The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1918, Page 11

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1918 LD PAusbands and Wi We Know—No. 7 The Woman With the Chatelaine Husband * Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) on a By Nixola Greeley-Smith Was the custom of our mothers and grandmothers to ‘wear about their waists a sort of belt with many dangling silver chains, to which were attached keys, garden scissors and a variety of other small household) tools which might be needed during the day. This belt,’ as everybody will remember, was called a chatelaine. ‘The custom, long since discarded by the majority of; women, is still followed by a limited number of wealthy ; wives, the more or less shamefaced possessors of what I call chatelaine husbands—men without ambition or occupation, who are content to help in spending money they did not earn, 1am far from accepting the gold standard in its ap- plication to the worth of men, I refuse to call a man successful just because he is able to make much money, } of. unsuccessful because he was born without that special aptitude, But I, > have seen too many men disintegrate under the weight of wealth acquired} by marriage not to regard the chatelaine husband as the most miserable specimen of his sex. ‘The normal young man feels an instinctive ‘aversion from Thasaae | ) such supposedly “easy money,” which is really the hardest of all money to earn. There is always something just &) to take me to lunch to-day and you ves i little bit below the standard of aver- age masculino excellence in the chat- know you can’t get back to that office at 1 o'clock,” she says plaintively, “I ) elaine husband, even when he takes | qon't see anything of you at all, and the first step in his career of orna@| why do you suppose I married you it mentation | not to have somebody to take me He may have a job at that time, but he does not enjoy it. The hours aré'too long, the pay too small to enable, him to purchase $4 neckties and $12 5 And, of course, he | 4s to get up at the same time every morning whether he feels like it or rot, An thon, too, he ts convinced hat every advancement in his office gthe result of “pull” and that honest | yerit such as his will never be dis- | ‘overed or rewarded. In this phase of bis development he | is heard to remark frequently that it 4 just as easy to fall in love with a| rieh girl as a poor one. And he be- | » to treat the young women em- | ple yed about him with a certain dis- | dances all afternoon, has more wine; dain. | at dinner and announces thereat that | Ho does not find this difficult, for | ne {s going to resign his Job, which is the future chatelaine husband has 4 daliar sign every one of the cor- peseles in his thin, pale blood—and | iWere are very few red corpuscles in the lot. i He is not tnfrequently a Reena’ | ah from the lack of whole- be male influences about his youth, | has bad the aggressive impulses of normal boyhood smothered In. femi- nuinity. In 1, he has had so much around to places?” Oh, yes, the wife of the chatelaine husband has much to answer for in Nis debacle They spend their evenings in cab- arets and on the mornings after, the chatelaine husband, who has drunk far, far too much wine, has a head- and feels more than ever dis- work, So he telephones rr inclined to | the office, orders the butler—yes, they are keeping a butler on his salary— to make him a Scotch highball, pulls himself together sufficiently to take his wife to a Broadway restaurant for luncheon and more wine, shops or too confining and {is wrecking his health, and that thereafter they will have to live on what he can make at writing or painting, occupations for which he considers himself to be equally fitted, And, of course, he has | told Mathilda that he'll never touch a cent of her filthy money! Sometimes he does resign. Oftener he is discharged for neglecting his work. And thereafter his only occu- her Cha nksgiving By HELEN ROWLAND Copyright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) OU are coming back, beloved! What a tune the winds are strumming! And there’s music in my heart this magic day! All the while 1 go a-humming, “He is coming! HE is coming!” And God smiles to hear the little prayer I pray. As I sit before my fire in the sweet November gloaming, I can see you marching through the wind and rain, But, where’er my dreams go roaming, just the thought you'll so. be “homing,” Sends a peace, above all heart-ache and all pain. Oh, the long, long days I've waited—wailed with my heart ha breaking— j Making masks and rolling bandages, the while! But, above the frightened aching, and the longing, and the waking, T have waited, my beloved, with a SMILE! n 1 if. NLY now when all is over—all the parting from my true man— All the horror and Only now—well, | am human, the fighting and the fears, and, Dear Heart, I'm just a woman! And my eyes at last are wet with happy tears. Dere Mable 5 the thankfulness within me sends my spirit upward winging— Winging straight to YOU, across the cold, gray sea! And my heart goes singing, singing, like the glory bells a-ringing, For you're coming—oh, you're coming back to ME! Coming back, a joyous VICTOR—with the glory still around you, To a world regenerated and made new! To the land that lost and found you, to the land that proudly crowned you, To the land that owes its very LIFE to you! And within this golden hour of forgetting and forgiving, My heart shall make a sacred jubilee, On this wondrous sweet THANKSGIVING, when once more if seems worth living, I shall pray to God, who sends you back to me! Love Letters of a Rookie a REET if: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1918 (New York’s Newest Alibi, | “Looking for Atmosphere,” : | A“Watch Your Step” Job — Mme. P. Mildred Parma, Who Found It and Whom It Led Into a Divorce Court, Explains That If You Must Have “Atmosphere” You Should Cultivate Only That Which Is “Natural to the Individual.