The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1918, Page 22

! , 4 , ] ' * eame to New York with the sug I ro ean thy PAN Mrd Me Published Daily Except mangey, the Press Publishing Company, Nos, 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Dark Row JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. MEMBER OF THF ASSOCIATED PRESS, Aswoctated Prom rely entitled to ication of aT] newp Aewpataben ee ee at TT es LMU otal hows allan Boreas VOLUME 59.... Park Row. a LENS AND ARMENTIERES. HE evacuation of Lens and Armentieres, officially announced by the German War Office yesterday, will be immediately hailed as supporting the belief that Germany is prepared to withdraw hor forces from French and Belgian territory. Pressure that has forced the German High Command to give up Lens, the chief coal city in France, and to fall back from Armen-| tieres, which is only seven miles from Lille, the biggest manufacturing} centre in Northern France, is too formidable to be longer concealed | even from the German public. | The War Office in Berlin has worn out the phrases “shortening| the line,” “taking up our new positions,” “retiring to strong posi-| tions previously prepared.” These no longer cover the plain fact that German armies are unable to stand the terrific hammering they are) getting from British, French and Americans on the western front This week Lens and Armentieres pass into the Allies’ hands. How} many days to Lille? Lille and the Lens coal district have long represented a vital part of the French territory occupied by the enemy. ‘The Belgian advance threatens his submarine bases on the coast. ‘The French are pushing on north of Rheims. American forces further south fill him with fears for tlic safety of German soil. Day by day his lines of defense crumple, his inner lines of com- munication are more and more seriously menaced. Under the circumstances the German High Command may well feel that lie only thing to do is to explain in advance a great German retreat to Oermany’s frontiers. Hence the reported remarks of Gen. von Falkentiausen’s Military Secretary to the effect that the German Army in Belgium would return to the German frontier “in order to show the world that we really want to defend our country.” Between what they are trying to show the world and what they dare not show the German people, these must be wearing days for the War Lords. To explain the evacuation of Lens and Armentieres in a way that shall prepare Berlin for the loss of Lille and worse to follow! Small wonder if the German High Command is getting ready to work the “defense of the Fatherland” slogan to the limit. FOR FAMILY DEBATE. RADE reports indicate that American women are buying more freely than ever before while men are economizing, notes the American Exchange National Bank of this city in its monthly letter for October: . Tae decrease in purchases of goods which men chiefly | consume {s due in part to the large number already in the mili- tary and naval services of our country; but,“beyond this, the restriction of trade is undoubted, The demand for work clothes for men has increased, while sales of finer clothing and furnishings have dropped off sharply. On the other hand the garment trades report a gain of nearly one-taird in sales of women’s dresses as compared with last year, In coats and waists for women the increase in the number of garments mado is small, but the increase in value exceeds 35 per cent. This raises a timely question for family debate, viz.: Who’s the better economizer when it comes to personal outlay—always granting thai the obligation to look well makes far heavier demands upon &@ woman than upon a man? Doesn’t it look as if—even allowing for a wide difference in the tosts of their respective wardrobes—the man was the more willing to buy fewer or cheaper articles while the woman, if she has been accus- tomed to a certain quality of garment, sf 8 to it even at a higher price? The larger demand for men’s working clothes is highly satisfac- fory evidence that “work or fight” is no joke. But what about thi Sales of small commercial white diamonds and other articles costing not more than $100 have increased and the trade looks for a volume of Christmas business in such lines that will break all previous records, Most of such wares are | bought by or for women, Men spending more time in their working clothes and more wives getting small white diamonds. It’s been the same economic story since the days of the Pharaohs, And it hasn’t worked out 60 badly, either. After all, such change as war demands is not the reversal of