The evening world. Newspaper, November 29, 1918, Page 20

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1918 Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie BY LIRUT, EDWARD STREETER ~ f (Mlustrated by Corpl. William Breck) Third of @ series of “DERE MABLB” Letters which The kvening World is pudlishing on this page. (Copyright, 1918, by Prederick A, Stokes Company.) “Retire and You'll Grow Old; | Stay in Harness and Keep New York’s ‘‘Chateau-Thierry’’ Club Wounded Heroes From France Have an “ Exclusive” Organization All Their. Own—Honorable Scars the Only Means of Entry. —_———__++. Kerr, Trust Company Head at 67, Following Footsteps of Predecessor 85, Says Modern Busi- ‘ness Life Has Stretched Original Three Score ‘Years and Ten, That Work Keeps Men Young and That Retirement Is Quickest Road to Old| “retired business man” has less chance of real happiness than the _ > Man who stays “in barnes. j * « In the realm of real cqntent “old age” doesn’t mean “quitting ” but is only a signal to “hold on tight going around the curve.” These are the sentiments, bolled down to sentences, of Mr. Walter » Who at siXty-seven is actively on the job as President of the New Life Insurance and Trust Company, No, 62 Wall Street, having cn- the employ of that house forty-six years ago 45 a junior clerk, Mr. Kerr, howover, does not consider himself “old.” He has been it of the company only since 1915, when he succeeded Henry Parish. Mr. Parish, who was president for forty-four years, did not resign he was eighty-five, and then, instead of idling, remained with tho as chairman of its board of trustees until bis death. : ‘The writer handed Mr. Kerr the following paragraph, clipped from the , Magazine. { “Every man should strive to live at least 100 years and die all hitched up in working harness, Many a man feels that he would like to retire at | it sixty and spond the rest of his years with nothing to do but lead a | headed cane around by the hand. It is thrifty to stay on the job just Yong as possible. Every man should make the century plant his favorite and the undertaker his worst enemy.” I think a man ought to re- * He repeated in surprise the | scythe and the hour glass, Nowadays accompanied ‘he |a man is not old until he admits that “[ shouldn't think [he {s old, anc if he so wills it, he can untess he's feeble. A man|Femain young until almost the very iy greatest happiness in his |last moment of thé final reckoning. Well, maybe not his greatest} “That sume rush and hurry has ess, but certainly great COD- |peen said to sap the vitality of those it. There is nothing Ike /who come in touch with it dally and to keep us satisfied, andthe oonstantly, to breuk down their of us are lost without it. NO nerves and, in a word, to kill them ly I have never believed 10 | om To the reverse of this there retiring—that is, of course, 89/4 car groator probability that it stim- ap be ts young and able to 40) uiatey tieir living powers instead of ‘nib, work.” ' checking them. Certainly there {s*no That word “young” had Slipped | greater myth than the tired bus { | “By Will B HE “Chateau-Thierry” Marven Crow and Leo Zawack!, A lone, Sa ee ness | different outfits, fell 1 ny Ss unconsciously from his Ips, but It) man, tor there is not a banker, law: Most exclusive club in Ne | atitdet drive. ‘TH eee Paiegat HAVNT rote for some time I had euch sore feet gave a great insight into the man’s) 6) 6. broker of lower Manhattan 4 york City, Clubmen who |forget they have each lost a right I lately; ‘When they broke up our regiment and ome banks |%B2 has time to be bored; or tho n=] OA "Gle in the windows of the jarm. Leo can pump the piano player sent me over to the artillery 1 thought I was goin “Homie of the heads of our Danks) ciation either, for that. matter, |DOMinent Mitth Avenue civ |with his feet and entertain Marven|{ to quit usin my feet. That was just another roomor. nd, trust companies,” Mr. Kerr con: /nigy are on the jump; it 1s exciting, | YOU count It a great distin es HARLES \ and'have a jolly time. Shrapnel sot Thanks for the box of stuff you sent me. I guess tinued, “are as old ag if not older than), one the vital sparit of life in in] O° (eluded in ies sclect member } RESING ‘them: Like Caesar's legions their the brakeman must have used ft for a chair all the ; ve \ woundeD ,suuye™ \ myself, I know weveral that have| ii, i. they