The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1919, Page 13

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1919 | Does the Lead Pencil Skirt | Affect a Woman’s Health As Well as Her Gait? Philadelphia Clubwoman and Physician Both Agree That It Does—One New York Woman Physician FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1919 1919 “Centenary Year” | For Famous Americans | Of Notable Achievem \James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, Cyrus } Field, William Wetmore Story and Julia Ward Says “Yes,” Another Says “No” —Here Are Their | Howe Among Noted Men and Women of This ‘ Arguments | - — oat ; : acacia sca Country the Hundredth Anniversary of Whose v . Ae Beckl By AN EVENING WORLD MAN WHO S. APTAIN IN THE 305TH INFANT Ri | Birth Will Be Celebrated This Year. i y Zoe Beckley Atm itm Gti wanes 2A tOthioR’s Firat Begs in Frence By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1919, by The Pras Publishing Co, (The dew Yors Krening World), ¥ ventieth Ce stub, dey h lead pencil . , P ' hoccalhdh ] ALI ty sauning Gothan to’ basstsa RAseESSoed, ENDED UAL Glimpses of England From a Railroad Coach—Crossing the Channel— fia pean opal ape sway-backed.” A women's organisation in New York re Division’s First and Last Outing in France—A First Dose of ‘‘American cei ioe tlt eed Kate poets cently passed a resolution to the effect that style makers satirist and statesman, is being celebrated this week with elaborate. | should be legally restrained from putting forth modes Optimism’’—The First ‘‘Hike’’—A Costly Lesson Taught by a ‘‘Dud’’ ceremonies, to take part in which the distinguished English man of letters. which menace the health and safety of the fair sex. (Tee-hee! Just as if you could legislate the will o’ wom- en!) Dr. W. A. Stecher, Director of Physical Education | in the Philadelphia public schools, agrees with Mrs. Men-: sendick that today’s fashions do make women look; knock-kneed, &. Magazine articles are being penned, lectures given and even inveighings from pulpits taking place—all of which indicates that the annual swatfest | We SEEK arainst women's apparel is on, full force, despite tts | Well established futility. Now, do you agree with Dr. Elinor John Gulsworthy, has travelled across the ocean. But this is only one O8 | numerous centenartes of notable Americans which fall within the year 191%) Walt Whitman, whom all Europe long ago ranked with Mark Twain as most completely typifying American literary genius, would have been ome” hundred years old May 31, 1919. Cyrus W. Field, the man who first swift intercontinental communication possible with his Adantic cable, oa his centenary on Nov. 90 of this year, ‘The distinguished American Boule tor, Willlam Wetmore Story, was born one hundred years ago Feb, 12, Lie” co!n's Birthday. And on May 27 is the centenary of one of the two or three: | | American women who have written something which inspired a nation, | ; Julia Ward Howe, author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republi.” ] Lowell, born in Cambridge, Maas.,{most extraordinary piece of wit em@)) yet contributed’ |) ' score of years head of the medical Van Buskirk, a well known physician | division of the New York Infirmary eof New York, that the be-hobbled| for Women and for a score of years, knee produces a whole catalogue of| more a specialist in gynecology, she | physical ills? Or with Dr. Josephine | knows no cases of injury traceable to Walter, a veteran specialist on wom- | the “Louis heel” and the “lead pencil en's diseases, who says you can’t| skirt,’ hurt women with any amount of fool! “Look at these!" she satd, putting fashions, and who, although white- | forth a kid-shod foot that would grace the first row of any Frolic in town. lon Washington's Birthday just one] wisdom America } hundred years ago, the son of | lergyman, a grad- | “The Columbus of modern, them, té of Harvard, who, by his