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[EDITORIAL PAGE| H Friday, October 11, 1918 | Marriage--and How To Weather It By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), |\1.—Marriage With Modern Improvements HE most delightful and beautiful thing about marriage is that there is always something new, or clever, or cynical, or interesting to ; : ia t oti ov Batre Sbanewitnd , , say about it. ! i KEEP PACE WITH THEM. f ¢ There 1s always SOMETHING wrong with it! j 3 " u - It is like a good, substantial, old-fashioned house—constantly in need | O THR pressure of Allied armies which has turned the German ot modern improvements, As soce ke you cement the cellar the reel be | retreat on the western front into what is already in places a gins to leak; as soon as you finish tiling the roof the 4 rout, Americans fighting in France are contributing a glo- piazza needs painting, or the mantelpleces go out of _, Fiows shar fashion, or you have to put in new plumbing or electrie | Will Americans at home let it be said that while Americans over lights, or the walis need papering—or something! there *, th his final defeat the American And yet, as I have often said and still maintain, no ih sieht Medea FLEE R Sale Pong tae Pa body from Brigham Young to Henry James has ever people on this side of the Atlantic were slow in backing them with A discovered any satisfactory substitute for it—nobody | —. the money needed to shorten the job? , hag ever found anything better or half so good as plain + Is it conceivable that a Liberty Loan of $6,000,000,000 should not old-fashioned monogamy—"the kind of marriage that F ‘be subscribed and oversubscribed in the United States at a time when mother used to make!” the army of the United States is proving itself to be worth more endl the oii it must be constantly i i amended to meet new and modern conditions, 4 & thea the combined atforts of all “Americans for the next five genera- iidcidpay atoniplig fh WnpadlAllatleally, to te grevted by mutMen Ae t tions could raise to meet its requirements? the girls rushing to meet him, with slippers and kisses and curtstes, would t No thoaghts of victory and peace at this moment should slacken ecarcely recognize “marriage” in the tiny, two-by-four “studio apartment,” the buying of Liberty Bonds. with hubble drying the dishes while wifie washes them, and an image of On the contrary, in order that victory and peace may be brought Bhudda taking the place of a baby, or a curly dog constituting the entire i nearer and won at the emallest additional cost in American lives, “nursery department.” To him such # marriage would appear sacrilegious t tnt sae —nay, almost “immoral.” a y career cene moses piieg ae iu pies aa ae But the high cost of living has decreed that for some of us it must be pace with the Allied advance across the fields of France. SUCH a marriage or none at all. And ANY marriage ts preferable to none 7 Nothing could be surer to strike complete dismay to German i hearts and hopes than defeat made heavier with the knowledge that f the people of the United States have subscribed this $6,000,000,000 war loan with a readiness which proves how little their resources at all. (Oh, yes, it I Childlessness is one of those “modern improve- have yet been taxed and how overwhelming is the force they will ESTABLISHED BY JOSEPH PULITZER, Published Daily Except Sunday by the Press Publishing Company, Nos. 63 to 63 Park Row, New York. RALPH PULITZER, President, 63 Park Row. J. ANGUS SHAW, ‘Treasurer, 63 Park Row. JOSEPH PULITZ) it, Jr, Secretary, 63 Park Row. { _— —_——— | MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. sel it i lt Sets etdlusively entitled to the nee for Hon of atl Aempatcee Naredited th this paper and also the local news published herein ByJ.H. Cassel ‘Comyn O18, by The ments” on matrimony that “doesn’t improve” {t—like a kitchenette, you A krow, or any other pathetic little bluff. Another is the financial and eco- nomic equality of wives, which has been substituted for home cooking. And still another “modern improvement” {s divorce, which has taken the i i place of ground glass and prussic acid, and is really more humane and bring to bear to secure the only peace they deem worth having. t Read the rumors of Imperial abdications, the reports of Turkish peace moves and the news of popular outspeaking in Austria-Hungary oa end Germaiy itself; Cheer the Allied troops pushing on toward the German frontier mith the enemy fleeing before them; ‘ But don’t stop buying