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ANXIOUS TO FIGHT ’ FRANCE WEEDING >4 t 4 ti If fe Gabovits, tates infantry ; ry Gifs From Home Have Ar fived—T raining Goes on Speedily—Plenty of Food. WABMINGTON, Dee 14 —Amart.| ane of the Raintow Miviston and oer Unite are reported to be annious for battic. Outy 2 small portion of the Tnited Mates forces bas been tented by fre, WHR reports to the War Department hem that training te proceeding so Wen that when the call of bettie Comes the Rainbow—showing the color of twenty-six Mintew along With other organizations will give 004 account of themaeivor The Nainbow boya are well and happy—at least as happy os « act of MEN Could be whore ste from home in the holiday season ‘They are well supplied, too The wealek-knacks from home have ar rived and have been distributed even were they not the Raint would not want. “We can got everything here that we would have at home.” wrote the eon of Gen. Frank H. McIntyre, army censor, responding to a letter asking that he say just what he really need ed or wanted on Christmas, Incidentally, both Mcintyre and retary Baker approved the idea of « story of the Rainbow troops, Secre tary Baker held !t would be proper fo have @ Christian ement that “the Rainbow Division, in France for Some time, is doing splendid work.’ Gen. McIntyre, censor, thought a! Christmas message about that body, was proper, despite restrictive rules | om mention of names and of unita| abroad, their numbers and location, | “Have they been under fire yet?" ¢ was asked. “No, I believe not,” he replied. The American units are shaping up well. They are enthusiastic and apt. ‘Training in the open and bard and constant drill are making muscles of | i They have plenty of good, whole- some , the equal of home cooking, | ‘and without that stint of conservation hich apply to American hom: The a A. is providing them/ with clean amusement. Their rules are euch that they are less exposed to} they would be in the aver- ‘age American city. ‘Secretary Baker and bis aides are pleased with the spirit d develop- quent of the troops, Their push and unity “assure that America’s partici- pation in the war will be wholes mouled, earnest and vigorous, and that | ‘the tremendous task of achieving vic- j\tory will not fall into unwilling hands,” he declared. Baker voiced his confidence in vic-| tory to-day in a message to the u ‘and extended the season's! greetings of himself and the War De-| partment to the men tn training and "over astray far ' 4 4 there.” ITS AGED OFFICERS QUT OF THE ARMY Bixty-two Years Now Limit fon Corps Commanders and Sixty for Division. PARIS, Deo, 24.—Premter’ Clemen- has gent @ clroular letter to Gen, ‘and all the army chiefs pointing ut that the experience of three years ff war has shown that existing age are too high, and that with a few ‘yare exceptions commands are not ef- Retvay exercised at over fifty-six ears for @ regiment, fifty-eight for a rigade, sixty for a division and sixty- we for an army corps, Under these tions, he adds, general and field ftioers over these ages must be given hereafter in the rear or laped at the disposal of the Minister it War, ‘The only exception to this rule will bo general officers recommended to re- % » Lack of Beauty Is Due to Defects of AON me et A A AAO RAR te arte AA THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY. DECEMBER 724, 1917 Soul §12-4-10N RATE And Can Be Corrected, Says Woman Painter COAL PRICE FIXED ae Mira Edgerly, Who Has Painted | the Beauties of Civilized World, Declares Mere Beauty | to Be Tiresome and Tha‘ Why She Likes to Paint Per- sonality and Why There Is Nothing “Sugary” About Her Work—Real Beauty Must Have Poise, Serenity, Calm and Qualities of Soul. By Nixola Greeley-Smith. ]¥ You don't like your own face there is something the matter with your soul or mind. “Our bodies are really just the ex- pression of our minds. Our thoughts make our fea- tures,” Miss Mira Edgerly assured me yesterday afternoon. Miss Edgerly has painted practically | all the great beau- | ties of Bn gland) and the United ¥ states, Her por-| EME traits on ivory ha had an enormous success in Lon- don, and this success ls now being duplicated in New York at the ex- hibition she is holding at No. 47 Fifth Avenue, A daughter of the Setting Sun, Mira Edgerly came to this otty a few years ago with just $10 in her pocket, be- cause she had found success in Cali- fornia “too easy.” She stayed here @ while and then, realizing that she wae getting along famously, sighed for a new world to conquer—and went to London. Even London presented no bracing difficulties, Within a short time she had painted the Duchess of Connaught, ber daughter, the