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a AR — ® “ ‘4 ar, ‘ ‘ 4 ik Row, New York. President, 63 Park Ne treasurer, 63 Parke Ro R,' Jr, Secretary, 63 Park How. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, Arecetated Prom ie axcisively entitled to the use for remblication of aft CO rg a Re TE SR ER ' THE SOLDIERS’ AND SAILORS’ RELIEF ACT. y the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to omen — SSS eh VOLUME 59... .cccccccccscccsccccccccccccesssNO. 20,854 HE Evening World printed yesterday the facts of a particularly flagrant case of unwarranted eviction, in which the wife and emall child of a Brooklyn soldier were forced by the landlord to move with three days’ notice because of non-payment of a $4 balance due on the current month’s rent. 4 A member of the Loca! Draft Board in possession of fall draft data Poncerning the husband showed that the latter, although first placed . in a deferred class, had subsequently, with the approval of his wife, _ © waived exemption and given up s good job to enter the military service. [He was sent forthwith to Camp Syracuse and his wife set out to take ware of herself with the help of his allotment and the Government allowance. She owed only $4 of her $19 monthly rent when the Tandlore took steps to have her dispossessed. ‘In making it clear that had she told the Court she was a soldier's mdant the dispossession would never have been allowed, Justice of the Fourth District Municipal Court said yesterday: “1 wish The Evening World would again cal) the atten- Yon of soldiers’ and sailors’ dependants to the United States 1 which protects them from eviction for non-payment of 1, rent and protects their property against seizure for failure te pay instalments, I have had many such cases before me “and havo ruled for the soldier's or sailor's dependant every, time.” Whe Evening World has already printed portions of the Federal ct with the explanatory comments of Judge William Armstrong, a former Justice of the Municipal Court of New York City, who has made a specia) study of this phase of war legislation and who has offered his legal services gratis to soldiers and sailors or their depend- ante who find themselves in difficulties with landlords or others scek- ing to take advantage of them. q .. The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Act passed by Congress last March, which is also known as the Moratorium Bill, contains the following: Section 366, Article IL, paragraph i: No eviction or distress saal) be made during the period of milltary service tn respect of any premises for which the agreed rent does not exceed $50 per month, occupied chiefly for dwelling purposes by the wife, children or other depend- ants of person in military service, except upon leave of court, granted upon application therefor, or granted in an action or proceeding affecting the right of possession. The special responsibility put upon the courts fn all such while the war lasts is made clear in the next paragraph of the fection of the act: On any such application the court may in its discretion on its own motion and shal) on application, unless in the opin- ' jon of the court the ability of the tenant to pay the agreed rent is not materially affected by reason of such military ser- vice, stay the proceedings for not longer than three months as provided in this act, or it may make such other order as may be just. This large measure of discretion is left to the courts with the Plain intent that the courts shall use it to save soldiers’ and sailors’ dependants from extra hardship while their usual means of support fire withdrawn by reason of the Nation’s paramount need. Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels @eclared to Congress the purpose of the bill prior to its passage in these words: “On the whole the method of the act consists mainly in suspending proceedings and transactions during the soldier's or saflor’s absence, so that he may have an opportunity when be returns to be heard and take measures to protect his interests.” It will be seen that this covers more than rent. ‘The Moratorium Bill, as Judge Armstrong notes, goes farther and prohibits the fore- elosure of mortgages for failure to pay interest, the lapsing of in- surance policies for failure to pay premiums, the forfeiture of prop- erty bought under instalment contracts for failure to pay instalments and prohibits irrevocable sale of property for non-payment of taxes, That a part of the public is still unaware of the existence and bearing of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Relief Act is proved by the num- r of cases like that cited in Brooklyn, where wives or others have th evicted