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- WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918 Failures Who Made |, |i J\\ aly Ox If Themselves Successes Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford. AS By ae (Author of “The Job, the Man, the Boss,” “Analyzing Character,” &c.) 66 H M 33 Delile Se tos teams on cone ben omnes toe ooray for o. 4—FROM TELEPHONE LINEMAN TO MAN-; y t h e€ G ais l s ; AGING ENGINEER. Cg possidilitics ie undeveloped in nearly ali men, Seif expression Three A uthors, ig smothered in wuncongenial toil. Parents and teachers, groping in the dark, have long been training natural born artists to ° to become mechanics, natural born business men to become musicians, and All-Society Cas t; Doys and girls with great aptitudes for agriculture and horticulture to bes come college professors, lawyers and doctors. Splendid!) 6¢ a’, “ce me human talent, amounting in some cases to positive genius, Debs and Sub-Debs, 4s worse than wasted as a result, D. B. was @ young man admirably endowed with a ., D Yr. mechunieal ablifty. From his varllest years he was espe- To Give New York cially interested in matters electrical. His father told us that he always had dry cell and other batteries around Something New the house. He used to try to make magnetos out of horse- shoe magnets, When he was sixteen years of age, hav- " at one or two 7 y y] 1, i ames, be noed gee bo tate In Musical Show This Month tious to get into electrical work that his father, thinking : that he was Intended for exactly this vocation, consented: to his leaving high school and taking a position as assistant to the lineman of a telephone Ts wereld a2 (ile ‘a year cf two and finally becante a full-fledged line- | Periors against correspondence school man. He did well as.o lineman, and | CUrses, which were very much new after © year or sb attracted ‘the at-/¢F at that time than they are now tention of an electri light and power Paci doh lg a Did he} company, WhOnticed him awny from |¢*Periment. = But D. B. was dose the telephohe company and gavé him|!9 bls persistence, Missing no op- argo of polos and wires in a real-|Dortunlty to improve and advance Gential district. Hero. his unusual | !mself, he was, nevertheleus, respect > ity and qui nba’, ‘soot a |ful and diplomatic, Eventually he ity and t on bo- sae : came 90 manifest that he wus taken|7S* Promoted to the ee il | Off the outside and placed in charge |*uPerintendent of the electric light | ee jand power company. ‘There was only, j of @ gang of men wiring houses and) 5) ian between him and the de- $ installing electric fixtures, ra i phi or. ; Mule was a protty good job for a|*"e4 Eoal, namely the chief engineer. *| Soon after B. took charge as sup- young fellow and paid Bray enity erintendent, the company decided to} fee ine rect the time. By|Pulld a new central power station. | ee ee ne ser, ho wan twenty, |The dcslen was left to the young aoe eee rae ie need, | Onief engindor and tho practical work Oe ad eee te tera oor min {ot, carTying it out to our friend, } ed more money. ey ‘ee adviser, |WheM nally, the design was com- «with o rue i tae Saas eet’ | plete and passed on to D, B. for exe- Rate py Alger id agent ‘rn, |cution he felt that It was defective in | i oe hi fe a . rad pr Total several ways, Ho therefore took the ye put to uso at some f pa : whole matter to his superior and, be ee patched qerctie tet tried to explain to him how the de- ells, You. a J sign was defective, in a yer rere ten eg mun “I made that plan and it ts right,” why the teogiqted) ge peek have | #24 the chief engineer, “Youf busi- Snether man t! . Now, habs ness isn't to criticise the plan, but erat tor ber tor a-ag You to | '2 6 ahead al carry it out. I'll take ne sary is the responsibility.” set needful education. ielbl yee nre|.. “Very well” said B., “if you want A vagy ae 44 My es ~~ ue y | ese plans and specifications carried got lots o! e before y Fe YOU) out ay they are, you can get some one | oan te Airey one Naoes ne ibapatch eg else to do it, I would