cable, moored the Newel and for the greater | World alongside the Old," is the teint part of his life a 4j| ute that has been dweller under given to Cyrus W | “Lam of grandmother age, and I have larooping Cam | wield, wt HUD always worn heels like this. When 7 t bride elms, wa dredth birthday narrow skirts are {n fashion I wear | the the incarpation ot he were alive Cay n too—and never give it a spline Zine vette 4 | n eWors Cia oe A LAST VIEW OF THE 77TH BE- | jang, with its ba t this year. He “Women ® greater endurance | . | |than men, No foibles of fashion can FORE IT WENT TO THE FRONT | bone of sturdy was born in Stock | hurt them. In the days of the tl corset some women did suffer. how m extremists do you see l with those who demand a! —"NEW YORK'S OWN” PARAD- Puritanism, ita ING DOWN FIFTH AVENUE | Keen intellectual interests and {te bridge, Mass, bat came to New ¥ at fift ri n and weat compa ardent, honest —If to work for Alex- a |fair amount of comfort in dress? not too broad. je own. [ander T. Stewart veal Very few! The wouen who we: dep the Ameribats (the. dieianco when ve Booth ecldlany minded Ameri- The idea of carry. 4] as tent skirts poctev nem hee B y J . M . Ib, oug h bo roug h baprtirled Mey ec inle fecal hay faring « full re bag fhe Paes caniam, Of such were the signers of|ing a cable across "| | who ride in their own motors. As for Former Captain U. and Inteligence Officer, 805th Infantry. never quit until they had won, He]a coffee room the Declaration of Independence, the Atlantic orig: CU? Fie | high heels, I find them more of a sup- ‘ 9. by The Pram Publishing Co, (The Now York Brening World) shook his head and said he thought! “Whair'y tht train wit thé HM Our one considerable piece of politi-} nated with hin | port than low one n Browne of the 305th,|the whole thing was useless, That] land in Argonne Forest. “Sce|made me mad, I told him he wasn't} “Yc he asked cal satire is the “Biglow of}and he organized the first “Atlantie tse: 400. late, Sook,” anawe well, which, though cast in iess|Telegraph Company.” ‘fhe cable Was) ‘ommy There she goes.” ‘The tclassic form, probably had a stronger! frst laid in 1858, but operation wag= man said not a word, but|influenco on contemporary readers | Suspended during the Civil War, Dee” rted along the tracks in pursuil|than even the famous “Letters ef| spite popular ridicule and the Joss of the train. " Knew it would [Juntus.” The apers | AND has been bled dry,” said Chapl “A few foolish women who are try- | 66 Gin -craeward ca lien a H \ing for something new and original bel on colla See the old men, Where du|4 true Belgian if he spoke that way.|a may overdo it a little, But in my} t beized |E said: ‘You'll all wear another face] 8 i of fighting age save those small-sized opinion a thousand times more harm cag af is done to women by standing in Tommies’ on leave, v are promenading in that 0)" ads with th you find any those National Army gets into ‘ "i igiow rs” started| fortune, he did active propagaad® crowded street cars and being twist- WEERO Rat event a Lets antl fan therdiight Get York soldier ried that| Make many long stops and that ne! in Juno, 1846, and purported to be the | work for his enterprise on both sidem ed around as they cling to straps| Yo the average American soldier the plight of Eng i ‘ rat “ se ithe: Ad - 1 . . id * om o whom they spoke sd a splendid chance of overtaking [musings of young Hosea Bigelow, ot) of the Atlantic and finally a pew Tho now lead pencil skirt ix causing (than jy ever done by silly clothes | land did not 1 to appeal particularly until Kensing DORMER’ Laub) iT 1 te ewhero in|cable waa laid successfully in J00ml women to become knock-kneed—Mis (py, ! : ; pe 1 ‘ j4 legendary town somowh Jes a ily 4. Milton Mensendick. | i Bye Ob Cust and: general pans | ton: Gardens was r ed, and there women stood out lo you thir ish | Only the higher officers of the divi. Massuchusetts, on