The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1918, Page 9

qt pry 1%, oR TK \ \ \ \ \ \\ \ NY Ve WN RAY \Y \ \y \\) \ \\\Y \ TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, Odd Number Years Lucky for,the U. S. In Peace and War 1919, a Year of Promise for This Country if We Can Count on History Repeating Itself, and Uncle Sam’s Past Performances in Odd Number Years Form a Record Too Remarkable to Be Mere Coincide”:ce. By Albert Payson Terhune 1918, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) There is. Especially in “odd-number” 1918 '3 there I years. An “odd-number" year is dawnin Neve in Luck—(and who doesn’t?) irly safe In prophesying that t is due to be a mighty lucky year for Uncle Sam; and, incidentally, for Uncle Sam's hundred million nephews and nieces, Tell a gambler that a certain horse is due to win the next race, and | “luck in odd numbers?” If you are inclined to be- you are a fae ‘ PS eS . ae a ° Ne ae ~ oe OS atandea arb osaaney Wage | a WW a Sk SN OY Ak on et i ie TUESDAY, DECEMBER ' | | | To. new girl, She'll Really Be Presented in Two Models to Choose Belween, and They Are Here Described by Edith Ellis Furness--One a Brave, Constructive | Thinker, the Other a Fluf'y Reactionary. By Zoe Beckley by Tue Prose Publishing Copyright, (The New York Beeming World) 1919 a i even if she has lost ‘ oi i " | \ . hig first question will be about the steed’s past performances. For it is | WS peady for market f nearest and dearest, ie secondary. by past performances that we calculate on the future, Here are some of | \S riago market. I have be 0 RrOMt. (hinecto be galnea’ fb Vacle Sam's past performances in “odd-number" years;—forming a record | discussing with a very wise woma mt human happiness, firm and almost too remarkable to be laid at the door of mere coincidence just what this new] jisting, ‘This girl will instinctively Going back to the very beginning, any school child can tell you it | girl will be ate rry into conditions where was the atrocious “Stamp Act” which gave us our first push toward Inde- Seal said hs i rman, together, can work pendence. The Stamp Act was put through in an “odd-number” year—in it “a = War] Oward the reat thinks of life, even if 1765 (six years earlier, in another “odd-number” year, had been won the work and wat entails some manual old that : id a ’ ir of the American born girl. Vrench and Indian War, whieh con- thought will hav .s ‘ roan Colonies andl Nis Y She will want to build somethin, Jidated the American Colonies and | hi pa dertdaio) flag was erin trained and tem-) Sho will bo the logical product a paved the way to Freedom) | on the battle line In Europe. No true pered her iato| © gical product o The “Boston Tea Party,” the first | American can doubt that that was something ver y| (ose splendid grandmothers of ours active revolt-meas of our coun-| one of the greatest ventures to which Hae. She haw griv.| “2 When the Civil War was over, try, was in 1 The Revolution be- | our country ever set its triumphant en arabulances, ore | Tertied men of their choice, piled ¢ 1775; hand. And it happened on an odd- “beam J into covered wagons and gun in the odd-number year of 177 3 gatiieed. benefits| rs r jd in that same year “the shot seconded ti: ee manheed canteens, | "tarted out to make homes and rear heard round the v was fired ; res oh tlson in the odd-number raised money, made gas masks, run |“? Seen Ee Ae CER, SRE Wee Lexington and tl ve 2 tat 1s to be our nation's clevatoré, collected teres, operated | °© che Wet! Bunker Hill wa Wibdad te WR A Sauna af > turret lathes and survived two man-| MPS. Furness does not insist upon Ip 1777, odd-n sega the evillesa canoes fe fe less summers at the seashore! Her|‘he West literally, Montclair or wag fought t farenes Wis shall rh he piel muscles have hardencd, her sym-|orest Hills Gardens or even Tuck . 2 nich shall mar © offici: a . 1 » | Shoe will do, And the canvas topped which insured u athles softened, her self-reliance canvas topp making France co cited re area rs deepened and her selfish silliness be-| Wtson may be a flivver or a day Which was the m iMlant victory ' ; »regoing are but a small frac. come like the hairpins in her ear-| Coach on the Eric, The main thing ts our patriot ancestors had won. In| on of the reasons why we may look puffs—invisible, She will be a won-|that it leads where a home can be the odd-number year of 1781, Corn-| Ro ray Ace he coming odd-number derful wife, an ideal citizen, a spien-| started, not merely a shelter from the wWallis's surrender at Yorktown won} |, i any ‘i th bape of faith in did comrade. lements, but @ place with an individ- SS ae: tee ue © good old adage: “There's luck in ‘ont do arde 6 Revolutionary War f r u . 