The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1917, Page 10

a Evening g a in? RRS SH By J. H. Cassel | World Daily Magazine 'Some “Misunderstood” Men a By Helen Rowland Covyright, 1917, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Drening World.) | The Irrepressible Man O' all the men who fail to charm women the Irrepresstble man ts ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER. ‘f Pushed Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 68 to 63 Park Row, New York, | RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, Treasurer, 63 Park Row. / JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Ro’ ad Entered at the Post-Office at New York as Second-Clane Matter, @wbeoription Rates to Tne Evening|For England and the Continent and ‘World for the United States All Countries in the International oat and Canada. Postal Union, probably the only one who deserves—and gets—no eympathy. He {s SO clever, SO self-satisfied and S80 oblivious to every thing, even the perfectly obvious, Nothing feazes him, nothing embarrasses him, nothing dauuts bim, and the whole German Army could not stience him, He ts “mie understood” only by himself, He cannot compreh why women are not fascinated by him, aud why, after ten minutes in his soclety, every normal woman throws up @ trench and puts on a mental gas-mask, “Watch your step!" when you are in the presence of the Irrepressible, be careful how you make your eyes behave and mind your P’s and Q's, But do not faney that you can impress, suppress or repress him, He KNOWS that every woman fs yearning to be made love to. And when you find him trying to clasp your hand across tho table and | calling you “Little Giri” ten minutes after the Intro all the dignity and ind{guation !n the world will not avall you, Hoe knows that you ase j “only bluffing.” 7 | In @ crowd the Irrepressible 1s the orlginal Enfant Terrible, Every faux pas, every slip of the tongue, ts his cuo for a | ing entrance, He 4 ts SO funny! Don't try to tynore anything. He will call your attention te it. Don't try “not to understand” It, He will EXPLAIN it to you! All your subticties are wasted on him, “Delicacy” 1s a word that to him fs applied only to something to eat, Don't try to drown him out, for ho Is the conver=* sational beilbuoy on a ntormy night, ringing out incessantly above all other sounds and volves, and quenching every timid attempt at repartee, In @ tete-a-tete he ts the bold and dashing cave-man! No rebuff cam | discourage him, According to his theory, every woman ts a shriniing, yearne g little thin, ing around and waiting to be wooed and won by big bold, MAS-TER-FUL Man." Any resentmont to his mothods, any distaste tor | his tender attentions is merely “a coquettish pose” on her part. He knows In advanoe that eho will “play hor role.” And nothing will convince thie VOLUME 67.....45 IN THE MIDST OF PLENTY! | HE spectacle of hundreds of hungry mothers storming New York’s City Hall in ‘protest against the prohibitive prices charged for food is a strange one in a country that ie bursting with prosperity and plenty ! If enemies of the United States desired to create an impression! abroad that this nation is half starved or on the eve of serious cco- nomic disturbances, what took place in City Hall Park yesterd morning would make good matter for the cables. | With potatoes at $3.60 and #4 a bushel, however, with the price of flour 100 per cent. higher than last June, and with milk, butter and! cheese sold in New York ut prices that are war prices in Europe, there is little need to search for mysterious meanings in popular demon- strations egainst the soaring coet of food. : SOM . . | _ |i SPI EE EOE It is all very well to aay, don’t eat potatoes. If it were only A %, ogi al i Re { Al wy, —sees r a potatoes, the problem would be simple. But every housewife knows i fh l & that, try as she may to steer the family diet away from one especially | i th & } t} i costly article or another, price boosting is more agile still, and what-| ever she buys, cach dollar bill seems to put less and less into the ~ yo oy that a woman's “no” doesn’t moan " until ebe tn sheer desperation - proves {t to him. Then he is “insulted” and hates har forever, market basket. H on ORD LAS! all tho fine points In the love game are fust so much waste of If Congress votes the money, the Federal Trade Commission and s. \ . ot IA time to the irrepressible. He goss at « fiirtation as he would atluae the Department of Agriculture will make an exhaustive investigation | : sc