The evening world. Newspaper, July 8, 1918, Page 14

Se ee tie Sete a a <p tt Oe reese BSTABLISIIED BY JOSEP Published Daily Except Sunaay by the Press re o3 bark Row, New EDITGRI J AL PAGE uly 8, 1918 PH PULITZE™. Publishing Company, Nov. 63 te York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Tow. r, 63 Park Kot J. @NGUS BHAW, ‘Treasure: we. sosbt PULITY IR, Ir., Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Prem ia excasicely mt SRS eles etd the for recrabit 10 Sodttieo the local news published, ication of all CyB - sauee VOLUME 5 reeevives (yds NO. 20,775 TO ITS SOLDIER-MAYOR. ‘ HEY also bravely serve who, Lurrying forward to battle, meet death behind the lines. John Purroy Mitchel—noi when he ceased to be Mayor of New York—putting aside the certainty of further civil success and honor, chose to fight, and speedily found himself in the most daring and dange’ military eervice. In that service, with the same energy he brought to the tusk of city administration, he eagerly mastered the difficulties and met the risks that put him on the ghortest road there. He would have js act, dauntless, without fear. In the toll of life which it exacts, the aviation trai took him before his hope could be realiz fighting spirit behind could find their pla None the less is this great city proud of him, proud of his death as the death of a soldier pushing to the front, proud of his career and of his choice as examples to young Ame To the qualities he displayed as chief municipal executive—to the tireless energy, the initiative, the fearlessness that marked his notable administration—tribute will not The circumstances of his death, however, in rendering him the last sorrowful honors, will think of him first of ali with a tender pride and affection as valiantly set forth against the enemy strength and hope fell before he reached That there may be permanent expression of such feeling worthy of the community which owed him much, The Evening World joins} The World in urging that the people of memorial to Mayor Mitchel. Whether the memorial takes tle form of a statue or other form| agreed upon after due consideration by a should be paid for by popular subscription. "The Evening World is ready to receive contributions, however small, (o be applied to this end. ‘ In the widest sense, this memorial in which all New Yorkers hold the memory of John Purroy Mitcliet. nn) Oe Are the packers profiteers? The five big meat packing conc Federal Trade Commission in its recent report on war Profits have appointed themselves a committee of five to answer the above question, ade a great air fighter—quick to see and yet thirty-nine years of age rous branch of the Nation's to France. He longed to be J, before his skill and the! e in the battle line, | ricans in civil life. be | its young soldier-Mayor, who and in the fulness of his the front, New York provide a fitting! representative committee, it should stand for the honor erns denounced by the a F Each of the five has earnestly besought the other four to say whether or not they have been profiteering. is" unanimous and convincing—to the THE RALLYING ZECHO-SLOVAK activities in Sibe the argument that the presence Sibbria or Russia cannot help th The Czecho-Slovaks, who are fast getting contro! of the entire trans-Siberian Railway, are assuredly fi Allies. And no inconsiderable part of t said already to hail the Czecho-Slovaks from Bolshevist and Teutonic rule. It begins to look as if the Allies might find a rallying point for Rassian nationalism, us against Bolshevism and Germanism, provided by the Czecho-Slovaks, and as if nucleus could be safely introduced into dispelled by plain facts, One thing is certain. eating its way further and further into hesitate und wonder ‘orcibly to interfere, is intolerable from and Vienna. Nussia has needed a rallying point elements and put a strong force im action ag: ences. Here are the Czecho-Slovaks su 5 pt 1 tor he sly of appreciative ad- | with what looks to be success \to all her needs, luxuries, supe: y eee ere | sae Ps} " ae ad Jou Hied milit ; es. As the shell fish for whig I and ado ance! ever Would an Allied military expedition into Siberia and Russia bo| ot, ee eee ee ct eren My, {at the service of gratified man fewer risk than a nolic fat laa sias ; : 183d De} have named he: adberes to Do you th fi 0 a bigger risk than a policy which leaves the march of German dominy-| protective rock, so the human limpet haat ae Leo i fags hard upon tion unopposed by anything stronger than moral pressure exerted fixes her velvety, tenacious gr hence een a - eeling that the the Russians, thereby making it bl CG OF! pon that male to whom a oes more damage than the A : hy ng 1 possible for Germany to dig deeper] brought nearest by the breakers of | Y@MPire. F tter, at least, carries into Russian resources and 40 prolong the war? | Brought pees a danger signal ay obvious as a circumstance, sandwich bourd, And, graapin —-4+2-—_____. 