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~~ PMT NL se CE a TI a ea Ae £ FR A a AR nel 2 Ia Spey in AO Tipe ene _ Frening World Daily Magazine ed Copstidht. 1917 by The Urea Pintiailing Co The Now York Exeniog Word.) [ : ‘ ‘ ' m Tey, 9 Some ‘‘Misunderstood’’ Men By Helen Rowland _ Diy, Wis Fram Patana Co; (iw New Yor Sn i The Fat Man. K | “N OBODY loves a fat man!” says the cheerful Chubby Pi The American Standard RALPH PULITZER, President, 62 Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Patk Row. E JOSEPH PULITZR, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row Published Dally Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to Tntered at the Poat-Office at New York as Kecond-Class Matter, Budseription Mates to Tic Eventng |For bogiana and the Continent and «World for t | AML Countries in the International ‘ and car Powtal Union One Year. ‘ eresvene O97 One Month.. dallying lovingly over the last morsel of his porterhow! chuckles as he says it. “By Jove! I'm gaining a pound a day!” he sighs MANHOOD tevvesreeng 88 1 im and orders a second portion of creamed asparagus, aa WUUUME Dis ssevisseessesses seeeeeeseeeeeeesesNO, 20,262 | AND another boitte of vintage wine. by RANA TT Do you pity him, when the Sweet Young Thing, wha has consented to dine at his expense, gently but firmly refuses to be led out on the dancing floor? Are yOu sorry for him, when he plaintively inquires, “Why 4@ women turn down a fat man? { Don't! Save your pity for somebody who needs 1%} A woman may suffer infinite pain, when the scales ap+ wiconsomam proach the hundred-and-sixty mark. She may herolod ally cut out ber beloved sundaes and sodas, disdainfully discard pot ' and sadly pass up the salad dressing. She may bant and pant and roll , the floor until she is black and blue. But a man would consider it the height of folly to resist his fourth glass of beer for the sake of his figure, A woman may endure untold agonies at the thought that her hips are pde- coming noticeable; but {t never occurs to a man that a little thing like @ fifty-inch waistline could mar his fatal fasclnation—and he wouldn't care if it did. HEN women pity 4 fat man, tt is because they are looking at hit W from their point of view—not from his, A fat man NEVER suf fers unleas he is forced to climb a filght of stairs, atand up in @ suit. Ife fs the happiest, cheerfullegts he is PAT. trolley car, or wear a t most self-satisfied being Occasionally, after an od dinner, he may tell you pathetl< cally that he is a sentimentalist, and that he HAS a heart, beneath all seeming materialism. He may even remark, abstractly, that he yearns marry—but hoe is careful not to put his yearning tnto the concrete form 2! @ proposal, Occasionally he may actually lose what he thinks is his het to some very young and tender bit of femininity—but he never loses head, or his appetite, or a single pound of his jovial fesh—no, nor a ein; night's s} Ho may even go #0 far as to think—purely academieally= of marriage; but when ft occurs to him that marrying would mean we ( CONVINCING. HEALTH T’S A LONG TIME since a publ thing so satisfying and convincin, ¢ investigation has turned up any-) e testimony the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives drew, with a mini a of effort, from Bernard N, Baruch, the Wall Street operator, Who cleaned up $476,168 in a falling market from Dec. 10 to Dec. 23.! Convincing—not in the sense that it located the missing leak. On the contrary those who listened to Mr. Baruch must have been speedily lured away from all interest in that elusive orifice. But convincing in that it showed what a shrewd mind can get! out of reading the newspapers and studying events and the utterances’ of statesmen, | Convincing in howed the sound conclusions to which 1h} ame shrewd mind must be irresistibly led as to the blinders worn >;} tmousands and tens of thousands of Americans in their mad pursuit) of an accelerated prosy Co theory and me nat t dres alive, specially at is Ww vincing in that it reve } d how exquisitely adapted is the uk Exchange to the workings of | such a mind whenever there is a chance to do a little profitable play-| ing with