The evening world. Newspaper, April 9, 1918, Page 14

nN AY Dainty Marie, the Circus Sensation BEAUTIFUL ART POSES, TAKEN FROM CLASSIC STATUARY, ON A RIBBON SUSPENDED Soon to Be in the Field, All Under One Command, an | ‘ FROM THE ROOF OF MADISON SQUARE GARDEN. | Army Eight Times Size of Xerxes’s Persian Host and Greater Than Total Population of the U. S. in 1810. A eS ROR By Albert Payson Terhune ” A_N ARMY nearly elght million strong ts planned, with Foch as its supreme commander. Mind you, this fs to be one great army under one personal command, not a series of separate forces. P*" No outsider knows the exact figures, of course, But conservative estimates have placed Foch’s French troops at about 4,000,000, his Eng- lish forces at nearly 3,000,000 and another 1,000,000 will soon be in the field from the United States. | It Is easy enough to talk about seven or elght million men. But a very few years ago no military expert’s brain could have grasped the i idea of such numbers, There was nothing like it in all the red annals of war. !t was as impossible as was the idea of a squadron of fighting air- ships, } Nothing is either blg or small except by comparison with something ' else of the same kind. Suppose we stand this proposed Foch army along- TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1918 1918 TUESDAY, APRIL 9, ‘Marvel. of the Circus, The Venus of the Air, “A Mutt From Kansas” Now Like a Figure Come to Life From an Old Greek Frieze But Once Thin, Homely, Red-Haired, Freckled and Cross-Eyed, Dainty Marie Believes Any Girl Can Become a “Venus.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ROM a ten-year-old “mutt” In Kansas to the Venus of the Barnum & Bailey Circus is the glorious evolution of “Dainty Marie,” newest | of New York’s beauties and inspiration to every ugly duckling girl in America, Dainty Marle is the reason why the Broadway art connoisseurs are’ taking a night off from the girl plays and renewing their youth at the circus in old Madison Square Garden along with the rest of us unsophisticated mortals. And there ls not the remotest doubt that Dainty Marie is the near- a est thing to a genuine, eighteen-karat, straight-from- | Olympus Aphrodite seen on Broadway in many a long “4 day and night. | Tenuously attached to a long, strong ribbon and : forty feet above the circus amphitheatre, Dainty Marie poses and dances in a costume which almost any Venus’s tailor would advise her to shun—perfectly plain white satin tights. If there were an bE Eight Million Soldiers, | | Allies’ Forces Under Foch, | Biggest Army in History | France's 4,000,000, England's 3,000,000 and Our Own 1,000,000| 4 BY 4 | | side the mightiest war hosts of the past and take a look at the contrast. You will see that the fabled martial hordes of Xerxes were merely a “trial- size” aggregation, and that the invincible host of Napoleon was no more than a “misses’ and children’s size” army. Napoleon dismayed Burope when, early in the nineteenth century, he Mustered an army of a little more than a half-million men, It was freely Prophesied then that no one man could handle such a force. Napoleon de- clared that he could do it, and he made good his boast. He modostly added the information that he was the only living General who had the genius | to manoeuvre an army of more than 100,000. His whole empire and its Yassal states, however, did not muster as many as one million mon in any year. In the Civil War the military world again held tts breath. mumber record was broken; # world record wrecked, In 1865 Grant was {a command of about 1,060,000 soldiers. These were divided among sev- eral far separate armies, of course, scattered from Texas to Virginia. But the bare fact that he commanded more than a million men was a wonder of the age. In all, you see, Grant had less than oneseventh as mavy troops * as Foch will have. And by no means all of those were on one front, as ¥och's ‘well be. ‘When, in 1815, the allied nations routed out every available man to Swell the army which was rushed to Belgium to curb Napoleon, the Duke of Wellington was put in supreme command. Hoe concentrated this tre- mendous body near Waterloo to face the conqueror who had bullied Europe for the last twenty years. And that allied force contained less than 90,000 effective men. Both armies, Napoleon's and Wellington's together, were considerably short of 200,000. Not quite one-thirty-fifth as large, all told, a8 Foch’s American-Franco-British army is to be. Back in 490 B, C., when the Persian tyrant Xerxes sought to over- run the whole civilized world and smash the very name of democracy, he bragged that not less