an admirable and eternal differentiation, but only a little extra hard thinking and self-denial for a great emergency. Loan Slackers “When the checking {s completed we call in men who appear to have taken more than they can handle. Lots of patriotic fellows are over- enthusiasye and try to carry too heavy a burden. We do not want this, and unless they say they have more income than our records show we cut down LIBERTY LOAN “draft board” in Lansing, Mich, is putting 4 over the loan with ease, ac- cording to Charles H. Davis of the Lansing Chamber of Commerce, who tion that it be used in future loans] and financing for war needs. “We only draft slackers," said Mr. thelr subscriptions and make} Davis, “We do not get after them|the slackers carry the surplus, ‘That until the volunteers have done their|leaves our overzealous subscribers share. We start in by making a ven- @ug through gas and electric com- pany records and those of employers, {whether of one man or a thousund, In this way we get a line on who yought to buy bonds and about how much they should be able to take. “Then we set two days for the ‘vol- unteors.’ Every one in Langing is ex- pected to sign their ‘volunteer card, which really is a subscription blank. ‘These blanks go through a sort of Just as patriotic when tho ngxt loan comes along. “Then we call in the delinquents, We demand reasons for their failure to subscribe, A few of them have good reasons, A man may have a sick wife and be struggling under @ bur- den of debt we know nothing about, If a delinquent shows good reasons we ‘exempt’ him and tell him to cheer up and give him @ subscriber's badge so he will not feel humiliated when he Wate! WA HUY YW Opty ‘How the Old Place Has Changed! sas eS naa By William @ desire was kindled in me to be nice to her. Bert Graves, who took me to see her, had told me she was painfully thin. And he was right. The poor girl measured about five feet six inches and weighed only one hundred pounds. She looked so fragile that a full sized man felt that a breeze might waft her away any moment. But Angelica's wit was as sharp as her elbows and in epite of her angu- larity any number of men were keen to marry h¢r and pretty soon I be- came one of the most ardent of her F's the moment I saw Angolica beaux. As I knew her better I realized that | she could be made into quite al beauty if she were not so thin. I explained to her that #he would feel much stronger if she fattened up. Yet she was apparently as strong as any one and the most untiring, en- ergetic person I had ever known. However, I persuaded her to con- sult a doctor whose specialty was to make fat people thin and thin people | fat. He prescribed a diet of eggs, cream, vegetables, fruit, nuts, raising, pud- dings and fresh air. Angelica was in- structed to forego dancing, tennis and walking. “It we are to maka a Venus doe Copyright, 1918, by The Prew Pablishing Co, (The Now York Evening Work), XII.—Romance of the Thin Girl and the Fat Girl | then whe was as beautiful and healthy oh . nO EE ‘EDITORIAL PAGE Friday, October 4, 1918 By J. H. Cassel Caps agit. TTS, by T Wie New York Musings of a Matrimonial Slacker V. Pollard yourself in the slightest, except for some mild exercises, which I shall give you, to round out hollows.” She practically renounced every- thing that she cared about. But the result was worth the sacrifice. In a week the scales showed an increase of two pounds. In a month she had yained ten. In three months, twenty ive, and in six months forty, And @ specimen as could be found any- where, She had reached the mark where she was just right. I was very proud of her and very much in love, as any man would have been, | ‘Thero was no longer any need of Angelica’s continuing the dict. Now we could dine out together, We could play tennis and dance and have some ‘xood times, But Angelica, who had come to lke the milk and mush dict, kept right on with it, Also she enjoyed her lazy mode of living and resented the least physical exertion, For half a day at a time she lay colled among cushions, in contentmer.t, stuffing her- self with chocolates and light litera- ture, One glorious October evening I found her cuddled before a log fire. | 1 suggested a walk. “Oh, please don't ask me to budge, Billy,” she drawled, Milo of you,” eald the doctor, “you must learn to be lazy and not exert “Aren't you ever going to budge again?” I irritably inquired. } 1c the German invaders wil! Hl base permit any outward signs of celebration, to-day should briug & measure of happiness to Belgium. It is the elghty-eighth anniversary of her independence, proclaimed at Brus- sels on Oct. 4, 1830, and while the country still_rests under the Dlight of & conqueror’s rule, the victorious progress of the Allied armies points to the day when the zation shall be free | again, On the abdication of Napoleon an Austrian governor was set over Bel- clearing house, where they are ghecked off against our census lists. * “Dp to this point it has been all ‘volunteer’ subscribing, We have kept away from imperative commands to| loan is @ secret. ‘buy’ or ‘lend.’ Instead we work with feo cures yes, but 0 far every one ‘ ; ing W SBe oe, that it ts every man's own | ee rien ita quota for the Fourth war—et's get together and] Loan and as many more as are needed aad FLW 7 meets his neighbors, “The reat we ‘draft’ nwo the loan. Just what we will do to the first ‘conscientious objector’ to the Libert: Maybe we don't gium, but when the powers divided | Durope the country was awarded to | Holland, though the Belgians wished French alliance. DiMculties imme- diately arose, ‘The Dutch were chiefly merchants; the Flemings farmers and manufacturers, besides which the two peoples differed at all points, i* lates tne, TONGS SHS Uisieieie Allies’ Victories Renew Belgian Hopes On 88th Anniversary of Independence) Numbering only 2,000,000, as com- Pared to 4,000,000 Belgians, the Dutea | demanded control of the Government; | imposed their great debt on Belgian| industry and set about to abolish the use of the French language tu judicial and governmental procedure, | A law gagging the pi finally led} to the outburst, though the singing of Aube Masaniclio” at the grand | opera in Brussels was the immed cause of the revolt. The surring music aroused the Belgians and the| first blow for independence was, struck, The inhabitants of Brussels| built barricades and soon all Belgium Was aflame, After a battle, in which | “the men of Liege” turned the tide, Brussels was in complete contro: of the repels, A provisional governmeut was formed by Baron von Hoogvors and others, and on Oct. 4 Belgium wa. declared free and independent. The Dutch fought to retain the country, but France sent an army to assist | the Belgians, and pedce was restored on the new basis by which Belgiu:n enjoyed freedom and prowperity, ap $6 Meg Gormas invasion i 2 happy,” she yawned. gs of. Mrs. Solomon By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), “We Shall Not Be Lured to Dwell Upon the Top Floor, Where the Steam Heat Never Reacheth, and the Shower Bath | Seldom Runneth, and the Roof Leaketh, and All the Winds of Heaven Blow to Freeze Thee in the Winter Time, and All the Suns of Heaven Shine to Suffocate Thee in the Summer Time!” ND, lo, {t was Moving Day, again. A And the man arose and took down the bedsteads, saying: “Thank heaven, we shall escape from this Barn! “How happy shall we be, in a COZY little place! “Yea, we shall dwell high up, away from the mad- ~{ding taxicabs—even upon the TOP floor of the house, where the winds of heaven shall blow cool upon us in the summer time, and the suns of heaven shall warm us in the winter time. “And it will be SO airy! “And there will be nobody above us to trample upon jour ceilings and our nerves, and to destroy our sleep Sayin at nights!” 7 And the woman sald: waLEN ROWLANS “Yes, dear. How lovely that will be! And the place shall be painted in snowy white, and shall shine in its beauty as a bright thought in a gloomy world!” And behold, even as they had said, they went to dwell in the place of their dreams, which was called a “Studio apartment,” bocause no OTHER name would describe it. And twelve months passed over them. And lo—it was Moving Day again! And the man arose, and took down the bedsteads, and wrapped the | mattresses in clean sheets, and tied his silk hat, and his safety razor, and the coffee pot, and the image of Bhudda, and the alarm clock together, say- ing: Thank heaven, we shall get out of this DUMP! “Yea, how happy shall we be, to escape from ‘prison’ into the glad, free air of a BIG and roomy place—even where I can open a chiffonier drawer without upsetting the tea wagon, and move the tea wagon without Morris chair, and open the clothes closet without first moving tho bei. “And we shall NOT ‘be lured to dwell upon the TOP floor, where the steam heat never reacheth, and the shower bath seldom runneth, and the roof leaketh, and all the winds of heaven blow to freeze thee in the winter time, and all the suns of heaven shine to suffocate thee in the summer time! “And the place shall NOT be desecrated by blinding white patnt, so that I dare not bump my head upon my own door-jamb