values somebody else lias created Convincing, finally, in that it demonstrated how impossible it round steak instead of partridge and drinking vin ordinaire Instead of bi spec and walking to his office sf of rolling there in hie puts the idea from him w <i) and @ shudder, exactly side a burnt chor would be—supposing there was no Stock Exchange or supposing eight other people out of every ten were blessed with but a fractionsi part of Mr, Baruch's faculty of seeing as far 4 br motor ca as he would s for Mr. Baruch or anybody else to draw to himself, without earning it, ee ee Rave dreams ot Woot * : L : | ng# after fame and power: but once a man has .becomes } half a million dollars or thereabouts in thirteen days. frankly and comforta fut he goes through life with But one» 4 the next corner vital, burning object—to get all the joy t is out of it, and to be able to say at the end, with his hand on his heart, “I never missed anything?” If he dies with his bachelor’s buttons on, is not beea “nobody loves: him,” but because he WANTS he wouldn't take up golf amd« banting for all the wives of the Sultan; because he would not exchange, ¢ lone perfectly browned partri¢ for all the intangible Joys of romance, or > one bottle of champagne for all the elixir ofteve, “Nobody loves a fat man!" he sighs id, bat adds in his heart with a chuckle, “And I'm glad of it!” eo Nobody NEEDS to love a fat man! He is in love with himself, He ie ve with life, and the world, and everything in them. He Ie the divinely ained emperor of the “Don't Worry Club"—the happiest, most contentedy being on carth, That 1s why he is fat! 4 A FINE EXAMPLE. ELL-TO-DO AMERICANS have had no more practical hint of what they can do to help suffering, starving human} beings in Europe than the example set by the Rocky Moun-| tain Club in turning over its half million dollar building fund to th Belgian Relief Commission, Here is an instance of prompt, efficient response to a call whic} Americans of great wealth have been shamefully slow to heed. ‘The determined and persistent work of the Belgian Relief Commission itself has been of immeasurably greater credit to the United States than the pitifully meagre contributions America has squeezed out of its prosperity and its enormous war profits. A club of rich mining men has decided that the luxury of a new ¢lub building will be less gratifying than the luxury of feeding thou- nds of hungry women and children left destitute and homeless, In this great emergency, the greatest the world has ever tricd to meet, how many other groups of wealthy men in this country hocause ly coole The Office Force By Bide Dudley Copsright, 1 ‘The Prove Publishing Co, (Te New York Evening. World) lee EE whiz!" said Popple, the|the cheap jokes this morning,” | e shipping clerk, as he dropped | Miss Primm, “1 don't feel at | his newspaper. “I hope th erouge te listen eee By the pall players don't strike, If they | «1 it 18 reported Berlin do I'll miss my old bleachers next | of bread.” That report is probably Ike ous summer.” could, without feeling it, transfer millions from self-indulgence to — ae | , too!" ald Spooner, the hook. | MAt hat’ do a8 meee humanity! keeper. | “Not “in itt * chuckted miss’ & » private secretary was furtoumy sn insult," she snapped. “Er report It to Mr. Snooks." ? he was only joking,” eal@ “But we'll still have Miss Tillie with * came from Bobbie, the office boy. My goodness!” chuckled Miss 1 you tell me in detail something {well and it will slide down at the| \ Primm, private secretary to the boss. ne right diet for the young] proper ti Do not nibble your] I 5 Lasked, | food tin usly. Eat it boldly Lay Miss Tillie, the blond stenographer, | What to_ Eat and When to Eat if You Would Live Long fe —_——_-+-——___——. filet da Sid THE POLICE HAVE EARNED IT. New York Clerks One Class of City’s Millions That Eat Too| | abou HE MAYOR'S good word for the Police Department at the Little, Says Expert Who Is Trying to Prolong Life—More | «\«\ 4 “Unless he is overweight he should | confidently, A glass or two of water! turned on the boy with blood in her Popple - " annual dinner of the Police Sergeants’ Association the other