The evening world. Newspaper, November 4, 1918, Page 21

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, POPE 1918 Rockefeller Family Home Is ‘Turned Into Quarters For Busy Through the Permission of Mrs. John D. Rockefel- ler Jr., Her Father-in 54th Street House Over to Service as a Y. W. C. A. Dormitory, Red Cross Workshop and War- Workers’ Restaurant. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall |, by The Pres Publishing Oe, (The New Yort @rening World) W's Mrs. John D. Rockefeller jr. recentiy persuaded ber father-tn- Copyright, 1 law to turn three apper stories of his home, at No. 4 West 64th Street, into dormitories for sentative of the The Rockefe! flooded In other Avenue Baptist pajamas for the military hospitals. the last of a series of important patriotic services undertaken by her, the most prominent woman repre- War Workers -Law Has Given His West girl war workers she performed only fichest family in America. er family home, unique among the crowded brownstone fronts for {ts little front yard of greenery and shrubs and its spacious paved courts— years and used as skating rinks—is now mobilized completely for war work. Beginning with the basement floor, about 600 workers from the Red Cross Auxiliary of the Fifth Churca meet daily to sew flannel There are long tables for cutting and many sewing machines in this big basement room, and in what I suppose formerly were provision closets is now stored ample provision of soft, woolly garments and knitted sweaters, The walls are gay with war posters. In the Tockefeller kitchen, with @ built-in stove resembling a mam- moth fireplace, the war workers ‘pre Pare their simple lunches, Each woman, even if she comes from her own Fifth Avenue home, brings with her a little basket of sandwiches, and the chairman of the day makes coffer and tea on the Rockefeller gas range On a simple little kitchen table the Workers spread their frugal meal. On tho next floor the front and back drawing-rooms, the dining-room and the hall are given over to the younger girls for the preparation of surgical dressings, ‘The long, roughly bulit unpainted tables are a strange con trast to the elaborately carved oak and mahogany of wainscotting, win dow embrasures and doors. The ceil- ing in the larger drawing-room is frescoed with tiny rosy cuplids, and there {sa tall, old, gilt-framed mirror, ‘The room just behind has an oriental decorative scheme, with Moorish lanterns a quaintly patterned puper of blue and gold. work of the two drawing-rooms is inlaid mahogany. and There are muslin screens over much of the paper and over the big fireplace in the dining-room, but the majestic mahogany carved staircase and built-in mirror in the hall are left uncovered. The light from the stained glass windows in the hall falls on stores of gauze and cotton boxed up and place? just underneath the stairs. In one corner @ bronze statue of a Norse warrior looks down on the modern handmaidens of war. Mr. Rockefeller sr, has had these rooms specially w red with a drop light sys- tem for the benefit of the busy work- ore. ‘The three upper floors of the house, two floors of «ters bedrooms, and one floor of servants’ rooms, are being fitted up for about fifty girls, who will take special courses in recreation con- ducted by the Natlonal War Work Council of the Y. W. C. A. The rooms are large and there is a fireplace in ca one, The woodwork is heavily carved, and some is inlaid with ivory. Handsome, heavy old carved furniture will fit out each sleeping chamber, and from Nov, 29 til June 1 embryo girl club leaders and physical directors will live in the home of America’s richest man, thanks to the interest his daughter-in-law takes in their comfort. As chairman of the Housing Com- mittee of the Y. W. C. A., Mrs. Rocke- feller has been iaboring for months at the job of finding homes for girl war workers. Just now she is spend- ing a great deal of time in Washing- ton conferring with Secretary Baker and the heads of Government depart- ment on the problem of housing properly the 65,000 girl workers in the Capital, One enterprise on which she hag been working is the large emer- gency transient hotel for women, now being erected on @ site near the Union Station, This hotel will be in plain sight of the woman stranger to the city as she leaves the station, and will be the answer to the question she so often asks herself: “Where in the world can I stay while I am hunting for a permanent room or boarding house?” ‘This summer two vacation homes for Washington women war workers—one at Georgetown, the other at Silver Springs, Maryland — were opened, largely through the