The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1918, Page 16

are ot Sere: ea ae BY JOSEPH PULITZER. vant Nos, 63 to soc ARTE a’ per PH PULITZRN, Ju, Beret » Beoretary, | 63 MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED peas, Re RL ee ee ee md MOLUM BOG is bed Veesieiececssectcreveves eve NO 20,901 IN ITS FULNESS. The fighting is over. ° We ee | After four years and three months of carnage and bloodshed the military power that sent forth its fleets and armies in pursuit of | Victory is complete. , Even less than in the case of Austria can the Allied military demands to which Germany bows be called in the strict sense an Cessation of hostilities is neither temporary nor provisional. There is no mutual convention or agreement as between contend- | ing belligerents neither of whom has finally given up. On the contrary, a defeated Germany sues for peace. Asa first step it scbmits unconditionally to terms which put resumption of hostilities out of its power. Militarism, with its pride and overweening ambition, is in the dust. » The dynasty that staked all on the ruthless destroying force of its vaunted military machine has lost all. Armies of free, peace-loving nations marched forth and con- quered it in the field. Peoples it has ruled and bedevilled with its promises have shaken off the hypnotic spell and risen against it. There is no place left for it in a civilized world. , In all history there is no record of arrogance that has had a greater fall, of pride that has been brought lower. Throughout the United States and the Allied Nations millions of people are én their knees to-day offering thanks that the fight is gloriously won and the peril to sons, fathers, bes sits aac ll on the battle lines over. Millions more are thinking with swelling hearts of the supreme sacrifice made by those they loved, and, with eyes turned upon the fulness of the victory, thanking God that “their honored dead, have in truth not died in vain.” All outward signs of rejoicing are as nothing to the sober, spiritual joy flooding the souls of peoples who have kept the faith re trae cn tos Fr eemorn eee Dpiaes sabe preyed egaiaet false gods of force and oppression. Americans in all coming generations will be forever thankful that their Nation came into the conflict to play a part worthy of it. With the might of its resources—men, money, munitions, food —mobilized with a rapidity never equalled, the United States more than made up for latenesg in putting its power behind the right in| — the great struggle. The speed with which this peace-loving people armed iteglf for wer and dealt its telling blow against an enemy on the other’ side of the Atlantic will be remembered as long as human records | endure. : It was a proud place the United States won for itself in the fighting. It is a proud place which its ideals and principles assure it in| the Peace Council. It is a proud place that will be now accorded it in the greatest How to Weather Marriage By Helen Rowland Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) Can a Woman “Choose” a Husband? USBANDS are like Christmas gifts!’ You can’t choose them; you simply have to walt until they come along and then try to ap- pear perfectly delighted with what you get.” I can scarcely believe that only a few years ago I wrote that aphorism, and that I actually believed it— until the Kaiser changed everything. For one of the brightest spots in the war-cloud’y silver lining is the Triumph and Thanksgiving the world has ever known. | + Fy The great spirits of Washington and Lincoln look down upon | | a Nation that has justified their faith, that has guarded and used | | well its heritage. “ Senn | CONFESSION. | “The victory for which many had hoped has not been granted to us. But the German people have Won this still greater victory ove: right of might.” F It is Prince Maximilian of Baden, late Imperfal German Chan- cellor, who makes tuls open and complete confession of the most colosi 1 error that ever plunged a nation into war and brought it down to defeat and humiliation. Prince Max has made the abject:German admission of the suprem® German mistake, Along with that admission let us recall and apply two pro- nouncements of another German—that arch-advocate of mili- tarism, Gen. Friedrich yon Bernhardi, who wrote the famous chapter “World Power or Downfall”; “In war that nation will conquer which can throw into the scale the greatest physical, mental, moral, material and political power, and is therefore ihe best able to defend itself. War will furnish such @ nation wita favorable vital cond! Uons, enlarged possibilities of expansion and widened in. ftuence, and thus promote the progress of mankind; for it is clear that those intellectual and moral factors which insure superiority in war are those Which render possible a general progressive development. They confer victory because tae elements of progress are latent in them, * * *” “Even defeat may bear a rich harvest.” Wants Al Prote: to Worship| With the coming shortage of o: too, cannot we join in worshipplt in one or’ two churches? England is doing it. Are we more shortsighted asa@ nation? I think not. Let us prove it AR. B. With the prospect of peace in sight why cannot the