1 once heard her point of view ad- rtbeidshiahd The assassination of the German ans, as Kerensky views the s' will now surely march on the Bol Maybe the presence of a German army in Moscow will help to galvanize what is left of R determination that Russia shall not The sight of German autocracy steadily The answer five, POINT? ria uppear to be demolishing] | of Allied military forces in e Allied cause, sigh ighting on the side of the! he population of Siberia are| as rescuers of the country already) Allied fears that no military Russia or Siberia would be! precision with | “finis to a lov mortems, Russia, while Allied nations any side save that of Berlin xX T least once in every man’s life he succumbs to the hire of the lovely limpet. Very surrender catches hin bound from bis ro- Sweeth _By Marguerite Mooers Marshall | AMS, ty The Proms Publiahing Co, (The New York Evening World, 5.—The Lovely Limpet that the ruling passion of the ‘adult limpet. Behind her pleasant Prattle of “the things I can do with tho| ™Y Chafing dish” and “1 just love Ifttle babies—I always smile at them |in the’ subway,” lurks the crude, in- sistent query: “Is this mine, and bow much is he good for?” often on the re catia a) Limpets are lying around every- Scheme he ute, | Were, but @ young man usually elects mately dismisses as one to the office of sweetheart when, dangerous ana|'® 2 certain social circle, he grows heartloss x week or| Ure Of boarding-houses, or, in other perhaps a montb|S¥Toundings, he gets “fed up" with - (1 for. |" club. Vaguely he feels tt would | be nice to have some ma after she has dismissed him. got to mention that one of her most admirable characteristle. soft, human | thing around him, who would pick up | is the deft vhich she writes ee Ms gene ments regarding his dinner. — | no shedding withered rose leaf, for her!) ‘The limpet, however, is the natural whether their principles will permit them|*weetheart for applying salve to the “).| Wounds inflicted by the widow. » typical limpet sweetheart is a young person with soft curves, which, | after slothiul years of matrimony, are likely to turn into blurry bulges. She is not radiantly beautiful. She makes no intellectual demands upon the at- | tears over a i might be said that ihe de nerireck tention. Her attraction seems to lie | that would the imps is salve tite te pee in a certain tepid sweetness of man- | hat would gttract its better| adhesive salve of unlimited flattery: | ner x5 tong as her personal com- | Hepes : er iel| Vimpet'a mixsion in life 8 to MN Lire iy nat manacndennd eeearel| fi sermauizing inf!u-| ister to the egoism of man—any 1 Li ie er vd fund. ry day is “dough day” with | pplying the need in Siber | mirably expres Ambas y be ruled from Berlin Hits From ey Many a That soon look “Watch on lke Rhine” the the of will one dollar | curry undertakes Out his ideas ¢ takes to discovers when jt | ty with the mainspring ge- # too late that he is a victim o varie y ne mainspring ge-bust. | Oty Pennies i tim of mis | Philadelphia Inquirer, nag Ft nimself,—Chi ing of rings inauirer cago News i Ver only on Perhaps te meanest mar is the! pyey . . ves 0 ba prey three SY men Ussing 1 one who goes into bankruptey three |topics, “Who Our feporine awarded by weeks after his son-in-law married thor?” as manicure name. Brom ¢ for money.—Toiedo Blade, |replied the chiropodist.-Philadel phi ‘or 0 pelle t.—-Philadel phia It's easier to forg’ ou enemy | . 8 6 when you've got ila dowt.—Ling-| It's hard to Believe « woman Bamton tress such a Heartbreaker as ante e you Look over tie athe: Things cent be Line or roricn while summer sun cD sine, aud the | cotton, and a Mi the « ‘ehildren.