The evening world. Newspaper, February 25, 1916, Page 3

LSU IT eee en ee emanate Ie mee 8 ME pe am BOY HUSBAND MUS GIVE UP IRL BRE HETHEDTODEFOR Angry Ma Vows She'll Con- tinue Annulment Suit to the End. CALLS IT “PUPPY LOVE.” — Position,” she said, ‘in Jersey City or! anywhere else, to marry them as that Justice of the Pence in Jersey City | ‘ond my understanding. | They are only children, My Joe is| tall, to be sure, but he has the face and voice of a child. Agnes hardly looks her age; she wears her hair down her back in a ribbon and wears short skirts, “They were just victims of puppy love, and nothing is more certain than they would have come to hate each other @ few years from now when they learned what life really is and each of them had found true love for some one else.” | Joe, who shed knickerbockers only @ year ago, and Agnes attended Pub- fe School No. 28, a block from the Graham home. They both belonged | to the school glee club and to the “They’d Hate Each Other in} same social organizations, and usual- Few Years,” Says Joe ly went together to‘ the school par- Finnigan’s Mother. ties and picnics. Their parents paid no attention to their sweethearting except to tease them about it a little; Joseph Finnigan, seventeen years | i" fact, they thought it very pretty. 4 Rocently the Davis family prepared 1s recovering in Bellevue Hospital fe is 08 4 to move from their home in Webster from the results of his effort to take | Avenue to Brooklyn. Joe spent more Bis life because his mother, Mrs.|and more time with Agnes, He was Mary Grabam, and John Graham, his | fairly beside himself with happiness, eteptather, of No. 180 Anthony Ave. |%# mother said, singing and whistling the Bronx, are preparing mult for |200Ut the house. One evening about — shri sors aside 4 month ago he told his mother he the annulment of his marriage to his}and Agnes had been married that @ehoolmate and formor neighbor, | afternoon in Jersey City. Agnes Davis, also seventeen, Mrs, Graham thought it quite the Siete. moter onld funniest joke she had heard tn a long} to-day at her time. When she thad stopped laugh- Bome that she was sorry for the boy, Jing Joo insisted he was telling the But the annulment suit was going |truth. She told the boy somebody eight on. His attempting suicide, ahe | had been playing a joke on him and @aid, is proof he is not old enough to |Asnes. Joe produced the marriage know what is good for him. certificate, Mrs. Graham went to “How in the world those two found | Jersey City next day and, to her as- Qnybody holding a reaponsible city |tonishment, found the certificate was} ' IF KIDNEYS ARE TROUBLING YOU photograph of pretty little Agnes ‘Uric Acid in meat excites from the dresser in Joe's room and tear it to bits. ‘Then the law was laid Kidneys and_Irritates the Bladder. down to Joseph. He was not to visit his bride or even to talk to her on the telephone. His older brother, John, and his sisters were made re- sponsible for his obedience. Joe sulked, He stayed in his room and smoked cigarettes and read mag- jazine love stories and refused to talk to the family. Yesterday his mother told him the annulment suit wae under way. Some time later his brother John opened the bathroom door and found Joe unconscious on |the floor, Gas was pouring from the jet and the window was tightly| closed. | Policeman Finnegan was called and |Dr. Dourmaskin soon arrived from Fordham Hospital with a pulmotor. Meanwhile John, not knowing any- | thing about the difference between / asphyxiation and corrosive poisons, had nearly choked his brother with olive oil and whites of eggs. Joe re- gained consciousness at Fordham | Hospital and was transferred to the prison ward at Bellevue. parent ti STEAL GERMS FROM AUTO orocure AFTER TAKING JOY RIDE oan a poet and a d Ito: By No—never—it is oted Authority says we must flush Kidneys with Salts if Back hurts. di a well-known authority, who want be constantly on guard aj c trouble. The kidneys « 8 us to their utmost to free the blood of this irritating acid, but become weak from the overwork; they the eliminative tissues clog in the blood to p When your kidneys ache a i lumps of lead, and you have stinging pains in the back or the urine is cloud, fan ‘of sediment, or the bladder is in table, obliging you to seek relief during the night; when you have severe head- aches, nervous and dizzy spells, sleep- Jessness, acid stomach or rheumatisn bad weather, get from your pharmack about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a for him a br Diphtheria Culture Tubes From Doctor's Car by Phila- delphia Thieves. | Mr, fee SIRE tablespoonful in a glass of water before} PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.