The evening world. Newspaper, December 14, 1918, Page 9

ne ATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 Read and Grow Hungry; | Compare This Pre-WarMenu With What You Get To-Day emember What fou Got to Eat and What It Cost ] | You in the “Them Wuz Happy’’ Days?—Miss . Beckley Contrasts It With What You Get Now and What You Have to Pay. By Zoe Beckley SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1918 The Four Ages of Beauty NO. 111.—THE AGE OF THE POINSETTIA, Smart Lines and Distinctive Fea- tures Add Desirability to These Two Designs. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) ~* y HB potnsettia, or Merry Christmas flower, is made up, as everybody knows, of s small, inconspicuous group of green and yellow bios ‘y } somes surrounded by huge flaming vermilion bracts or leaves. } ight, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). The poinsettia lady 1» much of the same type, In ITH your kind permission, ladies and gentlemen, I will present to ug If, he is revealed tu | 1) you souvenir of times that are past. ‘To some it may bring Perey Op Say tf Serene te Ue eee ae i m only sighs and vain tears. Gayer souls will enap a finger and bath mat, which fortunately tell no tales, she is in no ° ] Je merrily, if ungrammatically, that “Them wuz the Lappy days,” and way remarkable and in but few ways admirable. But ) it go at that, It's according to temperament. Howevor, happen what when she gets all her flaming leaves around her—when } May, here it is. Ladies, gentlemen and syormienecns pre-war menu from her flashing garments and her impressionistic blush | ’ @ Hotel Kiltmore! A menu with prices! are adjusted to her satisfaction, and she fares forth to } Having taken the precaution to tie absorbent cotton pads about our conquer or to die, a chorus of “Isn't she stunning? Gee + jouths, let us imagine ourselves ordering luncheon for two on a day just what @ bird!” rises from dazzled and ingenuous males, } fore that unpronounceable atripling at Serajevo sent into the Archduke “Yes, ian't she?” ancis Joseph the bullet that echoed round the world. For they know that otherwise they must be set down Oysters first, then; do have oysters, They are 25 cents the portion, as spiteful os : } a] ight to the portion. You prefer clams? Very well, cherrystones are 80 Any woman from twenty to fifty can be a polnsettia tf she has the nts. panei the difference betwoen |— as about the lines of her first ball dress. Do you know a poinsettia lady? I-number half @ dozen in my large bouquet of women friends, Notwith- standing the great age to which so fre- quently she lives, the poinsettia bo- price. And having half the male population do- scribe you rapturously when you pass by asa “pippin” or a “bird” or respec fully as “somebody's mother” is about Y Now the relish. Suppose we have canape of anchovies, 35 cents, or 6 chance on a bit of carciofini (I don't know any more what it is than u do) at 40; it is starred, so one is enough for two. If you prefer a Swedish tomato, t also is 40 cents. While “special” }one to order what one would, let the 10 conte more. | Waste fall where tt might. Our meal hors d'oeuvres cost but ss a $500. For even the cost of beauty hos Mand now—z little soup? Seven kinds Fab Beep AG aetbes Seki Sa gone up. Indeed, 1 would guarantee | £8 to worry about age and dissolu- fare listed. None 1s over 38 conts./relian, soup, Aah, entre, roast, vex: to take any woman not hopelesaly ae-| On when she approaches the thirtws, Tomato bouillon is 25, Longeville 1s formed, warranted under fifty and| “Just look at me this morning. while is Jellied Madritene.|!t cost us $6.80, . What an old hag 1 am! Do yon ever . 36, 80 } et It being in the old 10 per cent. neither bald nor pockmarked, and,| ‘ De } prem 11 have that.) How ah days, we flung the waiter the change spending that aum of money, so trans-| 'hink when you wake up, “I'm just ono eggs? (One could Mapes . ones a from @ §7 bill and everybody was ete de Oh fimire her that the unsophiaticated Heth aaah the grave, one day less | 1914 without one's bank account) le ine, a or | fresh, less beautiful, less youn appy, although you and I (had it male eye could not light upon nor|! & breaking out into a cold perspiration.) ane case te dass ieaeRiet) feature of which is charms without baving ite owner Heavens no!’ you answer. ‘I woa't Higgs Chimay aro listed ut 85 comtat | sa nave felt a bit tight in the the introduction of stirred to rapturous commendation.