Exercise Vital Thing for Sedentary Workers. begin his day with « good, nourishing /at meals is not harmful if you do/eye, “I'll have you know, you little | a, hs ht ae ae encoes doesn’t want i Ait é : 4 : , sreakfal Or, Fisk stated, “A cup/not wash your food down with it halen ’ hi ttle | any jokes around here, night was deserved, and there are few New Yorkers who wil By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. of coffee and a roll 1s not enough for) “If the young worker in sedentary {lot," she snapped, “that TI don And yet you and I keep our Jobs, , not gladly indorse it Covsrigit, 1917, Ly ‘The Prove Publishing Co, (Phe New York Eveuing World.) him. Ho needs cereal and cream. upations would get more exercise bleach my hair, Every member of | don't + iss Primm? ates the ad : ! rwelght plenty 0 ud of some kind and/and fresh air he probably would! our family is light.” poy witt 4 “C . 1 ; \ Thi he third erie talks | Perhaps, too thin—underwelght, un- | ‘ ch he should eat greer e : That will be abo you!" Complaints concerning the work of the police,” the Mayor| win br Luvene Laman Fisk on good |dernourished |sainds instead of a sandwich and a| Dr Fiinte The feung man cught vo | “ieaded?” asked Bobbie she nnawered curtiy, an ee declared, “have been cut @own one-third and the discipline of tho|#ealth and correct diet for everybody. ‘tl That is frequently the case,” re-|cream puff. At night let him eat keep on with the exercise and sports Yes—er, no! You } 1 “Oh, let's change the subject,” aald 4 ‘3 pace Dr, Fisk ix director of hygiene for the | Pl ed the doctor, “And one reason 18! good dinner with lots of vegetables.| he has enjoyed as boy. Why {mean, Some day when you get fresh | Spooner My brother, Walter, department is better than ever before. ou have made an excep-| Jife Extension Institute and co-author | that he does not eat enough bulky | Such a diet will tend to carry off the |shouldn't he play baseball till he’s! with me I'm going to bounce an ink | Written a song called ‘My Little? . ” « s pes with Prof. Irving Fisher of “How to food. waste which probably clogs his #y8- | thirty-five least His working , Alito, il. tional record,” he assured the force, “because your Commissioner has] five.” | “It as r the age of thirty-five }iem and makes hin look unhealthy | tite is not really natural, for he is ine | Well off that grapefruit you're using tet {t's a flivver,” said Bobble, ” : \ t he dang overeating are gh | Ole t8 not sea) 1h for he : Ash ‘“ i Pie ; é ivy trusted you and because you have learned that you can trust him, if laboring man 1s Ilkely to Houinety ger 7 Oa Merely ran e mat trait ee ily ple Ganned fruit doors and physic ally inactive mont of | a9 @ head. ite | aa think it will be a bit, It's @ * ; j y fn sume ; ae rt ery da ed fruits | the time he is to keep himself fit ow, now!" said Spooner g y, lone atep. The record for the past three years has not a single blemish upon it I consider that meat should be | and should consume more food than are good, Cooked fruit is often bet- | he must counterbalance the effect his nico it’s Walter's composition tt. 4! rk between main article of his diet, when their elders, The nd thirty should eat twenty-fiv th ba bb ty erely joking. Let'a be than dubious fresh fruit, but) work has on him by spending RODnIA WAS eneTey gens He might have added, a ome fresh fruit’ 18 essential. Kat | much time as possible in the open air, | Pleasant this morning, I was reading ong improvements entitled to pectic] ought to be Walt's timp, chuckled he really needs Piss heartier breakfast. than hi e | tr sean. Ve * hen \b, he a 1 i praise, that for the average citizen and for New York’s vast host of to fill up onland probably obese employer: tre | fresh, green vegetables whenever| Perhaps ho can walk one ¥ in the paper that there is aman in) ‘The boss came in just then, “Mr, : 2 Mphaier ara. wae af, Jyou can get them, Eat some of the|tween his house and his w Des Moines wha wears No. 21 shoes. | Snoo raid Miss Primm, “Bobble visitors the metropolitan policeman has at last come to be, with rare bread and vewes| | oinios of food which win elichted ra | Bulky. Vegetables