—Thieves | American love- mak ‘Whreakfast each morning and in a few who stole the auto of Dr. Milton an auspicious beginning. s your k will act fine. This} Percival, while it stood in front of | first instance recorded in our his famous salts is mi the College of Physicians and later| tory Capt. Miles Standish indictment brought by an Italian woman, current issue of Vanity Fair. mother”) Signora Sergardi finds the American a lag- counts: First, she says, he doesn’t make of himself a love- inspiring object—i. e., he takes no thought for his waist line, refuses to wear cravats that match his eyes, and is ashamed of perfumes. Third, he 1s too busy. Fourth, he is too monotonous. ye mamewns charges against the American man, I felt that I must And so I retained a wit, an | of American literature, as its dean has called him. | Mr. Herford’s many charming books isa first aid to awkward lovers, called Taken) “Cupid's Cyclopedia.” Herford came nobly | fense of the American man and lover true,” he admitted, “that ———~ THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, ’ : = CWives, RS, Swan HERFOR YOUNSON OLIVER HERFORD Says: since the Days When Capt. Miles Stand- ish Sent a Substitute Romeo He Has Progressed, and Long Practice Has Taught Him Much of the Gentle Art. Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Does the American man know how to make love? not possible! That is a summary of the damning Signora Bianca Sergardi, in the Like Blinor Glyn (who leserted us with the cruel verdict that “going out with n American man is like going out with one’s grand- ard in love. She really brings against him four distinct Second, he is too honest. In view of the somewhat overwhelming array of rilliant array of counsel. dram@tist—in short, Oliver Herford, the Charles Lamb Incidentally, among And in the first formal interview he has ever given to the 0-—————————— | Unle: NO Marry! MRS. OWEN JOHNSON Says: He Has Lived Abroad or HasLatin Blood, He Is a Crude Novice; but at the Same Time American Men Are the 8 Only Ones for American Women to 1916 DOES THE AMERICAN MAN KNOW HOW TO MAKE LOVE? ness. the Whereas the European man does not | feet that he is living unless he ts lov ing. If he works at all it is to have more money, to have more leisure in which to love.” “That is very true,” Mrs. Johnson answered, pouring me out some more tea. You soe, this dissection of the American man occurred over a | table in the charming Johnson apart- ment at No, 33 West Sixty-seventh Street, “I remember when Mr. John fon and T went to Italy shortly after wo were married. My husband want ed naturally to find out what the men of the country were like. He tried ghost of love by marrying tt tea- their love affairs, and in society every Jone speaks frankly of tho affair be- tween the Countess A and the Mar- quis B. And the couples are received and seated next each to meet them at their clubs, But as soon as they were through with bual fess the Italians hurried to the women to whom they were making love at the t They were not at the clubs, or when they did to them they talked only about women, For the European man does talk quite openly about women, you know. | That ia the other side of the picture. | Men of the Latin races talk freely of MSS EVERSON IN PISO PEN CASE But Alvena Woltje Says She Told Truth and Will Be Held as Witness. Miss Alvena Woltje, fifteen years O, of Little Neck, L. L, was arraigned in the Children's Court tn Jamaica to-day, agents of the Brook- lyn Society for the Prevention of | | i When Cruelty to Children asked she be held as a material witnese in the “poisoned pen” case that has stirred Long Isiand, Miss Woltje, who charges Miss Mary Everson, a wealthy Sunday School teacher of Little Neck, with dictating malicious letters to her and then forcing her to send them to her- self and to Miss Everson, postponed By Nixola Greeley-Smith. The American man is NOT a good lover. Bianca Sergardi, an Italian lady who spent several months in this country last year, presents this sweeping indictment, and the evidence formidable. to make love. He ts not handsome. she offers