The evening world. Newspaper, March 19, 1919, Page 16

wee a te, eee ee ee WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1919 Should Husband and Wife | Have a Marriage Contract And Put Marriage on » a “‘Business Basis?” i No Important Business Transaction Is Ever Con- summated Without a Written and Signed Contract Binding All Parties Concerned to Perform Certain Acts. The Marriage Contract Is Not Put Into Written, or Printed Words, and Yet Marriage Is the Greatest Contract Ever Entered Into by Men and Women. Why? It Is Founded on Love. By Fay Stevenson Copyright, 1919, by the Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World) OST of us who read the dally newspapers and magazines and hear sermons and lectures have had brought to our attention the “sacredness of the marriage contract.” But what is the marriage contract? Of what does it consist? We all know what is meant by @ business contract. No important busl- ness transaction is ever consummated without a con- tract binding all the parties concerned to perform cer- tain acts, This contract is written in black and white and no one ever puts his efgnature to such a contract until everything is understood sentence for sentence, clause for clause, phrase for phrase and word for word, The marriage contract, however, is not put into written or printed words. Piivenscy You do not find, for instance, that John Henry is putting his signature to a dooument which states that he will always supply ~ his family with the necessities of life, keep good hours, bo @ kind, just and faithful husband, nor do you find that Mary Kate ts taking her pen in hand and agreeing to do ¢0 and 80 paar —— day in and day out ‘till death do part.'|marriago contract and what it im- And yet, marriage is the greatest |plied as they are over the incomo tax, contract ever entered into by men| Old King Solomon himself could and women, and we are constantly |not compose a marriage contract that referring to this unwritten, unsigned, | would be as universally understood as merely implied contract which in|the one we constantly refer to. This reality is not even a scrap of paper! | world-wide contract has no body, no What do we mean, then, when we/|form; it is all soul, It is not a mass speak of the marriage contract? |of meaningless words written in cold, Surely it is not a tangible contract |dull print. It is a contract written in which we can touch and read and|the heart of every man and every brood over. It is not composed of|woman in existence. It is a matter fourteen points or a given number of |of conscience. ‘The moment a man or clauses. We cannot quote from it,|@ woman does not fulfill his or her nor can we refer definitely to certain |part in this great contract they do articles, and yet, when we speak of |not need to glance at a slin of paper the matriage contract, every one jor look up a certain clause on page knows exactly what we mean, eight. Their own conscience has the Yes, every one knows, and, more- |answer for them, Though a contract over, every one has the same idea of were made out to cover hundreds of this contract. It matters not whether pages and contained numberless ‘one is a Hebrew, a Protestant or a|"don'ts” and “musts” it could never Catholic; whether born in the effete Cover the grounds which this con- Bast, the woolly West, the cold North science, this well understood contract ‘or the sunny South, the conception of means to every married man and the marriage contract is the same, | woman, Lawyers are constantly referring to| When you see a long line of cou- the ‘breaking of the marriage con-|ples at the Marriage License Bureau tract; Judges grant separations and|you may be sure they have a con- ivorces to couples who fail to keep|tract between them, a contract of the marriage contract, and so the|far more benefit to them than any whole world accepts, talks and writes |printed piece of paper, It is a con- @hout the greatest contract ever|tract which can never be lost or mis- formed—the contract between man|interpreted; a contract which goes and woman—the contract which {s|forth with the husband to business neither a verbal nor a written agree-|every day and a contract which re- ment. mains by the fireside with the house Nor do we need a verbal or written| wife daily. Whether they live up to "eontract for our marriage vows. All) this contract or not, whether they F romance, all sentiment, all the sweet! listen to the voice within—the con- P gharms of holy