Liberty Bonds. Shorten the road to victory in the only sure wi a Convince Germany and Austria that the game is up, that they Ye have nothing to gain and everything to lose by prolonging it. i, Convince them of the power of a Nation of 100,000,000 people who can raise $6,000,000,000 as easily as it calls a million men to fight and repeat both decisive victory. Make bonds as well as bayonets demand complete surrender, z Y ae ‘ re ie LET LANDLORDS LOOK TO THEIR FURNACES. : Seren : iW YORK apartment house landlords should note Health L u c 1 | e t h e Waitress sanitary, after all. Studio apartments, twin beds, fireless cookers, self-rocking cradles, self-supporting wives, self-amusing husbands, public valets, and commu- nity kilvhens—all ‘med marriage from solld an- tique institution it once was into ‘something different”—"“something just i as good,” as the druggist would say. i" Every day a new phase of marriage appears (like new curtains in the living room windows in October), furbishing it up a bit—and YET the dear old institution stands, weathering the changes of time and war— stands, ke human nature, still the most interesting, the most desirable, the most respected, and the most talked about thing in the world! Marriage—how to attain it, how to bear it, how to get rid of it! How to get @ husband, how to get along with one, or how to get rid of one— there isn't a woman living who isn’t thinking every day of at least one of these three things, and sometimes of TWO of them at once! ‘ Hence, this series of articles on modern wives, modern husbands, modern domestic problems—in short, on modern marriage—and how to weather ft. + Next week “The Squaw-Wife.” Jarre Pamily 2e-Senb Meta eG ae eae Oe ey emits ee dite gata ame these have tra: tions as often as may be necessary to gain By Bide Dudley Th Commissioner Copeland’s announcement that, in view of Corer, 1088) LDN eyed ery a ice yelled out, ‘Operate on the apple pic,') abstruce to me I decide to investi-| Copyright. 1918, by The Press Publishing Co I'm becoming a raanlas epee Uae SURODIALY sli she noted that | . : ° fark Bn " ‘The New York Evening World " and all the war wo! old Mrs, Dusenberry was regardin - mumerous complaints which have reached the Health Depart- i ie you ever notice,” said Lu- caens Sash Was vmliale «1a youn RALSHET GRIPE eoneerenemi lice egress sf cata ena [test yen Sy bes Aula taovalne | NAR moron cerse anger ie pane) ; ih 4 : feyeet clle, the Wal y e ? i ‘i ae c 7 : a poh disfav ment of cases in which influenza patients living in apartment houses Friendly ata beet ne ‘I thank you! I says, ‘Maybe you'd| nal be” I ask, ‘Abellotti Francisco, W Loan drive can't wait, At 9 o'clock ae “ pani as have been denied heat, he will prosecute all landlords who refuse to| own tte ackage of sugar from his | /X® to hear me warble the obligrotta| or something like that?" it Mrs, Dusenberry wil! oq mrs, Dusenberry adjuste he here wasn't any people of that hest their apartments. ki an 4" q| trom the opera Galli-Kerchief. The} “‘Oh, no,’ he says. ‘But here's my| excuse me, I'm off to get dressod|spectacios to get a better focus OD|sort in Indianny. That 1s, around _- ; vase A A 3 i bape ow Buen. ne Bete people in tho next flat to me got it on| card. Drop up to my studius some| for the street, or rather the autu-/the bejewelled person speaking. where we lived,” replied the old lady, This is plain enough. Along with it landlords should read the|* Pretty girl by telling her she pre-| 144 phonograph and, believe me, Ezra,| time and we'll try your voice. mobile,” said Mrs, Jarr, For Mrs.| “Ana 1 think, too, you sh'ud be) “I suppose you are axing about waits- explicit den‘al of the Federal Fuel Admjnistration that it has issued any order forbidding the firing up of furnaces before Nov. 1. possesses talents that she ain't?” I kno § tm, indeed,” he replied, “You'n | t kROw dt endways, sideways and clr cular.’ Clara Mudridge-Smith had called to take Mrs, Jarr out in a new car for in’, which was a dance that charoh folks didn't approve of them days. ashamed that it takes a war to rit you up at’sich an hour,” she said. “With that he goes out. I look at the card and sce it says lessons are find those fellows everywhere: " ‘ | ' ‘i al twol Bones @anb No e/a mid-day meeting of the middle of|*, got up at 6 every morning, and|We didn't dance them round dances Reports of such an order, circulated some weeks ago and highly| “You sure said @ spoonful,” Lucile pees ss pila ight cals mes think an Me Penne be do you! \6 carapalgn for the Fourth Liberty|inat maies me ashamed of laying 10 |much, them. baing considered {me 5 ae hal [soe iT wel rai e says, ‘How about y ; 4 ai, fea am a f approved by landlords, were without official foundation. On the| “Dt om “I set & lot of that sort of | " 3 "| “Apparently, he was boosting nia | 40a": bed till the forenoon'’s almost gone, | mor Dt maybe the vaNoorennee, // contrary, the Fuel Administrati hatically insi talk: tn: here, 2 don't naw! why. 18 1a) ie business,” said the Friendly Patron “Don't mind me, dearie,” sald old|Out in Taylor Township, when I was | or, mebbe, the polky—but only ‘tween ry, the F mimsiration emphatically insiste that the health] but men seem to think I'm a good ap-| |" pains Just ne to laugh: This | wthat's it-—you soaked the nail on|M* Dusenberry, “I Jest dropped 1n| younger and spryer, I thought nothin’ |two gals, The varsooveyann ts ele- { of the Nation is to be put above landlords’ profits or convenience and|pliance for their idle chatter. A while os i a nee Heaqveg Bi a fish. = the bean," replied Lucile, as she lett |t® have Mrs, Jarr explain to me]or gittin’ up at 4in summer and § in| gant, ‘Sever danco it? © one oO} ‘he's crazy—I' ' led Lucile, as ago min looks up from his stewed prunes and gets rid of a lot of those | "¥mor him’ things. kind of sediments. I had just chased| “ ‘Oh,’ I says, ‘we always undress & section of bread to the victim next | the fish we serve in here, to him. “Do you ever sing? he asks. “‘Only when I'm sad? I says. “That's generally when I'm broke be- cause the men who come in here for- get to leave a little something shiny I ain't the winter!" “But, then, of course, aside from the war, you had no social life, no dinces, no theatres, no parties to keep you up late in the rural districts,” aid Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, in a man- ner that implied her kindly conde- ecension, urges that heat be promptly furnished to tenants suffering from influenza. Inasmuch as the health authorities recommend every one to keep at all times comfortably warm as a prime precaution against contracting the disease, it would seem that a reasonable amount of heat for apartment house tenants not yet etricken should be reckoned a sound preventive, bout my bond instalments. for Kitchen, Returning a few|* Tiinataa later ahoaiias ee had nothin’ to do with them ne Did you hear any unnatural noises | bors where I live, since they yante¢ just now?" the Board of Health to arrest me 4 |" No, why?” keacing . hen I ws opposed to indigestion and we're not| .. v0" ee |_| for keeping chickens, when I was 1 was just singing ‘When the War| told Mr, Hoover wanted everybody plugging for any doctors.’ Is Over Vil Return to You,’ out in “‘Ha, ha!’ he sings out. ‘You sure/kiichen—yvou kuow, to try my voice to keep chickens to help win the war, got a touch of laughter in your spinal) “How did they like it? So I run over to Mrs, Jarr's, Then, make-up, I got to hand 1t to you. |, Be eo an Snes sole 1s I had to pass his store, I got Mr. But serious, now, you might be a ; d vinsky, the glazier, to show me And the old lady arose and gravely stepped off the graceful old dance, humming meanwhile, “Do you see tay new shoes? Do you see my new shoes?” Mrs. Mudridge-Smith regarded the Performance with some interest, “How quaint, really,” ehe mar- mured, Scales are ee NN SEE et as a a me I needn't “I guess you think you're talkin’ Lucile It is only three days to the 15th of October, spells of chillier weather may be expected, and the city is beginning to get its share of the epidemic which has sorely afflicted other parts of the country and which leads in so many cases to pneumonia. There is no reason why any landlord should wait until the Influenza bas invaded the premises he controls, Let him get his furnaces ready at once and whenever the tem- perature falls do his obvious and important part in checking the spread of the disease by enabling his tenants to keep warm, Hits From Sharp Wits fome travellers who ran across a @leeping car porter with a number of pints on his person proposed to Here's the right idea: The Pau Claire Leader wants the German re- tained in the army so the boys can @peak properly when they get to Ber- lin—Milwaukee New! ee . Im these times a fashion expert is any woman who can get two or more _ Seasons’ wear out of one gown.—Chi- would get all the worst of It, for while Jack could have the lean, Mr. Hoover | would want the fat.