The evening world. Newspaper, September 11, 1918, Page 12

‘ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, © Are You “Criminally Fat’? Caiories and Arithmetic Will Help You Grow Thin’ Dr. Lulu Hunt Peters Has Devised a System Whereby You Eat Calories by Addition and Lose Flesh by Subtraction Until You Reach Your Ideal Weight, By" Which You Ascertain by Multiplication, When You Think You're in the Lightweight Division. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘ Copyright, 1014, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World) EFORE 1914 being fat was @ joke—albelt @ bad joke. Now it's a crime. B For fat people, men and women, are consuming and hoarding away in their bodies thousands of pounds of much-needed food—perhaps @pough to win the war. Dr. Luiu Hunt Peters, a breezy California physician, calls attention to the unpatriotically obese in her new little book, “Dict and Health, With Key to the Calories,” which is at once @ comic and a competent treatise on reduction. You see, Dr. Peters has been there herself. She ap-| proaches the problem of melting non-essential flesh in no spirit of coldly scientific detachment, but with the frankest and most sympathetic understanding. “All my life I have had to fight the too, too solid,” she assures us candidly, on almost the first page. “Never can I tell pathetically, ‘When I was married I weighed only 118 and look at me now.’ io, I was a delicate slip vf 165 when I was taken I know everything you have to)the window with an exposure of lus- contend with—how you no sooner co: clous, fat chocolates with curlicues on STatulate yourself on your will power, | their tummies, than another comes! after you ha dragged yourself by |into view, and you ve it all to go! =, ~ through with again, and how you . finally ib. 1 hi tl | Boche Prisoner so Glad | wit'te a misdemeanor, punlanable by He Was Taken He Gave! U. S. Captor His Photo} imprisonment, to display candy as| shamelessly as it is done. I know how you go down to destruction for pea- nuts, with their awful fat content. It \» terrible, the lure a peanut has for me. Do you suppose Mr, Darwin {could explain that?” What makes fat? Food, answers Dr. Peters. Therefore, it is by regulat'ng your food, by being your own astern | Food Economy Board, that you will become a lovely (and patriotic) sylph. Then Dr. Peters touches upon the di- lemma with which many lovers of flesh-pots imagine themselves con- fronted. “Heretofore you have known only tn a dumb, despairing sort of way that all the foods you like are fattening, and all the advice you read and hear is that you must avoid them as a pes- tilence. And you settle down to your foyless fatness, realizing that it is beyond human strength to do that for- ever, and that you would rather dle | young and fat, anyway, than to have | nothing to eat all your life but a little | meat, fish and sloshy vegetables.” To which depressing prospect the doctor answers sturdily, t what you Hke and grow thin!” | But analyze your foods carefully jand count the calories, The calorie, as you probably know, is simply a | measurement unit—like an inch or a |pint—of the “good” your food doe» | you, of the energy it gives you. And Dr. Peters rightly itallcizes the fol- | lowing sentence: “Any food eaten beyond what your avatem requires for its energy, growth and repair is fattening or is an irri- | tant” This, in brief, is her system for re- duction: Weigh yourself. Find your ideal weight by multiplying the num- ber of inches in your height over five feet by five and one-half and add 110, ‘The result will givayou ideal weight To find the numbeS of calories you need, multiply this ideal weight by fifteen to twenty calories for each pound, To reduce, deduct from 600 to 1,000 calories from the requirement Of course the average woman does not know how many calories sho is eating. For her benefit Dr. Peters publishes a clear and simple table, in “Diet and Health,” giving the exact caloric value of an average helping of almost all common foods, By con- sulting this table it is perfectly simple MEWITZ ANOS MISCAPTVE N interesting light on the spirit A Striking example of the new nutria fur and gray squirrel, Salvage the best of the fur, have That long fur coat, cut on obsolete lines, from the cedar chest to bring new joy and comfort to the wearer. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1918 4 . a 7 : 66 Y 3 Tan Fashion Introduces the ‘‘Conservation Coatee MODELS FOR THE COMING WINTER, BEING SHOW: TRATED, SUGGEST SALVAGE OF LONGER COATS IN MILADI’S WARDROBE, WHICH * IN VARIOUS EFFECTS AS HERE ILLUS- I damaging to this fragile bit of stage SRE HEH UHR: i + Bhop. shawl coatee, of An afternoon coatee in Kolinsky fur. The j Although Mr. Walker doesn’t an- ‘ artistic cutof the garment lends particular dis poorre ater 0s te. Butecr ee tion. Jonathan Makes a Wis! be prot- ae aL ably will bear up modestly if the play A stunning short cape coatee, in black seal with collar and cuffs of squirrel, with belted front and cape back. (Photos by Fashion Camera Co.) ‘an now be rest fed these new coatees, as many New and have the twofold satisfaction the pieces put together in one of style,” but also doing your bit is ished on him.” Apparently he | bas taken a leaf or two out of the | Bouth ‘Tarkington books devoted to | ithe fascinating and worthy science of | adolescence, But where Tarkington Walker dreams—and he Greams true, for every boy worth the | I ather he is wearing out dreams {of the thing he wants to do. It may be the best thing in the world | for him, but no matter, A boy should be given the opportunity to follow his bent—and this fe what Mr. Walker's play means, if I understand it. A youngster of fourteen who thinks of nothing but writing ridiculous little plays and staging them in his toy theatre may be condemned as fovlish by wiseacres who manufacture sewer pipes or become masters of the pig ron industry. Yet Edward Sheldon, who didn’t look much older than Jon- athan when he startled the theatrical world with “Salvation Nell," began his playwriting career in just this jWay, and he has managed to keep # {very serviceable roof over his heal for many @ year since, Accordingly, (Mr. Walker is treading on safe ground in this instance, ground that has a thick layer of common sense. “Jonathan Makes a Wish” ts an appealing, boyish fantasy designed to enrich the young and enlighten the old. The boy tn the case makes no trouble for anybody until his hard-| headed Uncle John, finding him giv- ing a private performance to an ap- preciative tramp, orders the audience to leave the house—or the lumber room of a carriage house—and then lays violent hands on the treasured plays sacred to the memory of a| mother who violated the traditions of a sewer-pipe aristocracy by going on the stage, Because the justifiable word “Cowardly!” springs to his lips, Jonathan is struck in the face, after which the autocratic Uncle John locks him in the place, Determined to make his escape and take to the road with his new-found friend the | tramp, Jonathan proceeds to lower | himself with @ rope from a high win- | dow, but the rope breaks and he 1s so badly hurt on the rocks below that his back Is believed to be broken, not It is the fantasy born of Jonathan's delirium that gives the play its finer | meaning, for in it the tor- tuous workings of a boy’s mind. The| lad is visualized as a burfchback, the | ragged and dirty companion of the| tramp who has become so brutal that ‘he seizes upon the gift bestowed by pretty Cousin Susan, only to find that is seen York women already are doing, of knowing that you are no only toward “conservation.” OU'VE heard about exceptions bf that prove rules, Well, here's one of those exceptions, and his name ts John A. McKenna, Mr a who » McKenna is > much | wants children he's offering a $5 pr one born under one of his roofs. The exception would be even @ proof of the ri McKenna‘s apartment located in Manhattan or even Brook- | partments thi mium for every more | if Mr were] ‘olved hou Here’s a Landlord Who Puts $5 Premium on Babies! McKenna Wants His Newark Apartment Houses Full of ’em, so Offers Reward to Tenant Parents his tenants crowd as many kids into) his houses as they can pack, on the | one condition that they are orderly, The idea of fostering the efforts of | Papa and Mother Stork through the | bonus method came to McKenna sim- ply because he wants his apartments tiled with happy parents and plenty of kids for atmosphere, He is willing that the youngsters in his d make all the noise they wis partments If they he has destroyed a precious flower. This may seem a small thing, but tt has the touch of the artist, so often a stranger to our stage. Though’ THE NEW PLAYS “Jonathan Makes a Wish” Appealing Boyish Fantasy BY CHARLES DARNTON T is the soul of a boy that Stuart Walker reveals in “Jonathan Makes a Wish,” the simple and imaginative little play that found a sympathetic audience awaiting it last night at the Princess Theatre Audience that must be shocked into unders that needs to be hit on the head with a theatrical brick, would have been as Ineldentally, an nding what it sees and hears, art as the proverbial bull in a ohina GRacery suey as Jonathan makes his way back to the phantom home, no one recognizes him. But there is always the green hill far away, and mounting to the top of the world he raises his tri- umphant cry, only to tumble down into the world as it is to-day and ever will be. But when he awakens to the fact that his back isn't broken, Jonathan finds that he is not as badly off as he