in support of her accusation is quite The American, she says; Is resolute, he is kind, he is faithful, he is generous, but he does NOT know how Even Italians, she thinks, are wonderfully attractive in their ardent youth; French- men fm their distinguished middle life, but Americans pass from gawky, {ll-mannered young manhood to an unbeautiful and colori Signore Sergarii adds, however, that women do not seek pulchritude in men; that provided a man knows old age. how to make love he may be chinless and bald. Realizing that I am much too crude a person to subscribe to this doctrine and feeling that if I had nine lives I'd pass them all with American men, I decided to seek advice of another woman on the matter of the American's expertnees in love studied for and sang puts it on an efficiency ba has his regular appointments long practice has taught him just what to do and say on each occa- sion, His love-making is smooth, but it is also swift and there's a ing didn't have In the nt a Mule, ond hi abandoned it after taking several dip-| substitute Romeo, and for this let ehteeatition: ‘© flush and stimulate clogged kidneys, | therla culture tubes from the car,| cowardice he fared as disastrously Mths Amarlaans en tha: ane ids in urine so it is! may pay dearly for their trouble, as he deserved to fare. But we trary, does net make love a6 a ce of irritation, thus] Health officers declared to-day | have gone far since that day, and fisinasaaleciaayebeuhinu acces ; If the tubes are opened, it Is as-| it dad Salts is spentsye a Tacos serted the crooks will in all prob-| of the present tov injure; makes a delightful efferves ability contract the disease, ‘The cul- | not too well k, and nobody can make for the deposit of these bonds by the Protective Committee 1s unwarranted. Amster says the interest has a} ford several of Signo! | flatte n paid and will be paid, and DR J.C McCOY is no necessity of forcing a jin that he is as th e ° ° e. smileloss as one ex financtal interests in Wall ne: bing is 42d St. , ot beltey eenat the company professional ure ‘A few doors west of Brondway, {Ean be permanently financed unless the [of soft gray hair, dee Mp Wedmoniay and Trias 10,4." Closed mortgage upon which these bonds |1) thegn <j pnt ace on, are based ts reopened. whispering voice and A MOTHER'S GRATITUDE 2:2:.5"°° ‘Mrs. F. A. lo’ and seek around th free fron chloroform, opium, morphine, Th. Italian made. making to do tha ms to me that the American “Making love is the business of has 50 tion, but not his vocation. He is able to give more time to the lady of his affections, because he does wisely and ed Mr, Hertford Wiha wee Ly taking @ little occasionally | ture tubes were the only articles left | “Of course.” | add tne | Rot usually love on schedule— to keep the kidneys clean and active. — in the machine by Dr, Percival |rather nervously, son ening ne! stops at all way-stations. Also hie to ke Jelenehed left hand which acts ar love-making is more spontaneous, AMSTER WRITES A LETTER, °°", brake on ie conversation, “| more individualistic, more original ————— an't speak on this subjec' ' Wave vou oe slanora. ‘ | ReD Ea Oe ee oahes ie tial Have you seen Signora Sergardi? Opposes Deposit of Rock Iviand hand 4 |Or a picture of her?” Mr, Herford Firet a Refand in, American woman, to whom the Amer denly broke off. abaltl, this o NL Amuater, representing tome of the jican man makes iN or dope 3 a) da eek anata hose who rea minority stockholders in the Chicago, |suppose you couldn't walt while (aie Be Ae Hest iena eri Rock Island and Pacific Railway Com- |wrote a book?” The lady visited us and was dis- wen complete |, sent out yesterday a letter to the i at ant, | Satisfied with the love made by er an paidcra of the 4 per cent. first and re-) couldn't, for I knew YOU wouldn't. 5 ant as eek Ve. jor W funding bonds declaring that the call! put I took the time to show Mr. Her- 2 sad ra Sergardi's un- | meanwhile not- | 1 And I wonder,” I echoed. I HAD wondered, when i first read n, ax pensive, as! ‘st read the article, pects to find a A?! t. He has a busn| “BYt maybe American men did Feaet blue eyes (ake love to her and she didn't know fonal gleam—a {they Were doing it." Mr, Herford's vad nity, {2tllantry suddenly choked his cynie- ism—i¢ not mine—into submiasion. L emotional | h country has its own slang of says the Ameri- | eaeciginad’ Gaal 8 argot. They say there's an tional love language, but ve iv to play hide lieve it vidently Signora deey tion, to | it or the lirt, to fee lure neraonality, | Conrad of Altoona Says (19, (07 0 ive of permnann A vegies ’ rier {$0 say dangeroy: m a Pies °Jisn't attractive, romantically," Tre That Father John s Medicine Keeps make dull hours dellciously danger-! minded him ‘ by ous. It is a game the American man| "There are few American men who Her Children Well. [has never learned, The dear man is pss pertur BP, oF meer coats to match ae too candid, He looks upon any sub-| «tut t donbt If the type of man who |tlety of this sort as a kind of dise| does these things is romantically at- |honesty. And here is where he fails!" tractive to the American woman— The mother of four children, Mrs.P.A. | “1 think it is true,” said Mr. Her- | however much he may appeal to Sig- Conrad, says: “My children were at ford, “that the American makes 1 Aes ese rears eae Be ote different times troubled with severe laiterently trom tho Buropean. With |Site eden ee reeice eremantien tolds, also croup and bronchitis, and | the latter, love-making is a ritual,| Don't you think so?" have given them Father John's Medi- Ee ee aslct Onich is toravar en | ASE caula uneven be. romantoaily cine, which has given complete satis- } fine With the A love | attracted by body who used per- faction, and [ cannot find words to ex- his lps ith the American, love| attracted by anybody who used per. press thankfulness for the benefit is something which he keeps witbin| naturally felt that Mr. Herford was that Father n’s Medicine did. My himself; it is an unspoken prayer, a| right. younger boy was always weak, but Jservice at which the heart and not| “Jt seems to me that our men are thanks to Pather John’s Medic % lthe mouth officiate Sal Y ahont [he ter ate wsed ; han ir allshen,” he is now the picture of health.” (Sign ici duck ase of lavecmnaxing wan (CCR ere is more ind M Mrs. F. A, Conrad, 111 Second avenue, Seharnnan ‘ ert ality here, ee Pa. It is important for jmore sincere, more worthy of d@-) “The one fault | have to find ' to know that Father Jolin's | Pondence. with the appearance of the Amer- : o si i ee tiie | “Or the difference may stated | jean lover is that he's too fat. 1 ae ecits, coughs and grip, because {tle in this way have noticed this in many recent and of course the s' play ; | | supposed to mirror society, codeine, heroin or eny other dangerous | a certain type of European—no- | jy Seat nainavae: nthe contrary: drugs ny fori Father John's | tably the Italian. When he goes | are getting too thin. Medi pure and whe begins | out of his house in the morning At that, we haven't come t® the wouriahen f its gent fe lagatlve. offer he goes to his daily task: of love, | Lirrinun style of lovemaking, which elps drive. out impurities anc 5 requently vor kiving to soo! hes and henls the breathing passages. as the American goes to his office, ii eit) tone stapped at much love t he naturally yo hotel, a fav r and maidens and boneymoon \ abroad before she became the wife of one of America’s most successful novelists, And Mrs, Johnson told me frankly what she thought of the love- making she had observed and maybe experienced when she was cultivating her remarkable voice in Germany, Italy and France. EUROPEAN ALWAYS ON THE LOVEMAKING JOB. “Signora Sergardi is right—abso- lutely right,” Mrs, Johnson exclaimed “T've sald the same thing to my hus- band many times, Unless the Amer- ican man has studied and lived abroad as Mr. Johnson has, or unless he has Latin blood In his veins, he knows absolutely nothing of love- making! You see, he ts much too busy to learn, When he gets out of college he sets to work immediately to make money enough to get married |on, and ft takes so much money here, | where all the women are determined | not to be poor, that he really has not | time to learn how to love. He does the big things for a woman without realizing that in love the big thingy are really the little things; that a woman prefers the man who picks up her handkerchief to the man who lays down his life for her, Is not that 80?" “It is 80, | [ acquiesced, The French have a saying that a woman will al- ways sacrifice the man who loves her but does not please her to the man who pleases her but does not love | her I fear they are right. The Amer- }ican man is the best of husbands and the worst of lovers. “Of course Americans are the