ‘dell up’ in the latest fashions and use cosmetics you are not counted attractive. | haw girl friend who dresses vory simply, does not go out eve- r use cosmetics. As the at your ers say they the paint-and-powder girl “T go out frequently, but always pick my company, and am ed fs much as the plain girl I have just desé¢ribed, I will admit that some girls use too much paint and powder, but ninety-nine girls out of a bun- dred do not go to the extreme. “RUTH.” WHERE THE GIRL MISSES IT BY BEING A PRUDE, “Dear Madam: Of course the old- fashioned girl is a failure. There ts no doubt about it I, myself, am a young eirl, gay and sporty, and have a variety of admirers. I have a girl friend who is very quiet and, in the true sense of the word, old-fashioned I have introduced her to a number of my men friends, and every time one of these speaks of making an ap- pointment for the theatre or anything like that, he always sa}, "Don't get Helen, as she is entirely teo much of a prude.’ So you can see that the present day girl is by all means much more enjoyable company." “People should not judge others by their appearance, A girl may rouge a little and wear her clothes in the latest fashion, but it is by her conversation that she shows what she i. A girl is only young once, and in my opinion I enjoy herself as much as ehe pos- sibly can—of cou thin pro, limits 1 find that being prudish does not pay. “Lam told that a man likes his lady friend to be admt wherever he takes her, Hence, we girls of to-day try our best to be attractive, The girl of to-day is a splendid type, and I 1m proud to be classed with her. “MISS 1915," THE NEW YORK GIRL OF TO-DAY 1S A SUCCESS, She docs not affect the extremes in dress or living; she keeps the mid- die of the road and displays her ex- traordinary good sense in #o doing. | "Dear Madam: In response to you article on the wag,women dress \ y one gi@-the New York 1, LT have travelled and T have cen. here you will, you never see th w York girl's equal, At one time | Was on the road for four months, and it did my heart good to come back to ‘dear old New York’ and t OF TO-DAY: 1s She finds that “the mamerpliece of an She exists and bb sho {s either very happily married, or| UP-to-the-minute girl, who can con or All Wie Creator” + the girl of today, and Hil) "A PowoeneD PACE, A Cannene ChEEW hours watohing the women go by. “We men always look for thi amartly dressed girl, and she i the first one to whom we ext invitations. How proud we feel ft when we are with them we are praising them th les? What man will span & all tl more bewitching? 80 wh; shouldn't she use it? “Whon we go a-hunting for a mate, whom te it we take? The quiet little stay-at-home girl of Prftitan face? No, air-ce, We're after the dashing, verse readily on any subject, who is always out for a good time, but knows whep to stop. That's the one we are proud of when we meet our friends and say, ‘This is my wife, PLAIN JANE, WHO STAYS HOME AND HELPS MAMMA. "Dear Madam: I have followed with interest your different letters about ‘The Girl of To-Day.’ I am going to state my opinions very clearly to you. I think that she is every in¢th a suc- cosa. “| disagree with some of readere who say that t pale white der is needed to tak hine away from your fac “T know two girls, and the one who is considered attractive and also pop- ular uses paint and powder and dresses up in the latest, such as fur- topped shoes, fur-trimmed suits, &c, She knows how to do the latest and is considered a ‘sport;’ her girl is seen with a last year a hobble skirt and her gister's hat trimmed over, and, my oodness, not a speck of powder or irop of paint on her face, This girl stops home at nights to help mamma do the dishes, "Now who do you think is a suc- cess of to-day, No. 1 or No. 2 “NEW JERASRY RF. ———<—<—_— Flue Fire im a Hospital. After the chef had extinguished a flue set abalze by burning grease in Gouverneur Hospital kitchen yesterday, the superintendent of the hospital called the fire department and had tho flue inspected. It was pronounced safe. The chef was rendering fat when the flue caught fire, There was no excitement, ho damage, and few in the hospital knew tere fire. A SUCCESS A FAILURE he sdealired regu £ a om of y) wants her INDIANS AND WILDCATS, WEST OF NEW YORK, ARE SAVED BY THE POLICE Four New London Boys, “Armed to the Teeth,” Taken Off the Trail in the Bronx, Four grimy boys, one a negro, walking through One Hundred and Thirty-cighth Street, near Cypress Avenue, the Bronx, at 1 o'clock this morning, were halted by Policeman Edward F. McCarton. “Let us alone,” said their leader, Daniel Stabler, thirteen, of No, 17 Tuly Street, New London. “We're on our way to see President Wilson, We just got in from New London on a limited freight.” MocCarton searched the youngsters. Stahler had a revolver and @ mask. The others had pistols, flash lamps and knives, He took them to the Walton Avenue Station. The two white boys who were with Stahler said they were Joseph McClue, four- teen, of No. 40 Pearl Street, and Clifford Plant, twelve, of No, 19 Green Street, New London. The negro boy gave his name as Julius Jackson, thirteen. “People who go to see the President don't carry guns,” @aid the desk Neu- tenant after they had been searched. “Never you mind,” replied young BStahler, “You know what hittin’ the trail 1s, don't you? Indians and beara