The evening world. Newspaper, February 11, 1919, Page 20

e 4 { UESDAY, FEB Twenty Weddings a Day Is the Doughboy's po a ne a ar TR RUARY 11, 1919 Cupid’s Busy Season Leading War Veierans To the Marriage Bureau at City Hall, Which Doesn't Include the Numer- ous ‘Home Weddings,” and the Number Jumps‘ Up Every Time a Transport Arrives, How Faithfully Miss New York Waited for Her; Hero’s Return. By Zoe “Ey lice ses and everything do you up is @ bunch, 2D be all the merrier.” ‘Thus, on Pp. J. Scully, First prietur of one of u known world. Six stalwart from their chairs Marriage Bureau self-possession led door that leads fro: ful sanctuary, all where “Papa” Scu We wee twenty a day, The open season for soldier mtr! “Now you stand here—no, over on Mr. Scully, in whom years of hasty knot je has not destroyed a senso of} dignity and fitness of thing ~ Miss, move a bit this way . Now clasp right handa” The other five pairs retire to t back wf the littic makeshift marriage hall ay! the good clerk adjusts his eyeglany: “In thy name of God, Amen,” ho be- gins, prowouncing each word with | reverence. "Do cither of you know of any imped\ment why you should not be legally jained in matrimony?” He pauses, lookW first at the lad before him, who she\es « prompt head; then at tho slim gyi, who forms “No, sir’ with her red yvung lips. *Or—if any qe present can show amy just cause why these parties should not be lodully joined together im matrimony, ict him now speak, or forever—bold—his peace.” A pause here, as the fatheriy’man on the plat- form looks from ey@ to eye among the standing company. Nobody speaks, Then he goes on: “Do you, Philip, take this woman ag your lawfully wedded wife, to live together in the state of matrimony?” Philip grasps his girl's hand tighter and answers firmly, “I do, sir!” “Will you love, donor and keep her, as a faithful man is bound to do, im health, sickness, prosperity and ad- | versity and, forsaking all others, keop | you alone unto her, as long as you beth shall live?” “¥db, sir, I will,” rejoins Philip, un consciously straightening. Olerk Scul- ly transfers bis gaze from Philip to the slim girl beside him. “Do you, Harriet, take this man for your lawfully wedded husband, to live together in the state of matrimony?” Harriet nods and whispers, “I do.” “Wil you love, honor and cherish him, as a faithful woman is bound to | 40, in health, sickness, prosperity and | efversity and, forsaking ail others, Ikeep you alone unto him, as long as you Doth shall live?” “Yes—i will.” “Por,” conctudes the Clerk, dropping Bits voice @ note or two and saying each syllable with remarkable dis- timetness and sense of meaning, con- 9 sifering the thousands of times he has said it, “as you both have con- sented in wedlock and haye acknowl- it before this company, I do, By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Jaws of the State of New York, now pronounce you husband and wife. And may God—bless—your union. A little pause, a nervous giance of the bridegroom toward the bride, a tremulous grin or two, and the ten- ston is snapped by Clerk Scully say- ing in his everyday voloe: “Well, son, dontcha wanta kiss your bride?” * * ¢ “There, that's better! Good luck to you both! Here, wait a minute; don't go without your certificate! Goodby; bbe good to eagh other!” Philip Don- relly, Company I, 308th Infantry, and Harriet Van Houten of Rahway smile and say “Thank you,” and move out of the little chapel into the world of workaday, bound by that strange promise to love so long as they live! The next couple steps to the fore, wad the kindly old man on the plat- worm (he said he was “getting old;” 1 @az't see it or subscribe to it ex- opt as a term of endearment) goes through the form again. “Got a ring?” he asks, as John wands stiffly, bis military overcoat Muttoned tight to the chin “Bure!” John unbends and fishes out alittle box. (Little jewellers’ boxes are strewn all over Clerk Scully's desk) And in three minutes and fourteen @eeonds, John G. Campbell, bugler, doth them part. Heigh-ho, you feblers in uniform—want to be married now? busy Monday morning, doughboys blushed, grinned and " Company G, 7th Infantry, invalided to the Camp Merritt hospita! after eight Months’ service in France, and Sadic Smith are duly wedded till Beckley All rreright! Just step right in. UN You oan stand up with one another and spake City Clerk Cupid and