The evening world. Newspaper, March 26, 1919, Page 20

- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1919 — The Seven Ages of Woman NO. I1.—LEAF-AGE. ‘Nothing Is Younger and Lovelier Than Leaf-Age, From Sixteen to Twenty, the Age of the Spring Girl—At Her the Rolling Barrage of Masculine Physically Just Right, Is Mentally and Emotion- ally Underweight—Let It Know—Let It Grow.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall . Coppeight, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Brening World.) 188 SPRING, as the calendar, the lyric bull frogs and the new M carrot-trimmed hats conspire to remind us, has just come to pay a visit to New York and its suburbs. She brings a varied assortment of gifts—new asparagus, spring fever, Paster frocks, bills for Easter frocks, marbles and hop-, scotch, flirtation, spring poems and peace—perhaps. To everybody, however, spring means one happy thing—the| coming of the leaves, Whether you walk through City Hall Park or over the foothills of Montclair you see the tight ttle buds on the bare branches swelling and| spreading, and before you realize it the world once more ; is a glory of greenness—the color which is “most worn” | every spring, whatever the decrees of Paris, and of which nobody ever gets tired. Spring flowers are a bit overestimated in my opin jon and belong in a sort of floral home guard, as compared with the roses, sweet peas, poppies and other shock troops of summer. But nothing in) the world is younger and lovelier) ~~~ ; than spring lcafage—nothing except its human counterpart, the Leaf-Age of woman, the age of the spring girl, from sixteen to twenty. ‘The heroines of our noveliste—until the latte: felt the urge toward the nrig-mated matron—were always of this enchanted, age. For thelr fresh beauty and charm—the little dears never needed such prosaic attributes ag intelligence or efficiency—the great lovers, hunters and warriors of fiction sighed and died and com- tted matrimony. The heroines of tie movies still belong to the Leaf- Aigo.on the screen, and in the studio “the younger the better” is the «| An exceptionally attractive oa of my acquaintance, ten years hie side of the selective service Minit, was photographed recently in Ah office interlor, “Too bad," lamented the friendly director, “that yeu didn't go into the pictures when you were YOUNG!" poworing violet sachet on her frocks Youth has the right to scorn suca expedients, to dare the most inquisi- tive @unlight, the wildest breezes Speaking of daring, what, if any! should be the protection afforded to] Leaf-Age? low can it be saved from the wind of public disapproval, the storms and grief? In the golden age the problems are sim- ple, mostly to be solved by a few elementary principles of good be-| havior and such alleviations of woe | as a bicycle or a birthday party In her Leaf-Age woman, physi-| cally “just right," is mentally and emotionally under weight. She an swers to H. G. Wells's definition of reformers, “people who would change things, but who always change the.r minds first of all.” ‘One day she decides she wants to be a missionary to the Sandwich! Islands. About the time her dis-| traught parents have schooled them- of pain Admiration Is Directed Most Hotly Leaf-Age,| The Short Dress Girl No At the Boys in the Brown Puttee Khaki Has Uncovered a Multitude of Shins Which Show That Men Who Throw Stones at Feminine “Understanding’’ Themselves Live in Glass Hous BE RAR || ED om a YEAST SIDE Leas NEW YORK LEGS FRENCH LEGS By Zoe Beckley 1919, by the Tress Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) NE war has won another victory for the American girl. KANSAS LEGS ENGLISM LEGS Cupyriaht, I men who on artistic perfection and symmetry as it applies to ME. 