The evening world. Newspaper, November 13, 1918, Page 16

pe WEDNESDAY, _NOVEMBER 13, 1918 4 "Duchess of Marlboro’ Set Pace in War Aid Activities; For American-English Girls Two Modish Ideas for Your Winter Coat And No Other Woman, Aside From Queen Mary Herself, Has Done More to Encourage and Pro- mote Interests of Women During War, a Subject Which She Discusses in This Interview by an Evening World Correspondent. By Helen H. Hoffman Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) ONDON—“No, I have no desire or intention of asking for a seat in L Parliament at the present time. War conditions have helped to break down so many sex prejudices and have in the natural course of events opened up so many opportunities to us that I think we women shall find plenty to do if we utilize the machinery we now have at hand.” Such was the frank reply made to my question put to Her Grace the Duchess of Marlborough. War has indeed changed conditions for the rich as well as for the poor im England, and for the members of the American colony there as well as for the English-bred woman and tireless war worker, American girls who had married into the old English nobility before the war have been no steps behind thelr English-born sisters in ardent support of the war and great personal sacrifice since the very beginning of that dark hour in 191 Sunderland House, the home of the Marlboroughs for years and one of the largest and most interesting dwellings in fashionable Curzon Street, some months ago was generously turned over to the Government by the Duchess for war purpos: Her Grace, as every one refers to her—it seems such a dignified and solemn title for @ slightly built, almost delicate looking young woman, who hasn't changed much in appearance since as the daughter of W. K. Van- derbilt she became the Duchess of Marlborough. And this in spite of the fact that she has two grown sons, the eldest of whom has been in France for some time with the British Army. The Duchess of Marlborough, who Wee recently made a member of the Tendon County Council, laid aside some reports on educational matters, to receive me. “I am attending a meeting of the Council to-night,” she said. “I have asked to be put on the Educational has always been an ardent advocate of the vote for women. By epeeches and continuous work with members of the House of Lords, Her Grace contributed largely to the successful suffrage ismue. Already, she said, the effecta of ‘woman's possession of the vote could be seen, “It has given woman a new and dignified place in society,” she said. “When you go to a Member of Parliament with some matter of pro- posed legislation one is received and listened to with serious consideration, And Members of Parliament tell me that when @ woman's name !s sug- gested for some important work on some committee interested in the Prosecution of the war or local civil- jan interest, that there is no squab- bling over it. In every mmstance the suggestion hae been favorably acted on. “Yes, I have heard many gloomy Predictions about the future of women in the reconstruction period,” @aid the Duchess, in answer to my question, “but I believe there is no cause for alarm. “The English women are fond of their homes, We do not live 90 much im hotels and apartments as you do in the States, and #0 there are thou- sands of women to-day employed in war work that will hail with joy the Committees. I hope thet I Inay serve om this committee, for I am tre- mendously interested in this subject. “As the result of much thought, XY MODELS HERE ILLUSTRATED SHOW: NEW AND STYLISH TREAT- MENT OF FRONT AND BACK DESIGNS AND FUR TRIMMING AFTERNOON OR EVENING CAPE COAT WITH TAUPE COL- ORED FUR TRIMMING ANDO BELTED FRONT. FULL LENGTH COAT IN GRAY SILVER CLOTH, THE BACK 1 UNUSUAL, THE BROAD PLEAT- ED BELT ARRANGEMENT AND VERY FULL GLEEVE ALL CON- TRIBUTE TO THE EFFECT, FOR FUR {8 USED FOR TRIMMING, 9 some experience and investigation, which has covered a considerable length of time, I should like to see schools, many more than we have now. I believe this is one of the established a large number of trade} !i! day when their husbands or brothers or fathers return home and they will feel free again to take up the home For the very efficient women, and there is a large number of them, who would no doubt wish to remain in} The Happy Couple First of a New Series of Articles by Nixola Greeley-Smith ( t f i i | | | ; { | "young women who desired to become in things that the Government will give) business, I betieve there will be Remaideration to at this time.” plenty of opportunity for them to do so. “I do not believe there will be any so-called sex war when the army is demobilized. We have all suffered together, and we have a tremendous respect for one anoth The men know that we have done everything to keep the home fires burning, and I think the men will re- gard their women folk more as part- ners than ever before. The men know that we hesitated at nothing to sup- Perhaps no other woman, aside) from Queen Mary herself, has doue| more to encourage and promote the interests of women during the last four years’ struggle than the Duchess of Marlborough. At the beginning of the war, when it was seen what tremendous cal! would made on physicians and surgeons, the Duchess of Marl-|port them at the front. We have treason, make rough raised a large sum of money|S'VeD everything—-our sons, our - fnorease the haetadecas work et| M08 our strength. Rich and poor alike have made great personal sac- rifice.”