The evening world. Newspaper, July 20, 1918, Page 11

«»,8nd from that shtp directed his fleet to victory. \, SATURDAY, N \ as. Ny JULY 20, 1918 | New ‘By-Word’ of U.S. Arms Coined by American General In the Marne ne Counter-Attack American War Heroes Whose Fighting Words ‘Has Another Famous Saying Been Added to lie Fighting Words of America’s Great War Heroes by Doughty Officer Whose Name Is Not Yet Known to the Public? . ik Rar American flag has been forced to retire. This ts unen- durable, and none of our soldiers would understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary to remedy a Sttuation which is humiliating and unacceptable to our country’s honor. WE ARE GOING TO COUNTER ATTACK.” ‘These words of an unnamed American General, written after American treops had been forced to give ground near Conde-en-Brie, south of the Marne, last Monday, seem destined to take ther place with the immortal words of other army and navy heroes dear to the hearts of the American people. ‘The French General tn command of that particular section of the front wrote to the American commander that the reverse was not serious end thet there was plenty of time in which to retake the lost ground. counselled delay. This brought the notable reply from the American General. The American troops did counter attack and they won back the lost @round with an additional half mile for good measure. ‘The quotation undoubtedly will take {te place in the minds of many | ‘Americans beside the famous rallying cry of Gen. Phil Sheridan: | “Faoe the other way, doys! We are going back!” Gen. Sheridan's men In the Valley of the Shenandoah on the morning of Oct. 19, 1864, had been forced to retreat after a surprise attack by Gen. Marly’s army. Sheridan, retarning from Washington, had reached Win- chester, Va, twenty miles away, when the sound of the battle reached him. ‘Then began Sheridan's Ride, made famous in verse by Thomas Buchanan Read. “The boys” turned back and drove the Confederates from the Shen-| andoah Valley. One of the earMest of the historte sayings of American military heroes fm credited to Gen. John Stark, who as he led his men to the assault on part of Burgoyne’s army near Bennington, Vt, Aug. 16, 1777, cried: “There they are, boys! We beat them to-day or Molly Stark's a widow™ ‘The Americans almost wiped out a force of 1,000 British and Gen Btare | lived until 1822. John Paul Jones, “father of the Amertean Navy,” coined the expression which has been @ guide to American soldiers and sailors ever since, when he orted: “I have fust begun to Nohtr It was Jonews answer to the demands of Capt, Pearson, commander of the British ship Gerapis, that the American waflor surrender the Pon Homme Richard. The Richant, lashed to the Serapis by Jones, was in a sinking con- | dition, but the American satlors had just begun to fight, and three and one- half hours after the confilet began the Serapia atruck her colors. The fon | Homme Ricbard sunk the next morning and John Paul Jones muiled tnto @ French port on the captured ship, the members of its crew prisoners, Another famous battle cry of the navy was the dying injunction of Capt. James Lawrence: “Don't give up the ship™ Capt. Lawrences, tn command of the U, 8 S& Chesapeake, had enconn- tered the British frigate Shannon, thirty miles off Boston, June 1, 1813. Lawrence fell morts!y wounded at one of the first broadsides from the British warship, His ¢ytng cry was tn vain, Three months later—Gept. 10, 1813, to be exact—Commosore Oliver Hazard Perry sent to Gen. William Henry Harrison his famous message: “We have met the encmy and they are ours.” Commodore Perry had built @ fleet of nine vessels on Lake Prie and went out to give battle to the British fleet near Put tn Bay, Perry's fag- ehtp, the Lawrence, was almost destroyed by the enemy fire. With the flag of the Lawrence wrapped around his arm, Perry rowed to the Niagara A famons battle expression Is credited by many historians with being responsible for the election of the twelfth President of the United States, Gen. Zachary Taylor was its author, and when he replied to Santa Ana‘y demand that he surrender at Buena Vista Fob, 22, 1846: “Gen. Taylor never surrenders.” Gen. Taytor, with 5,400 n fore, defeated Santa Ana's ° Army. The war soon ended and Gen, Gen. Grant's historic sentence, “I propose to fight it out on this line df it takes atl summer,” was written to President Lincoln May 1, 1864, as his army was pursuing Gen. Lee's troops after the Battle of the Wilderness, Gen. Grant had begun Dis tactics of wearing out the enemy by constant harassing. It was nearly a year later—April 9, 1865—that Gen. Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Meantime Admiral David Glasgow Farragut undertook with Gen. Gor- gon Granger the sea and land attack on Mobile, . Most of whom had never been In battle 000 picked troops, the flower of the Taylor was elected President be- Mexican The harbor was mined, and the Union fleet, when it entered, 1 instructions to keep Inside a red buoy. The leading monitor, in her eagerness to get at the Confederate tronclad ram Tennessee, did not heed this warning. She struck a torpedo and sank quickly. The Macship Brooklyn, with Admiral Farragut lashed in the port main rigging in order that he would not miss one incident of the batt atopped suddenly and threatened to throw the whole line of battleships entering the harbor into confusion, “Wha: the troubl was shoute flagship. Torpedoes,” d from the Hartford, folowing the was the answer, torpedoes!" “Damn the erled Admiral Farragut from his perch on high. “Four bells! Capt, Drayton, go ahead! Jouctt, full specd!” t ahead, and after a flerce battle the Tennessee and oth Confedera surrendered, The land forts gave up a few days later. Late in 1864 Gen, Hood's Confederate Army tried to stop Gen, She man's march to the sea by destroying the garrisons and Mne of commun cations left by Sherman north of Atlanta, Gen, Fre s division of Ger Hood's army attacked Allatoona, Gen, Corse hurried to the re garrison, Gen. French demanded that Gen, Corse surre: I that the Confe es were welcome to come and take n could, A battle ensued. Meantime Gen, Sherman re 1 tain and signalled to Gen. Corse eihteen mies aw “Hold the fort, for I am coming.” Corse replied “1 am short part of an ear and checkbone but am able t : yet.” Sherman came. The ish-American War brought at least one famous saying “You may fire when ready, Gridley." Uttered by Admiral Gec *Otympla, as 1! was entering Manila Bay and {t soon bene a household word tn this country. Dowey to the Captain to destroy the of his flagshis Spanish fleet there *. Now tn the great world war, with its censorship forbidding the use of sea, stands out the expression of the unnamed General: ¢ American Flag has been forced to retire, We are going to counter He ¢ _ Have Become Famous Quotations: on, “Hold the Fort! Iam coming!’ “Face ne other, may boys, we're going back “D—a, the Laclpqretedy A yt “The American Flag has been forced to retire. This is unendurable, and none of our soldiers would understand their not being asked to do whatever is necessary to |remedy a situation which is humiliat< ing to us and unacceptable to our country’s honor~WE, ARE GOING TO COUNTER: ATTACK A Few Notes on the Newsaphone Great Rejoicing in Brooklyn Since Sec. Baker Cancelled Baseball Season—Food Hoarder Was Caught With Real Egg on His Chin—When Quite Young the Kaiser Was Kicked by an Angry Sardine—That’s How He Gets That Way— Conservation Order Reduces Palm Beach Suits to 8,976 Wrinkles—Moving Pictures Are Essential, but We Can Get Along Without the Pie Tossing— Rumors From Long Beach That a Debutante Got Her $75 Bathing Suit Wet—No Confirmation From Washington. BY ARTHUR (“BUG Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publiad BAER 2 Co, (The Now York Brening World), Four bells—go | ECRETARY BAKER decided s about as essential | No surprise that Germans are getting tricofita due to as a hair in the boarding house butter, soap. Everything they get has a tric in it Order which evaporates baseball is the first vi ; \ Queer tracks in the Jersey meadows are made by the hoboes Brooklyn since the war was la inched, rag out of the labor zone, Rhiser has laying off the Charme! ports since Kk Old Ludendorff certainly was handed a pa 1 the him that the salt air would take the starch out of his musta nose, rial campaign. Just Order your winter coal now ff you fave the coin. It you can rake the money together it’s a good idea to buy at least two lumps, Buy your coal now even if you have to hock your furna One swallow doesn’t make a summer. But a swallow in Say Kaiser is getting rid of his influenza. Also influenceza make a summer in jail, Only kick we have against profiteers fs that they are using up a When you order an omelet nowadlay e ef give: u lot of air that a good man might be breathing. canary eggs and soaks you ostrich prices, i ‘ ’ 4 4 rap eaaata rf “a. ¥ SATURDAY, JULY _20, 1918 Stage Clothes As Famous Actresses Wear Them By Mrs. Vernon Castle Gowns Must Be Studied to Fit the Part One Is Playing. | (The First of Two Articies on This Subject.) Com costuming for the stage Is more or controlled by the part les one ts playing. For instance, you can't Imagine Kitty Gordon play- | ing the part of Sunbonnet Sue dressed tn a gingham apron and aunbonnet. She might play the part exceedingly well, but she wouldn’t be apt to be chosen for it, because we always picture her @ decidedly di& ferent type She dresses beauttfully and can always be counted on for some thing particularly new and smart. Her clothes would not be | suitatde for the | young debutante— they are always ex. treme—very