The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1918, Page 8

MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918 Allies’ Social Legislation Making the World Safe For Mothers and Babies Jadge Ben B. Lindsey, Well Known Social Reformer, Who, Accompanied by His Wife, Has Been for Six Months Visiting England, France and Italy, Often Under Fire in the Trenches, Was Most Impressed by Way Allied Countries Are Making Social Legislation Keep Pace With Measures Designed Directly to Win the War. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall eTown the world war women and children are coming into thelr own. War already is teaching the countries most nearly in-| volved that they must not draft upon the future to pay the debts @f the present. To me the most interesting thing in the war zone ts the ‘way in which the nations are making the world safe for mothers and babies through the most advanced goclal legislation.” That is the new angle from which Judge Ben B. Lindsey, father of the Children’s Court, sees the war. Judge Lindsey and Mrs, Lindsey have just returned to| New York from a eix months’ trip through England, | France and Italy, which they undertook at the request of the United States Bureau of Public Information and the British Ministry of Information. They were often 7" wnder fire, and Judge Lindsey spent a fortnight in the | oeeame Amerioan trenches and in the Allied trenches between | Rheims and Soissons—that very pocket around which | the Franco-Americans are now closing. He had the fullest opportunities for observation in the theatre of war and behind it, and he has returned to New York a war optimist. | “The condition abroad which most] ~ os fmpressed me,” hé told me yesterday | Women than men, 3 After the war it at the Biltmore, “is the way in which | |# estim the Allied countries, particularly England, are making social legista- tion keep pace with measures de-| signed directly to win the war, In| this country there has been the ten-| dency to sincken, to put off, needed | social reforms as not conducing to military efficiency. They know bet- ter than that on the other «ide, “Here, for rxample, we have had to fight an attempt to lengthen the} hours for the employment of women and children and to put children to work at an eartier age. In these matters England is far ahead of us, WOOGE Benw Biinipsey She has the most advanced plece of Social legislation in dealing with chil- @ren that I know, Just think! Eng- Ush children must go to school until they are eighteen! Not until that @ge are they allowed in the factory, “Of course, the reason is that the ‘war, with its tremendous destruction, has awakened everybody to the ne- cessity of conserving tho next gene- ration physically, mentally and morally.” T asked Judge Lindsey if he had not found that the war was having @ most unhappy effect on the bodies and minds of young children tn in- Vaded districts and in towns bom- barded by airplanes, “There has been a good deal of malnutrition,” he admitied, “And fhege is no doubt that the present gffect on the nervous systems children in cities haunted by Zeppe- ling is bad, I hope that may wear Of with the coming of peace, I heard Teports of an increase in juvenile Misdemeanors in certain districts, “On the other hand, good Amer food has done wonders for the ch dren of the war zone, We cannot give them too much, for proper food and proper play make up nine-tenths Of the life of a child, If we can oniy eontinue to send our supplies for a year more I believe the crisis will be past.” Then we spoke of what war had done to the women of Hurope, “They are marvellous,” Judge Lind wey and bdlue-cyed, golden-haired Mra Lindsey said in one breath of the war work of French and English women. When the two were in Eng. Jand thousands of women were rogis- tering to vote at the fall elections, “In connection with women,” the well known so reformer contin- wed, “the countries at war are mak ing certain readjustments in regard to sex problema, ‘The question of ro- population is one which is absorbing | ment of thes: put into Chancery Cour |1# very little of the police atmosphere | and where each girl may be made to Jana humane consideration, “We have got to encourage mother- hood,” summed up Judge Lindsey. “We have got to #afeguard women Jagainst sc ted that there will be a ma- jority of six million women. “I think that both countries must legitimize the illegitir ehldren of soldiers and must treat the whole | problem of illegitimacy in a different and more humane way—dor the sake] of the children and the mothers as | well. I