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AW y \\ Ws We YQ SS \\\\ SAN \A \ ss TaN | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918 \ As \ SN + 1918 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 From the F ighting Front — | _ To the Fighting Back Lines ? ! Of Bonds in New York: MARTIN GREEN CONTRASTS OUR METHODS OF SELLING LIBERTY BONDS WITH THOSE EMPLOYED BY ENGLAND AND FRANCE} By Martin Green (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) ‘cc HAT @ chance!” The expression escaped me as I rode down Fifth Avenue yesterday afternoon atop a Fifth Avenue bus. We wero at 87th Street, on the crest of the hill. Adead of us for, three-quarters of a mile, down to Madison Square, the sides of the avenue banked in red, white, blue, green, yellow, gold—all colors, all tints, flags and banners flapping and whip- ping in the breeze, the flags and banners of the nations of the world allied against Germany, Overhead the banners bearing the injunction to buy Liberty bonds. + At the street crossings the green semaphores reading | “Go Buy Liberty Bonds,” thé red semaphores reading | “Stop, Buy Liberty Bonds." On our left, moving slowly | up the avenue, was a long train of army supply motor trucks, driven by bronzed, khaki-clad, cigarette-smoking youths, brothers in feature and careless freedom of movement, born of perfect physical condition, of the ‘Dangerous Age’ Begins When Women Commence Doubting Attractiveness The Four Seasons of the Heart | ILLUSTRATED BY ELEANOR SCHORER “Young Love Is the Most Beautiful Adventure of Life—But the Heart Has Its Four asons and There Is No Endless April for Any One’’—-From Nixola Greeley-Smith’s Article on the Mellen Separation Case. * NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH ANALYZES HEART SYMPTOMS IN MELLEN SEPARATION CASE. “No Other Life Is So Empty as That of the Woman Who, Having No Interests Save Her Emotional Relations With | Man, Finds This One Source of Adventure Yielding to { the Relentless Advance of Age.” ‘dt Is in Vain That She Digs Herself In Where Folly and ‘ Frivolity Are Intrenched, in Vain That She Endeavors to Camouflage Her Wrinkles and Her Double Chin.” “Only Joshua Successfully Commanded the Sun to ‘Stand Still, but Men and Women Are Still Trying It and Women Are Writing Letters Like Those Signed ‘Kitten’ to ‘Doug - las Dear.’ ” By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copprigt, 1918, by The Prose Publishing Co, (The \ New York Brenig World VERYBODY cannot be a railroad president. But thanks to the effort iE which Charles S. Mellen, former President of the New York and New Haven Road, has made in the Pittsfield courts to justify his separation from his wife, everybody who take to read the newspaper accounts of his suit can learn stic life of a railroad president is like the the trouble what dome It is not given to every man to be able to testify in ' boys I have seen driving our motor trucks in France. court that his wife blackened iis eye with a pink marble Sidewalks jammed with swiftly moving people. The avenue congested “ ’ f egg, and that he “accelerated her exit from tue room. with motor traffic. Somewhere to the right a band playing, Suns‘aine, ' ’ frebiaat, life, S45, Now York Unsophisticated persons who have littie money some- . oad 4 fhe 4 times sigh for the joys and privileges of the rich, but I ‘ Wealth—wealth in money and men. The greatest street of the great : - = he est city in the world given over for this occasion to the business of help ing, over here, our boys win the war over there. At the far end of tie vista down the avenue the American flag on the peak of the Flatiron Build. ing standing out straight from the mast like a flag painted against the \ J . » blue sky. The air electric with the spirit of Americanism and democracy — (LA XK A wonderful day, a wonderful scene—a wonderful show. 2 -. One a And Germany invited this; Ger-@————_ | @PRING: ce many brought it on. this rousing of] sue tno soul in tho aight of @ sleeping giant—peaceful in s\ these flags, which represent a world- nadie ghte a but Veal a ad tepeer nite wide union of effort in the direction And I thought that this, a [of freedom. Every citizen of New confess that a black eye mado by a pink marble egg ,- would not