1 | odd aie BA “phat,” smiled Edith Ellis ness, ny front door, a garden, a tree, a fire- 1783 the British evacuated } it °. rp Whousi succele in’ Witenond) molleret> rh : and a nursery “ of the newbo: ter SS vay ‘ou obo > ind fhe rest of the newborn Uni ; hood, stagecraft, authorship and| Buty way you, in body has homes States, H Whose all-embracing gift of human | 20" More! Sees get help. So In 1789 we inaugurated our first ppt ng U e r ew to her words, |2P¢ lives in lodgings with kitchen- President, George Wasblngion, and Swonld be the popular view: jet en folding ety bal ee é a 0 no children allowed. chat 1 in another odd-numbi Hine ¢ ike “I believe, however, that the 191° /iy just what Model No. 2 Brite i919 abraham Lincoln ORGS RGA Ui e a U e S girl will be of two models, The first! i) soihecte Magers. Ohi Ce cecan in 1th | will be a fluMer girl than ever we've! storation of the home to the Ameri ipacers, With CUR OW Sy ae . ") ‘ known before, ull we call her the c rable 1 with the fall of the Bastiles | A Few Highly Seasoned and Sea- reactionary girl? She will react from Gven, she may one wre Muow tt Fulton, in 1807, changed the whole . . haa He eae eet mmay nave /evens. She may only know that she P and of navigation by onable Hints f Ler Were v eet Lament ers y “wants to do something useful. But son, Six years afterward, on another 0 Try to Ride Habits Be- cashiering. She !s the girl who Fre-' who will build more convenient ey numbe i" ‘ar, Perry won his sponds with a glad leap to the home- nouses, the woman cooked-foo inighty naval victory at Lake Erie; ul in 1815 Jackson won the epoch | fore They Are Broken By ARTHUR (“BUGS”) BAER coming of the arrior because they are so big, so strong, conquering Specialist who will send round an oc- casional dinner in a thermos bottle tle Sew Orleans. In! , : 80 splendid and the trained houseworker with De or I een genie turned | Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World).| “She sces in their coming @ release union hours and wages, her useful- progress upside down by inventing | VER since Eve decided to wear a new leaf on the first of the second | from her & ind. The novelt of ness will take the form of fundament- ie el | year in the cabaret of Eden, folks pick on January the Once as man's work’ had worn off anyhow. als—of real, hand-made house and i. Texas in 1845, th the date on which their bad habits are going to abdicate, | She was beginning to long for chiffon homekeeping bringing on the Mexican War, whic: Trouble with most birds is that they send their bad habits away on | ffecks and hats of gold tissue to re girl who has serubbed floors and we won in the equally odd number) a round trip ticket. Lil’ old habit takes a lil’ excursion and pops | P!ace the overalls and mob caps of \ vear of 1847, In 1849 began the gold) right back again feeling much refreshed and stronger as a result of the | ‘2° Work-rem If the cook leaves or the man sh to California. The first Atlantic) vacation. Other citizens tie their mean habits to a boomerang and cut | “She is the girl who loves to Ix n't fix the furnace. The young 6 message sped under the Atla: loose. It rides away and then rides back and knocks ‘em coo-coo, struction Ald” or hos- |told by the manufacturers of femin jine folderols that it is woman's duty fa nm 1857 | But they don't ; 2s Bidagianie Bsencnt ; b dap the y don't mind. Rather a blow from a bad habit than a caress to be beautiful. She listens raptly to. cleanin: a inester's cut Hip with John Brown blo y That, {70M @ good one: thev dnote: that ‘aniear ‘ Ws yea Ay Seat eanlenann This turning over a leaf on New Year is the bunk. Whether you | in the home. She longs to cling a n short," as Mrs, Purness pute it, bal oe seh aad” univer seared | turn it over or let it lay, it's still the same leaf. When a worm habit |the vine to the great strong oak. “Type 2 of the 1919 girl will be braver etween, those two dates (Jan, 1,| Mbbles a hole in your leaf, you can turn it over and you'll find out | She has a passion of admiration for/in tackling constructive matrimony. tgéa) Lincoln's pen scratch on tae| that it’s the same hole on both sides. | Powerful man and obiry