The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1918, Page 14

TUESDAY, JULY 1 6, 1918 Modern Engines of War 3 Thirty-five Years Ago “Jules Verne of Caricature,’’ A. Robida of Paris, in 1883 | he Wrote and Illustrated an Article on ‘War in the Twen- tieth Century,”’ in Which He Fantastically Prophesied, | by Descriptions and Pictures— Armored Dirigibles and Aircraft. s just come to your library table and clamped under the porcelain pug dog. In one, “La Caricature” of Paris, written and published by A. Robida and {llus- trated by the same hand, you read an article entitled “War in the Twen- : Rolling Fortresses (modern tanks). i Submarines and Floating Mines. i The Use of Gas and Liquid Fire. + Cannon Mounted on Railway Cars. | | Night Aerial Raid on a City. | i Anti-Aircraft and Machine Guns. | ' Hd T* year was 1883, when Arthur was President. You were tilled back . ‘a in your easy chair under the old student lamp and were skimming | through a collection of Kuropean illustrated magazine ed * B teth Century.” £ You read it through, gazed amusedly at the extravagant illustrations > @ and then had a hearty laugh, | & “These Frenchmen,” you chuckled across the table to your lady wife; 4 “these Frenchmen ought to have their imaginations amputated. Listen ‘ ‘This writer talks of men fighting from flying machines; shooting liquid fire at one another; poisoning each other in battle with deadly gases, and H R laying explosives on the bottom of the ocean from submarines just like ; ie Jules Verne's Captain Nemo.” i ? Then you passed over the magazine for the missis to look at the : et iMustrations. There were displayed strange moving fortresses from whose cannon fire spat; guns mounted on high buildings and shooting upward at soldiers in flying machines; other soldiers wearing something re- sembling dogs’ muzzles over their mouths to protect themselves against thé rolling clouds of deadly gas. A wild fantasy of a crazy Frenchman! | You who read all this bizarre stuff in 1883 know now—in 1918—that A Robida, whom you set down as a “erazy Frenchman” thirty-five years ‘agv, really made one of the most re- markable prophecies of modern times. | In comparison with this unknown| author and cartoonist, Jules Verne, | who wrote weird romances about fly- | ing machines and undersea boats in the same decade, was a mere novice in fights of fancy. The magasino | “The New France" for June has set} this obscure prophet on the higa pedestal reserved by him by repro- | ducing from his “La Caricature” the| text and illustrations of his article, | “War in the Twentieth Century.” Remember that in 1883 the only way man had to lift himself from thy earth was by the harmless and al- most helpless gas balloon, The sub- rmrine in primitive form had been tried by the Confederates in the Civil ‘War, found to be a trap more dan- gerous to ite navigators than to the enemy, and definitely abondoned. “Darius Green and his flying ma chine” was the only known aviator, | and he existed only in the popular} poem. Rifled cannon had been tn- | troduced by the Franco-Prussian War and did not have one-tenth the range of the present seventy-five CIty BY N BOMBARDMENT OF mile monster cannon bombarding Paris. Floating mines and torpedoes operated by electricity were un- known, as was gas as an offensive ‘weapon, Liquid fire in warfare was forgotten as a primitive weapon of French Artist's Prophecy |_¥ . Robida’s Prophetic War Pictures DRAWN IN 1883 AS A FANTASY OF THE IMAGINATION, TO-DAi THEY STARTLINGLY TRUE FORECASTS OF MODERN WARFARE, Reprinted by special permission from the June number of “The New France.” ROLLING FORTRESSES (ANCESTORS OF TANKS) \GHT RBATTILE BETWEEN ROLLING BLOCK: i di HOUSES AND AERIAL FLEET MACHINE | GUAS TO ROUT FLOATING MINES AND ARE REVEALED AS| TUESDAY JULY 16, 1918 For the cate Costumes Someti The second of a serics of three readers by the DON'T wish te belittle the importa must be beautiful, attractive, we carefully onc Ir feathers and trimming are so easily plans them, a grea | for dress recognized and imitation ones ca not take their place. has a handsome ermine coat or chin | chilla scarf, &c., it ia quite excusable to use them in moro than one pic- ture, if necessary. disappointing on the screen because | it is so close lying a fur, but I was delighted in one of my pictures to my own photographed. Fox is also | | very attractive in the pictures, be- cause it is soft and long and graceful I feel apt to neglect the dressing of their feet in pictures, feeling that slippers will photograph alike though soiled and worn, they will not be no: Nowhere most actresses are most and, ticeab This is wrong GAS ATTACKS ENEMY AIRPLANES SUBMARINES ‘mediaeval warfare, Yet in his story of a supposititious war between Australia and Mozam- bique this A. Robida cited the use of ‘ome how war commercial in the Christian era “La the dized Indo of the