The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1918, Page 16

Husbands and Wives We Know K By Nixola Greeley-Smith | Copyriahi. 19:8, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) THE LOVE PIRATES; OR, HOW THE TRIANGLE ; 1S “ SQUARED.”"—NO. XII. | 4 ‘WO ts company--three is @ triangle, | Pi A reader of this series bas pointed out to me that I have de- | £4 a * 'e nounced the woman who divorces her husband because she bas climbed” to an eminence where she finds him an im- | pediment, but that I have eajd nothing about the even) more numerous domestic debacies in which an elderly © is the victim. So I am going to say it now. 7 t 4 We have, as all our European critics assert, far too 2 Ape mavy divorces in this country, not, however, because of > & our depravity, as they would like us to believe, but be- ee cause of our amazing innocence. When asked for by women American divorces in a small number of | cases are the result of a mercenary spirit which might | have caused Messalina to blush, but far oftener they! a Piocemnewmn grow out of a romantic girl's disappointed perception thar she iq not living happily ever after, like Cinderella and the Prince Pam convinced, perhaps erroneously, that no man ever got a divorce | | @Btirely of ais own accord. Men, knowing more about sex matters, do not ) ebte: marriage with the romantic expectations that women bring to 1! Abe they are correspondingly less dirillusioned—never sufficiently so '9 | @Porce Mrs. Twoedicdum to marry Miss Tweedledee, unless manoeuvred Mato @ corner where they cannot holp it by the Twordledee lady Se Matrimontally, a!! men of any prncentonnvcnsi H) BPO of experience ar itiste, Thetr | the amount of her present allowance Me Platform is the tmmortal and bring a suit for divorce. common “tetas hav She agrees sooner or tater, There ts| for winning nothing like money for making a “Make him a+| Woman, unused to earning it, see [cht That for] Then whe Anda horseif, in th a divorce | rray twilight of the detached fifties evan simpler | Innocent Ahasuerus, wandering over % fortable as pons!bl | the face of the earth, doomed to search t6TRe commonest method employed| till she dies for something she will | bY the unscrupulous love pirate, the | never find—new roots for an old und Biman cuckoo, who builds no nest | blighted heart. There is no remedy for 4 ot her own, but seeks always to dis- | her dieastor—now at any rate, Sume $ another bidd, is t body might have saved her when the a ing ap clopemert to China, frightfulness regime began. by telling PBoria or the Fiji Islands, backed up| her to disregard all twaddio about eeif- Me By the threat of suicide if he won't| respect—cgotism kills all of us sc it or later—and stand pat. But nobody 1 cannot iive without you!" says! did. | the distracted Mins Tweedledee. (Cer-| So she stands the forlornest figure OMiialy whe can't! If she bad an| in the universe—u middle-aged woman inecme her own she might without &@ home, p be engegod in the business of er eareteiienn eemecimgain Muadar ing.) Come fiy with lalande,” i, Tweedledum, wbo is usually ty cr Gfty ycace old, interested tn businces, passionately devoted to Bolt, looks (frightened. Why Young shouldn't be be frightened? ‘The bul- “parks of his life are threatened: Mlle. Marguerite Clement woman pours his coffee in the orning may be-- usually is—a small Suatter by that time, but how does Dg Koow thee iso good golf course is the Pijia’ Then too the New York ) mapers would be th-ee months late, if i oad came at all, One might as well . in Washington! Three months of Setensive frigdtfuluess, tears, bys- erica, the production of timetadies map routes to the Fijis, with an Peeacional Fourish of w mysterious them, > anepie vf cold toa ond the muttered wminution to ead it all, and tho P devil is completely cowed, "= Meantime the tortured little soul WE home i» buying okin foods for ber | > Complexion, 201 trying to burnish the | 7 “Prer, pele har, ones jong and abun- | ‘dan, which came vut in such bands- | Stu} when the children were born, im- | Proving ber mind meybe, so aa to be to “discuss the topies of the day with bim"--she bus read that is a | good plan~puiting on palo blue, be- once in 189 he mentioned a Gown fhe wore-and greeting im as uu D4, By Zoe Copyright, 1918, by ‘The Prom Publishing WT the American