before it has been brought out that they are dependants of men in military service, The act in question is the law of the United States, #¢ ‘Those in military service aud their dependants should know it for their protection. Landlords should know it, if only for the reason that any person io knowingly takes part in any eviction which violates the provisions of the act ic guilty of a misdemeanor for which he can be fined $1,000 or imprisoned for one year or made to pay both penalties. Se Letters From the cases same People able-bodied men who can dance until] sweet, and I have sometimes wished | Dresenting the sugar bowl with a |*You are only entitled to two tea- EDITORIAL PAGE Wedn ay. September 25, 1918 By Nixola G LONG time ago,” said a mar of forty to me recently, “I, discovered that if women do not like a girl there is something | radically the mat- ter with her; and I would = never marry a woman of whom women gen- erally disapprove. Given certain mod- ifcations which : ) would take into SEEEETEI account jealousies, personal, social and professional, I be- lieve every man in search of a wife might profit by this observation. For the trouble with man's unaided selection is his “sweet tooth.” The otber afternoon in a tea room a walt- ress set some iced tea before me, and e afety clutch still upon ft, said firmly: spoonsful.” “What are we going to do about It? I inquired meekly, “I never take more than one.” “That's fine! couragingiy. “But you know we had to make that rule on account of our men cus- tomers. If wo did not have it some of them would tako five or six tea- |spoonsful to a glass, and none would take less than three.” As with tea and coffee, so it 1s with Men like them sweet, too she exclaimed en- that Mr, Hoover's regulations con- \cerning sugar could be extended to include man's ideal girl. Women, on the contrary, have the same rule for. girls, or rather aa adaptation of it, that they have for preserving. A pound of sugar to a | pound of intelligence or energy ts the recipe for the girl women love, “Beware of tho smile that won't come off,” a wise old lady sald to me when I was very young. “There are always fligbtiness and hysterics underneath.” Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), No. X¥XIV.—THE GIRL WOMEN LOVE reeley-Smith “Yes, the war news is good—won't it be wonderful if we take Metz? By the way, do you know of any sort of position for a young wounded Ser- dian?” &o, F And eventually I would go back in riumph to the dispenser of sweetness and light and tell her I had landed a job for her Serbian, “Serbian?” she would repeat in a puzzled voice, “I don't know what you are talking about. But, of course, 6f a siren of the most unscrupulous type. Just now and then the ingenu- ous creator of the “Five Towns" refers to his heroines’ matchless womanly arts, Always willing to learn, I searched carefuly those 352 pages for some concrete example of Christin fascinations, and found just one. For as Christine heard the hero's foot- step on the threshold she placed a bonbon half way between her gleam- ing teeth and held up her mouth to be kissed. “Oh, fudge!" is what I said then—so why shouldn't I say it now? But, after all, this may bave been @ subtle appeal to man's “sweet you mean my wonderful little Lithu- anian girl who plays tho flageolet so deautifully.” And so deeply would the poor, wounded and still jobless Serbian be interred under fresh objects of woin- anly sympathy that I would have Breat difficulty {m unearthing bis ad- dress to give him employment, A few experiences like this and a woman decides that two lumps of sugar are quite all she requires in the depositories of her girl friends, And when she sees @ poor, trusting male about to domesticate the whole sugar bowl she fs inclined to weep over his opatity and his futile greed, As a pessimist by conviction but an optimist by temperament, I have always liked cheerful women. I don’t mean witless Pollyannas or “let’s-all~ Do glad in a glad world” simpletons, but women who accept life bravely and never whine, Women generally have little sympathy with the mom- bers of their sex who go about with delusions of persecution, dark plots to kidnap their husbands or thelr Jobs, Thero are many of these mild para- noiacs abroad, but the only believing audiences of thelr woes are male, Women detest vampires and all their works, not because they are dan. gerous, but because their devices are so crude and transparent and antique Intelligent women are exceedingly sceptical of vampires anyhow, and be- lieve that a vamptre's victim does not need sympathy but a lunacy commis- sion, I read recently Arnold Bennett's “The Pretty Lady,” which ls @ study I did not