breathe and it keops them | */p- OuNDrD sUUNE™ \ | wounds are in front, not counting a way. It was pretty well baled but that dont matter. been at the grindstone long Laghia) allve, for if any of these big men me © be eligible one miu Ve served |red sear on Leo's back from contact And thanks for the fudge too. That was fudge wasn’t 1 and 1 suppose 4 vev. the Whose names are written high on the aa cou ue as ‘ soldier, marino o \with a mustard gas covered stick hej it, Mable? And the eox. They dont fit but I can use them for som ; ferm-adbout it vy eweur Fri the 4 tablets of success were taken to the Sate hneal ta ee ties for la ftaid on while his arm wes being] thin. A‘good soldier never throws nothin away. An thank your wee’ op dnigeigeedl J apdoneey Ar, [COUAtTY and allowed to stagnate on al’) 108 «fet Nags ne ugls | bound up. Marven was born in Mis-| mother for the hulf pair of gloves she sent me. I put them away. J Tah pails hv “Now. and then | 8 18: aulet seclusion with nothing} wonsteau «x I |sour!, but there's nothing uf the) Maybe sometime'sbell get a chance to nit the other half, Or if I ever @ man fecls that he hus made enough et irate teat delete dry The club house ts located at No, 21; > used to bring-the members! in thelr common disablement ang | show Pinte atous A Nin, Charles) get all my fingers shot off theyll come in very handy. money, and deciles to take a rest|1 0 YOUTs EGY Mole oe aie ote naa { Beekman Place, Hoth Street and the fl club, and a taxi company has! though they wounded. In: pody;| Arlr wae une nau Pawenied odd look The artillerys a ‘little different from the infantry, They make ! and enjoy {t Don't these men find} en se thelr vecond at 4 in} Cost River, and is under the auspices |B ted two vehicles for) they are unscathed in spirit, Gayer | a beg yoni tig ry Chippewa gob.| ys work harder. At least theres more Work on the ekedule, I know ; the enjoyment they retired to have} °° © is econe childhood 19) of the New York County Chapter of |'nspor souls one could not find, and these| This descendant of savagery after rtillerys active off now what they mean when they say that the ’ @ tottering, decrepit old age.’ the western front.” @ western front. ,time tor?” the Red Cros; ighting subs and losing an eardrum fresh from the welter of dead rve@ the boy As a lving refutation of Dr. Wilt-] Harry Knapp is Py 1 ail t are so gentle and polite, 1t| hands it to the Germans for shaming “ “ * tied, “once in a great app is President and Mrs. So gentle and polite, It (4 1 - a - 1 ga Pepe) ps old pairs fam Osler’s much discussed theory} Shepherd K, de Vorest is chairman of | ft is, and if a mer ives a civiliun a guilty ‘eeling to] his ancestors at the game of barbar- ‘ Bhi Got a.srill over here called. theistandia es ite The ss ‘while one hat all men over sixty should be|the Executive Committec, unable to be brought in from the} have a hero say * and “No, | ism. misleadin, I guesy it was invented by 4 troop of Jap akrobats. They retire and moves to lis estate ig the Hudson to remain In idle- moan for the rest of his life, but it ts make you get up and elt on the gun. Before you can get settled com- Mr, Kerr puts in a} Here, in a comfortable three-story | @mbulance refrestiments are carried fortable they make you get down again It looks Ike they didnt strenuous working day which begins | home, overlooktng the river, ave wel- [oUt to the curbstone Ir” to him, Charles Presing and Louis Pe Selson, a | Charles a Hoo ins, Louis from Picker- instance, N: not often. ‘That word “retire” has u/t 980 in the morning and does sot | comed the boys who are able to ta The club house is fitted o lelond siripling trom ¢ Minne. | ing, La., were wounded at Chate know just what they did want you to do. sinister meaning to a man who has end until 6 jn the afternoon, He com- | short recesses from the service hos- | Musical instruments, A profes: ant He “didnt do anything espe-| Thierry, July 18. The consciousness I dont like the sargent. I dont lke any sargent but this one yar- ‘had his band on the helm of a big | Utes datly—his home 19 in Kast | pitals situated about town, and in the| plano player shouts all the latest] ¢ to hear him tell it. He only | of duty well done is their vewarg,| ticular. The first day out he kept sayin “Prepare to mount” and rm- | or a big corporution or a Orange-—and walks from the tube to] “chate: they find entertainment | “hits,” encouraging the boys to ig banking and trust company. 