The evening world. Newspaper, January 28, 1916, Page 16

seer Aa RLL°SS°8E8 ey, a ae ome a ee ree? S84 & Ske FF cee 0290 eam The Evening World SHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. RSTABLI Pudlisded Daily Broopt sunday by th RALPH PULITZ) J. ANGUS SHAW, J0SHPH Pub ZER, J Entered at the Po: tes to Sudscription Ra’ ‘World for the United States | nd Canada. ‘One Year, ‘One Mont ¢ Press Publisht ww. New York. Pri reasurer, Ir, Secreti A New York Becond-—Class Matter. ine Been [For and and the Continent and All Countries tn the International , Postal ing] F ident, $1 Pa Row, a atk Row. ‘or En: Union Company, Nos, $3 to VOLUME 56.. NO. 19,883 THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS AGAIN. Business Association banquet last night was plain talk—in vi Pebier President’s further plea for preparedness at the Railroad 4 many ways the plainest and most practical the country has yet heard on the subject from any source. Leaving the navy for another time, the President dealt more cogently than ever with (1) the reasons why the nation needs increased ermy defense and (2) the sort of army that best accords with our national spirit, history and ideals. The doctrine of peace-must-rule-the-earth-becanse-it-ought-to- rule-end-thie-country-is-upholding-it is put aside with firm finality: { We live in @ world which we did not make, which we cannot iter, which we cannot think into a differant condition trom thet ‘which eotunlly exists. It would be a hopeless piece of provinctal- Bam © suppose that becaime we think differently from the rewt of the world we are at liberty to assume that the rest of the world wal poruntt us to enjoy that thought without disturbance, Te % @ surprising ctroumstance, aleo, that men should allow Dartiban fooling or personal ambition to creep into the discussion of this fundamental thing. How can Americans differ about the safety of Americal Quakers were among the first peace worshippers recall, however, that early Quakers in this country were conspicuow:ly | backward in building etockades when necessary to protect their sett!e.| ments from Indians. The way to deal wisely with one’s surround- ings is never to be deluded into thinking them better than they are. e Referring to now familiar plans for increasing the potential! _ fighting strength of the nation by training citisens during a number of| weeks each year in the elements of soldiering, the President’s speech again laid stress upon the fact that such plans can never encourage the growth of a military class whose hopes and ambitions lie in th: direction of war. On the contrary, the country will aim to do only “what it has always been its ideal to do—namely, to see to it that its citizens are ready to take care of themselves and are not exposed to the danger of some day being summoned utterly crude, unschooled, inexperienced, into the field, withditt’ adequate direction of trained officers, without proper equipment promptly supplied, without any sort of ready efficiency, to be made the target of battle and the vic- tims of camp disease.” “Woe to any man,” says the President, “who plays marplot or who seeks to make party politics or personal ambi of candor, honor and unselfish, unparti Woe, indeed. But what about the millions who are not in public What about the everyday people in this prosperous country for whom. preparedness is as yet only a “current topic”? When will Tif n service!” somebody bring home to them their responsibilities ? The average business man in this town and a thousand other! places reads and talks about preparedness as of something remote, | something that asks of him nothing save his opinion. He believes in! national defense that will protect him. He is all for plans that pass| over his head and leave him undisturbed in his pursnits, He is all! 4 for national strength, national defense, national aggression even, pro-| vided these things require of him nothing beyond the support of his\ epproval and the shoutings of his o-called national pride. ‘Has he yet considered seriously what personal inconvenience j@ hall entertains admitted the idea of preparedness beyond the outer regions of his thought ? National defense! If it means anything it must mean thrill ng hearte, sober words, nation-wide eagerness for organization, unselfich- new and the instinct of devotion in thousands of unwonted acts and "purposes. Collectively we believe ourselves to be a great and patriotic people. Individually—the test has yet to tell how much of the spirit of sacrifice is in us. ES Hits From Sharp Wits. ® must make a woman chuckle ‘bend as “Boss.”