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VP fy \ [AY Pe Wee ) A ~~" \ \ a oe ‘) \ W SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1919 A Walking Delegate | For a Mothers’ Union | MRS. SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG TELLS) ——— How to Put the Nursery On a Peace Basis | “The Nursery Must Be Made Safe for Democracy,’’ | Says Vice President of the Federation for Child Study, and Herewith She Tells How This Can Be Gettin 6é Tou hened 93 for th Bi Done by the Mothers of Our Juvenile Americans! g 9g e g By Marguerite Mooers Marshall } How the Doughboys ‘“‘ Made Themselves at Home’’ in France— ‘oprriaht, 1919, ye ree Publishing Co. (The New York Evening W Pr} i) . : - GANCTIG hcg NAtOEES cm A Paaut: GRALL 1b Ga 6 Cie ERE Taipei Visits to the Fighting Fronts—Learning How to ‘“‘Flop’’ for — #+Q-+# P tasks for American women. ‘The nursery must be made safe for| Big Shells—A Battle in the Air—“ Hiking’’ Into Condition. = democracy, a8 opposed to absolutism on the one hand and anarchy) i . on the other, And to effect this desirable resuit the) By J. M. Loughborough average mother needs reconstructing quite as much @8! /rormer Captain U. 8. A. and Inlel- the average caild | Hocnce Officer, 805th Infantry) There you have outlined the interesting theories | Copyright, 119. by The Pros Publishing Co. of Mrs, Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg, author of “Your) _ ad abil dei legen Biden. Child To-Day and To-Morrow" and “Sons and ereria Bl Pha ac tee itty to see a ters,” Vice President of the Federation for Child Study} } | are y hele WAU Lark coh and a sort of walking delegate for mothers’ unions— children ying ¥ A, branches of the Federation which she organizes all id tid Sates, wae LH: gmws over the United States. There are thirty-five of these| iy hinaelr. Won branches in New York City alone, I learned at the Federation head-| afi expression ‘of quarters, No. 2 West 64th Street, each composed of women who are irying| childish delight to make their motherhood more intelligent, more efficient and of greater | { The doughboy use to their children. Mrs. Gruenberg and the Federation also are fu would give the nishing free speakers for the parents'@——————- French youngsters ¢elubs in the New York public schools. | RRR RMR RR Wen neW voi, all the money they asked for. There- fore, whenever an American — soldier passed near where children were at play they would instantly sur. round him and cry out: “Mon-ee! Mon Pen-ne please.” And tion in New York have won the com- | mendation of the Children’s Bureau | at Washington “There never eyed, attract me earncetiy eare of children ere a more r task. There is the nervous unr jheaven knows that they and their and, in many homes, the financial | people n d money, The children etringency created by the war. The: were satisfied with a meal consisting of a crust of bread or a little por- |ridge. "The only schooling these | youngsters got was what the faith- ful oid parish priest managed to | give them, This is related just to \give one view of what the war had done to France. The American soldiers were quick |to see that view and liberal in their treatment of the French people er instance, a soldier would go into an I minet--such is the name for jeafes in that part of the country— and ask for what food he could get, with a bottle of vin blanc, or white Pets |wine. The meal finished, he would] THE DOUGHBOYS WERE GREAT MRS SIDONIE MM GROENBERG [ask the pric Told that it was FAVORITES WITH THE three francs, he would hand the wo eet may be called the abnormally normal ccnditions of modern life make motherhood something which Ro Inherited lore from our own moth- | ers and grandmothers can solve. The | moving pictures, the crowded living | conditions of city life, the difficulty | in obtaining pure food, the restless spirit of the times ese are ques- tions which the modern mother must | answer if she is to be successful.” T ought to remark that Man. ¢ uen-| berg is herself the bappy and suc-| cessful mother of four delightful children, so other mothers may take her