The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1918, Page 14

ee Published Dally Except Sunda 6 Aapoctated Prem exwtlled 00 TC ce bot olberve hope of checking the omir demoralizing the war mic Imperial troops may presently have rest to turn and firo inward up democracy within the Fatherlar rathlessness! ting back again—a million times heavier with America’s fighting | weight, a thousand times harder 10 dodge because of the sinist crowding and pressing from desperate forces in a Germany eurging toward revolution. wear lords. soands far more like the menacing murmur from which the voice of a people sometimes gathers into one stupendous, ¢ pelling tone which is the voice of God. START A HOTEL-CLUB IN NEW YORK) end play games, dance, chat or gather round the piano and sing. evident signs of enjoyment are confirmed hy the boys’ scrupulous courtesy and good manners, while the guests themscives make short work of any youth who becomes obstreperous. is to furnish a pleasant place to spend the evening. teen closes, the soldier or sailor on leave must look for lodging for he night. Many of the boys know little or nothing of Now York and have no friends iere. Vor most of them hotel charges have got o be exceedingly moderate to appeal, all the entertainn the Army and Navy, thousands of whom will arrive in New York on} prief furloughs during heir requirements, where they can have a good bed at a minimum rice, meals if th snd where the »f other Army or Navy men, “he purpose, and, if it he same with another. og for American office eredit of « model hotel-club for Uncle Sam’s soldiers and sailors? trol of the railroads, why not pass & law permitting our soldiers and #atl-| couple Of good, heavy blankets and ors to ride free? buying a camp, why not let thelr un their passes? T whether the railroada bands or under Govern ESTANLISI' SEP PULITZER, Pubyshing Company, Nos New York. $3 to ASAOCIATED PRRAS, wee foe renal imo the ioe VOLUME 58.. CAN THE WAR LORDS SILENCE IT? | HILE with one hand Von Hindenburg feels for the Ameri- cans “on a certain section of the French front,” with the, other he has to do a job of bill-posting in Berlin in tho! ikes and peace parades that are of the Imperial German capital. | If only half the reports of what is going on in Germany are true, drawn from east or litarism and friends of to be ¥ n foes of m A terrible boomerang—that promise of ewift victory by U boat After twelve months to the day, there it comea whiz- at A strange and unaccustomed din Not the din of conquest t rising round the ears of the} ht to delight in. Tt ey yr, all-com- + i ¥~—s-Reports from Washington Indicate that the President has advised the War Department and the Committee on Public In formation to keep the country better posted regarding the activities of ite fighting forces abroad and the progress of camp training at home. A wise move. One hundrod million Americans are fn this war with their eyes open, ready to see it through and bear the cost. Why not conduct it for them In the American way? FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. OME good work has already been done and a great deal more! will be done toward establishing canteens to provide evening recreation in the right surroundings for the thousands of sol-) diers and sailors on leave who spend their freo time in this city. | Many of the boys have shown their hearty appreciation of oppor-| tunities offered them to get a good ovening meal at some club spe-| lly organized for the purpose, where they are welcome to stay on Hostesses who help entertain at these canteens note that the Canteens of this sort are excellent. But the most they ean do When the can-! it it offers visitors is either disinterested or safe, Here, we believe, is a chance to meet a great need of men from the coming months, | They should find a hotel or several hotels specially adapted to desire them, writing, reading and smoking rooms, can always be sure of the comfortable companionship It might be a good idea to take over a Mills Hotel, refit it for proved insufficient to meet the demand, do We hear a bot about the fine elubs