girl be wary of who gives soothing syrup bec: in life, Clement tell you. Clement, who is vi f learned young wo eo) re with the bighest (which has just conferred a doctorate fourteenth year she gained her educ she won. Miss Million Should en Woman in France,”’ Now in New York, Says It Is | Up to the American Man to Save the American Woman From the Evils of Wealth. | ‘Too adorable, too adoring, He is like an unwisely indulgent Mamma the baby the scissors to play with because he bawls for Or @ three-pound box of super-chocolates to eat. American girl knows she will be the stead of the luckiest girl in the world, temperish termagant. irresponsible being. What iS the greatest thing in life? Marguerite Clement has been called Xmas Ends Description of the Fight by Rounds Shows the Mill Was Evenly Matched—No_ Clinching—Clever turn Match Scheduled. By ARTHUR Coprright. 1918, by Th I IKE most gleeful Xmases, yesterday ended ina | (“ Pres Publishing draw. Hubby and the wiff did a lot of preliminary training for the star bout of the year, The wiff's training consisted mostly of road work in all the five and ten parks in New York. During September and December she put on her spiked shocs and tossed off marathons in Bullworth’s, Jazebo's and De Loox's thin dime and thick jitney race tracks, The floorwalkers followed her on bicycles to see that she didn’t cut the corners. Mubby trained in the one-armed lunches. Straight Marquis of Queensberry rules, minute rests between presents. Winner took the purse, which wa the German trenches, | with one | as empty as OUND 1—They shook mittens in tie middie of the new dollar rug, which was a present from the wiff’s suburban rolatives. The mittens were knitted by hubbo’s nearsighted aunt In Albany. The will led for bubb's chin with an overhanded Christ- mas cigar. If it had ever landed it would have kuocked hubby coo-coo. Rowe 2—After sparring around the Xmas tr for a minute, hubb hung # wild Moana laval autiful blow wift’s neck, It was a b and well timed, but there ain't much of a kick In a glucose diamond. The wiff stalled for a few onds and hooked hubbo in the Adam's apple with a ferocious Christmas necktie about two size too It knocked him deeder t a brewery, He p, but was slower than an army ked him loose from a set Here around see- young got on his fect arpenter Th blow kno Mr. Worker for Happiness , Most Learned Young Beckley Co, (The New York rening World.) the American man, He is too good. | Or a cupful of | First thing the | unbappiest in- | She will be a A baby with a tummy-ache, An She will miss the greatest thing | Let Mile. | But first let mo tell you about Mile, iting us from that dear Paris, “the most man in Mrance.” She is a graduate | Acre jaaRGUERITE CLEMENT honor of the University of Paris | —~ -- + - upon President Wilson), From her ation entirely through scholarships ause it tastes good t come Motherhood her- and tho unspeakal of tr you mpliant creation everything include in a Draw Leading and Countering—A Re- BUGS”) BAER Co, (The New York Byening World.) of trick carpet slippers, entitling him to the round on points. fe) IND 8—Hubbo's seconds contended that the Xmas necktie was a foul blow, it cut off his breathing. Time was called while a boiler riveter ecut him loose. Hubb tossed a short, snappy Morris chair at the wiff, who retaliated with a mean shower of choppy smoking jackets. This round brought the wiff's relatives to their fect with enthusiasm and shrieks for a knockout. OUND 4—The wiff feinted hubbo off balance with a fake set of mother-of-pearl cuff links. They turned out to be mother-in-law-of-pearl. Then she crashed him with a handpainted set of dinner dishes. While hubb was washing the dishes the wiff galloped off to the movies, Wiff's round, ais {care ting for the wiff witha do all the dirty work yourself. HURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1918 Dere Mable ‘Love Letters of a Rookie. By LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER Mlustrated by Corpl. G. William Breck Fourtecnth of a Series of “Dere Mable” Letters, (Copyright, 1918, by Frederick A, Gtoiwm Company.) ERE MABLE: D The Captin aint goin to give me my furlo. Says theres an order out against it. Someones got it in for me, Mable. I bought a wooley coat awful cheap from Bill Huggins. Right away theres an order against