1t| hs office, This, rain or shine, along with comforts of home 4 onize betwe means idleness, and idleness, ta thes | | M- Kerr ts a maan whom the casual} vided by kind ang gentle women w ine category, 's not in the faintest degree | Observer would take to be about fifty, | tactrully cater to the . |went through the ‘he n cigarette puffs, as they) Wood and got bullet. chairs, ‘The welting | neck and arm. His fa 1 of Belleau| “Dollars couldn't pay me for the pride] then “Mount.” Finally I went up to him and told him that as far as through the|I have in my wounds,” said Louta in| I was concerned he could cut that stuff for I] was always prepared to ous 6th Regi-| his soft Southern accent, Such cre! do what [ was told even though It was the middle of the night. He de aire | the members cf the club, Honorable] aid, Fine, then I was probably prepared to scrub pans all day , | loun wants without rom includes typewriters ior the boys! ment Marines was mere ' sysonymous with happinesi Possibly filty-five, but burdly more destroying the club's stag atmos-|to tinker with apd they have @ pool) ated en masse by the French. Talph| wounds set a high price for admis- Sunday. t Bearing out Mr, Kerr's analysis i9|*#n that, Mis quick laugh ri . room and reading room, {not only wears this red citation cord| sion to the Chateau-Thierry (1 NUADM Mave SiueesoR Hossam CAbIRE thes tael (he sacle Ware aiicne @ long list of recorded cases where With a note of youth, his eyes are as a great diversion for the con-! Soldiers with arms in ngs ar On| on his left shoulder, but an ‘expert | hence its exclusiveness, But the club me. Mout of them ere so big that the only thing there good 4 is the min accustomed for long years to the | Keen and bright as they ever were |yalescents and relieves the monotony |canes and crutches fraternize with|marksman's decoration, Ie told of | is well worth the price of adinission, Ans oy ca view of the camp you get when you clim> up. Tobey are what they bal oon ‘ te »fand his figure far more erect and|of their hospital routine. | xailors and marines ov rd games! the Marines’ fighting slogan, origin- | If you don't believe it, ask the mem- “ i A ating Potent paefien A Seals BareyMoaniels seera mlaAiieven tol The clad bas ite own motor ambulend ewap experiences of the trenches | ated t rp eh b osed the Thankysiving| Call hors de combat tn French, My horse died the other day. I guess yay ‘and have returned to barness ang | W'Tant. He hus given @ son, Sergt.ijance, that makes the rounds of the|and hair-raising submarine battles. | you blankety blanks, do you wan. rday, given by Mrs,| ft wasnt much effort for bim. If tt had been he wouldnt have done it. jo ness. For others the change has | George S. Kerr of the 166th Infantry, ‘hospitals every day. Vrivate motors| ‘The incapacitated boys find a bond | live forever!” \ Statstalt and Miss Schmid. They got a book they call Drill Regulations Field and Light TO) mnbast. not only the end of content- | his country, tor he was’ killed in| — -unaaeammanan ——-| ‘yats about as censible as it is all the way through, For instance j % ment but a breakdown of health and peure tP Pye paeth ihe nie has T h F 7 B they say that when the command for action is given one man jumps | Ee Bienen) eR Sree Teeeaeny 16 A for another springs for the trail and another le | Be eerred 092 not infrequently © curtail |e ss aod he te still, able to sraile e oO u r g e s oO / e a u t y fer: Gio. yee Abe SBV\i8T 8 if Her 1eees OE mat of life itself, Men kept young by work have not begua to ago, at Yeast in feeling and uppearance, until 1 guess the fello that rote the regulations thought we at a world that be knows is al! gov- ( ( see ; were @ bunch of grass hoppers. ALA ela Aa No. I1—The Lion Hearted Rose SO pe ghar eon-ge oc a ’ 7 ally > th ! y fe t) hit y el (tity became mentally or phydeally vk Lore re doubt in my mind, By Nixola Greeley-Smith. [crocus idea of beauty pervades our/about life, loves it, wo, (ar too wise| again for the box although it was so busted that {t wasnt much good tate, Mr. Kerr vald as be shook hunds, | Y til you bh ! : ; i > “that old age is not a matter of ye Copsriabt, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World,) life and warps our women in theirjto be deceived