* physicians. Her great belief in women's po- litical equality, and her faith in thelr ability and efficiency, which an- Nounced itself in many definite ways before. the war, increased the efforts of the Duchess of Marlborough in What Do You Think; Does This Man Look Like Pres. Wilson? + their tables, scrutiny, and I know, real. By Nixola Greeley-Smith HE first human being who ventured to deny that the earth was flat was put in a dungeon. at dared to disbelieve in Jou An the stake, I don't know what is going to happen to me for publishing boldly the declaration that here and there| twice as powerful. among the married a happy couple exists, the most of cynics and leeches on the misfortunes of your fellow- men sudjected their felicity to cold analysis and microscopic for the bost of all reasons, that their happiness is | His perception of these qualities may beauty. ‘They show where no beauty exists, to be sure, but they lave to be Sometimes @ man If this be| and woman marry wit preciation of each other, and if neither encounters another being with the faculty of triple attraction they may manage well enough. If we were only born with one eye| we would never know that it is a | superior advantage to be able to sce | with two, And many among the married never realize that they po | sess only one or at most two of the three ingredients of perfect happl- it, all you professional (To do you justice, you sometimes spin your tales| from your own misfortunes, as the spider weaves his web from his own body.) I have seen such happy couples with my own eyes, broken bread at dimension whenever we find out what h only spiritual) Jp ° | B m’ yo their behalf when the war was de-| When I was @ very small gin in a}knows more than I do about the ne clared and their services were needed | convent school a debate of unceasing | emotions of men, ne Happy Couple is not by any at every turn, | interest a:nong the youngest of us| The fulfilment of a.perfect love,/means the couple that has never had Ap the maternity hospital which the | waged about the following prob which is just another phrase for ala quarrel. 1 doubt very _much Duchess of Mariborough has main-| “If you had a bad piece of candy and| happy marriage, must be three-fold. fained herself since almost the begin- | & good piece of candy, which would) Jt must carry with it mental, phys! Tough on Abdullah ben| ning of the war, and where more| you eat first? cal and spiritual’ satisfaction, Such a li than 700 little lives have first reen| There were juvenile philosophers| marriage !s rare but not entirely) 1. the tight of day in this dark perioa| who fave Immediate consumption mythical. Many marriages begin and| (By United Prem.) Of history, the entire staff, from sur- of the “bad piece” that the taste and|¢nd with tho least permanent of these} LONDON (by mail).-A curious | geon to orderly, is composed of recollection of it might be lost in the | #atisfactions, and when the seep «f| case of @ grievance, religion and re- women. ° subsequent delights of the luscious|years has lessened the unstaole| venge has been decided by a military | I asked the Duchess of Maribor- | morsel. But there were others—and | foundations of infatuation there is| tribunal in France. ite 0 aha thoveht the war eect to this echool I adhered—who thought | nothing lett but a bog of boredom. On| In one of the labor battalions was Thich women had been doin; ee the delectable dainty should be eaten|the other hand, marriages between|an Arab soldier, by name Abdullah Sialia'e! them, for the fire: ps petri before the other, with the idea that | supposedly sophisticated persons who! ben All, who had lent another soldier fide the home liad developed them | the mere memory of it would sweeten | exalt mental companionship beyond| 5 francs—and falled to get it back. @lons broider tines. co that it co ia | and glorify the lesser experience, lite deserts and profess a cool detach-| Iic became resigned to the loss and} SEIS. thay wwouhd be Getter wives Ever since then I have eaten the|ment from less tenuous and earthiler | decided that Kismet had decreed he fed mothers for having this bigger ood piece of candy first, To be con- | ties rarely weather the first ten years.| was not to have the money, but was PRperience, which placed them tn sistent, therefore, I offer it to the| Between mental companionship and} to seek revenge. | eaders 6 e sider >= ' atic 7 0 e dec “ hen to k he debtor. ‘dipee touch with the sufferings and read Bo let us consider to-day | infatuation Hes the territory whish tor par carides | hen. to tell the Gap ter, sorrows, little Joys or disappointments the Happy Coup) want of @ better word I shall call! Ramadan, when it {9 unlawful to kil}, ‘of humanity, Why are they happy? Because they | spiritual, A woman may love @ man| he asked the authorities (o put him “They were good enough wives and HE above photograph ts of James oye — a in arte Bing f ap aN) Be Se ig Abc ue oe Wedd vhs fea Fre teats sans deen dryers] mothers before the war,” she said, J, MoCabe of No. @3¢ Bt. Mark's! Only reason ause many persons | his lows, scorns to rive by stepping | Migitiead him to transgross the