The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1918, Page 18

momen DITORIAL PAGE. Friday, May 17 Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Courright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World), \“4 Wife That Hath No Human Companionship Outside ‘| | Her Own Husband Is as a Hand Organ With Only One Tune.” \ N°” my Daughter, a Bride of Babylon came unto me saying: By J. H. Cassel ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Dally Except sunday by the Press Pubilshing Company, Nos. 63 od 65 bark Row, New York. R, President, 63 Park Row, Trea. Park Row. t Jr. & Pork Row. TAP ASSOCIATED Pithas to tiem ye for repaid! also the ioe MOLI Bbileiccreessesverers et RALPH F J. ANGUS JOSEPH PUI —_—_—- ewe Aeepatebee i here ation of eure ub “Alas, alas, oh Mother, advise mo ‘ero 1 perish of ennul! ‘or behold, when | was a damsel | was more popular among | women than a new beauty cream, and men were as the bangles on my wrists. “Then did HE, my beloved, praise me, saying, ‘Ilow charming art thou, my Love, in the eyes of the NEITHER BRITISH NOR FRENCH PUT UP WITH RENT PROFITEERS. “« eto ¢ | multitude! Yea, thou hast them All going! And I HE ¢ : Generar passing “An act to { am dee-lighted to meet all thy friend ; f t ilional se« y and ise | ntrolling “Yet, now that I am married, lo my friends have . lie n t rea { t District of fallen away from me, and Robinson Crusoe was not 4, \ ‘ ; ¢ more ‘exclusive’ nor more bored than I! Columbi the in ite attent and a n of oti ¥ “For it came to pass, after the wedding day, that communitics—amor em first and foremost the'City of New York. wean towne I discovered that my Beloved looked upon all my women friends as ‘seconds,’ and that in HIS opinion all my mea friends | were catalogued as ‘boobs’ or ‘dubs’ or ‘also-rans.’ “It it wacn't for the fact that rent {s about twenty-five per cent. hig New York than elsewhere the cost of living | “Yea, the women were of two kinds only: here would be lower than in any other large American city.” | | “Those who bored him—and those who shocked him. . Buch was ¢ neldelon artived at by-an exnert three | hose who were too ‘strong-minded’ to please him—and those who / . x were too ‘weak-minded’ to interest him. } years ago, a study of tistics in more than twenty Amer- “Those who were bent upon snubbing him—and those who were bent fean citi sted upon flirting with him. } ee “Those who were frumpy and impossible—and those whe were frivo- | s appear to have resolved that the year 1919 \Jous and unprofitable. } “And whomsoever among them he found in my company, he raised his hands to heaven at sight of her, erying reat, Scott! THAT woman again!’ “And as for the men who had brightened the days of my girlhood, | they likewise were of but two varieties: “Those who were dangerous—and thoee who were ridiculous. “Those who were too ‘swift’—and those who were too slow | “Those at whom he scowled—and those at whom he laughed. “And it was enough that any man should admire me for my Beloved y to conclude therefrom that he MUST be a defective! “Yet now that he hath tled me to a hitching post and surrounded me with barbed wire entanglements I perceive that I shail soon join the ‘has-beens’ and shall bore him to suffocation | “For a wife that bath no human companionship outside her own q ining nd paying rents so steep 2 as to excite the awe and admiration of the world. Are tenants to be | tat the mercy of these rent boosters? r ago committees anc experts were showing that home rents in Greater New York should remain a notable exception to es, Reasons advanced were: (1) The halt of Immigration, reducing the demand for usings and making homes more plentiful (2) Huge supplies of hi available for building (3), Completion of new sub’ nes opening up ne racts for Lome seekers. (4) Shortening of the hours of labor, giving workers « and is as @ hand organ with only one tune—a table d’hote that is ' ‘ . | ne to-day, yesterday and forever. 