'S }-limbs, selves to sefding her away with a smile she sits up and takes a healthy interest In Douglas Fairbanks and/ fox-trotting, ‘Then prison reform ap-4 peals to her as affording the most! ample scope to the expression of her] personality—which she knows is Plex and excessively altruistic | She appals poor mother by talking Leaf-Age is the age when nature dbes most for # woman, when the te: Force, or Biological Law or { whatever scientifo name you may give to old Dan Cupid, decorates wo- man most effectively for the roving » male eye, In. our sonhisticated divilization that eye sometimes is eOntrolled by the brain behind it, and ing”—or exposing a lack of it to parrow their eyes and burble about “bow “knock-knee Ever since and “figure eleven fleur. pant-leg and has hidden the devious ATHLETIC DOUBLE BARRELS Wee ITALIAN LEGS It has given | men puttees, and puttees have given the girls a come-back on the well, anyway, now the girls have a chance to comment Skirts | Which fall just below the knee, as they did in the early days of the war, have nothing on puttees when it comes to proving a “perfect understand- ! And now the girls at last have their chance and | the day when hose and doublet crept down in pantaloons | ; to the shoe vamp, or thereabouts, the tailor ha been man’s kindly camou- He has killed the fatted calf by smothering it in flapping folds of course some masculine legs pursue ently becomes short-sighted vebeat a inlet dove °F, (oP *| in reaching the ground by building streamline trousers. He'll have that ugh gazing intently at a thin|oun at a dinner on, 1 | Job again, my , F ‘ party recently ; , 5 3 pay-envelope. Nevertheless, the roll-| 1 "New “York a frame douwnnt But now—right now when the town {ously proportioned round the equ Be 1am barrage of masculine admiration! wien a face ike a toa-rose, turned 1,,,1% full of returned heroes trudging | torial Ine of the tibia. ott must be directed most fre-| 10 rising young dramatiec wig w,,'sturdily on the. putteed legs that] We quickly recognized tt | quently and most hotly at Leaf-Age| i vastner and whom re be ~ was ed holes in the Hindenburg line! Side leg—the pushcart leg, the —elve why tn it sought after and) ie vine gomanded, on = had Just sand trampled out the list embers of [that tolled in the factory from eight wopled by women of every other A8° | contralto: “Mr. Thompson, do vou @erman. fight—the girls have their|to eight, and thea went to night- } epee the olden decade Of ctilld- 1 iat in Georgia the age of con. (Chance, and are maRing the most of |school, and had no time, and scant Ts vood? sent {# fourteen years?” jit y look upon the cave-man | nourishment forsooth, for athletics. “Byery young girlis beautiful,” an} Her severe attack of social con. |°Urves and lomonade-straw strai Puttees are as cruel as Life to ' siderly philosopher once observed. In| science iy only equalled by the high |i revealed by the ruthless put jee J the Leaf-Age of youth and springtime | blood pressure of her egotiam, ‘“yn't {20d thelr, comments run something Then there ts the bouncing Kansas “ yes shine clearly, undimmed by/it just my tuck!" sighed one of the! the following, overheard on Mitth |leg, the pati Sou Earls i B. (ars; timo has not blurred tho|b of 1917. “Here's t) i ‘Avenue passing from the encarmined | strenuous Idaho-Wyoming-Monte rounded oval of cheek and chin; the|that had to come alone Rae ae lip of one beautiful lady to the shell- |ranchman’s leg, No forced marches golors mixed by nature's paint brush | pletely ruin my debut!" pinked ears of another beautiful lady, | can daunt these legs. No cyclonic are fresh and unfaded. Offered such) What can we do with Leaf-Ayoi Their eyes were upon the supporting }saults dismay them. They plant A feast of beauty, perbaps it 1s an| besides admiring its smooth, bloom. \Members of two officers ahead: themselves, these western legs, and wmgrateful epicure who demands also|ing surface and buying it party| “!sn't it a pity,” suid the first BL] stay put. ‘They are a little broad | correctly modelled features and on| frocks? I think we can do just two, that they didn’t enlist in the navy?"| through the narrows, but they are em a charming interplay of wit| safe things. One ta to ict it know. ‘The| “Yes” tre-heed the other B. 1.:] the defence-of-the-nation legs, and MW — "cme PERFECT AMERICAN LEGS Safety Thro How SHIP IS PROTECTED estieeealemedimtadtecne rie edie ee w Has Her Come-Back SAILORS GOT THE WORST OF THE WAR —AND LEGS How the “Otters’’ Put the G Completely “Out of Br Paravanes, as They Are Technically Named, Re- markable War Invention Which Swept Path of ugh Mine Fields for Our Troopships. BY LIEUT, EDWARD STREETER of the 27th (N. Y.) Division. (Author of “Dere Mable.”) { Illustrated by CORPL, G. WILLIAM BRECK. Jo Seventh of a Serics of tters to “Dere Mabie" from “Bill,” the Rook, | Describing His Further Adventures ta the Arm | ERE MABLI ‘D 1 would have rote you before this