adv’ as well tempered by prac- tical experince | \ | t “Why, sked her at this point, found ‘strapping’ the most effect % i y." I asked her pointy found ‘strapping’ the most effective |. owner a five frans note, tell her FRENCH KIDDIES. ‘do American children inevitably discipline in bringing up her chil-) : z to keep it all do make it known evoke—and frequently deserve—Fu- dren, She said she stood at the bote| ic Saae Gal Gee uno fopean critic What ts the great-| tom of the stairs with a strap in her) pass . efpaeai n you hear a shell. It may land warded by secing a flash in the sun- [And swooped down into ita prisoner. eet fault in their upbringing?” hand and put questions to each child i yards off and others may laugh | jen, Only one of the Allied p 4 followed, | The woman, believing the equiva- | lent of 5 franes to be the regular rate |for similar food and drink in the | United States, would charge the next at you—but always ‘flop! Just then there was a whine In the air and 1 “flopped.” So did th ral. We both sprawied tn tho |cern the German plane, looking lk mud, and as we did so a German, 105|a small bird. It wax executing k burst within twenty-five. yards of in the air and scemed to be fluttering Gran plane. He got out of bis car, us and shrapnel went humming all | about at random, all the time growing Went ever to the Boche plane and.cut the Iron Cross painted on the vund, ‘The other turned nd proceeded about his “The lack of standards for regulat-| as it came along, regulating the ing the new democracy which has in-! number of blows in accordance with vaded the home,” she replied. “We! the answers roceived. have broken away from the old ideal) “1 have found," she added signifi- a of the repressed, much punished| cantly, “quite as much ignorance of | A@erican soldior 6 francs, and th: chil4, and many of us do not yet real duties of mothorhood among | CBalces Were that he would give her Geretand tow to keep our ohildren| the well-to-do as among the poor. | 2° Srance and: tell her to keep the free without allowing them to degen-| 1 don't believe in ‘dire punish-|CBAN&* As tho result of this treat-| around. erate into little anarchists |menta” I told” Mra, Gruenberg. | ™eBt the expression, “Les woldats| soivn at “Yot we do not really want {9 our! wiut when a boy has been told jcaines sont beaucoup riche}, That's the Boch sald the Gen him to the “They have aluminum bodies,” | Victoriously ther flash and then I could dis Halnoan, The one that descended contained An everal pieces buried them- | larger as it was forced downward by he entran 1 the eral, as he |came into view, directly over it, Sud- Very Allied avis r the indiviaual must heed, even though | ¢h¢ they seem to limit his freedom, so in| with particular untruth f . five to deal ang] said, “and don't be backward about | During this time I was gazing gun fire Spreading the ews. \good ones, too, Lots of Americ |with the British, Perhaps an Ameri- by George! He's off aga Not more than fifty teh of tre more than half of the remain gestion, | to-day is so great,” concluded Mrs Germany. above a| then found that she had only on to do, by constructive iruenb “that the moth: h | Gruenbs hat the mother has th the mother will accomplish more | right to ask help from the commun- The full story of the Lost than by enforcing, with dire penal- | ity, through its schools, libraries ana|| Battaliop will be told for the can is running one of those planes," |long the Boeh How much money had a long list of ‘don'ts.’ jother agencies, Yet she cannot es- first time, having been ob- ! y hoped so, and my hope| started in direct line toward the purse when she starte ut? Hee even now to many mothers {Cah her own remponsibility for the|| tained from official sources ||came true mme Canal and began mounting Answer to “Philly and Back . 9" ai . most important job in the world. 