lest I leave the mark of my suffering thereon forever! For we are wise to THAT swect delusion! | “Let the faddists rejoice in their follies, but as for us, we shull have SPACE, and a little home comfort!” And the woman sighed. “Yes, dear. How lovely that will be!” Yet, even as they departed, a voice from out the alr seemed to cry, mockingly: "Hah: Little do ye know what new sorrows and surprises await you! “For ye are NEW YORKERS—doomed to go seeking forever the Im- | possible. “Ye are New Yorkers! And the seed of discontent hath been sown in your souls and shall flourish as the green bay tree. “Ye are as a man that shifteth a load from one shoulder to the other, as a woman that exchangeth one husband for another, as a country that exchangeth one King for another—ye do but exchange one set of sorrows and sufferings for another! And there is no hope FOR you!" SELAH. “Why should I? I'm perfectly | - Copyright, 1918, ty The Prone I\fhilinhing Co, (The New York Evening World.) “Oh, Angetica,” I pleaded, “can't you see, you're getting too fat." ISCUSSING Naval Reserve Yoo- At that she roused herself and) man Jack Silver's impendir aid ‘ou weren't satisfied with me| marriage, Mra, Jarr, M when I was thin, Now you object|Rangle, Mrs. Terwiliger and Mrs. | because I am too stout. If you can't| Pusenberry all drew up chairs around lke me for my real self there are|the centre of inter: Miss Cora} plenty of others who will.” | Hickett, the bride-elect, in the parlor| The next time I called, she was en-|0f Mrs. Jarr's fat. tertaining Jack Spink, a dapper Uttle| “And your wedding dre said) hap, five fect four, weighing about| Mrs. Rangle, raising her voic ve ‘ht pounds, | those of her clattering friends, you’! | Jed Angelica with absolute|!'ave to wear something old ant| . which she evidently recip-| Something new, something borrowed 1, for when Angelica reached| and something blue, Maybe a second- one hundred and seventy pounds|hand naval uniform for a lady?" they were married, “An' git married with the new It is welt that he can afford an| moon,” said Mrs. Dusenberry of In- automobile, For An has prob-|diana. “I knowed a gal in Taylor ably forgotten how to ‘Township what got married at tie Making the Most of Our Children A Series of Plain Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., Pres. of the Parents’ Association Can You Control Your Neighbor's, Instead of going to the window, she Children? should have gone quietly to the dvor, 667 ITTLE wild animals" ts the, Aled the older of the boys to her used by many With @ positive smile on her face, and eaataevs te aamakinn Of ths | after tha boy reached her, said slowly neighbors’ children, in a low volce, something like this: All too frequently these little s0- | “Byron, you and Chester may play on led wild animals run through flower, the lawn out here, but do not toach toda, climb veran- {ny of the shrubbery, This is cer- das, make no end tainly a fine day, isn't it?” of nolse and do va-i The Question in the latter part of rious other things thé Quotation could be omitted, but it to try a mother's Helps to show a friendly spirit apd, ‘for this reason, aids in getting the de- patience, , | Sired response from the child. ‘The question Is: | One mother had trouble w How to control }neighbor children who like her by ringing the door be . : ‘ emises? v4 them when on your premises? the | Diding. One evening the fatt One mother reports a case, the} pened to be in the house when treatment of which may interest other | door bell rang, and saw (he boys s nan away to their hiding place, mothers: red four and|,, Instead of going out immediately, “Two neighbor boys, age this father wisely waited till the boys six, were pulling leaves and twigs off the @hrubbery. At the dining table | the hostess remarked that she had! been annoyed the last few days by several of the neighbors’ children, The moment che caught sight of the two boys she hastened to the win-| "ang fathor entered the game en. dow, tapped it loudly and, with a/thusiastically and after. playing frown on her face, motioned for them| ininute, he had all of the y to leave, Haut they didn’t leave. inn peg ase iD B sire Why?" it confidential voice The frown she wore was one rea-| front door is attached to an electric ew and] battery which wears out if the but- ‘or tapping on the window and he but gon, Her tapping them before | 19 pressed long at a time, I thus seeming to reprove them ‘ore! wanted to announce this to you boys company was another, Still another and if you see any one else going to reason, pre-supposed, is that she|push the buttan, tell