The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1918, Page 16

— peur: a erinienetahneeeienllad sally ia Ls ot Tata re natencarintae cry seek pease omnes “ \ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918 She Fired the First Shot Edisons of the Alarm Clock For America in Great War _ Plan New, Odd Devices On Monastir Battle Line 77 4 : eg ae W. asur Rattle Ine How American Women Can Help Best in Winning War To Wake Sound Sleepers, There Is No Call for a “Regiment of Death” and Yankee Rh temnanalad be i sassatis See 5 : at Women May Do Their Best Work at Home in a Sane ; Manner~—Is Sure Sensible American Women Will ~ Fire the Last Shot That Will Win the War. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1918, by the Prose Publehing Co. (The New York Pvening World) Sitio RUTH FARNAM proudly declares that she fired tho firat TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918 One Makes Bell Ring When Baker Leaves Bread, Another Rings Alarm Under the Bed Until You Arise, a Third Shocks You Awake, While the Fourth Flashes | Light in Sleeper’s Face. Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), | HE forces of genius are preparing for an invasion of the Land of cy Nod The alarms are being sounded in workshop and laboratory, | where batteries are being prepared to go into action and silence the heavy snoring artillery of the enemy commanded by General Oversleeping. |The attacks are to be launched soon after daybreak, tho time to be set |the night before. The leaders of this attack are inventors who have themselves suffered ; [hardship under the misrule of King Morpheus. They have had to go | without breakfast morning after morning, in order to catch their early |trains to the city—and then, often, have also missed the trains. And all |because they were held captive in the dungeon of s until too lat |to pursue the even tenor of their daily schedule. Being inventors, e3 Lt SHE WIRED FIRST SHOT Fan AMARICA IN WAR. y shot for America in the great war. And she believes that the winning of the war, the firing of the last shots, is in the hands of American women. “I stood with the aide-de-camp of the Serbian Commander in Chief on a precipice in No Man's land before Monastir,” the brown-eyed young woman, who Was born and brought up on Long Island and who now wears the uniform of a Serbian Major and three military decorations, told me. “This was in the autumn of 1916. I had been told that I | : | é might give the signal which would discharge the | lcuses were easy for them to manage, but excuses don’t satisfy the hun ' ; Serbian artillery against the enemy. As I raised of a “breakfastless” day; so, naturally, they employed their genius to proe Vy a: 4 clenched right hand, I sald, ‘In the name of | duce a preventive for oversleeping—one that would be infallible. Their \ hae RASS American womanhood—for all that tortured women fn Europe have suffered from you!’ A moment later I saw the shells which my gesture had discharged exploding in the Bulgarian trenches, “T dike to think that I, an American woman, struck my country's first blow in the war,” Sergt. Farnam added, with a quiet smile. “And I believe that the war will be decided by American women. If neces- sary they must give their last penny, their last man for the defeat of Germany. I HAD found Sergt. Farnam at her desk at No, 116 East 67th Street, where she is conducting her campaign for Serbian relief and writ- ing a book about the three wars—the present one and two Balkan wars—through which sho went with the gallant little people who |mefhods differed, but their results were uniform; they managed to wake |themselves up. Four of them here present their devices to alarm an overs sleeping world. | itis IF THE BREADMAN DOESN'T |to arise to turn jt off in the morning. | OVERSLEEP, YOU WON'T. | The other parts consist of several H¥ inventor of this alarm sys- | dry cel a buzzer, a small induction illustrated in the Elec- Experimenter, believes will work for you as as it does for h , but he pins s faith on the breadman’s ri tem, with his bread, or the milkman r share with America in her heart, For her herolo services, Crown Prince AMERICAN WOMBN Mus aio dihal Ea elepa a hld Alexander of Serbia personally decorated her with the Order of St. : : or "KNOCK" OFFICIALS cant Santa tha MARIE, a va, and she also wears the Kossovo Medal and the Royal Order of Oo SOT ae cae eed i , w Baty IN WASHINGTON clouid when (he ‘beet Ok IIe ba the Serbian Red Cross, She holds the commission of Sergeant in the AMERICAN Women must NOT crack Serbian cavalry, and was the first woman