pro lis in Uils wel) Deputy to Daniel L he busiest marriage rose in the waiting room of the Municipal Six girls rose also, and with creditabie their uniformed swains through the Mm a Commonplace office into that fate. palm bedecked and rose garlanded, Hy ties ‘em up at the rate of nearly jages 18 on | | Ordna girl Sergt Corps he left Regin pany B, 17th f utches as he and Anna Flood, behind a year age lI, Pulford of Com- ngineers, who leans un holds the hand of his bride, Ramona de Rivas Howe, Sai- vation Army canteen worker, whom he met in France; William EB, Booth | of the 358th Aero Squadron ahd Patri- cla Jacquine, and Ernest R. Ferreiva jof the @. M. C. at Governor's Island, |who lost a good left eye in a Zeppe- Un air raid on the English coast, and Paulino Donohue. The color scheme of the marrying doughboys was suddenly rainbowed by the advent of Capt. Raymond Couraud of the 27th Regiment of French Dragoons, a member of the Parts Automobile Service, now on business here with the Freneh Mili- lary Mission, Heside him was Miss Flora Bowen, as pretty as the Captain was handsome, and quite of the Cap- tain'’s mind that Clerk Scully must marry them quickly. For there was much to do before to-morrow’s pail- ing and many goodbys to be sald to the bride, who is to make her future home in far Bucharest, Roumania, where Capt. Couraud’s business will take him acter demobilization, A flash of horizon blue and black and gold, a dart of rose color—and the picturesque pair had slipped from the room and down the long corridor Pateick J. Bano of the geuus Proving Got your| disgraced themsel Vederation by Anning Ge ioral Mona: appearing to tell them about “Le er ve @ Nixola Greeley-Smith Discusses the Perplexing Problem Oesion | Debated by a Thousand New York Clubwomen us “There Are Few Gowns Shown in Fashion Magazines or Shops To-Day UF | We We Which Are Indecent if Worn by the Right Woman—What Happens if UF UA \ They Are Purchased by Individuals Whose Physical Shortcomings UF } Should Make Them Cautious Is the Fault of the State of Public Taste.” A ™ It may be mere coincidence, but, The other night when Galli-Curel) $2,000. Do you suppose he t By Nixola Greel why | that so few women with! sang “Luc 1 sat behind three very | mind faving thet f er in i eye Conmrufit, 1919, by The Prem Publishing Co, beautiful shoulders are to be found! handson vomen in co evening/all the time The New York Kvening World among the censors of evening dress? gowns nd magnificent jewels, A handsome young woman, posst- Ww" N is an evening dress There seemsg an age of moral] Everything about them was priceless, bly twenty-five years old, was the ob. moral menace? : “ indignation in n. Few of us| except the Hnglish they spoke, but, of ject of their excited criticism. Sh At a meeting of the city reach it before y, many not un- | cour there are always persons on| had a gown of purp sequins ly | cut and wrapped about ter like af! 1 Women's Clubs | bath We , and Aunty ‘cy yard of un- phis countrymen must be and are proud. ust week, — one | | curled ostrich feather was stuck side-| Nor can they forget that Whistler, | thousand = women wise in her hair, f thought her beau- | #rlist of rare distinction, was also au | Joined in discus. | tiful, theatrical, daring, and, at any American in whom there came to| sion of this per-| rate, the clothes she wore were ap- | Tarcly perfect flower one of our most | plexing problem, — | titer anil say ca P| preciou tional possessions—our | The debate was| Hut the. Ledp Lady and the} Sense of hum The Whistler led by Mra. James) Lioness bady and the Fox Lady spent | legend.” a Levan hibarthe shed , Griswold Wentz Sie Ment OF the eUehiner Gincussine chia | Ol most sparkling, é 4 who pleaded for | #10, te the hision of Gudiivoursl te ing witticisms ever infects od a modification of! sna the new tknG , Dol i 4 there |! by mortal man, To compare Mtvawm present day fash- was not a purple sequin Jeft, nor a! Whistler, high priest of art and urti- ions in the interest of our returning Fond GF outviol Feather When thoy wot [70m With. Meare. NAIR, Fou n-hewn, | soldiers. througt with had i "natural genius, is not so absurd as it | “Women,” sald Mrs, Wentz, “have Ana ail the time © was no one] Seems at first. We all know our be- | | the queer balls of BON Ton MON ITBUR LA MODE" | A A Aaa PN FEBRUARY 11, UESDAY, ‘Caustic Wit of Whistler, America’s