—Cotumbia State. oe oF Foolish indeed is the man who tris about him quietly to herself when she hears alwith her more than o Pullman porter address friciitt hus-]about him.—Macon News. eo And if he doesn't dance . The Lord will provide for the man who works ax hard as he praya— to wear a halo unless he has wings | Toledo Blade. fo matoh—Philadelphia Telegraph. . ee Macon News. . ee It's a durn good thing for a jot of | time a man looks into a mir-|vs that telephone girls don't ror hd feels proud of his wife's taste.— | they know.—Columbia State. * tell all If a man dances more than once in | provided there iy not too much brass, an evening with his wife people talk Nashville Banner, Dollars and Sense 6677'S @ theory of nine,” & well known manufacturer, “that few of us are more than 60 per cent, efficient; that is, judged by a standard of our potential effi- ciency, “And still further I'm inclined to think that many organizations are relatively inefficient, because little or no effort is made to develop the la- tent powers of each and every in- dividual comprising the institution, “I personally am always glad to re- celve suggestions from any sources. Often a man whose duties are in no degree similar to mine can, because of the freshness of his attitude, the dif- ference of his angle of vision, proffer suggestions of great practical value. “A few weeks ago 1 remarked to my wales manager that it seemed to me ‘that it would be a good idea to sound four sales force for suggestions re- @urding increasing the efficiency of the wales and advertising end of our Wusiness, ‘Why not offer « prize for ‘the best letter? I added. ‘This will oumulete our Suggestion adapta testy for sug By H. J. Barrett re REF OCE remarked) Which they ordinari Y pay Little Honour sales policy as a whole. By causing them to concentr proble fielen business, “Hardly a letter wa: Now we ton of ¢ ) We do not ion take precedence {rendering “Goe The Sower &# ees, ot Ellabelle Mae Doolittl HE Singers’ Social Section of the Wom tertainment will be ¢ ture and will be calle of Delhi.” Ellabelle Mae Doolittle, who ts a musical e Cantata priestess of 1 tion, has written the ent the music, The composer's name is be- ing kept a secret, but rumor bas it the Social + lon is Indebted to none other than P. Silas Pettibone, the well-known tonse: artist, for the music, Mr. Pettibone plays the guitar very nicely ‘Those who are ‘to t art in the show rehearsing daily In Hugus Hall under the supervision of Miss Doolittle. For the role of Spickious, King of Delhi, the principal charac in the cantata, Miss Doolittle h welected Skid Skilley, assixtant to Sta- |tlon Master Perkley, Skid is tall and they talk | well proportioned and can sing. He took firet prize in the sixth grade three years ago in a singing contest, oo Eyes” better than seven other contestants did, As th King’s entrance sung Mis« Doolitt'» has written a number called “Hail! Hail! Look Out for the Ki ery one admires a man of mettie| ate on the it should increase their ef- » and if any practicable plang| At tho second rehe are presented it will increase the et- | 4 ficiency of the entire distributing arm of th “The prize was offered, explicit in-| structions being included in the an. | '¢ houncement and the result awaited | yy with interest ; received but M ‘Ox! that contained at least one practicable | Mis# Oxley : able ry servatory at Dallas a whole seas Many contained several, | ae To say that the Application of all the Practicuble ideus will save us thou- Sands annually is @ statement, conservative to other| very. fetching song, |v branches of the business, the office| delightfully rendered 1) force, the factory, &e, of many alert minds upon a problem naturally yields good results, der that we along lines to! policy before,’ Concentration I won- have not adopted this It oes Whe this Hail! Hail! Look out for tue King “1 | aw But You never se him MM street or diteh ‘You can't put this King on the blink” My sinter | ia u 8 twice te the left, twice to t falls aver a ch: r t funny. real Skid did the nce Ho ¥ hadite laueh al oodneNs t | jare ue He Oxley, daughter of Mr Oxley, has been selected. te lappear cx the Quoc ‘i blonde With a natural soprano went to the Music ( and learned technique The Queen appears in the play tm | mediately after tho King has falien Jover t hair and oxcla rou" He gets up and robes and tien : him bre whlot will d y Miss Helle, t goes: wo teGk where, old King. took « here, ‘Why brushest thon thy rebel You've bern 0 ‘8 Betterment League of Dethi, Tex., Is preparing to give ment soon for the ‘ . . roe | be D! t « rhe - whet interruption of business or pleasure he, individually, is