The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1919, Page 15

HOME PAGE Wednesday, February 26, 1919 Advice on Courtship And Marriage | By Betty Vincent MY CHILD 1S Original Fa | shion | For The Evening World's. ——— esigns He oer gene Quy oe YEAR xc] Home Dressmakers The Ghance Acquaintance CHILD OLD AND HE CAN DPLYING to “Anxious N. F. 8."|namo, saying if I wrote I would in- HEIs La ae SPEAK and others, let me say that In| close my address. Would you advise AND CLEVER (r’ CANGUA CLE Coogrieht, 1919; by The Pi the chance acquaintance the|me to write, and if so, what shall I s SPEAK FRENCH danger lies not in the fact that there . y and how should I address him? UNCANNY! 5B THE NICE has teen no formal introduction, but|I greatly desire to correspond with CLENTLC MAN | ta the opinion of the person with|him tecause I would like to invite : ‘4, whom such acquaintance is made.|him to my Sweet Sixteen party. I 1, m other words, the presenting of|never had any such experience be- 5 “itr, Smith" to “Miss Brown” by|fore, What shall 1 do?” / Rome mutual fried docs not make}, The common sense answer to N. / Mr. Smith a more desirable person |F. 8S. would be; “Write your note to NE never knows what pretty thing Dame Fashion may bring forth of a season to delight ona’s especial fancy. Surprises are the order of the. day with this capricious “queen,” and one that it is whispered she will offer this springs | concerning the skirt it will be narrow, of | course, for our Amerl- in women like the leness of it, but to know than if he met Miss Brown| your sailor boy and go tel your by accident, in a street car or at an|jmother about it. And when his an- ice skating rink. The trouble is that|swer comes, ge tell your mother Mr. Smith says to himself, “If she is|about it again.” The chances are willing to waive formalities of intro-| that a perfectly harmless friendship duction she probably willing to| would result, with nothing to con- waive all sorts of formalities. She|ceal and nothing to regret on any is not particular how she makes | aide, friends. She is an ‘easy’ acquaint-| What harm could there be in the ance, Most likely she is ‘easy’ of| sailor boy coming to your Sweet Six- conquest. I'd rather have @ girl who|teen. party? ‘Then you and your is harder to get.” mother could decide for yourselves “ SANNY e Fashion will try It would be ridiculous to say there | whethér or not you want to continue IN ONE SO ¢ to favor the front of are not exceptions to this rule, I|the friendship, A correspondence \ Youncrt*) the skirt for all hon have known of chance acquaintance-| affords better chances’ of “making ships that turned out to be charming | haste slowly” than a face-to-faco friendships. It all depends, of courge, | affair. It does not open'the way so on the girl and the man, 1 believe | widely. to criticiam on the boy's part both the girl and the man can usually | toward you, And you can end it at toll each other's type by their ap-| any time without trouble, pearance and manners, The girl] Tt is not always easy to end the who is dressed in bad taste, wearing| face-to-face “pick-ups” without her hair in conspicuous “fad style,”| trouble, bécause the insult (if insult her skirts too short and her blouse | is the young man's object) sometimes too low, painting her face coarsely | comes too suddenly to rebuff it. THe and Jaughing loudly—that sort of | result is unpleasant and humilfating. girl cannot make chance acquaint-|A girl must remember that the very ances without running into great! fact of a chance acquaintance offers danger. temptation to the man to “make a ‘ws On the other hand a refined girl | try-out,’ whose style and ways are obviously} ¢ is tha nature of the average male modest would not be so likely to be] to find out how far he can go with a misunderstood if she responded with| friendship without being checked. reserve to such an acquaintance. She | Here is where the girl ruts the risk. ean ors of decoration and other forms of elabor: ation tn cut, &e, For inétance, if drapery is to‘occur, the front of the skirt will show it, and the same of panels or tunics or other loose-hanging — por. tions, Though at this arly date it would be Impossible to state de finitely whether such an interpretation of the mode will give popularity, it at least is worthy of consider ation, One thing is certain, and that is the gint of slim, lithesome “eemens Nee” will generally know how far to go.