| [Ve time for that tilt the children spendin) me, “4 Out of the factories, and ] t@lrred, Girondin, the sai waistline. We shail now remove our monkey fur in To be described as a “bird” all any Ut of the factories, and the wo Fish—ah, now we get down to the eotider stuff, Bight fishes are on the carte du Jour, from escalope of striped bass, Conde, at the nominal figure of shoulder straps and girdle, men workers get equal pay, and our returning soldiers are provided with jobs they like, and everybody speaks | the English language properly, and | mouth-pads and face the stern food programme of a few moriths later, We pick up a 1918 Kiltmore menu and woman needs Is plumage, and the more | she resembles a parakeet or a coeka- too the greater her effect will be, It 7 proceed to select @ frugal snack, el own that birds of this ape- dinale, 75. In between are aiguillette|iz7 items to eighty-six! We shall | care old and are able to say “Polly | unm 804 there are no more trained | of smoked sulmon with spinach (think) 16 jess trouble ordering, though! Mi i ncker” and "Pretty polly!"| crime! acta in vaudeville—you vee ef that! oh, my deari—a whole! iio, in paying. Now, if you must wants @ crac y polly!” | what a chance I bave to indulge’ in tuncheon, because bread and butter ve the very end. And the human “bird the luxury of a good ery over myself |hav ers, In mercy's name reméia- | are thrown in ad lib, and plus en- leaeritae the anata cost 85 cents, shows the same longevity and has very! such as you have every day." wore!), al! for 65 cents. Fried brook] cocktail sauce a dime extra. Cherry. much the same vocabulary. Alto.!" ‘The poinsettia. looks egceedingly trout, Vincent sauce, 60, Codfish! stones have riz from 30 to 40 cents, when not engaged {n moulting 8¢!bored as you enumerate the various ; i Patrvre-Homme, 65. and lobster cocktail is 90! manages to look pretty well even at} passions of your soul, Were it hot fi Ready now for the entree? How! phe “Special hors d'oouvres” that an advanced age. for the fact that she is putting oa 4 My about chicken a la King, {t's only 75! wag 59 cents has now soared to 15 Cockatoo or poinsettia, as you gre-]New face bleach while you talk sha a q cents and is plenty for two, OF/ang is jeaner to look upon. Russian fer to choose your simile f among| might succumb before your eyes to j , 4 Hrofled small steak, Figaro, 90 cents?| caviar is quoted at $3 and grapetrait | the birds or flowers of the tropics, | her infinite weariness, “How can 9o \ Wancy suusages with rice (observe! supreme is 75 cents, (Please pass tie years do not diamay her, Like Niaon | {ake an interest in such things the See rete, oe ee taa |e meulng oalts,) de 'Enclos, Kypolite Clairon and other | /Mauires with jaded wonder, “1 nove { Hrotied aweetbreads with mushrooms! Of soups there are listed but tvo, | See ee eu ot tres pies tha (WML Tecate ee ed ' at $1 is among the costilest dishes On| and meagre at that: Rice, Portugaise, keepa her attractiveness after she haa| "ow, if you would, only evi Pr 4 ' he list : 15 cents; Brunoise with barley, the Jost her last tooth, and is just as much | Clalrette touch your hair up and Vet } Gettins down among the roasts, we] same! Poached eggs, Théo, are 45 concerned about the cut of her shroud) "take you to Nixon's and chusa find « better chance to spend money, | cents; there are no unnamed eggs at oem ‘ your clothes for you yo I although the costliest is “Whole]a lower figure. Fish are sparse. tn a - — 2 like deesihian : a SS ear? une j # ‘apon” $5, and surely we can't eat | place of the eight kinds set forth tn A 4 is 1 os Gaia eae \ @bole capon. How would a Baby] 1914, four skimpy ones are listed. Tn ane G lairette yesterday, I'm j Juckling go (starred, for two) at humble cod, with a title “persillade,” Reception gown eep l ng e O a and eye pads (ok around the mouth 4 Of Brojled Chicken, same, Under tho| coats 76 cents, Kir ch (heaven help in etka alii nae ASA. 0 terse ete he erinnen | “Readies” is our good old friendy|us!) 80, inde enbrelee Anda fortune teller told me last | ; “Prime Ribs of Peet au Jus" for 65) Entrees have shrunk from seven to pkg peK : From the y a | 0c you'll recent, fine to dle young— | cents, and its side partner, Spring| four. Gone is the chicken a Ja king ery design. note Bits te ‘emember, won't you, in case 1 Lamb with mint sauce, 60. If we had|of yesteryear. In ite place is venison of color i orgets. Men are .eo unsympa- | >| y at 85 duced by @ broad thetic!—though he ew. time to wait, we might order Plover| stew with jelly at 85 cents, (And you , vay swore last night by $1.25, English pheasant or Scotch jobserve no stars signifying “for two.") band of blue rib- While John Husband Was Out Making the Works Safe for that he will renpect my dying wishes ; grouse at $4, partridge at $3 or| Our tried and true friend, prime riba bon ‘A fi i , hat I want to wear a lingerie night | Rouen Duck, $5.13. the costliest dish| of eof, has gone over the top of a Democracy’s Wives, Democracy’s Wives Swiped Democracy’s kown and my pearls and 1 want } on the menu. (Are there any ducks| dollar, while four years ago he was SrcpaveraNc Jobs, and Friend Wife Is Now Hep to the Cinch the Lil’ Fat marie Rossignol to make my fave | tn Rouen now?) glad to cuddle down in our trenchers MN alaN taal m 7 for me Here the poinsettia Among the Cold Dishes are a lot of| at 65 cents, with “au jus" thrown in. JOCK as Rascal Had—it Took a War to Make Lena See That She Was Woeps afresh, and, hardhearted brute i things vo wonderful that I am sure] The only other roast on the war monu alata at Getting Short-Changed by About Forty-Nine on the Fifty- that you are, you walk out inthe { they should be eaten kneeling, not] js spring turkey at a dollar flat and no ib, bs ecember sunshine and leave her to ‘ sitting. , There is Gelatine of Chicken] rebate, Pheasant and mallard duck Fifty Arrangement—Wiff Has Learned What Makes the Tired ie tears, Other poinsetting greet ] aay me pc ; ou, “ ‘ \ mh Aruflen, for the mere spiiianes are coyly present at $5.50 and $5 re- Business Man Tired, and It Ain’t Business—The World Is ie Peake table eo to eighty, of 75 cents. chicken-and-ha: ©, | spectively, A f G Cr Si ad sy < } Megligible taces | ot an'excellence that could not bel" The prices of cold dishes are onn.|HCCULACY O un Crews save Made Safe for Mrs. Democracy. subtended, as they say in botany, surpassed at the “Cheshire Choese’! jing, Lobster and ohicken ° 5 a9) ; y loaves of flaring flame . salad nm “e q i wr i ) Pass to in London, nicks us only to thé €X-| airpianed from the pleasant re ges French Line Ships From Subs BY ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER ® triumphant male chorus of “Geo, tent of 65 cent ills tek Hs cents to the uncomfortable altitude ot p A 28) ea coe Copyright, 1818, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) bine bap “There's @ pippin for - “| a platter ) pee! . : you ther pol 7 dimes a platter of smoked beef! o1 55 gram just plain ham, like By J. W. Lawrence lsnainlaav aera terarecita hvaaid HEN the war is over, Lena, we will all tlons of supporting bis family he is going to be ther poinsettias look at you | tongue is our Assorted cuts of , like that A fore and aft on each | 66 bd y from the windows of florist | Ree oui are tuk Gereante at 60 cents, while assorted cold outs, © the uncanny aecuracy offand manned by picked crews trom go home and fight” may sound like the slipped the grand razs, The family has learned the |ip.rent stores ant seq arate and , bless ’ a ‘ which c ‘lh Mes n : b re “ # store a ‘ol ealize th. Lobster salad a nickel more; chicken) *"l h once were 60, are now twice | 1 atirit Fre are given the cr ait bunk, but, buddy, that's what it looks motions itself, Wiff has learned what makes the [great penalty of being a polsnania : salad the same. Rees varkable fact that ut the steamers of] ike right now. And we're