em. Angus MacKenzie sold mo a pair of leather leggins for less than he paid for them. Some bargain from Angus. The next day they issue an order that you cant wear em. Now they hear I want to go home and put an order out against it. If theyd only come right out an say Blll Smith were goin to get you. Sneaky. Thats what I call it, Mable, Ive half a mind to transfer back to the artillery. If I transfer much more theyll be chargin me extra fare, eh, Mable? Only for me an the Captin not bein able to agree Id never have left. I understand hes been awful sorry since, All you have to do in artillery is to put ‘a bullet in the gun. It does the rest. In the infantry you got to go up and Besides Im gettin leery of these infantry fellos. There always talk- ing about what were goin to do to the Germans, blowin em to pieces and slicin em up an throwin em all R OUND 5-1 8 bandful of genuir sealskin fur from the kind of seals that catch 1 eat mice. This blow was a pip and knocked the wiff coo-coo. She got up on her feet and walloped hubbo for a row of Mongolian pagodas, Hubby slapped her for a row of adobe but They stood chin to chin exchanging Merry Xmas cards and uppe another with in- | cutting on st ut jewelry, Tho house went loco, and in the Ox ment the wifl’s relatives invited themselves to the turkey dinner which hubbo's relatives had bought Gong. The semi-finals TaN GOOD draw will be August wiff's birthday in ! | if the Germans was learnin there | stickin every which way some ones to send such a large box—well you areund the lot. I got thinkin what men to do the same thing. They never scem to figger on these things. An these baynuts, Mable. They aint safe. When you get a lot of fellos in a trench with there baynuts “THEY COME ROUND AN WATCH goin to get hurt sure. YOU EAT IT” T got those cigars your father |, can. Outspoke: Th . 5 at Wy |sent me. Thank him an tell him {f aaa ile aa over, Mable, Why is it that no matter how fuss a fello was when he wore a vost as soon as he begins to call a coat a blouze no one thinks he knows whats he ever gets takin like that again not explain it to him Mable. You can do | that sort of ee much better than Our Liber y _Now Re-Established, We Must Secure by “To Be Compleicly a Free Man One Must Be Free From Limitations of Self-Indulgence and Self-| Secking -He Must Have the General Well-Being of the Community in Which He Lives at Heart. By John Grier Hibben (President of Princeton University.) From an address delivered by President Hibben at the Twelfth Annual Convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. i have succeeded tn establishing anew our liberty as American W citizens, or rather our sons have won this right for us. Not only | have-men and poys of a unger generation gained this freedom for us, but also we m ver bear in mind that we owe an overwhelming debt of itude to the nations who have fought for us in securing a char- giand, France, Italy, Belgium and our other jes With a sobered mind, deeply grateful for and yet sobered by new liberty the obligations of liberty rather than for the world ce the present t which victory promise ponstdilities which the id emphasize serious re To-day 1 wo right Liberty cannot be 6e its basis a reverence for dom which knows no co! nal contro! ceases the internal must zes no law is license, and license 4, sir I have seen this aspect of tho sand anarchy “shell. WheN jay of liberty illustrated year afte flex arried UPON OU year in the life of young men in tha ‘ated f law. ree nd rec- narely the red ee rare appearances at bome with She went half round the world under the Kabn Scholarship (Sor iS ‘ tie nay et pie ee | reets it ise against law aMd transition period when they leave the | | Much exasperating meekness And |ponne), and when in Egypt delivered the first lecture ever given before | SS BIBS co do Bht exe Rae thing [therefore a menace to our free invti-| giscipline of their schoa! life behind fearfulness that each time be vows | teyptian women. This address made so deep an impression that Mile. on | tution to enter into the larger liberty of their bay BO Will never go back. Isn't it mur- Clement was under contract to return every Kecond year to lecture when |.) rar superficial ing ©F/ university experience, agedy of Eeeetious bow 4 porfectly nice women tiny war broke out. Zhe was the