The evening world. Newspaper, November 18, 1915, Page 16

Sr CTa Ree Oe Cal ak ne PT RE 2) rues areca oer ERE oe | MSTABLIGHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. \Pevwsaed Dany aces Gunter vy the Prose Fubjishing Company, Nos. 68 to j ZI Prewident, 99 zere, Row, OSMPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 64 Park Row. at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clase Matte emg oy to Evening |For England and the Conti: M “ae United States All Countries Av International Union, TOR ares os onsen smesen seven @ ne + eat ae O08 meres oa soe VOLUME 56... un. ewes NO, 19,812 A SAFE LEAD. NIVERSITY PRESIDENTS gathered in New York City this} week to discuss the formation of a National Reserve Corps) among college students point out that they firet put forward ttheir plan as far back as 1918, @ year before war broke out in Kurope. Preparedness is springing no surprise on American universities. With a sanity and clearness of vision to be expected of them, the college heads hasten to show how far their movement «tops short of “militarism.” i “Ite object is to train and benefit the students of our colleges and also to serve a useful purpose to the whole nation The education which the students receive under officers of the army te of the greatest value to them and to the country, and we feel that summer camps are agencies for good which the universities of the country should do their utmost to en- Spirit of this sort is not going to Prussianize the nation. are Americans, old or young, of a temper easily to be thrown off its balance by a little practice work with a gun. | “In the American character antipathy to war ranked first among | political traits,” notes Henry Adams in his history of the nation dur- ing the early years of the nineteenth century. “No Kuropean nation could have conducted a war as the people of America conducted the War of 1812. The possibility of doing «0 without destruction ox- plained the existence of the national trait, and assured its continuance. In politics the divergence of America from Europe perpetuated itself fm the popular instinct for peaceable methods.” | Nor has subsequent fighting changed ue. It is fitting that our| taniversities should take the lead in defining preparedness as self-de- velopment, that by strengthening nerve and muscle is to make better workers, huskier citizens and only potential soldie ey Se Representative Augustus P. Gardner of Massachusotis, ‘writing to The World, wants a navy that can repulse any other navy ever likely to aseail us. When « statesman starts out to meet irresistible forces with immovable objects he soon gets Nor | Jost in higher mathematics. jp SLOW WORK. EORGE M’ANENY, who has more civic imagination and a keener eye for city improvement than any other man who site in the municipal councils of New York, is willing to grant that Fifth Avenue is one of the great streets of the world. But, unlike some others, Mr. McAneny sees no reason to sit down end gloat over this thoroughfare thing that must be perfect be- cause New York has produced it. “Aes Fifth Avenue is the best street we have,” he says, “its | beauty and utility should be preserved. One thing I suggest | is regulation of building height and the adoption of a more or less uniform architecture. Then people who now go to Paris fier civic beauty may remain here and find it. “There's no reason why New York should not be made as Deautiful as Paris. We should have a city plan. Paris has one #0 fine that nothing is done there which is not part of a well co-ordinated scheme. It's all planned out for years ahead.” No doubt members of the Fifth Avenue Association to whom these remarks were addressed waved their napkins and applauded. City plan proposals are always enthusiastically received hereaboute— at banquets, But let somebody draw up specific regulations defining building heights, facades, architectural styles, etc., ready to be enacted into Jaw, and where is the enthusiasm? The idea that any man may not Duild as he chooses, regardless of whether it fits in with the plans of his neighbors, or ¢ontributes to the sightliness of the city, makes little practical headway in New York. Now and then somebody like Mr. MeAneny who would be glad fo sce the city something better architecturally than a conglomeration of individual obstinacies and excesses gets elected to public office. But after awhile he becomes convinced that no stronghold is so im- pregnable us stupidity and withdraws io apply his energies to other tasks. Mr. MeAneny looks more than one year ahead and higher than the top of a skyacraper—which is why he returns to journalism and tlso why the city lets him go. ne TO LOCATE FOG WARNINGS. An invention which makes it possible to determine the | direction of fog signals is bound to minimise one of the worst perils of sea travel. The instrument shown by Prof, Webster of Clark University to the