believe her. Dut after 1 grew up to daily contact with women of every kind I realized that she was right. How often I have had some dispenser of sweetness and light come to me with @ tale of @ poor unforty- vere changed, especially In | Nate “victim of society” for whom she wanted to get a job, And I would About Sincke: | How to Find the Sinckers, ! The Kveaing Wor | © the Mditor of enwmg Worlds ent slacker raids my pa| Jt is about tine’ tie people woke up| trlotism was almost brought tg the| 4nd found out why so many strong, | giris, point when I notice the of the so-called exempt|the carly hours of the morning, Classes, ‘These deferred classifica-|'Ouxn & few pounds under we . are put in Class 2 and 3 by the tion folk seem to have the laugh onl yoards, but are heavy ‘encumn’ eens fhe man in uniform, the feeling be-}into the munition plants, where they ing t away with you didn’t.” | ##eure a soft Jc nd big pay, .Enemy aliens, filling lucrative post-|, 4 know eyeral first-class “machine | 4 7 ft can y e be . ood Americans, who volun- Ations left vacant by our brave boys, ed their services in the trenches &FQ walking the streets, thanking the|They are asked to give up. the fates “they aie as they are,” along. |Phance to earn big money while the side friendly aliens, enjoying all the | nancy end tans eee ceatth Bete the fruits of our liberty and the benefits} J likewise know several couples institutions, with no idea of|Who murried to avoid the draft and duty to any country of it The wives were ut the al men have Kecured clasy| Pench for weeks, the husbands Ue: Jerin, he number Muni tio orkers) are driven t Be Churches and. synagogues hew {Work in thelr autos. ‘Their wives ride many men have thus been, around all day, belong to the Red ME cnemptea? ‘iiow c ,| Cross for a bluff, and as long as they a. Betta aianta have their knitting bag (used only Rakin] 4 i when they ride in the train) the ee eth, Suly ordained min feel that they are very patriotic, ROE so yicogmined seminary, oF just] Don't you thigk that it ts about fen holding a position in a religious /time some of the officers of the Draft prise, ese essential in m way | Hoards austria) enter the suburbs of our great city, . Y, end pfa few hours Satur r Sunday, !a few of these too light, too heavy ‘the majorit, at these are iron-barred|men were ri ful ‘ xamined? Then the mobos real slackers will be found. ON HIS KNEES, THINK," ohe sald. “that ho has deceived us all. I don't think he ty anything more than a clerk.” “why? “Because right tn the middle of a proposal Jast night his mind wandered, jeer a@ little, and then at clubs and|and he sald: ‘You could wear a ‘war meetings and dinner parties begin|sisze smaller without any trouble at tooth,” which I mentioned in the be- ginning. Women dislike the practicers of such puerile arts because they have a fee!- ing, often unformulated, that they cheapen womanhood with men, And so they do—girlish coquetry 1s an- other matter apd women are almost as delighted as men are with it The girl women love is often much more beautiful than is necessary to ease men, She is frequently more ntelligent, because so many men find thelr feminine {deal in a large empty skull in which they may have their own thoughts reverberate. And she |48 always more honest and direct— |man's tdeal being constructed on a | foundation of faith, woman's on a jfoundation of truth, so that they sel- dom meet in the same woman, By Andre Dupont. Copsright, 1918, toy The Press Publishing Ga, (The New York Evening World.) OUSEKEEPING 1s one of the H most complicated businesses in the world, and yet it is one oftenest run in a haphazard way, The reason why certain men make fortunes managing big hotels, while the average woman fails to get more than @ very meager Uving from a boarding house, ts because the man puts his house- keeping on a business basi The way and never knows just why sho is losing money. Many of tho contri- vances used to savo time in an office can be used with advantago in tho home, I havo a friend who says the card index has taken away balf her | worrics as well as saved ber @ good She lid been @ successful business woman ustomed to @ well ordered routine every day and also to knowing exacjly whore the firm stood finan- cially, so wien she became the home ——_$_—_—_——— woman lets hers run along in any old | New York Girl Types You Know |The Jarr Family Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) “ee HO was that who went out as I came in?” asked Mr. Jarr. “It was dark on the stairs, but I sald ‘Good evening’ when she spoke to me, Wasn't it Gladys Terwilliger?” “Oh, yes, that was Gladys,” replied Mrs, Jarr, “And Madge Dingelbender calls me on the