4 | The flow of machine gun fire|One of our anes dived toward b went to Philadel t derstand," sighed Mrs. | Understanding e patienc: not heretofore open to the ‘ Ls ; 1 ieee ral do aot understand Hs fr nderstanding, love and natienod public. al one but in reality it|tail and again came a long burst of | of one mile in 4 minutes and return Gruenberg. ‘The other day a well-|these three will effect the much- ‘i s needed reconstruction of the rela- dressed and apparently well-educat-|tiony of the American child and his @@ woman told mo that she had mother,” at the rate of one mile in 3 minute ed only abo H seconds, |machine gun fire, which caused t lasted only about thirty second hine gun fire, which caused the] t\.' average speed thus being Both of us were peering intently at|German to give up completely. He| miles per hour, and pot. 17 1- the sky and our vigilance was re-|turned toward an open stretch of land| would appear at first blush, It is one of the most stirring stories of the great war. i, * in American pilot. It was bis first} Saratoga, » to the dugout. !the two Allied planes, which soon /'ower wing. This ix the custom of) r who “downs is was that the sky was the limit,/Goodwin to the group about “Dress Suit” Raid Recalls — Big Gamblers Who Made — Gaming History in N. Y.4 The Day of the Plunger Is Past and This Is the Bi of Small Change, but the Sky Was the Only L to Canfield, Gates, Goodwin, Drake, “Lucky” — Baldwin, Riley Grannan and “Pittsburg Phil,” — to Whom High Stakes Were More a Matter of — Course Than of Concern. By Clyde B. West Copyright, 1919, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), SW YORK has been caught gambling—in evi clothes—again! Flirting with Dame Fortune in fanciful attire i ~ ever perilous, it seems it It may be reasonably safe to go about shooting craps, betting on the “ponies,” or indulging in that familiar pastime, “bucking the tiger,” provided one is not too lordly in manner and appearance. But, when the stage of the full dress is reached—then it Ume for the galleries to sit up and make observations, There is a wide gulf between the battered derby 3 and the opera hat. All of which recalls recent raids upon certain establishments In the fashionable zone of Manhattamy particularly that upon a magnificently appointed house in West 77th In the latter instance the rude invasion of the police was staged sit tancously with the hurried flight through rear exits of a goodly of birds of fashionable plumage. All but two got away. These asked permission to change from limousine raiment to something more appropriate before being hai away in @ patrol wagon. , Shades of Canfield! How un-Rembrandtian! In the olden days there were few police station cells for gambl in evening clothes. } was admitted that th ish- famous gambling house. He had ment gathered in in profits fr cumulated a jarge pile of “bh to $5,000 a night; but how paltry this A player at one end of the sounds compared with those gay and|threw out the dice just as Go golden evenings of a decade or more |shoved over his pile of tvories, ago when at a certain mansion in {little cubes showed a seven, East 44th Street tens of thousanis| wins. Goodwin's pile of chips % on @ spin of the wheel [e* tly on the line, ‘ were wag! and real fortunes were won or lost,| The denier paid off all the pla usually lost, at a sitting except Goodwin Here it was that the late lamented | "Pay the line,” demanded the Richard Canfield, art patron and pur. | lan. ‘i veyor of amusement to the rich “That was no play; you were Caaiy bloods, young and old, beld forth In |'ne | replied “e dealer. ef “Don't touch those dice,” shoute the surroundings of a monarch, 1 pecial provision being made for tho|beard, “They show a seven, and ¢ when! chtps are on the line, therefore I I won't pay you," declared figurative removal of the roc occasion suggested it. | Five hundred a night! Five thou- | 4 ler. ri! sand a night! Bah! Small change.