The evening world. Newspaper, August 14, 1918, Page 10

— ee a ae a oe AS a ' j 4 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, New York Boy, Member Of Lafayette Excadnrille, Mistaken for Boche Spy One of His Most Diverting Experiences Came When French Villagers Among Whom He Had Landed in His Plane, Misled by Sergt. Pilot Hewitt’s Blondness and Broken French, Set Upon Him, Only to Feast Him Later When He Established His Identity. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall “e OT since the Knights of Arthur's Round Table has there been such N a wonderful crowd of men as the Lafayette Knights of the gir. All Americans and Americans from every ‘walk of life—college boys, soldiers of fortune, rich men’s sons, boys who have worked for a living—they sure have been a great bunch. Life with the escadrille means plenty of hard work, enough danger to keep you on the lookout, but abounding good comradeship and more than a little fun.” | That is how Sergt. Pilot Thomas C. Howitt sums up what really was America’s first fighting unit—of which he was for eight months a member and about which he has written a book, “An Aocrial Soldier of | Fortune.” Sergt Hewitt 1s a New York boy, who sailed for Eu: | rope in 1916 when he was only twenty. He vainly tried to enlist with every Entente Consul in New York and finally worked his passage across on a tramp steamer. At first he drove | an ambulance with the American Red Cross, but his ambitions had always | ‘been for service in the air, Besides, he wanted to fight so badly that am: | Dulance driving seemed almost like “slacking” to him, He enlisted in the | French Foreign Legion and was sent to an aviation school. Altogether | he was in the service twenty months, and almost half this time with the Lafayette Escadrille. Furloughed because of injuries, hé sails back to! the war zone at an early date. “My work,” he explained to me yes terday, “was patrol duty. I flew alone | fm a Spad machine. Often for days at @ time our formations would be sent} Another amusing experience which up to sit down ovor the German lines | cane to Sergt. Hewitt w —we hitched our wagons to stars, #o|he was taken for a Germar. spy. He te speak. Tho idea was that while we! lx blue-eyed and blond-pompadoured ‘were occupying certain air sectors the | And he came down once alone in a Germans would stay on the ground. | very small field near a tiny French “Of course we were pounded con- | vi A farmer was working in the | Qinually by the Archies, the anti-air-| fi and the old gentleman zig craft guns, but they did an amazing- | zagced frantically from one side to ty small amount of real damage.|the other to escape the plane, Their shells broke all around us, how-| “In broken French I asked him for @ver, and instinctively we dodged | some petrol,” Sergt. Hewitt told me. from side to side and few swiftly “The badness of my French and the, @bout. I think the speed of our ma-|blondness of my face must have! chines sort of blew the shells away| seemed damnatory to the old chap.! from us. They made an awful racket | Before I knew it he had me by the and when they burst near we had the | throat and was shouting: ‘A spy! A @ensation of being dumped.” | Boche spy!" ‘There wasn't a soul in “What was your most exciting ¢x-|the village who could talk English, perience in the air?” I asked blue-/ and they had to send nine miles for a eyed, almost preternaturally modest | girl who could act as interpreter Bergt. Hewitt. He positively refuses | Once they found out who and what I to do the “returned hero” act. was, they all wanted me to come to “My most exciting moment was the |junch, and the old Mayor, who had! shelled by the 1918 Escadrilic, the Riohthofen might have swooped from the clouds and rammed me and 1| wouldn't have known it till it was over.” the time ae first time I was nearly throttled me, was profusely Archies,” he said with a retrospective | apologetic.” mmile. “It was near La Fere and my/ yt ja a fact that the Allies have, first trip into the air, Usually they! aerial supremavy—indeed, they havel take a newcomer along the Hnes and | ruled the air for over a year, nt. | give him a chance to get accustomed | Hewitt answered another question of| to things, but it happened that proce- mine. “The dure was dispensed with in my case. | even fight unless the odds are Von Richtofen and his circus were) whelmingly in their favor. Of performing thereabouts, and before Teach of us flyers had tis own brand went up one of the boys warned me | of stratoyy, ‘The first thing for an air that I'd beer near cen pt be | fighter to do, in my opinion, is to find Baron or there wou be no ©] out whether the Boche plane is a two Tommy left seater or 4 ut, If it is the latter, “I was flying behind Dr. Rockwell. | drop on jt and let go with your guns @evoting all my attention to keeping | apout fifty yards off, If it is a two @t just the right distance from him.