seem to me--if 1 were a railroad president— any more delightful than if it had been inflicted by a brick-bat. What was that pink marble egg doing in the Mellen home, anyhow? Was it a paper-weight or was there by any chance a white marble hen brooding over a marble nest in which Mrs. Mellen’s weapon reposed with other marble eggs when it was not being employed in disciplining Mr. Mellen? A white caina hen was a (cherished possession among our ancestors. Perhaps it heiped them in their philosophical ponderings over whether the chicken came from the egg or the egg from tae chicken in the days when Time itself had just h Probably the most pretentious of all the displays attending tne Liberty Lean campaign, was but a part of a Nation-wide movement extending to the tiniest hamlet, and again I @eculated, involuntarily, the slangy Put tuminating line: “What a chanc No chance at all, for Germany. If tie Kaiser could be transposed by @ome supernatural agency from his heditat back of the German lines to Wit Avenue to-day he would see fhat Germany never had a chance. He knows from what he has seen In the past three months what Ameri- York should visit Fifth Avenue dur- ing the Loan drive and learn from the national emblems displayed what vast inflvences are working with us against what will doubtless prove to bo the final stand of autocracy, And every citizen should remember that among all these nations the United States is now the leader—the leader in money (and money, in the long run goes a long way toward winning wars) and the leader in effort on the western battle front. BUYING BONDS EXPEDITES DE- FEAT OF GERMANY. been hatched. Nothing quite Mellen’s letters so Joyous as Mrs.) to “Douglas dear" | has appeared in print since the war| put tho lighter side of newspapers | into temporary eclipse, Joyous, that is, till one remembers they are the Production of the mother of a twen-| ty-one-year-old girl, and then, very,! very sad, The beginning and the end | of these trite espistles is egotism have never been understood,” “How | did you know that I have always ben lone! hat woman is not in my class through them ali The Flags of the Allied Nations By T. L. Sanborn. CHIN ‘A. HEN China became a republic she discarded the old dragon nner of the anclent empire ! ‘ and adopted a flag of an entirely dif- : is indisputable evidence that life and | #4 y @an fighters can do. He would be}, pe SIONS Of the War Ib no Henge men had furnished little food for this| ferent design. ‘Tho national standard rea n doubt, The defeat of Germany is ; : : | epublican C mmpelled to know here, from the dermany {s said, Ganidi kane e of republican China Stgence offered by his senses, what| Certain. Tho only question is how colossal ego, Could any woman a homed iy x hiner ea consists of five the people behind the American| ‘At certain defeat can be expedited. ies eine. uakea by A pale ace al stripes fighters can do, Io might, under|"¥ery day the war is shortenod lauaintanne to take ak Gaike | of equal width, the the influence of the atmosphere of| 4s more of our soldiers coming whey : | | stripes being red, - back fr Fi Rut it @ peculiarity of certain | the occasion, accumulate a vision of| om France safe and sound. ral . te acacia : low, blue, white his ultimate and, let us hope, speedy| TM® only way to shorten the war is women reg evi dmb 1 black, in that finish. to speed up our activities, manufacture out of almost nothing LAST FRENCH LOAN RAISED BY ADVERTISEMENT ONLY. This Liberty Loan campaign was a Our activities can be accelerated by the expenditure of unlimited sums of money. The Government has under- circumstances which tend to confirm the attractiveness they have begun | to doubt. Just as men who secretly CHINA rder from top to his may seem y ‘ a meaningless com ~* fevelation to me. 1 have been in| taken to Insure the life of every sol : question their own appeal for women Bnelicat eP-antors te. ther arcice se England and in ‘France when the | 1!¢r for $10,000, Measured by th tite] Win re ore hinting Hy nes ore but to the loyal Chinese the flag 1s Gevernments were swinging war loans.