| Usually she can put him in his place ISN'T HE 4 WONDER | Sucw A UNGuIST | form will find tn She generally knows what kind of] very quickly and neatly, making it Now Spear HE WicL BE PRESIDENT, WHY NOT PRESIDENT OF THE || “tye especially — be boy is proffering his friendship, Girls | clear to him that “she 4s° not that CATIN OF THE ee? +< coming and conducive are more rarely deceived as ta men's | sort.” In most cases he will not per- 5 intentions than men are in girls'.| sist. Few men want to harm a really Girls are safeguarded by nature witn | mice girl. Yet many men will “try a @ sort of intuition in these matters, | girl out” by various methods to see { personally think few girls are im- | {f she is a really nice girl. posed upon, or unpleasantly “pur-| 1 should say that in all likelihood sued” by men to whom they give no/the young @allor lad in N. F. Sis epouragement. A girl hag no right..case is sincere, and should be given to dress or act in a way to invite in- | his chance to prove it. Perhaps he sult and then complain because she|is far away from his home town and| is insulted, wants to know some nice, compan- But to get down to “Anxious N. F.| jonable girls, If this is not his aim, 8's" case: you will soon discover it, N. F. 8. “One Sunday,” she writes, “i met ,—or your mother will—and you can} # sailor at the skating rink, After ;end the whole affair, You are much the session he asked me to corres- | too young, of courtse, to think of any- pond with him, giving me his nama) thing more serious than friendship. and address. I gave him only my Most American girls, under the guid- c —= ance of their mothers, know how to A Book for To-Day. be friendly with boys without falling | into sentimentality, ) The Rulers of the Lakes By JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER. HE period of history in which ye the scenes of this new histori- } romance are found is that of the French and Indian War Just after Braddock's defeat. Young Rob- ert Lennox and his friend oga, to an individual ef- fect. : 1 am offering a pretty design, featur. ing this front trim- ming. ‘Two contrast- ing materials are sug- gested for’ the frock, such aa serge for, the matin portion, with taf- A CHIC feta or satin. OF satin could be employed for the main por- tion, with georgette combined. The : Oy D CN oF manner to permit of the broad panel time achieves.a, smart belt effect that is shaped in waistcoat points and | fastens with three round buttons. ‘The ‘panel continues down the front from under this belt, being finished across duty: your spirit ja the same, though Germans pounded us day and night. bad bet about the gun-pit, for it win quarters were un- choked with dobris j I studied the passages f found’ that centuries divide you. The B. C. party impossible wo most of t ha ere 0 fe an Ouondese Indian, undertake to Mi der a ruined house which might, fail enter. was w dug-out by the and its cpnanesie Sipithne ne make a dangerous journey through | ” "4 at any moment. he enemy al- side, » With stairs leading ail aristocracy is the subjugation of \. the northern wilderness to warn the | Land and the Dead CHAPTER ve von tor Tiaity scored several direct hity on tt. down: the timbers were ali fear.” ‘This was heavily underslined. Warrison and settlers gathered at | ’ HAVE not heard sgn yap ted Suddenly, & aa midile of & strate, sentwey, 1 Was ponaibie to narue ne wand exam this pilsaage, “When T | pag D ce tha © beg dress, When he was past, and 4 pe , ee ; : Port Refuge of the hostile forces. Af- | Officer 8 Book jue nabodagies bes to expect kod what he was doing, he pald nO Tho visibility was still wrote bad, ao fede tok geod cad ell, ote ts iyi terwards they join the army as| atts Salk hie rie prose pte When he'd got rid of every having nothing better to do, we began done that way, One might as well scouts, preceding it on an expedition | to Lake George and Lake Champlain, | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTRUS. yout