rather resign : é WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918 Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie’ “By LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER (Mustrated by Corpl. G. William Breck) Pifth of @ series of “DURL MABLL" letters which The Eventag World is publishing on this page. (Copyright, 1918, by Frederteh A. Stokes Company.) “ONE DAY ITS OUR TEETH.” bro Mable 5 Rainin today. No drill eo Im going to rite you. If im 1 dont get no exercise I go all to pieces. Im back from the artillery into the infantry, Captin an I had different ideas about runnin things. One of us had to leave. Hed been there longest. 1 left. Hot headed. Thats me all over. Were doin baynut drill now. I cant say nothin about it. Its not for womens ears. We have one Place where wo hit the Boche in the nose an rip all the decorashuns offen his uniform all in one stroke. ‘Then theres another where you give him a shave an a round hair cut an end by knocking his hat over his eyes. Then the wiperzup come over with a lot of bums an do the dirty work. I an tho rest of the fellos go ahead an take another trench. I havnt been able to find out yet where we take it. Its all worked out cientifick. The fello who doped it out had some than to superintend this Job, which q ; { and save weeks, months of time, 48/1 Know to be technically woaee | bean. The principul of the thing is to get the other fello an not let well as tho labor of your bands.” His resignation had to be passed him get you. If the allys had doped out some skeme like this the war . is went off 1) conte or pied Jupon by the general manager, who, youd have been over now, There wouldnt have been no Boches left. {i Sper imee. RYO OF. RECO, FORTH, © before accepting it, sent for him, | es us Uncle Sammies. Eh Mable? ri think Beate would walt for ‘ea oper “What's the trouble, B.?" sald he. | There gettin up a thrift campain now Mable. First they sell us . be. “She wants to get muarric “I don’t like to say anything about enough Liberty Bonds to buy a brand new army an lat us go home. “\ want to, too, and I think we oust!) arp y, * be “ Then they cra fi i a “wn pasar jit, BY jones,” said B., “but the plans 7 ey cram a lot of insurance at you what wont never do you no ws ae passed on to me to carry out in the good after your killed. Then I guess they found that some one still “ ” etlor, “you | ns s (Elly cgthan andere Fou construction of that new power house had a couplo of dollars lett, so they made me send that back home. New HA com take diectrical engineering in dese Pree iaak t yh began SS ELE Aron there getting up a thrift campain Mable, ‘They dont want us to spend a 7 ‘ong. y mean an expenditure o ie 7 the ai : a“ correspondence course even after You) ¢35.909 giong certain lines which will our speneys sly sos we can buy the Singer Buildin or a Ford or @m are married, You're making 6004/5 ‘nrotty nearly a dead lows, When Somethin like that when the war is over, wages. now as a foreman. YOUr |.) come to try to use your equip- Some one say that we was the highest payed army in the world. houre of work are only eight a 44%) mont there, you will find that it all Besides all this money we get our bed and board. I guess they dont r. | @ o, 804 you have plenty of time In the nay to be taken out and re placed by know that in the army bed and board mean the same thing. Eh, Mable? 7 & 4 evenings and on holidays and other |tne propor materials © © times to study this subject. Besides - “ce IVE us something ‘different’ is the constant demand of amuse- Marion Carroll, Marion L, Kerr, Genevieve Mangam, Grace Crossman, GAIL Rome OlAE EAs Stan 3 to study Pr “Suppose you get the plans, B., and ( ; : sates i ee et ‘There always inspectin us. I feel like a piece of prize beet. They ‘ nm you will probably make better prog-|show them to me and explain just ment seeking New York, and the latest “playwrights” to Miss Betty Jackson and other: never inspect a man all the way through. 