—Buffalo Express. You pay two cents a box for them and none of ‘em will strike, Philadelphia Inquirer, . Many things are salable, not be- cause they are needed, but because people have been made to believe that ought to have them.—Albany they Journal, —————_____ by thelr plate when they go out into the wide, cruel world. Je passes all the tip stuff up and says, ‘Well, I been noticing your talk- ing votoe and I believe you got possi- bilities,’ “Don't know about that,’ I says, ‘but I got sore feet. That comes from me having to skid around here so fluent every day, Honestly, I don't get any more chance to set down than a hors: “Again he ticks to the original line of dialogue. ‘You got quality in your tones he says. “‘And rheumatiz in my bones,’ 1 chirp. “Oh, be sensible,’ be 3. ‘I'm F irst American Ship Circled Earth in 1787 HE first voyage of an American a ship around the world was made by the Columbia, which sailed from Boston tn 1787, The route was by way of Cape Horn to famous singer if you'd try it and keep at it! “By gumbo, T begin to get curious. Who was this master of vocal that could there munching pork and beans and point out to me the road to Grand Operatics? It seems 6 was quiet 4 moment, “T may Then run up and ee that guy, anyway. They tell me half these grand operatic prisma dontas was waitresses at some time in their career, Some of these days you common people may bo hanging around the Metropolitan Opera Hous stage door, waiting to kiss my hand, Who knows?" |she conelud A Series of Plain Are Your Children Self-Conscious? HB bashful person in company !s | like a fish out of water, Hi feels decidedly uncomfortable them to grow up with this habit. Overcome it by You can if you use the all means, right method, One mother writes to me: “Our five-year-old daughter tries to keep herself hid whenever we have company, How can we overcome her pashfulness ?” about my bond instalments. But I thought I might as well drop in to see Mrs, Jarr, anyhow,” “And don't a ologize about not be- ing dressed to me, Mrs, Jarr,” gushed young Mrs, Smith. “I know it's per- fectly horrible for me to call at such a dreadful early hour. But, then, Talks to Parents By Ray C. Beery, A. B., M. A., Pres. of the Parents’ Association hostess In t In this playful way you can accustom her to different points in social custom, tgnorance of | which very often is a cause of timid when necessary, By being tactful is meant that you should put the em- phasis upon some interesting play, activity or object apart from the lit- tle girl herself. have any one ask her how old she ts | and a hundred other questions about | herself when sho has her attention already tod much on herself, See that the conversation is kept on some It is exasperating to| Making the Most of Our Children upon the fun she will have or has had with somo visitor, Appear at all times to be very much interested in visitors, Plan for thelr reception, Talk about the good time you will have with them before: hand. When the visitor comes have fore is essential for you to be calm and composed at all times when in company. Do not allow anything to excite you, Take your time, ‘This really will mean more to your daugh- ter than anything else, Some mothers make the mistake of trying to sympathize with their chil- dren by telling them they used to have the same trouble, But this sug- to a regular country Jake,” replied the old lady sharply, Yor she knew the ker's airs and manners, ‘Taylor ‘Township was a lit'rary centre, and it is yit to this day, More poets has come from Taylor Township than from all New York State, As for en- j'yment, Taylor Township was allus ‘one round of gayety in the octal season,’ as the Taylortown Palladium uster say. Dances? Why, we had dances onct a month, ef there warn't any revivals going on. We uster get more enjoyment out of religion them days, The religion I sees in this town these days don't have good times in tem, People seéms to be sad here en they rises up to testify, But when I was a gal we used to back- “1 trust we are doing our duty to- day, we women!" said Mrs, Mudridge- Smith, yal. that may be true, all right," replied Mrs, Dusenberry, “but wim- men didn't go into politics in my timo, And they did war work without wear- |ing men's clothes too!" Here the old \tady gazed scornfully at the visitor's uniform, “I remember when Mrs. “And the ‘Jenny Lind Polky?’” eald the old lady. “My, how that used to x6 so very fashunible up at Tndianapo- ls, and all the gals danced it in my time, sometimes with a young man you was engaged to, or maybe mar. ried couples would dance the polky. But young gals 'd pe talked about it they danced even a schottische with a young man, Square dances wasn't considered so sinful. Did f° ever dance a schottische?” “I have heard of it,” reptied young Mrs, Smith, “but it isn't danced any more, you know," “Tt should be, for it ain't unrefined the old lady hotly, “Maybe, after this war we'll have some great re- his name from Sam to Samar- ity. Play visit everal times be- . da slide and go to the dances jist to git} vivalist to come and f ‘ It really {e|!ty- Play visiting several times be-/your daughter bring in her most ; nd territy sinnera/ hat Th J | 0) ‘* 18 a P ‘Prag sea Post-Intelligencer, A. BE. F.