Prin- cess "Pat," the Princess of Pless, Countess Curson—ol., everybody peo- ple read about in the Court Circular, assuming that anybody does read it, Thon the war came. Miss Edgerly brought four penniless Americans back home with ber, and started in again, By this time he had become resigned to the fact that @he paints far too well to hope for diMeultt anywhere, I88 EDGERLY sat portraits | They are warm, wonderful without the sugary prettin studied inanity we have come to ex- pect from painters on ivory. Her women have color and charm and individuality, and her children— mainly children of noble houses in England or of large fortunes in New Yorw-are gay as buttercups and «imple as daisies among her terday afternoon, @ain their commands on the personal Pesponsibility of generals commanding bormies. “In the future, the Premier declares, » | po promotions will be made to the rank * ef general of officers who have served @ short time tn the line. This pol- will result In placing at the head of the fighting troops, he hopes, chiefs ‘whe know @hem well and in whom the woldiers can have full confidence from seen them.at work. The samo ple will ie used in promoting and subordinate officers. so *WOULD RUSH SOLDIER SUITS Lewyer Aske for Speedy Trial Damage Actions. Attorney William J, Wilson to-day walled the attention of Justice Hotch- Kise to the fact that scores of sol- 4 and sailor plaintiffs are anx fously waiting to have their cases galled for trial “They are anxious,” paid Mr. Wil- n, "because, in most canes—I refer jamage suite and other actions a. claims would die with them if Rey should be killed before jude- in their favor are rendore 90! to attorney appeared in behalf of in a United who is “Personally, I prefer faces with | serious defects of feature,” announced this painter of beauty ceeds too easily “Beauty suc- You enter a room ‘and you #se@ & woman with lovely hair, perfect features, a harmonious skin, Bhe gives you no more than {if she were a table, a picture or a chair, But the woman with defects has to charm you into forgetfulness of them by personality, For that rea- son her effect is much more perma- nent than the beauties. { have paint- ed many beauties and many person- alities, You know many women are called beautiful who are really just terribly pretty. Beauty to me must have poise, serenity, calm, qualities of soul “The Countess of Curzon, formerly ‘Mrs, Alfred Duggan, an American woman, has @ very beautiful face. She has groat poise as well as beauty and intelligence. But I know another famous beauty, an Englishwoman, whom I would not expect to talk to me about anything except the kind of face powder she uses, rouges ber lips four or five times during dinner. Now, that sort of prottiness is very tiresome. Even men are bored by it after a little, and who} “Ry eR A nr ee *- tt aro ra. ee FOR ELLAR TRADE ta) 7 Averaging Cent. for Poor Who Buy 0 100-Pound Lots Fust Adminieteation etn im price of 1 conte a hundret prunde or O10 « oilers may sell coal to the ton, at wo-called “cellar” deaters. This lea | feduction svernging about 60 per | went tor what they have been charming | The “« r ier, who dintributed fuel dire y the poor of New York CHY, Will be allowed @ prof of 10 ents « hundred pounds when the fuel in #0id on @ canh-and-carry bamin, If he must deliver purchases, he ie al lowed ¢ ree an additional 10 cents each hundred pounda he nels. The order menne that the poor will pay maty conte a hundred pownda, or $12 » ton for coal purchased of “oollar dealers, Turing the recent Difeeard they were forced in many instances to pay as high as $30 @ ton, ‘Tile sit was placed in every win dow of Burns Brothers coal stations thin morning “Collar dealers will not be allowed to charge 60 cents a hun dred pounds for coal sold on the cash-and-carry basin and 10 ceote a bundred pounds for coal whieh in de livered. Failure to comply with thin order will result in dealers’ supplies ben t off | ‘Two practical coal merchants have been appointed to the Fuel ¢ tien Commission. the organization of which was announced on Saturday by Albert H. Wiks tel Administrator They are Harrh T. Petors, Chairman, of the firm of Williams & Pe and Mrank Whitely of the firm of Whitely & Kammerer members of the Pratt of th Commision State Con are George D. servation Committee; van, of the Mutual Company: ge M. Dabt of th National Bank and Reev Administrator for New Y Walter 8, Sulli- Life Insurance Chase “we © MAMICE ONT JAMES TRAMACE Nace have qualities of mind. That's why I believe we make our own faces, and if a woman has something about her| appearance that she dislikes let her look for the trait of character back of it and eradicate it.” seyyou have