they engage in many fierce en= Copyright, 1418, by John Lane Com; was only a passer by. If I had wanted jeer pitt the Engl fi lothini, he dashed out into to investigute. dream of having dinn So far as you were aware, I the area where the shells were fallin. Ay the bottom of the ntairn there Of one's life, Hach time and always © was stark mad. was a shored-up chamber with two | find that it bas to be conquered | 0 inspired, to be more to you [ could have put That's why one must beware of bunks made of chicken wire. Leading “fresh.” ‘The Englishman's pencille The story concludes with | tie the matter to the test. It 1 had melt-pity. 1 mustn't think ot you toe oft the right was a tunnel, 60 F hepeig Is very typical, “Quite so. the battle of Lake George, in which os fe fail » eth net Dt, ‘ fr 4 Mt spoken to you on that last night... . often, L must act as though we bad knocked about that you had to go on But you oughtn't to admit it.” ‘The fae petal or Lake Ge aren i whee | Ths Tit, sha tn ine ffent ng reach, be bese tit erie af Ietier, wring isto thom all the SpOKEN to You on thal Laat wie good wever met, T must |, Your hands and knecs to pass through comment of the Prussian, who killed grea dane would it have done to either of us? — But this is foolishness—one can't it. When you're in a place of this the English owner and then re-edited cess of the war, ‘The action of the r for the rest Ww youcould have ac- get rid ofencmory, Since I o ind it" ¥ eto entire derness and gives a picture of Iro- ND yet, the romance! That mist to part again, I caught the IP, the loneliness of tila ext one by which It can be car Su deh wee iil UP Your entrance. "Hore in a last selection. The Ger- quois life and warfare, historically stirs me, It's mediaeval. It Boche in the open with sbraphel. woman who cares supremely hi one by which it cannot? went to see where the tunnel led, Ie Man keeps silent this time, but the They ran and 1 followed them, lengthening my range. ‘Phere was ,, true, The two lakes, Lake George has all the acoompaniments I stop to read what L have written and Lake Champlain, for the ruler- of legend. Most men meet wire between them and safety; th ship of which the hostile forces are| their wives at aitennia party, tried to scramble through it, ‘under contending, are also much in the|court them at theatres and marry |t, over it, and there I nailed th handle by Went,to glishman's comment makes it X asn't a very pleasant business, for ge vps ee is unmanly, It is self-pity—the n oy ii, burdens. in falling the dirt had buried quite a Worth recording, ‘The marked por- worst enemy that a soldier can have in which I'm going t0 numbeg.of the old inbabitcnts; as a YOR reads an follows: n bis ‘The only way one can endure is to Make ey love for vou help. At the Conweauence, our crawling was rather YOUNGer days Benham hud regarded M. hoe forgetful of self—to consider his end of the war, if I survive, Ul seek bill and down dale. [ suppose wo fat 4% & shameful secret and as a rei peice z I counted’ ten dead men; an equal poay ain, everything personal you out, that ‘promixe shall b bo s thing to be got rid of ultogeth It picture, . them in a church, Not so you and I+ number must have been wounded, In bees, ink een “the es- Koal, Mean ig ke must have ne twenty yards when seemed to him that to Tal tent Was - A We meet by accident in America at a peace times to have beaten a dog : of the ideal for which we touch with y We're both en, it Wan foul with decay and damy, £2 fall whort of aristocracy, But aa From an Inventor's point of parting; then again in Paris would have pained me, Here to kill eee only thing that matters, UPON an adventure equally lon Ba eae en Ae ee ae fare ho emerged from the egotiam of N B k without. deslgn, We say’ "Goodb) men dors not trouble my cons’ tenc Cc, ere comes a point in the career of to fine to be disturbed by aelfishne fepddoapebaealls Naas eee By adolescence h e came to realize that 0) Ng rious! sit Wke God in hidin fighting man when he can en week ago, by the most extrac ah AeA every one feels feur, and your true ote boo both going to do a soldier's work. We watching the world and arbitrarily qureno further, Ho