| ‘M4urance standard, 100 soldiers are ae PORAUBATE! RO: Wormen GLAND bY’ 8) gall ot algnifon olored It tsa quict operation over there, Eng-| Worth to the United States $1,000,000. similar lack of seals in Abe uJ Ndi stripe stands t ve great SEenIana erm aee GAYS been ia war 00 | POUOWARE the ALARCATA LOL Compariean| mmm oe Sree eaten aero enmnetr mentee ee rey nae NNN TNY | cere TTY hares preg: lnosakantly of aaysterl>|divislona)ot th republio, ek wes LAL War ep beouine Andi Hees | ledge) LEO sakes of ‘ ee one va Leys anaparasri yi anu iaceteag ea ap at He tp soresanis sie Bating influence in the daily life of pres © life insur. apes. a prope pe in the mysteries o the people. Every family in those) 4Mce value of only 180,000 of our aol-| Th rilli ng Adven tu res oO i a Bri tish Sco u t pity more in Lede auiry cage ane | countless centuries, a highly etvilised countries has been touched by the| ers at the front. Ten of them are husband who'told his wife his busi nation when half-naked / ‘ : ‘ ot savages war through tho loss of men on ‘he| Worth the money, “ Thirteen Was Cassell’s Lucky Number —He Was Sole Survivor of a Patrol of Thirteen Un- ness worries only to bave them ‘hunted, fished and fought over the field of battle, Raising money for| T° one accustomed to the quiet, or ae i A oo K i 4 ¥ aH talked over with “Douglas dear”! sites of London, Paris and New York. ¢arrying on the war is incidental to| erly methods of swinging loanw in der Fire in the Darkness—One of Many Incidents Told in His Book, The Black Watch or the poor unfortunate now com-! Tho yellow atripe signifies the euaay the prosecution of hostilitics in tho|#rance and England the ballyhes t 1 iment began, He erawied into a| mitted t© endiess ridicule by the|piaing of Manchuria; the blue, Mee, and the operation of raising|*¥8tem in vogue here is somewh, By M ite M Marshall hrottle him he would kill me. rdment began. He crawled Into &| miadie-aged “Kitten” who wrote him | golia, with ite azure akioe: the one , | mewhat y Marguerite looers [Varsha was getting weaker, I could s water and mud, bul- aniy atic Orhan wamiene Were t white, cease ite: Bore thas @ ripple in change ne jes her dung OW he throttled 4 German coldier on the parapet edge of a German | ite or mine, He waa shelling pe and he torty-five-year-old womare who hav- eee ny ee ane nts the barren The last loan in France was adver-|2¢88 of borrowing money from th, PA ne PONE DAE, BB: OODA-ESIHERNG: SOS: R-BOODUAR: DATT, OF Oe nic tal ba.waK powerieaa to/move and knaw | (ie camrsaete, WArOMA®: Mid fMP>'|/ Herscit cnoe «victim. of German tised in the newspapers and through | PePle for war purposes it is neces. thirteen gent Into No Man's Land, how he Just escaped freezing to] {t was Drutal, but Aout Gaal (hat he Has teoseinn Tacccen ternity had yet falled utterly to row |prutality, China has no cause to love the medium of striking posters and| SFY to reflect upon the ditrerer death under artillery fire in a shell hole full of mud and water, how he a acer ina a Uther pinay hele? toucd hin fi outa |U> Before 1914, cities all over! the German name. At the time of the the loan was subscr The people | Conditions obtaining here and abroad, | Was Wounded cruelly and buried by a Jack Johnson, to be dug up alive after! 5°" WNeres Ul thitieen is his) | When ihe relic head, He had been | surere end America wore Slled with | poze uprising the Kaiser ordered hin took the bonds without solic on} England 48 flooded with war crip- seven hours—these are @ few of the marvellous escapes) tio) it was necessary to cross legit hanes onduty, Gonlous admins (Shi tree tre one of the minor bene- | expeditionary force to so act that for outside of the appeal of the posers| Plea; 80 is France. Paris in -a van from death of which Scout Joe Casselis tells us in bi8| socially exposed strip of ground, on| istrations of brandy, however, brougne| 02, of the war is that aE me ere years no Chinaman would dare to ana the advertiser ats Thay had ts bproliadi ap ia Lopdon THO pe ply Veraclous war story of his historic regiment, “I'he Black | which the Germans had the range.