The evening world. Newspaper, July 19, 1918, Page 12

0 EE ne Saas. } t ip | ‘ SE ae 4 ESTABI 5 blished Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 te rem af : 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row, JOSEPH ¥ “ER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. —$<—<—< MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aapoetated Pree is roy entitled to the mse for rent wale Rar not otherwise credited in this paper and elm the loca VOLU: te, arcane | | vevreeNO, 20,786 — THE FRANCO-AMERICAN ADVANCE. SMASH from five to eight miles deep into the German right A flank along a twenty-eight-mile front of the Rheims se2*or, twenty towns taken, 13.000 prisoners already counted, ‘American forces within a mile of Soissons and the great Allied @ounter-drive still sweeping on, with cavalry to increase its peed: | No more authoritative assurances from the military experts are needed to convince every one that the advance of Americans and} French between the Aisne and Marne is “the biggest Allied offensive, since April, 1917.” Started as a surprise attack, it has been developed with lightning- like rapidity into a movement of the first importance, with probable | far-reaching results. North of Chateau-Thierry the Germans, ‘tuned by the force of the onslaught, were routed at the point of the bayonet after only half an hour of terrific barrage fire from French and American artillery. ' The capture of upward of twelve towns and villages was only a forenoon’s work for the Americans. Along a twenty-five mile front, French and Americans have driven on, pressing back the flank of the German salient which extends toward Paris at a rate that must scon force the enemy to draw back from the Marne or run the risk of having his advance troops cut off. Moreover, the French have already reached a point where their) artillery can rake the German supply lines west of Rheims and de- molish German plans in the Rheims sector. Here, then, are all the signs of a Foch initiative of the first mag- nitude—a carefully worked out counter-stroke by which, turning} against the great German offensive at a moment when its point is| pushed ahead in a reach for Paris, the Allies can bring sudden and} terrible pressure to bear on the enemy’s flank, thereby at the very least paralyzing the German advance and forcing hurried retreat and realignment. The biggest force of Americans that has so far taken part in any action is giving a superb account of itself in the present msve- ment. The whole Nation thrills with pride at what its troops have done in the past four days and waits from hour to hour with breath- less interest for the next news of them. Best of all is bound to be the effect of the Foch initiative upon the morale of Allied peoples. For this move inspires new confidence that the Allied forces at the front are no longer seriously lacking in numbers, that they need| not of nocessity continue to deal with German offensives cautious! y} or in retreat, that Allied strength will soon be there sufficient and ready to seize any opportunity to strike quick and hard along the shortest road to victory. e I as it did long since with France and with Great Britain. Italy’s ground for complaint in this direction, the Globe’s Washington correspondent is informed, will shortly be removed by an agreement between the two Governments fixing the value of the Italian lira in American money at a level which will mean that Italy need not, as heretofore, purchase in this country at prices swelled 50 per cent. by exchange rates. Germany has taken good care that her financial influence in Switzerland and Spain should work as much harm as possible to Jtal- jan credit in those countries, All the more has Italy a right to expect from her allies such help as they can give her toward keeping her currency from being depreciated elsewhere, The United States showed regrettable hesitation and delay in furnishing Italy with coal and metals at a time when Italy’s need of these essentials to keep up her fighting power was extreme. Surely there need be no slowness on the part of the United States to take steps that will put an end to discrimination against Italy in a matter of such present economic moment to Italy or any other ally as international exchange. IN FAIRNESS TO ITALY. T HAS BEEN a just grievance of the Italian Government that the United States has not stabilized rates of exchange with Italy Hits From Sharp Wits The man who is his own worst] band tie poor have to pay for th enemy 18 misusing his best friend. | musle.