supposed himself to be, for his good Uncle Nathamtel, who writes stories and plays about people and has thereby arrived at a sympatheti: understanding of human nature, is right at his elbow to play the fairy godfather, In short, Uncle Nathanic and Jonathan run away together and the boy's chosen path es straight before him. Easily tha best and most sensitive of our boy-actors, Gregory Kelly made Jonathan a vivid revelation of the youthful dreamer, But with tho hesitant manner characteristic of him and puckered brow that marked him in “Seventeen,” he was never obvious, His performance must re- main one of the artistic achievements of the season. George Gaul was a thoroughly bu man and likable Uncle Nathaniel, Patterson made Aunt Le- ti rentle soul that.endeared her to the audience, and Edgar Stehlt, with his easy-going manner, as the tramp fully deserved every “hand-out” given im. After all, a congenital tramp something of the poet in him, and as Hank happened to be an uncon- sclous humorist besides he made bis way to the heart with the greatest of ease. As for the play, “Jonathan Makes a Wish" is @ fine challenge to the open road of Elizabeth a sit In that chair; look me in the eye, 1 state their business—like regular Phat's what McKenna thinks of letters, ‘The Newark landlord was born in{ Newark; lived there all his life, mar-! ried a Newark girl, made his fortune there and remembers when his rouse | re Fernandes, who made it @ busl- was built in @ veritable wilderness,!ness to obtain engagements for ac He began his working career at the'tors and actresses, I was less than age of twelve. He started in to be al eight years of age at the time and| machinist, and still perpetuates his|the work I did was practically noth- MARY ¥ first connection with the the- atrical business was as an of- fice “boy” in the agency of of the Germans who have feel particularly Jovial and knock ont ay ath been taken prisoners by the]? figure out for yourself a diet which lyn. Mut we can't. expect everything |a few windows with a hammer or leg trade by tinkering with the flivver-injing but answer questions. I had t repr etter re- | Will contain, say, 1,200 calories for thejin this world. Mr. MeKenr cone | 0 . > st the back shed. He learned how to, work, however, as my father, who k f his onl Americans is shown in a ror a chair his only command is that ; Ph nad Aled and: lait Geived from Philip Nixnewitz, No. 966| three daily meals—Dr, Peters's own|ducting his “infant philanthropy” In| the fond papa replace the aforesaid cormpule averages, split fractions end) waa an actor, hed Sie) doe | Gutter Avenue, Brooklyn, a former wance when she is reducing, Newark, which is just next door after| windows. If the family living below a oavered ® fair working knowledge | mother with dour little ¢ " ie clerk in the ¢ ral Post Office, who| %9 You see, you can Include some of jail. 1 band of red-blooded, rough-and of logarithms ag well as wee mite of} care for. ‘The task was too much for enlisted in the 38th Infantry your favorite articles of food in your] Mr, McKenna, who already has dis-|tumble children object to the noise the inner secrets of geometry and al-| her, so I went to work. Inclosing a picture of a German,|™menu, if the daily caloric total of] pensed sever ‘1d pleces to proud|and confusion, McKenna's only | it from a two-foot r At the time I had no ambition to whom he had taken soner, he| What you eat is kept down. “If there! papas, has enteen apartment] answer to their plaint ts: “There's | spends all his spare time,| 6 an actress; neither had my mother | wrote: “I nit him on ad and|comes @ time,” the doctor instances, |ouses with approximately seve nothing to stop you from moving, is when not collecting rents and lis-| any idea that I would take up tho| Bac surrende od He, i med 2, be hen you think you will die unless|/tenants. The apartments range from | there?" ane ecg complaints, in his tite of the sta; But from a theatri- | for the prison camp in the rear ine |%0U have some chocolate creams, go] $16 to $30 per month and have from/ In his home at No. 298 Mth Ave- | 1h ihe past twenty-five years 641 omce to the acting vocation is only | @isted on giving me his picture.” Jon wc. ¢. debauch. I do, occasionally, five to seven rooms, McKenna is|nue, Newark. this new-departure| JOHN A MOKENNA po Ang ac raped Rep ie! yr , short, natural step, and when| eis hie ere’ Tarren te. the Leth ete Haag ory derail keen for ebildren, Ie 1s willing that! landlord summoned up his attitude}on the question in jyst eighteen] Newark. Ho has read Tho World fac; Mother Fernandez—we always sales jb ake ore ¢ . then | —— ~- aa words: twenty years and refuses ¢ or Mother—had a call one day for a ever in boats, load : r > touch his| her 3 i ieee, 12 boats, ton me for the