particularly like the utter | lack of hypocrisy which France is| showing in handling this subject. In| England the social stigma resting on unmarried mothers has been even stronger than in this country, 80 much #0 that the death rate of the tl- legitimate been twice that of le- | gitimate children, “Now the attitude ts changing. Undoubtedly there has been an { crease In illicit relations between m« n| and women due to the abnormal created ‘by the war has what she calls her flapper problem'—the problem of the young girl, often a worker in 5 war industry, who gives her heart some boy in uniform before he gous away to fight for her. aoked for suy When I was gestions as to the trea girls, I urged that ney be taken out of the Police Courts and , where there feel that she will receive sympathetic jal safeguarding men, Wisease, as we ure alone can we take care of public health and the next generation, and I don't think morality will suffer greatly.” Just before 1 left we spoke for a moment of the American boys in the trenches, among whom the Judge lived for a fortnight, are magnificent,” he said enthuslastic- ally, “The poilus—no blame to them— march along with smileless faces, al- though their Jaws are set. Their one ques: they meet is, ‘When will this war be over?’ But the Americans are always singing, and they march as if they were going to a picnic, Their fear ts that the war will be over before they have a chance to get into it! "L left concluded Judge Lindsay, “believing that it is the be- ginning of the end tottering to a fall, | over in a year, om to everybody France," that Germany ts The war may be But it must not end, it takes ten years and ten million American lives, until Germany 4s ut- terly beaten, until there 1s nothing left which her militarists may hold up to the people, saying, ‘At least we won this!’ Radicals everywhere must realize that only a German victory can interrupt the processes of the social revolution now coming to pass n the orderly way it must come—not tho Bolshevist was ss Removing Yellow Stains from Piano Keys. will IANO keys, by use, turn P yellow, To restore the original whiteness, put one ounce of nitric acid in twelve ounces of soft water (pour the acid slowly into tne water will fly up into your eyes) and apply | do not reverse this or the acid “They have a fervor and a fire that| — Ce Neo gn VA VN \ (Qi Training for the Tank Corps DRAWN FOR THE EVENING WORLD BY LANCE CORPORAL E. KIRK, CARTOONIST FOR “TREAT ’EM ROUGH,” OFFICIAL TANK CORPS PAPER, CAMP COLT, GETTYSBURG, PA. WHEN You Do THIS FOR Days AN’ DayS- 1 DONT Ste€ WHERE IM as DOIN' TH KAISER’ Yo Any HARM- {tl Ry LATER OUR MOTTO: “E Pluribus Squattum” or, “United We Stand” Subway Sun ' ONLY GOT 1.199 MORE TER WASH! MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE! AN Tis. ——> Ree, TEN Mives | AN’ THEN WHEN You GET A JOB LIKE THIS AINT (T GREAT r) aM CAMP CoLT, EXTRA THE WEATHER: Cool except in the vicin- ity of our trick fans I a \ "4 “ Me | MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918 Sports Clothes and Howto Wear Them By Mrs. Vernon Castle Short Skirt for Tennis, Golf or for General Out-of<." Doors Costume for the Summer in Combina- tion With Sweater. The first of three articles describing for Evening World readere Proper manner of dress for all outdoor sports. IRTS CLOTHES are perhaps the easiest to wear—well. They become the young pink and white dolFfaced debutante and they are by far the most becoming clothes for a woman of plain, severe or perhaps. even homely, features, : What could be easier to wear smartly than a sailor hat? Unfortu-s nately, nearly every one has found this out already, and so it has rather taken away the joy of wearing one, and I am afraid one will be forced to see them, not only at the races or motoring, but in the theatre and at the res- taurant evenings, when, after all, they should be confined to sports or business purposes. There is nothing “dressy” about a sailor. Now sports clothes may mean many costumes—in fact, as many as there are sports, but I shall start first with tennis, or general out of doors costumes for the summer, Here one can wear a really short ekirt (pro- viding one’s ankles and feet will allow it; they of course must be considered first). First, there is a short, pleated skirt of white flannel, serge or other suitable material. Even some of the new plaids in soft colors make up very delightfully. I say “pleated” skirt because of the great freedom of movement they allow, and because, if it 1s a short skirt;© they hang and swing so prettily. One can have a perfectly plain circular” skirt, cut