| “Call the proprietor,” demanded a Such play would hardly interest ctor with a gleam of earnestness fay | “Bet-a-Million” John W. Gates, also his eyes yy: ae Jato and lamented. The more recently | This was done and when the 4 late and lamented Nat C. Gvodwin, Prietor arrived and asked about te ate niuin atages of bia carcer, would | trouble, Goodwin sald: . have yawned at it, and many of Can- | “This man (pointing to the mam fleld's young milllonaire visitors prob- Who had held the dice) shot « i ably would not have turned from the My checks were as you see themitig {elegance and comfort of their clubs ‘Is this traes” asked the prop eer "Yes," wes the response, ‘Cantleld's palatial establishment at Then (to the dealer) pay with its magnificens Ital- ine,” i an gardens and grounds, would havo A’ Mr. Goodwin walked out of the been Into private estate Place with $5,000 some one rem See tela Ho may be @ ‘A Gilded Fool’ on Meee tie days of the plunger ap- Stage, but nobody can accuse ery aver. Most great gamblers Deine one off It." United States Senator Ollie Jt ‘ nverte Slences in a Western city many y: homes the child of other days, tho/nry.nine times to wash hia hands| (the American soldiers are very rich), | arose, covered with mud. "If we|denly the German machine seemed to |'8 first plane Upbeat Abad gsi they has a few Of Kentucky was not a gambler, subdued, ‘yes - mamma - no- mamma’) pefore coming to the table, what--on | "0" spread among the French people, | nadn't ‘flopped'-—well, never mind. | have gone beyond the control of its} The German pilot, a non-commis- Possibly Naw. Fer ve ery now be couldn't resist the temptation type. Or at loust, if we want It, the/ tno sixtieth occasion—can you do to| 2d the appearance of an American! ane poche hag started In for a little | Pilot. It seemed to stand still in sioned oft advanced toward hie] “swell” gaming dp orts of e bet on @ thoroughbred. It ts desire’ comes only on those oceastons | make him remember | National Army man was the signal] whin, We'd better go insldec” And{iir, then camo tumbling downward, |°#Ptor and, holding out his hand,!and then there labeled tra-rich woo ‘at his interest in the chief pt when wo desire to impress our guests) re him again,” sho smiled, “As! fF & jump tn prices. he was right. The she las | turning somersaults as id in excellent English sive places where the ultra the main Of Nis native State was so abs with the superhuman goodness of our|1 said to a friend of mine, recently, | While the 77th wasin the Bperteques| for about ten minutes, when we re-! “They've got Well, you proved yournelt the bet. |the fickle goddess, pit lt Th Tes that the Democratic National offspring. |'you are inconsistent dn your-treate | 2% Major Gen. Georgo B. Duncan |iyneg to the sunlight ' +On no," repl hat's ter man.” And that way the end og} the metropolis does is ta Hbpeieg vention in Baltimore in 1912, “An Bogish friend of mine, who| nen of Tommy, You want him to tok command of the division and} vioty of Noche arcoplanca around |@ trick r battle, ‘To me it had been a}small ehange and In dark comers. |. Woodrow Wilson was first noma fg about to return to her own coun-149 an outdoor boy, fond of games| 2°32: Johnson returned to the 154th lyre remarked the General, “Know | Ket away: fr ut To the General it{ It haw boen said there are Sexer8l ‘tor President, came near having try, sald to me: ‘I know, when Ehave| ing not afraid of dirt, yet the ing| Hrisade. At about the same time cer-| int a iuche plane sounds like? {&re not ‘ts commonplace and. forgotten fashionably equipped places {° get along for one session without + eettled down over there, my friends| ‘tint he comes in the house you ex. | ‘#8 officers and men were detailed | pycr'y one coming this way now. {Planes dived alm ‘ get thet every man who| women play bridge, poker, rou May Bemanent chairman, who wae dip bj will all say to me, “How very Ameri-| icoe nim to turn into a little gen-|t? visit the British, Canadian and! 5, you notice that tf ds like the | Ward, one on each side to that aeropla he fumed, | and even faro, for high Lege a4 Kentucky statesman. one cam your children are!" And what} inion with lly-white hands and | Austr an fronts to observe the wartiie, of a ber snified about ten | German. intter a Iimake it hot for those fellowe,|be so. In a large ovat Fae ee A hurried search of the Monw- : they actually will mean is “How very|nawiess manners, It will take time| oF the purpose of