them I don't t from behind the bushes and came out of the house whistl- nding not to notice the boys The boys spoke to him and, on seeing that he was going to do them no harm, approached and got hiM to play a Utie with them, him game The Jarr Family |she ketched her dress on fire taking | how careless he ts in hi By Roy L. McCardell and what was the “From patent leather shoes?” asked all the ladies, wane of the moo! consikenca hey Seeing that nobody was interested “Certainly not! From the high, the consequence, Mrs. Dusenberry | tight collars he wore as we an- raised her voice and quavered: swered Mrs. Mangle. “Mr. Ranglo She wasn't married a year when! was so neat those days, but to look br and ad out of the oven in the yard) no one would scarcely believe got burned to death! An’ she 7 hy hain't the men as peart after wasn’t cold before her husband mar-| they're married as they was before, | “rm ried agin!” | hey?" asked Mrs. Dusenberry “I thank you for your warning.”| fure I allus wore a good bla aid Miss Hickett, coldly, “but it isn't| dress and a good bunnit on likely that I will bake bread out of | after I marriod.” doors, unless, of course, I go to Franco} “But all the young men the real in war work, while my husband 19 in! young men—look neat in thelr uni the Navy." forms these days,” said Mrs, Jarr. All “Highty tighty! Don't put on atrs|the other ladies, save the bride- elect, shook their heads as though to say the ways of men after marriage were inexplicable, Did conscience tell them that after wives’ clothes wero paid for there's nothing left for hugs with ME!" snapped Mrs. Dusenberry. had nine children and——" “You were married during the wane of the moon, I assume,” sald Miss Hickett coldly, “but not in the wane overturning the phonograph, and start the phonograph without moving the o appearance oO .| respect for her overcame them. of vital statistics.” “Now don't fret the poor lamb,” said Mrs, Jarr sympathetically, She'll have trouble enough after she mar- ries, whether the moon is new or old or full.” “Or the husband,” added Mrs, Ter- wiliger. “I expect Mr, Silver is different from Mr, Terwiliger,” replied Miss Hickett bitingly, She was but a simple maiden in her teens (or a little over), but she was ENGAGED! And {f any of that bunch of matrons thought they could put over anything on her they were very much mistaken, They realized this, too, and a great But what they were wondering most was the war would affect husbands. Would army and navy discipline in- terfere with wifely discipline? So y ceased to hackle and began to ckle. “Tell us how Jack Silver acts?” said Mrs. Rangle, coaxingly. “Does he try to order you around now that he ts a foeman—" “A yeoman,” corrected the sailor's fiancee, “and he's like a man in a dream!" she added languishing. Dear, dear Jack!" Old Mra, Dusenberry was going to say, “But he'll wake wp; they allers do," but caught herself in time. Any- way, she was trying to puzzle out what the words “vital statistic meant, They sounded like a chronic ailment, ‘When I was first engaged to my want it used unless they are on busi- ness. You will all remember this, I know. All right, let's finish our These are the game.” boys “remembered.” yeasons, (apyright, 1918 The Parents Amocistion, lac) never entered their play or showed them that she was interested in their having @ good time, most importe: Will,” said Mrs, Rangle, sentimen- tally, “he went and bought himself a pair of patent leather shoes and nearly choked to death.” bands? “But go on and tell us about Mr,’ Silver, How does he take it?" asked Mrs, Rangle. “He's so forgetful,” replied Miss Hickett, who was burning to give tho details to married or single, “I called) him two days on the telephone at the Nava) Reserve offices and got no an- swer, So I just had to call around to see if he were ill, that I might nurse him, I belong to the Red Cross and have studied first ald.” “Nurst n allus gits 'em,” said Mrs. Dusenberry, “They're too weak ginerally to get out of it” “And I found he'd left the telephone receiver off the hook constantly,” Miss Hickett went on, “Why, how strange! did that when WE sald Mrs. Rangle, “They are so ner- vous through love, I suppose. “My Gabe used to hide in the hay mow," said the lady from Indiana. “Mebbe your feller will do that, too," But all the ladies dented this Mrs, Jarr sald she was sure there were no ay mows In the navy, But the ships take horses across," ‘ Mrs, Ran Whereat Miss Hickett began to sob, prepared for the worst, ¢_____~» = NEWEST THINGS IN SCIENCE. 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