than 1,000,000 men marched into Greece with him. Byery military expert who ever described the battles of Mardthon and of Salamis has cast a strong doubt on this boast of Xerxes, claiming that it would have been impossible for any general to mass a million men for a single battle. For, until recently, even the most imaginative tactician could not grasp the mental picture of an army a million strong. One com- mentator went so far as to quote the anecdote of Xerxes weeping at the thought that in a hundred years all his million soldiers would be dead, and to add, drily that “Xerxes might have been better employed in weep- ing at his own misstatement about the e{ze of his army.” Yet (taking Xerxes’s own word for it) his Persian host was not one seventh as !arge as the Foch army is to be; probably not one-fourth es large as {s Foch’s army in Picardy to-day. George Washington never had more than about 12,000 men under arms at any one battle or campaign, and very seldom as many as that. His whole ragged army of hero-patriots was smaller than is a single German division in France, Our entire United States population tn 1810 (men, women, children; white, colored and Indian) was only 7,239,881, Fewer by far, numerically, than the Foch army {s to be. And in making this comparison, remember, please, that the Foch army is to include only men who are physically tit and between certain specified ages. When America’s full quota of troops gets to the front, and when later drafts swell the French and English roster, perhaps the world at large may look back on a nt 8,000,000 men as a very ordinary-sized army, by comparison. In any case, future war experts will have to tear up all thelr old computations or else use a magnifying glass in making new ones, Bugs in U. S. Destroy $1,000,000,000 Crops Every Twelve Months AVE the crops! The first est!-|of $400,000,000. Foods worth almost S mate of crop loss due to insects | three times as much are destroyed by | ever made public by the Bureau | Insects each year, and we think noth- of Biological Survey of the United | ing about It. States Department of Agriculture has) been announced, It is the stupendous | amount of $1,104,869,300! More than half the First Liberty one- quarter of the Socond, enough to pay almost 4 per cent. interest on $28,000,- 000,000 of Liberty Loans. Put it another way if you don't like On the contrary, we de deprive ourselves of the assistance of the agency natur Nhorately pro vided for holding the insects in check | by shooting our birds for the table or for a holiday. Meantime most insects reproduce themselves some billions of | times each season, the potato bug| alone showing no tendencles toward | Loan, For the), figures. The crops eaten on American |. darms by insects cach year would feed ‘ } starving Belgium. They would pay for the year's education of more than eur 20,000,000 school children, 21 per cent. of whom are said to be suffer- ing from malnutrition, Bula McClary, author of an article 4m Good Housekeeping, writes: “We can reduce this waste to its least possible figure by merely ceas- dng to obtruds our short-sighted hu- man ways into nature's nicely bal- anced plan—by merely allowing the dirds to eat more bugs, According to the Bureau of Biological Survey, the total saving of crops by birds each year amounts to $444,000,000, ‘The San Francisco earthquake and fire destroyed property to the value L ae race suicide with its fifty or sixty | mi descendants in a single sum- | mer, With the shadow of world fam- {ne rousing out of the East, it 1s no light matter for the binds, the de- fenders of our fields, to have to fight for their lives while they are about our business. Their services should be recognized and they be given complete protection under a stern jaw, Senator McLean of Connecticut has fathered such a law in Congress. It has been passed by the Senate tn the shape of an act to give Uncle Sam the power to compel the various States to observe the only bird treaty in the world, @ treaty between the United States and Canada—which t f Re f k ungainly angle, a redundant curve, a too evident bone in all Dainty Marie's‘ lovely, lissome body, those white tights under the searching spotlight i 3 Richard—The 1918 Brand of Wise Besides That, the Junior Richard I BY ARTHUR (« Copyright, 1018, by tho Press Publishing Co, (The New York ‘PN after the war ts over it will still be tndex finger in a cigar cutter. hing World) rous to stick thy dang Moving thy watch up an hour avatleth not unles feet up with it. Time healeth everything but writ The Kaiser will soon b hing up daisies He who tryeth to keep a flivver, a war ga machine, an