slavery, the Mex:-| Since July 27 of that year telegraphig® ‘aad Bese ape eae be monium of New York is what des- tre and held their bables up appealingly to He 1 nerve e¢ 1 a lon know where it was going, ‘Tho ,can War and other public questions communication between Kagiand and | Cee Ty i a eee (ie So p HUMAR BOEVOE) Dot aire and the American ¢ uid a «ma ym Brook fiers believed their destination waglof the moment, Written in the} America has not been interrupted an@ own k d i with its thes in h heel] “Each epoch ha Phe train had slowed down, and one young British lyn. “Jie wanted to know If the men|tho trenches, but they were nd for) frankest New England “hick” dialect,|/not even the wi * has supplanted: 4 SC HibaWEERG TRE a Fe eee MeO BEE SER woman, dressed in bluck, with a baby in her arms, of the National Army would fight. Ia British training area, As they the brief poems, with tl biting) this adventurous undertaking of ome | aaa rt Ween on i ee | ta hg bie had the germ- told him if he had any doubts I would | rolled along southeasterly from Calais |satire, set the country laughing at alof America's most imaginative buale never been il! in my life | sweeping ne tight. F 5 tt Dr. V ate kirk is ne 1 ine the SURG pr eanlog “God bless the You are over on this tke | then and there, He said Y passed a number of Gorman'dozen different mantfestations of po- ness men. Mr. Field died at Dobos ir. Van Buskirk is too kind and too | co} the circulation-stopping col- ss he meant no harm by the question—| prisoners at ' littioalwal { social hypocrisy Ferry July 12, 189 | admirous of her own sex to be utteriy| lur, the overwhelming haircloth 1: ide at last \ for what the Kaiser has charm by uestion~[ prisoners at work, ‘The doughboys|litical, religious anc al hy y 13, ruthless in her condemnation of t and padding. None of it has hur done!” hat the English had been hammered shook their fists at them. The Ger-|and, ax somebody has said, “made it, = | r ation of a r None o: 8 = one hard and felt if the United States! mans stopped wo ed imaze- | reapectable to be on the side of human of singul 7 finale lntaliacd kas ted in the| (hem, Women are in better health} deen A great shout went up from the New York dough pee : aye i » nee u bped work, gazed in ‘ apectable to be on the side of hi A man of singularly well rounded” | staven-inch skist and ita corollary, the| to-day than ever, ‘They are morale ¢ them replied ‘dn't send over good fighting men ment at the Americans and then, with | freedom.” A second and equally PoP- culture was William Wetmore Storys four-inch stride. sensible and comfortable now than boys, and one of the Teo) OU eh eae ann, |the war was lost,’ that phlegmatic spirit typical of the ular series of these papers was pUD- hora a hundred years ago in Salem, / “But 1 admit 1 am disgusted,” says|@ver. Skirts have shortened"— MUpaye 38 t0 am, 1807 ; The Scotch soldiers in Ca uton, siniled sneeringly and jerked lished during the Civil War in thr Mass, and among | slender girl of abou to be the most stolid of heir thumbs in the direction of the Atlantic Monthly, of which Loweil ornare RP Te lately seen. It is a mystery how any-| have!) “Collars are gono"— (Yes,|Aressed in ‘ ; Near ee of wo about tho war, |front line, aa if they would gay: “Go was the firnt « can artiste (ova thing so ugly as the present kirt|¥e8i Clear to the waist in evening | Coch and handed a wako of the NWO GSUEHY (yer abeine ANS ae ane there, Weive bad) Resides writing continuously th liking abroad, can be favored by even silly women, {SHS “We wear tewer garments | fs to st Ans, It was not an uncom: | enough. and verse, Lowell held a pro where he lived for “While a skirt which pinions the! ave the better for doing away | Of B compartir Sin Me eA ; Wahine to see a Yankee of the e detraining point was Audrique, 'reysorship at Harvard and gave olght many years. He y wovlien stockings, Corsets are | diers y id fehter, and