| seater, however, you mus: fly toward Buddenly the black puffs of the! it, Kee ntween it and the Archies began, each one so close that German flyers will not} course sun Then the German gunner cannot see Mt seemed to miss us by inches. Well.) you. The idea is to under the tail T can't say just how 1 felt, except) of the machine and keep there, so that that I could think of nothing else al! the time 1 was up 1 watched the|An air fight bu is over, one ting shells and Dr. Rockwell. Von | other way or the in a minute or two." Bright Boys Kaiser Early Showed, in Precocious Childhood, That “ Irightfulness”’ Was a Natural Talent | AWM, JENNINGS B the Boche cannot shoot and you can.} Wouldn't They Look Sweet Without Collars ? Wier ar Wy y a ZINN) |OF COURSE, IN THESE DAYS, NOTHING MUST BE WASTED, EVEN NECK SPACE—THEY MIGHT CONSERVE IT IN THE MANNER LEVERING HERE SUGGESTS. YAN WILL WELCOME THE"OLD ROMAN"’ ST» LE FOR USE IN HIS EDITORIAL SANCTUM RupBER- AID OF HIS PINK SECRETA\ M@ADOO Wiki FIND THE NECK WATCH Bork USeFuL AND ORNAMENTAL Creme de Menthe lishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Covsright, 1918, by The Pres he" ELLING booze fre the railroads eliminates the only excuse | for going to Philad What's the three cents a mile when you can stay in New York and suffer economically? phia, use of being thirsty at You said it. MeAdoo is taking everything off the rail- roads except the wheels. The only luxuries left are cinders in your eyepiece “here won't be much excitement reserving a Pullman drawing 18 papa and mamma called him| boys should, He called her “tne} 720M On the old town pump, And fourtracking the old oaken bucket | H Friedrich Wilhelm Victor Al- | Englishwoman.” is going to be a tough bump to the travelling men. The dry goods | bert for sae a Aled: lad A year later, when Willie wax still] salesmen will be dryer than ever, Since See, MeAdoo put the damp RRtuate alece mete A cl a AY pe ers on the wet goods a refugee from the subway will have no place tork drought nd to visit h Aaa eha wed to ro bu k into bway him to the family | Queen Victoria Reo wiK niet Sache pape ali loan ine Wills did aot get on It was considered some stunt when railroad trains took water January, 1859. eiltisped’ iw Gosia. Cla he peat at sixty miles an hour, Now they have the passengers doing it too. Willie was al when W put the W riel| Only hope i t the manufacturers will make fountain pens in quart Very precocious! tail through a wringer. “Knglander| Pd Pint sizes, The leakler they are, the more they'll sell lad, «When he | schwein!® chirped naughty Willie was five years! fut he liked his uncle, Albert Ed certainly going to extract all the romance from th» tour old he said to his! ward, least of all, One day when Can you figure the rush of memory that will overcome a papa Unele Alt and Grandma Victoria Southern Railroad passenger as he caravans along on that road? | “Pop,” said he, | and all the family were at table “was Gott born] Albert, wearing h Why around the the old Southern is built like a corkscrew. And flatwheeling Horseshoe Curve With nothing to look at but the back of before I was?” When the Kronprintz| lie slipped down unde ; Frederick of Prussia—who also was| cruwied to where a pair of bare kne« Willie's papa—answered that, nvited him and bit his Uncle Alnert Gott was the elder of the two, Willie! on both knee flew into rage and kicked his mother. Gott mit uns," said Willie He did not love his mother as good) = Wasn't he cute? He was onl ; HER FEEBLE STRENGTH. His Maul be Avery rabaak ean T the farmers’ conf: n the | volunt ; Riditeny i A country store the drifted | who ha tC h to the work done by the various? “No, stranger, she a eae Wives of the committee present call xo ng fe uae ana “Wal,” contributed Uncle Ez, “my delicate lke. Gos ae pi Dy wife is one in @ million. She gets up| of enthusiasm, “if thar woman was 4m