London and Paris are provid- Why doesn’t New York give itself the tt Mat corn and save wheat, Letters From the People Please mit communtcations to 150 words, - for Soldters, he company with @ | at the camp there, Now that Uncle Sam has taken con-| Don't be a table-slacker he oldier stationed Ho {# a sergeant. | inoir Recently he wrote to his mother | Ssking her if she couldn't send hilu a Instead of to go hi them some heavy underclothes. me from that one boy died tn his company for |lack of care. The boy was suffering be the law/ from the grip and went to see tho in private|Company doctor about it, He mauve uceontrol, him @ dose of pills and sald his trouble wil was a very alight cold. Inside of a week the boy died, T think the Gov- ticket ros be to onside dustry Mow rine tan, Seven Ways to Matrimony EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, February 1 The Golden Age of Wom By Helen Rowland | Consright, 1918, dy the Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Ereving Workd), | HERE have all of the “Old Maids” gone? , \V/ Where are those withered, useless, pathetic, pining creature’ {n rusty black and ringlets, Whose blighted lives were spent in making thi selves and everybody else miserable? Where are the “gossiping grannies,” the foolls, “clinging vines"—and ALL of the world’s o women é ‘ I'll tell you! They havo all gone Into farce-comedy—or oblivio| Nobody even belle comie artists, Nobedy can even remember having seen one outside of the “funny papers.” They are as much of a MYTH to-day As Santa Claus, curl-papers, real buckwheat cakes, “divine right, witchcraft and broken hearts! Indeed, What IS an “Old Maid,” anyhow? | She is a bit of driftwood on the tide of life who has lost her looks, hi | Mlusions and her usefulness, She is a woman who has shut the door of Life on herself and left Hope’ behind! She fs an unmarried woman with more wrinkles than dollars and mo gray halrs than ability, accomplishments or optimism! But WHERE will you find a woman Ike that to-day? This is the Golden Age of Woman! es in them any wore, except the ON Bees Tho age of Opportunity, business chances, new professions, New Thought and wri eradioators And there ls no woman living who cannot keep the ratio of wrinkles ‘to dollars As one to one hundred! There !s no woman living who cannot find a vital interest in life— Who is not NEEDED, Who cannot be an “entity.” an “Individuality,” on her own account. And As long as a woman has a vivid interest fn Iife, As long as she {s accomplishing things, As long as she has the energy to marcel her hair, wear smart clothes and a straight-front corset, i} And go cheerfully out to WORK every morning— As long as she keeps her hopes, her grit, her ambitions and her fle! lusions, As long as she finds the game of Ife so MUCH worth the candle | That she would bate to die, She may be a *maid"—but she fluous Oh, yes, of course! No normal woman will deny that there ts nothing quite so desirabl as a happy marrlage— And the RIGHT husband! But husbands of any kind—right or wrong—are becoming scarcer every duy, And soon the world ts going to bo just a little Dit fuller of spinstera | than it ever has been befor But, when this mighty war fs ended, there will be no “old maids” left! | For while a Good Husband may be the most desirable thing in all creation, | He {3 no longer “ALL CREATION”—for any woman. And any woman who {s a “creator,” Whether she is a mother, a poet, a gardener, an architect, a painter, milliner or just a little munitions worker, Is one with the Divine Spirit—the spirit of Eternal Youth! Ah, yes, it has come at last! is NOT “old"-—~and she {s not “supe! By Nixola Greeley-Smith Covgright, 1018, ty the Prees Publishing Co, (The New York Wreaing World), No. V.