Greatest Artist, | Also Brought Him F am@ Stories of His Sharp Retorts and Scathing Co ments Which Did Not Spare Even the Frie of the Genius Who Merely Knew He Was a Grea Man a Little Earlier Than the Rest of the Worl@g Knew It. id By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘ght, 1019, by The Pre Publishing Co, (The New York Brening World.) the proof in dollars and cents for all the people who like that way: James McNeill Whistler is Amorica’s greatest artist the past or the present, for more than a half a million has Ju been paid at a recent sale of Whistler etchings and Uth@® grophs, And this is only the last of many top pri paid for “Whistlers” In recent years—prices that woul be no insult to the chades of even the greatest Itali A single Whistler print went for $2,900 last season. few paintings—not including t most famous amples of his art—brought $300,000 in New York just b fore the war. It is recorded that*a cock-sure collect once called on Whistler and asked bim what he woul take for “the lot” of his paintings “Five millions,” snapped the mous price may yet be paid, The hand of Midas, that turned everything has given the final accolade to this Aincrican artis oil etna 14 artist. “My posthi They ouched to gold loved Mark had his own little affecta- | tions, and his humor shares with that | of Whistier in the national qualities of utter dryness ond utter deadliness of aim—the humor of our race which | ic | ng has defined as: | Inopportune, shrill-accented, The acrid, Asiafic mirth— | . . . . . The scandal of the elder earth.” What are some of the “best ones’ they tell about Jimmie of the white plume and the butterfly signature? | A story of which I am very fond is| that of his encounter with the angry | : patron of a hat shop. Whistler had) AMES WHISTLER come in to buy hat and was} JAMES WHISTLER standing quietly by the counter, when|doubtedly the best known and lik up to him rushed an enraged gentle-|of his paintings, the portrait of b: man who took him for a clerk. mother. Almost every one knows an “I ask you,” shouted the dis-|loves the simple, black-robed figure» gruntled customer, shaking his fist|the face illumined with patient sweete under Whistler's fastidious nose, “do|ness and strength, Where bridal feet of afl nations daily Eck Ma EDAY SNe: BA your sala |” ALTER LR CRO Witus nes Art Ata ase on! tb way to thelr ‘creat any [mer , his studio, was speaking of the quiet pepe | Whistler eyed his> coldiy, and ob-|beauty of figure and face, “Jimmy A military touch has been given jferved, “I can't say that T do, But|looked and looked," reculis the recently to the old marriage license neither do I like your coat and ie ‘but he said nothing. Hig bureau in the person of Capt. Don “eure on ide be hanged if 1 care tor mart sted! | Montieth of the Provost. Marsaal “Le Bow sree ey Cea en de leet tee bates see beans pereee ne General's office, Capt. Montieth's Tow Or CREATION Mhi/ a ist usively ronizing woman aaa jen Rolery Se poks: ; es! very, Job is to check up the soldier boys fea mone hi eer a guia de tia ecco ol PSN Pte og Ara AE Race GALI coe, BE LA fora pe of hi ou know,” she! like to make one’s mummy just ag indulged in so far as he ae ifs mt — | gushed, “I saw something exactly like | Rice as possible ; 4 We Mitiete hive tte niga that up the Thames the other day."| No one ever was so involentl doughboys whose impulse i pote agreed Whistler blandly,| ¥ Bones dy, meaning to © to grab Dan Cupid by t o, peen ture's looking up lately.” kind, told him that Velasquez an sal is both =wrists There never was a more gloriously |"@ were the two greatest painters 4 : @ double quick toward the egotistical being. ‘There never was|the world. “Why drag in Vel matrimonial state, “How long have anybody who could “get eway with|4ez"" he protested. He nover «: you known the young woman’ is it” so wel jceded that half-praise was ‘batt Now one of the stock questions cul- Ke And how Whistler loathed bores! |t#aa none, culated to deter marriages based on v How magnificently the author of| A® art committee in Munich one & twenty-four hour acquaintance, “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"| @Werded him a second-class gold) “It's bad enough,” sighs Chiet got rid of the prize pest of every|Medal. “Pray convey my sentimnent@ Scully, “the way folks can jump into|with shockingly bare necks, bare! fat pushed up from thelr