— > aE at Sateace dentnat nuse Binghamton Press. ke AN the sympathy the under dog gets doesn’t make his position envia- ble.—Toledo Blade Never look a gift horse in the mouth or a wedding present in the price mark.—Philadelphia Record. eee ‘an trl? brave and save for your coun- ‘The man who grasps at all oppor-| {Ty's Food and show as years go tunities to Thake money sometimes | Where you stood.-—Milwaukee News. or on Many a man the world on fire his clearette.— with a brass Appeal the People | signed by his commanding officer,” If pays dearly for the privilege of let- ting g0.—Chicago New, 5 * lights nothing bat Memphis Commercial- When char! oes 0 Letters From Neo Mail From Home, To the Editor of The Evening World that is the case, why are ; ‘Observing the complaints published | Informed of this eo thar thee cong | fn your paper regarding soldiers’ |S€cure the necessary requisition? mail, | am at @ loss to know w nur But most of all the never-c ny | boys cannot get their let frow persion “Why don't you writ: or| howe. Only’ youterday we received «| LkBOW you are writing, but I have aia care’ fom wy vor of bl not received a word from home” ia| n ying he had not heard trom home fn @ long time, We have been sond- ing him iwo and three ie derful boys were forced to leave be- tters a week. | hind, It It seems crue! that a lad of his age, seems hard enough for a lad of his age, |fellow to leave his entire family @ home boy, cannot receive w ire ‘amily be» Boag dh g ceive word | hind, without being forced to endure | this separation without any word of The Evening World would render @| cheer or love from home. great service not on.’ to soldiers bi: | It is great to be a Slee to thelr anxious parents by using | wonderful to have ‘w dearly neice its influence to correct this poor mail brother Sighting for the U. B.A rt aervice. ANXIOUS FATHER. |it's mighty disheartening when’ you ites Abend the quiet | write continually and find that he re- th celves none of those letters. To the Biiter of The f A DAUGHTER OF AMERICA, ing Work’ | After reading a letter in The Bye- | ping World from “A Warrior's Sis- | T? the Faitor of The Brening W ter” I could not suppress my des.re| Why iw it my pon in to corroborate in part what she said. |not receive 1, too, have a brother fighting "Over |the ¢ There,” and, indeed, no sacrifice would ward to this? too great to make for him. 1 n. regukirl received several letters from him, beg- | letters ging for chocolates, tobacco and varl- | gets, Ous other dainties that would checr | weeks ago. Soldier Son Can't Mall. rance does mail from here? Can't vernment do anything in re We receive his mail and send him two or three y week, which he never sent him a cablegram four He just received it, May, neat ‘were he to yecaive. thum |money two months asc. He Bont | women. ho starts out to set | | \ |causing great anxiety to myself and) many other dear ones that our won- | seless War!” xen, By J.H. Cassel | By Helen And the moment I glanced “But, of cours ality!" “And ‘brilliant ance’ to take it.” But I SAID, me—What? No? “How sweet of “I call it VERY good! | And my Aunt Ruth said, “Well, if you don’t mind wasting “They make ANY woman look so that!” And my Brother said, “Humph! ‘Sali right! look like Maxine Eliott!” And my Sister said, “Well, it doesn't FLATTER you! that hat to have it taken in?” “I have your new picture! “And my cynical friend said, “Very pretty. nowadays! But HE sald, | “It's perfectly beautiful, Darling! would be beautiful! eyes! “when do I GET ONE FOR MY D! And yet. | There are people who continue to With its “sweet, frank atmospher In order to marry Somebody who talks like THAT! . Why Girls Marry Copyright, 1018, by The Proms Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘And Yet There Are People Who Wonder Why Girls Leave the Sweet, Frank Atmosphere of ““Home” in Order to Marry Somebody Who Flatters Them! HE other day My new photograph arrived. “Oh, dear! It doesn’t do me justice—not at ALL! and all that! aie “And, I suppose, it’s the best I can get, and I'll have “Don't you think it’s splendid! And my Mother said, It's exactly like you—as you are, now! “Of course, the chin isn’t pretty—but then your chin is GETTING that way. Why WON’T you stop eating potatoes!” Rowland at it I thought, e—they CAN'T photograph ‘person- coloring,’ and ‘expression,’ and ‘radi- Of course, it flatters you to say so!” “Oh! Been having your photograph taken again—in war-time? money!