instrumentality of Mrs, Rockefeller and Miss Mary Sims, Y. W. C. A. executive, Another enterprise which Mrs, Rockefeller helped to get into practical working order in Washington was the use of a country club during the hot months by the ¥. W.C, A ‘This was formerly the campus of the Friends’ School, and included six ten- mig courts, outdoor basket ball gir! workers. ground, picnic grounds and a rustic cafeteria. Mrs, Rockefeller and the Housing Com) uttee, at the request of the Gov- The wood-| ernment, are perfecting plans for a big recreation hall for Washington girl workers. The “Players’ Houses" in Camp Dix and Camp Upton are other enter- prises in the construction of which Mrs. Rockefeller has been instru- mental, These houses were designed originally for the use of actresses Playing at the Liberty Theatres in those camps. Because of the distance from the city, in both cases, it was frequently necessary for actresses to spend hours on their homeward jour- ney, after thelr performances for the soldiers, for thirty women, Buch has a large living room, library, rest room and bedrooms, During the influenza quarantine on the camps the houses have been used as dormitories and rest quarters for Red Cross nurses, for whom Blue Triangle girls have served tea, made caps and masks and played softly on the house piano. It was Mrs, Rockefeller who uc- ceeded in enlisting the aid of Secre- |tary Daniels for better housing for women making Navy uniforms, and owing to her efforts a model bar- racks for about a thousand of these women has been built and opened by the ¥. W. C. A. at Charleston, 8, C., near the Navy Yard, m2 the basis of a booklet call ‘Suggestions for Housing ‘Women War Workers” and written by Mrs. Rockefeller herself, the Government 18 now constructing its dormitories for gir] munition makers, The book- let was written after exhaustive in. vestigation by Mrs, Rockefeller and the ¥. W. C. A, Housing Committee, Gitar Blackburn, au aged rectus li tuses slarm. io euideriig un jou TS At the yout of " a here fective’ ® od Bovby “to vist the. Cs OBINSON and his aid first made @ thorough inspection of the house and the body of Howells, Then they subjected all of those present to a detailed examination. Afterward they examined the ground about the cedars, On returning to the hall, Bobby, scarcely appreciating why at first, realized there bad beea a change there, Then he understood: Robinson faced an empty chair, The hall was pungent with cigarette |smoke, but Paredes bad gone. Robinson pointed to the staire, “Get him down,” he said to Raw- lins, “He woulgn't have gone to bed,” Graham suggested. “Suppose he's 1m the old room where Howells lies?” But Rawlins found bim nowhere [Upstaire, With an increasing ¢x- citement Robinson ‘joined the search, |They went through the entire house. ‘Paredes was no longer there, He had, to all appearances, put a period ‘to his unwelcome visit, He had det- initely disappeared from the Cedars, His most itkely exit was through the kitchen door which was un- focked, but Jenkins, who bad rq- Pach Players’ House has a capacity | \\ wie WO! cit a w@ <x Ae ‘oa ag |The Day of Rest ©, No, SHE 1S STILL WITH US ihe, 1918, tee hr ming ere Rew ‘York ‘Brentne By Mauric= Ketten | Suspicion Pointsin aNewDirection, * But No Clue Can Be Had Of the Man Wanted SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, (Copyruht Doubleday, Page & Co,) NOf SHE (S THE PARLOR OuRMAID SAIO IT WAS sallend tue Cedate, Suaiowa (0 Der, aids entrance for traces. The path there Was as trampled and useless us the one :n front, Rawlins, who bad gone some distance from :he bouse, straightened with a satisfied ex- Clamation, The others joined aim, “Here'a where he left the path right enough,” ho said, “And our foreigner wasn't making .ny more noise than he had to,’ He fiashel his lamp on a fresh foovprint in the soft soll at the side of the path, The mark of the toc was deep and firm. Phe .apr sion of the heel was very sight. Paredes, it was clear, house on tptoe. “Follow on," Robinson comnmand- ed. “I told this fellow I wanted » question him. I've scared him ort." Keeping his light on the ground, Rawlins led the way across the clearing. The trail was simple enough to follow, Each of the Pan- amanian's footprints was distinct, Each had that peculiarity that sug- Bested the stealth of his progress. As they continued Bobby respond- ed to an excited premonition. He sensed the destination of the chase. He could picture Parades now in the Joneliest portion of the wooda, for the trail unquestionably pointed to the path he had taken that afternoon toward the stagnant lake. “Hartley!” he said, “Paredes left turned to his r00m had heard ao one, house to go to the stagnant lake had walked trom the °F No, SHE O, SHE (IS, Busy CLEANING THE RaRLOR iS PLAYING THE PiANO \Prench heroines there days, pr- vente TACO MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1918 Is It Possible to Love Two Persons At the Same Time? * “Two Persons in a Single Heart Are No More Com- fortable Than Two Persons in a Single Says Nixola Greeley-Smith in This, the T! Article in a Series on “Love’’—‘“ The Smaller the Heart, the Larger Is the Ambition to Extend Its Territory.”’ By Nixola Greeley-Smith Coprtghs, 1814, by The Prem Publishing On, (The Mew York Brening World.) 3 IT POSSIBLE to love two persons at the same time? | 1 think it was Napoleon who sald that the impossible does not! exist. So we cannot make @ simple categorical No our answer to’ the question now agitating readers of Pearsons and the Strand magazines. ‘We must take the inquiry in its reiation to romantic love. For naturally one experiences no difficulty in loving one's grandmother and one's great aunt simul- taneously. Let us consider, therefore, whether it is possible for a young man s0 to love two women as te be unable to choose between them, and whether a young woman ever finds herself confused by the same embarrassing dilemma. But just here we are confronted by the strange fact that it is rarely the very young or, indeed, the unmarried who have either the knowledge or the need of those subdivisions of the heart and mind which are necessary to the maintenance of a dual love. In Vicente Thanez'e great novel, “The Four Horsemen of the Apoca- lypse,” the French heroine, Mar+ guerite, loves @ man other than her husband. and ts about to obtain @ divorce in order to marry him when wr tveaks out The husband wounded and partially blinded in fighting for France and, dismissing the other man forever, Marguerite dedicates herself to nursing him baca to hee''h, and then, like all good territory usually. Two personsn # wingle heart are novmore comfortable than two persons in a single room, One may be a fresh air fiend and want all the windows open and the steamheat off in mid-January, while the other's ideal of the perfect, tem- Derature will never be attained this side of Hades. Men who brag that they love tore than one woman have miserable, an- sanitary tenements for hearts,,and for them some form of tengment house inspection should be devised to prevent overcrowding. And poly- androus ladies should have their hearts similarly inspected in the in- terests of public welfare. One in the temperate zones has a long, lingering twilight. And the twi- \ one love may look almost ke the dawn of another, Where “the dawn comes up like thunder” love arrives in the same fashion and with the same sudden- ness departs, But in our own mod- rate clime many persons finding themselves in the twilight of love mistake it for @ new dawn. But why wet up to see the sun rise, anyhow, when !t is so much pleasanter to, watch it set? 1 have always thougit that the most ible aspect of the death penalty is that peopleware dragged out of bed at 6 A. M. ta>mect it, Why not change the ume to some civilized hour when we will all be up and won't mind it half so much? What a pretty thought in an articte about love? I just want to show that everything I know about dawn is un- him and the repudiio with @ sew citizen, Which of these two men “4 she love? Both or neither? One migct vay that Ibanez meant to show tic triumph of the maternal element In woman's love, which @rew Mar- ruerite back to her wounded bus- band, or the purely physteal 2. traction whieh Julto had for hor. But this theory would apply only to ore type of we 7m a» type to which a great nun - of women belons but which 1s nevertheless not unt- sah I do not recall any beok by an Anglo-Saxon which even suggests that wom, may love two men at the same time, though few ~.9 ever grow utterly confidential about their emotions without indicating 4t 1} t polvew sooethil! fem But what are the facts? In my opinion it ls impossible equally for a man and for a woman to love two persons at the eame time, The tndi- vidual who thinks he does has really but one unperishable passion—for himself. The smaller the heart the pleasant and to urge men and women larger ta the ambition to extend its not to get their hearts up early to 1 fancied 4 saw 4 woman in black, Do you see? And he didn't hear the crying of & woman a@ lite while ago, and when we told om he became restless. Perhaps you'll be- lieve now, Bobby, that the mo" has had an underhand purpose in staying here" “I've made too many hasty judg- ments in my life. Hartley. Ul go slow on this. I'll wait until we see what we find at the lake.” Rawlins snapped off his light. The little party paused at the black en- trance of the path into the thicket “He's buried bimseif in the woods,” sald Rawlins alterward. feels a at 4 ‘o'tiad They crowded instinctively closer in ti a deserted’ tara Touse be ot the sudden darkness. A brisk wind fon honiug. 