here to tell you so: Ured business man tired, And it ain't business. |i» after ail the ease with which yo But it is among the vegetables that WH peeeneae stent Remem-| Compagnie Generale Transatlar Com nerale Transat When Lena's husband comes hobnailing back from The Wall Street broker who used to get all fatigued |can be and are imitated, - we may slosh round most recklessly: | ong dime, ton conten cop eat®, St] more familiarly know : oa. A fow brushes) the trenches ho 1s going to discover that Lena has | up from wearing fur coats and riding In taxicabs eon Vegetables seem to have been given |}. the nes n cents? Well, it ty 20] cans as the French Line | rhea ele him outnumbered, While John Husband was out can't pull woo} over the wiff's eyes any more, If _ . Got | PY the new schedule, And old cousin single vessel in its tran ubmarines early in the war taugh . ” : — away in the summer of 1914 Get! caulinower Ja 65 centes sic 9g bie 6 dur ! commantert of the latter that in at-| making the works safe for Democracy's wives, what anything has to be pulled over the wiff’s optics it's this; Baked potatoes 10 cents, Sweet! Ay for salads, 1 Ob 70. | passenger serv eo : : ie happened? going to be silk and not wool. You buzzed it then, | || : t ) A stuffed » perhaps we had better | period of the war. It is French passenger ships they \Be a Better | US cents. Bautees 20 conts, A stuffed) cur out salad. ‘The most miscrable|one of the big lines to maintain such | Were playing with death Why, Democracy 1 Democracy's Jobs stranger. And we're here to tell you 60. | | { green pepper or tomato dumps. te A salad mentioned Is plain lettuce at age At a distar ft than two] And Democracy is going to have a jazzboed time No more chance of the soprano half of the family || y ee if aie pi bya | the fancy price of half a dollar.! yn shipping t a nners French merchant getting thone Jobpiece k. Friend wife has been sticking around the wigwam while hubbo exhausts \Salesman Baniitower saute 90, au gratin 40 Of Salade Palm Beach (what does that!, rr re en ha pped sh 0 close t holding down Com a now himself dictating to a blond stenographer, Dic- | ‘auliflo ute 30, au gra mean, without dressing?) costa 63| °°. . wrench 1 vent pu t net hep to the cinch the Hil’ fat rascal had, No more tating to @ blond stenog. is tiresome. Most blonds | d Ei ; tee rangytif Crom 90 cents to 6) cente, | ccnt™, wale Ke 80]. the war Ww ' ’ 0 chance of hubbo coming back and grabbing off two | are, But hubbo can stay home and dictate to the i the he pair in the far corner can| +. ; p thir w\ ca a Nehtors we non th r r f fl . t Hl . 1 Desserts—but walt; we shall have) jog, thar it NOT French Government W na 5 tens for a five on that work 1 1 ff held B ish while friend wiff dictates to a handsome B P. , | | to renew our mouth-pads, © * *|\v0h i# NOT enough f0F} weoks, Officials and ae : unnera ara now} Wis Job down for two And she is wise that male milliner with store clothes and city ways, tigger ray: i Mouth-pads renowed. Now let U8! Dessertn have ascended 100 ser | ee New York offi f Der earing ¢ . nferred upon} the fifty-fifty stuff they pulled at the altar was the The Kaiser may not have succeeded in junkering } seo; shall we have deop dish peach] cont, ‘That dime pastry, for sar {State Street, are justt f them by the French Government for| bunk, It took « war a BoC was | tho world, but he sure turned it wrong side north, | f) j pie at 20 cents ee cendied | trult | stance, two dimes now. And farina . npeny Pied a t serv n action getting short-char rty-nine on the | All of the married zapps who used to keep the wolf | | ane aie oat pasoriee, Leta pudding (ugh!) 1s 30 cents. Ice eric Bet to the fact The New York ships owned by the| ffty-fifty arrange | away from the front door have lost their jobs, Wifey | Me eeuin yon ka a6. lah) Gers fn ere WrtesarrrY the half dol! wen the submarine peril W ss gee iy nh |. ene oR NAD) MARL LO meh wey, WIth de BAly® has presented the wolf to the Bronx Zoo. Hubby || LET A SALES EXPERT 5 : : if ar mark, and that dear peach melba : t or vence and thy] about being overworked is « k. He's all we can