4 Chaniog to live farther: trom thelr Hikoee Of pmployment, H herefore, adrive me, oh Mother, before the last spark of my van- ft in any of these now when the New York landlord lity perisheth within met” | ut I shook my head and spake unto her sadly, saying yerlly, verily, my Daughter, I am helpless to cheer thee. ‘or I know not WHY men do this thing. yet in all my life I have never known ONE man that approved of his wife's friends! “For a man may credit his wife with sufficient intelligence to choose her own religion, to vote for ber own candidate, to bring up her own children, and to run her own job—but NEVER with sufftclent tutelligence | to pick her own friends!” Ss g what he thinks war conditions will] justify--or cover, American communities, however, are not the first to have to deal with war profiteering in rents. During t! » fall of 1915, in Tooting, a working ss suburb of London, a landlord owning 100 houses, twenty-nine tenants of which were fighting Germans, rais d the rents ten per cent In other parts of London and in Gla Lucile the Waitress By Bide Dudley rigtit, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The Ne “ HY ked Lucile, the! “Well, 5 zow, Liverpool and Birmingham similar cases had begn report The Tenants’ Rent League loudly protested, rent pavers all over E nd joined in, and a bill was soon after introduc ed | jn Parliament to restrict increases in rents during the war, James Hayday, British labor delegate, told the American Federa- tion of Lat yor Convention at Buffalo last November what happened in Great Britain: | “that so many |¢ 5 ticklish about of those Da tynphoons. Pe art Pari ee ee ee Ler, women eae = “While 4,000,000 of our men were rallying to the colors we W h found that the other class was not making equal sacrifice, | en Profiteering began, Up went the cost of living, BARRING | ~ potato, ‘ | ‘Oh, you're twent ght, appa diate a bapei ce ieletie 2 Deum By the Rey. Thomas B. Gregory By Roy L. McCardell ane went on. NLY RENTS, WHICH THE GOVERNMENT PRE . Covrright. 1018, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Eventag Wor! Copstiat. 1978, by The Pay Podlishing Co, (Tho New Yors Bieuing Wor't FORO FAB? ANG e vip vented th euhponlum women, too women still] Hungaria rk who canlago, he During the visit of the British Labor Commission to the United She are men : 7 ; ng in N States, Josepli A. Davies, Secretary to Lloyd George, said at a dinner remember thi od ery that went/fore us, but he | whispered Mra. J. on al [eter CACKLEBERRY ts here w | Mr. Jarr returned at ¢ ate de the rav nfinitely mo si i's popular your a person n Chicago: through the elty with a th quent now, The years that have}"What do you think of that? As rhood, tou the § of time by touch he cane the sulggers, ‘\ seven years ago “Kossuth passed since his first coming havelsoon as Gladys wrote s was en- » that very ening. Then Mr. xion a bit, but I can’t see why any | but I soon rallied and just gi “I find living in America ts about twice as high Kossuth ts here!” mightily Intensified nee gaged, Irene came over to see if she remembered Dr. Gilbert Gum nan should want to lie about her} **¥es, 1 heard } us England, Your hotel prices over hero are remarkably tmpres- | ‘The delirium of joy that at freedom among could take her sh 4 fiance from! was a de and resolved to let antiquity when {t's primo face evi-}one, ‘but you didn’t get th 5 hile |natore take it dence that has got it eant Wha agen i 7 * c : x sea that ery was one of the most beautl- | words in 1851 were ¢ ner, And yet some people say Phil- nature take its course. dence tha ® meant it, at she means ts tha: sive, And then in England one can get a FAIRLY DECENT $a thinge that ever happ spoken. words of 1918 may adelphia girls are Little Quakers.” And ye Mr, Edward Bu t what I'm loping up to Is t you're twenty-fly then some. LITTLE HOME FOR PERHAPS $4 A WEEK. I dare tay | Its value was not measurat be preternaturally ¢ Cackleberry kind of girls may Wil) be here this evening t 4 a couple of stage dames Wow, wow!’ or words to thoge this cannot be done now In America,” lars and cents, or by any ordinary | ing, irresistible, in their a Quakers themselves, but they Jar was heard to say soothingly. | p s mor 1 know, the | effect, yips the first. T see it's time fo ; political considerations. Sixty-seven y , everybody vom quake He's weak m d, but he has lots/ ind that loves to at a lunelicensor the sa week! 7 . Four dollar ; hole thing, so 1 just urked Mr. Jarr ms When the great Hungarian patriot,}came to see us to. y counter and mess up the old ham and sp How does that sound this sprin, New York apartment | Pring ashore from the vessel that] soing “over there” to see