French —and despeak the “woman of the world.” Her low cut backs she is famous for, and when one sees her back, one can't blame her. Nazimova, I con sider the best exam- ple of a woman who has studied her type and dresses {t cor rectly, You can't tm- Jagine her in any- | thing but those long, |“wlinky” dresses | with exceptionally tight sleeves and queer cut backs, She has a lovely figure which fs brought out and made the most of by her straight, severe, snakelike fit ting gowns. Since she has bobbed her hair she looks even more eccentric and Interesting. She ts a type—a very individual type—and she has studied to make her clothes bring out Ubs individuality rather than hide It. Another actress that knows well | what Decomes her is Billie Burke. | pression that all “leading ladles,” ag Can any one picture Billle Burke in| well as a chorus, In musical comedy, anything but bow knots, rosebuds | must wear tlehts or short skirts. In and dainty little rutfes of lace? Her | olden days this used to be the ease, clothes are always dainty, delicate | though I can, without boasting, say and youthful and add to the charm |“that was before my time.” Nowa of her delightful personality and S one can go to a musical comedy acting. She ts always like a sweet, and sit the whole evening without little old-fashoned muste box to me, | s a short skirt make an ap and one can’t imagine her different | poarance—unless there be a ballet In dress or manner, dancer on the programme, One rew Dorothy Dickson @resses sweetly |son for this may be that the ordi and believes, ax I do, tn simplicity. | nary dress skirt of to-day Is so short You must not think that stage|that It does not seem necessary to dresses must necessarily be elabor-| frolic out In a skirt above the knee, ate and “sparkley.” One doesn't | either to attract attention or to give have to wear silver Ince and beads| freedom in kicking when dancing. to look wall on the stage, does |The short, fluffy, ruffled ballet skirt one need to shine {na spotlight like a house afire, to attract attention. If your dress 1s extremely simple but becoming you will stand out ay well dressed, Richness of material counts for a great deal on the stage, but tn most cases the people we admire the most and epeak of oftenest as chic | are generany the ones who have sim seems quite all right for the pony ballet or chorus, tut [ think the rest of the company ordinarily should avold them as far as possible, All apparel is made for stage purposes only and tn accord ance with the lighting and scenery and tumes, and so | would not serve for any other par stage surrounding co | ple frocks that we long to copy and | pose. Many actresses who have a wear ourselves, favorite color that perhaps ts most It's much more tnteresting to see! unbecoming in dayltrht or under clothes that you can picture your-| ordinary evening use tt wif in and that would be perfectly | profusely in their stage costumes, appropriate to wear off the stage as as thelr make-up lends thetr com well as on, The idea that because | plexion to almost any color, thus Jone 1s on the stage one must dress | gratifying thelr sense of color with- | ke s sword-ewallower or bareback | out losing @ reputation for good rider {s out of date, Just as the {m- taste In the display of It (Copyright, 1018, by the Bell Byndicnte, Ine.) \Courtrai, in Flanders, Scene of Great Belgian Victory 600 Years Ago HIB quaint olf Belgian town of) net this array of picked fight- | | Courtral, not far from the F h men the Flemings could oppose i] border, d which has suffer amen, most of them greatly at the ds of the inva t d, I ined to defend Va 6 of a far ( aL te ust wover, they | “i Middle Age the “Rattle k on hind a canal’ of the Spura.” On July 10, 1302, the ont A quarrel town waa besieged by a great army, twee officers resulted | and its doom seemed sealed. On th? in a premature order for a charge, | following day, however, the stur’y, Down upon the Fleming burghers | Flemings met and routed the enemy | swe the great body of splendid | Among the e#poils were many gilt entirely ui are tat dae apurs removed from the bodies of olr ‘They Ga knights and men-at-urms, and these riders it were “pehind and was filled | gave the battle its name, With other | relica, some of them were preserved in the Cathodral up to the outbreak of 1 horses, | the present war, ed, tor In the ninth century Flanders be sneee came a rt ¢ France, bu as the hdrew, mused in populat spirit of indep the thirteenth and captured t en the Flemings inc wealth their | krew, and in rained | several news an ny was at once des 4 to put down insurre n wt led by sbert, Count of Art who had defeated the Flemings a ave come her few years before, and included 8,00 i ntestore 608 knights in full armor, 10,000 archer time shoulder te @nd $0,000 foot soldiers, h the French, 4 q i