The evening world. Newspaper, July 22, 1918, Page 10

wy As JULY 22, . pc TAN N \) WR MONDAY, JULY 22, 1918 Charles Edison, Wizard’s Son, | - Found ‘Working for Father” | Real Job to “Make Good” Only Twenty-seven Years Old, He’s His Father's First MONDAY, 1918 ; Little Stories From the Movies nya) ) | ————— - The Last Leaf Paris Designed Coats for Fall Wear | MODELS SHOWN BY LEADING FASHION ARBITERS IN THE FRENCH CAPITAL. By William Addison Lathrop. (By Permission of Britton Publishing Company.) [ the long summer afternoons, and in the cool twilight, old Srp Ass A a ae dat RR eT Ud ee RAE: Bi Tr ry Holden used to sit upon the bench beside the door of his vine clad istant, and Chairman of the Board of Direc- i a " : i | tage, his old dog at his feet, and look out over the broad expanse of 1 tors, a Position Which He Has Earned by Hard,| y#esomemeann, aan oan Ce * ‘ | ocean before him and dream of the days when he was a stalwart fisher man among his fellows. His fellows! All gone now—Silas and Martin | and Reuben and the rest—he was the last of them all—and yet it seemed | but yesterday! Eighty years didn't seem long—when he looked back. Mary, his little motherlees granddaughter, who lived with him in the cottage, would come and light his pipe for him, and they would sit, her arm about him, and watch for the coming of Jacques—big, strong, hand- |eome Jacques, who loved Mary and whom Mary loved. Indeed, there was No secret about it, and they were waiting only until Jacques could save enough to buy his fishing smack, and he had almost enough now. Jacques | would come along the beach and stop at the cottage and leave the choicest of his catch for them. Grandpa would insist on taking the fish on the filmsy exouse that he alone could clean them properly, and bustle into the cottage, winking at Jacques as he went. Grandpa was not so old that he at This dress coat of navy satin h tetera ‘robe-like from the shoulders and te EL I trimmed with a narrow band of Bel- Very gale Graz sloth fe used in this squirrel fur ts in- trimming. Intelligent Work. | | When Some One Laughingly Charged Him With “Having It core ; frodticed aa Pretty Soft” Because He Was “Working for His 0 d Man,” | He Only Smiled, but Thought “I Wish He Could Put in a Few Days Working for Thomas A. Edison.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ! to the landing when the boats sailed ‘tage, Grandpa told Mary that under the old name—this excessively independent youth in the morning; and often they were | Jacques and his ship were only memi- ° will do well to read how successfully and harmoniously ; there, with the other folks of the|orics. She rose and stood a moment, ; Cainer and eon may work together in enterprises as | | village, when the oats returned. | wild-eyed, and then sank in a heap ; elaborate and important as those conducted by Thomas | | One morning Grandpa came down to|at his feet. Se a ra A RE you one of the boys who are planning to ask father for a joo? | With a “soft cinch,” close to the top of the ladder? Bis tn the current issue of the aria — American Magazine that Thomas A Edison's first assistant, the twenty- peven-year-old Chairman of his Board of Directors—his son Charles—writes of what “working for father” means im the Edison family, and, tnciden- tally, gives the first family portrait of @ays working for Thomas A. Edixon! ‘*poftness’ through. @ifference whether he went in as my father’s son, either, “I know my father doesn’t care to have his relatives working for him. And it is up to those that do to try harder than the other employees to) As for special favors gi make good: Apparently, the two cardinal prin- | ciples involved in working for Thomas A. Edison are common sense and com- | mon bonesty mon, when it comes to that! Have you the idea that a nice, gentlemanly way of doing noth- | ing will be to add yourself to the paternal payroll? ‘Are you convinced that “the Governor” ought to take ca: ot you | Then {t will pay you to read the experiences of | Charles Edison in working for HIS father, Grand Old | Wizard of American industrial sclence. And the other type of young man, the one who ts afraid that working for father will cramp his style, who decides to leave the business or profession which bis father has hoped wist- | fully to see carried on for at least another generation A. Edison. “‘A contract is a contract ina must be lived up to. Even from the} polnt of view of etraight business, it| pays in the end!" “Of course, 1 could always go to |my father for advice and he would sive it to me. But so far as my feel- other young men would gladly work for their fathers if they, too, could be sure of being treated as an employee.” Then young Mr. Edison diagnosed some of the more frequent causes of |the faflure of the father-and-son re- lationship in business. “Usually two | things are wrong with your father as an employer,” he mys. “One is that ‘he is likely to Jet you have things ‘pretty soft,’ the other is that he will not treat your ideas and suggestions with the respect he shows for those Jof other men. You are still his little boy to him. Anyway, he knows you haven't any experience, He didn’t let you get away! So he treats you with patronizing indulgence,” Mke to hear bis opinion of the| ‘Therefore, advises Charles Exison, of the Job when he got|don't let your father give you your | And it wouldn’s make any/ first job, Show him that you