the mornin’, milks seventeen cows,|only strong, | don't know the work 4 breakfast for ten hard-working| she co Everybody's Mag azine, od aan aix o'clock, by heck! - x sie % ) f. —w 4 | your own neck is going to be about as much fun as a hangnail, The | only way an engineer on the Erie could tell he was on the tracks | was by lamping the champagne corks along the route, It's a tough world. There may be balm in Gilead, but we'll bet you last year's bird | % | yaa) The Housewife’s Scranbook. Nuisad that has as much) be used as a flavoring or if desired a quarter pounds of lid Up and boiled with the rice eat and it tastes fine, Boil tw A lemon meringue made as for a ups of rice. Mix it with two eups! pie but served in sherbet glasses fuls of tomatoes, half a und of| make a delicious hot weather des- grated cheese andgone t spoonful |sert, It should be served very cold. ‘of salt, Pour it into a baking d sh| In case you sustain a sprain bathe SENATOR JIMMY HAM LEWIS SARTORIAL CENSOR, SETTLE THE MATTER wr No More Oases for Railroad Caravans Secretary McAdoo Has Vetoed Interstate Thirsts—After This,a Red Light Will Mean Danger and Not a Grenadine Cocktail—A Green Light Won’t Be a No More Corner Saloons on Wheels Since Sec’s Order. BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER. FRANKLIN REALLY BEGAN THE COLLAR STUNT SENATOR. JOBAILS: STYLE Va. nen —“fan'- 20 INCHES IN Ci Roum Ma’ THE BUT WHY BOTHER AT ALL— WHEN THE BRUSH-AND 2 GARDENIAS) PROBLEM HAS LONG BEEN SOLVED. ELIZABETHAN PRES SHONTS, IF OBLIGED IN AN EMERGENCY, To RIDE UNDERGROUND, WOULD HAVE AMPLE ROOM To COMPOSE HIS” SONNETS TO A SUBWAy SUFFERER” nest against five aces that it's that old two per cent. stuff with no more kick than a busted legged canary bird If the Government Bertillon experts discover your chin prints on a railroad gin rickey they are liable to sentence you to four days on the B. and O, Nothing but geraniums and grouches will bloom in the buffet car on the Twentieth Century Limited. They ought to name that the 100th Century, for it will seem that long with nothing fo inhale but the rock ballasted roadbed. And, as the Governor of Souse Carolina chirped to the Governor of North Carolina, it’s a long time between drinks on the Pennsy. u” they formerly served in teacups on the Southern Pacific enough tea this time, The cup that cheers and doesn’t inebriate may be good stuff, but you never heard anybody cheering the cup that cheers, ‘There won't be any use of ordering your coffee All you'll get is coffee, and the chef may have you flirting. The will be sure with a wink pinched for A nice, cool sip of sand from the Mojave Desert will be about the only dissipation left for travelling men from New York to San Francisco, which is sure one long tax to im- on your memory, A camel can go eight days without a drink, but eight days on the New York, New Haven and Heartless won't get you anywhere. When a man’s family waves him goodby on that road to wave two weeks before he finally evaporates from view on the horizon It takes four days to rattle pose they have About the only use left for a bungstarter is to bang it over the Kaiser's bean, Then we'll kiss it and salt it away on the top shelf of the Old Curiosity Shop to be used as a home for aged spiders who had their webs busted up by the sudden starting of an e train part of vinegar to three of water. like a crust made as follows: Sif 1 tly with salt and |together one cup barley flour, hatt old water hn exellent first aid) a cup of rice flour and one teaspoon treatment ful of salt. With a knife work ir Ie the skins oat you are press-|six tablespoonfuls of fat. Add suf Ng has a gioss from wear dilute one |fictent cold water and roll dough ou tables; 4) vinegar with one quart | three times A of water and dampen the pressing| To extract onion juice use the glas cloth in this, Iron as usual, using allemon squeezer and press onion oy hot iron, and the gloss will disappear, |it, It will save time and prevent th [and bake half an bour, Ouious may|it with vinegar and water, using one| For the war-time pies see how you|smarting of the eyes. j ; VY es « A AUGUST 14, SS WEDNESDAY, 19148 ‘Slaves of Fashion Awake! | Throw Off Your Collars! Your Yoke is a Joke! “A Fig for Looks,” Says Mr. Frooks (His Collar Is the Reason), and Now He'd Add Another Fad This Summer Silly Season. Now Just to Show That We’re Not Slow in Adding to Suggestion, Herewith’s