tiatinns (NRE MeAH pormuueh (uc eraty Won nent the live 6ubtletios, that mean #o much to every woman. There are men of ¥ or seventy who still preserve their Mlustons, and to whom any womaa enjoys (ulking—men who understand and reverence the fively etrung feme 1 temperament, But the Irrepreasible fs blase at twenty-five. He has noe &n Mluston left—4t he ever had one, He “knov this is the only sane ry of and that everybody elve is a }io io so wteeped ta Jativin that his soul ts ossified—=tead, ‘osperous, , Well-proserve know why. Ho has and what he imagines ts a bri y women are not exactly wild about I; in solely bee he has the wrong attitude of in 4 man's ATTITUDE toward women ts his ¥ 1 every woman {6 a quoen; to others an angel, a doll. But to the Irr wiblo “a woman ts only—a wi it, That lets him out Lucile the Waitress kd Swe ee _ By Bide Dudley ! Copytght, 1017, by The Prem Publishing Oo, (The New York Bveniue World.) “ HADDYE think?” es -| "1 oing th the pryme W cile, the waltroas, as the| donald,’ he ¢ of the food problem and the high cost of living. So far, good. But is there nothing to dd but wait for scientific reports? While food speculators grow fat, must millions of Americans get thinner and thinner as their country’s prosperity increases? $- It the Austro-Hungarian Government does no! subarri' to, ourder, now 1m the time to say so. well-groomed—yot he fen't s good digestion, i yet he cannot ume i toward the gentler ora ft THE SPY BILL. VY CONSIDERING the stringent provisions and severe penalties) found in the Administration espionage bill which the Senate! passed yesterday citizens of the United States should remember that for years, until the European war got under way, this country; knew little and bothered less about the elaborate epy systems long! familiar to foreign nations. | It is doubtful if even tho effects of German propaganda and con- ectoating ano" and ele knews ‘ Aly | ‘And,’ on, ‘you ula iracy that alarmed the country during an earlier stage of the war! ndly patron took @ seat) pive ine’ m aR Ak y y & f ¥ your show convinced the average optimistic, easy-going American that spiea could! at the lunch counter, “an actor was) ar th stomp the foot ara Be op 9 CATENIN P in here yesterday trying to engage! uu do you vtiment, eh? be a serious danger. e to go to his ehd 4 applaud| ““To be » he ways. “But me to go to his ehow and app! Nee uate Gaertn you him. w{. "L Just had to neg “Wanted you to applaud him?"|It was entirely too The Senate was told yesterday that there are 100,000 spies in the United States. Whether, as a matter of fact, there are many more : i 7 queried the patron, puzali Ltwten, ind air!’ or many less than that number, the moment lias unquestionably come 2 2s c= . = sie —,| “Sure! He was organtzt pepe gop nthe groat commen “% ? : ? | | Sa oh or he t Qogle trian, whon this nation must protect itself by assuming an attitude which a == = to make the managers th ele ele that statement? Here you want me to Ko to the ehow and Ket rowdy every © You come out, and yet you say to keep quict about it, Thats slmo*t cause for war, friend and fel« ¢ I have a notion to seve: tives “with you and 8 has never been congenial to its habits or its ideals. | on : ~ . 4 ae oie - rT Ta During the past two years the Departinent of Justice, in prose- | Gompers the Spokesman of Labor In L, S) War Council | a big hit, Offered n “Oh, he wanted you claque?” wa miving | 1 gueas that was it He takes nour day,/q seat up at the end of the counter, 1 do a toddio to hie locality, cuting persons who have conspired against the nation’s neutrality, has’ 4 Leader of found itself badly handicapped by the absence of laws covering euch casos, As for spics, they could swarm into this country, travel over yunization on the prince Men at Thirteen, He Represents the Largest | Rr urloe belohalne tecit Single Group of Americans in a Population of 100,000,000 | auionomous. Ir ‘i that | uld be |b words,” he laws fi , %; ”, 7 ed home rule y uult In| establishmen | oe ak |. "Well, lemme tell yout aged we 1 War Comes He Would Help Spur Nation nnsociation, a f mational holtday, Hin | HET want to o 40 6/46 Yacgns until T tink heen goes it, inspect its resources and defenses and remain or sail away i a} 7 7 { Tiis broug! bout @ bitter it of the use of | fons in yr me and tell him t pec ‘ away again lo Great Creative Effort. Hee caci & ‘ a of ; tener | 1 tell him, ‘Me and. my|he explaine tube ite cris watt set ee ag they chose. By James C. Young. lag ground. He was resident ral and ons ation Jaws | winter would.’ You see, I was a’scared|l'n paid to applaud tor him that If the United States is to defend site against the German ; 6 of the N York Sta eraiion | for workme on of labor got to keep quiet, 18 combina- | he wanted to be my accompaniment, "Get me, looleh? bi and he didn't look Fifth Avenue! of Labor, a position he held for, untons f wo years, Bu this wa not in restr This te the second ina series of ar-; the future labor leader attended Government of all governments, pr va telling who the men are that| school, But his father had @ trying ’ roof espionage laws tic asks whee he has told the whys and wheretera . ”, 1 " " 7 , enough to deter d to found i enough for me That's why I inter-| of fr, i Aleta 1 aya omprise the Civilian Advisory Com- | Struggle supporting the family, and | eneu He nn u a it. ia one of the indispensable firet at Masion, which # co-operating with the | at (he axe of ten the oldest son was) new insitution tat would truly aed ‘1 jected my atster into the aroma of] “‘Now that you got the righ aaiieicammcienaidoacn edeval Government, In the nt of | apprenticed to a shoemaker. He dis. | ho the Inatitiurion of Jaber. Alle Wewe taminet for the head of that de- | the affair, He says he's got two/#yntax on it I got you,’ I tell tim. ar they would have the mobilization | liked the trade and suon took up the | [ook form in peal, wien the Atertean ticketa and he'll give them to me it| Me, [ooking diagusted—but you. ong merican tnd uv in their hand ly n of th ompers, Long | Pederation « " came ri } Habe ickets and ! at Dato ra Germany's designs seem less hoetile.Eyeutng Post MW Amorioon industry in their hands, | ronation Os topers. LOBE line, with Gonipers at the helm, bis tong career Mtl tr agree to applaud him, Also he'll| that “foollsh" thing’ thea, teorg AMUL GOMPERS, President of | Rab lay ee Dot ot 1d t siood for moderation en Al pane aes Ae a mad dog seems leas mad the fewer be bites fap his yeu for ledge, and) Where he has remained down to the Te hea eettlod | Slip ie @ dotlar sense the day I was born that je An Federation OF | he went to school at nig r present day he organization grew oppe 1 4 Well, L never! I gays, | will have ei r the A an Federation of t to school at night for about td Th ization posed Sin) aice te Sine nete vad giving him | will x years after you're a ea anes nes — rs the samo relation) three years, at an amazing rate and the Knigh industrial troubles than any dea? one look What's the I'm in the show,’ } Then I shoot another torpedo at ‘Imagine, you coming in here other man tn the Unite ra badly defeated 1 own himarlf « leader nization passed marked) vine to have a lot of my friends fean| At the age of t came to New Yo! AY en Mr, Gompers| Of Labor soon w City and found | Ultimately the says, ‘and 1 GENERAL FUNSTON. . | ‘ nae atin areata |offering me meney to applaud wage-carner that! Shployment in ti trade, Work: |{f0.0 vlow and the Gompers institu. | capacity. Here is or f his favorite | tere to appiaud me and get Me lat q theatre!’ I say Mh cee 2 | hfe ; 4 Richeliow bore to ing conditions were onerous, and in| ton stood alone 1 ee etre plovers fixed | Piste In salary : house.’ N THE sudden death of Major Gen, Frederick Funston, command: f Leute X11, of company with a few fellow spirits this) ,,31f, Gompore has been reanonsinie| “ln the elf Hi bom ee cad Mim ee | ae He, fem, don’ poe sane ing the Southern Department of the United States Army, the France What | Ba inadey Hee taa etalon | Aton menaeted in thn iaat. quarte @ pric Lsbelite loateant tease," ASG se nation loses a distinguished military loader the famous Cardi) much and considered deeply. Out of | ————— 2 a jit sure wae. And lemme teil nal did for his} his buddiag consciousness sprang tlk the Ti losea something more, For the present generation no one of King in breaidng | !dea of an organization that could in- | ee sist upon better treatment for the up the cliques Of] cigar industry's workers medigeval France| tsi, the Cigarmakers’ Internati Gompors has done | Union was forme young Gomp- fe working As Sceretary and Prasident. tHe | t position for re one Up- half dozen HTS 1 inade the union « tnorougn. | 66 118 I vessful orgapiation, During | and the s) widely known and admired for the to be. Whether it was ¢ awampas, or hunting Aguinaldo ping a cool grip on a red hot situation at Vera classes of America Uncle Sain’a fighters was mor kind of soldier an A xrappling with insu —he wasn't much good in L. McCardell |||." ae a « | aon ‘id yea took his dollert™ anc “Sure! He was about to slip Lizzie, th 4 puitory manner, Mrs. Jarr having] counter, and Aico yall i joarned that the bride-to-be was @/ing each other the complimente r 1d top shook his head and ex- | beautiful skater, who made her own the season since she throwed a relat 10 ald top shook his head and ex- rican sol pnts in Pl Gunright. 