matrimony would be science—which tells them what they Yost if a general contract actually con-|owe to each other as man and wife, misting of 90 many points and para-|rests purely within themselves, Sure. “graphs were drawn up. Nor would|ly, if they are not willing to follow ) any couple be satisfied with a regular, /the dictates of such a contract, no stated contract. Each man and) tiny scrap of paper could bind them woman about to wed would desire an| together! ‘individual, original contract. Our marriage contract is invisible ‘As it is, the whole world knows|1ike wll the great things of life, It “exactly what the marriage contract] involves too much and “means. If we were to COMpOS® 4) sacred to be printed contract no one would under-| we cannot expect a contract in bl stand it or feel that it covered all thelang white to compare with a “necessary grounds. Lawyers would) tract written with blood in the he Shod tong confabs over the contract} of all men and all women, > jtself and what it meant, instead of (~~ ——== » EVENING WORLD PUZZLES A Clock Race characters on the type-board of this, | PSTERDAY morning my two]the first practical Japanese type- clocks started a race, The! writer, alarm clock became excited and| It is the invention of a Japanesc went so fast that it gained one min- ute per hour on regular time, while grandfath- er’s clock hobbled » along +0 slowly engineer who studied for some ye in American universities, and one these machines has actually invaded Broadway, being used in the office of 4 big Japanese importing firm. The type-slugs rest in a gridiike }fraine over which th eee. it lost two Jand the type selecting minutes per hour ,.tmove freely in every dir ‘The race ended to-day when the The type-grip is brought to rest Malarm clock struck eight simultane-| ine character rev are bea Ippely with grandfather's clock strtk- joe ae ene prowted, whine fing seven. Now, who can tell at what) oi iieg a movable arm to raise the Hime yesterday morning the race). o1+ of the frame into the grip, pi ptarted? where it is clutched tightly, passed ANSWER TO SHOOTING THE 7 CHUTES. We rose one foot in one-half a sec- and fell one foot in 1-20 of a md—11-20 of a second to r fall one foot. Sixty seconds di- by 11-20 gives 1091-11 feet as length of the chute. > HISTORY IN STONES, stone statues and other of an unknown race on Easter eae 2,000 miles off the west coast |°en're row of the type nd grip bar across the face of a small round ink ing pad and stamped upon the paper Japanese writing starts at the up- written language is based upon the deographs of China, but recently to a phonetic alpha ok from } t is far too condensed into words. The Perfect Woman---Artists and Sculptors A gree; She Lives in a 12x7 Flat and Makes $40 a Week And Many an ‘Imperfect 44’’ Would Give Double That Amount to Have Sylvia Jewel’s ‘Perfect 36’’ Figure, Real Golden Hair and Perfect Face and Hands, Which She Keeps Perfect Without [Even Trying. By Zoe Beckley Coppright. 1919, by The Prem Publivhing Co, (The New York Evening World sculpto mode! l6ey OVELY as id | ] I kept repeating it over and! over on my way to see hi She will have much gold, [ told self, And diamond-atudded limou- sines and million-dollar furs. And I came to the house, No. 50 West 67th Street. And it was a beautiful house, where artists live who are Very Suc- cessful. And I held my breath, ple- turing the Persian carpets and vawzes of porphyry 1 soon should mee “Ninth!” announced the elevator boy. “Misa Sylvia Jewel's apartment to the left.” To the left I started. Then stopped blinded by a cloud of gold. The gold cloud was coming toward me. It spoke. “Come right in; the tea’s all r Follow me, It is rather complicated, but keep me in sight and you can't get lost." A little dazed but able and very willing to keep the gold cloud in sight, I trailed after, down one cor- ridor, around a turn, up another, through to the right, straight ahead, then to the left * * * Had I stumbled into the “Arabian Nights" or “Alics in Wonderland?” “Here we are! Yes, here we were, We entered the reception room, then the living room, then the bedroom, then the parlor, off which was the kitchen, with a lounge, writing room and library nearby “Bettor sit on the bed," said Sylvia, smiling through the gold cloud which I now perceived was hair—the most marvellous crowning glory that ever dazzled a human eye. “And pull your use I've got to walk feet up, bec around a bit, serving the cake and the lemon