instructing others | iii lapse cea ated then f Ding to stop th uvenir huat-!moons, only one such ontaniishine | | mental City was made and Mr. Ji bs rude your children are!” But I don't| sar the same boy to attain. both| i the division. It was my good for-[tyat kind of a noise you may know Jand darted toward German lines, | (8% “round aeroplanes if 1 have to} has had the police search rit ined was found at a tittle half-mile reew, fy care—I wouldn't for worlds have MY} eangards of conduct. Meanwhile,| ‘Une to be sent to the Australian |i. 4 poche.” Although we ¢ \The General was right. The “falling | '0°* eve idier who does on its glittering wal . rs ‘ bel ; track in the outskirts of Baltt tt obildren behave as I was forced ty} i. must expect to give him many | front, and my headquarters were with | oar the droning of the German catty lieat* had been tried, and tried in| 4M4 he strode over to the fallen plane, located in faraway Sheepshead | tHe was watching the try-outs P Qebave when I was little.” a ee tho 4th Australian Infantry, near tho} noua not eee it. But me dit | vain, for in the path of the Hoche way tt Which the Austratians, who had! Bay. batch of two-year-olds. “Nevertheless, absolutiom in the pent could never exagger-| Wrecked and gas-soaked village ofltwo Ajlied planes mounting the skioa |oNe of our mact and again cam hn industriously cutting off strips| ‘Times have changed, Little more) “You are wanted at once at home ought not to be replaced by! 1.11. importance of an offenes.|Corbie—and there I got my bavtiem|itmoat overhead. | bursts of machine gun fire, which | Womt and canvas, bolted in all di-|than ten years ago one read almost |* oayen lan Hall, Senator," Mr. Ji | anarchy. ‘The first step for every), ie which disturbs terribly many | Mustard gas, “Phare they go after him," said the Jrorcead the German to turn back |ectlons. The General got the names) daily of great mariipe” iby the) #0 lnvormae at mother who wants to train her child) 7a women, is one of the common-| Gen. Tivey was in command of this | General. Now perhaps you | towara our: lines only to be cone] osm fenders. I never found|Gateses, the Drakes, the “Lucky” | Nt why can't the convention waig. properly is to understand the child's) |. sidisn faults. In fact, ALL| brigade. He was a cool, cautious and |your first aeroplane battle. We |fronted by the other plane Tne ag eaten a roe antcorion, hee) Maley Sragpanes cae] Ne he Kentvea be | nature—to learn if it rewponds most} igren If you think yours do| patient commanding officer, whilo|jots of them around here | At this he seemed to give up hope,| stim Piva t Han pugede! Wors|Pistehure Palla any the leewer sansa fea friend ‘ quickly to suggestion, to reason or to] 1 oy are merely deceived by tho| those on his staff, all of whom woro|man aviator, Von Richthofen, | for hy wly circled downward, whit ure very. much like it ars ist tre aaked Seta Samed direct command. Obedience is the 1%" the Military Crows, wore inclined to be |brought. down only a few hundeea | the Allied aviatora kept over his head | A ana in disposition and as fights| There have been many stories of | P) oemon! Park if he had any firet great law. But the best way to)" i, combating this tendency, re-| contemptuous of the enemy and de-|yards away. And these booea: of le two eagles harrowing ah ee (Bo Ba ( 1 Mond how John W. Gates got the soubri ome rich. ingure obedience 1s by = igi member first to be absolutely truth-| lighted in exposing themselves to|mine, confound ‘em, whenever a| But the German is full of tr * eee quet “Bet-a-Million-( it dsl dane Piece ante eerie axniain Dre onemaaan Give Ai) YOUrAAE JRF RUE Sesiingy with) shell Ate niger outside his heat- {plane ts brought down they rush out|th® war has shown, Freer EVENING WORLD douhitn Jt eS a ce ie all’ | race." om ee ae coaslnies But ine (Reet Sone! hen remember} quarters one day, the General cay-|to get souvenirs, Can't get tem out} ‘Viator apparently had sure ped Sire | millon on & . Mr. James died poor, but hi . as few comman: ; ny Iles are due to @ highly! tioned me to “flop” whenever