—THE VAMPIRE METHOD first roundly ¢ them block, even being vampire method, hat and sometimes, r that whe More often your careful baia Prov trust one prine! collar one neck he vamp Now, if were really as simple as that, vampir-|except on the face of a dog at lea-time, ing would be tho most profitable in- in the world, and even Mr. Ho wuid|Garfeld could not put It out of busl- ness. Ana matter of fact, vampiring #eldom pays unless it is done for the movies. Few American men can be won by the nd American women 118 vampire method has been 80! Among them w. T universally developed in moving Pictures that it seems unneces- sary to degoribe tts swe to detail. Personally 1 dis- it because of ite first Is the infallibility of the iples -bone, ever dress. ‘6 feet " : the publishers in NewYork were lack- Praline fur Little Mary, erminent should provide for these boys |40 Rot make good vainpires, anyhow. | ihe in wit, for none would publish the To the RAslor of T World to | NNO are Willing to ive up their ives, [In the muss we aro much too honest, | book. Av up exilid New Y rhe Fo wast to) instead of bothering with thingy thai] our expresstons aro too candid and] ‘That was yoars ago, I met the gar tell you bow much more 1 am enjoy-|do Not matter, open and most of us have blue eyes.| S0¥le one day last winter, “How ts ing Little Miaup than Tdid the} 4 SOLDIZIS SWRETHEART. ae ee nr sien ernie Mine Blank?” was tho first remark bo ete o fT a : babel by | ule to ug a " Uttle boy curtvous that preceded it, It] Reflectione on Gartteld Monday. | O01 ‘Vainpires, and occasionally | iade to me, though I had not rem ia clean, and little Mary Is Ho BWR) Ponder now many of the 1,000,009 | black-eyed Vampire niakes good, But} Novertheless the vampire ts still un- place tn the affec- i Salty “iba aya |tha brown and the i eyed women| Married, All ber sirening has not y. Wav tile: ® be cred a wags) th ee altfiad ao ten | won her the husband she told mo she “teh Hows of $3,000 on Garfield Monday | are ocularly Atsauallfiet from the | Wanted, because aio would like tertuek tor her advs 48 CHD) Port elotod on reading of the fact that|wame. ‘Their eyes aro too clear and|@ Mra before her name. I doubt if she ee MIZsOURt zen of the United Statey|clean for the vamp business: will ever marry, for men generally are Ra ica of weatth| Eyorsbody Know™ one vampire, You euwineed that ihe vampire ty as ard Going to ‘Veach Cooke for Says, . ad | MAF HOt suspect hor all by yourself,| “They know, too, that the vampire siior ub tea eeeniog Tag | but I never met a vampii¢ who did not |dies, but, she never retires; that wt ' nda leave me the trouble of speculation by lelbty ehe will be getting ready to Suey te wiovitediy tov |announcins her quélity at once A/Make a Impression on the under- freee és ce of a equa take vampire curses her fata! attractions so you begin to look for though rarely, charm. oase: No| she confided to me his new value, saw @ vampire in @ bigh- All| knowing that ho will make some vi- vampires must re- veal their collar-bones and the con- tiguous territory; notwiths'\jinding the fact that to-day no man can walk @ in midwinter, surfelted with 1s supposed to ing before t meeting. without collar-bones, 1 gibber- men human gargoyle, & man so hideous he made you think of Victor Hugo's manufactured monster, “The Man Who Laughs.” He did not Uke the siren, and being very witty made her the butt of @ malice whitch only the tragedy of his face could jus- tify. But suddenly @ possibility arose that he might be made useful by the siren, for she had written a book and the gargoyle knew many publishers. adding: “You know he hates me and that I can never pass him without clous remark about me. What do you bet I don't have him eating out of my hand in three days?” I bet 4 luncheon, and the vampire said generously that my opinion alone should govern payment of the bet. ‘On the second day 1 paid up, for the at] gargoyle now hung upon the airen's words with a rapture I have Lever seen when he wonders whether you kaow ho Is waiting for a cake and trying #0 hard not to bark. Within a week he had offered her book to a publisher. Wihen he brought it back he sald the publisher was a fool And in his further efforts to werve the siren soon discovered that all | ‘There ts no doubt that the vampire fails to marry well. Consider the wrens of the stage. ‘The names of thelr ad- mirera may be world-renowned, put they take Anonymous husbands when 66 SEE some empty seats down at I the other