40 arta coun ibe ceieis; had sprung up. It rattled among the to iva trees, and set the dead leaves in gentle, rustling motion fe lig the Wy bp. enigs™ Blackbura. met OP ch “Where are too many of us," Robin- » Misergura hed Sd sumimone, the others to the, ross son was saying. “You'd better go.on line, “detective: ‘end the Coruter, Thu ray ta ue eave Distck“atornay Hobo alone, Raw: and don't take any chances, I got t have this man. 5 You understand? I think he knows CHAPTER X. With their electric lampe Robinson YOu understands (Continued, and Rawlins ferrewed about the rear Rawlins hesitated, “I'm no coward, but I know what's happened to Howells, This isn’t an ordinary case, I don't want to walk into an ambush, It would be safer not to run him down alone.” wake 0, if you like,” Dr, Groom rum- too? said “Would you mind if I came, I've known Paredes a long time,” Bobby. Robinson sneered. “What do you think of that, Raw- lins?” But the detective stepped close and whispered in the district attorney's “Go Black- ar, “AN right,” with ‘em, if you want, burn.” And Bobby knew that he would go, not to help, but to be watched, The others strayed toward the house. The three men faced the en- trance of the path alone. No more loud talk now,” the de- tective warned. “If he went on tp- toe So can we. But an We night search proved fruitless, was up when they reached the Cedars, Kavherine had gone to her room. The coroner had left, Robinson and Graham had bullt a fresh fire in the hall, They sat there, talking. “Where you been?” Robinson de- manded. “We'd about decided the spooks had done for you." The detective outlined their fatlpre, Robinson said. Mr, fro At the arose and, without saying anything, walked to the telephone. When he returned he etter satisfied. faredes,” he sais “will have b ‘a slick article to make a clean getaway. And I'm bringing another man to keep reporters out, They'll know from Howells's murder that Mr, Blackburn didn’t die a natural death. If reporters get In don’t talk to them I don’t want thet foretgner reading in the papers what's going on here l'e give my job to have him in that for five minutes now.” m cleared his throat, arcely know how to suggest this since it is sufficiently clear, cause of you have Mr observation, But he has a fair of Paredes'’s habits, his haunts, his friends in New York, He might be able to learn things the police couldn't, I've one or two matters to take me to town, I would make myself personally responsible for his return——" ‘The district attorney interrupted. “i see what you mean, Why not? I waven't said anything about holding r. Blackburn as more than a wit- ness.” His tone chilled Bobby as thor- ral “L se oughly as a direct accusation would have done. And,” Robinson went on, “the Phe sooner the cham was visibly puzzled by his prompt acquiescence. He started for the stairs, but the district attorney waved him aside, “Coats and hats are downstairs, No need wasting time.” Graham turned to Doctor Groor "You'll tell Miss Perrine, Doc The doctor showed that he unde stood the warning Graham wished to convey. ‘The district attorney made a point of walking to the stable t them Graham gestured angrily as chey » away. t's plain ag the nose on your fac tt at the chance to run ua out of the house, He'll have severa: hours dur- ing which to turn the place upside down, to give Katherine the third degree. And we can't go back. We'll have to see it through.” “Why should he give me a chance to slip away?” Bobby asked. Robinson was taking no chances. At the junction of the read frum Smith- town a car picked them up and clung to their heels all the way to the elty, © telephoned, we went to the still playing Howells's give a 5 netropolitan di them ia the ball outside he am faced bim in a burst of ity may have to pay for this outrage Th man grinned y hairs about “| should get that.” He went on downstiairs. They tered the ap: nent to find confusio in each room Bureau dra had been turned upside down The desk had been examined with @ reckless thoroughness: G am was frankly worrk d “| wonder tf he found anything If he did you won't get out of town.” “What could he find?” Bobby asked In the lower hall th levator man handed Bobby the mail that had come since the night of bis grand- father’s