and the sugar, you know, and I can’t pass unless the guest gets her feet out of the way.” You see, Sylvia's apartment is all in one room, And the gold is all on her lovely head, And the limousines, the Persian rugs and the porphyry vawzes are—well, in the future, perhaps. I curled my feet up on the b sipped my tea, ate a fat little cak with chocolate icing round “the apartment.” It is, I un- hesitatingly assert, the most won- n it, and looked drous home in New York. It is doubt. | less where the Latin phrase origi+|artist in New York has painted it. | nated: “Multum in parvo.” It is 12x7, [feel positively grateful to it for be-| and bye I ing real It looks out on a huge tiled roo: which in turn looks over the entire city, “I thought a girl whose pro! is beauty would just natural everything in” “Say, listen,” cut in Miss Jewel in ssion y have a velvety Kentucky accent, “let me lieved it tell you something about beauty, Beauty"—she nibbled a macaroon- “ig important, especially to an artists’ model, But its not THE important thing. Being reliable—that's THE important thing in my business, The -|face or figure. But he can't mi »ther words, if a model | ure No, she would not. She could not. al Job; She Must Learn 3,000 Type C doesn't co _ the alens volt ated vee we | Yapanese Stenographer Has Re ITY the poor Japanese stenog-) gown oe vat By Sam Loyd rapher! She must memorizo| the position of more than 3,000 of printing handle per right hand side of the page and is read from the top to bottom and from left to right. The Japanese was reduced for commercial purposes t consisting of fifty-two letters. These occupy the ‘America, will be studied by|to right; but they are flanked by second most important is being in- telligent. An artist can idealize falige it. 1 on time or doesn't its beeau ‘I started out to be an But I was hurt } and had to do so! I'll be street thing to earn getting sugge me out of tion a - oy Aid y i come at all, or quits when he {s half way throug hold her pose, she's @ failure ures than successes. mand for dependable models far ex- ceeds th it ds. Miss Jewel posed several years for | the face and for aristocratic, ‘Then one day an art- ist squinted a professional eye at her svelte tailored frock and asked if sno te! | would consider posing “for the fig- the hair, for hands the conveying of complete type-rack moves to one side sp for thousands of ide phs which may ace in a lower fran be ry work. Mnercial schools were estab ed last year in Tokio and other Japan an write more than fit minute. Typewriters called f armies of women now active in Amer joan business life, and it is quite pos: scientists, scores of ideographs indispensable to ee ssary for a particular form of|the greatest cities to teach the operation Jot this typewriter, Proficient typists wonis per the great sible that the introduction of she | wi ve Or raised in the REMEMBERED. “Did your rich une! his wil Not personally me for the indigent. cted me to or fusses or complains, are more fall- supply. “lve got eighty-six clients in one block. ‘That's a right good many,| lars isn't it? Wi the most enutiful girl in conscientious. » yet! accident strong ted posing. My hair has ke the And the little golden glory ts to quality, like proffering t it. It is the true I hadn't a galeswoman seen it I could not have the | lovey tient hands haracters! 7s © VAPORS Ewe rem, nse, The |typewriter may do the same thing in| showing | Japan, Iditional | of the first large enterprises to use the new machine in Japan will be Centenary Methodist committee Bpiscopal is calling for missio 1 fancy he ex- hiner ville Courier-Journal She never had. that did not end it needed * white akin. |"on, go ah this Sylv I'm! receives, went to the artis dead ru w | over her "You've was to me Y}dom and 1|there while I tried to pose aw things as she ee them, ‘son bent her! sons sce them. And I've never been | toward me for examina- ” little figure adorns about one | twenty works of art in the troushs ‘Camera Gu lack and else, and phas with over A CLOSE SHOT, COUNTED A HIT, She never wou painter (who pinter indeed) urged that person with very eded the five or si a lovely lady bending I'll never for Jewel's lovely n Taught W the | came: lack | the p: of planes, but with characteristic mor and efficiency built the trick. There of this building t in which he air to mounted on the But first to shoot no Germa viously student ss he ¢ BUT NOT Hona‘res’ ceilings. She looks forth from picture