Well, Capt. Herbert Tynnefoyle ta lieve he is weals minded: (eggs ke men, I am t inflicted | ’ i ; S OPATUNeNe cue people had especially sent to] ire going over to hel at camy Gladys needn't worry waitress, 80 up I go all merriment and | fere aa house landlord? bring him ove ree 4 th ev Jream that was so dea rs replied 4 Jarr ow-do-you-dos, When 1 get to t) doze em * : . smorable reception—the grandest, | generatio go—to make Hungary | philosophically. ‘That will be one lo and ‘behold! th n arg off ain't ¢ In France the Governime n the ea r t " ;; Memorable reception Brand rations ago na Hung more ntica mUARDE : arly months of the war went} i. 1, said, that was over accorded a hing less those girls will bave to « them, a qu nab! dobbinec to the rescue of the small rent payer with a moratorium which pro-|man gf alien vlood in the whole Ko. 1's ght about—but they'll find plenty of ke tome and says: “TL shall say more about } 500 f | ountry's histo: t count, ers.” Young woman, how old do you jt,’ she sna 'T took tht : vided that tenants paying 600 france « : ; course’ of our coun history—it! in . even other I WF he . paying francs or i year could put off pay- simply meant that the heart of Amer- | against nd arlstocratic Aw though to prove her words, the | vt know whe men do think 1 am? , ment, while-tenants ng higher rents need pay only in proportioa!ioa was going out to the heart of; blacktnailers of ng clastes of voiuns of tho two sisters could be With engaged use they ‘do you want the fair it ee to their incomes a Hungary, the ui ung Germany and Austro-Hungary—-the tised digous- git 18 waren, honld of It Napoleon was J 2 Republic of Hohenzelierns, Junkers and Magyars. nore like 40 to de- much younger thap be looked when So far from leaving the landlord any chance to Pprofiteer, seady to a We ave sefiding over ou nquered rs OW) oth 218% itt wots Brom & hot ; he killed Cavsar,’ 7 . . Won, nN epublic and unconquera poldiers, the sol ne ason r ’ ady, you ow Neither one of the knaw “ the French policy secured at once all protection and advantage to |” Pydesem tai Ae eine fra eond fy 4 Apert Sage "You tried to take Harry Watue » be to Bl Neosleah Gat cited tie nen Ms ; 7 r struggling patriots tr f diers of the free, s cip male 19 strident PSALM neh Liaa Rll b 04 Napoleon had he old boy, so the tenant, reserving the landlord’s claims for later consideration , aerons the sea. others free, and be proof don’t want him, b Du thed 20k : Lf ig i . i 4 betting In here. | sure had it on them. They changed : | hat “hiat against all propag all hellish | steal Edgar Bullwinkle fro! "a Ma isp ou had a y is taboot and, anyway, Ii the subject anc ye al and adjustment. Let us no longer say that ory Anne prot ‘ belli 4 oo he big fromm uinond and pretended { TOs tanta unaaae? 3 a os fp 08 I went about my Ss A ; : i : ; never repe ttself.” It is a false- | trlokery and atr and a the other was heard to say, "As for an dpi or 3 ha eens rk of dealing out the polson to urely Americans are not going to view the profiteering land-| joo, History does wit itself, Ip) and falterings, until they sha that lavaihere, {t's 1 the cen pins from coll iy een ponceommashe the victims. In all my ten years as ‘ ‘ . “the brave Britons and the! stone was de from a topaz that BA AE oe 1, if you must have my ideas! wattres, eS Pe bey lord as a war evil beyond their power to tackle, {ts repeating right now mee WAY Mir A TAs Stank Wan Nee 2a ail a summer, pretending you w er Matt tall ban Giiak hie coon’ thie place T never gw eee cies ; An was the case sixty-seven pears jous sons ¢ une beating | was in @ stickpin 1 took from Harry | 20 “wraps ° bject’ 1 tell ner, ‘I think Pewo such tdiotc women. Imagine, City of New York may ave to regulate rents, thinks ago, M ary ts to-day pronouncedly soy) the « een nu ny ¢ son baa Watt i u ton him, the! G's wtris!” exclatr Mrs. Jarr, > rty ve Peart ere Aah en one’s age! Why? What's \ provides i 1, though long dead in the flesh, ts spire [establishment of un aid ime ated a ¥ when! otis evening. If you both try to have| ou te: ‘Tyo ae oul WON say if 2 aakad ch provides that for tho jiuany alive right now as he nover | Pacy I wanted Harey ay both young men it wil only make the, ‘What Impudencet* says the first | vou your, age?” came trom the f } t e are ring, Ke 1e and not go stro ne ‘ kno