can stand on your own feet and earn | your own living in some other man's extablishment before you enter his. He will have infinitely more respect for you and your opinion, CHARLES EDISON. by father,| dison's son observes succirfetly: “The | Instead of being Jealous |boys at a boy's wages." | Another disastrous case of son! working for father cited by Mr, Edi poth rather UN-com json was that of the young man whos: Golden brown zibeline is employed tn the development of this practical For dressy occasions this afl black coat in silk jersey. vet and seal { contribute to make this a very etrik- f. And moonlight nights, when Mary and Jacques atrolied along the beach, he would come to the door and follow | them with his eyes for a moment, |as though to assure himself that no one had carried them off; then he would chuckle, rub bis hands in sat- isfaction, look at the sky and shuffle off to bed. Sometimes'he and Mary went down the landing and told the fishers that they better wait a while before set- ting out; for his discerning old eyes had seen something in the sky that he didn’t like. But Jacques and the |rest of the hardy young fellows leaving Grandpa gray head and and sailed away, shaking his wise peering across the waters for a sight lof her Jacques, who lay upon a floating spar, a hundred miles from y shore. i] our greatest living inventor. ing that the relation between us af- | | tapping angrily with his cane. * * *| the pathway of the moon. Surely that You see, somebody laughingly | fected my standing in the company, | The fog came down upon the sea|was Jacques who beckoned and ! | Ghafwed Charles Edison with having|I migbt as well have been working |and the shore like a vell, and great|opened his arms to her! “Yes, yes, H it ity soft” because he was work-|for Charles M. Schwab, or anybody| | |waves beat against the rocky coast | Jacques, I am coming to you ‘ ing bis “old man. else. Father has no patience with in- {and the landing. Men looked into] She found tbe little boat and “Lemiled,” observed Edison jr., “but |e Mviency. If I hadn't made good af- Jeach other's faces and could only| pushed out and threw away the oars. » T fust wished he could put tn a few| ter a fashion he would have fired mo, | walk the shore and blow the fog-|Jacques would guide her! Down and i i - jand if he badn't, if he had let mo horn, to which there was no answer./down the pathway of the moon she stay just because I was his son, I |And the women—the wives and the | drifted—further and further from the > sbould have had a sort of contempt sweethearts—could only sit and wait, |shore—nearer and nearer to Jacques! me for him {and some wept, for that was their|And then there was only the path- | | “As it ts, I would rather be Thomas portion, way of the moon across the illim- m4 Edison's employee than anybody | The boats never came back. And|itable sea, * © © | else's, And I think that plenty of many days Mary walked the beach, ' Long after they knew had forgotten that lovers like to be alone. |laughed goodnaturedly at his fears} hope had fled Grandpa and the other dog followed on behind. old men of the village used to sail away in a “rescue” ship, anchor in some hidden cove and smoke their pipes in gloomy silence until it was time to return to the anxious women, for whose sake they sought wha, they knew they could never find! And then one night as they sat before the driftwood fire in the cot- “Oh, Daddy,” she sobbed, “Jacques must come!” The old man tenderly lifted -her face in his hands and looked deep into her eyes—and sho hid her face upon his breast, Mary slowly disengaged herself from the old man’s arms and with bowed head went down to the beach and looked across the waters along Many, many days Grandpa used t> hobble down to the shor’ wiih his Jold dog and look across the waters. |Then he would slowly turn away and retrace his steps | tering they were very feeble and fal- now—and the ol@ By Mrs. V ANY women make the mistake M of attempting to copy charming } stage gowns for wear in pri- | vate life, You must remember that a Baseball Sea Pithily Told in an Official Report That Floated Ashore in a Pop Eottle—Crew of the Torpedoed Craft Showed Excellent Discipline, invariable i ; of me when I went into our business,|curse of the soft snap has ruined) top coat, the features being the ing creation. | | stage gown is usually @ part of an| under all conditions, A few nights | T think the other men in the company | pienty of fine young fellows. I know pleated skirt and oddly cut collar. rr jenseomble, which has been harmo-| later I saw her wear it. She was in pitied me. They knew I wouldn't|one chap who really had lots of abil-| [_ ; eT ies ij _| ized and attuned In its various notes) a brilliantly lighted drawing-room, j have it ‘soft’ from my father—and IJ ity, but his father offered him a desk} —~ ini i i “ i ik is i | ‘by an expert. Often an actress her-| where many people were conversing i haven’ But he bas been mighty) job that involved only nominal work 2 self has had little to eay about a) with one another at not more than i square to me. and he took it because it meant a ° e ‘ y frock In which she appears immense-| arms’ length distance. Beside her H “Z think that Is one of the chief rea-| good time. Well, he woke up one day Oo l Ma or ] ea ues Submarined ly attractive, A trained and egpert| stood a woman with white hair eons why I do work