automatic plano and two lod a wife, a talk! berships all going Saws Is Just as Good and Quaint as That of a Century and a Half Ago, and It’s Certainly More Up to Date—. ‘3 a Veritable Baer for Quaint Wisdom, BUGS”) BAER. the same time hath more apple territory to cover than a giraffe's Adam's The lady who thinketh that the atrocities of war are too terrible for words will soon go away for the summer and leave the cat with a Jar of condensed milk and no can opencr, The Kaiser desireth toyguide the Bullshevikl, but doth the mouse choose the cat for a chaperon? Thee saith it, pier 1s pleasure taken with su © season will soon be here, idal intent. The Sunday plento new fields will date from the! One firm gold 247,000 pounds of whalc war. It has forced the nations| steak in San Francisco and Seattle {nvolved. whose vital supplies |last year, The walrus was slaughtered| were shut off into an energetic search| by the thousand solely for its tusks; | for substitutes and new sources of |the hide of this ungainly animal makes raw material. For many of these,|tho fest of travelling bags, And its some heretofore considered worthless, | oll sells for 75 cents a gallon, writes permanent markets have been estab- | Phil Norton in Popular Mechanics Mshed, To meet the leather shortagein| ‘The thinning of the walrus herds the United States the skins of many threatened starvation for the natives animals which never before found|of Alaska, so the Governmer their way to the tanneries are being duced reindeer, There are now 102,000 used. The sea is furnishing a } of these animals, which produce an part of the new supply. elient leather, and they are rapidly | M* business enterprises in; its meat is rapidly becoming popular ie Canada not, ki ‘ The whalé, once hunted only for its increasing A Seattle man found him- {s @bserving and we arejpone and oll, ts now providing a self unable to secure leather to fill a Experiments are en toatber rivalling kid tn softness, while contract for $750,000, By experiments Sea Furnishes New Leather to Meet Present Shortage with many sea and land anima Pacific Northwest, he was at of the) These new leathers are not yet cheap to meet] because a liberal price must be paid his obligation and to create a new/to encourage hunters and trappers; market for these hides but 80 many necessary and beautiful The hair seal Was once destroyed | “ticles can be made from them that by the thousand because of {ts vora cious appetite for salmon, Dynamite was planted in the bars at the mouths of salmon rivers to blow up the great herds of fish eaters as they oame in from the sea. So plentiful are the: marine pests that 20,000 skins of the hair seal will be sold this year. The gea ton and the shark re also being | hunted for their skins; China, Japan} and Siberla are sending us new hide iraged by the |the war BUGGIES IN MILLIONS. of the motor car, sales of buggtes in this country last year broke all records. The total number sold ap-| proximated 2,200,000. | Ml el EE THE MILKMAIDS' RETURN, N fhe suburbs of London milk men! ] are graduady belng displaced by) milkmaida, Governfhent, } Borlous } wreathes herself into one melting ; even if YOUR batting average as a || Venus is .000 or thereabouts. * knapsack, so Dainty Marie believes lest girl {child I | When I was ten years old I was so Poor Richard Jr. @ . Nothing Like This Philosophy Ever Appeared Over the Signature of the Senior | would headline the truth for a cen- world. Dainty Marie tri- umphs fn the test, and as she pose after another she suggests a) Greek frlezes, before women made| | themselves knock-kneed and fat. | You are distrusting my enthusi- asm, perhaps—well, then, go to the circus and see for yourself the Venus of the Air! And cheer up, As| Napoleon declared that every sol- dier carried a Marshal's baton tn his that every girl carries the crown of Venus in her pocket. For, says Dainty Marie, with the candor which does NOT al ‘8 accompany beauty, “see what a mutt I was | when I started!” “What were you?" I asked, while I admired the long, subtly curving line from shoulder to heel of the| | Venus of tho Air. “I was the ugliest, thinnest, mean- that ever lived,” Dainty | Marie told me solemnly. | “1 was born and brought up in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. My father was in charge of the Government farm out there, run in connection | with the prison. When I was a remember carrying his luncheons to him, and sometimes he }let me turn handsprings and do stunts to amuse the prisoners. But I guess my looks were what amused | them most. “There never was a girl more |homely than I—she couldn't be. thin that my