on't look ove! rene atron, of the inhabitants of a was before ; Werar ning, I me and not g creatures valu, and will do no guod eeu mua 1888 aii {iid tell you I'm just twenty youre and license OCCUPA ‘o-day we may say, as our f en pid abana No, be advised by me. And Gladys, | Ay : EM GIgde ena TIONS and BUSINESS! d 0 enthusiastically in 1si,| mes three : don't take advantage of your alster,| | “'t don't linow what you look over, | “How long did you may you've been f ing acros ‘ a reap ays; ‘but you certainly over-look king here : " . ran ie i “Kossuth is here! Kossut taal | : Don't ur ye engagement: rin ‘tetir | “Walt @ ainute!” said Lue “ What is the figuring, fixing, refixing and collecting of apart=| jer not in bey, as he was then, but | Demeen the New W Glidys, Cr If you do, I'l lend my | about a dozen years. Now, don't stir rorgot an order of bean soup setting ment house rents, as practiced in New York, if it isn’t an occupa- in the far more powerful and etfec- | S°MMDs ar engagement ring to Irer Young;¥p & confusion, You told mo to go! on tho shelf back there,” tion or business? tive way, in epirit and power, in the | Press™” te make Hui girls should be guilleless and not | ahead and barl And then sho left for the kitchen. - - - — ight of his soul, in the unconquer- | * ee gta tricky . % F as free as the great repub| Mr shuddered again, But N . able truth of his prine!pte ‘ gue UNS ationa ower stem Pro > g go well tare they fight! ; Letters From the People ata gus MCAMAEY la ta a tes | em 2 has are, they Aeht poss aan uned te y’ 5 pose agal ssuth tri cecal Roast : Gumm was a dentist. As for young ‘ Rent Matsed in Thirty Minutes, ; eit ment. Once again Kyssuth's spirit is | a o ee OSH wa FE All G B To the Hsin of The Bvening World ve rooms. On telling him that| maxing the dry bones of her divine-| Grape Seeds a Source of| ey come out Mr. Bullwis ie other expected or reat Britain At last we have some one to bring | $34, wh : Vas Gosh TRICE nt-mongers shake ra eS ey ;eas vi P is proposed to run all of the/extstence, the committee's engineers the question of the r h " answer us Hungary, flat f e sixteen districts, 7 Ine ung up in the “rent raising |#M4 Walked awa Austria, eave ALCULATIONS that are of spe-| & Into the boude Fo Gumm pull ¢ of teeth to. Britain by electricity obtained istricts, each with one or ¢ ie dee: Bo id . f such expertences ie wit Cc lal interest in view of the| Two siste ting In that n cape the draft : from vast power sy It 1a] power in the ee en oush to produce ‘ [that Ihave been through white lool ote a hortuge ve| “Well, ict i \ ; { fa in the most economical fash« ’ the 13th tr Iling f partin A atk temeceann | Bae F the 2 morta s 4 “ v eS ® face plan involves far more than : : eee becn Sina QUITE Lory ng of centralization of existing Do i 1 iq ¥ e In ne rimost under one nagement | o ¥ re Mast Serer cg ns and d make po 7 e ; ! } by the cob of republi y J oject is at ne f the co: Jew keep t pelted | net ve ge m 4 ving very output to ten or even twenty . 1 A m ‘ ' Meela ure and mes what it 18 to-day, It te de " i 4 nblifiwly up Hual thro y “6 means of ableat Tie proposal is clared that by first turning the con rec 1, 4 rived th Mungarta , contain t by & sub-com-| into clectricity and then employing the ihind | HAAR TOBURO |» ty § y i Ai nittee on recon-|the latter to run the factories, the bdadacd 4 A : Ait ° » War, Popular Me-|country could save about three I ner mont ene OF FEU aap rch document states| fourths of the present coa n ast ter eat erp ae or inake 4 r by | Att \ eaped down 50 per cent, tn the} ton oa) consump- b haat fenan ; you lava ata . ff thom tc griey the hou swer to the consumer and| One way, manufacturers and, to ° 4 See yr llllgeeyad bathe @ alwa: old lady, astounded mmense >#] Would be| meot present demands for higher pay the jandlord, who told us that we witi|the public benef weiss Kk naking us at viatt, |e 9 rag exclaimed made by t : [is by ‘using more mechanical powe, rt 1 aking u sit ' ? po ee ete ee ey sige ‘ el « net hin ‘the. 5 nan must place of some 600 nower com-|and this, of course, would be entirety itis. stead eV ENING WORLD KLADLR bi yuenly & ould, Was (he greati tous of r au ve De klarper'> panies and f | plante now ini practical if electricity were cheaper. 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