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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918 The Most Striking Things. I Saw on 15 Battle Fronts | a In the Big World War Supermen and Supernumeraries | ®. Thomas Cartin, American War Correspondent, Who Has | * I , Fi + tas Ri " Seen More of the War Than Any Other Man, nstead of Being One of the Former, Kaiser Billhelm Is Only a Mere Supergoof Who Has Oiled Himself Up With Superbunk Until He. Thinks He Is a Tells Ei de f Hi | "war ede tote. sad Supergod—New York Restaurants Might Provide Supersoupspoons, Eight By D. Th c ‘ | Gurgles to the Spoon, and Somebody Might Invent a Supermoth to Toss Aid omas Curtin. | Into the Clown Prince’s Wardrobe. ’ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 1918 “Babies for Bachelors” New Plan to Care for | Allies’ Orphans of War | Mrs. Lewis B. Woodruff, on Behalf of the American Women’s Hospitals, Appeals to Unmarried Men and Women to Financially Adopt Little Victims of Frightful ness. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall : P V. ABIES for bachelors! 4 ' art V. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. Mrs. Lewis B. Woodruff, one of New York’s most beautiful \ { X11. I See the Enemy Crash Into Italy.-Near Venice, Coperight, 1910, by the Press Pubtishing Os, (The New York Evening World) which had to liquidate when Hoover refused ‘em permission to wear society women and the author of “The Lady of the Lighthouse HPSE are days of supermen who think that all mustachios shou their shre@ded biscuit costumes on wheatless Tuesda cl i KS, is ap bi 0 } i December, 1917. " . Land Lheslatsiicted " n wheatless Tuesday and other charming books, makes this appeal on behalf of the Ameri ‘i $ Ledatie athe te fi ella en thaives Abahh aiden acto A supersubway guard who wouldn't try to cancel one of your elbows | Women’s Hospitals to every unmarried man or womai who is capable of LONG narrow strip of land separating the Lagoon north of times of superguns that shoot a thousand miles around oorners, with the cutting edge of the car door would help some. And gsuper- F iving a di fol thousand dollar Liberty ‘en I 4 gad BC aollar Or a jOusi olla Venice from he Adriatic and running northeast from the Old] over transoms, through revolving doors and finally blow you loose from suburbanites who could catch the last supertrain to the supersuburbs ab i a a hing - ie sae id x del i z 4 Plave to the Piave is the enemy’s direct road to Venice. Toward a diamond ae hetals oy “a beled vile all the peta thee would assist a trifle, A superchewing gum slot machine that wouldn't bond bbe ie hen hb aa ih me A ‘ ‘1 A 1s 18 the ora persubmarine ch gallop across tho ocean, tor- absorb y ercent a pward yor irleks o o sending women doctors abroad to save the c the extremity is a bridgehead with the enemy fanlike about it. The de- 6 lochs of sup nes wi gallop 8 ae absorh your supercent and reward you with shricks of silence and no In send g ‘or ( c Geddeaioad Aidsd: tal ter WAR to B pedo non-combatants and get away without leaving any thumbprints superchewing gum would do its bit toward untangling the supercost of of the Allies, , fenders of this bridgehead are Cabieeeed bub ten pues te age bys for Uncle Bam's marine cops to work on. living. A Broadway supertango hound who wouldn't try to see the Every bachelor girl, every male bache f would result in the enemy securing positions on the With everything flopping into the super class, we might as well.take aurora b lis on a one-candle power income would also help. reads The Evening W id an ad li Z 2 ads e Evel : wid can adopt a ‘ island which would in turn infilade the east of the] one of those super excursions ourselves. Why not supermoths which But the real darb would be a superfiivver which would run as well cRidbercsta I Bootie ot dain + §) Italian line will flutter over the Atlantic and eat all the Clown Prince's uniforms? on the turf as it docs In the catalogue, Which might be expecting too war baby for only $100. That sum, if it is sent to the ‘ 5 My companion and 1 crouched and peered Why not bombard the Kaiser's gray gorillas with superbunions which much even in a world of supermen and supersoupspoons, But what we American Women’s Hospitals, whose campaign head- ] “ fix their fect so they can't march? Why not supercan ope to would like to lamp !# a supercitizen who looks as well in a supercoliar quarters are at the Biltmore, will take care of a tiny through a slit in the m t adv anced Italian me open up the gray gorillas’ tin bats and pull ‘em out like pickled ontons? as the Hird does in the illustration, A superhusband who could earn as | child victim of frightfulness for one wi year, give it food, clothing and gun emplacement at the bridgehead, while the gun If the works are going super we might as well go super too. many superbonnets as a superwife wants would certainly make the old edical attendance and the best of therly care. In all hi her sel " % ners sprayed the enemy treneh in a manner which Hillheim has himself so oiled up with superbunk that he thinks he | vale of sorfow and wrinkles a valley of Joy and double chins, Every ah hha Meda the wineeee