The evening world. Newspaper, March 7, 1919, Page 21

Pauline Furlong’s Talks | on Health and Beauty Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) It Is Not What You Eat, but How You Assimilate It, That Counts. Y mail has brought me a letter from a thin reader who says that she eats three large meals each day and that even if she partakes of much candy and a glass of soda just before dinner it does not in the least affect her enormous appetite, but still she cannot gain an ounce of flesh. It is not what you eat but what you assimilate that:really goes to build up the blood, nerves and tissues, and large quantities of food will never accom- plish this for you. Moderate eating of wholesome, properly cooked foods and thorough mastication will surely bring about a marked development of healthy flesh, while staffing and overfeeding the body will do just the opposite. This same slender reader says that she does not work hard, but retires i} never before midnight, and then gets up and goes to work in the morning, though she does not dance and dissipate or do anything whatsoever to in- jure her health. Now, if this reader remains out of bed until midnight she {s dissipating, because the thin woman must have at least eight hours sleep at night, and should have ten. Besides this, an afternoon nap would also help wonderfully in bringing about a development of flesh. Returning again to the subject of thorough mastication, I wish to im- | press on all réaders, especially thin ones, that this is much more important than the kind or amount of food that you may take at a meal, The saliva in the mouth softens the food and turns it into the,soft, pulpy mass it should be before entering the stomach to be mixed with the gastric juices, Only during the process of thorough mastication are the salivary glands excited to proper action so that they pour out large quantities of saliva and help somewhat in ghe process of digestion. Hurried meals, hurried rest or anything else done in @ hurry also tend to keep the thin women thin, and she must learn to slow up and relax before she can hope to gain a pound ig Advice on Courtship and i Marriage By Betty Vincent An Appropriate Gift for the Birt hday Present. ; ‘ A. K." wishes to know what | thirty-five, he will be well past fifty, M Eifta are permissible toleven if his age is as he says? Is the * make a boy friend as @| mere “support” he can (perhaps) give birthday present you worth the sacrifice of youth's The social conventions charm? Would it not be better for books, flowers and candy as the only | you to wait until you are twenty-four, appropriate presents from « man to|say, which is plenty early to marry, a girl, unless he is engaged to her. and if somebody clse who more By the same token, books, “smokes” | Surely attracts and sweets of any sort ought to : prescribe equally proper from a girl to a boy. ‘There are many other things, how- ever, of a more or less impersonal nature, that are suitable from a mod- informal point of view. It all If your boy friend lives | at home and has a mother to make | him chocolate cakes and preserved peaches you wouldn't make him those presents. If, on the other hand, the poor lad lives in a hail bedroom and dines at restaurants, might ap- preciate a jar of home-made jam or a lusélous layer cake beyond all words to express. If he smokes, a box of his favorite cigarettes (fifty or a hun- dred), or of any good brand, would be proper and appropriate, A subscrip- tion to some magazine he is fond of or neade would also be good and would remind him of you many times oftener than a book—which always makes good present. Any inexpen- sive thing ho especially wants, such ‘Ma leather fob, a billfold or card case \vould be an all right gift. The main bing to bear in mind is not to give ything the cost of which could in any way embarrass him to accept. It is bad form to put a person under obligation. “Alice Maude” writes: "T would appreciate advice in the following matter. I am twenty-one years old and have been going out’a good deal with a man who says he is thirty- eight, He looks to me to be at least forty-five. He has proposed several times, but I have not answered him as yet. He is not a man of means, but says he can support me us a man should support a wife. My people have nothing against him except the difference in our ages. 1 cannot de- cide.” It always scems strange to me that a girl of twenty-one should urge her- Why not try a little vacation from each other? A period of