to enter reconquered «PULL STRINGS” TOGO ABROAD Serbia, spending six hours in the midst of one of the hottest battles "7 cape i of the cam put in the béx, which has a spring “I am a childless widow,” she told me simply, “and when the war ‘ vs Si 7 f NG began I was dreaming my life away in my beautiful home near Win- \ “af y ? ee ae } Coane rk coll or « tales boa) \ i ‘ , STATION | do) anditae chester, in England, I simply have tried to do what my dead husband | and the sons I never had would have done, could they have entered | this war. “I told New York club women the other day, and it {s my message to all American women everywhere, that they can win the war if they | choose, Victory or defeat rests with them, because it In America who four inches = to the vuzzer being une ul spark coll oil strips are will decide the conflict, and it 1s American women who hold in their w the bed andl ; bands the destiny of America and of American men. | soyars er ce of about three } Not yet do the great mass of women realize this war, although | ) ippens when the record of half a dozen casualties a day from overseas is helping. | bottom ur he The Wo must give our men, give and give them; urge them to go if thes ihe , sina urging is needed. When recruiting going on in Serbia the women Sueelin currente;id the rushed out of their houses and thrust into the hands of sluggish men Tibi se seco: it find a path their own distaffs. “Take these and spin,’ sald the women, ‘we will go THIS ALARM MAKES YOU GET|through the inr cerer’s body and fight.’ That ts the spirit which must animate the women of OUT OF BED. by Jumping through the thin sheet - A ea, XCAUSE he developed the habit) that sepa shim yn the tinfofl America. * B : ; h 5 But Sergt. Farnam doesn't believe that any Amerfean Women’s Z : SERGI. piaided ie oe spleens ou les. 1 © forcibly on Regiment of Death will be necessary. “Haven't we got our men to RUTH ‘ ae te aleabiee r ; a nn aan fight for us?” she challenged proudly. Nor does she think American | AMERICAN WOMEN usr =A’ FARMAN AMERICAN WOMEN MUST : 5 TER RTAAR RGA TTS ee nted an ne women should conduct a drive in any capacity on European battle- | WRITE CHEERFUL ae Give UP LAST MAN AND LAST lekiohiw ton einai und things by most persona: RACER fields. In fact, her advice to women on how they can help most in LETTERS TO SOLDIERS 7 PENNY IF NECESSARY TO WIN | he t out of bed. H then 1 with gest and winning the war is so sane and sensible that I shall not hold St back | [construction in Popula vig trom you any longer. — - see idea agile Mia ti esate nec FY “The first thing American women should do r they have given Se eso eens re wins aes. The Microbes and Telephone Chatter [ie ae hly as follows A simple frame was made of two A LIGHT AWAKENING FOR { aiohedelaneths HEAVY SLEEPERS, wlarm clock that will noth | other members of with a third out some Washington official and say on every oc fon, ‘Oh, I can't just u r the sp: “Pear that man ‘so-and-so'—these women simply are giving ald and r une igs co pppeetink pen out two fi et when a person tomfort to the enemy. They are talking about what they don't under- If It Wasn't for Those Pests the Subject Would Never Have Come Up, but Here URPACie RAUL EAd Ee Ceomnaana ae stand. There are plenty of Informed erities in Washington who are It Is: The Russian’s Woof Is Worse Than His Bite or Even His Warp, Which with plesne etiBhhe altantae a SE BHA set ea all acta aaa deedal Accounts for the East Orange Aid Society Clamping a Silencer on the Bell-Tel Lh perv cesipibah aera glenn “Women had better keep still. If they have any military informa: | Chatter and Announcing Verbal Traffic Rules That Still All the Chin- ke ap aul ae ton, then especially they must not discuss the conduct of the war, , / inag—— 4 ,’ , y, A cheap clock made the electric} even with ra best friends. How do we know what spy ts listening | Wagging And You Can't Keep a Nut Up a Tree. connection at the time set, and aj on the ferryboat, in the subway or behind us at the theatre? | BY ARTHUR (‘‘BUGS’’) BAER, jsouple of dry batteries: completed the | “Every woman should pick out some one form of war work and Cogrright by we Prem Publiating Co, (The New York Evening World.) were never any closer to Palm Beach than a glraffe's bunions are to bis | devote herself to it. I don't want to scold or to criticise, but the fact ee Deople's thoughts are like microbes, They are so small that | dandruff. 