first exchange professor and lecturer for portain pt n data through tional fr , © many lives under my own observation eee: 0° S man's perv women in Newnham and Girton Colleges, England. orat e we do not have ~ {many people who think that Whore has been due in all cases to the failure Finally, he does not go home, A Ruel acaa toraarld piotieser in the ha va HA) WEAIEMC LURE ay jthere Is restraint of any kind what-' to opply the inner control when the ) Meticr trom a lawyer explains hj mamas MONEALa Ge AGN noe halte the ci Paty rae veh es _ sae soever there can be no liberty. {t}outer restraint ts removed, The law ORCL, CoBVeys Lie meagrest wounly | : " can cost her a real effort to get virly commo: morica A chair of French Innguage and litera: | memeck consistent with keeping out of ture in the Lycee de Versailles. And and the economic choke begint. Jigty and besides, which T have t is the economic choke? 5 low throitiiig of « wo _feetly legal motnods- ah, one k money than sie knows how to got} casty the eye long ou, the axsurance that money Is] Prench he will ever get from her husband, Phat no law can compel With a woman, it can obii YO support her, the asseveration hat phe will never go back and that she! © aught to be strong and wise and #If- and tuke, say, three times jot Am iskly to her Just the} n by per | sweet the doling o | elle rm ace to set forth. Me and young and of a c fingertips here for the yminent lecture to| young pe hd establish through| man to live|a system of correspondence a com- | e him onty | pleter understanding and warmer af- fection between t two nations, In MoCall zine for December she wrote so de'ight{ully her impressions that I betook my» and begeed| one's upward<is Gove doormat 7 Facts WoRTH KNowING, _ | for “mor | mA large electric power plant in| “! ia you not to think I criti- Burope has been equipped witn {ise American men and women,"| Wiheans for drying fruit and ve getables | Mademoiselle chat, with the heated air drawn away | “America can from its alternating current gonera- | But, 40re. old civilization and hor habit of decp| he i ete Sar jthodght, can give a word of, say,| i The ends of a new table book rack rly advice? . sy connected by coiled sprins as | be drawn together ax books are | emoved, prefaced the ach France so much! | perhaps with her old, | erandmot! The o vr day I read in your newe- papers about a young girl wh | father left her in sole | futt trol of $ A patent has been granted a Balt we man for a vest with je | I, a madness! ee for meeting the demands of 1 Wary ing weather. |shining mark ,000,000, Poor girl! What a he shall be for fortune e ree jhuntera, for ex-grinders, for people E To hetp farmers store water an ur- |f base motives of all sorts! hment has been invented by whieh) “Then tr BH avtomobile can be made to operate |she is being sued for erdinary pump. other young woman, It has com- . menced, sald I! Poor child, how is he ever to be sure somebody is lov. ing her for herseif? Mow is she ever to know a rea} pleasure, since nothing 000 by an- rf a neve Wid to protect the eyes from fun better in india than sither obey, |twenty roo and! at possession and | It ia, said) ad a few days later that) for | young, unmarried woman in| 50,000,000 francs, it would | “Again I read a this much-discussed She had rented an 8 and fourteen baths t keep house int paragraph young womé apartment of | be regarded by the entire niry as} Once mors 1 gasped | mar eanont some form of ion, pperegen tance, ¢ 1 dabbled on, and Mile, Clement|for which we have stened Kindly, her great blue eyes|lation—'eMciency,’ Jand clear-cut, mobile face all alert] American nlobieneas ab spark! which you do everyth jand a- arkle, a to cou with “but the su-|irrench t motherhood, | BOs. it 1 do not wish | American man's kindness tow man, which to me ts super the Greg marvelous speed with We want this ‘efliciency’ and thoroug! “Of course,” she sai preme creation is actual intelligent motherhood, acquire toa the ard wo {to seem impertinent, but I would| Would wish him | marr@ this multl-miliionaire young | French |woman to a workaday American | "I bay young man, And I would have her |!t is a p [the mother of six children-—not te Jone moe MER ORS ye lamae than six, mind you! Motherhood in| Hut as social and industrial nae Jita most responsible senso is