rivalry. will twentieth eycle all of these engines, now be fa miliarly dreadful to us of to He pictured by pen and pencil the com industry of a nation Jeopar because some other nation Witness this uncanny forecast of seitied at the end of the war,” bat of rolling fortresses—tanks, we|Nearby or secret, possesses the secret , ras ", : , 7 Neri poet call them—the bombardment of alot producing things more cheaply? Absoposalutely Unofficial and Compiled by the Non-Essential Experts— Wearing e -air| A war will break out to decide who| pines 1 re eo, sip ns A mar Mt plese ty Hpoter-then-al beget bey Neckties Under Whiskers, a Ten-Dollar Band on a Nickel Cigar, Umbrel- enemy aircraft (Zeppelins); tele-|shall have the market, by the de- graphic communication between Airistinn of industrial conten of the las for Your Goldfish, Sending Celluloid Collars to the Laundry and Qeroplanes and the ground, and| vanquished nation or by a good ‘ " : ri . ‘ 7 heavy guns mounted on railroad|treaty imposed by the blows of (or-| Trying to Smile as Sarcastically as Your Mother-in-Law—All Are Non- fiat cars. p | ”, . \ Hip pencil made prophecies even| Tere ts an tncitent tn the “Battle | Essential. : T of Zumbo" ich reads para e Ad f geore startling than hix pen, Tho|f Zumbo" wh 48 like a paca-| BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. } 2 “rolling | Staph from an official communique . . > ” | anil he eee caer stay lashes | Copyright, 1918, by The Prom Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World) zapp to his velvet-lined lair, the following list of non-essential bric- } sketch of a tank inaction, ‘The same| “The entire army was forced tc HE Government non-easer xperts aro gyrating after the non a-brac is published absolutely without the permission of the Gov- { may be said of his pictured subma-|Put on its gas masks, with stra essentials like the soup hounds buzzing a Eliza in “Uncle ernment. rine, and especially of his illustra cross the mouth and soaked with a Thomas's Buggalow,” And the birds who figure that non-essen- You had better follow this list or the lst will follow you. The ton of an anti-aircraft gun; both | cHumictl solution, in order mot to be! tals are essential are flapping toward the non-essential expert shelters first official tabulation of non-essentials included lorgnettes for steve cau the rinsinis af tee iwen Which the Governee ed ti eee et | ‘The goof who thinks that non-essentlals are necessary 1s a queer brand dores, flea circuses, bass drum solos and gold collar buttons for the ele exect form, hemists have succeeded in produc of fish, He is born with a silver soup ladle in his mouth, He cuts his bac 2b BUEN exh re nobody ever saw them, dent that nict sjing. The Australian bombardment} teeth ¢ er platte » loses 8 tec > e same ry 5 ‘ : Ree Kunal a and|had weakened considerably; our wa OH MAILNGE /PIAMIER Ans OF nin ‘tear on the peme siirer Speedometers on broken-arched flivvers. i Loved pene reetevnisus ihe. clever (hiaek sd penetrated ihe. Qnetaste utensil, He doesn't mind suffering for his country as long as he can Having two claims to exemptions when one {s enough ee Sere Spears aeecine with fon,” | suffer luxurtou: Hand engraved business cards for plumbers’ apprentices, allegory his vision of the inevitaile| Or take this excerpt telling of the He is willing to suffer along on three oblong meals a day and to Shampooing a toupee > confiict between France and her|Misfortunes of a neutral, which have! starve in between each nose-bag. He wears half-soled ehoes in a ten Birdseed for the cuckoo in your Swiss clock , hereditary enemy across the Rhine.|been duplicated over Holland and| loa hide : . Asking a Home Guard whether he would rather guard a reservoir < ‘As a diplomatic ecer he proved him- | Switzerland during the present world | thousand ducat Rolls-Ford, showing that his heart ts in the right place or a brewery, 4 gel no less exact than as a prophet | War? | even if his feet are in wror He 1s willing to run all the risks of Running a benefit to buy goose grease to put a polish on the olly of the machinery of twentieth cen In modern warfare neutral na modern warfare and ain't afraic of getting bald headed from pulling heads of tango lizards and cotillon leaders. M tions often have a chance to assist bel tury sorabat, For ‘he bat the are A roa taunt pore ieerieaal silk § on over bis head. Being in the trenches won't annoy him, Wearing both suspenders and a belt, gremsor in his hypothetical stragsic) =” Ui * : Pidrnceng Fnlahty ela ; A timetable on the Erle, y Pe expe 8 Mozambican balloon provided they have night elevator service and upholster dum i deliberately un @ neighbor na-|* rer 4 gay ye of wrth ese “| : ik Bacletares ad Having the tailor put a double seat in your trousers because you ‘ fon at a rari eetuhenien Wes “loatie oruisne balloons causnt up| WANE . : ; are afraid you will wear ‘em out from sitting down in the subway. small neutral country Te ena bites deal aed anal MI ri can get along without the necessities, because he 1s Mudguards on a sewing machine. ere oer coulral even ai ve ¥, [Seville Spain, ‘The fight was severe hardened to luxuries and Js used to hard knocks in limousines. He can Pockets in a married man's clothes. 