| him back to life ee ea Hat etna tect By See Hie Berrigan tee tee? | crap teeta URNS sth. Gitaian Dothan W : He was sent out with a party of| His adventure, whioh took hima] #29 Sm AO Noverenta gave, her [Structlons. were executed with cker- country and advancing on Par pach. b? Petts have au out Casselts ts one of the very few survivors of | twelve to show them his method of honorably out of the army after hig|WhO, Naving Ho miwtirs Have Out) acteristic flendishness, Aroused by the id advancing on Paris, ‘ ‘aris have bone for weeks this world-famous force as it entered the war in Au inting across this bad bit moat strenuous service, came in alte. source of adventure yield- | eres activities of the German crt scvnuy toe atvation pe pt Ele aan #6 daily gun! gust, 1914, a part of the “contemptible little army” of ush!" he ordered them with the/{flerco charge of tho Pr when Hebe Nua cals isan Aaeanae(at aan Baber Oe ACERS who were a ae ate et itlaratitan Pre siek ot aisht| the British which fought and died from Mons to the| fash o anemy gues, and then | Ne was onueht botwoen the ni varcing |i "\g tn vain that she digs herself tn |Deniyne attacks on fie Breas: Altes France, but the casualty list has, as|!4nd are in actual touch with wail Mame MoDrenereds, WHANDpariade NA AROS: to. the black | One reserve trenches, Hehimself remem-|When Folly and Frivolity are en-|with tho Alliea on Aug. 14, ier, yet, directly touched but a smait per-| conditions, while, in this countey ao beastliness of the war as the Germans make tt | me anes 8 fearti ort ind he! bors only “the nearest Germ-ns, 209! trenched, in vain that sho endeavors |-rhousands of her sturdy laborers voeeg geatage of our people. ‘There have| are directly affected omy in toons It ts a splendid “record ty action” which Scout | had to I fare rockets. stoppat out| yards away," and then“a black cur-jto camouflage her wrinkles and her! raising crops for Liberty in the fields been weeks in the war when the| Jean Bonhomme may kiss hin wite| °#ssells gives us, with more action to the page than the average war book | {!!l ype chs Ay rm PRU a tain." But this is the story of what! double chin, of F my 18 co-operating French losses were ten times ax) 0odby in Paris to-night and be| Contains to the chapter. And it is a vivid picture of the little known | herd sig ig = i ae happened as told him by one of his| There ls an Arab proverb which|/on her northern frontier with the ' # heavy as our total casualtics thus| killed on the field of battle to-mor.| life of the scout in modern warfare. a AM A |reg mental mates declares that “In the love of an old| Japanese, British and American forces far. Submarines have app ffour|Fow. John Smith, American poldier,| There was the night when, on pa-|my teeth Into my lip to keep from) *°Y “A Jack Johnson striking about @f-| woman there is death.” Brutal and} in Siberia, on guard against the men coast, but our cities have en) may say au revoir to his mother in| trol duty, ho lost his bearings andlerying out, and wondered how the] Sreeplng in the directio the | fe eeras vas Hp pe oe 6 Ti narsh as this sounds, it is true If/ace of the pro-German Bolsheviki; bombarded or shelled. Our p re| New York to-day and not hear the, crawled alm to the ¢ of the|explosion would fecl—whether there| 8toans, he found first one, t Shel tor a Wonk Ge ibis vata 1 Was | applied to the romantic Infatuations| and, if they are needed, China's num. @wake to the war, but not in touch! 80Und of a German gun for months, | parapet of a German listening pos'.| was any anguish in being torn to bit jother body—no' anne, Dut Al ‘| buried completely n the Ger-+of middle-aged matrons for men not] periess mil s of hardy fighting men, with ft and for that reason jt is noces-| APPEAL PRESENT ABROAD Must | ie saw a head thrust itself above| instantaneously, The dark object|'y repeated § he discovered | man Bed 01 bat our) their husbands. excellent troops when well led, will be gary to direct to al) able to subscribe BE CREATED HERE, the nprapet and felt enemy eyes upon | plumped onto the ground at my side] that eleven of the twelve men who | fellows, who retired to the r resetve! 1, ig not always cherry blossom|of great assistance to tho Allies tn fe the loan an appeal which reaches| After all, patriotism ts aroused to| him. Hut he could not get away, 80/and bumped against my ribs, How| we out with him had been killed eanul id to retire to their. time in the heart any more than it is|the Far Kast the eye and the ear as well the | !ts highest pitch by an appeal to the| he hugsed the und and waited for | long it took for it to explode! Then Ts ood up aeepe. Dag, ath ke nel wn | ,igain, This fight started'in the orchard. But some women— —_—— Sitises spirit of patriotism | sen The appeal ts always pres.