10:7, by The Prva Pablisving Co | Phe New York Rening Workt.) Land of the till he got him, or } : ok after! Pie at me day defore 3 ‘ Oruz, Funston showed exactly the push and pugnacity tempered with, Mt # strong, central government) iy | ay Dari Home of the Brave plained what was the matter. “Mar. ond ioe my to dak af ‘ P d ¥ before yesterday, a Fae pug ! for the Crown, the tier ha woltdified | {hat Hine he also edited ® paper called | maybe,” anid Str, Rangie,| 5.4 pieshiey, whoee slat ted e—that's wha z self-control out of which firet rate commanders are made the power of labor and made tt one} tan Picks sPultiuhed by the union. | soomily; * this is the month) Yon pelt: ial n Mr. Ja rrupted her ques-| A Ruthless Ash Wednesday, Though he was not a big man p ally, his five fect five inches, of tse strongest factors In modern ‘day which undertesh Se Mit | doubly devoted to freedom tn that it] so anor, and the wife has de ning of the oc Bre Li esar ba | Gray ashes everywhere! Vis red hair and his close-cropped beard and af‘iaira, Such {s Samuel Gompers,| American wage earners was the|!s the birth month of Washington | oo. i ied aad’ {dont wish, my dear, you'd we of hope fire-blasted by Ashes of faith encindered by defeat, Knights of Labor, It had @ ls membership and a goo Inte x and forceful p ‘ge | who freed us from the British yoko; h the the most Inter fg and forceful per ee ane amma stop vp! ying sureneas that insy what to do." d confidence q rese. ore ver glad KP t inks ia game ts for sonailty produced by American labor iiut it was never really repro. | Out Just at present wo are ri NE Free All this conversation took place in ne thinks nia: qa * for! Ashes of youth burned out while lite detail in administ W and in counei If the United States should be drawn! sentative, and its leaders wielded an} tat old fuss ts forgotten, because na, fre the Rangle doorway, where special at Se aianu Meant was sweet; He was or ne. I ne \ yselinto the European war tt would be {arbitrary power that displeased Mr, | Britivh navy stands betweon ue and) 1. yore nad encou nis friend. haps Bishley didn't want) Agnes of trust, left where of elf @ . 1 e had tived ouls ee ee it tunetlonc as a member of GOMPETS, He led & fight agalnst the the German U bouts, more or less “!'m on the lookout for Rishley fay cards,” ventured Mra. Jarr, | Paes country t wt of his matured eX und etreng Atl che ciiiicn hasloctat Ciotatilesiany 10 | ree er —omorcsmmensmt | now added Mr, Rangle on o's to be married noon, Maybe el Tranawutedioeenss to en tes thia time reminds us w ' ' men direct the efforts of labor along the w f | S | | is gaged to be marti r te do card ui ea name, k ‘ oduetive ines, anc ’ cess ¢ 2S ans u Home, Swe met stuft fed t OW DB Me, INKS OU TBs! ike hin mut productivo lines, and Bie 4 Wece ss. U Saltesmanshi] ailing. Hane, By Pinte ecear na dentad Stee | Gray ashes, army and cold, on neo on the commission undoubt : monet ow thy shy? And he afd the| JIM on hearths untended and un- The flags on the Orleans end kt ava ane ale bing trades union support for the to dinner, and she ts 1» | Relics of homes wh y ” , ofte: 1 4 ue a sort of d H leave the cards alone jone fires have been of all Ju Adinis 1 ar A" Lede: ihe Nadine of (Shes aia) Rese OF wot Be Eee Ere elipaay: spied put out, Peipienaaemadinisioasess aeatssucs ae eS Few men have crowded more pro- + re NT ee te ae oe) dgtam win here when 2 Mr. Jai Maater oleae ca ey ‘ = | ductive work into a lifetime than na the Buyer. purchasing agent,’ or ‘L wish t en bate ne fare getting the cards all sticky!" Lifeless as sons ewift-fallen tm bate y > nel Gon He was born in| J , the Ager’ stamps One Ae @ BUA tell hin your wife “Well, I'll take the ehildren away He'a rout, Letters From the People in, England, Jan Ist, the | SGP VEN to-day there are many|pictous character to be kept under | away guddenty, a poor} ‘ To net lke eh oeret|Zmblems of hearts pain-seared ‘neath ia “inet concerns in which the pre-| surveillance, while the confident an=)y 00 ot ated Mr,i if YOu are to ac e an ogre las Werrtet About Ancestry, nerve untry In a helping way | 4% SPA Whe SinasE OF Jnouncement I wish to see Mr, Jones Madd artaare Veried Mrs Anyway, I don't mother-breasta, wotai tas de Sree Wee Sea “ansuitar te tne Uetne eee Rete at eerie vailing attitude nema to be | nouns ot fbuoleth, Ghia de: |Jarr, “But don't bring him to din. | cried Mrs, Jerr, | Anyway, t don't) cig i spose whore meusbt but ather came to this coun- Also to what rent would [ap 3 " hat a man with something to sell Is] yn": t that Mr. Jones's name ”" No added, would be unpapus} Oi e Atle ppp pal silence rests. 