only men to marry,” Mrs, Johnson sald ‘Next to the American the German man makes the best husband, I think Not the Prussian for southern adores women mental of his sex. The Italian makes tempt love m tlons flowers, are Am receive. “it lover," heart, "Yet merely ingless vorces aia?" “But Europe THREE?” I asked. Sex bot havo women anything, Frenchman are so delightful In the little atten- they woman's hand. to do that? charming compliment @ woman can Johnson reflected. men practise it? seems to get have more time to devote to his work. thinking about business. to himself, ‘Well, I'll put this trouble- some thing out of the way. any foolish hours which I must So I called on Mre, Owen Johnson, who In grand opera@—————— He has a con- but the men of ‘The German He ts the most senti- women, Germany jost artistically, He is, if more charming than the But all the Latin men pay women, They send books. And they kiss a Do you know there rican men who woukl ecorn And yet it is the most KISS HER HAND AND YOU MAY BREAK HER HGART. ls the symbol of the perfect I answered. “The man who kisses a woman's hand may break her She considers it a fair ex- change.” American men soorn it. It is a charming ceremonial,” Mrs. “Perhaps a mean- rite, yet how many American And how many di- we might be spared if they don't you think the real les in the fact that in Amer- » and marriage are ONE they are nearly always— “An American in order to in married hers him, It keeps him trom So he saya I can't thoughts about interfering with the sacred devote to busi- couples, and there was a sign in the dining room, ‘Guests are requested not to feed each other,’ ” “What about the charge—brought by many besides the ora—that Americans are too busy making money to make love?” “As 1 sald, love {8 not the business of Americans, On the other hand, their business is often an Indirect method of love-making. They work so hard for money because they de. | sire to spend it on their wives or to |xave it for the girls they hope one | day to marry |" “That the American does not shoot his rival in a duel or stab him in a dark alley is no proof that love here is loss impassioned than abroa girl make: suitors kno 9 but death will bring them into the running again. ‘Thanks te our di: jaws, the disca lover re does not find it n ary to shoot. He merely pute his name on th Amer! “Just Mr. He in this love in at this for th has done for love-making: e waiting list, which every loan girl keeps, and waits return from Reno. think of what o telephone exclaimed rford, "I know @ young man city who called up his lady- Denver, and she sobbed so proof of his devotion that it {cost him about $19 to get five words through to ber. man's can merely tions to | merely ton, as in others And yet the Ameri use of the telephone is everywhere other at di have sometimes, | to keep quiet « about Amer very discre rather indise u ki 1 fairs, y “Wh: to lo "Well, fo! for him to affairs: nner. outside but they have ut them: jean men is tha A man has their now.” asked. r one thing, it's so get out gr Johnson said. one of his original contribu- | the technique of love-making, one proof that in this direc: we are the must inventive on in the world.” But even if it were true that the American man can't make love, the | American woman can be depended on| to do it is much To Ow \qake LAXATIVE | Gudti's for him. And really, kissing nicer than turning the cheek Cold tn One Dr “BROMO QUININE. Tablets Tetund money if it tals wo cure, BW: guatize is on wach box be.—AdrE ings, can have ing to mo.” YOUR Al “Well, sisted. en seated look around you for the nearest and most convenient oxit, 1c go out quietly. parwhat women do that?” Mrs. John- son retorted, = “Th looks before he loves. When he does much more deeply, more sincerely, than the European. For the European there is rarel: love it is you know. homage to “And don’t you think in estimating European as a asked, “we should take into account the fact that the moment we turn our o through the same performance with a pretty house- the backs he may n, but one MERICAN HATES SCENE. but how many women do that?” Mrs, Johnson asked. “So many make trouble—make scenes. @ man risks quite as much in @ love affair as a women,” Mrs, Johnson in- though you print terrupted: “‘As soon He admires, all pretty women.” maid or a buxom cook?” “For that type no use at all,” M “Et there its admirat! “Youdo critic that American men you?” I asked, incomparably the be: ing men tn is ther type the world. “Oh, as specimens they are mi cent, I agree with you, Mrs. Johnson, njficent specimen is not necessarily a good lover, you know. You know as well as I do that the American’ man je NOT @ good lover,” dhe added. 