| the end. I knew it was a stone | lost" he says L almost wished thatjabout 3 Fat ike oe hot until) some men, too—think that cherry Skull fool B PIFTH AVENUE FLAG DISPLAY ent in England and France. Hore 4} “The man in the listening post| The German did not want to rouse|! Ad been one SF she Seven WhO RAG| Oo nany cama Un Rae Cheat ty Curl petals are still falling around them, ullcaps for Flat Buyers. A SOUL-STIRRING SIGHT, | mum be created, to @ considerabie| reached down for something at his |the whole line and waste many rounds | ‘ossed the bar’ once for all, I got laner tieeaneh when it 1s really the snow of years| PT 1s claimed that a customer try- Yesterday in Fifth avenue 1 saw|degree. Probably the best planned) fet" Scout Cassels writes, “L was] of ammunition by firing a sho& So]! wounded man on to my shoutaer|” 4 that one fellow was about| that 1s sifting upon thelr heads Pred for the fret timo the flags of all the) and best executed appeal of the eort|%T? that he was going to hurl alafter throwing another stone’ he| and started regredee ca lslettedaunas bata Uairipets Panother close by| Young love is the most beautiful ng a skin or Gountries fighting Germany, directly|ever put forth is that behind the|sTenade In my direction, Something | crawled out of his hole and wriggied |“ re ae our barbe 1 wire entar wet Ne tom of m head Ho M8 18! adventure of life, But the heart has |, er indirectly. Xcept in isolated in-|Fourth Liberty Loan in Now York. [came hurtling through the atr, Tsunk | toward Casselis, “He himself did not | ments | OME TOAD: SEA SE 1 over the/nand with the p st in It | its four seasons, and there iy no end. | stances these flags have not been! Underlying the pride of every dare rise, He knew that his gilhouette \? pe be, ING8y RAS a La Ira ee 1) w aa bend And ming at th Lhey | 1ess April for any one To the Woma | @isplayed in London or Paris, 1 saw| mother and father, every wite and | Mamenine the end of the war, and that| would draw fire from tho trenches, | the wounded man to the edie of the fomnpiete Head, placed Buy 88 2] of middle age life brings the time nitary — preea more flags in Mifth avenue and sweetheart, every sister and pear preg Ry to helrs| Benotonal apps ul It would be like a battle between | 3 He was | groaning faint Je to be buried later, — luck ly a | harvesting whether her harvest is of H s prop Broadway yesterday than were dis- and child of w soldier at the front or | with warfare close to the front, snake y both of us on the ground ly, though he tay aa one dead, As we] medical oMicer 1 “ine “and | children or of ideas le iaelee @nd the 14th of July, and the Paris unexpressed hope that the war will be| Mectiec A Raubes ia tous Ling appeal i! & flee ; bis nts ssell was sent to the hos. | ever commanded the sun to stand stil!) buyer with an ir Gapiay was almost exclusively con- over before that particular soldier | avenue from the Public livrary te | saw the dull gleam of his bayo-| I aione of the Mirteen had come back and after an exceedingly critieal| with any success, But all over the|expensive skullea; fined to the fags of France, the United #18 In the way of a German bullet of |the Altar ot Liberia maytivtary 10 | net. He lunged with the steel, 1/ alive! : {ime wae qacharged. although unfit | world men and women are still trying| of thin paper Btates, Great Britain and Italy. carmen ss). Fhe Yihs £2 feed this during the Loan drive should loosen | managed to jam the butt of my rifle/ On another occasion Caaselle went |for further fighting. Six months later! and the women are writing let-|be worn while he . Phere is something tod to Of ail eitivens to Ae rhe sapuuluities up the bankroll of any red-blooded |asainst his head. He rolled upon ouge & listening post in the dead of *wtne Black Watch” te publiste tere like those signed “Kitten” to|is. endeavoring to tind a hat thas | : St tyra: [iter Folk doe dale tlatwaie id & dak won? wy mud mw lemry easibiey vim pouvieday, rage € Uo apousineg dens: iutevopuiar Mech: -n \ aoe = aR ncn AA RNA ANE