various Protestant denominations cast their lot into a rf ° eagle melting pot and worship in one ea sor ales chureh? It seems a crying waste to | To the Editor of The Evening World xara 3 peeutital edifices stand on ex- properties, with huge| want to help thelr country, rejected ning them dow: on account of defective vision. As t once Ss c@} France ba me Gaatituse of men, why man wou! fh doesn't vernment reer a t i he have | labor iment in this city andiend ther r Pan e Can a girl Yes, she CAN: I don't mean to gnply that she can go out, off-hand, and lassoo any person of the opposite sex who looks like her “ideal,"*for the moment. But neither can a! Neither do I insi for woman to go down on bended knee and do the CAN, of course, jher out to dinner; but ite usually the person who is going to settle the And unless you are prepared to “support a man in the style to which he is acoustomed,” well—really, tt isn’t done, ‘There are certain delicate custdms and forms which still prevail in polite society and they haven't changed yet What [ do mean is: that are SO many th man do that! | Dill who does the inviting. i} tself and its belief in the sea-weed on the 1% }unle OBLIGED to marry at all than a bitter necessity, she can afford to ular in her selection of a life-mate, and to marry for oer rather than to please choosing a husband” will be a sinecure, with intelligence, Most of us will con- Besides, most husbands | * taking as the pictures in the patent You can find out so little about a man—or a In all the Httle matters of habite and es & woman must take ber chances, And s0 must a man, bless | finicky and pa !own happine This does not signify and that every girl will “choos , thank Heaven! s different “before” | woman either re marriage, and make-up Letters From the er. le 14 | office before ii aht ea home at 6 P. earth but good, | EDITORIAL’ PAGE | | Monday, Novem ber 11, 1918 | fact that it is no longer true! “pick and choose” her own husband?| “at last! uate that it is time She can also invite a man to take a girl CAN CHOOSE whether or not she will] hes in @ modern woman's life besides hus- no longer means to be a “blighted being,” a de- tide of life. NO woman marries “just to} s no longer any stigma attached to single | praca nor any especial premium on a wedding ring. (Some women * of wedding rings never wear one.) And, | y hust ‘Therefore, since a husband has become a sweet | nd, she does not feel positively be much more the family. But there are certain big, vital, essential qualities in a man’s character concerning which every girl can and MUST be absoluiely certain before she braves the sea of matrimony with,him—three big, vital qualite ‘8, without which no man can make any woman happy. An idler makes a very charming lance-partner, but for a tespartner give ME a man who goes down to the and works so hard all day that he is glad to come He may be too busy ta stop by the florist’s and order you'roses on his way downtown—but he is Hkewlse too busy to stop for tea with the blond manjeurist on his way uptown, Nothing on honest hard work will keep a man out of mischief after marriage, and “we can prove it.” Second, he must Le KIND—and you can't judge the size of his heart ‘There are thousands of men who) by the size of his tip to the waiter or his fee to the check-room boy. You can judge it only by’ his gentleness and devotion to his family, his con- sideration for his employers or employees; by the’ way in which the office boy beams on him, the elevator man greets him, and bis men friends re- gard him; by his kindness to children, animals ard old ladies, and, ewes ton n. sme ‘THINK people ought to pay their bills before they put on airs. r had settled down to read the newspaper Jarr was deep in the reports! arrangements and vouchsafed no answer, “You can tell people who are always used to having plenty,” said Mrs, Jarr. r they were yery rich and Not this World War, Calverthouse went out s¢wing by | 4Uiring silenc the day and never put. an. airs; stories she used to tell of what she remembered as a little girl! Sarr. ruined that black velvet dress of mine by cutting the goods all up so that 1 You remember, don't you? e to get tho children new . darr, tacking thing terrible dren's clothes. it’s on account of the war, but how Children's clothes not being worn by soldiers, are y you think I spend too muei , but it doesn't pay to Look at that cout! I got little Willie last fallt and threadbare, Do you see any girls’ overseas Emma would look aice what they ask for chil- he atorekeepers et I think little in an overseas “Oh, certainly,” bearing a word replied Mr, Jarr, not think so for said Mrs. Jarr, “As a general thing you don’t seem to care how the children look, They are nice children, too, if 1 do say it! he Bingleys are going to sepa- The Jarr Family LS ET EL rate. Nobody. knows just what it’s} about," Mrs. Jarr went on, “Mra. Rangle heard that Mr. Bingley thought Mrs. Bingley had money when he ®arried her, and when he found out she hadn't there was an awful scenc. But 1 heard that it was on account of Mr. Bingley paying too much at- tention to his typewriter, Mrs, Bing- ley insisted that she be discharged, and Mr. Bingley refused. Oh, you can't trust any man