Bae “Pb war has merely furnished the AASEA, BIDKITS. fea aivaral| ore ete, GET APS enh Winelon another mania neck Shows) cred law. unity to show the world what| times MM. nay, inttne¢ Nast happy. W. L, George, favorite | himself great In all the little things in| The authorities refused this re- eul'do, The war a! ‘ R jonday, in the midst of the! among living writers of English, says| which great men aro frequently so| est, and Abdullah was more than . also Bo doubt | peace celebration, was surreunded by| in an article in Harper's sazine | little. A ma » love & Ww ever convinced that ¢ & had d to gain them more speedy po-|hundreds who, mistaking him for! «1 caRiSiagy iter Seley : A man may love @ woman be-| dained that he should k!!i—which recognition, President Wilson, tried to shake his ae month thet physical love thrives | cause she proves herself generous and| accordingly did. at | be ental hatred, From the| fine in ways in which h 0 .| After hearing the ev! s to the her mother, Mrs, 0. H, p.| Bid. 4 Agoking at the picture, what| Dest on mer he | fino in ways in which his previous ex 9 s 4 *|do you say? Would you have made| feminine point of view, this is an| perie i boints of relixion involved, the Court the Duchess of Marlborough the , perience with women has not led him Tome complimentary ervor? absurdity; but, of course, Mr, George! to look for generosity aad fineness. pene! servitude. sentenced the man to five years’ \ er earth ‘Husbands and Wives We Know hether oysters and clams ever dis- is, Great Good News That Set in a Mother's Heart, a Fallen Heroes. dirge of sorrow. received at almost of the war and Theirs fe @ bitter of the grave. For eh it = Bainbridge Street, Brooklyn. While — Joy Bell Rang They Tolled in Some Hearts In Grief for Their Fallen ‘a Whole World Aflame With Happiness Raced With Another Messenger, Whose Sober Tidings Were Borne to Here and There a House Where, Wife's, a Sister's, They Left Room for Little Else—The Death List of the Latest By Marguerite Mooers Marshall HERE are women, there are men in New York who, listening with their ears to the joyous chimes of peace, hear In their hearte the In our hour of elation we should not, 1 think, forget the tribute of special sympathy to those who the same moment the news of the end tragic tidings of their own soldier. solitariness of grief, a sacrifice into which the element of irony bites deep, a peace literally the mother to whom the same day brought announcement of the signing of the armistice and announcement of the death of her son in France, there can be only one more poignant occasion—the return of the living American soldiers Such a mother {s Mrs. James Martin of No, 431 Her son Harold, a nineteen-year-old boy, fought with the 11th Machine Gun Battalion. While horns, belle, rattles and other primitive expressions of joy resounded in the street outside her window, she sat in her house of mourning and told how her son fell tn action. His “last full measure of devotion” was reported to her while there rang in her ears the superficial exuberance of the shouters who all along have been safe. What wonder that she said pitifully, “It hurts In the first sunlit, laughter-filled hours of exultation that the Great Suffering had ended, a young-woman, Mrs. Holland Riggins of Rutherford, N. J., dismissed her class and went home—more quietly but more throb- binghly happy than her boy and girl charges. For a year ago she had married the Principal of the East Rutherford High School, and he had gone to France as a Captain of the 107th Infantry, For two hours, per- haps, the gray fear which had com- panioned his young wife since his de- parture left her, and she dreamed of quiet, serene, safe days of work and love together. Then the nostman brought a letter from the wife of a Capt. Allen, who said that Capt. Rutherford had been killed In action in October, In the ears of another woman the cry was peace, peace, when there was no peace, In one sense peace comes too late for every American who wears a gold star, who holds in his or her heart a golden momory of brother or son, hus- band or sweetheart, now become a figure in the black price of war, The period of splendid American effective- ness on the firing line has been so brief that upon not many of those who loved dead heroes has Time laid more than ever because it comes at euch a time!” stop in time to spare my boy? Was his death needed to crush the German terror? Wouldn't everything have been just the same if he had not given his life—the life that means everything in the world to me?” One wise and great American has answered all these suffering hearts, these rebellious wonderings if, after all, the ultimate sacrifice was es- sential—was even useful. It was Emerson who said, once and for al- wa ‘Though love repine and reason chale, ‘There comes voice without. rely: "Tie eun’s partition to be eafe When for the truth he ought to die!" Tn that spirit America entered the war, In that epirit—even if formug lated in far less classic phrase or un- formulated altogether—our men went to France. In that spirit we who mourn must accept our burden of suffering. And ours is no ignoble share of the pain of the world. Quan- titatively the grief of Europe may be greater, But the American mother whose son has died for freedom gives all she has, She can give no