own tortured! busy man and woman—the soc of tempered and respectable joy,* matrimony as {t is, Marriage licenses | arms and bare backs, and it has a backs. caller in working hours. In their ad-|"® Wrote, “to the gentlemen of the, ought to be harder to get than they |bad effect on our boys.” | When, 1 wonder, will people learn! viranie lite of Whistler, Mr. naa |¢2mMmittec and my complete appre are, It's altogether too easy to get| Some time ago Mrs, Wentz ex- | that morality cannot be legislated into! wire, Joseph Pennell describe one|C!ton of the second-hand compltd ried. Because once you're mar-| Pressed to an interviewer her earnest OF Declterenolvedsinto peoples son incident jment paid me d, you've got to stick marriet--|concern over the possible influ One. cannot get ton eae An acquaintance brought without} ,¥ Pe? pe peoetyed. She pod Pris. fe yaie Gat ee to make sxerieg on returned ooidle 4 by shop | what Eta aelei ere ve Pas invitation a friend, disting - ‘d hed “him “We congratulat c »w all abour| Windows laden with lacy lingerie, 4 oh gle and clever woman," to Whistler'’s| neratulate France,” he reed the person you're tying up to. And| 1 doubt, personally, whether any lon of Women’s Clube wants to un-|studio, It was six fights up and| Vy if you aren't going to stick to ‘em,|man just back from France is able tol |dertake @ genuine public service let Ityiney poth reached the studio door| yan a raat awe i een you've got no business taking them|discover anything demoraliging in j begin @ constructive campaign (OF) very much out of breath from the|the rest of the world knew it, A in the first place." American women or American she jthe education of public taste, notliong climb, he, who makes Sargent merely ness to grow| windows. The boys are #0 glad to be | alone in dress but in books, plays and)" “An! my dear Whistler,” drawled part painter of emart women an@y brisker and brisker every week from | in the land of sunshine and sanit Presidential candidates. jthe acquaintance, “I have taken theliriumphant American answer to (a omy in the 1 ne and sinitation * MiDnAloa yer ' rlump American answer to the bow on until the end of demobilisa-|aguin and so busy hunting jobs, that } Several millionair hav Dl uberty of bringing Lady to see| World's jeer that we are a uation tion, He won't be surprised to have| it is hardly likely they have time to | sufficiently ‘interested in the incuica-) yoy, 1 knew you would shted.” hout artistic genius of the fra’ bwe Gomen Gough boy marriages «cay \va airancad by the aicnte unich x tion of musical taste to give millions)” Delighted, I'm sur be- | sa shanties in his Little chapel pretty soo; ; ead ca. davaata ink ta uae ixty or even later. W we| whom education simply refuses to|to endow the symphony orchestris,| yond expression, But,” air! oU ENING “And mostly they're the ann they bey Cian ie eae ‘ find some way of converting blithe and | “take One of these women looked|but no one has ever left any money|of mystery and holding the door so] Et ENING WORLD left behind ‘em, after all,” says he, n on the other side can har be | Well-formed creat from sixteen to] like a fox, one like a dark and dan-|to create a theatre or @ publishing) as to bar their entrance, “my PUZZLES. with a benevolent beam in his canny |uhocked by anything to in {fifty to the notions of decorum en-| gerous leopard, and one like a sleck| house which would undertake the jub| Lady —-, I would never forgive By S it, eft eye baarloanseltia tap Amar Wea. Ana 46 thats Wa hing a|tertained: by favored individuals) and well-fed lioness. Each wore alof making the public eat literary or| friend for bringing you up six fi y am oyd. can boys, say I, Foreign girls are all | soldier loathes, it is having his morals|%® M4y be able to effect @ revolu- | black evening gown cut very low in|dramatic turnips, That would cost/of stairs on so hot a day to vi Sorting the Pupils. right; U'm not saying they aren't. But! safe-guarded, anyhow OMA wes back with bute single lnyer.of/ Much menép~more than the City/studio st one of p—eh—PARAN | ¢¢~ FOU are an odd lot of scholar American girls understand our boya| While the City Federation was | Wome? laugh at moral precepts of | chiffon over the exposed flesh, To} Federation of Women's Clubs could] moments”—and he ed furtively Y rn than Aas ee an any other girls can. And| 4 resolution denouncing gur- |e!" too-buxom