the {exists, it is the rich who should have gi@atest human experience. How else | the mos, children, It is up to th American man to say is this young woman to know real Qui he love, real service, real development self- the American a from the evils of weaith and ndulgence,”* meaning, for ins | 1 would be well for us to recognize the in every man’s life is h he himself le man in this w self-governed, that is supreme the idea of law ts an ¢5-lthe law whic concept of The or islates, A is the truth that sential cloment in the vty. one wh Which is free, the ship without rud-| id wi y tre Moreover, law of demands the progressive transfor- pout pil the one wita development what seemed to me a sort ve ‘ wealth-madnoss. It is a falry 1 a een Hirecting and commanding I=) nation as complete as possible of ex- Diy haan Give ct wands auaranel cul fi pce at the helm sailing by ct rnal restraint into inner control. The materialization of wishes by magic wi no pre-Ch hy compass and the con ae tiovernment which seeks to maintain “Thie can only take place’in Amer- | kiddie-kar t arity Whi is free, the undis-| its paternal guidance of the affairs of lea—the land of adoring man, of} irench bow and a greeting in delight. {*1blned and mutinous, each man se (s sone is treeting them as children luxury and of lucky women, And{fui French-English, walle Mamzelia {ins Bia own, or the troops divelolinedy) under tutelage and not as men ex- yet, is a woman lucky if she cheats|*pointed With pride.” ax well she} {rained and under a command BOLD) ereised in freedom, capable of initia- herself of the greatest thing in tt night. It NDA ave who pra ote id revered | tive, and strong to bear the burdens | | worlé—the opportunity for creatio t » diligently what reach| Which is f the community which) ang q the obligations of citi So there we have it. The pate Mile, Clement end he lish {Holds Law in contempt and the officers} sonst nalism, which weakens | thing iw creation, You thought Mile,| young woinan friend, who have | Of the law in derision and detlance, or | the 44 { the individual, thereby Clement was going to say love, didn’t) adopted Jean St. George, war-orphan, | {8 eoounun nat has @ Umer BL nse of individual re- you? But love ts at the bottom of it,Jand are educating him with both un. | ad order and the undisturbed unity | spons nd the possibility of in- ifter all—love of something, Love of | ted love and salutary discipline of their communal life and whose! dividual achievement, which is the husband, love of humanity, love of] “We ‘ Joan to learn many|eitizens have & greater concern for] secret of our national vigor and the service, And all real love leady to] Americar hablos of mind,” says Mile. | tneip public obl than for their) promise of our future progress, ations ts and privileges? Which is free, t It must also be borne in mind that there is a great difference tween the of life is directed by chance end acel-| positive and negative ph of ob- dent and the suggestions of eliigation, One may interpret his ob- thoughts, of brute force and animal) jigations to his fellow men in purely pa n, or the man whose self-control] negative terms, merely refraining is constantly moving toward the real-! from doing his neighbor an injustice ization of & consecrated purpose oy an injury, and he is quite satisfied to have his activities in a co hose who come to us from foreign | obey simply this law, But there is a t lesson of | higher law, to do good to one's fylows shores must learn the first American citizenship--namely, that in] as Well as to refrain from committing t actual injuries. all matters of personal cond is an exact ratio which must be pres} To be completely a | j ervice cf mankind? | mmunity ther free man, one served between outer restraint 4} must be free from the limitations of inner control, that as the outer ve-| self-indulgence and gelf-seeking, He straint is lesseacd the inner contro nust have the general well-being of must be increased, Where the exter- the community in which he lives at ) w the thought of the | of the world brings in its” a recognition of duty which bas as, what. If you got any old magazenes what was old before the war started send em to the soldiers. They wout know the difference. Some wimen sent our regiment the Baptist Re- Righ! Living view for three years back. That