of low food value, | part of the way He can run a mile in three minutes, | MSt called me an empty headed Joke. aaamkt x ae a tables, The busi- | pee ; oy ee ee ee like carrots, parsnips, sp! h, tur-| “If young office workers took out- [® § are siaet) 1" the boy began, * ; exceptions, the sort of policeman to whom il is a pleasure to turn for ness man ts tn) yin (etary of many a clerk, but they | nin, squash’ and cabbage, 10 give| door exercise as a part of their dally | nevertheless.” oe don't fib,” sid the boss, “I: help or information. This is very different from former d when the habit of|and alkaline salts and other inor- | "aver to the diet and prevent over-| routine they would be in far aS f murmured: Bobble ine) icator.” y : . open elias ' je ganic mate: auch aa phoash nourishment shape when they reach the critical | nocently “ rang and Bobbie an- the New York “cop” was notorious for the surliness of his mannors J overeating, Of | End irons Those element a rout | “Eat slowly and taste your food decade between forty and sixty.” | “Bobble, you will_kindly cut out vit» BRIRUIn de Boakeaene 4 and the roughness of his tongue. “ making an Ins | exactly foods, as they do not supply — wae tb = said to Mr, Snooks, ag he ~ ” . J Ca " oe dulgen of rich, |energy and a little needed for re- | = a = —_ | hand over the transmitter, _@ The city does not forget progress of far deeper significance] 4) FF BS nightly seasoned | Palra although they enter into the | fj ° M C | Il "Ho wants to drop In and eollegt ¢ 1 composition o skeleton, teeth anc m ‘ vein bill recorded in the fact that the old graft and rottenness of a System- ti es food because At) Other tinntios ee tl a sae to ; (} alr a 1 y By Roy se wicUarade him Um out of town,” said” ‘ , ei7 oer Iasties, and are needed fo ) ’ : \ t i ridden Police Department are things of the past. Nevertheless, {or} i SEEN tastes good and »wth and to maintain a certain |}. z ic = ae eee as i Maia ines woe \ ; A |he can afford it, But the clerk, the | Chemical balance in the blood and . : — | —_ et a large part of the public, contact with the police year in and year| subordinate worker in shop or bank | Other tissues, | Coorrisht,:10st, tw. The Free Panining Ce. || Zou'tell everybody you sailed before|eare for either but would take an Why Hair Turns Gray. P out seldom goes further than protection at crossings or occasional aid | OP business office, often does not eat | ; 'ften there jx something the mat. | The Ney York Evening World.) |the mast, that you've been around the |other giass of ale ; - ° n finding one’ bout. Not ral |enough. laadantane tepyeaee aunt atid 4 6s ONDERFUL how Prohibi-|Horn five times, and you owe no man| “When?” asked Mr. Jarr \IIt which Is dark has a good deat in finding one’s way about, ot unnaturally, then, courtesy and)" "acs is what Drv Fisk tola me in| mente conten in one Be tne #les:| W tion is spreading all over|a dollar,” said Mr, Jarr, “You never) “Last ulght in Gus's gilded man of pigment in it, and Hght kindness count considerably in strengthening the civie pride New |the third of our talks about the ¢vet-| be may cause serious disease | the country,” sat Mr.| went around the Horn, although you've | trap on the corner,” replied Mr. Ran- has but little of that substance, York can now take in a police foree whieh sets a high standard fox|ary habits d what SHOULD bel ce ‘19 « pellet Aig da Meda att Rangle to Mr. Jarr as the two friends | got around many horns, and if you! 6 pus haa menerated By ie hogs me Nd : the dlotarr ‘habit haps | pvered substances, vita= rode downtown to business together. | don't owe any one a dollar it's only be-| “Nonsense!” said Mr. Jarr, th ade oi p r begin iS other cities of the country dictary habits—of the average | min which actually prevent th to turn gray it means that the body J ) American, velopment of Various maladies | “L should worry, I'm not @ rum) cause you always try to borrow two! But when he arrived at the works! \s not producing the amount of pige | aia nies en ————-———= | “The young clerk," I had observed | Me's Of cereal seeds such as rice, | replied Mr, Ja or five." the office boy told hit the police had