only the fellos in my tent {s too tite to buy any pa It wouldnt take much, though, to tell you what I been doin, If I ever rote a book about my ad. ventures same as that fellow Empty rote {t would rua n competeshun with the Manual of Inferior Guard, Im” gettin so I can only sleep four hours ata time, The only trouble is that it works the other way. When I do happen to miss a day not bein on guard I have to 50) to sleep after 1 work for two hours, Of course that} interfeers with the drill skedule, Mable, but you cant explain nothing to @ top sargent. fi I overslept the other mornin. I didnt here the, orn. I dont see how they expect a fe to here the he herd it hed be} n 1 it before they starte tir any wa l a go withou breakfast to do it I wasnt goin to smplain about that, though, Sol i lierin ev ' sme all over, ' Mab e Lieutenant got awfu I guess he was mad cause hed | 1p earlier than he had to, He satd | he was going to prefer charges and) eke what L had to say, I told] on man to bis taste nd if he w ion Id pr o gO , 41 excitable he ” t the n sa follo car now £ different ne (nd some rom im going finish this letter and get a bunch of 1em 1 wouldnt wea them pretty good put I that ith take so r get them ove there that it ter to get em now and | ake hn over wit | A vat it ssman to |"! DON'T EAT NOTHIN! OUTSIDE that as far as In Il ke | OF MEAL HOURS EXCEPTIN’ A to France as soon as I can, Its} FEW PIES.” ettin nice and warm now for t -| i fn he Champs Eliza. | y¢ rstand, The Tha ra that Was! better lookin nam: Hzabeth tysecond (42d) Stre tf fete Mable, I dont suppose | 7 saw int ncuse papers that | t ; | they tho illery was goin A |there to expand. If I expand any ormen Mines |more, Mable, Im going to bust my pers ta} belt. [ont know why it is, T dont £8 "ness 99 eat nothin outside of meal hours ex- 9 |ceptin a few pies and the like but I get of some fatter and fatter. eatin when hungry Wk fellos. A fello what does that Is makin a pig out of hisself f think. I never think Im not Angus Mackenaie, the skotch fello, oer ia Was out guardin the guns with me oe Fe ae aa arrea the other nicht, He went to sleep on € f SaMay FROM Gow An a I guess the aunta, ‘ anees ae) ° nought was a new mountin or @=*'S ae ? somethin cause they was all standin t ? | os a on him the next mornin, To look at rf | Fiwoen the sunrise I says, eh Mable? Angus } t ‘ . ce | didnt m to care though, He says ( , Napoleun had the same thing hap- DIAGRAM OF THE" OTTER” AND HOW IT OPERATES pen to him and was always tellin how an army traveled on his stummick. * ; Napoleon, Mable, is the fello that? | Washington _licke hey named! that ty colored ice cream after} ¢ him All day long while were firin, Mable,’ a fello from gade headquarters stands near th ins and looks through a big ¢ |I guess hes to laz with horns un it.§ » hold it hisself: so he brings out camera legs and puts * them under Te looks through the glass and se¢ms to see a lot of nume {bers that he tells to a fello what: ands beside him I dont see where jfe sees them, I looked through the la the othe day while he was catin lunch and I couldn't see a thing ; amd emotion. Certainly he almost! other ts to let it grow: % trousers do Cover « multitude of | good luck to 'em, say we, though they | j fever will find in the face of the girl| Let it know the real'ties of lite, /¥d shins!” might not pass the examinations of | i Between sixteen and twenty that last, through sane instruction instead of| After which ker-ruel remarks we|the Municipal Art Society, q Subtleet radiance; it is the compen from white slave movies and maga. |letermined to make a sort of inven Nor could we unreservedly recom- q Von of a later age. zine serials, Let it know the tutitity | fry of military models and satisfy} mend for permanent revelation the HME Otter, or Paravane, so named) | Because Leat-Age is the favorite |And boredom of sinning, the satisfac. {OUFM#!f at least, whether or not Bili| British leg. ‘The ‘Tommy Atkins tes | on eho of its shape and Of nature, it seems a pity art should | ton of hard work, the glory of the |! better hurry back to civies, is a forceful member, It takes a lot per Drm ARES was the silent be asked to give first aid, To gild|tTue romance, Let it know how littie| O® the next block, ay though tolof punishing. It is built for service | euardian enabling our transports PD fefined