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall OW much “atmosphere” is any individual entitled to get—and get away with? How many commandments is it permissible to trample under- foot in the pursuit of “local color’ How much convention, moral and social, may be used as kindling for the “vital spark”! Recent happenings, as chronicled in the news, sug> gest those questions, if not the answers to them. Only last week a school teacher from the moral Middle West, Mrs, Inez Termaat, was arrested in New York for shop- lifting. She did not deny the charge. She admitted it before three Judges, but asserted that she had stol for tho sake of her Art. Not that she aspired, like Quincy, to write of “Shopliftin, instead of murder— “as a Fine Art.” But in order to appear in our best 20.cent magazines lee thought she must feel like a criminal. (There are those who think that 99 per cent. of the contributors to popular magazines should feel like crim{nals—of the “It's a shame to take the money” vrotherhood!) Here, in her own words, is the amazing defense of the austere looking school-ma‘am-shoplifter of thirty-five | “TI have been trying for a year to write short stories. The publishers always sent them back to me with the comment that they lacked the vital spark. I came to New York to see how the four million Ilved and try to set & human interest ewing to my tales. I was particularly interested in analyzing the emotions of criminals and wanted to get a close-up view of how they felt. . “L frequented Police Courts and tried to mix in the crowds there, but never could get close enough to hear what was going on, So I decided to It was with that delib- purpose that I went to the I wanted to ace how it felt to ibe a prisoner and to face the court, and decided that shoplifting would be as good a charge as any to have t me, Tam glad that I scenic be arrested, erate No much for the “vital spark” alibi, which is now receiving judicial con- : sideration, Mrs, Termaat having been ‘remanded to the ‘Tombs for a week. In New York's newest divorce suit tho need of the artist soul for “at- mosphere” makes a1. interesting feat- ure of the testimony, Of course I do not mean “atmosphere” in the crudo Tencment Law aense—so many cubic feet of breathing space It is femininity around bim that he Bas] pai. is aegcribed vaguely as “look become callous to its charm and it 18/ jn¢ otter Mathilda’s estate." BY LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER (Illustrated by Corpl. G. William Breck) for each pair of human lungs, “an ampler aether, @ diviner air,” which Mme, P. Parma de- Mildred actually quite easy for him to love} any woman to whom self-interest | points the way. | So he finds everybody that “We are going to At- lagtic City for the honeymoon because | that’s all I can afford, d, of course,| I've told my wife absolutely she'll salary—that I'll f hor money." | nave to live on my uever touch a penny 0! itiis therefore rather astonishing | ig. fellow workers to seo bim appear within a few months in a seal-lined) overcoat and to hear from bim that} he will have to cable in a few days to ndon's most expensive tailor to) nd biim half-a-dozen new suits 4 also to observe ct down to work in gs as early or as frequent- ‘as before the wedding. Even the ss marvels at the remarkable in- ease in the number of his colds and adaches since he became a chate- laine husband 4 But even this irregular attend: @ nis work interferes now and then With his wife's plans, “I want you nce | Unitea Sta hor, marries her, Infor) inree places you can never find them— | erty, you see. | husband may be simply a re There are not, thank heaven, very many chatelaine husbands in the tes. And there are just for there are no chatelaine husbands n the army, the navy or the Marine Corps, They are too much needed at home to look after their wives’ prop- “Mathilda's vast inter- ests require @ man to attend to them." &c, Some biologists tell us that orlgin- ally the male was a very much} maller and less developed organism than the fe le, and sometimes was even carried around by her in a sort of pocket provided ure for the purpose. In that the chatelaine ‘sion ABC to type. Money s capable of in bout this si ular throw- ack, however, That it may never happen to him, let every poor young man who harbore even the thought 0 « marriage for money put Satan be: hind him and continue to work and hold up his head and be honored by honorable men and women, Seventh Re } EPORTS received recently! Y R through the mail stating that | the famous feventh Re of New Y has supr @ers for t Ame an Wrance do not come as a surpri persons wh ord of this © @psanization ® While in the Civil War it was not necessary that officers be turn are familiar with the 1d and distinguished im such great number, the & during the period from 1861 to 1895 Mmost equalled the record made im the last nineteen months in Franc Letters received from bigh officers af the Twenty-sev Division by Brigadier Gen keCoskry Butt y.Y G,, tell of achievements @ the “Gallant Seventh.” The re ment unit of this division i 1 by the Seventh | nutside of the ment for] f ! 