s cutely She will take more time to think Bee ins preclamationnereea nile | OU'VE got to be careful about this leaf business, With butter | @bout ‘poor 1 tle me from the vant- | about her marriage and she will make Hons of human beings from slavery. | selling at an iron man a pound, you want to be sure which side Fore po ee gen ie eon Hare se bea ty ir A ; am ba pari ee Ih the same year, 1863, the Battle of your leaf is buttered on before you flap it over. We know some | 0", ° Dee a reputed etl inelad eats aaa aM Lk ne desks ne ’ | love womanly and she! of ance, She will have ct Gettysburg marked once and for all] sapps who turned over a new leaf and then discovered the leat was |)*’ iarivasi ye Pere ae ane IST rhe coming downfall of: the Confeder poison ivy. 1a we - ne } nd fr ks n to all-aroun y and secured the permanence of our And turning over a grape leaf is poor fun with grapes peddling | “linha penationany \ ow rambli c : 1 “ Ind Union. Tee five berries a quart. A beer leaf is much cheaper. But don't try to |i, true primitive on far tho men! yiqualiatic in hor ideals Insto: : it In the odd number year of 1895 be-| turn over a cabbage leaf on the wiff when she prefers Brussels sprouts, jwho are le She always ‘plays| peing just a wife with thought only an the Cuban olution, w ne was This gymnastic business is all right, You can teach a leaf to toss | safe’ in popular sentime by at-| for her own husband, her own home nvolve us in a ctorious: a - ” : i : : sek » soon to Involy rl My te Verde 3 a back somersault and land on its shoulderblades, but you can't mako | taching herself through wifehood and] yer own child and her own am ww and ee the ia Py sha it stay put. A bird who has been wrong for sixty years can't expect to | blind motherhood to some responsible Hl think of men as com fe oe aoa ooo try be Fun. | teach an old leaf new tricks, t be a Jrades and brothers in all paths of wily ended f >» In the The leaf which gets the most reversing on the first of the year is AA | life and work no will work for ail halled his fivst| the old tobacco leaf, It gets flapped over so many times that it gets Ah Jed Tt) children, all homes, all industrial Se es oue thE We re-| dizzy, It doesn’t know whether it is an all-Havana leaf or a rope leaf. that it eau: n ceived our parcel post system in the| Neither does the cigar store man when he soaks you (wo bits for a i , : seo baleen) Of bis ; ar St jan motherhood, crated t e Odd number year of 1913 jitney cigar, “we shall have many," concludes| rnyien or the + aie AIS ‘Then, in 191 red the world | OST birds who try to reform ure outta luck like a mosquito on a |my peautiful, wise lady, “of this typel nn o fete eRe aes ee weiner do Marble statue. ‘They moan well, like a tonevolent old lady try |or 1919 ¢ The stress and strain| Palipsigalel beers ss pseu aca ty for & million yea t wo 4 conclusion ing to pat a porcupine. She generally pats it the wrong way. i nia of Ww nevitably | f personal happ a t ’ ur, for the first time in] There ain't any right way to stroke a porky. Both w are the wrong sd learn to pur in —— | way. And bad habits are porcupines, They don’t want to be patted a mute to Mr s moa mmunity happiness, A ’ ’ If you're wrong, why not be wrong right? Look at the Kaiser, He f observa ‘ e hag 48, it would work out lroq UO1S TIN CllAms | knows Wave ia atoulitall’ Butte refines (a carn oven a new iene ily the j of the swee yevitably to our own happiness, He turned over his navy. Ine New ¢ experts The war worker knows as no on Ne WwW Ye ar | He turned over all his U-subs. a contact w drone does that in losing ourselves we ; : He turned over his artillery and airplanes. He turned over about herscif has crowned # career of work! truly find oursel R’ PTAREA RIMESABEA WhiOUl eleven billion gazillion dollars fede bg nae . Be hen. the. two. modain. of emained unchang nrougt 4 i ; ‘ jwhich runs the gamu the 1919 girl! One is built for grace the centuries will mark the cel- He turned over all the land he won with those loaded bones from | stripping of her own floors to carpe ne, with nice bright paint and ebration of New Year by the Iro-| Belgium. dreary dugouts, to the rehabilitatior fe ihnigtan, (Mua clay SUNT all quois Indians of New York State, But danged if he'll turn over a new leaf, of Bel refuge Her tanteient teat anil eee Mat chal hala Wisconsin, » and Oklahoma, The old super-sapp is sore because he tried to turn the world furnishes a sort of general