2 anticipatory promise from tho i anks to the terrible gas torpedovs | eamp ont in @ Pullman or rough it in @ dining car, And when the Getting an outdoor license for an auto that won't run anywhere . aughty Australians of re ion |erutaing hale were completely | Bon-essenttal experts flat-wheel on his trail he will disguise himself bial in the enn Aires tsich ah Gan for their sovercign rights if they @ill|lost. Two churches, twenty-flve| ty clipping the tails off his t se bi e : Shoe trees for a bird with only one palr of shoes, i permit an army to pass through their|!ouses and about 300 inhabitants ot] a un ne ng ails off his two-pronged full-dress suit and brushing Dictaphones in a boiler factory, ‘ | Seville injured seriously in the bom -his silk hat the other way. cturing glass eye: ists 6 ) + wertitory. |bardment; naturally, damaves wil be | Manufacturing glass eyes for taxidermists to put In stuffed pug While the nonessential experts are tracking the non-essential | dogs, | ‘Reoalleat Portraits in the Worl Dressing and Acting By Mrs. Vernon Castle Large Wardrobe Demanded by Picture Work, Dupli- Clothes Must Be Attractive, Well Fitting and Becoming. most copied of any living woman in the matter of dress. the matter of smart hats one cannot economize, because real ‘a The same may | be said of furs, and, therefore, if one | Ermine is a little | see how well a little sable coat of | Camera mes Being Necessary— articles written for Evening World nee of clothes in picture work. They ll fitting and becoming, and however t proportion of one’s salary must go in the world is it so important to have your slippers or shoes fresh and tidy as in the movies. If they are stretched, old and soiled in ap- pearance, they will make your feet very ugly and spoil the appearance of the re I change lippers and stockings with every 1 think ft is new and attractiv ras a change of | hats. Though the color may be lost, the general outline will not be, and it seems only fair, in giving the audi- p of dress in the various scenes, to carry it out in every detafl, and I think that if in pictures would the feet, they with me that it is nota t of your costume. my change of dress, because just as interesting tc footwe ence ach however small, those who work watch particularly would agr small detail As pictures backward ng scene @ often made you have a drown+ end of picture are very and if you may very easily be asked to do t first, it e and almost neces ary to have an exact duplicate of whatever dress you may be using In his scene, ‘They often shrink and are hard to press out and make fresh looking again, and therefore you may not be able to match up the early scenes of your picture with the one just before you fell or leaped into the water. Last summer after doing some water scenes I had one little. dress of cotton that shrank almost to my knees, and another one, also of a little plaid de- sign running through it, that “ran” so terrifically that was almost a id color by the time I got through “drowning” in it riglit, 1018 Pe} cotton cloth, with Syndivate, Ine) Three Grouped in Section of Glass Rod Only One-Eighth of HAT is believed to be the sma exhibited in the National Mus: W arranged in the form of a clo frame about one-cighth of an inch in Emmanuel, Giuseppe Garibaldi and Jacopo Franchini, a skilful glassworker {in Murano, Italy, near Venice, who lived in the part of the nine teenth century and worked so hard at his that na madhouse, | strange craft The nted here fi om Pop- Monthly greatly enlarged. The original is the minute and hows the shown gr thumb between forefinger. The p aits are of glass and really rep- resent a cross section of a mosaic rod of glass. Fr method of making these min traits was highly ingenious. n by making a mosaic of t portraits, each in its in frame, and the whole s a mon circular f The mosale wa formed of solid glass of the desire color. After the mosaic was com pleted, the cylindrical composite rod was welded by heat and then drawn out, As the rod was drawn out it an Inch in Diameter by Skilled Italian Glass- worker of a Century Ago. Nest group of portraits in the world ts eum in Washington, The portraits are ver leaf and are inclosed in a circular diameter, They represent King Victor Count Cavour and are the work of diameter and the diam- Al sticks ™ cole ass of w was composed shed in ion, As the drawing out was refully, the $s of the sticks forming the Y 1 in th 1 could not be avoid d, as may Nustration, be noticed Never- ts obtained were exe | traordinary,