while one ire e” in France. It was a long, | oo, He was Ambassador to as sculptor, poet, — | possible would not actually mal 2.8 and act 4s a benefcial support | Un ‘ " Pinon A vel merica the other of the| weary march over dust , abyss * j thalbody enbuah 46 produce iknocks|ir iS cranipine ta al sup re ne a i ; A ean khan ning under the af A me cs the ot et ; ft My eg oy 2 h ater aus ro Salida pain in 1877 and for five years repre musician, linguist sent up a roar v ront—and both laughe seemed |heavy packs, rifles, belts and yo-| ne ne Se i a? °s cause aking, w 1 clot . e Pre nted merica at the Court « and jurist. He maeen’ 1h wadeultediy doce caus rw eter 4 hes are/enat they were thinking \ best of friends, ‘Tha Canadians (nets. ‘The whole load must havel@"te’ Am i 4 y physical damage. Any one who has RAG WAN SAY AO, t th i 1 was t it Infantry AVE) Tame where his tact, culture an: was a Boston pire Re M ee ni oe enerh kn elk ces, it is absurd! | women 1 Seer PURE En eee were enthusiastic in their wel- shed eighty pounds. Any one who} ful oratory made him eminently lawyer and writer © keep pace with a person who any chorus ‘in a musical . phy come to the men from their own con- | does not realize the strength required, & ' ‘ . aineie ve ho Are those gi no A the channel, 1 here the at a tas ® | all r n required | uccessful, Yet he lost no jot of bis on law until 2447, Inches along very slowly knows how | com Are those gink knock ‘ nee sisleanie atocrcne ao ; ul : tiring it is. ‘The strain on nerves and tos of no, no!) “I should y lier nd veally | Ropniancs ; Americanism dd perhaps Ne when he galled e not. © the most sym- , ‘ b Hello! Yank," you would a of this kind should | ‘ # the one which for Ital muscles {8 doubled, sometimes trebled.| metrica women inwag. | thousand w : ved aay ir ghoul ei acccuRibioy. wie (i ing eighty pounds for half a : certain condescension home in the Pal When high heels are worn—waich | inab are the very ones | babies or shrie} om Where fr Neer eee © Barberini i practically always the case wi ad clothes.’ The! waving American or British \ y 4 ners anzo ie het le if woman—the h has not injured them! In ag enc aancng 1 top f f n end Ha 1 West And thus would| The new training area was in veal| He d n Can 1891, Ivery was always open plecakt ‘ome 1M) fact, the human body cannot easily | Lek ne ‘ 4 . Pinna “ vicinity of the village of Licques, with o dle . ; ° is heightened. Every one knows that|be mis-shapen after it reached |coffee for the men J t & Gearieasay Rae ear t 4 manent " lis familiar with) to ambitious young Americana, end of heels throw the body entirely out|maturity—say twenty years.|py smiling young y n the ft f sca ; | saanti ti m, “The Vision of Sa)he was the friend of Browning, high heels th 3 : by sr | ; Eperleques was an old « 1, No | his beautiful p t of plumb, The weight is placed on|® RHSOR SFO born, HOt mai OF; wero dressed in black—who mad [Bo nor t Mth D LO apes hae attled thea | Launfal;’’ bie ‘Pat Critics” cons, Thackeray, Landor, Hawthorne and € ey are caused infane 0% 1 r rious Infant ro had th divi n tled there ( “pa ncy by too healine Anak At ¢ is the variou a t first and last in t t stimat ¢, Lowell, the best on both sides of the the toes, the spine is bent in order to} carly walking. Clothes aro” met eo so busy dea . ieee awe A pas ; than the Boche came 5 with fms rough but w pes Giana ene ES tue of Cleopatee i overcome the loss of halance, and the} blame.” lines of hu 1 ‘ si ee ora) oe ‘ ere were no tn) aves” | Mach And. Pomihed tier cinan | most of the members of the New Eng- | Atiantl is u Cleopatra hos calf muscles are there you are, Take your choice ad no tir t k or|¢ Calais 1 1 bombe nat t nd of Argonr : FcR Rr . nd school of Literature, Includiag|been much a red in the Metropolis of tho thigh muscles as well as their Sea gy Fav no 88 questior A! f was all training and fight can hat una mp elf, and his ode recited