mode Tien ” f-starting distances The quaint observances will have over and sprained his royal suspenders instead. He's scared of leaves 2 in our catalogue for 1919.) and heavy load ther in lees their cuimination with the rising of] pyvery time he turned over a leaf in the Argonne Forest about a dozen 1 model of the new! snowy, but better for family use the first aun af fhe) moon . Nis-ko-| Yankees would pop out from under it and knock him for a goal Ith Ells, actress author! sno will climb hills and do a deal of uke): which to the shorigines Which is why you should be careful before fooling around with ducer (or, 1f you prefer it, At means the dawning of the 469th year ss, wife, mother and maker \ : leaves in this age of camouflage, gentlemen, and make your of the Iroquois Confederation, A Ef i F e which is a real h . fig ceremonies begin at aunrise You can’t tell what's under ‘em / Mine aca ur Own opinion as “ f, " — = — ne OF &: RC w 7 t will be in the first onset of when a company of “Buffalo Head ———~ |Ida Tarbell define is the gir on yas Rit way rt ae iy (ets go about awakening the people "Walking the chalk line’ is an-|joys which will be the eternal her. | whose spirit ha n stirred anid ty Is often t antl chanting a song which recites that! other New Year ceremony Bravos |tago of the faithful in the Happy| reatest tre n history m ©. The Fluff Mode will look the old year is gone and a new one lang squaws alike walk this line, a/Hunting Ground of the Great Spirit, |iy her emotions ned t fully good, But, to paraphrase th commenced. The a ers Light the | nalf-mile in length, resolving to wa'k/and the horrors of the other place.| ‘Shattered bod. and spi ALR ETY t, we b the one you fire of the Now R ear, and receive iN) straight through the y and to!The pre religion of the troquois | dese lated homes and w sal lw innately buy he “ultimate” payment a pouch of Indian tobacco, | deviate from the line a step is thought | bears about the same relation to their | waste mean mor t irl than} wife will be of the Thinking Mode the giver saying of the weed that “it | to be evidencé of a crooked character, |ancient creed as Christianity bears|mere loss, Consciously or uncon © one who uses head, heart an obers the thoughts and clears the |The ceremonies continue several days, |to Judaism. ‘The new revelation from | sclously she will in them 4 lesson | hand, appreciates equality more than mind. It is very strong tobacco, and jand include a sermon by the high|the Great Spirit was receiv by | to be thought out, explained and | protection, justice more than chivalry, (hie ppleface is not likely to find his | priest that occupies three entire days. | Handsome Lake, who was born about | profited by. and knows how to make the great min@’the clearer from smoking it. | The preacher eloquently describes the J ys) and died in 1618 vga \ | “She will gradually see that par-! American home New 1919 Model Girl Ready for Marriage Market She’ll Be a Wonderful Wife, an Ideal Citizen, a Splendid Comrade—Product of War Activities Sw 7) \ | THE | \ THINKING MODEL All is over among us, knos you well Sh prized at you cute man. out at my pictur on the mantlepiece. ay. So I repeat, its all over among us. Im returnin today by parcels post the red sweter an the gloves that has no fingers an the sox that you wear over your head an your pictur, Most of the stuff aint been used much, The pictur has séme mud on it cause I had to keep it in the bot- tom of my barrak bag an my shoes came next. ox T cant send back cause I sold em to Joe Glucos an you wouldnt want em now | ‘The stuff that you sent me to eat| I havnt kept. I guess you wouldnt want that anyway Mable, The stuff that your mother sent me Im going to kesp. She wasnt my girl an she she didnt want to. Mable, keep em, I dont want em no mor I aint even goin to menshun ‘all the money Ive spent on you for movies an sodas an the Lord knows what not, I aint the kind of a fello to throw that up to a fello or even | I kept track menshun it in no wa of it though in a little book, It comes to $28.27 and some odd sense, An I aint agoin to hold it up) is. against you that I been savin in the bank for most two years sos to have a little somethin towards that house with the green blinds got somethin like $87.22 in the b if you can believe what that ea beak in the cage rites in your book All wasted you might say, when you \think of the fun I might have had| with it in the last two years. Those things