ment needed ‘to maintain” the wana: ’ ' raw milk, fresh fruit and fresh ve fAntt waana on a a Ai aie & tOum wy who color. As old age comes on e J Letters From the Peo p le to him, “seems to be at least one eltl- | tables, especially peas and beans, con. | Prauan eee sd ee & demonstrator [JU fh tegen ‘ ay tds penis 1) supply ‘rows lesm and. lene che nae ‘£ [zen who is not overwe On the tain vitamines, An added reason f retorted UL 8 at phrenology times,” retorted| been claiming Mr, Jarr had gtolen hirns white. Worry or pain, r Whe Wit vey Hhist perience to join the American Red] other hand, he does not present |b Es et eer beagle, how about that nr ‘ the er| Ms hat and had promised to send! which reduce the vital forces, also axer tof The Evening Wo er W serving in France? Must one may er p nook or at *\ htm to Harvard la frequent ca ff wraynes o ask H. M. 8, who writes ho be of certain height and weight? (Mes Ideal of robust hea Is he No, nor a cocktail colle, nor aM) night what you said when a husky old | ''™ ¢ rva quen ‘ayness, vk | ye wo at mt t e cannon ball d train} To wh, m 3 ey ly for positi x ve Alredale, nor a pase ty cher! nick came into Gus’: ‘Look at t —a L: problem, this question: Does he thin IRESTED READER. | | Misery cequaints a man with strange bedfellows ; going to the s by any brow!’ you exclaimed, ‘Look it! that if Ke jumped off a railroad train| Get Ruling of Naturatieation oe ub lows.—-Shakespeare, nds of booze, so why bothe ete oe es at going sixty miles an hour he would Bas | hates A A hole | closely! We had to look closely—it} 4 hit the grout My the sane |r 4 a ins TE I ai ene {was an ingrowing brow,” ‘ force t would if he jumped of { Jcountry goes as dry as the U, S.| < = When [ landed in Ellis Island, co I l ] ‘ | “What, me? 1 said sueh a thing? iT will be St. Bric t, hi taken the @ standing train’ If he tries it, 1 me) ‘ . ‘ § ent Office Reports." ¥ monastie, think he will find that he, and ‘hy |iBE frocn T gave my name, | do ars an d Se nse esi om ey ; Jeried Mr, Jarr. | when in forme: became first nun fn Teele re the same ¢ the cannon ball. !matden name, At prenent would tile Ry Ht, 2 Sas | “Well it will bo @ good thing IM) uyos, you did, and the object of your lads and lassies held many | Voteq women who have dedicate will obtain little id velocity |malden ni petanteaent would tthe y ad. arrett many ways,” sald Mr, Rangle, “except | : ; ; tl ‘ai Sea | re thei themaclvaee is tho ancl ica tate from the movement « train RING |@ BALLS me! Ti asrai Se WIN t tbout. the | Phrenological discourse 1 you to/ceremonlals designed to s he| themselves to the servle ° ONE WHO HAS TRIED IT. eye ne ¢ | icc satay abe keep your mitt off his bean or he'djaid and protection of the fatr cons |Chureh in that ister She is de- roi os at of my futher mt 6c“ OOD will iemerchant Ho | A retailer's annual profits gradually | decay of trut You know the old vid ae ent wosking Tac: | taiporery gf aly Patrick > day Selibed as having been very beauthe , ake Your Chotee, done while drawing my papers more than blond hair or a! increas iis establishment hecenes| saying, ‘In vino veritas'—Wine in,| Powe you in the 1 aning, I as 1 ; pins ekg | Luh ald in spite of her religious vowy the Kditor of The Kyeuing World YB strong tenor voice,” ejacus| K2Own. Ho nots more on the amoung sume, that if you didn't take your hand | dedicated to the satnted woman who | ma ant young suitors sought ¢@, | ‘0 what pap or magazines can HB In Correct. F i invested in his tenth year than in his off his head he'd hit you in the face.” | shares with St the spiritual | tr ¢ to leave the religious 1 send a poem 4 « et remun To tie E The Evening W Abe disgustedly, when | firs x never affected you as regards| and become a wife tion? Also, what custon A vibe uiey dues vilKis: openeeas irst. Here good will ix represented by} on 8 Mr. Jarr regarded his friend with|patronage of the Pmerald Isle is the i . ? 