1s that many women are trying to do too many different things, In & million of ‘em could pa@ ‘emselves on the head of a pin, We don't | All this a lot more of jabber pyrotechnics must get the gate, | wishes to arise at an unusually earty Sy hour, iy the Juvention of an ingentous ft the two years since my return from Serbia I must have been asked to know why a microbe wants to pass the winter on the dome of a pin | according to the East Orange Aid Society, until the war has evaporated erent ne doubtless bat been Join one thousand things. Women must not flit resttessly from one when he might as well pass the cold weather at Palm Beach, But every | fyom the dally menu, Elther the Government's important business or erranenee ony oo ru bs Kind of war relief to a newer and more picturesque variety. ‘The time @ solentist gossips about micrococel, buggococe! or germaococel, he Bast Orange's lightweight chirping must abdicate. TE Liltanctas World various organizations must know on whom they can depend and for Informs us “i how many billion could hold an ocei convention on the | And you know which one will get the poisoned pellet, You remem explain wrarhon how much time and labor aes ie eee ee ap is ; Although nobody knows what becomes of all ber what happened to the fly when he forgot his table etiquette and put Th king force” used in place 6s] OR do I think that any large number of American women should image ip Sonaniation ite figure that every time: a min is: lome |” hia eltiows t. Jott ual be \ strong ray of go abroad. There {s no room for untrained women, for {n all _ ' BREED ee O0eNs LORE with It. Bners ¥ She. Slentaat Goi ‘ iat! ight focused upon the face of the the countries at war there are thousands of these whose men have tee SAGA? 0) NIU RTD TAMAR ANIDID PEDE: SY RK Beppens < freee ere, sieapers “& wooden eic:tent Same been killed or incapacitated and who need work to support themsel ag SOF i led world, ‘The sero microbes aro re t POOR RICHARD JR. ent into it for an ordinary Our untrained women, if they were given any work at all, would baiecy Shactde ull FeConthy emeBrea New. % 1 ir Sy bape bh! and caused more suffering than a quart bunion t m the switch to taking the bread out of the mouths of the victims o! can thn re simple ' inka . " a 4 ath y ns of war, Even the Phe Boluhivooel bugs wothot into the. Rus Thee cannot keep a squirrel on the ground. Neither can thee keep Hh | the alarm 1 thread spool ned women—the nurses, the canteen rkers, the helpe n re- o * sg wire w bat- , habilitation work—should not p 0 Ko to the t. They fh = | throu: operatin drum arrangement, until \ h 1© Woo! And everybod Knows a spr the ¢ » battery, i siglinl le should register their willingness to nd then wait till the job ut the woof. Ai body knows that The fool asketh himself a question and thinketh that a wise man prin bat winds the cord, closing the swit a Rus voot Is worse than his bite. They ri ae nae vr t look t nsula ch, calls them | ree A AS BERR AED APO WOCGE: ORD WAVADS answereth, | Nice i pee and the silent alarm is on, ‘The “The fact that they are ‘crazy to get over there’ has nothing to do an ala a ee harmless as a Bryan i, which consists wea ——_—____—_——- | ‘ram clock turned on the cUr- | atcoper then awakes . with the case. In this war the thing for an American woman to think i Th “ k E | M ‘A i an to | Ff a A r S | the slee it s to touch Beran tavetet. tat oat eranie 4 aay rrr hew ure also responsible for the excess chat- | e “Junkers” Germany's Evi asters {the seepe $0 WILLING TO ACCOMMODATE. leoma, do the great cinioniiy, of pane ter whic ; is spilled every day over the telephor The chatter bugs | HE real power in Germany, ane Ap indemnities” as soon as Russ | cepa Nee MONG little Willie's numerous “he can work for the Red Cross, She can take a man's job iti got so infly } Rast Orang t the I range Ald Society cla 1 controls the army] lay helpless, and the substitution off incing until he got ut joliday presents were a toy the industrial world if necessary, although will be doing an un han Geciped n the ip microbes, Hereafter, all chins which and) drov At gout into| the harsh demands for territory and| ‘ an alreun anece ‘ patriotic act and a disservice to her country if she accepts less th oer @ | thon. Ave ininutes will he pewarded ag the. preseas War OF congl me 6 huge Jodemplty [SNKY SHOOK ABSORBERS WiLt ag Rent Dy 8. ee rs 2 . venus enemy alic and interned in the hostile chin w junkers,"" oF 1 owners of the) Whatever patriotism they may DEFEAT THIS ALARM. knew the youth's @ man's pay. And she can write letters to her men at the front y at the front hadlben t6 stat not ae ‘ine adalntad (toh CHA reat landed estates, Descended| possess 1s solely directed toward the UARANTEBD to not only| pr 8 ica’ chanethl iatiasa, with all che soba lati oul: Yuusine 1 | the chins addiete Marathon telephone | | , ; wt obs | gine the effect on | geances are of a ae ee aaehaek the tele. {from the conquerors of Prussia and| added power and glory of their own awaken you but make you] Shortly after breakfast Willl the morale of a boy who's a bit and d zed when } shone traMic slowmed tive /aat oF Sohiakars eat tas ‘ : epee he robber 4 of the Middle} class. ney furnish the officers for | sincerely want to arise, is this| mother t 1 a crash in the greens letter from his mother saying, ‘I think of you every night g | acoustics . 