cold, to paint tho iily, to|YOU—or the self-appointed soci {MOVE Mat the perfect curve iy ax [if not for art, ‘The British officer lex, | and merchant ships to successfully throw & perfume. on tho violet In no|8!Ver—know of the business of muy. {likely to be encased In spirals of]however, appears to the casual eye | Ail the seas during the war just ore wosteful and ridiculous exocas|!9& the world. | khaki aw in webs of silky strode 8 to Jack b th qualities iat ren mbles Sanplig ad. a nalad, ep all Hae the to paint the complexion of nd let the spring woman, beau- quartet of doughboys. On eteh husky} the cricket bat in outline. It is a pblem of a \ c #Ull In her teens Mate throw on Eiatts Vata ee toe, pnd. crude, think on[ieft shoulder was the insignia, of] good sporting leg. But it will never | Waters, ‘Thus far, it Ix the greatest aoe — ainda a art cde cle adhe Orion's stars, From thigh to heel the|be popular as a sculptor'’s model, invention that the war has produced — \sinuous line—out, out past the] ‘The French officers run to rotund-|%Y Way of protection for ships : H swelling calf, In along the slim ankle|ity about belt and calf, Their legs | @S8inst the deadly mine. i TWO MINUTES OF OP Jand down round @ heel that did not] are apely and pleasant to look! Ideut, Dennis Burney of the Royal Pe TMISM jJut. What a figure for @ cave-man! | upon— perhaps because they are) Navy was its inventor, and it was] ot os Panther skin! Or zabethan tights! | moulded upon the Lines of th | through the efforts of Admiral Sit) et By Herman J. Stich jOF the dreechon and buckles of G.,champagne bottle, 80 goon, alas to] Hedworth Moux, 1 Nw that its adops) Ee = See ; tion by the British Navy was ce | Wash's day pass out of our ken tae A ie 4 as a note to the effect that the 27th} would re end as nearest to lincar |" Courtesy o eat Britain, 8) Backbone Versus Wishbone. Division excelled in tog, a look of | perfection tho Ttallan te. All aftise [Wlowed to manufacture these Ottery Sean Eryn gce ey iy [Again canna sat : : and used them in our o: avy, TRESS wilts waxy spines. Whimpering and MIKS ID benione aroe | diseor ing hank hove into view | te ideals considered, it measures up Rha hatin’ ition ws Lie navy c ; ores nd i” pencils pause, One pair} nobly, It limned aristocra , ‘ i 0. Ware fi Pective failures, The man who's perpetually sighing instead of neAtAR ERC Ont cee Like aidan ee ae Tans Ml¥"| sary for operation), were in pairs. trying rhoos off success, spd aglenyep ceeds wie # sOndor, ANG Brac |starboard Otter being the mal 1 » J f the knee, The second pair e-looking, yet strong. It is|*: hg the male, and When wishbone ousts backbone, defeat gains vantage ground, If |oould nut have "stopped a pie" clothed in dark leather, very stylish, |{2° Port the female, They w Fou're nursing wishes rather than works, take @ brace or you'll never ‘out the aid of a net. Tho third had {It ent of poetry, music, | SorPed® shaped ey low steel tubes, . iJ _ fitted ith g udder and a ry 4 im the race. |shins which we somehow could not | moon) courtly bows, and compli ne mi} Oe uatne es 8 ’ Fis) ul i. A suff upper Up is the whip of achievement, Sheer nerve has made analyze, ‘There scemed to be bulgo|ments to women ee ae etcieateaiants ona see ‘Bho impossible commonplace and has metamorphosed apparent dross {enoush, and there was an honorable} There ix but one leg superior to it |i nnor und an oval-shared weed nies {nto boss. straightness but and that Is the Perfect American! wnich was painted either red or preen’ + Electricity would stit! be decaying fossil, man would still be cave “Anklo's 109 short asserted Artist log, ‘Thb PA. Ie exlats not in| accoming to the port of starboard 4 You and I would still be slinking about and climbing trees but |JoMMetone. “Thick part of the leg] vast numbers, but it DOBS exist. |sige te which the Ucter belonmed jer the brain and BACKBONE of men who wouldn't cry and couldn't |2°8'D# t02 Diah-blah, Sort of busts | It Is the lem th usered gob re-| Me launching of the Otters, which pay die. right as sapiens af load ng ay gently, | Bards w a dark-green envy, It be-|were attached to a three-strand wire .. Innate ability goes far, hut dogged tenacity and downright deter- | ‘that who goes thete? Wanna BO one eng ye bast age, an age |cable, and aa inhaul line, was ac- tio t nh! i 5 be no Be a We appral