1 guess the i ti t ere ress studying it while you work at " eas,” 6 ce ar 3, ut this new departure in theatrical entertainment int z . GR +. Soene, the repecers what you meas,” sald the general accede to that demand are Mrs. Lewis B. Wood Miss is ayed by tho day durin the durati f the inspecsh fo) be the trade than you would in school | manager., to turn the box office receipts into a private purse, It will be given pay y the day durin the duration of the inspecehun. One day is “and withdrawn from the practical!” 35 13. produced the plans and e: Madelyn Sheppard and Miss Annelue Burns, who hi writt eee apie sa i ahs . our teeth an another our heart an another our lungs. The other day | } pr ic s and x= n © ausp 3 0) he Enter s¢ Comm of the J erica Com- SP applications of the principles that|piained his proposition, . The result) MUucal play, “Hooray for tho Girls,” which is to : SaepE Latics i A : i lgarcia we was all lined up in the company street and the sargent says “Inspec- @* you are learning. wos that B, was reinstated and tho| cast of prominent “debs and “sub-dobs” and ; eae Hebe sa a cb tale Mas ha shun arms.” I jays down my gun an rolls up my sleves, Just to show | ‘The result of all this was that D. ichiet engineer reprimanded. Stung| 31 wii 3 i oe ina t om France recently, is the head, This committee comprises you how tecknickle the army is he didn’t want to see my arms at al! I! RB, did take a correspondence course | py his reprimand and angored be- yee " be presented, beginning De 16, at the 44th & Mrs Oren Root, Miss Elizabeth Perkins, Mrs, Charles Astor Bristed, but my gun. Hows a fello goin to tell, Mable? i in electrical engineering. It wa®/cause the correspondence school; The cast includes Miss Mary K, Lincoln, M iss Mr Schuyler Scheffel Mrs, Gouverneur Morris, Mrs, John W, Simpson, I went up for thirds at breakfast the other morning as usual an the \{ pretty tough work. He had not stud-| graduate had bested him, the chief, M#Psarct O. Flint, Miss G Bristed, Miss Mrs, Abram Flexner, Miss E Cutting, Mi y Moulton, Mrs, cook said “You seem to like coffee.” Right away without stoppin to | fod for years, Again and again he/engincer resigned. His resignation} Heanor Francke, Miss Marion ‘Tiffany, Miss Hi, W. Toulmin of England, Some of the prominent members of the think or nothin I says back “Yes thats the reason Im wWillin to drink & was puazied, perplexed and almost | was accepted and B. became chief Miss Vera McNair, M Mary Lorillard, M s | Devastated France Fund are M Myron T. Herrick, Edward Dean so much hot water to get some.” Eb, Mable? bie defeated. But his young wife em- engineer of the company, Later, he} Katherine Van Ingen, Miss Mary Lamare M 8 Adams, Mrs, William H, Crocker, Mrs, A. M, Dike, Otto H, Kahn, John Went to a dance the other night and met some swell girls, I ende ape Courmged him. Little by little he got | was promoted to the position of chief p rt A Julia Ram Miss Mar urd, Miss Elise Hughes, M arjorie endrick Bangs, Mrs, Robert Lovett, Miss Emily Hedden, PI Ashtc d . hold of the nica) knowledge neo- engineer of an even larger corpora: ay ae a _ af Y ih as El i f M jar k ? E 2 at 4 sid ane 4 u mi nd aan 3 mip oes on em all laff. I says ca bape te Lay rene of @ soldier all right. essary for professional engineering| tion, and finally uccupicd an ceeen ughes iss Sop! ne i n Lee, Miss Goddard, Misa Re lzabeth Scarborough, } ornelius Stevenson an angis The minit I smell powder Im right on my . A work. igre position -- Managing engineer| Muth Marden, Miss mphorosa Bristed, Mi Bristed, Miss Lynde Stetson, I hayent been very well lately. I guess Ill cut out eatin et medis. 