balance of my dinter . Y. N I T “What does a man and his wife} breakfast without it, Yester« child to act a “bit” she thought of D Brring, elline of <i [1 owl of Clear Soup sc|Here’s Your New Income Tax want In-@ seven-rooin apartment all| RewaPoy left hin ene other ps a @p the Marne July ey oalso | 1 Cracker 2 C. lone—to play baseba ne ane See ee Lee : pla a - 227k ll HB. Mary," she sald. B Hallt a pontoon bridge and kept pour | M B f (e etka ike pana ‘ou can do It, Be Te ee ikon he sath Cons m4 n Measure Before Congress] But inis otter to tne paren Bamoun Drinking 655 Pe ann neat galt Wo its bit, We opened fire, the yourself and other persons BLOW is a table showing what| which you may handily compute how | jy of genie) aohpe idloey ; 8 8 “I don't care," I replied c e most dead) he ¥ " d © has ten bt two letters nis ¢ Besos ald the most deadly they going to reduco—then |B You, married or single, must|much you must pay. It was com- | Lc has written but two letters in bis} Composed on Battlefield| an right. Consider yourselt a ful them checked. At daylight we amed to back down, wily| pay the Government on your]piled by EB, J. Fath of Standard | woman +e wehte hans who er-| HAT most celebrated of drinki fledged actress.” | : ; woman thirty years ago, after ng | @an rounding up thousands of pris- | Dr. Peters further advises. Keep up| income under the provisions of the| Statistics Compan: 4 . songs “We Won't Go Home| When rehear: n I appeared @ners, The fields were full of dead| with your Red Cross work | | ~~ ward became bie wits, end bore bim 7 ae | Germans. The next three days we! pct ae that aie Stner | War Revenue ensure newb MARRIED MIB five children, It appears that those Till Morning” found its inspira. | With my doll. Some of the members @ounter-aitucked driving them into | «ino, poached It have other The figures affecting utes two letters were the only requisites|tion in war, The air was composed |of the cast laughed a at my, e river, and for this we received tals to think about besides your-| ried mei w arrived at by a Nin sary to win his bri n those|by an unknown French soldier after|china baby, but the stage tor de- | Croix de Guerre om the French | . { ? , vigor us exerclae every exemption of $2,000. An add ne 4 Mrs, McKenna has been dead |the battle of Malplaquet, which was| cided she would lend “atmosphe | ae ji AAR Resist the temptations of tholat exemption of ould teen years, fought in 1709, The Krench troops| my part, and 60 the doll was er BN Sed a) dacucaie we hen thal * ol Ane k mer {ducted for ea nt ch McKenna avers that when you|suffered severely in the battle, and|too, My salary was very smail, but fhonor of being the first regiment and aMicieney decreases in direct pro-}der eighteen ye write a letter you only let yourself|when night came a cold, drizgling|it was enough to help mother out at second company to recroxs the | Portion as excess weight Increases, ried men rec an exemption of $1,- | in fora Jolly good mess of trouble, 1f|rain and a shortage of food added! home wonderfully, me, We kept golng, taking a| “You will look y ten years|oo0, ‘That is to say, they may deduct nua) [You doubt the white-haired son of|to thelr discomfort, ‘The trooper-| or several years I played pages, B tonne where we ‘had nome | younger when you get down to nor- [hat ainount { heir taxable in- | rin just hark back to the “Willy-|composer wrote the song on a drum.|angels and babies, ‘Then came bet-| fer this advance we received another |" ¥ come Nicky” correspondence, “When any|head, and it was designed to cheer | ter child parts, and I was kept acting de Guerre, “By the time t oer | “Diet and Health With Key to the]. The new bill eliminates the excess] 1% {13 | one writes me a letter, T usually read Nis, wnhanpy conmades. It immedi: |unti 1 grew up. Now I am boing I expect to have all kinds of Calories” is published by The Reilly| profits tax as regards individuals and au ometimes. But if they want ac- y y pread | starred by Cohan & Harrs in “The & Britton Co, | partnerships, This a the table by they've wot to come down hexe;, all over France, and thence to Eng- land and America, Little Teacher,” but the work seems How | Began My Stage Career RYAN MARY RyAN much easier than the first I had as a hild actress with my dc the doll m nuntimely hile I was playing in the sec I undertook, A rough old nsfer man let a trunk fall-on bor nd all that of my baby was a Bingham 1a memory HUBBY 1S, BEAR IN MIND, CRUEL, ONLY TO BE KIND. Mra, Smith had Just put her head utside t when Mra j copied “Where did you get that bla wired thy ait husband of yours te a Oh, no. be aint! and. the wite ‘bridied’ up. “Hee tat rib addin ut ter he mau f black eye he wat ‘holding Ing pan on it for an he t t swelling, Not nany w 9 that, you know Herald.