1On Apri! 19, 1861, th venth Regi- | tment left for Washington, D.C, at te request of President Lincoln and . Morgan and Major One rian ya “It is an historical f well} orthy cf record, that the Seventh] yas the flest regiment in the countr: lo'pitch its tents in front of the nemy? ) But it is to the special glory of the Degiment that it supplied 700 oificers ; or giment s Almost Equalled in Civil War! Officer” Record Quring 1861-65, And although these men left its ranks, the regiment al- s maintained tts standard with 1 to membership, w known in France as the 107th I y, the Seventh has achioved high honors on the battlefield. Charles I, De Bevoise, who com viunded the Seventh on the battle line, was promoted to the rank of r General for distinguished Ons the letters to Brig. Gen | | | | “We participated in the great bat- tle fort reaching of Mir Line Twenty-seventh h Di crash r nd enabled the British ulans to get through Again: ‘In the last class of th school in which there wer cers from every ision American Expedit ry Force tending, the two highest taken by officers of the enth Division, ‘This is certainly an honor to the division." It Is als ated that the Twenty- seventh 1 Thirteenth Divisions were tho first of the American army | to fight on Belgian 5 The Twen- ty-seventh, commanded by Major Gen, John F, O'Ryan of New York, had. the honor of capturing Vier- staat. ‘ | Second of a Series of “Dere Mable” Letters Which The Evening World Is Publishing on This Page. (Copyright, 1918, by Frederick A. Stokes Company.) Mable Having nothin better to do I take up my pen to rite. We have been here now three weeks. As far as I am concerned I am all ready to go. 1 told the Captin that 1 was ready any time. He sald yes, but that wed have to wait for the slow ones cause they was all goin together. I says was I to go out to drill with the rest. He eald yes more for example than a: ything else. Its kind of maddening to be hangin round here when 1 might be over there helpin the Sammies put a atop to this thing. In the mean time I been doin guard duty. Seems like I been doin it every night but I know what there up against and I dont say nothin. Guard duty is something like extemperaneous speakin. You get to know everything your goin to say before you start. Its very tecknickle, For instance you walk a post but there aint no post. An you mount guard but you dont really mount nothin, An you turn out the guard but you dont really turn em out. They come out them selves. Just the other night I was walkin along thinkin of you Mable an my feet which was hurtin, It made me awful Jonesome An officer come up and he says why dont you draw your pistol when you here someone comin, An I gays I dont wait till the sheep is stole I drew it this afternoon from the Supply sargent. An I showed it to bim tucked inside my shirt where noone could get it away from me without me tussel you bet, Mable. But it seems that you got to keep on drawin it all the time, Then later I here footsteps. I was expectin the rr I wes right,on the job. An a man come up and I poked my pistol in his face an says Halt. Who goes there? And he says Oflicer of the day. An bein disappointed as who wouldn't be I says Oh hell, 1 thought it was the relief, An he objected to that. The relief, Mablo— but whats the use you wouldnt understand it. Theres some mistake up north Mable about the wi Mable, Its kind of depressin to think that you could fi so quick, Everyones gettin sweters without leeves wero built, t about us ves without fingers. We still got everything we started with M hy not sox asked if I were willing to go into the] out his slender income as a clergy~ without feet and pants without legs. If your makin these things for country, away from the confusion of} man, Hoe was elected Bishop in 1183 after the war I think your anticipatin a little. Besides its depressin city life, to receive them, and consecrated the following year. for the fellos to be reminded all the time, Its like givin a fello a life “I andented and then I was led to/ His first Jurisdiction comprised Coa- membership to the Old Soldiers home to cheer him up when he my bungalow in Atlantic Higblands,| necticut and Rhode Island, and he I was sayin the other day that if the fellos at Washington ever get although the SIMBA piven won Oe TOS Feskee: of a chureb in Now onto this theyll be issuin eoleles shoes and shirtles gleves “YOU WALK A POST BUT THERE AINT NO POST” pie fad Sonne Me ree Tor olieane tet ee eee Its gettin awful cold. No wonder this is a healthy place. All a eet ameemeeee "==" | way on a motor trip, Am essential] DENT? acy Er germs is froze, I guess there idea of the hardenin proves ts to freez 71 2 BY : a) z uisite for the atmosphere I needed} "EAR, 'EAR! a fello etiff. The Captain said the other day we was gettin in tents I aat President of American Congress. |was that no one before me should) ¢gmmHERE was a good deal of b trainin, Thats all right but Id kind of lke to see those steam heated AMER OR Nee re ne ree Rene