mu In the car again he glanced over the envelopes. He tore one open with a surprised haste “This is Maria's bandwriting, he told Graham © read the hastily sc ha tone that f rawled note led toward bby: { not. as you say, think sport Use th auehty cocktails. Why should you Aten poor M yA you boasted you were golng out to the Cedars to kill your grandfather because you didn’t like him any more, So told Carlos to take you home. I wa i of @ scene in public. ‘ ound. Have tea with me. Vel you forgive me, ‘Tel) me what w the matter with you, must have written that terday morning,” Bobby muttered "Good Lord, ‘Then it wan in my mind! that letter’s plant,” Gra- But before long ho realised that bam said, you plenty of Graham asked the hall man. seo the sunrive of a new ive when it's 80 much more agrecable to watch the setting of an old one. A setting love bas as many wonderful prismatic radiances ag @ setting sun. Keep your heart in the West, therefore, feasting your soul with its scarlet and amber, its purple and rose: wo pearl. Persons who have seen it of~ ten tell me that dawn bas its owa special glories. The only two dawns 1 ever met were chill and gray, and it Wag not the morning after, either, Anyway, the most marvellou about a sunset is that you do to get up to see it, You're up, any~ how. Old wines, old books, old loves are best. What person who has an old love—a love with a mellow flavor, @ rioh ripeness, @ rare boudaet von exchange it for a new on Only an emotional parvenu, an admirer of plush furniture, hotel lobby art, rall- road station flower beds. And he de« serves what happens to him, CHAPTER XI. ORP came down from th danre apartment that Maria wasn’t at home “When did she go out?” “Not since 1 came on duty at 6 o'clock.’ Graham slipped @ bill into the man's hand. “We've an important message for her, We'd better leave it with the mal When they were alone In the upper hull he explained his purpose to Boby. “We must know whether she’s ac- tually here, Lf she isn't, if she hasn't becn back for the last twenty-four hours—don't you see? it was yes- tirday afternoon you thought you saw @ woman at the lake, and last night a woman cried about the Ce- darn’— at's going pretty far, Hartley.” ‘a chance. A physical oe,” id opened the door, — Perhaps I shouldn't be talking to you. would never forgive me for What am I to ao? in- discretio: | “For the present I advise you to do raham said. “You can eafely leave all that to her managers. 1 am going to see them now tell them what you have said.” Vi “Thank you, sir, wits’ end.” Apparently she withheld nothing. She played no part to confuse the T have been at my, it's A pretty face was troubled, She studied dancer's friends, m with frank disapointment, At the managers’ office they found thought"——- she began: bald-headed man in Bb ebirt at Your mistress was coming ng with an air of panic. v Well he burst out av th tered. y secretary tells me come about this temperamental Carmen of mine. Teil me where she is. Quick!" Graham smiled at Bobby. The Manager ran his fingers across hig bald and shining forehe “It's no laughing matte “Then she , has defaitely disap- peared?” Graham said. “Disappeared Way did I come down at this ungodly hour ex- cept on the chance of getting some word? She didn't even telephone last back?” Graham flashed. There was no concealment in the girl's manner, It was certain that Maria was not in the apartment, “You remember me?’ Bobby asked, “Yes, You have oeen here, You are a friend of mademoiselle's, You caa, perhape, tell me where she ts.” Bobby shook his head. The girt spread her hands, Sbe burst out ex- citedly: What is one to do? I have tele- phoned the theatre, There was no one there who knew anything at all, that mademolselle had not ed except at the performance last night. I had to show myself in front of the curtain and give them a@ spiel glanced at Bobby. ‘about @ sudden indisposition, And De: «he asked, “did you see her e me, gentlemen, audiences al ey used to be, Did ginks sit back and take the sho last wit waa before luncheon yesterday.” “Did she leave no instructions? what it was worth? Not by a Didn't, she say when she would be sight. Flocked to the box oMcedjand back howled for their money back, If she The ‘ert nodded, doesn't appear to-night I migh} as That's what worrtes me, for she Well close the house said she would be back after the Uniess,” Graham suggested, performance last night.” t your press agent to make capital “She left no instructions?” G “ther absence. The papers " repeated: wer picture and thousands “Only that if any one called or te! <r would look her up for =» Be ber was to make