0, 1A usto! | 8A) Ss ought an article ns sroposes to capi-| regular eustom anh improved c evacity,” remarked r rr, “Buty tr That ! Fates which pavers or magazines pay? | $1and sold {foe taco wa eer Tih ‘ span gD tod tag an improved or-| veracity,” remarked Tare, “Buty astonishment, first of February, but the eve of the) What fs perhaps the most remark edi | 2 you would mal tash and Perlmutter's good ition, a well-known location, an| that's maybe because you never buy ast day was long the favorite time |@bI@ Sacrifice ever made by @ woma ad anh promt Hy claims you} will at over a million dollars established reputation. You eould not] wine,* “and you said his words bespoke | / 7 sd aoe pblerya was then offered by St. Bridget, > N. iB publications are | Wowd make 100 per con’ eer a Uy the bosiness, assuming that it I . | va cttine ependence of his char-|f0r Seeking intercession, especially in| Fearing that one of the 4 Duee. to ma ultable for thelr | CONSTANT READER Good will has been variously de-| sucesst r the cost of the stock! “Well, re throwing aspara-| te sturdy independence of his char-| (rainy oe the heart. lovare night Gaver nae Srareaane ages. Pick the one you would ‘ Correct, scribed, ‘To say that it represents | and fixtures. You would have »ay| gus, I want to say that I never saw|*cte? St. Bridget was a native daughter! she prayed that she become deformes e ' eros fy Be a woe ons thes Fi eg ed the difference between the inventory "PON A asia of its demonstrated! voy pull any of that vino veritas| “You should take sleeping powders, | of freland, having this, advanta ugly, and thus lose her value dn’ | lapted to tes va # the > Morgan: ‘Bi h aCiha Bais earning power, a h ritas| 5 atrick, who Was of Roman pa y oven ot men a ig adapted to i ' le the J.P, Moras n Bu Iding in| value and the value rs ented by According 10 letters received in an.| atufé yourself, Twill say for you that | angle, and then the memory of your|ntage and Soottlah birthy she wan| deed en, ees Praga dt ts The on the southeast corner of Broad and|ihe demonstra phage s 4 ¢ 4 - (eee | entage § sh wed, was delivered w Eee The Allies alt erate formar cf Hioad aad demonstrated ning power! swer to an inquiry eampalg 'W-| no matter how much you have {m-|fevered dreams would not haunt! porn at Fochard in Ulster about the} heartfel! fervor that it, wae irate Be Pali of soe Urasing Wore me {corners Who is right ADEM, {comes As near to covering it, per. | ever 1 will is never included In| bined, it never made you truthful.” |¥ou,” suggested Mr. Jarr, year 453, which was forty veart be- lately “answered, and from. a lovely cide a bet, kindiy teil me aihraghig? statements lis ivm's eo ‘ore the death of St. Patrick, who is! maiden. she cha “ which has taken the most ground to|!Mblle Schoo! No, 62, I 6 Nope | DADS B89 anyshing tion, Conservative practico in books) M¥ darr denied it warmly, Hut) “Didn't you take his hat and re-|reported to have passed away in the] mant tom vicin aed in an tie date in the present war, the Allies or] = folk ee Unquestionably good will is worth \eoping frowns upon the notion that}do you know what's your obsess fuse to return it, claiming you were! year 493, in the 121st year of his life,| When her lovers saw ner trie sonst the Central Powers? Phe % the Editor of The Evening World: money, When @ professional man sells! any asset so tntangible as good willl when you are in usual ting the headgear of intellec-| Brid, ughter of of the| was freed from theix babel: 2 wet Importuniti Wette Mr. ct Manian. Me, eat Let me know where there is a|his practice, for instance, a custom) can be expressed in dollars and vents, . Ro A 1! Princes of Ulster, and, hough Ire-| After a time, when the jen, L, Maths Malice of The Evening World ctor.) school that teaches shorthand (free| which is far more provalent 4 Unfortunately, conservative account.| Yoed {ual mon?" asked Mr, Rangle, “Didn't jig was still largely heathen, #who|God had been nltcsted pe ent lb ls wean me nivalany oa | CL eeeree, At ‘ wenily of | than here, all he can deliver ts ng methods are not in vogue in the| Mr, Rangle muttered feebly 1 h 1 ask his opinion of Socrates and early became remarkable for her) Bridget. recovered. all aad Fs és ‘ourth € » 8 Jr, | wilh, offices of all our great corporationg. | pever vinocd—that ls, to eaccss Avipsteule, and be told yau he didp’t Christian pigty, beauty, according to tradition, ‘