mange ae artecweed tattien nave lived tn the piace, 6¢ my choice, baaeball played in London , barraks. Youve red about those fellos that go swimmin in the ice in Conrei Ha Was harm in Now [28 America, Kilenne De Lancey built | This ts true of my bungalow, although last summer, and the dough- winter, I guess thed Mke our shouer baths. They « , ; Oh on NGr AO toh we Tancer (Enea 2 Leancoy Houro in New York, |1t was built two years before 1 took) noys often took English irl to see next to Godliness, Mable, I say its next to impossi» sreaided frst Colonial Cone |and Fraunce's Tavern, Wastiagina |i¢ over 2 named it We Re iu Mn) sald Earl Dunmore et. a I started this letter almost a week ago. I just in my bakin re vany in 1754, when | Dade Ito the officers of his, Which t# Japanese for “The Garden| Washington reception. Vimy bakin 1 f © Pleas f Peace.’ Later Mr.) “] hog can, They call it a bakin can but {te too small to thin, I keep ed w York, Penne |2/my in the large room which had | of the Pleasure o |“ heard of a doughboy who eald to my soap in it, I got some news for you, The regiment is to } » | Bylvania, aud, New Hampahiro, |U"" MT® De eR OR ee ee ee eibaae aad’ cons jeccels eet ee ee y* ee. atl bd shod Jaland aud | pupil, with the knowledge and con-| grounds together: mantled, The Captin called me over this mornin and asked me where Meda ence AN ARMY DEFINITION, sent of hig wife.” “If there is anything you want ex- Id like to be transferred. I said home if it was the same to him. So se ine HE Sergeant was asking a few| “Do you think that persons whol pfained, tell me. I guess a lot of ¢ there goin to send me to the artillery, This is a very dangerous and ap were, Atawn: ay db raw recruits goneral knowledge | want copy are justified in taking @| things seem meaningless to you.’ useful limb of the servus, Mable. I dont kuo my address, Just write a Te Laneas, pio tad want questi sort of Cook's tour of immorality or! “‘Kverything seems meaningless,’ me care of the General ig & Miflae Whe hah AGrine oR what is a hin? even of crime?" I asked, sald the girl, ‘and some things seam I got the red muffler that your mother sent me. Give her my love ar of New York, Ho was one |" a Nar setae “Oartalnly nol” replied Mam Pate Mines ? { just the same af iio cnisel AR@iantall can in thee id Arad ' ae the | “and such superficial and ab-| “'What seems idiotic” asked @he Be atte finan Tes Ah iba aoloue: app normal attempt to go to the sources | doughboy ¥ we id was one of the founders of King’s| ld Pigtail "I would say| evil and unhappiness does yot| ‘Well,’ said the girl, ‘why de you Bill College, now Columbia University. He | it field with its back up."—/|even offer returns of literary value. |call the seats the stands?’ "=D ‘Whe complete series of DERE MABLE Letters w published in book form, | was the son of Etienne De Lancey, » ttsburgh Chronicie-Telegraph, clared phe needed her defense against being named corespondent in the divorce asked by Mrs. Kather- }ine S, Pratt from Albert Houghton Pratt, of a famous family of Amerl- | can publianers, MA According to certain witnesses,! understanding of human nature er Mme. Parma and Mr. Pratt occupied, any other artistic material can be at the same time a cottage tn Atlantic! obtained in this fashion, | Highlands, N. J. and studied oceult-| “The only ‘atmosphere’ or ‘local ism together In @ “sacred room" of! color’ worth cultivating is what is this cottage, which also possessed 4/ natural to the individual. Only’ a “yellow room" and a “violet room.”| strict adherence to a high individual During her first day in court Mme.| standard of morality make; go0d in Parma testified that she had taken| art or life.” Me ILORED the cottaxe “lor the purpose of get-| Which statement does not crack ting the proper atmosphere.” She is| many canons, does it? Neverthe- the author of “My Tussle With the} Jess, I think ¢he tired business man Devil, by O, Henry's Ghost,” and of many other philosophical and religious studies, “What,” [asked Mme, Parma, with crude lack of finesse, “is this ‘atmos- phere? Have the people who hunt it the right to do a lot of things tor the commission of which ordinary mor- talv are disliked or something worse?” But Mme, Parma, at least, defends no atmosphere that is not chemically pure, should investigate the possibilities in the “atmospheric” alibis. Why aso the old ones about the subway hold- up or the sick friend when you may attribute boldly your little relaxations to @ passion for “local color” or cha “vital spark’ or—tmost high-brow of all extenuations — “sociological re~ search?” > First American Bishop Practised Medicine. ; The first American Samuel Seabury, He graduated from, Yale in 1748, studied medicine at Edinburgh and was ordained a dea- .0 atmosphere I sought and found in my little bungalow,” she de- }clared earnestly, “wag peace and spiritual harmony, and had nothing to do with Mr, Pratt, Iam im co munication with those who have gone | beyond; it was O, Henry himself, for] con and priest in England in 1763. example, who told me about his tus-| or many years he was in charge of sle with the devil, Some time ago the}a “living” at Jamaica, N. Y., and spirits assured me they had impor-|later removed to New York City, tant communications for me and) where he practised medicine to eke Bishop was At tg childish to imagine that any real| Free Press,