an’ wildcats when you get west of New York. Well, we wasn't taking any chances, Are you on? Gee, you wouldn't expect kids like us to fight Indians with our oare fists, would you? Have a heart.” ‘They were turned over to the Ohil- dren's Society, and word sent to their parents, NO ALUM--NO PHOSPHATE ipRovar, BAKING POWDER Made from Cr Absolutely Pure eam of Tartar MUSIC TEACHER DIES AFTER MERRY PARTY: TWO MEN ARE HELD Justin M. Thatcher's Rody Is Found in Room After Three cher wie teacher *, war found ae in bed, early to-day, in bie t partment « © third Boe 0 Weet One Hundred feventy seventh Mi reet Iv Jae o of the Washington Heights Moepttal said he ® dead at an bh and ordered an sutopey + were . Detective ot the Fourth Hrar who lives tn the house, met a man in the corridor while om bi y to bis apartment at 4A. M. The man seemed trying to keop out of sight. Whew Maher quee tioned him, he sald he was Vernon Whate, thirty, a former o reporter, of No, #26 West fifth Street and that “a m upstairs.” He accompanied Maher to Thateher’s rooma. Thatcher was lying across the bed in his night clot In the room, ac- cording to the ‘ive, wae « man describing himself as George Canning, thirty-two, @ civil engineer, of No, 1297 Bt, John’s Place, Brooklyn, There were evidences of a lively party in the room, Canning told the ‘Thatcher, a “Mr, Davin aicle had spent the evening in Thatcher's rooma, About 11 P, M, Whate arrived, he sald, to get a book which Harry K. Thaw ve him on Christmas, Yous. The police saw the book with Thaw’s autograph, The «irls left soon after Whate ar- rived and then Thatcher complained of being sick. Later he seemed to get worse and “Mr, Davis" went for @ doctor and did not return, Whate said he had siurted fur a doctor, not suspecting Thatcher was dead, when the detective stopped him in the hall. Canning and Whate were detained as witnesses, CATHOLICS 10 BUILD INSTITUTION SIMILAR TOTHAT OFY. M,C. A pollee he and Funds Under Auspices of Knights of Columbus. ‘Tho Catholics of New York aro for work along the lines of the Y. M C. A. activities, according to the an- nouncement mado to-day by the offi- clals of the Knights of Columbus Building Fund, It will cost $600,000 and will be so situated as to nerve as a Catholic headquarters for the archdiocese of New York. A campaign to raise the money will be carried on during the next sixty days, according to the announcement made to-day by William P. Myhan, Chairman of the Knights of Solumbus Dullding Fund, Headquarters will be opened on Nov. 1 at No. 64 Wall Street under the auspices of the Now York Chapter, of which Edward A. Arnold is Chairman, Checks should be made payable to Joseph M. Adrian, ‘Treasurer. Alexander I, Rorke will Sixty-Day Campaign to Raise soon to have a great central building ‘GIRL GIVEN To MOTHER | AND FATHER WHO WAS | HUNTED AROUND WORLD | JOU EILLS OLGA N EILLS direct the campaign. It Is not to be sensational, but very earnest, and with a few novelties now and then. Cardinal Farley has written a jetter approving the project and calling upon Catholics of this archdiocese to @upport it. Although the campaign has not yet been begun, several large subscriptions have already been made. Joseph M, Adrian, President of the German Exchange Bank, is treasurer of the Finance Committees, Other members include Robert J, Collier, Juatices Victor J. Dowling, Daniel F. Cohalan, John W. Goff and Joseph F. Mulqueen, John D, Crimmins, John MoCormack, Charles V, Fornes and many other Catholics prominent in business and the professions, “The Catholics of New York," said Chairman Myhan, “have long felt the need of a building in which there could be furnished to Catholic youths under Catholic auspices the same ed- ucative and recreative advantages that now are provided for them by the Y, M, C, A. and similar organi- zations, There is also the need of a distinctively Catholic building, which will help to create tn the general body & more intelligent interest in the special works which the churoh ts carrying on in this city.” ———_—_ Actor James Blakeley Dead. LONDON, Oct. 20,James Blakeley, the actor, died in London yeaterday afternoon. Blakeley acquired a con- siderable reputation in England es « comedian. He played in the United States for nearly three years, begin- 96. He was forty-two years | ident —e— Brooklyn Girl Goes to New Haven to Help Direct Search for Harvey J. Herman. nated of being married to-@ag, eo caperied Mine Kath Todd of ie in New Haven helping frienda, rale- tives and the police tm a search for ber fence, Hervey J. Herman, Ae | Meoretary of the G. M Grie- pany who bee been missing week ago Bunday Herman, whe is about thirty years id, ea werd of GC M. Griewold, Pree. of the company bearing bis The coneern manufactures diet and tools, Herman was a news. boy om the Directs of New Haves when be attracted Mr. Griewold’s et- tention. The manufacturer took the boy to his home in Westville, a eub- urb of New Haven, and raised bim ane son. iss Todd le « at " Par af ber aunt, Mra. Mary vreaohr at Franklin Avenue address in Brooklyn, ‘ When terman failed to appear ome Sunday, Oot. 10, it was sup- powed he was spending the day in Now Haven and no concern was felt Hut when he failed Wo appear either ofices at home or at the Griewold Monday, the police of various elties were informed. 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