1 & dangerous follow, an enemy, who| trae Eo eeimted on bis ottve door here ats r young mon who are to Be mar : ; " eta and other exper epelled at every point,” re- | rigit infront of you nt, and < to aur) Snooure, nt And she took Gray ashes, gray as grief! sen ; , always hi de ‘Tawa Mani vermin aa lpacian) Kem In| FOne-fenthy ot thie exch eae i tua hittie! herself 4 the wailing young-| Ashes of joy still-parched itke fure and nav ay's é ‘ Le Be salesmen is due to a legitimate desire “gs RaORAnAce paps Does emista tr 1 d | HW io thia sort the mont futite and | 4, erve the executive's time;| poker. Nobody shoutd ve any ; more of an Amert arsenala, —¥ ; eens obs aye winced in the| acerentinn tof te atiake teem. the pity on an engaged mur | “Oh! Let'a cash in and quit," said | Ashes of ar Ties from fires unquendbed father came to \ ment, Wash. | VWs Ash Wednesday, which neing {i , ; Neetu a es fie ; 6 1 groom-to-t by, ten , i i jay, wh 4p ging trom the of- | cheap vanity of the average man who epee han Alina lo Ashes of y smouldered in burn. pniann 7 ones Of 84 1 Information | tasks the beginning of Lent, | tie boy's demand for the nature of| has attained a position of sufilcient | In due time after ain A FM: Rana | ure,” agreed Ran “Um on tng fears, 7 hg ottine out ember that (bou are but | one's errand to actual hoods consequence to render tt worth arrived with young Bishley, @ Pale) qoiirs ahead, Ed. Never mind the; Ashes of love that should have of age? Does that ‘ © Way Off, dus karding the boss's whereabouts trom | salesman’s time to call upon him and weak willed young man of whom! our white chips." And he pushed worstod fate, 1 Re a re teal platy > b times as these the warning [mia secretary, “And, as a rule, theso| “I've experienced ao much difficulty |i wag plain to nee any girt of den [ror wilte china | And | Binsted instead by’ flames hot-fanned eration In tracing ances . way iv scarealy needed |Concerbs continue to exist im from this question that now before [| 1) Ni® MN et aneawed to it Mr, Ja by hate, stil 5 Oi the tmiminence of | becnuse of the efforts of thelr own! enter an establishment I always take | terminat Bet 9p a to. After Mr, Rangle and young Mr, hi mtoig agen Uualthin Aida can (Sie salesmen! Ik of itt Without] paine to learn the name of the proper | she got him alone for half an haar Rishley were outside Mr. Rangle de- | Gy ashes ail around! ; RCs & 4000 line | “i sit leamen the eutire business struc-| person to see. To gain this infagma Mra, Jarr even amiled when a Iittle! itrea ne wus glad he hadn't a wite| Satins yriad graven on battled ro of on would collapse fn tion over the ta ne is absrdly whereas B pelones to t hwo pay in| tion over th 4 game of poker waa proposed and let ground, ; Pipes Satta ee ; er Wke t And young Mr, Rishley| Ashes for harvest wh th 6 to d aa he salosinen are vften| easy, People fac 1 BAe Dten, Seeier ae 9 ; ro the elden She rights and privil : 1 ish they were violent! tte phone whic ubborniy ; the children stay up iate, as !t was nota ne rejoiced his Florence had a ve seme i ty with bombs concealed} and atnpidly wit! tioned | Gertrude’a evening out a she fon, too, & Wants to Serve ¢ Afferent tapoe jifo-giving from the ‘a tt r persons. direct, A few moments’ preliminary to stand by and observe tho!” wry, y, ae Ga oan il wn 4 To the Bilton of The Evening Work! ne High School, forty Ve Dunne however: thet! in lon a Rey yields.) Swiodge which | a eee’ = ae in unknown But you nover know till you marry | Aghos and Naoth! These follow bate + lam a young chemist (Ame. t o Evening W wana \securing an ew knowlodge of | will at least Insure ove an Interview. Broehect) ‘om," gloomed Mr, Rangle, _ tle's blast If this country aad Germany gore! Where can get @ course at alg gin four anys earlier wf tie man you seek Is @} That much accomplished, the rest ir TON ceiarenee, one cilew, enrdo| Muail Sates soem of Maple mag te war, would not a chemist be able in adver ? wd D Ash Wedn It is Amusing to Bote bow | strictly up to the salesman, The same had progressed to @ do-|a@t all," said tho deluded young man, last? yu , ' 4