—Binghamton Pices, ee Triage isn't a jottery, f draws a blank in re eget thats Ad vf Me—Ciwago Nove, Eran, th republic, as well as in order to induce him to mini ed by @ frank young ador at Moscow |woman of ten, “I want to be mars} uo, Whereas, in the names of Wifely tion, that the Germans ried when T grow up.” sald this little | Virtuo and Womanly Dependence, the hevik capital, girl, that 1 shall have somebody | mpot will strangle with her smooth aan to give me ies of dresses and take! cinging fing a man ussian patriotism into a me to all the dances. honor, self-r aspiration, ro- Camouflaged by simple and touch- |ing conversation about dom Finger Rings’ Once Mark of Nobility HE Romans had many regulations) perors, many other cl ab and customs governing the wear- ‘The iron ring, the originally, was at first garded as a mark of individual honor, the sovereign or in earliest time of the Roman republic a Senator sent on aa embassy received a gold ring, all o Senators being restricted to iron ones. Soon, however, Senators of noble birt! and jater on all Senators without dis tinction, enjoyed the right of wearing «In the third century 13. \ tended eat later years though she be, she has some clement- | ary notion of the meaning of quid pro mance, and give cities, even a scarlet hour m in return not merely the ines- were made eligit that before long some of ‘the freedmen and certain of those pur- re-| suing the least reputable vocations Were permitted th nt of a his| distinction once so jealously guarded. | Toward the latter part of the third century D. all Koman soldiers 6 gold rings, al- her | though in the publican and early imperial per this right was ac- earts of Yours has of |!ng over t | nelles, timable privilege of making money | for her. The limpet sweetheart is the woman of whom a man's friends say, between wonder and pity, “What did he ever see in her?” Nevertheless, you, Mr. Average Young Man, are her predestined vic- tim, simply because you are sure to meet her—one of per—at the psycho- logical moment when the chime of wedding bells is ringing in your ears, and the glamorous light of the honeymoon 1s silvering your dreams. Your one chance of rescue lies outside yourself, in the coming of the ‘True Romance, the right girl, the Gir! Who Marries You. | pose with her lace bandkerchief and remarked: ‘Did not know it? Yet the poet says, ‘Where ignoragge 1s bliss ‘tis folly to be wise!" “Oh, you mustn't say Mrs. Jarr ts ignorant, C’rra,” said Mra, Stryver, who wasn’t very familiar with fam\- liar quotations. “Mrs ris a dear little thing, educated well, and fine brung up.” Mrs. Stryver bad gotten |rich quickly, but cultured very slowly ihe lar Coorrtaht, 1918. by Te Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wor? RS. JARR had not been well Mien her friends came bearing gifts. “How sweet o. you to bring me this beautiful lace shaw!” said Mrs. Jurr to Mrs. Stryver. “And you, my dear Clara, to be so thoughtful ax to bring me roses when you know hew I love them!" This last was addressed to Mrs. Mudridge Smith. Then Mrs. Jarr said, as though including both visitors: “You make me so happy! I did not know I had spch loving friends!” Mrs. Mudridge Smitg dabied her Who Is Your Namesake? , the Same Given his laundry and take over all ar-|/amous Characters i History and Fiction Who Have Borne Name as Yours By Mary Ethel McAuley HELEN AINT HELEN was a woman of S humble origin and the daughter of an inn-keeper, + Her national- ity is not known, but she became a Christian in the third century. Jer son was Constantine the Great. Helen of Troy was one of the most beautiful women that ever lived. She was the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, but was carried away by her ver, Paris, son of the king of Troy This brought on the Trojan War. Another Helen’ of mythology was the sister of Phryxus, She and her brother were obliged to leave their native country on account of the cruelty of their stepmother. ‘They | fled, mounted on a Winged ram with a golden fleece, When they were pass- | » strait now called Darda- Helen became giddy and fell into the water and was drowned, This | part of the strait was then called the Hellespont, or Straits of Helen. Helen Hunt Jackson, an American author, wrote “Romona.” She was born in Massachusetts, and became a contributor for magazines under the name of “H. H." She was appointed a special United States Commissioner to examine the condition of the Cali- fornia Indians, and engaged in that occupation until her death, | Helena Modjeska is the famous} Polish actress, She was born at Cra- cow, and at an early age went on the corded only to the military tribunes. ‘Thus, finally, all class di. tions in this respect were done away with, Every free-born man could wear a gold ring, freemen with a few excep- to the of the the Am-lof slavery. tions