may be perfectly nary of accidents, { found a book # Vexit. J turned on my fgah- aristocrat is not one who has elimi: except the United States which has slong the valley, very steep afd very porsons that we really were. 1 met for his dari very shallow, his temple was a wide gash whero tributed reagon to a lack of har-~ certain to the fragment of a boinb had struck MONY in the world, He at once con- It to climb, It's glassy with you with buttons shined; a ‘et for two years, the ee etre, nee putt s i we chat Q or t ere n snow at present; there ar® tereg socially, were easily shocked &an to go from him, We wouldn't be- ‘Any movemen ther h 1 ie the words ceived that the only way to mend him ved in trenches running straight UP and dined sedately. You were p lieve it at first; soon it became ap- Attract the enemy snipers. One of him aroms Ae, He had *lf was to set about mending the Hits side ered beneath the ithably dreesed; l-was contermed tue parent to everybody. His eyes would them, whom our chaps had nick ticking behind his forehead, 'He had > ur ehy ” aed nie te deeds Lite had World. Of course the world refused to gn has|bushes dead men lie of past and un- you if we couldn't find a tant mmf ie become vague, You could see him Named “Tattle Willie,” mado this sap been ready for rn 4 a ee eyed be mended—ft always does, It invarl- his ner ore than one of them For newspaper bulletins or adver tising purposes an electric s a specialty, In order that I might taken h , T ik h rere sear [recorded offenses, Winther Germans rained, Now | take my chances and makine an effort not to run, He av hia speci In order ‘ee ' nq Sbly crucifies its Christs, This Ben- been invented on which letters appear |recoraed, ot eiwae a your they took fui, Now t take my ¢ , eile pou ored 1 ing horae under net afford him at 1 fot up very an entire iifferent an 1 Unexpected Heer rte diester eakik alent in lights ax keys on a typewriter key- line same; only their uniforms mark wade through the backwash of an shel! of course the just thing early so as to smenk in when the mist way " Yor him in particu. D0 ® second Christa kind of iod- board are pressed. the differene At the top of the arm Wo can't explain ourselves, would have been to have sent him Was on the ground, I took one tele ca) sorrow-—not for him in particu- nian who, by right of intellect rather a ridge are more trenches—a network Buy nit, but we had had too many eas- Phonist with me 1 proposed to lar, but for all the world. After that, fter so much tha m. They are full in sight of jsn't it good to be doing was trivial than of love, could force nations Into Mm the east. | 1 back oss the ‘ils and Bolivian natives livin » my job, gnd th ne pare him, In ®pend my day there, something ualties and couldn't magnanimity, The trouble was that render fish insensible so they can be) proached by night or under cover of anot letter to keep until that fu- duty, it takes no excuses, and only It was in a be wht by hand, jthe mist of early morning. There's ture day when war is ended and I ain notices when he fala this poor evidently Fee an old dugout, which has been partly free to tell you. So good-bye, my chap, who had been a hero, had to fighting For travellers a folding clothes tree |bombed and at the top of it a spy- Joan of Arc, with your flivver, your watch himself hourly becoming a haa deen invented which can be car-|hole. ‘Through the spy-hole my tele~ pale rase beauty and pour ‘Croix coward, Worse still, he was kept won- though our fe slipping through, and at the same! 2round ts a narrow bias fold with a wide band of tho} By Mildred Lodewick Publishing.Co, (The New York Evening World) | Serge and Taffeta Compose, This Dressy Yet Practi- cal Frock. - MODEL ON NEWEST LINES. dress fabric, ‘The distinctive feature of the skirt is the apron tunic of the same fabric as the panel and of tho plain bodice ts) slashed. in a novell same proportions, but in exaggerated » size. Finishing this panel all the w or whatever fabric the dress might ‘be. A like fold finishes the flare cuffs, but the panel is finished only invisibly with a hem or facing. It should be, noted that this panel when it reachos the shoulders takes the form of deep