by all our little pree but that dont matter. Yours till you here otherwise, BILL, i “The eush and hurry of our Ameri-| ie en ee condition wiiel fa 13 way, as you way have gathered from certain unusual sounds in| most charming hour, Who would be tenses and hypocrisies, yet fuses them 2. Tee comnlete series | z. ee re ‘cap business life," Mr. Kerr expiained, | it 1 BmpIy : sa papa the early dawn of Nov, 11, is over a pert little spring crocus who could/all to beauty in the crucible of her | 77 aces) “yas stretched the original threescore @ ‘ ; 1 i], be a deep, lon-hearted rose? And} warm pity “4 , Aeaisty iatens truth: /40' ome 1 in w little while all our little, young crusaders In khaki will 1 : ! varm pity. Ife f lers’ pears and ton to an clastic, indefinite happen io pti and it ally alee walk among us in civilian clothes, though never again, m, or can blocm, trom the| The otuer night I heard Yvette aws O e oa or era travellers ci Itogeth th a oe : epiibers escenent y to the first wee lbert--a g cal aint tone he fight /of the ne nscontine t pertod, Leia anes ogi ie most convincing manner by « men thank the fortunes of war, with the civilian slovel n May to the -first we jav ber rl with a golden hear NE more milestone in the figit)of the now transcontinental pathwa ; amerey of tho individual and his abil- | wno is a shining example of the gos Our smaller army of women {a uniform will demo-}'" November, even in New York/it ever there was one a aus | to geaauer -the. or Will ete be Known.as the." Waodrow Wiad ite to ward off the gentleman with the ! pel he expounds. Milles’ evan canta fauldise AGA ab they Dui raslie tio a where the climate is not eclally | dience: “Have you tho! Ww cold passed when “The Acro Biue| Aerial Highway” over which the pro- good for roses. ly we pa. old nd Directory,” which 1s being | posed coast to coast aerial mall wili Book a poo! sober serge and serviceable khaki and don with new too, there is always somes|in the street? Have you ever seen a| brought out by the Century Comp: ; de carried « French Folk Tend Our Boys’ Graves. Brace and quickened zest the garments of peace and! ining lett of a rove. Even its dead|rich man take a bag of gold down| passes into the hands ef the public| ‘The highway takes in a belt eighty beauty, thelr choughts will soften eimilarly, will turn | leaves have charm, perfume, delight./among the nd give it out this|and becomes a factor in the work-a- | miles wide re: from New Yor’ again to their ancient preoccupation with the one art for} And as rose leaves fall, every drop-| we ght and lef No. Yet what a]day business of flying. Advance |to San I co, and going by th vives in a bend of the Seine| grave an effort to get in touch with . ; . just on the edge of Paris there|tho relatives of the dead hero in| \ Ww WN the wooded slope of a hill that] include besides the care of the 9) which woman has a unique, an indisputed genius—the | ping petal only brings one nearer to| beautiful action that would be!” proofs of the publication were shown art of bein eeming beautiful. its golden 1 The sec eing| ae hie ‘ y Henry Woodhouse, its ed- Sp@little cemetery that !s doing much | America to tell them about the rest~ | siuscemwreremee of Delng cr paaming Head itul its golden ta The secret of being) In tho past year I have been but|to-day by Henry Woo to weld another link in the chaln| ing place of thelr fallen soldicr, The life of every beautiful woman—and there are | ros: i what i to the theatre, But of the women } ito . few women who cannot at one.time or another appear beauUiful—beati w having a golden heart, o9|I have seen therein, two remain in my| The aims of the new book are to friendship binding France @nd| Every one of the adopted graves {s apd get credits mpeny beg seugisge having @ golden heart, om! 58 ' ain in my : ~ ¥ - . ~ oy ' arent y as ing conveye. e tho ls extent the same that h first plan was to make this highwa ag tended scrupuluusly, Freal flowers) it) & declaration of war, a ruthless invasion by Boches, with whom no | cour memory as having conveyed to me tho|a large & shway ‘Among the 700 graves of soldiers in| are placed frequently and tle Amer, | *mistice ever is"signed, with whom no permanent peace ever can ibe o .