we'll just forget, You seem| to have already, | An that seasons pass I got for you| for the Happyhour sos you could \keep in touch with things while I was away. Keep that and take Brog- | gins. Otherwise I got a hunch you| jaint goin to the movies as much as you used to. 1 guess this will hit your father an| mother pretty hard, They got no- body tg blame but yourself, On the other hand its goin to please some | girls that I know. So its @ poor wind that dont blow nobody round | as the poets say, I guess you wont | here much about the poe's ay more,’ Te, \Y MRO OneeLey mee, I touched in the year just past my own zero hour | with hope and happiness re- nowing themselves with every breath, I can be glad I touched It unexplored world was opened to mo, and as the clanging gates swung wide, I became conscious for | the first time of the mighty host of men and through lyear in a heroic knows neither citations in the order upon women every nor crosses of honor, and which has only two promotions, return to health or a new enlistment in the mightiest of all larmies for whom, let us believe, WE are the dead Hereafter I shall know no morning | without its poignant thought of fel creatures mobilized shall wait with them for the angel of low | moth ~ Dere Mable Love Letters of a Rookie BY LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER (Seventeenth and Last of a Series of Dere Mable ‘Copyright, 1918, by Proderick A, Stokes Co.) LRE MABLE, ; ‘This is the last time I will ever take my pen in hand for you. I feit It comin for some time Mable. some letters that I got from girls was one from a girl What health 18 contagious. She told me all about this fello Broggins. | ourselves and our friends feel Detter says you take him around with you everywhere, Thats | just by believing that we are peter: the kind of a fello I thought he was, Mable, but Im sur-|A great religious organisation with Sho says your awful fond of him hes so which I have little personal sympathy I aint cute an aint never pretended to be. A mans 54s been butit up on that elementary Thats me all over, Mable. llerg in canteens will not be your house the other night an he was sittin in your lap stickin his tongue After that, Mable, theres nothin to She says she went up to Mable. Broggins. about himself. I hate a man what talks defence. military weddin, Mable? Im kind of sorry for your father. dont blame me. tor said any kind of a shock would set him off a mile. | An now, Mable, Im closin for the) It wont be no use runin to the door when you here the post man no more cause nothin but the gas bill. didnt have to send all that stuff iffon the only way youll here from me |is in the papers perhaps when we As for all the things I have give yous eet ver there. Now Im going to ask you a favor, Mable, for old times sake. Take the lot these pests. But we can say, all I had taken pointin to the American flag an burn it up. jcant have that to show your friends | |no more an I aint goin to have no} flat foot makin faces at it. selfish, Mable, but a girl cant make a cake an cat it too as the old sayin jlast time. pictur best mother, Tell em I simpathize with a jthem in there loss And that I} any more cause Im firm as the rock nk |of Gibber le |me all over, Mable. as ever yours no longer BILL, Alter, WEST! UNION B__ TELSSRAM MECEVED AT Philopodis, §. Tt. Mies Mable Gimp 106 Main Street Philovoliv, ™. T. Broggine was © dog. beck 01] your stuff and mike wo some wore if you want to. 19 costing we nine cents « word so I cant ony no more now, Thrifty, ‘Thats we all over, Mable. seri MARBLE Letters de erie, of DERE _TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 19185 Three New Year Wishes © For Women \ By Nixola Greeley-Smith ‘Coprright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World) SECOND WISH~—THE WISH FOR HEALTH ESTERDAY 1 got a letter from a little girl I know. Dearest Miss Greeley-Smith, it began. T hope you are well. ‘Thiaa in going to be a short Lotter. Happy New Y r FRANCES ISABEL, Reading this curt but evidently labored little deet- ment for the first time it occurred to me that Franees Isabel showed a certan lack of imagination and might grow into an excellent President of the D. A. R., but would Reading it over again, I realized that never write poetry. 