at the'tan Museum of Art and another t s¢ cuir ots 0 A h off b 1 the ol 1 u nmes 40, ae to at er shell tire rican 1 n orsat! own. s women would drag a sixty-pound ood an F , ; , 5 Jy lay flat except a surgeon | Harvard ¢ ton of her sons | 4 mortal of versatile “Indirectly the chest, the pelvis and|ball_and chain down Fifth Avenue to the Q 1 at tains a superb] genius Ae ark, San the whole nervous syster t- Pol rep * ywemaell H w | here ree tet 7" w birth of our! t ed Vallam briny ed, The poor t finally b ) f sections of stovepipe, which , 6 Audie ba | bet etna neater Raiwaps'd tt ar accuste 1 tot nal y tha make Venus herself look|# cane. In ama r Li 1 t \ York men ; i - e i | & poral at Thus|'\ke a chimney-sweep, wouldn't | these young 1 i th ; | ssible exceptiay ye . : |we w 1 You know we would! as t H j y jit the of folly t amper |G Gray I born at West Hf ¥ Ame in womam bad a low-hecled shoe—my 1 p ie solng w how ugly they look ie 8 1 t » ‘ | k] at " ‘du A xploded and 8 a striking on ‘ nae high and took 1 | fn iP, 4 aa Do red to be in ritish r i H i" 4 1 i vr ! y er they “What | 1 ef was divisio 1 be aber of Comp t n They hav ly bible € an uNnexplod t of the vnd wal : M. t one New Y Hisnittencd t a . 1 plod koa| ae r we ? HW t re for the Yan A crowd ed 1 Ba Hymn position of the { i Bo W, I 4G. Beer 1 A f : they g elud t ves and | who ass woman i shot off." T the cit Int ‘ "| . t t : pea at L mystery. w hin A tried their - ‘ ered V i Marseillaise of i . q long as fas ts Je away fr f , 1 1 is : ; ; ed 1 x ! Civil Wa ution emy ' from ve a of the Among killed were Corpl. I ‘ Julia Ward Ht They ay) 7 orev ; 1 At 1 ' Gathers and: 3 Oana he Seg ne : | N NEXT SUNDAY'S WORLD ling ” \ Y i bender HUB RLSS K Thomas | Domenico | ‘4 t New York May 27 s trip Bou The Sunday World will || would do ‘ i ; kl Sy mu {ce William Glynn, J ee Real MSR oaia eae tt be pc print a special section telling was a strik Fre \ z ke t mal J | Stat und constructive n 8 th of the achievements of New Rugilshman and tho ¥ uid 1 out n ng ) ane sor woollen et ne Pasqualo Pa ' Va work as educa i flying leap || Y@rk’s Camp Upton Division in |)man who knew ' : All were tho Belg F comfort tt ' MOD Ne BuOm: F Tuckerman,| 4 you prison ref RCBCUEE Rolec Rovner ne the Argonne, written by Cyril || and was wuiny to pt : mothe naar ee ace daaiie th . wab and Hernano| ,, and proponent r Di Correspondent with the Amer- he Cedr 1 w h e who w 1 arad | t Aig , wea iie n In ad tot Don Fifth Avenu I Van Buskirk do: and to nego an Army of Occupation in } nes . ably fi . w 1 or new ve gan to fight in tat t thout th 1 of Germany, ; s ‘ One of the ed Ble. Rey goa wr was w Isst, when, during: tlon w ‘4 1 \ etica th Dr. Van Busk n vex r) "i is ' y 1 & \ Inear W f she wrote the fas with Dr a first time, having been ob at " 1 , : | Baie ‘ topic of the pinioned k tained from official source: streets W f ang were W rainy ¢ thee nch area, But w tha It {#8 unanimously agreed that he is) mou am ine eyeaa And yet—and yet—here is Dr, Jose wero not 5 1 » in Fler He t H 1 x he author of really Superb poom, | have y of the coming off ino W bcp aa not heretofore open to the ‘ 1 hot dev a bu & < hinacl aris yh ter to-day sung Of ee ‘| public, i W am é upon for swatting the latest imbecile haat New York doughboys spent t a numbers who were here and so forth ted in France was furnished. | tain, my captain!” The complete|cited at almost every important It is one of the most stirrin, i J natured youngsters who had been so} ye fashions with a resounding swat, de- |] stories of the great wa @ |i there slecping on the floors of bar-|Then he said we ought to go back.|A train filled with soldiers pulled Out | popalas. ta Now. Yark eqgpion of his poems, “Leaves of triotic gathering. She dled, “tylty claptog that although she way for a | racks. Meantime the remainder of/that it was no use fighting. “I told!of the station | errs r Ad Ne om nn the J ata AL | | ¥