of hose and buskin, of leisurely complished by means of a chain or pine’ 4,to put things across goes Infinitely further. It's the fellows |thom sadly Two pipe-stems and a|sardens and “temples of love But | other contrivance, which was let down iwho lnk flerceness of will to their skill who earn the wherewithal to |pair of barrels. The boy with the |also to an athletic modern era, tho avr ihe Kawase the abin Ml the till, Intelligence plus perseverance is the winning combination, | pipe-stems has wound his puttees too |era of the stock exchange ag well The Otters, launched, immediately ‘Whe chap that can't be downed or frowned into quitting fs pretty sure | far down at thw ankles, adding a|the rym, started outward and away from the g te turn tho trick, thickness that should be higher up,| Wen We last saw it, It was bearing 'ship, the angle having been deter- Substitute @ backbone for a wishbone—it's the only way to heap | The lad with the double-barreled sup-| And in’ that me, Bae won casked, | mined by its vertical plane, which had an ports is doubtless a world-beater at the $20-yard dash, but he is too vigor- garb, RONEN, culations iv its manufacture apd in- He was hurrying back to civillan|beem adjusted after very careful cal-|of the alert gunners, who made quick Se except the side of the hill, Then he Sees came back and looked through it and+ read off a string of them, The felle beside him rites down everything he sys, I looked over bis shoulder the ther day, It looked n ove like a Jews vention, It travelled us far as th A mine being caught in the sweep|#h cure to in anything else, ength of the cable permitted id always be determined by the| Tie Lieutenant came down the other from the bow e ship, where it re singing" of the cabl This was |44¥ and told us to get all shined up mained in a submerged ¢ used by the vibration which had |°@US® the Sanitary inspector was Ivagging its p with it been set up through the contact with Com out to look us over, T thought diagram. If the Otters to be|the mine and its being carried along |"d be all dressed up in white with taken aboard again, they were with the Otter, jwhite tennis shoes like fancy bakers n by means of the Inhaul line to the} Tho first ship fitted with Otters |@?d Sanit barber shops, He wasnt{ same point from which they werelwas H. M Melampus, in 1915, Mush. He just had on a regular und + launched Nass tt maha coe eafter the whole {frm I didnt think he was epegnully. iia than uotsthd: abana Veua cat Britain’ hag (*anitary. It may have been sunburn Tho mission of the Otter was tol heen similarly equipped. When the |thoush. 1 couldnt tell from where J p the swe he, a three-strand} United States entered the world wa ee ; . stecl eablo a certain depth beneath the jt was found that something must | 21° Bad 4 fello with him they said surface of the water, thus clearing done to destroy the mines which, |} bnog nog. ye nce, department # before it of all mines planted) hidden from the view of marinera|i “ROW ROW Why they call it the the enemy, and naval men, lurked in all the| *Udienee department, All they do th Mis was accomplished , by the] waters traversed by the tmnsports |{2ne around and watch us work cable of the mine comin n con-land merchant ships It was then hate & branch I didn't know about tact with the sweep and sliding down! that England came to « 1 with | beter Id joined th to the Otter on either side, where! hor socret invention, the “Otter,” and) t to quit now and 4 set of hardened steel teeth were!through the employment of which | : the Guard rooster to set in tho swivel connecting the | we were enabled to send our soldiers ar sick call tomorrow Otter with the sweep; there after alabroad to successfully terminaic the |(B0TMP They say the Germans is very hort time by continual sawing| great war. jraisin the dickins, I wish theyd which was set up through vibration,! When the German subma hurry up and get me over there, ; the mine cable was cut in two, allow-| visited these shores they laid imines in | yours eternally : ing the mine to float to the surface|the channels through wh the tran. in haste Tt ' clear of the vessel, and in full view |SPorts sailed, and the Otter playe BULL. i Ambrose Channel waa cleared ‘and | aussie "ausies Titty Ne Aut Ov LH work “ef (6 ~ sept 0 by this method, (Onovalaht, 1019, by Tralaich A Shee Qa” | | =