telephone and asks me it I know any young officers, And you see all the letters I get from Viola Cackelberry id her aister Irene hinting for a visit. Let them Stay home and marry men too old for the draft!” “Here, what's in the alr that all these young ladies should evince such interest in us?” asked Mr. Jarr. “Oh, because I was successful with Clara Mudridge when I introduced her to old man Smith and she mar- ried him, I suppose,” sald Mrs. Jarr wearily, “Well, much thanks I got! And I'll never put myself out again.” “I don't see how you were success- ful,” ventured Mr. Jarr. “It was Clara Mudridge who married him, and then took a hyphen with ber husband,” “And she’s never known a happy day, she says,” Mrs, Jarr went on; “but that doesn’t keep those other girls from regarding me as lucky.” “Lucky, how?" Mr. Jarr inquired. “Luck~ in getting them husbands, ot ah Sayings of Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyrigtt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World). When Did a Bald Spot, or a Lean Purse, or a Tendency to Embonpoint Ever Deter Any Man From Seeking @ Perfect Woman for His Mate? WW eae my Daughter, doth the Fool insist that marriage is « lottery? For in @ lottery thou drawest cither a PRIZD or nothing; but in marriage thou drawest always a SURPRISE-— or something! Now there dwelt a Bachelor tn Babylon who had long sougat to find a Perfect Woman. (@or when did a bald spot, and @ lean purse, and a tendency to embonpoint ever deter ANY man from seeking a “PERFDCT Woman” for his mate?) “Verily, verily,” said the Bachelor, “she upon whom | shall bestow my heart and hand and groucses, Ss and my weekly salary, and my rheumatism, must bo young, with the youth of the gods—yet old enough to ‘UNDERSTAND me!" “Foolish encugh to talk baby talk—yet clever enough to take an In+ terest in art and books and music. “Beautiful, with the beauties of the soul, as well as of tue face and | figure—yet atterly devoid of vanity, “Accomplished and experienced—yet simple and innocent at heart “Wealthy in her own right—yet frugal and domestic in her tastes, “Brilliant and intelligent and broad-minded—yet NOT opinionated, withal!” ‘And lo, after many years of {dle flirtation and sentimental experiment, it came to pass that the Bachelor Found his Perfect Woman—even a youn; WIDOW, with beauty and brains, and virtue, and an income of aer own! And bis luck WAS with him! For the woman was lonely, and his wooing was not in vain. | For, what 1s softer than the heart of a yearling widow, JUST out of | crepe? | Yet, after a year of marriage, the Perfect Woman was smitten with \a strange and fearful malady. Lo, upon a morning, she arose and cut off ‘her hair, and arrayed Serself in strange garments of purple and green, | which smote her husband's eyes wita their weirdness. | her and make report thereon. saying: “My Son, upon thee! ltrom tae terrible affliction | “Nay, say not so! | dured—but Verily, verily, ‘of a wife? For every woman is an | matrim Bld. it will be “something DIFFERENT! Selah. explained Mrs, Jarr. “Girls of cou i are so hard to please these days an want so much that eligible young men are getting scarcer and scarcer. besides going into the army and navy and aviation and the tanks. Yet, al- though one can’t expect any social position in marrying into such a pro- fession—although I cannot see why it doesn’t give the same standing that marrying a physician docs, be- cause they work together, don't they? and yet do you ever notice they never pretend to know each other at funerals?” “What ARB you talking about?" 4 Mr, Jarr, in an exasperated tone. “Gracious!” cried Mrs. Jarr. “Don't bite my head off, please. I was just telling you that first girls these days want social position with money, and then when they get over twenty-four they'll take the money, and when they reach twenty-elght they will be content with a good provider and give up these dreams of the social position, Of course, they’ro all will- ing to marry an officer in the army and navy, as I said, “So, as I was saying, although there 1s no special social position, still, they do make a good living. Vor while one can do without lux- uries, we all must die.” Mr. Jarr groaned and clutched his hair, He would have torn some out termined that she would follow the same plan. Tho other night she told moe all about it; “When I was first married I deter- | mined to make my head save my heels. | My mother had taught me a good dea) | about housekeeping, so that I was not | absolutely inexperienced, but I had seen the advantage of system, I determined to use it in my own home, The frst thing I did was to take eight cards and head one “Daily Routine,” and the other seven