painted great Engleh beauties and jovely Amertcans —which type do you prefer?” I asked Mins Edgerly, “I prefer to paint personality,” she answered. “English women have breeding as well as beauty, but they are very @lender. They are built al- most like boys, Lovely shoulders, of course, but if you see a woman at the opera in London with a good bust, why, you know she is an Amertean. English women wear their clothes more unconsciously, and they don't sit up 0 straight in public places as our women do. Do you know, J think the fact that every woman in the Golden Horseshoe at the Motropolttan Opera House who sits up 60 rigidly and con- sclously rather takes from the effect. “I agree with you," I sald, “Women at the opera here always look as if they were showing off to the audience | instead of appearing unconscious of Vane ig | th “hb WOMAN should not look as if she belonged to her clothes, but as tf her clothes belonged to her,” Misg Edgerly continued. “You asked me awhile ago about the age of beauty there, There is no age of beauty, A beauty may be of any age, de- pending on the agv of her soul, One of the most beautiful women I have ever painted is between fifty and fitty- five, and her face has Bot @ live, Bhe is so careful of it that she never miles without first holding her upper lip with @ little Jace handkerchief to keep the muscles from making lines.” How silly! L exclaimed involun- tarily “Ab yes, lo you or me, because we ure workers,” agreed Miss Kdgerly, “but not from her point of view. You seo her life consists in keeping her- self beautiful for the dinner table, thi of Her life does not begin till eight o'clock really, And she rarely gets up before noon, You see ehe is a great lady.” you say it 1s thy soul that makes and |keeps beauty” had in England, of the number that} ayy elation League of New Lorraine thal of New ¥: ident of the Alsatian uty from Havre the French Ac DRIVE BES @n can succeed becoming utterly disillusioned.” » rage?” in “ ‘How does it feel to be t { asked an American wom achleved such a success as a beauty! were guests of honor at the Christ-| fic! London without n who had stood around exclaiming ‘Oh, isn’t} the United Club, Ne. 243 East 34th she perfect” whenever she appeared. | street, to 160 children chosen at ran- And the beauty of the hour answered want to stick out my tongue at em. "A than I was in these rooms meeting the sume people five years ago when beautiful one of them looked at me,’ reputation largely a matter of accident,” Miss Edgerly added. for beauty is @ thing of surfac personality is @ thing of soul. I same drawing 1 was much more am now, and not for beauty ts so “And what’ passes 4, but pa aie PARIS, city @ Gene Also Following Gon mitting the use of t of Dee yesterday afternoon red Dinwiddie “Beauty, to be really beauty, must clever and origins, «4 yet no wom that.” bit bunting were Great Crowd Witnesse: M.—The large crowd wi k. de s were ador Sharp Of delegates from societies Alsace-Lorratn The flags were raised ie frost ere pre Ju y wer wfurle and Mauric th U, S, FLAG 1S RAISED ON STRASSBURG MONUMENT Ceremony at Paris in Honor of Al- satian City. Monument on the Place Concorde | during the years before draped with erepe and for whieh flow ore and August, 1914, to-day | Stripes alongside the French tri The Americay and French fags wer raised over (he monum an presence of spite of th the two emb! jean Amba. the w ‘ork for the t ——e—- 4 and @ which war was substituted the Stars and nered a Barr be UN TO MAKE ARMY ABROAD BOWE ORY bald have captured sreat prizes Of! had no busine the marriage wii ‘Oh, that's their wit, thelr eaprit,”| of Congress and of t Miss Edgerly qd. “You se The lear | Bnglish wom been taught | steps to secu for centuites AMAePA AYE 80) lation te ann |mouch morg impor than thoughts. only American ” won daring and! necessary we P * to inane His action was in defiance of Well, she sounds more like a gay lady than a great lady to me," 1 | Interrupted. National Temperance Lea “phat's just your Amertean point © Pershing r | of vine Mine Bandy eee poses. Pershing’s Order ” course holding her upper Mp milting Beers and Wir with a lace handkerchief seems a! WASHINGTON, Dec, 24—1 trivial thing to you, but in that wom-|Satoon League of America w fan's life it ia very Important.” immediate fight to make the “But she can't hold a Itttle lace| Army in France “bone dry handkerchief up ‘0 her soul—and Amer shing's ord . in the United Stutes Army at the Miss Edgeriy 4. “t #80 I/m. ©, Dinwiddie, Chairman of shall have te with you,” she/ ona Temperance League 1 said Bureau, formully announced to B spoke of the enormous ague will oppose all intoxicu muccess A an women have | for