—— ut why will you wear those dreadful pearl earrings, my dear? ‘New Yorky’ and ‘actressy’—and all What did you EXPECT? Everybody can't For heaven's sake, why did you wear | And my Mental Science friend wrote me, A thousand thanks for the sweet thought that prompted you to send it! Life is beautiful, isn't it? “gweet thoughts will make you always lovelier!” It's wonderful what they can do with ‘retouching, Put your name on it, 80 I'll know who it is.” And so MUCH like you! “And of course any picture that was even the least little bit like you And this one has caught that wonderful light in your /ESK?" Wonder “why girls leave home,” e,” The Offi By Bide 66] SHE by the papers,” sald Pop- | ple, the Shipping Cler he wiped his eye-glasses, “that somebody has invented a concrete ship. Now who says a rock won't float?” is concrete rock?” asked Miss Tillie, the Blond Stenographer, fter a fashion it is.” “I'd like to see ‘em build one," sald Bobbie, the Office Boy. “Oh, you would, would you?” came from Miss Primm, Private Secretary to the Boss, She bad no use for Bobbie, “Sure!” he replied. them rock the boat.” “A very good joke, Bobbie, T should say,” came from Spooner, the mild little Bookkeeper. “1 beg to differ with you,” snapped Miss Primm, “It was terrible.” “Say, whet are they going to do with the concrete ships?” asked Miss Tile. “Just like a woman!" said Bob- “What do they usually do with "I'd like to se “Look here, young man!” said Miss Primm, “You needn't slur the Miss ‘Tillie meant in what line of work will they be used.” | “Oh, I beg your pardon!” replied | the boy. “I'll have to confess I don't know. Secretary Daniels called me up | this morning, but he forgot to tell me.” “Huh!” meered Popple. ecretary | Daniels would be as apt to call you up as he would that door-knob.” “Don't worry!” said Bobbie. “When | one of us goes out the door-knob will have its turn.” “LT think,” put in Spooner calmly, “that things could run much more smoothly here this morning, Suppose | we all try to be amiable! I was read- | ing to-day about a man who married a girl for money and then found she | was, to use a common word, broke.” | “Discovered he had a busted rib, eh?” wang out Hobbie, grinning. I'd rather you wouldn't call us women ribs,” said Miss Primm, “And | let's not mention broken bones, The idea is disagreeable | "My little brother fell off the porch last night and hurt his knees,” said Miss Tillie, “He's laid up in bed." “What's the trouble?” asked Bobbie } T just told you the kid hurt his knees.” “Oh, J see. It's a disease of the kid knees.” be He n home, Upon each trip to the | received it, and asks " y Omce’ 1 th the sauue pee Sh bee .agee Why Be. Qosen't “Get trom him | ‘’4 CONSTANT reADER, “Enough!” snapped Miss Primm, “Mr. Snooks shall know about this, He betes puns, If he'd heard that one a ® ce Force Dudley Copyright, 1918, by The Proms Publishing Go, (The New York Bvening World.) Bobbie would be out of a job right now. “Indeed he would,” said Miss Tillie, “There's no doubt of it,” was Pop- ple's comment. “What about it, Spooner?” | The Bookkeeper smiled. I'm inclined to think as the rest of you do,” he sald. The telephone rang and Bobbie answered, “It's the Boss,” he whis- pered, Then he continued: “Yes, Mr. Snook: Yes, sir, I'l look after It. What's that? Oh, everybody's all right. And Mr. Snooks, I just told them that joke about the kid knees disease. You remember—the one you told me. Miss Tillie’s brother hurt his knees and it came in fini ‘There was a pause. Then Bobbie said; “What's that—how did they lke it? Say, they all laughed their heads off. Goodby!" Bobbie hung up the receiver and the silence that ensued was go thick It could have been cut with @ knife, Newest Things In Science The United States produces about 88 per cent. of the world's oysters. oe 8 Into the head of a new golf club can be inserted lead plugs to adjust its weight and balance. Niet wes Oculists have found that @ pecu- liar form of eye strain is due to per- sons reading while lying down. oe 8 Electrical apparatus for perma- nently curling women's hair has been invented by a foreign scientist ‘oe 8 Norwegian Government experi- menters have succeeded in produc- ing a bread containing 20 per cent. of fish, A miniature cigar every three sec- onds is the capacity of a machine that makes them in a New York plant, ran Only about five er cent. of the Jower animals are defective at birth, {a much lower ratio than among human beings ren eh ‘To convert an ordinary bicycle