collar to drop down the back, | while over it lays another one of tan. lor white georgette, which starts frow the pointed neck in front. Fashion Editor, The Kreniog World Lam 18 years of age, and am to play at an afternoon re- cital, on the violin, for which occasion 1° desire a pretty new dress. Will you help. me with a style, aleo suggest material and color, Am 6 feet. 21-2 tmches tal woigh 106 pounds, have light hair, gray-biue eyes, medium skin, faint coloring. D. #.G. Apple green or duit thd horizon blue imde-, structibie = orepe would be pretey with filet lace inserted, Heavy silk fringe, Fashion Béitor, The Brening World Will you suggest |a simple way that 1 could make up tive yards of brown satin for a dress? A hollow perforated corrugated] @re young, and the world should dictating who shall be the next to die. houlthy, ‘but he knows that the day Which confirms me in this decision hie eek a sighted ie Bere tne Mtted, but one who controls and ‘Am 6 fost ¢ inches, drum with @ suitable cover that can| before us, but we jeopardize love, It was here your letter reaghed js surely coming when ho will break, There w me enemy front tne wir me teed : pepe igac it Jishman's note |#, slend well convert it into w washing machine| consumes us. Most trlumphant of a!l, sneaked in with the rations. Tread {ie certainty that the Dre Ae cont. bY consulting contours on the map to eo. On the was a book Tha” alat hed nok ol ed analon eg cg sally x has been invented. we would not have things otherwine, it, as I'm writing this 1 one eye Peirce thigaranalin ltie ay from what point one could view b sanlen: Bd ode ahowed no da of clearings ac thera | oe ne toe Sieme | A third hand has been provided by | yet-both our tasks are compatible With jeryinan de nigk SRO oe ha Hing to. Watch him-—they begin to doubt bis u er VE yc Mel hs Bs the title: Morning I gave myself up to studying | Wear to business "| ® Buropean inventor for @ watch {0} the same purpose, In putrescence very much the sume, He wanty to COUrR™ | Pa onran cand Yo do this each round ought ; by Hi. cuttin tie’ Garter oe an Medeisuat feeds not ated | enable it to be used as a compass by | and destruction unimaginable your live just as much as I de just i he BG hay aiaha ' © observed.) There was great : 5 x i tue named ‘Benham. vidual } Would you suge , the method of pointing the hour hand | acripbled pages flutter to me, and mine Re arecun £0 Tees ny fi aaa ie ¢ 1 ' pat tion, mone te oft ers of ont peaehi the Otay Sule: FURR wa Have yon ever Caught mcwadden rest any smnreiderr on | | ™) yi “wt the sun, | , ]—gome of them reach you, but not all the chance hetwovid dinpassionatele out ttery for An Ae ae hatin Oana ena Ot Le as t kcrawled nat it in German, flecdon” of yourself and thought, | | ly \ ° above 1 e y 4 >| the i Ay. t stor : De aL AO I No of us “What an absurd person! Good Lord, |} seven ye ol that 1 write. Our spirits rise above kill me. The chief horror of nt ” forward and chance w to wander about ¢ pasnag ike @ r ard, Patents have been granted for a) i) hd the squalor, The vilest fn Warfare is that {t anony ws. Th ward avd trenches and out into no man's jnd, BO bud been prepared to take life can I be like that” Kor a moment MISS 1, ¢ far uiltsine arthranite coall ote et be s mous and meahanical. One rare " ve PW Oe ea he til wa. Sich iM 4 certain way and life had taken You judge yourself without affection, | py mple style, process izing anthrac cou : ai happening abou ‘i off lirect fi ‘At all if need be, tl we struck a point whieh yOu JUGES | if A + simple sty : nin for fuel by mixing them | ee ne ppening 3 the hand that strikes, Crom E te had been wrongly put in-on the map, him, as It takes all of us, in an en- 4 you would @ str That's the | soreeningy for fuel b: ing them Jus; but because we are here to com well'n Trons faced their ‘ and at whw : ive trom which our line of vision would tirely different way He had been Way 1 felt in the of this boul, | PUt we with wa without gompres-| bat it, our spirits grow in sta nents; they went into battle chanting | pup th munications with from wh sen B Ae ‘the en. ready for noble deeds © * 9." at ‘Thig Benham was a prig. in. the | need ration ‘ajea. iio