with the days of the week. On the first card I entered all my daily tasks consecu- tively. Nothing was too small to re ceive ita placo on the curd, as I did not intend to make my min} do apy of tho work a set of cards could do for it. On tho cards for the different days of the week I wrote all the little special tasks, not forgetting evea such details as winding the clock, filling the salt cellars, &c. Then with the cards at hand 1 worked like @ ma-hins and finished {n about half the time it would have taken {f I had stopped to wondal Y, len uncegsing cgnvass of my fulapda’ a "—Chicago Baral, te Tparines © § seuemmeenat Bae oe ey neptet eins sae, We Theme eno”... | 80 Keeping House With a Card Index cards J filed in a box divided into sece copied differeut menus that I had found economical and appetizing, All |my special receipts 1 also copied on cards and placed in the box so that I can find them without delay when Leeded, “Then I also keep a sort of kitchen ‘Day book,’ in which I write lists of | supplies needed, and in this I also | write menus for two or throo days \ahead. 1 find that this greatly tacilt- | tates marketing and makes the prepa- ration of food easior for forehanded- {ness and simplifies kitchen work. 1 |have a loose leaf memorandum book | which I keep my chopping (dry goods, notions, &c., needed) and also @ lst of any- thing requiring mending or any |odd job for @ spare moment, These, with the addition of a book tu which J keep @ strict account of al) expendi. tures, and a check book with which all bills are pald, are all the business tools 1 have, but I find them of great assist- in lista tions, along with cards on which were | ‘THIS thing, who can bear i what profiteth it a man to be TOO cautious tn his choice ‘And thereafter sae babbled in an unknown tongue and wandered about as one beroft of reason. And all ber conversation was of dreams, and affinities, and complexes, and “the submerged ego!” And the man rushed forth and brought home an alienist to watelt But when the alienist had observed her Se shook his head sadty, thy sins have found thee out, and thy punishment hath come For lo, SHB, thy wife, is incurable! She shall never recover which hath come upon her. wi th been bitten by this germ, there 1s no hope FOR her! bhadrey name of her malady is—PSYCHOANALYSIS!” | phen the man buried his face in his aands and wept, crying: For plain INSANITY may be either cured or en- Alas, once a 1 ud unknown chemical combination. Add nony and thou canst not tell W: HAT she may turn into—save tat EE — By Roy L. McCardell in bis exasperation, but his hands were not grasping so much of {t these days, and he resolved to Ict nature take its course in the head-denuding process. So, restraining bis annoy ance, be asked Mrs. Jarr, with forced calmness, please to cease her ravings or else explain. “Why, goodness me! Can't you see that it is known that I know him! Or why would Gladys ‘Terwilliger be calling to see me, and why should Madge Dingelbender keep mo half an hour on the telephone asking me if ? were angry at her and why I never came to seo her any more? And jgst as I say, if Viola Cackelberry and Irene Cackelberry hear I know him they'll pop right over from Phija- delphia, For, a8 you know, bis unela Who ts it you are guardian of uow? Who's tho mys- terious person usceptible Miss Terwilliger calls on you about, and the gushing Miss Dingelbender phones you concerning?” “Why, Mr. Berry's nephew Harold, who will be in charge of the branch undertaking establishment Mr. Berry has opened in tho neighborhood. Tho young man has such bad eyesight he's out of the draft, so ho ean stay in undertaking, which is an essential industry, If you had listened and not interrupted you would have under. “Ab, and €0 we ure to have a marriageable you: sdertuher io our midst?” usked Mr. Jarr, “Why, certainly, I happened te drop just a word tu Gladys Terwil- lger’s mother Madge Dingle. bender’s married wus present. Tt way in Muller's grocery store this morning, They were discussing the new undertaking establishment, aad 1 happened to say that Mr, Berry knew our fam that his nephew, so Mr, Berry told me, would be in charge of aud Mr, Berry said he knew the young man would make good. And that's why all those girls have been so attentive to me of late. They expect me to make them acquainted with the young man.” too,” is on, Le man lose But Mrz, Jarr only uald ube won- dered why such 4 nico young man would bury himself in the undertake ing business ee SIGNALS FOR AUTOMOBILES, A new direction indicato: “ mobiles, to be carried at one eae ae @ wind shield, raises semaphores to Wane! thet 2 sor ts gcine to stoy oe turn to ong side or the other, n _. f