not secing each other? Sometimes that gives the necessary perspective and clears the whole situation. If you did not see your friend for a month, say, maybe you would find you really loved him enough to overcome all barriers. Or—you might find you have only the calmest sort of friendship for him, half brotherly, half paternal. And that is not enough to marry on ern, “depends.” he querades SYNOPSIS OF PREC Crom work, He fallo in love with her, but, kuowit tell ber of it, Back in the front line trenches, be the love be darai not tell her in person, Di writes the dreams into (be manuscript, which be CHAPTER XIX. N this strange world where cour- age masquerades as duty, we have left all hope behind, To hope too much is to court cowardice, To be grave one should live aday ata In the past I was so selfish, 89 s. L wanted time full of plans for happines to live so strongly, to be so much, to do go much, to hold the whole world in my hands. | had my future planned out for forty 1 felt as though the destiny of all the a year nerations de- self into. marri on so slender a ; sentiment an expressed in this letter, | pended on what I should do with may My reply to all who “do not know | time. And then this war came Fe er dreames ghting. The how to decide” is, Domot marry until] had never dreamed of fighting. Th you have a strong—a very, very|thought that I should ever kill any- i * | body was inconceivable; it was wors> strong--desire to marry, If Alice y A og were forty-one inatead of|than that—it was a tcrror, Ono bad ered fr {to sink personality and rbition; twenty-one; if were thirty-one, an AN eveh, tho might reasonably consider | throw aside everything for which he 4 ndifrerence. But not {Had been trained; take up a way o eras, | Hove the chances are[ife Which was abhorrent to his na eae Te ‘ere [tures place hims n Where heavily against happiness when there nd th he must be inefficient; i \ is go great @ difference in years as ee \]] Beriy-one and thirty-cight, granted [St70n8 chance of dying baritone that Alice Maude were in love with | manner which seemed indos ie j enn, The chances are siill more |Stely obscure and i of preportion heavily against happiness under the | Raesly Aad why? eee ncaa |had repeated itself; after t lukewarm feelings that app ‘0 sand yeurs to die for others hi exist. come again worth while meemmeccbiect of marr ~~ a | I have told you before that life has mma: merely to be ported. If) gone by me in such cl ways thadpwere all why marry? Aay able-|Now that 1 live constanth in th 4 bodied girl of twenty-one can support | presence of death I can sve why lif herself. The things to be considered | eiygod me; L was afraid of soiling my re,companionship, parenthood and|qreama with reality. Ax my father’s Mujual service. Do you tind the maf | con | got into Partiament as soon as Companionable? Would you be happy | tert Oxford; I believed that | could day after day in y little flat, Walt>| solve the problem of poverty in a ing far him to come home at night” | decade, 1 discovered that polities are B Does he like the things you like? 18! employed porsonal ends; that he fond of entertainment? Or will! statesmen usually think nation he ait evening after evening reading |only when votes are ne y in or talking with 16 protest { resianed Inv seat and went over business affairs~ as 4|to five in the slums for a while, There to forty-five so of thirty-eight I learned that poverty is dis does. Have you looked into the jcontented, and that philanthropy is be Have you thought that when | as untidy as it is unrewarding, Goaded You are in your heyday, a woman of by fierce contempt for self-com- ’ & urbingly r you, does not come | along and claim you? { After meeting the American girl ip New York who inspired this ‘Army—wmeeis ber again in Paris, where Friday, | | The Officer Dreams of a Strange World Where Courage Mas- as Duty. Copyright, 1918, by Jobn Lane Company, DING CHAPSERS, cript the author—some has gone to take up Hed that be w eoon to ‘eturo into danger, dog 808 begine this series of letters, writiug into them all Lis Work he coutimtsuy dreame of the girl aad an ver intends ber to 9ee, placency, I went to Russia to sym- pathize with the revolution that was brewing Again I undeceived my- f. My sympathy was not wanted vund young men plucking out their eyes, posing as martyrs, and saying that the Czar had blinded them, There are people in the world who ure born to mutilate themselves din ably blame some one eise. Don't see how I was learning that it isn’t the thing you plan to do, but the t ou are inside your- self that counts? And life, as I say, was going by while I, in my earnest- ness that future centuries mig! better, was neglecting the de ple, daily loyalties Then this war broke out, stripping us of our sham refinements and clothing us in the armor of duty hadn't known how to hve wisely; restored to us the chance to die f hing worthy, He'd groWn tired seeing us ch windinitls, so Ho set over against us the muster hosts of Hell, How real everythi 1s become of late! All the ghosts of distrust and division have vanish: Men's souls gleam in their eyes. We have regained old primitive ngth of the saints to strike sin here we find it, We no longer doubt when the sky is overshadowed that heaven floats above the clouds Yos, you've seen something of what war is like! You can’t tell me ver plainly, but L can read between the Hines and guess. A> month we \eard rumors that the Germans had made a break in a sector held by th French. It never occurred to me tha You might be there, Thank God, it It's easy to be brave for one t to have known that you were in danger Would have been intoler able. You remember that I protested n Paris that they were placing your hospital too near to the front line, £ nearly made you angry with protest- ing; you were so eager to share the game with us men, . i remember how you said, “Our lives are of less value than you men's—there are more of us in the world. If they can af- ford to let you get killed, why shouldn't we be chance of death —immensely proud. liowed to take our I'm proud of you CHAPTER XX. UNDERSTAND now the reason for your Jong silence. After the order came out for the evacu tion of the civil population you, who remained behind, were not al- lowed to write. By all accounts, even it you had been allowed, you were too busy. I'm trying to picture all the haz- ard of those exciting days when the Germans were breaking through, and nobody knew to what depth, I see you racing to and fro in your Ford ambulance, carrying your babies out of the shelled town, and, when that was done, volunteering to stay behind in the thick of it to tend the wounded You've seen troops yarohing up singing, with the cer- tainty In their hearts that they were Roing to die. You've stood by the road and cheered them: they blew kisses you, laughing gayly, you blew Kisses back them would ple and in the sacrifice! 1 can see you in your uniform of the Croix Rouge Americaine, the white veil your can to and For many of you were the last woman they in this world. How happy everything presence of a ut see em becomes gre blowing face ecstatic, n abandon of heroic back and young while all in front, in exaltation, the ceaseless tide of doomed men fiowed by You've seen that same tide re- turn--the crimson ripples of what Was left of it; men without hands, or eyes or legs, limping, carried on stretchers, hurried in the ambulanc I think the most poignant thing you've told me is of the man with- out lips who pressed you dress .gainst his bandages in gratefulness Could L see you T should find you hanged, you say; the sleepless night have done their work I expect £ hould find you changed din the fur has come into my riend I shall sper she said, “I man.” action, as metal is It your mind again the one who had her de for never the sharp sob stifled, in which yh I had married my her lover was killed in she was always thrusting for- nearer and nearer to the zone of danger, She must be happy now that she bas shared his ead, Don't vt like a in w Since ward, HOME PAGE March 7, 1919 We ARE GLAD You Are BACK BRoTHER| > ee HE HAS BEEN HERE SINCE QUARTER Past SIX you think there was a touch of con- science in her obsession? Perhaps he had asked ber to marry him before he went and she refused him. It seemed to me like that. It was fine of her to protect the dying pollu with her body from the falling shells. Fine and fruitless! As you say, he Would have died anyhow. ‘The sheer wastefulness of her death makes it the more heroic. She did not look that type of girt. Sho impressed me at first as being hard and managing and selfish; there mwas too much drive in her character. Probably she wasn’t always like that. The one and only time that she be- trayed her inner gentleness was when these never things, know I thought. She must them, Like every man who loves a woman, the desire of my heart was to shut you up in a cag of unreality. How wrong J should have been, for thep your floWer-body would never have become the seab- band of the sword of compassion. Y« are @® woman for a suldier now; you were a plaything then. u You spoke of this once, I remember, saying how difficult was to have been born rich, Everything had been done; you weren't supposed to do amything. You wanted * * * you didn't know what you wanted; but Jt must be something satisfying and she said, “I wish I had married MY splendid, Just to slip into matrimony man.” You may call war damnable, & ang be your mother all over again vile misuse courage-there 34 wasn't satisfying: you wanted to get nothing too bad that can be said about your feet off the ground, to acrp- it. And yet, as nothing else does, it piane, to bump your head against the teaches us how to die for our friends. gars, to crash and set out afresh in It has a knack, which peace hatl quest of the playground of celestial never learned, of uncovering the podies, You achieved ull this in splendor in commonplace persons. Eattanc wan. whan. ou: Brasbal ii ike ‘And new you're again in compara- city pounded by German shells, and tive safety, I wonder how compara- wniled at the boys who marched up tive. You're once again nursing 4 aie refugee babies behind the lines, Little 4 we really suffer? 1 doubt it CGuston, you say, is your favorite, ysuq and wounds und torture and Ho's six days old, has the face of an discomfort, what do they matter old man of eighty and the most heav- when the spirit flames so high? You enly blue cyes. You live in an old ang 1, both in our separate ways, Caserne, and “its dreadfully drafty were afraid of life: now that we are find most horribly unsanitar nkrupt in a righteous cause we are you're terrifically happy ntented, It's a gallant world—the Shall I tell you a When | more gullant hecause we are parted; was with you in Paris [made up my for me that is the supr sacrifice mind that you wouldn't stick to this One gets a lust for sa "No" to work. It was obvious to me, When self when once he starts Me habit you spoke ing up tbe line,” that ha geis scientifically curious to ¢ you hadn't the fui t notion of to cover just what are the limits to bis what you were going. You looked self-denial so delicate, so frail, so beautiful. When you writ children, T think You'd never hid to work in your life. I have reached mine. I sit » bes You'd been dressed and conveyed hind the gun pits, picturing your from point to point, and hadn't the arms about the litte bodies and the least conception of the patience that little heads pressed against yous it takes to do anything well, There breast. You're a girl, so slim, 99 was an expensive look of innocence much like sculptured ivory, There's about you that one doesn't associate an ethereal and ‘ndefinable purity with the g' knowledge of battles about you. When I picture you with fields, You hadn't realized the hor- jittle children, I think of the future ror of the western front—no, nor the which may never be ours, For a glory of ou had too complete an moment 1 became rebellious, Dead air of rest, Often as [sat beside you men's children are thelr only certain At a theatre or in a cafe the thought immortality. [| have seen so many would come to me, “How will all men rise up in the morning and these men, who a ughing and en- stil! at night. joying, look in nix months’ time?” 1 such thoughts are unp could see them lying out in No Man's ‘They have no right to be set down. land, like sacks that had been My mind is full of you to-day. I dropped from a wagon. 1 could se@ have been trying to remember your them with their faces hideously face, the tones of your voicéwall the transformed, staring up unseeing at things that make you YOU so essen- tue changing sky, Sbe doewa’t know tially, At this distance, wilh #o Lite Original Fashion Designs For The Evening World’s Home Dressmakers By Mildred Lodewick Copyright, 1919, by the Pree Publishing Oo, (The New York Brening World.) A Gracious Design Characterizes This Frock. HERE are few ® women biessed with the faculty of knowing themselves, their purses, their so- celal requirements and all other things which are affected by clothes Well enough (to never make mistakes, And for the woman of lim- ited purse, the pitiful part of mistakes is that she muat wear her clothes just the game, She cannot af- ford to cast them away. A wise plan for any woman who contem- plates new clothes is determine in her mind from among the clothes she haa which to | previous likes simple clothes, dignified, but] ut to a point at the lower edge im | with a touch of youth in them, A| front, while the top Is cut straight rich, heavy, yet supple satin, auch as | Aeros, with silver gauze completing pussy willow, meteor or satin Fra It. The buck, however, goes its owa / ones she likes the best. Then she should find out what it Js about these frocks that makea her like them, If she does not already know. In the same way she should study well the frocks she does not like, and find out just what the reasons are. In this way will a woman come to a de- pendable basis of Judgment as to what to avold and what to strive for in her new clothes, She will not be influenced, as per- haps she waa at some time, by a pretty color, an ele gant fabric, or odd de sign, or anything else which 1s attractive, but not becoming or suitable to herself, The pretty model for an evening gown, which I am picturing to-day, will appeal to the matron who AN EVENING GOWN FOR THE MATRON. form a part of the bodice, which is !way, crossing low to the left hip. | where a Jeweled ornament holds (t. | This ornament also marks the finish« ing point of the tunic which starts at | the right side front where the narrow strap! grosgrain ribbon which surround@® he walstline ties in two tiny loops two very long ends that trail the | floor, They are in delightful ,cons trast to the heavy bead tassel that | trails from the point of the tunié, The | foundation skirt drapes up slightly at the front. cais, both new we ves that are per t for such use, in 4 beautiful or chid or turquols Jew color, would be at 1 shoulder tractive Fashion Editor, The Evening World 2 ‘ How would you suge tle of ull war ts ended, | grow afraid ‘lest my imagin-| hope you gest making up ine ings should overlay the person you! closed sample—figure@ . are really, You know how it often Georgette, in gne is with old masters when they begia ! flower design—for @ to some lesser man takes in| \ , rh \ girl sixteen years of hand to restore th® tmaster’s work \ age? Would like @ and alters the whole sincerity of what was intended. I want you to be so simple style which ca® . [ibe made without tite perfect in my memory that I stand! tings, as the girl ig the risk of making you inhuman, — | away to school, she At first, When I fell in love vith “desires it for class ate you, I almost resented your intrusion; fairs and afternoon ce not that you did actually intrude, for casions. . . even up to this day You have not so, MRS. G. EH. much as caiied your little finger. If Rose color velvet rite“ I stopped writing for any reason, I bon, matching color im 'y should not hear from you agafh : You! \ flower. Corded shite are like La Glaconda in your smiling | XA \f] rings around neck aloofness You Ire without effort! ait sleeves, or smocking and are silent | done in rove flons. (To Be Continued.) - ies Fashion Palitor, The Brening World AI" he ejaculated, “Another | mysterious printed message. | I would greatly appreciate your ad- : The writer i getting impu-| Yising me how to tient. I think it's time to act.’ | make up some deep Why does no eat de ‘ hy does not the great de- | tine like sample. It on tective arrest the poisoner of her | ‘ father? If he will took behind | '* new goods left the book case he will find some- | from last summer, two years thing tlt will prove everything— | egal | of age; have swell- ba )i800 book, and—something | doveloped figur The printed scrawl was signed } MISS B, M, } t JUSTICE Pearl gray linen “Well, ‘ustice, [ik do as you say,| Cllar and cuffs, gray for once," said the colonel softly, and! yarn embrotdery there was a grim smile on his face | with pearl buttons pe eee as trimming. Side Not until they had lifted out the| He me ne ow ‘ third massive case of volumes was Sok ede their search successful, ‘There was a | Fashion Bitor, The Evening World iittle thud, as though something had} Will you kindly fallen on the floor, and, looking, the sive me a sketch colonel said showing how te make @ little dress reached in and brought out a v thin volume. Its ttle page was in-| \\ “L have it )\ xs é\ He a of all gray taffeta scribed “The Poisonous Plants of New had fine success Jersey.” with the last one, dj Am blonde, twenty years old, five feet, SS 5 INAT- | \ FROM THE FASC: \ \} five inches — tally \ wy weigh 120 pounds, ING, INTRIGUE STORY } Ww i sav E. me \\ ji ecastons, 8 The Golf Course Mystery | ‘hi sears ines | but undersleeves of By Chester K. Steele | y| self color reaching @ couple inches below.» Begins on this puge next Monday. elbow may be inserted, 6