a sheil |of the habit, They are fine boys— | #ad ‘v4 Jownwa ta PUZZLES. Jeain than a Texas oll well, When he| | 1° had sist on the ity to obey promptly ve tendency, or to fear, or! ne near, a ite hey are Ane boys asilite free m | in important figure in the racing ceived the highest honors hig and intelligently. Just as in a p show off, or to honest {came near good fighters—but they shouldn't ex. | landings he exe Aye ~ _ Mae aaetuently wagered ax mush | CoWld PAY him, and was almost ag ta event, Sometimes he won and|°#lly. He welghed bout 350 poundag sails | Among the most notable of Se Ya | the democracy of the home there must | then yo In a position to treat] throwing yourself flat on the grouna|head. The two Allied planes had di | and again COME 1 to wut A CHARITABLE lady met a poor! sometimes he didn’t York's plain clothes gamblers jocracy of Fh P it un y. For just as a — z--2 = e f ¢ Je and cir nan to m shi veone zeat| “tt a] vkes le diffe, : - be rules for the safety and health of | Chir ; Ai auidsen “omn ta = appeared and the of tie} ‘ man to who bye 0B8 20at) (at probably maken Ae li}4 liffer-\ sai Adams. Adams gathere@ the child and for a just considera. | scrupulous regard for the | rine tenn rere we 5 | BONE Plane eeemed melded with the| Ho was ver y ime—an more than half of what ahe had) ence to me” he once sald, “as It does) several million dollars drained tion of the welfare of others \t uth pase : IN NEXT SUNDAY'S WORLD intermittent noise made by our own rap f not more t t, and her purse, ‘to anybody oe e ides whether | Te the pockets of New York City’s : wo her portant hin Suddenly there came from it coul be seeu that he was a tri- pread the n or not; but don’ relieve It possible ho became e “Punishment may be necessary) the modern mother to heed are th The Sunday, World will line “ratctattat’ of machin Tee 1 or ae ae any sausation of pisaae | Tie. DeoRme sameehed 18 hum now and then, but it should ch 08 of the ri mht wort of Playthings print a special section telling ana at. toliawed he I ile ‘ Neen haha ft had n losing.” om } ie wea A Sing Sing D atesnny treatment, Sams simple, durable ones, which stim. he ach , » followed b expe s all ov ) way Jure in le ied unhonored and unsung. of emergency treatment 8 Imes | Tite the ‘imagination and. keep. the of ne a ievements of New H/more and then a steady flow of ex-|General. “Confound it >» cents mor Nat Goodwin gambled for the pure| ‘There are only a tew me it seems to me as if mothers were | child outdo and the guiding and York's Camp Upton Division in | plosions those soldiers, Orderly! n half of what ¢ gambling, It was sald by closs sae more interested in this feature of a| stimulating of the child's social im-|| the Argonne, written by Cyril ||?! |thone sold halt of ve of Ka tye sai left, and these are generally to: Aid's training than in any other.|pulse#—the encouragement of th Brown, The World's” Breit |[_cThey'ze at its" anid the Jand call them back a left, and Jeriends that he covtlda’t help it. Hf *|found behind mahogany 4 yet amen Mae, copa, [clubs as epposed to the mischievous Correspondent with the Am, jrthene Hoche are rathe jsouvenirs. ¥ e, the B to the next she losses across the green-covered tables | wall Street. Their favorite ) punishment at be has a nega r ™ er- ightors, but the itish have | cig andin gave t ents probably extend into € . : ‘ “tive value. By showing a child what The task of bringing up a child ican Army of Occupation in Hehiers, but the Hriveb hays looking for ¢ A landing i would proba into several is to bet @ railroad on the turm figures. He played the wheel tike ha played a part on the stage—with a| natural drollery, full of comedy aad| marked card. ‘The Goddess of Chance, ho ever doing her serpentine pathos: jamong the proletariat, Beware Phat he at times went in for high | charms! ‘ stakes is indicated in a story told of | 1¢ you lose, you lose ne of Mr, Goodwin's alleged expori-| 1¢ you win—it’s the thin elf and) ars | undertaker! ago. As it ja narrated, the comedian| MORAL—It you MUST was at @ crap table in what was then don't! ”