elders and go right| persons in the aisle abead of them Ij raise, perhaps. Moreover, members! behind him and stili further closed Reid ihercescineces happy marriages are mostly founded | ments which its members regard mn making themselves just as have no doubt they looked superb, but] are interested in improving pubsic| the door—"when absolutely im “When I plac@ on understanding—eh?” Adasen’ fashion douenals announ 5 ‘ ture and te po each was forty, each a little too| morals, not buste, aren't they? Why,| possible for a lady to be received, | you 3 on a benelyy - Bie | er dparan (hee cow ocaning W | plump, and each had been poured|then, should not every club member|Upon my soul, I should never for- Tohnain ite tee P i‘ | are to be cut to the waist in| W and hand e; into a corset that had shoved every] pledge herself to wear only a stand-! give him | upon the reaw etersburg ¥ eae An oa found to head the) particle of loose flesh within the range |ard evening dress? | And Whistler bowed them down the | Merk atta a PETERSBURG, the modern| this! What but the {Movement for the ref ding | Of its vise-like clutch up at cach side| One thousand women have indorsed | six flights and returned to the por pee # ama pi S capital of Russia, now know of dece one excited |Closhon we may look Pet=| till it collected in a huge ball of tat| the resolution denouncing indecent] trait ofa very sedate old gentieman, seated 4 on @f Pena ee one yaar tees Meaeatived | AT Venus of the Artists’ Ball| just udder the armpits: The effect/elothes. But did one of them define) Anybody who has over suffered } Dench ohne alte go, Pete st buil ft rade crusade it i on hat the weare of the g niess a standard is set or ¥ 3 cholic ep Ss 6 2 spe . Ha; ark vil ae Aut Sap sing & lanky girl with whose un- |*" sie runad migat aah x WOASSTA GS (HO) BOWAA | UE et oe know Mase eo them forth again without any|29¢ When you crowd 5 to a benc® 4 d vertebrae one might have | indeceat or not? What is startling! trace of the original copy little Johnnie is left over majority of nobles, however, 5 ed | played “Rich Man, 1 Man | as a mat { wre fow| Singularly enough, these women|in Buffalo does not cause a sing! ; Sn How many scholars were there im that Moscow should r« t ti gar Man, | gowr wn inf ny + | talked incessantly of other costumeg|eyebrow to lift in New York, There! Wil! chuckle ane ie sag |this odd cla of Government, but Peter was deter-|~ 1 thought then, and Ithink now—|In shops of to-day sro tticc| 4B the oporm House (urnlnw grouny, (Men er Pe ciegrenaae 4a moral Judge |salare to Oaeime Wilde ca convernen( 77 TT mined to build a new capital, and in| that the reason why denunciations of{cent, if worn by the right we nudging and calling to each other as|takes more to shock Manhattan than | "ove, Dlasiariam. ¢ y SIMRRE 4 Us nlned t 4 he r y unciations of | y Y an. | 1 than] whistler had made one of his char-| As tho diffegence between a price 1711 he laid, with his own hands, the |jow neck gowns recur from to| What happens if they are purchased | new arrivals claimed their attention, |Brooklyn, Richmond or the Bronx, | istically e| 4| which is 10 cent : foundation of his palace, which was! yoar, without mAVinE Add bicavent (be (nals duals one hy cical what | atieavenn’ IDeCAE hanlh a tt Let the City Federation define just |&' eristically ¢ ee Farneit, as Hs ni per cent. advance upon $1 built of brick. Peter was an extraor-|offect on the fashions, 18 that the|comings should make them cautlou: Seay aia cist eat een DERE ee nets eR RENE, OM | BEd ee Tan ee Oa ACTA dinary character and Russia's rise toa} women likely to wear the asain nena’? f eithe “y a) RRO SO Pe fe eM some obe havin authori tell Deere nes ae Haat Llactate Bed cped Sg [ereat power was cotirely due to hie| 7 a he gowns are!is not the fault of either merchant or| model! That fat man with her must un what we Guisl wane io be hasan wee Whistler, “You will! of the former price, so in this eas@ y due to hié|so rarely the women who denoun signer, but of the stato of pubiic|have bought those clothes and they ‘Then--if it i» becoming to us we| A charming and tender little story|th® price for which the suit wold t? hua, taple, ——.'eeuld mot have ogat bim leap Maa will all wear it with » right good wil, le tald of Whistler and whet ia use 60 tines 2) conta, which te 1A og ! cs ! ‘osm s sea egy a pan Emenee tt i Y