more. Even if her tears must fall in this hour when the rest of her world laughs for joy, she holds intact her pride, her sense of rightness, No shadow of futility should rest on her contribution to peace, Not American in France or Flanders has died in vain, not one American eas+ his healing finger, Nevertheless, | peace ts an ordeal, if not a mockery, |ualty but has helped directly te win the war, indirectly to prove that ceur. to all to whom the knowledge of their/ age, self-sacrifice, devotion te an bereavement came yesterday or the| ideal, have not perished from th day before, comes to-day or will come | earth, to-morrow. Neverthless, I think that we might “Jf only the war had ended a little be heightened by the curl of an ey | agree, but I doubt also whether they earlier!” those mothers and fathers, lash@r the chimmer of burnished hair, | KHOW ecstacy. he Happy Couple "i d sweethearts, are thinking d we know that many thousands wh] ior mental and spiritual excellencies | 2rmed by and of any two persons wives an ‘aration: Maiet a or me and ¢ al en who love each other in the three di-| with heartbroken . h and the whale and similar matters| are certainly shown most effectively| mensions we have sdiscussed—and | ew days sooner—and he would come paid the penalty of their heterodoxy on the gallows oF | against a background of physical! Who will love each other in the fourth) | 1 44 mo! The fighting was going fto stop anyway. Why couldn't it step more softly, we fortunate folk to whom peace does not bring a wincing memory of the old peace and happi+ ness which can never return. For through the laughter and shouting of our peace, sobs echo, and the dance of our rejoicing 1s over graves. Tseo, Bellevue’s New Chinese Woman M. D., Has Learned Ideals of American Womanhood By Willis Brooks. ROTHER JASPER was right The sun do move, A Chinese woman ambulance surgeon on the staff of Bellevue GA é A® novelty enough to make your dear old dae Yrsne. has pungest. Hospital 1s eat-grandmother turn in her grave. But ,the little doctor herself is aot uch Interested in the novelty of it. ‘To her there is deep significance in the fact that the oldest civilization of clasped hands with the Her fondest hope is that the best of the one will be preserved and the best of the other adopted, Dr, Pang Yuen Tseo, daughter of |Dr, and Mrs. Tseo Ling Han of Non- chang, China, has, as you see, West- ernized her name for use in America. Tseo 1s the family name, and in her native land it comes before the given of young women students sent to this country by the Chinese Educational Mission, a Government institution, That was in 1909, She had been al- ready graduated from Chinese schools which compare with our academies, and she had adopted the Christian faith, Her first academic scholarship here was in Northwestern University at Evanston, Ill, where she was graduated in 1911, She then took a three-year course in sciences and a year in medicine at Michigan Unt- versity, after which a three-year- course in medicine at Chicago Uni- versity gave her the doctor degres Soon afterward she was appolmted an interne at Bellevue, this city, and this week began first call ambulance work ther she sald to me, yesterday, in English quite free from Oriental ac- cent, “I am not going to stay in America. I have @ duty to perform for my own people, I am going back to teach and to practise medicine among them. That was the purpose ot my Government in sending me here.” “Could you not have acquired as good a knowledge of medicine in your | own country?" I asked. “We have good schools of medicine there,” she answered. “The Rocke- feller Foundation and large appro- priations by our Government for the purpose have done much in that direction, But it is not merely a medical education that I am to take back with me. I shall carry home name, She was one of the first class much more than that. For one thing, and a very important thing, I shan bring to my people the true spirit of democracy. To be sure, they have had republican form of Government for some years now, but the people are in a transition period. They are about equally divided between the old order of things and the new. We have so many centuries of traditions behind us it is hard to make inroads on them, but some of them no longer fit in with the modern scheme of things and they must go. It shall be my endeavor to point out to our con- servative element the best that I have found in the new thought and new practices of the West. Many things in our old civilization should ‘be perpetuated. Some of them are more fitting .nd more to be desired, 1 think, than newer ideas that have been adopted by the Occident.” “What influence’ have American women had on you?" I asked. “They have taught me some very valuable practical leasons,” Dr, Taso answered, “Our women until very recently have ‘been content to study the politer arts, such as music, poetry, philosophy and letters. Now, as a result of clover relations with the West, especially with our best friend in the West, the United States, they have taken up engineering, architecture, scient!fi agriculture, dentistry and m y other things inte which American y omen have gone ctical things your women have taught and are teache ing ours. I hope to encourage the growth of such Wedhings whee £ return to my home land, These are the pr: