The evening world. Newspaper, February 28, 1919, Page 21

Advice on Courtship And Marriage By Betty Vincent The Lonely Young Person in New York 66 PUZZLED" writes on a subject sent! Attached to the Church of the | P that is such a common| Messiah, at Park Avenuo’ and 34th | cause of unhuppiness that| Street, New York, is a most inter- it ds ever new. It is the problem esting forum, which meets in the Of the lonely girl and the lonely boy.| church every Sunday evening for “Lam a young man of twenty-two,” |the discussion of current events. | writes “Puzzled,” “and hate no friends,| The minister, John Haynes Holmes, | 1 usually stay at home nights to|or Mr. Browne, his assistant, will study, 1 am not good looking, but|sladly explain the many clubs and | 1 am a very good wage earner and|gatherings in the church organiza- home lover. Can you tell me where | tion, where girls of the best and most | 1 can form the acquaintance of a|intelligent type are members, as well | young lady about my own age, some {4% young men, This church !s open nice girl who is companionable, as [| to all alike—to Jew as well as Gen- am thinking of getting marricd? |tile, to the workingman as well as | And only the other day I had athe millionaire, | similar note from a young woman!| The Church of the Ascension, Tenth | My advice to her must serve for|Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, “Puzzled,” although a man has many |als8o has several clubs and a forum. more opportunities than a girl for|Percy Stickney Grant, its rector, will making friends, even in a vast city|put you in touch with the activities | full of strangers. A man oan always | there, | speak to another man without the! In the case of lonely boys in New | formality of introduction. And the | York, shyness is often their stumbling | second man can and oftun does pre- | block. They feel “out of it” and tike| sent the lonesome one to his own/lost sheep, and they are afraid or) friends or relatives, If “Puzzled” 1s|ashamed to speak up and say cand'. too shy to do this, and jf he can make|ly that they are alone and want to no friendships among the young men| make desirable friends. Yet there are where he is employed, I should sug-|hundreds of clubs and organizations | gest his joining one of the many ¥.|in every part of town which would M. C. A. branches, The “Y" has|welcome such a boy with both hands, | endless social doings, at which |the Settlement Houses, for instance. | friends can certainly be made by any |There is the University Settlement So- sincere young chap who has a tongue | ciety at No. 184 Eldridge Street, New| in his head. The “Y" Secretary will | York, where every sort of social and make introductions and, if confided | educational undertaking is afoot. Go | in, will gladly do even more to make | there and tell the head worker what the newcomer fee! at home and a|you want. He will advise you. In the | part of the recreational life there,| telephone book are listed also the “Girl friendships” will naturally|various branches of the Socialist | follow. arty. Thoir club rooms are always | Another channel of acquaintance- |open evenings end men and women| ship is the church. Whether a young | welcomed, whether actually Socialists | man is religious or not, a modern |or not church is a good “club.” Go to the! Iam sure that if “Puzzled” will fol- minister or his assistant and frankly |low up these suggestions he will soon state your wish to meet some nice| have no reason for being lonely, Any | young women, Remember there are | "g00d wage earner and home lover’ | Ways lot of nice young women WO wants to marry and is not too Wiatara 1d. thavaamibipoalelon hard to please ought to bave more YOU) chances to meet nice girls than he and will welcome the chance you pre- | knows what to do with. The Housewife’s Scrapbook 9 not throw away bread crusts. | brass or copper. Apply this hot and They make good croutons for | then thoroughly wash it off to prevent | soup. ule bread can be made | speedy tarnishing. A ttle ofl rubbed into griddle cakes. A bread omelet 18]on the metal after washing it will | also good. Stale bread soaked, then | more effectually prevent tarnish. mixed with minced left-over beefsteas a@nd one or two eg makes a deli- The wash wringer usually wears out | Hous omelet, at the ends where pressuro 1s used. | nen If you take several yards of twine and If meat is left over in large quanti- wind this evenly along the roller, bi ties it can be used for sulads, hash oF ing careful to wind it very close even croquettes, In smaller portions it can wh the rubber is thin, you will be inixed with Jeft-over vegetables and save the expense of a new roller | savory seasonings und converted into ompr YES, MY HUSBAND MANTED (T BY His Bed U WANTED (TIN TH BATHROON _ iT ALWAYS, RINGS WHEN | AN iM us BATH — So we M PROMISED A Pur it in THE ord YES, MY HUSBAND WANTED A CENTER UGAT ae pease A SIDE = SO WE Con PROMISED AND Pur iT ON “THE FLooR MY HUSBAND WANTED A Doc. A I WANTED A CAT) SOME COMPRONISED ) oT A . PARROT pad 2 < HOME PAGE Friday, February 28, 1 By Maurice Ketten omise and Be Happy YES, MY HULBAND AND { STRIPES J NO USED Baty YES, MY HUSBAND werner T ANDI WANTED OPEN FIRES Sowe COMPROMISED AND PUT THE RADIATOR IN THE FIRE Place ( FIRE Prace | COMPROMISE IF ‘You WANT A HAPPY HONE MY DEAR . MY HUSBAND HATES GARLIC I Love IT, SO WE COMPROMISE AND | EAT ONIONS GREAT ON COM PROMISING | = An appetizing stew or meat pie, Or it can be made into w scalloped dish with the addition of tomatoes, macaroni or rice, Three or four bay leaves put in the water in which ham or shoulder ts boiled wil attord « easing caver! The Girl’s Third Letter to the Man (uit seine ete ae i i te fl n Fi dication of where we are. Will also improve its flavor. That H Reads b D dress ix monotonously —- a e hea ya vying monotonously. characterless F., France, We are allowed to write nothing of what we ar can only record what is happening in rts, It's splendid nd so complete a Next time you whip cream use a teaspoonful of strained honey instead Flashlight @f sugar to sweeten jt. It will give @ @elicious flavor and you can whip the cream early in the day at your leisure SYNOPSI8 OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, MS, by Jolin Lane Company because it will remain firm all day. ; Copyriaht A piano is quite as sensitive to! changes of temperature as an invalid. | It should uot be placed near the fire because the heat draws the wood and it should not be near an open window CHAPTER VIL. ack in the Ward net tell dreams into the mat on 4 damp day because the wires! gen afraid I've been acting like the are apt to rust traditional Englishman; you're Ether will cleanso white satin col- Pos: renin. pisaeure. 2 Daye 630 lars beautifully. Sponging the soiled Hive heen: taking you sadly. 4 1 % a col liment to you spots will leave a ring, Better results |!#n't much of a comp! ’ will be secured if the ether is poured and [ must stop it. Unhappiness is a into @ bowl and half the collar ig |form of disloyalty. If you trace it pie : back far enough it’s irreligion, for it ereed and squeezed at @ time. is based on a doubt as to the good- ness of God's world, It think a tragic lways lose what he's ef- to lose it. ‘When black shoes attain a rusty chap must @ppearance rub them with an equal |ter; he jolly well deserve quantity of black ink and olive oil. In Thomas Hardy's nove pak fellow comes a cropper he calls it When purchasing hair mattress |Fate, “It had to be,” he anys, | Well one filled ; app, [there's where I disagree; I do! select one filled with black hair, The ert wane eo tof prity OA white hair is usually a bleached |Hardy hero, when he falls in love variety and thereby has been de-}with a girl, immediately beging to EE aN Pa suspect that he isn't in love. He fools privad of ita apr jalong with her, blowing cold and not, more quickly than the black or even | until another fellow turns up, where- the gray hair jupon he discovers that he wants her immensely, and she discovers that d like to experiment in anoth rection, He then gets despe nd instead of playing the man iness and it mats When the cake of soap becomes so | thin that it has reached the point of breaking moisten it and do likewise grates and leaves @ clear field for his with a full cake, then firmly press the |rival. ‘1 e girl marries Number Pwo two together and let it remain to dry {on the ret und but inate dof pu or 8 1 ” \ing fair by him, sentimentalizes over for a couple days. You will then have | {DE {Alt DY Nit enone. Of course, p eolld cake of a fakes a mess of her married life, walks forward to meet the future Killets while hot. If) with her face turned back toward the le soda to the first water |past, She walks into a lot of things pb and no waste Wash ¢ you add ali E © grease ang /4nd gets bruised all over through not oe Yr een th tse and | ooking where she's going. When she Make them easier to clean has sufficiently bruised herself, Num- ‘+ . ber One comes back from the colonies If the hair rush bristl require and finds that he doesn't ‘ant her-- ter being stiffening ed dip) she's walked into too many obstacles them in a solution of milk and water) in = his sence Neither of th blames other. "It had to ba," hey say, sorrowfully; and there the book ends T should be ashamed for you to ss@ some of the things which I've wri ng them you, They're not worthy. They ¢ an flannel dipped | represent me in my, highest tomer f Im not the kind of person that I've erosene, Then wipe wit Into keroxey wipe with | sointed myself. I'm not, really. cloth wrung out of hot water to|uinntoon tor & pleco ot dirty works destroy the kerosene odor, and take my chances with the hest | w in equal proportion and dry by heat. Soap and water will take the paint from woodwork, You can easily re move finger arks tb rube with a piece of « i of them, Tf anything goes wrong [ n mixing a mustard poultice don't whine; I take th onsequences, use the while of ces. This will ob- | !n bal erie uys iupieared fur 2 eee 9 |Your sake to be silent; so I'll keep my viate all blistering and will in no eee a ake my fifteen wise affect the efficacy of the poul-|¢hance just as cheerfully as I wouil tice? in any Tow up front. But—let me —— make just one excuse, my dear—you Try vinegar and salt for cleaning'came ‘upon me so suddenly; you cad ‘red Use manuactipt the autuor—same cities garlanded ans, where she haa kuowiig that he ws eoon tc he. begine again in turn into danger, dom nut longings; your ve'y spoke so loudly of a future which, perhaps, [ may not share; you ed wil that I had once hoped for » behind me. Don't I'm greedy through cried out before L was smewhere in the Bible tie story is told of how the people in a city brought their sick and laid then so that even the you understand? shadow of St 1 coule mptiness, are doing; now it should by the h take on a new glamour and knightli- Jove them, these ehaps of mine. This outwardly squalid tedium ghould find Heave ndbags to build gun pits, like if there w and gassed, watching The other night 1 for long hours in crumbling trench: & complexion of roman: You stand b all of a sudden th legend in which you wh and I are the leading used to say me and watch me. was 1am doing this for all I tell myself, 5 You have I the goodness for which “There's a poem in there,” he said you ey ing it for he the Italian renaissanc trong wir 1 d into vie were so slippery wit that nobody stripped off his hose and sho arm behind fastened his lady's kerchief about his left, and, grasping He took these long that he might add glory to the nane have no kerchief to my arm, but your letter lies near my heart and gi everywhere ae a lalisinman, That you do not know this does not matter; it | jis in keeping with a war that is so mud I have just such thou hand which once amid you NO stray so maddeningly.” of his lady, anonymous. Like @ mountain and return no more 4 man knows the place where we are {- be elbows and arms in the Som buried, We kill men whom we never which w see and are killed by unseen men in our world should dem giving of ourselve rode back from oh ° one to take up wore the with his blood; her love thi bad But we There ard; not to be exception. —W trenc! unr ave slip marked, We us that few people do not return at a with your lady's tok k through other })\\!, not follow Alled Knowir to achieve wa beats all ri of the vision of kind of fe n liey tion ost—an O, irty kir war has become tered ers, n do- become the r hear of Gas ued, "Tot was the gayest I's true. a ul of laughter, and hair ¢ Overy de ory by his pr alis of a bi the side of the in at ear ay his is what 1 ag blood |} ‘ mM, h@ Did stray eo a ny sina X , nd his right imb th storming party to nees 8 with mo ec a hand thrust es, we climb ay out of the water, when we were up forward observing. the dead men beneath my breath for their bodies still spring were everywhere 1 used to thank doing men's work, the same and charity which a middle verse to this poem, hich has slipped my memory, diet amid the thunder of great war; ex for excitement, a front for a you get to know every inch of it. bores you to death; you get horribly characters by an illumination of about You don't a bit mind going some ning bes | if only you cam mistook your words; once I thought | a sense of novelty ide; perhaps is star te body and hia thirting eyew."* In that last line I see the picture calling to yours, “His wild, white body It is better Poets made songs about him ers, writing ito them all Were sung in mounlit gardens, y dreains of the girl and were given in his praixe, sat with the lady of his en which he had stained e knew that ut which he and his thirsting eye: that you should not know, in all kinds of villages on a second puxzling over vanished, It anything made my heart stand still for a mo- were ment, I realized then what a guyety so weary that where we slept didn't would fill my world if I had the as- as we got @ gur ‘ou lov c shakedown and something to eat for “yen qormee tare ae Each morning we rose at in to our ou b lines till the light was falling, Zour replies are dragged trom you b n the guns had to be parked, tht parades carried out, the pickets pos rds mounted and the billets n inspected; so it Was usual- ly 10 before one rolled into his sleep- next morning idy as if we by nightfall burning, from chateau the wild, white body should be for sarnt to touch mi A few pleasant ters, some of which even now may be yed; 4 handful of happy recol- companionship &# little Kindness in or feel the np friendly let- heroes to-day for any We have become nations of > be brave is the work-a-day stand is the dastardly of hours of snatehed in Pa into the murk for you there will be no more than “He was a nice fellow,” “a 5, lking-cases sar DAARIDE DY TKLG clecithen’ “Shark ’ace’ so many of f them and heal them me was like st dow to those sick men; 't made me long. tor More than the shadow. The thought that you would cities. where was easy to be a Gaston de Foix, watched by all Italy while you played amp Was empty: be damnable. it isn't the body that counts; it's this something which, while it crics for you, refuses to let me turn bac! drives me on and on camptires would surrounded by another crowd of tran- Hiymn writers may well pare the instability of life with the army marching for- fo out into th and call it ordinary, to live unthanked Because I love you die in a crowd and not to be happy for your chance—that hery. I have never jens Passage of an kind of fear an extraordinary suspense y in the air nt of strained inte feel it; you se CHAPTER IX. your third letter. an underc mi hat by the way they no labor in mak- proof as ness th mblest of our tommies, T bas come horribly unhome- any khaki. ad for more than a week ing their gun pits as shell You hear them telling one BOOK, cigarettes, Bad taste on my It's Koing to be w hell of @ rumor f° s 0 cavalry are THe books might easily g ‘Armaged. for many of them w 2 man in a Forw! as don with a veng your letter found I had groped batm: There's 1 told him to fling ud r 1 settled myself handwriting exact number match, tion, IT had e. J the box it was damp=- ter's evening, [ had been delayed to light the last minute, and the ea turn bell and | was leaving discourteous and dangerous dragging the ny swearing. Yes, f seen, concerning which we seen it, are inarticula another, to dumb old thing in’ some iness it is to kill could splendid getting into for him, That's t again, The elgns of knolt om to lift ourselves clea country Copyright, 1919, by Thy ADAME A LA MODD has smiled with gracious favor upon satin as the leading fabric of the spring, and it appears as nothing to be ‘won- dered at when one glimpses the very newest weaves of this fabric, Heretofore we have been used to think of satin as @ certain kind of ma- tertal, distinctive in that it was different from other silks such as taffeta or crepe de chine, But this sea- son we are forced to a realization that there is @ distinction even in satins, There are heavy drapery satina of very lustrous sheen, and some of soft dull sheen; there are some that are closely woven, and may be somewhat stiff or reasonably soft, while some are loosely woven, thin and | slazie, Some, even in grades considered good, will ruff up on the surface and not wear well, ‘This season many attractive new weaves | have been introduced for various kinds of | wear—street, sport, evening, and for un- dergarments; and it ts | up to the woman her- self to choose that | satin which will serve best for her especial use, “For etreet and practical wear it ts wise to choose a rea- sonably close weave with @ dull rich lustre, the color dyed in the skein instead of in the plece after weaving. Pussy willow satin and beaver satin are two such practical qualities, and my de- sign to-day offers a pretty suggestion for their development, The long straight lines, so sought after this spring, are achieved by two bands that on the skirt are held fast near _— the bottom by five or six buttons, We saw he puts up with our chaff and persists hing and little children in wearing it. When he speaks with Only the very old it on, his voice sounds muffled as and very young are left; one realized though he had 4 hot potato in his how much France has suffered, tremendous fun after tho tried to say something. At last I lis- ld trenches to be going to @ tened. “Use your flash lamp, old boy, ‘Phe new trenches are just 1 often use @ flash lamp to read the as bad as the ones that we have left w that When you've If it isn't improper, I