were confined to silv; jstage, joining a company of strolling jplayers, She married a man named | ModJeska, but he soon died and she married a man named Chiapowski, a Polish patriot, It was after this mar- giage that she became 4 great favor- Ce; yrigbt, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), ite at Warsaw. In 1876 she and her husband emigrated to America. Helena immediately began her study of English, and as soon as she could speak well enough went on the stage. Helen Mitchell, or Melba, as she !s Ki one cf our gr singers. She was born in Australia at Melbourne, from which she got the name Melba, but most of her time has been spent !n America, and here the most of her triumphs were achieved Helen Zimmern, a writer, born at Hamburg, moved to England, where she became a British subject. Helen Keller is the famous blind, deaf and dumb girl who has done so many wonderful things. Helen Gould ts another famous Helen, She has don much good with the great fortune that is hers, Helen Taft is the daughter of ex-President Taft. “Helen's Babies" is the name of a book for children, and “Sister Helen’ is the 1.ume of a poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, based upon an old legend that when a person melts a waxen image of any one, that person dies, The first line of the poem runs, “Why did you melt your waxen man, Sister Hele’ One of Poe's most beautiful poems was written to Helen: “1 saw thee once—once only—years KO} I must not say bow many—but not many, It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitant pathway through the heavens, “Clad all in white, upon a violet banik w thee half yeclining; while the moon the upturngd faces of the OW, upturnedy—alas up 1 1 ane rt | By Helen Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishsi Sayings of Mrs. Solomon Rowland ing Co, (The New York Kee World “There Be Seven Hundred Ways in Which Any Husband May Spoil Any Anniversary—Though on All Other Days He May Be Milder Than an Angel, Yet Upon That ° Day Will He Elect to Start Something" 'Y Daughter, art thou a woman who delighteth in ANNIVERSARIES and rejoiceth to.celebrate them? FORGET it! Then, I charge thee, put this temptation away from thee and For it is written in the Book of Fate that no woman slall ever ex- liveth to SPOIL 1 of Memory. But tract any joy from an “auniversary” so long as a maa Lo, unto a woman an anniversary 1s a day of sentiment and rosemary—an immortelie in the Garden unto a man It is as a fence unto @ colt—merely something to be “gotten over’! Behold, there be seven hundred ways ANY husband may spoil any anniversary And these are some of them: in which He may forget it altogether. He may stop at the corner cafe to “celebrate” it and not reach either thee or his home until the following day. He may stop at the florist’s and | | roses delivered unto thee—and forget to tell the clerk NOT to inclose the bill therewith. He may purchase tickets for th order garlands prepared for thee and e opera and dutifully don bis dress- | clothes in thine honor—and then doze peacefully beside thee throughout the whole evening. start a quarrel with the waiter which He may prepare a feast for thee at a gilded restaurant—and then shall last from the soup to the coffee. He may take thee forth unto the woods and the green fields for the | sweet and simple Ife—and then partake of tue basket luncheon until he |is overcome with indigestion and grouches. He may lead thee down by the sounding sea—and then spend the | entire day “sizing up” the OTHER women on the beach. Verily, verily, though on all other days he may be milder than an angel and sweeter than honey, yet upon THAT particular day will he el | to start something! Yet chide him not, neither doubt his love therefor. as ‘a woman learning to drive a motor car. Though he strive with all his ght and main to keep to the smooth ways, if there be ONE ‘mt road or one post in the path he will Therefore, I charge thee, if thou For, alas! he Is 7 rock in the smash into it! MUST celebrate, go up alone into the attic and read over thine old love letters; bid the florist to send thee flow- ers and order thyself bonbons from the confectioner's. But let not thy lips mention the fatal word “anniversary” unto thy BELOVED. And, peradventure, he MAY be pleasant and tender all the day long—even as usual! For unto a woman an anniversary ls a sacred altar in the Hall of Memory before which she offereth up incense and song. But unto a man it is as @ funeral, a wedding