byl pees la Aygo Maa ae ce showed that their heart was in their work. The at in a supergod. As a matter of fact, Czar Nicky's cousin «Willy Is only | apartment house has a superintendent who doesn’t superintend as much | > isfied—if not selfish—tife, no bachelor of either sex can perform a é tack had broken down and the Hungarian dead lay| & S¥Persoof. And when he started to steer the world by the ears he as he superdoesn'tintend. finer or more generous deed than the financial adoption of a small boy or scattered under mulberry trees—tne foremost on his| °B¢ned the wrong berry | But taking the Imperial Supergoof of Potsdam, his supermen and a | Sir somewhere in France, whose very life depends on American assist + shed | it elon : But at that ho slipped us a good Idea with this superjazz, Why | dozen of the best supersoupspoons guaranteed to last as long as the | ance. face with his outstretched hand still gripping the} shouldn't Americans gyrate around superishly also? ‘This is April and honeymoon, tossing in a few superbunions and a yard of old sh ‘There are thousands of bachelors and spinsters,” golden-haired Mre. ‘ bomb that he had been about to throw. we should have supercitizens who know enough not to plant supergrass | mixing ‘em up with a battery of superguna and a flotilla of supercoll Woodruff pointed out to me, "who can take care of at least one iittle | “With death in his heart and death in his hand . . and now he} seed upside down and have the grass grow toward Hongk nstead butt tossing the hash into a superadding m und turning the | War orphan. Most married persons have children of their own to look i les there dead himself!” my companion whispered tn my ear. He was th of New York, Restaurants might furnish supersoupspoons which would | handle twice, the result informs us that instead of being supermen w jafter, So it just fs peculiarly the business of the childless men and : American Consul, whose work in Venetia had endeared him to tens of| contain eight gurgles to the spoon instead of only one or two. A super. | are merely supernumerarics: women of this country to assume the obligation of adopting ' thousands. We had come from Venice with gifts for the men at the bridge: soupspoon equipped with two seta of acoustics would go a long way | It taken at upers to put on a hippodr T is on ne ‘If every man and woman in America who has no dependents will head. We had been forced to leave our launch and had made our way on — toward filling the gap left by the absconding of the Hawaiian orchestras duke in each show and the rest of use have to be the merry yillager give $100 to care for a baby for one year, thousands of little children + @ lorry until shell fire compelled \s | — - to abandon that also, Only a short marrow road separated us at lengt) from our goal, but it was belng pot e4 with six and nine inch she! while the two rows of houses be- tween us and the enemy were top pling in smoke and dust. A lull, and ‘we took a chance on the road, finally |SUGGESTED BY THE Mere IN GREAT BATTLE PICARDY |. Map Profits! ND PAINTED FOR THE EVENING WORLD BY —— | will be saved tn the next year. this reason, then, I appeal in the name of the American Women’s Hospitals to every bachelor, to every For GEORGE M’EVOY unmarried woman and to all moth- rs without children to ‘adopt’ for one year a little child of ravaged France by sending $100 to the Amer- can woman doctors who are going reaching with relief the mud and Lens -S-SSARPe over there.” weter pits of the first line. Then , aeUN More than two thousand women we crawled up to the pillbox. if physiclans in the United States are k ‘The Consul explained to the mon VALENCIRNES enrolled {n the American Women's y that we had brought some comforts Pe | Hospitals, which just now 1s con ') @ them, which would be fetched CAMBRAI *heweteey 1 Mrs, George GouM te dooyty tytem- - = B Wear Tvite been aa 7 ae eth Raters aa ao ested in the movement to eave er “ ; : cau - - babies of the war sone by sending tp ” 4nd now. Part of the big machine |{nsurpassable. I turned back with jadmiration all over Purope. A coun-| These would give shelter to various | . 1 1 M i i |them women doctors from Aurerten Py of Viandere I have seen on the other|the eun sinking to the Venetian |try that can turn out euch equipment | forms of lower life on which fishes New American Chimney Bible Printed by Hand. | nt Firat Mint sok | equipped to supply their needs, : aS te of the Alps. I em not British,|plain lighting up the solid trregular|and develop such an army must have | feed, and so the latter would be at FIER severe! years arpa ” eas wick bal 3 from the dunes when the foe became @ Uttle quieter. They appreciated the epirit in which we came. One presented the Consul with an enemy Relmet; whereupon a tall, handsome, @iveskinned lad from the south slg ified that he would craw! out and get me one as a souvenir of the fight end of our coming. We, of courac, forbade him to do eny such thing, fer the enemy trenches were well within a hundred yards; but shortly after we had dodged back to the frent trench my man overtook us, his dark eyes dancing with pleasure as he handed me the helmet from the orchard of death. 