stick home and keep the cat away from the Philadelphia, 25 ce! height the French pa : an t p y >: " BeudloniD. Lemon orsueg,| i#-28 instead Of 60, as was, Se na tate en between ts nee was tor | When’he alened doiied ike wilbills eanara ued ||| sHOW You HOw delphia vemon, ange.) There are four cheeses to select! s:,w york and DB carat ual} 'n t wh eryit e : [ b by ack ‘OU C. : Femmberrpneappie, wild cherry? |e, ltt Guaeee, (0 select) Now Work and Dordeatx alnost cau i h the France| YiMey took learned ning The wif hus huoby’s job by the back of the neck | |\YQU CAN MAKE GOOD Bach und all, a quarter, Blacult|sownward trom 60 centa to 36 iter |‘, that of Peace tim : Citra an | discovered ily biscuits was @ with a downhill tug. She's discovered that office | glace 35 cents. Peach cup, Jane Grey, |the ickless cream variety), Coftee,| When the Bay of Biscay was : am iia cous: | much ¢ job than « work has housework faded to a whisper. When W cents. Peach melba 4 cents, for some unguessable reason, re- | tested with U boats and ships were o¢ x ty the German Swivelling all day in a A arb, | John tries to squawk, he will discover that the | gamons the onnenen ate te lt-}mains the same in price. What} being torpedoed al around t Cy M | raider ie was not It had a scrubbing board ¢ 1 to death. Cor armistice wasn’t signed for bim, je cheese costs more than 25 cents, 5 French passenger lincrs steamed back sa Ba eats : ; ; ; ; Aa piat. grounds has coffee for holding out| French p New York © at the time nering the mark arly June potatoes was a Two years ago the Statue of Liberty jumped out h {7 2nd there are ton to pick from. We against the union that way? Never-|4nd forth as though blessed With) In proportion to the number of] kerflapped sight softer than peeling ‘em | of her kimona into a pair of overalls, ||| Read the Articles shall have a pot of coffee to top off |theless, our bill for approximately | charmed lives. | ships it had in operation, the Frenct When Roger comes | t th zh th es i b with, a quarter more. : ae on rs h pmee back to go through the mo- | ‘The world is safe for Mra, Democracy, y ) & quarter the same dishes as in pre-war times| Ships like the Chicago, Touraine,| line carried more passengers be = is Micke itl | The menu card from which we|comes to $10.85, though there wi Rochambeau and Niag: with little) tween New York and Europe during Roy Griffith chose our luncheon contained 117/80 much less of everything that our| speed to help them to escape, plied) the war than any other line "79 ; dishes, The card itself was thick}waistline remained loose. We give| the dangerous waters of the wa With the great 35,000 ie ousewlle §s crap oo | in the . » and handsome, with the Kiltmore|the waiter $1.50, whereupon he looks! month after month and ar I nee back in vice and vera ' ‘a erest at top and a colored border. |ill, We slip him another half, but | ye ontemptuous defiar t a" nm ro , en ne the Christe may have too much sugar in tt. Too |) Evening World reel at are p , but | year in contems t onsels 1 moto t baking will al nm ite bavk was set forth the entire |he does not brighten much, Kalser's ca ed I petis ’ ng baking will also make it fall ; thing in Fronch, for the beneft of] “Food Prices to Drop January| time the line never lost a s a) ocoupy a p n in the transatlantic| ‘ ay € Using When your fingers become stained Beginning those who had seen the Aro de Tri-|¥iret" says a headline. Yet only the! passenger as a result of war condi-| passenger trade equal to that of either] ia” ent d from the peeling of apples or onions MONDAY pmphe. Thero was a sort of reck-| maddest optimists have hopes. Them| tion of the great German companies be. [MiRh, Syintll ready to serve, The| Always put a meringue plo or pud- | aqusege the Juice of & lemon into the jmp, Th , -|steam will prevent the meat from | ding into a hot oven to brown. A slow | palm of the hand and rub thoroughly Jessa about that menu that urged | 1914 days wuz indeed the happy ones,'! Sn yall but deadly naval guns, fore the war, 1] becoming dry and tougb, jovep will toughen it, If it falls you jinto el / ‘ ~ * ae . a oeay