or a politica! banquet— all 0! all his PERVERSITY! Selah. mental qualities. | “Oh, ignorance being bliss is only |what the poet says,” explained Mrs. | Mudridge Smith. | “No poet has got the right to talk that way about nobody, Stryver. “My husband nircd a poet to write advertisements for Stryver's Medicated Mush, when Stryver was in the pure health food business in Chi- ‘cago, before the National Board of |Health stopped him, and that poet [used to come to the house sometimes, iy always at meal time, and we caught him stealing the soup” | “Stealing the soup?” repeated Mrs. {the gifts brought her. "Yes," suid Mrs. Stryver: ‘he bad @ |rubber raincoat, and he would never Jtake it off when he called at the | house, not even when he'd sit at the |table without being asked. He told lus he never took off his overcoat or | raincoat when visiting because he had stolen once while he was | guest of a stockyard millionaire | “Anyway, he said many made men ate in their shirtsiveven | that he, for one, wouldn't even take off Of course, this wasn't use Stryver never | his overcoat, pant personal, bec te in his Shirtsleeves when we had ompany, Stryver was always neat at his meals, tucking his napkin in his collar and never getting a spot on | hig vest or shirtfront.” “But how did the poct steal soup?" asked Mrs, Jarr, The assistant bearer of gifts, Mrs, Mudridge Smith, bent eagerly for- ward to hear this intimate chit-chat notables, “He'd knock something on the floor with his elbow and jump and say how |sorry he was atd how awkward he | was, and while all eyes were on the |butter or cream or sugar spilled on | the rug he'd fill the rubber pocket of his raincoat with soup with a little pump and tube he carried, “Of course, be cried when Stryver caught him, and said he had a family and they was all soup fiends, and he seldom got a chance to bring them home meat or soup except ‘when he come to our house, because the only places he «ot invited to to read the She recognized Mrs. Jarr’s superior | reptied Mrs. | Jarr, forgetting her indisposition and | the| of eocentricitivs of Chicago literary | ft which he hateth with all his heart and with all bis mind and with ardell poems he couldn't sell was afternoon teas, and his children had lived so long on tea biscuits, macaroons and lady fingers, and they were wild with delight when he brought them real ‘ood, like pork chops and vegetal soup from our house.” “Well,” said Mrs, Mudridge Sinith, a poet called at our house once and asked Mr, Smith for his autograph and filled out a money order on Afr, Smith's cashier on it, but we never had poets to dinner.” (“Don't you ever!" remarked Mrs. j Stryver. “It you watch them so they | don't get a chance to conceal food on their person they'll go away and write poetry about you.’ “I never heard the like!” exc! Mrs. Mudridge Smith, ee “Why, yes," said Mrs, Stryver, ex. citedly, “Didn't you remember in ths Dapers before the war, about an English poet going to a luncheon in England—the poet Lariat, if 1 remem- ber his name—there is a poct by that name in England, anyway, Well, this (Mr. Lariat, if it/was him, gct awful Mad because he wasn’t given more of the potted tongue on his sandwiches, “I think he asked for some more and his hostess, who was a minister's wity in the English Parliament (but the Paper didn’t say what denomination) wouldn't give him any r And bk. By Roy L. McC went right away and wrote a piece of poetry for the newspapers about her potted tongue." u that?” asked Mrs, “Why, I think it wa. said Mrs. Stryver, At this moment Mr, Jarr came tn and his presence put an end to Mra Stryver's discourse on the peculiarities of poets, but on being questioned, he waid it wasn't potted tongue. but sere » and the ladies aly agreed that handsome young army or navy officers were much more intercsting than poets, as dinner Buests, palatial FIRST AMERICAN KNIGHT, |THE first native American to be knighted by an English mone arch Sir William Pep. |perell, who was born in ittery, Me, jin 1696, His father was a Welshman who came to New apprentice to a your husband,” sland as ao erman, The son me a merchant and amassed a fortune, For thirty-two years cil of Massachusetts, and as Chieg Justice of the Common Pleas he won jeminence as a jurist. He knighted for his success as a leader of the expedition against -ulsburg, the French stronghold on Capo Bi ton, and afterward attuined the rank of Lieutenant Genera! in the British Army. was | he was a member of the foyal Coun. }