Gia Isn't that romance? Doesn't it thrill the Psalms of David. We xteal out of the battery. If the lino goes down, no ¢ocar tne utes and tet, we aed US Tey tor ete seetking onded. “t Most Obaritable eense of the word, 1 {sia f colored he you, my commonsense Uttle Ameri- our trenches behind a smoke-bat ri nutter how bad the she ae as iy Ya ere rts aera ked at this philosopher, forgotten re him with a white face and &| Georg, tn There are but ten cities in the | an? and do all our slaughtering in s linesmon are expected to go out and | Thad @ hunch that F iknow and entombed deep underground, Fits KK forehead—too many brainy | UPOrsette al neck i . And how do. you think your letter “| can't focus you any more than | Mend it, ‘This man of whom T speak from nea ty German gunpit in the de. beard had grown, his eyes were sun- 80d too little body. At an early date | world of more than 1,000,000 popula | arrived er that you eve? can focus myself, In Puris we neither Wasa linksman. He'd been in the smanhed-in German gungit in the hon hie meuth ‘was open, hia head Ne discovered that there was some-|yearned to save men in tion and Russia is the only country | wrote me a jong ridge TU recognized in each other the kind of from the fir andl hed mags, 8 reeen mur frone ling, ‘There was @ aap } lolled in an jmbecile fashion. Across thing wronk with hiniseif, but ho at- | ho attenpt to save the who Was within handstretc always he wasted his good impulses et wbstractions, He was e y eds cating himself for a splendid self-ab- negation which he t had the grit to accomplish, Instead of achieving an isolated Kindness, he embittered himself with the sorrow of continents, His dream was to make himself king of the world; in the pursuit of Ma Jdream he pushed aside every tender ” und ordinary human tion. He died een glopes of the Jos scatter tha|the enemy, and all of them decayed. strong at last? mat cues th ne dares to Bet out when night fell a the pitch-black tunnel was jn ‘his own small, daily decisions he 'a bankrupt at. h absurdly flutters rtain tree on streams to|‘The trench which I occupy i hal€ Tho mist is rising, I shall have ta do is to show pity. Pi contagious 'To cut a long story short, T mot into horrible, was neither magnanimous nor d- |ing a waiter’s aapkin to prevent sol die of & costs ee way down the slope; it can be ap- keep sharper look-out, Here's ‘Phe urmv expects every man todo his the gun-pit without being detected. I sat on the topmost stairs at tho Mke; he wasn't even decided. He was |diers from firing on rioters, On # astly meas, and had entrance and turned the pages. I afraid; though he made heroic efforts, charger of his imagination he fancied n the weene of flerve kept on wondering how the Prussian he never conquered fear to the day of |himseif as riding through Time, wp- vere was a pile of dead had come by a novel that had only his death. He had no sympathy with |holding a banner woven from the jermans before the entrance, as been published since hostilities com- children, but he babbled with swim- clouds. Actually ail he had been doing ows had caught them menced. Then I discovered, Other ming eyes about his own childhood, |was waving a waiter’s nankin at Jupi- © - ope is placed, and I am continually Rouge Americaine, Jou 2 her de wet how y of us knew it, as they tried to rush out, They lay passages were marked; beside the He could make women love him, but |ter to prevent him from hurling @ + Hed in a bag or trunk and’ when Witching for any sign of movement visions in the woods about Domremy temust have oem vary brave, for he there With (heir arms across thelr markings ware pencilled comments, ho always coveted the affection that |derbolta Whep Jupiter tailed to extended, fastened to a bedstead OF jn the German country, Yesterday —you in the hothouse palaces ofNew played the game to the end. faces, shiolding their eyes, in every some of them in English, some in Le oy of sight; he bad no patience |him he was pther article of furniture, she mist parted wuddenly and Leaught York. You both answered the call of We were in « position where the port of pitiful attitude, I'd made @ German, but im different bends, As to @) be bad won, Ha fe