on the Dias, though they are harder to hang properly and are “~ seldam as becoming. A light weight wool material in most cases {s the most satisfactory. It does not crease or soil like linen or cotton. And how often have you seen women the wool itself make up very pret- tily. é With the sleeveless style of sweat © coming home from a day’s outing in a linen or cotton skirt soiled and rumbled and hanging in such a d- shevelled state that it looks as though it had been worn a week? One would always do so much bet- better to wear wool when going out for a whole day in the country. Some- times {t turns so much cooler by sun- set that a thin skirt and waist are not warm enough, or perhaps a storm comes up and drenches you before you can seek shelter, TI can’t tell you how many times I have been thankful that I wore a little serge or flannel coat and skirt or sweater and sxirt on a day’s motoring or @ lunch party and picnic, it is always the safest way to dress, and nine times out of ten you will come home looking fresh and tidy in addition to feeling mcre comfortable in the cool of the even- ing when every one else, with wash dresses soiled and clinging, all the| freshness gone out of them, will look | like the end of a day at Coney Island in the rain. Now I have talked long enough on the skirt, although I did not mention that pockets are always an attractive decoration to a sports skirt, as well) as being very useful, One finds pock- ets in most every form of dress now, and there is an excuse for their pop- ularity because if one has a pocket | one generally finds something to put }in tt. I Uke the looks of them, too; they look girlish—or rather boyish— which 1s the keynote to smart sports| clothes. Lightweight wool sweaters are as nice as anything for summer wear, Nowadays almost every one can knit her own, and so they should fit well. There are also such a delightful lot of colors to choose from, and some of the combinations of two colorg in SUBWAY STATISTICS Our famous stationary fans were invented by Prof. Dink, the renowned authority on Palm Beach suits and their cure, When they @re buzzing, they toss off more than 67,000 revolutions a minute, which is almost as good as a Central American republic. They are good fans when they are working. But they are never working. One of our Harlem guards has worked on the subway since it was first pasted together, In that time he has seen 345,989,767,555,- 333,000,000,000,982 and % faces. And he has never seen the same face twice, Which proves that our patrons are the most Intelligent in the world. We got the idea of the subway from watching a worm craw! into an apple, It spoiled the apple, but the worm had a hellufer good ume, WHY OUR FANS DON'T GALLOP, By Theodore P, Baer, Our fans were first installed in the subway cars about the time that Grant tagged Richmond, They are the stylish staionary fans which aren't very ornamental, but a zabbgabbled sight more orna- mental than useful, We conceived the idea of the stationary fan after one jitney treatment in our own subway. The fans never move a whisker under any circumstances. The fans aren't supposed to waltz around, The air is bad enough as it ts, Why attr it up? TAKE ONE. Tr STORY OF F LER BUNK, STRAPHANGE! the liquid to the ivory with a brush, taking care that no acid gets on the woodwork. Wash off the acid with a piece of flannel dipped in clean water and wipe with @ dry cloth, Besides restoring piano keys, says Popular the interest of both England and France, In England before the war ih Soience Monthly, this same mixture 1s equally efficacious for cleaning the of cullery and other ler a! ns Chapter 1, Fuller Bunk was a convalescent straphanger in New England who had flatwheeled down to New York. Most of New England's rock- bound coast was concealed right between his two ears, He didn't know what @ chunk of zap was, but he did know that it rhymed with ecep, aaap. He found it difficult to get any of the Interborough’s seats to work for him owing to the fact that he was a gentleman in a strange land, where the only language spoken was 4 patois of unintelligible elbows, Fuller was not overly bright, but he did know that the subway man was a great benefactor, who had made two blades of grass stand where but one had stood before, One day Fuller was eeeping and aaaping on the Harlem slocal, mumbling his monotonous song and dangling off a flotilla of straps like Mr, Darwin always claimed, when a bright thought smacked him on the skull like a lemon meringue pie falling on a nest of red ants. He knew what a zap was! A zap was a sardine. Approaching himself a little closer, Fuller listened to himself say with each swing of the strap: “SAR-DINES-IN-OIL-AND-WHEY, STAND-all-day, SAR-DINES-OIL-AND-WHEY, STAND.