these days, Isn't that true?” “Yep,” said Mr, Jarr, sententiously, his cars only being aware that an in- had followed his wife's flow of words. “Oh, you do, do you?" said Mrs, talk about each other and yet per- sonally they all swear they ‘are saints, Don't you? Don't you?” hhub!” said Mr. Jarr, still intent upon his paper, Mrs. Javr sprang to her feet. “Oh, you would, would you!’ she exclaimed, “How dare you sit there and acknowl- edge such a thing right before my very What are you talking about?" asked the amazed man, putting down the paper aid. 1 wa What was i “Never you mind,” snapped Mrs, Jarr “The truth will out. Oh, you are yery sly, Mr. Jarr, but even the lyeSt men forget themselves, You've said now “Said what?” gasped Mr. Jarr, “I don't c to discuss it!” replied aroused lady, “For the children's didn't hear what you paying any attention, Ke By George! I won't stand this any longer!” exclaimed Mr. Jal “[ never sald a word!” exclaimed Jarr, “but if the cap fits you cap doesnt’ fit me, but my hat as shouted Mr. J and, seizing that article of apparel, he rushed out said Mrs, Jarr, as sh watched him down the street, “why is he so irritable? I do hope we will have peace and everybody will be kindhearted again.” for the other ybove treats her, 6o will he treat her successor—his wife! ‘Third, if you are @ really modern woman—he must be CONGENIAL. For, In @ normal modern marriage, you will spend most of your PLAY- rIME together, and a difference of tastes in jokes, books, plays, sports and amusements means continual martyrdom for one and continual boredom It not the sorrows and troulfles they share, but the pleas. ares and pastimes they DON'T share, which separate most married pairs. Without a helpmate you may exist, but without a playmate all life is stale, flat and unprofitable. Given these three basic qualities for happiness, it doesn't matter much whether the husband you choose is rich or poor, handsome or plain, young id. Without them he may be a combination of Croesus-Solomon-: pollo-Belvedere, and yet make life one long, hideous, dreary waste Yes, you are like all men; they Bow to New Yorkers at the New Amsterdam Theatre two reports. Miss Petrass herself lent some actress has been contributing much Miss Petrass was born in Budapest twenty-seven years ago, She is a |nlece of the Countess Kinsky who | before her marriage was known on the German, French and English stage as Ilka Palmay, having attained | celebrity as a singer and actress, Miss | Paimay appeared at the Irving Place |Theatre under Heinrich Conried jeleven years ago, Miss Petrass says |her aunt was much opposed to her | going on the stage, but that she finally overcame her aunt's objec- tions, She first studied for the stage |in Budapest and began by playing | smaller parts in the King’s Theatre | Lehar, the composer, introduced her to the late George Edwardes, the London musical comedy producer. He brought her to London in Franz Lehat’s operetta “Gypsy Love” in 1912, The next year she sang there |in “The Marriage Market” which ran | until the war started. The late Charles Frohman tried to induce Miss Petrass to come to this country at that time, but she was unwilling to come then, she explains, because she did not know English well “I was in St. Moritz, Switzerland, about the time that this report of my execution was first circulated,” said ss Petrass yesterday. “I left Lon- don when the war broke out and re- jturned to Budapest and from there I went on a vacation to Switzerland in- stead of taking an engagement in my | own country. It may be that this led to suspYcion that I had given Govern- | ment secrets to the enemy. I first learned that my execution las spy had been reported in the American newspapers when I came to this country in August, 1916. ‘The newspapers at that time published my |picture and called attention to the fact that the spy reports were untrue and that I was still in the land of the living. I had. supposed that woula end the matter, but it has not, for the report has appeared, two or three times since.” Miss Petrass said she had been criticised when she first arrived here because she told reporters who met Sari Petrass Now Sings For Wounded Soldiers; Not Executed as Spy Charming Young Hungarian Actress Who Made Her saddened by published reports that Miss Petrass had been executed spy in Budapest will be correspondingly rejoiced to learn that sae is not only very much alive but also quite happy in spite of the embarrassing |there and in Berlin, Then Franz} Two Years Ago in “ Miss Springtime” Is Now the Wife of Felix Sommer- hoff, Wall Street Broker, and Quite Happy in Spite of Tragic Reports. HOUSANDS of New Yorkers will remember with pleasure Miss Sari Petrass, the charming young Hungarian singer who won their hearts the moment she stepped on the stage in ““Miss Springtime” years ago. Many of those who were a color to the false reports when she disappeared from the stage several months ago and became the bride of ¢ Felix Sommerhoff, the Wall Street broker. They are spending the fall at | his country place on Long Island, and for several weeks past the former of her time singing in the hospitals | here to wounded soldiers recently returned from the battlefields of