dealers’ windows, She ilustrates books and stories by the |hundred. She smiles from magazine covers. She inspires scores of bas reliefs and statuettes, She even graces mau oleums when folks want heery ones, | She is 5 feet 5 inches and weighs 120 pounds, ‘Che tapeline registers the |perfect 36, and this applies to hips as |well, «Did you know bust and hips |should be the same? Well, they |should, says Miss Sylvia), She never wore a corset in her life, and her slim [little waist is as firm and supple as her slim little neck. She couldn't “fat up" if she wanted to, her room 1s too small. Funny part of it is, she can eat cream puffs and caramels and jcustart pies without taking on an jinch, in a way to make a perfect <4 }foaim at the mouth with envy, | “I don’t take any special care of says, consuming her econd tea and her nth macaroon. “[ can eat anything, only I am not a large eater, and I don't crave fat- producing foods. I take very little I reckon I'm just naturally greyhound and not a pug!” Miss Je 's amiability of temper and firmness of eter show in her face. If you want to stir her out of her Southern calm, however, | just ask if painters and sculptors are | gay and wicked and have awful, arties in their utiful models myself,” sh ara | terrible champagne tudios to befuddle be But before you ask it, be in 3 with, fas ne with the door, And make sure Fes, ue door's open and the getaway r. | “Successful artists,” says this suc- | cessful model, “are business men, ‘They work by schedule. They regard model, if she is a business like girl, as I am, just as lawyer or | physician or banker regards his secre- jtary. I work just as steadily, just 1s efficiently as a man's secretary | does, and I earn about the same— between $30 and $40 a week, I live | up here because it is a good location, 1 clean and cool and light, and thin my means. There is no future, ver, in posing. I shall never . 8 * how |marry while I'm a model. | Why? Because of the prejudice, It wouldn't be fair to the man, or to} me, Some day I shall be an actress, And then——" ‘The little lady drained her teacup ited in vain for the finish f the “and then-——. Meanwhile, she 1s an exceedingly risk and happy person, with much-in-little home on a , a snug little bank account 1 the rewards of the self-respect- business woman, | | BY LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER, | of the 27th (N. ¥.) Division | (Author of ““Dere Mable’’) | Illustrated by CORPL. G. WILLIAM BRECK Fourth of a Series of Letters to “Dere Mable” from “Bill,” thé | Rookie, Describing His Further Adventures in the Army. | (Copyright, 1919, by Frederick A. Stokes Cor | PRE MABLE: '‘D I'm going to ask the Captain to let me off this telefone jom | ‘Whenever they dont know who to let out on they let out on thé telefone man. What they want is a mind reader not @ fello with brains. The other day the Captain says “Lay this spool of wire up that hill.” He handed mé a thing that looked like a trolly cable and weighed about as much, Then he went home to read the paper till I came back and told him it was done, That the way with Captains. When I got it all done they go and say to the Major “I laid the wire up the hill.” An the Major says “That was a good job, Captain. You must be tired. Have a cigar.” But I never say nothing. That's me all over, Mable. | I took the wire like he said and laid it under a bush on top of the hill |sos nobody could swipe it. When I came down I showed him where it was on a little pictur I drow him. An to ———————————— SRA here him talk youd think hed never|When you first get them there wild, asked me to it up the hill at all, |The Captain told me that every other Yesterday we was firin into the|battery but his was awfully wild. middle of a field where there wasnt |He has trouble with his though cause a livin thing to hit as far as I could |the other day they telefoned up that ses, If the Captain had to pay for|theyd just broken one of his guns. these torpetoes I bet hed be more]! guess he likes em better wild cause careful of them. He was awful ex-|he got awful sore. But you couldnt cited though. He came up an gave |do anything right for the Captain. me a lot of numbers to fone to his| You ought to see the Major, Mable, A major is a fello that only comes round once a week, They get awtal fat of course, Ours is taller in bed than he is standin up. I guess he is the kind of th they have in mind when they say “not to be taken inte the front line trenches.” Im