willing) ctor o se ye uing fund. The ea to put up with for the better protection 6f his country? Has he yet| she calls d then | ell that Miss Doolittle just y grotesn snk you, Mixs Doolittle," restied | be SLENDER —— By Bide Dudley —— ° Courright, 1916, by Mie Prem Publishlne Co (The New York ening World) married ine wor alone, bully gee! ) boue It is common Kussip Laat Miss Doo- | little's father has Leen off the wagon | lately and that it is her intention to teach hia a lesson with the Queen's song, Ticket a have been selling rapidly at the Squeamish drug store Hollis van Birmingham, an actor friend of Miss Doolittie, has Announced his intention of seeing t entertainment and telling his New York friends how good it is. If he does the chances are the piece will become a New York musical success next season — By Roy L. | 66] JERE comes Mra Hickett,” said Mrs, Jarr, as she glanced out of the window. “What brings that woman here to-day? Oh, dear me, if she knew what a nuisance she was I'm sure she'd stay away.” “Well, if you are going to have a visitor,” said Mr. Jarr, “I'll duck." “No, you stay Just where you are, Mr. Jarr; she's the awfullest gossip there ever was, and if shesees you around maybe she won't stay long.” | By the time Mrs. Jarr had finished these few remarks, which were ac- companied with frowns and impatient shrugging of the shoulders, the vis- itor was at the door, Why Your —— By Andr Copyright, 1018, by ‘The Pree Publishing Co, Clothes } | Are Not Becoming e Dupont (The New York Evening World). Choose Your Frock According to Type. Proc i FiooRe | | Phe tustration sho with NLESS you study your own par- lcular type you can never dress becomingly, pitain general rules of b women after they “ge bave an unfor toward stoutness. sort, especially if ahe 4 \s Well, should remember thee port nes are the thing for pleated on each side of p reach @ certain tunate tendency will add height and vad, but @ white waist “cuts” Ngure unbecomingly and the appearance of weight. The tall and slender woman hy much easier task before her, for larger part of all fashion desig brought out with this type of in mind, Unless she wants to look like @ lath or @ lead pencil she should do her best to avold any that Is fluffy and f: becoming. frill, flounce: hiers or anything of the sort { her ap avoid vests effects are becomin, of sailor collars and fichu and effects, a charming frock of bright blue taffeta silk made chiffon sleeves. ‘The broad lines of the bodice and the full chiffon over~ | skirt are very becoming to a slender figure. The leeves ar on my wa There are d ~ A woman of this ember that long her skirts jain front, 4 Jing of buttons running down tho venter of the frock or anything that slenderns ‘he figure, She looks thinner in ae tre gown of one’ color than Ine ‘louse and skirt. If the blouse is the color of the skirt the effect is not as the increases 4h del cut with long flowing lines.” Ever lily’ ts oxtsonate xt Kirts made with many pleats, skirts gathered at the top of put on to the waist with an upstand- , full draperies, pan. | nro: In watsts she ‘should id blouses cut no fulness at the varietion Jabot cut very full just By J. H. Cassel Sir The Jarr Family McCardell — Covrrigt, 1916, by ‘The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) “Why, my dear Mrs. Hickett! How sweet of you to call!” exolaimed Mrs. Jarr, kissing effusively the lady she thus greeted. “I was just saying to not going past the house again, for you know you owe me a call.” My sister in Brooklyn {s ill, and I'm to wee her," replied the caller, “Now I know she |s not so iil that you can’t stay a while!” said Mrs. Jarr, with one of her most engaging smiles, “Sit right down in that chair! ! take off your gloves and overshoes and just bave a nice visit, I'll have the girl make a cup of tea, and you | must tell me what is going on! As I was just saying to Mr, Jarr, 4 Hickett is such a well-informed well informed, and, besides, she's al- ways so cheerful!” m sure, though, that I had lenough trouble to sour the disposi | tion of a saint!” said Mrs, Hickett, “Oh, don't say that!" replied Mra, Jarr, “I'm sure it must be the t! weather or illness that could depress your sunny nature!” “Iness!" croaked Mrs, Hickett, “You may well say the word. I'd be a wealthy woman to-day but for what I've spent on doctors—thou- sands and thousands of dollers, my dear. I've tried homeopaths and I've tried allopaths, and I've tried osteopaths, and now I am baki “Baking?” sald Mra. Jarr, "Yes, baking. bw it 1s torture—positive tortur “Your sister is not weil Jarr, to divert the lady recollections of her own suffe: “A stroke, hollow