| ‘The Gir! of the Golden Heart is thy {greatest impression of beauty. They |becn carried out ia is Astron) Ne ip Mert Zine Spety sets the two x ‘ " re Mrs. Fis Jeorg: n,Bi Kk. Jus y “road houses’ st cities, b e designers ke cemetery are many graves of | ican flag at the head of the grave ja|‘luded: These Boches are the years which, having no more respect for the | rose among women, ‘The rose of the| Were Mrs. Fiske as George Sand, in, Blue Book, Just how “road hous , but the designers looked veland, Toledo, Chicago ne, It crosees the Rocky Mountains in Wyoming at a height of 11,000 feet above sea level, Th i : sy colored evening dress, and|will bo advertised or designated ie | forward and saw thp-possibilitie boys who have succumbed | renewed when it is faded. On gun-|*¢™ples of beauty than Ludendorft’s legions had for the Cathedrals of| World. ray BURY See PLEA SIME ADDI ee ee a of (ise rete, Gil | IBSiNGIEK the bin einer yh $e their wounds in the hospitals in | dayw it 1s mot unusual to vee a dozen|Rhelms and Arras, wage ceuseless war upon bright eyes and lips, soct| | Sie need not fear the blight of age | Kvette Cuilbert, in a powdered wig and) Sie wo ne ks confidently for- | Mr. Woodhouse believes that aerial the suburbs of the city. French women {a deep mourning, | Curves and sinuous lines—wihich turn, indeed, the Big Berthas of age and | UPOm Ber Perfumed cheek, the frost of | Bh Sit BoM ward to the day when all good hotels| Mall will be carried over thiy highs Almost every one of the American | sometimes accompanted by a troop ofj Worry upon all the light artillery of love. Cee ae ete ea eee ee eet Lelttees cae leait te aqulaped with landing stowed nee tae Tortola ene ae graves has been “adopted” by some | sober-faced children, reverently car-] B: en these Boches are not in- — jall these invasions of time the arch- | #se 4 muty is believed pos- +e 0G) pong dt i e in forty-eight hours, the vy Oar ut even these Boches are not in — Vo | Prussian wilt leave the golden heart {ible to women, Yet they duzaled ana[for aeroplancs and says re 18 no ! aeroplanes stopping every te y family, which takes care of | Rg for the grave of an American who yincible, Vor to them every WoMAD! ously got up t eat touched. the ence of teauty unde. jeathralled ot least one onlooker who| doubt that the uir routes encompass-| Milles to deliver mail to small towns ; | the Brave as though one of their own | H4# fallen op the soil of Wrance, | may speak tho immortal words of| Wc wns tock vista MOTOMERAM) 00: ODKS OF HORNE Neate ee are cadaat be ibe dhuchten ne lioe ine gape wil ne mapped out ae [once if {nen By | dad tay there. Many famijes have | When a military funeral draws up|Petain to Castlenau before Verdun: b elle Sled. ter, ” ~ BoE ON) cefinitely as are the roads to-day, Hae } + leuk wash eat tas Why WANT to look sixteen For certain persons with too literal | *!ther A STRANGER, from three to five of the little | 19 the pe of te come! aod ten- ds, und ond prominent French ogy § posite another Sag-druped| Now, I do not mean that every| We do not have to be violets or| minds, T must say here that the girl the first target practice of the These are women of genius—yes,|'The Aero Blue Book plans to control general traffic and be the official or- A el en * ‘ but they are al: yome: ¥ » jew rer te he y . men of Paris fias| fellow the littis proseaies pee a4 | woman shall go forthwith and spend] ilies of thie valley or crocuses that| with the golden heart does not mean |P4t they are also women of ripe years, gan of the great system of transp sr a baoe ronkls <trgm Mfteen and insisis upon | Brave. and stand quietly while yu |#2° °° beauty lotions—and look six-| push their impudent jittle heady up|one of those syrupy, unintelligent |the same ago can do if only she will|tation which will somo day travel ATT | ptimists with whom our times are | set out of h head the idea of lool- See through the air, ‘ One of the most interesting articles * ‘ound in a damed ig this first. isoue. is the description br 1, "Who in the dewil ing like a hard little spring cro and be content to bloom until No vember as @ lion-kourted ruse, ghapluin Treads \the simple ccremony yearwold, It has been my ob-|through tho late March snow, ‘There | 6 bugley wounds the fnul ‘ation that no woman ever looks] are, in fact, far too many crocuses inj too much beset, To me she is the 4 is ulte so old as when whe js labort-| America’s garden of girls, And the| womga who, koowing everything. rt we = - +: » ‘ > . —-