soldiers « Amer This commitee will deal with the 160 Children Chri te ef question of restricting the use of coal the Csi Cheb, by manufacturers and others, if this William Farnum, the movie star,| should become necessary in order to and bis wife and daughter, Adelie,| keep the consumers supplied with Mr. Wiggin said in comment that people in drawing rooms simply | mas celebration given yesterday by jing on the appointments ‘These gentlemen have been select 4 with great care, and 1 @ink I con dom from the lista furnished by char- pufely say that we have made ad It will prove a working and efficient committe Irable selections ity organizations. Mr, Farnum gave a| mira large contribution to the club, should greatly ussist the fuel The entertainment was arranged) giministrators and should help to by the working women, who are the coal situation for the con tom club members, and the Christmas tree the about which the ohildren were seated when the gifts were distributed had Mr. this morning figure that there was been fitted up by the soldiers and] in New York during Saturday and suilors who are made at home in the] Sunday 60,000 tons of coal, It will club rooms when off duty. be better than ever to-day TO SHIFT 10 WEW YORK AMERICAN GIFTS - BY THE RED CRIS - e. { f r wae | * U, 5. Consul at Venice as Its Agent Makes Tour A Trenches alien the prelimimers mee (ollownd up by further New Tork and pow City preter Pas anneunced te dar outlined oven gat! ick Press Der 2 (iy the Agen American Christmas cheer will be curried to the Malem soldiers in the trenches and to the ack and wounded soldiers in and around Venies by 1 Harvey Carroll, Jt, American Conwat at Venice, net- ina for the American Red Crom. Mr >; elated jema the Wiret the ooareh | earn I the ft an “—~ ‘ inte the handling of ale from es beainnina® on the forme [Cartel lef Venicn with Gen. 4 i" Viterfranchersa to make the tour of Hear the trenches, They were accom Ob tty and/ panied by detachments of soldiers the nites where the Food Tram) with trucks bearing buge \undies of F gpg ‘siisins cain site for dintribution among the troops, Arstdors pontoctpel og fags Med Kach soldier will receive a package a. | cont ing socks, handkerchiefs, to- | PACCO, sweets, some articles of food and @ distinctive present Another distribution will be made in Venice to wounded soldiers and civilian poor, Large numbers of wounded are now coming in from the Piave to the hospitals of Veni Kach of these will be remembored with clothing, food and aweota The civilian poor are being cared for regularly to the number of 1,200 Bight hundred receive meals at one American soup kitehen and 400 at an other, In addition to the extra Christmas dinner each woman and child will recetve a present of cloth ing and food. The clothing constute of Blankets, shawis, underclothing and stockin, most of which has been manufactured in tho American Red Cross factory at Maestre, a suburb of Venice. The city of Venice remains com. paratively undisturbed by the recent renewal of enemy pressure on lower Piave nearest to Venice, w his line is twelve miles east of the city, While shells from the heavy guns could reach Venice, it is known that the enemy bas been unable to bring across the river anything ex. cept machine guns and a fow pieces nounced that, in pursuance of its plan | of, amall call Penmaes heve of division of profits with employees! rumble of the bombardment vant n, in its service one year or more, it wili | h day and night, but the weper sive every employee this year 40 per | lation has © accustomed to it cent, of the monthly wage for the airec|*# it bad to the previous menace year and 20 per cent, for every addi. |*°°™ So bona wit be paid in taberty bonds LEWISOHN NAMES THE MEN WHO'RAN FUSION FINANCES and war saving staunpa, Gives List of 52 Members of Com- The Chemical National Bank has dia- tributed among ike employees @ Christ- mittee to Prosecutor and Tells of Luncheons, man bonus amounting to 10 per cent. of their annual sinries, This makes a to- tal ‘ payment of 25 per cent, during Sam A. Lewisohn, Treasurer of the Furion Committee, furnished to As- sistant District Attorney Kilroe to-day | the current year, In addition to this, in view of the prevailing greatly Increased iving expenses, the directors have pet the names of fifty-two memberg af the Finance Committee of the Mitchel or ganization, and also the names of these MORE WORKERS RECEIVE BONUSES FOR CHRISTMAS Gifts by Equitable Office Building Corporation and Woodstock Hotel Company The Equitable OMice Building Cor- oration annownend to-day that it ery employes who earned leas than $3,100 this year a Christmas bonus of 5 per cent. of his year's earnings. The company