tone, ngs, “Maybe a change of air will do her she should go away some suggested Mrs, Jarr. “Now, I remember when I had neuralgia so good plac badly that for days and days and nights and nights I just walked the | Moor racked with agony and the doc- tors'-—— “The only change of alr she will have will be when she is taken to the cometery, wid Mrs. Hickett sol- I go every day and my—er—er—imbs buked, and the perspiration just rolls off me and * suld Mrs. Hickeit, in a #0 You ‘nustn't consider this a call. | | | | woman, but #he just despises gossip, | |and you never can get her to say |@ word about any ono; but what 1 | like best mbout her is that she is so } emnly—4t being a point with ladies never to allow others to suffer more than themselves or their immedi bove the deep silk cuffs, Don't make the mistake of choosing styles that look | relatives, people, typa., “Om don't say thet!" ead Mre, ‘well on other { Daily Magazine, Friday: January 28, 1916 o € Editorials by Women SHOCK ABSORBERS. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. T" Institute for Public Service has presented New York with an official shock absorber, a gentleman to whom anybody who is shocked at anything can pour out his horrified emotions, a voluntary sufferer for the sins of the peeved. There has been no such courageous exemplar of vicarious atone- ment since the disappearance of the whipping boy, the pathetic infant who was caned whenever a youthful English King stole the Lord Chancellor’s snuffbox. But one shock absorber isn’t nearly enough for New York. Almost every woman, almost every man I know, is more or less in need of a shock absorber’s services. The average woman in particular—though probably the thankless | effort has been wished on her by men—wastes a perfectly unconscion- able amount of time and energy in being shocked. The power @ ma- | chine loses in friction is nothing compared to the power lost by the feminine mechanism in gasps, sighs, head-shakings, lip-pursings over |the folly of friends, neighbors or even perfect strangers seen in the | etreet or in a newspaper headline. For such manifestations of horror |accomplish nothing; they merely clog the ways of constructive dis- j ousatons and action, I don’t suppose there are enough human shock absorbers to go around even among our reformers, who are in direst need of them. But the work of the world would get done much more smoothly and efficiently if women—and men too—wouldn’t insist on being appalled ing eye? Copyright, 1916. by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). THE SPECTRE BRIDEGROOM, By Washington Irving. |so often. Why can’t some clever oculist invent a pair of spectacles | which will correct the vision of everybody afflicted with a disapprov- iThe Stories of Stories By Albert Payson Terhune N an ancient castle of the Odenwald in Upper Germany five hundred years ago dwelt the Baron von Landshort with his lovely daughter and a swarm of poor relations, When his daughter bloomed into young womanhood the Baron ‘arranged for her marriage with the Count von Altenburg, a nobleman whom none of the family had seen. The date was set, and the bridegroom ar- ranged to reach the von Lahdshort castle on the day before the wedding kh banquet. Von Altenburg set out for the castle in due time with bis retinue. On the way he chanced to meet his comrade-at-arms, young Herman von Star | kenfaust, who rode with him for part of the distance. As they passed through a forest they were attacked by a band of robbers, The brigands | were quickly routed, but not before von Altenburg received a mortal wound. With his last breath the Count begged Herman to ride on to the von | Landshort castle and tell what had happened. Herman promised. Delay- ing only long enough to escort the body to its burial place at Wurtzburg Cathedred, Herman spurred forward on his errand, At the Baron's castle the failure of the Count to arrive on time caused » much excitement. But tate on the banquet evening a tall stranger in black arrived at the castle gates, Baron rushed out to greet the supposed bridegroom and lead him to the banquet hall, The guest seemed The to be trying to explain something, but the Baron's flow of loudly welooming words drowned the effort. Then the guest caught sight of the bride, And no longer did he try to explain, He was dumb with admiration of her lov ness, Close beside her he sat all through the feast, Presently he found hie voice, He and she talked together in low tones, blind and deaf to any one else, Tho Baron broke ta oh their love making by telling loudly the good old story of the goblin horseman who bore away the fair