aint right, Mable. They give you ———— eee candy that comes by the bale. Then nr, they come round an watch you eat it. I bet if ou walked into there place and wakehed them eat they'd raise an awful holler. They make speeches to you that youd get your money back without askin up north. They give you free movies thats 80 old they look as if they was taken in the rain, It seems Ike feedin the bippo at the zoo, Mable. It dont matter #0 much as long as theres lots of It. Im goin into town tonite with a bunch to eat a ewell dinner on « cbina plate. All but Angus Marc- Kenzie. He eats all his dinners on me. Im awful sick of eatin out of a tin fryin pan. When you put food in it it folds up like a jacknife goin the wrong way. It takes months to make a good mess kit eater, We get our mess from some felios heart, It is the man that is public what stands behind a counter. One spirited that fs the really free man, of them divides the coffee. He does | one who is driven to his tasky as by ®/{t by puttin half in your cup an half master law to serve his day jad gen’ op your thumb. The other fellos han ration to the fuil extent o ity, one who is consumed by the kind. | °!8 epoons T guess they are old La- |ling Bre of enthusiasm for humanity, C788 Players. A big wad of food hits | one who is determined not only to en- | Your plate splash an knocks it squee | joy freedom himself, but to make that Bee. The other fello bits the other | freedom possible for his fellows, and|plate an knocks it the other way | to that end to bring a genuine human] When yon get {t all its runnin out lite within the reach of every | of one dish up your sleeve an out of j outer Pee the other back {nto the food pans. jrover Cleveland was such @ Man, army food always runs. Cooks | public spirited, solicitous for the com- |, pel b. Th ful f 1, reverencing law, loving |’ grub. ere awful stupid jliberty, and yet detishting to call him- If theres onything solfd you get !t 11 | se the servant of the people. He the pan with the rim on it. Then not only recognized “public office as | they pour thé soup on your cr ver. }@ public trust,” but held that! When you sit down half wha « the private citizen had public duties | git spills out on the table. It interpreted his liberty aq had now cause everything freon in the light of his 1 for the community|#boUt as soon as It hits He loved the people} YOU ought to see us eat br with a human understanding and| Mable, We got so many oy sympathy, and they believed in him,/and things on that a fello dont ¢ | He Was the natural champion of thetr no elbow action. Some fellos #4 anes | pror.J-o HiSBEN [mon we us well, He as an Ameri duties, He lly and for the State alfast | oreoa! rights and their liberty, the true! with their wool gloves. That aint a jdemocrat, leading them to a clearer | good scheme though. It makes thin appreciation of the significance of ‘ taste Mke eat! eaches with the the free institutions of our country | eB Reaches ' and the universal obligations of citt- |skins on zenship. To know him was to learn! The fello that invented our eatin the secret of liberty, which is rever- | tables Must have been a supply ear for la nedience to duty and; gent once, All the seats $s nailed to love of humanity, Such is the spirit |the table. When you get a spoon! which has made and wili keep Am-|a@ toose {ood up some fello puts bla erica tree, foot 1n your lap and leaves a couple of pounds of mud there, 1 ust brush it of tho on the next fello Never complain. That's me all over Well Mable I got to shine my shoes now and go and eat offen china offered by heroic souls who|Plates with a nigger walter. I don’t fought and died for us. We eat with a nigger waiter, Mable, Its must on our part keep faith with the awful hard to explain things to you safeguarding the liberty they) sometimes. So now I wil! close won for us with their lives, | Hoping you are the same secure basis RIL right and of justices, at ence Finally, time tha we must remember at this our liberty has been re- established for us at @ great price, It has been bought by blood. The rights which we enjoy have been as- 13 sacrifice freely wave have maintaining it upon the of the law of and daily living to realize the reign of peace and good will toward men, The commlete serice oi DERE MABLE" Lote | ter te published to book form,