National Academy of Sclences is said to make wound waves light a light aud ring @ bell when its megaphone-like receiver pointe true to their source. It needs little thought to see what a device of this kind would mean on the bridge of a great liner forging ahead through fog off Newfoundland, listening for other vessels and able to locate them at the first sound, At present the best pilots admit they can be deceived as to the direction from which fog signals come. The instrument appears to be a compact, easily handled affair which all boats, large and small, could add to their equipment. If it stands practical tests, legislation should at the earliest possible moment make its use imperative on all | passenger vessels, So Wags the World = By Clarence L. Cullen — Copyright, 1015, by the Pross Publishing Co, (Phe New York Evening World), HAT’S become of the girl who ‘used to read “Lucile” and dab at her eyes with a patchoull- scented handkerchief because she thought the Countess de Nevers had such a helluva hard time in tnat book?” As wo understand it, “Mid-Victo- rian," so contemptuously employed nowadays, refers to folks of the nine- teenth century who read Tennyson and Thackeray and Dickens, and had whatnots covered with seashells ‘in thelr parlors, and black onyx clocks on the mantels, and who put in most ot their time minding their own busi- ness and adhering to the semblances of decency and good repute. Even when she doesn’t know what the word means, a woman loves to be told that her sex possesses intuition. Woman's = "Myster; Equal parts of lingerie, discreetly-used perfumes, and the moon, These, superimposed upon the masculine imagination, make the ‘mystery’—for women never knew they had euch @ thing until men told th A woman gets about as much joyment in looking sad and over the fact that she's been wearing could possibly get out of a coat We've met a lot of girls who'd love to have been Miss Edith Cavell—all except the shooting part, Our shoe leather gets so nervous that we hardly know what to do with it when we see one of those cow-eyed movio heroes bestow a lingering |iss upon the letter he’s just got from the girl It’s qucer how much of tho noise of his own children a man can stand who g¢ up in the air and gosh hangs the universe when the kid cf the folks next door sneoxes in its sleep. We never read or hear one of those sad-and-sweet 1 apsodies about T alke With My P arents By a Child OMETIM it takes : ° 2 mother a long Hits From Sharp Wits. bas an foe 4 unciae A woman's greatest satisfaction is| from a lot of talk the older generation It has been a long time since fn knowing that she has on a coat) puts out about what it has accom. election, and not ti last night did suit and hat that the other woman | plished, there is some reason for their| mother pluck up courage enough to wanted, opinion. Philadelphia Inquirer, ask father which way he voted on e ° ° | . . . woman's suffrage. ‘The head of the house was feeling One of the standard means for a) Just as soon an they have completed | , Woman to nag her husband is to tell| their little bungalow sho immediately | Prerey Rood me nade some ot him that she could have married 4) starts planning what kind of a house| Warm his heart; and so we ie iB half dozen other men, every one of} they will have the next time they|wan over mother saya, coy like: “tive con News, | , - , oy jaear?” henever be learns how to shave! “I voted to please you,” was all trouble with some young men,” says an exchange, “is that they get the notion that ali the really great work bas been done.” himself she begins to figure on what she can do with the money that other. wise would go to the barber.—Macon | ‘Well, judging News, sehen ence oro he = } fathor answered, but 1 not he bent over and kissed mother. Isn't it wonderful how women can bide their emotions? that me Winter coat for three years , Youth—("Oh! Muh Vanished Youth!" is the usual rune-drool of it)—that we don’t size up the deep, needless Scars wo ourselves picked up during that inconsequent, all- wrong period of life, and feel glad that we've drawn away from it, Every time we see a girl powder her Nose in a public place, in unembar- rassed sight of all hands, we wonder what our great-grandmother, who smoked a pipe, would think of it. «We're closely acquainted with a married woman who, an afternoon or #0 ago, partook of these things: A mess of Welsh rabbit at a chafing- dish demonstration on counter; a dish of cereal at another demonstration counter; half @ pound of caramels at the movies; a hot chocolate and an ice cream soda. Then she came right ben for dinner in @ state of starva- tion | The ATTENDED a meeting of the “Big Sisters.” Judge Morgan Ryan of the Chil- dren's Court was telling how much, during the past year, the "Big Sisters” had accom- plished for his court by securing the ounce of prevention rather than the pound of cure, He begged for more "Big Sisters" and “Big Brothers" to solve the problems that are at the very foundation of the welfare of the community as well as of the indl- vidual A “big Sister’ is a woman who elects herself to be a big sister to some one who needs her. There are little bands of such women forming themselves here, there and every- where. One of their jobs Is to go Into the children's courts and become @ Sig Sister” to the boy or girl whos misdirected energy has brought them there. From that time on they #6@ this boy or girl “through” this little crisis of their ves, They do it, per- onally, without any red ko into the home of the child and help, until it can go along without them It iw a i NAL service for which there is monetary pay Join in play with the other bo They do not make a lot of Index|” Thore was the father who had been cards and files for “organized” inves- | ill and out of work, for whom some tigatora to follow hey accomplish | iight labor was found, so he was thelr purpose on a direct line and | enabled to go on as the provider of his (hen report to their organization that! family. There were many, many they have done it. They do not try cases, Yet in each one a “Big Sis- to fin that Johuny's greatgrand: | ter” had taken hold of some erlppled father was a drunkard; or that craft in the # ng sea of every~ Mary's third cousin by marriage bad: day Hfe and steered it beyond the smalipox. ‘They do not know all the! breakers to the safety zone nufic and psychological processes, Well might Judge Hyan say that if with which twentieth — century; you and I would once in a while be- crankiams insist on clothing charity; come a “Big Sister” or a “Big Until the very word has a baneful| Brother” to the erring or suffering sound. But they do know how to give!one, there would be leas need of clasp of a sympathetic hand and th word that reassure: “Big Sister” Charity By Sophie Irene Loeb Copyright, 1015, by the Pras Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday, November 18; INCREAS So : “"PoPu. a ATs The Jarr Family — By Roy L. McCardell — Copyright, 1915, by Ge Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), LITTL® unsteady on his, our house for two days, Give me A lege (not from illness, but|}something you make yourself fresh from the medicine that he|¢very hour, A Nttle of your plain or had been compelled to take | Cooking whiskey.” by Mrs, Jarr, who woman-| “Nothing doing!” said Gus, with like, believed much in medicine, and| firm resolution, “I ain't going to have but little in the recuperative powers| People say that I sell liquor to sick of Dame Nature), Mr. Jarr wended|mens, But what's the matter with his way down the street. your” Subconsclously, his feet carried him| “Ah, I am sick of being #ick," orted * Mr. Jarr, disgustedly. “You know into Gus's popular cafe on the corner, I & ty the raion with eat “Ain't you feeling well yet?” asked| 1 enink Pve got the distemper, just Gus, solicitously, “Let me fix You! such as dogs get. I have a cold and up @ little dose of medicine I have|4 wheesing cough, and I feel bad all here that done me good when I was/ oye sick last summer. Everybody loves to prescribe, “Nix, nix on that stuff, Gus!” sald] wren 1 tell you what you do,” re Mr. Jarr, “I've been consuming all) marked Gus eagerly. “You get @ the left-over and stale medicine tn] stick of sulphur and put it in @ pan ———wewes Jot water and put it on the floor, and then you drink it. That's the way I cure my dog of distemper.” ‘I'm afraid to drink weter,” said Mr. Jarr wearily. ‘There's so much typhoid in water. Then, too, I don't like the idea of lapping up water from @ pan on the floor.” and confidence you can direct its ac- Uvities until it Is able to discriminate|“I remember when Slavinsky, the | for itself, They realize that there are poor, tired, overworked mothers who! are ignorant of the best ways of handling children, and they are THERE to teach them, They do not ask the families to lay bare the secrets of their very souls in order to get them the food that they are starving for, the job that they need, or the counsel that they crave. Thoirs 1s the charity that be- ging at home—the home that needs their charity mo That is why their work is so eMoctent, so far- reaching, so direct and above all so distinctly préventive, 1 heard the report of one case after another as the “Big Sister” told it, how she bad acted, what was ac- complished and o immedia the FUTURE prepared for, beautiful. There was the wayward girl who was not wayward at all, but whose youthful love of fun had carried hi & little beyond the line of least re- sistance. There was the little boy who stole because he wanted to have enough money to become a member of the Y. M. C, A, that he might led an It was courts, and the corrective and peni institutions would be empty. n They follow the good old-fashioned| Why not? There ts i ad some and theory that if you win @ child's