1 was wrong, that Frances I had to say atid that any letter much, bel had which And she had wished me the second greatest wish im tha, | place it second to the wisit» for love, because love when it {s worthy of the name out. ? world—-the wish for alth health, is the one star that lives: through the zero hour of weakness ang disease and pain that must come at one time or another to nearly all of us. Ni looking back For ‘an of pain | &fltining elevator the judgment roo rust pass of every that | that hour comradeship addition to its leaves nor palm | side before. kil me if y | freak? one of my own t rocity I might ve, where to pain, 1), \their annunctation, the trained nurse Not the end | \ | who behind her cool, profes-|experionco itself A ‘ sional manner the tenderness of | Walter Pater. & instinct that is universal; for) under the gates too, that 1 ire over, Letters) he would have world To-day among truth, applies sprung 1S human injustice. only ail youll here and the You know the doc- | UNiversal timiat who tells so handsome in he wont have From now | a special place of because at least pleasant, Let us of us, “You are | you | YOU! tne great wish, phrase of my 1i Isabel, I may be} to your father an Its no use ritin tempted th: Dee to the Concrete, Thats the result was fa predicted by jit was, however, play of street Hoe was I to beginning of the Tou can send by night into a splendor such This telegren “electric candle” para Ja Russian marvels the surgeon with his casual. toga! cheerful greeting, his bluff preteried? that you are not afraid of him, which, of course, you have to keep w| 4 the litter-bearing orderiies, and with such exasperating slowness to, der with every woman on her way to. that chamber of destiny just Why shes must be made to wear a coarse, tile | fitting garment not her own, whieh has the horror of being put on wront And I shall think witt her: “It's quite all right for you (> 1 find it necessary, bul why do I have to die looking like If you had only let me is thy Death, where is thy sting?” went And that I have been in Cleve! And Lam glad all three expe Fach taught me ‘hing, and one at least opened to meg lew flelds of sympathy and under- standing and compassion, and ne know that, next to the wish fam, ove, the wish for health is the gregtss est of all human needs, Robert Ingersoll, when asked God made it, answered, { should have made health con| ‘4 instead of disease.” But, in a po For years I have advocated the abo- [ition of the death penalty, But e#iW to from human are afraid to look at the City all clock for fear they might not start aR up again for another year, deserves always favor giving him a small plece of ice every five thousand years or 80, we can all echo for every one in 1919 1 hope you are (or will Bp) well. Happy New Year! | > | The Great White Way’ HE first electric Ulumination ot New York street was at 20, 1880, when a trial was giv new system of street lighting, With the crude apparatus then in use was but a dim forecast of the wonders to be accomplished in the future. As |a result of this and other teats it wag many ectricity could never take the plage. of gas as an economical and efficient | method of lighting streets. Poor am | American metropolis marked the di and the transformation of Broadway as our grandfathers could never have dreamed of, first display of electric lighting on. large scale was at the Paris Ex; tion of 1878, when the wonders of the of Paul seen engineer, startled , world, The Parisian display, howe rary was dim gnd dull compared with ¢he accomplished, 31, 1918% from ’ sald everything says more says shines steadily on o4 wh man who takes you} m, And I shuli woue? natural hideor 4 * hings instead of be able to aay, ‘Oh victory; of? of experience, But is the end," wrote 0 Tam glad I pasa of pain, Tt am to Chicago once, son improved upon the We can make sed ordinary crimes, passion an@ For the person ‘i “How ill you are looking! ona \ ¥ 7 l well?” to a fellow being ate ; 1 suppose he has Joined the Home | grips with disease, I favor the restote- Are you going to have a) ation of the thumb screw, the rack., Iron Maid son is the lowest form of murderer’ If you have his liver on your hands |“? should be exterminated as part of” campaign against the spread of disease. On the other hand, the cheerful opi” For such a pete, you you were never your life, when you: torment. But I shall his intentions try not to be either” jooking better,” And spoken in the trite ttle friend, Frances irty-@ight years ct r from brilliant, am “experts” ti the first electric digs illumination in the "Great White Way,'* scene of dassling The