end of the car,” sald Mr. Jarr, as he glanced over the small knot of people standing near the door at which they had entered. “I'm tired and I'm not going to push my way through these people who have NO politeness and make NO attempt to stand out of the way!" said Mrs, Jarr, acidly, as she grasped @ strap, “We'll be right in the way of every~ body here by the door; {t's the rush hour, you know,” remarked Mr. Jarr, mildly, “We wouldn't be in anyone's way If everybody had a little good man- ners!" said Mra. Jarr snappisbly. “I don't seo why they all want to crowd here near this door, when there ts Plenty of room at the middle of the ear, and at tho far end there are some seat!” “That's what I bave been saying,” replied Mr. Jarr. “Let's there out of the cruab.” “Y'd like to see myself! retorted Mrs, Jarr. “If objects calling them- selves men oan sit at thelr ease and hide their faces in newspapers like ostriches, so they can pretend not to do it! And more shame to them!" “But, my dear," Mr. Jarr protested, “Wo havo just come from a matinee whore wo have been sitting down tn comfort for several hours, and these people may have been on thelr feet all day.” “7 doubt it!’ snapped Mrs. Jarr. “And even if T hadn't come from a matinee where T have been aitting down all afternoon, the principle is the same. None of these eo-called gentlemen with thelr heada in news- papers like ostriches'--the simile seemed to appeal to Mrs. Jarr—"would give me a seat!” A little farther down in two persons arose to get off at Its next stop. Tho men standing near looked at Mrs. Jarr and Mr. Jarr and then at the vacated seats as though the ear have the places. Mrs. Jarr made no effort to follow Mr. Jarr toward the sen cing of! they marry. ; her a tions leaves a wofui deficit | No, the vampire method {9 the least ronk if you are buauty | successful of the seven ways to matri- ; and you wonder 3 aa wauty | mony. We d leave it to the mov No, 883 t rq | Diind or she is miataner jes, where jt belongs. Cheinea ain about 4 wving| 1 knew @ va noe quite well sna What Her Snceth wort aan ther in the! Like all others of type she in SPEEDING UP. tae Editor of The A: D@ sod seven formed me at once that she was irre-| my erORE the war 28 to 80 knote Having read the cher Ww HAA aistidle nen, @ ater th OUF @6- B vi ttleship speed. To-cay your paper with rega ay quaintance volunteered to prove it 4 nape wareh: of from 160,000 to | wit to give you « would | Moreover, ahe 414 prove it pe FD, | We knew the sane group of men. “There ta a seat there, madam,” said a passenger “Thank you.” replied Mns, Jarr sweetly, “don't let me deprive you of it.” “You are not depriving me of it; Thavee eaid the passenger, “So Tl have perceived for quite some pale he was and how he limped?’ move up! seo @ tired woman standing, let them| The Jarr Family _ By Roy L. McCardell Coneright, 1918, ty the Prem Publiving Go, (The New York Evening World), | | | | | | | to indicate Mr. and Mrs. Jarr mignt| Mra. Jarre as she Out of the black shadows of war it has risen In sudden radlance— | ‘The Dawn of the Golden Ago of Woman! Aren't you glad you're living in 1t? } “Ma™’ Sunday’s Intimate Talks FOR THE GIRL WHO IS DISCOURAGED AVE you ever watched a great ocean-bound ship lying at an- chor tn | i] time, sir," remarked Mra, Jarr with fey politeness, The man reddened | and buried his face in bis newspaper “Uke an ostrich,” as Mrs, Jarr would have said, Mr, Jarr, had turned back to his good lady when he saw she made no attempt to follow bim, heard the colloquy. “Don't you think you wero rude?” ha whispered. have got to FEEL life as well as hve it—that ts, «f we are golng to get the most from and produce the most) from it. But we are content, the great part of us, with closing our eyes when it comes to unpleasant Issues, thove that really count, and who the harbor and won- dered at its mas- siveness? A tug bout fastened to It could make a aud- “It's about time I was, Mrs. Jarr den pull, and|holding our hands, accepting wha! answered, “I have had lessons in break the greatlever a kind or unkind Providence may the art of rudeness from men in