love! one worse e@ @an you “Why not?” asked Gus innocently. glazier, told me he thought he had the distemper and Tf told him to drink from sulphur water that way like a dog, and Slavinsky did It." “Did it cure Slavinsky?” asked Mr. Jarr. “I disremember,” said Gus, “but Slavinsky told me it amoosed his fambly.” “Well, it won't amuse my family nor me either,” said Mr, Jarr, “You better give me a drink.” “Well,” aid Gus, “I give you geod advice, but I won't give you @ drink if you was a millionaire.” “Beware of class hatred, Gus,” said Mr, Jerr. “And what have you got ogainst militonaires?" “What good are millionaires to me?" replied Gus, “I ain't got any millionaires in my trade, They don't patronize me.” “They patronize art and the drama, however,” said Mr. Jarr, “I don't sell art and drama; [ sell wines, MNquors and cigars,” retorted Gus. “Not to me,” replied Mr, Jarr, Gus affected not to hear tho plaint- ive plea, but bestirred himself to pol- ishing his bar, “Wouldn't you give me a drink, Gus, if I went on my knees—wouldn't you give me @ drink?" Gus regarded him coldly. “If you wont on your knees I would give you a drink,” he replied. “A drink from @ can of water with a lump of sul- phur in it.” ing! “Yet I pray thee, tell me this: and to wear forever the Smile! always complacent and of good sheer kissable cold cream, for my sake? “Not to sigh after the flesh-pots, | but to keep thy nose powdered, and | puokled? jtbem now?” | things! forever the Man of my Dreams? mayest preserve thy boyish figure finger-natle bright and shining? “wilt thou art now?” wear his fishing clothes and smoke And the Woman said: “Oh, VERY well!” Selah. No. 3.—Hats. many years faithful Fido bas been press-agented as man’s best friend, and it may be true, But who is the best friend of the great army of us Who haven't got a dog? Wht, it's jour little derby, or hard-boiled bat. It is all right for a ball game and | correct for the theatre, and the fellow | who #aid “they never come back” did not have a derby in mind. Get yours wet, step on it, and ft looks a total loss, but after @ little blocking and | pressing it springs up again, black aud glossy, ready for wear once more. Women go about the problem of buying a hat with fasting and prayer, but we are spared all that. Five minutes, twice a year, or three times at most, fits ue out with all we need, a derby and a straw. When we marry we blow ourselves for a aiik hat, and Jasts the rest of our lives. You of men who get numbers of hats ry year, but they are dudes; two satisfies most of us; three means we're getting sporty, and if we should buy @ fourth we'd stick out our cheats and begin to read the “flivver” ada, The anoient Greeks are given the credit for inventing the hat—that is, a head-covering with a rim to it. Th to distin- which have been @ million kinds of top pieces, caps, hoods, &c., since then, but the old “petasus” seems to be the | direct ancestor of our modern hat. The scientists refuse to try and classify women's hats; it's useless, they claim. But men's top pieces are divided into three classes—felts, hard A Versified Romance. MAIDEN fair, whose oblef charm Nem In physical perfection; A bashful youth who dared not say She was his heart's selection. An aged man, whose wealth assured A life of easy leisure. Besieged her heart, her senses lured With promises of pleasure So to December May was wed, And skies beamed bright above her; But Love and Faith and Hope seemed dead Unto her youthful lover. Yet brave and well he bore his part, No murmur of complaining Betokened that his aching heart ‘With hopeless grief was paining. ‘The maiden from her hapless fate Would fain her life recover; She learned, when ‘twas, alas, late, Her heart was with her lover Long years elapsed. They met again— ‘The lover and the maiden Her eyes betrayed the secret pain With which her heart was laden What wonder that he pressed her lips Just once with sweet affection! meeting Bepler, the butcher, bitterly complained that Gus had treated him lke a dog. But this was not wholly true, Gus had only WANTED to treat him that way, and then only from a good heart —to cure Mr. Jarr of the distemper he too air, Jare walked Gowty owt, and, bed complained of 1915 __ Sayings of _ Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Coperight, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co, (‘Tho New York Evening World), OW, my Daughter, the Man said unto the Woman: N “Behold, thou art fair, my Love; yea, thou art exceeding allur “It I marry thee wilt thou promise NOT to do as other wives do, but \to remain in all things the Woman of my Dreams? “Wilt thou swear to keep thy hair and thy temper ALWAYS ‘in curl,’ will-not-come-off? “To be always at the door, with a kiss of welcome, when I returm, and the Lodge, or the house of a Sick Friend? “Wilt thou bind thyself to abjure the hateful curlpaper and the um unto thy Mother; nor to cast aside thy