13 aunicipal light and powe t ae At first he was sreatty handicapped |in one of the large cities cf he cant | Margaret White, Miss Marriet WbKIm, Miss Melissa Yuille, Miss Vir Staging and direction r under the charge It spoils my appitite for the rest of theay. I kno youll be glad te by the prejudice of ome of his su-/try. j binla Cr Miss Currie Matthews, M lury Strange, Miss Wlizabet of Frank Smithson of the London Hippodrome, and the manager is Sam kilo my feet aint hurtin so much. Remember me to the hired girl and 7 a T. B, Myde, M Anna Van Metre, M Lucy Patterson, Mi | Wallach of the Hudson Thea Reh twice aday at the | your mother. Yours through the winter, BILL. , which place was offered free | Labor First Organized What Happens if | Boker, Miss Carol Reed, Miss Louise Ceballos, Miss Abbie Putnam Hotel des Artistes, No, 1 West 67th Stre ‘The Complete Series of DERE MABLE Letters ts publishod ta book form. Morrison, Genevieve Babbitt, Hope Williams, Margery Clinton, Miss of charge by Penrhyn Stanlaws, the artist. | : fe 7 ‘i . 85 Years Ago| - Soldiers Are Late iJ apanese P ing TL© separate labor unions had|¢¢ F-XCUSHS do not go in the! . D b! d i Y arrears wcetied|¢¢ EME pe | e Four Ages o eauty gipted tp a fsa i early in the last century, the show you why,” writes the! | The s' i istry in Japan|the year 1918, In that period eixty- / — mrst combination of societies of work-| Cave Scout tn the Decem) e of N yp} Ny, “é C tT H B 1b L Th h Th .. developed to an extraordinary ex- | five steamers, all over 1,000 \s j ata te 0 y ae & ius develop 000 gross tons, era is ce raat Alan al hore Ce eae eens eens ot] 0, 2; he “‘Crocu or How to ovely Thoug Ley, |e savelored 0 a0 we rere oe: | aie imuetn Al STR 100 Eran RK 4 = y " 5 probably dates from eighty-five yeare etanc: that you and your chum Bill) li 1 C other name, then, for the typical|tions relating to the subject of be pean war, and, according to the ¢ gross tonnage amounting to ‘ (4 8% when the General Trade-Uuiod) are called iuio headquurlera and! By Nixola Gree ey-s aoe to so to the | which should determina her choiee,|Japan Times, has enjoyed exceptional ‘hese figures compared [ef the City of New York held tm|gtvon the following order: ‘It is w| Pe eho chi tice ehin: a ower gurden rather than the barn-| “Of these, the first and most impor. | prosperity, many orders cowing from | with responding period 161 organization meeting. | 10.15; at 11.15 you will deliver this Hi4 four ages of beauty are: The a ot the crocus, the age of the Af) tle 1s the kind of furnitu eh abroad, d well as from Japan snow a se of thirty-six in the 4 Organization among American lab- go to Col. Givemfits at Trench! sa tns ttt \ POSS Fes FAY SUHOM ; eae owhers. According toa vern F of vessels and of 74,079 tons in i | rose, the age of the poinsettia, the age of the smilax \ n, of course she can post- | shipowner: ¢ tonnage. They : leo show @ ff crere began in 193, when the ship Suppose you deliver your mes Heres litenrian Wiis a Goreideaiennt ime itecioaied Any\.oman has a right to bo ®| 1 O10" the muying of the furniture sng|ular journal, shipbuilders realised | gain of forty in number and of 160046 carpenters and caulkers of New York| sage at 11,17. ie at CAtEe Lear’ aud Ohe BIOHIG cieran aint La teats chink ce ee twenty-one, In some] iiiends to spend her life with until| very good results for the first half of ‘in tonnage over the first hale of 1916. and Boston organized. Tue tailors of| “By that time your own outfit has |Pecause i ; , : F | cases up to twenty-five, After thats! 1. sne nas made the Great De-| ~ _ > New York formed a union the eame|attacked. The support your com-| the seasons to interfere y @ personal preference in| unless she wants be ridiculous] oi ion « ah dive halts ‘ | ‘ Se Nl kahl and «lth oe ear, and 1803 also witnessed the first|mander expected from Col, Glvemfi the matter of beauty must change her “style.” lston, @ auch the better, I thay be| scribe as “divinely tall and most di- |thor it might become a leotae om phe | year, | ‘ol, Glvemfits able to save her money, lyvinely fa but whose women} nod furfilture, Therefore, I aay to industrial strike in America, when|is two minutes late. Your comrades Now for the croc irl who pushes her pert little| 1t ts then she is confronted by the} Lot ys @ssume that sho is the ay-| friends call her “skinny” and “all|/the crocus who wants to @iscever | the New York sailors refused to work.) aro wiped out by a machine gun Col. | head up above the level of the unobserved when she is | most important decision of her life.