France. her at the steamship pler that she “loved England” and said nothing about her own country. - “Those who doubt my Hungaria sentiments,” she said, “do not knov me or bear ill will toward me, Th: ® war hurts me terribly, I think it worse than hell, I cannot grasp the meaning of so much fight and blood. Poljtics never interested me and it certainly never occurred to me that any of my remarks would be given political color, Even if I did say that I loved England, I meant the English theatrical and social life. I admit that I fatled to say nice things about Hungary as I should have done. But I am Hungarian; it ta | only natural to me that all which is Hungarian is nice, it beautiful and noble because it is Hungarian, I do not feel it a necessity to praise my country thinking that I may seem distasteful. “I did not seo much of the war be- fore I left. In Switzerland you would not know it was war, but when made for Rotterdam to come to America I had to stay cight days in Frankfort, and I had to go to tha police station and tell who I was an@ get a little card for food. .'Then when [left Frankfort I saw in the corner of my railway a German off- cer. He began to talk to me and [ thought he was a bore, and I said just, ‘yes’ and ‘no’ and diln't talk. Then he said: ‘From Rotterdam you éan get boats to England.’ I said: "How can I go to England when I am Wungarian.’ He talked a while longer, and when he left he showed me his card, and he was‘one of the chief de- tectives of ‘the German Army, At thd German frontier station the German officials were polite and attentive. My ecret Service man helped me in forwarding it. The false reports of Miss Petrass's execution, so far as The Evening World has bee able to trace therm, were first received in this country fe cable despatches sent in February, 1916, to a Hungarian newspaper tm Cleveland, Ohio, From Cleveland the report was scattered broadcast by the Cleveland Leader News Bureau. Ne old-fashioned matchmaker is shaking her head thoughtfully over three new failures she has t with in the last year. Failures because she tried to marry three old bachelors to three old maids, ‘The three bachelors are now all benedicts, but the three spinsters are still clay in the matchmaker’s hands, The first bachelor married a divorcee, the sec- ond a merry widow and the third a young Miss just fresh from boarding school. One would naturally suppose that a poor, lonely old bachelor would pre- fer to wed a poor, lonely unmarried lady just about his own age, But matchmakers and all those well- meaning souls who have planned to marry some old maid aunt or sister off to one of these lonely old bachelors have found that such ts not the case. Whenever an off maid and old bach- elor meet there is a clash and a very noticeable one, too, They seem to de- spise each other, as the cat and dog, nd one can almost hear them mut- ter to each other: “You old maid! and “You old bachelor!” “Why weren't you engaged at sweet six- teen?” and “Why haven't you taken a wife and supported her as other men?” Now a married woman always puts herself out to be nice to the bachelor, She treats him just @s a married man, She does not regard him as a new specimen, a matrimonial slacker or one to “handle with care.” No mat- ter how timid or non-talkative the bachelor, he always finds himself at home and comfortably at ease with the matron, There {s something soothing about her to him, sormething which takes him back to the good Whys and Wherefores of Lave And Matrimony By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) 2—Why Old Bachelors Seldom Marry Old Maids But the moment he comes in contact with @ real old maid (not a bachelor girl) he feels like a schoolboy caught in some, mischief by his teacher, He ag if instead of playing “huok« ey” from school he had been playing “hokey” trom matrimony, There is a certain look from the old maid's e @ certuin setness to her chin which plainly makes him feel he haa been leavin undone many things | which he ought to have done, He nas , | no excuse to offer for remainin a | Dachelor and shirking matrimony all 4 | years, and even if he had one ne doesn't feel like telling her, In- {stead, he feels a strong inclination |to run away, and he usually does! You see the fact of it is that al- | thougu the bachelor n be the same age as the old maid they are miles and miles behind each other. dhe bach r has had many love affairs all these long years. He is still young and giddy at heart though his head may be bald and his teeth false! But the spinster has not had a love | fair for many @ year (if she ever had one at all)! Her heart has grown |eold and covered with moss, sie looks upon the bachelor’s boyish laugh, twinkling eyes and giddy man-* ner as the cat does upon the dog’ vark and foolish pranks! She natur- ally hates this half-boy, who looks as old and 18 as old as che and still has the nerve to make an “old fool of himself,” rom her quiet corner the old maid watches this creature (Who is as old as she is, remember) blush when @ sixtcen-year-old maiden enters the room, Could a boy of sixteen make HER blush? She notes with disgust how well he tells his latest joke yen & dressy ttle. widow rustles © inta. g® wasn't even opened and sr~