7 AAwIOR BP IRE ERO he who 1 by plunder, they! both army and navy and their treat- | tlon of a man who waa a de ut the foot of the gardea and myrelf to sleep.’ Tee evan la kde wulke cai {retain the ancestors | ment of the rank and file is notorious. | ter “1 N he to investigate, On the way she 66 A JOB for American girls in war time to make thamse spon may vel RENN 59 ERO Bs OOS DAS AN AAter that the fru rth belong|ly brutal, The officer is looked wpon| wa 4 shock, Ho \F ted bushes and & worthy of the men who are fighting for them, Those mer another lady voter via the Ball-tel route they keep on chin crochet [to th cnough to seige them.|as a superior being, and the German | why yy him in the How out of recogni- Peatinr cil Asma BIR GTA Ganue dinicinae dae ecehaie eane lp a until they ut of verbal yarn, ‘They haven't more use for oral | yy his recent book An ador Gerard! girl gladly ns her back on a suc- | trical | Hon, 1 in & use Itself dia tcesedinned, saliow, iadelen( ¥ og Fe paosed from trate rules t halibut has for the Lincoln Highway jdencribes then harrow but patri-| cessful business or profess an alarm clock was used. | many ened flow Follow- luose-lipped, sallow, indolent youths of a few months ago : ; ne wot a few months ago, want And a try happens to be engaged ballyhoo with |otic and posse 1 of many of the!to marry a poor but noble born Licu gram, it) Ww be] ing the trai und Willie hiding WOMEN for their wives and the mothers of their children—not the Bilihem of 1 the tase Geahaa Ald aosiate ia lacasan¥ Bee thar ana: | Cana ‘ hind ate 1 : i ? saa i vem ¢ r c Orange Aid Societ decided that the spa i a » eng-| tenan | a a a 4 high-heeled, short-skirted, painted and powdered butterflies they Nation's busine nore {mportant than the fact that Mra. Whoosus's nies, however, of all liberal ideas, | Because of their wealth, the junk- ow are you doing, Wille?” she emiled at before the war, goldfish has @ bad cold from swimming in a da varium, that Gus The junkers were ardent support-| ers hold all the roads to political, so-|for the alarn A strip tone “We haven't really begun to fight,” finished Sergt. Farnum grave Wazzblook patted his wife on the ear with a flatir tt ree times, twice ors of Fre k th t in rob-| cial or professional distinction, along | brass was fastened to th redskins," replied the fy. “The closer you get to the war the longer you think it must last. | in anger and once in 4 friendly way; that Minnie Gipper is heart bustea | 2n& Austria and their) which nq man may hope to t ach a way youngster. We must not think that Germany will turn tail because we have a aince her French Licut 1 in the Aviation C “ say ae eader, Dis pired the wars) who arouses their enmity, Tr than With a grim look she took Willie . outer y © Aviation Cory ture out to be a t 1 1 . wen ‘i * : i few bundred thousand men over there. But even if every ally {s de- | haberdashery lieutenant in the peel nr dee wi which stripped Schleswig-Holstein| and Sybel, who sang the praise nt by fhe, ir and nim indoors, - ne BRS e SRDRRT t Gimbamaker’s big fron ark an sace-Lorraine! wa nk russ. eceived every » the insu “Looking skins!" feated we must fight on, In the names of self-preservation and com- | emporium; that Mi 1 man was scouting sae rom Deni 1 Alsace-Lorraine| war and Pruasia, received } alae t & for redskins!" she mon sense—to mention no loftier motives—we must fight till Ger . DAA: WAS BOOUEDE the dashing dry from Franc That they still domi-|honor the state could bestow, whil ework of thi peated ominou. 48 she took up ‘ ame ia datietes,” 3 goods warrior, w nflscated most of his wet £ nd inundated th ate is Showr the withdrawal of Mommsen and Virchow, liberals, died | we matter to set the | cane “Well, L'N give you one." a town with lame checks and crippled 1, O, U.s, and that the Smithuxs |ihe formula of “no annexation and| social outcasts. alarm and it was likewise necessary! cago Journal, rad / ' “oe i sd . A...