chain, or tow line, | have in store for us, rather than mus street cara for many years.” and not move it|tering our energies and telling thi “Won't you take this seat, an inch, Yet you] world that we are ready for whatev madam?" asked a stout man urising could take a half-|{t has to offer us, and that we kno nearby, inch rope, and,|!n our own consciousness that we » Mrs. Jarr affected not to near. | with your own|come out winner, "The genueman asked you if you | hands, turn the| We don't do that, moss would have bis seat,” said Mr. Jarr. “I do not want the 6e we will be getting cff soon now,” said Mrs. Jarr. At these words a thin, lanky man who had just got on the car plumped nimself down in the va- cated placa, As he did so Mrs. Jarr turned a baven’t the atrength or, to do it, The whole tro ourselves—and the whole that we either won't or AMENTS nat is true, and as a@ resull w and truer and more gen gle on our own lives, and ju they lack—and why. We can! great ship completely around by pull- ing steadily and with sufficient patt- ence. The movement would be slow, of course, and it would take time and strength, and Infinite determination on your part, but the final result in the end would be assured. The ship could very well be com- sneering glance upon him that was| pared with yourself, girl friend of and conerye success unless we have, ae strong as a searchlight across @| mine, who, growing impatient with in Lah 0 do so—no other power exce)\, moonleas midnight. The newcomer| your surroundings, have begun to ourselves, Mies as human agencies felt tho intensity of the glare and| fret because the course of your life/ ire concerned, can turn the trick for Immediately held a newspaper be-| ts not changed swiftly enough to kp | "Yr we fail, it is because in our cone tween his countenance and that| pace with your dreams sciousness we don't measure up at the baneful look. | ¢ it is hard to convince your-|S#ow-down. Tf wo win, tt ts becau: Md: TOF. T know itJs hard to convince y we have that wysterlous—and “Down South,” began Mra, Jarr in | self that things exist which we ¢ N= NOT mysterio: omething in us tones as audible ay they were coldly | not see and measure with our eyes.| refuses to accep. defeat, wate d sa, “down South euch a thing| That ls why wo fail at success when ogi i ida hare ; #4 lady having to stand in 4 pubiic| others attain it. Success ts eimply PTY ry ii sovuieds don't look abi conveyance would be considured a/a matter of seeing further than our} ing world snd y n't look civie disgrace But then in the| human, normal eyes can anction. | your envir 1 South chivalry still obtains, Aht‘| That is 4 hard thought to grasp, 1) 0) Mn eo ae Tho last sigh was a sigh foe the| realizo that, and I wish 1 could mike | 24 What ‘ sarus, an chivalry of the Southland, although | it simpler, but I can't It depen D ‘er on yourself, Mrs Jarr had personally never | Life jan't all on tho surfara, It i ]on how fur you can see, and how fate any further South than Jeraey City. | an experience that comes from within | YOU Am win ih PO ya ane Just then @ thin young man who| us just as much as from without We 0 Bok Byndicase, Tue, secmod extremely nervous got up and = es —— — - —— orsivtently insisted Mrs, Jarr should “ d h 4 | h take his seat | Japanese Superstitions and the elephon 1 n v ! Woll, I thought SOMEBODY would 1 Japa ny Ar presented w feo I was about to faint," remarked | cana, believe. there je Luck In their third, fifth an ettled herself. ‘ nd are W "You vive said Thank to) e0't 8 to gain the ‘ v ye do Mr. Jury sureasti ( GickG Sait Bole rr gio figure t 1 1 numbers are iS wd 10" Mrs. J Vilred t » 00 ( former may Id like t r $4 ‘ wnich means # a! iy rhe f online 1 riley om Anyway, HB wouldn't hay 1 ess 1 fort Theretion and gotten out only I have been! because t ter for it spreads 1 toose numbers a standing on his pet corn for the lest! downward and suggests the idea of | ** a by viduals and genera) by Government officers, schou © tions and other tavine:., institutions, ‘ ‘ten minutes, Didn't gou notice how \thering prosperity, Number 753 | y believed to be a lucky numb