-all-day.” Episode 4 in the Very Eptsodish Life of Fuller Bunk. On his way back to the foolish academy Fuller Bunk tore off some stylish thinking. “What did I mean by them words?” he asked him- selfgin pride and glee, meanwhile playing sweet music upon a one- cylindered ukulele and very prudently dec iding to work a Mongolian dime on the first nearsighted ticket agent he met while cutting his own hair with an oyster shell, “Seems like the old razzberry. Ain't no more sense in it then there is in trying to catch clams with a dictaphone.” 11 the explanation didn’t satisfy Fuller's uncle, who knew that George Washington could tell a lie from the real stuff, Keep! Chapter 2. Aaap! Chapter 3. Gimme @ piece of sap! Weep! Asap! Gimme © piece of map! Arriving at the wrong end of a dish of spaghetti, Fuller gave fresh orders to the chauffeur of his new oarless rowboat, ‘The next day he saw a one-eyed armadillo wearing a summer derby on a Bronx express. He had more elbows than a twin octopus aud an 18-carat wart where bis whiskers should bave been. Grab- , . bos ph time, brush, “Hash-marks"” have nothing to sleeve, which signify the number of ye “The Ad's Wagon” is the name of not a command to fail into the river, the following sentence: “The Rudder” ts not kept In the chart house with delicate Instruments, but rather abaft the ship, and then some, er, @ plain cream colored or white silk sports blouse or shirt is the most becoming. The shops are so full of, the plain tailor-made blouses that it, is not hard to find attractive ones. I like those with the soft pleated fronts and a round, rolled over collar, with sleeves that, though comfortably full, jend in a tight little turned back cuff, at the wrist. Very elaborate blouses are never appropriate with sweaters... A sweater is strictly an out-of-door. sports garments, and all suggestions of lace and folderols are in bad taste, There is a form of sweater that ap- peals to me more than the sleeveless” type, when woven in the very fine soft Shetland wools. This is the one that pulls over the head, with sleeves and just a comfortable opening in tho front—a little lower than one gen, erally Wears in a blouse, The sleeves. should fit very snugly, and then one need wear only a guimpe underneath, which makes {t much cooler, The shops have such attractive Ute. tle organdie guimpes this year, and by fastening neatly the little cuffs that come with them to the bottom of the sweater sleeves one gets the effect _ of @ blouse without actually wearing \t, thereby saving on laundry bills in~ theso days of ft." A knitted belt to match the sweater, or one of ribbon or suede, may be worn about tho waist to finish off the costume, Pan- ama or plain leghorn hats aro at- tractive, or often a sport hat of a sort of angora straw that looks very soft and woolly will be found becoming, Woollen stockings, though a bit warm, look very smart and may be t in most any color now, ainly in better keepin ports costume than silk. C the price of good silk hose to-day, one would do well to do without them whenever it is possible to do so. onrigh he Bi “A Few Things I Have Learned Since Being in the Navy” By a Petty Officer “CO MOW” means food, not a Chinese cook. “Bunk” {s a place to sleep, not an exaggerated bit of information, “Pipe-down” is a gentle hint to keep still, expecially so if it is night “Ki-yi" is not the yelp or name of a pet dog, but, rather, a scrubbing, do with boarding house hash, but rather to the emall, narrow stripes on the lower portion of an enlisted man's ars he has been in service, “A Striper” has reference to a commissioned officer, “The Black Gang” has reference to the firemen of the ship. the Admiral's motor barge, “Fall In* {s a command to get in line formation ready for inspection, the rest of the “Lights Out” means that all lights aboard ship must be turned out, When I first heard it I thought it was a joke and immediately put it inte, “Jimmie Jones lights out for home at 5 o'clock, &e” wide swath in the bunion crop. voice: “BUNIO! DON'T THEY STAND O BUNIONS! DON'T Fuller was cured. TAKE ONE YN YOUR FL bing @ wrinkled old lady by the crutches, Fuller tossed her through a war garden blooming on the nearest window pane. Hastily assuming a nearsighted expression like a quoit with the mumps, he walked briskly down the aisle, his No, 9 tanks cutting @ Fuller chirped at the roof of his ED A SEAT! NEED A SEAT! THEY STAND ON YOUR FEET!”