bones stuck out all over me. And I had cross-eyes. | And when I was quite young I met a little boy on a narrow bridge, and since neither one of us would go back, I fell over and got this.” Dainty Marie lifted a wave of her soft brown hair that makes a} triangle of her smooth forehead to! | show me a little white scar, almost | invisible mow, but just where it would disfigure a child wearing her | hair pulled back and bralded, | “] had freckles all over my face,” continued Dainty Marte, in an orgy of amused reminiscence. “My hair was a sort of no-account reddish color and straight as a string. I was scrawny and mean—just as| soured on the world as a homely | child usually ts. | “My face isn't my fortune, now,” | j she added modestly. “My figure's |my fortune,” Nevertheless, ‘the Venus of the Alr has a most attrac- tive face—not too fat nor too thin, pleasantly pink and white, with a nice straight nose, straight, clear continued. “So my mother stopped fussing with me, and I just made a regular tomboy out of myself. I played with the boys, climbed trees and fences and did a lot of ground | figure come alive from the glorious|and lofty tumbiing—all the time pretending to myself that I didn't care if I wasn't good-looking. As if any girl ever lived who didn’t care! “When I was about ten some circust people came by the house and saw me doing some of my stunts in a rope swing. I used to have little private shows at that time, and charge the kids pins for admission. The circus people saw that I was just naturally a performer—though even they thought it too bad I wasn’t Prettler—and they asked my mother if I couldn't join the show. “Take her, if you can make any- thing of her—I don't know what else she can do,’ said my mother. “After I had been with the show some time a nice old doctor camo along one day and eald he could fix my eyes. It took two operations, but ag you see, they are all right now., With the exercise I got in the cirous lfe, my hollows began to fill out and. my bones were covered. I earned how to take care of my skin, too, and how to do my halr. When J camo! home a few years later, folks didn't know me.” “And do you really think that any homely girl can make herself beautt- ful?” I asked. i “Don't you remember what that General said?” demanded Dainty Marte. (Her last name is Meeker, if you should want to know.) “He sald, “Many things are difficult— nothing !s {mposstble.” That should be the slogan of the homely girl, “I've told you the honest truth about what I was when I started. Well, I've got across in the movies. This winter I was at tho Palace Theatre here {n New York, before T came to the circus. You don't have to stay homely and cross and a failure, if you want to make some thing else of yourself. ¢ “The homely girl who wants to bs’ beautiful has got to work. Ghe has got to have lots of exercise and fresh air. Of course, I think the eireus training {8 the very best sort, but 1 realize that not every gtrl can join a circus to make herself beautiful, She can take real exercise, however —not a few little easy movements, but euch stunts as rolling over the loor and stationary running, She en “ sensibly, sleep enough but not too much, get a bi as she needs It. Niet Rane “I can take my arms, my cheeks, my shoulders—any part of my body —and bulld them up or pare them oft to just the symmetry I want, The -| thelr uso will probably mot end with | N spite of the immense popularity | blue eyes, under dark brows, and a/ secret Is studying yourself ang Keep. set of very white and even teeth, |{ng im tra!ning all the time. It's a Her hair at present is a fine ma-|part of any woman's jub to be as hogany brown, with just red enough | beautiful as she can be, and the Tex in it to catch the sunlight becom-|son for so much homeliness ts be ingly. |cause women Just le down under ft,” “T couldn't even be dressed up to | Was thaparting verdict of the Venus! be pretty when I was a kid,” she!from Kansas, First Organ Invented by a Barber HE organ is @ very ancient In-|organ in @ church in Rome tn the strument, its invention being) year 658, while an ancient French credited to Ctesiblus of Alexun-| work records that King Pepin erected dria, a barber of the Egyptian city, | one of the instruments in the Churea in 250 B. C, It was not until a thou-|of St, Corneille at Complegne in. sand years later, however, that they | France in 787. 1 Probable that or« were first used In the churches of | S824 were used in religious services in Western Europe, One ehronicle ag. | the astérn Empire many centuries before they were int 7 eerta that Pope Vitalianus installed an! Western Europe, roduced iste Bess