going to send you one of the torpetoes they shoot out of the guns, There lyin all over the lot. As far as I can see there just as good as new. The Captain said not to touch any of em case they mightent have exploded and was lable to go off when you handled them, I asked him where they was goin to, bus pany.) battery, He didnt say what to do with them an nothin happened. Th Bil Breck “THEY GET AWFUL FAT, OF COURSE.” m sore, It aways does. Captains thinks you ought to know what to do | without tellin you. He started to take it out on me, being the nearest. He says “Get somethin off quick. Hurry up. Get somethin off quick.” So just to humor him I took off my shirt, as he hadnt specified. You cant} do nothin right for a man like that though Im learnin a lot about cannons an} there habits. ‘There like horses. “THEY COME AND GET It Looked Like a Machine Gun, but It Was Loaded With Films Instead of Bullets, and They Re- corded Every Hit and Miss. HEN Uncle Sam started in to/at this point that Yankee inventive- train an army of air fighters|ness took a hand «nd perfected a was handicapped of sufficient lack of flying gun, which gave the flyer all tice he needed in downing an ene machine. The gun was still in the shape of a good hu- | gun, it still had a trigger, and above all it had very accurate sights, but instead of ripping out @ stream of | THIS “ENEMY” GOT OFF SCOT- FREE, it shot photographs, still pic- on a long strip of film, made very like a moving picture film. This | film registered a hit or miss exactly, |and at the end of a “hop” the student ld study results and see his ad- ancement in marksmanship, wo students would go up to- gether, each in separate planes, and with these camera guns would “shoot” at each other, They knew they were training for the grim play on the other side of the water, and they put such heart into their work Our Birdmen How to Shoot Down German Planes) ene ‘tat yount carn one ot OUR DIRTY WASH.” he couldnt see a joke if you hit him with it. Im not takin no chanced them good before I pick em up. Im beginning to think all this stuff about the mountain ears bein wild is a lot of fake. I been out with Angus MacKenzie three times huntin stills an the nearest thing we found |to one was a fello what sold Bevo, An they dont seem to be very wild, They come round and get our dirty wash every day or two and the only wild thing is me when they bring it back. They all seem to be mixed up on the shavin regulashuns, ‘They all shave there necks and let there wiskers grow. Well, Mable, pretty soon well be coming back from the range an goin \ into town again, I been away go long | REGISTERING A DIRECT HIT, |I bot William 8. Hart has grown a |that marvelous results were accom- pear bi te ea be I wish youd |Plished. lm after film, on a strip] Oo 1,Up unl see when lent 19 sop 3 | yards long, would show a vital part |‘ UP a little somethin, The |of the “enemy machine” centred on|"Y ® fello loses track of national | the cross lines, showing that a bullet |N!days down here ts awful. | would have taken effect had a cart~ Yours, Regardless, {ridge been in the gun instead of a| BILL. ‘he complete wart torn bit of Alm, | atable” “Latter is putliahed ‘in’ beokt form UT | In connection with this same train- | a ing, a piece of canvas, the size and| WHERE IGNORANCE WAS BLISS, shape of an aeroplane, was tacked to RRANCIS WLLSON, the come- |the ground and the student would dian, says that many years ago sweep down from the sky at the tar- | when he was a member of a get; in this case it would be real am- | Company playing “She Stoops to Con- munition, but the disadvantage lay | quer,” a man without any money, in the fact that the target never wishing to see the show, stepped up moved and the student had only to| to the box office in a small town and consider the movement of his own | Said: machine in calculating his fire, “Pasa me in, please?” —_——- ‘The box office man gave him a loud, SCIENCE AND INVENTION, harsh laugh, Pressing down a now holder for| “Pass you in? What for? hq safety match boxes opens a receptacle | asked. |in its bottom to receive cigar ashes| The applicant drew himself up end |and burned matches, |answered haughtily: yrs “What for? Why, bee muallumnata fenia lose iaiiva PeAReLe Goldsmith, author of the a boxes of a European railroad is used BAS beg your pardon, ats, to produce gas to drive generators in| Pregiy wr ofice man, as by on pastes Blend ly wrote out an order for @ (pe) F New Orleans