1 mention this not because it ts unique, but because it fs one detail of many hundred which I came upon @aring the past three months in Italy which give evidence of a pe qatar trait of war psychology. Above the precipitous, roaring gorge of the Brenta I have seen the Italians try- fing to get a foothold on eolld rock In the very teeth of murderous fire tn order to make a last ditch mountain stand to save one of the most fertile plains in the world. coup upon this war,” Mrs. Waod- | \ruff went on. “Every life will be XIV. With the yrs in Italy |needed in the great construotion —On the Piave January, 1918, 'Y thoughts go back to Germany, and I hear again the remarks @@ military wisdom poured out on Britain's effort. At first the Germans faughed at her attempt to get volun- teers. Then they had to realize that volunteers were pouring in. “But whet can they do with them?” I used to hear. “They have no eurplus of officers to train raw men. They havo nething with which to equip them, And !f they had both of these, where qe their Casernen (barracks)? Why, 8 hes taken us years to develop all Tallest in World ducting a campaign to raise $200,000 for a chain of relief stations through- out France, Serbia and Italy. If you are a bachelor man or mala here's your chance to be father or mother by proxy to some black-eyed, smiling French or Italian baby whe, needs you, And the cost will be only $100—perhaps the very sum you tad planned to spend on your own tion. If you can give a baby life fo a year, wouldn't you Le willing t#) give up a vacation of two weeks? To those well-paid women words! jers of America who are bachelqe ) maids, Mrs, Woodruff and the Am {can Women’s Hospitals send out | special appeal, £ “We women of America must saw {me yesterday at the Biltmore, whepe she was principal speaker at the: luncheon of the teams working ter the American Women's Hospitals, | “WE must take care of the children of to-day, for they are the people’ am whom the civilization of tomorrow depends “France, Serbia Belgium and |Italy need all their children to re work to come, and now thousands ef | precious lives are belng wasted be |cause there are no doctors to eave |them. The women and obildren se claimed from the devastated regions occupied by the Germans are ips most pitiable condition; they | living in the ruins of villages through |whioh armtes have swept back apd! |forth and in caves constantly under bombardment. Yet for the moet part they are sound, eturdy Iitle tetk |who will do wonderful ¢hings tm ee years to come ff we give theme Mft now." work accomplished at odd mo blishe ‘ac | “Only the women doctors,” saga Dut I was thrilled to eee Scottish and|mountain mass across the river so|tremendous power, With faith in {t-| tracted to the region in larg®)- Fo completion a short time ago Dest a Giectaat aan’ tant — lene. 2 Fe sei Mrs, Gould, “are Pest aay midcounty regiments moving in per {that the snowe glistened and the |self and the will to win It te bound to|®U™bDere ea of chimney 671 foot high 19| completed a pen-printed Bible, The WEGRP SRA LRIVYIGR 080 ee Beare aan ahnian \ formation, soldiers every man of |peaks were flushed with pink, A In-|come out all right " - : Tacoma, Wash, transfers the| task was begun in 1804 and con-|Of Congress passed 128 years 86), oo464 at ene front with the soldiegs | teem, up the heights of Montello to|aily floating cloud or two formed such (To Be Concluded.) Highest Telephone Line [title of the world's tallest chimney | cluded a short thme ago, says Popular The Quaker City was then tho saat] /ouirts [a0 ul With the & 1 ‘A tae their places in the line. An¢|a background for venturesome air- be an of the Mountain ig depen ie AU Rk pendaer Machanioe, Ona tnelieend, mine hua | of Government, and the money-mak-| woman physician to come to Ae. pr every militar? deta! pertec. It ehall mea that the shrapael bareting Fishing Banks Of L. I. 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The Amertoan” re | j British ehelle screaming over to care-|with every strap and button and| obtained In digging the New York|the jine that oroases Argentine Paxs| Orient, is part of a amaelting plant | ditions thereafter made it impossible | three in number © brought over! Women's Hospitals can—and wit} British observers while they worked| There was not a hitch anywhere, 1 nie ROWIFWEne G8h only One and| great height ts to men | Se MBs DrevianEy rapes set mr ee ; of the man phystctan, but in ad@- ‘ A) two fect thick, on whioh, it is|three-tenthy milew in length, and {t| discharged by it from harming yoge- | the Inst part of the book is on atock| Philadelphia mint was the only one ° safc (9), With « precision, soouracy and nent again admired the splendid eaulm| ought, marine growtbe would|ia emtimated that the oom of con.| tation, Particularly ina park clove at| paper that has a allght yellowlan|in the Republic until 1835, when one “OH @ woman's tendernee and wp, f Bees in recording that was simply ment—equipment which beg evoked|inive, says Popular Mechanics, struction wae more than $13,000, hand. doretanding,”’ unge. was establighed in New Onesna sdf , the children of the Allies,” she totd:'”