|erago woman tending toward the legs,” should surround herself with|her permanent style—go to a furnt- \. Before that, however, tere, Wd bien | Givanitite Bag to have put out of about fifteen, blooms prettily until she is twenty or so,|/I know that the selection of @ hus-|tnirties, well covered, plump even, grandfather clocks, armored knights | ture shop, talk with an intelligent labor disturbances among the bakers hn meee een re tee sallec before | then settles down to a carecr of imitating for forty | band used to bo so classified, buts) undecided whether to be proud of} and every other straight up and|salesman, get him to show you ex- mn | New York and the boot and shoe) iwi vou seo, Bill wanted to wo one years what she really was for about five years, ‘The | 2fter all you cannot get @ divorce) tne dimples in her elbows and knees|down object that will tend to bring) amples of William and Mary, the | s makers of Philddelphia. It was ddr-| way and I’ —- But you will not have trouble with being a crocus is the long middlo age it] ZOUY FROM, He: BIA Pepe the! or to sandpaper them, ‘The answer| out her own invisible curves. James's, the Louis's, Sheraton, Hep- fag the sailors’ strike of 1803, the|the chance to go that far with your gives you, and since American women have abolished | DOtty” experts say to the contrary. | is—cot some Louis XV, furniture and| ‘The Gothic Girl should talk art, a|pelwhite, Chinese Chippendale and the \ ae 4 Worn rages sirine 06 | SEM corsmendiag officer knows you middle age, the terrible uphill struggle with flesh saat And you may marry seriatim halfleat all the dessert she wants! Yor! tittle politica heavily sqgnted with | rst and second empires—take a long oe riage thet rg Bey rat por] were ordered to report at 11.15, He wrinkles, the determination to es i tare (atte ae Rate ts vou belong to the}it Is incontrovertible, 1s it not, that] sociology. 1 believe that sho should | look at yourself in the glass, decide _ ae were first used, From locai| knows you did not do it. He knows. ation to be an ever-blooming | jarge number of individuals who ex-|4¢ your chal d sofas have exag- | be religious, which of these styles you ere your- Heise unions, the organization of labor pro- | 200 men died because you did not do | Crocus entails, IT belle ve t hat when a crocus to be more than twenty- | pre the national optimism that! gorated curves, your own cylindrical] But the Louls XV. maid or matron] self and buy accordingly. Whatever ” until in 1860 the first inter- | It, EG A ep RRS ay els |five her first syllable should be spelled “croak w proportions are going to show less| should wear flowered satins and bro-|your decision, it will save you fror Rational Tabor ualon, iat of the) | iwar AO GAnATUES Bere ADS men | Nothing 1s more delightful thun|velopment that some day will gain] When a crocus realizes that the} than {f you foolishly contrast them| cades and cultivate 2 reputation for|the awful fate of being a faded tonal Se paaraphicas Union, which at| sibility for thelr acts. That is tho ‘ne crocus for the natural span of |t r ) of our allenis time bas come to be something else—| with the straight and narrow lines of| wit and wickedness, if she has the ey And remember, that Dany sot fis. birth comprised fourteen locals,|only way men can be held up to full |Mer Charm. But to keep on tryip sider crocus, She has|and if she does not realize it she] the strictly Gothic atyte, brains, and for feminine capricious. |lectors consider antiques far mor nai beautiful and worth uid bo gently ehloroformed—| On the other hand, the Gothic i ness at all events, Rewest and shiniest anca, 2 000 members, was'account for their mistakes—and can be @ crocus in the July and August) tre years ago get full credit for their successes,” |e« your life is # form Ggarvested dee | ! I! colgr, excoedingly ‘ sdey vtyus, Just an-'@sro ave cestaia general considera-| she whom men that love ber de-| if this article should go any fur-| fects, ith a total of | dorged. siaty-cight