for my father—| to find that the business was on the eye has devised It to sult her per-| charmingly attired in a gown of woft Because he does not make any dif-| verge of bankruptcy. He was five TiS MORE tsetse. od | sonality, the fixed and a. pastel tints, and a young girl in a ference in his business treatment Of | years out of college and had to begin ; A "4 surroundings of the scene, the o0i0 sweet frock of pale pink. My friend me on that account.” idl 0445, & Green tate tolenabins 1h | Sensational Details of the Disaster That Befell the National Sport Craft on the ings of the scenery and stage set-|in her white and cerise looked Het tings, the frocks of other women who approach her, and the effect of certain lightings which are always lthe same at certain moments, Thus a gown which seems charmingly art- | Stage Clothes ' Stage Gowns Only for Wear ' Behind the Footlights emon Castle girl is just my coloring. a frock exactly like it.” 1 warned her that perhaps such « frock wouldn't look exactly the samu I shall have can only describe y fect explosion of garish color, And 80, when you see it one way- a pers a particular. ly fetching little frock, or a wonder- y stunning gown SO anno fret job he gave | Mother insisted that he be pushed the Men Standing by Their Contracts to the Last—And the Flavor That Le ee a eeutituily moceat Jn feel i, fown on the stage, ge when 1 came to work for nim,*|anead faster than ho deserved. ‘That Had Been in the Official Report Bottle Was Lemon. [a stage scene might, If worn In &/ and hesitate” before putting your Fecords his son. “OF course | want. |7unelion Was | terminated | y oi fix eset | drawing room amid accidental and} money into materials, and be cuite @A to make a good showing; put |father and employer “fring” both his BY ARTHUR (‘ BUGS”’) BAER. | incongruous surroundings, become | sure YOU can wear it (the cole ce when he asked me to figure the cost |5n and his wife A shriek of inartistic and inharmonious . well as the style), for take ee i e ' WIS, by The Press Publish The New York Hvening World.) oa 8 acherites refused to leave t ee my wort Fee ee sick records my heart sank.| ‘Tt @ @ stimulating thing (0 work ti ixtoen hard polled bleacherites refused to leave craft until | TOOT °anis is no exaggeration, 1| for it, nine tisew ont of syne wort Tewas an electrical engincer, and this fF Thomas A. Edison, no matter who| OU can lead a horse to water, but his drivar wants to drink handed rain checks Meer sh Giany MOR MAGI T\'be diucorointer nit u will Bee ts ime a job for an account. |¥OU are," sums UP tho son of Hdison something different “In the first rush for the lifenoats seven umps were spiked in the | cai one, par example, to mind, though you may feel your ne ire | ne|"In the few years 1 have worked fo WHIM ke reason WhYik adda non totlla ROntlan on the cars, There was no excitement outside o {the peanuts boy short-chang- | nq scene im a dramatic play where] the same as the actress who wore ve MEE: ce sharply and enid [father-t amonly twentyrsevan DOW— | i te ns amtin acest ond J eye ing a customer who was going down for the third time. ne action occurred in what was sup-|on the stage, ‘The chances are chong r AN it takes is common sense. |" hi iar Wind te hulle He} aa dia anita ree igen is os : Don't forget to feed the canary bird posed to be an English drawing room that col because she } ee Slain common sense! Jix the big s. But he is not al Wasn't discovered until today. It had apparently been tossed over “Goodby. lof the Tudor time, a young girl with wear it off the stage “well! I didn't say anything |‘¥Fant. And neither has ho molly boagd from the decks of two leagues which sank last week. | Sa eee —|piond hair—the ingenue—appeared in] (Copyright, $18, by The Bell Syndicate, Ingy More! 1 tackled the job and I found | ee ey penley am his son The soda pop bottle ¢ 1 a message from one of the birds | “78 a frock of white satin, relieved with a nks to him, the problem of ‘wo A Pe ce oy right eine gaihitna es 4 si a bad fe whe Was sunk before a rescue raft of exemption blanks could reach The Housewife $s Scrapbook. cerise in rather a eae ape : In] A PERSON OF DISCERNMENT, Mf course I think he is the finest |" oF jathet ais been solved satia h dimly lighted scene, where there QUAKER had got himse! » leant bin " : dimly a mself into GM ‘ows in the world. For one thing, 1|factorily in my case. If other father pees aS Raceiieto : housekeeper who desires to| Here is a good way to use leftover! \o, a background of dull oak and trou with the autho: By have never known hun to do a dis-| Will treat their sons in business as he There was no pop in the le, but an examination by Bertillon serve vogetables with good [Potatoes ) half a cup of corn meal | """ "tinted tapestries, and where snd & Gonata bles honorable thing. 1 have even known | bas treated me it will settle the same | indicated that the flavor had been lemon. 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He sald ykil) comparable only to that of an ie rv c sap att nt mt bd ae pavennath Some ball thom very qulokly if you just dip the! Wasted at the table and they oan be| formance with me, said: “That ts the| and go he's gone unetac. San ant experienced watchmaker, ayers floated off on exemption blanks and were rescue ¢ oon fab + \ad boiling water for a minute, used for chowder or soup, most lovely frock I ever saw, and that! Bits,