into a motoreycle 4 motor driven wheel to replace its front wheel has been pat- ented. re er | Danish inventors have , orfected motors that are claimed to work well with peat gas as fue) instead of ben- albe or gasoline, The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) st HAT’S the matter, Uncle “It's a fact,” said Uncle Henry Henry?" asked Mr. Jarr,| “Why, relations has been so strained noting his visiting rela- that I've had to sew in the waistban 4 tion looked worried as he sat in the] of my pants any cash coin I wanted Jarr’s front room with his feet on the to keep handy. If I didn’t do that window sill and with his ears cocked | she'd take what she wanted without for the call to dinner. “I'm just plum disgusted with every- thing,” replied Uncle Henry, Why, what hi ddened your sun- temperament?” asked Mr, Jarr. ny a ‘by your leave!’” “You don't tell me!” sald Mr, Jarr. “Yes, siree. Onct she tuck a hull dollar that I had hid tn And as I had some gold money an “Nothing has happened to compel you | Couldn't tell what extravdgance she'd to shorten your stay with us, has|¢ let into—fer actually that woman there?” he added eagerly. “Nope, I'm going to stay longer than I intended anyway. But, fer one thing, the prices I got to pay for| everything these days is what worries me, I'm one of the honest toilers, I am. I take my quinine on a knife} and don't try to put on airs trying to eat it with @ fork like soine folks do, | and when I buy things I want to buy them cheap! Look what carfare costs | these days, for one thin “And the train was full of soldiers you say? Did they crowd your” asked Mr. Jarr. “1 didn’t mind that,” said Uncle Henry, “but they'd be going to the ice water, at night when I was slecp- ing in the aisle, and they'd go right over me In hobnail boots.” “Isn't this the time you should be home seeing about harvest?” asked Mr. Jarr anxiously. “Aw, I've turned the farm over on shares to Jim Peters this year,” said Uncle Henry, “Let him worry!” “You're taking it easy these days, then?” “I'm trying to,” said Uncle Henry, “put your Aunt Hetty is gettin’ to be such a crank there's no living with her. Because I got a touch of rheu- matics and want to take keer of my- self she complains all day long and wants to play Lady Lazybones. Do you know she wouldn't spade her own wants to buy a washing machine—I had to sew it in my pants, Did you ever have to do that?” Mr, Jarr admitted he never had. “Well, I was telling you about how Hetty wouldn't even spade the kitchen garden, So I says I wouldn't do it, and up into April it wasn't tetched. But one day I takes the jpade and she says, ‘So you are g0- ing to turn over them beds and put in the vegetables? and I said ‘No, I hain’t; I'm going to dig worms and go fishing!’ Well, what do you think?” “You spaded the garden?” replied Mr. Jarr, "Yes, I did,” Uncle Henry went on, “put I hadn't intended to, The first spedeful I turned over I brought up a gold piece.” “Buried treasure?" asked Mr. Jarr, “Surest thing you know,” continued Uncle Henry. “I epaded on about ren minutes and got two more gold pieces, Then I remembered my grandfather, who everybody said was a miser’—— “I've heard you resemble him very much,” interjected Mr. Jarr, “Had buried money,” Uncle Henry went on, “So I tuck off my coat and I turned every inch of that garden two feet deep and I found a raft of gold pieces.” “You were lucky,” said Mr, Jarr, ‘Bo I thought,” replied Uncle Henry kitchen garden this year? No, not) sadly, “until I found I'd torn the seam even when I p'inted out to her how easy she was having it, laying in bed till 5 o'clock in the morning.” “That was very inconsiderate of her,” murmured Mr. Jarr “That's what I tell you, said Uncle Henry. ‘The wimmen’s all spiled these days because they kin git war jobs. Furthermore, if a man's wife ain't honest who can he trust? Do you know that woman is in sich a state of mind that she talks of the I'd sewed in my pants and they was my own gold pieces, “Dinner's ready!" looking in, cried Mrs. Jarr, And Uncle Henry groaned and rose up to eat his sorrow: J GREAT WALL OF CHINA SLOWLY CRUMBLING AWAY. An American chemist’s examination of the Great Wall of China has re- egg and butter money as HER money?” “No!” said Mr. Jarr, as though raeaetyeenseennrememmaeat late tb . ——$—$—$—_—_———_—$— vealed that the bricks are so weak that they can be crumbled with the fingers, and that the structure is in denane-of Gisintogration, the clock. | Clock One of Invented OR unnumbered centuries