ask you to pic- ertain time, ture me as I sat up in my narrow mouth, As I continued to swear, he ‘s letters.” My flash lamp was the battery was running out. It grave trying to spell out your racing two glow worm power. Very often I had found a sudden tenderness which You do not, for you write to me—~ how often? Once a month, perhaps my many effusions. Unless you for- bade my correspondence, you have no option but to reply. I have given ye no grounds for doing that as ye all that I have written I have been prudent—only the quantity gives you reason to suspect. The quantity con- stitutes a kind of blackmail; for ten of my pages you can scarcely send less than one in return. But you must know that I care for you. Howe forma, and merely friendly I try to make my letters, there must have been stray shades of meaning in which I have betrayed myself. And then there are the presents which you have received from Paria with no donor's name attached—ordera which I have went back from the front. They come to you anonymously, chocolates, part to do it! Lown that-but [ must feel that Iam with you, somehow. fe me away, re_mentioned together, The ones wve gent are those that you said you way had not read while we wer ‘one YOU refer to one of them casually in | of the Your letter—“fhe Journal of Marte | » Bashkirtseff." You say that you've | Leross a copy at J-—-, and ree nbering our conversation, have my r ¢ me 6 to cont , and T remember that conversa- for you on a win- Ye as find a taxi, As I crossed the P was de |’ ugh you had rung jut How immaterial that would! tand- have # hor- me long were ned had L been going to ny other person! But the be so few quarters of an way hour that we could share, When L cove all your life, to throw fifteen in the same trench, minutes away was like squandering head, Toa fortune, [ found you waiting for me; you were alone, as you always| occasion’ were, I never saw you with another | jvig exceed- man, From tho first time isa funny you gave me a strange conse sleeps that, so long as we could be to with his head inside of a kind of bag. ycu were reserving yourself for me rf 1 suppose his wife nade him promise only, Perhaps it was only because [| Mickey!” said Cummings, she must have knitted it was on leave. At any rate it was|ing hia eyes. “The men on only way I can kind of you and made me happy. account for the stolclauw with whica (To Be Continued.) _ For The Evening World’s oN Home Dressmakers By Mildred Lodewick Prem Pubilshing Co. (The New York Bvening World), An Unusually Smart Frock of Satin. THE NEWEST FEATURES OF THE MODE INTERPRETED HE! 1 it. Perhaps you're giving me my | tlane skirt hem w n IT couldn't | eas ile f was a quarter of an hour! MOS J. CUMMED . lA Jarrold were once in a » met, | fills . ul On the bodice, these bands drep fi. under an Eton jacket portion, | and extend into a collar around the back. An exceedingly smart feature | of this frock is the plain fou i por..on of the bodice, which | f be of a color contrasting to the skirt, but trimmed with that color of sow= tache braid, A brown frock for in~ stance, would have a tan satin gilete | ‘The sleeves are long and tight, with | a dashing cuff attached a few inches above the wrist by buttons like theee on the waist and skirt. If one should desire to interpret this design in serge, the foundatiom | — waist could be of satin, and the banda could be ned with the same, Fashion Extivor, The Evening World: : I have a dark blue Georgette dress length, the same be- ing patterned @12 over in tan, I dom't © imag ine it needa much trimming, would like to have in a pretty style, so am soliciting your advice, Am thirtye three years old and am a bit shor waisted to be @ good figure. MRS. T. P. J. A tan yoke amd ~ blue silk tassels on the revers, The | sleeves may have aa undercuff of tan if desired. Fashion Baitor, The Dreniag World: Am @ constant reader of your fash- jons and, as I have never asked before for personal advice, am taking this op- portunity, I can hand embroider nicely, and I have some heavy gray (dark) crepe de chine which I would like to make into a dress, if it would not be too Am sixteen years of age, | ne ee ree blonde, wi blue eyes, good complex- ion and color. MISS M To embroider in rose on the gray would lighten the dress, and rose taffeta cuffs on boat during @ great storm, former lay on @ bunk, intently ing. The boat gave a fearful and careened until It seemed thas must turn completely over, “This is awful, Amos!” sald I'm golng to put on a life server, for the boat can’t ether, | many minutes longer’ “Oh, keep quiet and let me draw a regular salary to afioat.”—Satunday