also will give every employee in its ser- vice not leas than six months « life insurance policy for $500, which pol- icy will be increased $100 for every year of service until a maxunum of $1,000 in reached, The corporation will establish a oo. operative store or take other means to enable tte employees to purchase necessaries at cont. The Woodstock Hotel Company an- would give ¢ Attention! Hous To the Evening World Housewives’ Protective Association: Fair retail prices have been suggested by the Food Board for a number of necessaries of life. The Board ts carrying out, in this action, the plan outlined by The Evening World to stop profiteering in food. Below is printed the table of prices, together with a blank for: ciation are requested to fill in and mail to The Evening World Food Price Department. The Food Board has only a small force to investigate and report om how the price list is being observed. The Evening World asks for the co-operation of the Housewives’ Protective Associa for every member to “‘do her bit” tn helping to keep food prices with the retailers a very reasonable margin of profit. Fill in blank spaces and mail to FOOD PRICE EDITOR, DEALERS PRICES, FOOD BOARD Consu aside a further sum of 10 per cent. of the employees’ salarien to be paid during the year 1918, ‘These distributions are in tion to a generous Increase tn a to take effect the frst of the year. who attended the weveral iuncheons given, with the date of each of these e wathorings. Mr, Kilroe was particularly anxtous to know what particular interest cou! have induced President Patterson of National Cash Register Company of Dayton to subgeribe Mberally to the election of a Mayor of New York. “I suppose," replied Mr. Lewisol “he was but one of many who realtaed what « wonderful example had been sei for the whole country by the Mitchel administration, Its eMfctency had made every one sit up and take notice.” Richard H. Williams of College Point. Joseph Flanagan, Deputy Coupty Clerk of Queens, and another official from Queens have been subpoenaed. ——»——__—_ ‘WILD WEST’ SOLDIERS FREED ‘m, which the members of the asso- tion. This ts a great opportunity in fair limits. The prices assure EVENING WORLD. John Dudley, Schaefer of Cheyenne John Scott and Herman Wyo., members of the One Hundred and Tenth Am munition Train, who held up a Sand« Street chop suey restaurant in Wild West style recentiy, umers should pay: PRICES. Medium rental Low rental Prices wade reeanes: Sx Article Grade, Retailer pays. _weighborhoods. neighborhoods. <<" dual | iy smear, toy udee 6 ey ha Potatoes No.1 O31, 044 tb Blended gullty to ansault In the ehtrd i 02 2- egrve. Beans. Lima 4 18 tb investigation showed White 1B Ib. A agree toulng ths K Kidney 17 I ; Wor in the restaurant anc Rice . Whole head—package 12 1b. : ye ete = Buik.. sereeene 1 tb. Shrough the agency of a Sith ace, ‘Tha! i 7 + was when they drew their guns, Th. Dielad Pantese sss Mile, areas aye rib . Court said If the police did not. im- oo F . mediately act to clone up such “ps Whole, cheer 45 1b ; * the Pederal Government should Hart busy Lentils . hace t ee BREE ® T ol tors were defended by Ed Prunes . California 30-40 1714 Ib, : ell ly ey are expected to Oregon 30-40 18 1b tb, ~ Sugar sfanuluted Oy Ib. 09' 4 Ib, Naval Medt ectors to Be Pree Cut $9.35 wt 1OLf Ib 10'4 Ib, moted (o tte: Brown 09 Ib, 08 Ib. WASHINGTON, Dee. 3 Bread Factory wrapped, 16 oz 074 Ib. 08-09 |b 08-.09 Lb, MH. Rarber and Edward Store wrapped, 16 oz .. . 07-.08 Lb. 07-08 Ib. he Navy will be promoted Cheese + American 43 At $1 Ib. om the rank of captain to rear admiral Raisins + Muscatel, seeded, package 14 tb 14 Ib. Congress reassembles, in ree Commeal.. Yellow, ; Om tb 07 Ib, ss carviten. Pe Onions ‘ O34 Ib. 05 th 04 1-3 1b. ry e al How Wheat Flour... ,White-—loose Kors 4 27 for 344 Iba o A as, an Suite Kye Flour..... e 2stor dig ibs. 2744 for 344 lbs, Lrvnident of the Navel Medical choo! Eggs Candled, storage No. 1 46 doe 45 doz ny ingtan Meat » Sirloin, uotrimmed 25 whole loin. 30 1b 40 Ib. Round steak —top cut 27 Ib. 34 $2 Ib. Round steak-—bottom cut 27 Ib 3 Mtb Help the men who Fish Frozen Stewk Cod 10-.12 Ib, 0 tb. ; Frozen Spanish Mackerel 18.20 Ib, 2s 4! 1b, are fighting for you Whiting, frozen 04-,05 Ib OW Ib Ob Ib . Fresh water mackerel, froten. 15-17 Ib ilo. Ib Do your bit to help Butterfish, frozen ; 10-12 Ib 17 Ib, 1344 1b, save the Nations melts, frozen 20-.23 Ib 5 4 1b Dmelts, green 20-,25 tb. 31 28 1b Halibut, trozen 20-.22 Ib ‘ 31 Ib. you Flounders, green 10.14 Ib 14 1b ; When ‘0 to Flounders, frozen :05+,06 Ib. 5 io PR eer the Grocer- Sea Buss, frozen 1$e.17 Ib b Mt Gy . 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