corsets, nor hanker after kimonos, ~ | “Yea, in all things to please mine eyes forever, even as thou delightest And the woman kissed him and made answer, saying: “Yea, verily, my Beloved, I promise, even unto the least of these “Yet, before T consent to marry thee, tell me this: “Wilt thou promise me to do, NOT as other husbands do, but to remaim “Wilt thou bind thyself never to lose thy savoir faire, nor thy personal vanity, nor thy taste for fancy hostery, nor to cast aside thy beautiful man- ners, nor forget thy little flatteries and tender attentions? “Wilt thou continue to practice with the dumb-bell bag, and to resist the deadly beer-mug, when it tempteth thee; that thou “Wilt thou promise to be always bright and sparkling before breakfast, and sweet and fresh and smiling when thou returnest in the evening? “Wilt thou continue to buy halrtontics for thine encroaching bald-spot, and to be fastidious concerning thy cravats, and to keep thy boots and thy ear NEVER to appear at breakfast unshaven, nor in thy ath-rope, nor without thy MOST becoming tie and collar? “Yea, wilt thou promise to be always a Thing of Beauty, even as thou But the Man arose, and smote her with his glance, crying: “Nay, verily, by Heaven, I will NOT! behold, a man marryeth for COMFORT; even to be able to eat and drink whatsoever he wanteth, without taking heed of his figure; to be able to pleaseth; to be adle to laugh when his hair falleth out, to growl when his digestion annoyeth him, and to go to SLEHP after dinner!” And, lo, she married him, notwithstanding. | How Men’s Clothes Began | True Love Stories The Evening World will pay $5 apiece for all true love stories aocepted. The stories must be 250 words or less in length and truthful in every detath. Address “Love Story Editor, Evening World, New York City.” when I depart—even for the club, or neither to let thyself wax FAT, lke thine hose mended, and thy slippers and the punching y Not even upon thy Tintype! For, @ pipe, and skip a shave when he and soft; straws and silk plushes. Tae first felt hate were made of beaver fur and were nifty affairs. They began turning m out back in Queen Elizabeth's tme, and for 300 years nobody in England thought he was really dressed up unlesa he wore one. Then beaver got too scarce and, cost- ly to be used, so something else had to be tried. At the present time the fur of the hundreds of millions of domesticated hares and rabbits raised every year in France and Belgium is chiefly used. A little beaver, muskrat, vicuna or camel is mixed in for the finer grades, with wool and even cot- ton for the cheaper hats. A derby made pretty much in the same way as a soft hat, but toward the id is stiffened up with a few coats of, shellac. The Italians invented the straw Plaiting process hundreds of ago, and the English took it up near uit id of the seventeenth century, thousands of which are made in ti little villages around Florence. The't Panama comes from the country down around the Big Ditch. The ord\- nary, hard-finished straws turned out by the carload here in the United States, as well as abi In spite of the fact that beaver fur was running short, men atill insisted that a big occasion, political and so- clal, demanded a shiny pt fo the French went to work in 1810, at it for twenty years, and in 1880 turned out the first silk hat. It we @ great triumph, Silk hats are ma ral layers of cotton cloth, var- #0 as to stiffen and make them waterproof, and then covered with silk plush. The stunt ts to get this plush on without the seams showing, but it Is somehow accomplished. The first silk hats were wonderfully shaped, as any old picture will show. Tet him who on Life's path slips k Condemn the lovers’ action, They parted, nevermore to moet pili side the silent river; ut memory of that mement sw: Will linger with them ever, Ye rigid righteous and strait-lac whore alta need no romiasion at would ye do if ye w In simflar position?» “°T® Paced Cc. W, BARNU. 1904 Avenue 8, Brooklyn tN UaE Rescuer and Rescued. NE dark night as I was return- ing home with my young broth- er along A deserted street him my purse to hold. A man anatened He would have succeeded in getting it had it not been for a gen. tleman who came upon the scene in time to stop the robbery, I thanked him most profusely and my brother invited him to dinner, He accepted the invitation. He was very hand- some, dressed neatly and was so courteous in his manner that I fell in love with him at once. He seemed ill at ease and left us, much to my regret, right after dinner, | was attending an evenin : tion two weeks later when L met wie face 2 fae me ve with a very beautiful young lady, who was his sister, " ii mn Mrs. Stark, Miss , be said as he introduced me to her. I gasped from surprise, «fi but they seemed not to notice it, At. ter @ conversation of five minutes I left them, broken-hearted BESSIE HOCKMAN, by etigne Hundred and Thirty-