Some Dope Which Will, We Hope, Bear Fruit Upon Digestion! i ee human male neck is to be emancipated of its fetter by Mr. 8. Leighton Frooks and his Anti-Collar League. (Cheers and cries of “Hear, hear!") Henceforth, fellow citizens, the masculine Adam's apple will move in its appointed orbit as free as a bird and the hateful collar bu will be | tanked with the Oregon boot, the cat-o’-nine-tails and other condemned tymbols of a past age of tyranny. (Tremendous applause.) Soon, if Mr. §. Leighton Frooks of No. 1789 Broadway and his league prevail over the forces of darkness and blind prejudice, a mighty chorus of rejoicing will tise from 50,000,000 naked necks all the way from the rugged coast of Maine to the pine-clad hills of California. store order.) “The Apostle Paul did not wear a collar; why should 1?” the revolu- tionary Mr. Frooks rises to inquire. “Julius Caesar got away with it in all Gaul, and he had no gates ajar riding on his collar bones. King Henry VIII, married six wives and never had to look under the bureau for a |collar button during all his domestic happ | “If these great and good men,” Mr. | Jenni (Police reserves called to re- Bryan as he steps forward Frooks continues to remark, “fulfilled | On the Chautauqua platform to open [noble destinies and carved wide slices |" “Prince of Peace." Cons ive of the swanlike grace of our Secretary Mr. McAdoo as he bend ance—and his neck upon the latest report p on his lin their respective times without col- ¢ Everythicg lars on, why should we poor slaves his ontinue to prop our chins lke a bridled horse? Why, I ask you?" ; Tho silent welkin gives forth no| | reasonable reply. | He lin wheeled chairs—may read | volutionary overturn in the o {mortality among the nan porters, nevitable that human tnge- y will 6 nt to collar. nd nifty { who runs—and a few who go Among the prac he re- mon lconception of the masculine adult of | Chate comprisin ar cutter Jour species when the collarless ago|* Chane rf und card en | Mr. Frooks anticipates realy is u graved “This is my busy day,” could jus, Not since man gave up tights) d from an inexpensive |and took to wearing trousers has so|=old chain, Chorus sub- | radical a change in his architectural | SUtute a delicate hi 1 single ensemble been contemplated. The col-| orchid for the more u Rroup | tar has come to be automatica A neck watch on an elas- | sidered as much of its wear }as the chin which nestles down upon | ed and Eve span A part {t or the garden patch of parsley | Man always has dered his neck ‘which Senator J. Ham Lewis and ex-| an architectural blunder, to be some Gov. Hughes plant just within its| how relieved by a gable effect or a fence, superimposed hip roof; it is this | The ranking Senator from Illinois fallacy Mr. Frooks seeks to explode will be less disguised when his neck | If woman uses her ne 1 display rises like a beatuiful column un-/ space for jewels and t why odorned ‘because of that very copse| should the sterner sex continue to which masks the battery of his chin, hide his be 1a starched stockade? But with ot of the great the change | Even thoug are built on to be wrought by the Frooksian re-| the lines of a burglar of safe ana | volt will be marked—not to say/others have the tapering grace of a overpowering. Consider the Roman-/| Gothic steeple, are they not all beau- esque expanse of neck and chest whic! Frook. will be displ yed by Mr, William = An Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh’s Washington Home | Converted Into a War Relief Workshop | PRs. é WALSH OND oo Se mm uit MISS LASCELLE MesEeRue HE change wrought by the war upon the purposes of Washington so- ciety is well exemplified in the palatial home of the mother of Mrs. John McLean, once the scene of some of the most notable socia! atherings in ory of the national capital Mrs. Thomas I, Walsh, shown in the photograph with Miss Lascelle Joserue, has turned this beautiful home into a depository of old clot cks, stockings and other cast-off garments, collected by 5 women, to be made over into apparel for the suffering children of war stricken unee and Belgium, Instead of being a rendezvous of idle fashionables as of old, this soelal «ntre 1s now the gathering place of men and women of every station of * fe, all bent upon doing their hit for the relief of those she Kaiser's overweening ambition to rule the world. nnocent vy. tims of | |