the measuring of has en- grossed men’s attention. At first the day was the unit, little success being aehieved in computing the hours of darkness, Eventually the | day was divided into twelve hours, and, as these varied in length with the latitude and season of the year, an extraordinary amount of human ingenuity was expended in separating the period from sunrise to sunset Into twelve equal parts. This old system is still followed in Constantinople, The shadow of & straight rod driven into the earth was the first time recorder. So accurate was this method of finding the exact hour of noon that it is still em- ployed at sea in “shooting the sun,” | though an improved instrument, the sextant, Is generally used. “Shadow time" answered well enough when the sun was shining, but except for @ guess by the position of the stars, the passing hours of night could not be measured, 60 the clock was invented, the first probably being the “clepsy- dra,” or water-clock. It is sald they existed in China in 2679 B. C, They were certainly in use there in 1100 B,C, Taking the latter date as cor- rect, this table gives an elementary hint of the three great steps in time measuring: Bhadow time, 2000 to 1000 B. C.; dials and water-clocks, 1000 B, C. to 1000 A. D.; clocks and watches, 1000 to 2000 A. D, The principle of all water-clocks 1s the escape of water from a vessel through a small hole, It is evident that such a vessel will always empty itself in about the same amount of time. The opposite method is used in India, A bronze cup with a small hole in the bottom is floated on the water in a large vessel, Gradually the cup fills and sinks, whereupon the ‘“time-boy,” sitting nearby, emp- ties it, strikes the hour upon the cup and sets it afloat once more. Most interesting of all water-clocks is undoubtedly the “copper jars dropping water,” which still stands in @ little tower in Canton, China, and is said to be over 3,000 years old, It consists of four copper jars, imbedded one above the other in stops of masonry. In twelve hours all the water from the top jar flows into the lowest. Many other methods time First Devices by Man The forerunner of the modern clock was invented by De Vick in 1264. It was the first clock consist- ing of toothed wheels and contain- ing the fundamental features of present timepieces. References tor clocks are quoted back as far as | 1000 A. D., but they may have re- * ferred to bells and dials. Within the few years before and after 1660 the clock was perfected. The pendulum, the anchor and dead beat escapement, the minute and sec- ond hands, the circular balance and the hairspring were invented in this period, since which no fundamental improvement in either clocks or watches has been recorded. Clocks driven or regulated by electricity \simply transmit time; the timekeeping is done by a master clock with pen- dulum and wheels, just as by any grandfather's clock of 200 years ago. This lack of progress 1s impressive when it is recalled that the last two centuries have produced more inven- tions than in all Modern science, however, is coming to the opinion that a time measurer coin- posed of wheels and pinions, a driv- ing power and a regulator in the form of a pendulum or balance, is at best a clumsy device and that a better one should be produced, Data from the Book of Wonders, by permimsion of Bureau of Industrial Education, Ino, Weab- ington, D, O, Women Hold Records for Typwriting. HE first woman typist to write over a hundred words a min- ute in a speed contest was Miss Bessie Friedman of New York, who accomplished the feat at Spo- kane, Wash., six years ago. On that occasion Mi Friedman averaged nearly 107 words a minute for thirty minutes, In 1906 Miss Rose Frits wrote elghty-two words a minute, which remained the record until 1910, when H, O, Blaisdell pounded out 109 words in sixty seconds, Miss Florence E, Wilson reached 112 tn 1912, surpassing Miss Friedman's feat, In 1918, at New York, Miss Margaret B. Owen won the typewrit- ing champlonship with an average of// 125 words a minute for sixty min- utes, Emil Trefzger took second place with 120 words, and Gus Trefs- besides the water-clock were used; candies and lamps marked to burn a certain space in a given time, and ger was third with 117 wordy at! the worid's championship ‘contest held in Toronto in April, 1914, Mis’, in comparatively late times, the| Owen retained her title, writ wy OI ie retina —— words @ minute for halt am howe _ a hae nd esi Seite us 7” previous history.