1 admitted sadly thi lovely “Perhaps, ourselves. "No," himself as Buropean alwa woman to @ declaration. ‘se what makes the European the bet- repliei the European. she concluded. Tomorrow, Saturday, Sale of 1,000 Spring Waists a Taffetas Georgettes Fancy Silks These are all fresh, from the filmy, dainty, dressy combinations of la and silks and satins, to the sprightliest of color combinations for the new Spring suits. They may well values, for they represent unusual sacrifices of profits by way of introduction to the Spring assortments which are crowding every selon and every gallery of the new fashion shop. It is an opportunity for something very special on your Saturday shopping rounds, At the New Nineteen West 34th Street FPL QeuF YF American men do! homes, the grace One thin, they are to get into love af- “What has a man hard efully,” Mrs. ain. “Surely an tever her feel- policy in such he poliey of ‘Here's your hat your hurry? the moment he develops the first symptom of want- I think in black letters on the programme of the af- 1 In case of American ma: ‘THE woman, he pays lovemaker,” European I have . Johnsgn replied. which to a number of women, all beautiful or charming. That man nderstand.” wt agree with Italian ugly, do “To me they seem at pelle. best look- ffi ut a mag- at I did know. I suggested hopefully, “he would be If we were not so aggressive Who knows what would happen if we gave him, aay, a little more time?” Mrs. Johnson said, shaking her short blond curls defiantly, “He gets just as much time to declare And the manages to beat the That, really, he described as telling her story until after Miss Byv- erson is arraigned in Flushing Wea- nesday, on a charge of sending im- proper matter through the mails Miss Everson charges Miss WoltJe is behind a achome to frame her, while the girl, after hours of questioning by the police, maintains @he was forced to write the letters by Miss Everson. “I do not care what Miss Everson says, I am a truthful girl and I know sho is lying,” sobbed little Miss Woltje, as she was being taken back to the Brooklyn Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children last night by Miss Ethel Pickett of Brooklyn, who all day long questioned both the ac- cused and the accuser at the former's home. “I wrote those letters and I do not know just why I wrote them other than to please Miss Everson, who was #0 good to me and to my brothers and sisters. ‘At times when Miss Everson ras short of writing paper she would give me money with which to purchase more at Mrs. Katherine Baker's store across the street from the Everson home. The language used in the let- ters was new to me. I did not know what many of the words meant.” In addition to the charge of in- fluencing a girl to write the poison pen letters, Miss Everson may face @ graver charge If the investigation of the Children’s Society bears fruit Mise Pickett, one of the agen:s, and T. J. Shea, attorney for the society, visited the home of Miss Everson last night and grilled her for more than im against ber by Miss ‘Woltle. Lo ie Shea and Miss Pickett did their best to have Miss Everson admit that she forced the child to write the let- ters. She refused, and when brought face to face with the gict yelled at the top of her voice that she is being he A When Attorney Shea asked her just what she meant by this term, Miss Everson said that she had been in. formed that Miss Woltje and others who are to testify against he: been paid for their rt echeme. Miss Everso! hysterical and violent a\ times that she tried to eject her \questioners from her home. Absolute denials on the part of Miss Everson against definite accusations made by Miss Woltje make the case all the more puzzling. It is believed that several prominent families in Little Neck will be brought into the case, a8 children belonging to @ club organized by Miss Everson will un- doubtedly be asked to testify on March 1, when Miss Everson will be tried on the girl's charges. February 26th a *5 Crepe de Chines Striped Satins Chiffon Cloth beautiful Spring productior “wonderful” J ) d ) Fashion Shop eteiaeee ort tl 4 ‘