—American Expeditionary tebing YO AABE V8 bd lay See painful to be| fore you insist upon her taking any'| peautiful doll and doll clothes, Direct |°¥'U! as'in s M1 pee 408 as}with the old-fashioned tormints of ; — epee paounane Force—Atter "Bm Fleron—Milwaukee |“ nnycst aye, “a oviencor’ self - conscious, active part in entertaining compiany.| the talk yourself into proper chan-|‘0" War Work. don't you think the Sees Punlahineaia tor this gingal After'a man ve wi jews, p a y It is a good idea always to help. her | ne bebe gh? OSG BAG: 70! pleasure seeking, O tore. ‘Dis work he has solved one of the eo Se “No, not that!’ he grunts, ‘Caru- And ih 10 On Tbe put een viata ity by sing Bate work and make sacrifices In the Civil | fathers enj'y Ag rh Rens | Problerie of how Those 7 t singer, It's paid him won Justice to chil- |) Paty y making | Remember, your daughter ts golng| war, when 1 was a young gal?” r Fes Wis Wed COnMtee to succeed.—Toledo penny safety matches—they | 80's & great singer. It's paid him dren to allow|/ittle tactful expressions yourself] to watch you very closely. It there- ‘ Mt A POUR Bie? sinful dances, but they would afters, Blade now are all alike; derful. Now, I noticed that when you ' 2 ward get religion and repent—whie? I hope you'll do!” “Well, you must excuse us, Here comes Mrs, Jarr," said Mrs, Smith, “to go to the Liberty Loan drive with it fer me," said the old lady, “I never had a ride in an avtomobile thing, If you don’t think I'n get seairt I'll go downtown with you, teresting activity which fille her Bloomer lectured in Taylor Township] 1'm a soldier's widder and I HER COMPLAINT. the northwest coast of America, where in gestion does more harm than good. - 2 - ree sot @ gon cago News, | |, Poe brs the abtp took on @ cargo of furs for| Your daughter very Hkely has had) thought and makes her enjoy herself.) Simply don't talk about the bashtyl|O% Wimmin's Rights, both before and] ayer there, Mebbe what I'l aay at A foot and his money may be noon|_. “I Want to complain of this officer,| China, From the iatter country it some unpleasant experience with vis-| Never under any circumstances sug-| trait at all. after the Cly ar, men was|the meetin’ will sell some bonds!” parted. but @ fool and his folly are Giamese twins to the end.—Memphis He has summoned me for apeedin, you speeding, lady?” “And wel “Oh, yes. “Then what have you to complain sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and returned to Boston in 1790, ‘The Columbia was in command of Capt. Robert Gray, who was the first white itora, To overcome this, begin by getting her interested tn playing “Visiting” with you when alone, You can easily gest to your daughter how timid she is, Never make fun of her, This simply would give her the impression ‘The better way is to keep talking about the positive idea of making others happy and having a good| | goin’ to rotten-aig her if she wore ‘em, and she fooled ‘em by comin’ out on the platform in a fine black silk And it did, many of th > MICROBES ON THE SCREEN, ee eelan uk Goltninn kine | that you do not understand her. Do| time while with them, Continue this | S°¥?:” Apparatus with which it 1s posalble ott" . although the mouth Piecreg River, do this by letting her dress up i) not, on the other hand, talk about] plan and the habit of self-congclous- | “Did you dance the Jazz dances those} to make motion pictures of living mi- his wife “He didn't remove his hat while! had previously been discovered by a|@ome old long dress of yours and let| now brave she is. The better way is| He’ gradually will disap; days?" asked Mrs, Mudridge-Smith, ‘oy @ Calis dber play the part af beth vialior and POA.by ‘ simply to put the whole APRON | Ones 0% 18 Tenee Aencetion, ed MiRNIAS Fe mmAke: ERe, tne ld’ fornia scientist, crobes has been perfec! f like dances I see these days," said \ SiN 4