Leonora, As he finivhed the gruesome tale the clock tolled midnight, his feet and bade the bride a solemn farewell, asked the reason for leaving. am “L must away to--to Wurtzburg Cathedral," stammered the guest.» * dead man. I have been slain Ly robbers, He mounted his black charger and vanished into the night, leav! the household dumfounded with wondering horror, ¢ creased when next day they learned that the Count von Altenburg had tn- My body les at Wurtzburg. Thi horror was { The guest sprang to The Baron, in amazement, deed been slain by robbers on the way to the wedding and had been buried Mr. Jarr that I felt sure you were |: Wurtzburg. ‘The bride was heartbroken, She could not eat or sleep, One night ne stood at her casement gazing sadly out into the moonlight #he saw the ‘T've Just dropped in for a moment, | Spectre Bridegroom riding through the moonlight toward the castle, Her attendants tried in vain to hold her back, She broke loose from themn and ran out to greet the beloved phantom, The Spectre lifted her to the saddle tn front of him and galloped away, The Baron gave chas Spoiled. eee No sign could be found of A Ghost Story } the maid or her lover, Germany seemed likely to be $ enriched by another very interesting ghost story, But on the following day the bride returned, And with her was the Spectre Bridegroom, otherwise Herman von Starkenfauet. They had been married and had come back to ask the Baron for his parental Lea take of vraps; | Blessing. 2 take of your hat and wraps; Herman explained his first visit to the castle, telling how the bride's get the brid ing her once more, Whe suaded her to the elopement. ty had changed his plang, and how the 1 of escaping from so aw ale of the goblin horseman had ward a situation, He had not pad come back by night on the chance of ad run to moet him he had easily per- The Baron fumed and stormed, It was only when he found his new son- ‘Pop’s Mutual Motor—By Alma Covsright, 1916, by i a fello’ 7) back tn 1905, and bought tt secretly, too, y'understand, like from a very stable man who took it in exchange for a horse's feed bill, every automobile agent in the United States is wise to him and sends him a young circulating brary every six} months on the chance that his grand- father's died and he's going to buy mused Pop. “But here's a circular of a brand new kind of non-skid tire that looks tempting. 1 rks by capillary attraction, “Well, let them give you a demon- stration,” suggested Ma, *{t doesn't cost anything. You know that slid- ding is the one great fear of my life, I always say that as long as you've got your car under control you can cope with almost anything, but the minute you begin to skid—good night!" The nest another bus,” day (Saturday) at 2.80 Jarr, with well simulated sympathy. “I'm glad to say it,” eald Mra, Hickett, with a groan, ‘I wouldn't like to see her ike my Aunt Jane, bed-ridden for nineteen years; could not move a hand and had to be walted on like a baby, And my brother Thomas, look what he went through,” continued the cheerful Mrs, Hickett, “He was laid up with spinal trouble. Mr, Jarr knew bim weil, Where is Mr. Jarr?” Mr, Jarr had slipped away unob- served, and when he reached the office an unfortunate solicitor for a burial fund association just swotoes sananlt talk shop, the million perforations though—the on: 's, cause the course you don't, likely we'd have before we got hack. so tit when I re- blow thi along t At 5.30 to the dot a shaky latchk ‘Bled with the intricacies of yed across the ce Was ashen hued ‘Tell you all abou Suppose I'll hav, {guy to a drink somewhere —his lps blue. who had been id, became solicit ‘at's happened, Milton?” she ex. aa though you'd seen a ghost!” “During the last two seen my Own, several times,’ sepulchrally, winter sports in a: should I go to Vermo: or Canada for tobo, have ro, - Er me what hal ‘J Ppened, “Going up it was all We felt it growing chilly, at_a roadhouse for @ When we came out it Also, we were in a part try where it had never took me to the to The rest is pali payed desi nt in Februar: of several But one bile, the sal volatile, will that advert! saa {sing Hterature, in-law was very rich that he simmered down, But the poor relations grieved bitterly, because the only spectre they had ever had the good luck to see had turned out to be no spectre at all, Woodward. Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), hea bought ® cart the demonstration car stood outside 4 ‘Ma looke Parlor window, a Ou OF the is car he's got “I don't $00 the tires, that, the ctroulac4* pillary attraction.” If you did, that many ready to repri- ours I've ba hy Ma com. makes